The start of Federal gun control in this country was a direct result of the big failure known as prohibition. In 1934, the National Firearms Act was passed as result of increased violence from organized crime controlling the market for alcohol. Lew Rockwell thinks compares that to the current drug war.

Ravenwood on New York’s war on cigarettes: Crime is skyrocketing in Bloomberg’s New York. While he’s out threatening to break people’s thumbs and citing people for owning ashtrays, black marketers are killing each other over territory. And all of this mess was created by a single man on a neo-temperance crusade to force everyone to […]

Bill Hobbs notes that Tennessee will start taxing illegal drugs next year (I’ve mentioned this before). Says Bill: This actually works – and is a pretty good idea, though it sounds a bit odd at first. The law will require sellers of illegal drugs to pay excise taxes, just legal businesses. Most drug-pushers won’t comply, […]

Not quite as memorable as that episode of Diff’rent Strokes where Dudley got molested, but remember that episode of The Facts of Life (you’re welcome, that song will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day) where Natalie bought the candy dishes that turned out to be bongs? Boy, Natalie and Mrs. […]

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Justin alerts us that if you’re hobby is indoor gardening, you’re likely to be on a TBI watch list. But they’re begonias, officer.

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Chuck lists the WOD’s latest casualty. At last count, drugs are still winning.

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If You Like the War on Drugs, Youll Love the War on Guns! Alternatively, those mocking resistance to such may be wrong.

Would not surprise me.

There are More Deaths from Legal Drugs than Illegal Drugs

82% of Americans think drugs are winning the war on drugs.

They need to add a letter. ATF can now take cash in the drug war. .

The war on terror is over. This is good news. Can we shut down the TSA, bring the troops home, and get rid of the gun turrets in major cities? Also, I missed it but the Obama administration declared the War on Drugs over a bit back. Strangely, police are still kicking in the wrong […]

Not the target of the raid, of course. Collateral damage in the war on drugs. No weapons charges. Says the report: During the execution of the search warrant a firearm was discharged by a SWAT team member and a round struck a resident. Passive way of saying they shot a man.

Portugal ends drug war.

Drug War Rant reminds us that among the hidden costs of the drug war is police corruption. Now you came into this thing a bright eyed, shiny young recruit… You’re a police officer four or five years — you see the wasted energy you spend on this drug war. And now you’re standing in a […]

Norm Stamper, former chief of the Seattle Police Department and an advisory board member of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition – some LEOs who oppose the drug war, writes: Drug criminals have an unlimited supply of high-powered weapons at their disposal. Kingpins pay mules, usually impoverished, […]

I’ve always thought the gateway drug theory was a ludicrous argument against drugs. All that time, all those studies, all that handwringing, just to prove that kids who do drugs are more likely to do drugs than kids that don’t. Drug War Rant’s take on the gateway issue is succinct and more to the point: […]

Tax cuts, terror wars, drug wars: choose two. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wants to end U.S. Army helicopter support for a joint U.S.-Bahamas drug-interdiction program that over the past two decades has resulted in hundreds of arrests and the seizure of tons of cocaine and marijuana. […] But in a May 15 letter to Attorney […]

Over at Drug War Rant.

Montgomery Adviser: Montgomery City Councilman Glen Pruitt is considering proposing a city ordinance that would ban the animals from the city limits. “I want us to be proactive. I don’t want to open the paper and see where a child or senior citizen has been hurt or injured by one of these dogs,” Pruitt said. […]

It’s also lucrative for the state. The Tennessean reports: Tennessee modeled its program to collect taxes on illegal drugs after North Carolina’s, but early returns indicate that the Volunteer State’s 6-month-old effort has been more successful. A report released yesterday showed that Tennessee had collected about six times more taxes on controlled substances as did […]

A reader sent me a scan of the Tennessee Department of Revenue Unauthorized Substances Stamp (note: Background on Tennessee’s Illegal Drug Tax can be found here). Here it is: It has a what I assume is a serial number. I also assume that means this is only the 127th one they sold. It costs the […]

Citizens Against Government Waste crunches some numbers on the drug war. In addition to trampling liberties, it costs a bunch. Pete at Drug War Rant has more.

Having solved all of the county’s other problems, there will be more legislation against local adult businesses: Knox County Commission Monday unanimously passed an ordinance that requires adult businesses to get a new license. However, it’s not as far reaching as you may think. [boo-hooing and crying about the ordinance not going far enough snipped […]

Drugs continue to win the war on drugs: During the civil trial against the officers, attorneys for the family cast doubt over police methods. They wanted to know why experienced narcotics officers take an informant’s word and discovered there is no manual for drug officers and no specific training. And, they asked, why didn’t the […]

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