Category Archives: drugwar

pot is bad for your health after all

Posted on Friday, 2007 August 17 by Anton

A woman volunteered to donate an organ to her mother, but mom’s pee tested positive for marijuana, so no go. I could understand disqualifying the disobedient from receiving an organ from the limited pool of dead strangers, but how does … Continue reading →

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am i reading too much into this?

Posted on Wednesday, 2007 March 07 by Anton

I’m surprised to see it acknowledged in two teevee shows that heroin is useful as a painkiller. (Charlie Stross, a former pharmacist, mentioned that “diamorphine (aka Heroin™) is carried routinely in ambulances in the UK.”) In the first series of … Continue reading →

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umbra Saturni

Posted on Saturday, 2007 January 13 by Anton

the view from Saturn’s shadow My latest finding of “dictionary translation”, at a pet store: ONE-STORY CAT CAVE UNE CAVERNE À CHATS D’HISTOIRE I’d make it caverne à chats à une étage. Funny that I missed this three years ago … Continue reading →

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not enough lampposts

Posted on Saturday, 2006 September 16 by Anton

Bastards.

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“An Epidemic of ‘Isolated Incidents’”

Posted on Monday, 2006 July 24 by Anton

Radley Balko has finished and published his report, Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America.

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the FDA must die

Posted on Saturday, 2006 July 22 by Anton

The only effective treatment for Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s narcolepsy is no longer available, thanks to the risk-averse regulatory establishment. You know what they say: if a regulation can save just one life (in six years) — who cares how many … Continue reading →

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the trouble with victimless crime

Posted on Friday, 2006 June 02 by Anton

I like Bruce Fein‘s language: The nation’s experiment with Prohibition underscores the limits of the law without moral consensus. The Prohibition Amendment was ratified as a type of homage that vice pays to virtue. Popular morality never celebrated abstinence. . … Continue reading →

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