Category Archives: drugwar

advancing smartly to the rear

Posted on Friday, 2004 September 17 by Anton

AlterNet: DrugReporter: Dressing Up Failure

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the price of pot

Posted on Saturday, 2004 July 24 by Anton

Educated Guesswork relays graphs – purporting to be from the ONDCP, no less – showing that the retail prices of heroin, cocaïne and methamphetamine (as adjusted for purity as well as currency inflation) declined fairly steadily between 1981 and 2001, … Continue reading →

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drug war news

Posted on Friday, 2003 December 26 by Anton

Steve Kubby, Libertarian candidate for governor of California in 1998, has just been denied asylum in Canada. He will appeal. (Cited by Rational Review News Digest) September 2005: Not deported yet!

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Incident at Goose Creek

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 November 11 by Anton

People are asking why the latest drug-war outrage has not resulted in tar and feathers, or at least some basic rock-throwing. Perhaps the potential ringleaders are worried about being prosecuted for terrorism?

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if youth knew, if age could

Posted on Saturday, 2003 November 08 by Anton

Jim Henley wrote a year ago: Sadly, Unqualified Offerings changed its mind about drug prohibition well after it was too old to benefit personally. That’s odd. Jim is a couple of mere weeks older than the Ogre, who remains convinced … Continue reading →

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pain matters

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 July 23 by Anton

I’m surprised to find that this blog has not previously mentioned the problem of undermedication for pain, a side-effect of the War On Minority Drugs. Here is a personal anecdote. After seeing first-hand the lack of understanding and willingness to … Continue reading →

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in more innocent times

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 July 09 by Anton

It seems to me that in the Seventies – before John Belushi died – there was talk of relegalizing or decriminalizing the “soft drugs” marijuana and cocaïne. Does anyone else remember that, or am I (ha ha) hallucinating?

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