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, while THC (marijuana) peaked in 1991 and has since returned to near its 1981 price.
Remind me again, is the objective of the DEA to make drugs more or less available?
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!
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?
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 that a change in drug policy (particularly an amendment by shredder) would do him some good.
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 treat pain, I’m surprised the suicide rate of these sufferers is only [nine times] the national average.
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?