Category Archives: drugwar

the doors of deception

Posted on Monday, 2003 January 27 by Anton

Jacob Sullum discusses the ‘gateway effect’, concluding: A few years ago in the Drug Policy Analysis Bulletin, the social psychologist Robert MacCoun laid out seven – count ’em, seven – different versions of the gateway theory. “Given our current state … Continue reading →

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conjugation

Posted on Friday, 2003 January 17 by Anton

Takes one to know one: Derided by the White House as “nothing more than a cheap political stunt,” marijuana advocates’ attempt to hold Office of National Drug Control Policy head John P. Walters’ feet to the fire for his overt, … Continue reading →

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that’s just the drugs talking, dear

Posted on Thursday, 2002 November 28 by Anton

Do you enjoy dictionaries as much as I do? The Office of National Drug Control Policy (boo hiss) publishes this one: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade. (Link provided by Michael Travers, as an aside from a digression about … Continue reading →

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victory is around the corner

Posted on Sunday, 2002 May 26 by Anton

Freezerbox: This Is American History On Drugs California now imprisons more people than do France, Germany, Japan, Singapore and the Netherlands combined. It has more people in jail for drug offenses than were in jail in the entire United States … Continue reading →

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why be just a little bit crooked?

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 April 03 by Anton

Got a spam today for police-seized cars, and gotta admire the symmetry: using ‘legally’ stolen bandwidth to sell ‘legally’ stolen goods. (They tell you that the cars belonged to “drug kingpins”, which even if it were true would not justify … Continue reading →

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those bastards!

Posted on Thursday, 2002 March 28 by Anton

Medical marijuana refugees in Canada. So that’s what happened to Kubby! (Link from Alex Knapp.)

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precision ≠ accuracy

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 February 27 by Anton

Go get ’em! The LP responds to the notorious infamous “if you buy dope you’re supporting terrorism” spot with this newspaper advertisement. (Thanks to Ananda, who credits Declan McCullagh.) Pet peeve nº 17000: false precision. When you write “boosts . . . … Continue reading →

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