Ryan Braun’s suspension has been overturned. As is generally the case with drug warriors, MLB is furious that pesky things like “due process” and “checks to ensure that evidence is reliable” are getting in the way of a good witch hunt. Anyway, given this kind of attention to detail I’m sure that everyone fingered in […]
Tag: The War On (Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs
Interesting Tim Dickinson piece in Rolling Stone about the Obama Administration entering into an all-out war on medical marijuana. Dickinson doesn’t provide many answers as to why this has happe
A new survey of the world’s most deadly cities show that the top 33 are in the Americas, with the vast majority along the drug highway in North America and northern South America, beginning with
It would be easier to stomach the federal government intervening into the Greatest Scandal There Absolutely Ever Was if it was just empty posturing, but alas in addition we have to light tens of millions of dollars on fire.
This exhaustive explanation of why Jeff Bagwell — an obvious Hall of Famer on the merits — wasn’t even named on half the ballots last time does indeed contain every “reasonR
Read David Axe’s fantastic account of the Pima County SWAT raid: The May 5 assault by a Pima County SWAT team on an address on Red Water Street, outside Tucson, was meant to apprehend a suspect
I have an article up at the Prospect putting this week’s diminution of Fourth Amendment rights in context: That the other eight justices signed on to the majority opinion shows how bipartisan a cause the war on drugs has become. It is especially disappointing that President Barack Obama’s two appointees — Justices Elena Kagan and […]
Brief addendum to Scott’s post, which Brad P. also linked: Guerena, who joined the Marines in 2002 and served two tours in Iraq, was killed just after 9 a.m. May 5. Guerera had just gone to b
On this, I think Sheehan gets it right: “The best use of $55 million since Darren Dreifort.” Slightly longer version here.
Among its many bad elements tends to breed police corruption.
David Simon on the arrest of Felicia Pearson.
Depressing, but not surprising: There have been about 350,000 arrests for marijuana possession since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took office in 2002, the policy alliance said. Seventy percent of those