Police raided a 62-year-old Baltimore man’s home who was suspected of selling prescription drugs. Along with drug (Percocet and Xanax) and money, 19 rifles and shotguns were seized. The Sun reports.
Tag: war on drugs
Harm Reduction
I enjoyed attending “New Directions for New York: A Public Health & Safety Approach to Drug Policy” sponsored at the New York Academy of Medicine and the Drug Policy Alliance. I was speaking on the Harm Reduction – Coordinating Strategies panel. Unfortunately, because I broke one of my rules and wrote on the back side of a copied piece of…
30-pound marijuana brick delivered to wrong address
How come UPS never drops one off on my stoop? Well, maybe it’s better that the police don’t mistakenly raid my house. One of my students works for UPS. Not delivering. But in their shipping building. He said (with disapproval) that a lot of his coworkers are street-level drug dealers when they’re not on the clock at UPS. So it…
$815,000 for fired Seattle-area cop
Mike Carter of the Seattle Timesreports: A former Mountlake Terrace police sergeant whose views supporting the decriminalization of marijuana led to his dismissal in 2005 has won his job back and an $815,000 settlement from the city and Snohomish County. However, Sgt. Jonathan Wender will not return to the streets. In addition to the financial settlement, the city has agreed…
Will Obama Legalize Marijuana?
No. But still, read this piece by John H. Richardson from Esquire.com.
US anti-kidnap expert kidnapped
So says the BBC.
“Our Drug Policy is a Success”
American has too many people behind bars, horrible levels of violence, foreign policy undermined by the War on Drugs, busts down the doors of citizens, makes poor people pee in cups to get a job, and–now this is important–the highest rate of illegal drug use in the world. Can John Walters really even write “our drug policy is a success”…
Mexico Under Seige
The LA Times has a series on Mexico’s War on Drugs.
Let junkies be junkies
Very interesting article by Vince Beiser of Miller-McCune about drug policy in Vancouver (thanks, Louise). It is also fair and balanced. From the article: Canada’s third-largest city has embarked on a radical experiment: Over the last several years, it has overhauled its police and social services practices to re-frame drug use as primarily a public health issue, not a criminal…