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Alcohol and drug use down among teens, despite what the headline says
Let’s play a game called “write the headline.” Here’s the story from the New York Times: According to the latest federal figures, which were part of an annual survey, Monitoring the Future…. The report looked at a wide variety of drugs and substances. It found, for example, that drinking was steadily declining, with roughly 40 percent of high school seniors…
Waltzing Matilda
Should you just happen to be in Sydney next week, wonder over to the Opera House and check out the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. I’ll be there, spreading dangerous thoughts about flogging and the war on drugs. Did I mention they’re flying me over there all fancy? Like in business class? Classy, those Aussies are! It should be a blast.
Why Are So Many Violent Criminals Walking Free?
Because of the War on Drugs.
Two more prohibition deaths
These twodidn’t die from MDMA. They died from whatever they took that wasn’t MDMA. Why? Because of prohibition. To blame drugs rather than prohibition is exactly the same as when, during Prohibition, “alcohol” caused blindness, death, and (my own favorite) Jake Leg. These are prohibition problems. Of course during Prohibition, prohibitionists blamed the prohibited drug rather than their policy of…
We Got Another Kingpin! (12)
That’s two in one month and it makes an even dozen. “Eduardo Arellano Felix is to serve 15 years in jail, after pleading guilty to charges of money laundering,” says the BBC. Though I don’t know if this should really count since he’s been in jail since 2008, and his nickname, “The Doctor,” is kinda lame. But I’m still chalking…
LEAP’s Peter Christ on Drug Prohibition
Well played, Peter. Well played.
Now This News
Short video on the problem of opiate painkillers. I get my two-cents in at about three minutes in. Ironically, I may have been or Percocet while being interviewed!
Another Drug War Victim
Daniel Chongwas awarded $4 million after he was detained, told he wouldn’t be charged, and then left in a windowless cell in the DEA’s San Diego headquarter without food or water for four days. He drank his urine to stay alive and after being found spent three days in the ICU. Hey, mistakes happen. The DEA regrets the error.
We Got Another Kingpin! (11)
Why it was less than a year ago that we got Heriberto Lazcano, the founder and principal leader of the Zetas. And now the Times reports: The leader of … the Zetas, was captured Monday in a city near the Texas border, an emphatic retort from the new government to questions over whether it would go after top organized crime…