11
Apr
The War on Your Neighbor
If you are a big critic of the government’s policies in the war on drugs, make sure that you go read this post at Glenn Greenwald’s. It is from last Friday, but I am just getting to it now.
It is still worth your time.
Krista
Wow. That was pretty eye-opening. Great link. Thanks, John.
Tim
Peter Guither has an excellent blog all about the Drug War!
http://www.drugwarrant.com
Mona
John, Pete and I co-wrote that, and I am so pleased you picked it up. (I post there as “Hypatia,” and it is sort of silly since most know who I am, but I maintain it cuz that’s how I started there in comments.)
The link to our first post on the drug war and prison is screwed up and won’t get you there, it is this.
Pete Guither knows everything under the sun about what is effed up about drug policy. Please follow the links to his blog.
Drug WarRant
Has Arianna been stealing from my blog?
Pat
Please allow me to add to your database on this critically important issue. The most significant and under-addressed issue in the drug war is the fact that the government knows that it is “creating chaos and instability” in the world as a by-product of the drug war.
“creating chaos and instability”
I’v been writing extensively on this for the past couple of weeks. the latest is: Arianna drug war is “creating chaos and instability”
It includes the FACT that the 2006 National Drug threat Assessment of the Justice Department actually describes how they expect their success in interdiction in Colombia will result in the Colombians joining forces with the southwest Asian heroin gangs. The FARC and AlQaida driven together by U.S. interdiction.
What we need is an immediate armistice in the drug war until the government can develop interdiction strategies that are not “creating chaos and instability”
Make7
I thought Drugs already won the Drug War. I think it was around the time Pablo Escobar was killed….
Jess
I liked this comment by Peter Guither. Did it originate with him? I’m going to have to start quoting him on this.