Archive for the ‘The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs’ Category
Knocking On Suburbia’s Door
If you asked people whether they believed black teenagers or white teenagers were more likely to end up in a drug or alcohol dependency/abuse situation, I’m betting it would be the opposite of the results of a new extremely broad Duke University study on the subject. Black and Asian adolescents are much less likely than [...]
November 8, 2011
· 
Zandar · 
56 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
More Shitty Cops
This is flabbergasting to me: The conviction of Detective Arbeeny on official misconduct, offering a false instrument for filing and falsifying business records, was merely the latest example of police corruption, prosecutors said. On Jan. 25, 2007, prosecutors said Detective Arbeeny planted a small bag of crack cocaine on two innocent people. The detective’s lawyer, [...]
November 1, 2011
· John Cole · 54 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Shitty Cops, The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
Legalize It
New polls that show that marijuana legalization has the support of over half the nation leads Radley Balko to quip: Legalization is also at the top of the White House’s “We the People” petition site, and it isn’t even close. Next time Obama laughs off the question—and he will—I’d love to hear a White House [...]
October 19, 2011
· John Cole · 90 Comments
Posted in: OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
Thank the Drug War For This
My elderly neighbor had all of her pain medication stolen by someone who was doing some yardwork and household chores for her. But since we are idiot nation and have decided to launch a multi-decade war on drugs that has achieved nothing other than clog our prisons and ruin more lives than the drugs themselves, [...]
October 6, 2011
· John Cole · 68 Comments
Posted in: The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
Friday Evening Open Thread: Juiceball
(Jim Morin via GoComics.com) One of the minor annoyances of this week’s Republican Fail Parade has been that nobody had time to pay attention to the collapse of the Roger Clemens perjury trial: Well, isn’t this special? One thing upon which you can always depend. Once the prosecutorial powers-that-be get their teeth into a good, [...]
July 15, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 52 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Open Thread, Shitty Cops, Sports, The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
The Country’s Worst Governor Strikes Again
Florida Republican Rick Scott (who just in the six months he has been in office has managed to approach The Twenty-Seven Percent Solution™ on his approval numbers) has now put into place one of his more odious laws, random drug testing for all public assistance recipients (because they have to be criminals.) Under the law, [...]
July 3, 2011
· Zandar · 101 Comments
Posted in: Fuck The Poor, The Money Party, The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
And Now For Something Completely Different
Interesting: The first-ever Congressional bill to let states legalize marijuana will be introduced in the U.S. House by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers on Thursday, and a group of police and judges who fought on the front lines of the failed “war on drugs” is announcing its support. Neill Franklin, a former Baltimore narcotics cop [...]
June 22, 2011
· John Cole · 39 Comments
Posted in: The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
Tonight There’s Gonna Be a Jailbreak
Interesting Supreme Court decision: The Supreme Court ordered California on Monday to release tens of thousands of its prisoners to relieve overcrowding, saying that “needless suffering and death” had resulted from putting too many inmates into facilities that cannot hold them in decent conditions. It is one of the largest prison release orders in the [...]
May 23, 2011
· John Cole · 104 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
‘The America that got left behind’
I owe BJ commentor Phoebe many thanks for the link to Guernica’s excellent Bill Moyers interview with David Simon, MacArthur ‘genius grant’ fellow and the man responsible for Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire, and Treme. A sampling: David Simon: One of the themes of The Wire really was that statistics will always lie. [...]
April 16, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 95 Comments
Posted in: Excellent Links, Fuck The Poor, The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
Wanna Save Some Government Money?
Stop spending ten years and who knows how many millions of dollars on stupid shit like getting a one count conviction of Barry Bonds for lying about using juice. The other counts all ended in mistrial.
April 13, 2011
· John Cole · 114 Comments
Tags: The only time you should peak in your late 30's is with the help of viagra · Posted in: Sports, The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
You’ll Tear the Sudafed From My Cold Dead Hands
In West Virginia news: On a 16-16 tie vote, the state Senate rejected a bill Thursday that would require a doctor’s prescription to purchase cold medicine containing the ingredient pseudoephedrine. The close vote came as 50 uniformed police officers in favor of the bill watched from the galleries above the Senate floor. Supporters say making [...]
March 10, 2011
· John Cole · 88 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
An Execution in Utah
When police storm your house, and you wake up dazed and grab a golf club, the sentence is death: That man was nowhere near a cop, was not given a chance to get on the ground, and they shot him to death. This must be the new professionalism Scalia was talking about. This was a [...]
January 18, 2011
· John Cole · 162 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Shitty Cops, The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
This Will Make Your Blood Boil
Our new ombudsman has an infuriating piece about what can only be described as malicious prosecution: Siobhan Reynolds entered this fray when her late ex-husband Sean, began suffering the symptoms of a congenital connective tissue disorder that left him with debilitating pain in his joints. After trying a variety of treatments, he found relief in [...]
December 22, 2010
· John Cole · 50 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
Too Legit to Quit
Thought this was interesting: Joey Burger was 14 when his naturalist parents moved from Santa Cruz to settle in the coastal forest of Humboldt County. Local hippies and homesteaders welcomed the new kid in the woods. They schooled him in the regional art — growing marijuana. “It was never looked upon as a bad thing,” [...]
November 29, 2010
· John Cole · 38 Comments
Posted in: The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
Easiest Bust In History
Thank goodness this menace to the nation is taken care of: A U.S. Border Patrol spokesman says country singer Willie Nelson was charged with marijuana possession after 6 ounces was found aboard his tour bus in Texas. Patrol spokesman Bill Brooks says the bus pulled into the Sierra Blanca, Texas, checkpoint about 9 a.m. Friday. [...]
November 27, 2010
· John Cole · 23 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
