Drug Laws

The Supremes

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They’ve announced the cases they are going to hear this session. For those of you tired of reading the many so, so serious posts on many of the cases head over to the Happy Furry Puppy place to read some serious but laced with humor commentary:

The Goddamned Pledge of Allegiance vs. Some Godless Atheist Commie Freak. You don’t really want to know what I think about this, other than you know that it’s going to be used as a political clubbing tool… as evidenced by subtle-as-a-flying-mallet Press Secretary Scott McClellan yesterday:

Well, head over to read what mcClellan said and what the Furry Puppy person does think about it.

Feds lose battle in War on American People

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It was a small but important battle that extended back to the Clinton administraton.
In this case:

The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Tuesday a ruling that the government cannot revoke the federal prescription licenses of doctors who recommend medical marijuana to sick patients.
Without any comment, the justices rejected a Bush administration appeal of the ruling that bars the government from punishing and from even investigating a doctor’s conduct because of a recommendation that a patient use marijuana.

Every little bit helps in this long war touted by administration after administration as the war on drugs but which is really a war on the people.
This particular battle extends back to the clinton administration and demonstrates that republicans and democratics have joined together in this war which has led to 1000s of deaths in our inner cities, that has led to the highest incarceration rate in the world (in the land of the free?), and which at its core attacks the liberty of each and every one of us.

A Drug Prohibition Failure

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For a slightly different take on the Limbaugh mess read Postrel and Sollum.
Their key point being that Limbaugh’s current public problem is caused by the drug war, an artifact of prohibition, and not specifically his pill popping.
If he and a long series of government administrations at many levels had eliminated rather then maintained the drug prohibition Rush could still be out there supporting the bushies and their ilk.
And the taxpayers would not have to be supporting the largest prison industry in the world.

Where is America Headed?

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As a follow up to last night’s Late Night Reading take a look at Doug Giebel’s article Ending America as We Know It which opens:

The neo-conservative Bush Administration “plan” to remake our American nation intends to alter forever the relationship between government, business and the people.

In the summation to his arguments Giebel asserts:

Americans are being played for suckers by a carnival of macho scam artists, the likes of which this nation has never before experienced.

You read it, you judge.
Via Talkleft.

Don’t Tread on Us

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I don’t usually borrow whole posts but this from Doug Allen at Catallarchy aptly describes one aspect of the bizarre and misguided priorities that citizens of the US have built up around themselves over the last 200+ years:

Somewhere, violent criminals are still at large. Somewhere, a shady character is plotting terrorist activities. Somewhere, a drunken teen is getting behind the wheel of a car. Somewhere, a man is beating his wife.
But law enforcement resources are being used to charge Tommy Chong, fine him, and send him to a prison filled with dangerous whackos for nine months for selling bongs over the Internet.

When people exchange goods on mutually agreeable terms leave them alone.