Stampfer is on the right track. And, yea, even though it is not required to get the results Stampfer describes I’d accept regulated legalization of all drugs as an interim step on the path to complete legalization.
Via Talkleft.
I’d like to think that the us senate respects the people and the constitution enough to toss out crap like the house recently passed on to it but, heck, it is the us senate so we will probably get to see this go all the way to the supreme court before we hopefully are rid of at least some of the more noxious provisions.
Radley in discussing some of representative pence’s (r-ind) additons to the Child Safety Act of 2005 also notes the following:
It gets worse. The bill’s enforcement provisions empower law enforcement with the power to seize the assets of violators, proving that there really is a graveyard of stupid ideas deep in the bowels of the U.S. Capitol Building that Congressmen return to when they’re out of stuff to legislate. Because asset forfeiture has worked so well with the drug war. Idiots.
Actually asset forfeiture has worked very well in the drug wars. See, assest forfeiture is not about stopping some type of alleged criminal activity. Rather, it is about adding another revenue source for government agencies. And they don’t have to call it extortion taxation.
Via Brian Doss at Catallarchy.
2,284,571 current high school students will die in five years.
Your favorite government probably thinks you’d be interested in buying a bridge as well.
Via The Agitator.
Well, I am neither speechless or flabbergsted but as John Cole says:
You can
Steven Taylor gets it right:
However, it is impossible, I would argue, to look at the money we spend and the results we get and then state that our drug war policy makes any sense whatsoever.
Read the Rest. Then call your elected representatives and tell them you want the drug war, a war on the people of America (amongst others) stopped. Now.