How The US lost the War on Drugs

Rolling Stone has a great article up dissing the US war on drugs. It gives a great history of American drug policy and a rehash of the various organizations and individuals that have tried to reform drug policy.

I got a real kick out of this.

Coleman and other agents began to work deductively, backward. "We had always wondered why his guys, when we caught them, would always go to trial and risk lots of jail time, even when they would have saved themselves a lot of time if they'd just plead guilty," he says. "What we realized when we saw those binders was that they were doing a job. Their job was to stay on trial and have their lawyers use discovery to get all the information on DEA operations they could. Then they'd send copies back to Medellín, and Escobar would put it all together and figure out who we had tracking him."

Apparently, drug dealers aren't stupid. Pablo Escobar had hired people to go to trial and get as much information about the DEA as possible.

Anyway, read the whole thing, it is a great overview of American drug policy.

Sex, Drugs and Bad Manners

I went and checked SmallDeadAnimals, out of boredom, and discovered a delightful, but definitely NSFW blog called "One D At A Time". The blog made the rounds on message boards and blogs because the author held a huge party featuring drinking and debauchery and her house became trashed and destroyed. She asked the party participants to help her out and send her a few dollars to help pay for the damage.

I find it hysterical, the way that everybody is calling her names, and the way that Tracy Egan just does not care what anybody thinks of her. While I am way too straight-laced to ever live her kind of life, being a straight-laced mom of two who can barely handle a whole beer all by herself, I have to admire anybody that is as refreshingly honest as she is. I will be checking up on her and laughing myself silly.

Drug Dealer Wanted Poster

I really get irritated by this big-balled, Chuck Norris, cock-swinging parody of masculinity that is so frequently promoted. Just take a look at this poster.



A drug dealer is a terrible person that deserves to be hunted down and killed. They compare violent crimes committed with guns to passing a joint. On what planet is this kind of blatant fear-mongering acceptable to post in the hallways of a school?

Apparently, the school principal got his elite drug-fighting skills in Iraq, thus proving once and for all that the US military is nothing more than a training grounds for thugs and bullies.

I hate to break it to deluded school officials, but drug dealers are not scary, horrible, terrible people. They are people that are intelligent enough to see through the overwrought propaganda of the drug warriors and realize that drug use is nothing to fear. Ingesting caffeine, cannabis, alcohol, insulin, aspirin or ibuprofen is not bad if done in a responsible manner. Drug dealers are your kids, friends, teachers, students and members of your community. Don't forget that trafficking is illegal. Passing a joint makes you a drug dealer. According to these school officials, a couple of teenagers passing a joint should be considered dangerous and violent criminals.

Blog Neglect

I remember when I began blogging a year ago and made a New Year's resolution to make a blog post every day. That didn't happen but I sure did have a lot of fun! At any rate, although I failed to blog regularly, I did learn a number of lessons about blogging.

-Blogging is a lot of fun.
-It is difficult to do it every day. If you do, it becomes a job and a chore.
-I suck at formatting web pages.
-I need to stop taking on more than I can handle.
-Blogging is addictive, worse than any drug!

I have decided to spend a little time and learn how to do this blogging thing properly. Get a domain name and some hosting and do this thing right. Anyway, I will be back sooner or later. See ya!