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angry Drug WarRant is an indispensible source for reliable news about a War on Drugs that has lost all grounding in reality, decency, or common sense. I recommend that all my readers bookmark this site, in order to remind ourselves how much we've underestimated the sheer stupidity and moral bankruptcy of US drug policy.
One of the latest posts virtually cries out to be pasted whole, with links:
It's not enough that the feds go after drug users and dealers. They've got to invent crimes and then go out and destroy people who are trying to do their jobs and be good citizens.
First, they came after the makers of glass pipes in Operation Pipe Dreams.
Then they try to break up good families, business people and parents, because of marijuana offences in the distant past.
Then they go after doctors who are trying to heal people for prescribing pain medicine to people in pain.
Now they've got this thing called Operation Meth Merchant that has bizarrely managed to arrest 32 Indians named Patel for working at convenience stores, following the law, but just not quite understanding the Engliish drug slang used by the undercover cops.
Read the New York Times story (via TalkLeft).
What convenience clerk would ever pay attention to the dregs of humanity that show up to buy stuff in the middle of the night? Now, the court had to be told that "cook" is slang for making meth, and yet these foreign convenience clerks were arrested for "knowing" that these undercover cops (by the sole nature of them using the term "cook" in conversation) were going to make meth.
This is beyond pathetic. We have a criminal federal government.
August 4 2005, 08:49:24 UTC 6 years ago
Oh, excuse me while I go to Blackbush to buy a bong....
August 4 2005, 09:03:22 UTC 6 years ago
re-educationdrug-treatment (like y'do). Drugs are the scourge of Christendom, doncha know, and we can't be bothered with wussy nicities like jurisdiction and national boundaries!