Category: War on Some Drugs

  • Amnest Int'l: US Leads World in Global Attack on Human Rights

    Not Syria. Not North Korea. Not Uzbekistan. Not a country full of darker-skinned, non-Christian folk: [H]uman rights are in retreat worldwide and the United States bears most responsibility… From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe the picture is bleak. Governments are increasingly rolling back the rule of law, taking their cue from the U.S.-led war on terror… “The […]

  • Cheech and Chong

    Up In Smoke is on the telly right now. I remember watching this the year we had cable when I was a kid. I remember thinking it was really really funny but I don’t think I was really cognitive of the drug use. I just remember them driving around in an ice cream truck laughing […]

  • 1962-3: U.S. Army and LSD Experimentation

    Case records of 52 Army volunteers given from 1.1 to 2.0 µg/kg of LSD orally between 1962 and 1966 were studied…. Significant relationships were found between personality (as measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and Army General Intelligence Test) and performance following administration of LSD.

  • Locals versus Feds in Drug War Duel

    Two years ago a drug raid in Butte County, California, led to a three-hour standoff. It was not the sort of standoff you usually read about in the papers or see depicted on TV, pitting police against desperate criminals. It was a standoff between local and federal law enforcement officials, with implications that extend far […]

  • Opium Made Easy

    From ‘Opium Made Easy’ in Harper’s: The DEA was indeed trying to implement a quiet crackdown without calling attention to the fact that they are commonly available and easily converted into a narcotic. Why is it illegal to plant a seed, a gift from nature, when your only intention is to grow it for its […]