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Via Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyer Robert Guest, the pro-War-on-Poor-People Drug Free America Foundation’s poll on whether drug use is a victimless crime. As Robert notes, 2/3 of the poll’s respondents agree or agree strongly.
I voted for “Strongly agree. What a user chooses to do themselves is no one’s business.” But three of the other choices [...]
Mark Bennett | March 11, 2008
AHCL’s post on the “war on drugs” and my response started with AHCL’s question on the overall message of The Wire with regard to that “war.” Was the message intended to be that the WoD is unwinnable but worth fighting? Or was it that the WoD is unwinnable and self-destructive?
Now (with a hat tip to [...]
Mark Bennett | March 11, 2008
What we’ve been doing since the DEA was created 35 years ago has resulted in more drugs being available at lower costs. We can all agree that the “war on drugs” is an abject failure. Although one frustrated DEA agent suggested to me that what we need is Malaysian-style drug laws, most of us know [...]
Mark Bennett | February 29, 2008
The other half of my appearance on the anti-drugwar radio show “Cultural Baggage” with Dean Becker, February 20th on Pacifica station KPFT. (Transcript.)
Here is the previously-posted first half, and the transcript.
Mark Bennett | February 21, 2008
About 30 minutes of the anti-drugwar radio show “Cultural Baggage” with Dean Becker, today on Pacifica station KPFT.
Mark Bennett | February 12, 2008
More public access TV stuff: Drugs, Crime and Politics with retired South Texas College of Law prof Buford Terrell.
