Continuing my mini-series on victimless crimes, Here's just another chapter in how fruitless and counterintuitive this all is.
P.S. Hard to believe, but we are heading in the right direction, albeit at a quadriplegic snail's pace.
Glenn's blog post is brief. The CATO presentation of his findings - his report (50mins), a rebuttal, Q&A - runs to a fascinating hour & 20 minutes.
It also provides you with plenty of ammo against those whose first impulse is always to punish.
War On Drugs PORTUGAL'S decriminalization 7 YEARS ON - Glenn Greenwald 03-14-09
War On Drugs PORTUGAL'S decriminalization 7 YEARS ON - Glenn Greenwald @ Cato forum #1.20.35 04-03-09
Now, ask yourself this, gentle readers: Have any of you read/heard/seen any MSM coverage of this signal study - now two months on - by one of the nation's premier investigative reporters? If you say to yourself, "Gee, I wonder why I haven't?", you'll be on your way to kissing goodbye the thoroughly traduced, totally compromised, bottom-line -myopic mainstream media and to start reading the likes of Common Dreams, Alternet, Democracy Now, Truthdig, and a host of others. Feel free to also banish all non-music (Tampa Bay) stations from your radio dial, save one: WMNF. @ 88.5 FM, it is the only community station in this area doing its job, namely, informing the people by providing an alternative view of reality. Said view sometimes goes by the seditious, treacherous, treasonous, and insurrectionist term, the truth.
So now, do your job, and forward this post to everyone you know who can handle "the truth." Who knows, it might be your niece, brother, son who is spared 5 to 10 at Raiford for toking in the wrong place at the wrong time.
For W-O-D news and involverment:
War On Drugs POT LEGALIZATION ACTIVIST Stop the Drug War.org (DRCNet)
Nigel Watson freethinker 727.493.1990
freesense@Gmail.com
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
– Krishnamurti
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