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Well said, Dominic. Unfortunately, the major media play along with the drug war far too often. In my opinion, they do it as a sort of trade-off for information. They don't attack the drug war because it angers police and prosecutors (ill-informed ones, anyway) who are seeing astronomical profits from the drug war and who do childish things like not returning phone calls, favoring one media outlet over another and denying access to public records whenever someone steps on their toes. It's no surprise to see the authorities act childish when someone threatens their golden goose, but it's sadder to see the media playing along (and becoming complicit) in a human rights travesty. I used to really believe in newspapers, but I've lost faith in the majors over the drug war. Look what the Los Angeles Times did to Gary Webb. They hung him out on a limb. Fortunately there's Dan Savage, who pulls no punches, and there are a few people like you. You are a drug-war-fighting son of a gun. It's good to read you on Slog. Together we will end the war on drugs, which hangs around like old dead Nixon's old rank fart, stinking up this, the future.

Hmmm...guess I better stop watching Weeds while I'm still ahead, huh?

Have heard the drug war called many things, but a Nixon fart, that's a new one. Let's just hope that this, too, shall pass.

I wonder how many of those middle-aged women have sons and daughters fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. I'd get waisted too.