Comments on This Year on Drugs
The biggest jump by far in those arrests came under Clinton, not GWB. Expect more of the same under Clinton II.
"If you smoke pot an alien will steal your girlfriend?" WTF? Talk about surreal.
Maybe the drugs made the cartoonist paranoid.
There's be no aliens or pot in America if we had a good fence down there.
Nonplussed doesn't mean what you think it means.
'Plan ColUmbia'? Sorry for the spelling flame, but is it called that because the drugs came from British Columbia?
I was using it to mean perplexed, which is what it means, keshmeshi.
And thanks for the Colombia spell check. I usually get that right but I'm an idjit today.
Well no mention of meth can be posted without the requisite, "Meth does not affect your teeth, it is the gallons of soda that meth users drink that destroy their teeth".
Still meth does take the crown for having the universally worse reporting.
Hey wasn't this the year of 'super-pot' or 'pot-zilla'? The pot that cannot be killed!
Thank God I'm a dual citizen and can visit Canada whenever I darn well please.
Reminds me of prohibition ... and we all know how successful that was.
Mr. Holden,
Regarding the "spell check" comment under the pothead's sign...I might beg to recommend you perform a similar grammar check. In the sentence, "the ads are...designated to insight fear, not improve public health," the correct word is "incite," not "insight."
FACT-CHECK! That ad is a parody, dude.
Oh, the supreme irony:
"And thus we have a perfect oligarchical system in which, literally, our most powerful and well-connected elite are free to break the law with impunity, exempt from any consequences. While exempting themselves, these same figures impose increasingly Draconian 'law and order' solutions on the masses to ensure that even small infractions of the law prompt vigorous prosecution and inflexible, lengthy prison terms.
As Matt Stoller recently noted in an excellent post on the bipartisan orthodoxies that are untouchable in political debates, 'there are 1 million people put in jail for doing what Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George Bush have done' (buying and consuming illegal drugs) and '2 million people are in prison in America, by far the highest total of any other country in the world.' It's almost impossible for the non-rich to defend themselves effectively against government accusations of criminality, and judges have increasingly less sentencing discretion to avoid imposing harsh jail terms. Punishment for crimes is for the masses only, not for members in good standing of our political and corporate establishment.'
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/12/30/oligarchy/index.html
What's the deal with Stranger staffers and homonyms? So far this week we've had screw-ups with grisly/grizzly, aisles/isles, incite/insight, and Colombia/Columbia. But hey, who's counting? Seriously, if you guys want to write for a living, you need to get this stuff straight.
Dude, they're exercising their right to use the same leafy substance as President George Washington did ... that's what's up with it, @13 ...
@12: yes.
And its not the "elite" in a vague sense who benefit: it is the Republicans.
Most of the persons charged and convicted for drug offenses are....African Americans. Only the most Democratic leaning set of voters.
Gee yet again this odd coincidence of loss of voting rights overlapping with minority and Democratic voters.
What could the explanation be?????
[Q: Why isn't drunk *driving* always a felony with automatic loss of voting rights ?
A: Come on -- lots of *Republicans* do that!]
Paul @9-
The insight/incite conundrum can "easily" be explored in the fanzine INCITE!
First to popularize the Magnetic Fields 45rpm and to later be commended by the finest music writer EVER 4 the StraNgeR, Everett True, this twee yellow rag was offered by the pop-insights of a 17th Century History of British Economics Graduate professor.
A recent headline "Soft is the New Hard" is hardly insightful, unless one wants to incite tired and well-worn path. Hey he's sacvinga the Earth- re re e recycleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee12e313fr3rgf
How does Kubla Khan relate to some pure, kind afghanistani, anyweigh Hioldwen?
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