Slog - Comments on This Week on Drugs http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56 That Blasted Definition of Insanity: The more the U.S. spends on its "drug-control strategy" in South and Central America, the worse, it seems, things get. In Colombia, troops this week were convicted of killing their own government’s anti-narcotics agents, funded by the U.S., and a prosecutor in the case has been accused of offering to aid the defense in exchange for dough. In Mexico, where drug-related murders have soared along with U.S. aid, our undeterred Drug Czar wants more of the same—more money to bust pot traffickers. The apparent logic of Drug Czar John “hope for treatment” Walters is that,... Copyright 2008 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:17:24 -0800 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:38:12 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Dougsf If I had to be Aaron Carter, I'd want be fucking stoned too.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945407 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945407 Drugs Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:45:46 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo The problem with treatment programs is they don't allow you to maintain military bases in Columbia.

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945451 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945451 Drugs Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:03:47 -0800 Comment by weezer we need more people like High Strung

]]> weezer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945457 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945457 Drugs Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:07:51 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @2 - or Africa.

Meanwhile Afghanistan is the world's #1 supplier of Heroin, Cocaine, and MJ now.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945500 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945500 Drugs Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:24:09 -0800 Comment by Queen_of_Sleaze Ok...

How come millions of dollars worth of cocaine never washes up on shore when I'm hanging out at the beach?

And what kind of fucking moron goes running off to the cops when they happen upon this score of a lifetime?

I say blow them rails til you can't feel your face and pad your wallet with the proceeds from the rest!

]]> Queen_of_Sleaze http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945528 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945528 Drugs Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:36:00 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi I see no reason why poor people in Third World countries should have to suffer to keep spoiled Americans from doing drugs.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945548 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945548 Drugs Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:44:18 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Prove it, Will. All I want is a cite. Gimme anything.

The cocaine bundles washing up on shore remind me of this story about the Nicaraguan town that has become rich from fishing for "white lobster" -- bundles thrown overboard by smugglers about to be arrested: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/09/international.mainsection2

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945596 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945596 Drugs Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:05:31 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo keshmeshi: If the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous were just subsidizing poor Bolivian farmers, that would be one thing. But unfortunately, they're also subsidizing the CIA.

Grow your own, kids!

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945614 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945614 Drugs Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:12:43 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle CIA stats, Fnarf. Public testimony before Congress.

Have you NOT been paying attention?

Heck, articles in Time, Newsweek, US News, the list is very very long ... Afghanistan is a basket case and drug supply is their first name.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945636 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945636 Drugs Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:21:49 -0800 Comment by Bub Aaron Carter in a Texas prison? You know someone with profit in mind is gonna have a camera on his ass for the duration of his stay.

]]> Bub http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945668 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945668 Drugs Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:37:01 -0800 Comment by Fnarf That's not a cite, Will. Give me a cite. I want a citation that says Afghanistan is the #1 source of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. That's what you claimed.

And no, no one has ever said that in Congressional testimony. Unless, maybe, you've got a citation? No? Nothing? Time, Newsweek, really? Let's see it. Let's see a link. You'd think if it was in Time and Newsweek, you'd be able to find it on the web. Not "basket case", not "awash in drugs" -- I want to see "world's #1 supplier of Heroin, Cocaine, and MJ now" ANYWHERE.

Because otherwise you're just full of shit. Like always.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945776 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945776 Drugs Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:48:26 -0800 Comment by Dominic Holden No, Fnarf, Afghanistan isn't the leading supplier of those three drugs. It is, by far, the world's leading supplier of heroin. Last year marijuana prduction there increased by about 40 percent, but the U.S. and Mexico remain the world's leading pot producers. And, lastly, the title of leading cocaine-producing country is taken handily by Colombia.

]]> Dominic Holden http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945822 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945822 Drugs Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:21:31 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Thanks, Dominic. I knew all of that, from some googling around, but it's good to see it here. Will is full of shit; he simply lacks the mental faculties to distinquish between reading somewhere that they grow a lot of dope and blithely stating "World's Number One". I like my facts to be true.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945839 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945839 Drugs Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:35:58 -0800 Comment by gnossos Just to pile on: there is no cocaine coming out of Afghanistan or any place within 10,000 miles of it.

And the overwhelming majority of Afghan opiate products are ending up in Russia and eastern Europe, which is one of the reasons they're so pissed off about our inept handling of the country.

And Afghanistan is nowhere near the world's largest producer of MJ -- even with a 40% increase.

]]> gnossos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945942 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/this_week_on_drugs_56#c945942 Drugs Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:38:12 -0800