Maybe he lives in some alternate reality where up is down, $4 million a year salary means you're Middle Class, and we have always been at war with Iraq Iran Iceland and are willing to die in a nuclear holocaust for Georgia (the occupied former Russian state, not the US state).

But more pots bust on public land require even more pot to be grown on public land—demand elicits more supply

Couldn't you use that same argument to oppose busting, well, pretty much anything?

In contrast, there is no consumer market for murder. People aren't walking around hoping to be murdered. Thus, taking a murderer off the street doesn't draw out people from the woodwork to go murder.

We're still waiting for the Stranger's in-depth pro-marijuana story on legalization. it's been many months now and still no sight of it in your pages. Did it get bounced off the budget?

Until then ...keep crowing.

And again, you calling someone else a hack is a bit like Thomas Kincaid criticizing other painters for their lack of originality.

The Drug War mouthpieces never met an effect of their failed policy that couldn't be turned into an argument for pursuing their failed policy more aggressively.

I used to feel the same way, but now know two Jeff's that I like very much.

I still haven't met a Derek or a Kevin that didn't invoke a neck hair bristling response of some kind.

sincerely,
diggum

Rick Steves should win a medal, by the way. He makes an incredibly common-sense argument in favor of decriminalization.