Blog Title: Blame The Drug War

How The US lost the War on Drugs

Rolling Stone has a great article up dissing the US war on drugs. It gives a great history of American drug policy and a rehash of the various organizations and individuals that have tried to reform drug policy.

I got a real kick out of this.

Coleman and other agents began to work deductively, backward. "We had always wondered why his guys, when we caught them, would always go to trial and risk lots of jail time, even when they would have saved themselves a lot of time if they'd just plead guilty," he says. "What we realized when we saw those binders was that they were doing a job. Their job was to stay on trial and have their lawyers use discovery to get all the information on DEA operations they could. Then they'd send copies back to Medellín, and Escobar would put it all together and figure out who we had tracking him."

Sex, Drugs and Bad Manners

I went and checked SmallDeadAnimals, out of boredom, and discovered a delightful, but definitely NSFW blog called "One D At A Time". The blog made the rounds on message boards and blogs because the author held a huge party featuring drinking and debauchery and her house became trashed and destroyed. She asked the party participants to help her out and send her a few dollars to help pay for the damage.

I find it hysterical, the way that everybody is calling her names, and the way that Tracy Egan just does not care what anybody thinks of her. While I am way too straight-laced to ever live her kind of life, being a straight-laced mom of two who can barely handle a whole beer all by herself, I have to admire anybody that is as refreshingly honest as she is. I will be checking up on her and laughing myself silly.

Drug Dealer Wanted Poster

I really get irritated by this big-balled, Chuck Norris, cock-swinging parody of masculinity that is so frequently promoted. Just take a look at this poster.



A drug dealer is a terrible person that deserves to be hunted down and killed. They compare violent crimes committed with guns to passing a joint. On what planet is this kind of blatant fear-mongering acceptable to post in the hallways of a school?

Apparently, the school principal got his elite drug-fighting skills in Iraq, thus proving once and for all that the US military is nothing more than a training grounds for thugs and bullies.

I hate to break it to deluded school officials, but drug dealers are not scary, horrible, terrible people. They are people that are intelligent enough to see through the overwrought propaganda of the drug warriors and realize that drug use is nothing to fear. Ingesting caffeine, cannabis, alcohol, insulin, aspirin or ibuprofen is not bad if done in a responsible manner. Drug dealers are your kids, friends, teachers, students and members of your community. Don't forget that trafficking is illegal. Passing a joint makes you a drug dealer. According to these school officials, a couple of teenagers passing a joint should be considered dangerous and violent criminals.

Blog Neglect

I remember when I began blogging a year ago and made a New Year's resolution to make a blog post every day. That didn't happen but I sure did have a lot of fun! At any rate, although I failed to blog regularly, I did learn a number of lessons about blogging.

-Blogging is a lot of fun.
-It is difficult to do it every day. If you do, it becomes a job and a chore.
-I suck at formatting web pages.
-I need to stop taking on more than I can handle.
-Blogging is addictive, worse than any drug!

I have decided to spend a little time and learn how to do this blogging thing properly. Get a domain name and some hosting and do this thing right. Anyway, I will be back sooner or later. See ya!

Tough love?

A parent reacts to their teenage boy smoking pot by selling his Christmas present on Ebay. As a radical leftist feminazi I offer my heartfelt sympathies to the poor child that is being deprived of the video game he earned. It's child abuse I tell ya!

Hey, at least it wasn't beer. That stuff is really bad for you.

On a slightly more serious note, I would ask this parent why his son smoking pot bothers him so much. While it is true that smoking pot is an illegal activity, it is a fairly common behavior that is unlikely to have longterm health effects. But as a parent, you absolutely have the right (and the responsibility) to set limits on your childs' behavior. If you would react the same way to your child drinking beer or smoking cigarettes, then it seems pretty reasonable to me.

Personally, my biggest parenting concern is the continued pornification of young girls. Bratz dolls and strip-pole Barbie piss me off to no end. Pot-smoking is barely a blip on my parenting radar screen.

Dennis Kucinich goes bye-bye

I thought Kucinich was pretty cool. But then he had to go and say that he wishes to have Ron Paul as a running mate.

WTF???? I guess I have no choice left but to support Hillary.

Conservative Drug Strategy a Resounding Success

I agree with Neil Horner. We can't have the price of weed going down or we might have to fire those RCMP drug warriors.

Decriminalization would have hit hard at the families of both pot growers and RCMP drug enforcement officers - particularly in this province. That's unacceptable, and Stephen Harper, bless him, knew it.

Now, if the government really wanted to cut down on pot use, it seems logical for it to attack one or both of those two branches. First, disrupt the market. This has actually been done by the crackdown at the border. B.C. People can grow kickass weed, but they can't smoke all of it themselves. They need help from the U.S. With the market flooded, local pot growers are seeing less bang for their hazardous buck.

I wonder...

How "Dr." Ron Paul will respond to this. Should be almost as interesting as the money story.

Conservatives stand to benefit from outbreak of gang mayhem

I have a completely scientific theory (that I pulled straight out of my ear) about Vancouver's recent crime wave.

The US dollar has sank like a stone recently. This is going to kill BC's marijuana industry. It is no secret that BC exports a lot of marijuana to the US. Exporting high-quality marijuana is what BC does. But thanks to the crashing US dollar, there is just no money to be made in exporting marijuana to the States anymore. So what is going to happen to all of that excess marijuana that is not going to go south?

A lot of people are going to get stuck with marijuana that they can't sell. This is good news for Canadians that love pot. The price will crash domestically, meaning that by Christmas time, Saskatoon will be swamped with cheap and high-quality weed. But this also means an increase in gang violence. There will be debts that can not be repaid and those issues will not be resolved by marijuana growers going bankrupt. It will be resolved with violence. And tragically, that is what we are already seeing.

But there is another evil side effect of the increase in gang violence. The victims of gang violence will be used by the Conservative government to push tough-on-crime initiatives that will not decrease crime.

- Crack down on money laundering by organized crime.

- Earmark $64 million for a "National Anti-Drug Strategy."

- Announce the hiring of 1,000 new RCMP officers as well money to help municipalities hire 2,500 more police.

- Introduce legislation to limit house arrest so that those committing violent crime would be forced to serve jail time; to require mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes, and tougher sentencing for violent repeat offenders; to establish a reverse-onus principle in bail hearings for firearm-related offences.

Ron Paul Money

I was thinking of starting my own religion but maybe I should just start a kingqueendom instead. We'll call it Tanyaland and I promise that everybody will get kittens. The best part is that I can have money printed with my picture on it. Just like Ron Paul. He sure does have some devoted fans.

I wish that money had pictures of bunnies and kittens on it instead of old, dead white males.

A Use for the Canadian Wheat Board

This is the way to fix Afghanistan.

Sex Toys for Troy King

Have I ever told you how much I love Loretta Nall? She is just way too cool.

Apparently things are so grand and wonderful in the state of Alabama, that the attorney general has to look for busywork to keep himself occupied. This means calling for a crackdown on sex toys.

No, no you did not misread that. Douchebag Attorney General Troy King wants to pass a law to make it easier to crack down on stores that sell sex toys. Consenting adults having too much fun in the privacy of their own homes is giving this turdlinger the vapors.

In response, the charming Loretta Nall responds with:

Now, I only have six words to say to AG King about his anti-dildo crusade..FROM MY COLD DEAD FINGERS TROY!!!

US dollar devestates BC Bud industry

The falling US dollar has accomplished what the DEA never could: made BC's marijuana industry unprofitable.

WHITEFISH - For years, backpacks crammed with cash have slipped north into Canada, followed closely by hockey bags packed with premium marijuana skating south into Montana.

A favorable exchange rate (not long ago, one American dollar bought one and a half Canadian dollars) made the smuggling profitable, and thus popular.

But last month, for the first time in more than 30 years, the two currencies were at par, matched in value, and today a Canadian dollar buys $1.10 U.S.

Link Dump

A few things to chew on:

Here is the relationship between poppies, war and drug policy.

Bill Piper at HuffPo has an interesting article called Are Higher Cocaine Prices A Good Thing? He presents his view that the War on Drugs is a failure and the increase in cocaine prices that the Drug Czar has been bragging about leads to increased violence and drug-trafficking. I am in total agreement with Bill until he suggests that the US should increase funding to decrease the demand for drugs at home. While helping people get out of drug addiction is a worthwhile cause, trying to decrease the demand for drugs with treatment programs seems doomed to fail. Maybe we need to rethink the ways that we view drug addiction.

Speaking of re-thinking addiction, Walrus magazine has a thought-provoking article about the ways that we view addiction.

“There’s no drug policy that will have much effect on addiction,” he says from his home in Vancouver. “I think that’s one of our diversions: ‘If we could just get the drug policy right, we’d solve our addiction problem.’ I don’t think that would touch it. The only way we’ll ever touch the problem of addiction is by developing and fostering viable culture.”

Jumping off of the Ron Paul band-wagon

Although I was never infatuated with Ron Paul in any way, I have to admit that I have avoided dumping on him as forcefully as I should have. I was impressed by his opposition to the war in Iraq and to the war on drugs. Those are two important issues and it's very refreshing to see a Republican presidential candidate oppose them so forcefully. But I was very unimpressed by his fetus-worshiping platform. An obstetrician-gynecologist that does not understand the profound harm to women caused by abortion bans sets off huge alarm bells for me. He introduced the Sanctity of Life Act in 2005. The act would define human life as existing from conception and call a fetus a "person" deserving of protection. It's too bad that Mr. Paul regards women as little more than fetus-incubators. This alone should be enough to damn Ron Paul's presidency. But it gets even better.

Ron Paul is opposed to the following:

- public education
- stopping genocide in Darfur
- aid for Katrina victims
- affirmative action
- Civil Rights Act of 1964. He believes that property owners should have the right to keep the brown hordes off of their property.

There is even more creamy goodness about the wingnuttiness of Ron Paul. Daily Kos diarist phenry has a must-read four part series about Ron Paul and his voting record. Don't take my word for it that Ron Paul is wack and does not deserve the support of so-called progressives. Read for yourself. His ideas about the Federal Reserve are pretty wacky too.

Ron Paul sucks so many noodles that I am devoting an entire category to him. Stop supporting this knob and stop giving him money. Support a democrat, any democrat (even Hillary, with her scary tooth-filled vagina) before supporting Ron Paul.

Update: Fixed a typo. Thanks for notifying me in a way that preserves my delicate ego. The lively debate in the comments is a refreshing change. I had no idea I would touch a nerve with so many of you Paul supporters.

Also, via Jesus General, I bring you Storm Front's endorsement of Ron Paul's candidacy. Very interesting stuff.

Election 2007

Now for the election analysis that you all have been dying to see. Health care? Waiting lists? Equalization? Election reform? Fixed election dates? Screaming leaders' debates?

Who cares?

I know you are dying to hear about the real issues.

What else did premier-elect Brad Wall do bad while he was in university?

Poor Brad had to confess that he did indeed smoke marijuana once when he was young. It just makes me wonder what else he had to tell his poor mother after she got off of the fainting couch. I simply must know.

Has Brad Wall ever:

- looked at a naked pic?
- forgotten to wash his hands after peeing?
- had sex before marriage?
- picked his nose?
- used potty no-no words?
- left the toilet seat up?
- cheered for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers?

At least he is honest. Calvert and "No Wacky Tabacky Karwacki" are either liars or just plain pathetic. To go your whole life without even once experiencing the demon weed is a life not worth living.

Also, Tom Shapiro beat the Green party in Regina Coronation Park. Take that!

YAY! We're not the worst. I would hate to be the PC's right now. Our candidate in Saskatoon Nutana, Christine King, stomped the PC's by several votes.

Naomi Wolf and Creeping Fasism

This scares the crap out of me. We are all doomed. Here are the ten steps to fascism.

Growing Fear

The National Post has done it again. They have an absolutely fabulous bit of uninformed reefer madness propaganda. They rant on and on about the danger posed by growops run by gangs. And what is their solution to this problem, pray tell? To throw more money at this problem. Fill up the jails with gang-bangers. We all know how well that has worked in the US.

It drives me absolutely crazy to read this garbage. All you have to do to avoid the violence associated with grow-ops is to legalize pot. But such a simple, straight-forward solution is not embraced. Instead we force peaceful pot people to subsidize criminal organizations. Meanwhile, we have a provincial election going on and not a single one of our provincial leaders has the courage or the intelligence to do the one thing that would provide a huge blow to the problem of gangs and violence in this province - legalize marijuana.

Blog Neglect

I just haven't had time to keep this blog alive lately. I feel kind of bad but I have just been too busy to care. Anyway, here is a nice attack ad to laugh at. This is how well the election is going!

SKMP Press: The good, the bad and the ugly

Saskvotes saw fit to blog about Tom Shapiro's candidacy in this provincial election, but they didn't bother to tell us his name. Patrick Book refers to him as "A Regina man suffering from AIDS". How rude! A person is identified by their name, not their physical condition. Luckily, John saved the day and wrote a very supportive blog post over at Abandoned Stuff.

So far I haven't heard any stoner jokes, references to grass-roots activism or smoky-filled back rooms. I am very disappointed. :(

Trouble in My Constituency

According to Celestial Junk, Sask Party campaign signs are being vandalized in my constituency of Saskatoon Meewasin. I noticed this myself, as I was driving down Warman Road in my ugly little car.

I want to make it clear that I deride these tactics. But I don't think anybody would like my hippy, liberal, environmentally friendly solution to this problem:

Ditch the campaign signs.

We humans are such sheep that we need flashy, pretty campaign signs to decide who should represent us for the next four years. We need to fill the landfills with this nonsense and our candidates need to spend all that money on this crap. Who cares? Quit being a bunch of sheep and quit letting yourselves be influenced by advertising.

If I ran Elections Saskatchewan, I would only let candidates spend $1000 and have no billboards or campaign signs. They could have a web-site and a few speeches to sell their ideas. That's it. There wouldn't be any campaign signs to destroy and there would be less crap in the landfills. Everybody wins and I never have to look at butt-ugly campaign signs ever again.

Pot 2.0

While I fiddle around trying to fix this $#^$(%^# bog, go ahead and read this reefer madness from the Drug Czar. They are at it again.

Where did my comments go?

I changed my template and my haloscan comments disappeared. Being a n00b when it comes to all these technical matters really sucks. As soon as I have a minute I will try to fix it. In the meantime I will re-activate blogger comments.

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