Radley Balko’s piece The ‘Drug War’ toll mounts was picked up in the Eureka Reporter today.

Christopher Hitchens in Slate writes: Let the Afghan Poppies Bloom: How the drug war is undermining the war on terrorism

This demented legacy of the Nixon administration will have to be abandoned sooner or later, and I believe that the threatened sacrifice of Afghanistan to the dogma may be the “tipping point.”

Stanley Crouch writes in the New York Daily News:

What we need to do is legalize all the drugs and face the consequences. That’s right. With drug dealers put out of business, I am sure those consequences would be much less dangerous – and much less expensive – to our society. Legalization could not even begin to approach the downside in the illegal dope world – torture, murder, beatings and sexual exploitation.

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