Outside the Beltway

Justifying Marijuana Laws

· Saturday, November 6, 2010 · 15 comments

The mental gymnastics people go through to justify their position on marijuana legalization are exhausting.

Prop 19 Loses Big

· Wednesday, November 3, 2010 · 30 comments

Despite the Democrats sweeping quite literally every statewide office in California, Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization ballot issue, lost by 10 points.

Drug War 101: Drug Control Budget

· Tuesday, May 18, 2010 · 16 comments

Drug War 101 (With an Emphasis on Coca Cultivation)

· Sunday, May 16, 2010 · 26 comments

Back to the Drug War: The Street Price of Cocaine

· Sunday, May 16, 2010 · 22 comments

Politics Down South

· Saturday, May 8, 2010 · No comments

Mass Incarcation Era Over?

· Monday, December 14, 2009 · 25 comments

Marijuana Legalization Support at Record High

· Tuesday, October 20, 2009 · 11 comments

The Drug War In a Nutshell

· Tuesday, July 21, 2009 · 8 comments

Quote of the Day, Common Sense Edition

· Wednesday, April 22, 2009 · 4 comments

Marijuana Prohibition Deadly

· Friday, March 27, 2009 · 12 comments

California Assemblyman Pushes Pot Legalization

· Tuesday, February 24, 2009 · 21 comments

Ecstasy Safer Than Peanuts

· Saturday, February 21, 2009 · 6 comments

Drug War Logic

· Monday, February 16, 2009 · 23 comments

Drugs and Sports: A Recipe for Success?

· Monday, February 2, 2009 · 7 comments

Amsterdam Closing Brothels, Marijuana Shops

· Saturday, December 6, 2008 · 5 comments

Wire Politics

· Monday, December 1, 2008 · 5 comments

Swiss Approve Free Heroin, Keep Marijuana Illegal

· Sunday, November 30, 2008 · 4 comments

Bob Barr Wins LP Presidential Nomination

· Monday, May 26, 2008 · 5 comments

Coca’s Continual Comeback: This Time, Peru

· Sunday, March 23, 2008 · 2 comments

How Much Reefer Did Barack Obama Toke?

· Saturday, February 9, 2008 · 18 comments

The Incongruity of Needle Exchanges

· Wednesday, December 19, 2007 · 4 comments

Kathryn Johnston: One Year Later

· Sunday, November 25, 2007 · 1 comment

Medical Marijuana Advocate Kills Herself

· Sunday, October 28, 2007 · 30 comments

Libertarians Burning their Carry-Cards

· Friday, October 26, 2007 · 35 comments

Still Losing the War on Drugs

· Monday, August 20, 2007 · 1 comment

Nonsense, Absurd, Ridiculous, Inexplicable

· Friday, July 27, 2007 · 13 comments

Tennessee ID’s Beer Buyers Regardless of Age

· Tuesday, July 3, 2007 · 11 comments

Shocker! Coca Production Up

· Wednesday, June 6, 2007 · 3 comments

Marijuana 2.0 – Not Your Daddy’s Old Weed

· Thursday, April 26, 2007 · 3 comments

Worried About the Government and Your Library Records?

· Wednesday, April 25, 2007 · 13 comments

Slippery Slippery Slope Arguments

· Monday, April 9, 2007 · 2 comments

More of Scalia’s New Police Professionalism

· Friday, March 23, 2007 · 11 comments

Supreme Court Debates ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’

· Tuesday, March 20, 2007 · 9 comments

War on Drugs Hurts War on Terrorism

· Wednesday, February 14, 2007 · 9 comments

Gang Crime in Los Angeles and So. CA

· Thursday, February 8, 2007 · 12 comments

Update on the Johnston Case

· Thursday, February 8, 2007 · 4 comments

Thanks Barack!

· Tuesday, February 6, 2007 · 14 comments

19 Steps to a Better Drug Policy

· Tuesday, January 30, 2007 · 14 comments

Patterico Just Doesn’t Quite Get It

· Tuesday, January 16, 2007 · 32 comments

Adultery Could Carry Life Sentence in Michigan

· Tuesday, January 16, 2007 · 7 comments

Don’t Treat Your Allergies in the Quad Cities

· Tuesday, December 26, 2006 · 14 comments

Would Legalizing Marijuana Create a Tax Bonanza?

· Tuesday, December 19, 2006 · 35 comments

Things Just Got Worse in the Johnston Case

· Friday, December 8, 2006 · 3 comments

Florida District Court of Appeals to Richard Paey: Go to Hell

· Thursday, December 7, 2006 · 11 comments

73rd Anniversary of the End of the War on Booze

· Tuesday, December 5, 2006 · 13 comments

Danger of a Paramilitary Police Force

· Wednesday, November 29, 2006 · 10 comments

FBI to Investigate Police Shooting of 88 Year Old Woman

· Tuesday, November 28, 2006 · 1 comment

British Conservatives’ Radical Anti-Povery Program

· Sunday, November 26, 2006 · 12 comments

Man Faces Deportation for 1997 Drug Misdemeanor

· Thursday, October 5, 2006 · 2 comments

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