No sweet releases are elaborate and other durable kicks are stale, but will Ann fill that?

half the population
* between 15 and 40 in this country would have had to smoke a joint a day.
*
* By 1996 the State Department's annual survey stabilized at a more realistic
* 3,400 tons a year.
*
* However, the State Department's annual survey for 1996 stated Columbia's
* cultivation of coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine, jumped 32% over 1995.
*
* This was deliberate manipulation of the statistics: unlike previous years,
* the State Department suddenly stopped figuring in the 55,715 acres that
* the Columbian police fumigated with herbicide.
*
* The number had actually gone down, but President Clinton cited the upswing
* to support his Feb. 28 decision to decertify Columbia as helping in the
* War on Drugs. Mexico was certified.



A majority of citizens in several states have
now told the government they are full of hooey.


The Drug War is primarily about governmental politics and governmental power.

Not about drugs.

Can't afford to look soft on crime, or your opposition will stomp you.

The government uses these "wars" to claim ever greater power over us.

To justify violent no-knock searches by agents not even carrying warrants.

To justify killing the 'exclusion rule' to protect police not citizens.

To justify draconian asset forfeiture laws.

To justify using deadly force.


It's no longer the 1920s, but our governme