FOX News Says Marijuana Will Eat Your Soul
Or something like that. It's amazing what passes for science when it comes to selling scare stories about pot. You could send these people a press release saying that marijuana has been proven to increase your chances of turning into a lizard and they would publish something about it immediately. I guarantee it. It would never occur to them that there are no lizard people.
The Feds Are Giving Themselves New Drug War Powers
You see, the reason the drug war is going so badly is because it needs more power:
Elephants? If he gave them elephants, I'd be impressed for once. But actually it's a little more mundane than that:
Hell, they should give me the authority to investigate drug cases, because I see suspicious stuff going down on the streets of D.C. all the time. Of course, if the feds in Washington can't even win the drug war that's happening right under their nose, you gotta wonder why they think more drug investigations are going to change anything at the border.
WASHINGTON (AP) â U.S. immigration agents soon will get expanded powers to fight Mexican drug cartels, Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Wednesday.
Elephants? If he gave them elephants, I'd be impressed for once. But actually it's a little more mundane than that:
Under a new deal aimed at settling a long-running turf dispute with the Drug Enforcement Administration, more agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement would get authority to investigate drug cases.
Hell, they should give me the authority to investigate drug cases, because I see suspicious stuff going down on the streets of D.C. all the time. Of course, if the feds in Washington can't even win the drug war that's happening right under their nose, you gotta wonder why they think more drug investigations are going to change anything at the border.
Sharks Filled With Cocaine!!!
It was really just a matter of time if you think about it:
Maybe the drug traffickers should train live sharks to smuggle cocaine, because that would be awesome and nobody would mess with them. Actually, if the drug war continues long enough, it's statistically probable that it will happen.
Regardless, this is another one of those crazy stories that just shows how ridiculous the drug war has become. Things like this arenât supposed to happen, and if our drug policy made any sense, they wouldn't.
The lengths to which drug smugglers will go to conceal their consignments was revealed when the Mexican navy said it had seized more than a tonne of cocaine stuffed inside frozen shark carcasses.
Masked naval officers cut open more than 20 carcasses filled with slabs of cocaine after checking a cargo ship in a container port in the state of Yucatan. [The Guardian]
Maybe the drug traffickers should train live sharks to smuggle cocaine, because that would be awesome and nobody would mess with them. Actually, if the drug war continues long enough, it's statistically probable that it will happen.
Regardless, this is another one of those crazy stories that just shows how ridiculous the drug war has become. Things like this arenât supposed to happen, and if our drug policy made any sense, they wouldn't.