Sunday, December 3, 2006

Shopping With the holidays coming up, I wanted to do my part to give you some interesting opportunities for gifts. So Drug WarRant now has TWO comprehensive stores for your shopping convenience. First, there is the Drug WarRant CafePress store, now with the new Incarceration Nation dark shirt line, but still with all of your old favorites, including the DEA Targets America line, the End Prohibition Now items, and the most popular item -- our marijuana leaf thong. Then, we now have the Drug WarRant Amazon store. This is an expansion of our old bookstore page, now with a variety of excellent book recommendations, plus DVDs, CDs, hemp foods and clothing, and other fun products (you can even get that great Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon necktie that I wear all the time). Great deals, great products, and by ordering through Drug WarRant, I get a few cents. It's all good. 1:28:57 PM | drug policy | Related  | permalink | comment []

Going to the dogs Alternet reported a bizarre new trend: purchasing bullet-proof vests for police dogs at $500 to $1,800 per vest. Apparently this trend comes from the shooting death of a NJ police dog (who shot in the eye and wouldn't have been helped by the vest). Additionally, the vests are so heavy they cause all sorts of problems for the dogs. No apparent concern for those with whom dogs come in contact -- innocents such as Myra Gutierrez (bit in the breasts and arms) and Indiana schoolgirl Courtney McGarry (bit in the face), or the suspect who had his penis severed by a police dog named Scooby. If there are dogs who need bullet-proof vests, it's not the police dogs. The vast majority of dogs that get shot... are shot by police. 'Cause they always shoot the dogs. No really, they always shoot the dogs. That's right, they always shoot the dogs. 12:06:04 PM | drug policy | Related  | permalink | comment []

The House of Death This is a gruesome story that has been, up to this point, almost exclusively covered by NarcoNews. But now, while the American press won't touch it, the UK's Observer has extensive coverage in today's edition. The House of Death is the story of U.S. Department of Justice and Homeland Security officials' willingness to use an informant that, multiple times, and with their knowledge and permission, commits first-degree murder, on behalf of Mexican drug cartels. And even the deaths of innocents were accepted in order to keep the operation going. 'If Congress and the media start to look at this properly, they will be horrified,' [former Special Agent in charge of the DEA offfice in El Paso] Sandy Gonzalez says. 'It needs a special prosecutor, as with the case of Valerie Plame [the CIA agent whose name was leaked to the media when her diplomat husband criticised Bush over Iraq's missing weapons of mass destruction]. But Valerie is a nice-looking white person and the victims here are brown. Nobody gives a shit.' [Thanks, Tom] 11:29:26 AM | drug policy | Related  | permalink | comment []