August 09, 2005

Legalize Crank, says NYT columnist.

My head just exploded.

I was joking about this here a while back. But John Tierney at the New York Times is serious.

Jeff Harrell is pretty hacked off, too. Don't go here if you mind the sailor-talk.

UPDATE: Mark Kleiman, who actually studies this stuff, has more fact-filled (though less rhetorically satisfying) thrashing of Tierney's folly.

UPDATE II: Rusty responds in Why Everybody is Wrong About The Drug War

By See-Dubya at 11:53 PM | |