RT @CopsSayLegalize: Nixon official: real reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people and hippies

RT @TransformDrugs: "The drug war is a war on the That's all it It has no other meaning" David Simon, creator of The Wire h…

Death, drugs, and HSBC

For reasons both personal and business, Silicon Valley isn’t just empowering drugs—it could possibly be empowered by them.

“Today we have demonstrated that, together, we are able to efficiently remove vital criminal infrastructures that are supporting serious organised crime. And we are not 'just' removing these services from the open Internet; this time we have also hit services on the Darknet using Tor where, for a long time, criminals have considered themselves beyond reach. We can now show that they are neither invisible nor untouchable. The criminals can run but they can’t hide. And our work continues....”, says Troels Oerting, Head of EC3.

Similarly, we can see how the U.S. war on drugs in Afghanistan isn’t “failing” unless you believe official claims about their objectives — and Devereaux just wrote about the same government that was “also involved in trafficking cocaine to the U.S. in order to fund their counter-revolutionary campaign” in the 80s.

RT @edwyplenel: La cocaïne est le « pétrole blanc » du capitalisme, selon Roberto via @Mediapart

In a 1990 letter to drug policy reformers, Sagan suggested that reformers organize themselves to rebut Partnership for a Drug-Free America commercials that he felt "routinely make gross distortions of the scientific facts."

RT @CatoInstitute: George Shultz and Vicente Fox on Ending the War on Drugs: