Below The Beltway

In a post at The Huffington Post, he admits he was wrong about the war on (some) drugs:
For years, I served as a federal prosecutor and member of the House of Representatives defending the federal pursuit of the drug prohibition.
Today, I can reflect on my efforts and see no progress in stopping the widespread use [...]

From Reason.tv and Drew Carey, an excellent documentary on the Cory Maye saga:

At 11p.m on December 26, 2001 police in Prentiss, Mississippi raided the residence of Cory Maye, a 21-year-old father who was at home with his 18-month-old daughter Ta’Corriana.
The cops were looking for drugs and smashed through the back door. In the ensuing chaos, [...]

A typical Clintonian response:

You’ve gotta wonder what the drug warriors will say about this one:
A compound found in cannabis may stop breast cancer spreading throughout the body, US scientists believe.
The California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute team are hopeful that cannabidiol or CBD could be a non-toxic alternative to chemotherapy.
Unlike cannabis, CBD does not have any psychoactive properties [...]

Remember all those Republican candidates asking for “medical evidence” on the effectiveness of treating chronic pain with marijuana ?
Isn’t it funny that the only actual medical doctor in the race has a different view of the issue ?

The Republicans continue their contemptuous dismissal of people in pain:

I’d call Thompson’s response to this question a cop-out, but it’s typical of the lazy way he’s been campaigning since he announced. And yet more reason to categorize him as a non-entity:

A group of New Hampshire voters have been asking each of the Presidential candidates their views on whether people who need it should be permitted to use, here’s what John McCain had to say on September 30th:

The funny thing is, McCain should’ve known better:
It’s refreshing that McCain is willing to state his position with such [...]

Courtesy of YouTube, some supreme audacity from the former Mayor of New York and the former Governor of Massachusetts when confronted with people for whom medical marijuana is a real, everyday, issue:
First, Il Duce:

Then, Romney:

The utter disregard for the suffering of real people that drips from the canned rhetoric of these two men is, in [...]

Not the one in Iraq.
It’s the one we declared when Richard Nixon was President.