The National Drug Intelligence Center says they will be targetting “previous drug offenders, legalization advocates, anarchists and people promoting ‘an expanded freedom of expression’ that pushes the boundaries of the First Amendment” for increased online survellience in an attempt to crack-down on rave parties. It’s good to know that the establishment is still protecting us from free speech.
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Mark Niemoeller’s business, JLF Poisonous Non-consumables, sells legal plants and chemicals. But in September, after someone allegedly died after consuming one of his products, almost all of his stock was seized and he was charged with selling illegal substances. Many of the products that JLF sells are legal psychoactives and some of them are analogues of federally scheduled drugs. But the Federal Analogue Act states that the analogue law does not apply to “any substance to the extent not intended for human consumption before such an exemption takes effect with respect to that substance.” Some of the chemicals, such as DXM (the main ingredient in cough syrup), clearly don’t fall under the federal analogue act. In addition to most of Niemoeller’s stock the DEA seized his computers, his truck, and froze his $750,000 bank account so that he can’t even pay his lawyer.
Here is an interesting example of the way data can be presented and interpretted in entirely different ways by the media. New Scientist‘s lede was “It’s official: smoking dope makes you a worse driver” and Getting It‘s headline was “DRIVING WHILE DOPED Are potheads better drivers?”
Both publications used the same source data to reach opposite conclusions. There is no reality.
Here is a good overview of all the foolishness that has been brought on by the drug war. Things like pacifiers and glow sticks are considered paraphernalia and clubs are underfire for having DanceSafe tables or ambulances present at raves. Brilliant. More ecstasy related deaths are just what this world needs. (Link via MetaFilter).
Salon.com has a good feature on the Bush administrations denial of financial aid to students who have been convicted of drug charges:
When then-candidate George W. Bush answered questions during the presidential campaign about whether he had ever used illegal drugs, he refused to give a yes or no answer, claiming that his past was irrelevant. “I am asking people to judge me for who I am today,” he said in a September 1999 interview. “I hope it doesn’t cost me the election. I hope people understand.”
That nonanswer was good enough to get Bush into the White House, but it wouldn’t be good enough to get him a student loan under his administration’s higher education policy. On Tuesday, the Department of Education announced that it would enforce a law that would deny financial aid to students who answer “yes” — or refuse to answer at all — to one simple question: “Have you ever been convicted of selling or possessing drugs?”
Also, Plastic has two different stories about clubs being blamed for the drug use of their customers one here and the other here.
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