It's ego man. Ego. Seems most people have the NMH disease when it comes to social issues like tech companies have when it comes to stuff in their industry. They want to think they're right above all else, and especially over some impersonal free market.
Iko Chang | 04.12.07 - 11:30 am | #

I'm pretty sure that if more people took libertarians seriously, we wouldn't get to be a) bitter; and b) smug. And the smug/bitter combo is the best part, no?


-sam
sam | 04.12.07 - 12:20 pm | #

WOW! that's a neat trick: writing a piece highly critical of the status quo, while simultaneously defending the status quo!


"Gen. Barry McCaffrey was drug czar from 1996 to 2001. He says, bluntly, that as far as he can tell, there is no federal drug policy at present."

What, locking up every user for absurd amounts of time for the smallest infraction doesn't count as a "policy"?
Greg | 04.12.07 - 2:16 pm | #

npr sucks. i stopped listening to them years ago. but this is a new low for them.
Philip Dawdy | Homepage | 04.12.07 - 4:12 pm | #

Rob--

I was similarly disappointed with this series, but in all fairness, NPR did present an opposing viewpoint as a coda to it. Unfortunately, it isn't included in the archives of the "war on drugs" special series, but it was broadcast immediately after the last segment of it on ATC.
B | Homepage | 04.12.07 - 4:14 pm | #

B,

I was unaware of that. Noted.

However....One interview? After you spend 5 segments attacking the policy as a failure? Still seems lazy and unproductive.
Rob | Homepage | 04.12.07 - 4:23 pm | #

Oh, I agree. Genuine skeptcism about the first principles of the drug war should have figured in throughout the series. But clearly, even NPR doesn't have the balls (and/or inclination) to go there, at least not much.

We have a long, long way to go in this fight.
B | Homepage | 04.12.07 - 4:54 pm | #