Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Saturday, February 9, 2019

Addendum to a botched drug raid

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Here is a link to the actual warrant for the botched drug raid. The article states that the warrant had been uplifted to Scribd, but when...
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Friday, February 8, 2019

Anatomy of a botched drug raid

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Last month five officers from the Houston Police Department were injured - four were shot - in a drug raid gone incredibly wrong. At the tim...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Drugged driving in Tornado Alley

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I saw a tweet on Twitter yesterday about a six-state initiative to cut down on drugged driving. This weekend in Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa, Miss...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

What has Jeff Sessions been smoking?

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Why does the US government even care about marijuana? Every state in the country has its own laws regarding hippie lettuce - there is no nee...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Taking away freedom on the cheap

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One of our worst nightmares is being wrongly arrested by the police and getting lost in the criminal (in)justice system. Thanks to a cheap d...
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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Sleeping with the enemy

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The war on drugs. You remember the war on drugs, don't you? Drugs are bad. They must be eradicated. We must imprison every person with...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

A broken record

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On the way to the municipal courthouse during the lunch hour yesterday I happened upon a discussion on the local public affairs show Houston...
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Friday, October 11, 2013

The unintended consequences of a campaign pledge

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Back when the late Mike Anderson was running for DA against incumbent Pat Lykos he attacked her over and over again for her decision not to ...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Time for a little road trip

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Two DA's are sitting at the bar. The first one tells the second that there's lots of money to be made from drug forfeitures. The sec...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Tased and confused

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Oh, the ubiquitous taser. A nonlethal alternative to the trusty sidearm. Except that isn't the way it turned out. As Scott Greenfield ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Like we don't have enough laws on the books

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The other day my eye was caught by a Grits for Breakfast  post about the number of bills proposed this legislative session that would either...
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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Prying eyes in the desert

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Had up to here with airport security, TSA, drones and government data-mining of phone calls and e-mail? Well, the latest device in the gover...
Friday, July 6, 2012

On second thought

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Rudy Eugene was going to be the poster boy for the assault on bath salts. He was found in an incoherent state in Miami eating another man...