Around the Reform Community

I just discovered The Superlative Suppository, a new drug policy reform blog that was kind enough to link to Last One Speaks. Thanks and welcome to Sister Geoff. I'll be putting this blog into my favorites.

Meanwhile, Pete at Drug WarRant is working on a big piece and sends us to Baylen at D'Alliance, who is posting up a veritable storm of interesting news. Read it all and be sure not to miss this editorial in the Jacksonville Daily News, The Failing Drug War which is the first mention of John Walters' admissions of failure that I've seen in the US press.

The Clinton administration launched Plan Colombia and initially touted reductions in coca acreage in Colombia -- without mentioning increases in Peru and Bolivia. Now even Walters admits that at the bottom line -- supplies in the illicit U.S. market - the campaign is a failure.

What's the likelihood that doing more of the same will produce different results than it has in the last three decades?

It's time to dump Plan Colombia and rethink the entire drug war.

Pete is wondering what's in Baylen's coffee. I have a feeling that he's still charged up from that coca tea in Boliva.