Back to work

I'm so behind on email and newsletters at this point that I'll just be posting sort of randomly in the next couple of days as I catch up and find items of interest. First off let's review what's going on in my bloggerhood. Pete at Drug WarRant has two new election guides up, and a whole lot of roundups on what's going in the blogosphere as well including a surprisingly spot on post by my nemesis, Mark Kleiman and links to drug war stats at Radley Balko's Agitator. The Agitator is new to me although he's been around for some time apparently. Eleven Day Empire also pointed us to Radley's excellent post on alcohol prohibition this week that illustrates just how senseless it is to dictate personal consumption of anything.

Baylen at D'Alliance has the scoop on anything Pete may have missed and additional commentary on what's hot in drug policy reform. Just start at the top and keep scrolling. Be sure not to miss his post on drug war policy in Russia and decrim of marijuana in Chicago.

And Vice Squad celebrated their one year anniversary on Monday. Congrats to the team over there and check out today's Vice Wire that's full of interesting links including a piece on the new generation of drug lords emerging in Colombia. It appears they have modernized production and delivery and turned the whole business into more of a free market model.