Done With Pot, Moving On To Heroin

[Warren DeMontague]

33. Who's lying? It's in the platform. Hopefully we'll get some traction, especially if CA passes

measure 64.

But the DEA is not exactly what you would call a disinterested party on the question of marijuana prohibition; in fact, it's what pays most of their bills. Hardly surprising that they'll find some inane way to try and not change the status quo. And they're not beholden to the Democratic Party platform, unfortunately.

There's tremendous institutional inertia in DC on the drug war, above and beyond everything else. I learned something else recently; in the last year of alcohol prohibition there were more raids and arrests than in all the prior years combined, apparently.

Prohibitionists don't let go easily, even when they know the game is up.