Posts Tagged drug war
What’s the Matter with Kansas Now?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on November 1st, 2011
Last night in class, one of my students asked me if I was aware that Topeka, Kansas had decriminalized domestic violence, to save the cost of prosecution. She wasn’t hallucinating. Who was it that decried a society in which people know “the cost of everything and the value of nothing?” How insane has criminal justice [...]
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Yielding My Time/Space to Paul Ogden
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Criminal Justice on October 24th, 2011
While I don’t always agree with his policy prescriptions, I consider Paul Ogden one of the most thoughtful and consistent of Indianaplis’ local bloggers. His post this morning responds to this morning’s headline trumpeting a ‘drug bust’ and expands upon my post drawing parallels to prohibition. Accordingly, I am, as they say in Congress, yielding my [...]
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We Never Learn….
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Criminal Justice on October 23rd, 2011
Thanks to the magic of TIVO, Bob and I were able to watch the entire six hours of Ken Burns’ “Prohibition”–we just watched the last 2-hour episode last night. I defy anyone to watch this documentary without recognizing the parallels with our contemporary drug war; they practically jump out of the screen and punch the [...]
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Have I Got a Revenue Enhancement for You!
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Criminal Justice on August 21st, 2011
I’ve been pondering the arguments about how to reduce the national debt, and I have a proposal. Dump the drug war. The fiscal consequences of our current policies are staggering. While other estimates have been as high as 88 billion, an economics professor at Harvard reported in 2005 that replacing marijuana prohibition with a system [...]
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Pesky Evidence
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Criminal Justice on January 25th, 2010
I’ll admit to being one of the multitude of fans who have made shows like NCIS and CSI such hits. It isn’t that I don’t recognize how unrealistic they are—no publicly financed lab could afford such cutting-edge equipment even if someone invented it—but I love watching the search for hard evidence, and the characters’ willingness [...]
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