Drug czar calls for end to "War on Drugs." Daniel has heart attack...

Well, not really. But I came pretty damn close to stroking-out today when I read this headline on page 3 of the Wall Street Journal: White House Czar Calls for End to 'War on Drugs.' Of course, it turns out that the White House will no longer use the term 'war on drugs,' but continue to chase down and arrest every pot smoker and pill popper they can find. Kinda like when they said the term 'war on terror' would no longer be used - while continuing to bomb the shit out of everything that moves along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Barack Obama has been a disappointment to me on many levels, but his backing away from addressing drug prohibition tops the list. Yeah, yeah, I know: Senator Jim Webb's National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009 is Obama's Trojan Horse for drug policy change. Right. And I'm King Tut. I've seem blue-ribbon commissions, good and bad, over the past 40 years come and go and be completely ignored. And as I've said, where's the outrage over allowing nearly 1.5 million Americans, mostly younger ones, to be arrested for the simple possession of marijuana during the 18-24 months the commission will take before delivering their steaming pile of horse shit inside a box topped with a pretty blue ribbon?

Stay healthy and high when it helps