It was a happy Father’s Day for me. Ate a nice pancake breakfast made by Kelly, talked to my own dad on the phone this morning, and went on a 10 mile bike ride with the family to Lassiter Falls and back. We stopped by Qdoba for lunch and then cooled off at the house for the rest of the day. Fun, fun!
I’m pretty tired now, but comfortable. Looking forward to a nice, quiet evening reading and then sleeping.
Hope your Father’s Day was fun, too.
Former President Jimmy Carter rightfully calls for the end of the failed “War on Drugs.”
IN an extraordinary new initiative announced earlier this month, the Global Commission on Drug Policy has made some courageous and profoundly important recommendations in a report on how to bring more effective control over the illicit drug trade.
The report describes the total failure of the present global antidrug effort, and in particular America’s “war on drugs,” which was declared 40 years ago today. It notes that the global consumption of opiates has increased 34.5 percent, cocaine 27 percent and cannabis 8.5 percent from 1998 to 2008. Its primary recommendations are to substitute treatment for imprisonment for people who use drugs but do no harm to others, and to concentrate more coordinated international effort on combating violent criminal organizations rather than nonviolent, low-level offenders.
