Government Lies About the Drug War: An Interview With Criminal Justice Professor Matthew Robinson

by: Intrepid Liberal Journal

Sun Aug 26, 2007 at 18:26

The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal, as well as The Peace Tree, The Independent Bloggers Alliance and Worldwide Sawdust.

The "war on drugs" doesn't consume as much oxygen in the public square as it used to. In September 1989, President George Herbert Walker Bush, spoke from the Oval Office, held up a plastic bag filled with white contents and announced,

"This is crack cocaine seized a few days ago in a park across the street from the White House . . . It could easily have been heroin or PCP."