Congrats to Jacob "Saying Yes" Sullum!

Over the weekend, Reason's Jacob Sullum took home the Edward M. Brecher Award for Achievement in the Field of Journalism at the 2005 International Drug Policy Reform Conference. (Reason contributor Maia Szalavitz shared the prize with Sullum.)

Some details--though not many, to be honest--here.

Kudos to Jacob and Maia. At some point in the future, when the drug war hysteria is viewed with the same sort of derision and distance as the Salem Witch Trials, their work will be even more lauded for its role in questioning an ongoing moral panic that is as obscene as it is destructive to decent society.

Comments

[Viking Moose]

Hey!

that's great. and just linked to something by Ms Szalavitz on the smoking thread! cool coincidence. i guess that means that you-know-who will, yet again, cherry pick what "scientific concensus" is 😛

Secondhand Smoke: Nuisance or Menace?
June 03 2003
Maia Szalavitz
Exaggerating the risks of secondhand smoke
http://www.stats.org/record.jsp?type=news&ID=457

[Jason Ligon]

Well deserved, Mr. Sullum. We just need to get you some recognition from some mainstream jouralism outlets, and we'll be on our way.

[Janine]

Congrats, and a well-deserved congrats.

I bought this book the day it came out. Unfortunately, I was flying out of the country the next day and didn't feel brave enough to carry it with me. But I devoured it as soon as I returned and even cut work to hear Mr. Sullum speak and get my book signed.

Thank you, sir, for being a much needed voice of sanity.

Janine

[Ruthless]

smacky,
I don't think you noticed this the first time I put it up here.

http://www.citybeat.com/current/cover.shtml

Who the hell is Edward M. Brecher? Surely Jacob already outshines him.
But I know how these awards go.
I won an award on my high school graduation that is too obscure and obtuse and boring to recount.
But Jacob and I live on to scale the heights, swim the bottomless sea, hold our breath the longest, arc our stream the farthest, etc.
Cue theme from "Man from La Mancha."

[Anon]

"At some point in the future, when the drug war hysteria is viewed with the same sort of derision and distance as the Salem Witch Trials, their work will be even more lauded for its role in questioning an ongoing moral panic that is as obscene as it is destructive to decent society."

Sadly, at that point we will all be dead.

Anon

[The Wine Commonsewer]

Good Job Jacob!

Can you tell I have kids?

[Rick Barton]

Kudos to you, Jacob! You're illuminating a freer and more humane path.
To celebrate, everyone should favor themselves and purchase a copy of Saying Yes, and suggest to their friends that they do so as well.

[saw-whet]

Jacob is my President. Or are we done with that thread? Screw it. Keep on attacking the bad guys, Jacob.

[smacky]

Ruthless,

I did notice the first time you posted it. Apologies to you for not acknowledging the article the first time around. I do not know the people in the article, though. Thanks regardless for pointing it out...much appreciated.

~ smacky

[andy]

Congrats to Jacob,

But doesn't anyone realize that winning an award at the 2005 International Drug Policy Reform Conference is like someone winning a "Commitment to Women's Rights" award in the Talibani Afghanistan?

Even if Jacob's book changes a couple minds, I don't think I'm being cynical to say that it has virtually no chance of affecting our government's policy.