Today's Crappy Drug War Headline Is Brought to You by The Huffington Post

With all the great drug war stories the Huffington Post has published just in the last six months--original reporting from Colorado, great op-eds by the Marijuana Policy Project's Rob Kampia and the Drug Policy Alliance's Ethan Nadelmann, oh, and is home to Radley Balko--that the site's social media editor would know better than to conflate murder with getting high.

(Via David Graham) 

Comments

[Warty]

This is fucking Balko's fault.

[Jerry on the road]

Pot doesn't kill people, people kill people.

[Specail Sauce]

First it was the Titanic and now this. We must ban boats.

[NeonCat]

Boats on WATER! Dihydrogen Monoxide kills!

[Rights-Minimalist Autocrat]

I prefer calling it hydrogen hydroxide, which sounds less fakey, and is in fact a fairly accurate representation of its ionic behavior.

[Caleb Turberville]

Oh, yeah! Well, I call it "de-carbonated carbohydrate"!

[Coeus]

Hydrolic acid has always been my personal favorite.

[Rich]

A suspected smuggling vessel ....

Emphasis added. How does a ship looks suspicious? Red portholes?

[NeonCat]

Ship's whistle whistles a casual tune.

[NeonCat]

Isn't the real lesson that *domestically grown pot* is a victimless crime?

Also, if you would like to see a reasonably entertaining pot movie with lots of naked young people, find The Beach Girls. Drug smugglers spot the Coasties and throw the demon weed overboard, it washes ashore and a massive pot party ensues.

[Caleb Turberville]

If it's a drug-related plot line you want, all I can offer you is any of the film-noir, hard-boiled detective flicks. Lots of caffeine and nicotine...and broads!

[NeonCat]

And alcohol, but that goes without saying.

[Joshua]

How about "Prohibition Kills, Pot Doesn't"

[Doctor Whom]

Fucking causation, how does it work?

[MWG]

Anybody have the stomach to head over there and check the comments and come back and report? I'm wondering if they're calling the huffpo out of this bullshit title.

[Doctor Whom]

Mirabile dictu, most of them have done just that, and The Huffington Enquirer has changed its tune.

[Belgian]

They've changed the headline. They haven't acknowledged a change or posted a correction like actual journalists, just slunk off with their tails between their legs like beaten lapdogs. Fuck you, Arianna Huffington, you despicable, power-fellating cunt.

[waaminn]

Sounds like a pretty bodacious plan to me dude.

http://www.IPMask.tk

[IceTrey]

I went to read this article but didn't make it past Brazil's Miss Bum Bum contest.