Australian Has a Beer After a Snake Bite One reads that a venomous snake bit an Australian man, and the man decided to have a beer while waiting for medial assistance: What do you do when you’ve been bitten by one of the deadliest snakes in the world? Crack open a beer, of course. That’s…
Health
Crime, Health, Walworth County
The Long, Hard Roads
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over at the Gazette, there’s a story entitled, Walworth County officials hope drug court for heroin addicts will start in June (subscription required). The story, from reporter Andrea Anderson, is about a hoped-for program of rehabilitation for heroin addicts. The program would apply to Walworth County residents, addicted to, and charged with possession of, heroin. If…
Crime, Elkhorn, Health, Law, Laws/Regulations, Liberty, Police, Walworth County
The End of the Beginning
by JOHN ADAMS •
Beautiful Whitewater, Good Ideas, Health, Sports
Scenes from the Discover Whitewater Races, 9.22.2013
by JOHN ADAMS •
Crime, Health, Law
Looking at the Forty-Years’ Drug War
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over at the Wall Street Journal, Nobel laureate in economics Gary Becker and Univ. of Chicago economist Kevin Murphy ask, “Have We Lost the War on Drugs?” Their answer is that we have, and what Richard Nixon began in 1971 has been a forty-years’ failure: President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs” in 1971.…
Crime, Health, Law, Laws/Regulations
Wisconsin and Marijuana and the Drug War
by JOHN ADAMS •
Colorado and Washington State are backing away from the Drug War, having recently decriminalized minor marijuana offenses. The long-term prospects for widespread drug prohibition, of the kind we’ve had for a generation, aren’t good: it’s been too much money, and for no lasting gain. It’s a fair guess that by the 2033, the hundred-year anniversary…