Thursday, August 11, 2005

Drugs, Antitrust, and Rock 'n' Roll. Karen Tandy, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, has been criticized for her recent remarks announcing the arrest of Canadian publisher Marc Emery, a pro-marijuana activist, on drug trafficking charges. Tandy said Emery’s arrest is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada. Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on. The implication here, as Cato’s Radley Balko noted, is that “Emery's bust was more because of his political activism than because of his law-breaking.” [Mises Economics Blog] Well of course it was. What's unusual is how open the Feds are about admitting it. 8:24:18 PM    comment () US Copyright Office contemplates going IE only for new site. Firefox and Safari are great, unless you want to access an upcoming website from the US Copyright Office. [Ars Technica] Let's not forget that this is the same government that has the gall to accuse Microsoft of being a monopoly. 3:58:01 PM    comment () Keeping up with the Web. On RSS Tool, J Nathan Mattias has a rundown on tools for keeping up with lots and lots of blogs. [Mark Bernstein] Strangely, Radio is only mentioned indirectly--there's a reference to something being a clone of it. 10:31:46 AM    comment ()

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