a year in the life of the drug war

alternet reviews the year in drug prohibition

and since it was elvis' birthday yesterday and nixon's today, here's the story of how the junky elvis became a narc for the nixon administration. here's the best part—from elvis' letter to nixon: "i have done an in-depth study of drug abuse and communist brainwashing techniques and i am right in the middle of the whole thing where i can and will do the most good." bwahaha. (c/o metafilter)