Been meaning to blog this, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Last month, police arrested nearly 200 people and seized over $1.2 million in drugs from people going to a big Phish concert.
This really highlights the inanity of the drug war -- 200 officers were assigned to the concert, and the article notes that the vast majority of the arrests were for simple possession. Granted, no one's arguing that these people weren't breaking the law. However, one could argue that these people weren't hurting anyone but themselves, if anyone. Don't get me wrong, I think it's good to discourage people from listening to Phish by any means necessary, but this is a little over the line.
I'd be interested to know what other crimes occurred in the vicinity of that concert that were more worthy of police attention. Of course, it's impossible to know that, as the police were busy shaking down hippies. Even if you agree that these drugs should be illegal, I still think you'd be hard pressed to come up with an argument as to why we have to devote so much of our criminal justice resources toward making sure people have to listen to Phish sober...
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