Iowa Senator Tom Harkin didn’t go nearly far enough when he suggested that smoking pot makes you sell your children. Thankfully we have anti-drug organization Above The Influence, which has created a series of documentaries tracking the behaviors of savage pot smokers on “Cannabis Isle.” Watch as this old white man goes out of his way to stare at two teens smoking pot in a basement by themselves, then spends hundreds of millions of dollars on new technologies to crack down on them. The War on Drugs is in full swing on Cannabis Isle. [Above the Influence via NORML]

Wonkette is dedicated to bringing its readers the most up-to-date news in the War on Drugs available, from marijuana to cocaine and anything else we can find to “write about.” Today, we bring you news from the cocaine front of the WoD: prices are up! No, down! Well, both. We get some help focusing, after the jump.

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• Files show Roberts tried to “shield” President Reagan and his administration from legal troubles, “political blunders and public relations missteps.” In 1985, Roberts advised on AIDS: “I do not think we should have the president taking a position on a disputed scientific issue of this sort.” [NYT, LAT]
• Roberts disapproved expansion of women’s rights by the Reagan administration and questioned legal challenges to the “purported gender gap.” [WP, LAT]
• Shaffer says claims about Able Danger are from two associates, not his own memory. [WP]
• “The Democrats aren’t scoring points in terms of landing any significant punches on Bush or in terms of saying anything meaningful to the American people,” says Zogby. [WT]
• Sheehan leaves Crawford to visit her hospitalized mother; expects to return to ranch soon. [NYT]
• Roberts supported national identification cards in 1983; argued cards would “not suddenly mean constitutional protections would evaporate.” [WSJ, USAT]

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