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Any suicide leaves behind painful, unanswered questions, but the hanging death three weeks ago of Samuel Jackson Lindsay-Brown leaves more than most. In addition to the searing questions for family and friends over why he ended his life, no information has yet been released about Lindsay-Brown’s involvement in the murky world of cross-border drug smuggling and why undercover agents busted him when they did. His passing has become big news across western Canada, where he is seen as a casualty in the U.S. government’s war on drugs. The 24-year-old Canadian was arrested Feb. 23 on federal drug trafficking charges after flying a helicopter bearing 350 pounds of marijuana over the border in crappy weather at night/Kevin Taylor, Pacific Northwest Inlander. More here.
Question: Is the war on drugs worth the continuing, costly fight?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Stickman on March 11 at 7:22 p.m.
No.
Whippersnapper on March 11 at 8:47 p.m.
So if we legalized marijuana and controlled it, then we’d keep it out of the hands of young people just like we do now with cigarettes?
That’s what I thought.
moscow_minidoka on March 12 at 8:17 a.m.
No. The war on marijuana is a ridiculous waste.
And whippersnapper - how good of a job are we doing keeping pot out of the hands of young people NOW?
That’s what I thought.
Digger on March 12 at 11:26 a.m.
Since when has “crappy” been a journalistic term to describe anything?
cantyoureadthesigns on March 12 at 12:07 p.m.
Digger, the log, man, remember the log.
What a tragic story. One wonders what made this happy-go-lucky guy commit suicide, of course we’ll never know if the DEA roughed him up a little, or his jailers (or other inmates) in the horrendously overcrowded Spokane County jail.
Cindy_H on March 12 at 12:11 p.m.
I think crappy is a great word.
The copy editors at the SR do not.
I keep using it.
They keep changing it to bad.
Bad does not equal crappy, IMHO.