John Cole, of Balloon-Juice, has a post up regarding a meritless search warrant and a kicked down door. Instead of the expected meth lab, Brooklyn Park police found chemicals required to maintain a fish tank.

Many comments to this post dealt with the absurdity and waste brought about by the War On Drugs™. Balloon-Juice commenter, “NR”, posted a link, along with the following quote from that site:

If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented. Save for a prosecution in which acts of violence or intended violence are alleged, we will - to borrow Justice Harry Blackmun’s manifesto against the death penalty - no longer tinker with the machinery of the drug war. No longer can we collaborate with a government that uses nonviolent drug offenses to fill prisons with its poorest, most damaged and most desperate citizens.