Midweek Drug War Items

In Illinois, police raided the house of a woman suspected solely of drug use, shot her dog, and threw her in jail for the night with the blood of her dead dog still on her clothes.

Kos diarist Red no More breaks down the Drug Czar's bullshit.

The Senlis Council has released a report on the situation in Afghanistan [large PDF]. I haven't looked through the whole thing yet, but some of the statistics there are pretty grim. I may have some more comments tomorrow.