Dudes. If you know anything about drug statistics, specifically rates of arrests in narcotics possession, please let me know.

To aid my search my friend Nick, who by blood (as opposed to by marriage) is probably the best connected to purveyors of such stats, pointed me to the blog of UCLA Policy Prof Mark Kleiman, which I find very interesting if not immediately illuminating upon my particular quandary. I thought this bit ,about soldiers being told to write letters to newspapers about how dandy the nonwar in Iraq is going, curious. Latest outrage, an example of how-rumors-get-started, or (most likely) something else entirely? I'll try to check it out after the all-class lecture/debate on nonpartisan city elections.