After a long hiatus that was almost entirely my fault, the Drug Policy Analysis Bulletin is back in operation, due almost entirely to the efforts of our new managing editor, Douglas Ross.
The latest issue features a study by Will Brownsberger and Susan Aromaa of Join Together, which shows how the Massachusetts “drug-free school zone” law has turned into a general sentence-enhancement law with roughly no relationship whatever to the problem of drug dealing in or around schools. (In older cities and towns in Massachusetts, virtually any location is within the statutory distance of one school or another.)
The next issue, with John Walsh’s analysis of the smoke and mirrors behind the national drug budget, should be out in January.