Loan Sharks

March, 2000

the drug warriors target financial aidNow and again our elected leaders demonstrate their capacity for revenge and settling old scores, thus exposing the raw motivation of the war on drugs. In 1991 Representative Gerald Solomon (R.N.Y.) seemed to go after the ghost of the counterculture. A notorious proponent of the drug war, Solomon referred to his philosophical opponents as "unshaven, shaggy-haired members of the drug culture, poor excuses for Americans, wearing their tiny, round wire-rim...