The hypocritical and unproductive nature of the government policy of drug prohibition has been a frequent subject on this blog (see here, here, here and here), so this Radley Balko post about Cindy McCain, John McCain’s wife, caught my eye:

. . .the problem with the hypocritical practice of letting politiciansí family members get off for drug crimes that land normal people in prison is that it doesnít seem to do much in the way of making them more sympathetic. It just hardens them into more militant drug warriors.

Read the entire post.