For what is essentially a piece of advocacy, this is very well reported and backed by reasonable evidence. But I knock it for fairness because it doesn't pursue input from law enforcement officials involved in the cases.

This piece covers an important subject, but the inclusion of the film trailer, along with the language and orientation of the writing, left me feeling it was not an even-handed perspective on this topic.

This is a must-read. It looks like a movie review of American Violet, but it's really a review of the federal program, just renewed by President Obama, that is the cause of so many bad things in the Drug War. False arrests, police departments profiting from property seizures, this article has them all. This is great stuff...