Steve Fox, MPP’s new director of state campaigns (who was also MPP’s federal lobbyist from 2002-2005), sends in the following dispatch:

While riding the Metro’s Red Line yesterday, I spotted former drug czar John Walters entering the train. When he ended up standing right beside me, I realized I couldn’t pass up the chance for a conversation. I know it sounds like a fruitless endeavor, but I’m an eternal optimist and thought, “Maybe if we have a casual lunch together, he’ll come to see the folly of keeping marijuana illegal.” [Read more →]

You may remember a few weeks back when Dan posted a couple of John Walters’s question and answer segments from a drug czar press conference where Walters claimed that “finding somebody in jail or prison for a first time, non-violent offender [sic] for possession of marijuana is like finding a unicorn.”  More recently, Ben found plenty of unicorns by Walters’s definition.

Over at MPP-TV, we decided to take a look at the drug czar’s numbers and do the math ourselves … and came up with this video on his bizarre claims. Enjoy!