Ah the price of the war on drugs. Hopefully most people have seen Traffic which does a decent job of showing how the war on drugs is going, but a great real life example is the story of Ripper which local tech writer Annalee Newitz just wrote up in this week’s Bay Guardian.

Read it over as it also has a link to Ripper’s site in case you don’t know what the whole story about his death is… (actually I just checked the link and the URL isn’t correct so here it is)