Some Good News From the Texas Primary

Silvestres Reyes was defeated in the Tuesday primary by El Paso City Councelman Beta O’Rourke.

The district is overhwelmingly Democratic, so it means that O'Rourke is pretty much a shoe in for the general.

Why is this good news? Because Reyes was aggressively pro-drug war and pro drone, to the point of lobbying for drone stikes in Mexico, and O'Rourke supports Marijuana legalization.

It's a big deal, and it shows that, as the NORML blog notes, the war on drugs is no longer the winning issue that it used to be.