Back in March, we blogged a Time article written by the creators of "The Wire." The piece described the country's "unwinnable drug war" as having turned from "a battle against dangerous substances" into "a venal war on our underclass." As part of an admittedly incomplete solution, the "The Wire" writers called for widespread jury nullification � a practice that they defined as refusing to "collaborate with a government that uses nonviolent drug offenses to fill prisons with its poorest."

A week after the Time article appeared,...