Obama War on Drugs

Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks About The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.09.2012

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Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks about the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 1)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.04.2012

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Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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Obama Explains Medical Marijuana Raids

Posted 04.25.2012

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Amid an increased crackdown on medical marijuana producers across the nation, including a recent high-profile raid on a California training school, Pr...

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Is The War On Drugs A Lost Cause?

Posted 04.30.2012

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This 4/20, people around the country are gathering in public and in private to take part in the annual tradition of marijuana use. Thanks in part to a...

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Latin American Countries Pursue Alternatives To U.S. Drug War

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 04.11.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will face fresh pressure on Cuba and illegal drugs when he meets this week with Latin American leaders, some...

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America Needs to Open Up the Debate on Decriminalization

Richard Branson | Posted 05.19.2012

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Throughout Europe and Latin America, and in many U.S. states, a similar debate is playing out: Can and should the drug war be replaced with drug regulation that supports individuals with health issues and focuses law enforcement on serious criminals?

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Institutionalized Racism and the War on Drugs

Joshua Shulman | Posted 05.16.2012

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Is our Criminal Justice system really just a way to keep large numbers of African-Americans out of mainstream society, like we did under Jim Crow?

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Barry Bond's Trainer to Government: I Refuse to Testify

Anthony Papa | Posted 05.25.2011

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The government is willing to take down Bonds and in doing so blemish baseball so they can push their personal zero-tolerance agenda for drug use.

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The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste

Michelle Alexander | Posted 05.25.2011

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Crime rates do not explain the sudden and dramatic mass incarceration of African Americans during the past 30 years. And the vast majority of that increase is due to the War on Drugs.

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Obama Budget Unexpectedly Bolsters War On Drugs

Raw Story | Stephen C. Webster | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was not long ago when President Barack Obama's new drug czar, former Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske, swept into Washington, D.C. and declared...

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White House Czar Calls For End to 'War on Drugs'

Wall Street Journal | GARY FIELDS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S. is fighting "a war on drugs," a move that would ...

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