War on Drugs

While DC Retreats, California And Other States Continue March Towards Drug Policy Reform

Antonio Gonzalez | Posted 05.30.2012

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California and Colorado may breakthrough in 2012 with pragmatic reforms that chip away at the failed "war on drugs" with measures that "de-felonize" simple possession of controlled substances and legalize cannabis consumption.

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Obama's Hypocritical War on Marijuana

Ethan Nadelmann | Posted 05.25.2012

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Most disappointing is Barack Obama's failure to say a word as president about the fact that half of all drug arrests each year are for nothing more than possessing a small amount of marijuana, which is something Barack Obama did lots of in his younger days.

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The Despicable Act of Paying for Prisoners!

Russell Simmons | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Rockefeller Drug Laws, Andrew Cuomo, War on Drugs, Eric Schneiderman, Drug Law Reform, Drug Laws, Politics News

This is a new America. An America that believes that drug addiction is a disease and not a crime. We will no longer subject ourselves to the old ways of destruction. We will fight for a fair justice system that uplifts our people from the drug war devastation of the past 39 years.

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Cory Booker Tweets Up A Pro-Pot Storm

The Huffington Post | Melissa Jeltsen | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Video, Cory Booker, New Jersey, Bv-Politics, Drug War, New Jersey Marijuana, Cory Booker Decriminalizing Marijuana, War on Drugs, Cory Booker Twitter, Politics News

Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker took to Twitter on Wednesday, calling the government's war on drugs a failure that unfairly targets the black populati...

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Does the War on Drugs Affect Your Privacy Rights?

Jane Yakowitz Bambauer | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Fourth Amendement Rights, Drug-Sniffing Dogs, Privacy Violation, Invastion of Priacy, Fourth Amendment, Police Dogs, Police Dogs Drugs, War on Drugs, Florida-v-Jardines, Crime News

Do the police need a warrant to bring a drug-sniffing dog to your front door? The U.S. Supreme Court will soon answer that question.

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Doctors Support Treatment, Not Additional Prison Time For Cameron Douglas And Others Who Relapse Behind Bars

Anthony Papa | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: War on Drugs, Cameron Douglas, Celebrity Kids, Crime News, Michael Douglas, Celebrity News, Rehab, Crime News

Last year Mr. Douglas relapsed on drugs while serving his prison sentence. He was caught with very small amounts of opioids for personal use, including a single dose of a medication used to treat heroin dependence that he had obtained without a prescription.

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Jillette: If Obama Were Arrested Under His Laws, He'd Be In Prison

The Huffington Post | Christine Friar | Posted 05.25.2012

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In a recent episode of his podcast "Penn's Sunday School," comedian Penn Jillette laid his opinions on the Obama drug policies out on the table. J...

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Mexican Soldiers Arrest Alleged Perpetrator Of Mass Beheadings

Reuters | Posted 05.21.2012

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By Ioan Grillo MEXICO CITY, May 20 (Reuters) - Mexican soldiers have arrested an alleged perpetrator of the massacre of 49 people who...

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Study: More Than Half of Adult Male Arrestees Test Positive for at Least One Drug

R. Gil Kerlikowske | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Drugs, War on Drugs, Arrestee Drug Use, Crime, Illegal Drugs, Drug Use, Politics News

The findings are clear evidence of the link between drugs and crime. It is imperative that we address our nation's drug problem not just as a criminal justice issue but as a public health issue. We cannot arrest our way out of the drug problem.

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Kicking Ass and Taking Names: Another Anti-Medical Marijuana Candidate Bites the Dust

Steph Sherer | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Cannabis, Medical Marijuana, Medical Cannabis, Pot, Marijuana, Steve Cooley, Drug Enforcement Administration, Dwight Holton, War on Drugs, Obama Marijuana, Politics News

Politicians come and go. But public compassion for suffering patients is here to stay.

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US DEA Kills Innocent Civilians in Honduras -- US Media Silent

Dan Kovalik | Posted 05.16.2012

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The vast majority of Americans do not even know that the U.S. is at war just south of our borders and do not understand why our Southern neighbors are crying out for a change in this senseless policy. The media's failure in this regard is inexcusable.

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Mother's Day: Tears and Triumphs

Gretchen Burns Bergman | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Addiction, Drugs, Families, Moms, Incarceration, Parents, Prison System, Mother's Day, War on Drugs, Parents News

For most women, Mother's Day is a time to honor and celebrate motherhood. For countless other women, it also marks a day of grieving and loss.

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Dem Lawmaker Vows To Fight Medical Marijuana Raids

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.14.2012

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Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) vowed to continue to fight federal raids on medical marijuana after a bipartisan measure he introduced along with Reps. ...

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People Are Dying of Drug Overdoses, Despite Lifesaving Medications

Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. | Posted 05.11.2012

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We have waged a war against drugs instead of formulating a science-based response to a public health epidemic for which a life-saving medication is available.

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Would Romney Be Worse for Medical Marijuana Than Obama?

Scott Morgan | Posted 05.09.2012

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Anyone who wants to argue that Romney would be worse when it comes to medical marijuana should begin by explaining how. Obama's been worse on this issue than George W. Bush ever was, so what's to say he wouldn't be worse than Romney too?

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Filmmaker Files Lawsuit Over 'Trekkie Traffic Stop'

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 05.08.2012

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Filmmaker Terrance Huff has filed a lawsuit against the city of Collinsville, Illinois, and Collinsville police officer Michael Reichert over a traffi...

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Alcohol Prohibition Not Helping Native Americans Deal With Harms of Alcohol

Tony Newman | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Drug Policy Alliance, Prohibtion, Alcohol Prohibition, Drug War, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Alcoholism, New York Times, Nicolas Kristof, War on Drugs, Crime News

As terrible as alcohol and other drugs are for some people, prohibition is not the answer. It didn't work in the United States in the 1920s and it is not working for the Sioux people today.

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Drinking Your Own Urine to Survive? Just One of the Millions of Drug War Atrocities

Ethan Nadelmann | Posted 05.04.2012

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Daniel Chong, UC-San Diego student, said he was forced to drink his own urine after he was left in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell for nearly five days.

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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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Rise in Teen Marijuana Use Demonstrates Continued Failure of War on Drugs

Jag Davies | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Drug War, War on Drugs, Teen Marijuana Use, Teens Marijuana, Marijuana, Teens, Teen Drug Use, Crime News

The continued decline in teen cigarette smoking is great news -- not just because it's the most deadly drug but also because it reveals that legal regulation and honest education are more effective than prohibition and criminalization.

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'Tough on Crime' No Longer the American Mantra?

Inimai Chettiar | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Overincarceration, Tough on Crime, War on Drugs, Incarceration, Sentencing Reform, Prison Reform, Prisons, Prison Privatization, Crime Rate, Crime News

Politicians have held strong to the conventional wisdom that being "tough on crime" will win elections and appease the public's appetite for safety. But the pendulum of public opinion is starting to swing in the other direction.

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An American Tragedy: The War on Drugs

Dr. Lawrence M. Schall | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Michelle Alexander, Jim Crow, War on Drugs, Slavery by Another Name, Blackmon, Politics News

Because mass incarceration has become so normalized in our country, the withholding of the most basic of human and democratic rights -- the right to vote -- has also become the norm.

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Who Still Supports the Drug War?

Chris Ladd | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Marijuana Prohibition, Drugs, Drug War, Marijuana, Legalization, Pat Robertson, Prohibition, Marijuana Use, Marijuana Legalization, War on Drugs, Politics News

Last month Pat Robertson, televangelist and long-time icon of the religious right, announced that it's time to legalize marijuana. The firestorm of shock and indignation from all sides ... never materialized. Not a whimper.

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Momentarily Confused Congress Declares War on War

James Napoli | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: War on Christmas, Congress, Military, Military Industrial Complex, War on Drugs, War on Terrorism, War, Comedy News

During a heated debate about American military involvement in several of the world's hot spots, an as-yet unidentified member of Congress blurted out a suggestion that the United States lead the world into a new era of enlightenment by declaring a war on war.

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Eppur si muove (and yet it moves)

José Fernando López | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Americas Summit, Colombian Police, Office of National Drug Control Policy, War on Drugs, Latino Voices News

The second decade of the 21st century will go down in history as an era in which the world got fed up of one of the most useless and prolonged wars: the war on drugs. Or, at least, of the indiscriminate war on all types of drugs and in particular against its consumers.

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