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Gunmen Open Fire On AA Meeting In Mexico, Killing 1

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Drug Trade, Chihuahua City, Cartels, Illegal Drugs, Mexico Violence, Mexico, Aa, Sinaloa, Drugs, Chihuahua, Esparza, Border, Ciudad Juarez, Alcoholics Anonymous, Rehabilitation Clinics, Juarez, Drug Rehab, Home News

MEXICO CITY -- Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wo...

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US Can Access Columbia Military Bases Under New Deal

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Columbian Military, Gabriel Silva, Arms Accord, Us Columbia Accord, Us Columbia Deal, Robert Gates, World News

Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva has announced that a new military deal between Colombia and the US could be signed as early as Friday. Under...

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La Familia Cartel Targeted, Police Arrest More Than 300 Across U.S.

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT and SEAN MURPHY | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Anti-Drug Operation, La Familia Cartel, Marijuana, Drug Raid, Mexico, Michoacan, Mexican Drug Cartel, Servando Gomez-Martinez, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Drug Enforcement Administration, Methamphetamine, Fbi, 300 Arrested, Cocaine, La Familia Michoacana en New York, Mexican Drug Cartel New York, Cartel, La Familia, World News

OKLAHOMA CITY — In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that d...

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Honduras: Who's The Real Drug Trafficker?

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 09.16.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Drug War, Manuel Zelaya, Chile, Drug Trafficking, Honduran, Barack Obama, Operation Thunder, Cape Horn, Intervention, Argentina, Honduras, Inter-American Court on Human Rights, Gangs, Drug Laws, World News
Nikolas Kozloff

In December 2008, just months before Manuel Zelaya was ousted from power by the Honduran military, he wrote Barack Obama and complained of U.S. "interventionism."

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Marijuana Farming Rebounds During Recession

AP | ROGER ALFORD | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Drugs, Pot Legalization, Marijuana Farming, Pot Farming, Recession, Business News

BARBOURVILLE, Ky. — Machete-wielding police officers have hacked their way through billions of dollars worth of marijuana in the country's top p...

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Mexico's Murdered Journalists

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Mexico, Mexico Drug Wars, World News
Reporters Uncensored

Last month, Mexican lawmakers quietly slipped a bill into the books that will legalize small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroine and even methamphetamines.

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U.S. War on Drugs Is Killing Mexico

Diane Francis | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Tourism, Passport Requirements, Visa, Crime, Marijuana, Mexico, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Canada, Drugs, War on Drugs, Protectionism, Legalize Marijuana, World News
Diane Francis

The Three Amigos Summit which just ended -- U.S., Canada and Mexico -- is the private gathering of North America's dysfunctional family.

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An American Retiree, Jailed In Morocco For 13 Months, Shares His Story

GlobalPost | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Moroccan Jails, World, Vacation in Morocco, Morocco, Moroccan Prison, Spain, Des Moines, Drugs, Drug, Vacation in Spain, Middle America, Illinois, King of Morocco, Morroccan Jails, World News

RABAT, Morocco -- When Moroccan guards came to release Illinois retiree James Douglas Willson from prison, he believed that they'd come to shoot him. ...

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Pissing on Drug Warrior Graves

Dean Becker | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Jim-Webb-Drug-Legalization, War on Drugs, Drug War, Drug Lord, Politics News
Dean Becker

The truth is this: from the drug czar on down through the DEA, there is no one willing to justify the horrors created by this policy of drug prohibition.

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In Sri Lanka: Explaining the Tamil Tigers

Jim Luce | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: K.P., Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Bank of Tamileelam, Ban Ki-Moo, Abu Sayyaf Group, Sri Lanka, Palestine Liberation Organization, London, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan Air Force, Suicide Bombing, “Little Brown Brothers”, Racism, Drug Trafficking, The U.N. Security Council, Ethnic Cleansing, New York, Geneva, Jemaah Islamiya, Colombo, P.L.O., India, Times of India, Fight Against Terrorism, Gunrunning., LTTE Sea Tigers, Empty Nest Syndrome, Political Assassination, Tamil Tigers, Human Smuggling, Tamil Diaspora, Ltte, Teddy Roosevelt, Toronto, Switzerland, Washington, Jaffna, Osama Bin Laden, Jane's Information Group, United Nations, Norway, Tamil Nadu, Milf, Black Tigers, Guantanamo Bay, Child Soldiers, Refugee Status, Terrorist Organization, European Union, F.B.I., Amin Awad, Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden, Abu Ghraib, Tsunami, Rajiv Gandhi, Pol Pot, Oslo, Sri Lankan Parliament, Afghanistan, Human Rights Abuse, Sea Piracy, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Asg, Tamil-Canadians, World News
Jim Luce

The Sri Lankan government has battled the Tamil Tigers on two fronts for almost three decades: on the battlefield and in the arena of world opinion. No one thought they could win militarily, but they did.

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Ryan Grim

Obama: Reduce Drug Trafficking To "Localized Criminal Problem"

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Mexico, Drug Policy, President Obama, Politics News

President Barack Obama, at a joint press conference with his Mexican counterpart Thursday, said that the goal of the joint U.S.-Mexican war against dr...

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Traffickers Smuggle Drugs Underwater With Semi-Submersibles

Global Post | John Otis | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Submersible Drug Smuggling, Drug Smugglers, Latin America, Foreign Affairs, Columbia, Drugs, War on Drugs, Advocacy, Drug Smuggling, World News

Only a few years ago tales of traffickers plying the underseas world aboard cocaine-laden submarines struck anti-drug agents as a Jules Verne fantasy....

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Defeating Narco-Terrorism

Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Drug Cartels, Drugs, Hugo Chavez, Mexico, Mycoherbicides, Heroin, Hamas, Hezbollah, Cannabis, Venezuela, National Security, Middle East, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Afghanistan, Narcotics, Un, Cocaine, Narco-Terrorism, World News
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld

The nexus between transnational criminal organizations and terrorist groups does not end with illegal drugs. Yet, U.S. and international law-enforcement agencies overlook the connections between them.

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Potential Drug Czar's Family Connection To Failed Drug War

Lee Stranahan | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Traffic, Drug Trafficking, Steven Soderbergh, Gil Kerlikowske Drug Czar, Marijuana, President Obama, Gil Kerlikowske, Drugs, War on Drugs, Michael Douglas, Politics News
Lee Stranahan

In the Academy Award winning film Traffic , Michael Douglas plays the nation's new Drug Czar who discovers just how unwinnable The War On Drugs really...

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International Narcotics Control Board Reaffirms its Shameful Commitment to Politics over Science

Ethan Nadelmann | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, Latin American Commission on Drugs, Drug Policy Alliance, International Narcotics Control Board, Drug War, Ethan Nadelmann, United Nations, Drug Prohibition, Drug Trade, Drug Trafficking, Drug Reform, Narco-Trafficking, Incb, Politics News
Ethan Nadelmann

The INCB boldly reaffirmed its shameful commitment to politics over science as well as its shocking indifference to the failures and harmful consequences of the global drug prohibition regime.

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New Year, New Administration, More Clemency

Jason Flom | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George H. W. Bush, George Bush, Drug Sentencing, Grammys, Criminal Justice, Drugs, Music, Ben Taylor, Unfair Sentencing, The Beatles, Whitney Houston, George H.W. Bush, New Jersey, The Fugees, Carly Simon, Jail, Drug Trafficking, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, Crime, John Forte, Exeter, Keith Richards, New York City, Elvis Presley, Presidential Pardons, Criminal Justice System, Prison, Beatles, Lava Records, Bush Pardons, Music Industry, Cocaine, Phillips Exeter, Politics News
Jason Flom

Obama ran on a campaign promise of change. He can begin by using the pardon power generously to correct as many individual cases of injustice as possible.

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Is Mexico the Next Crisis?

Diane Francis | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Drug Trafficking, New Crisis, Politics, Instability, Obama Election Day, Crime, Obama Election Victory, Meltdown, Mexico, Felipe Calderone, Mexican Drug Cartels, Business, Barack Obama, Mexican Immigration, Economy, Politics News
Diane Francis

The day of Obama's election, Mexico's second-highest official in charge of other key drug interdiction officials died in a fiery jet crash. This may become the President-elect's first test and crisis.

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How to Fix the Economic Meltdown and Stop Terrorism: Legalize Heroin and Whores

David Henry Sterry | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Master of Ceremonies, Law Enforcement, Serial Killer, Marijuana, Economy, Sex Trafficking, South America, Drugs, Asia, War on Drugs, Prohibition, Economic Recovery, Prostitution, Chicken, Ecstasy, Cigarettes, Alcohol, Sex Worker, Abraham Lincoln, Empowerment of Women, Willie Nelson, Sexual Predators, Al Capone, Drug Trafficking, Terrorism, Pimp My Ride, Bloomingdale's, Pimp My Crib, Victimization, Free Enterprise, Gangsters, Exploitation, Pimp, Economic Meltdown, Taliban, Afghanistan, Harry Potter, Afghan Taliban, Whores, Politics News
David Henry Sterry

The bottom line, economically, is that there is a big beautiful sexy cash cow to be milked here.

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