Drug War

Unlocking the Power of Art to Counter Injustice

Anthony Papa | Posted 08.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Artists, Social Change, Marijuana, Art Auctions, Drug War, Political Art, Entertainment News
Anthony Papa

One night while sitting in my 6 x 9 cell I picked up a mirror and saw the face of individual that was to spend the most productive years of his life in a cage. I picked up a paintbrush, put color to canvas and painted the image I saw.

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A Slugger's Drug Redemption

Anthony Papa | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Steroids in Baseball, Drug Addiction, War on Drugs, Ondcp, Crack Cocaine, Alcoholism, Drug War, Drugs, Politics News
Anthony Papa

Hamilton was finally able to kick his addiction and return to baseball. He was fortunate that his addiction was not handled as a criminal manner, sending a powerful message to society.

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Mexican Torture Training Raises Questions About U.S. Military/Police Aid

Laura Carlsen | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Merida Initiative, Drug War, Human Rights, Plan Mexico, Mexico Torture, Mexico, Torture, Politics News
Laura Carlsen

The war on drugs launched by Calderon -- and explicitly endorsed by the U.S. government through aid to the Mexican police and military -- sends a message to Mexican security forces that "anything goes."

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Americans Can't Allow McCain to Continue Bush's Failed Policies in the "War on Drugs"

Robert Creamer | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sentencing Policy, Cocain Use, Presidential Election, War on Terror, Latin America, Prison, Mccain, Coca Eradication, War on Drugs, Breaking News, Columbia, Drug Policy, Drug War, Bush War on Drugs, Jan Schakowsky, Politics News
Robert Creamer

Though the failures of the "War on Drugs" are more silent and insidious than the president's dramatic failures in the Middle East, the two have much in common.

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Mexican Police Official Assassinated As Drug War Escalates

Posted 06.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Mexico, Mexico Drug War, Drug War, Mexico Drug Cartel, Mexican Police Official Assassinated, Drug Cartel Assassinations, Home News

MEXICO CITY — Gunmen killed a top federal police official and his bodyguard Thursday as they ate lunch in Mexico City, the latest attack against...

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Message to George Will: Racism Ignored is Justice Denied

Anthony Papa | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, George Will, Drug War, African Americans, Sentencing Reform, Drugs, War on Drugs, Drug War Racism, Barack Obama, Politics News
Anthony Papa

The knee-jerk conclusion by some is that more black and brown people are in prison because the commit the majority of the crimes. But a closer inspection paints a vastly different picture.

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Onward and Ever Upward -- But Not in a Good Way

Jamie Fellner | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Drug Sentencing, Human Rights, Drug War, Prison, Prison Remittance, Racism Prisons, Parole Laws, Prisons, Politics News
Jamie Fellner

Why the never-ending prison growth? Three ill-considered policies: the war on drugs, draconian sentencing laws, and punitive parole practices.

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Drug War Makes New York Legislator Doggone Crazy

Anthony Papa | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: War on Drugs, Breaking Political News, Drug War, Dogs, Harsh Tactics, Rottweillers, Pit Bulls, New York State Assembly, Politics News
Anthony Papa

New York State Assemblyman Thomas Kirwan recently introduced legislation that would prevent people with felony drug convictions from owning dogs such as pit bulls and Rottweilers.

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Political Comedian/Activist Randy Credico Arrested Documenting Marijuana Arrests

Anthony Papa | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Police Brutality, Rockefeller Drug Laws, Drug War, Marijuana, Nypd, Randy Credico, War on Drugs, Politics News
Anthony Papa

A tenfold increase in marijuana arrests over the previous decade is a figure marked by startling racial and gender disparities, according to a report released by the New York Civil Liberties Union.

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Third Party Lunacy At The Libertarian National Convention

Ken Bank | Posted 05.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Mike Gravel, Drug War, Mike Gravel Libertarian, Mary Ruwart, Bob Barr, Mike Gravel Leaves Democratic Party, Joe Lieberman, Robert Milnes, Al Gore, Libertarian, Bob Barr Libertarian, Libertarian Party, Wayne Allan Root, Home News
Ken Bank

Al Gore's gas-guzzling jet. Fabric-damaging flag pins. Drunken jerk candidates. Candidate no-shows. All that and more on display at this past week's other political party convention in Denver.

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Obama Not Completely Silent on the Drug War

Kurt Schmoke | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Drug War, Clyde Bailey, Addiction, NAADPC, War on Drugs, Barack Obama, Drug Policy, Politics News
Kurt Schmoke

Obama's remarks notwithstanding, the relative silence by presidential candidates about the War on Drugs has been disappointing but not surprising.

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NYC Is the Marijuana Arrest Capital of the World

Tony Newman | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Marijuana, Racial Profiling, Arrests, Mayor Bloomberg, Drug War, New York, Nyclu, Politics News
Tony Newman

Once convicted of a drug offense, one can lose college financial aid, food stamps, public housing and possibly even voting rights. Money wasted and lives ruined... and for what?

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A Pollster Takes Me to the Cyber-Woodshed on Colombia and the Drug War: I Respond

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton Colombia, Pollsters, Bill Clinton Colombia, Polling, Drug War, Colombia Free Trade, Colombia, Mark Mellman, War on Drugs, Mike Isikoff, Opinion Polling, Drug Smuggling, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Writing in The Hill, pollster Mark Mellman took me to the cyber-woodshed yesterday. Mellman claims that Lockheed hired him to produce "a serious study on the underexplored subject of drug policy." Very noble of Lockheed.

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The Wire's Final Season and the Story Everyone Missed

David Simon | Posted 03.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Drug War, No Child Left Behind, Drugs, War on Drugs, Media, Press, David Simon, David Simon on the Wire, Newspaper Industry, The Wire, Media Consolidation, David Simon on the Wire's Final Season, The Wire's Final Season, Baltimore Sun, Brian Lowry, Nclb, Media News
David Simon

Let's happily concede that all criticism stands and get to the real fun: something happened in season five of The Wire when almost no one -- among the working press, at least -- was looking.

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Ron Paul: No To Mandatory Immunization

James Freedman | Posted 01.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Nevada Caucus, Ron Paul, Immunizations, Medical Marijuana, War on Drugs, Fda, 2008 Election, Offthebus, Drug Legalization, Mandatory Immunization Ron Paul, Mandatory Immunization, Ron Paul Healthcare Policy, Drug War, Home News
James Freedman

Ron Paul's libertarian ideology is dramatically revealed when you get him started on topics such as the War on Drugs, the FDA and forced immunization ...

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Push-Polls: What is Common Sense?

Matt Simon | Posted 12.20.2007 | Home

Read More: Mike Huckabee, Marijuana, 2008 Election, Offthebus, Push-Polling, Drug Policy, Drug War, Home News
Matt Simon

I run a NH Common Sense, which somebody recently mistook for Common Sense Issues, the group allegedly behind recent NH push-polls. It made me wonder: which of our groups actually lives up to its name?

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Rescue Mission for Governor Spitzer

Anthony Papa | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: New York Governor, Drug Sentencing, War on Drugs, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, Drug War, Eliot Spitzer, Politics News
Anthony Papa

For many of those who have fallen through the cracks of Rockefeller Drug Law reform, their only hope to regain their freedom is through the act of executive clemency.

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War On Drugs Update: Coast Guard Seized Record $4.7 Billion Worth Of Cocaine Last Year

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Record Cocaine Seizure, U.S. Coast Guard, Drug War, War on Drugs, Cocaine, Politics News

The Coast Guard has reeled in a record 355,000 pounds of cocaine over the past year, results that officials say have forced smugglers to transport the...

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Smartest Drug Story of the Year?

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Drugs, Drug War, Media, Rolling Stone, Drug Policy, Slate, Crack, Dea, Crystal Meth, War on Drugs, Lee Brown, Meth, Drug Enforcement Administration, Crack Cocaine, Methamphetamine, Quaaludes, Cocaine, Politics News
Maia Szalavitz

America lost the drug war not by making tactical errors-- but by picking the wrong enemy. Rolling Stone deserves credit for making a strong case for just how wrong that went.

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Cops Become Drugstore Cowboys in Vermont; 4th Amendment Officially Dead

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Drug War, Opioids, Fourth Amendment, Oxycontin, Prescription Drugs, Vermont Prescriptions, Politics News
Maia Szalavitz

It's about time that everyone in America realizes that if you allow a drug war exception to the Fourth Amendment, the Constitution is effectively moot.

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Panel May Cut Sentences For Crack Over Charges Of Racial Bias

Washington Post | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Crack Sentences, Crack Cocaine Sentences, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, Crack Penalties, Drug War, Politics News

An independent panel is considering reducing the sentences of inmates incarcerated in federal prisons for crack cocaine offenses, which would make tho...

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All the Rich Flavor With None of That Annoying Euphoria

Ned Goldreyer | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: THC, Hemp Nebraska, Drugs, War on Drugs, Hemp, Nebraska, Drug War, Politics News
Ned Goldreyer

In order to keep the DEA busy while giving burgeoning hemp farmers a break, I've compiled a list of other common products that contain traces of controlled substances.

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American Gangster, American Stereotype

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.07.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Racism, Drug War, New York Cops, Russell Crowe, Denzil Washington, Blacks Drugs Media, Racist Laws, Black Jail Sentencing, Drug Sentencing, Stereotypes, Black in Jail, American Gangster, War on Drugs, Entertainment News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The public scapegoat of blacks for America's drug problem during the past two decades has been relentless, and the at all costs hunting down by Richie (Crowe) of Lucas (Washington) in American Gangster is stark testimony to that relentlessness.

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"Preppy Killer" Faces More Time for Drug Sales than the Murder he Committed

Anthony Papa | Posted 10.29.2007 | Politics

Read More: War on Drugs, Preppy Killer, Jennifer Levin, Drug War, Robert Chambers, Politics News
Anthony Papa

The most outrageous fact of this case is that Robert Chambers faces more time now for a drug offense under the Rockefeller Drug Laws than he did for taking Jennifer Levin's life.

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Bush Wants New "Surge" -- In The War On Drugs

Washington Post | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush Drugs Mexico, Bush War on Drugs, War on Drugs, Drug War, Bush Mexico Cartels, Politics News

President Bush announced Monday in Washington that he will ask Congress to approve a $500 million package to help Mexico fight drug cartels, the large...

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