Our government's zero-tolerance anti-drug crusade reached a new low when police killed two innocent pet Labrador retrievers while improperly conducting a SWAT-style drug raid on the mayor's house.
Baratunde Thurston | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
Remember that place -- Afghanistan? We don't hear about it too much from our trusted names in news. I'm pretty sure Ruben Studdard is getting more airtime than Afghanistan.
Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics
To really get "serious" in the war on obesity is a revolutionary act. The bad actors are the very folks who hold the GDP in their hot little corporate hands.
Anthony Papa | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
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.
John Carnevale | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business
Having spent eleven years in the Office of National Drug Control Policy, I can say that in contradiction to a recent report, we have little reason to believe that America has reached a turning point in the war on drugs.
Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 07.10.2008 | Living
In 1997, the Thai government criminalized yaabaa in the same way as heroine. As a result, the prison population doubled within four years. There are a number of public health consequences of a policy that encourages and overuses incarceration.
Anthony Papa | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
Nonviolent drug offenders like Tatum O'Neal should be given an opportunity to receive treatment, not jail time. This would be a more effective solution for both the individual and the community.
Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Most criticism of the Supreme Court's recent decisions comes off as whining about the fact that the Court decided against one's side, with zero appreciation of the fact that at least there's a relatively fair system.
Robert Creamer | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
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.
Anthony Papa | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
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.
Michael Lewittes | Posted 06.23.2008 | Entertainment
I cannot in good conscience circuitously support her horrible drug habit. And neither should you. Simply, we, as her audience, are filling her crack coffers.
Stephen Elliott | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
In the mid-nineties, Cindy was addicted to prescription pain killers. Worse, she was stealing the drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team, a third world relief organization she founded.
Anthony Papa | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
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.
Anthony Papa | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
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.
Anthony Papa | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
Now is the time to question what it means for society to turn from state-sanctioned executions to punishments that impose what many prisoners describe as "in-house death sentences."
Bob Barr | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
When government attempts to solve problems, it creates even more of them, often increasing the size and depth of the original problem. A perfect example of this is the federal War on Drugs.
Tony Newman | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
The application of the government's zero-tolerance prohibition policies on drug use in public housing are overtly racist, classist, ineffective and inhumane.
Vince Beiser | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
Many currently incarcerated for drug use are no different than the young Barack Obama, or millions of other Americans like him -- curious kids experimenting with intoxicants for kicks.
Kurt Schmoke | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
Obama's remarks notwithstanding, the relative silence by presidential candidates about the War on Drugs has been disappointing but not surprising.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.06.2008 | Living
It's a safe bet that diabetics outnumber crackheads in the U.S. by a big fat margin, but the corn cartel's got carte blanche to fill us (and our gas tanks) with their Beltway-blessed by-products.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
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.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 04.08.2008 | Living
It is an outrage against democracy to suggest that an activist be gagged to keep them in the dark to support a misguided drug war.
David Feige | Posted 04.06.2008 | Home
Michael Brick's ambitious piece in today's New York Times about the wide ranging narcotics prosecutions in the housing projects of Brooklyn omitted ...
Lisa Gans | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics
The U.S. policy of poppy eradication in Afghanistan is futile, unimaginative and fails to take into account the economic needs of the Afghan population.
David Feige | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
Not only have many defendants been sentenced for stuff the jury acquitted them of, but yesterday the Supreme Court refused to do anything about it.
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Anthony Papa | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics