Drug Policy Question of the Week – 3-22-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 3-22-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3304 Question of the Week: Can people with a drug conviction vote? Just before the election last fall, the Sentencing Project reported, “… more […]
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What is dronabinol?
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 3-12-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 3-12-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3302 Question of the Week: What is dronabinol? A November 2010 Federal Register posting by the Drug Enforcement Administration defined dronabinol as, “the United […]
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What can hemp be used for?
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 3-2-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 3-2-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3289 Question of the Week: What can hemp be used for? A 2010 report from the Congressional Research Service defines, “Hemp, also called “industrial […]
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Mandatory Sentencing for Drug Users: A F…
By Ernest Drucker Bill S-10 currently being considered by the House of Commons calls for the introduction of mandatory sentences as deterrents to organized crime and large scale drug dealing in Canada. There are serious doubts about the value of this strategy , and many of the country’s health, research, […]
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Mexico Drug War a Lost Cause as Presently Fought
By Sandy Goodman There’s a powerful new piece of evidence that, the way it is being fought, the war on drugs on the Mexican-American border is a lost cause. It comes in a report issued by the Council on Foreign Relations, a highly-respected foreign policy think tank, that recommends that, […]
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The Wire producer: War on drugs is ‘a war on the underclass’
By Eric W. Dolan Thursday, March 10th, 2011 — 7:04 pm David Simon, the creator and executive producer of HBO’s The Wire, said the war on drugs had devolved into a war on the underclass after actress Felicia Pearson was arrested in Baltimore on drug charges. Thirty-year-old Pearson had served a prison […]
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Missed Opportunity
Obama and Calderon Fail to Discuss Alternatives to Drug War By Daniel Ernesto Robelo Mexican President Felipe Calderon and President Obama ignored the elephant in the room in their meeting — drug prohibition is the cause of prohibition.
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Harper’s Faith-Based Drug War
We should not pretend that Bill S-10 has anything to do with evidence – or with making our country a safer place in which to live. by Neil Boyd Associate Director, Criminology, Simon Fraser University. The Harper Conservatives are under fire for their extraordinarily expensive legislative initiative, Bill S-10. Among […]
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How many medical marijuana patients are there?
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 2-26-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 2-26-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3284 Question of the Week: How many medical marijuana patients are there? The Congressional Research Service reported that, “A July 2005 CRS telephone survey […]