The price that Americans are paying for the drug war has become an issue in these times of severe federal, state, and local budget deficits. Some of these costs can be found within the Economics link at Drug War Facts and have been distilled into the flyer, “The Federal, State, […]
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Reining in SWAT — Towards Effective Oversight of Paramilitary
Feature: Reining in SWAT — Towards Effective Oversight of Paramilitary from Drug War Chronicle, Issue #634, 5/28/10 As is periodically the case, law enforcement SWAT teams have once again come under the harsh gaze of a public outraged and puzzled by their excesses. First, it was the February SWAT raid […]
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Teachers Suspended for Screening MPP-Funded Film on Constitutional
Two high-school teachers in Norfolk, Virginia have been placed on paid
administrative leave because a parent objected to them handing out a
one-page flier and showing a film, both about constitutional rights, to
a 12th grade government class.
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Souder, Leading Drug Warrior, Asks Forgiveness for Sins
Pubdate: Tue, 18 May 2010 Source: Huffington Post (US Web) Copyright: 2010 HuffingtonPost com, Inc. Author: Ryan Grim Note: Ryan Grim is the author of This Is Your Country On Drugs Referenced: SSDP’s State-by-State Report http://ssdp.org/states/ Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Mark+Souder SOUDER, LEADING DRUG WARRIOR, ASKS FORGIVENESS FOR SINS Mark Souder resigned his […]
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Web: We Are The Drug Policy Alliance
Pubdate: Mon, 17 May 2010 Source: Huffington Post (US Web) Copyright: 2010 HuffingtonPost com, Inc. Website: http://www.huffingtonpost.com Author: Ethan Nadelmann Note: Ethan Nadelmann is the Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance. www.drugpolicy.org Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0A1XTlJAio Sting, Soros, Montel and More WE ARE THE DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE I’ve often felt in […]
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Ruling Hurts in Modesto Needle Exchange Case
Pubdate: Tue, 18 May 2010 Source: Modesto Bee, The (CA) Copyright: 2010 The Modesto Bee Contact: letters@modbee.com Author: Merrill Balassone Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?137 (Needle Exchange) RULING HURTS IN MODESTO NEEDLE EXCHANGE CASE A judge ruled Monday that two people arrested for handing out clean syringes to drug users and collecting dirty […]
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OPED: Time for a Reset in U.S.-Mexican Relations
Pubdate: Mon, 17 May 2010 Source: Washington Post (DC) Page: A13 Copyright: 2010 The Washington Post Company Contact: http://mapinc.org/url/mUgeOPdZ Author: Jorge G. Castaneda Note: Jorge G. Castaneda was foreign secretary of Mexico from 2000 to 2003 in the government of Vicente Fox. He teaches international relations at New York University […]
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Versions of this article printed in many newspapers
Author: Martha Mendoza, Associated Press Writer US DRUG WAR HAS MET NONE OF ITS GOALS MEXICO CITY- After 40 years, the United States’ war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread. […]
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Ethan Nadelmann Critiques Obama’s New Drug War
Pubdate: Tue, 11 May 2010 Source: Huffington Post (US Web) Copyright: 2010 HuffingtonPost com, Inc. Author: Ethan Nadelmann Note: Ethan Nadelmann is the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance (www.drugpolicy.org) Referenced: The 2010 National Drug Control Strategy http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/strategy/ Referenced: Wall Street Journal article http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n514/a02.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Gil+Kerlikowske ETHAN NADELMANN CRITIQUES […]