By Tony Newman, Director of Media Relations, Drug Policy Alliance 2011 has been a watershed year for the movement working to end our county’s disastrous war on drugs. Below are the top stories of the year that exemplify the momentum and give us hope that we can find alternatives to […]
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Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
New Coalition calls for a public health approach to alcohol, tobacco and drug controls Vancouver (BC), November 26, 2011: The Health Officers’ Council of BC (HOC) and the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC), http://drugpolicy.ca/, have called for a fundamental shift in Canada’s approach to alcohol, tobacco, illegal and prescription drug […]
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Driven By Drug War Incentives, Cops Target Pot Smokers, Brush Off Victims Of Violent Crime
CHICAGO — As Jessica Shaver and I chat at a coffee shop in Chicago’s north-side Andersonville neighborhood, a police car pulls into the parking lot across the street. Then another. Two cops get out, lean up against their cars, and appear to gaze across traffic into the store. At times, […]
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Open Letter: The Global War on Drugs has Failed
In is time for a new approach WE THE UNDERSIGNED call on members of the public and of Parliament to recognise that:- Fifty years after the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs was launched, the global war on drugs has failed, and has had many unintended and devastating consequences […]
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The Marijuana Vote
For more about the “marijuana vote,” please check out this press release from Common Sense for Drug Policy issued on November 15, 2011: http://www.csdp.org/pr201111.pdf Also, this formatted one-page PDF flyer, “The Marijuana, Minority and Marginal Vote,” contains many of the facts within the CSDP press release. http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/files/Marijuana-Minority-&-Marginal-Vote.pdf
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Marijuana Voters
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 11-4-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 11-4-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3616 Question of the Week: What is the marijuana vote? An October Editorial from the Christian Science Monitor lauded the federal crackdown on California […]
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Prohibition
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 10-29-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 10-29-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3606 Question of the Week: How similar is Ken Burns’ ‘Prohibition’ to the Drug War? Many aficionados have probably seen “PROHIBITION,” the “three-part, five-and-a-half-hour […]
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It’s time to make drugs legal, Nobel winners tell Cameron
David Cameron has been urged to consider legalising drug use by a group of 60 major thinkers and celebrities including Sting, Yoko Ono and the former American president Jimmy Carter. By Rowena Mason, Political Correspondent In a letter to the Prime Minister and every member of Parliament, the public figures […]
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Missouri ballot measures proposed to legalize marijuana
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Posted: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. • Advocates can begin collecting signatures for two proposed Missouri ballot measures that would legalize marijuana. The secretary of state’s office said Monday the initiative petitions have been approved for circulation to get them on the 2012 ballot. […]