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Category Archives: Drug War
May 20, 2013
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A DUI for Marijuana?
Colorado and Washington made headlines last year when majorities in both states voted to legalize the sale and use of mairjuana within their states. Six months later, both states are trying to figure out what a legal pot regime actually … Continue reading
March 5, 2013
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DEA Chiefs to Obama: Keep Waging the War on Drugs
Eight former DEA chiefs want President Obama to keep a lid on pot. In a joint statement released on Tuesday, they urged Obama to have his administration sue Colorado and Washington over their new marijuana legalization laws: One of the … Continue reading
February 1, 2013
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Seeing Mexico Through Blood-Tinted Glasses
Mexico is fast becoming a North American success story, though you wouldn’t know it from the coverage the country gets from most news outlets. That coverage tends to light on things like the massive and still-unexplained explosion that occurred Thursday afternoon at … Continue reading
December 3, 2012
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Brazil Borrows From American Drug War
Brazil’s economy may be slowing down, but the cocaine business is thriving. Brazil is currently the second-largest market for cocaine in the world. As a result of this fact, Brazil’s government is borrowing a much reviled policy from America’s drug … Continue reading
October 3, 2012
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From the AI: A Voter’s Guide to Marijuana Legalization
Drug policy is one of those areas Americans—left, right, and center—almost all agree about, in at least one respect: Our nation’s drug policies are often ineffectual at best and, at worst, self-defeating. The Drug War is obscenely expensive; it swells … Continue reading
June 29, 2012
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Mexico: 50,000 Dead, but Democracy Survives
Mexicans head to the polls to elect a new president on Sunday. The election is widely seen as a referendum on current president Felipe Calderón’s drug policy. 50,000 people have died in drug violence since he took office. His party’s candidate … Continue reading
April 10, 2012
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Legalize It?
Drug legalization advocates often predict that regulating and taxing drugs like cocaine and heroin would lower usage and create a new and lucrative source of government revenue. Their optimism seems ill founded, however, given that the government can scarcely control … Continue reading
February 14, 2012
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Oakland Goes to Pot
Something’s rotten in the State of California. The New York Times recently reported that the budget crisis has forced the city of Oakland to look for unusual ways to raise cash. Their solution: marijuana dispensaries. With a declining tax base and poor business … Continue reading
January 21, 2012
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Drug War Sanity in NJ?
For years, one of the primary criticisms of America’s expensive and self-destructive drug war has been that it leads to the incarceration of large numbers of nonviolent youths, harming their reputations and future job prospects for the rest of their … Continue reading
January 20, 2012
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Drug War “Whack-A-Mole”
Washington’s war on the Colombian cocaine industry has been largely successful, but successful only in pushing drug cartels into neighboring Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. Coca farms and cocaine-producing facilities have simply jumped national borders to safer havens. Anti-American governments in … Continue reading
January 6, 2012
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American Hipsters Murder Democracy in Mexico
The Washington Post recently reported that, based on various estimates by well-respected Mexican newspapers (the Calderon government has not released any figures recently), around 12,000 people were killed in Mexico’s drug violence in 2011 alone, bringing the total to over … Continue reading
December 19, 2011
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Latins Stage an Intervention: Uncle Sam Blows Them Off
Interventions in the western hemisphere typically involve US Marines in Latin American countries, but this month has seen a different kind of intervention: Latin Americans telling Uncle Sam that he’s got to do something about his drug habit. The Washington … Continue reading
December 14, 2011
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Hezbollah: Champion of Lebanese Shiites…And Drug Dealer?
The New York Times published today a lengthy investigation of the Lebanese Canadian Bank and its ties to Hezbollah. More than serving as a hub for Hezbollah’s money-laundering and funding purposes, the bank, investigators say, is part of a web … Continue reading
November 3, 2011
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Killer Pain Pills Dent Case For Ending War on Drugs
Legalizing drugs isn’t making people use them less. The WSJ reports that about four times as many people die from using prescription painkillers as did ten years ago: About 14,800 people died in the U.S. from overdoses of painkillers in … Continue reading
October 11, 2011
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New Front in War on Drugs?
Over the past two decades, the War on Drugs has become one of the most controversial federal programs. In its zeal to rid our country of potentially life-destroying substances, the drug war has dramatically increased our incarceration rates and contributed … Continue reading
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