Source: AlterNet.org
''Prohibition has failed -- again. Instead of treating the demand for illegal drugs as a market, and addicts as patients, policymakers the world over have boosted the profits of drug lords and fostered narcostates that would frighten Al Capone.
Source: The Washington Post
The West will begin to resolve the grim and massive problems that the international drug trade creates only when the United States and Europe make justice rather than vengeance the center of drug laws, create effective rehabilitation programs that fill hospitals rather than jails …
Source: Reason Magazine
Last summer, two burglars broke into Ricks' home. He shot and killed one of them. Police determined he acted in self-defense, and cleared him of any criminal wrongdoing.
Source: amarillo.com
As a retired police officer and detective who worked in the trenches of the drug war for 18 years, I heartily agree with House's remarks.
Source: druglaw.typepad.com
Another year is wrapping up and so it is once again time to consider the most interesting drug law stories of the last 365 days.
Source: narconews.com
The Gulfstream II jet that crash landed in the Mexican Yucatan in late September carrying close to four tons of cocaine was part of an operation being carried out by a Department of Homeland Security agency, DEA sources have revealed to Narco News.
Source: iwasthestate.com
I meet interesting people through this blog. Today I had the chance to talk with Steven Nicely of K9 Consultants of America. Mr. Nicely was kind enough to answer a few questions about drug dogs. Mr. Nicely is a consultant out of Austin and an expert witness on drug dogs.
Source: AlterNet.org
Rhetoric should not be driving drug policy. Legalization would strip addiction down to what it really is: a health issue.
Source: Yahoo! News
Not even Santa Claus is safe as the violent Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro celebrates the Christmas season.
Source: dailynews.com
As a friend of presidents and hobnobber with governors, David Fleming makes an unlikely insurgent against the War on Drugs.
Source: The Austin American-Statesman
Mexico is reeling from the gruesome executions of three popular musicians this month in a record year for drug violence, despite a yearlong military operation against Mexico's major drug cartels.
Source: stopthedrugwar.org
Both the US Supreme Court and the US Sentencing Commission acted this week to redress inequities in the sentencing of federal crack cocaine defendants, but changes in sentencing will be only marginal unless Congress acts to amend or undo the minimum sentences it has mandated for …
Source: stopthedrugwar.org
In its biggest show of numbers yet, the drug reform movement gathered in New Orleans last weekend for the 2007 International Drug Policy Reform Conference.
Source: stopthedrugwar.org
The latest annual Monitoring the Future survey of teen drug use was released Tuesday.
Source: stopthedrugwar.org
If you haven't figured out yet that the Drug Czar will say anything, you should start reading some of the stuff he says.
Source: norml.org
In a statement issued Friday by the 21-term Congressman, Conyers said: "I am deeply concerned about recent reports that the Drug Enforcement Administration is threatening private landlords with asset forfeiture and possible imprisonment if they refuse to evict organizations legal …
Source: Daily Kos
This Florida based Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA crash landed on September 24, 2007 after it ran out of fuel over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula it had a cargo of several tons of Cocaine on board now documents have turned up on both sides of the Atlantic that link this Cocaine …
Source: The Agitator
Thank this war. The goddamned drug war. It is so incredibly senseless and stupid.
Source: Reuters
A U.S. agency that sets federal sentencing guidelines voted on Tuesday to make retroactive a recent reduction in recommended crack cocaine penalties.
Source: The New York Times
A panel reduces harsher prison sentences for crack cocaine versus the powdered form citing unfair racial practices and a misconception of the danger.
Source: AlterNet.org
1,200 activists and experts converged on New Orleans for the Drug Policy Alliance conference, where AlterNet won a prize for its drug war coverage.
Source: NJ.com
Gov. Jon Corzine, a state panel he appointed, his attorney general and all 21 county prosecutors yesterday endorsed a proposal to shrink the "drug-free zones" around schools and public buildings to make them more effective.
Source: stopthedrugwar.org
Washington, DC -- Marking the 74th anniversary of the repeal of national Alcohol Prohibition, StoptheDrugWar.org today released polling results suggesting that drug prohibition's main supporting argument may be simply wrong.
Source: Yahoo! News
A timely bit of news from the sports front. Travis Henry, a multi-millionaire who also happens to be represented by a robust and powerful labor union, has come to the end of a four-month legal battle to prove that a positive test for weed was incorrect.
Source: stopthedrugwar.org
As the Malibu wildfire nears full containment, it is very worth noting that about 1,100 male and female nonviolent drug offenders normally warehoused in California prisons were called upon to risk life and limb fighting last month's massively devastating blazes.