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The Trillion Dollar Fail: How the War on Drugs Was Lost
“If we cannot destroy the drug menace in America, then it will surely in time destroy us.” – Richard Nixon, 1971.
Browsing: DRUG WAR
U.S. Marijuana Laws Ricochet Through Latin America
President Obama has yet to deliver a clear response to the November decision by Colorado and Washington to legalize recreational marijuana use — asked whether the government would enforce federal laws that override the verdict of those states’ referendums, he answered simply that he has “bigger fish to fry.”
Singapore Death Row Drug Defendants Can Now Seek Review
Drug traffickers and other death row inmates in Singapore can now seek review of their death sentences after changes to the island city-state's mandatory death sentence went into effect with the new year, the anti-death penalty group Hands Off Cain reported. Some 32 people whose appeals had already ended sit on death row there; it is unclear how many are drug traffickers.
Marc’s Christmas Prison Blog
I had some additional thoughts about Michael Coren's Sun TV interview with my wife Jodie and his subsequent Toronto Sun newspaper rant (both are attached to the beginning of my last blog) about me and the cannabis culture.
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The Single Best Anti-Gun-Death Policy? Ending the Drug War
Universal gun confiscation is impossible, and even aggressive gun control might not dramatically reduce gun-related deaths. But ending our ridiculous and expensive war on drugs could.
The Top Ten Drug Policy Stories of 2012
In some ways, 2012 has been a year of dramatic, exciting change in drug policy, as the edifice of global drug prohibition appears to crumble before our eyes.
Mexico Changes Stance in Drug War – But Little Difference Seen From Calderón
Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto talks of end to military crackdown against drug cartels that has left up to 100,000 dead
US Has 330,000 Drug Offenders in Prison
The number of people in prison in America declined last year for the second year in a row, according to a new report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The number of prisoners at the end of 2011 dropped to just under 1.6 million, a 0.9% decrease over the previous year.
2012: The Most Outlandish Stories From the Drug War in Mexico
Last year, the Mexican director Gerardo Naranjo released a crackling art-house thriller,“Miss Bala,” about an aspiring beauty queen who becomes embroiled in the violent drug cartels of Tijuana. The premise of a willowy innocent caught in the crossfire had all the hallmarks of a telenovela, and some critics groused that the film was implausible.
Clinton: Drug War ‘Hasn’t Worked’
Former President Bill Clinton says in a new documentary that his administration’s attempts to limit drug trafficking from Colombia “hasn’t worked.”
