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Border Patrol Using Drones to Battle Marijuana Trade
U.S. border patrol agents are using drones, the same type in fact being used to fight the Afghanistan war, to locate illegal shipments of marijuana being smuggled across the Southwest border.
Drug War: Time For an Exit Strategy [Blowback]
Huge casualty reports from Mexico's drug war demand the US figure out an exit strategy
The Hundred Years’ Worldwide War on Drugs
CANNABIS CULTURE - January 23, 2012 marks the 100th birthday of the first international drug control treaty, the International Opium Convention, signed at the Hague in 1912
Facing Influx of Cartels, New Guatemalan President Dumps His ‘Iron Fist’ Drug Strategy Position to Advocate for Reform Instead
Newly installed Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has called for talks about a regional drug strategy, including drug decriminalization.
Speaking Out, But Still Silenced: Anonymous Cop Criticizes War on Drugs
An anonymous police officer writes how things like ego, economic concerns, and denial prevent cops from speaking out against the drug war.
Mexico’s Drug War Bloodies Areas Thought Safe
The Mexican drug war that has largely been defined by violence along the border is intensifying in interior and southern areas once thought clear of the carnage, broadening a conflict that has already overwhelmed the authorities and dispirited the public, according to analysts and new government data.
Trial Exposes Odd Ties in Mexico Drug War
When a top Mexican or Colombian drug lord is captured, events normally go something like this: He gets extradited to the U.S. and makes a closed-door deal with prosecutors to give information on the drugs trade while getting a reduced sentence in return. The public finds out little to nothing of the details.
Mexican Police Find 13 Bodies After Latest Drug War Shooting
Police found thirteen semi-naked bodies piled one atop the other outside a convenience store in western Mexico on Monday, local authorities said.
The Top Ten Domestic US Drug Policy Stories of 2011
We can put 2011 to bed now, but not before looking back one last time at the good, the bad, and the ugly. It was a year of rising hopes and crushing defeats, of gaining incremental victories and fending off old, failed policies. And it was a year in which the collapse of the prohibitionist consensus grew ever more pronounced. Let's look at some of the big stories:
