War on Drugs

Barack Obama drug warrior, Clarence Aaron collateral damage San Francisco Chronicle (blog) This story provides another example of how Barack Obama is worse in the war on drugs than George W. Bush. Pardon expert/blogger extraordinaire PS Ruckman alerted me to this MSNBC appearance in which former pardon attorney Sam Morison talks about how ... See all stories on this topic »

Women on the rise in Mexican drug cartels Bangkok Post The high mortality rate in Mexico's drug war has seen women progress quickly in the shadowy underworld of the cartels and they are increasingly taking on key management roles, a new book says. Mexican Army soldiers guard Irasema Lopez Garza, ... See all stories on this topic »

NARCOTICS: CIA-Pentagon Death Squads and Mexico's 'War on Drugs" Center for Research on Globalization In the context of the misbegotten "War on Drugs," that "client" is the US government and the nexus of bent banks, crooked cops, shady airplane brokers, chemical manufacturers, and spooky defense and surveillance firms who all profit from the chaos they ... See all stories on this topic » Center for Research on Globalization

Gone but not forgotten: Hampton hosts Memorial Day ceremony Seacoastonline.com "Chief Maloney was killed in action in the war on drugs," Fatello said. "The Global War on Terrorism and the global war on drugs are closely related. The sales of these dangerous drugs help finance the war on terror." The American Legion also paid a ... See all stories on this topic »

Sasquatch! 2012: The War On Drugs SSG Music The War On Drugs took on the Bigfoot stage at Sasquatch! with a blend of folk/mountain music approached from a riff-heavy rock/shoegaze approach. The War On Drugs are a band that falls easily in line with both riff-rock and folk-rock traditions. See all stories on this topic » SSG Music

Sinaloa cartel, Zetas push Mexico's drug violence to new depths Los Angeles Times (Alexandre Meneghini, Associated Press / May 21, 2012) By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times CULIACAN, Mexico — The cartel henchman nicknamed "El Loco" was reported behind the latest atrocity in Mexico's ever-more-depraved drug war: mutilating 49 ... See all stories on this topic »

Establishment on a Witch Hunt? Tenth Amendment Center ... civil liberty violating aspects of the Patriot Act and presidential war power abuses, not to mention an unconstitutional federal "War on Drugs" that cages millions of minorities and criminalizes thousands of people simply seeking some pain relief. See all stories on this topic »

Going beyond scandal to substance Trinidad & Tobago Express Recently, many national leaders and citizens have joined the list of strident critics of the "war on drugs" approach. Clearly, the "war" cannot be won. Guatemala's President, Otto Pérez Molina, has even advocated legalising drug consumption and ... See all stories on this topic »

At the heart of American justice (Part I) allvoices The grisly War on Drugs is, perhaps, the pinnacle example of policy adoption to augment imprisonment of civilians. Despite a glaring report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, which condemned the drug war as utterly counterproductive, ... See all stories on this topic »

If you're using illegal drugs, you're accessory to murder Mansfield News Journal Then I suspect that many of these same concerned citizens go on home, kick back and light up a joint or maybe they even might lay out a line of coke or some other drug of choice. The war on drugs will not succeed until the demand for drugs in this ... See all stories on this topic »