Against the drug war
16-August-2005, United States, The Washington Times
There has always been a certain resistance on the right to the war on drugs. One of the most persuasive texts on that front came in 1972, when the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse put forth a report entitled "Marihuana: A Signal of ...
'Sneak-and-Peak' Law Helps More Than War on ...
15-August-2005, United States, FOXNews.com
Hidden cameras and microphones placed by federal agents in a house in Lynden, Wash., paid off recently when officials uncovered a plot to dig a drug tunnel from Canada to the United States.
But because federal officials used a provision in the ...
Bush's War on Pot
28-July-2005, United States, RollingStone.com
America's long-running war on drugs has, literally, gone to pot.
More than two decades after it was launched in response to the spread of crack cocaine -- and in the midst of a brand-new wave of methamphetamine use sweeping the country -- the ...
Oregon prescription policy may set meth law ...
21-July-2005, United States, USA Today
Oregonians who want over-the-counter cold medicine soon may need a doctor's permission to buy it.
Trying to stem the abuse of methamphetamine, the Oregon Senate will likely vote next week on a bill that would make the state the nation's first to ...
So, you call this a victory in the drug war?
21-July-2005, United States, Inside Bay Area
WHEN I visited Richard Paey, it quickly became clear that he posed no menace to society in his new home here in Zephyrhills, Fla., a high-security state prison near Tampa, where he was serving a 25-year sentence. The fences, topped with ribbon wire, ...
The War On Drugs, Total Success
19-June-2005, United States, useless knowledge mag
By Lenny Gibeault III
June 19, 2005
I have been reading a lot on the recent (growing, but still on the fringe) commentary on the abject failure of the US Drug War. I disagree with this notion, thought not for the reasons some might think. I ...
AMs shocked to test positive for drugs
16-June-2005, United Kingdom, ic Wales
ALMOST everybody in Wales will have hard drugs on their hands at some point today, according to a cutting-edge detection machine.
The problem has reached the point that bank notes, taps and door handles in pubs, nightclubs and even the offices of ...
Let's win the war on drugs
16-June-2005, United States, Charlotte Observer
From John Emerson, assistant special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Charlotte District office:
Observer community columnist Bill Reeside Jr. wrote ("Call off the war on drugs," May 26) that deadly narcotics such as ...
Retired cop rides for change to nations drug ...
15-June-2005, United States, Brush News Tribune
Horseback riders on Hwy 6 between Brush and Hillrose are as common as muck in a barnyard and usually dont rate a second glance. However, on Monday, the sight of a cowboy wearing a t-shirt emblazed with the words Cops Say Legalize Drugs was ...
The staying power of drugs
15-June-2005, United States, MercuryNews.com
Exasperated by pessimism about the ``war on drugs,'' John Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, says: Washington is awash with lobbyists hired by businesses worried that government may, intentionally or ...
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