SWAT Team Horror in the War on Drugs
08-August-2008, United States, MWC News
This past week, Americans have had the opportunity to witness another glorious day in the life of the 35-year-old war on drugs.
A few minutes after the mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, Cheye Calvo, returned home from walking his two Labrador ...
The Rockefeller Drug Laws?
04-April-2006, United States, Blogger News Network
[As NY Governor, Nelson Rockefeller pressed for draconian punishments for the sale and/or possession of drugs on the mistakened assumption that these would deter drug sales. They did not. But the upshot was that many a younger person ended up ...
Drug war dropout calls effort a ‘failure’
03-April-2006, United States, Lawrence Journal World
For more than 14 years, Jack Cole fought the war on drugs as a New Jersey state narcotics agent.
Now, he’s had enough.
“It’s not only a dismal failure, but a terribly destructive policy,” he said.
Cole said he quit the narcotics force in ...
Drug War or Race War?
13-March-2006, United States, New Haven Independent
It's been 10 years since Sheldon Tucker saw the inside of a prison. Tucker (at right in photo, with criminal defense attorney Norm Pattis, at left) and others at a local forum on the drug war spoke about why so many young people of color have ...
Tougher drug laws only scratch the surface of the ...
13-March-2006, Australia, Fairfax Digital
A police-led war on drugs might be easy politics but it is lazy and ineffective policy, writes Andrew Macintosh.
A campaign is being waged by the federal and NSW governments to strengthen drug laws, particularly those concerning cannabis, in what ...
Activists warn of dangers from caffeine addiction
27-February-2006, United States, Spero News
Is the War on Drugs taking aim at that morning cup of java? As crazy as it might sound, some activists would hope so - and they have enlisted the help of various mayors to support their cause.
But first, to be more precise, critics aren't ...
Drug Database: Prescription for Trouble
08-February-2006, United States, The Cato Institute
"The White House Wednesday will announce a national anti-drug strategy that includes prodding more states to set up databases that can track people who get multiple prescriptions of frequently abused prescription drugs such as OxyContin and ...
2005: The Farce of Freedom?
13-January-2006, United States, The Cato Institute
A favorite standby of pundits and columnists is to predict what developments will transpire over the next 12 months. I've decided to take the reductio ad absurdum approach, and predict what might happen in 2006 should the most disturbing trends of ...
The Latest on Cory Maye
18-December-2005, United States, Hammer of truth
For those of you who are new to the story, Cory Maye is a prisoner on death row in the U.S. state of Mississippi. He was convicted of murder in the death of Prentiss police officer Ron W. Jones, during a drug raid in 2001. Maye pleaded not guilty at ...
Meth addicts' other habit: Online theft
16-December-2005, United States, USA Today
Hot on the trail of identity thieves, veteran Edmonton Police Service detectives Al Vonkeman and Bob Gauthier last winter hustled to a local motel, a cinder-block establishment where rooms rent by the hour.
Twice before police had descended on ...
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