Southeast Asia: Drug User Group Demonstrates for ...
09-August-2008, Indonesia, StoptheDrugWar.org
Indonesia's harsh drug laws have not succeeded in stopping illicit drug use in the Southeast Asian archipelago, and now some of the people those laws are aimed at are speaking out. On Monday, denizens of some of Jakarta's most notorious drug dealing ...
The Wire's War on the Drug War
05-March-2008, United States, Time
We write a television show. Measured against more thoughtful and meaningful occupations, this is not the best seat from which to argue public policy or social justice. Still, those viewers who followed The Wire — our HBO drama that tried to portray ...
Mexico's Fox balks at signing drug law
04-May-2006, Mexico, CNN
Mexican President Vicente Fox backed off a bill that would have decriminalized possession of small amounts of drugs, sending it back to Congress for changes rather than signing it into law.
The announcement late Wednesday came after U.S. ...
Mexico Drug Law Could Create Users Tourism Boom
01-May-2006, Mexico, mexidata
Mexico’s new proposal to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of illegal drugs would have a spectacular, if perhaps unintended, impact on the Mexican economy. As the seventh most popular tourist destination in the world, Mexico could now ...
Is legalising drugs the only answer?
30-April-2006, United Kingdom, The Sunday Times
Some top police officers are now backing the idea that hard drugs should be decriminalised. Is this a brave but foolhardy idea, asks Tim Luckhurst
When the Ayrshire drugs baron John Gorman was jailed for 12 years last week and nine of his ...
Rick Steves is just a NORML guy
14-March-2006, United States, The Seattle Times
You imagine Rick Steves going to bed early, bags packed, itinerary ready, sensible shoes lined up by the door.
You don't imagine him ensconced in some European parlor, taking pulls off a big, fat doobie. But it turns out Steves, our home-grown ...
Edinburgh "Drug Czar" Says Time to Consider ...
10-March-2006, United Kingdom, stopthedrugwar.org
The debate over heroin has turned lively in Scotland this week, thanks to Edinburgh "drug czar" Tom Wood, who has urged the Scottish Executive to consider prescribing heroin to addicts through the National Health Service (NHS). Wood, a former deputy ...
Ex-cops against War on Drugs
10-March-2006, United States, Crime Scene KC
Would you like to be able to buy pot, coke, meth, heroin or LSD like you buy booze from a liquor store?
A bunch of ex-cops in an organization called LEAP - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition - say you should be able to. The War on Drugs is a ...
Musings About the Drug War
26-February-2006, United States, The Wall Street Journal
BY GEORGE MELLOAN
Sunday, February 26, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST
Economist Milton Friedman predicted in Newsweek nearly 34 years ago that Richard Nixon's ambitious "global war against drugs" would be a failure. Much evidence today suggests that he ...
'Legalising drugs would halve prisoner numbers'
15-December-2005, United Kingdom, icBerkshire
READING probation officer Bob Turney says it is time to stop pouring billions of pounds into a never-ending war against drugs and open a hysteria-free debate about legalisation.
His job offers him an insight into the criminal underworld because ...
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