I-100 author smokes foes
03-November-2005, United States, Rocky Mountain News
23-year-old turns tables on drug war with Denver victory
By Alan Gathright, Rocky Mountain News
November 3, 2005
It's not even noon and Mason Tvert already has hit seven television and five radio news shows in his post-election victory lap as ...
U.S. needs more sensible drug policy
03-November-2005, United States, Norther Star Online
Article By:
• David Conard
• dconard@northernstar.info
"Drugs are bad, m’kay"
So says Mr. Mackey, the school counselor from the "South Park" cartoon. That’s an oversimplification, which might be what the show’s creators are saying.
Mr. ...
Almost 11 million people in Britain have taken ...
28-October-2005, United Kingdom, The Independent
Almost 11 million Britons have taken illegal drugs, including four million who have experimented with class A substances such as heroin and cocaine.
The regular part played by drugs in many people's lives was disclosed yesterday by research ...
Bleak news from the drug war
28-October-2005, United States, Recordnet
To me, Red Ribbon Week is a time not only to make the good arguments against drugs to kids, but time to salvage what shreds of national sanity remain after decades of America's war on drugs.
Next to solving every foreign policy problem ...
The war on Colombia's cocaine industry
18-October-2005, Colombia, BBC News
Plan Colombia - the $3bn (£1.7bn) US effort to hit cocaine at its source - has become embroiled in the country's 40-year armed conflict. The BBC's Paul Kenyon travels with the Junglas, an elite anti-narcotics unit, as they comb the Colombian ...
The Failed Drug War
07-October-2005, United States, BellaOnline
The war on drugs is a war on people. The laws for controlled substances are completely uncontrolled street drugs that are often bulked up with non-drugs to add weight to increase price. Punishment for possession or sale of drugs has filled our ...
Vets Against the (Drug) War
28-September-2005, United States, Forth Worth Weekly
Howard Woolridge is outside of Utica, N.Y., heading east on horseback on a beautiful late summer day. He’s wearing a t-shirt with the slogan “Cops Say Legalize Drugs. Ask Me Why.” For the last 3,000 miles, he’s been switching off between his two ...
War on Drugs Impedes New Beginning for Some ...
27-September-2005, United States, Drug Policy Alliance
In the days and weeks following Hurricane Katrina (and the more recent Hurricane Rita), the media has reported on the abuse of human rights of mostly poor and black people. But what has been discussed far less is the government’s response to another ...
A Less Fashionable War
22-September-2005, United States, OpEdNews.com
BY CHARLES SHAW - Malcolm X once said, “Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars—caged. I am not saying there shouldn’t be prisons, but there ...
Hallucinating stars and stripes
13-September-2005, United Kingdom, Hallucinating stars and stripes
The party was definitely over. It was 1989 when George Bush Sr held up a bag of crack-cocaine, seized "in a park just across the street" from the White House, and formally declared war on drugs. Thanks to a media obsessed with crack babies and ...
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