Labour 'losing the war on drugs'
06-September-2005, United Kingdom, ePolitix
Figures showing that the price of hard drugs is continuing to fall are "a shocking indictment" of government failure, David Davis has said. The shadow home secretary slammed ministers after figures published by the charity DrugScope revealed that ...

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 ...

Colombia weighs fresh tack in drug war
11-August-2005, Colombia, The Christian Science Monitor
In a bid to further eliminate coca crops and cut off funding for armed rebels, President Alvaro Uribe has proposed that the government pay peasant farmers for their coca crops. Uribe made the bold and controversial offer late last month at a town ...

Disagreement over Mexico's war on drugs
30-July-2005, Mexico, L.A. Daily News
Mexico finally is fighting the war on drugs that the U.S. government has demanded for decades: a frontal assault on drug barons, their organizations and their merchandise, using the police and military in concert with U.S. intelligence. The ...

Why feds should take over U.S. marijuana sales
30-July-2005, United States, Chicago Sun Times
BY RONALD FRASER Illinoisans spend about $207 million each year to enforce state and local marijuana laws. What are these taxpayers getting for their money? Not much, according to a recent study. Jon B. Gettman, a senior fellow at George ...

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 ...

Revealed: how drugs war failed
04-July-2005, United Kingdom, Guardian Unlimited
The profit margins for major traffickers of heroin into Britain are so high they outstrip luxury goods companies such as Louis Vuitton and Gucci, according to a study that Downing Street is refusing to publish under freedom of information ...

Drug war in Colombia: Is there any progress?
21-June-2005, Colombia, Houston Chronicle
As proof that the U.S.-backed drug war in South America is paying off, the Bush administration says cocaine production has plummeted by nearly 30 percent over the past three years. But some American counternarcotics officials and drug-trade ...

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 ...

Time for a new strategy in the war on drugs
15-June-2005, United States, The Seattle Times
"Is it Time to End the War on Drugs?" The King County Bar Association gave that title to a report in 2001, and now has put out a study that answers, yes. The study, "Effective Drug Control," argues that the use of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and ...

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