If you want to cut gun crime, first you have to ...
12-June-2005, United Kingdom, Times Online
Stories of the latest war on gun crime appeared last week flanked by advertisements for a film called Mr & Mrs Smith. A glamorous couple were depicted with handguns as sexually explicit fashion items. Gun laws are like gun movies. They are erotic ...
A Letter to My Friend Who Supports the Drug War
03-June-2005, United States, lewrockwell.com
My friend, we’ve been discussing this war on drugs for quite a while, and whether or not it is doing anything to reduce drug use. We both agree that most drugs, particularly “hard” drugs, have a harmful and debilitating effect on most persons who ...
Profits from selling cocaine make it a lucrative ...
31-May-2005, United States, Winona Daily News
By David Krotz / Winona Daily News
The profits from cocaine are so great that drug dealers have been known to use two and four-engine airplanes on one-way flights into the United States, abandoning the planes once delivery is made.
The ...
Working classes turned on to hard drugs by cheap ...
27-May-2005, United Kingdom, Times Online
A HUGE increase in cocaine use was cited yesterday for the number of people on hard drugs in England and Wales rising to a record one million.
More than half a million people are now using Class A drugs every month and the number of young people ...
America's drugs plan in tatters as cocaine and ...
15-May-2005, United States, The Independent
Washington's "war on drugs" in Colombia is collapsing in chaos and corruption, and the drug producers are winning. The so-called Plan Colombia, which has cost the US more than $3bn (£1.6bn) in the past five years, is being abandoned, Secretary of ...
Inside the war on drugs
08-May-2005, United States, Pittsburgh Tribune Review
If a mere 10 percent of Don Winslow's new novel, "The Power of the Dog," were true, it would be horrifying.
"I would flip that ratio," Winslow says.
That 90 percent could be true is nearly unfathomable. "The Power of the Dog" chronicles the ...
No rest here in war on drugs
04-May-2005, United States, Wiscnews.com
By Mark Boxley
The use and sale of drugs in Portage is on the rise and the dog leading the pack is crack cocaine.
"We've seen a large increase in the usage and sales," Detective Dan Pionke of the Portage Police Department said.
The ...
A New Plan for Colombia
02-May-2005, Colombia, znet
Albert Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." If he were alive today, he would consider US policy toward Colombia insane.
Last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited ...
Cops win small battle, but U.S. is blowing drug ...
08-April-2005, United States, Chicago Sun Times
Tim Trevier is a big man with 15 titanium earrings, a diamond nose ring, a leather do-rag and a modified fu manchu. If you saw him on the street, you'd look twice, but it would never cross your mind that he is cop.
At 42, he has been a police ...
Cocaine price steady despite drug war gain
15-March-2005, United States, newkerala
Less Colombian cocaine is coming into the United States, but the price of the drug hasn't gone up, the U.S. Southern Command chief said Tuesday.Gen. Bantz Craddock said last year 222 million metric tons of cocaine was interdicted coming from ...
< previous | 1 2 3 4 | next > (3 of 4)
