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 ...

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 ...

Smoked Out
12-September-2005, United States, AlterNet
In a November 2002 letter to the nation's prosecutors, the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) didn't bother beating around the proverbial bush. "No drug matches the threat posed by marijuana," began the letter from Scott ...

Agencies sharing spoils of drug war
11-September-2005, United States, Morning Sentinel
A 1999 Dodge Durango sport utility vehicle parked in the garage at the Fairfield Police Department and more than $22,000 in cash sit waiting to be claimed -- not by the former owner, but by police and prosecutors. The heavy V-8 Magnum SUV and the ...

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 ...

The War on Drugs
30-August-2005, United States, Foreign Policy
The war on drugs will soon be over. It won’t have been won or lost, and we certainly won’t have wiped out illicit drug use. People will still pursue their personal pleasures and uncontrollable addictions. No, the war on drugs will end because drugs ...

Justice Weighs Desire v. Duty (Duty Prevails)
25-August-2005, United States, The New York Times
It is not every day that a Supreme Court justice calls his own decisions unwise. But with unusual candor, Justice John Paul Stevens did that last week in a speech in which he explored the gap that sometimes lies between a judge's desire and duty. ...

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 ...

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