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 ...
New Orleans police chief defends force where up ...
06-September-2005, United States, Guardian Unlimited
Not since The Spartans at Thermopylae have a group of people displayed such courage under pressure as the New Orleans police department, the force's chief said last night at an emotional press conference. Only a few cowards, Eddie Compass said, had ...
California Patrol Won't Seize Marijuana Used as ...
30-August-2005, United States, The New York Times
In a turnaround, one of the state's biggest law enforcement agencies says it is taking a hands-off approach to the possession and use of marijuana for medical purposes.
The new policy, by the California Highway Patrol, states that an "individual ...
Garfunkel busted for marijuana
30-August-2005, United States, CNN.com
Singer Art Garfunkel, who pleaded guilty to marijuana possession last year, has been arrested again on the same charge.
Garfunkel, 63, half of the legendary '60s duo Simon and Garfunkel, was pulled over on Sunday by a New York state trooper near ...
Shooting evidence of drug war failure
29-August-2005, United States, Sun Sentinel
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Posted August 29 2005
The tragedy in Sunrise in which a young man, Anthony Diotaiuto, age 23, was brutally shot to death in his home by police, brings into ...
Tourists visiting Bali nightclubs face random ...
29-August-2005, Indonesia, Guardian Unlimited
Tourists visiting nightclubs on the Indonesian island of Bali are being subjected to random drug tests as part of a crackdown on gambling, drugs and prostitution.
With the clubbing season at its peak, attracting hundreds of thousands of young ...
Stupid Aussies wander into drug war
27-August-2005, Indonesia, The Courier-Mail
ONE could be forgiven for thinking that Australian model Michelle Leslie was the only person arrested at Bali's GWK cultural park last Saturday.
She wasn't. Four others, all Indonesians, also were nabbed in the same anti-drugs raid. They had more ...
Police tours of drug war city
25-August-2005, Mexico, The Advertiser
A MEXICAN city at the heart of a raging drug war is trying to woo back jittery Texan day trippers by offering free bus tours with an armed police escort.
"The aim is to shake off the bad image that we have and give a boost to the craft markets ...
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