Rainforest new front in Colombian drug war
11-March-2005, Colombia, seattlepi.com
A helicopter machine gunner looks over the Garrapatas Canyon, in Colombia's western Choco state, Thursday, March 10, 2005. In the newest front in Colombia's drug war, cocaine producers are penetrating one of the largest tracts of virgin rainforest ...
Cannabis reclassification: six months on: ...
06-March-2005, United Kingdom, politics.co.uk
David Davis, the Conservatives shadow Home Secretary, said downgrading cannabis had been wrong and would be reversed by a Conservative government, as it made young people think the drug was harmless and made the streets more difficult to ...
Washington state groups offer 'exit strategy' for ...
03-March-2005, United States, seattlepi.com
A group of Washington doctors, religious leaders and lawyers offered an "exit strategy" for the war on drugs Thursday, a proposal that would aim to dry up the black market for heroin, marijuana and other substances by having the state regulate their ...
Black Legislators: Drug War Has Failed
02-January-2005, United States, Pacific news Service
Eyeing the failure of California voters to repeal Three Strikes laws, the National Black Caucus of State Legislators has approved a resolution condemning the "war on drugs" and calling for "alternatives to failed polices."
Among their ...
Changing tactics in war on drugs
27-December-2004, United States, The Daily News
A proposal by a state House member should give us all cause to take a hard look at America's war on drugs.
The state legislator, Rep. Alice Bordsen, D-Alamance, is suggesting that non-violent youthful offenders who have committed felonies be ...
The ‘Drug War’ toll mounts
13-December-2004, United States, The Eureka Reporter
In Washington, D.C., a 27-year-old quadriplegic is sentenced to 10 days in jail for marijuana possession, where he died under suspicious circumstances.
In Florida, a wheelchair-bound multiple sclerosis patient now serves a 25-year prison sentence ...
A war on drugs or a war on tradition?
12-December-2004, Taiwan, Taipei Times
Opium has always been associated, for better or worse, with China. And almost invariably it's been for the worse. The myth, in both the Christian West and the communist East, has been that this pernicious substance was brought to the Celestial ...
War on drugs is new battleground for party ...
26-November-2004, United Kingdom, Times Online
TONY BLAIR and Michael Howard promised firmer action on drugs as figures published yesterday showed that more 15-year-olds have tried cannabis in England than in any other European country.
The EU survey revealed that Britain also has the highest ...
Mandatory Sentencing Crowds Jails But Still Isn't ...
18-October-2004, United States, MTV.com
Get caught trafficking drugs, go to jail. No ifs, ands or parole. Any questions?
That was the message behind Congress' 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act. The law created mandatory minimum penalties for first-time drug traffickers, which based jail time on ...
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