U.S. says no break in drug war
04-August-2005, Canada, 24 Hours Vancouver
The United States will continue to pursue its war on drugs across international boundaries, says a key U.S. player in the case of pot activist Marc Emery. Jeff Sullivan, chief of the criminal division with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the ...

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 ...

Drug Czar Says Medical Marijuana 'Dying'
29-July-2005, United States, washingtonpost.com
The White House drug czar said Friday that medical marijuana is "dying out" after the Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that federal authorities may prosecute sick people whose doctors prescribe pot to ease pain. John Walters, the national ...

Ecstasy use hits all-time high
29-July-2005, Australia, National Nine News
Ecstasy is more popular than ever with young Australians, with one-in-five people in their early 20s admitting to using the drug, a new report has found. The report also found Australians used more speed, ecstasy and marijuana than their ...

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 ...

Sophisticated dealers have advantage in drug war
28-July-2005, Canada, 24 Hours Vancouver
Addiction casts a dark shadow on people's lives. In the case of the Downtown Eastside, drug addiction has cast an even darker shadow on a community. Walk down Hastings Street at any time of the day and you'll see how deep the drug problem runs. ...

New weapons for war on drugs
25-July-2005, United States, The Seattle Times
Since it was founded four years ago, the Drug Policy Project at the King County Bar Association has targeted the decades-old war on drugs, pushing for treatment instead of punishment and proposing radically different policies for addicts and ...

Oregon prescription policy may set meth law ...
21-July-2005, United States, USA Today
Oregonians who want over-the-counter cold medicine soon may need a doctor's permission to buy it. Trying to stem the abuse of methamphetamine, the Oregon Senate will likely vote next week on a bill that would make the state the nation's first to ...

So, you call this a victory in the drug war?
21-July-2005, United States, Inside Bay Area
WHEN I visited Richard Paey, it quickly became clear that he posed no menace to society in his new home here in Zephyrhills, Fla., a high-security state prison near Tampa, where he was serving a 25-year sentence. The fences, topped with ribbon wire, ...

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