Drug War

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• Latin American countries no longer fear US in setting drug policy

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 444
  ( World Politics Review ) For roughly four decades, a clear foreign policy rule set has existed between the United States and Latin America, centering largely on the question of counternarcotics. Starting with Richard Nixon’s “war on drugs,” an explicit quid pro quo came into existence: U.S. foreign aid (both ...
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• CBS News asks Judge Jim Gray and Drug-Free America’s David Evans: Should Pot Be Legal?

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 444
  We all know Judge Jim Gray is a powerful advocate for ending marijuana prohibition.  We all know David Evans is a rabid prohibitionist.  Let’s just skip to the fun parts and give you the bullet points from David Evans’ reefer madness: ( CBS News ) David Evans: We cannot legalize marijuana because… ...
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• Seneca on Obama Administration’s Latin Foreign Policy Woes

  
  latinopoliticsblog.com — Authority: 121
  The Obama Administration is plainly showing that its policy for South of the Border is equally as empty, indifferent and at times almost maladroit or inept as it has been for nearly a score of years. During last year’s campaign for the White House, Candidate Obama was judged to have a refreshing view of the world ...
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• VIDEO: Former Brit Ambassador Craig Murray Says UK and USA Sent Prisoners to Uzbekistan for Torture – Part 1

  
  Patrick J. Buchanan — Authority: 603
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• VIDEO: Former Brit Ambassador Craig Murray Says UK and USA Sent Prisoners to Uzbekistan for Torture – Part 2

  
  Patrick J. Buchanan — Authority: 603
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• Amid Rising Violence, Mexicans Fight Back - WSJ.com

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 513
  Amid Rising Violence, Mexicans Fight Back - WSJ.com: MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s war on drugs...
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• Our Smart Government

  
  Rhymes With Cars & Girls — Authority: 463
  I’m not a huge military expert but it seems to me that one thing the U.S. Army should have a lot of are Muslim psychiatrists. I think that would be a big help. Everywhere you look our military bases should be flooded with Muslim psychiatrists and doctors and “chaplains” and other educated-type Muslim guys with ...
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• The Only Answer That Will Work

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 596
  Drug-War-Caused Violence: The Only Answer That Will Work by D. M. Mitchell                     Prohibitions based on the personal moral and/or religious beliefs of some, that violate the rights of non-violent, consenting adults to use whatever has been prohibited can, and quite often does, lead ...
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• drugwar: hayfork harvest, oregon pot school & more

  
  media monarchy — Authority: 434
  marijuana growers upend hard-luck hayfork, californiafrom latimes: This hardscrabble Northern California town has become a hotbed for medical marijuana farming... Some students talk openly of farming pot after graduation, about the only opportunity in this depressed timber town. "Its not a subculture here," said ...
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• Drug Czar Kerlikowske on National Public Radio

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 444
  Check out the thirty-minute interview with our Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske, on National Public Radio .  What’s telling to me isn’t the Drug Czar’s typical lies and spin, but that every single caller to the program but one was so intelligently disagreeing with him.  ...
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• South Of Heavens Cavalcade of Politics: Reading the tealeaves

  
  South Of Heaven — Authority: 137
  To understand what last nights elections mean, you have to recognize what the media wants you to think it means. The national news seems to have totally missed that Dem John Garamendi has won Ellen Tauscher’s open seat here in California. If reported at all, its dismissed as, Oh, its those California left-wing ...
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• 2009 Election Redux

  
  Wash Park Prophet — Authority: 134
  So, there was an election yesterday. What happened in Colorado? Denver voters rejected (by an almost 7-3 margin) an initiative proposing mandatory car impoundment for drivers without licenses. It was opposed by almost the entire political establishment and was a loophole closing follow up to a prior impoundment ...
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• Sanity Arrives In Two More States of America

  
  BuelahMan's Redstate Revolt — Authority: 429
  Pete at DrugWarRant shared these two stories of elections that prove many more Americans are gaining some sanity (as of 8:45AM CST DrugWarRant’s website is down). The tide turns: A Win In Maine Medical marijuana users in Maine will be able to buy their pot at licensed dispensaries after voters approved a bill ...
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• Maine increases access to medical marijuana

  
  Freedom is My Nationality — Authority: 475
  I am a little hesitant about the arguments involved in medical marijuana. I prefer arguing for legalization for the sake of personal responsibility and opposition to the nanny state. For one thing I dont like to give the implication that marijuana is healthy for you. Perhaps it is better than tobacco or alcohol , ...
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• More drug war stuff

  
  South Of Heaven — Authority: 137
  I written often on this , but its nice to see someone else say it. Next time you see a junkie sprawled at the curb in the downtown of your nearest city, or read about someone who died of a heroin overdose, just imagine a big yellow sign posted next to him or her saying: “Your Federal Tax Dollars at Work.” ...
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• Breckenridge legalizes pot

  
  disinter — Authority: 462
  And by a huge margin. Good for them .
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• Fearful Mexicans flee deadly city

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 625
  Download audio file (1103094.mp3) Download MP3 Juárez is Mexico’s deadliest city with 2,000 murders so far this year. Some residents are breaking the law to save their lives. They’re fleeing north to Texas on tourist visas and they intend to stay. Correspondent Monica Ortiz Uribe has the story.
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• Northern California federal prosecutor says they will continue to raid dispensaries, despite DOJ memo

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 444
  ( Mission Local ) The federal government will continue raids on medical marijuana operations in California despite guidelines issued by the Justice Department two weeks ago indicating the contrary. “I think it’s unfortunate that people have for some reason picked up on this as a change in policy, because ...
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• Calling bullshit on the drug war, in Britain

  
  South Of Heaven — Authority: 137
  The other day I posted about a British scientist who called bullshit on a government official who was exaggerating the dangers of marijuana and reclassified grass into a more dangerous category. Then the scientist was fired. Now other scientists are resigning and calling bullshit on the government . ...
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• Gagging the experts when discussing the war on drugs

  
  Dangerous Intersection — Authority: 139
  Jim Webb introduced a bill to “create a blue-ribbon commission to look at every aspect of our criminal justice system with an eye toward reshaping the process from top to bottom.” How shall we proceed? A recent amendment to Webb’s bill by Republican Senator Charles Grassley would bar the commission from ...
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