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• Honduras anti-drugs chief killed

  
  Cop in the Hood — Authority: 127
  The BBC has the story.
  3 hours ago

• Drugs Funding Violence in Africa

  
  PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Authority: 138
  Via the BBC:  Africa drug trade fuelling terrorism and crime, says UN "It is scary that this new example of the links between drugs, crime and terrorism was discovered by chance," Mr Costa told the UN Security Council. He said 50 to 60 tonnes of cocaine were trafficked every year across West Africa while ...
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• A Dubious Record in Mexico’s Drug War

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 743
  By Ian Vasquez In 2008, there were some 6,300 drug war killings in Mexico, double that of the previous year. El Universal newspaper in Mexico reports that deaths related to the drug war have just surpassed 7,000 since the beginning of 2009, with more than 1000 of those homicides in the last 48 days. That’s a ...
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• Drugs Continue to Ravage Kentucky

  
  Cyberhillbilly — Authority: 116
  A sad reminder today from Buckhorn (Perry County), Kentucky that drugs are devastating large swaths of our Commonwealth. A snip from the Herald Leader story by Bill Estep (one of the few Herald Leader journalists who actually seems to get EKY, BTW): A man seeking prescription painkillers shot and killed a doctor at ...
  17 hours ago

• Onion: DEA Recruits Lil Wayne For War on Drugs

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 557
  [Video]
  21 hours ago

• 10 Signs the Failed Drug War Is Finally Ending

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 144
  From Alternet : 2009 will go down as the beginning of the end of America’s longest running war. Here’s 10 reasons why. 2009 will go down as the beginning of the end of the United States drug war. I have worked at the Drug Policy Alliance promoting alternatives to the war on drugs for 10 years, and I can ...
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• De facto decriminalisation of cannabis in NZ

  
  goNZo Freakpower Brains Trust — Authority: 423
  I missed this article by Mike Sabin at Voxy last week, where the anti-drugs campaigner bemoans a scheme that all but decriminalises cannabis possession : "Unfortunately, while the Police will be making the most of this new legislation, at the same time they are effectively waiving a white flag to the customers whose ...
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• Alcohol vs. marijuana

  
  Badtux the Snarky Penguin — Authority: 433
  Alcohol poisoning accounts for about 1,000 deaths per year in the USA, including several dozen under the age of 18 such as 15-year-old Sarah Botill. Marijuana poisoning accounts for... err... *0* deaths per year in the USA, probably because youd have to smoke around 40,000 joints in a 1 hour period or eat 1500 pounds ...
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• Euros become currency of drug cartels

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 545
  International drug cartels have abandoned the US dollar for high denomination euros to launder millions in illegal profits, Europol has revealed. The gangs no longer use $100 bills because €500 notes – the largest denomination of euro – take up less room when transporting large amounts of cash across the world. ...
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• Euros become currency of drug cartels

  
  NWOTruth — Authority: 145
  International drug cartels have abandoned the US dollar for high denomination euros to launder millions in illegal profits, Europol has revealed. The gangs no longer use $100 bills because €500 notes – the largest denomination of euro – take up less room when transporting large amounts of cash across the ...
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• Election Today in Bolivia

  
  PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Authority: 138
  Bolivia holds presidential elections today and I was contemplating a lengthy post on the subject, but have been too lazy to do so. However, I will still point interested readers to this piece at WaPo via Reuters:  Bolivia’s Morales seen cruising to re-election . I will say this:  there is little doubt that ...
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• The Secret to Legal Marijuana? Women

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 553
  From Alternet : Why women have signed onto marijuana reform — and why they could be the movement’s game-changers. In September, ladymag Marieclaire ruffled some feathers when it published a piece about women who smoke weed. But its most interesting effect was not the “marijuana moms” chatter it ...
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• In Memory of Marcellus Ward

  
  Cop in the Hood — Authority: 127
  Ward was killed 25 years ago. His assassination and last dying breaths were caught on tape and haunted the memory of many Baltimore police officers. At a memorial, held where Ward was killed, Commissioner Bealefeld said that it is "not for us to judge the results of his sacrifice." And certainly a memorial to slain ...
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• Uh, you dont have to go home but you cant stay here?

  
  Cop in the Hood — Authority: 127
  "Party is over, guys...." Maybe it wasnt such a good idea to invite the neighborhood drug dealers to your place to watch the game. The guests staying for three days , sold drugs out of his living room, and bound and tortured the guy by pouring boiling water and pennies over his naked body. Boiling pennies ?! ...
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• Painkiller crisis: Patients needlessly living and dying in pain

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 696
  Filed under: Health Patients in hospices and nursing homes are suffering needlessly because they cannot get pain medicines, medical care professionals say. The issue: A combination of regulatory changes, manufacturing snags and physicians reluctance to prescribe the drugs in light of a growing number of abuses of ...
  4 days ago

• Nullification at Work: Marijuana Law Advances in New Jersey

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 545
  Nullification at Work: Marijuana Law Advances in New Jersey By: Michael Boldin Source: Tenth Amendment Center Dec. 03, 2009 Skeptics of the 10th Amendment Movement will often say something to the effect of – “It’s all talk, the Supreme Court has already ruled against ...
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• Barack Obama Ecstasy Pills Hit Streets: Approval Ratings High

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 144
  From CBS News : President Barack Obama’s approval rating may be hovering in the 50 percent range, but that doesn’t mean America’s Commander-in-Chief isn’t catching on with new constituents. There is now a line of Ecstasy pills made in the image of the 44th president of the United States, according to ...
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• Liberty Rock Friday: “Prison Song” by SOAD

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 529
  Here’s a perfect song to complement my recent call to action to pass the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009 . System of a Down “Prison Song” Toxicity (2008) Written by: Tankian, Serj;Malakian, Daron;Odadjian, Shavarsh; and Dolmayan, John They’re trying to Build a prison They’re trying to ...
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• The Government’s “War” on Main Street

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 566
  The War on Poverty… the War on Drugs… the War on Terror… now we have the government’s “War” on Main Street. How to improve the economy and why the government is taking the exact opposite actions to destroy Main Street as a bad case of the “Seen and the Unseen” strikes the Lehigh Valley Originally ...
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• FM newswire for 4 December, hot articles for your morning reading

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 473
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom, with 7 sections of hot news.  Lot’s happening in the world today, mostly either overlooked or misinterpreted by the mainstream media.Links to interesting news and analysisAnother disproof to climate doomsterismA sitrep about from Europe about the swine flu ...
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