Drug War Updates

New!! Special Report from the Drug Policy Alliance: Wasting Money, Wasting Lives: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Incarceration in New Jersey. Click here: http://www.drugpolicy.org/library/052808hiddencosts.cfm

The Renee Boje Case - a brief history and final outcome

Overdose Death Rate Surges, Legal Drugs Are Mostly to Blame

New TV program on the DEA: War on drugs a total bust

Making Pot Legal: We Can Do It -- Here's How

Poverty and the Drug Laws

After 30 Years, Nebraska Legislator Wants to Recriminalize Pot

Congress Needs to Act on Drug Sentences

Penalties for Crack - Washington Post editorial

New, Less Severe Federal Crack Cocaine Sentencing Guidelines Go Into Effect, But Will They Be Retroactive?

'Plan Mexico' Latest Front in Failed U.S. Drug war

Getting Real About the Economics of Cocaine

Rules Lower Prison Terms in Sentences for Crack

European approach to drugs: curing, not punishment

Crack Users Do More Time Than People Convicted of Manslaughter

For the latest study of the cots of pot prohibition go to this web site: http://www.drugscience.org/

10 Million Americans Busted for Pot

Getting Busted for Pot Can Cost Your Right to Vote

Drug War Failures in Afghanistan - a series of articles

Another gross injustice - grandmothers sent to prison on drug charge dies: 86-Year-Old Alva Mae Groves Dies Behind Bars

Review of Lies, Damned Lies and Drug War Statistics

The Futility of Random Drug Testing

New York Must Reform Its Racist Drug Laws

U.S., allies seen as losing drug war

Cops Planted Pot on 92-Year Old Woman They Killed in Botched Drug Raid

ACLU Releases Crack Cocaine Report

It's Been an 'All Out War' on Pot Smokers for 35 Years

Young people are the victims of the war on drugs

Meth myths explored in this latest study (see also my commentary for 8/3/06):

http://www.sentencingproject.org/pdfs/methamphetamine_report.pdf

DEA raids 11 marijuana outlets

Pregnant Drug Addicts Aren't Child Abusers

Marijuana Arrests at Record Level

Is is a crime to carry too much cash? Is carrying too much cash evidence of drug trafficking? Click on this recent court decision: http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/06/08/053295P.pdf

Seduction or good police work? Falmouth sting leaves a mark

Capitalism 101 on the streets of LA: Federal Inmate Accused of Directing LA Drug Sales

The Conviction That Keeps On Hurting -- Drug Offenders and Federal Benefits

Rise in Bribery Tests Integrity of US Border

Sentencing: No Retroactive Relief for Rockefeller Drug Law Prisoners, New York Appeals Court Rules

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/455/new_york_appeals_court_rejects_retroactive_relief_rockefeller_drug_law

Book Review: "Pot Politics: Marijuana and the Costs of Prohibition." http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/455/book_review_marijuana_and_the_costs_of_prohibition

Excellent web site: http://www.drugwardistortions.org/

Other Stories:

The long arm of the drug war

Double Standard in drug cases - the case of the "pot princess"

Seduction or good police work? Falmouth sting leaves a mark

Drug Free Zones

Mexico to Allow Use of Drugs

Denver Is First City to Legalize Small Amount of Pot - http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-pot3nov03,0,982226.story?coll=la-tot-promo&track=morenews

You Must Read This! Post-Hurricane: New Orleans Narcs Itching to Make More Busts

Marijuana Arrests Set New Record - http://www.mpp.org/releases/nr20051017.html

The War on Drugs: Addicted to Failure - Los Angeles Citizens' Commission on U.S. Drug Policy

http://www.ips-dc.org/projects/drugpolicy.htm

Ex-police chief speaks out: "Let those dopers be" - http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-legalize16oct16,0,3428942.story?track=hpmostemailedlink

Monitoring the Future's latest survey on adolescent drug use: http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/pubs/monographs/overview2004.pdf

Plan Colombia Fails to Stem Cocaine Supply

The flow of drugs to the U.S. raises questions about the two nations' war against narcotics.

New study by The Sentencing Project: "The War On Marijuana" http://www.sentencingproject.org/pdfs/waronmarijuana.pdf

Meth and Crack: Same Myth, Different Year - click here for several articles

War on pot continues: read "Smoked Out" - http://www.alternet.org/story/24690/

Drug War Run Amok: read this story and accompanying editorial:

Feature: PLUR Meets SWAT as Utah Cops Attack Electronic Dance Party http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/401/utah1.shtml

Editorial: A Tale of Two Cities http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/401/twocities.shtml

Read about the real dangerous drug, "Big Tobacco":

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=10&ItemID=8481

Two good stories about the drug war:

Milton Friedman, 500+ Economists Call for Marijuana Regulation Debate

War on Crime, Not on Drugs

For complete stories: http://www.prohibitioncosts.org/

Download complete report on PDF: http://www.prohibitioncosts.org/MironReport.pdf

The Lure of Opium Wealth Is a Potent Force in Afghanistan - Western officials warn of a nascent narco state as drug traffickers act with impunity, some allegedly with the support of top officials. For complete story: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-drugs29may29,0,3324290.story?coll=la-home-headlines

More Drug War Nonsense: http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/383/senselessness.shtml

See the following commentaries about this:

War on Drugs Shifts to War on Marijuana http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/385/shifted.shtml