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
After 30 Years, Nebraska Legislator Wants to Recriminalize Pot
Congress Needs to Act on Drug Sentences
Penalties for Crack - Washington Post editorial
'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/
Getting Busted for Pot Can Cost Your Right to Vote
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
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
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:
Double Standard in drug cases - the case of the "pot princess"
Seduction or good police work? Falmouth sting leaves a mark
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
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
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
Drug War Clock: Daily up-date on the war on drugs.
Drug Law Timelines - two web sites for historical information.
http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/history/history_article2.shtml
http://www.digthatcrazyfarout.com/gpd/MarijuanaTimeline.html
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/drg09.htm
Drug War Run Amok: The Rene Boje Case
http://www.alternet.org/story/21674/
My commentaries: war on drugs
Pot Laws Pain Some Elders: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oldpot28apr28,0,5823482.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Marijuana Research Grow Effort Heads for DEA Hearing