war on drugs

Drug-related convictions account for nearly half of federal prisoners I'm surprised that almost 88% plead guilty. Is that number similar to other courts for drug crimes? http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/07/drug_offenses_fuel_majority_of.html

From the front lines of our government's morally righteous and ultimately winnable War On Drugs: When a psycho goes on a rampage with a gun, we hear a lot of cries of "not one more!" and calls for increased gun control. But when a SWAT team throws a flash grenade into a toddler's crib in a 3...

Via the Boston Herald: I'd say that Leonhart should be fired for insubordination, but an even better decision would be to disband the DEA altogether.

From the front line on America's War On Drugs, via Reason: From there it gets much, much worse. The cops took him to the nearest emergency room, where a doctor refused to perform the search. So the cops took him to a different hospital, in a different county, where without Eckert's consent...

How is this justified, given the number of times the kid refused?

Heard about this book by Radley Balko on a podcast I listen to: Common Sense by Dan Carlin (Show 232 - Fearsome Safety). It seems to be available for free online: Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America An excerpt from the first page of the introduction: The book is full...

23 year old Daniel Chong was arrested by the DEA at a "4/20 party". After he was informed that no charges would be pressed and he was free to leave, he was locked in a cell for five days. Chong's pleas for food, water, and help were ignored. In desperation, Chong drank his own urine. He...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/us-drug-policy-war-congress_n_998993.html Surely this should be struck out on 1st amendment rights. "Hey, while we're in Europe, let's pop over the border to Holland and have a couple of joints" 10 years in the slammer.

Well the genius at the helm of the Western Australian parliament has come up with a grand idea. Let's increase penalties for cannabis possession, use and cultivation, as well as distribution of smoking implements to minors, by a full order of magnitude shall we? So a $200 fine for possession of...

Recent post on the CBS website about Global Commission Report who reports that the War on Drugs has failed. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/02/501364/main20068210.shtml?tag=mncol;lst;1 You can even download the report here...

Marine Survives 2 Tours in Iraq -- SWAT Kills Him When will the madness end?

Holder promises to enforce U.S. drug laws if Prop. 19 passes Obama administration blasts state's pot measure Madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Reports over the weekend: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128315848&ft=1&f=1001 Of the seizure of a 100-foot long, diesel/electric submarine by Ecuadorian police acting on a DEA tip. According to the article, the vessel would have been capable of extended ocean voyages...

For the non-Dutchies: Liberal means right-leaning pro-business in these parts. Frits Bolkestein is one of the most important party leaders of the last twenty years and has been instrumental in moving the liberal party to the right in the nineties. Link these days I have the feeling that ending...

Ouch... AP IMPACT: US drug war has met none of its goals One can only hope that the powers-that-be will clue in and realize that Drub Prohibition is a colossal waste of time, lives, and resources, and it's no longer worth pandering to the moral crusaders who view drugs as...

More insanity from the front on the War On Drugs: here's a recently released video of a raid that took place in a private home in Columbia, MO in February 2010. A heavily armed SWAT team burst into a home where a seven year old child was present and shot the family's two dogs. The crime? They...

The so called War on Drugs is a sham. It has accomplished precisely nothing; drugs are as plentiful as ever. Untold billions of dollars wasted and millions of lives ruined for precisely nothing. The best thing that our country could do about drugs, both morally and pragmatically is end their...

The Panama Deception (1992) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-446387292666223710&ei=P67rSae3ApCu-QGqv7HaCg&q=panama+deception&emb=1 Does everyone here remember the invasion of Panama? Remember Maximum Dictator Manuel Noriega? This all happened just before the Internet started. Learn...

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96FHJJ80&show_article=1 With this girl's help, the cops found one gram of pot. To put this in perspective, a penny weighs about 2.5 grams. The people at DARE must be very proud.

Warrior in Drug Fight Soon Becomes a Victim How did these drug cartels get so powerful and brazen? Can they be stopped? Is the war on drugs worth the cost? Say what you want about the companies that produce legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco, but they are much more benign than this.

Very interesting article. I'm starting to think that oil may not have been the only reason we invaded Afghanistan. http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=9fdb92c0-eeb8-4d2d-9e1a-1609b0e2fbee If they wanted to win the war in afghanistan by bankrupting the warlords and the...

Let me preface this with the fact that I don't do any illegal drugs at all. I drink alcohol rarely. I don't smoke, I don't even drink coffee. That being said, here's my question. Sorry for the length. Okay, there has been several threads dancing around this issue, and it may be a stupid...

http://www.rttnews.com/Content/PoliticalNews.aspx?Node=B1&Id=680036 Rebuttal from Special Agent Michael Sanders of the DEA: Yes, but the reason law enforcement is dying over this stuff, is because of the drug prohibition in the first place! If, as Nader suggests, law enforcement focused on...

The ACLU has teamed with travel writer Rick Steves to produce "Marijuana: It's Time for a Conversation," a half-hour TV program about the history and current impacts of marijuana laws. The program is available to Comcast cable subscribers in western Washington, but local network stations have...

I learned something new reading this article. I experimented with drugs in my youth, but don’t take any anymore. So learning about this new way to sidestep the drug laws was a bit of a revelation to me. I mean I’d heard of people abusing prescription meds, but it never occurred to me that some...

Some food for thought on the question of whether or not emotion drugs (marijuana, cocaine, Ecstasy, and so forth) should be legalized . . . For y'all's consideration. ON THE INFLUENCE OF EMOTION DRUGS ON HISTORY by Jeffrey A. Corkern In the early 1500's, the Spanish culture landed in the...

The Lost War is an excellent article that reveals how futile and counterproductive the so-called "War on Drugs" is. This is not to suggest that illicit drugs or drug addiction are harmless, but rather that our punative approach to dealing with them causes more harm than it prevents. Simply put...

This Washington Post article is a perfect example of why the War on Drugs does much more harm than good. First the article: Drugs such as opium, heroin and cocaine are bad, and the best advice is to never take these drugs. If the "war on drugs" actually worked by effectively preventing...

U.S. Congressman block funding for anti-heroin battle in Afghanistan using old helicopters as an excuse while on the same day Jack Straw (U.K) pledges 52 million pounds for the project. The congressman know full well that Rumsfield is opposed to any use of military resources for this purpose...

Remember Tulia (The racist drug bust)? Well, looks like they're all going free! http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/page1/1847867 Anyone? Comments?