Tony Newman, AlterNet. September 5, 2009. Now that the climate for political candidates has eased on personal drug use, we should focus on punishing elected officials who still believe in the drug war.
Agence France Presse June 17, 2009. The Mexican Navy discovered the shipment, which contained a total of 893 kilos of cocaine stuffed inside some 30 sharks.
Phillip S. Smith, DRCNet. May 22, 2009. A new book traces the history of how just under 150 years, cocaine went from unknown to the multi-billion dollar illicit commodity it is today.
Mark Ames, eXiled Online. April 23, 2009. Why does Larry Kudlow still have a job? He's gotten everything wrong, and his irrational anti-Obama rants are truly borderline.
Tony Newman, AlterNet. March 30, 2009. The allegations about Ashley Biden offer her father a chance to join the millions who challenge the irrationality of our drug laws.
Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. December 12, 2008. New research shows sugar addiction is real. Lab rats coming off it exhibit some of the same behavior as junkies in need of a fix.
Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. January 9, 2008. Many prescription drugs have effects similar to those of illegal drugs. But we still view some users as criminals -- the others as patients.
Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority AlterNet: Video. December 27, 2007. Perhaps the reason why the CIA’s well-documented role in the global drug trade is never really acknowledged is because it never really ended.
Bill Piper, AlterNet. October 24, 2007. President Bush's plan for battling the war on drugs will only cost taxpayers dearly and make trafficking more profitable.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet: PEEK. December 20, 2006. Joshua Holland: Could there be a more counterproductive policy than the "source country" strategy in the "War on Drugs"?
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