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After DEA's Drug Raid Horrors Erupt in Honduras, Human Rights Groups Demand Answers for Dead Innocents

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. May 23, 2012.

May 11th, Honduran police and DEA agents engaged in a disastrous series of heavy-handed tactics, mistakenly killing four innocent Hondurans before inspiring a machete-yielding mob.

Drug War Disaster: Student Busted for Pot Abandoned in Cell, Forced to Drink Own Urine to Survive

Staff, AFP. May 3, 2012.

After getting arrested for smoking marijuana on 4/20, 23-year-old Daniel Chong was forgotten in his cell for days, leaving him forced to drink his own urine.

How America's Sick Drug War Brought Death and Terror to Colombia

Dan Kovalik, Huffington Post. February 19, 2012.

The murder and "disappearance" of vast numbers of Colombians is part and parcel of the U.S.'s policy to "drain the sea [the civilian population] to kill the fish [the insurgents]."

Why is the Obama Administration Suddenly Fixated on Stomping out Medical Pot?

Paul Armentano, AlterNet. February 8, 2012.

At the same time public support for marijuana legalization reached record highs, Obama shifted from one time medicinal cannabis sympathizer to White House weed-whacker.

Why is the DEA Laundering Drug Money for Mexican Cartels?

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. December 5, 2011.

The DEA has moved hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug money across boarders, but high-risk anti-trafficking operations may not be as efficient as they aim to be.

As Pill Abuse and Deaths Intensified, The DEA Boosted Painkiller Supply

Guy Taylor, Salon. October 12, 2011.

An epidemic of Oxycodone abuse has struck America in the last decade, but as law enforcement locked up street pushers and corrupt doctors, the DEA gave Big Pharma the go-ahead.

Obama Wants a Bush Crony Appointed as a Top Drug Enforcer -- Reformers Push Hard to Change His Mind

Eric W. Dolan, Raw Story. July 25, 2010.

Under Michele Leonhart's administration, the DEA has raided a number of legal medical marijuana growers and dispensaries.

DEA Forced to Scrub Misleading Info on the American Medical Association's Position on Marijuana

Charmie Gholson, AlterNet. December 7, 2009.

Activists get the DEA to remove obsolete information from its website claiming that the American Medical Association (AMA) still opposes medical marijuana

Getting Real About the Economics of Cocaine

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.

Drinking Your Own Urine to Survive? Just One of the Millions of Drug War Atrocities

Drinking Your Own Urine to Survive? Just One of the Millions of Drug War Atrocities

Ethan Nadelmann, December 31, 1969.

What happened to Daniel Chong is an inevitable consequence of a war on drugs that arrests and detains millions of people for petty drug law violations.

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