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Drug Activists Slam Obama's "New" Drug Policy

Stephen C. Webster, Raw Story. April 18, 2012.

The administration is prioritizing drug arrests and trampling on state medical marijuana laws while not doing enough to reduce the harms of drug addiction and misuse.

At Historic Summit, Obama Rejects Fed Up Latin American Leaders' Calls for Drug Legalization

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. April 16, 2012.

This Summit of the Americas will become an historic moment in the rapidly transforming, global drug policy debate.

'This Debate Will No Longer be Suppressed': Legalizing Drugs Breaks Into the Mainstream

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 9, 2012.

Latin American leaders are increasingly speaking out against prohibition. And public opinion in America, especially when it comes to legalizing pot, is shifting very rapidly.

Drug Policy Alliance vs. O’Reilly: Dealing with Drug Use in Our Society

Sophie Blumenthal, AlterNet. June 23, 2010.

Fox News has a hard time realizing that we should take the money that we are spending on prisons and use it to address issues related to child abuse.

The Beginning of the End of Marijuana Prohibition

Ethan Nadelmann, Change.org. February 16, 2010.

It's only a matter of time before marijuana is taxed, controlled, and regulated in the United States.

The Relentless War on Drug Users Is Escalating Violence in the US: It's Time for Harm Reduction

Don Hazen, AlterNet. November 14, 2009.

Hundreds gather in Albuquerque to celebrate a new dawn of wider acceptance of drug reform, while still feeling a little nervous about the path ahead.

Hey Progressives: Why Don't you Care About the "Drug War" Like You Care About Other Issues?

Ethan Nadelmann, AlterNet. June 12, 2009.

If the 500,000 nonviolent drug offenders in jail had white faces, would society allow it?

Colbert: Has the Drug War Gone on Long Enough?

Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report. May 1, 2009.

Colbert interviews Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance on the need for massive drug law reforms.

OK Barack, Time to Hit the Ground Running

AlterNetNovember 5, 2008.

Michael Ratner, John Cusack, Dahlia Lithwick, Roberto Lovato, Antonia Juhasz, Amie Newman, Dean Baker and many others on where we should go.