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Drug War News: Don't Miss Archive 2008
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Latest News: December 2008
- Locked
Up for Life: The Case of Clarence Aaron;
from Fox News (US), Dec 2008
- Little
Blue Pills Among The Ways CIA Wins Friends In Afghanistan; from
Washington Post (DC), 12/26/08
- 101
and Losing Her Home; from Post-Standard (NY), 12/25/08
- OpEd:
Pardons Can Right System's Wrongs; from Mountain View Telegraph
(NM), 12/25/08
- Ohio
Bill Seeks To Ease Prison Crowding; from Akron Beacon Journal
(OH), 12/18/08
- Could
Obama's Pro-Marijuana Commerce Secretary Spell a Golden Era for
Pot Reform? from AlterNet (US), 12/18/08
- Children Forced Into Cell-Like School Seclusion Rooms;
from CNN (US), 12/17/08
- Black
Women Struggle in Criminal Justice System; from TruthOut
(US), 12/13/08
- Girl Handing Out Cough Drops Accused Of Selling Drugs
At School; from News4Jax.com (FL), 12/16/08
- Federal
Law Does Not Trump State Laws On Medical Marijuana; from DrugSense
Weekly (US), 12/12/08
- Woman Charged With Killing FBI Agent in Drug Raid;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 12/12/08
- CIA
Helped Shoot Down 15 Civilian Planes; from TruthOut (US),
12/11/08
- OpEd:
Arrests Can't Win Nation's Drug War; from Arizona Republic
(AZ), 12/5/08
- The
Price Of Justice; from The Monitor (TX), 12/7/08
- Column:
Waging War Against Drug Laws; from Spokesman Review (WA),
12/5/08
- OpEd:
Let's End Drug Prohibition; from Wall Street Journal (US),
12/5/08
- State
Universities vs. State Prisons; and Marijuana Legalization as
a Solution; from Informed Comment (US), 12/4/08
- US
Mulls Unusual Drug War Tactic as Blackwater Charges Loom; from
TruthOut (US), 12/4/08
- Mexico
Drug Cartels Send A Message Of Chaos, Death; from Washington
Post (DC), 12/4/08
- FBI
Agents Stage Sting To Snare Corrupt Ill. Cops; from Associated
Press (US), 12/3/08
- Repeal
Day Serves as Reminder of the Folly of Our Drug Laws; from FOX
News (US), 12/1/08
- Column:
Losing The War; from Minnesota Daily (MN), 11/30/08
- 27
Years In Prison For A Nonviolent Offense; from AlterNet
(US), 11/26/08
- Obama's
Drug Czar Pick: Will We Ever Get Past Having a War on Drugs?
from AlterNet (US), 11/25/08
- OpEd:
From My Cell I Scent The Reeking Soul Of US Justice; from Sunday
Times (UK), 11/23/08
Latest News: November 2008
- "Think Outside The Cell" Writing Contest; from Resilience Multimedia (US), 11/10/08
- Disposable
Youth In A Suspect Society; from Truthout (US), 11/25/08
- Bush
Issues 14 Pardons And Commutes 2 Sentences; from New York
Times (NY), 11/25/08
- CIA,
Heroin Still Rule Day in Afghanistan; from Intel Daily
(US), 11/24/08
- From Florida Cell, Conrad Black Rails Against U.S.
Prison Rates; from Globe & Mail (CAN), 11/24/08
- OpEd:
It's Time To Revisit War On Drugs; from Santa Ynez Valley
Journal (CA), 11/20/08
- Obama's Appointees Raise Questions in the Drug Reform
Community; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 11/21/08
- CIA Faulted In Shooting Down Of Missionary Plane;
from Reuters (US), 11/20/08
- Special Report / Series: Drugs
Uncovered;
from The Observer/Guardian (UK), Nov 2008
- The Right To Counsel Vs The Need To Bar Tainted Legal
Fee; from Wall Street Journal (US), 11/20/08
- A
Toke A Day Keeps Memory Loss At Bay; from Globe and Mail
(Canada), 11/20/08
- Vancouver's Radical Approach To Drugs: Let Addicts
Be Addicts; from AlterNet (US), 11/18/08
- OpEd: Saving Lives And Billions Of Dollars; from San
Diego Union Tribune (CA), 11/17/08
- Looking
Forward: The Prospects for Drug Reform in Obama's Washington;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 11/14/08
- Prescription
Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans than Illegal Drugs; from
RINF.com (US), 11/10/08
- In
Latin America, Leftist Leaders Evict Us Drug Warriors; from Christian
Science Monitor (US), 11/10/08
- Column: Bush Should Commute Sentence Of Clarence Aaron;
from San Francisco Chronicle (CA), 11/9/08
- Column:
Question 2 Landslide Opens Drug Policy Debate; from Milford
Daily News (MA), 11/9/08
- Citing Workload, Public Lawyers Reject New Cases;
from New York Times (NY), 11/9/08
- Sentencing
Reform Initiative Defeated in California, "Tough on Crime"
Initiatives Win in Oregon; from from Drug War Chronicle
(US), 11/7/08
- Big
Day for Pot -- Decriminalization Wins in Massachusetts, Medical
Marijuana in Michigan, All Local Initiatives Win, Too! from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 11/7/08
- Column:
OBAMAJUANA; from Sacramento News & Review (CA), 11/6/08
- Prop.
5 vs. The Prison-Industrial Complex; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 11/3/08
- OpEd:
Jail Overpopulation Cries Out For Mercy; from Spokesman-Review
(WA), 11/4/08
- Mexico:
Tijuana's Children Face Wave Of Violence; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 11/2/08
- California's Prop. 5 Could Change The Course Of America's
Drug War; from AlterNet (US), 11/1/08
- Bolivia's
Morales Bars "Spying" U.S. DEA Agents; from Reuters
(US), 11/1/08
- Atlanta Officer Enters Guilty Plea In Deadly Raid;
from Macon Telegraph (GA), 10/30/08
- Free Days For Richard Paey;
from Tampa Bay Online (FL), 11/1/08 -- More
on Richard Paey
Latest News: October 2008
- State
Drug Policy Reform and Sentencing Initiatives on the November
Ballot; from Drug War Chronicle
(US), 10/3/08
- [Mexico's
Drug War] The Age Of Innocents; from Newsweek (US), 10/25/08
- Take
Handcuffs Off The Economic Recovery; from DrugSense Weekly
(US), 10/24/08
- OpEd:
To Jail Or Not Jail For Drug Relapse? from AlterNet (US),
10/21/08
- Budget
Cutting? Take A Hatchet To The War On Drugs; from Salon.com
(US), 10/20/08
- Activists Protest Immigrant Prisons in Georgia; from
Atlanta Progressive News (GA), 10/18/08
- The
War on Pot Is a War on Young People; from AlterNet (US),
10/17/08
- OpEd: Mandatory Minimums Unjust -- And They Don't
Work; from Buffalo News (NY), 10/17/08
- Pain
Treatment: Millions Suffer Unnecessarily From Lack Of Medications;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 10/17/08
- Prison
Guards' Union Drops Campaign To Recall Schwarzenegger; from Los
Angeles Times (CA), 10/17/08
- Courts
Give Addicts a Chance to Straighten Out; from New York Times
(NY), 10/15/08
- As the Violence Soars, Mexico Signals It's Had Enough
of America's Stupid War on Drugs; from AlterNet (US),
10/14/08
- MI:
U.S. Deputy Drug Czar Says Proposal 1 Is 'About Dope, Not About
Medicine'; from Grand Rapids Press (MI), 10/14/08
- OR:
Measures Would Swell State Prisons; from Statesman Journal
(OR), 10/13/08
- Drug Policy and the Reform Vote in the Presidential
Race; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 10/10/08
- Progressive Voter Guide to Drug
Issues; from AlterNet, 10/10/08
- Column:
The War On Drugs Is A Bust; from Ottawa Citizen (CN ON),
10/8/08
- Why
We Couldn't Save Nicole; from Washington Post (DC), 10/7/08
- New
York Drug Law Repeal Urged; from Times-Union (NY), 10/5/08
- Column:
A Move Toward Rational Drug Laws; from The Times (NJ),
10/6/08
- Border Bloodshed Likely To Worsen, Experts Warn; from
San Diego Union Tribune (CA), 10/5/08
- Drug
Policy Reform and Sentencing Initiatives on the November Ballot;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 10/3/08
- Mexican
President Proposes Decriminalizing Some Drugs; from New York
Times (NY), 10/3/08
- Jail
Junkies; from Willamette Week (OR), 10/1/08
- The
House of Death; from Reason Magazine (US), 9/30/08
Latest News: September 2008
- Mexico
Reels As Killings Abound; from Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(GA), 9/28/08
- The War
We Won't Talk About; from DrugSense Weekly (US), 9/26/08
- Poll Finds
Broad Support for Doing Away with Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
for Nonviolent Offenders; from Drug War Chronicle (US),
9/26/08
- Column:
What Is Law Enforcement Smoking To Oppose Question 2? from Standard-Times
(MA), 9/20/08
- Proposition
5 Fuels Debate Between Groups; from Daily Aztec (CA Edu),
9/18/08
- Column:
Prohibition Of Sanity; from Cornell Daily Sun (NY Edu),
9/17/08
- OpEd:
Police Shouldn't Profit From Drug Raids; from Birmingham News
(AL), 9/14/08
- Utah
Record Producer Wants 55-Year Firearms Sentence Cut; from Salt
Lake Tribune (UT), 9/15/08
- Youths'
Drug Of Choice? Prescription; from Los Angeles Times (CA),
9/15/08
- Column:
Judge Says Feds Violated 10th Amendment By Subverting State Marijuana
Laws; from Times-Standard (CA), 9/14/08
- Battle
Over California's Nonviolent Offender Recovery Act (NORA) Initiative
Begins to Heat Up; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 9/12/08
- Did McCain
Tamper With the Drug Enforcement Agency to Protect His Career?
from AlterNet (US), 9/12/08
- Bob Barr:
Rethinking The Government's War On Drugs; from SmallGovTimes.com
(US), 9/11/08
- Changing
Perspective: Students For Sensible Drug Policy; from Collegiate
Times (VA), 9/10/08
- OpEd:
America's 'Prison State' Mentality; from Washington Post
(DC), 9/9/08
- Prison
Guards Move To Recall Schwarzenegger; from San Francisco Gate
(CA), 9/9/08
- Popularity
Of A Hallucinogen May Thwart Its Medical Uses; from New York
Times (NY), 9/9/08
- Second
Thoughts And A New Pot Trial? from Modesto Bee (CA), 9/8/08
- U.S.
Sentencing Panel To Focus On Alternatives To Jail; from Wall
Street Journal (US), 9/6/08
- Column:
Who'll Lead On Drugs, Bloated Prisons? from Seattle Times
(WA), 9/5/08
- Editorial:
I Don't Have A Dog In This Fight: Failed 37 Year War On Drugs;
from Freedom's Phoenix (US), 9/4/08
- Ottawa's
Gang Problem -- If There Is One -- Won't Be; from Ottawa Citizen
(CN ON), 9/6/08
- Column:
Tough On Crime Can Be Pretty Tough On Children; from Ottawa
Citizen (CN ON), 8/30/08
- The Drug
War's Assault on Liberty; from Foundation for Economic Education
(US), Aug 2000
- Editorial:
The Deeply Broken American Police System; from FireDogLake.com
(US), 9/3/08
- Despite
U.S. Aid, Coca Cultivation On Rise In Andes; from Washington
Post (DC), 9/3/08
- Props.
5 And 8 Will Make Waves Nationally; from Sacramento Bee
(CA), 9/2/08
- Slavery
Haunts America's Plantation Prisons; from Truthout (US),
8/28/08
- OpEd:
Addiction Doesn't Discriminate? Wrong; from New York Times
(NY), 9/1/08
- Drug War
Bodies Are Piling Up In Mexico; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 8/30/08
- Bolivian
Is An Uneasy Ally As U.S. Presses Drug War; from New York
Times (NY), 8/28/08
Latest News: August 2008
- Slammed: The Coming Prison
Meltdown; A Mother Jones Magazine
Special Issue, Jul/Aug 2008
- Editorial:
Losing Endless War On Drugs; from The Gazette (CO), 8/25/08
- New
Challenge In Drug War: Semi-Subs At $2 Million Apiece; from Christian
Science Monitor (US), 8/25/08
- Plan Goes
Awry For Anti-Drug 'Ninjas'; from Star-Ledger (NJ), 8/22/08
- Juror Becomes
Fly in the Ointment; from CATO Institute (US), 8/14/08
- Federal
Overseer Seeks to Seize $8 Billion for California Prison Health
Care; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 8/14/08
- OpEd:
Drug War Madness; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 8/11/08
- What
Will The Candidates Do To End The Unwinnable War On Drugs? from
Huffington Post (US), 8/10/08
- Fingerprints
Now Used To Find Drugs, Explosives; from Associated Press
(US), 8/7/08
- [Med
MJ]: Guilty On All Charges; from New Times (CA), 8/7/08
- Drug
Czar Visits Tulare Pot Site; from Fresno Bee (CA), 8/6/08
- Juveniles
Don't Belong in Adult Prisons; from Huffington Post (US),
8/4/08
- Pointing
To Drug Law Hypocrisy, Pro-Pot Group Labels Cindy McCain 'Dealer';
from Raw Story (US), 8/5/08
- Deleted
Photo Sparks Fears DEA Hiring Mercenaries; from Raw Story
(US), 8/4/08
- Column:
Dumb Drug Policies Enrich Criminals; from Chronicle Herald
(CN NS), 8/3/08
- Hollywood
Milks Stoner Stereotypes In Anti-Pot Propaganda Film; from AlterNet
(US Web), 8/1/08
Latest News: July 2008
- Legislators
Aim To Snuff Out Penalties For Pot Use; from CNN.com (US),
7/30/08
- All-White
Jury Seated In Cop's Shooting Trial; from Lima News (OH),
7/29/08
- OpEd:
The Politics Of Punishment; from Toronto Star (CN ON),
7/26/08
- Column:
American History -- You Think Slavery Ended In 1865? from Miami
Herald (FL), 7/23/08
- Slammed:
Welcome To The Age Of Incarceration; from Mother Jones Magazine
(US), Jul/Aug 2008
- End Asset
Forfeiture; from Downsize-DC (US), 7/23/08
- Has
'Mass Incarceration' Failed? from Toronto Star (CN ON),
7/23/08
- The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández,
from PBS-TV, July 2008
- Guarded
Hope: Lessons From The History Of The Prison Boom; from Boston
Review (MA), Jul/Aug 2008
- Reentry:
Reversing Mass Imprisonment; from Boston Review (MA),
Jul/Aug 2008
- No Further
Harm: What We Owe To Incarcerated Fathers; from Boston Review
(MA), Jul/Aug 2008
- Beyond
2008: Global Civil Society Tells the UN It's Time to Fix International
Drug Policy; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 7/18/08
- Column:
The Fly on the Elephant; from Ottawa Citizen (CN ON),
7/18/08
- A Mother
Hopes For Clemency, And To Open Minds On Prisons; from Detroit
Free Press (MI), 7/14/08
- Mexican
Citizens in Cross Hairs of Drug War Mayhem; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 7/16/08
- The
Failure of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; from Huffington
Post (US), 7/14/08
- Column:
35 Years Of Drug War Failure; from Tribune Review (PA),
7/13/08
- Editorial:
Get-Tough Policies Cause More Crime, Deny Inmates a Future; from
Detroit Free Press (MI), 7/13/08
- Editorial:
Prison Games; from Vacaville Reporter (CA), 7/13/08
- Hidden
Costs: Communities Pay For High Prison Rate; from Wall Street
Journal (US), 7/10/08
- Critics:
Prison Labor Hurts Free-World Jobs; from Houston Chronicle
(TX), 7/6/08
- The New
York City Mob (Not the Gambinos. NYPD); from Reason Online
(US), 7/3/08
- OpEd:
This Is The U.S. On Drugs; from Los Angeles Times (CA),
7/5/08
- Police
Attack Rainbow Family Gathering in Wyoming; from Jackson Hole
Star-Tribune (WY), 7/5/08
- Opinion:
How Dare They Rip the Fourth Amendment? from Truthout
(US), 7/4/08
- Column:
America's Unwinnable War On Drugs; from Reuters (US),
7/3/08
- Reforming
Juvenile Injustice; from Huffington Post (US), 7/2/08
- Semi-Subs,
Used To Carry Drugs, May Be Outlawed; from Tampa Tribune
(FL), 6/27/08
- Column: Militarizing
Mexico -- The New War on Drugs; from Foreign Policy In Focus
(US), 7/12/07
- Editorial:
Not Winning The War On Drugs; from New York Times (NY),
7/2/08
- Column:
As Fires Rage, The Law Protects Us From Marijuana; from Sacramento
Bee (CA), 7/1/08
- Drug
Arrests Were Real; The Badge Was Fake; from New York Times
(NY), 7/1/08
- How
Long Does An Experiment Need To Continue Before It's Declared
A Failure? from AlterNet (US), 6/30/08
- Do
More Prisoners Equal Less Crime? A Response to George Will; from
The Sentencing Project (US), Jun 2008
Latest News: June 2008
- Drug
War On Moms; from Los Angeles Daily News (CA), 6/29/08
- Unlikely
Allies on a Former Wedge Issue; from New York Times (NY),
6/28/08
- Column:
Just Filling Prisons Won't Make Us Safer; from Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(GA), 6/29/08
- OpEd:
Drug War Needs Practical Approach; from Battle Creek Enquirer
(MI), 6/24/08
- Feds
Storm 25 Locations In Humboldt County Drug Raids; from Eureka
Reporter (CA), 6/25/08
- Column:
Wounds You Can't See; from New York Times (NY), 6/24/08
- One Big
Drug Test: Analyzing A City's Sewage Can Put A Number On Its
Vices; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 6/22/08
- Law Enforcement:
SWAT Run Amok; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 6/20/08
- US Drug
Policies Flawed and Failed, Experts Tell Congressional Committee;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 6/20/08
- Schoolboy
Hacker Omar Khan Who Upped His Grades Faces 38 Years In Jail;
from The Times (UK), 6/19/08
- Testimony
Begins In Fatal Marijuana Shoot-Out At Motel; from Chico Enterprise-Record
(CA), 6/19/08
- A High
Price To Pay For Integrity; Interview With [CA Prison Guard]
Donald J. Vodicka; from Associated Content (US), 6/17/08
- OpEd: Legalize
All Drugs, By John Stossel; from RealClearPolitics (US),
6/17/08
- Editorial:
The Failing War On Drugs; from New Statesman (UK), 6/17/08
- Gallatin
County Sheriff Won't Send Inmates To Hardin Jail; from Billings
Gazette (MT), 6/17/08
- Political
Comedian/Activist Randy Credico Arrested Documenting Marijuana
Arrests; from Huffington Post (US), 6/13/08
- Arming
The Drug Wars; from Condé Nast Portfolio (US),
July 2008
- OpEd:
Legalization Would End Drug War In Mexico, World; from Arizona
Republic (US), 6/17/08
- Feds Farm
Out Imprisoned Slaves To Make Corporations Rich; from InfoWars.com
(US), 6/15/08
- A Grandfather
Looks Back on 40 Years of Happy Pot Smoking; from AlterNet
(US), 6/15/08
- Legal
Drugs Kill Far More Than Illegal, Florida Finds; from Star-Banner
(FL), 6/14/08
- Supreme
Court: Detainees Have Habeas Corpus Right; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 6/13/08
- Western
Hemisphere's Only Heroin Maintenance Program Coming to an End;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 6/13/08
- Truthout
Original: Plan Mexico; from Truthout (US), 6/13/08
- New Criminal
Record: 7.2 Million; from Washington Post (DC), 6/12/08
- Granholm
Commutes Clarkston Man's Drug Sentence; from Detroit Free
Press (MI), 6/11/08
- Taser
Suffers a Rare Loss in Court; from New York Times (NY),
6/10/08
- [Obama]
Opening Shot In The Battle Over Crime; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 6/8/08
- Cannabis
Crusaders; from Aspen Daily News (CO), 6/8/08
- [War
On Drugs] Blackwater's Private Spies; from The Nation
(US), 6/5/08
- Ruling
Favors Governor On Prison Transfers; from San Francisco Chronicle
(CA), 6/5/08
- Grand
Jury Ups the Charges Against Ryan Frederick, Indicts; from Reason
Online (US), 6/4/08
- DC
Checkpoint Plan Latest 'Police State' Tactic; from Raw Story
(US Web), 6/4/08
- Beaten
In Raid, Man Gets $350G; from Asbury Park Press (NJ),
6/3/08
- Supreme
Court Limits Money Laundering Law; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 6/3/08
- Editorial:
Real Government Waste -- Mandatory Sentences; from Press of
Atlantic City (NJ), 6/1/08
- [Mexico's]
Drug War Has Many Players; from El Paso Times (TX), 6/1/08
- OpEd:
Michigan Court -- OK For Police Drug Dogs To Sniff Around Your
Home; from Death By 1000 Papercuts (US Web), May 08
- Column:
Drug War In Mexico A Waste Of Lives, Cash; from Arizona Republic
(AZ), 6/1/08
- Column:
An Irrational And Stupid Drug Policy; from Ottawa Citizen
(CN ON), 5/31/08
- Column:
A Home For A Drug Pillar Orphan; from Vancouver Sun (CN
BC), 5/31/08
- Drop the
Rock and Assembly Mark 35 Years of Drug Law Injustice; from Correctional
Association (NY), May 08
Latest News: May 2008
- Summer's
Here and the Time is Right for... Getting Busted Going to the
Festival; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 5/30/08
- Ryan
Frederick's Preliminary Hearing; from Reason (US), 5/28/08
- Column:
Some Are Driven To Crime By Economic Desperation; from Florida
Times-Union (FL), 5/26/08
- Column:
Drug-Trade In Mexico Kept Alive By U.S. Demand; from Denver
Post (CO), 5/24/08
- Officer
In Fatal '06 Raid Guilty Of One Charge; from Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(GA), 5/21/08
- OpEd:
Ending The Losing 'War On Drugs'; from Weston Town Crier
(MA), 5/22/08
- Highway
Robbery; from Texas Observer (TX), 5/16/08
- Crowding
Forces Prisoners Into Makeshift Sleeping Areas; from New York
Times (NY), 5/19/08
- Jury
Deadlocked Over Cop's Role In Fatal Drug Raid; from Atlanta
Journal-Constitution (GA), 5/19/08
- Psychologist:
Taser Int'l Has 'Brainwashed' Officers; from Canadian Press
(CAN), 5/13/08
- 'Little
Old Granny' A Trend In Drug Traffickers' Trade; from Greensboro
News & Record (NC), 5/16/08
- How Pot
Became Demonized; from AlterNet (US Web), 5/13/08
- Column:
SDSU Drug Raid: Bogus Sensationalism At Students' Expense; from
Daily Aztec (CA Edu), 5/13/08
- Schwarzenegger
Drops Plan For Early Release Of 22,000 Inmates; from Sacramento
Bee (CA), 5/13/08
- High
Court Overturns Mother's Conviction; from Sun News (SC),
5/13/08
- Justice
Taps New Pardon Attorney; from Associated Press (US),
4/28/08
- Column:
The U.S. Role In A Mexico Assassination; from Wall Street
Journal (US), 5/12/08
- Views
Vary At Hearing On [NY] State Drug Laws; from Newsday
(NY), 5/9/08
- Medical
Marijuana: House Judiciary Chair Calls Out DEA on California
Raids; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 5/9/08
- Ecstasy
Is the Key to Treating PTSD; from Sunday Times (UK), 5/4/08
- Federal
Prison Industries Program Expects To Lose Millions In Sales;
from Federal Times (US), 5/8/08
- [Kathryn
Johnston] Court Focuses On Botched Raid, Death; from Atlanta
Journal-Constitution (GA), 5/5/08
- Rally For
Freedom: Strangers Join Drive Seeking Commutation For Escapee;
from Detroit News (US), 5/7/08
- U.S. Prison
Policy Needs Reform; from Forbes.com (US), 5/6/08
- Fiscal
Pressures Lead Some States to Free Inmates Early; from Washington
Post (DC), 5/5/08
- Dallas
County District Attorney Wants Unethical Prosecutors Punished;
from Dallas Morning News (TX), 5/4/08
- Tougher
Immigration Laws Turn The Ailing Private Prison Sector Into A
Revenue Maker; from San Diego Union-Tribune (CA), 5/4/08
- U.S.
Drug Policy A Total Failure, Say Users And Experts; from Deseret
Morning News (UT), 5/4/08
- In
Mexico's Drug Heartland, A Debate on Alternatives to the Drug
War Takes Place; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 5/2/08
- In Mexico,
Opposition to Plan Merida Emerges; from Drug War Chronicle
(US), 5/2/08
- Outcry
Over Halfway House; from Saginaw News (MI), 4/28/08
Latest News: April 2008
- President
Signs HR 1593 (2nd Chance Act) Into Law;
4/10/08 -- (Full Bill text, as
passed, available here -- pdf)
- Anti-Drug
Task Force Funding Leads to Police Corruption and Destruction
of Lives; from Huffington Post (US), 4/29/08
- Outcome
of NYPD [Sean Bell] Case Leads to Call for Special Prosecutor;
from Associated Press (US), 4/27/07
- DARE
Officer Charged In Drug Case At School; Heard Audio Of Undercover
Operation; from Town Talk (LA), 4/25/08
- Dust-Up:
Drug Policy, From Scratch; from Los Angeles Times (CA),
4/25/08
- America's
Gulag Just Keeps Growing; from AlterNet (US), 4/25/08
- Canada's
Drug Crime Bill Brings Calls For Caution From U.S.; from National
Post (Canada), 4/25/08
- Dust-Up:
Blood Weed; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 4/24/08
- OpEd:
'War On Drugs' Cloaks Oppression; from Badger Herald (WI
Edu), 4/23/08
- Dust-Up:
'Gateway' To Washington; from Los Angeles Times (CA),
4/23/08
- Inmate
Count In U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations; from New York Times
(NY), 4/23/08
- Dust-Up:
Raiding States' Rights?; from Los Angeles Times (CA),
4/22/08
- Dust-Up:
America On Drugs; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 4/21/08
- 2 Killed,
5 Hurt In USP Florence Prison Brawl; from Denver Post
(CO), 4/21/08
- America's
Prison Society; from Washington Post (DC), 4/20/08
- Cold
As ICE: A Story Of Family Values; from Houston Chronicle
(TX), 4/20/08
- A Painful
Choice For Moms In Prison; from San Jose Mercury News
(CA), 4/18/08
- Interview:
This Is Your Country On Drugs; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 4/17/08
- Editorial:
Costly Prison Healthcare; from Los Angeles Times (CA),
4/17/08
- OpEd:
Increasingly Militarized 'Drug War' Has Skewed Police Priorities;
from Ann Arbor News (MI), 4/16/08
- Feds To
Collect DNA From Every Person They Arrest; from Associated
Press (US), 4/16/08
- Idiotic
School Ban On Candy Mirrors Stupidity Of Drug Prohibition; from
AlterNet (US Web), 4/14/08
- Clinton
Crime Agenda Ignores Proven Methods for Reducing Crime; from
Justice Policy Institute (US), 4/14/08
- Drug
Sanity, by Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke; from New Republic (US),
4/14/08
- OpEd:
The War On Drugs Is A War On Our Youth; from Roanoke Times
(VA), 4/12/08
- OpEd:
The War On Drugs Is A War Against America; from The Record
(Harvard Law School, MA), 4/10/08
- Feds Request
Gag Order In 'Pill Mill' Prosecution; from Topeka Capital-Journal
(KS), 4/8/08
- The School
Crotch Inspector; from Reason Magazine, 4/2/08
- Ex-Border-Guard
Gets Jail Time, Supervised Release; from Vancouver Sun
(CN BC), 4/8/08
- TV Shows
Detroit's War On Drugs; from Michigan Daily (MI), 4/7/08
- Playing
The Con Game; from Tampa Tribune (FL), 4/6/08
- FCC
Beaumont: Hardcore Cons Move Out; from The Enterprise
(TX), 4/6/08
- SC
Attorney General Proposes Alternative Court For Nonviolent Crimes;
from Associated Press (US), 4/6/08
- Rising
Prison Population An Undeclared National Crisis; from PhysOrg.com
(US), 4/1/08
- Aerial Drones
Will Hunt California Pot Growers In National Forests; from Sacramento
Bee (CA), 4/4/08
- OpEd:
Fresh Ideas For A Tired Crusade; from International Herald-Tribune
(Int'l), 4/1/08
- After Decades,
Bill To Regulate Tobacco As A 'Drug' May Become Law; from RawStory.com
(US), 4/1/08
Latest News: March 2008
- Farm Life
Raises Addicts' Hopes; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 3/31/08
- OpEd:
New Season Calls For New Drug Understanding; from Tri-City
News (CN BC), 3/28/08
- Mainstream
Medicine Has Endorsed Medical Marijuana; from AlterNet
(US), 3/27/08
- 304,000
Inmates Eligible for Deportation, Official Says; from New
York Times (NY), 3/28/08
- Fighting
For The Right To Chew Coca; from TIME Magazine (US), 3/17/08
- Rep.
Frank: Time To Legalize Marijuana; from Providence Journal
(RI), 3/26/08
- Bush
Pardons 15 Convicts, Commutes 1 Prison Sentence; from FOX
News (US), 3/25/08
- Justices
To Weigh Search And Consent; from New York Times (NY),
3/25/08
- Air Strikes,
War On Drugs Drive Taliban; from Globe and Mail (Canada),
3/24/08
- Women
In Prison; from Peoria Journal Star (IL), 3/24/08
- No Bad
Drugs: The Arbitrary Distinctions at the Root of Prohibition;
from Reason Magazine (US), Apr 2008
- Ohio SWAT
Officer Who Killed Young Mother Gets Charged With Misdemeanors;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 3/21/08
- Pair
Get Prison In Pot Case; from Sacramento Bee (CA), 3/20/08
- Tale
Of Dying Girl's Imprisoned Dad Moves Viewers; from KETV-7
News (NE), 3/19/08
- Inside
Out -- Did Peter Fernandez' Punishment Fit His Crime? from
Santa Fe Reporter (NM), 3/19/08
- [Canada]
The Dope Rush; from The Guardian (UK), 3/17/08
- Us Needs
To Change Its Drug War Policy; from Midland Daily News
(MI), 3/16/08
- Drug Trade
Tyranny On Mexico's Border; from Washington Post (DC),
3/16/08
- In
Alabama, A Crackdown On Pregnant Drug Users; from New York
Times (NY), 3/15/08
- States
Reconsider Life Behind Bars For Youth; from Christian Science
Monitor (US), 3/12/08
- Column:
If Drugs Were Legal, Scarlett Might Be Alive; from Times of
India (India), 3/14/08
- Human
Rights in the Drug War: NGOs Slam UN Drug Bureaucracies, Demand
Compliance With UN Charter; from Drug War Chronicle (US),
3/14/08
- NORA: Our
Most Important Legislation Ever; from Drug Policy Alliance
(US), 3/13/08
- Column:
Damn, There Goes My Meth Supply; from San Francisco Chronicle
(CA), 3/12/08
- "Pot
Will Make You Sell Your Children"; from AlterNet
(US Web), 3/12/08
- Column:
Treating Medical Problems With Incarceration; from Metrowest
Daily News (MA), 3/10/08
- Drug Czar
Walters Covering Up Record of Failure; from Drug Policy Alliance
(US), 3/12/08
- Column:
Ruling Shines Different Light On Emery's Case; from Vancouver
Sun (CN BC), 3/10/08
- Column:
Closed Minds; from Ottawa Citizen (CN ON), 3/7/08
- Column:
Drugged Out On Power; from Indianapolis Star (IN), 3/5/08
- Column:
Get Your Cocaine From Superdrug; from The Times (UK),
3/6/08
- Column:
Sentencing Law Will Only Increase Prison Population; from Vancouver
Sun (CN BC), 3/3/08
- The Wire's
War on the Drug War; from Time Magazine (US), 3/5/08
- US
Officials Defend Drug Spraying in Colombia; from Truthout
(US), 3/5/08
- America
Behind Bars: Why Attempts at Prison Reform Keep Failing; from
AlterNet (US), 3/5/08
- Drug
Cartels Running Rampant, Says UN; from The Guardian (UK),
3/5/08
- Ex-Narcotics
Officer Sells DVDs With Tips On Avoiding Drug Arrests; from Dallas
Morning News (TX), 3/2/08
- Exonerated
Convicts Wrestle With Stigma; from Reuters (US), 2/29/08
- Debunking
The Hemp Conspiracy Theory; from
AlterNet
(US Web), 2/21/08
Latest News: February 2008
- One
In 100 Americans In Prison: Study; from Globe and Mail
(UK), 2/28/08
- The War On
Drugs Is Insane, But There's No End In Sight; from Charleston
City Paper (SC), 2/27/08
- U.S.
Steps Up Deportation Of Immigrant Criminals; from Washington
Post (DC), 2/27/08
- False
Positives Cause Problems For Prison Visitors; from WEEK-TV
(IL), 2/25/08
- Column:
Mexico Under Seige; from Wall Street Journal (US), 2/25/08
- War On
Drugs Is Blowing Up In Our Faces, Expert Warns; from Yukon
News (CN YK), 2/22/08
- Minors
in the Big House; from WireTap Magazine (US), 1/31/08
- Education
Versus Incarceration; from WireTap Magazine (US), 11/16/07
- Meet
Bush's Prison Nominee; from Mother Jones Magazine (US),
2/20/08
- Stop
Filling Prisons, California -- Advocates to Take Sentencing Reform
Case to Voters; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 2/21/08
- 100 Years
Of Sobriety In Vancouver; from The Peak (Edu CN BC), 2/18/08
- Annals
Of Addiction: We're All Strung Out Somehow; from Toronto Star
(CN ON), 2/17/08
- Ease
Ban On Cannabis, Physicians Group Urges; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 2/15/08
- Misunderstanding
Leaves Hardin Prison Standing Empty; from Helena Independent
Record (MT), 2/13/08
- America's
Drug War Hits Women; from AlterNet (US), 2/13/08
- Opinion:
Drug Users Pass Judgment On Drug Use; from Washington Post
(DC), 2/13/08
- OpEd:
Give The Kids A Break; from USA Today (US), 2/13/08
- Police
And Tasers: Hooked On Shock; from CommonDreams.org, 2/11/08
- Legal
Drug Craze Is New Killer; from The Observer (UK), 2/10/08
- Dubai Tourists
Warned Over Tough Drug Stance; from Independent on Sunday
(UK), 2/10/08
- Column:
Institutions Emptied Out, And Prisons Filled Up; from Ottawa
Citizen (CN ON), 2/9/08
- OpEd:
Repeal Rockefeller Drug Laws, Cut Prison Costs; from Newsday
(NY), 2/8/08
- [Mexican]
Cartels Are A Political Risk, U.S. Told; from Houston Chronicle
(TX), 2/8/08
- OpEd:
U.S. Needle Policy Hurts Aids Sufferers; from San Francisco
Chronicle (CA), 2/7/08
- It's
the Real Thing: Hugo Chávez's Coca; from CounterPunch
(US), 2/7/08
- UN Beyond
2008 Forum: Our U.S.-Inspired Drug Policy Wastes Money And Lives;
from Vancouver Sun (CN BC), 2/6/08
- Taliban
Windfall As Opium Crop Is Set For Another Bumper Year; from The
Herald (UK), 2/6/08
- Beyond
2008 Conference: 'Fight Drugs With Health Care'; from The
Province (CN BC), 2/5/08
- Column:
Cocaine Trade Tough To Snuff; from Calgary Sun (CN AB),
2/1/08
- Column:
The Drug Laws Don't Work; from The Guardian (UK), 2/4/08
- A Truth
Barack Obama Won't Dare Tell: Decriminalizing Marijuana Use;
from Orlando Sentinel (FL), 2/3/08
- President
Bush: Treatment, Not Talk; from Baltimore Sun (MD), 2/3/08
- Perspective:
US Herbicides Exact High Toll on Indigenous Populations; from
Truthout (US), 2/2/08
- OpEd:
War On Drugs Must End; from Gonzaga Bulletin (WA EDU),
2/1/08
- Pain Wars
in the Heartland: With Their Doctor Behind Bars, Kansas Patients
Wonder Where To Turn; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 2/1/08
- A New
Government, Another War On Drugs; from Bangkok Post (Thailand),
1/31/08
Latest News: January 2008
- Police
Shooting Of Mother And Infant Exposes A City's Racial Tension;
from New York Times (NY), 1/30/08
- Latest
In L.A.: Pot Vending Machine; from San Francisco Chronicle
(CA), 1/31/08
- Column:
Why Are All These People In Jail? from Crossville Chronicle
(TN), 1/29/08
- Many [Golf]
Players Angry About Drug Testing; from Associated Press
(US), 1/30/08
- Iran's
War On Drugs; Three Decades Of Failure; from Arab American
News (US), 1/29/08
- Column:
How Legalization Might Work; from Lima News (OH), 1/27/08
- Halting the
Cycle of Crime and Punishment: Video Interview with Rep. Danny
Davis; from Truthout (US), 1/28/08
- Lima
Police Pressed For Racial Fairness; from The Blade (OH),
1/27/08
- DA Sees No
Whiff Of Crime In Sniff Of Gel; from Dallas Morning News
(TX), 1/26/08
- Prison
Workers Arrested In Smuggling Probe In Sumter County; from Orlando
Sentinel (FL), 1/26/08
- Editorial:
Poverty and the Drug Laws; from Drug War Chronicle (US),
1/25/08
- OpEd:
Still Wrong In Afghanistan; from Washington Post (DC),
1/23/08
- Opium
Fields Spread Across Iraq as Farmers Try to Make Ends Meet; from
The Independent (UK), 1/17/08
- Column:
The Prison Problem; from California Aggie (CA Edu), 1/18/08
- Pentagon,
Big Pharma: Drug Troops to Numb Them to Horrors of War; from
AlterNet (US), 1/10/08
- Prison
Drinking Water and Wastewater Pollution Threaten Environmental
Safety Nationwide; from Prison Legal News (US), 1/17/08
- OpEd: American
War On Drugs Pits Government Against People; from Lima News
(OH), 1/20/08
- Column:
Step Up, Barack; from Tribune Review (PA), 1/20/08
- Chavez
Says He Chews Coca Daily; from Miami Herald (FL), 1/20/08
- Cutbacks
Threaten Anti-Drug Campaign; from Des Moines Register
(IA), 1/20/08
- High Court
To Hear Drug Case From S.C.; from The State (SC), 1/18/08
- 'Breaking
Bad' Shines In A Dim TV Season; from San Jose Mercury News
(CA), 1/17/08
- It's Safer
to Be a Cop Than a Farmer; from Drug War Chronicle (US),
1/18/08
- OpEd:
This is Your TV on Drugs; from Huffington Post (US), 1/17/08
- Angry
Lima Slams Shooting Inquiry; from The Blade (OH), 1/17/08
- Advocacy
Group to Challenge Controlled Substances Act In Lawsuit Aimed
at Protecting Physicians, Patients; from Drug War Chronicle
(US), 1/11/08
- Marc
Emery Agrees To Five Years In Canadian Prison; from Vancouver
Sun (CN BC), 1/14/08
- Editorial:
Race Matters; from Lima News (OH), 1/13/08
- Crackonomics
101: The Sociology Of Drug Dealing; from New York Post
(NY), 1/13/08
- International
Campaign to Stop Drug Executions Gearing Up; from Drug War
Chronicle (US), 1/11/08
- Ohio
SWAT Team Kills Woman, Wounds Toddler in Drug Raid; from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 1/11/08
- OpEd:
Blowback; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 1/11/08
- OpEd:
Do You Speak Thuggery Or Freedom? from River Cities' Reader
(IA), 1/9/08
- OpEd:
Why Is Canada Copying Failure? from Vancouver Sun (CN
BC), 1/8/08
- America's
Love-Hate Relationship with Drugs; from AlterNet (US),
1/9/08
- Crowd
Confronts Council On Lima Shooting; from Lima News (OH),
1/8/08
- Why
Is Pot Cultivation For Personal Use Illegal? from Rutland
Herald (VT), 1/6/08
- Lima
On Edge After Police Kill Woman, Wound 1-Year-Old Child In Drug
Raid; from The Blade (OH), 1/6/08
- Crowd
Holds Vigil, Marches Downtown For Shooting Victim, from Lima
News (OH), 1/5/08
- Prisoners
Of Panic; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 1/6/08
- Rogue
Cops Get Stiff Sentences For Shaking Down Drug Dealers; from
Chicago Tribune (IL), 1/4/08
- Overdose
Rescue Kits Save Lives; from NPR All Things Considered
(US), 1/2/08
- On Marc
Emery: An Open Letter To Justice Minister Rob Nicholson; from
National Post (Canada), 12/31/07
- Millions
in the Slammer: We Must Reverse America's Zeal to Incarcerate;
from AlterNet (US), 12/30/07
- Column:
The Dead Can't Kick Drugs; from Victoria Times-Colonist
(CN BC), 12/31/07
Latest News: December 2007
- Column:
Decades Later, War On Drugs Is Still A Loser; from Atlanta
Journal-Constitution (GA), 12/30/07
- Drug
War, Minus Signs, Persists; from New York Times (NY),
12/29/07
- The
Top Ten Drug War Stories of 2007; from Drug War Chronicle
(US), 12/28/07
- Drug
Czar: Just Say No To Toad Licking; from Evening Sun (PA),
12/27/07
- What
Darwin Could Tell Us About The "War On Drugs"; from
AlterNet (US Web), 12/27/07
- Under
Attack, Drug Maker Turned to Giuliani for Help; from New York
Times (NY), 12/27/07
- OpEd:
The War On Drugs Chews And Grinds On People; from Rapid City
Journal (SD), 12/12/07
- Editorial:
Guilty Until Proven Innocent; from Lima News (OH), 12/18/07
- The
Cancer Drug; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 12/22/07
- Without
Hope In A Prison Cell; from The Day (CT), 12/16/07
- Big Easy
Offers Only Tough Choices For America's Drug War; from The
Guardian (UK), 12/18/07
- Set
in Steel: Prison Life Without Parole;
from Truthout.org (US), 11/28/07
- Column: The
Drug War On African-Americans; from Louisiana Weekly (LA),
12/10/07
- America,
Intoxicated: Conference Tackles Disasters Of The Drug War; from
AlterNet (US), 12/11/07
- Column:
Mitt Romney's Faith Fails To Be Color Blind; from Newsday
(NY), 12/9/07
- OpEd:
How The Drug War Targets Black Americans; from Times-Picayune
(LA), 12/6/07
- The Bible,
a Black Bag, and a Drug Dog -- A Florida Drug War Story; from
Drug War Chronicle (US), 12/7/07
- The
2007 International Drug Policy Reform Conference -- Mr. Costa
Meets the Opposition; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 12/7/07
- OpEd: It's
A Gray Area - Seeking Restorative Justice; from Daily Pilot
(CA), 12/8/07
- Mexico:
Drug War May Overwhelm Prisons; from USA Today (US), 12/7/07
- OpEd:
Now Is The Time For Real Sentencing Reform; from Times Union
(NY), 12/6/07
- SOA
Protest Weekend Combines Elements Of Flea Market And Activism;
from National Catholic Reporter (US), 12/5/07
- FL: Executing
Drug Dealers May Get Easier; from Tallahassee Democrat (FL),
12/5/07
- OpEd:
Drugs, The Other Stupid War; from East Texas Review (TX),
12/5/07
- Editorial:
Wacky Tabacky Case; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 12/4/07
- Federal
Appeals Court Strikes Down Public Funding of Evangelical Prison
Program in Iowa; from TruthOut.org (US), 12/3/07
- How
America Lost The War On Drugs; from Rolling Stone (US),
Dec 07
- Editorial:
Lapping Up Freedom; from Pasadena Weekly (CA), 11/29/07
- O Cannabis!
War On Drugs Seen As Flawed Echo Of U.S.; from Toronto Star
(CN ON), 12/1/07
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