All Posts Tagged With: "War on Drugs"
Why Anonymous Blogging is Sometimes Essential
“This happened to me for not understanding that I shouldn’t report on the social networks,” advised a note left before dawn with the man’s body at a key intersection in the city’s wealthier neighborhood.
12Nov2011 | liberalgeek | 10 comments | Continued
A Casuality of the War on Drugs
Sens. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). are my new heroes. Kohl and Whitehouse are asking the Drug Enforcement Agency to scale back their enforcement of the Controlled Substance Act as it is “producing a troubling side effect by denying some hospice and elderly patients needed pain medication” reports The Washington Post.
28Oct2009 | nemski | 3 comments | Continued
Fixing the Unfair Crack vs Cocaine Penalties
Senator Ted Kaufman is one of the co-sponsors of a bill introduced into the full Senate this week (it was voted out of the Judiciary Committee back in July) that would finally take on the incredible disparities in sentencing for those who are convicted of possession of either drug.
17Oct2009 | cassandra_m | 18 comments | Continued
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-Labor Day Weekend Edition
LEAD STORY-The (UK) Observer: Former Brazilian PM Urges End to ‘Disaster’, AKA “The War On Drugs”
Seriously, does ANYone ANYwhere on the political spectrum agree that this unmitigated disaster makes sense? The human toll in many of the countries in Latin America and South America has been incalculable:
“After decades of overflights, interdictions, spraying and raids on jungle [...]
6Sep2009 | El Somnambulo | 10 comments | Continued
Rogue Financier U. S. Drug Informant?
The (UK) Independent reports that Texas billionaire ‘Sir’ Allen Stanford may have been an anti-drug informant for the American Drug Enforcement Agency for a decade and, in return, Stanford was given official government protection to run his scam banking empire free of government oversight.
A BBC Panorama programme, to be screened tonight, alleges that the 6ft [...]
Stripping Away Child Rights (and clothes) In The Name Of Our War On Drugs
For quite some time I have been following the Supreme Court’s case involving the 13 year old girl who was strip searched because she was accused (falsely) of handing out prescription Advil. I haven’t written about this until now because, honestly, it upsets me too much. As the mother of a soon to be 12 [...]
23Apr2009 | pandora | 24 comments | Continued
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Blueprint for America?
By now, any reasonable person, including the relatively few sane Republicans, have recognized that minimum mandatory sentencing for nonviolent drug offenders is a disaster. The results have been billions wasted on prison expansions and increases, not decreases, in recidivism rates, and drug wars raging on the US/Mexican border. So, what’s the alternative? Or, at least, [...]
9Apr2009 | El Somnambulo | 2 comments | Continued
So When Does This End?
Cops running through a door and shooting a guy for a dime bag (maybe even less than that).
All of those resources pointed at a dime bag — a giant waste of money, manpower and attention. Michigan doesn’t have any drug kingpins to knock down?
New York May Repeal Rockefeller Drug Laws
According to the NYT:
The Assembly approved legislation, 96 to 46, that would restore judges’ discretion in many lower-level drug-possession crimes that are felonies by eliminating laws that require a prosecutor’s consent before judges can send certain felons to drug treatment instead of prison.
In addition, the measure would permit about 2,000 prisoners to apply to have [...]
AG Holder Puts A Stop to Medical Marijuana Raids
From a press conference today:
Today came word that newly installed U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder would stop the practice established by the Bush administration of raiding legally licensed medical marijuana dispensaries.
The Drug Enforcement Agency will now cease the raids that have continued, according to reports, even after Bush left office. Holder said Obama’s campaign promise [...]
Senator Webb Wants Prison Reform
It is quite the political risk, especially in his home state of Virginia, but Webb wants Congress to take a hard look at the current prison system and do the work to make some key reforms:
This spring, Webb (D-Va.) plans to introduce legislation on a long-standing passion of his: reforming the U.S. prison system. Jails [...]
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