Monday, April 23, 2012

Drug war

  • violence in inner-city neighborhoods and take the pressure off Latin American countries now racked by drug dealing. Since the war on drugs started in earnest three decades ago, the law has found it impossible to stop the flow of illegal drugs.
  • (Wall Street Journal)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Army has investigated 56 soldiers in Afghanistan on suspicion of using or distributing heroin, morphine or other opiates during 2010 and 2011, newly obtained data shows. Eight soldiers died of drug overdoses during that time.
  • (FederalNewsRadio.com)
  • In a 2011 interview, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that legalization is "not likely to work" because "there is just too much money in it.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Five officers were shot in Greenland. The much beloved chief — just eight days from retirement — was killed. Hearts across New Hampshire suffer from this horrible tragedy. Michael Maloney is the 23rd person to die in U.S.
  • (Seacoast Online)
  • Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said the US-led regional war against drug trafficking is being lost and requires a change in strategy, including decriminalizing drug consumption. The war we have waged over the past 40 years has not yielded results.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • More than 10,000 names of those killed amid drug violence in Juárez were projected onto the Annunciation House building in Downtown El Paso on Sunday night.
  • (El Paso Times)
  • Amid calls from Latin American leaders to legalize drugs, President Obama said today that he is open to the debate but that legalizing narcotics to counter drug trafficking in the Americas could make matters worse.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • Even he must know – who can still deny? – that the drug war has failed. When it comes to quantifying that failure, several numbers are stark and edifying: Forty-one. That's how many years the "War" has raged. Forty million-plus.
  • (The Spokesman-Review)
  • In a recent forum for the candidates for the 26th Congressional District, Candidate Jess Herrera was asked if he were elected, would he work to combat the failed drug war by reducing U.S. Drug War spending abroad and decriminalizing drugs at home.
  • (vcstar.com)
  • Vice President Joe Biden landed in Mexico City Sunday night for a two-day trip to that country and Honduras. Hes left little doubt about his mission: to lock in the regional drug war.
  • (Huffington Post)

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