Sunday, November 18, 2012

U.s. war on drugs

  • War On Drugs: 27 Reasons Why US Doesn't Have The 'Moral Authority' To Lead ...

    Only 7 percent of Americans think the United States is <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/november_2012/7_think_u_s_is_winning_war_on_drugs">winning the war on drugs</a>, and few Americans are ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Guest opinion: The war on drugs finally coming to an end

    6, 2012, will go down in history as the day the longest war in American history ended, the war that ruined more lives and imprisoned more people in more countries than any other: the War on Drugs. Voters in Colorado and Washington state passed ballot ...

    www.news-press.com

  • New DPA Report Highlights the Impact of the War on Drugs on Veterans ...

    After returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. veterans are increasingly become casualties of the country's longest war: the war on drugs. Last Friday, the Drug Policy Alliance released an updated and revised edition of its seminal 2009 report ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • 82 Percent of Americans Think U.S. is Losing War on Drugs

    "Only seven percent (7%) of American Adults think the United States is winning the war on drugs," says a new Rasmussen telephone poll conducted Nov. 9-10.

    www.opposingviews.com

  • Poll: Overwhelming Majority Of Americans Think U.S. Is Losing The War On Drugs

    Poll: Overwhelming Majority Of Americans Think U.S. Is Losing The War On Drugs | Only 7 percent of Americans think the U.S. is winning the War on Drugs, while 82 percent think we are losing, according to a new Rasmussen survey. The national telephone ...

    thinkprogress.org

  • Rasmussen Poll: 82 Percent of Americans Think US is Losing War on Drugs

    "Americans overwhelmingly believe the war on drugs is a failure, but there's little support for spending more on it to win," Rasmussen reports.

    blog.sfgate.com

  • Today's war on drugs: Prohibition then and now

    Fontana pointed out that both Prohibition and today's war on drugs reflect a unique dynamic between the federal and state governments.

    blog.constitutioncenter.org

  • Costa Rica: Colorado Pot Law Raises Doubts on Drug War

    "This is an inflection point that is going to demand something that some Central American countries have already been doing, which is to analyze in a deeper way different scenarios in the war on drugs," Chinchilla said. Calls among Latin American ...

    www.businessweek.com

  • Latin America looks to Europe for drug fighting models

    CADIZ, Spain (Reuters) - Latin American countries are turning to Europe for lessons on fighting narcotics abuse after souring on the prohibition-style approach of the violent and costly U.S.-led war on drugs. Until recently, most Latin American ...

    www.reuters.com

  • We Need a Conceptual Breakthrough in the War on Drugs

    The same is true in our misconceptions about what will end our war on drugs. Opponents of the war think that pointing out continuing disastrous results will cause us to reassess and end it. Instead, as with quitting any addiction, people need another ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • In 'The House I Live In,' war on drugs hits home

    In "The House I Live In," documentarian Eugene Jarecki ("Why We Fight") tackles the legacy of the US-led war on drugs with a mixture of fuzzy personal theorizing and devastating reportorial impact. The movie's much less partisan than it seems: I can't ...

    www.boston.com

  • Is The War on Drugs "All About the Money"?

    What is this sort of moral imperative that seems to be deep in American political culture that you got to fight this war on drugs 'cause somehow it represents the struggle between good and evil or something? NELSON: Well, our drug czar recently came ...

    therealnews.com

  • Vote snarls war on drugs

    ... in the nation's conflicted and confusing war on drugs. Colorado's governor and attorney general spoke by phone Friday with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, with no signal on whether the Justice Department would sue to block the marijuana measures.

    www.columbiatribune.com

  • Three reasons why conservatives should support ending the War on Drugs

    Why destroy someone's life for using drugs? Secondly, the War on Drugs costs us massively, both in terms of money and in loss of life and liberty.

    www.unitedliberty.org

  • South American nation, Uruguay, rejects "the war on drugs"

    The government of President Jose Mujica achieved its main objective when it proposed legalizing marijuana: to spark a broad national debate regarding drugs, prohibitionist policies, and the repressive measures used to date. State participation "would ...

    www.voxxi.com

  • The People Vs. the War on Drugs: Filmmaker Tackles the "Predatory Monster"

    In looking for diversity - crossing the country and encountering so many different walks of life and so many geographies - I ended up finding an extraordinary unanimity: the idea that the drug war has been with us for 40 years, we've spent a trillion ...

    truth-out.org

  • In war on drugs, a break in the ranks

    MEXICO CITY -- Voters in Colorado and Washington state who approved the recreational use of marijuana Tuesday sent a salvo from the ballot box that will ricochet around Latin America, a region that's faced decades of bloodshed from the U.S.-led war on ...

    www.miamiherald.com

  • Book Review: The War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom

    In his book The War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom, Laurence Vance illustrates the absurdities and inconsistencies of the federal government's drug war in America, and explains why, in his view, the war on drugs is unconstitutional and should be ended ...

    www.thenewamerican.com

  • We're losing the war on drugs

    All the drug war has done so far is make sure there is a steady supply of very poor quality (in terms of purity and safety) heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine on the streets of the United States. Let me ask another question. Do you have any ...

    www.phillyburbs.com

  • The US War on Communism, Drugs, and Terrorism in Colombia

    On Thursday 6th September the President of Colombia - Juan Manuel Santos - rejected a proposed bilateral ceasefire by FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) rebels aimed at bringing an end to Colombia's armed conflict.

    dissidentvoice.org

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