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Runaway Teens at Risk to Become Human Trafficking Victims, Florida Experts Say

Runaway teens at risk to become human trafficking victims, Florida experts say

Filed under: Basic Information On Crack Cocaine

For instance, he said, in 2005, Ronald Evans was arrested for luring homeless people from shelters to a forced labor camp in East Palatka. Evans paid them with alcohol and crack cocaine. Coonan showed a photo of emaciated black men after the federal … Read more on Naples Daily News

 

Commentary: It's Time to Dream Bigger

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Habilitat Hawaii Long-Term Residential Substance Abuse Treatment & Vocational Training Program


Habilitat Hawaii Long-Term Residential Substance Abuse Treatment & Vocational Training Program – Habilitat Hawaii Long-Term Residential Substance Abuse Treatment & Vocational Training Program Has been helping people since 1971. We are recognized as one o…

 

More People Released from OR Prisons Need SubstanceAbuse Treatment

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PHOTO: Two men hold signs describing how treatment and recovery has changed their lives. A new state audit says only about half of those released from prison who need substance abuse treatment are getting it. Courtesy PSJ. Read more on Public News Service

Two Powerful Signals of a Major Shift on Crime

Two Powerful Signals of a Major Shift on Crime

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Statistics United States

A generation ago, amid a crack epidemic, state and federal lawmakers enacted a wave of tough-on-crime measures that resulted in an 800 percent increase in the number of prisoners in the United States, even as the population grew by only a third. The … Read more on New York Times

 

Sentencing, frisking reversals shake up nation's war on drugs

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Statistics United States

Grosse Pointe Farms Police Warned Murder Suspect to Stay Away From Family

Grosse Pointe Farms Police Warned Murder Suspect to Stay Away from Family

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Signs Using

The warning from police wasn't the only sign of trouble with Pagan of Casco Township. In September 2012, Neumann came into … Pagan was arrested for felonious assault and possession of crack cocaine, Wiley said. He was placed on probation in October, … Read more on Patch.com

 

From 'The Carter' to a home

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Michelle Alexander: "Zimmerman Mindset" Endangers Young Black Lives With

Michelle Alexander: "Zimmerman Mindset" Endangers Young Black Lives with

Filed under: crack cocaine disparity

… as part of the war on drugs and the "get tough" movement, sentences that have helped to fuel our nation's prison boom and have also greatly aggravated racial disparities, particularly in the application of mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine. Read more on Democracy Now

 


(C) The Film, “Crack The Disparity” Movie Part # 3 – The film, “Crack the Disparity: It’s Not Fair. It’s Not Working.,” was produced by the Crack the Disparity Coalition and directed by Howard University film p…

Cruz 'perplexed' by GOP Attacks on Him, Won't Back Down in 'Defund Obamacare

Cruz 'perplexed' by GOP attacks on him, won't back down in 'Defund Obamacare

Filed under: Withdrawal From Crack Cocaine

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is “perplexed” by GOP attacks on his effort to defund Obamacare and has no intention of backing down, despite complaints from other Senate Republicans that his crusade is not realistic and could potentially damage the … Read more on Daily Caller

 

Uruguay Takes Step Toward Full Pot Legalization

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Does the CIA Transport Drugs Into This Country to Finance Its Operations?

Question by : Does the CIA transport drugs into this country to finance its operations?
Also what do you think about the other scandals such as Frank Lucas and Vietnam heroin transporting, Iran Contra and Rick ross, Mena Arkansas, or heroin production increase in Afghanistan since US invasion?

A more specific question, is the Air America company the from the Vietnam war the same one that Frederick Luytjes ran when he was importing cocaine?

Best answer:

Answer by Pat G
I don’t believe the CIA sells drugs to finance its operations. It gets a budget from the US government, and involvement in organised crime would be counterproductive to its mission.

President Obama Fights to Keep Black People in Jail.

President Obama Fights To Keep Black People In Jail.

Filed under: crack cocaine prices

The war on drugs was the pretext for carrying out this plan and the hysteria fomented against crack cocaine created popular demand for draconian law enforcement measures. The United States then became the imprisonment capital of the world with black … Read more on ThyBlackMan

 

Today in Music History – Aug. 2

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Springfield Armory XD-S – Compact, Conceable & Controllable

Springfield Armory XD-S – compact, conceable & controllable

Filed under: Statistics On Crack Cocaine In 1994

We can know our ABCs and watch our Ps and Qs but for Springfield Armory “X” marks the spot. The Springfield X-guns have been very popular beginning with the XD, then came the XD Compact, the XD Tactical, the XD(M), the XD(M) 3.8, the XD(M) 3.8 … Read more on Daily Caller

 

The US Prison Industry: big business or slavery?

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Crack Babies Grew Up OK; It's Poverty That's the Real Problem

Crack Babies Grew Up OK; It's Poverty That's the Real Problem

Filed under: Drug Addiction To Crack Cocaine

Television show after television show, article after article proclaimed that children born to addicts of the increasingly prevalent "crack" cocaine were all-but-guaranteed to have birth defects, including extremely low IQs and severe emotional problems … Read more on DailyFinance

 

Decades Later, Drugs Didn't Hold 'Crack Babies' Back

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