war on drugs

U.S. Drug Czar: 'I Was Wrong. Addiction Is Not a Moral Failing'

U.S. Drug Czar: 'I Was Wrong. Addiction Is Not A Moral Failing'

Filed under: crack cocaine disparity

The 96-page report includes a one-paragraph section on sentencing that notes only that the Fair Sentencing Act reduced the disparity between cocaine and crack sentences from 100 to 1. It does not note, however, that the disparity is still 18 to 1, or … Read more on ThinkProgress

 


Nkechi_Taifa2_147.mp4 – 25 YEARS OF INJUSTICE: SENTENCING DISPARITIES FOR CRACK AND POWDER COCAINE (Part 2 of 2) They are the same drug, pharmacologically speaking, argues Nkechi Ta…

Police Warn Drug Users to Take Care After Woman Is Taken Ill

Police warn drug users to take care after woman is taken ill

Filed under: Dangers Of Crack Cocaine Use

Detectives are now making inquiries into the suspected link between all the people and the same batch of heroin while reaching out to an estimated 1,200 heroin and crack cocaine users in Portsmouth to warn them of the danger. Post-mortem examinations … Read more on Daily Echo

 

Warning after another person taken ill from rogue drugs batch

Filed under: Dangers Of Crack Cocaine Use

Onondaga County Judge to Decide Guilt or Innocence, but Not Who Gets $5

Onondaga County judge to decide guilt or innocence, but not who gets

Filed under: Smoking Crack Cocaine

Miles, who admitted in court that he smoked crack cocaine in 2006, testified that Andy Ashkar told him the ticket was only worth $ 5,000 and gave him $ 4,000, keeping $ 1,000 for the store. The brothers traveled to a state lottery office in Schenectady in … Read more on Syracuse.com

 


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Government to Place More Interest in Drug Treatment – Houston Forward Times

Government to Place More Interest in Drug Treatment – Houston Forward Times

Filed under: obama crack cocaine

Although President Obama has yet to declare an end to the 40-year-old war on drugs, he has placed the weight of his office on viewing drug addiction as more than just a criminal justice issue. Last Wednesday, Obama released his … Get tough strategies … Read more on Forward Times

 

11 Examples of Politico's Addiction to Anonymous Sources, Journalism Crack

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Has the War on Drugs Become the War on the American People?

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The War on Drugs Has Become the War on the American People
By John W. Whitehead
10/17/2011

If Drugs Were Legalized Tommorrow, Would Anyone Go Out and Start Smoking Crack or Shooting Heroin????

Question by donking513: If drugs were legalized tommorrow, would anyone go out and start smoking crack or shooting heroin????
I’m curious because anytime anyone argues that the war on drugs should be ended, for some reason people assume that means that everyone will use drugs. If you wouldn’t become a crackhead just because it was legal why would everyone else? Drugs are easier to get when they are illegal, does prohibition really prevent anyone who wants to from using drugs. Why is it then whenever anyone proposes ending prohibition all you hear about it how horrible drugs are? Of course they are horrible that is exactly why we need to control these substances, get them out of our schools and kids hands. Set up maintenence clinics for addicts, get them out of our prisons and stop them from robbing and stealing from us to pay hugh sums of money to violent dealers who kill each other and us because they have no legal means to resolve business diputes. Ignorance is deadly.

China Curbs Prestige Military License Plates

China curbs prestige military license plates

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Under a new policy taking effect May 1, such plates will be more tightly controlled to crack down on officials who abuse them or hand them out as perks for privileged associates. In addition, military license plates will be banned outright for use on … Read more on Pittsburgh Post Gazette

 

A Forest of Poisonous Trees: The US Criminal (In)Justice System

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Portland Marijuana Billboard Has New Message

Portland marijuana billboard has new message

Filed under: crack cocaine users photos

The original billboard (shown in photo at right) featured a photo of a glass of beer, a glass of wine, and a marijuana leaf. And above each photo, …. Around 1.8 million deaths were attributable to the use of alcohol (26 percent of all drug-related … Read more on kgw.com

 

Black Leaders Urge Obama to End War on Drugs – Washington Informer

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Proceed Cautiously When Limiting Individual Rights

Proceed cautiously when limiting individual rights

Filed under: cocaine facts and myths

The story listed Dollard's convictions for trespassing, loitering, resisting arrest, marijuana and cocaine possession, conspiracy and assault and noted that he did not serve time for those convictions. However, Mr. Dollard spent 3½ months in jail for … Read more on The News Journal

 

Sheriff's Blotter: Prowler Spotted in Pine Flat Circle

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Minnesota's New "victim" Class

Minnesota's new "victim" class

Filed under: Facts About Crack Cocaine Addiction

Yet Alexander ignores the facts about the black crime rate, rewrites history on the war on drugs and obscures the real causes of disproportionate black criminal conduct. Are America's jails and prisons filled with penny-ante drug offenders? You might … Read more on Minneapolis Star Tribune