by Bonnie Kristian. Well, that didn’t last long. In December, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced it would halt a program which made it easy for law enforcement agencies to profit from civil asset forfeiture: The “equitable-sharing” program gives police the option of prosecuting asset forfeiture cases under federal instead of state law. ... MORE
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Showing posts with label drug war. Show all posts
Stephanie Slade: 'Drug Users Need Treatment,' Says President Obama. Not So Fast, Says Dr. Carl Hart
The vast majority of drug users are not addicts. "For too long we've viewed drug addiction through the lens of criminal justice," President Obama said yesterday
at a conference in Atlanta. "The most important thing to do is reduce
demand. And the only way to do that is to provide treatment—to see it as
a public health problem and not a ... MORE
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Illegal Drugs Should Be Decriminalized, Say Health Experts
by Lisa Ryan. Current policies are damaging. The war on drugs has failed – and certain illegal substances should now be decriminalized, according to some of the world’s leading health experts. Harsh drug control policies have done little to affect drug markets or drug use, experts argued. Instead, the war on drugs and zero-tolerance ... MORE
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Lancet Commission Recommends Drug Legalization
by Jacob Sullum. The last time the U.N. General Assembly held a "special session" (UNGASS) on drug policy, it was organized under the slogan "A Drug-Free World...We Can Do It." Pino Arlacchi, then executive director of the U.N. Drug Control Program, insisted "there is no reason" the world's supply of cocaine and heroin "cannot be eliminated in ... MORE
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Support For Marijuana Legalization Hits All-Time High
by Christopher Ingraham. A new survey released today
by the the Associated Press and the University of Chicago finds that a
record-high percentage of Americans -- 61 percent -- say they support
marijuana legalization. The survey uses the same question wording
("Do you think the use of marijuana should be made legal, or not?") on
marijuana as ... MORE
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Carey Welder: Nixon Advisor Admitted War On Drugs Invented To Crush Anti-War And Black Movements
A damning revelation comes to light. In 1994, a former Nixon policy adviser admitted the War on Drugs was
waged not to keep Americans safe, but to crush dissent. According to John Ehrlichman,
who served time in prison for his involvement in the Watergate scandal,
the Drug War was intended to disempower anti-war and black ... MORE
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Physicians Face Moral Dilemma In Drug War Conscription
by Jeffrey A. Singer. Gov't wants the narco squad to be your doctor. America’s physicians have been conscripted as law enforcement agents in the never-ending War on Drugs, and it puts us in a moral dilemma. As media attention has turned to the recent national surge in prescription-opioid and heroin abuse, politicians feel compelled to be ready ... MORE
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Stephen Chapman: No Opiates For The Masses?
Drug war becomes war against pain relief. There is no problem so bad that government-imposed remedies cannot make it worse, spawn new problems or both. A new confirmation of that phenomenon may be on the way, thanks to new recommendations from an agency intent on curbing the use of opiates. On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease ... MORE
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Ilya Somin: Supreme Court Dismisses Nebraska-Oklahoma Lawsuit Against Marijuana Legalization In Colorado
Drug warriors take one on the chin. The Supreme Court today refused to hear a case
filed by the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma claiming that neighboring
Colorado’s legalization of marijuana violates federal law and inflicts
various harms on them: The U.S.
Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a lawsuit from Nebraska and ... MORE
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Drug War Myths Exploded: 7 Facts About Drugs That Will Make You Question Everything You Thought You Knew
by Johann Hari. A prevailing lack of wisdom. There's no subject in our culture where the conversation is dominated by myths and misconceptions so much as drugs. We are frightened to talk about it. We are tempted to fall back on stock-phrases and mental spasms -- Just Say No, and all its more modern twists. I have always been sympathetic to more ... MORE
Legal Pot Causes Drug Cartel Revenues To Plummet
by Oscar Pascual. free market 1 black market 0. Marijuana legalization may have accomplished what the War on Drugs has failed to do — put the squeeze on Mexican drug cartel activity. The U.S. Border Patrol has released 2015 data
showing that the number of marijuana seizures throughout the southwest
U.S./Mexico border has fallen to the ... MORE
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DC Cop Raids Are Undeterred By Lack Of Probable Cause
from the Washington Post. Government's domestic terrorists. Sallie Taylor was sitting in her apartment in Northeast Washington one evening in January 2015 watching “Bible Talk” when her clock fell off the wall and broke. She turned and looked up. Nine D.C. police officers smashed through her door, a shotgun was pointed at her face and she ... MORE
Lizzie Dearden: Iranian Drug War Kills Every Man In Town
Ending drug the government way. Every man in an Iranian village has reportedly been executed by the government on drug charges. Shahindokht Molaverdi, the vice president for women and family
affairs, was arguing for increased provision for convicts’ families when
she made the admission. “We have a village in Sistan and Baluchestan ... MORE
John Stossel: Joy and Bad Law
Oscar Sunday. According to Betfair.com, Jennifer Lawrence probably won't win best actress at the Oscars Sunday. I'm rooting for her, though — not because of her acting, but because the movie she stars in, "Joy," celebrates the difficulty of entrepreneurship. Lawrence's character is based on real-life entrepreneur Joy Mangano, who invented the ... MORE
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There's No Way In Which The War On Drugs Isn't A Failure
by Hamilton Nolan. It has been clear for many years that America’s “War on Drugs” is a failure from a moral perspective. For you hard-headed realists, it is worth remembering that it is a failure from an economic perspective, as well. The very simple version of this fact, which you may have already intuited, is: We have spent more than a trillion ... MORE
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Justice Sotomayor Has Kind Words For Jury Nullification
by Jacob Sullum. Because justice is a result, not just a process. This week Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had some kind words
for jury nullification, which empowers jurors to judge the law as well
as the facts of a case and may involve disregarding the law when the law
is unjust. During a discussion
about juries at NYU Law School on ... MORE
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