Drug Reform

With 28,000 Killed Since 2006, Movement for Drug Legalization in Mexico Takes Hold

democracynow.org — The Mexican governmentâ€™s policy against drug trafficking over the past few years has been to increasingly militarize the conflict with the only tangible result being a skyrocketing death toll. Now a growing movement in Mexico to legalize drugs, particularly marijuana, is taking shape. Four proposals that aim for varying degrees of decriminalization More... (Drug Reform)

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Devin Calloway submitted 18 days ago

House Eases Crack-Cocaine Sentences

online.wsj.com — WASHINGTONâ€”The House approved a bill Wednesday that lightens federal sentences for crack-cocaine defendants, sending it to President Barack Obama for his signature. After years of false starts and dashed hopes for sentencing advocates, lawmakers approved the legislation on a voice vote. The Senate had passed the bill this spring, and Mr. Obama is More... (Drug Reform)

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Devin Calloway submitted 39 days ago

F.D.A. Panel Opposes Plan to Tighten Use of Painkillers

nytimes.com — An advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration voted overwhelmingly on Friday to reject a plan proposed by the agency to reduce the misuse and abuse of long-acting painkillers like the drug OxyContin. Members of the panel, which included doctors, pain experts and others, voted 25 to 10 against the F.D.A. plan, saying they did not think More... (Drug Reform)

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Devin Calloway submitted 42 days ago

Is the War on Drugs Over?

stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com — But thatâ€™s nonsense. It makes me want to do this weekâ€™s show on the drug war. OK, I talked myself into it. This weekâ€™s show will be on the drug war. 8pm and midnight EST. Did the White House Drug Czar really call for an end to the war on drugs? No. He just said that he didnâ€™t like the term: Regardless of how you try to explain to people it's a ' More... (Drug Reform)

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Devin Calloway submitted 83 days ago

How can America's 'War on Drugs' succeed if their Prohibition laws failed?

independent.co.uk — Since we first prowled the savannahs of Africa, human beings have displayed a few overpowering and ineradicable impulsesâ€”for food, for sex, and for drugs. Every human society has hunted for its short cuts to an altered state: The hunger for a chemical high, low, or pleasingly new shuffle sideways is universal. Peer back through history, and it's ev More... (Drug Reform)

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Devin Calloway submitted 84 days ago

Michigan court limits drug charges against drivers

chicagotribune.com — DETROIT â€” The Michigan Supreme Court referred to the state's relatively new medical marijuana law as it ordered prosecutors to stop charging motorists who are caught with a byproduct of pot in their body. The court said the presence of "carboxy" is not a crime, reversing a 2006 decision by its former conservative majority. Four of the seven justic More... (Drug Reform)

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Devin Calloway submitted 89 days ago

'War on drugs' behind endless misery

cnn.com — The news of intense drug-related violence out of Jamaica is shocking and dreadful but entirely predictable. Wherever the war on drugs touches down, death and destruction result. A recent target is Kingston, Jamaica. When law enforcement attempted to smoke out Christopher "Dudus" Coke, wanted in the U.S. for conspiracy to distribute marijuana and co More... (Drug Reform)

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Devin Calloway submitted 93 days ago

Mexicoâ€™s biggest cartel banks on powerful friends

montrealgazette.com — JUAREZ, Mexico â€“ Like most cops in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Jesus Manuel Fierro-Mendez was dirty. In fact, soon after being promoted to the position of captain, he was smuggling enormous quantities of cocaine into the United States. And when Fierro-Mendez quit his job in the spring of 2007, after someone tried to kill him, he went More... (Drug Reform)

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Devin Calloway submitted 108 days ago

Feds Move to Throw Cannabis Users in Prison for Impaired Driving

infowars.com — If you smoked marijuana last week or even last month and you drive a car, you may be sent to prison under new guidelines drafted by the federal government. The Obama administration released its National Drug Control Strategy guidelines last week. The federal government wants all of the states to adopt its authoritarian and draconian diktat and expa More... (Drug Reform)

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Devin Calloway submitted 109 days ago

Drug Law Reform with Judge Jim Gray

coasttocoastam.com — George Knapp welcomed Judge Jim Gray for a discussion on the possibility of reforming America's drug laws, taking illegal drug usage from a criminal issue into a social and medical one. "Drug prohibition is the biggest failed policy in the history of our country, second only to slavery," he declared, adding that a victory today in the War on Drugs More... (Drug Reform)

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Devin Calloway submitted 111 days ago