Showing posts with label drug war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drug war. Show all posts
Monday, February 10, 2014

Narco-Deforestation Accelerates Loss of Biodiversity

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In Central America, drug policies become conservation policies. The Central American isthmus exploded into prominence as a drug traffic...
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Grab Bag of Addiction Links

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Recent reading from around the net. Can Medical Marijuana and Recreational Marijuana Coexist? “The Washington State Liquor Co...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

The Media and Drug Policy: Where’s the Science?

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Groping blindly toward a new framework. As states and the federal government clash at the legal, social, and political levels over lega...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Status of Medical Marijuana to be Tested in U.S. Appeals Court

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Ten-year old petition could change everything. Medical marijuana advocates will finally have their day in federal court, after the United...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Drug Links, Various

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Pharmacology, Politics, and Recovery * USA Today article on Opana abuse rivalling Oxy abuse. * US Attorneys Crack Down on California...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

The Empty Seat at the Holiday Table

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Mothers and the War on Drugs. Guest post by Gretchen Burns Bergman Gretchen Burns Bergman is Co-Founder and Executive Director of A New...
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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Feds Go “Passive-Aggressive” in Fight Against Medical Marijuana

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Sending in the IRS instead of knocking down doors. It’s official: The Obama administration has thrown off the gloves, repudiating Attorne...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Common Field Test for Marijuana is Unreliable, Critics Say

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A 75-year old pot assay is due for an update. We’ve all seen it on cop shows: The little plastic bag, the officer breaking the seal on a ...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Essay: The Genuine Drug War is in Biomedicine

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Knowledge, not firepower, is the key to the future. In modern American society, heart disease, cancer, HIV\AIDS, diabetes, alcoholism, an...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

The Undiagnosed Epidemic of Incarceration

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Prison once again a place for addicts and the mentally ill. Readers may remember the dark day of January 1, 2008, when the U.S. set an al...
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Sunday, June 19, 2011

How the Drug War Ended

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Thoughts on the 40th anniversary of the War on Drugs. Last week marked the end of four decades of drug wars first unleashed under Preside...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Drug Czar Kerlikowske Interviewed in Foreign Policy Magazine

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Drug War goes international in a big way. Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy--a.k.a. the Drug Czar--...
Monday, July 12, 2010

Drug Wars Increase Drug Violence

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 Homicides rise with anti-drug expenditures. In a large review of studies evaluating the association between drug law enforcement and viol...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

White House Releases New National Drug Strategy

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The official press statement. The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 11, 2010 WASHINGTON, DC – Tod...
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Thursday, May 6, 2010

What Would a Genuine Drug War Look Like?

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An essay on biomedicine and the body politic. Millions of addicts in America want effective treatment, and cannot get it. Funds for resear...
Friday, April 2, 2010

No Urine Test for Addiction

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Drug wars never work. The recognition that drug wars create crime is long overdue. More than fifteen years ago, a study of the econ...
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

If You’ve Seen One Drug Czar....

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The language of drug politics. In a May 29 post on his Salon blog, Drug WarRant , Peter Guither deftly deconstructs the language of drug cza...
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