Drug War

Source: au.rd.yahoo.com --- 34 days ago
HANOI (AFP) - Wearing black helmets and police T-shirts, their handguns levelled, a Drug raid team inches along the outside of a compound, throws open the door, spots a man with a gun and opens fire. ...

Source: abcnews.go.com --- 17 days ago
Drug-related violence has killed more than 1,500 on the U.S.-Mexico border. ...

Source: www.nytimes.com --- 18 days ago
Gunmen opened fire on a family gathering on Monday in a tourist town in northern Mexico, killing 13 people. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 20 days ago
The abject failure of Americas intelligence services to broker a deal that could have led to the capture of the leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan can be exposed for the first time today. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 20 days ago
The abject failure of Americas intelligence services to broker a deal that could have led to the capture of the leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan can be exposed for the first time today. ...

Source: www.latimes.com --- 19 days ago
Officers and others wounded across the border are increasingly being transferred to an El Paso hospital. Lorenzo de la Torre Torres was on the cusp of death. ...

Source: healthcare.zdnet.com --- 31 days ago
As the "Drug load" on seniors (and pre-seniors like me) continues to rise, with the increasing possibility of cross-Drug side effects, dehumanized Drug dispensing sounds like an economy I can do without. But a luxury increasing numbers of patients can't afford. ...

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 18 days ago
Gunshot victims of Drug violence in Mexico are being treated in the United States at  tax payers' expense, according to this report from the L.A. Times' Miguel Bustillo. Using the wounding of deputy police chief Lorenzo de la Torre Torres as an example, Bustillo writes: "The only hospital within a 280-mile radius to offer state-of-the-art trauma care, Thomason has become an unwilling treatment center of choice for law enforcement officials and others in the vicinity wounded in Mexico's Drug turf battles. The violence has killed more than 2,000 people this year, and more than double that number in the 20 months since President Felipe Calderon began deploying 40,000 troops across the country to crack down on narcotics trafficking." Meanwhile,  in Mexico City, Ken Ellingwood reports that anti-crime activists in Mexico say they have audio proof that the former attorney general of coastal Tabasco state was in league with Drug traffickers while in office. For more on our Mexico Under Siege series, click here. Click here for more on the Drug trade and here for Mexico. — Deborah Bonello in Mexico City ...

Source: www.boingboing.net --- 21 days ago
From Reason TV: Norm Stamper is a cop who saw it all during his 34 years on active duty. As police of Seattle from 1994 through 2000, he was in charge during violent World Trade Organization protests in the Emerald City. Stamper, who holds a Ph.D. in leadership and human behavior from United States International University, has emerged as one of the most thoughtful and outspoken critics of the War on drugs, which he believes causes untold misery, undermines effective law enforcement, and doesn't begin to pass any sort of cost-benefit analysis. As important, the libertarian Stamper believes that the Drug War—and other wars on the behaviors on consenting adults—does great violence to the idea that we own our bodies. Stamper is the author of the Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing (2005) and now works with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a nonprofit created by former cops to "reduce the multitude of unintended harmful consequences resulting from fighting the War on drugs and to lessen the incidence of death, disease, crime, and addiction by ultimately ending Drug prohibition." Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper on the high costs of the Drug War... ...

Source: www.alternet.org --- 20 days ago
How black Baltimore Drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds. ...

Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 19 days ago
Highly traumatized children living in War-torn Kosovo experienced significant reductions in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when treated with a comprehensive, non-Drug model developed by The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), according to a new study published online in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. ...

Source: www.reason.com --- 21 days ago
Norm Stamper is a cop who saw it all during his 34 years on active duty. As police of Seattle from 1994 through 2000, he was in charge during violent World Trade Organization protests in the Emerald City. Stamper, who holds a Ph.D. in leadership and human behavior from United States International University, has emerged as one of the most thoughtful and outspoken critics of the War on drugs, which he believes causes untold misery, undermines effective law enforcement, and doesn't begin to pass any sort of cost-benefit analysis. As important, the libertarian Stamper believes that the Drug War-and other wars on the behaviors on consenting adults-does great violence to the idea that we own our bodies. Stamper is the author of the Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing (2005) and now works with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a nonprofit created by former cops to "reduce the multitude of unintended harmful consequences resulting from fighting the War on drugs and to lessen the incidence of death, disease, crime, and addiction by ultimately ending Drug prohibition." Click on the image below to watch a 10-minute conversation with Stamper. Go here to listen an audio podcast of the interview. And go here to embed this video on your site, to download HD and iPod-friendly versions, and to get more articles and links about Stamper, LEAP, Hempfest, and Drug policy.     ...

Source: www.reason.com --- 32 days ago
From our August/September issue, Senior Editor Radley Balko looks at the tragic case of Rachel Hoffman, one of the many non-violent, non-threatening Americans killed by the War on drugs. Read all about it here.   ...

Source: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com --- 16 days ago
Yes, this actually happened. And no, the cops aren't apologizing. ...

Source: forums.montrealracing.com --- 14 days ago
---Citation--- Drug War madness *Federal courts took far too long to rule that it's wrong to strip-search a 13-year-old girl suspected of carrying ibuprofen.* By Vera Leone August 11, 2008 *She was a 13-year-old honor student. She may or may not have given her friend... ...

Source: news.sawf.org --- 34 days ago
Wearing black helmets and police T-shirts, their handguns levelled, a Drug raid team inches along the outside of a compound, throws open the door, spots a man with a gun and opens fire. ...

Source: rinf.com --- 26 days ago
Like the Iraq War and the “War on terror”, the so-called “Drug War” is a government contrived “War” based on lies that generates massive profits for a few while causing massive suffering for many. The Drug War is futile by design (and thus never-ending) because it doesn’t “fight” drugs—quite the contrary—it strongly encourages production and distribution [...] ...

Source: www.worldpress.org --- 33 days ago
Though it maintains a positive public relations spin on tourism prospects, the Mexican government realizes serious problems exist with the long-standing reliance on United States tourism. ...

Source: www.disinfo.com --- 29 days ago
Slavery is defined as the act of keeping a person as a piece of property. If you ask the average American if slavery still exists in America, their answer is likely to be no. After watching this video, many will change their minds.As the crack epidemic flooded inner cities across the country, in 1986 Reagan's "Anti-Drug Abuse Act" makes the penalty for crack possession a hundred times harsher than that of powder cocaine. The following year new legislation is passed allowing private corporations to own and operate prisons. Twenty years later over a million non-violent Drug offenders are imprisoned while corporate stocks are traded based on how many prisoners are in the cages. ...