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Houston's Dirty Drug War: Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update from Drug War Chronicle
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Friday, July 9, 2010. Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update from Drug War Chronicle. Drug War Chronicle - world’s leading drug policy newsletter. Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update. Printer Friendly Version Email this Article. From Drug War Chronicle, Issue #639, 7/9/10. By Bernd Debusmann, Jr. Monday, June 28. Thursday, July 1. Friday, July 2. Saturday, July 3. Tuesday, July 6. In Tamaulipas, police arrested a bodyguard who worked for the governor on allegations that he also worked for a drug cartel&...
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Houston's Dirty Drug War: First Drug User Union Forms in San Francisco from Drug War Chronicle
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Saturday, May 1, 2010. First Drug User Union Forms in San Francisco from Drug War Chronicle. First Drug User Union Forms in San Francisco. Http:/ stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/630/san francisco drug user union. While we haven't quite chosen our main campaign, we've been talking about what we would ideally like San Francisco to look like, about having a safe place to inject, and about having a safe place to consume other drugs, too," said Alexandra Goldman, the organizer for the group. "Within a couple...
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Houston's Dirty Drug War: Prohibition: Drug War is a Failure, Associated Press Reports from the Drug War Chronicle
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Saturday, May 15, 2010. Prohibition: Drug War is a Failure, Associated Press Reports from the Drug War Chronicle. Prohibition: Drug War is a Failure, Associated Press Reports. Http:/ stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/632/associated press AP declares drug war failure. The AP even got drug czar Gil Kerlikowske to agree. "In the grand scheme, it has not been successful," Kerlikowske said. "Forty years later, the concern about drugs and drug problems is, if anything, magnified, intensified.". 20 billion to fight ...
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Houston's Dirty Drug War: June 2011
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Thursday, June 30, 2011. 38,000 Dead in Mexico Drug War Since 2006. Published on StoptheDrugWar.org (http:/ stopthedrugwar.org). Mexico Drug War Update. Created 2011/06/22 - 6:35pm. By Phillip Smith [1], June 22, 2011, 06:35pm, (Issue #689 [2]) Posted in: Border [3]Mexican Drug War [4]News Brief [5]Police Corruption [6]Police/Suspect Altercations [7]Turf Wars [8]. Last Wednesday was a bloody day in Nuevo Leon, and last weekend was a bloody one in Michoacan. And those are just the high-lights. In Matamoro...
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Houston's Dirty Drug War: Mexico Drug War Update - Calderon Kills 36,000 of His Own People
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Thursday, February 24, 2011. Mexico Drug War Update - Calderon Kills 36,000 of His Own People. Published on StoptheDrugWar.org (http:/ stopthedrugwar.org). Mexico Drug War Update. Created 2011/02/23 - 9:22pm. By Phillip Smith by Bernd Debusmann, Jr. Cash generated by drug prohibition buys lots of guns in Mexico (Image via Wikimedia)Thursday, February 10. Friday, February 11. Saturday, February 12. Sunday, February 13. In Tamaulipas, 18 cartel gunmen were killed [13] during a series of armed clashes betwe...
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Houston's Dirty Drug War: Jimmy Carter in the NY Times
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Thursday, June 23, 2011. Jimmy Carter in the NY Times. June 16, 2011. Call Off the Global Drug War By JIMMY CARTER. These ideas were widely accepted at the time. But in the 1980s President Ronald Reagan and Congress began to shift from balanced drug policies, including the treatment and rehabilitation of addicts, toward futile efforts to control drug imports from foreign countries. Some of this increase has been caused by mandatory minimum sentencing and “three strikes you’re out” laws&...Not only has th...
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Houston's Dirty Drug War: Penalties for Colorado Drug Possession Decrease Under New Law from Drug War Chronicle
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Monday, May 31, 2010. Penalties for Colorado Drug Possession Decrease Under New Law from Drug War Chronicle. Sentencing: Penalties for Some Colorado Drug Possession Decrease Under New Law. From Drug War Chronicle, Issue #634, 5/28/10. But not all drugs. Possession of Rohypnol, ketamine, or methamphetamine would remain a felony punishable by up to six years in prison. The misdemeanor possessors of other drugs, including heroin and cocaine, would face only 18 months. Still, the bill commits $1.5 millio...
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Houston's Dirty Drug War: Texas Now Prosecuting TWO Medical Marijuana Patients from Drug War Chronicle
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Friday, August 20, 2010. Texas Now Prosecuting TWO Medical Marijuana Patients from Drug War Chronicle. Created 2010/08/18 - 11:51pm. By Phillip Smith [1], August 18, 2010, 11:51pm. Two extreme cases from Texas demonstrate why legislation to protect medical marijuana patients there is badly needed. But because police allegedly read a text message on Diaz's seized cell phone advising a friend that he had some great hash and asking if he wanted any, he was instead indicted on the trafficking charge, punisha...
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Houston's Dirty Drug War: January 2011
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Sunday, January 9, 2011. Dirty Cop Stories: Three for Texas! THIS WEEK'S CORRUPT COPS STORIES. Http:/ stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2011/jan/05/weeks corrupt cops stories. It's a Texas trifecta this week, plus a Nashville cop buying guns for the cartels, an ATF agent with sticky fingers, and an upstate New York cop with several bad habits. Let's get to it:. Drug War Issues Police Corruption. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Houston's Dirty Drug War. END the War On Drugs! My speech - click image for full view.