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Latest News: December 2006
- The
Right Has A Jailhouse Conversion; from New York Times Magazine
(NY), 12/24/06
- Sentencing
Guidelines Face New Scrutiny; from Wall Street Journal (US),
12/26/06
- Women
Are Silent Casualties Of War On Drugs; from North County Times
(CA), 12/24/06
- Former
Cop To Sell Video Showing Drug Users How To Avoid Police Detection;
from Tyler Morning Telegraph (TX), 12/21/06
- Column:
Mercy Plea Travels A Painful Road; from Tampa Tribune
(FL), 12/19/06
- Pot Is
Called Biggest Cash Crop; from Los Angeles Times (CA),
12/18/06
- Tucson
Military Recruiters Ran Cocaine; from Arizona Daily Star
(AZ), 12/17/06
- Column: America's
Other Failed War; from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (AR),
12/17/06
- Clamor
Grows for Freedom for Texas Marijuana Prisoner Tyrone Brown;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 12/15/06
- Editorial:
Could It Be More Clear? from Drug War Chronicle (US),
12/15/06
- The
Other Rocky; from The Nation (US), Jan 2007
- The
Feminization Of Prison; from Pasadena Weekly (CA), 12/14/06
- Editorial:
U.S. Shows Us What Not To Do; from Victoria Times-Colonist
(CN BC), 12/13/06
- The Futility
Of Drug Prohibition; from AlterNet (US Web), 12/13/06
- OpEd:
America's Injustice System is Criminal; from Baltimore Chronicle
(MD), 12/12/06
- [Tyrone
Brown] DA Wants Prisoner's Freedom; from Dallas Morning News
(TX), 12/9/06
- Column:
The Other War We Can't Win; from Seattle Times (WA), 12/11/06
- Incarceration
Nation, by Marc Mauer; from TomPaine.com (US Web), 12/11/06
- Column:
Inmate Is Unstable; The System Is Just Nuts; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 12/10/06
- Editorial:
A Drug Sentence Without Justice; from St. Petersburg Times
(FL), 12/10/06
- A Fresh
Look At The War On Drugs; from Chronicle Herald (CN NS),
12/8/06
- Man
Loses Case, Wins Sympathy; from St. Petersburg Times (FL),
12/7/06
- A Plague
On Both Your Houses; from Boulder Weekly (CO), 12/7/06
- OpEd:
Sand Right To Challenge War On Drugs; from Rutland Herald
(VT), 12/6/06
- Records
In No-Knock Cases Are Poorly Kept; from Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(GA), 12/5/06
- Editorial:
Incarceration Nation; from Journal Standard (IL), 12/7/06
- Top Court
Won't Hear Salt Lake Man's Drug Case; from Deseret Morning
News (UT), 12/5/06
- Video: October 14 National Justice Day Rally, Montgomery,
AL. Courtesy of The PATRICK Crusade.
- Judge
Tosses County's Medical Marijuana Challenge; from North County
Times (CA), 12/7/06
- Legal
Immigrants Can Fight Drug-Related Deportations; from San Francisco
Chronicle (CA), 12/6/06
- Receiver
Rips Prison-Reform Obstructions; from Sacramento Bee (CA),
12/6/06
- OpEd: Hate
To Say I Told You So, But Keep Those Kevlar Jammies Handy; from
Las Vegas Review-Journal (NV), 12/3/06
- Column:
Misguided Drug War Claims Another Victim; from Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(GA), 12/3/06
- Police
Shooting Reunites Circle Of Common Loss; from New York Times
(NY), 12/2/06
- Press
Release: World AIDS Day: Advocates Call to Lift Federal Ban on
Syringe Exchange; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 12/1/06
- State's
Attorney Critical Of Drug Laws; from Rutland Herald (VT),
11/30/06
- Column:
150 Years Of Precedents Paved Way For Blatant Police Brutality;
from Chicago Sun-Times (IL), 11/30/06
Latest News: October 2006
- Column:
Badges, Guns And Another Unarmed Victim; from New York Times
(NY), 11/30/06
- How Do
We Win The War On Drugs? from The Herald (UK), 11/29/06
- OpEd: 50
Shots; from Wall Street Journal (US), 11/29/06
- Atlanta
Officers Suspended In Inquiry On Killing In Raid; from New
York Times (NY), 11/28/06
- More
Prisons Not Answer, 2 Texas Lawmakers Insist; from Houston
Chronicle (TX), 11/28/06
- Crowd
Unites In Grief, Outrage Over NY Shooting; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 11/27/06
- New
York On Edge As Police Kill Unarmed Man In Hail Of 50 Bullets
On His Wedding Day; from The Guardian (UK), 11/27/06
- OpEd:
Our Lock 'Em Justice Is A Loser; from Houston Chronicle
(TX), 11/26/06
- Thaksin
'Must Be Tried For Deaths'; from Bankhok Post (Thailand),
11/20/06
- Racial
Profiling: It Never Went Away on the New Jersey Turnpike; from
Drug War Chronicle (US), 11/24/06
- Britain's
UKP5.9bn A Year Drug Habit; from The Guardian (UK), 11/24/06
- Shooting
Victim, 92, Shot Officers Five Times; from Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(GA), 11/23/06
- Column:
Pardon More Than The Turkey; from San Francisco Chronicle
(CA), 11/23/06
- Experts
Say Drug War Policies Unsuccessful; from The Eagle (DC
Edu), 11/20/06
- Questions
Surround Fatal Shooting Of Woman, 92; from Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(GA), 11/21/06
- Column:
Just Say No To The Expensive And Ineffectual War On Drugs; from
Pensacola News Journal (FL), 11/22/06
- OpEd: A
War On Two Fronts; from Chicago Maroon (IL Edu), 11/21/06
- Feds
To Probe L.A. Juvenile Detention Conditions; from The NewStandard
(US), 11/16/06
- Column:
Do Drug Warriors Really Think Parents Matter? from Denver
Daily News (CO), 11/19/06
- Sentencing
Panel May Get New Life; from Sacramento Bee (CA), 11/20/06
- Subject
Drug War To The Iraq War Test; from Detroit News (MI),
11/19/06
- Column:
Fundamental Fairness Takes A Powder; from San Francisco Chronicle
(CA), 11/17/06
- An
Open Letter To Bill Bennett By Milton Friedman; from DrugSense
Weekly (US Web), 11/17/06
- Reefer
Madness: Election Roundup; from Austin Chronicle (TX),
11/17/06
- Receiver
Rips Prison Health System, Promises Tough Fixes; from Sacramento
Bee (CA), 11/16/06
- Guarded
Hope For Dope Reform; from Wired News (US Web), 11/15/06
- Prison
System A Threat To U.S., Speaker Warns; from Fayetteville
Observer (NC), 11/15/06
- Dirt And
The Diplomat; from St. Petersburg Times (FL), 11/12/06
- State
Inmate Limit Sought; from Sacramento Bee (CA), 11/14/06
- Editorial:
Prisons Make Unhealthy Cuts On Hepatitis Testing; from Detroit
Free Press (MI), 11/13/06
- Take
Another Crack At That Cocaine Law; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 11/13/06
- Column:
Our Debt To Society; from East Texas Review (TX), 11/10/06
- Column:
Health Nannies; from Boulder Weekly (CO), 11/9/06
- Marijuana,
The Anti-Drug; from CounterPunch (US Web), 11/11/06
- The
Wrong Kind Of Prison Reform; from Los Angeles Times (CA),
11/11/06
- OpEd:
Who Needs A Dictionary To Spot The Bull? from Penticton Western
(CN BC), 11/10/06
- SeagovilleFilings.com:
$450 Million Class Action Lawsuit concerning overcrowding and
abuse at the federal prison at Seagoville, TX.
- Cloudy
Future For Marijuana As A Medicine; from Daily Breeze
(CA), 11/6/06
- Judge Upholds
Aid Pull For Drug Convictions; from The Guardian (CA Edu),
11/6/06
- US Accuses
Venezuela Of Failing To Stamp Out Drugs Trade; from Independent
(UK), 11/3/06
- Pastor
[Haggard] Admits Mistakes, Denies Gay Sex, Drug Use; from Los
Angeles Times (CA), 11/4/06
- Column:
Reefer Madness; from Austin Chronicle (TX), 11/2/06
- Troubled
Troops In No-Win Plight; from USA Today (US), 11/2/06
- The Case
Of Cory Maye; from Reason Magazine (US), 10/1/06
- OpEd:
Our White Brothers; from East Texas Review (TX), 11/1/06
- Editorial:
Not Guilty? Don't Say So; from The Ledger (FL), 11/1/06
- Car
Seizures Draw Criticism; from The Ledger (FL), 11/1/06
- OpEd:
Crime - Are Cells And Bars The Answer? from Vancouver Sun
(CN BC), 11/1/06
- Medical
Marijuana Patients Arrested; from North County Times (CA),
11/1/06
- Column:
The Immoral Majority; from New York Times (NY), 10/31/06
- Authorities:
'Deputy Shaq' Participated; from Casper Star-Tribune (WY),
10/29/06
- Column:
Freedom Territory; Our Government's War On Drugs; from Daily
Nexus (CA Edu), 10/27/06
Latest News: October 2006
- For Zeese,
Third-Party Campaign Is Not A Matter Of Odds; from Washington
Post (DC), 10/29/06
- The
Next Prohibition? from Drug War Chronicle (US), 10/27/06
- The
Fuzzy World Of Terrorism; from Pasadena Weekly (CA), 10/26/06
- Legalising
Drugs Is An Option The World Is Now Considering; from Western
Mail (UK), 10/25/06
- Playing
Politics At School; from The Nation (US), 10/24/06
- Colombia:
Getting Beyond The Stereotype Of The Narco-Trafficker; from Pulse
of the Twin Cities (MN), 10/24/06
- Just Say
Coca; from Newsweek (US), 10/30/06
- HYPHY; from
San Francisco Chronicle (CA), 10/22/06
- Former
Cop Says War On Drugs 'Failed,' Advocates Legalization; from
Good 5 Cent Cigar (RI Edu), 10/24/06
- Agents
Get Prison For Wounding A Smuggler; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 10/20/06
- DEA
Raids Green Cross In Torrance, Makes Seizures; from Daily
Breeze (CA), 10/20/06
- Divided
OR Supreme Court Upholds Restrictions On Police Seizures; from
Statesman Journal (OR), 10/20/06
- Marijuana
Slows Alzheimer's Decline; from Mountain View Gazette
(CN AB), 10/17/06
- Police
Against Prohibition; from Pasadena Weekly (CA), 10/19/0
- Leaders
Debate Plan To Legalize Drugs In Mexico; from San Diego Union
Tribune (CA), 10/18/06
- Expunged
Criminal Records Live To Tell Tales; from New York Times
(NY), 10/17/06
- OpEd:
Do Benefits Of Drug War Outweigh The Costs? from Berkeley
Daily Planet (CA), 10/17/06
- The
Folly Of Anti-Drug Laws; from Kitchener-Waterloo Record
(CN ON), 10/14/06
- Medical
Marijuana Advocate Faces New U.S. Indictment; from New York
Times (NY), 10/14/06
- Doctor
Will Remain In Prison Until Retrial; from Washington Post
(DC), 10/12/06
- OpEd:
The Drug War's Casualties; from
Journal Gazette (IN), 10/4/06
- Pain
Patients, Pain Contracts, and the War on Drugs; from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 10/13/06
- A
War On Drugs Is A War On Ourselves; from UCSD Guardian
(CA Edu), 10/12/06
- Thornton
Suggests Drug Policy; from Daily Campus (CT Edu), 10/12/06
- Colombian
Region Rife With Coca Is Losing Aid From US; from Associated
Press (US), 10/12/06
- Dutch
Conservatives Crack Down On Coffee Shops; from AlterNet
(US Web), 10/12/06
- Legalizing
Pot Makes Budgetary Sense; from Durango Herald (CO), 10/11/06
- OpEd:
Hippie-Hating And Baiting; from Colorado Springs Independent
(CO), 10/5/06
- Up The
Ridge: Enlightening Virginia Prison Film; from RaisingKaine.com
(VA), 9/27/06
- OpEd:
Law Enforcement Is Awry; from Daily Camera (CO), 10/10/06
- Italian
TV Show On Drug-Taking MPs Pulled From Schedules; from The
Guardian (UK), 10/10/06
- State
Prison Crowding Emergency Declared; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 10/5/06
- COHA
Opinion: Drug Wars: Bush Launches Attack On Venezuelan Anti-Drug
Efforts; from Extra! The Magazine of FAIR (US), 10/6/06
- Activist
Says Councilman Demonized Young People; from Oakland Press
(MI), 10/6/06
- More
California Medical Marijuana Raids: The New Status Quo? from
Drug War Chronicle (US), 10/6/06
- Cases
of Immigrants Deported for Minor Drug Offenses Heard at US Supreme
Court This Week; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 10/6/06
- Sentencing:
Federal Bill to Create Criminal Drug Dealer Registry Introduced;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 10/6/06
- War-On-Drugs
Exhibition Starts Free-Speech Battle; from Chicago Tribune
(IL), 10/5/06
- In
Show Of Prisoners' Artwork, It's Redemption That's On Display;
from Washington Post (DC), 10/1/06
- OpEd: Texas'
No-Knock Swat Cops Invade People's Privacy; from The Ranger
(TX Edu), 9/26/06
- Building
A Prison Empire; from Gainesville Sun (FL), 9/24/06
- Police
Against Prohibition; from Los Angeles City Beat (CA),
9/24/06
Latest News: September 2006
- 800 Words:
Just Say Maybe; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 9/24/06
- Column:
Reading The Coca Leaves; from New York Times (NY), 9/23/06
- Farming
For Life, Or Pharmed To Death? from Capital Press (OR),
9/23/06
- Former
Officers Call To End Drug Wars; from Valley Gazette (CT),
9/21/06
- While
Nixon Campaigned, The FBI Watched John Lennon; from New York
Times (NY), 9/21/06
- Redefining
Radicalism; from San Francisco Bay Guardian (CA), 9/20/06
- House
Votes to Require School Districts to Allow Random, Warrantless
Mass Search Policies; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 9/22/06
- Children
Handcuffed In Police Drug Raid, Dog Killed; from Times Union
(NY), 9/20/06
- Book
Review: Help At Any Cost By Maia Szalavitz; from DrugSense
Weekly (US Web), 9/21/06
- Police
Used High-Tech Surveillance At Festival; from Lawrence Journal-World
(KS), 9/15/06
- OpEd:
Cops, Like Kids, Lured By Drug-War Profits; from Daily Southtown
(IL), 9/13/06
- ONDCP:
Senate Panel Recommends Cutting Salaries at Drug Czar's Office;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 9/15/06
- Cocaine
Airways; from Orange County Weekly (CA), 9/14/06
- Editorial:
Seizing Property On A Suspicion; from Jacksonville Daily News
(NC), 9/14/06
- The
Latest Dope: Drug Warriors Are Playing Into The Taliban's Hands;
from Reason Online (US Web), 9/13/06
- Freedom
Walkers Take Steps For Prisoners; from WALB News (GA),
9/10/06
- Follow
the Prison Money Trail; from In These Times (US), 9/4/06
- Northern
Border Long And Tough To Secure; from The Missoulian (MT),
9/11/06
- DEA
Revises Rule On Prescribing Painkillers; from Washington Post
(DC), 9/7/06
- Editorial:
Call It What You Want; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 9/8/06
- Law
Enforcement Against Prohibition Stirs the Waters in Ireland;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 9/8/06
- Drug
Use In Middle Age Increases; from USA Today (US), 9/8/06
- A White
House Drug Deal Gone Bad; from Slate.com (US Web), 9/7/06
- Drugs
While Pregnant: Dangerous Vs. "Endangerment"? from
Salon.com (US Web), 9/6/06
- Column:
Poppy-Rich Afghanistan Is No Model; from San Francisco Chronicle
(CA), 9/6/06
- Column:
The War Isn't Working So Is It Now Time To Consider The Unthinkable
And Legalise All Drugs? from Irish Independent (UK), 9/3/06
- Rule
of Law: Wrong Door; from Wall Street Journal (US), 9/2/06
- OpEd:
Parallels Between Prohibition And Today's Pot Laws; from Napa
Valley Register (CA), 9/2/06
- Vice
Squad; from Hartford Advocate (CT), 8/31/06
- Living
on Katrina Time: Lost in Louisiana's Gumbo Gulag; from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 9/1/06
- Brazilian
President Signs New Drug Law - No Jail for Users; from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 9/1/06
- Feds
Take Aim At 'Guru Of Ganja'; from Oakland Tribune (CA),
8/31/06
- California
Prison Reform Plan Falls Short; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 8/30/06
- Report: Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids
in America; from The Cato Institute, 7/17/06
Latest News: August 2006
- US
Police Chief's Warning Over Doomed Drugs Policy; from Irish
Examiner (UK), 8/28/06
- DEA Raises
Cash To Fight Pot Issue; from Rocky Mountain News (CO),
8/28/06
- No More
Prison Threat for Renee Boje After Feds Accept Symbolic Plea;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 8/25/06
- Column:
The Czars' Reefer Madness; from New York Times (NY), 8/26/06
- DEA's
Khat Sting Stirs Up Somali "Culture Clash"; from Los
Angeles Times (CA), 8/22/06
- Column:
America's Other Perpetual War: $40 Billion A Year To Deny Defeat;
from Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL), 8/21/06
- It's
Not Always Easy Being Green Party Candidate; from Hartford
Courant (CT), 8/27/06
- Asset
Forfeiture: Federal Appeal Upholds Seizure of Cash Despite Lack
of Drugs; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 8/25/06
- Conviction
Of McLean Pain Doctor Overturned; from Washington Post
(DC), 8/23/06
- Column:
The Courts Should Not Be Doing Social Work; from Ottawa Citizen
(CN ON), 8/18/06
- 3
New Prisons, More Treatment Programs Are Sought; from Austin
American-Statesman (TX), 8/19/06
- Column
One: A Law Unto Herself; from Los Angeles Times (CA),
8/22/06
- Column:
Losing Battle; from Calgary Sun (CN AB), 8/21/06
- Confronting
Confinement: A Report Of The Commission On Safety And Abuse In
America's Prisons, 6/8/06
- 'Give
Them Dirty Needles And Let Them Die'; from AlterNet (US
Web), 8/17/06
- "Beyond
Zero Tolerance" Conference Aims to Provide New Paradigm
for Educators; from Drug War Chronicle (US)
- US Feds
Bust Major Mexican Trafficker, Expect Violence, Continued Drug
Trafficking as Result; from Drug War Chronicle (US)
- Colombia's
Coca Survives U.S. Plan To Uproot It; from New York Times
(NY), 8/19/06
- Column:
It's Time To Quit Being So Blindly Stupid About Addictions; from
Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC), 8/18/06
- Press Release: PLN
Wins FOIA Lawsuit Against Federal Bureau Of Prisons; from Prison Legal News (WA), 6/27/08
- "Weeds"
(Hollywood Does Cannabis); from Anderson Valley Advertiser
(CA), 8/16/06
- Three Ways
(Out Of 100) That America's Screwing Up The World; from AlterNet
(US Web), 8/15/06
- 55-Year
Sentence Sparks Fight; from Deseret Morning News (UT),
8/13/06
- Drug-Terror
Connection Disputed; from Washington Post (DC), 8/12/06
- Nevada Conservatives
Against The War On Drugs; from Mother Jones (US), 8/11/06
- Federal
Sentencing Reform Goes NASCAR; from Drug War Chronicle
(US), 8/11/06
- OpEd:
How To Fix Our Broken Prisons; from San Jose Mercury News
(CA), 8/8/06
- US
Defends Opium Policy Despite Afghanistan Violence; from The
Guardian (UK), 8/8/06
- Chipping
Away At Number Of Imprisoned Black Males; from Peoria Journal
Star (IL), 8/6/06
- Addiction's
One-Two Punch; from Peoria Journal Star (IL), 8/6/06
- Plinton
Family Sues UA, Sheriff; from Akron Beacon Journal (OH),
8/4/06
- Pot Shots
[San Diego MMJ Raids); from Los Angeles City Beat (CA),
8/3/06
- The Long
Road Home; from Boulder Weekly (CO), 8/3/06
- Racial
And Gender Disparity; from St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN),
8/2/06
- Editorial:
Sometimes They Tell the Truth; from Drug War Chronicle
(US), 8/4/06
- OpEd:
Save Prisons For Those Who Belong There; Save Money; from Amarillo
Globe-News (TX), 7/26/06
- Column:
Ten Years Ago... And Last Friday; from Anderson Valley Advertiser
(CA), 8/2/06
- OpEd:
'War On Choice' Victimizes World; from State Press (AZ
Edu), 8/1/06
- Editorial:
Class Matters; from The Guardian (UK), 8/1/06
- Justice
Department To Hire More Prosecutors For Border Areas; from North
County Times (CA), 7/31/06
Latest News: July 2006
- Blaming
Pregnant Women; from TomPaine.com (US Web), 7/17/06
- OPED: War
On Drugs - Time For Boomers To 'Fess Up; from Philadelphia
Inquirer (PA), 7/31/06
- OPED:
Rethink Tactics of Drug War? (1 of 2) from Des Moines Register
(IA), 7/30/06
- OPED:
Rethink Tactics of Drug War (2 of 2) from Des Moines Register
(IA), 7/30/06
- Column:
Anti-Drug Programs Leave Out A Key Point; from Des Moines
Register (IA), 7/29/06
- How Legalizing
Drugs Will End The Violence; from AlterNet (US Web), 7/28/06
- Bipartisan
Group of US Senators Introduce Bill to Reduce Cocaine Sentencing
Disparities; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 7/28/06
- The
State Should Target The Real Drug Kingpins; from NewsDay
(NY), 7/26/06
- Businessman
Sees 'Felony Franks' A Way To Help Ex-Offenders; from WBBM
Newsradio 780 (IL), 7/25/06
- OpEd:
Medical Marijuana Is Here To Stay; from San Diego Union Tribune
(CA), 7/25/06
- Why
I Wrote: I Cried, You Didn't Listen; from New American Media
(US), 7/18/06
- Cartoonist Mark Fiore's most recent work, Sammy L'il
Shiv attacks the US Prison Industrial
Complex. For more, visit: www.markfiore.com.
- Column:
Law And Order Dilemma: Who Checks Prosecutors? from Houston
Chronicle (TX), 7/24/06
- Legalize
Drugs: An Open Letter To Sen. Orrin Hatch; from Washington
Times (DC), 7/24/06
- OpEd:
The Real Reason Behind Overcrowding In Prisons; from Contra
Costa Times (CA), 7/23/06
- Drug
War Police Tactics Endanger Innocent Citizens; from Fox News
Network (US), 7/21/06
- OpEd:
Collateral Damage; from Gainesville Sun (FL), 7/16/06
- What Would
Jesus Do? Religious Communities as Drug Reform Allies; from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 7/21/06
- Editorial:
Do We Really Want to Help Kids Find the Drug Dealers? from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 7/21/06
- Prison
Love; from Los Angeles City Beat (CA), 7/20/06
- Vicente
Fox, Drugs, And The Secular Theocratic State; from Jewish
Press (US), 7/19/06
- School
Officials Promote Fast Track to Incarceration; from NewStandard
News (US), 7/14/06
- Jail Won't Cure Drug Users; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 7/17/06
- State Prisons' Special Master Won't Be a Slave to
System; from Los Angeles Times, 7/16/06
- American Prison Labor Blossoms As We Criticize Chinese
Slave Labor; from WatchingTheWatchers.org (US Web), 7/15/06
- Devastated, Hopeless Iraqis Turn To Drugs To Escape
Violence, Poverty; from Associated Press (Int,l), 7/17/06
- Hatch
Role In Helping Man Avoid Drug Term Hits A Nerve; from Salt
Lake Tribune (UT), 7/11/06
- Judge
Oks Settlement For Stratford Police Raid; from Post and Courier
(SC), 7/11/06
- Chill
of Govt. Surveillance Grips Activists, Muslims; from NewStandard
News (US), 7/11/06
- Let's
Try Being Tough On The Causes Of Coca; from The Guardian
(UK), 7/10/06
- New
Wave Of 'Fetal Protectionism' Decried; from Lexington Herald-Leader
(KY), 7/10/06
- Abolishing
the Prison Industrial Complex; from Recording Carceral Landscapes
(US), Jul 2006
- 1700 Overdoses
That Didn't End In Death; from Sydney Morning Herald (AUS),
7/8/06
- Medical
Marijuana: Five Arrested, 13 Dispensaries Raided by DEA in San
Diego; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 7/7/06
- Stigma
Of Prison Scandal Could Stretch Past Crosby; from St. Petersburg
Times (FL), 7/6/06
- OpEd:
The Disparity On Crack-Cocaine Sentencing; from Boston Globe
(MA), 7/5/06
- La Tuna
Inmates Say Prison Doesn't Follow Procedures; from El Paso
Times (TX), 7/3/06
- Fight
Against New Women's Prison Takes on Incarceration Habit; from
NewStandard News (US), 7/5/06
- With
Jobs To Do, Louisiana Parish Turns To Inmates; from New York
Times (NY), 7/5/06
- Inmates
At Work On Prison Cells; from Pueblo Chieftain (CO), 7/2/06
- Plight
Of Blacks A 'Silent Cancer'; from Rockford Register Star,
6/30/06
- Drug
War Targets Women; from Las Vegas City Life (NV), 6/29/06
- OpEd:
One Soccer Mom's Take On The Drug War; from Denver Post (CO),
6/28/06
- DA Will
Soften Stance On Certain Crimes; from Hollister Free Lance
(CA), 6/27/06
- OpEd:
He Is No Outlaw; from Times of India (India), 6/27/06
Latest News: June 2006
- Text
Of House Debate On Hinchey-Rohrabacher; from US Congressional
Record, 2005-2006
- Hundreds
Of HIV-Positive Inmates Released; from Galveston County Daily
News (TX), 6/25/06
- Column:
In Sore Need Of An Outbreak Of Sanity On Corrections; from Houston
Chronicle (TX), 6/25/06
- An
Anti-Addiction Pill? from New York Times Magazine (NY),
6/205/06
- Drug Policy
Reformers Take Hits From Lawmakers; from Tri-Valley Herald
(CA), 6/29/06
- A Crusading
DA And Drug Reform; from Gay City News (NY), 6/22/06
- Editorial:
UN Drug Report Unintentionally Argues Against Prohibition; from
Vancouver Sun (CN BC), 6/28/06
- OpEd:
The Wrong Way To Fight The War On Drugs; from Boston Globe
(MA), 6/27/06
- Prisons
In Crisis, Governor Declares; from San Francisco Chronicle
(CA), 6/27/06
- OpEd:
Illegal Drugs The Real Cause Of Violence; from Cincinnati
Enquirer (OH), 6/26/06
- Jail Time
Sought For Drug Offenses; from Orange County Register
(CA), 6/26/06
- Editorial:
If All Searches Are Reasonable The State Has Absolute Power;
from Journal-Inquirer (CT), 6/23/06
- Column:
Prison For You, Yes, But Not For Me; from Union Leader
(NH), 6/25/06
- Rain
On Rainbow Family Event; from Rocky Mountain News (CO),
6/23/06
- Jail Plan
Would Release Some Offenders; from Tyler Morning Telegraph
(TX), 6/23/06
- Federal
Agents And Prison Guards In Shootout At FCI Tallahassee, FL; from Tallahassee Democrat (FL), 6/22/06
- Convict
Nation, by Silja J. A. Talvi;
from In These Times (US), 6/1/06
- OpEd:
Undo This Legacy Of Len Bias's Death; from Washington Post
(DC), 6/24/06
- OpEd: Zarqawi
And The Drug War; from DrugSense Weekly (US), 6/23/06
- The
Wrong Man; from Washington Post (DC), 6/25/06
- Drug
War's 'Dirty Little Secret'; from Des Moines Register
(IA), 6/25/06
- Column:
Bias' Unintended Legacy; from Chicago Tribune (IL), 6/21/06
- New
Lobbying Group Presses For Medical Marijuana Use; from The
Hill (US DC), 6/21/06
- Giving
A Chance To The Newly Sober; from Los Angeles Times (CA)
- Column:
The SWAT Syndrome, by John Tierney; from New York Times
(NY), 6/20/06
- Memo
to Arnold: Step Carefully in the Prop. 36 Minefield; from HuffingtonPost.com
(US Web), 6/19/06
- Editorial:
'No Knock' Raids Potentially Tragic; from Burlington Times-News
(NC), 6/19/06
- Some Not
Surprised By Robeson Lawmen's Arrests; from Fayetteville Observer
(NC), 6/18/06
- Editorial:
Police No Longer Need To Knock; from Las Vegas Review-Journal
(NV), 6/19/06
- Tsar Admits:
We've Lost The War On Drugs; from Scotland On Sunday (UK),
6/18/06
- OpEd:
Criminal Record Locks Up Second Chances; from Spokesman-Review
(WA), 6/18/06
- Among
Whites, Imprisoning Drug Users a Minority Opinion, Survey Finds;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 6/16/06
- High
Court Backs Police No-Knock Searches; from Associated Press
(US), 6/15/06
- Mexico
Grapples With Wave Of Drug Violence, Pressure From Us On How
To Fight It; from San Diego Union Tribune (CA), 6/15/06
- OpEd:
Giambra Is Right; New Approach Needed To Drug War; from Buffalo
News (NY), 6/15/06
- Editorial:
Prohibition - Causing Drug Violence? from The Charleston Gazette
(SC), 6/10/06
- Rising
Prison Problems Begin To Trickle Into Society; from USA Today
(US), 6/12/06
- Inside
The Afghan Drug Trade; from Christian Science Monitor
(US), 6/13/06
- Reefer
Madness [Rainbow Farm]; from Salon.com, 6/13/06
- OpEd:
Shocking Tolerance Of Drug-War Casualties; from Daily Southtown
(IL), 6/9/06
- Gideon's
Silence: Whatever Happened To The Right To Counsel? from Slate.com
(US Web), 3/31/06
- Senate
Committee Takes Up Medical Marijuana; from Asbury Park Press
(NJ), 6/8/06
- OpEd:
Second Opinion - The New Drug War; from Metrowest Daily News
(MA), 6/8/06
- Drug
Warriors Push Eye-Eating Fungus; from In These Times (US),
6/6/06
- Plan
For Troops On Border Stirs Memories Of Death In Redford; from
Ft. Worth Star-Telegram (TX), 6/4/06
- Dissenters
From The Drug War; from Western Standard (Canada), 6/5/06
- Judge
Says Christian Prison Program Must End; from Des Moines Register
(IA), 6/3/06
- The Top
10 Things I Know About Drugs; from AlterNet (US Web),
6/2/06
- "The
Doctor Wasn't Cruel Enough" from Reason Online (US
Web), 6/2/06
- Feature:
Drug Reformers Take the Third Party Path in Bids for Statewide
Office; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 6/2/06
- Utah
Prison Chiefs Say No To Drug Law; from Salt Lake Tribune
(UT), 5/29/06
- Column:
'Broken Windows' And Social Pseudoscience; from Winnipeg Free
Press (CN MB), 5/27/06
- Column:
Canada Wages Phoney War On Crime; from Winnipeg Free Press
(CN MB), 5/25/06
- Vanishing
Medical Marijuana Gap; from Niagara Gazette (NY), 5/31/06
- In Desperate
Times, Daughter Is Currency; from Dallas Morning News
(TX), 5/31/06
- Misguided
DEA's Witch Hunt Leaves Patients Hurting; from Albuquerque
Tribune (NM), 5/30/06
- Green
Party Candidate Stares Down The Odds; from Stamford Advocate
(CT), 5/29/06
Latest News: May 2006
- Halliburton's
Immigrant Detention Centers; from
The
Progressive (US), 4/18/06
- Tuskegee
Sheriff Candidates: "Nall Right On Drug Policy"; from
Nall for Governor (AL), 5/25/06
- The Case
For Legalising Drugs; from Trinidad Express (Trinidad),
5/28/06
- Column:
Rainbows End; from Metro Times (MI), 5/23/06
- Editorial:
Making Sure Drugs Kill; from Drug War Chronicle (US),
5/26/06
- DHS
Secretary Chertoff Vows To Seize Assets, Prosecute Employers
Caught Hiring Illegals; from Idaho Observer (ID), May
06
- Mexican
Attempt At Drug Reform Frustrated; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 5/23/06
- New
Orleans Plans First Criminal Trials Since Katrina; from USA
Today (US), 5/23/06
- Column:
America Behind Bars; from Seattle Times (WA), 5/22/06
- Editorial:
Unfinished Reform; from Times Union (NY), 5/18/06
- Jails
'R' U.S.; from Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL), 5/23/06
- Perspective:
A Double Standard for People in Pain? from TruthOut.org
(US), 5/23/06
- OpEd:
Racism Still The Biggest Reason For Blacks Behind Bars; from
Cincinnati Enquirer (OH), 5/22/06
- Pedaling
For Pot; from Colorado Daily (CO Edu), 5/21/06
- The Journey for Justice Song,
by Amy, Julie, Jess and Molly: The Heartland Crofters (mP3 Format) -- Visit
The Journey For Justice
- The
US Gulag Prison System; from ZNet Magazine
(US Web), 4/21/06
- WALL Prisoner Tyrone Brown
featured in Dallas Morning News: Scales of Justice Can Swing Wildly, by
Brooks Egerton, 4/23/06
- Number
Of Women Inmates Up 757% Since 1977; from Buffalo News
(NY), 5/21/06
- Trial
Run Yields Native-Justice Breakthrough; from Edmonton Journal
(CN AB), 5/21/06
- Editorial:
Prison-Based Gerrymandering; from New York Times (NY),
5/20/06
- OpEd:
Controlling Drugs - China's Lesson For The World; from Arab
News (Saudi Arabia), 5/14/06
- Editorial:
Border Fears; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 5/19/06
- A Tale of
Two District Attorneys; from CounterPunch (US), 5/17/06
- More
Politics Than Policy; from San Antonio Express-News (TX),
5/18/06
- Editorial:
The False Threat Of Liberal Drug Laws; from Chicago Tribune
(IL), 5/18/06
- Column:
Maybe The Terrorists Have Won Already; from Rocky Mountain
News (CO), 5/12/06
- Editorial:
DEA Agent Shoots Foot Twice; from San Antonio Express-News
(TX), 5/16/06
- Column:
Demon Drug Propaganda Doesn't Cut It Anymore; from Providence
Journal (RI), 5/10/06
- Anti-Drug
Overdose? from Los Angeles Times (CA), 5/15/06
- Babies
Behind Bars; from San Francisco Chronicle (CA), 5/14/06
- The Long
Arm Of The Drug War; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 5/12/06
- Prison
E-waste Recycling; from NewStandard News (US), 5/11/06
- Victims
of the Justice System; from Los Angeles Times (US), 4/9/06
- Politics:
Albany DA Ignites Firestorm By Calling Drug War "Lucrative";
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 5/12/06
- Feature:
DEA Montreal Confab Greeted by Counter-Conference; from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 5/12/06
- Feature:
"2020 Group" Begins Building an International Drug
Reform Movement; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 5/12/06
- Column:
Charting A Path To A Better Life When The Prison Gates Open;
from Seattle Times (WA), May 06
- Column:
War On Drugs Makes Life Harder For Pain Sufferers; from New
York Times (NY), 5/6/06
- Group
Decries Racism In The Justice System; from Press & Sun
Bulletin (NY), 5/7/06
- Pot Smuggler's
Story Is Movie Material; from Kitchener-Waterloo Record
(CN ON), 5/6/06
- Wearing
A Warning On Snitches; from Charlotte Observer (NC), 5/6/06
- Editorial:
Onward Goes The War On Drugs; from San Francisco Chronicle
(CA) , 5/5/06
- '$oros'
D.A. Drug Outrage; from New York Post (NY), 5/4/06
- Breaking
the Political Taboo: The War on Drugs is a War on Ourselves;
from Counterpunch (US), 5/3/06
- Feds
to Fund Unproven Faith-based Prisoner 'Rehab' from NewStandard
News (US), 5/3/06
- Drug Policy
'Headed In Right Direction,' U.S. Prosecutor Says; from Globe
and Mail (Canada), 5/3/06
- Legalizing
Drugs: The Grand, Scary Scope, from Globe and Mail (Canada),
5/2/06
- Limbaugh
Reaches Settlement In Drugs Case; from Associated Press
(US), 4/29/06
- Courageous
Politician Speaks Truth On Drug War; from St. Louis Post-Dispatch
(MO), 5/1/06
- Man
Pleads Guilty To Bogus Crime; from Spokesman-Review (WA),
5/1/06
- Senators
Ask US Drug Czar To Explain Rosy Reports; from Reuters News
(US), 4/28/06
- Feds Not
Above Fake News Reports; from Burlington Free Press (VT),
4/25/06
Latest News: April 2006
- Column: Drugs
Beget Thugs In The Americas; from Wall Street Journal
(US), 4/28/06
- In
Mexican Drug War, A Desperate Measure; from Washington Post
(DC), 4/30/06
- Hundreds
Turn In Marijuana Users In Boulder; from Summit Daily News
(CO), 4/30/06
- Angry
[West Point] Cadets Riot Following Drug Search; from Times
Herald-Record (NY), 4/27/06
- [Rush]
Limbaugh Arrested On Felony Charge For Prescription Drug Fraud;
from Sun-Sentinel (FL), 4/29/06
- OpEd: Today's
Version Of Prohibition Is Just As Bad For America; from Chicago
Sun-Times (IL), 4/28/06
- DPA
"City Strategy" Takes Aim at Drug War in the Nation's
Capital; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 4/28/06
- What Kind
of Card is Race? from Znet Magazine (US Web), 4/26/06
- 'Ganja
Guru' Rosenthal's Conviction Overturned; from Oakland Tribune
(CA), 4/27/06
- Seized
Assets Pay For Surveillance Cameras; from Chicago Sun-Times
(IL), 4/26/06
- Democracy
Behind Bars; from AlterNet (US Web), 4/25/06
- Column:
Potheads And Sudafed; from New York Times (NY), 4/25/06
- Editorial:
Prison Gouging; from Detroit Free Press (MI), 4/24/06
- Earth Day was April 22, 2006 - Download our flyer for your local Earth Day Events! (PDF Format)
- Politics
Drives Wedge Into Prison System; from San Francisco Chronicle
(CA), 4/21/06
- Million
Marijuana Marches Loom, As Do Perennial Questions About Their
Utility; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 4/21/06
- FDA Dismisses
Medical Benefit From Marijuana; from New York Times (NY),
4/21/06
- Battle
For Prison Funds Brewing; from Bluefield Daily Telegraph
(WV), 4/20/06
- Experts
Defining Mental Disorders Are Linked To Drug Firms; from Washington
Post (DC), 4/20/06
- Giambra
Advocates Legalizing Drugs; from Buffalo News (NY), 4/20/06
- China
'Selling Prisoners' Organs'; from BBC News (UK), 4/19/06
- Criminal
Justice: Pain Just Beginning; from Daily Business Review
(US), 12/19/05
- Activists
Also Get A Hearing Downtown; from Spokesman-Review (WA),
4/18/06
- New
Challenge to U.S. Drug Policy in Andes; from Washington Post
(DC), 4/18/06
- US
Giving More Coca Eradication Planes To Colombia; from Boston
Globe (MA), 4/17/06
- Throwing
Away Money; from Denver Post (CO), 4/14/06
- Inmate's
Calls To Cost Less; from Spokesman-Review (WA), 4/16/06
- Falmouth
Sting Leaves A Mark; from Cape Cod Times (MA), 4/16/06
- Counties
Try To Find Solutions For Crowded Jails; from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
(WA), 4/15/06
- Column:
US-Style Laws Aren't The Answer To US-Style Gangs; from Ottawa
Citizen (CN ON), 4/14/06
- Europe:
Scottish Cops Say Legalize It All; from Drug War Chronicle
(US), 4/14/06
- Test Program
Lets Convicts Check In; from Spokesman-Review (WA), 4/14/06
- Mcgill's
Grass Gets Greener; from Mcgill Daily (CN QU Edu), 4/11/06
- Drug
Treatment Program Lowers Jail Population; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 4/13/06
- All I Am
Saying Is Give Drugs A Chance; from Kentucky Kernel (KY
Edu), 4/12/06
- It's Time
To Exorcise The Idea That Addicts Are Possessed By Demons; from
Daily Telegraph (UK), 4/11/06
- Ban On
Drugs 'Is Big Part Of The Problem' from Cambridge Evening
News (UK), 4/6/06
- Liquid
Assets: PAML Seeing Fast Growth In Drug Screening; from Spokesman-Review
(WA), 4/9/06
- Coca
Crisis Hangs Over Peru Elections; from The Observer (UK),
4/9/06
- Officer
Posing As High Schooler Leads Drug Sting; from Boston Globe
(MA), 4/8/06
- Feds
Try To Seize Gold-Capped Teeth From Drug Suspects' Mouths; from
Associated Press (US), 4/8/06
- Editorial:
Drug Proposal Misses The Mark; from Daily Iowan (IA Edu),
4/7/06
- Drug
War Termed A Failure; from Providence Journal (RI), 4/7/06
- OpEd:
Drug War Claims 2 More Victims; from Daily Southtown (IL).3/16/06
- As
the Well Runs Dry, Texas Drug Task Forces Ride Off Into the Sunset;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 4/7/06
- Cops,
School District to Pay Students $1.2 Million in Goose Creek Raid
Settlement; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 4/7/06
- Scientist
Probes Teen Brains For Addiction Clues; from MSNBC.com
(US), 4/3/06
- Snitch
Testimony On Trial; from The Advertiser (LA), 3/30/06
- OpEd:
Jail Not Answer In Drug Battle; from Calgary Herald (CN
AB), 4/4/06
- Leaders
Protest Federal Drug Law; from Daily Tar Heel (NC Edu),
4/3/06
- Hearing
Debates Merits, Drawbacks Of 'Drug-Free Zones'; from New Haven
Register (CT), 3/25/06
- OpEd:
Just Say No; from Denver Post (CO), 4/2/06
- Tough
Sentence Is Death Sentence For Small-Time Crime; from Wisconsin
State Journal (WI), 4/1/06
- Court Rejects
Felon 'Poll Tax'; from NewStandard (US), 3/31/06
- Fortress
America - 2006; from DrugSense Weekly (US Web), 3/31/06
- Lawsuit
Causes School To End Use Of Dogs For Random Drug Searches; from
Daily News (WA), 4/1/06
- Column:
King Canute at the Border; from New York Times (NY), 4/1/06
- Debunking
"Amotivational Syndrome" from CounterPunch (US
Web), 4/1/06
Latest News: March 2006
- I
Wouldn't Change My Healthy Lifestyle If Drugs Were Legal; from
FreedomsPhoenix.com (US Web), 3/31/06
- John Stossel:
Rethinking The Drug War; from TownHall.com (US Web),
- Man Guilty
In School Drug Case Receives Mandatory Two Years; from Berkshire
Eagle (MA), 3/24/06
- Anti-Snitch
Campaign Riles Police, Prosecutors; from USA Today (US),
3/29/06
- Drug
Case Falls Apart: Complaints About Officers Allowed; from Baltimore
Sun (MD), 3/27/06
- The Informant,
The Lies, The Injustice - And A Life Lost; from Philadelphia
Daily News (PA), 3/24/06
- How
President Bush Has Unified Latin America; from San Francisco
Chronicle (CA), 3/26/06
- 18 Year
Old Gets 2 Years in Prison for Selling One Joint; from ScribbyWorld
(US Web), 3/25/06
- $75m
Bounty On Colombian Rebels In US War On Drugs; from Belfast
Telegraph (UK), 3/24/06
- Blowing
Smoke: Why Random Drug Testing Doesn't Reduce Student Drug Use;
from Slate.com (US Web), 3/21/06
- Lawsuit:
ACLU and Students Sue Feds Over College Aid Ban for Drug; from
Drug War Chronicle (US), 3/24/06
- Limits
Placed On Searches In Shared Homes; from Knight Ridder News
(US), 3/23/06
- US Prison
Industry: Big Business Or A New Form Of Slavery? from San
Francisco Bay View (CA), 3/8/06
- Doubts
Spread About Drug-Free School Zone Law; from Associated Press
(US), 3/23/06
- The War
On Kids; from CounterPunch (US Web), 3/18/06
- Wrong
Man, Wrong War; from National Review (US), 3/13/06
- Plight
Deepens For Black Men, Studies Warn; from New York Times
(NY), 3/20/06
- The Misuse
of SWAT: Paramilitary Policing in the Drug War; from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 3/17/06
- When It
Comes to Drug Laws, the Jokes End; from New York Times,
3/14/06
- Drug Money
Wins Olympics; from Chicago Defender (IL), 3/13/06
- State
Drug Reform Law Needs To Reform ... Itself; from Newsday
(NY), 3/14/06
- Editorial:
Drug War's Futility, Failure; from Colorado Springs Gazette
(CO), 3/13/06
- OpEd: Private
Prisons Not Proper Solution For Corrections; from Montgomery
Advertiser (AL), 3/10/06
- Column:
War On Drugs Is Producing Casualties, But Not Victories; from
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), 3/12/06
- How
'Go Ask Alice' Became 'Just Say No'; from San Francisco Chronicle
(CA), 3/12/06
- Federal Prisons
Bureau To Grow IT Business; from Government Computer News
(US), 3/8/06
- War On
Drugs: Elusive Victory, Disputed Statistics; from Reuters
(Wire), 3/7/06
- Police
Defend Drug Sting At School As A Deterrent; from Press-Enterprise
(CA), 3/6/06
- Thousands
of Federal Cases Kept Secret; from Associated Press (NC),
3/5/06
- Drug
Wars Being Fought At Home; from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
(WI), 3/5/06
- Methamphetamine
Propaganda; from Slate.com (US Web), 3/3/06
- Drug
Informant Accused In Deaths To Be Extradited; from Dallas
Morning News (TX), 3/3/06
- The
Drug Crisis, by Harry Browne; from DrugSense Weekly (US),
3/3/06
- Editorial:
The Wrong Lessons; from Daily Press (VA), 3/2/06
- Meth
Bill To Help Valley? from Modesto Bee (CA), 3/3/06
- BC
Pot Activist Says 60 Minutes Will Show His Real Self;
from Globe and Mail (Canada), 3/3/06
- Celebrity
Mouth: Fox Bloviator Attacks TV News Legend Walter Cronkite over
Drug War; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 3/3/06
- A
Mother's Battle; from Portsmouth Herald (NH), 3/2/06
- Drug
That Spans The Ages: The History Of Cocaine; from Belfast
Telegraph (UK), 3/2/06
- Bi-State
Effort Answer To Jail Overcrowding; from Spokesman-Review
(WA), 3/2/06
- Pain
Patient: My Drugs Are My Business; from Des Moines Register
(IA), 3/1/06
- Portable
Cocaine Sensor Developed; from PhysOrg.com (US), 2/27/06
- OpEd:
Jailed Cancer Survivor Loses 25 Pounds In Three Weeks; from Las
Vegas Review-Journal (NV), 2/26/06
- Bill
Targets Pregnant Women's Drug Use; from Spokesman-Review
(WA), 3/1/06
- Editorial:
Gleaming New Jail Won't Stay Empty For Long; from Casper Star-Tribune
(WY), 3/1/06
- OpEd:
Prohibition's Lesson; from Berkshire Eagle (MA), 3/1/06
- One-sided
Prison Census Review Sparks Backlash; from NewStandard
(US), 2/27/06
Latest News: February 2006
- A Law's
Fallout: Women In Prison Fight For Custody; from Wall Street
Journal (US), 2/28/06
- Drug
Law's "Failures" Spur Get-Tough Call; from Sacramento
Bee (CA), 2/27/06
- Parents
Criticize School Systems's Drug Testing Plan; from Daily Press
(VA), 2/25/06
- Store
Clerk Meth Sting Challenged as Misguided, Racist; from The
NewStandard (US), 2/24/06
- Prison
Reformer Hopes For Statewide Success; from Charleston Daily
Mail (WV), 2/23/06
- Debt
To Society Is Least Of Costs For Ex-Convicts; from New York
Times (NY), 2/23/06
- National
Policymaker Calls For Student Drug Testing; from North County
Times (CA), 2/23/06
- 40 Years
Of Reefer Madness; from Dover-Sherborn Press (MA), 2/23/06
- The Investigation
Of Dr. Denney; from Anderson Valley Advertiser (CA), 2/22/06
- Tulia:
Race, Cocaine And Corruption In A Small Texas Town; from Scotland
On Sunday (UK), 2/19/06
- Column:
Musings About The War On Drugs; from Wall Street Journal
(US), 2/21/06
- Frontline:
The Meth Epidemic (Review); from Miami Herald (FL), 2/15/06
- Other
Air Marshals Implicated; from Houston Chronicle (TX),
2/17/06
- Marijuana
Defendant Claims He Was Targeted; from Herald-Palladium
(MI), 2/20/06
- Police
Misconduct: A Preponderance of Perjury; from The Muckraker
Report (US Web), 2/17/06
- The
Cost of Prisons; from Sojourners Magazine (US), Feb 2006
- Army Accepts
Crime In Recruits; from Baltimore Sun (MD), 2/14/06
- A
Better Strategy Against Narcoterrorism; from AlterNet
(US Web), 2/14/06
- Foes Fume
and Flee as Drug Reform Reaches Out to Conservatives; from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 2/16/06
- Reject The
War On Drugs; from Baltimore Chronicle (MD), 2/15/06
- Lack
Of Public Defenders May Free Accused Felons; from USA Today
(US), 2/14/06
- U.S.
Double Standard Not Understood Abroad; from Oklahoma Daily
(OK Edu), 2/14/06
- Humanists
Enter Fray over Drug Control Strategy; from American Humanist
Ass. (US), 2/8/06
- Undercover
Agent Let Off The Hook; from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI),
2/6/06
- Third-Party
Candidate's First-Class Issue; from Hartford Courant (CT),
2/12/06
- Some
Immigrants Meet Harsh Face of Justice; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 2/12/06
- War
On Drugs - Is It Really 'Right'? from Newsday (NY), 2/12/06
- Reinventing
Criminal Justice; from Washington Post (DC), 2/11/06
- Coca
Tea, Please! from The Technician (NC Edu), 2/9/06
- OpEd:
Schools, Society And Drugs; from Willits News (CA), 2/3/06
- Column:
Down From The High; from Reason Online (US Web), 2/8/06
- Column: Czars
And Tripe Forever; from Denver Post (CO), 2/9/06
- Most
Doctors Mishandling Teen Drug Tests; from HealthDay News
(US Web), 2/9/06
- Editorial:
Find Alternatives To Prison; from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
(WI), 2/7/06
- Turning
In Parents Takes 'Guts'; from Kentucky Post (KY), 2/7/06
- Supporters:
Pasco County Man's Case Shows Unfairness Of Drug War; from Herald Today (FL), 2/8/06
- Drug
Czar Seeks To Expand Registries; from USA Today (US),
2/8/06
- College
Financial Aid Rules Loosened; from USA Today (US), 2/7/06
- Al Lewis,
95, Dies; Portrayed Grandpa On 'The Munsters' from New
York Times (NY), 2/5/06
- A Glimpse
Inside The San Francisco Hall Of Justice; from CounterPunch
(US Web), 2/4/06
- Column:
It's No Time For Reefer Madness; from The Record (CA),
2/1/06
- Afghan
Opium: License To Kill; from Asia Times Online (Web),
2/2/06
- Senate's
Drug Bill Tweaks Die In House; from Anchorage Daily News
(AK), 2/2/06
- Census Bureau,
Activists Debate How and Where to Count Inmates; from Washington
Post (DC), 1/30/06
Latest News: January 2006
- Police
Dog Bites Middle School Student During Special Presentation;
from WorldNow (US Web), 1/30/06
- Meth
Bill Proposes Sweeping Reforms; from
Spokesman-Review (WA), 1/17/06 -- More
WA State Activism
- Community
Protests Meth Prosecution Of Indian Store Owners; from Ledger-Enquirer (GA) & Drug War Chronicle (US), 1/13/06
- Dear
Drug Dealers, ... ; from Columbia
Journalism Review (NY), 1/26/06
- T-Shirts
Illustrate Divide; from San Francisco Chronicle (CA),
1/29/06
- Study
Claiming Methamphetamine is Overrunning Hospital Emergency Rooms
Fails to Withstand Scrutiny; from Drug War Chronicle (US),
1/27/06
- Editorial:
Unintended Consequences Of The War On Drugs; from San Francisco
Chronicle (CA)
- The Trouble
With Tough Love; from Washington Post (DC), 1/29/06
- His
Cup Runneth Over With Annoyance; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 1/29/06
- A Greener
Side Of Politics; from Daily Campus (CT Edu), 1/25/06
- Judge
Orders Woman's Prison Term In Heroin-Death Case Cut In Half;
from Sarasota Herald-Tribune (FL), 1/24/06
- Editorial:
Scope Of Authority; from Ft. Worth Star-Telegram (TX),
1/24/06
- Morales
Likely To Cut Ties To U.S. Antidrug Efforts; from Philadelphia
Inquirer (PA), 1/22/06
- Column:
Sex, Lies And Oxycontin; from New York Times (NY), 1/24/06
- Groups
Want To Oppose County's Medical Marijuana Lawsuit; from North
County Times (CA), 1/25/06
- Opinion:
Mandatory Minimum Prison Sentences Don't Work; from Oakville
Beaver (CN ON), 1/20/06
- American
Justice: You're Guilty When Charged; from Human Events Online
(US Web), 12/23/05
- Potent
Mexican Meth Floods In As States Curb Domestic Variety; from
New York Times (NY), 1/23/06
- Party
Of Pain; from New York Times (NY), 1/21/06
- Ranks
Of Women In Wisconsin's Prisons Grow; from Post-Crescent
(WI), 1/15/06
- Wiretap
Whistleblower Or DEA Dupe? from Nashville Scene (TN),
1/19/06
- Anatomy
Of A Drug Craze; from Village Voice (NY), 1/18/06
- Questioning
US Arrest Statistics; from Christian Science Monitor (US),
1/18/06
- Without
Our Freedoms, Nothing Is Left To Lose; from Northwest Herald
(IL), 1/18/06
- Comes
Now Acomplia; from Anderson Valley Advertiser (CA), 1/18/06
- Oehlert:
Winning The Drug Peace; from Iowa State Daily (IA Edu),
1/17/06
- Editorial:
Keeping in Touch With a Parent in Prison; from New York Times,
1/14/06
- Unbelievable
Drug Hype And Its Mythic Little Pieces; from DrugSense Weekly
(US), 1/13/06
- Editorial:
Government Harasses Us Again; from Whidbey News-Times
(WA), 1/11/06
- Reconstruction
And The War On Drugs; from Gainesville Sun (FL), 1/8/06
- Alito Hearings
Yield Inconclusive but Mostly Bad Forecasts for Drug War Issues;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 1/13/06
- Editorial:
Drugs And Racial Discrimination; from New York Times (NY),
1/12/06
- Column:
To Solve The Gun Problem, Overhaul Our Drug Policy; from Nelson
Daily News (CN BC), 1/10/06
- Column:
Government, Media Efforts Ineffective Anti-Drugs; from Daily
Bruin (CA Edu), 1/10/06
- Column:
Let's Get Serious About Relieving Chronic Pain; from New York
Times (NY), 1/10/06
- Deport Pot
'Refugee,' Federal Lawyer Asks; from Globe and Mail (CAN),
1/10/06
- Editorial:
When Police Won't Play 'Knock, Knock'; from Las Vegas Review-Journal
(NV), 1/10/06
- Column:
What Do We Learn About Drugs From Public Service Announcements?
from New Haven Register (CT), 1/5/06
- Reform
The Reforms; from New York Times (NY), 1/8/06
- Justices
To Say When Police Can Enter Private Home; from New York Times
(NY), 1/7/06
- Public
Corruption - Will Mordida Put Bite On Arizona? from East Valley
Tribune (AZ), 1/6/06
- More
Attention Should Be Paid To County Prisons; from Centre Daily
Times (PA), 1/5/06
- Top 10 Drug
War Stories; from Austin Chronicle (TX), 1/6/06
- Man Says
He Was Mistakenly Targeted In Drug Raid; from Waukesha Freeman
(WI), 1/4/06
- Column:
Crime Is More Puzzling Than Rocket Science; from Ottawa Citizen
(CN ON), 1/4/06
- The Big
Chill - Inserting The Dea Into End-Of-Life Care; from New
England Journal of Medicine (MA), 1/5/06
- Spice
Of Life - Cannabis; from The Statesman (India), 1/1/06
- Justice,
Texas Style; from AlterNet (US Web), 12/31/05
- Lawsuit
Accuses Drug Firms Of Role In Meth-Related Killing; from The
Oregonian (OR), 12/28/05
- Cartel Wooing
Mexico's Military; from San Jose Mercury News (CA), 12/27/05
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