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American
Violet
-- www.americanvioletmovie.com Rachel's
Law On Confidential Informants Takes Effect Wednesday Tampa Tribune (FL), 6/30/09 DEA Agent
Lee Lucas Indicted On Perjury, Civil Rights Charges; Pleads Not
Guilty Plain Dealer (OH), 5/14/09 Tools For Lawyers: Resources For Tackling Informants
In Court The ACLU Informant Project More Snitch News
Two
Judges Target Cocaine Penalties Washington Post
(DC), 6/29/09 OpEd: Retired
Judge Says It Is Time To End War On Marijuana Bellingham
Herald (WA), 3/21/09Houston Chronicle (TX), 1/15/09 -- More
Dissenting Opinions
Blinded Inmate
Lost In Shadows Of Bureaucracy Los Angeles Times
(CA), 6/28/09 Houston
Police Mum On Marijuana Prisoner's Death Raw
Story (US) Americans
For SWAT Reform DRCNet Petition for Responsible
Use of SWAT -- Watch the Video: SWAT Raids: No One Is
Safe . May 2009 -- More Abuse
News
Medical Marijuana
In WA: Bubble Bath And Higher Education Federal
Way Mirror (WA), 6/27/09 Pot Establishing
Medicinal Niche Spokesman-Review (WA), 6/24/09 Feds Indict
Zehm Officer Spokesman-Review (WA), 6/23/09
-- More WA State News &Activism
World
Drug Report 2009 United Nations Office of Drug
Control (UN), 6/24/09 (pdf) The
Failure of the War on Drugs: Charting a New Course for the Commonwealth Massachusetts Bar Association (MA), June 2009 A History Of Drug Prohibition And A Prediction
For Its Abolition And Replacement Transform
Drug Policy Foundation (UK), June 2009The WHO Cocaine
Report The US Didn't Want You To See Transform
Drug Policy Foundation (UK), 6/10/09 -- More
Studies and Reports
Column:
The Dumb And Mean War On Drugs ;San Francisco
Chronicle (US), 5/8/09Justice
Department Urges Equalizing Drug Sentences Washington
Post (DC), 4/29/09Now That He's
Released, Garrison's First Priority is Reform Crack
The Disparity (US), 4/4/09 -- More
on Crack/Powder Cocaine
CNN's IReports: Prison And Your Family Share your stories of Drug War Injustice here! from CNN ,
May 2009
The Released: What Happens To Mentally Ill
Offenders After Prison? PBS Frontline (US),
4/28/09State-By-State
Look At Felon Voting Restoration FindLaw.com
(US), 3/23/09Ex-Felon
Voters Foiled By Confused Officials Truthout.org
(US), 10/8/08 -- More ReEntry
News
2nd Circuit
Clarifies Consecutive Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Law.com (US), 3/11/09US Supreme Court: Guidelines Are Really, Truly
Advisory Sentencing Law and Policy , 1/29/09Federal
Sentencing Study Profile Index Professor David
Zlotnick, Roger Williams University School of Law - More Sentencing News
Meth Survey Says
Risks Seem Not To Deter Teens Associated Press
(US), 1/28/09Editorial: Crystal
Deception Free Libertarian Blog (US), 5/3/08OpEd: Arizona's War
On Meth: What About All The Other Drugs? East
Valley Tribune (AZ), 4/18/08 -- More
Meth News
Visit
The Thousand Kites Project Today! -- Video: About The Thousand Kites Project ; from
YouTube , 9/26/07
Latest News: Posted July 2009
Police
Crackdowns May Encourage Drug Use; from New Scientist (US),
7/3/09
Progressives
Push Against Drug War: Will Dems Listen? from Huffington Post
(US), 7/2/09
This Is
Your War On Drugs; from Mother Jones (US), 7/1/09
Column: Drug
Control Begets Gun Control; from Reason Magazine (US), 7/1/09
Column:
Reality Bites In Drug Debate; from Canberra Times (AUS), 6/30/09
Latest News: June 2009
US Announces Shift In Afghanistan Drug Policy; from
Huffington Post (US), 6/28/09 Coalition
Pushes For Alternatives To More Prisons; from Bradenton Herald
(FL), 6/24/09 American
Nightmare -- Will Foster and Justice, Oklahoma Style; from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 6/26/09 Ending the Death Penalty for Drug Offenses -- Now
Is the Time, Say Human Rights, Harm Reduction Groups; from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 6/26/09 Our
Real Prison Problem: Why Are We So Worried About Gitmo? from
Newsweek (US), 6/15/09 UN World Drug Report Preface Majors On Legalisation;
from Transform Drug Policy Foundation (UK), 6/24/09 UN
Backs Drug Decriminalization In World Drug Report; from Huffington
Post (US), 6/24/09 Top
Court Rules Drug Strip Search Of Teen Was Illegal; from Associated
Press (US), 6/25/09 The
War Against the 'War on Drugs'; from The Nation (US), July
2009 Mexico Moves Quietly To Decriminalize Minor Drug Use;
from Los Angeles Times (US), 6/21/09 OpEd:
Nation Must Recast The War On Drugs; from Times Union (NY),
6/20/09 Wounds
of War: Drug Problems Among Iraq, Afghan Vets Could Dwarf Vietnam;
from Join Together (US), 6/15/09 The
Marijuana Question; from Boston Phoenix (MA), 6/16/09 Momentum
Builds For Broad Debate On Legalizing Marijuana; from Associated
Press (US), 6/16/09 25
Years in Prison for Pot? Drug Warrior Congressman's Idea Is Way
Obsolete; from AlterNet (US), 6/15/09 Column:
Drugs Won The War On Drugs: It's Time To Try Something New; from
New York Times (NY), 6/15/09 California
Inmate Plan Draws Ire; from Wall Street Journal (US), 6/13/09 No
One Deserves To Die By Overdose; from AlterNet (US), 6/12/09 Debate:
Ethan Nadlemann, Director of Drug Policy Alliance and William
Bennett, Drug Czar Under Pres. H.W. Bush; from CNN (US), 6/12/09 Why
We Must Reform Our Criminal Justice System; from Huffington
Post (US), 6/11/09 366-Day
Sentence For Pot Dispensary Owner Charles Lynch; from San
Francisco Chronicle (CA), 6/12/09 Marc
Emery: Why I Will Plead Guilty In A US Court To Distributing
Marijuana; from Georgia Straight (CN BC), 6/11/09 Senate
Passes Bill to Let FDA Regulate Tobacco; from Washington Post
(DC), 6/12/09 Supreme Court Won't Hear Case Of Naples Doctor Convicted
Of Illegally Prescribing Pain Killers; from Naples Daily News
(FL), 6/9/09 How
a Former Prisoner Took On and Took Down Corrections Corporation
of America's General Counsel (and Cheney Pal); from CounterPunch
(US), 6/8/09 OpEd:
Lawyers, Guns And Money: Three Reasons To End The Drug War; from
Los Angeles Times (CA), 6/7/09 Michigan Shuts 8 Prisons To Save $120M; from CNNMoney.com,
6/5/09 Marc
Emery Will Serve Time On Pot Charge; from The Province (CN
BC), 6/5/09 Canada: Mandatory Jail For Drug Crimes Nears Passage;
from Edmonton Journal (CN AB), 6/4/09 Why
Do We Tolerate a Massive Prison System That Produces 70% Recidivism
Rates? from UC Berkeley News (CA), 6/3/09 Why
Parole Does Not Work In California; from UC Berkeley News
(CA), 5/6/09 Redeem The Prison Generation; from Christian Science
Monitor (US), 6/3/09 Man
Serving Three Life Terms for Drug Deal Pins Hopes on Clemency
from Obama; from Fox News (US), 6/2/09 Will
Obama End "War on Drugs"? from Consortium News (US),
5/31/09 Don't
Blame Pot -- There's No Such Thing as a "Gateway Drug";
from AlterNet (US), 5/29/09
Latest News: May 2009
Marijuana And Cocaine Should Be Legalised, Says Latin
American Drugs Commission; from The Guardian (UK), 5/28/09 The
Border Violence Myth; from The Nation (US), 5/27/09 Tim
Cole Act, Raising Compensation For Wrongful Convictions, Is Signed
Into Law; from Star-Telegram (TX), 5/27/09 CA:
Governor's Budget Ends Incarceration for Nonviolent Drug Offenses,
Focuses on Greater Public Safety Priorities; from Drug Policy
Alliance (US), 5/14/09 U.S.
Drug Habit Keeps Mexican War Boiling; from MSNBC (US), 5/26/09 Under
The Radar: US Democrats Overseas Pass Marijuana Resolution; from
Raw Story (US), 5/26/09 Allegations
of Impropriety Surround Parole Commission; from Washington
Post (DC), 5/26/09 Bondsmen
Upset By Policies That Free More People; from Associated Press
(US), 5/25/09 Netherlands To Close Prisons For Lack Of Criminals;
from NRC Handelsblad (NL), 5/25/09 Suspects
in Terror Bombing Plot: Drug Arrests and Prison Conversions;
from New York Times (NY), 5/22/09 New
Drug Czar Ready To Corral Forces; from USA Today (US), 5/21/09 Supreme
Court Upholds California Medical Pot Law; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 5/19/09 U.S.
Military: Heavily Armed And Medicated; from MSNBC.com (US),
5/19/09 Legalization? Now For The Hard Question; from New
York Times (NY), 5/17/09 Ending
The War On Drugs: The Moment Is Now; from Huffington Post
(US), 5/15/09 Free Speech: ACLU Backs Pain Activist's Effort to
Quash Subpoena Issued in Kansas Case; from Drug War Chronicle
(US), 5/15/09 Q&A
With the New Drug Czar; from Wall Street Journal (US), 5/14/09 White House Czar Calls for End to 'War on Drugs';
from Wall Street Journal (US), 5/14/09 "The
War On Drugs" -- More Than Just A Metaphor; from Jack-Booted
Liberal (US), 5/13/09 On
Sen. Webb's Bill Studying Criminal Justice Reform; from Talk
Left (US), 4/30/09 Obama Disappoints Needle-Exchange Advocates; from
San Francisco Chronicle (CA), 5/11/09 Is
the U.S. Finally Going to Get Pragmatic About Drug Policy? from
Dissident Voice (US), 5/9/09 War
on Drugs = War On Us All; from Open Salon (US), 5/9/09 A
Marijuana Tax As The Next New Revenue Stream? from Christian
Science Monitor (US), 5/8/09 Open
Letter to the New "Drug Czar" from Another Top Cop:
End the Drug War; from Huffington Post (US), 5/8/09 Mexico
Decriminalization Bill Passes -- One Step Forward, Two Steps
Back? from Drug War Chronicle (US), 5/8/09 Murder
Charges for Man Who Defended His Home; from Total Criminal
Defense (US), May 2009 Mexico:
"They Kill Our Trees So We'll Grow Their Drugs." from
Truthout (US), 5/5/09 Drugs,
Elephants And American Prisons; from Reuters Blogs (US),
4/30/09 Big
Hearing at the Tenth Circuit Today on Painkiller Issue; from
The Agitator (US), 5/6/09 Governor
Schwarzenegger Says He's Open To Debate On Legal Pot; from San
Francisco Chronicle (CA), 5/6/09 "Tools
For Ending The Drug War" Conference; from New Haven Independent
(CT), 5/4/09 9th Circuit Upholds 10-Year Mandatory Minimum for
Prop 215 Defendant Bryan Epis; from CA NORML (CA), 5/3/09 Column:
More Than A Silly Strip Search; from San Francisco Chronicle
(CA), 5/2/09 Marijuana
At The Tipping Point; from AlterNet (US), 5/1/09
Latest News: Posted April 2009
Should We Blame Bad Apples Or
A Bad Culture For Federal Prosecutors Gone Wild? from Sentencing Law and Policy Blog of Doug Berman
The
Fall of the Presidential Pardon ; from
Truthout (US), 4/2/09
Youth
and the Myth of Post-Racial Society Under Barack Obama; from
Truthout (US), 4/27/09 Column:
A Sensible Halfway Stop To Decriminalizing Drugs? from Washington
Post (DC), 4/26/09 Drugs:
To Legalize or Not; from Wall Street Journal (US), 4/25/09 American
Exception: Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations'; from New
York Times , 4/23/09 Criminal
Justice Tour of Virginia Underscores Need for Reform; from Sen.
Jim Webb's Website (US), 4/23/09 OpEd: Prohibition Spawns Drug Violence; from Creators
Syndicate (US), 4/24/09 Pot Legalization Favored By Some To Stem Violence;
from The Hill (DC), 4/20/09 Chronic
City: The Sad Case of Charlie Lynch; from San Francisco Weekly
(CA), 4/23/09 Pot
vs. Booze: A Former Police Chief's Take; from Alternet
(US), 4/22/09 Supreme
Court Cuts Back Officers' Searches Of Vehicles; from New York
Times (NY), 4/22/09 US
Wants 5-Year Term For Medical Pot Seller; from San Francisco
Chronicle (CA), 4/21/09 Portugal's
Experience Shows Drug Decriminalization Can Work; from Vancouver
Sun (BC CA), 4/18/09 Wasted:
The American Prohibition On Thinking Smart In The Drug War; from
Foreign Policy (US), May 2009 Is
It Possible The War On Pot Is On Its Last Legs? from AlterNet
(US Web), 4/20/09 Obama's
Demented Drug Policy; from The Daily Beast (US), 4/16/09 An
Interview With Jeffrey Miron On How To End Drug Violence; from
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC), 4/18/09 Strip
Searches At School: Discipline Gone Too Far? from USA Today
(US), 4/16/09 FBI
And States Vastly Expand DNA Databases; from New York Times
(NY), 4/19/09 Medical
Marijuana Requests Climb Sky High; from MSNBC.com (US),
4/15/09 A
Criminally Stupid War On Drugs In The US; from Financial Times
(UK), 4/13/09 Mexican
Ambassador: US Should Take Marijuana Legalization Seriously;
from Raw Story (US), 4/12/09 OpEd:
We Tried A War Like This Once Before; from Washington Post
(DC), 4/12/09 Obama's Crossover Dribble On Marijuana Policy; from
CounterPunch (US), 4/10/09 Column: You Can't Tell Us Drug Legalization Is Impossible;
from Ottawa Citizen (CN ON), 4/10/09 Professor
Noam Chomsky On The Drug War; from Citizen Radio (US),
4/1/09 Can
Senator Webb Lead America Out of the Drug War Quagmire? from
OpEd News (US), 4/10/09 Justice
Department Unit Is Again the Focus of Scrutiny; from Wall
Street Journal (US), 4/9/09 Obama:
(Reefer) Madness to Tackle Legalization? from Huffington Post
(US), 4/6/09 Mexican
Drug Lord Officially Thanks American Lawmakers for Keeping Drugs
Illegal; from Huffington Post (US), 3/29/09 States
Pull Back After Decades Of Get-Tough Laws; from Associated
Press (US), 4/4/09 The
War On Drugs Is A War On You; from CounterCurrents.org ,
4/3/09 A
Nation Of Jailbirds; from The Economist (UK), 4/2/09 Editorial:
Formula For Failure; from Herald-Tribune (FL), 4/2/09 Column:
Maybe We Should Legalize Drugs; from Miami Herald (FL),
4/1/09 Column:
Obama Gets Hazy On Reefer Economics; from Chicago Tribune
(IL), 4/1/09 Kids
Do The Darndest Things: Joe Biden's Cocaine Dilemma; from AlterNet
(US Web), 3/31/09
Latest News: March 2009
The Beginning of the End of the Rockefeller Drug Laws;
from Drop The Rock (NY), 3/30/09 Jim
Webb's Courage v. The "Pragmatism" Excuse For Politicians;
from Salon.com (US), 3/28/09 OpEd:
Zero-Tolerance Policies Wreak Havoc On Children's Education;
from Providence Journal (RI), 3/29/09 The
American Gulag; from The Republic (CN BC), 3/26/09 Sen.
Webb Takes On Next Challenge: Nation's Prison System; from Virginian-Pilot
(VA), 3/26/09 Clinton
Says U.S. Feeds Mexico Drug Trade; from New York Times
(NY), 3/25/09 A
Fresh Approach In American War On Drugs; from TheStar.com
(ON, CAN), 3/21/09 Ending
Drug War Abuse; from Freedom's Phoenix (AZ), 3/22/09 Anti-Drug
Effort at Border Is Readied; from Washington Post (DC),
3/22/09 The
Shame Of The Prisons; from TIME Magazine (US), 1/18/71 Medical
Marijuana: Attorney General Holder: No DEA Busts Unless You Violate
State Law; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 3/20/09 Mexico's
Drug War Bloodbath: Guns from the U.S. Are Destabilizing the
Country; from AlterNet DrugReporter (US), 3/18/09 The
Criminal Injustice System; from CounterPunch (US), 3/11/09 Column:
The Drug War Body Count; from San Francisco Chronicle
(CA), 3/16/09 The
Success Of Drug Decriminalization In Portugal; from Salon.com
(US), 3/14/09 Why
We Can't Legalize Drugs; from Stanton Peele's Website
(US), 3/12/09 Meeting in Vienna, UN Commission on Narcotics Drugs
Prepares to Head Further Down Same Prohibitionist Path, But Dissenting
Voices Grow Louder; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 3/13/09 The
Making Of A Narco State; from Rolling Stone (US), Mar
2009 Column:
We Can't Go On Prohibiting Drugs! from Independent (UK),
3/9/09 How
Much Prison Time Is Enough? from Herald-Palladium (MI),
3/8/09 Column:
How To Get Me To Shut Up About Drugs; from Ottawa Citizen
(CN ON), 3/6/09 Researchers Call for Moratorium on Field Drug Test
Kit Testing; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 3/6/09 No
Rockefeller Drug Law Reform In New York Would Be A Real Crime;
from The Post Standard (NY), 3/5/09 Failed States and Failed Policies: How To Stop The
Drug Wars; from The Economist (UK), 3/5/09 This
Revolting Trade In Human Lives Is An Incentive To Lock People
Up; from The Guardian (UK), 3/3/09 Ending
The War On Drugs; from In These Times (US), 3/2/09 Editorial:
The War On What? from Daily Sound (CA), 3/3/09 In
The Heart Of A Drug War; from Ottawa Citizen (CN ON),
3/2/09 Legislation to Overhaul Rockefeller Drug Laws Moves
Ahead Swiftly; from New York Times (NY), 3/1/09 Police
Welcome New Dogs; from Yale Daily News (CT), 2/23/09 Elderly
Offender Home Detention Pilot Program ;
from US Bureau
of Prisons
News
Release: United States Sentencing Commission to Conduct Regional
Public Hearings on Federal Sentencing Policy ; from USSC , 1/14/09
Criminal Justice Recommendations For New Administration
And Congress; from The Criminal
Justice Transition Coalition , 11/6/08
Latest News: February 2009
Justice
Department Will Stop Medical Marijuana Raids, Attorney General
Says; from Raw Story (US), 2/26/09 U.S.
Is Arms Bazaar For Mexican Cartels; from New York Times
(NY), 2/26/09 Business
Lobby: Don't Build Prisons, Release Inmates Instead; from Miami
Herald (FL), 2/19/09 Taxing
Pot Could Become A Political Toking Point; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 2/24/09 Opposing
The Drug Laws They Enforce; from MSNBC (US), 2/23/09 The
War On Drugs Is A Failure; from Wall Street Journal (US),
2/23/09 Documents Reveal Details In Kathryn Johnston Slaying,
Cover-Up; from Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA), 2/22/09 Column:
Obama's Take On The Drug War; from Denver Post (CO), 2/22/09 Pot
Shots: Obama's Mixed Messages on Marijuana; from CounterPunch
(US), 2/4/09 INCB
Calls for More of the Same on Global Drug Policy -- Critics Call
for No More INCB; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 2/20/09 Editorial: Violent Valentine's Days -- There And Here,
Then And Now; from Vancouver Sun (CN BC), 2/18/09 Drug
Violence Spins Mexico Toward 'Civil War'; from CNN (US),
2/19/09 Jailing
Kids for Cash; from TruthOut (US), 2/17/09 The
Drug War Wall Begins to Fall; from Narco News Bulletin
(America), 2/11/09 Golden Girls Behind Bars; from New America Media
(US), 2/9/09 Marchers
Block Mexico-US Border; from BBC News (UK), 2/18/09 Explosion Of Outrage Over Phelps And Marijuana Says
A Lot About America's Idiotic Drug Policies; from Seattle
Times (WA), 2/17/09 Editorial: Reality Intrudes On The Drug War; from
Chicago Tribune (IL), 2/15/09 Prisons
Director Demands Reforms; from Columbus Dispatch (OH),
2/13/09 Eight Arrested In Michael Phelps Case; from WISTV
(SC), 2/9/09 Judges
Tentatively Order Calif. Inmate Release; from Sacramento Bee
(CA),2/10/09 Phelps Story Shows We Should Say No To Drug War; from
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), 2/9/09 A Silver Lining to the Economic Crisis: Less Money
for Prisons; from AlterNet (US), 1/22/09 Bush
Holdovers At DEA Continue Pot Raids; from Washington Times
(DC), 2/5/09 Michael
Phelps: Big Bong Theory; from Washington Post (DC), 2/3/09 Drug
Dealers: Always on My Mind; from Newsweek (US), 1/31/09 Judges
to Serve More Than Seven Years in Prison After Pleading Guilty
in Prison Kickbacks Probe; from Law.com (US), 1/28/09 Incarceration Policy Strikes Out; from ABA Journal
(US), 2/2/09 PBS
To Air Documentary: 'Tulia, Texas'; from Plainview Daily Herald
(TX), 2/2/09 Column:
American Government Losing The 'War On Drugs'; from Daily
Reveille (LA Edu), 2/2/09
Latest News: January 2009
Prisons
Under Pressure -- Corrections Budgets in the Age of Austerity;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 1/30/09 Legal
System Struggles With How To React When Police Officers Lie;
from Wall Street Journal (US), 1/29/09 Rockefeller
Drugs Laws: Ripe for Reform; from The Nation (US), 1/26/09 Editorial:
Drugs Are Bad, But They're Good Enough; from Odessa American
(TX), 1/26/09 American
Kidnapped, Business Torched -- DEA Blamed; from San Antonio
Express-News (TX), 1/25/09 Column:
"Change" You Say? from Somerville News (MA),
1/21/09 Update
on the Ryan Frederick Trial; from The Agitator (US), 1/22/09 Mexican
Drug War Violence Is Going Off The Charts; from AlterNet
(US), 1/21/09 Bongs
Away! from Reason Magazine (US), Feb 2009 Bush
Commutes Ex-Border Agents' Sentences; from MSNBC (US),
1/19/09 The
Plight Of The Innocent; from Helium.com (US), 1/19/09 War
on Drugs: The Collateral Damage; from Culture 11 (US),
1/14/09 Editorial:
The Fourth Amendment Diluted; from New York Times (NY),
1/16/09 Column:
Why Legalizing Drugs Looks Like A Solution To Some In El Paso;
from Dallas Morning News (TX), 1/15/09 Five
Key Areas For Reforming America's Idiotic War On Drugs; from
AlterNet (US), 1/12/09 States Ponder Early Release For Some Prisoners; from
MSNBC (US), 1/10/09 Column:
U.S.-Mexico Drug War: We're Clucking Like Chickens; from El
Paso Times (TX), 1/11/09 Arsenic
Levels Too High in Kern Valley State Prison's Drinking Water;
from TruthOut (US), 12/29/09 Mayor Vetoes Resolution Asking For Debate On Legalizing
Drugs; from El Paso Times (TX), 1/6/09 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- The Top 10 Drug
Policy Stories of 2008; from Drug War Chronicle (US),
1/3/09 Sen.
Webb Sets His Sights On Prison Reform; from Washington Post
(DC), 12/29/08 Voices
From Home; from Courier-Journal (KY), 12/29/08 TV
Show Latest Offbeat Tactic For Sheriff Arpaio; from Arizona
Central (AZ), 12/25/08 Locked
Up for Life: The Case of Clarence Aaron ;
from Fox News (US), Dec 2008
Latest News: December 2008
Little
Blue Pills Among The Ways CIA Wins Friends In Afghanistan; from
Washington Post (DC), 12/26/08 101
and Losing Her Home; from Post-Standard (NY), 12/25/08 OpEd:
Pardons Can Right System's Wrongs; from Mountain View Telegraph
(NM), 12/25/08 Ohio
Bill Seeks To Ease Prison Crowding; from Akron Beacon Journal
(OH), 12/18/08 Could
Obama's Pro-Marijuana Commerce Secretary Spell a Golden Era for
Pot Reform? from AlterNet (US), 12/18/08 Children Forced Into Cell-Like School Seclusion Rooms;
from CNN (US), 12/17/08 Black
Women Struggle in Criminal Justice System; from TruthOut
(US), 12/13/08 Girl Handing Out Cough Drops Accused Of Selling Drugs
At School; from News4Jax.com (FL), 12/16/08 Federal
Law Does Not Trump State Laws On Medical Marijuana; from DrugSense
Weekly (US), 12/12/08 Woman Charged With Killing FBI Agent in Drug Raid;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 12/12/08 CIA
Helped Shoot Down 15 Civilian Planes; from TruthOut (US),
12/11/08 OpEd:
Arrests Can't Win Nation's Drug War; from Arizona Republic
(AZ), 12/5/08 The
Price Of Justice; from The Monitor (TX), 12/7/08 Column:
Waging War Against Drug Laws; from Spokesman Review (WA),
12/5/08 OpEd:
Let's End Drug Prohibition; from Wall Street Journal (US),
12/5/08 State
Universities vs. State Prisons; and Marijuana Legalization as
a Solution; from Informed Comment (US), 12/4/08 US
Mulls Unusual Drug War Tactic as Blackwater Charges Loom; from
TruthOut (US), 12/4/08 Mexico
Drug Cartels Send A Message Of Chaos, Death; from Washington
Post (DC), 12/4/08 FBI
Agents Stage Sting To Snare Corrupt Ill. Cops; from Associated
Press (US), 12/3/08 Repeal
Day Serves as Reminder of the Folly of Our Drug Laws; from FOX
News (US), 12/1/08 Column:
Losing The War; from Minnesota Daily (MN), 11/30/08 27
Years In Prison For A Nonviolent Offense; from AlterNet
(US), 11/26/08 Obama's
Drug Czar Pick: Will We Ever Get Past Having a War on Drugs?
from AlterNet (US), 11/25/08 OpEd:
From My Cell I Scent The Reeking Soul Of US Justice; from Sunday
Times (UK), 11/23/08
