Editorial: Do We Really Want to Help Kids Find the Drug Dealers?
David Borden, Executive DirectorDavid Borden's usual Thursday evening editing session One of this week's drug war news items is a legislative effort in the state of Maine to create a committee to study...
View ArticleMaybe They Just Like the Way it Smells
People are getting wasted on cocaine again. Science Blog reports on data from the University of Florida that may suggest a coming epidemic:read more
View ArticleThis is Not Your Parents' Cocaine
From The Baltimore Sun:The United States and its Latin American allies are losing a major battle in the war on drugs, according to indicators showing that cocaine prices dipped for most of 2006 and...
View ArticleMarijuana Evolves Faster Than Human Beings
Explaining the failure of marijuana prohibition is easy. Sociology, economics, history, and psychology can all help to explain why a safe and popular drug cannot be removed from the market by force....
View ArticleRandom Drug Testing Won’t Save the Children From Heroin
Here’s drug czar John Walters shamelessly using a young woman’s death as an opportunity to plug student drug testing:Heroin killed 19-year-old Alicia Lannes, and her parents say she got the drug from a...
View ArticleDrug Prohibition's Cocaine Traffickers Have Proven Both Vicious and Resilient
Since the beginning of the drug prohibition war, the drug trade has ballooned, spreading violence and corruption across large parts of the globe. Despite billions spent on combating them drug...
View ArticleMaking Sure Drugs Kill: Commission Blames Drug War for Spreading AIDS [FEATURE]
On Tuesday, as the UN's global drug prohibition bureaucracy marked its annual International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking and UN Office on Drugs and Crime head Yuri Fedotov blamed hard...
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