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Beyond the Drug War (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

Most of the media regard the coy refusal of George W.

The Editors
The Rest of Them Are Clean (Presidential Election 2000, Drug War and Drug Policy, Parties, Politics, Society)

Elizabeth Dole won't break the law.
McCain has scored no coke.
The thought of Hatch with smack or crack
Is palpably baroque.

Calvin Trillin
It's Time for Realism (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: reponses by Peter Kornbluh, Mike Gray and Elliott Currie--and Massing's concluding thoughts.

Michael Massing
Life of a Scandal (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

In mid-October 1996, two months after the publication of Gary Webb's series "Dark Alliance" in the San Jose Mercury News, an extraordinary town meeting took place in Compton, California, o

Peter Kornbluh
Perils of Prohibition (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: the original article by Michael Massing, and reponses by Peter Kornbluh and Elliott Currie--and Massing's concluding thoughts.

Mike Gray
Yes, Treatment, But... (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: the original article by Michael Massing, and reponses by Peter Kornbluh andMike Gray--and Massing's concluding thoughts.

Elliott Currie
Response (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

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Michael Massing
An Old City Seeks a New Model (Healthcare Policy, Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

In early December 1984, an undercover police officer named Marcellus Ward met with a pair of heroin dealers above a candy store in southwest Baltimore.

Joshua Wolf Shenk
Does Europe Do It Better? (Drug War and Drug Policy, Regions and Countries, Society)

Listen to a debate among drug policy advocates and you're likely to hear impassioned claims about the brilliant success (or dismal failure) of more "liberal" approaches in certain European countr

Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter
George Soros's Long Strange Trip (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

Research assistance: David Levinson Wilk.

Russ Baker

Blogs

President Obama: Pardon Weldon Angelos
Take Action

The story of Weldon Angelos speaks volumes about the unfairness of mandatory minimum sentencing.

January 10, 2013
Watching 'The House I Live In' on Rikers Island
Liliana Segura

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki is on a mission to show his Sundance-award winning movie, The House I Live In, to prisoners across the country. On a Friday in December, he went to New Yor}ks biggest jail.

December 21, 2012
In Drug War, Small Victories Are Not the Revolution. Director Eugene Jarecki [VIDEO]
Laura Flanders

November's victories at the ballot box show the drug war is vulnerable. 

December 10, 2012
Why Should Medical Marijuana Providers Die in Prison?
Liliana Segura

Rebecca Richman Cohen met Chris Williams in 2011, while making a documentary about Montana’s medical marijuana law. Today, he faces a mandatory minimum sentence of more than eighty years—and Cohen hopes to tell his story.

November 30, 2012
The NFL’s Coming Conflict on Cannabis
Dave Zirin

Recent referendums raise real questions for what the NFL should be saying about marijuana.

November 29, 2012
It's Time to End the War on Drugs
Katrina vanden Heuvel

The trillion-dollar crusade isn’t making America drug-free—it’s making us the world's most incarcerated population. 

November 20, 2012
Barney Frank, Ron Paul Pressure Obama on New Marijuana Laws
George Zornick

Frank and Paul are asking the federal government to respect new decriminalization laws in the states—while Latin American leaders get involved as well. 

November 14, 2012
GOP Mogul Behind Drug Rehab 'Torture' Centers Is Bankrolling Opposition to Pot Legalization in Colorado
Lee Fang

Mel Sembler, a major fundraiser for Romney, led a drug "treatment” center that was forced to shut down because of allegations of child abuse. 

September 18, 2012
Having AIDS Is Not a Crime: A DC March Demands an End to Discriminatory Police Tactics
Melissa Gira Grant

Outside the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, thousands of activists took to the White House to call for an end to the laws that drive the epidemic.

July 27, 2012
The Pot Making the Prisoners Black
Cord Jefferson

Rational marijuana policy isn’t about getting to smoke joints. It’s about civil rights.

July 27, 2012
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