Trump Plans To Double-Down On Mistake Of The War On Drugs
By y Phillip Smith for AlterNet - In a sharp break with the Obama administration, which distanced itself from harsh anti-drug rhetoric and emphasized treatment for drug users over punishment, President...
View ArticleThe Context Of Trump’s ‘Vile Aggression’ Against Venezuela
By Staff for Telesur. On Monday, the U.S. launched its latest diplomatic attack on Venezuela by officially putting Vice President Tareck El Aissami on a sanctions list reserved for “drug kingpins”...
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Thousands Demand End To Killings In Duterte’s Drug War
By Staff of Al Jazeera - Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the Philippine capital of Manila to denounce President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, as they marked the death...
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Don’t Blame Addicts For America’s Opioid Crisis. Here Are The Real Culprits
By Chris McGreal for The Guardian - America’s opioid crisis was caused by rapacious pharma companies, politicians who colluded with them and regulators who approved one opioid pill after another. Of...
View ArticleRecovering From The War On Drugs: National Expungement Week October 20-27, 2018
For decades the Black community has been heavily targeted by the war on drugs which resulted in the disenfranchisement of many families of color and the destruction of Black communities nationwide. Now...
View ArticleLegal Weed Is Great, But Black And Brown Communities Can’t Be Left Behind
In March 2017, Illinois State Rep. Kelly Cassidy and Sen. Heather Steans began co-drafting the Tax & Regulate Cannabis like Alcohol bill. In the nearly two years since, Chicago NORML, a local...
View ArticleMexico: One Failed Drug War Does Not Justify Another
Donald Trump called upon “Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth. We merely await a call from your great new president!”...
View ArticleAs The Global War On Drugs Fades Away, The Only People Who Benefited Were...
America shows signs of emerging from the century-long shadow of drug prohibition, with marijuana leading the way and a psychedelic decriminalization movement rapidly gaining steam. It also seems as if...
View ArticleLet’s Reject The Violent Vs. Nonviolent Crime Dichotomy
November’s election saw criminal legal system and drug policy reform win big at the polls. Oregon became the first state to decriminalize all drugs, and voters overwhelmingly passed other reforms to...
View ArticleAmerica’s Drug Wars
Fifty years ago, on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon stood before the White House press corps, staffers at his side, to announce “a new, all-out offensive” against drug abuse, which he denounced...
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