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Drug War
Let’s Save the Word “War” for Actual Wars
When we declare war, we limit our understanding.
As Sessions Ramps Up Drug War, People Inside US Prisons Speak Out
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently announced a policy of maximum penalties for all drug crimes, even low-level offenses.
Trump and Sessions Just Jump-Started the War on Drugs That’s Also a War on Immigrants
Trump and his attorney general are escalating the war on drugs by tying it to their ongoing war on immigrants.
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The Radicals Were Always Right: Now Is the Time to Decriminalize All Drugs
Mass incarceration and the opioid crisis are forcing politicians to consider decriminalizing addiction, advocates say.
“Trying to Build in the Rubble of Neoliberalism”: Michelle Alexander and Naomi Klein on Bringing Movements Together
How do we envision the movements necessary to get beyond the existential threats to the planet and its people?
Javier Valdez and the Drug War That Killed Him
Valdez was a prolific and widely read author.
Opioid Crisis Now Leading Cause of Death for Americans Under 50
Dr. Andrew Kolodny, co-director of opioid policy research at Brandeis University, discusses how Big Pharma contributes to the ongoing opioid crisis.
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Marijuana Victims
Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s Embrace of Duterte’s Deadly War on Drugs in the Philippines
President Rodrigo Duterte has suggested he might impose martial law across the country, after declaring it this week in his native island of Mindanao.
“Repair the Damage From the Drug War”: Susan Burton on a New Way of Life to End Mass Incarceration
Two leading voices in the fight against mass incarceration: Michelle Alexander and Susan Burton discuss Jeff Sessions and the war on drugs.