Truthout
Drug War
Is America Ready to Legalize Marijuana?
Advocates in Congress say a shift from criminal enforcement to taxation could add $100 billion to the federal budget.
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Securing the Homeland Against Marijuana
Measured by the numbers, the greatest border threat to the US is not legal in Washington and Colorado.
Fueled by War on Drugs, Mexican Death Toll Could Exceed 120,000 As Calderon Ends Six-Year Reign
New stats shed grim light on Calderon's bloody reign.
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Of Plagues and Prisons: Two Films Everyone Should See
Films depicting the drug war and AIDS crisis may surprise progressives and should be required viewing.
The People Vs. the War on Drugs: Filmmaker Tackles the “Predatory Monster“
In the stunning "The House I Live In," filmmaker Eugene Jarecki has made a film about the expansive and many-tentacled topic of the drug war.
Law Enforcement Officials Call for an End to “The War On Drugs”
Jim Gierach a former Assistant Stateu2019s Attorney of Cook County, Illinois and Richard Van Wickler superintendent for the Cheshire County, New Hampshire Department of Corrections call for the legalization …
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Colombia’s Displaced People Speak Out in New Oral History Collection
Forget the debate about whether the personal is political: these stories annihilate the distinction altogether.
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Anti-Drug War Caravan Comes to the Midwest, Heads East
Washington spends billions to incarcerate people for drug crimes, has criminalized Latinos and African-Americans, but the US is still the biggest drug market in the world, and violence is …
Introduction to Truthout on the Mexican Border Series
Exposing the unofficial intentions of the US war on drugs in Latin America and its deadly impact.
Why and How to End the War on Drugs
With so many problems in the world today u2013 global economic crisis, climate change, a corrupt political system, growing inequality and entrenched injustice u2013 why make ending the War …