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Reason
May 2006
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Blow for Injustice Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town, by Nate Blakeslee. This book points out that the scandal of Tulia is the scandal of the war on drugs.   |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Gene Callahan & William Anderson |
The Roots of Racial Profiling Why are police targeting minorities for traffic stops? |
Salon.com
August 2, 2001
Jared Manasek |
Smoke signal Police in London's gritty Brixton neighborhood are losing the war on drugs, so the police chief is experimenting with not enforcing cannabis laws. |
Salon.com
February 22, 2000
Michael Massing |
The elephant in the room Presidential candidates are silent on the failure of the U.S. war on drugs. |
Reason
March 2001
Nick Gillespie |
The 13th Step Even some drug war opponents buy into its lies... |
Reason
June 2008
Radley Balko |
'30 Years of Failure' A conversation about the war on drugs with Ed Burns, co-creator of The Wire. |
TIME Asia
May 30, 2011
Andrew Marshall |
Drugged Out Northern Laos was once notorious for opium, and its derivative, heroin. Together with Thailand and Burma, this mountainous region makes up the Golden Triangle, which once provided at least half of the world's opium supply. |
Reason
April 2004
Anderson & Jackson |
Washington's Biggest Crime Problem The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution. |
| AskMen.com |
The War On The War On Drugs Mexico enacted a controversial law Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging free government treatment for drug dependency. |
Salon.com
May 3, 2000
Carina Chocano |
The Whitney Houston rules The hypocrisy of America's marijuana laws is highlighted by the glamorous singer's non-arrest after she's found with a half-ounce of pot in an airport. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Ryan Grim |
The Drug Czar's High Math How phony statistics about cocaine prices hide the truth about the war on drugs. |
Reason
January 2001
Michael W. Lynch |
America's Most Dangerous Politician I've been in New Mexico less than 10 minutes when I realize that no ordinary politician rules the Land of Enchantment... |
Reason
January 2002
Glenn Garvin |
A Splendid Little Drug War Tragedy, farce, and fake brass cojones south of the border: two new books illuminate the growing ugliness of a War on Drugs that is rapidly losing its metaphorical status... |
Reason
December 2001
Jacob Sullum |
Drugs and Thugs The U.S. Subsidy for Terrorists: "going after the illegal drug trade" is what allows terrorists to fund their operations with profits inflated by prohibition... |
Reason
September 2004
Maia Szalavitz |
Dr. Feelscared U.S. drug warriors put the fear of prosecution in physicians who dare to treat pain. While the OxyContin panic does not seem to have deterred addicts, it has scared doctors. |
Salon.com
December 20, 2000
Jeff Stark |
Hollywood kicks the habit In the scorching new film "Traffic," director Steven Soderbergh captures the hypocrisy -- and tragedy -- of the nation's unwinnable war on drugs... |
Salon.com
January 5, 2001
Daniel Forbes |
New Mexico thumbs its nose at the war on drugs A panel convened by Gov. Gary Johnson calls for the legalization of marijuana and a shift in focus from penal measures to treatment for drug offenders... |
AskMen.com
June 29, 2003
Bernie Alexander |
Worldwide Marijuana Sanctions This article explores the way the justice systems of different countries, such as the Netherlands, Mexico and Thailand, deal with crimes involving marijuana |
Mother Jones
Jan/Feb 2000
Peter Klebnikov |
Heroin Heroes The United States propped up the KLA in the Kosovo conflict. With Milosevic gone, and no one in control, the former freedom fighters are now transforming the province into a major conduit for global drug trafficking. |
Salon.com
July 9, 2001
David Horowitz |
Cops are not to blame Who is responsible for the recent killings of blacks in Cincinnati? Liberals and "civil rights" crusaders... |
Salon.com
November 1, 2000
Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Killer cops The slaying of actor Anthony Dwain Lee by a black officer is evidence that many black cops have the same prejudices as their white colleagues... |
Salon.com
October 12, 2000
Arthur Allen |
Drug war politics The presidential candidates have not widely touted their plans to deal with drug abuse. Is it because of their own suspect histories? |
Salon.com
September 29, 2000
Sarah Ferguson |
Keeping an eye on protesters International authorities are sharing information -- not all of it accurate -- about anti-globalization activists... |
Reason
April 2008
Jacob Sullum |
No Bad Drugs Two books on drug use in America offer conflicting opinions and further emphasize the arbitrary distinctions at the root of drug prohibition. |
BusinessWeek
August 26, 2010
Jens Erik Gould |
In Mexico, a Call to Legalize Drugs Mexico is publicly debating the idea of legalizing drug use to weaken the cartels. It would be an effective step only if the U.S. did the same. |
Salon.com
June 29, 2002
Ian Rothkerch |
"What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has" David Simon, creator of the searing new HBO series "The Wire," on why even the best cop shows are phony and our anti-drug mania amounts to a permanent war against the underclass. |
Reason
July 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Drug Control Begets Gun Control The violence in Mexico is caused by prohibition, not firearms. |
Wired
May 2005
Noah Shachtman |
Spycam Force Chicago's street cops have a new kind of backup: a point-and-click surveillance network tied to a citywide crime-fighting database. |
Salon.com
January 10, 2000
Andy Dehnart |
Is being hooked a choice? A new book argues that all addictions are a matter of free will, even heroin and coffee. |
Salon.com
April 14, 2001
Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Cincinnati's killer cops Black leaders want the feds to investigate the city's trigger-happy police. They shouldn't hold their breath... |
Reason
September 2005
Jacob Sullum |
Data: Pot Bust If you have any lingering doubts about the political establishment's hypocrisy when it comes to drugs, consider this: Marijuana arrests reached an all-time high during the administration of the first acknowledged pot smoker to occupy the White House. |
Reason
April 2002
Jacob Sullum |
Pot Stops In the United States, it's clearly not true that no one gets arrested for smoking pot anymore. But it looks like that will soon be the case in Britain, home of Europe's harshest drug laws... |
Salon.com
August 14, 2000
Jesse Walker |
War on protesters The militarization of police strategies on display this convention season has cops fighting demonstrators, not crime. |
Salon.com
October 12, 2000
Gary Kamiya |
Reefer madness America's surreal hypocrisy about recreational drugs has reached the full-blown Dali stage... |
Reason
May 2008
Ed Burns |
Rewiring the System The author offers three reforms that he believes would improve the American criminal justice system. |
Reason
April 2002 |
Letters Kill the Messenger... Drugs of Choice... Drug War Defectors... etc. |
Reason
November 2002
Joyce Lee Malcolm |
Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S. |
Salon.com
February 15, 2001
Tom McNichol |
Hey, wanna smoke some Muggles? Whoever came up with the "street" drug names in the White House drug office must have scored some radical Dinkie Dow... |
Salon.com
August 18, 2000
Fred Branfman |
"The drug war is a dismal failure" Bill Maher calls for legalization, and says parents should drug-test their kids if they want to. A talk with the man who defines politically incorrect. |
CIO
July 1, 2001
Beth Stackpole |
To Catch a Thief CIOs are moving integrated criminal justice systems to the top of the priority list. But even with political support, funding is problematic... |
Salon.com
July 16, 2002
Greg Harrison |
Lawmakers addicted to the quick fix Drug legislation like the proposed RAVE Act does more to promote illicit drug use than discourage it. |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
Top 10: Drug Lords What follows is a list of the top 10 drug lords based on an amalgam of their influence, innovation, notoriety, and legend. |
Reason
March 2003
Jacob Sullum |
High Road Is marijuana a "gateway"? |
Reason
June 2003
Jacob Sullum |
"H" The surprising truth about heroin and addiction |
Salon.com
March 29, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
When the jailhouse is far from home Kids with parents behind bars share the pain of incarceration. |
IDB America
June 2004
Charo Quesada |
The People's Police Why the residents of Bogota have come to love their police force, after years of suspicion and resentment. |
Popular Mechanics
November 28, 2006
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
SWAT Overkill: The Danger of a Paramilitary Police Force This guest editorial from a law professor and instapundit.com blogger argues that overaggressive tactics and surplus military gear have turned some police units into a dangerous menace. |
CIO
February 15, 2004
Richard Pastore |
Taking IT to the Street How the Chicago Police Department used technology to fight crime and become the first Grand CIO Enterprise Value Award winner. |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2010
Brian Orelli |
A Faster Pathway to Drug Approvals A thinktank called the Pacific Research Institute has proposed letting drugs approved by the European Medicines Authority onto the market in the U.S. before the Food and Drug Administration has approved the drugs. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Congress Sets Bad Precedent With AVANIR What happened to free markets? |
