Category Archives: drug policies

John Vibes, Drug War Fail: Govt’s Own Study Shows Fatal Overdoses Have Doubled Over 15 Years read

Johann Hari and Benjamin Ramm, Whose morality? Johann Hari on the future of the ‘war on drugs’ read

Ezekiel Edwards, In the US war on drugs, “equal justice under law” rings hollow read

Air Cocaine: the Wild, True Story of Drug-Running, Arms Smuggling and Contras at a Backwoods Airstrip in the Clintons’ Arkansas read

US crime rates drop but prisoner populations “skyrocket” — on drug charges. read

Derek Rosenfeld, DEA Keeps Head in the Sand; Refuses to Reschedule Marijuana. read

Don Winslow on El Chapo and the heroin crisis. The result of pot legalization? read

Joshua Frens-String and Alejandro Velasco on the political economy of the drug wars, summarizing current issue of NACLAReporton the Americas. ”….one area where the war on drugs has undeniably succeeded: perfecting an economy of death at the nexus between states, militaries, paramilitaries, and capital…..As with the early twentieth-century mafia, Aguayo contends that organized crime in the Caribbean Basin is the “bastard child of capitalism and liberal democracy.” read

John Ehrlichman int. by Dan Baum. ““You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?….Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” read

Thomas Frank: The Clinton policies on drug “crime” destroyed lives. read

The human cost of drug policy. read

John Ehrlichman: Nixon’s drug war was against anti-war hipppies and blacks. “Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” read Dan Baum’s Harper’s article. read

Latin American leaders eem war on drugs “an unmitigated disaster.” read

Johan Hari on myths about deregulation. n

Will Dana: War on drugs “a trillion-dollar failure.” read