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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A Texas DA plays funny with the drug money, so does a Baltimore narc, and cops in Alabama, Georgia, and Oklahoma join the hall of shame.
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DEA Seeks Ebonics Translators to Decipher Black Peoples' Phone Conversations
Ever since NAACP endorsed marijuana legalization in California, there's been a raging debate over whether the drug war targets black communities. Looks like the DEA just settled it.
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Judge Orders Man to Write Report on Why Medical Marijuana is Bad
I guess it’s better than sending them to jail, but forcing offenders to draft political opinions smacks of drug war brainwashing.
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Mexican Army Kills US Citizen on Acapulco-Zihuatenejo Highway
The Mexican military shot and killed a US citizen on a coastal highway Saturday night. They said he attacked them while driving toward them. The consulate wants an investigation.
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Drug Truth 08/23/10
Cultural Baggage * Century of Lies * 4:20 Drug War NEWS * Time 4 Hemp
Cultural Baggage for 08/22/10 29:00 Russ Bellville of NORML re forthcoming conference in Portland + Brendan Kiley reports on 70% of US cocaine has dog dewormer as cut & Neill Franklin re National Black Police Association endorsement of CA prop 19 - the legalization of cannabis
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Century of Lies for 08/22/10 29:00 Clarence Walker, writes about "Trillion Dollar Drug War" + Bob Newland of S. Dakota ungagged & Mary Jane Borden of Drug War Facts: "Does Drug Testing Work?" + Winston Francis with Official Govt TruthLINK: http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3037
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Sun - Dominic Holden a Seattle Journalist re his latest: "Pot Paradox"
Sat - Russ Bellville of NORML re forthcoming conference in Portland Fri - Brendan Kiley reports on 70% of US cocaine has dog dewormer as cut Thu - LEAP Dir Neill Franklin re National Black Police Association endorsement of CA prop 19 - the legalization of cannabis Wed - Bob Newland of S. Dakota, gagged for 1 year by a judge, speaks out against prohibition Tue - Jodi James is a candidate for state Rep in Florida, seeks end to prohibitions Mon - Mary Jane Borden of Drug War Facts: "Does Drug Testing Work?"
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State Receives Second Round of Pot Dispensary Applications
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services is seeking companies to run two medical marijuana dispensaries in York and Washington Counties. The state has received 19 applications from non-profit corporations to operate the dispensaries.
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35 Taken Hostage During Gunfight in Rio
Terrified vacationers were caught up in an intense gunfight between a Rio de Janeiro drugs gang and police, during which gang members invaded a luxury hotel and took 35 people hostage. The gang fought off police with machine guns and rifles as it sought to make its way back to Rocinha, with several gang members fleeing on foot or forcing passing motorists to drive them away. The shootout lasted about 40 minutes leaving the surrounding streets littered with bullet casings.
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Shootout Near School Shocks Mexico
Drug prohibition violence continues to build in Mexico where a gun fight occurred in front of the American School Foundation, the school of choice for the children of many of Monterrey's top businessmen as well as the children of Americans working in the city. The gun battle is the latest sign that Mexico's prohibition violence is spreading to wealthier areas of the country which had long thought themselves immune, and has deepened the fear that has gripped Monterrey in the last few months.
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Kelly Ayotte Supports Persecuting Medical Marijuana Patients
Kelly Ayotte, former attorney general of New Hampshire and the state's leading Republican contender for Senate, wouldn't tell a disabled Navy veteran Manchester GOP Candidate Fair and Straw
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Trevon Cole and his fiance Sequoia Pearce, nine<br>months pregnant at time of shooting
Cop Cleared in Killing of Unarmed Man in Marijuana Raid
A coroner's inquest has found the killing of an unarmed 21-year-old man in a Las Vegas drug raid over 1.8 ounces of pot "justified."
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Jury Finds Officer "Justified" in Trevon Cole Shooting
As predicted, a Las Vegas coroner's inquest into the Trevon Cole shooting found the police officer's actions justified. Only one police officer has been found at fault in a shooting in the procedure's 30 year history. Officer Yant by contrast has shot peole three times, twice fatally.
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President Obama's New Drug War Strategy and the Low-Down on 'America's Trillion Dollar Dope Game'
Houston-area journalist Clarence Walker reflects on the occasion of a trillion dollars spent on the failed US drug war.
No other has spent more money on the dope trade than our own U.S. Federal Government. Even the richest of drug barons and associated players, dead and alive, cannot or could not have competed with the avalanche of paperwork doled out by the government in its fight against this monster. Even the once ruthless - and now dead - Pablo Escobar and his Medellin Cartel, the Cali Cartel or the Mexican Drug Cartels cannot match the money they have earned from the drug trade with the amount the Federal Government has allocated for years in its battle to stem the flow of illegal drugs into America.
And what is the cost for our government in its fight against this narcotics epidemic, a war raged now for some four decades? By all means have a guess, but here is the figure according to The White House: One trillion dollars.
The war on drugs is the longest war the American government has ever fought, longer than World War II, the Cold War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. And even after 40 years, the battle to enforce the laws of the land that prohibits "getting high on dope", this poisonous, addictive trade continues to thrive with the ferocity of an earthquake across the planet. Quite obviously, there is no clear-cut victory in sight.
From the outset, if the intent driving the war on drugs, beginning in 1970 under President Nixon's Administration, was to create a drug-free America, we can see that after the spending of a trillion dollars, culminating in millions of arrests, the creation of a burgeoning health care system with which to effectively treat addicts, and the billions spent on law enforcement's task of arresting drug dealers and the prison system in housing the millions of nonviolent drug offenders alongside thousands who have brought violence and death, the "war on drugs" nevertheless remains a dismal failure.
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Labor, Black Police Groups Endorse Prop 19, Prison Guards Stay Neutral
California's Prop 19 marijuana legalization initiative picked up two important endorsements this week, while the powerful state prison guard union says it is neutral.
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Drug Offenses 1/3 of US Criminal Deportations, DHS Says
The leading cause of deportation under the US government's criminal alien removal program is drug offenses, the Department of Homeland Security reports. Anything from being a cocaine kingpin to smoking a joint can get you deported.
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Costa Rica Is Wary of Plans to Allow U.S. Naval Ships to Dock on Its Shores for Anti-Drug Missions
A U.S. warship capable of deploying more than 1,000 military personnel and dozens of helicopters is headed right for Costa Ricaâs peaceful Caribbean coast. In July, Costa Rica's legislative assembly approved a U.S. request for permission to dock 46 warships and 7,000 military personnel, mostly for narcotics missions in Costa Rican territory, sparking outrage among skeptics of the global war on drugs, including outspoken politicians, pacifists, student groups and everyday "Ticos", who are proud of their countryâs six decades without a military. In short, itâs been an outright public relations disaster.
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Wall Street Drug Use: Employees Giving Up Cocaine for Pot and Pills
According to federal Health Department data, across the U.S., cocaine and marijuana use have been static since 2002. But New York is a hot-bed for drugs, and Manhattanites are particularly heavy users. A review of drug-test data compiled by drug testing firm Sterling Infosystems shows that cocaine is losing its favor among investment professionals, and is being replaced by marijuana.
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In Drug War, the Beginning of the End? (Opinion)
Prohibition lasted from 1920 to 1933 and is now considered a failed experiment in social engineering. Alcohol and marijuana prohibition have much in common: both in effect handed production, sales and distribution of a commodity in high demand to criminal organizations, both filled the prisons (America's population behind bars is now the world's largest), both diverted the resources of law enforcement, and both created millions of scoff-laws. Many prominent people think there is reason to believe that we are at the beginning of the end of the drug war as we know it.
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Bringing Doctors to MMJ Patients: MMAPR Brings Mobile Doctors to Patients at Cannabis Festival
âNo patient left behindâ is the mantra of the Denver-based Medical Marijuana Assistance Program of the Rockies (MMAPR). Working with indigent, low-income patients, MMAPR has launched a mobile doctors service, bringing doctors to the patients themselves. Through the support of local dispensaries and other medical marijuana industry businesses, MMAPR is able to not only provide convenient doctor visits, but also significant savings to patients, often as much as 25 percent.