Drug War Chronicle #708 - November 10, 2011

Phillip S. Smith, Editor - David Borden, Executive Director
Javier Sicilia addressing conference, with translator Ana Paula Hernandez (photo courtesy HCLU, drogriporter.hu/en)
Javier Sicilia addressing conference, with translator Ana Paula Hernandez (photo courtesy HCLU, drogriporter.hu/en)

Mexico's Symbol of Drug War Resistance Says It's Our Fight, Too [FEATURE]

A panel at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference last week called on Americans to take action to help end the drug war in Mexico, even as Human Rights Watch releases as a damning report on government killings, tortures, and disappearances in the drug war.
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drug bust (wikimedia.org)

US Drug Arrest Rate Dropping, But Still Sky High

The US drug arrest rate has been declining slightly for the last four years, but is still more than double the rate at the beginning of Reagan's war on drugs in 1980, an analysis of FBI crime data has found.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

Sleazy, sleazy. That's what a Missouri drug court monitor is accused of being, plus we have a crooked Puerto Rican cop and a sticky-fingered Louisiana narc.
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Drug_bust_mexican_cartel_8.jpg

Mexico Drug War Update

The ugliness continues unabated in Mexico, and another blogger has joined the ranks of the murdered.
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This Week in History

Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
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