Items tagged with US drug policy
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| Barney Frank and Ron Paul Introduce Bill to End Federal Marijuana Prohibition [23.06.2011] | The bill introduced today would allow states to determine their own marijuana laws -- not just medical marijuana laws -- without federal interference ... |
| Marijuana bill officially introduced to Congress by Ron Paul, Barney Frank [23.06.2011] | Marijuana laws should be set at the state, not federal, level, Reps. Ron Paul and Barney Frank argued in a bill they introduced Thursday. The goal of ... |
| 4 Hopeful Signs in the Fight Against Disastrous Drug War, Including a New Bill to End Federal Pot Prohibition [23.06.2011] | It's been forty years since President Nixon declared a "war on drugs." And we're not winning. In local communities, Black and Latino men are being si ... |
| Legalize marijuana in Washington state [22.06.2011] | Marijuana should be legalized, regulated, taxed and made available for sale to adults. Prohibition has failed. It fuels criminal gangs. It fills the ... |
| Marijuana-initiative backers say state could lead change [22.06.2011] | Washington state would be defying federal drug laws if an initiative filed Wednesday with the Secretary of State to legalize and regulate marijuana i ... |
| Drug Control Policy: What the United States Can Learn from Latin America [21.06.2011] | Since the 1912 signing of the Hague Opium Convention—the agreement that formally established narcotics control within international law—the United St ... |
| Former U.S. attorney McKay backs effort to legalize pot in Washington [21.06.2011] | A coalition that includes former U.S. Attorney John McKay, Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes and travel guide Rick Steves is launching an initiative ... |
| Fear and loathing surrounds decriminalisation [18.06.2011] | "The war on drugs has failed," said a recent report compiled by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, which comprised a former UN secretary-general, ... |
| Love is what transforms ... [17.06.2011] | The Wire has been described by many critics as the greatest television series ever made and it has been praised for its realistic portrayal of urban ... |
| Raft of marijuana legislation highlights a murky regulatory climate [17.06.2011] | California lawmakers are looking at a range of bills to expand, contract or change state marijuana laws. Legalization proponents say it reflects a po ... |
| Four Decades Later, It's Time to Scrap the Dead-End Drug War [17.06.2011] | I recently returned from the desert city of Durango, Mexico, where forensic officials are still trying to identify some 240 corpses discovered this y ... |
| Call Off the Global Drug War [16.06.2011] | In an extraordinary new initiative announced earlier this month, the Global Commission on Drug Policy has made some courageous and profoundly importa ... |
| On 40th Anniversary Of War On Drugs, Cops Decry Obama's Drug Policy [15.06.2011] | Forty years after President Richard Nixon first declared a war on drugs, the officers who fought in it are calling for a truce. Former law enforcemen ... |
| Elected Officials, VIPs and Grassroots Slam Drug War on 40th Anniversary [14.06.2011] | June 17 will mark forty years since President Richard Nixon, citing drug abuse as "public enemy No. 1," officially declared a "war on drugs." A trill ... |
| U.S. can't justify its drug war spending, reports say [09.06.2011] | As drug cartels wreak murderous havoc from Mexico to Panama, the Obama administration is unable to show that the billions of dollars spent in the war ... |
| More Calls For A Drug War Cease-Fire [06.06.2011] | Tomorrow marks the 79th anniversary of the beginning of the end of the U.S. prohibition on alcohol. On that day in 1932 John D. Rockefeller Jr., a vo ... |
| Voices from the Margin [06.06.2011] | "Regardless of how you try to explain to people it's a 'war on drugs' or a 'war on a product,' people see a war as a war on them," said Gil Kerlikows ... |
| Colorado pot advocates push for legalization in 2012 [15.05.2011] | Pot legalization backers hope to start gathering signatures as soon as this summer to put the question to voters. Given Colorado`s low signature thre ... |
| Delaware governor signs bill making it the 16th state to legalize medical marijuana [13.05.2011] | Gov. Jack Markell has signed legislation making Delaware the 16th state to allow the use of medical marijuana. The new law allows people 18 and older ... |
| Federal prosecutors step into debate over medical marijuana, warn of potential criminal cases [03.05.2011] | Several states have started reassessing their medical marijuana laws after stern warnings from the federal government that everyone from licensed gro ... |
| Federal pot prosecutions have not let up [30.04.2011] | When the Obama administration declared 18 months ago that it would stop arresting people who complied with their states' medical marijuana laws, advo ... |
| The Obama Administration’s drug control policy on auto-pilot [29.04.2011] | In a widely watched You Tube video, U.S. President Barack Obama is asked whether or not the drug war may in fact be counterproductive. Instead of the ... |
| Medical marijuana: Federal pressure stirs legal confusion [21.04.2011] | Threatened medical-marijuana crackdowns by federal prosecutors in other states have stoked fears about whether state employees, dispensary owners and ... |
| Legalizing Marijuana: An Exit Strategy from the War on Drugs [19.04.2011] | U.S. drug policy needs to be altered; legalization must be subject to serious debate. Legalization could eliminate illegal demand for Mexican marijua ... |
| Portland legislator pushes bill to legalize, tax marijuana in Maine [19.04.2011] | Imagine walking into a neighborhood store to buy beer, wine, liquor and cigarettes. But on your way home you make one more stop – to buy marijuana, l ... |
| Pot Politics on Capitol Hill: Proponents Aim to Shift Industry's Image [30.03.2011] | Supporters of decriminalizing marijuana are hoping to build momentum on Capitol Hill after a historic election that saw the politics of pot take cent ... |
| Drug Courts Are Not the Answer [29.03.2011] | While drug courts have helped many Americans, they are not an appropriate response to drug law violations nor are they the most effective or cost-eff ... |
| Addicted to Courts [22.03.2011] | America’s growing reliance on drug courts is an ineffective allocation of scarce state resources. Drug courts can needlessly widen the net of crimina ... |
| Drug Courts Are Not the Answer [21.03.2011] | Drug Courts are Not the Answer finds that drug courts are an ineffective and inappropriate response to drug law violations. Many, all the way up to t ... |
| Fifty Years of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs: A Reinterpretation [19.03.2011] | This year marks the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, signed on 30 March 1961. 73 countries were represente ... |
| Supreme Court decision on sentencing guidelines gives judges more leeway [14.03.2011] | Jason Pepper, a former meth addict and drug dealer from the heartland, says he got lucky when he was finally arrested. A sympathetic judge gave him a ... |
| Washington state should lead on marijuana legalization [16.02.2011] | Marijuana prohibition is more than a practical failure; it has been a misuse of both taxpayer dollars and the government's authority over the people. ... |
| Drug War Anniversary a Time for Reflection and Action [11.02.2011] | Some anniversaries provide an occasion for celebration, others a time for reflection, still others a time for action. This June will mark forty years ... |
| Happy toking [10.02.2011] | This week’s Economist-YouGov poll contains some exciting news for devotees of the weed. A huge majority of Americans, more than two to one once don’t ... |
| The Prospects for Drug Reform: California [09.02.2011] | The West Coast is a different world when it comes to progress on drug policy reform. Three of the four states most likely to see strong pushes for ma ... |
| The development of international drug control [01.02.2011] | The emergence of more pragmatic and less punitive approaches to the drugs issue may represent the beginning of change in the current global drug cont ... |
| D-Day for Bolivia’s coca chewing amendment [31.01.2011] | Today is the deadline for countries to submit objections to Bolivia’s proposed amendment to remove the ban on coca leaf chewing in the 1961 UN Single ... |
| Bolivia fights objections to coca-leaf chewing [28.01.2011] | Bolivia will ask the United Nations to organize a conference on coca leaf-chewing if the U.S., Britain and Sweden don't withdraw their objections to ... |
| Obama: Drugs Should Be Treated as "Public Health Problem" [28.01.2011] | In an online town hall session yesterday, U.S. President Barack Obama suggested that, while he is not in favor of drug legalization, he does believe ... |
| The U.S. Can Still Correct its Position on Bolivia's UN Coca Chewing Amendment [28.01.2011] | The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Andean Information Network (AIN), and more than 200 other concerned organizations and individuals ... |
| Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban [26.01.2011] | Bolivians chewed coca leaves in demonstrations around the country Wednesday to push for a change in a 1961 UN convention to remove a ban on a practic ... |
| Time to push the reset button on the drug war [26.01.2011] | Most Americans believe that their country’s forty-year “war on drugs” has failed. Yet, despite the costs and growing opposition to US antinarcotics s ... |
| Bolivia launches coca leaf diplomatic offensive [21.01.2011] | Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca is on a European tour in a bid to drum up support for taking coca off a UN treaty on banned drugs. Spanish foreig ... |
| The coca leaf: Storm in an Andean teacup [20.01.2011] | The United States’ State Department’s website recommends coca tea for altitude sickness, and its La Paz embassy has been known to serve it to visitor ... |
| US objects to Bolivia bid for licit coca-chewing [18.01.2011] | The United States will file a formal objection Wednesday to Bolivia's proposal to end the ban on coca leaf-chewing specified by a half-century-old U. ... |
| The U.S. Moves to Block Bolivia’s Request to Eliminate U.N. Ban on Coca Leaf Chewing [18.01.2011] | The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) have learned that the United States is moving to oppose, as soon ... |
| Diplomatic games to oppose lifting unjust ban on coca chewing [16.01.2011] | According to the government of Bolivia, the only three countries that did file a formal objection to the amendment of Bolivia to abolish the ban on c ... |
| U.S. Renews Anachronistic Campaign to Stamp Out Coca Leaf Chewing [14.01.2011] | Just one month after President Obama announced that the U.S. would finally sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, U.S. official ... |
| Marijuana advocates debate a new legalization effort [03.01.2011] | The campaign for Proposition 19, which lost 54% to 46% in November, wants to start drafting a new initiative in the spring and to complete it by July ... |
| One toke over the line [16.12.2010] | After an annual survey of teen drug use nationwide found that marijuana smoking is on the rise among eighth- through 12th-graders, Kerlikowske attrib ... |
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