The Drug War: More Wasted Money and Lives

| Jun 7, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyThe Drug War Has a mission; ‘Bout as smart as Prohibition. The Associated Press recently reported on some exhaustive research, undertaken by the nonprofit International Centre for Science in Drug Policy. These tireless scholars examined 300 studies covering the...

U.S. Drug Policy Feeds Violence in Mexico

| Apr 19, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyThe soldiers burst into Fernanda Hernández’s house at eight in the morning. There were 39 of them. Fernanda was with her two young children. “I told them we don’t have any weapons,” said Hernández (not her real name). “They barged right...

Some Sanity Creeps into the Drug War

| Feb 15, 2010 | Environment / HealthThere’s one thing that Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama have all agreed on: expanding military aid to Latin America to fight the so-called “Drug War.” A new phase of the Drug War began in 2000 under President Bill Clinton, with $1.3 billion in...