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BRAZIL: Crack Epidemic - Yet another Tough Nut to Crack in War on Drugs
Brazil :: IN :: USA | about 10 hours ago
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J. ran away from home - a shack in a "favela" or shantytown in Brazil - when he was just eight years old, after he realised that the money he begged for in the streets was spent by his violent father on alcohol and drugs...Frequent beatings by his father...
Tags: Brazilian northeast, Rio de Janeiro, crack addicted, Carlos Salgado, Brazil, Local anesthetics, Stimulants, Crack cocaine, Crack epidemic, War on Drugs, Cocaine, Dopamine reuptake inhibitors, Drug addiction, Social Issues
Mexican data contradict U.S. figures on military's human rights abuses
Mexico City :: Mexico | about 19 hours ago
Credibility The Mexican military has convicted just one soldier of a serious human rights violation during a bloody, three-year campaign against drug traffickers, according to Interior Ministry figures that are significantly lower than those reported by the U.S....
Tags: Human Rights Watch, Mexico, U.S. Congress, Mexico City, Military of Mexico, Mￃﾩrida Initiative, Felipe Calderￃﾳn, Mexican Armed Forces, War on Drugs, War Conflict, Mexican Drug War, Crime in Mexico, Drug control law, Politics
Experts Discuss Legalization of Some Drugs to Reduce Crime
Bogotá :: Colombia | 1 day ago
Credibility Drug smuggling gangs in Mexico have turned some parts of that country into a war zone. At the same time, arrests for drug offenses in the United States have soared, contributing to a jail population that is the highest in the industrialized world.
Tags: Ethan Nadelmann, Gary Hale, Mark Kleiman, Colombia, Bogotá, Cannabis, Law enforcement in the United States, Legality of cannabis, War on Drugs, Drug control law, Drug policy of the United States, Medicinal plants, Social Issues
Defilement charges against teacher this week
Labasa :: Fiji Islands | 1 day ago
Credibility A Fiji school teacher is likely to be charged this week in connection with the alleged defilement of a 10 year old girl in the northern town of Labasa. Police Commander Northern, Assistant Superintendent Luke Qionibaravi, said his team expected to lay...
Tags: Labasa, old man, Fiji Islands, Fiji Live, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law Crime, Education, NYPD Blue, Human Interest, War on Drugs, Law enforcement in the United States, Drug policy of the United States, Richard Nixon, Macuata, Vanua Levu
Our team in D.C. — Locke, Sims and Kerlikowske
Singapore :: Singapore | 2 days ago
Credibility There's Gary Locke, former governor of Washington state, accompanying President Obama to Singapore and China for meetings with world economic leaders. And there's Ron Sims, former King County executive, doling out cash for federal housing projects as...
Tags: Gary Locke, Gil Kerlikowske, Seattle Police, Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C, Singapore, Drug czar, Ron Sims, Presidency of Barack Obama, War on Drugs, John Locke, Drug policy of the United States, Social Issues
US Hopes to See More Anti-Drug Efforts in Venezuela
Maracaibo :: Venezuela | 3 days ago
Credibility U.S. anti-drug officials are calling for greater efforts by Venezuela to combat drug traffickers who are using the country to make illegal shipments. While attending a regional anti-drug conference in Miami, Venezuelan leaders say they are working to...
Tags: Venezuelan, U.S, drug traffickers, Colombian, United States, drug abuse, Edylberto Molina, Venezuela, Maracaibo, Cocaine, War on Drugs, Mexican Drug War, Drug control law, Illegal drug trade, Smuggling, Social Issues, Politics
The Relentless War on Drug Users Is Escalating Violence in the US: It’s Time for Harm Reduction
New York City :: NY :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility He talks creatively and emphatically about race, class, gender, corruption, power, human rights, immigration and the devastating impact of prison-industrial complex on all aspects of society, all progressive touchstones. Yet relatively few people know...
Tags: New York City, Drug policy reform, Ethan Nadelmann, AlterNet, War on Drugs, Drug, Drug policy of the United States, Drug control law, Law enforcement in the United States, Social Issues
'Path to anarchy'
El Paso :: TX :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility The children of El Paso's Glen Cove Elementary School have not been told that a gunman shot their classmate dead. Nor have they been told that someone across the Rio Grande in Mexico thought nothing of killing the seven-year-old.
Tags: Ciudad Juarez, El Paso, Mexico, Texas, War on Drugs, Mexican Drug War, Ciudad Juￃﾡrez, Drug policy of the United States, Law enforcement in the United States, Richard Nixon, ￃﾉl, El Paso Texas, Union Depot, Law Crime, Ysleta Independent School District, Ysleta Texas, El Paso County Texas, Education
Tighter border nabs drug runners
Toronto :: Canada | 10 days ago
Credibility Drug Enforcement Administration in 2005 shows the inside of a 110-metre tunnel between two buildings across the U.S.-Canada border near Vancouver...The hardening of the Canada-U.S. border appears to be yielding early results against crime, including a...
Tags: Canada-U.S, U.S.-Canada, U.S.-Mexico, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, CBP, Canada, Toronto, Canada ￢ﾀﾓ United States border, War on Drugs, Illegal drug trade, Office of CBP Air and Marine, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Smuggling, Drug Enforcement Administration
It's Time for Drug Legalization -- A FOX.com News Report!
Freedom Watch: "Defending freedom, defending your right to have a government that respects the boundaries of the Constitution..." It is time to legalize marijuana and other recreational drugs for use in the privacy of one's own home, according...
Tags: FOX News, Lieutenant Jack Cole, Judge Andrew Napolitano, drug legalization, war on drugs, recreational drugs, Constitution, freedom, Freedom Watch, marijuana, public policy, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP
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