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THE DRUG WAR


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  • Drug War Must End
    by John Cogan and
    Lauren Chaney
    Kansas City Star
  • Drug War Casualty Stirs More Reflection
    by Bill McClellan
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Legalize It!
    by John Ross
    Counterpunch.org
  • Are Your Drugs Laws Working? Ask a Scientist
    by Ben Goldacre
    The Guardian
  • Obama Pursues Reefer Sanity
    by Kathleen Parker
    Detroit News
  • In the Drugs Debate, Politicians Are Intoxicated by Cowardice
    by Simon Jenkins
    The Guardian
  • Westminster's Drugs Paranoia Can't Last
    by John Harris
    The Guardian
  • Drugs: The 40-Year Failure
    Editorial
    The Guardian
  • A Reality Check on Drug Use
    by George F. Will
    The Washington Post
  • War on Drugs: Definition of Insanity
    by Cynthia Tucker
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • America's Drug Crisis: Brought to You by the CIA
    by Dave Lindorff
    Counterpunch.org
  • Economics and the Drug War (Video)
    by Bart Frazier with
    Andrew Napolitano
    FOX News Freedom Watch
  • Former Mexican President Fox Pans the Current Drug War
    Mexidata.info
  • Drug War Pointless
    by Keith Lawrence
    Minnesota Daily
  • John Stossel & Bill O'Reilly Debate Drug Legalization (video)
    by Scott Morgan
    StoptheDrugWar.org
  • Reefer Sanity
    by Kathleen Parker
    Washington Post
  • Obama's Commendable Change in Federal Drug Enforcement Policy
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • State's Drug War a Fiscal Disaster
    by Mike Krause
    Denver Daily News
  • Calif. Gov. Candidate Gavin Newsom Calls Drug War a Failure
    Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
  • The Failed War on Drugs (Video)
    by Jacob G. Hornberger with
    Judge Andrew Napolitano
    FOX News
  • George Shultz on the Drug War
    by Mary Anastasia O'Grady
    Wall Street Journal
  • The Drugs of John Gray
    by Laurence M. Vance
    Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • There Are No Victories in the Drug War
    by Hugh MacIntyre
    Western Standard
  • Get Serious about Decriminalizing Drugs; Others Are
    by Tim Lynch and
    Juan Carlos Hidalgo
    Cato Institute
  • The Hidden Side of Mexico's Drug War
    by John Gibler
    Zmag.com
  • Drug War Under Fire at Policy Summit
    by John MacCormack
    San Antonio Express
  • Ending the "War on Drugs"
    by Misha Glenny
    New York Times
  • Pot and the Right to Pursue Happiness
    by Norm Kent
    Counterpunch.org
  • See? Nice People Do Take Drugs
    by Claudia Rubin
    The Guardian
  • Forum Panelists Critical of Status Quo in Drug War
    by Elizabeth Ruiz
    Newspaper Tree
  • The War on Drugs Is a Waste of Time
    by Tom Lloyd
    The Guardian
  • Drug War Racism
    by Nick Gillespie
    Reason
  • Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Says to Debate Legalizing Drugs
    by Gilbert Bailon
    Stltoday.com
  • Is War on Drugs Worth It? Maybe Not, New FBI Data Suggest
    by Patrik Jonsson
    Christian Science Monitor
  • FBI Figures: One Drug Bust in US Every 18 Seconds
    by Stephen C. Webster
    The Raw Story
  • Mexico's Hopeless Drug War
    by Mary Anastasia O'Grady
    Wall Street Journal
  • War on Drugs Meets Decriminalization on the Dunes
    by Harvey A. Silverglate
    Boston Globe
  • The Case for Legalising All Drugs Is Unanswerable
    by John Gray
    The Guardian
  • Chaos on the Border
    by Ted Galen Carpenter
    Cato Institute
  • Drug Control Becomes Speech Control
    by Jacob Sullum
    Reason
  • The War on Drugs: Morally and Fiscally Bankrupt
    by Austin Raynor
    Dog Street Journal
  • Prohibition's Failed. Time for a New Drugs Policy
    Editorial
    The Guardian
  • The War on Drugs Has Failed. Now We Need a More Humane Strategy
    by Fernando Henrique Cardoso
    The Guardian
  • The War on Drugs Is Immoral Idiocy. We Need the Courage of Argentina
    by Simon Jenkins
    The Guardian
  • Wichita Witch Hunt
    by Harvey A. Silverglate
    Forbes
  • An Inhumane Drug Policy
    by Tony Newman
    New York Times
  • Mexico and Argentina Move Towards Decriminalising Drugs
    by Rory Carroll, Jo Tuckman,
    and Tom Phillips
    The Guardian
  • A Radical Solution to End the Drug War: Legalize Everything
    by John H. Richardson
    Esquire
  • Argentina Court Ruling Would Allow Personal Use of Pot
    by Arthur Brice
    CNN.com
  • Mexico Should Take the Next Step and Fully Legalize Drugs
    by J.D. Tucille
    The Examiner
  • The War on Drugs in Mexico
    Cato Institute
  • Is Obama Aware of the History of Failure that Marks Our Drug War in Latin America?
    by Jeremy Kuzmarov
    History News Network
  • It's Time to Legalize Drugs
    by Peter Moskos and
    Stanford Franklin
    Washington Post
  • Drug War, Not Cartels, Put Us at Risk
    by Kim Storm
    Arizona Republic
  • Addicted to War: America's Brutal Pipe Dream in Afghanistan
    by Chris Floyd
    Empire Burlesque
  • The War on Drugs Needs a Timeout
    by Rafael Pardo and
    Juan Gabriel Tokatlian
    Christian Science Monitor
  • New York's War on Marijuana
    by Harry G. Levine
    Truthdig.com
  • "Tax the Hell Out of It." Why?
    by Christine Smith
    Christine Smith's Blog
  • As Mexico Drug War Intensifies, Law Officers Turn to Corruption
    by Christopher Sherman and
    Martha Mendoza
    Colorado Springs Gazette
  • Modern Prohibition and Individual Liberty
    by Howard Wooldridge
    Campaign for Liberty
  • Drugs Are Evil. We Should Legalise Them Now
    by Antonia Senior
    London Times
  • Walter Cronkite Recognized Failed Wars
    by Ethan Nadelmann
    Detroit News
  • The Drug War Has Replaced the Cold War
    by Maria Elena Salinas
    Modesto Bee
  • Run Amok
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Just Blowing Smoke
    by Andy Gaus
    Boston Herald
  • Ambushed by a Drug War
    by William Booth
    Washington Post
  • Stop the Ineffective Spending on Drug War
    by Alan Wollman
    Las Vegas Sun
  • Ethan Nadelmann Challenges NAACP to Oppose the Drug War (video)
    StoptheDrugWar.org
  • Gag Order of Marijuana Advocate's Sentence
    by J.D. Tuccille
    The Examiner
  • The Altered States of America
    Mother Jones
  • The War on Poppies Flops
    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times
  • Open Letter to Congress: End the Insane Drug War Now!
    by Carmen Yarrusso
    Online Journal
  • The Drug War In Six Acts
    by Ben Wallace-Wells
    Mother Jones
  • Officials' Solution to War on Drugs: Legalization
    by Clint Sloan
    ADA Evening News
  • At Last, a Debate
    Editorial
    The Economist
  • More Are Asking: Is It Time to Legalize Pot?
    Editorial
    Seattle Times
  • Pot War Senseless
    by Joe Genevich
    Boston Herald
  • Nation Must Recast the War on Drugs
    by Mike Gray
    Albany Times Union
  • Telling the Truth About the Drug War
    Editorial
    The Enterprise
  • Human Rights Watch: Mexican Military Abuses Rising
    by Michael E. Miller
    Associated Press
  • The Drug War's Big Lie
    by Allan Erickson
    Salem News
  • Momentum Builds for Broad Debate on Legalizing Pot
    by David Crary
    Washington Examiner
  • Group Seeks Drug Legalization in Oklahoma
    by Brian Kimball
    The Oklahoman
  • A Drug War Truce?
    by Tim Dickinson
    Rolling Stone
  • Human Rights Watch: Mexican Military Abuses Rising
    by Michael E. Miller
    Associated Press
  • Drug Control Begets Gun Control
    by Jacob Sullum
    Reason
  • Drugs Won the War
    by Nicholas D. Kristof
    New York Times
  • Hey Progressives: Why Don't You Care About the "Drug War" Like You Care About Other Issues?
    by Ethan Nadelmann
    Alternet.org
  • Clear-Headed Thinking on "War on Drugs"
    by John Hawes, et al
    Toronto Star
  • Lawyers, Guns and Money: Three Reasons to End the Drug War
    by Brian O'Dea
    Los Angeles Times
  • How Serious is Obama About Ending Failed "War on Drugs"?
    by Sherwood Ross
    MWC News
  • Conservative Former Congressman Calls for Drug Legalization
    by J.D. Tuccille
    The Examiner
  • Former Mexican President Vicente Fox: Prohibition Causes "Organized Crime Violence"
    by Howard Nemerov
    The Examiner
  • Birmingham, Alabama, Police Fired for Beating an Unconscious Suspect
    by J.D. Tuccille
    The Examiner
  • Let's Expose the Phony War on Drugs
    by Kim Storm
    Arizona Republic
  • Fighting the Drug War at Homeland Security
    by Tom Barry
    Counterpunch.org
  • Antidote to Drug War Madness
    by Susan J. Douglas
    In These Times
  • National Debate Needed on "Drug War"
    by Emile Therien
    Toronto Star
  • Harvard Economist: Legalize All Drugs to Eliminate Violence
    Raw Story
  • Should U.S. Decriminalize Drugs?
    by Betty Brosier
    Detroit News
  • Learn from Dutch Drug Policy
    by Chase Gunnell
    Daily Evergreen
  • Mexico's Illegal-Reefer Madness
    by Isaac Campos
    Los Angeles Times
  • A War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom
    by John Glaser
    Massachusetts Daily Collegian
  • One Lone Ranger Rides Again to Legalize Dope
    by Mary Ann Akers
    Washington Post
  • Prohibition Spawns Drug Violence
    by John Stossel
    Richmond Register
  • U.S. Should Put an End to War on Drugs, Legalize Pot
    Editorial
    Denver Post
  • Obama Perpetuates the Wrong Approach to Drug War
    by John Gilber
    Mercury News
  • Obama's Demented Drug Policy
    by Radley Balko
    The Daily Beast
  • Prohibition Failed; So Will War on Drugs
    by Earle Kirkbride
    TC Palm
  • The Thorniest Mine in the Drug War
    by Paul Wesel
    Boston Globe
  • Drug Flashback: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Drug War
    by Liz Harper
    Americas Quarterly
  • Legalizing Pot Makes Lots of Cents for Our Cash-Starved Government
    by Paul Armentano
    Alternet.org
  • Time to End the War on Drugs
    by Art Carden
    TheTownTalk.com
  • Drug War Kills Our Kids and Teens
    by Stephen H. Frye
    NewsreleaseWire.com
  • Government Needs to Reconsider Failed Drug War
    by Teresa Combs
    The Northern Light
  • Escaping the Drug War Quagmire
    by Kevin Zeese
    Counterpunch.org
  • More People See Folly of the Drug War
    by David Prather
    Huntsville Times
  • More on the Success of Drug Decriminalization in Portugal
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • We Tried a War Like This Once Before
    by Mike Gray
    Washington Post
  • A Criminally Stupid War on Drugs in the US
    by Clive Crook
    Financial Times
  • The War on Drugs: What's Race Got to Do With It?
    by Jacob Sullum
    Reason
  • Wave White Flag in the Drug War
    by Nolan Finley
    Detroit News
  • What Are Drug War Proponents Smoking?
    Editorial
    Pensacola News Journal
  • Cops Say Legalize Drugs
    by Allan Erickson
    Salem News
  • Mexico's Drug War Fallout
    by Gregory Rodriguez
    Los Angeles Times
  • "Drug War" Is Lost Cause
    by Steven Addison
    Kansas City Star
  • Obama Punts on Marijuana Policy
    by Grant Smith
    Los Angeles Times
  • Immunised from Scrutiny
    by Danny Kushlick
    The Guardian
  • Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense
    by Joe Klein
    Time
  • The War on Drugs Is a War on You
    by Michael Boldin
    Populist Party
  • The Failing War on Drugs
    by Chris Chiles
    Michigan Daily
  • The War on the War on Drugs
    by Eric Etheridge
    New York Times
  • It's Time to at Least Talk about Legalizing Drugs
    by Leonard Pitts Jr.
    Detroit Free Press
  • To Reduce Violence, End the Drug War
    by David R. Henderson
    Antiwar.com
  • Former Seattle Police Chief Calls for Legalization of Drugs
    by Amy Goodman with
    Norm Stamper
    Democracy Now!
  • Drug War Has Failed, So Legalize It
    by Sunny Lee
    The Davidsonian
  • I Smoke Pot, and I Like It
    by Will Wilkinson
    The Week
  • End the War on Drugs
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives
  • Former Judge Fired Up on Making Pot Legal
    by Steve Lopez
    Los Angeles Times
  • Marijuana No Laughing Matter, Mr. President
    by Norm Stamper
    Huffington Post
  • What the Drug Warriors Have Given Us
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education
  • Change and Hope on Drug Policy?
    by Gene Healy
    Cato Institute
  • If Hillary Clinton Wants to End Mexico's Drug Violence, She Should Call for Legalization
    by J.D. Tuccille
    The Examiner
  • Legalize Drugs to Stop Violence
    by Jeffrey A. Miron
    CNN.com
  • When Good People Do Bad Things
    by Corbett O'Meara
    Detroit Free Press
  • Butt Out, Feds
    by John Stossel
    Townhall.com
  • A Fresh Approach in American War on Drugs
    by Mitch Potter
    Toronto Star
  • Stop the Drug War Now, More than Ever
    by Tony Norman
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • End the War on Drugs, Prostitution
    by Reginald T. Dogan
    Pensacola News Journal
  • Debunking PCP's "Comeback"
    by Jack Shafer
    Slate
  • Switch of Focus in US War on Drugs
    by Harvey Morris
    Financial Times
  • The War on The Border
    by L. Neil Smith
    The Libertarian Enterprise
  • Legalize Drugs
    by Jeffrey Jones
    USA Today
  • From the Trenches of the Drug War: A Street Cop's Perspective
    by Howard J. Wooldridge
    Future of Freedom Foundation
  • Stem the Violence, Make Marijuana Legal
    by Linda Valdez
    Arizona Republic
  • The Success of Drug Decriminalization in Portugal
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • A Failed Drug War's Rising Body Count
    by Debra J. Saunders
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Drug War vs. Economic Rationality
    by Eric Baerren
    North Star Writers
  • The Making of a Narco State
    by Guy Lawson
    Rolling Stone
  • Bad Neighbors
    by Ted Galen Carpenter
    Cato Institute
  • The Drug War vs. American Civilization
    by Anthony Gregory
    LewRockwell.com
  • The Global Drug Charade
    by Mike Trace
    The Guardian
  • Afghanistan South
    by Patrick J. Buchanan
    Human Events
  • Shot in the Arm
    by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
    The New Republic
  • Law Enforcement Officers War on Drugs
    Maine Public Broadcasting Network
  • Highway Robbery? Texas Police Seize Black Motorists's Cash, Cars
    by Howard Witt
    Chicago Tribune
  • Drug Policy in America
    by Joe Bokan
    Examiner.com
  • Drugs: Root of Violent Problem Is Prohibition
    by Steven Greenhut
    East Valley Tribune
  • Raising a White Flag in the Drug War
    by Vox Day
    World Net Daily
  • How to Stop the Drug Wars
    Editorial
    The Economist
  • The International War on Drugs Hits Close to Home
    by Brian Doherty
    Reason
  • Never Mind the Evidence — A Drug-Free World Is Nigh
    by Libby Brooks
    The Guardian
  • End the Drug War
    by Amesh A. Adalja
    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  • Wars, Endless Wars
    by Bob Herbert
    New York Times
  • Lott's Pot Shot
    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times
  • Save Our Children: Legalize Drugs
    by Frosty Wooldridge
    NewsWithViews.com
  • View of Futility from the Front Line
    by Jack A. Cole
    Boston Globe
  • In Mexico, Faltering, Not Failed
    by Edward Schumacher-Matos
    Washington Post
  • Treat Drugs as a Public Health Problem
    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Treat Drugs as a Public Health Problem
    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Mexicans Dying in Our Drug War
    by Steven Greenhut
    Orange County Register
  • Reality Intrudes on the Drug War
    by Steve Chapman
    Post Chronicle
  • Drug Gangs Winning the War for Mexico
    by Ted Galen Carpenter
    Cato Institute
  • Snap, Crackle, Pot
    by Kathleen Parker
    Washington Post
  • Latin American Panel Calls U.S. Drug War a Failure
    by Jose de Cordoba
    Wall Street Journal
  • Federalism Is Collateral Damage in Drug War
    by John Dendahl
    Washington Times
  • Obama Must End the War on Drugs — or Mexico and Afghanistan Will Collapse
    by Johann Hari
    Huffington Post
  • Property Seizures Seen as Piracy
    by Lisa Sandberg
    San Antonio Express
  • In Crusade against Barry Bonds, Feds Victimize Family to Get Trainer to Talk
    by J.D. Tuccille
    Civil Liberties Examiner
  • Heroes Like Phelps Are Heroes Too
    by Jason Flom and
    Anthony Pape
    Detroit News
  • Michael Phelps Has No Business Apologizing for Taking Bong Hits
    by Tony Newman
    Alternet.org
  • Big Bong Theory
    by Sally Jenkins
    Washington Post
  • Swift Found Not Guilty; Jurors Shake Hands with Defendant
    by Dan Churney
    The Times
  • Time to Rethink Expensive, Futile War on Drugs
    Editorial
    Canada Star Phoenix
  • NATO's New Columbian Adventure, in Afghanistan
    by Kelly Vlahos
    American Conservative
  • The Drug War's Collateral Damage
    by Radley Balko
    Reason
  • Police and Health
    by Robert Sharpe
    Steamboat Pilot
  • Rep. Reyes Gets Coy Over Muzzling El Paso with Drug-Legalization Threat
    by J.D. Tuccille
    Examiner
  • Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (Video)
    by Matt Fogg
    YouTube.com
  • Our Drug War Next Door
    by Clarence Page
    Washington Times
  • War on Drugs: The Collateral Damage
    by Radley Balko
    Culture11.com
  • War on Drugs: The Price Tag
    by Anita Bartholomew
    Culture11.com
  • Is Now the Time to Legalize Drugs?
    by Cliff Mason
    CNBC.com
  • Legalized Drugs Only Way to Halt Cartels
    by Terry Nelson
    El Paso Times
  • Five Essential Things We Must Do to Stop America's Idiotic War on Drugs
    by Tony Newman
    Alternet.org
  • U.S.-Mexico Drug War: We're Clucking Like Chickens
    by Joe Muench
    El Paso Times
  • Let's Talk About the Drug War
    by Sito Negron
    Newspaper Tree
  • Another Way Drug War Corrupts Our System
    by Howard J. Wooldridge
    Baltimore Sun
  • Drug War Doesn't Protect Children
    by Tony Newman
    USA Today
  • War on Drugs Drives Surge in Arizona Heroin Use
    by J.D. Tuccille
    Examiner.com
  • What Is the DEA Smoking?
    by Ted Galen Carpenter
    Cato Institute
  • The War on Drugs Is a War on Common Sense
    by Jack Hunter
    Charleston City Paper
  • Is the Drug War Working or Worse Than the Disease?
    by Paul Armentano, et al
    Wall Street Journal
  • It's Time to End the War on Drugs
    by Neal Peirce
    Seattle Times
  • Drug War Focuses on Wrong Culprits
    by John Chase
    Arizona Republic
  • Drug Prohibition Keeps Failing
    by Froma Harrop
    Detroit News
  • Let's End Drug Prohibition
    by Ethan A. Nadelmann
    Wall Street Journal
  • Celebrate the Repeal of Prohibition — and Let's Finish the Job
    by J.D. Tucille
    Examiner.com
  • Prohibition's Hangover
    by Ian Williams
    The Guardian
  • Call a Truce in the Drug War
    by Owen Davis
    Dallas Morning News
  • Bloodshed on the Border
    by Arian Campos-Flores and Monica Campbell Newsweek
  • My Drugs Hell? No One Offered Me Any
    by David Mitchell
    The Guardian
  • Repeal Day Serves as Reminder of the Folly of Our Drug Laws
    by Radley Balko
    FOX News
  • Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
    YouTube.com
  • Prohibition Fails
    by Carl Hedberg
    Boston Herald
  • Law Enforcement Agent Promotes Drug Legalization
    by Emily Volz
    The Daily Campus
  • Marijuana Shouldn't Be Illegal in the First Place
    by Michael Kheyfets
    Boston Globe
  • Gin, Drugs and the Bank Crisis
    by Robert Fowke
    The Guardian
  • Drug Courts Don't Work
    by Morris Hoffman
    USA Today
  • As the Violence Soars, Mexico Signals It's Had Enough of America's Stupid War on Drugs
    by Silja J.A. Talvi
    Alternet.org
  • How Drugs Laws Compound Race Inequality
    by Sebastian Saville
    The Guardian
  • The War We Won't Talk About
    by Salim Muwakkil
    In These Times
  • Prohibition Pushes Marijuana Crop onto Parkland
    by Robert Sharpe and Kirk Muse
    USA Today
  • The Drug War's Latest Tally: 872,721 Pot Arrests, an All-Time High
    by Paul Armentano
    Alternet.org
  • Police Shouldn't Profit from Drug Raids
    by Ronald Fraser
    Birmingham News
  • The Solution to the Failed Drug War
    by Jack A. Cole
    Boston Globe
  • Why It's Time to End Drug War
    by Edward H. Decker
    Asbury Park Press
  • Dissing the Drug War
    by Ralph Givens
    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  • Mexico Pays the Price of Prohibition
    by Mary Anastasia O'Grady
    Wall Street Journal
  • Ending Drug Wars Would Hurt Gangs
    by Ralph Givens
    Daily Herald
  • Drug Prohibition — An Untenable Hypocrisy
    by Danny Kushlick
    The Guardian
  • Drug War Madness
    by Vera Leone
    Los Angeles Times
  • Why the Drug War Is a Crime against Humanity Explained
    by Carmen Yarrusso
    RINF.com
  • One Way Out of Endless Drug War
    by Norm Stamper
    Democrat Herald
  • Decriminalise All Drugs Now, But Don't Celebrate Them
    by Rob Lyons
    Spiked
  • Legalisation a No-Go Area
    by Steve Rolles
    The Guardian
  • Dissing the Drug War
    by Ralph Givens
    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  • A Dangerous Fiction
    by Misha Glenny
    The Guardian
  • 35 Years of Drug War Failure
    by Bill Steigerwald
    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  • USA Number One
    by Keith Halderman
    History News Network
  • Failures in the Fight Against Drugs
    by Joseph A. Califano Jr., et al
    New York Times
  • How Long Does Prohibition Need to Continue Before It's Declared a Failure?
    by David Borden
    Alternet.org
  • Pot Potency Peril
    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times
  • Legalize All Drugs
    by John Stossel
    Townhall.com
  • War on Drugs a Failure
    by Monte Lieberfarb, M.D.
    Willits News
  • CNN's Lou Dobbs Is Clueless When It Comes to the Drug War
    by Tony Newman
    Alternet.org
  • Racial Inequity and Drug Arrests
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • To Catch a Leaf
    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times
  • Racial Inequity and Drug Arrests
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Reports Find Racial Gap in Drug Arrests
    by Erik Eckholm
    New York Times
  • Blacks Suffer Persistent Injustice in Drug War
    by Jim Lobe
    IPS
  • The NYPD's Secret Crusade Against Marijuana Furthers a Racist Agenda
    by Nat Hentoff
    Village Voice
  • Drug War's Body Count Still Rising
    Editorial
    Clovis News Journal
  • Clergy Speak Out Against the War on Drugs (Video)
    Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative
  • Not Another War on Drugs
    by Tom Fawthrop
    The Guardian
  • A New Slavery
    Drug Policy Alliance
  • Drug Penalties Harsher for Blacks in County
    by Perry Swanson
    Colorado Springs Gazette
  • The Racial History of U.S. Drug Prohibition (2001)
    Drug Policy Alliance
  • The War on Drugs Is a War on Our Youth
    by Matthew Fogg
    Roanoke Times
  • The War on Drugs Is a War Against America
    by Matt Hutchens
    The Record
  • Where's the Justice in this Department?
    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Drug 'War' Imprisons According to Class
    by Paul Campos
    Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette
  • Drug Trade Tyranny on the Border
    by Manuel Roig-Franzia
    Washington Post
  • Legalize Drugs
    by Kirk Muse
    Newport News Daily Press
  • America No. 1, Bar None
    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times
  • It's Time to Declare Peace in the Failed "Drug War"
    by Robert Sharpe
    Hudson Valley Press
  • War on Drugs: A Senseless Battle
    by Jim Scofield
    Pennsylvania Tribune-Democrat
  • Get Your Cocaine from Superdrug
    by Camilla Cavendish
    London Times
  • Drug War Doing Irreparable Harm
    by Celerino Castillo III
    Brownsville Herald
  • The War on Drugs Is Insane, But There Is No End in Sight
    by Will Moredock
    Charleston City Paper
  • The Drug War on African-Americans
    by George Curry
    Hudson Valley Press
  • Drug War Mayhem Boils Over from Border to Border
    by John Ross
    Counterpunch.org
  • Blowing Smoke on 'Pot'
    by Steve Chapman
    Washington Times
  • The Drug Laws Don't Work
    by Duncan Campbell
    The Guardian
  • Drug War Can Be Won By Ending Prohibition
    by Howard Wooldridge
    Chilicothe Gazette
  • Prison Sentences Are Failure
    by Robert Sharpe
    The Star
  • The Drug War on African-Americans
    by George E. Curry
    Louisiana Weekly
  • Drug Prohibition Doesn't Work
    by Malakkar Vohryzek
    Los Angeles Times
  • Drug War Still Racist, Even in "Liberal" Austin
    Texas Civil Rights Review
  • What Darwin Could Tell Us About the "War on Drugs"
    by Sanho Tree
    Alternet.org
  • L.A. Gangs: Nine Miles and Spreading
    by Peter Landesman
    LA Weekly
  • War on Drugs Has Unlikely Foe
    by Brent Hopkins
    Los Angeles Daily News
  • Guilty Until Proven Innocent
    Editorial
    Lima News
  • Ending America's Domestic Quagmire
    by Paul Armentano
    Counterpunch.org
  • It's Time to Legalize Drugs
    by Ethan Nadelmann
    Alternet.org
  • What Good Has the War on Drugs Really Done?
    by Greg Ryan
    Bowling Green Daily News
  • Suburban Cops, Tough Tactics
    by Mark Fazlollah et al
    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • A Context for Those Complaints
    by Patrick Smith
    New York Times
  • Prison Sentences Are Failure
    by Robert Sharpe
    Toronto Star
  • Report Shows Racial Impact of Drug War Policies in Counties Across U.S.
    Drug Policy Alliance
  • How America Lost the War on Drugs
    by Ben Wallace-Wells
    Rolling Stone
  • Why Shouldn't Obama Say that Drug War's Pure Folly?
    by Froma Harrop
    Houston Chronicle
  • Casualties of the Corrupt Drug War
    by Radley Balko
    FOX News
  • Let Adam Smith Be the Drug Pusher
    by Jay Hancock
    Baltimore Sun
  • America's War on Drugs Fuels Crime
    by Robert Sharpe
    The Morning Call
  • Legalizing Drugs Would Help Stop Violence
    by James Allison, et al
    Detroit News
  • Child Killings Challenge the Drug War
    by Nolan Finley
    Detroit News
  • Fighting the Drug War
    by Dave Witter
    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  • Let's End Failed & Dogmatic Drug War
    by Bill Steigerwald
    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  • Could Afghan Poppies Be Painkillers for the Poor?
    by Donald G. McNeil Jr.
    New York Times
  • Drug War Finances Crime, Terrorism
    by Shirley White
    Grand Coulee Star
  • Drug Czar: Milton Friedman's Drug-War Critique "Demonstrably Untrue"
    by Chris Reed
    San Diego Union-Tribune
  • Why the Drug War Fails
    by Carl Milstead Jr.
    The Free Liberal
  • Repeating Failed Drug Policies Will Not Give Solution
    Editorial
    Yuma Sun
  • U.S. Drug War Is a Cure Worse than the Disease
    by Robert Sharpe
    Dominican Today
  • Drug War Takes a Flying LEAP
    by Jack Cole and
    David Fleming
    Los Angeles Times
  • Spinning a Failed War on Drugs
    by Bruce Mirken
    Alternet.org
  • Poppies in Taliban Fields
    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times
  • Drug War's Latest Achievement: Boosting Global Terrorism
    Editorial
    Seattle Times
  • Drug Wars
    by Firmin DeBrabander
    Counterpunch.org
  • Kathryn Johnston Paid Price for Police Reliance on Snitches
    by Alexandra Natapoff
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Lost War
    by Misha Glenny
    Washington Post
  • Folly of the War on Drugs
    by Colleen Minter McCool and Larry Nickerson
    Dallas Morning News
  • Hypocrisy on Punishing Drug Use
    by Bill Piper
    Washington Post
  • Painful Drug War Victory
    by Zachary David Skaggs
    Washington Times
  • Drug War Crimes Kill, Incarcerate Innocent
    by Radley Balko
    FOX News
  • Drug View: Take 2
    by Michael Crawford
    Washington Times
  • Closed Doors of Perception
    by Andrew Feldmar
    The Guardian
  • Drug War Enforcement Hits Minorities Hardest
    by Darnell Little
    Chicago Tribune
  • War on Drugs a Failure, Retired Police Officer Says
    by John Lyon
    Arkansas News Bureau
  • Let's Protect Liberties, Not Continue a Lost War
    by Robert Sharpe
    Muskogee Phoenix
  • Want to End the Drug War? Ditch Unreasonable Laws
    by Ethan Nadlemann
    USA Today
  • It's Time to Mellow Out on Marijuana Use by Adults
    by Kathleen Parker
    Detroit News
  • Some Wars Aren't Meant to Be Won
    by William A. Collins
    East Texas Review
  • Calderon's Unwinnable War
    by Joseph Contreras
    Newsweek
  • Militarizing Mexico's Drug War
    by John Gibler
    In These Times
  • Racism and Sleazy Business Practices -- a Fine Start to U.S. Drug War
    by Rich Figel
    Honolulu Star Bulletin
  • Futile Drug War Ignores Target: Safety
    by Cynthia Tucker
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • Second Motion on Drug War
    by Kirk Muse
    Billings Outpost
  • "We Have Never Made a Difference" in Drug War
    by David Kaminski
    Canton Repository
  • The Forgotten War on Drugs
    NPR
  • Democratic Candidates Are Deafeningly Silent on the Drug War
    by Arianna Huffington
    Alternet.org
  • Victims of Drug War Are Pain Sufferers
    by Polly Cleveland
    The Mountain Mail
  • Drug-War Deaths
    by Dave Doubleday
    Orlando Sentinel
  • Disjointed Arguments
    by Donald J. Boudreaux
    Boston Globe
  • Drug War Discourages Honest Discussion or Rehabilitation
    by Robert Sharpe
    The Times Herald
  • The War on Drugs' War on Minorities
    by Arianna Huffington
    Los Angeles Times
  • It's Time to Rethink Drug Prohibition
    by Anthony Papa
    Counterpunch
  • Failed Drug War
    by Larry Penner
    AMNY.com
  • Anyone Who Believes America Is Winning the Drug War Must Be High
    by Stephen Littau
    Fearless Philosophy for Free Minds
  • Restore Property Rights Stolen by Drug Warriors
    Editorial
    Detroit News
  • Stop the War
    Editorial
    The Guardian
  • State's War on Drugs a 100-Year-Old Bust
    by Dale Gieringer
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Loyalty to Country, Always
    by Colleen Minter McCool
    Canada Free Press
  • Lou Dobbs on the War on (Some) Drugs
    by Doug Mataconis
    The Liberty Papers
  • The Cost of Dying
    by David Faris
    Philadelphia City Paper
  • Kathryn Johnston's Real Killer
    by John F. Sugg
    CreatingLoafing.com
  • The Folly of Prohibition
    by Robert Marshall
    Winnepeg Sun
  • That Other Muddled War
    by Raheem Hosseini
    California Ledger-Dispatch
  • Passion Alone Won't Rescue Colombia from Its Narco-Economy Stigma
    by Simon Jenkins
    The Guardian
  • Big, Big Government
    by John Stossel
    Townhall.com
  • County Cuts Could Mean Less Drug-War Money -- And That's Not Such a Bad Thing
    by James Gierach
    Illinois Daily South Town
  • The Empire Turns Its Guns on the Citizenry
    by Paul Craig Roberts
    Antiwar.com
  • War on Drugs Records Interesting Casualty
    by Tristan Abbott
    Northern Iowan
  • In the Costly War on Drugs, Who's to Say What Is Right?
    by Bill McClellan
    St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • Former Narcs Say Drug War Is Futile
    by Radley Balko
    FoxNews.com
  • War on Drugs Comparable to Iraq Invasion
    by Kirk Muse
    Daily News Journal
  • 'Here We Are Prisoners'
    by Sara A. Carter
    San Bernardino Sun
  • Drug War Losers
    by Robert Sharpe
    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  • What Have We Learned from the War on Drugs
    by Steve Chapman
    Billings Outpost
  • We Can't Arrest Our Way Out of the Drug War
    by Anthony Lorenzo
    Sarasota Sun-Sentinel
  • We Have Lost the Drug War
    by Harry E. Klide
    Canton Repository
  • Ipswich Proves How Badly We Need Tory Libertarians
    by Simon Jenkins
    The Guardian
  • Kidnappings on Rise in South Texas
    by James Pinkerton
    Houston Chronicle
  • Opium, Thugs Bloom Under U.S. Policies in Afghanistan War
    by Ann Jones
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Drug War Worse than Iraq
    by Redford Givens
    Billings Outpost
  • Government's Drug War Fuels Meth Problem
    by Radley Balko
    Fox News
  • A Fresh Look at the War on Drugs
    by Tim Arsenault
    Chronicle Herald
  • The Other War We Can't Win
    Editorial
    Seattle Times
  • Fight Terrorism: Legalize Heroin
    by Scott McPherson
    Liberty
  • The House of Death
    by David Rose
    The Guardian
  • It's Time to Rethink the Failed 'War on Drugs'
    by Paul Armentano
    Detroit News
  • 88-Year-Old Woman Is Latest Collateral Damage in Senseless Drug War
    by Cynthia Tucker
    Baltimore Sun
  • Botched Raids Not Rare
    by Radley Balko
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • More Mexicans Have Died This Year from the Drug War than Americans in Iraq
    by Tony Newman
    Huffington Post
  • War on Drugs Needs New Strategy
    by Andrew Muchmore
    Red and Black
  • Disgrace and Disgust in Henry County Va.
    by Fredrick Kunkle
    Washington Post
  • All He Was Saying, Give Drugs a Chance
    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • End the War on Drugs
    by Tony Ryan
    Aspen Daily News
  • Milton Friedman on Liberty and Drugs
    by Kevin Zeese
    American Chronicle
  • Time for Exit Strategy for Unwinnable Drug War
    by Tony Newman
    The Huffington Post
  • Subject Drug War to the Iraq War Test
    by Nolan Finley
    Detroit News
  • Ending Drug War
    by Kirk Muse
    Los Angeles Times
  • "Highway Howie" Blasts Drug War
    by Melinda Tuhus
    New Haven Independent
  • With Beheadings and Attacks, Drug Gangs Terrorize Mexico
    by James C. McKinley Jr.
    New York Times
  • Drug War Is Worse than Drug Abuse
    by Robert Sharpe
    Capital Times
  • Rise in Bribery Tests Integrity of U.S. Border
    by Ralph Vartabedian et al.
    Los Angeles Times
  • The War on Drugs: Ambushed in Jamundi
    by Danna Harman
    Christian Science Monitor
  • War on Drugs Is a Dismal, Costly Failure
    by Patrick Robbins
    Contra Costa Times
  • The Accidental Drug Trafficker
    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times
  • The War on Meth: Noble Motives, Bad Policy
    by Tony Seno
    Ruidoso News
  • The CIA-Contra-Crack Connection, 10 Years Later
    by Nick Schou
    Los Angeles Times
  • Prohibition Didn't Work the First Time Either
    by Dudley Dowell
    Des Moines Register
  • Women Drug War's Silent Victims
    by Sara Solovitch
    Peoria Journal-Star
  • For Legalizing Drugs
    by Terry Michael
    Washington Times
  • War on Drugs: Time for Boomers to 'Fess Up
    by Karen Bojar
    Philadelphia Daily News
  • How Legalizing Drugs Will End the Violence
    by Norm Stamper
    Alternet.org
  • Drug War Police Tactics Endanger Innocent Citizens
    by Radley Balko
    Fox News
  • Legalize Drugs
    by Terry Michael
    Washington Times
  • Drug Abuse Is Bad, but Drug War Is Worse
    by Robert Sharpe
    Northwest Indiana Times
  • Demonizing Drugs
    by Paul C. Campos
    Scripps Howard
  • One Soccer Mom's Take on the Drug War
    by Jessica Peck Corry
    Denver Post
  • Sure, Let's Open the Door for SWAT Teams
    by John Tierney
    InsideBayArea.com
  • Losing the Drug War: Decriminalization Would Be More Effective than Drug Eradication
    Editorial
    The Monitor
  • Heroin's Harm
    Editorial
    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  • Convict Nation
    by Silva J.A. Talvi
    In These Times
  • New Anti-Drug Plan Continues War on Rights
    by Tim O'Brien
    Detroit News
  • Three More
    by Radley Balko
    The Agitator
  • A Safer Society? Legalize Drugs
    by Bill Fried
    Boston Globe
  • End War on Drugs
    by Barbara McKee
    Albuquerque Tribune
  • Drug Legalization Would Help Bring End to Related Crime
    by Skip Johnson
    Charleston Post and Courier
  • Violent Drug Cartels -- Not Immigrants -- Threaten Border Cities
    by Paul Nussbaum
    Charlotte Observer
  • Mexico Fights Losing War on Drugs
    by Erich Adolfo Moncada Cota
    Ohmy News
  • The Unwinnable War
    by Dmitri King
    The Towerlight
  • The Long Arm of the Drug War
    by Brian Doherty
    Los Angeles Times
  • Drugs Beget Thugs in the Americas
    by Mary Anastasia O'Grady
    Wall Street Journal
  • Canada Warned to Avoid U.S. Drug Laws
    by Greg Joyce
    Canoe
  • The War on Drugs Has Created More Problems than It Has Solved
    by George Jurgensen
    Delaware News-Journal
  • Drug War Will Fail
    by Douglas R. Fleck
    Pennlive.com
  • Drug War Dropout Calls Effort a "Failure"
    by Ron Knox
    Laurence Journal-World
  • Rethinking the Drug War
    by John Stossel
    TownHall.com
  • Legalize Methamphetamine!
    by Marc J. Victor
    Strike the Root
  • "Winning" the Drug War
    by Janis McDonald
    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  • Drug War's Futility, Failure
    Editorial
    The Daily Press
  • Drug War or Race War
    by Melinda Tuhus
    New Haven Independent
  • Telling the Truth about the War on Drugs
    by Walter Cronkite
    Yahoo!
  • Drug Traffic
    by Tom Froese, et al
    International Herald Tribune
  • Supporters: Pasco County Man's Case Shows Unfairness of Drug War
    by Mitch Stacy
    Bradenton Herald
  • Musings About the Drug War
    by George Melloan
    Wall Street Journal
  • Let Those Dopers Be
    by Norm Stamper
    Los Angeles Times
  • War on Drugs — Is It Really 'Right'?
    by Ellis Henican
    Newsday
  • The Evil War on Drugs
    by Anthony Gregory
    LewRockwell.com
  • Sick
    by Radley Balko
    National Review Online
  • The Extraordinary Folly of Britain's New Opium War
    by Simon Jenkins
    The Guardian
  • Justice, Texas Style
    by Sarah Shemkus
    Alternet.org
  • GAO: Data Too Fuzzy to Measure Drug War
    by David Adams
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Liberalism's Brain on Drugs
    by Ryan Grim
    Alternet.org
  • Let's Talk About a Revolution
    by James Whitaker and E.K. Rodrigo
    Bermuda Sun
  • Time to Confront the Truth About Another U.S. War
    by G. Jefferson Price III
    Baltimore Sun
  • Let's Eliminate the Failing War on Drugs
    by Brian Holmes
    Arbiter Online
  • "Tulia": The Case of the Lone Star Witness
    by Sara Mosle
    New York Times
  • Crackpot Crackdown
    by Jordan Smith
    Austin Chronicle
  • Law Officers Calling for End to "War against Drugs"
    by Lisa Hoffman
    Scripps Howard
  • Who're the Real Dopes in the War on Drugs?
    by Dennis Myers
    Pahrump Valley Times
  • Let Those Dopers Be
    by Norm Stamper
    Los Angeles Times
  • These Jampacked Joints Don't Make You Safe
    by Joe Domanick
    Los Angeles Times
  • Hostage Mom Exposes Drug War Double Standard
    by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
    Alternet.org
  • Is There Any Hope?
    by Susan Hubenthal
    BellaOnline
  • Former Police Captain Challenges Rotarians to Take a Different Look at the "War on Drugs"
    by Dan Russo
    Zwire
  • Vets Against the (Drug) War
    by Peter Gorman
    Ft. Worth Weekly
  • A Less Fashionable War
    by Charles Shaw
    Op-Ed News
  • Drug War Fuels Crime
    by Robert Sharpe
    Charlotte Observer
  • Race, Prison, and the Drug War
    Drug War Facts
  • Taking Cash into Custody
    Kansas City Star
  • Why Can't You Buy Heroin at Boots?
    by Lionel Shriver
    The Guardian
  • Against the Drug War
    by A.G. Gancarsk
    Washington Times
  • The Latest Drug Crisis, Again
    by Steve Chapman
    Chicago Tribune
  • Support Our Troops: Call a Truce in America's Drug War
    by Arianna Huffington
    CommonDreams.org
  • Debunking the Drug War
    by John Tierney
    New York Times
  • Zero Tolerance Makes Zero Sense
    by Radley Balko
    Washington Post
  • Justice Often Served by Jury Nullification
    by Radley Balko
    Fox News
  • Bush's War on Pot
    by Robert Dreyfuss
    Rolling Stone
  • Medical Marijuana Ruling Defies Founders' Intentions
    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun
  • Punishing Pain
    by John Tierney
    New York Times
  • The Unwinnable Battle Against the Latin American Drug Trade
    Editorial
    Naples News
  • Secret Report Says War on Hard Drugs Has Failed
    by Martin Bright
    The Guardian
  • And Now for Something Completely Wacky
    by Jeannette Catsoulis
    New York Times
  • The High Cost of Prohibition
    by Bill Steigerwald
    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  • The War America Has Lost
    by Mike Hendricks
    McCook Daily Gazette
  • The Two Seconds He Will Never Forget
    by Del Quintin Wilber
    Washington Post
  • End Marijuana Hypocrisy to Save Nation Billions
    by Nolan Finley
    Detroit News
  • End Futile Enforcement of Marijuana Laws
    by Robert Sharpe, et al
    Detroit News
  • Costly Court Nuances
    by Thomas Sowell
    Washington Times
  • Drug War Looks More Like Prohibition
    by Don Parcell
    Cincinnati Inquirer
  • Prohibition Has Always Bred Corruption
    by Clifford Schaffer
    Los Angeles Times
  • The Medical Pot Hysteria
    by Cathy Young
    Boston Globe
  • Mexican Police Chief Is Killed on His First Day
    by Marla Dickerson
    Los Angeles Times
  • Court's Ruling on Marijuana Reeks of "Reefer Madness"
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • What Were Those Justices Smoking?
    by Nick Gillespie
    Los Angeles Times
  • The Court, Federalism, and the Free Market
    by D.T. Armentano
    Mises Institute
  • How FBI Drug Sting Spread in Arizona
    Los Angeles Times
  • Profits from Selling Cocaine Make It a Lucrative Business Venture
    by David Krotz
    Winona Daily News
  • The Lure of Opium Wealth Is a Potent Force in Afghanistan
    by Paul Watson
    Los Angeles Times
  • Telling the Truth about the Drug War
    by Jeff Sanderson
    Journal-Standard
  • Two Border Towns that Are Feeling Each Other's Pains
    by Scott Gold
    Los Angeles Times
  • America's Drug War in Colombia in Tatters
    by Hugh O'Shaughnessy
    New Zealand Herald
  • Pain Relief Is Major Casualty of Drug War
    Editorial
    D.C. Examiner
  • Oxy Ban Wrong Answer
    Editorial
    Boston Herald
  • Attacking Judges, Not Drugs
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • US Anti-Drug Effort in Colombia Draws Mounting Criticism
    Associated Press
    Tapei Times
  • A Drug War Boondoggle
    by Bret Schulte
    USNews.com
  • Pot Laws Pain Some Elders
    by Eric Bailey
    Los Angeles Times
  • A Kinder, Gentler Cheaper Way of Dealing with Drug Offenders
    by Steve Chapman
    Chicago Tribune
  • The Current War on Drugs Conflicts with American Ideals
    by B. Colleen Minter
    Keene State College Equinox
  • Nothing to Show: U.S. Anti-Drug Policy Fails in Colombia
    Editorial
    The Monitor
  • Cannabis Comedown
    by Zoe Williams
    The Guardian
  • No More Drug War
    by Isaac Tripp
    The Technician
  • Illegal Drug Trade Hits New High as Users Total 200M
    by Jason Burke
    The Guardian
  • Drug War Strategy Assailed at Forum
    by Hector Castro
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • For the U.S., the Drug War Is Still an Uphill Battle
    by Joel Brinkley
    International Herald Tribune
  • U.S. Report Warns of Afghan Drug State
    by Arshad Mohammed
    Washington Post
  • Bush Dodges as Addicts Rot in Jail
    by Joe Conason
    New York Observer
  • A Zealous Prosecutor of Drug Criminals Becomes One Himself
    by Ralph Blumenthal
    New York Times
  • From Drug Mule to Miss Colombia
    by Margy Rochlin
    New York Times
  • My Journey with the Rockefeller Drug Laws
    by Anthony Papa
    Gotham Gazette
  • Another Blow to Privacy
    Editorial
    Desert Dispatch
  • Supreme Court Drug Ruling Fails the Sniff Test
    Editorial
    Detroit News
  • Drug War Shrinking Bill of Rights
    by Radley Balko
    Fox News
  • Opiates Are Safe Drugs
    by Emil Crawford
    Boston Herald
  • Rein in the War on Drugs
    by Mike Seate
    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  • Black Legislators: The Drug War Has Failed
    by Chauncey Bailey
    Pacific News Service
  • U.S. Has Spent Billions But Is Still Losing Drug War
    Editorial
    Miami Herald
  • A Taste of the System
    by John Perry Barlow
    Barlow Friendz
  • The Year in Drug Wars
    by Randall G. Shelden
    Las Vegas Mercury
  • Decriminalizing Drug Would Hurt Federal Cash Flow
    by Froma Harrop
    Detroit News
  • Marijuana Commerce
    by Terry Eastland
    Washington Times
  • The "Drug War" Toll Mounts
    by Radley Balko
    Eureka Reporter
  • Medical Marijuana: The Real Stakes
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe
  • Police Chiefs Have Dark View of War on Drugs
    by Ruben Rosario
    Pioneer Press
  • Drug War Fails to Halt Colombia Cocaine Trail
    by Andy Webb-Vidal
    Fincancial Times
  • Mandatory Madness
    by Barry C. Scheck
    Washington Post
  • Feds Overdose on Drug Arrests
    by Paul Armentano
    AlterNet.org
  • 25-Year "War on Drugs" Fails on the Streets
    by Jim Lobe
    LewRockwell.com
  • A Kinder Pot Policy
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Colombia's Gamble: Give a Death Squad Some Big Concessions
    by Juan Forero
    New York Times
  • Colombia
    by Loretta Nall
    LewRockwell.com
  • Colombia Drug War Is a Losing Battle for the U.S.
    by Jess Hunter and Merilie Robertson
    Los Angeles Times
  • Cultivating Opium, Not Democracy
    by Robert Scheer
    Los Angeles Times
  • Cruel, but Not That Unusual
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Loving Those State Prisons
    by Ronald Fraser
    AlterNet.org
  • Clinton's Pardon Saved Me, But What About the Others?
    by Kemba Smith
    USA Today
  • The Usual Suspects
    by Dave Mann
    AlterNet.org
  • More Women in Prison Than Ever Before
    by Ann Gearan
    Foster's Online
  • The Drug War on the Amazon
    by Rebecca Bowe
    Emagazine.com
  • A Class Act of Drug Abuse
    by Zoe Williams
    The Guardian
  • In the War on Drugs, Europe Must Make a Separate Peace
    by Polly Toynbee
    The Guardian
  • Terror War Takes a Back Seat to War on Drugs
    by Paul Armentano
    LewRockwell.com
  • Drug War Spreads Fear Along Mexican Border
    by Ioan Grillo
    Houston Chronicle
  • Book Review: More Terrible than Death: Violence, Drugs, and America's War in Colombia
    by Aryeh Neier
    Human Rights Watch
  • Post-Invasion Chaos Blamed for Drug Surge
    by T. Christian Miller
    Los Angeles Times
  • Anti-Drug Campaign Reaches New Low
    by Human Rights Watch
    AlertNet
  • Legalize It
    by Jessica Ullian
    Boston University
  • Religious Coercion in Michigan
    by Wendy Wagenheim
    Detroit News
  • Dressing Up Failure
    by Bruce Mirken
    AlterNet.org
  • Drug-Fighters High on Their Own Nonsense
    by Ellis Henican
    Newsday
  • Ending the Drug War Against the Weak
    by Simon Smith
    Better Humans
  • It's Time to Rethink and Reform Drug Laws
    Editorial
    Denver Post
  • Bush's Born-Again Drug War
    by Paul Armentano
    AlterNet.org
  • Reefer Madness
    by Eric Schlosser
    The Atlantic
  • Failing Drug War
    Editorial
    Jacksonville Daily News
  • The Bi-Partisan Origins of the War on Drugs
    Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
    Counterpunch.org
  • Who's a Rat? New Website Turns Tables on Informants
    by PR Newswire
    Yahoo.com
  • Yet Another Drug War Failure
    by Ted Galen Carpenter
    Cato Institute
  • Drug War Is a War on Families
    by Walter Cronkite
    Denver Post
  • America Admits Drug War Has Failed
    Straits Times
  • Meanwhile …
    Editorial
    Las Vegas Review-Journal
  • Drug War's Dirty Deal
    by Ralph R. Reiland
    Pittsburgh Live
  • Why the Drug War Isn't an Election Issue -- But Should Be
    by Alan Heymann
    AlterNet.org
  • Winning the War on Drugs
    by Danny Hanemann
    Bogalusa Daily News
  • This Is Kerry on Drugs
    by Mike Krause and Dave Kopel
    AlterNet.org
  • Saving Grace
    by Baylen J. Linnekin
    AlterNet.org
  • The New American Apartheid
    by Randall G. Shelden and William B. Brown
    The Black Commentator
  • Addicted to Failure (pdf)
    by Ethan Nadelmann
    Drug Policy Alliance
  • Ineffective, Expensive Drug War Rages On
    by Randall G. Shelden
    Las Vegas Mercury
  • Protesting the Drug War
    by Bill Steigerwald
    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  • Conflict Over Legalization a Growing Part of Nation’s Drug War
    by Ann Winterholter
    Grand Junction Sentinel
  • From Abu Ghraib to Your Local Prison
    by Matthew Briggs
    AlterNet.org
  • Guess What: Drug War Isn't Working
    by Kirk Muse
    Arizona Republic
  • Reagan’s Drug War Legacy
    by Jeralyn Merritt
    Alternet.org
  • Fight the Drug War, Pay the Bill
    by Richard Bockman and Jamie Thompson
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Double Dealing in War on Drugs
    by Gordon Brewer
    The Scotsman
  • War on Drugs Has Failed; It’s Time to Make Changes
    by Paul Stone
  • The Creeping Cancer
    by B. Raman
    Outlook India
  • Drug Law Sentences
    Editorial
    Las Vegas Review-Journal
  • The Maverick
    by Alan Prendergast
    Denver Westword
  • From Abu Ghraib to Your Local Prison: Phony Stores, Real War
    by Matthew Briggs
    Common Dreams
  • Which Side Is Winning the War on Drugs?
    by Doug Bandow
    San Diego Union-Tribune
  • The American Junkie
    by Joseph D. McNamara
    Hoover Digest
  • Counting the Costs of the Drug War
    by Ann Harrison
    AlterNet.org
  • Government's New Tool in the Drug War: A Muzzle
    by Steve Chapman
    Baltimore Sun
  • At Last, the Windows Have No Bars
    by Sara Rimer
    New York Times
  • War on Peruvian Drugs Takes a Victim: U.S. Asparagus
    by Timothy Egan
    New York Times
  • A Rocky Reform
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Review of: Life on the Outside
    Reviewed by: Elaine Cassel
    FindLaw.com
  • Drug War Was Just a Terror War Warm-Up
    by Art Lyon
    Los Angeles Times
  • U.S. Informant Oversaw Killings
    by Alfredo Corchado
    NewspaperTree
  • 'Life on the Outside': The Other Lockup
    by Brent Staples
    New York Times
  • In Praise of Laudanum
    by Jim Pittaway
    American Conservative
  • U.S. Stuck in the Quagmire
    by Robert Hardaway
    Denver Post
  • Drug War Clock
    Drug Sense
  • State Has Nation's Largest Disparity in Number of Blacks, Whites Jailed
    by Robert Schwaneberg
    Jersey Journal
  • The Demonized Seed
    by Lee Green
    Los Angeles Times
  • Forget the War on Drugs Already
    by Doug Bandow
    Cato Institute
  • Worried Pain Doctors Decry Prosecutions
    by Marc Kaufman
    Washington Post
  • The Drug War Consensus
    by Geov Parrish
    WorkingForChange.com
  • Zero Patience for Zero Tolerance
    by Wendy McElroy
    FOX News
  • Limbaugh Scandal Puts OxyContin on Trial
    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Uncle Sam’s Wacky War on Drugs
    by Deroy Murdock
    Alternet.org
  • War on Drugs Takes a Toll on the L.A. Justice System
    by Brady Sullivan
    Los Angeles Times
  • Spots Show on White Hats
    by Charley Reese
    King Features Syndicate
  • Painful Rift Unnerves Doctors
    by Ralph Vartabedian
    Los Angeles Times
  • Rush in Denial: An Intervention
    by James Ostrowski
    LewRockwell.com
  • Rush to Revenge? No, Thanks
    by Robert Scheer
    Los Angeles Times
  • Coca Culture
    by Leonid Zurita-Vargas
    New York Times
  • Police Are Addicted to Lure of Easy Money
    by Robyn Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Afghan Drug Trade Flourishes
    by April Witt (Washington Post)
    Tacoma News Tribune
  • Drug Busts Can’t Stop the Traffic
    by Carlos Miller.
    Arizona Republic
  • The International Drug War's Illusory Victories
    by Ted Galen Carpenter
    Cato Institute
  • The Drug War Goes Up in Smoke
    by Sasha Abramsky
    The Nation
  • Collateral Damage in the War on Drugs
    by Cynthia Tucker
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • We Have Lost the War on Drugs
    Special Report
    The Observer
  • Afghanistan New Villain in Illicit Drug Trade
    by Catherine Bremer
    Reuters
  • Commander of Lost Causes
    by Scott Wilson
    Washington Post
  • The RAVE Act Has Landed
    by Phillip S. Smith
    Utne.com
  • Victory in Tulia, but Not in Drug War
    by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
    Alternet.org
  • 13 Imprisoned in Tulia Drug Sweep to be Freed Today
    by Lee Hockstader
    Washington Post
  • Kemba Smith and the Failing Drug War
    by Phil Donahue
    AlterNet.org
  • McSting Lacks Franchise Approval
    by Mike Hoyem
    The Florida News-Press
  • Christian Families are Forced to Flee Anti-Alcohol Killers
    by Anthony Browne
    London Times
  • Slaughter in the Name of a Drug War
    by Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker
    New York Times
  • 2,274 Dead in Thai Drugs Crackdown
    CNN
  • Do Unto Others: The Vices of Bill Bennett
    Randy E. Barnett
    National Review
  • Fury Rises in Baghdad as Drugs Return to the Alleys
    by Phil Reeves
    The Independent
  • Just Say No to a Drugs Policy that Doesn't Work
    by Polly Toynbee
    The Guardian
  • The Tulia Story Isn't Over
    by Bob Herbert
    New York Times
  • Review of: Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America
    Reviewed by: William H. Peterson
    Washington Times
  • This War Must Also Stop
    by Emma Bonino
    Korea Herald
  • Will the Tulia Tragedy Have a Hollywood Ending?
    by Arianna Huffington
    Tallahassee Democrat
  • Finally, Justice in Tulia
    by Silja J.A. Talvi
    Alternet.org
  • Race and the Drug War: Tulia
    Drug Policy Alliance
  • Texas Court Acts to Clear 38, Almost All Black, in Drug Case
    by Simon Romero with Adam Liptak
    New York Times
  • Making War on the War on Drugs
    by Lakshmi Chaudhry
    AlterNet.org
  • The War on Drugs vs. the War on Terrorism
    by Steve Chapman
    Creators Syndicate
  • DEA Slaying of Girl Under Investigation
    by Jerry Seper
    Washington Times
  • The War on Drugs vs. the War on Terrorism
    by Steve Chapman
    Creators Syndicate
  • Is the Drug War Racist?
    by Samuel Freedman
    Rolling Stone
  • Ashcroft's Narco-Terror War
    by Joanne Mariner
    CounterPunch.org
  • Race and the Drug War
    by Desiree Evans
    AlterNet.org
  • Texas Teen Shot by DEA Agents Dies
    Associated Press
    Yahoo.com
  • Thai Drug Killings Condemned
    BBC
  • Shooting of N.Y. Dad Haunts DEA Agents
    Tom Hays - Associated Press
    Yahoo.com
  • Mexican Drug Agent Crossed the Line Once Too Often
    by Tim Weiner
    New York Times
  • Prohibition=Violence
    by Ronald Bailey
    ReasonOnline.com
  • North Korea to Kill All Drug Users
    JoinTogether.org
  • An Open Letter to Bill Bennett
    by Milton Friedman
    Wall Street Journal
    (FFF republication)
  • Military's Stake Rises in War on Drugs
    by James W. Crawley
    San Diego Union-Tribune
  • Tulia Blues
    by Jennifer Gonnerman
    Village Voice
  • Mexico Disbands Anti-Drugs Force in Drive against Corruption
    by Kieran Murray
    Independent
  • Three Chicago Cops Face Cocaine Charges
    Associated Press
    Yahoo!
  • Bolivians Pay Dearly for U.S. War on Drugs
    by Tina Hodges and Katheryn Ledebur
    Miami Herald
  • Bush Gives Guatemala an "F" in Drug War
    by George Gedda -- Associated Press
    Salt Lake Tribune
  • Colombia "Drug War" a Sham
    by Al Gedicks
    Capital Times
  • Just Say No: Government's War on Drugs Fails
    by John Stossel
    ABCNews.com
  • Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs
    Human Rights Watch
  • What If Whites Were Race Profiled?
    by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
    Alternet.org
  • The Color of the War on Drugs
    by Silja J.A. Talvi
    AlterNet.org
  • The Latest Bush Hypocrisy
    by Arianna Huffington
    Salon.com
  • Terrible Things
    by Jacob Sullum
    Reason
  • A Dirty Sweep
    by Ta-Nehisi Coates
    Village Voice
  • Homeland Security Will Revitalize Drug War, U.S. Official Says
    by Bill Weissert
    NewsObserver.com
  • Drugs, Guns and Money
    by Judith Lewis
    AlterNet.org

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