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THE DRUG WAR


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  • 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