Running on the coca ticket
23-November-2005, Bolivia, Sun Sentinel
The coca farmers on these steep mountain slopes have long felt their livelihood and Indian identity threatened by U.S.-backed efforts to uproot the crop that makes cocaine. Now they are pinning their hopes on one of their own: an Indian coca farmer ...

Victims of the Drug War
22-November-2005, United States, BlueOregon
As if the US “war on drugs” was not absurd enough, it has now claimed its first marijuana-related casualty. Jonathan Magbie, a quadriplegic, was sentenced to a 10-day jail sentence in Washington, DC for possession of one joint. He died four days ...

Marijuana: A Pointless But Ending War
21-November-2005, United States, The Knight News
Back in my supermarket days as a stock boy, a coworker gave me an anecdote about how he was getting high with his friends at a deserted rail yard. Two police officers appeared suddenly, so the kids languidly tried to hide their joints behind their ...

Truth raffled in Leslie case
21-November-2005, Indonesia, The Sunday Herald Sun
UNDERWEAR model, Muslim convert, ecstasy user, naive victim or all of the above? An apt description for Michelle Leslie is as difficult to pin down as the truth in her case and after her deportation we are no closer to it. The circus of ...

Former judge calls drug war a 'failure'
17-November-2005, United States, Sierra Times
RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina should consider decriminalizing illegal drugs as it tries to stem the need for additional prisons, a former state Supreme Court chief justice said Monday. Burley Mitchell, the state's top judge from 1995 to 1999, ...

I-100 author smokes foes
03-November-2005, United States, Rocky Mountain News
23-year-old turns tables on drug war with Denver victory By Alan Gathright, Rocky Mountain News November 3, 2005 It's not even noon and Mason Tvert already has hit seven television and five radio news shows in his post-election victory lap as ...

U.S. needs more sensible drug policy
03-November-2005, United States, Norther Star Online
Article By: • David Conard • dconard@northernstar.info "Drugs are bad, m’kay" So says Mr. Mackey, the school counselor from the "South Park" cartoon. That’s an oversimplification, which might be what the show’s creators are saying. Mr. ...

Almost 11 million people in Britain have taken ...
28-October-2005, United Kingdom, The Independent
Almost 11 million Britons have taken illegal drugs, including four million who have experimented with class A substances such as heroin and cocaine. The regular part played by drugs in many people's lives was disclosed yesterday by research ...

Bleak news from the drug war
28-October-2005, United States, Recordnet
To me, Red Ribbon Week is a time not only to make the good arguments against drugs to kids, but time to salvage what shreds of national sanity remain after decades of America's war on drugs. Next to solving every foreign policy problem ...

Drug war’s focus on grass obscures addiction’s ...
25-October-2005, United States, The Daily Tar Heel
BY SARA BOATRIGHT KEEP 'EM ON THEIR TOES October 25, 2005 Marijuana, apparently, loads unloaded guns. That’s what the public service announcements would have you think, with dramatized scenes and stern voice-overs nearly culminating in a ...

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