Credit to Author: Steven Grattan| Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:55:52 GMT
Colombia insists the aerial spraying of coca, the base ingredient for cocaine, is the best option in the war on drugs. More than 150 experts say it can cause serious health problems and environmental destruction.
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Credit to Author: Rachel Browne| Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 21:23:47 GMT
While harm reduction experts applauded Justin Trudeau’s plan to remove mandatory minimums, they were also concerned the bill still reinforces harms associated with drug criminalization.
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Credit to Author: Chris Roberts| Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:49:33 GMT
Politicians have long used earmarks for police budgets as a way to make legalization more digestible to opponents. New Jersey’s attempt to legalize in 2020 shows that is no longer working.
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Credit to Author: Max Daly| Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:10:21 GMT
President of the Philippines used his inaugural United Nations speech to lash out at human rights campaigners who are in the line of fire in the country’s war on drugs
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Credit to Author: Max Daly| Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2020 13:14:15 +0000
The authorities have used drugs as a pretext and justification for ultra-violence against Black people for over a century.
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Credit to Author: Keegan Hamilton| Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 01:09:12 +0000
Genaro García Luna, currently housed in a Brooklyn federal jail on charges that he took millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel, has asked to be released for fear of contracting COVID-19.
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Credit to Author: Keegan Hamilton| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:58:15 +0000
One year after the historic guilty verdict: “It’s hard to say the Sinaloa cartel is weaker— it’s hard to put metrics to what that really means.”
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Credit to Author: Manisha Krishnan| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 18:52:07 +0000
The multibillion-dollar cannabis industry is shutting out Black people who were jailed for selling weed. Freeway Rick Ross wants to change that.
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Credit to Author: Alex Norcia| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:57:19 +0000
“Making things illegal tends to make them more dangerous.”
Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:11:29 +0000
Those behind a fake, spliced video showing Sen. Leila De Lima allegedly admitting that she was a protector of drug lords are “evil men and women,” the lawmaker said Saturday. “Mga walang puso at konsensya!” De Lima said in a statement.
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