All Posts Tagged With: "drug war"

How to End Mexico’s Deadly Drug War

Albert Einstein declared, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” He wasn’t describing the federal government’s nearly century-long war on drugs but he might as well have been.
Despite ample lip-service for “hope” and “change,” the Obama administration’s cynical response to the escalating drug prohibition-related violence [...]

18Nov2009 | Paul Armentano | 3 comments | Continued

What The Drug Warriors Have Given Us

Does anyone still think the “war on drugs” is a good idea?

That may strike some people as an odd question under the circumstances, so let’s take it from another direction. Have you seen the news stories about the violence on the border being perpetrated by the Mexican whiskey and cigarette cartels?

No? That’s probably because there was no such violence and are no such cartels.

So why are there violent cartels in marijuana, cocaine, and heroin but not in whiskey and cigarettes?

All together now: prohibition.

17Jun2009 | Sheldon Richman | 8 comments | Continued

Legalize All Drugs

Reading the New York Post’s popular Page Six gossip page recently, I was surprised to find a picture of me, followed by the lines: “ABC’S John Stossel wants the government to stop interfering with your right to get high. The crowd went silent at his call to legalize hard drugs.”
I had attended a Marijuana Policy [...]

1Oct2008 | John Stossel | 1 comment | Continued

Addiction is an Illness

Dr. Berger is President of Richmond Memorial Hospital; Chairman of the Committee on Alcoholism and Narcotics of the New York State Medical Society; president. Medical Society of the City of New York.
Upon pressure from the World Health Organization and other branches of the United Nations, the government of the United Kingdom had announced that after [...]

21Nov2009 | Herbert Berger M.D | 0 comments | Continued