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The Suburbs Made the War on Drugs in Their Own Image
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIn 1956, Jane Tompkins of Maplewood, New Jersey, waged her own war on drugs. Tompkins, who was then the state director of the New Jersey Commission on...
Is the war on drugs back on? | The Excerpt podcast
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOn Sunday's episode of The Excerpt podcast: It's been just over 50 years since President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. Since then, drug policy at the state level has mostly been progressing ...
Decriminalizing drugs respects the research and honors compassionate Americans | Opinion
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAfter speaking with 6,000 addicts and their families, I'm convinced our justice system’s negative...
Opinion: Operation Lone Star is drug war déjà vu
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Texas legislature is considering a series of disproportionately punitive bills to strengthen Governor Greg Abbott’s abusive Operation Lone Star. If...
The West’s war on drugs has failed – and brought carnage to Latin America
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoEcuador has exploded, violently and gruesomely. Last week, narco-gangsters kidnapped dozens of...
Black American Casualties Are The Highest In This Country's War On Drugs
Blavity via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSince it was declared by Nixon in 1971, the War on Drugs has been destroying communities everywhere....
Granderson: Marijuana isn't fueling cartels. U.S. laws drive the violence
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 4 months agoOfficers clear an illegal grow operation in California's Siskiyou County in 2021. (Brian van der...
Progressive California and Oregon are reviving the war on drugs amid a fentanyl crisis.
NBC News via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe war on drugs, once a weapon in the nation's fight against substance abuse and related crimes, is...
Thanks for nothing, DEA. Fifty years later, drugs are deadlier and more abundant than ever
Salon via Yahoo News· 11 months agoDrug Enforcement Administration DEA OfficerRJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty...
I’m a Cop. It’s About Time We Ended Marijuana Prohibition.
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPhoto Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty“This is a gamechanger.” That was my...