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Oriente Medio: Las aduanas de Dubai aprehenden a funcionario antidroga canadiense de la ONU en Afganistán
La imposición estricta de la ley sobre las drogas en el aeropuerto de Dubai ha atrapado a otro occidental â de esta vez, un canadiense que trabaja para la agencia antidroga de la ONU en Afganistán.
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PacÃfico Sur: Las Marianas del Norte están agitadas por propuesta de despenalización de la marihuana
¿Problemas en el paraÃso? La indirecta de una propuesta de despenalización de la marihuana del alto funcionario de la ley de las Islas Marianas del Norte ha provocado un tifón de crÃticas.
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Adiós: Una mujer vÃctima de la guerra a las drogas se muere, la otra está a punto de morirse
Esta semana, decimos adiós a dos mujeres vÃctimas de la guerra a las drogas, Veronica Flournoy, que pasó de prisionera de la guerra a las drogas a reformadora, y Crystal Ferguson, cuyo arresto por sacar positivo para cocaÃna en el parto llevó por fin a una victoria en la Corte Suprema.
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Pot, Aliens, and ONDCP
Seth Stevenson at Slate is in love with the new ONDCP ad in which a pot-smoker's girlfriend dumps him for a non-smoking alien:
Grade: A. This is very possibly the most effective, and least offensive, anti-marijuana campaign ever created. I know that ONDCP, and the Partnership for a Drug Free America, are cautiously thrilled with it. I expect it will be the model for years to come.
I'm not going to beat Stevenson up over this. He shares my belief that these ads shouldn't be offensive, and I agree that this is obviously tame by ONDCP standards. But what on earth does it mean to say that ONDCP is "cautiously thrilled" with this?
When has ONDCP ever been less than thrilled with their advertisements? They've vigorously defended their media campaign throughout its numerous incarnations, never once finding fault, even as a growing mountain of evidence depicts their public outreach efforts as an undeniable failure. Could it be that they were more candid with Seth Stevenson than the U.S. Congress?
Stevenson's analysis is fair enough, at least insofar as this ad is concerned. But, dude, before you go gushing anymore about truth in advertising at ONDCP, you might wanna check out "Stoners in the Mist."
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Wrong Home: Police Force 77-Year Old Woman to Ground and Handcuff Her
Why couldn't police tell the difference between house number 74 and house number 82 before they burst into a home with guns drawn? And why did they feel the need to handcuff an elderly woman and force her to the ground? Wrong home, for no good reason, no meth there. Via the Agitator...
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chicagovigil.com responds to chicagovigil.org
The DEA is at it again, as Drug WarRant blogger Peter Guither puts it, and is holding another "vigil for lost promise" for people who have died from drugs, this one in Chicago (chicagovigil.org).
The problem isn't so much what the DEA says -- some people do die from drugs -- but what they don't say. Hence Guither's vigil for lost promise for people who have died from the drug war (chicagovigil.com redirecting to it).
It's too simplistic to blame it all on drugs. Even when it looks like drugs (e.g. it's not someone who was imprisoned under a law or shot by a SWAT team, someone actually died from some kind of drug use), it's often the combination of drugs with the drug laws that created the most deadly mix.
Guess who has the top link in Google when searching on "vigil for lost promise," at least right now when I'm posting this?
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Imprisonment is becoming unaffordable...
Via the Sentencing Law and Policy blog:
The high cost of imprisonment has created openings for sentencing reform. An article on Stateline.org explores recent moves in Texas and Kansas to find alternatives to building more prisons.
It's easy in this issue a lot of the time to feel like things are hopeless, and certainly the pace of change is frustratingly slow. But it's a different debate now, on drugs and on crime in general, than was taking place 13 or so years ago when I first got involved in this. I can't remember the last time I heard a politician talk about how prisoners are being "coddled" and shouldn't have access to exercise rooms -- routine stuff back then -- and while menaces to society like US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales still want more mandatory minimums, it has become noticeably harder for them to get them passed -- Pat Leahy isn't the only reason Gonzales' horrible idea isn't likely to go anywhere. Attitudes are changing, policy will follow suit, but we have to keep working at it to make it happen...
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Interview with Hearne, Texas, drug war victim Regina Kelly
Radley Balko has posted a Flash-video interview he recorded with drug war victim Regina Kelly, one of the 27 black residents of Hearne, Texas, who were arrested in a Tulia-like incident involving an "informant" of the most scurrilous variety. Kelly, like most of the victims, was later exonerated. Balko and Kelly were both speakers at an ACLU conference in Seattle last weekend.
Seattle is a beautiful city -- with great drug reformers -- as I commented two weekends ago while the NORML Legal Seminar was convening in Aspen, "wish I were there..."
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Comunicado de prensa: Gobernador sanciona primer proyecto de cambio de jeringas de Tejas
Un programa piloto está listo para empezar en la Comarca de Bexar en el otoño.
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Marihuana medicinal: Proyecto de Nueva York es aprobado en la asamblea general, pero ahora el senado crea obstáculos
Un proyecto de ley sobre la marihuana medicinal ha sido aprobado por la Asamblea General de Nueva York y el gobernador ha indicado que lo sancionarÃa, pero ahora el Senado estadual dominado por los republicanos está creando obstáculos.
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Penas: Corte Suprema decide caso sobre penas para el crack
La Corte Suprema de los EE.UU. ha estado de acuerdo en escuchar el caso de un virginiano sentenciado de acuerdo con las duras leyes federales contra la piedra de cocaÃna. Es el tercer caso relativo a la condenación federal de que la corte se ha encargado en los últimos meses.
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Imposición de la ley: Las historias de policÃas corruptos de esta semana
Cae otra guardia y un agente de Georgia es atrapado acostándose con sus informantes.
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Conferencia: Drug Policy Alliance, Nueva Orleáns, diciembre de 2007
Una gran reunión de las fuerzas de la reforma de las polÃticas de drogas está planeada para fines de este año y hay precios especiales de inscripción para aquellos que planean antes.
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Semanal: Blogueando en el Bar Clandestino
âNuevo vÃdeo del ONDCP demuestra exactamente por qué sus anuncios no funcionanâ, âFinalmente Bruce Willis se da cuentaâ, âFuncionario del ONDCP hace llamada amenazadora a la oficina del SSDPâ, âAgentes del aeropuerto son despedidos por orinar en el bagajeâ, âUy, no es ésta la casa. Perdón por tirar granas y patearte en la entrepiernaâ, âMéxico está sangrandoâ, â¿John Belushi se murió a causa de la cocaÃna?â y muchos más
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Reacción: ¿Usted lee la Crónica de la Guerra Contra las Drogas?
¿Usted lee la <em>Crónica de la Guerra Contra las Drogas</em>? Si sÃ, necesitamos su reacción para evaluar nuestro trabajo y defender la <em>Crónica</em> delante de los financistas. Necesitamos donaciones también.