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NYPD to Obey Law
In case you haven't seen our story from last Friday about the New York City Police Department'
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Mexico Drug War Update
More cartel drug busts, more dead bodies, no apparent impact on the flow of drugs north and cash south.
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A Drug Arrest Every 19 Seconds, Says Latest US Data [FEATURE]
The FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report finds that drug arrests are stabilizing, but at near record levels. More than 1.6 million people got busted for drugs last year, more than half of them for pot.
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Canada Marijuana Arrests Jump Dramatically
Marijuana arrests jumped in Canada last year, and activists want to know why.
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Cops Say Forty Years of War on Drugs is Enough [FEATURE]
To mark the 40th anniversary of Nixon's declaration of the war on drugs, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition has released a scathing report calling for it to end.
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Defenders of the War on Marijuana Don't Have a Clue Who They're Hurting
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The debate over New York City's out-of-control marijuana arrest crusade is getting heated, which is exactly what needs to happen. Forced at last to defend this grand travesty before an angry public, the mayor's office is now trying to convince everyone that this epidemic of constitutional violations and racial profiling is somehow good for the community:
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NYPD Only Arrests Minorities for Marijuana. Here's How They Do It.
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Since 1977, it's been technically legal in the State of New York to carry around a concealed bag of marijuana weighing less than 7/8 of an ounce. But you could be forgiven for not knowing this, since getting popped for petty pot possession is easier in New York City than anywhere else on the planet.
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Mexico Drug War Update
No end in sight for the prohibition-related violence plaguing Mexico. The hit men just keep on coming.
Drug prohibition funds the bloody mayhem in Mexico (Image via Wikimedia.org)
Mexico Drug War Update
After more than four year's of Calderon's drug war, there is no end in sight to the violence.
Fixing the Fiasco of the NYPD's Marijuana Arrests
Two New York State legislators have proposed a simple, effective legislative fix to New York City's 15-year marijuana arrest craze. Senator Mark Grisanti, a white Republican from Buffalo, and Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, a black Democrat from Brooklyn, have together offered legislation that would strike from the law the misdemeanor for simple marijuana possession of less than an ounce. The NYPD made 50,000 of these marijuana possession arrests in 2010 and 500,000 arrests since 1997.