Ashley Kennedy, Journalist
Journalist Ashley Kennedy informs the audience of recent political events in the United States.
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Mario Menendez, !Por Esto! Newspaper
Mario Menendez is the publisher of the Yucatan's newspaper !Por Esto! He was sued in New York City along with Narco News' Al Giordano, for libel in what now is considered the famous "Drug War on Trial" case.
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Al Giordano, Narconews.com
Al Giordano is the founder and publisher of Narco News, an online newspaper reporting on the drug war and democracy from Latin America. He is also the president of the Narco News School of Authentic Journalism.
Drug Legalization Debate, 6/26/08, 4 Corners Program, Press TV -- aired across Europe and the Middle East
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- Past-year prevalence of marijuana use among young people in the tolerant Netherlands about half as in nearby France: The State of the Drugs Problem in Europe, 2007 report EMCDDA (page 41)
- States with marijuana decriminalization have not seen resulting rises in use: various studies including Institute of Medicine, Monitoring the Future, Connecticut Law Review Commission, others
- Teen marijuana use declines in states with medical marijuana laws: Marijuana Use by Young People: The Impact of State Medical Marijuana Laws
- Substitution effect between marijuana use and alcohol use: Substitution of Marijuana for Alcohol: The Role of Perceived Access and Harm, Journal of Drug Education, 2006
- Average Age of Netherlands heroin addicts has been increasing (e.g. few young heroin addicts): Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction
- Opiates and cocaine were banned almost a century ago (1914) by the Harrison Narcotics Act: Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs
- Taliban earns $100 million in opium profits in 2007: Drug War Chronicle citing UN Office on Drugs and Crime Chief Antonio Costa on BBC
- Drug prohibition sends hundreds of billions of dollars per year in illicit revenues to the global underground: UN World Drug Report, via Drug War Chronicle
- The US homicide rate increased under alcohol prohibition and decreased following it's repeal: Schaffer Library alcohol prohibition section
- Street price of cocaine (adjusted for purity and inflation) drops by 80% since 1980: Rand Corporation, via Joint Economic Committee, US Senate