Former Spanish Drug Czar Says Legalize Drugs
Add another voice to the growing anti-prohibitionist chorus: Spain's former drug czar has come out for drug legalization.
Corruption
Police Corruption: Woman's Drug Conviction Overturned During Probe
Drug prohibition-related police corruption stories abound. Court records indicate a Tulsa woman's drug conviction has been vacated, increasing to 19 the number of people either freed from prison or no longer facing charges because of an ongoing police corruption investigation.
Lawsuit Filed in Camden Police Drug Planting Scheme
Drug prohibition has long been corrupting law enforcement in many ways. Now, the ACLU has taken Camden County and New Jersey officials to federal court on behalf of a man who spent more than a year in jail on drug charges, which were dismissed after the cops who arrested him were charged with planting evidence on him and many others.
Corrupt, Insecure Prisons Undermine Mexico Drug War
Experts say Mexico's President FelipeCalderon needs to get entrenched problems in the penal and judicial system under control if he is to have any chance of winning a war that has claimed more than 28,000 lives since late 2006 and sparked fears that drug trafficking organizations could turn Mexico into a lawless narco state.