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Border Patrol Agents Knowingly Let Drugs In
An anonymous Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, speaking exclusively with The Fix, paints a stark picture of the drug war along the US-Mexico Border. The cartels’ traffickers are punching through our borders without fear, he confirms, sup…
Mexico Faces War Crimes Investigation Over ‘War On Drugs’
[img_assist|nid=29171|title=|desc=A man looks at a van containing the bodies of several men in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Thursday. Mexican authorities found 26 bodies in three vehicles abandoned near a major intersection, officials said.
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The Prohibition of Marijuana Only Seems to Cause More Use
The recent vote defeating California’s Proposition 19, legalizing the use of marijuana regrettably prolongs a drug policy that does not work. Low-level users will continue to be targeted rather than the drug cartels and drug lords who run fr…
Calderon’s Drug War Agenda Stymied By Politics
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has made his war against his country's so-called drug cartels the centerpiece of his presidency. But with prohibition-related violence at record levels and with his single six…
Cops Say Yes to California Marijuana Legalization Measure [FEATURE]
It was a law enforcement trifecta in support of California's Proposition 19 Monday, with a phalanx of police, prosecutors, and judges coming out in support of the marijuana legalization initiative in a pair of…
Marc Emery Prosecutor Now Says Legalize Marijuana
In a Seattle Times op-ed Saturday, former US Attorney for the Western District of Washington John McKay defected to the other side. As the federal prosecutor in Seattle, McKay oversaw the indictment and prose…
LA Sheriff Says Almost All Pot Clinics Criminal
California — The Los Angeles County sheriff has escalated his war of words against California medical marijuana dispensaries, saying as many as 97 percent operate as criminal enterprises.
Some of the pot shops get marijuana from Mexican drug …
Ex-Mexico President Calls for Legalizing Drugs
Former President Vicente Fox is joining with those urging his successor to legalize drugs in Mexico, saying that could break the economic power of the country’s brutal drug cartels.
Fox’s comments, posted Sunday on his blog, came less than a week after…
Canada Trails in Legalizing Pot Debate
By JOSEPH QUESNEL, For the Winnipeg Sun
The federal government needs to look beyond just law enforcement as a means to combat gangs that plague Manitoba and increasingly many First Nation reserves.
Ottawa has announced it will be giving p…
Marijuana On Public Lands
Herger Urges Feds to Devise a Strategy
Saying federal agencies aren’t doing enough to stop Mexican drug cartels from growing marijuana illegally on public lands, U.S. Rep. Wally Herger has drafted a resolution urging Congress to create a l…
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