Sentences with phrase «drug war facts»

Drug War Facts: Thorough look at drugs and drug policy, applied to public health and criminal justice issues.

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I find myself speaking out more and more about the things I can not accept — like the failed war on drugs, mistreatment of refugees, prejudice against the LGBT community, or the fact that the death penalty still exists despite being proven to not deter crime.

So how can he argue that Nixon, who had fabricated this bogus drug war to deceive the American people, in fact had an effective drug policy which we should restore?

But by the time the Shafer Commission recommended that cannabis be descheduled — and, in fact, decriminalized — Nixon had already officially declared the War on Drugs, and stated outright in 1971 he would reject the commission's findings if it proposed legalization:

So, an average citizen bases their favorable view of him on the fact that unless they are involved with the drug trade, they are 13x times less likely to be a victim of a rogue crime that's part of war drugs; than a non-victim of a crime that war on drugs is percieved to have prevented.

The fact changes are happening at such a rapid pace shocks the remaining supporters of the drug war.

Focus instead on the fact that certain faith leaders have been reliable cheerleaders for the drug war.

It's difficult to think of a modern documentary as complex and well put together — not to mention as morally confounding — as Cartel Land, a documentary whose «facts» are stranger, and more compelling, than most fictions about the drug wars.

Here in the U.S. we have to face the fact that our users are responsible for the anarchy in Mexico, for the deaths of 60,000 in drug wars south of the border, as the vast majority of drugs from there find their way here.

Winslow's riveting epic about the ongoing Mexican drug wars blends fact and fiction to tell the incredible, tragic story of the blood - drenched reign of the notorious El Chapo (Adán Barrera in the novel).

Win an autographed copy of this riveting fact - meets - fiction account of child soldiers and drug wars in Colombia by the author of the international blo

Well, my story is that I self - published «Letter to a Prohibitionist» on Amazon because I've come to accept the publishing fact, as demonstrated by numerous works on the subject before mine, that books on the War on Drugs don't sell — and therefore agents don't ask to see the manuscript.

The fact is that the war on drugs has been an abject failure: addicts are criminalized, public health suffers, criminal organizations profit, the young and marginalized are stigmatized and our courts grind to a halt under the weight of morality prosecutions.