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Cartel Land is riveting, dark stuff, and its uncompromising look at the drug war as an out of control nightmare is some of the most important filmmaking to come out of 2015.

Best known for the Oscar - nominated «Cartel Land,» a look at the drug wars in Mexico, Heineman specializes in getting deeply inside situations.

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After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

Besides Oakland residents arrested within the city for pot crimes dating back to 1996, the permits are available to residents living at least 10 of the past 20 years in police beats torn apart by the war on drugs.

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

The visible failure of the war on drugs, combined with a generational tipping point in attitudes, has poll after poll showing a majority of adults favouring the legalization or at least decriminalization of recreational cannabis use.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain foresWar II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain foreswar on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

This look at the war on drugs shows the fight on both the US and Mexican side.

But these forces were not used at that time and were instead sent to northern Mexico to conduct operations against drug trafficking when the Mexican government started to work more closely with the United States to fight the so - called war on drugs.

There is also no real plan to address the emergency at this point — only broad pledges to overcome this crisis and become the generation that wins the war against drug abuse.

The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

At least 60,000 people are believed to have died between 2006 and 2012 as a result of the drug war as cartels, vigilante groups, and the Mexican army and police have battled each other.

At the same time as CJNG's pseudo-insurgency and violence between self - defense groups, the UN Human Rights Council has found that the drug war's disruptions to Mexican society have deepened a culture of lawlessness and impunity.

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP)-- While authorities investigate what set off a deadly shooting at an electronic music festival event, residents said it came amid a growing and increasingly open drug scene in this resort town that has long been spared the violence of Mexico's cartel wars.

«For decades, the failed War on Drugs has locked up millions of nonviolent drug offenders — especially for marijuana - related offenses — at an incredible cost of lost human potential, torn apart families and communities, and taxpayer dollars,» Booker wrote in a Facebook post.

At the same time, the war on drugs was pushing coca cultivation out of Peru and Bolivia (which are to the south of Colombia), making it an even more attractive cash crop for Colombian farmers.

At another point, citing the problems of war, drugs, and decadence in Eastern Europe, Gawronski asks, «Do you ever ask yourself if it was really worth defeating communism?»

Benedict will arrive at the island nation from Mexico, where he denounced drug wars and violence Friday in a visit scheduled just months ahead of its presidential elections.

Or there is the case of the War on Drugs incident, in Ogden Utah, that Mr. Balko cites, wherein the local narcotics strike force thought they really were at wWar on Drugs incident, in Ogden Utah, that Mr. Balko cites, wherein the local narcotics strike force thought they really were at warwar.

In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte's extreme war on drugs has lasted for less than two years, and it's accounted for the deaths of at least 12,000 individuals — 2,555 at the hands of police.

Animal Research: For nearly four decades, the animal liberation movement has been at war with medical research conducted on animals — even though conducting such experiments before trying new drugs or procedures on people is a crucial human rights protection established in the Nuremberg Code.

Private companies taking full responsibility for their products is far more effective at promoting food safety than any government inspection program and the War on Drugs has done much to ruin what little liberty we have left.

Hip - hop star Jay Z has teamed with artist Molly Crabapple to create a short video for The New York Times, which looks at major problems with America's «War on Drugs.»

During that time I learned from them that even at that time they viewed the war on drugs as unwinnable.

«I first came to the knowledge that the war on drugs was an abject failure when I was working as an intelligence officer at Mi5 in the 1990s.

And at least 2000 of them were murders that didn't involve war on drugs (that was 2015 stats).

This is not to say that force is not required in the policy response to the poaching of critically endangered wild animals, but that the long history of the «War on Drugs» and organised crime teaches us that going after low level operators that can be easily replaced will do little to deter the king - pins at the top of the trade.

In the last year, Uruguay became the first national jurisdiction in the world to legalise cannabis; the world's first legal, recreational cannabis market opened in Colorado; Colombia and Guatemala took a daring stand at the UN general assembly, telling assembled delegates that the war on drugs had failed; and the Organisation of American States became the first multinational body to raise the prospect of drug treaty reform.

The drug war costs us at least $ 50 billion / year and that's not counting all the lives wrecked by a criminal record.

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«I spent many years working undercover on the grimy and clandestine battlefield of the war on drugs,» writes Neil Woods at the start of our second most - read piece of the week.

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

In doing so, it is reiterating its support for a «war on drugs» mindset and a punitive drugs policy which all the evidence shows is not effective at reducing drug use.

Just look at the Prohibition and the War on Drugs.

Earlier this month, the gubernatorial candidate said that communities of color hard hit by the war on drugs should get first crack at legalized pot as a «form of reparations.»

New York City — Speaking today at the Cannabis Parade in Union Square Park in NYC, Howie Hawkins said that the Green Party supports an end to the war on drugs, starting with the legalization of marijuana.

So he's on top of the drug war, even if Ulster's main strategy has been limited to encouraging drug drop boxes at police headquarters around the county.

In an interview earlier this month, Nixon said that communities of color hard hit by the war on drugs should get first crack at legalized pot as a «form of reparations.»

Soares, who criticized the U.S. war on drugs at the conference, found himself under attack by Albany mayor Jerry Jennings and law enforcement officials upon his return.

Randolph Nesse and Kent Berridge, psychiatric investigators with the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, reported in Science that medicine may never win the war against drug addiction because «it is rooted in the fundamental design of the human nervous system.»

Nyunt, a malariologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMD) in Baltimore, is visiting Sa - ka - pin to assess the extent of one of the biggest problems facing an ambitious campaign to wipe out malaria from the Mekong region (see feature story on How drug resistance triggers war to wipe out malaria in the Mekong region): the number of people infected with malaria who have no symptoms.

So if we're talking about war — the real thing, not a metaphor, as in the «war on drugs» — then cyberwar has never happened in the past, is not taking place at present, and seems unlikely in the future.

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There are statistics given at the end of «Miss Bala» about how many people have died in the drug wars in northern Mexico.

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

SYNOPSIS: An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

A sprawling look at life on the front lines of the war against drug cartels in Mexico, this gripping film by Matthew Heineman explores the dangerous and messy moral dilemmas that arise when vigilante groups on both sides of the border take action.

NEW YORK — A scripted feature about life in Laos and documentaries about U.S. war crimes and a town in the grip of a debilitating drug addiction were among the big winners at the Tribeca Film Festival's jury prizes Thursday night.

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When Sicario premiered at Cannes in May, some critics dismissed it as just another drug - war yarn, comparing it unfavorably to Steven Soderbergh's Traffic.