Sentences with phrase «by our drug war»

In adopting its Cannabis Equity Program, the City of Oakland made a clear commitment to ensure access and equity in legal cannabis for communities most negatively impacted by the drug war.

We would be able to protect millions if not billions of people around the planet who have been ravaged not just by the drug war, crimes and the vicious violence but also by terrorist groups funded largely by this trade who continue to maim and kill around the planet too.»

But its inclusion serves to throw into stark relief the very real terror and upheaval experienced by the drugs war's earliest casualties: average Mexicans who do not have the option to stay out of it.

Unfortunately, with the state of government - people relations in a nation scarred by drug wars, one can not imagine such a program happening in the US.

Not exact matches

With city data indicating that African - Americans have been charged with marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drugs.

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.

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.

By virtually every measure, prohibition of cannabis with high THC commonly known as marijuana and the variant with no recreational drug potential commonly known as hemp has cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars in missed business opportunities and wasted resources spent unsuccessfully fighting the so - called war on drugs.

GC: The Mexican government had already declared war on drugs and organized crime by the time the war between the Gulf Cartel and Zetas began, and the cartel war attracted the Mexican government.

«The data makes it clear that ending the War on Drugs will not alone end mass incarceration, but that the federal government and some states have effectively reduced their incarcerated populations by turning to drug policy reform,» the report says.

Formally launched in December 2006 by former President Felipe Calderon and then continued under his successor, Enrique Pena Nieto, the drug war struck a series of high profile blows against Mexican cartels.

There's another cost to the war on drugs, however, which is the revenue lost by governments who can not collect taxes on illegal drugs.

With those stats from the city of Oakland's Department of Race and Equity in hand, the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to overhaul the nation's first equity program to set aside 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis business permits during the first phase of permitting for people affected by the War on Drugs.

The conservatives and their beloved drug war are taking a clear social problem and making it vastly worse by felonizing even small time dealing, throwing so many people into prison till the «land of the free» has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world and making those people all but unemployable when they get out.

He says Mexican marijuana imports dropped by 40 percent «because they can't compete with the American quality and the American market... just two states stopping fighting the war on that drug, it has been effective.»

«Our government did nothing regarding Noriega's drug business...,» a U.S. government investigation headed by Senator John Kerry reported, «because the first priority was the contra war.

Only $ 700 million has been earmarked by the Bush administration for treatment, out of a total expenditure of $ 8 billion for the drug war.

We'll save trillions of dollars by ending the totally failed war on drugs.

The «War on Drugs»; «War on Terror»; «War on Communism» and a host of other wars waged by the right wing are really nothing more than a War on People — an excuse to erode civil rights to the point of non-existence.

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:

On the other hand we are fighting the war on terror which is largely funded by this war on drugs.

Today in New York, diplomats from around the world are gathered for UNGASS, a special session of the UN, initiated by Mexico and Colombia to address the «war on drugs».

And yes, they are US founded, not directly, but indirectly by the war on drugs, which provides them a huge...

Even though the U.S. has demonstrated a willingness to open the drug war agenda to regional discussion, President Obama (supported by Canada) has flat - out refused to even consider decriminalisation as an option.

«And we need to prioritize the families and the communities that are most harmed by the war on drugs.»

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«End the war on pot: We welcome the push to legalize and regulate marijuana» — Daily News Editorial Board: «After many decades of treating as a crime the personal possession and use of a drug that is a negligible threat to public safety, New York is awakening to the folly of — and racial disparities widened by — its approach.

If they can afford the «War on drugs» just by increasing price, they can react in the same way to this change.

Let's consider just one aspect of the legalization question - the success of the «War on Drugs» launched by the Reagan administration in the 1980's.

This ridiculous war on drugs is fueled by hypocrites of the highest order.

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

Along with this approach, we must demand amnesty for the millions of people damaged by this misguided war on drugs so they can be part of a healthy and sustainable society,» said Theresa Portelli, the State Comptroller candidate from Albany.

«It is time to end the «war on drugs» and massively redirect resources towards effective evidence - based policies underpinned by rigorous economic analysis,» the foreword to the report, which was signed by Clegg, says.

Despite the decades of tough talking and billions of dollars spent in waging this war, the global drug problem and the criminal markets that underpin it remain all but untouched by our enforcement efforts.

ge, banning fracking, ending the war on drugs, and a public jobs program to end unemployment by put people to work meeting community needs and building the transition to a renewable energy economy.

Hawkins joined with Alice Green and Center for Law and Justice to deliver 10,000 petition signatures to Cuomo Tuesday calling on the governor to establish a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission to study the impacts of mass incarceration on New Yorkers, largely brought about by the failed war on drugs.

For years our endless war on drugs has been driven more by tabloid headlines then scientific evidence, with newspapers getting to define the terms of the debate.

A drug war Truth and Reconciliation Commission along the lines of post-apartheid South Africa is a radical idea proposed by the Green Party.

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.»

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.

The Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit focused on ending the so - called war on drugs, is funded by billionaire George Soros and does not endorse candidates.

By PHYLLIDA BROWN Wars, not philanthropy, have produced most of the world's malaria drugs.

By fighting a war on drugs the government has increased the problems of society and made them far worse.

A growing number of researchers believe that declaring «war» on Alzheimer's by «attacking» amyloid may ultimately be an exercise in self - harm, particularly if amyloid is representative of the brain's repair response, and may be channeling resources away from other drug - based approaches that do not assume amyloid toxicity.

They are drugs, drugs that were initially developed by and for the military to treat acute mercury, lead and other poisonings of World War II army and navy personnel.2, 3 Their use for the removal of chronic levels of toxic metals is off label and controversial.

The new bill, known as the Marijuana Justice Act, not only seeks to decriminalize marijuana, but it also hopes to impose penalties upon states that disproportionately target certain communities for drug related offenses and set up a fund designed to help improve the quality of life in areas most hard hit by the war on drugs.

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