Sentences with phrase «drug war which»

It entered into a nine - year drug war which has claimed 100,000 lives and seen it become a borderline failed state.

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As Mexico's drug wars have grown more violent, so has Querétaro's reputation as a safe place in which to live and do business.

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.

Hey Zeus (someone about whom schoolchildren today no nothing because, y» know dude, ancient Greeks were misogynists)... I don't claim Bush or the statist NCLB legislation which he passed to please Laura, or the Iraq war, which he caused to please Poppy, or his Prescription Drug Bennie which he passed to buy senior votes.

The Archbishop of Manila has called for an end to the «waste of human lives» following a brutal week in President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war in which dozens were killed including a 17 year old boy.

Plan Colombia, which President George W. Bush renamed the Andean Regional Initiative, is being sold as a key component of the war on drugs.

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.

In a resolution drafted this summer, the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church — which represents more than 600 individual churches — wrote, «To people of color, the «War on Drugs» has arguably been the single most devastating, dysfunctional social policy since slavery.»

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?

It is as readily found in the editorials of the Nation (which have routinely claimed that the war on drugs is a war on black America), as in the public utterances of literary icons like Toni Morrison, who told Time magazine that the only thing binding America together as a nation is its racism toward American blacks.

There is no need to elaborate here the various features of the human scene, such as war, race - riots, family friction, crime, drugs and all the rest, which make it eminently clear that the world of men as a whole stands in need of renewal.

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.»

The war on drugs is no more effective than tne prohibition era war on alcohol, which didn't work either.

Ok, so we have billions of pounds of synthetic chemicals consumed every year as patented drugs, with an army of degreed, licensed and doctored foot soldiers prescribing them recklessly under the once great banner of «medicine,» in an ongoing war against the body's virtually infinite potential to generate symptoms, most of which are — ironically — a means to heal from acute or chronic exposure to synthetic chemicals.

Bright Blue, which counts Theresa May, Francis Maude, Andrew Mitchell and David Willetts among its members, said the war on drugs had clearly failed and that the Tories could tempt young and ethnic minority voters to the party with a radical proposal on drugs.

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

«The National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) which hitherto waged ceaseless war on the influx of fake and substandard items into Nigeria, have not in anyway adequately addressed this issue.

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

Eventually, along the legalisation process, Iran's high number of death sentences, which is a principle side - effect of the country's war on drugs, would be almost nullified.

«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.

11:37 - Other topics worthy of consideration include the internet snooping bill, which is now being rethought; pressing for an update on the government's position on Leveson; or even Cameron's position on the war on drugs.

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.

Among the policies were initiatives which would effectively end the criminalisation of drug users and brand the war on drugs a failure.

Dr Iddon was of course referring to the previous UN conventions, made in 1971, 1981 and 1989, which established the «war on drugs» approach to the issue.

One area in which the Green Party platform differs radically from that of the Democrats is the war on drugs.

Congressman Jerrold Nadler «Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions are trying to take us back to the discredited «War on Drugs,» which has resulted in the United States being the world's biggest jailer,» said Rep. Nadler (NY - 10).

But it wasn't until after World War II that they became the milepost against which all drugs would be measured.

However, research in Conservation Letters asks if these measures are repeating the mistakes of the «War on Drugs» as they lack a long - term strategy to tackle the growing wealth gap between African areas of supply and Asian centers of demand, which remains a central dynamic to the problem..

In Aether Madness, Gary Wolf and Michael Stein have given us a good mixture of the nutty and the hard - headed, with one chapter on the nun who runs the world's best AIDS information resource and another on «The War on the War on Drugs», which tells you how to read «Phenylethylamines I Have Known and Loved» online.

That's why Doctors are dangerous they prescribe «Petro Chemical Drugs» which in themselves promote Cancer, A hangover from the rockefeller days and responsible for more deaths, than all the wars put together.

You may know enough about Mexican drug trafficking and that its war on drugs, which has left thousands dead, to appreciate Dr. Mireles's questions; and you may also have strong ethical and political views on vigilantism.

Heineman, whose last film quite literally put him in the line of fire in Mexico's drug wars, takes his cameras to the disparate locations from which the members of RBSS do their work.

The propulsion, and, indeed, comprehensiveness of the movie are perhaps its most surprising attributes, not to mention Bigelow's well - intact pluck, which leads to the bold address of ruthless wartime torture just as it yielded analysis of war as the soldier's drug.

Sicario, which tells the story of an FBI agent who becomes embroiled in the drug war on the U.S - Mexico border, was nominated in Best Picture, Best Director (Denis Villeneuve), Best Supporting Actor (Benicio Del Toro), Best Original Screenplay (Taylor Sheridan), Best Editing (Joe Walker) and Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins).

His documentary film, «Cartel Land,» which was recently nominated for an Oscar and won a prestigious George Polk Award, made us — and many self - described drug war analysts — look like opinionated snobs.

To force the policy upon the president, she introduces an ingredient into her product that will infect and ultimately kill every drug user in the world unless they get her antidote in time — which makes no sense, and which the president seems to believe would be doing him a favor, effectively ending the war on drugs in one fell swoop.

Emily Blunt («Edge of Tomorrow») plays an FBI agent, Kate Macer, who enlists to join an escalating drug war between the U.S. and Mexico, in which her commanding agents, a shady pair played by Benicio del Toro («Savages») and Josh Brolin («Inherent Vice»), are fully engrossed in.

Sicario: This is a strong film about the war between drug cartels and American government agencies, which captures the brutality of the conflict.

Acclaimed director Denis Villeneueve explores the war against the Mexican drug cartels with the action thriller Sicario, which topped one of our writers» individual favourite lists and claims # 9 in our countdown.

An opening caption comments that «war is a drug», and we can see James» deep addiction to the adrenaline of such dangerous situations, which contrasts against his distant feelings for his wife (Lilly) and baby back home.

Her evil plan involves introducing a poisoned strand of narcotics into the populace to blackmail the President (Bruce Greenwood) to end the War on Drugs — which is further complicated when the Prez just decides to let everyone die anyway because they're criminals.

The Taken star, 64, will step into Stellan Skarsgard's role in the 2014 original, which followed a mild - mannered snow plow driver seeking vengeance on his son's drug dealing killers, inadvertently sparking a turf war between local gangs.

Opening September 2, the AWFJ Movie of the Week is Sicario, which stars the exceptional Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow, Into the Woods) as an idealistic FBI agent who finds herself in the middle of the escalating war on drugs taking place on the border between the United States and Mexico..

In this week's show, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard join Xan Brooks to review Suffragette, the tub - thumping civil rights drama starring Carey Mulligan, Sicario, with Emily Blunt as a gun - toting FBI agent facing off against Mexican drug cartels as well as colleagues Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro, Regression, in which Ethan Hawke investigates Emma Watson's satanic possession and cold war ice hockey documentary Red Army - Click here to see the video version

Now in postproduction, it stars, uh, Mel Gibson as an ex-con trying to protect his estranged daughter (Erin Moriarty) from drug dealers (in New Mexico again) and co-stars William H. Macy, Diego Luna, and Michael Parks... Ewan McGregor and Mandy Patinkin will star in Phillip Noyce's adaptation of Philip Roth's 1997 novel American Pastoral in which a Jewish - American businessman's world is upended when Vietnam War activist daughter carries out a terrorist act... Meryl Streep will play opera diva Maria Callas in a new HBO movie...

A follow - up to the 2015 film, Sicario, which centers around the escalating war against drugs along the border of the United States and Mexico.

Denis Villeneuve hands the directing reins to Stefano Sellima in this new crime thriller — which shifts the focus to Benicio del Toro's former undercover agent in the drug wars along the U.S. - Mexico border.

Matthew Heineman's documentary about the Mexican drug wars plays like a real - life version of some grim Sam Peckinpah Western in which violence and corruption have become endemic.

chapter in a trilogy which began with 1992's El Mariachi, in which a musician (played by Carlos Gallardo) is mistaken for an assassin and becomes involved in a drug war.

This, in brief, is how the system works: The War on Drugs is the vehicle through which extraordinary numbers of black men are forced into the cage.