Sentences with phrase «of war on drugs»

Read now: Jeff Sessions» new policy is a «dumb» and «ill - informed» continuation of the war on drugs, critics say

... in this era of mass incarceration — when our nation's prison population has quintupled in a few decades partly as a result of the war on drugs and the «get tough» movement — these [jury] rights are, for the overwhelming majority of people hauled into courtrooms across America, theoretical.

«I join the opinion of the Court on the understanding that (a) it goes no further than hold that a public school may restrict speech that a reasonable observer would interpret as advocating illegal drug use and (b) it provides no support for any restriction of speech that can plausibly be interpreted as commenting on any political or social issue, including speech on issues such as «the wisdom of the war on drugs or of legalizing marijuana for medicinal use.»»

The popular view of the War on Drugs as a failure is having more effect on politics at the state level.

Some of Restrepo's imagery is aimed at the absurdity of the War on Drugs and its disastrous consequences in Colombia.

In the 1990s, Sabrina co-founded «Girltalk,» an anthology of women's autobiographical comics, and illustrated and co-wrote «Prisoners of the War on Drugs» for the Real Cost of Prisons project.

Not to mention, millions were being imprisoned under the auspices of a war on drugs at the same damn time.

It makes about as much sense as all the nonsense I was taught in DARE as part of the War on Drugs and is probably a third as effective.

While your editor may not necessarily agree with all of their policy solutions (and note that much of their proposals ignore the consequences of the War on Drugs in perpetuating gun - related homicides), I also believe that our youth, our future adults and leaders, have a right and moral obligation to be engaged in the real world.

After a showy introduction that uses archival footage and sound bites against a rousing score to juxtapose the rise of the War on Drugs and the Reagan administration's support for the Nicaraguan Contras, the filmmaking slows down considerably.

And maybe that's the point of «Sicario,» that the best way to play the game of the War on Drugs is with dispassionate resolve.

If Denis Villeneuve's Sicario offers a slick, thrilling look at the bleak and despairing world of the War on Drugs, then Matthew Heineman's Cartel Land can act as the gritty, real - world side of the same coin.

Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve's bleak, taut thriller Sicario is one of the best films of the year (read my full review here), but it presents a stark and candid portrait of the U.S.'s response to violence with more violence, specifically in the case of the War on Drugs.

It assails mainstream perceptions of the war on drugs and reevaluates them from ambiguous perspectives.

But where that film was unabashedly jingoistic, Doug Liman's film is a more cynical satire of the War on Drugs and the Reagan Era.

Denis Villeneuve's gleaming thriller is arguably one of the year's best - made movies, but it's so glib and superficial in its treatment of the war on drugs — and the collateral damage left in its wake — as to border on exploitation.

The film tries to paint in shades of gray with vague criticisms of the war on drugs, but the absurdity of its he - man Everyman plot ends up turning its moral palette a muddy brown.

Particularly well - educated in the science of psychedelics and ecstasy, with a passion for correcting their legal status to something reasonable, and a hatred for the whole concept of a war on drugs for...

Government declarations of war on drugs or disease often end in losing battles.

A Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission to assess the impact of the war on drugs and mass incarceration, particularly on communities of color, and recommend policies to repair the damages.

«It's time to free the prisoners of the war on drugs,» declared Green Party governor candidate Howie Hawkins as he and the party's attorney general candidate and Bronx - based people's lawyer Ramon Jimenez spoke in front of Manhattan Criminal Court.

Child Welfare: The Unintended Consequence of the War on Drugs Tuesday, March 13, 9:00 am — 12:00 pm The New School — Theresa Lang Student Center 55 West 13th Street This panel will focus on the intersection of child welfare -LSB-...]

As a result we also share one simple aim — let's count the costs of the war on drugs and explore the alternatives, so we can base drug policy on evidence of what works.

«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.

MPs will admit to the failure of the war on drugs tomorrow, in one of the most important developments in the debate for a decade.

This is the logical end of the war on drugs.

While I grant that the acknowledgement of the failure of the War on Drugs is an important first step, security will not be achieved in the Americas until we take seriously the issues that create the environment suitable for insecurity — a weak rule of law, punitive judiciary systems and the inability of many members of society to achieve a dignified standard of living, among others.

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 war.

Many churches have already started voicing their concerns that the strategy of the War on Drugs is leading to suffering and injustice.

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

That's just the opposite of the War on Drugs.»

Sharp says reforming drug laws and ending the failed policies of the War on Drugs should be a Christian imperative.

The series is based on the life of the drug lord himself, though the trailer — with images ranging from a turn - of - the - century bandit to Richard Nixon to Guzmán himself — suggests it may touch on the history of the war on drugs that has bound the US and Mexico in an often uneasy and frequently bloody relationship.

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.

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.

Durkan echoed a growing consensus in describing Seattle's move as an «important step to right the wrongs [of] the failed 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.

David Debolt, reporting for East Bay Times says, «Oakland ramped up its counterattack to the U.S. war on drugs, expanding its one - of - a-kind program to help people jailed for marijuana crimes enter the booming cannabis industry.»

That bleak irony was hammered home earlier this month when John Boehner, a former leader in the political party that formally initiated the War on Drugs, joined the advisory board of a marijuana firm.

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.

«In addition to ending a key front in the racist war on drugs, regulating and taxing marijuana would generate hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenue for our people and create important agricultural opportunities for our state,» Nixon said in the Twitter video.

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Mexico declared war on drug cartels and organized crime a decade ago, a conflict that claimed more than 200,000 lives and shows few signs of slowing up.

The «War on Drugs» has been a huge failure, resulting in the incarceration of millions of African Americans and Latinos, will.i.am has told CNBC.

Many experts credit that development to the «war on drugs,» a series of tough criminal justice and drug policies that began under President Richard Nixon and continued under President Ronald Reagan.

It will be interesting to see how Witty takes on this new role on the opposite end of the drug price war.

Duterte certainly amped up his tough rhetoric with the implementation of a bloody «war on drugs» shortly after being elected in 2016.

But Forrest's decision also appeared to be a philosophical renunciation of the ideals of Silk Road, whose proponents said it provided a forum for freedom and served as a harmless alternative to street crime and the U.S. war on drugs.