Sentences with phrase «of drug war»

Bloomington, Illinois About Blog News, analysis, and rants from the front lines of the drug war, by Pete Guither.

Abbotsford heard both the action by the City of Abbotsford («the City») and the action by BC / Yukon Association of Drug War Survivors («DWS»).

The contradictory nature of the drug war came home to Pine Ridge August 24 as federal agents cut down and seized the one - acre field of hemp plants growing at Alex White Plume's home near Manderson, South Dakota.

Playing as Alpha and Bravo, players are dropped into Mexico right in the middle of a drug war with tasks reeking of corruption and deceit.

Bloomington, Illinois About Blog News, analysis, and rants from the front lines of the drug war, by Pete Guither.

«The theme of the drug war is very important in Mexico, both in fiction and non-fiction.

Rafael Madero stands in the crosshairs of a vicious Cuban drug cartel — powerless to stop his fate — and his secret could put his sister Athena and her Omega Team in the middle of a drug war.

Rafael Matero stands in the crosshairs of a vicious Cuban drug cartel — powerless to stop his fate — and his secret could put his sister Athena and her Omega Team in the middle of a drug war.

The intensification of the drug war, by way of ethical slippery slopes, is shown from the point of view of seasoned SWAT leader, Kate Macer, played by Emily Blunt in equal measure as a steely badass and naive moralist.

In Western the brothers immerse themselves in two small towns on opposite sides of the Mexican - American border to witness the lives, images and experiences of residents increasingly impacted by the hazards of the drug war.

Cartel Land follows two fronts of the drug war, but from the perspective of frustrated citizens instead of government officials: Arizona Border Recon head Tim Foley, and Jose Mireles, the leader of a vigilante group who fight off cartel gangs from taking over villages.

Sicario (Lionsgate, Blu - ray, DVD, VOD), a violent, chaotic, adrenaline - fueled thriller set in the brutal violence of the drug war on the American border with Mexico, is a film that constantly seems to be spinning out of control.

Startling access yields strong if not consistent results in «Cartel Land,» Matthew Heineman's parallel portrait of vigilantes policing two different fronts of the drug war.

Right from the start, it's clear that this will be an ultra-close-range portrait of the drug war — a popular topic in recent movies both fictional («Miss Bala,» «Heli») and not («Narco Cultura,» «Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty»).

And in Mexico that can be the difference between living and dying when reporting in the trenches of the drug war.

I didn't want to be a character in the film — I don't find myself that interesting — but I wanted you to feel like you were there, with a ground - level view of the drug war.

Overall, Heineman takes a broad view of the drug war, even as he avoids following the typical protagonists.

A thrilling documentary explores the borderland where those on both sides of the drug war end up with dirty hands.

My goal was to see firsthand the effects of the drug war, the effects of this omnipresent force that is just south of our border.

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.

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

Let's take a look at your example of drug war.

Victim of the Drug War's harsh mandatory sentencing, as well as possible racial bias and entrapment, the onetime Rams star is 20 years into a 41 - year jail term.

Duterte has broached martial law before, mentioning it in response to criticism of his drug war in August.

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.

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.

Most Eye - Opening: Sonia Nazario with «The Children of the Drug Wars: A Refugee Crisis, Not an Immigration Crisis»

But, I am baffled by people who can recognize the futility of the drug wars and its basis in attacks on the suppliers who fail to see the paralles playing out in the fight for public education.

Same goes for danger and horror stories behind American TV series portraying Eastern Europe as a source of drug wars, excelling at people trafficking in Europe and overrunning the world.

The Belgian artist brings the subject of drug wars in Mexico to the heart of Mayfair: but he insists that art comes before politics

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Build a killer startup, or whatever: Riding on the coattails of popular games like The Sims, SecondLife and Drug Wars, Hipster CEO is a bizarre evolution to the genre.

The main focus of acquisitions will be early - stage assets that can add to the pipeline of experimental drugs, Walmsley said, adding she was not interested in entering a $ 64 billion bidding war with Takeda Pharmaceutical for Shire.

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.

Analysts attribute the escalation to a turf war between factions in the Sinaloa drug cartel following the 2016 capture of kingpin Joaquin «El Chapo» Guzman.

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 «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.

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.