Leaked UN Report Reveals Changing Attitudes on the Global War on Drugs

December 4th, 2013

Leaked UN Report Reveals Changing Attitudes on the Global War on Drugs

According to a leaked United Nations draft document, the prohibition-only style approach to the global War on Drugs may be nearing the end of its 52-year life. The document reveals that attitudes about the U.S.-led policy of abstinence-only education are increasingly divided, particularly among ...

32 Charged with Large Meth Operation in Texas

November 18th, 2013

32 Charged with Large Meth Operation in Texas

Recently, federal prosecutors released an official statement announcing that 32 people have been charged with drug trafficking and conspiracy in relation to a methamphetamine distribution operation in Texas. Based in Stephenville, Texas, the meth operation named Brittany Barron Drug Trafficking ...

Drug Dealers Find a New Market on Instagram

November 11th, 2013

Drug Dealers Find a New Market on Instagram

The social networking site- where people post and comment on photographs and videos- has taken measures to block certain hashtags in an effort to eliminate the sale of illegal drugs by its users. Instagram issued the plan after a BBC investigation found users uploading images of narcotics and ...

$12 Million in Marijuana and Cocaine Seized from U.S-Mexico Tunnel

November 5th, 2013

$12 Million in Marijuana and Cocaine Seized from U.S-Mexico Tunnel

Three are in custody in conjunction to a San Diego-Tijuana drug tunnel discovered by the San Diego Tunnel Task Force last week. At 35 feet deep, 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide, officials describe the “super tunnel” as the most sophisticated of its kind found in the past two years. Built by one of ...

Fail: The “War On Drugs”

October 16th, 2013

Fail: The “War On Drugs”

The war on drugs is failing, suggests the latest data from seven international government-funded drug surveillance systems. Research indicates that over the past 20 years, not only have street prices fallen but the purity and potency of illegal drugs has actually increased. A new study funded ...

Silk Road: The Unraveling of an Illicit Online Market

October 8th, 2013

Silk Road: The Unraveling of an Illicit Online Market

Over the past two and a half years, the underground online market “Silk Road” has been described as the eBay of illicit goods and services, serving as an anonymous electronic black market where one could find and easily purchase everything from black tar heroin and cocaine to illegal firearms ...

Thailand’s Meth Market Targets Children With Candy-like Pills

August 27th, 2013

Thailand’s Meth Market Targets Children With Candy-like Pills

Methamphetamine drug producers in Thailand entice children with candy flavored stimulants, bringing on a whole new meaning to the Skittle trademark, “Taste the Rainbow.” Yaba- literally translated, “crazy medicine”- contains a combination of methamphetamine and caffeine. Although the drug has ...

Texas Police Pull Over Women and Probe Their Vaginas for Marijuana

August 7th, 2013

Texas Police Pull Over Women and Probe Their Vaginas for Marijuana

After patrol car dash cams acquired several Texas highway patrol officers performing ‘unconstitutional’ cavity searches on females during seemingly routine traffic stops, lawyers and civil rights advocates speculate that these actions are far too common. One isolated incident of this nature ...

Savage Drug Kingpin Captured in Mexico Near Border

July 16th, 2013

Savage Drug Kingpin Captured in Mexico Near Border

Mexican marines captured the leader of one of Mexico’s most violent drug organizations, Trevino’s leadership of the Zeta cartel,  in a city near the Texas border by Mexican marines Monday morning. Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, age 40, was one of the most wanted people in Mexico and the United ...

How to Make Money Selling Drugs: Watch and Learn

June 24th, 2013

How to Make Money Selling Drugs: Watch and Learn

It’s a provocatively titled film with an equally enticing tagline: “Are you unemployed or stuck in a dead-end job? Don’t worry. This is your guidebook.” Of course, How to Make Money Selling Drugs isn’t exactly a play-by-play on how to dip your toes into the waters of the black market drug ...

Whoonga Users Pose HIV/AIDS Threat

May 6th, 2013

Whoonga Users Pose HIV/AIDS Threat

The term “drug cocktail” can have a number of different connotations. In the case of treating HIV or AIDS, doctors have developed a plan of attack in which patients take at least three antiretroviral medications (ARVs) at once. This strategy, known as “highly active antiretroviral therapy” ...

New Jersey Governor Aims to Save Lives Through Drug Policy Reform

May 1st, 2013

New Jersey Governor Aims to Save Lives Through Drug Policy Reform

On Monday, April 29, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie lent his newfound support to a good Samaritan law that would allow people who are overdosing to dial 911 and receive help without the fear of being prosecuted on drug-related charges. Such policy could mean the difference between life and ...

Presidential Candidates on Drug Policy

September 18th, 2012

Presidential Candidates on Drug Policy

Some of the most popular questions raised in this year’s presidential election have to do with drug policy, but it seems to be a subject no one really wants to discuss. Neither the Republican or Democratic party websites address the issue directly, but here’s a look into other sources that do. ...

DEA Marijuana Ruling

July 11th, 2011

DEA Marijuana Ruling

Marijuana has no medical value, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) as of last Friday. This proclamation was issued in response to a petition calling for a change in the substance’s drug schedule. Marijuana is currently a Schedule I drug, meaning that it is considered ...

May 10th, 2011

Mexicans protest against Calderon and the drug war

According to articles by the LA Times, the Mexican people are increasingly fed up with the violence that rages within their country.  On May 8, the times reported to protest of “tens of thousands of demonstrators […] call[ing] for an end to the country’s unrelenting drug ...

May 2nd, 2011

WA Gov Gregoire Vetoes Medical Marijuana Bill

For anyone following the progress of the medical marijuana bill in WA State, the fact that Gov. Chris Gregoire vetoed a bill, which the Seattle times is calling a “Landmark Expansion of the State’s Medical-Merijuana Law”, should be no surprise. She has gone on record a few ...

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