war on drugs

WHO's study fails to shed any light on the war on drugs

The results of a macro, cross-national study commissioned by the World Health Organisation’s World Mental Health Survey Initiative seem to confirm every myth of drug consumption. Firstly, the research emphasises the very close relationship between youth and drug use arguing that there is a bigger drug involvement among younger people than older generations in all countries. This generational gap suggests that drug use has and may continue to change over historical time.

Danish cop speaks out about the futile war on drugs (ENG subtitle)

Submitted by Cubensis on Thu, 17/06/2010 - 23:06

This clip aired on Danish national television - 11. June 2010. He gets the message across pretty well, don't you think? :)

The myth of racial equality

The comment by the host Bill O’Reilly saying to the university professor that he looks like a coke dealer purely because of the colour of his skin may not surprise people who have had the pleasure to see his programme on a regular basis. Indeed the professor in question doesn’t seem surprised by the accusation. However, the flippant remark has all the racist undertones that are all too evident throughout large sections of the United States.

Guyanese democracy under threat from the ‘war on drugs’

The Guyanese Home Affairs minister Clement Rothee has proposed a new law banning those involved in drug trafficking from standing in regional or national elections.

Guyanese society feels under pressure from the impact of the trade in cocaine and the minister has said that he thinks it is something that most “people in the country will go along with”.

Rising drug use in Afghanistan

Most of the British public know that the majority of the world’s heroin comes from Afghanistan.

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Fierce gun battles rage in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas

Mexican citizens are taking it upon themselves to report gun battles between drug traffickers because the main stream media is not reporting them and local state officials claim that the situation is calm. The video above which was take on the morning of Saturday 27th of February and uploaded to YouTube shows the aftermath of gun battle that according to the person filming lasted for 6 hours

Death squads act with impunity in Mexico

After the brutal massacre of 16 youngsters between the age of 15 and 20 last week in Ciudad Juarez, residents of the most heavily militarised city in Mexico are asking the authorities how this could happen. One distraught citizen said in a television interview “We don’t have anyone to defend us or look after us, we pay taxes for all the police and military to come to the city but they are only decoration.” As of march 2009 there were 7500 federal police and soldiers in Juarez, the city with the highest murder rate in the world.

Snitchville, USA

Imagine this: a police force that makes its living on commissions alone, in other words, the more arrests they make the more money they earn. Violent offenders aren’t easy to catch red-handed and they usually are in possession of few items of value, whereas drug-related offenders (who are essentially either consumers or merchants) are easier to catch in the act and are often in possession of large sums of money, cars and/or contraband substances.

Drug Policy Alliance wants to decriminalize khat use.

Khat is a plant which originally grows in East Africa and in the Arabian Peninsula. It can grow to a height of 20 metres. It has been used for centuries as a stimulant for its euphoric and exciting effects. Khat contains cathinone, cathine, cathidine, norpseudoephedrine and edulin, which act on the neurotransmitters in the brain and the brain stem in a similar fashion to amphetamine.

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Maldives Urges UN to refocus fight on drugs

According to a news story published today on Miadhu News, the Maldives has urged the United Nations to refocus its fight against illicit narcotics from security protection to enhanced public health. The Maldives made the statement today at the Social, Human rights and Cultural Committee of the General Assembly of the UN.

The country, which is a tropical paradise for tourists, is faced with the realities of a youth drug addiction that touches nearly every family, as UNICEF estimates that about 40% of the country's youth take hard drugs.

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