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.

Ethnic Profiling in France

The Open Society Justice Initiative recently launched a series of reports that provide important information concerning the ethnic profiling in Europe. According to the general report on the ethnic profiling in the European Union, this practice is commonly and widely employed by many police officials across Europe, despite the fact that in most of these countries discrimination on the basis of race or colour is condemned, dismissed and marked as illegal.

Michelle Alexander Speaks About the Politics Behind the War on Drugs

Speech by Professor Michelle Alexander at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.

Michelle Alexander speaks about the issue of the ‘war on drugs’ in the US and reveals the real politics behind it. With an admirable strength and courage she uncovers the real political purposes under the guise of fighting the ‘terrible drug expansion’.

She explains with clarity that the War on Drugs was never about the drug addiction and the harm caused by drug abuse: all that the War Drugs was about was targeting exclusively poor communities of colour.

Playing F.A.S.T and loose in the drugs war

The global War on Drugs - like so many other government initiatives that begin with a noble, limited and understandable purpose - has swelled in time to become a costly, vague and chaotic operation of monstrous and bloody proportions.

Vicente Fox says that the drugs war is failing his country

The former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, is the latest high-profile figure to call for an end to the ‘war on drugs’, which he now considers to be a brutally misguided and expensive failure.

Fox (who was himself a strong supporter of the aggressive US-led campaign against drugs when he was in power from 2002 to 2006) last month publicly advocated the legalization of drugs as a way to limit the gang violence that has devastated many parts of Mexico.

Importance of ThinkingDrugs

I remember countless times when social media websites pointed out very amateur surveys - determining what show character you resemble or what your spirit animal is. Most are poorly designed. They carry 4 or 5 profiles, and it seems like everyone falls under the same 2 or 3. ThinkingDrugs is not that sort of survey. It is much more comprehensive and should be of great use to many. The survey has the user find their stance on drug policy, but also has users address many controversial situations to discover their stance.

Significant condemnation of US drugs policy

In a majority vote at their 102nd Annual Conference at Los Angeles on Tuesday, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has passed an historic resolution calling for an end to America’s ‘war on drugs’.

UNHRC Special Rapporteur Anand Grover calls for the regulation of the market in illicit drugs.

In a move that serves to highlight how the failure of the ‘war on drugs’ has been so widely recognised, Anand Grover in his roles as the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health has made a number of recommendations with regard to how the war on drugs negatively affects human rights.

Amongst other recommendations he has called for:

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.

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