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Random Student Drug Testing is Not the Answer
Kern, Jennifer, Huffington Post. May 7, 2008. The drug czar's staff is touring the country hosting summits designed to entice local educators to start drug testing their students -- randomly and without cause. Today the road show comes home and D.C. |
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Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States
Gorwin, Ian and Baldwin, Clive, Eds. Human Rights Watch; May 1, 2008. In the 67-page report, “Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States,” Human Rights Watch documents with detailed new statistics persistent racial disparities among drug offenders sent to prison in 34 states. All of these states send black drug offenders to prison at much higher rates than whites. |
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Disparity by Geography
King, Ryan S.. The Sentencing Project; May 2008: pp. 45. The Sentencing Project’s 45-page study, “Disparity by Geography: The War on Drugs in America’s Cities,” is the first city-level analysis of drug arrests, examining data from 43 of the nation’s largest cities between 1980 and 2003. The study found that, since 1980, the rate of drug arrests in American cities for African Americans increased by 225 percent, compared to 70 percent among whites. Black arrest rates grew by more than 500 percent in 11 cities during this period. |
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Anti-Drug Task Force Funding Leads to Police Corruption and Destruction of Lives
Papa, Anthony, Huffington Post. April 29, 2008. In early March, a federally-funded narcotics task force struggling to increase its fiscal support carried out a crime sweep in 41 states. The sweep resulted in 4,200 arrests, with police seizing large amounts of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine. Why a massive raid? |
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Vancouver's INSITE Service and Other Supervised Injection Sites: What Has Been Learned from Research?
Ministry of Health, Government of Canada; March 31, 2008. This report, written by a Canadian Expert Advisory Committee, found Vancouver's safe injection site to be a significant source of harm reduction services to the injection drug using community. |
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Marijuana Arrest Crusade
Levine, Harry G. and Small, Deborah Peterson. New York Civil Liberties Union, pp. 106. April 29, 2008. From 1997 to 2006, the New York City Police Department arrested and
jailed more than 353,000 people simply for possessing small amounts of marijuana.
This was eleven times more marijuana arrests than in the previous decade,
and ten times more than in the decade before that. |
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Nothing About Us Without Us
Jurgens, Ralf and International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. Open Society Institute; April 2008: pp. 83. Greater, meaningful involvement of people who use illegal drugs: A public health, ethical, and human rights imperative. |
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The Cost of Tobacco, Alcohol and Illicit Drug Abuse to Australian Society in 2004/05
Collins, David J. and Lapsley, Helen M.. The International Society for the Study of Drug Policy; April 2008: pp. 143. This report is the fourth study by the present authors of the social costs of drug abuse in Australia. |
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U.S. Combat Veterans Need Our Full Support
Newman, Tony. April 26, 2008. Rich Marini hits the nail on the head when he discusses the mental trauma many veterans suffer from fighting in war and our duty to get our sons and daughters help when then return. |
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Feds Bring an Ounce of Sanity to Our Drug Laws with the Second Chance Act
Vohryzek, Malakkar, Alternet. April 22, 2008. Why are we still incarcerating people who use controlled substances, when we have ample evidence that this "cure" is worse than the "disease"? |
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