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NPR's This American Life on Mandatory Minimum Sentences and the Drug War
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The Nation 9/99: The Road To Reform
Activists Need Fresh Strategies to Win |
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Newsweek, 9/99: The Drug War: How We Fight A Losing War
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It's as simple as 1-2-3
Common Sense for Drug Policy
presents the straightforward case against drug prohibition.
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Drug Bust: The Longest War
Geraldo Rivera Reports, NBC News; 6/20/99. focuses on
the drug war at the end of the 20th
century, a 30+ year failure. 45 minutes. |
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Drugs, the
Enemy Within> The 20th Century, with Mike
Wallace, May 1999. Mike Wallace uses
his archive of interviews with notable people, and
the archives of CBS News, to examine
the history of the Drug War, the counter-culture, 45
minutes
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The Science of Medical Marijuana
A compilation of scientific research and informed commentary shows the science behind
medical marijuana. This is themost recent part of the scientific record. Nothing on this
website is more than 20 years old |
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Truth or D.A.R.E.
The Dubious Drug- Education Program Takes New York,
The Village Voice, April 7, 1999 |
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The
Effective National Drug Control Strategy
1999
based on empirical evidence and studies which show
that the policies recommended will be
effective. It explicitly recommends that 2/3 of the
entire drug control budget should be
allocated for drug treatment and prevention. There
are two main goals of the Effective
National Drug Control Strategy: 1) reduce the harm
caused by drug abuse; 2) reduce the
harm caused by existing drug control policies. |
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Lyons v.C.I.A.
Class Action on behalf of crack victims |
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Conversations on the
Gateway Myth
IOM Report, Joe Califano, WSJ Letters and Alan Bock on Reefer Madness. |
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Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base
Institute of Medicine, March 1999 |
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Oklahoma Paper Bans Anti-Drug War Ad |
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News Conference on Police Brutality
National Urban League with Jesse Jackson, Hugh Price, Kweisi Mfume, Jonnie Cochran.
Thursday, Feb. 25, 1999 on C-SPAN |
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The War At Home, Gore Vidal in Vanity Fair 11/98 |
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University of Illinois Study finds DARE Counterproductive
April '98 research indicates that kids who take DARE
are more likely to use drugs. |
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Marines Faulted in Report on Teen's Death |
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Dark Defiance: Where There's Smoke . . . Gary Webb |
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Federal Judge Urges Truce in War on Drugs
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California: Record Prison Population
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