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CNN/OPINION: U.S.-Mexico ‘War On Drugs’ A Failure (CNN)
Editor’s note: Charles Bowden is the author of 11 books, including “Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family”; “Juárez: The Laboratory of our Future”; “Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing” and his latest, “Murder City,” about Ciudad Juarez. He is a contributing editor of Esquire and writes for newspapers and magazines such [...]
Sweeping Tobacco Legislation Goes Into Effect This June (New York Times)
Fifteen years after the Food and Drug Administration first proposed banning the sale and marketing of tobacco products to teenagers, top government officials announced Thursday that they would finally put the rule into effect.
The rule was hugely controversial when first proposed in 1995 and was never adopted by the agency because of a Supreme Court [...]
Food Labels Can Be Misleading! Buyer Beware (Yahoo! Green)
It’s a fact of the grocery store that the most healthy food often has the least marketing muscle behind it. The best sources of fiber and vitamins are fresh vegetables and fruit, and yet it’s the processed, packaged junk food fortified with vitamin and fiber powder that screams for attention. The Center for Science in [...]
Mexican Cartel Seeks Revenge, Escalates Drug War
It was the boldest, most widespread coordinated offensive ever mounted by drug traffickers against the Mexican government.
Within minutes of the weekend arrest of the La Familia drug cartel's operations chief, the gang launched deadly attacks in President Felipe Calderon's home state. In the worst, 12 federal agents were killed execution-style, their tortured bodies piled along [...]
Drug War On The Border – This Time Canada
Reporting from Abbotsford, Canada — The latest mayhem started at the end of March, when 21-year-old Sean Murphy, a popular former high school hockey player, drove into a withering blast of gunfire near Bateman Park. He was probably dead before his car coasted to a stop in the weeds.
That same night, Ryan Richards, 19, abruptly [...]
Drug Trafficking In Your City: Justice Department Special Report
Where do all those drugs in your hometown come from? Which vehicles are most likely to be transporting drugs? Which highways and side roads are the most traveled by narcotics traffickers? The answers are contained in a new series of reports published for 32 market cities, from the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center.
Made public [...]
‘Magic Mint’ Hallucinogen Under Fire In U.S.
Saturnino Allende crouches beside a mountain path and gently puts his fingers around the stem of a plant with rough, tongue-shaped leaves.
“This is it,” he says about the powerful hallucinogen Salvia divinorum, known as “magic mint.” In just a few years, it has emerged from Mexico’s Indian villages into one of the hottest drugs in [...]
U.S. Government Seeks To Stop Gun Running Into Mexico
For years, Mexico’s drug cartels killed with reckless abandon using high-powered guns purchased in Texas.
But only now — with thousands dead and the threat of violence spilling on to American soil — is the U.S. government enlisting a comprehensive strategy to stop weapons traffickers, contends a new government report.
About 87 percent of the guns recovered [...]
War On Drugs Update: Children Working For The Mexico Drug Cartel – A Short Life
It was a little after midnight when I crossed over the bridge from Laredo, Texas into the sister city of Nuevo Laredo Mexico. After having my car searched I was cleared through the Mexican Customs check point where the military was staged and drove towards my destination.
I had a source of mine, a local reporter, [...]
Opinion – Why We Lost The War On Drugs
This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.
“We’ve spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs,” Norm Stamper, a former police chief of Seattle, told me. “What do we have to show for it? Drugs are more readily [...]
