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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
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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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Up in Smoke: The Sorry Politics of Medical Marijuana Second
Opinion by Nicholas Regush, ABCNEWS.com
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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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History of Non-medical
Drugs in the U.S. (Real Audio)
Dr. Chas.Whitebread, also available in Full Text |
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Alan Dershowitz'
Testimony on Police Corruption
11/98 before the House Judiciary Committee (Real
Video) |
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The War At Home, Gore
Vidal in Vanity Fair 11/98 |
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The
Drug Dilemma: War or
Peace?
The Cronkite Report 1995, 48 minutes. failure of the
War on Drugs. Interviews mothers in
prison for outrageously long sentences for trivial
offenses, poignantly shows the innocent
victims of this miguided civil war. |
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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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War on
Drugs Rest in Peace
- Bill Kurtis, Investigative Reports,
1995
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Michael Parenti on the National Insecurity State (Real
Audio)
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Audio:
Seeds, Part 1 and Part 2
The Classic on Hemp & Marijuana from She Who
Remembers (30 min.) |
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Audio:
Michael Levine, Hidden History of the
Drug War |
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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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