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USA: Rough justice for women behind bars
Amnesty International - News Release - AMR 51/32/99
4 March 1999, The use of shackles on pregnant inmates is just one example of the cruelty and ill-treatment many women suffer in US jails and prisons, Amnesty International said today in a new report issued as part of its international campaign against human rights violations in the USA( United States of America. Rights for All. "Not part of my sentence" - Violations
of the Human Rights of Women in Custody. AI Index: AMR 51/019/1999).
Human Rights Watch:Drugs And Human Rights
Efforts to curtail the trafficking, sale and consumption of illegal drugs
continued to rely on
excessive punishment, exacerbate prison overcrowding, distort criminal justice systems, and
weaken protection of civil liberties. In countries with vastly different political, social and
economic systems and traditions, anti-narcotic strategies included tactics inconsistent with
human rights principles.
Marijuana and Medicine, Assessing the Science Base
[full text]
[Executive Summary]
Institute of Medicine, March,
1999
Commission On Police Integrity
Unique insights into some of the
worst effects of drug
prohibition
Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser
The Atlantic Monthly, August 1994—
Marijuana has not been de facto legalized, and the war
on drugs is not just about cocaine and heroin. In fact,
today, when we don't have enough jail cells for
murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals, there
may be more people in federal and state prisons for
marijuana offenses than at any other time in U.S. history
The
Prison-Industrial Complex, by Eric Schlosser
The Atlantic Monthly, December 1998—
Correctional officials see danger in prison overcrowding.
Others see opportunity. The nearly two million
Americans behind bars -- the majority of them
nonviolent offenders -- mean jobs for depressed regions
and windfalls for profiteers
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Marijuana Use
and Mortality, Apr '97,
Amer Public Health Assoc
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The Drug War:
Financing the Far Right
With Narcotics
Southern Poverty law Center Intelligence Report, Fall '97
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Reefer Madness -- The Federal Response
to California's
Medical-Marijuana Law
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New England Journal of Medicine: Legal Issues in Medicine August
7, 1997
Bugs, Taps and Infiltrators: What to Do About Political
Spying
by Linda Lotz, American Friends
Service Committee
Researchers Question Value of DARE's Scare Tactics
California Educator Magazine, April
'97
RAND
Study on Mandatory
Minimums
National Institutes of Health Report on Medical utility of
Marijuana, 2/20/97
NORML's Still Crazy After All These Years
Will
Foster's Outrageous
Sentence,
Reason Mag
Liberty: Thomas Szasz on The Medical Marijuana Sell-out -
3/97
San Jose Mercury
Breaks CIA-Cocaine
Story
San
Jose Mercury News Supports
Legalization of Marijuana Four Part Series November '95
New England Journal of Medicine on Medical
Marijuana - 1/31/97
Ostrich File #5
Drug War-related articles from the current literature.
Four by John Gettman
Bush's War on Drugs - by Dan Check
New Scientist, 10/95: U.S. and Needle
Exchange
L.A.Times, 10/95: Sentencing Study Sees Race
Disparity
XTRA!
- PHONY "TEEN DRUG CRISIS
D.E.A.
's How to
Hold Your Own in A Drug Legalization Debate
Schaf
fer's
Rebuttals to DEA's "How to Hold Your Own"
Costs of the War on Drugs
USA
Today Debate: MEDICINAL MARIJUANA,
8/21/95
Newt
Gingrich: Death to Smugglers
The
Moral Culture of Drug Prohibition
Marijuana: Costly & Wasteful War
Todd
McCormick & Marijuana Compassion Clubs
NYT: Big Brother Denies Medical Marijuana
Works
What
the Green Triangle Means
PRESUMED GUILTY, Pittsburgh Press, The Law's
Victims in
the War on Drugs
Per
Capita Deaths by Drug
NHTSA: Drugs Not Big Danger on the Road
How
Dangerous is Marijuana
How
Drug Legalization Would Cut Crime
Collateral Casualties in the Drug War
12
Reasons to Legalize Drugs
ACLU Policy: Decriminalization of Drugs
ACLU Paper #19: Against Drug Prohibition
Botched Drug Raid Costs $2.75 Million
Damages
Los
Angeles County and "3 Strikes"
Anaheim Repeals Law Barring Former Drug
Offenders From
Parks
Harry
Anslinger & the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
Botched Raids & Collateral Casualties in the
Drug War
Is
Smoking Pot Good Medicine?
Barbara Ehrenreich: Kicking the Big One
The
Myth of Marijuana's Gateway Effect
The
Partnership: Hard Sell in the Drug War
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