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Cory Booker: We must ‘radically change’ this drug war ‘insanity’
Newark New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker (D) said Monday that he wants to be a leader in the drug reform movement no matter where he goes next in his public career, explaining that America must “radically change” the “insanity” of its generations-old drug war. Explaining to Huffington Post Live that…
Parliament committee: Time is ‘now’ to radically change UK drug war
The British drug war could be forever altered if the recommendations of a new report issued by the Home Affairs Committee are taken seriously. After a year of study and hearing from numerous experts, the Home Affairs Committee released its first major report on drug policy in 10 years, and…
America’s 2011 drug war tally: One marijuana arrest every 42 seconds
New numbers released Monday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting Program show that nearly half of all drug arrests in 2011 were marijuana-related, and of those arrests almost 90 percent were for possession alone. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a drug reform advocacy group, said that…
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