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George Soros backs Guatemalan president’s call to end war on drugs
George Soros has thrown his support behind the president of Guatemala’s efforts to end the war on drugs. Soros, who is best know for leading a run on the pound in 1992 that forced the UK out of the European exchange rate mechanism, said at the World Economic Forum in…
Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki: Drug war fuels industrialized mass incarceration
Appearing Tuesday night on The Daily Show, filmmaker Eugene Jarecki explained how the “failed” war on drugs was fueled by corporate-interests. “It has to do with business,” he told Jon Stewart. “This country is finding, everywhere we look, we are seeing places where the extraordinary power of corporations in this…
Uruguay takes ‘war on drugs’ in new direction: state monopoly over the production and distribution of marijuana
Uruguay takes ‘war on drugs’ in new direction: The state as dealer Uruguay has long been at the vanguard of social reform in Latin America. Today, it is on the verge of passing into law one of its most radical ideas yet. The Broad Front – the center-left coalition that…
U.S. drug czar: It is a mistake to call drug policies a ‘war’
Gil Kerlikowske, head the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said Monday that it was a mistake to refer to anti-drug policies as a “war on drugs.” “I think what I’ve always mentioned is that it’s a mistake to call it a ‘war on drugs’ because it lends…
Richard Branson advocates to ‘end the war on drugs’
Inspired by a visit to Portugal, billionaire Richard Branson is calling on the United States and the rest of the world to end its war on drugs. In a blog post on his company’s site, the Virgin Media founder was impressed by the European nation’s move a decade ago to…
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Russell Simmons on the ‘war on drugs’: ‘We’ve got to start a revolution’
The hip-hop mogul and executive producer of The House I Live In tells of the suffering he saw while growing up in Queens I’m particularly concerned about how the war on drugs has destroyed the fabric of the black community in America. I grew up in a lower middle-class neighbourhood…
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