All posts tagged "War On Drugs"

An analyst Tuesday called President Donald Trump's war on drugs "just incoherent" — and revealed what his strategy might actually show about Trump's motives.

Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton wrote how Trump's pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández counters his strategy to stop Venezuelan “narco-terrorists” following multiple lethal boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea, just off the coast of Venezuela. Last week, Trump gave the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro a week to leave the country, after accusations "mostly related to money laundering and corruption," she argued.

"In fact, the cocaine drug trade from Venezuela doesn’t even come to America; it’s directed almost entirely at Europe," Digby Parton said. The Trump administration has indicated it is trying to stop fentanyl from reaching the U.S. with its attacks, but the drug is "almost exclusively smuggled over land from Mexico." ...

Prison terms for all federal drug dealing offences could be cut under a sweeping sentencing review expected to be announced on Thursday that may go much further than the tentative steps toward ending America's "war on drugs", begun this week by attorney general Eric Holder.

George Soros has thrown his support behind the president of Guatemala's efforts 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.