‘Drug Trade’ Archives
Remembering Bob Marley on the 30th anniversary of his passing
Bob Marley Speaks on Rastafari, politics, the media, herb, personal and spiritual freedom, revolution… One Love [Read More]
‘The Wire’ Creator David Simon on Drug War, Lack of Options for ‘The Other America’ | AlterNet
In an essay published two years ago in Time magazine, the writers of The Wire made the argument that we believe the war on drugs has devolved into a war on the underclass, that in places like West and East Baltimore, where the drug economy is now the only factory still [Read More]
Smoke a Joint and Your Whole Family Could End Up Homeless
For 40 years, we have been waging a “war on drugs.” Families are being kicked out of housing when many have done nothing wrong. Drug addiction is bad. But the war on drugs is worse. Frances Johnson, a 68-year-old grandmother in Washington, D.C faced eviction [Read More]
Racial Disparities Found to Persist as Drug Arrests Rise
More than two decades after President Ronald Reagan escalated the war on drugs, arrests for drug sales or, more often, drug possession are still rising. And despite public debate and limited efforts to reduce them, large disparities persist in the rate at which blacks and [Read More]
Call to Action: Eliminate Sentencing Disparity in Drug Laws
Color of Change has initiated an email campaign addressing the incarceration rate of Black men. Click the link to show your support and while you’re at it, get on their email list to stay up to date on their campaigns on our behalf. They are holdin’ it down for [Read More]
Phone and Email Data-Mining Used in War on Drugs, Too
Do not let it be said that the Bush administration forgot the War on Drugs while waging the War on Terror. read more | digg story [Read More]
