War on Drugs

War on Drugs Links

• Think for Yourself - The Drug War Lots of articles to read, RealVideos to watch, etc.
  
• U.S. Government the World's Leading Drug Peddler Noam Chomsky argues that the US government is scandalously cynical in launching a "war on drugs" while, at the same time, supporting the export of tobacco - which kills far more people on an annual basis. He also argues that the war on drugs has a net effect of driving people from marijuana to more dangerous illegal drugs.
  
  
• Drug War Facts Free online book - a collection of categorized information on various aspects of the drug war, all presented with full source citations and, where possible, links to the original.
  
• Salon news: The war on drugs Prisons, profiling and propaganda: Salon's coverage of the U.S. government crackdown on illegal-substance abuse and the drug trade.
  
• Malevolent Prohibition Two-part editorial ("Spurious Justification" & "Who Benefits from Prohibition?") exploring the *real* reasons behind the war on drugs.
  
• David Bowman Article on the biggest ever theft from the Justice Department, fraudulently diverting $6 million from the war on drugs to an antigovernment group.
  
• Connecticut's Coalition for Drug Policy Reform A nonprofit grassroots organization working with Connecticut legislators to change state laws on substance abuse to have a public health and safety solution.
  
• The Dancing Bears: Tales from Jails by Gary Waid Prisoner of America's War on Drugs tells it like it is in the United States Prison Industrial Complex.
  
• Drug War Prisoners Information and articles by and for drug war prisoners and others interested in drug law reform.
  
• The Drug Peace Campaign The Mission of the Drug Peace Campaign is to bring a peaceful end to the War on Drugs and to the persecutions and human rights abuses that are perpetrated in its name.
  
• Prohibition: The War on Drugs The nature and origin of the 'War on Drugs'. Why this 'war' is so entrenched.
  
• Drug Mistreatment by Jake Ginsky Tens of thousands of American teenagers are forced into drug treatment programs each year by schools, parents, or the courts - despite not having any serious drug problem.
  
• The Trial of Peter McWilliams Peter McWilliams is a writer, publisher, and photographer who has AIDS and cancer. He is facing a mandatory-minimum 10-year sentence in federal prison (possibly life) and a $4 million fine for the crime of treating his illnesses with medical marijuana.
  
• War on Drugs Detailed site about the War on Drugs, includes the Heidelberg Declaration.
  
• Caryn's essay on the effects of the drug war A discussion of effective ways to end injustices and defend human rights in the United States, with links to various activists organizations.
  
• Snitch PBS program which investigates how a fundamental shift in the country's anti-drug laws - including federal mandatory minimum sentencing and conspiracy provisions - has bred a culture of snitching that is in many cases rewarding the guiltiest and punishing the less guilty.
  
• End The Failed 'Drug War' Information about the Failed Drug War and its victims, Asset Forfieture, medical marijuana, marijuana legalization, drug testing and who is profiting from it, marijuana growing, and lies from the Drug Czar.
  
• Human Rights and the Drug War In a photographic essay, the public sees the actual faces of people filling American prisons today and learns the case histories of selected inmates whose sentences illustrate the often harsh and arbitrary policies imposed on first-time, non-violent drug offenders.
  
• Veterans for More Effective Drug Strategies US Favors the return of the drug problem to the domain of the medical profession.
  
• The Drug War [The Onion] How's the war on drugs going? The Onion AV Club recently spoke to some soldiers in The Drug War in an effort to gather insights about their work and their mission.
  
• Rayguns Closet: Holocaust in America For the millions of poor Americans in prison, caught in the crossfire of a "War On Drugs" there is no hope. What air-brained politicians, and an arrogant judiciary have created is a modern holocaust: the victims poor, mostly black and hispanic.
  
• Drug Policy Foundation An independent, non-profit organization that publicizes alternatives to the failing war on drugs.
  
• November Coalition The casualties of America's War on Drugs and what you can do to end the drug war.
  
• National Drug Court Institute Non-profit organization involved in sculpting the movement of Drug Courts within the U.S. and internationally for Court Practitioners. Provides training, research, and scholarships.
  
• War on Americans Public opinion essay written by Dan Donaldson for Wake America. Challenges the current U.S. policy to criminalize drug use with a provided open forum for posting comments.
  
• Drug War and Drug Policy Facts "The 'War on Drugs' is an expensive, destructive, failed sham.
  
• Movement Against Corruption and Complicity Movement formed to investigate government and private sector profiteering off drug war. Also cover prison inmate human rights abuses.
  
• Drugs: The United States and Latin America A few mordant words on drugs, drug abuse, and the disgraceful ties that bind Latin America and the United States.
  
• Frontline - Drug Wars Online accompaniment to the PBS series examining the war on illegal drugs.
  
• Partnership for a Drug-Free America? Let's look closely at the supposed reasons why some drugs are "harmful". Are they really?
  
• The Greens and The Drug War News, statistics and articles on the Drug War, and the Green Party marijuana legalisation and harm reduction policies.
  
• The Narco News Bulletin Reports on the drug war from Latin America with breaking news, analysis, investigative journalism, translations of journalism from Mexico and beyond, and media criticism.
  
• Government Wears No Clothes Website of Bob Newland, noted journalist, raconteur, iconoclast, political philosopher and exposer of the lies used to propagate the so-called War on Drugs.