UK addicted to sleeping pills: Stress-related insomnia on rise since start of the economic crunch May 13, 2012 Print Version Source: Daily Mail Britain has become a nation of sleeping pill addicts since the start of the economic downturn, figures revealed yesterday. Stress-related insomnia has been blamed for a sharp increase in the number of [...]
Georgia signs welfare drug-testing bill into law April 17, 2012 Print Version Source: RawStory Georgia’s Governor Nathan Deal has signed House Bill 861 into law, a controversial measure which will require drug testing of all applicants for public assistance, according to the Associated Press. The Social Responsibility and Accountability Act was passed by the [...]
Narcotic task force and child services steal children from California medical marijuana patients March 18, 2012 Print Version By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie On the morning of September 29, 2011, around 8 AM, the Butte Interagency Narcotic Task Force (BINTF) out of Butte, California, forced their way into the home of [...]
Cocaine “accidentally” sent to UN headquarters January 26, 2012 Print Version Source: AFP Bags containing 16 kilogram of cocaine that Mexican drug traffickers recently lost has turned up in an unlikely place – the United Nations in New York. Two fake UN bags containing the drugs – which experts said had a street value of [...]
Value Afghan Opium Yield Rose 133 Percent from 2010 January 14th, 2012 Via: AFP: Production of opium and the illicit crop’s value soared in Afghanistan last year, the United Nations said in a report released Thursday. According to the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime, farmer income derived from Afghanistan’s opium crop in 2011 was [...]
Mexico Drug War Deaths Over Five Years Now Total 47,515 January 12, 2012 Print Version Source: BBC Mexican officials say nearly 13,000 people were killed in violence blamed on organised crime between January and September last year. This means there have been 47,515 drug-related killings since President Felipe Calderon launched his crackdown on drug [...]
Cannabis Treatment Threatens Deadly Painkiller Industry January 10, 2012 Print Version Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post Pharmaceutical painkillers are now responsible for more deaths in the United States than heroin and cocaine combined. These pharmaceuticals are responsible for more than 15,000 deaths conservatively in 2008 alone. With no sign of slowing down, the painkiller industry is [...]
Gary Webb’s Drug War Reporting Vindicated January 2, 2012 Print Version Source: Disinfo – Huffpo The late, lamented Gary Webb never really received the credit he deserved for his investigative journalism blowing open the CIA-Contras drug trafficking scandal. Now Ryan Grim sets the record straight in this article for Huffington Post, ostensibly about Ron [...]
Tougher drug laws mean nearly 1/3 arrested by age 23 December 27, 2011 Print Version Source: RawStory Nearly one in three Americans will already have been arrested by the age of 23, recent research suggests. A study analyzing data from the federal government’s National Longitudinal Survey of Youth found that 30.2 percent of 23-year-olds reported [...]
Get a Medical Marijuana Card, Lose Your Second Amendment Rights December 20, 2011 Print Version Source: Reason If you are a medical marijuana patient in one of the 16 states (plus the District of Columbia) that allow for it, you’ve got reason to believe lately that the government has it in for you. You’ve got [...]
Gingrich ‘proposed the death penalty for marijuana’ December 13, 2011 Print Version Source: RawStory Over the weekend, struggling Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson reminded MSNBC viewers that GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich had once to called to punish some drug offenders with death. “Newt Gingrich, in 1997, proposed the death penalty for marijuana — for [...]
Driven By Drug War Incentives, Cops Target Pot Smokers, Brush Off Victims Of Violent Crime November 25, 2011 Print Version Source: Huffington Post … MISPLACED PRIORITIES Arresting people for assaults, beatings and robberies doesn’t bring money back to police departments, but drug cases do in a couple of ways. First, police departments across [...]
Pentagon’s War on Drugs Goes Mercenary November 22, 2011 Print Version Source: Danger Room An obscure Pentagon office designed to curb the flow of illegal drugs has quietly evolved into a one-stop shop for private security contractors around the world, soliciting deals worth over $3 billion. The sprawling contract, ostensibly designed to stop drug-funded terrorism, [...]
Fast and Furious: Case Files on Terry Murder Have Disappeared, Gone November 16, 2011 Print Version Source: TownHall.com The Arizona Daily Star’s Tim Stellar is reporting the federal case file against illegal Mexican bandits accused of killing Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, has disappeared. The case against the alleged killers of Border Patrol Agent Brian [...]
Revealed: DEA Has Own Special Forces Squads in Foreign Countries November 8, 2011 Print Version Source: New York Times Late on a moonless night last March, a plane smuggling nearly half a ton of cocaine touched down at a remote airstrip in Honduras. A heavily armed ground crew was waiting for it — as were [...]
