DRUG WAR

"That misguided policy has put millions of people behind bars, cost billions,encouraged crime and spread corruption while failing completely to reduce drug abuse." The Economist of London

forfeitures

ACLU cited instances

busted frontline special

NYTimes special

snitch frontline

drugclock
mandatory sentences
This American Life radio show

Series in the Ottawa Citizen:
Failure of the War, Globally, Columbia, Supply and Demand, Mexico, Borders, Smuggling, Amphetamines, Laws, Civil Liberties, Obscene profits, Police Corruption, Smarter laws in Europe, Part2 Europe, Keeping use down, Prohibition, Journalism

Car Hijacking and a Drug Bust

Recent Statistics on the Failure of the War

News Reports from the Front

Mexico

05/24/97 Some of Mexico's most prominent anti-drug operations of the past year were undertaken at the behest of Mexico's biggest drug baron, who had enlisted corrupt generals in his war against a competitor
07/11/97 Mexico and Drugs: Was U.S. Napping?
08/19/97 Mexican Tale: Drugs, Crime, Torture and the U.S.
11/11/97 Extradition of drug figures has caused friction between Mexico and the U.S.
12/29/97 Hoping to build a new bulwark against the flow of illegal drugs from Latin America, the United States is providing the Mexican military with extensive covert intelligence support and training hundreds of its officers to help shape a network of anti-drug troops around the country
05/26/98 Mexico may try to extradite and prosecute U.S. agents who violated Mexican law while taking part in the sting named ``Operation Casablanca.''
07/15/98 jailed former head of Mexican national police to testify about drug payoffs at high levels of the Mexican government
09/16/98 American Trained Elite Mexican Drug Officers Tied to Traffickers
05/26/98 Trafficers seize 42-year-old priest in Oaxaca's state capital and killed, mob style, with one shot to the head
killing of 18 in mexican town
02/14/99 U.S. officials admit that by most statistical measures, the Mexican record looks especially bad this year
02/16/99 U.S. to continue support says Clinton
02/25/99 The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Thomas Constantine, warned that Mexican drug trafficking organizations pose the worst criminal threat to the United States that he has seen in nearly 40 years in law enforcement.
officals
12/29/99 Bodies of those dissapeared by the police working with drug lords dug up.
Felix Brothers still on the loose

Colombia

06/20/98 Bowing to demands from Washington, the Colombian government has agreed to test a granular herbicide to kill coca crops, despite public warnings from the chemical's American manufacturer against its use.
08/14/98 U.S. Will Help Colombia Coca Growers Switch to Other Crops
08/19/98 Colombian Rebels Resist U.S. War on Coca
08/20/98 In Colombia, Plan to Replace Coca Is Scorned
12/01/98 a recent congressional initiative, spurred by direct appeals to conservative Republicans by the Colombian national police, has more than doubled drug-fighting money to Colombia and made the country a top recipient of U.S. foreign aid
01/12/00 more US Aid

US

Will Foster Story
04/20/97 Phantom Numbers Haunt the War on Drugs
06/20/97 Seductive Drug Culture Flourishes on the Internet
01/21/98 New York City Drug War, Risky Tactics and Casualties
05/18/98 In 1991, there were 119 killings north of 155th Street in Manhattan. So far this year, the body count stands at just five
05/26/98 As Number of Police Raids Increase, So Do Questions
06/15/98 An audit concludes the lead U.S. agency in the war on drugs hasn't been able to ``accurately and completely account'' for the property it owns, the money that drug traffickers give undercover agents during sting operations or the seized drugs it has on hand. -- an unwelcome assessment for an agency already stung by two cases accusing its own workers of stealing millions in tax dollars
07/06/98 US government dealing drugs
07/14/98 Registered murders in the Netherlands to correct statements made by McCaffrey
07/15/98 Newton couple who pleaded guilty to marijuana trafficking charges were ordered to forfeit their property and $1 million in cash to the government
07/20/98 Calif. fight over medical marijuana
08/19/98 Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's call to move 2,000 heroin addicts off methadone
08/20/98 MIT_fraternity_hit with alcohol ban
01/6/99 Drug testing in prisons, while treatment being cut
03/3/99 colleges are offering and students are often demanding greater supervision of their lives

Tony Lewis breaking the silence
Frank Rich editorial against the drug ads
Satel on methadone
milton-friedman There's No Justice in the War on Drugs
A.M. Rosenthal editorial against legalization
Tony Lewis editorial against drug war
two views on efficacy of the war
amnesty 2000?