Monthly Archives: November 2019

The Drug War Kills Porpoises

Posted on November 16, 2019 by Servetus

Mexico’s drug cartels—the poisonous fruit of a toxic drug war tree—are overfishing the Sea of Cortez and exterminating the vaquita porpoise, the world’s rarest marine mammal: Austrian filmmaker Richard Ladkani recorded the shocking and dangerous story of the activists, scientists … Continue reading →

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The NYPD sure is good at catching criminals

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Pete

NYPD Brags About Weed Bust That Business Owner Says Is Just Hemp “Precision policing and relentless follow-up” is how the New York Police Department characterized a recent marijuana bust it bragged about. But the business owner caught up in the … Continue reading →

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D.A.R.E. America is Obsolete

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Servetus

Schools in the US are getting real about drug education by focusing on harm reduction while abandoning prohibitionist approaches that fail to work, such as the D.A.R.E. America (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program created in Los Angeles in 1983 by … Continue reading →

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