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The Mexican federal government has sent hundreds of troops into the country's lime-producing heartland to help growers fend off drug cartels, and more. Chronicle. TD Bank got caught doing money laundering for drug traffickers, among others. …
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What should have been a citation for drug paraphernalia gets turned into an outrageous attempt to lock a hapless drug user up for decades. San Joaquin County, California, welfare recipients may have to submit to drug testing if county officials …
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StoptheDrugWar.org's cannabis policy program includes reporting, lobbying, research and advocacy to help guide the transition to legalization, and engagement with drug policy at the United Nations. In 2023, we are engaging with US foreign policy related to drugs in the legislative process, pressing human rights, rule of law issues and ...
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A paper by StoptheDrugWar.org's executive director David Borden published in the Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal, "If Hard Drugs Were Legalized, Would More People Use Them?," examines these and other issues in the legalization vs. prohibition debate, noting the points on which thoughtful observers of the drug issue agree and disagree.A presentation by Borden at the UN's High Level ...
Washington State Supreme Court Limits Vehicle Searches
Apr 9, 2012 · In an 8-1 decision last Thursday, the Washington state Supreme Court ruled that police must obtain a search warrant to search a vehicle even if they believe it contains evidence of the crime for which the person was arrested. The decision in State v. Snapp overturns the convictions of two men in unrelated but consolidated cases where police ...
Family Sues in Missouri Dog-Shooting SWAT Raid
Sep 21, 2010 · The Columbia, Missouri, family whose dogs were shot during a Columbia Police SWAT raid in February, video of which went viral on the Internet, filed a federal civil lawsuit Monday against the City of Columbia and 13 other defendants in US Western District Court in Jefferson City. The raid, in which police expected to find a large quantity of ...
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Aug 4, 2022 · Police Corruption. A small-town Pennsylvania got too friendly with the local drug dealer, a small-town Ohio cop probably wishes he had maintained domestic bliss, and more. In Ironton, Ohio, an Ironton police officer was arrested last Wednesday after a domestic dispute turned into a drug bust. Officer Bradley Spoljaric, 29, went down after ...
Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Cop in the Hood: My Year …
Nov 28, 2008 · For a bit more than a year, the Eastern District was Peter Moskos' beat. The Harvard educated sociologist (now on the faculty of City University of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice) with an interest in police socialization joined the Baltimore Police Department to become a "participant-observer" on the sociology of policing in that department, enabling him to achieve a degree of ...
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StoptheDrugWar.org plays a leading role in US-based global drug policy reform. We advocate for drug policies prioritizing health, human rights and development. We call for revision of the three UN drug conventions in light of national moves toward marijuana legalization. On the basis of the supremacy of human rights under the UN charter, we assert countries' right to consider legalization or ...
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David Borden is founder and executive director of StoptheDrugWar.org. Borden played the leading role in pioneering use of the Internet for education and organizing in drug policy reform after founding StoptheDrugWar.org (known then as DRCNet, short for Drug Reform Coordination Network) in late 1993. Borden oversaw the organization's work on the ...