war on drugs

1994’s Clear and Present Danger is one of the most important movies in the cinema of the war on drugs,...

The relationship between intelligence agencies and the entertainment industry is complex and multi-faceted.  Angles include the influence of the agencies...

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently released nearly 200 pages of contracts between themselves and entertainment producers, which for the...

Iran-Contra is in many ways the definitive government conspiracy – involving guns, drugs, anti-communism and black operations, it went all...

Joe Biden-- The Lesser EvilAll the Democrats running for president claim-- to one degree or another-- that they favor legalizing marijuana nationally... except former Colorado Governor John Frackenlooper, who fought against marijuana legalization when his own state ignored him and passed it by referendum. (He campaigned against Amendment 64 but he passed 55.32% to 44.58%. It garnered 1,383,139 votes.

Calculating the Damage from a Century of Drug Prohibition   We live in a time of change, when people are questioning old assumptions and seeking new directions. In the ongoing debate over health care, social justice, and border security, there is, however, one overlooked issue that should be at the top of everyone’s agenda, from Democratic Socialists to libertarian Republicans: America’s[Read More...]

Houston Police Department (HPD) Senior Officer Gerald Goines, 54, is accused of lying about a tip from an informant indicating that a couple, Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, were dealing drugs and had large amounts of heroin and weapons in their home.

WASHINGTON — Congress’ confirmation of William Barr as Attorney General for the United States on Thursday has come and gone with comparatively little commotion compared to that attending his predecessor, Jeff Sessions, or Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Most media attention fixated on the potential for Barr to undermine the work of his former colleague and close collaborator, Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

The process that ended Prohibition provides a template, writes former Senator Mike Gravel. By Senator Mike Gravel Special to Consortium News In the interest of full disclosure, I have been on the board of Cannabis Sativa, Inc., for five years,…Read more →

AMLO declared the end of the 'war on drugs', saying that the army will stop prioritizing the capture of kingpins and will focus on reducing homicide rates. [Which is strange reasoning as the main purpose of putting the drug kingpins out of business is to reduce homicide rates caused by those kingpins.]