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The war on drugs, once a weapon in the nation's fight against substance abuse and related crimes, is experiencing a resurgence on the West Coast due to the fentanyl crisis.
Narco News is an online newspaper that covers the "War on Drugs" and social movements throughout the Americas. Its articles are available in English and Spanish, with some translations in Italian, French, Portuguese and German. It is funded by the Fund for Authentic Journalism. The founder and editor of Narco News is the American journalist Al ...
Several authors have put forth arguments concerning the legality of the war on drugs.In his essay The Drug War and the Constitution, [1] libertarian philosopher Paul Hager makes the case that the War on Drugs in the United States is an illegal form of prohibition, which violates the principles of a limited government embodied in the United States Constitution.
The charges of CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking were revived in 1996, when a newspaper series by reporter Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News claimed that the trafficking had played an important role in the creation of the crack cocaine drug problem in the United States. Webb's series led to three federal investigations, all of ...
Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman were three teenagers who were killed on August 16 to 18, 2017, during the course of the Philippine drug war.. On the evening of August 16, 2017, a 17-year-old Filipino student named Kian Loyd delos Santos was fatally shot by police officers conducting an anti-drug operation in Caloocan, Metro Manila.
By the end of Duterte's term, the number of drug suspects killed since Duterte took office was officially tallied by the Philippine government as 6,252. [13] Human rights groups, including the ICC, however, claim drug casualties reached as high as 12,000 to 30,000 [14] and the killings reached their peak between 2016 and 2017. [15] [16]
“In reaching within to find these tunes, it was like I was going through my whole life and ideas that I’ve always played around with…or finding inspirations from things that have been ...
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs is a book by Johann Hari examining the history and impact of drug criminalisation, collectively known as "the War on Drugs". The book was published simultaneously in the United Kingdom and United States in January 2015. It inspired the 2021 film The United States vs. Billie Holiday.