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How American Foreign Policy Fuels Mexican Drug War Violence, Corruption

The US must rethink its Latin American foreign policy, beginning with the drug war. Sponsoring a proxy war with drug cartels will only foster anti-American sentiment among the citizenry and the large profits of drug trafficking will continue drive public officials to corruption.

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Obama’s Drug War – Politics as Usual

Radley Balko has a great article up on Slate. Before you go pulling the lever for Obama, thinking he’ll bring change to drug policing think again. His selection of Drug Warrior Biden confirmed for me that Obama’s prior commitment to decriminalization was just political pandering to his left-wing base. To win this election Obama/Biden have [...]

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Fayetteville Voters to Vote on Low Priority

PRESS RELEASE:
Fayetteville, AR: Fayetteville voters will have the choice on Election Day to vote on making adult marijuana possession the lowest police priority. Sensible Fayetteville initiative sponsors turned in just over 1000 additional signatures on August 29 to meet a shortfall of 301 valid signatures. City Clerk Sondra Smith contacted campaign coordinator Ryan Denham today [...]

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Stepping Up the Cannabis Re-Legalization Debate

Allen St. Pierre, Executive Directory of NORML has a scathing rebuttal of the ONDCP’s outrageous claims on their blog. The post is on The Hill’s blog which is widely read by congressional staffers and lobbyists. Hopefully staffers at the ONDCP will stop getting invited to D.C. cocktail parties and change their tune.
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