Marines Bypass Taliban Opium Fields in Afghanistan
GARMSER, Afghanistan — The Marines of Bravo Company’s 1st Platoon sleep beside a grove of poppies. Troops in the 2nd Platoon playfully swat at the heavy opium bulbs while walking through the fields....
View ArticleRon Paul on the Drug War
Congressman Ron Paul is the most conservative, grandfatherly man to ever be admired by America’s marijuana enthusiasts. On Friday night’s episode of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, he reminded those...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana: Problems in Montana
With the number of medical marijuana patients expanding dramatically in the Big Sky State, with storefront operations springing up around the state, and with at least one group of medical marijuana...
View ArticleIs the Drug War Costing Another Couple Billion?
One would think that America is experiencing Boom Times with the way the government is throwing around money lately. The recent announcement that a flotilla of warships and troops will be sent to...
View ArticleMexico Considers Legalizing Drugs
Soldiers stand next to a detainee and seized packages of marijuana in Tijuana, northern Mexico. Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP The Mexican president, Felipe Calderón, said today he would consider a debate...
View ArticleDrug War: Money Goes in Nothing Comes Out
A U.S. Senate subcommittee report this week called into question efforts to curb drug exports from Latin America, suggesting that billions in tax dollars had been wasted in no-bid contracts with no...
View ArticleLittle Town Big Tank
“We’re going to have our own tank.” That’s what Keene, N.H., Mayor Kendall Lane whispered to Councilman Mitch Greenwald during a December city council meeting. It’s not quite a tank. But the quaint...
View ArticleAmerica’s Secret Deal with Mexican Drug Cartels
In a story which should have made front page headlines, Narco News investigative journalist Bill Conroy revealed that “A high-ranking Sinaloa narco-trafficking organization member’s claim that US...
View ArticlePentagon to Fight Colombian Drug War with Soap Opera’s
The U.S. Army is introducing a new weapon in its fight to get Colombia’s guerrillas to put down their guns: the soap opera. That’s the gist of a recent Army request for proposals, which describes the...
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