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  • July 2008

    • Where Does All That Seized Money Go?

      Economist  |  Jul 13, 08 5:42 AM CDT

      Where Does All That Seized Money Go?

      (Newser) - What would you do with a few million in drug money? Last year, state and federal authorities seized about $2 billion from Mexican smugglers. The feds have to put any seized money into a dedicated fund, but the rules are looser for states. In Texas and Georgia, for example, sheriffs and district attorneys get to keep any seized loot for their departments. The Economist takes a look at the issue and the sometimes iffy purchases that result. More »

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      crime  • Texas  • police  • drug cartel  • War on Drugs  • drug war  • drug cartels

  • May 2008

    • Watchdogs Say Hollywood Going to Pot

      Christian Science Monitor  |  May 20, 08 1:26 PM CDT

      Watchdogs Say Hollywood Going to Pot

      (Newser) - Production of cannabis-centric films is hitting a high, reports the Christian Science Monitor . Once pigeonholed with Cheech and Chong and low-budget cult films such as The Big Lebowski , movies that feature pot-smoking characters now tend toward mainstream frat-house humor. This summer alone will see four marijuana-tinged releases, including the Judd Apatow-produced Pineapple Express . More »

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      film  • Hollywood  • drugs  • smoking  • marijuana  • War on Drugs  • Pineapple Express  • young Hollywood

  • April 2008

    • 15 Dead in Tijuana Shootout

      Reuters  |  Apr 26, 08 7:20 PM CDT

      15 Dead in Tijuana Shootout

      (Newser) - A gunfight between Tijuana drug cartel rivals left 15 dead and eight wounded near the US border today, Reuters reports. The worst violence in Mexico's 3-year drug war, it filled a city road with bodies and took the lives of two top hit men from the Arellano Felix cartel. "Today shows we are facing a terrible war never seen before on the (U.S.-Mexico) border," said Baja California Attorney General Rommel Moreno. More »

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      Mexico  • drug trafficking  • Mexican border  • War on Drugs  • gun violence  • drug war  • Tijuana  • shootout

  • March 2008

    • More Afghan Families Using Girls to Pay Debt

      Newsweek  |  Mar 30, 08 6:24 PM CDT

      More Afghan Families Using Girls to Pay Debt

      (Newser) - Besieged by debt, more Afghan farmers are paying lenders by handing over their girls as "loan brides," Newsweek reports. Often taken from their families forever, the girls—some younger than 5 years old—are commonly beaten or pushed to suicide by their fate. "My heart is still with my parents, brothers and sisters," one girl said. "Only my body is with my husband's family." More »

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      Afghanistan  • drugs  • marriage  • debt  • War on Drugs  • opium  • arranged marriage  • poppies  • dowry

    • Montana Ad Blitz Busts Meth Use

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Mar 27, 08 1:23 PM CDT

      Montana Ad Blitz Busts Meth Use

      (Newser) - In 2005, Montana had the fifth-worst methamphetamine problem in the US; now it’s 39th, and negative advertising is to credit for much of the stunning turnaround. Montana’s nonprofit Meth Project launched a massive blitz against the drug, blanketing airwaves, websites, newspapers, and billboards. “The intention is to treat meth like a consumer product,” said one backer. More »

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      Montana  • War on Drugs  • Drug Enforcement Administration  • methamphetamine

    • Cocaine on the Upswing in Peru

      Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 23, 08 3:48 PM CDT

      Cocaine on the Upswing in Peru

      (Newser) - Peru's cocaine business is growing again, sparking a spate of killings, threats, and US-funded attempts to stop it, the Los Angeles Times reports. Coca bush plots have increased by a third since 1999 to feed markets in Europe, East Asia, and Brazil—but growers are hard to collar because they work piecemeal, without the flashy kingpins of old. "We're up against an army of ants," said Peru's top anti-drug cop. More »

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      Colombia  • cocaine  • Peru  • drug trafficking  • drug cartel  • War on Drugs  • coca  • Alan Garcia

  • January 2008

    • Feds Target 'Extreme Ecstasy' Spread

      Detroit News  |  Jan 4, 08 6:11 PM CST

      Feds Target 'Extreme Ecstasy' Spread

      (Newser) - Federal drug-enforcement agents are setting their sights on a new form of ecstasy containing methamphetamines being smuggled across the border from Canada, the Detroit News reports. Known as "extreme Ecstasy," the combination of the two drugs could easily lead to overdoses and death recalling a recent wave of similar fatalities from heroin laced with fentanyl. More »

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      Canada  • drug trafficking  • War on Drugs  • methamphetamine

  • December 2007

    • Slugger Hopes for Shortened Prison Term

      Washington Post  |  Dec 26, 07 4:30 PM CST

      Slugger Hopes for Shortened Prison Term

      (Newser) - Now that the US Sentencing Commission has agreed to retroactively reduce prison terms for crack cocaine offenses, one of baseball's record-holders stands to benefit. Willie Mays Aikens, the only player to hit multiple homers in multiple games in the same World Series (playing for Kansas City in 1980), may have his 15-plus-year sentence commuted. More »

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      MLB  • baseball  • cocaine  • Kansas City Royals  • crack cocaine  • War on Drugs

  • November 2007

    • Opulence Duels With Poverty on LA's Skid Row

      Good Magazine  |  Nov 18, 07 12:54 PM CST

      Opulence Duels With Poverty on LA's Skid Row

      (Newser) - While upscale lofts and hotels sprout up near crack houses and homeless shelters, Los Angeles' Skid Row has outstripped most other cities in all the races you don't want to win. LA County has a homeless population of 88,345—roughly twice as much as New York—and the 50 square blocks of Skid Row are the socioeconomic earthquake's epicenter, Good Magazine reports. More »

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      Los Angeles  • homeless  • LAPD  • War on Drugs  • urban poverty  • Skid Row

    • Was Mexican Coke Bust Just for Show?

      Time  |  Nov 11, 07 4:48 PM CST

      Was Mexican Coke Bust Just for Show?

      (Newser) - The timing of Mexico's biggest-ever coke bust was a little too perfect last week, Time says. Mexican police nabbed the nose candy—23.5 tons valued at $400 million—just as Congress was debating whether to send more drug-fighting aid. “We've seen this movie before,” grumbled one expert, who says US aid must be tied to changes with Mexico’s shady federal police. More »

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      Mexico  • Felipe Calderon  • War on Drugs

  • October 2007

    • US Cocaine Supply Plummets

      Los Angeles Times  |  Oct 3, 07 5:46 AM CDT

      US Cocaine Supply Plummets

      (Newser) - The cocaine supply has dropped sharply in the last year in 37 US cities, which law enforcement officials attribute to a crackdown on drug cartels by Mexican authorities and a record volume of drugs seized at sea. New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco were among major cities experiencing sharp reductions in supply. The shortage has driven the price of cocaine to its highest level in almost 20 years. More »

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      Los Angeles  • New York  • Mexico  • San Francisco  • cocaine  • San Diego  • drug trafficking  • Felipe Calderon  • drug cartel  • War on Drugs

  • September 2007
  • May 2007

    • Snow Job: 21-Ton Coke Bust

      Newsweek  |  May 9, 07 6:43 AM CDT

      Snow Job: 21-Ton Coke Bust

      (Newser) - It's the biggest cocaine seizure on the high seas and the second biggest bust in US history: The Coast Guard boarded a Panamanian freighter and discovered, inside cargo containers on deck, 21 tons of cocaine with a street value of $300 Million. "It was fast and furious," says Joseph Evans, DEA attache in Panama. More »

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      drugs  • cocaine  • Coast Guard  • War on Drugs  • Panama  • DEA

  • April 2007

    • Mexican Drug Wars Fought in Cyberspace

      Washington Post  |  Apr 9, 07 4:41 PM CDT

      Mexican Drug Wars Fought in Cyberspace

      (Newser) - Mexican drug cartels are making themselves at home on YouTube, posting music  videos that show off the bloodied bodies of their tortured and executed competitors. The gangs have turned to the Internet to recruit members, plan attacks, and intimidate and threaten rival gangs. The result is an al-Qaeda–like virtual network that the tech-lite Mexican police have been slow to tap for information. More »

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      Internet  • YouTube  • Mexico  • drugs  • law  • organized crime  • drug cartel  • War on Drugs  • law enforcement

  • March 2007

    • HGH Isn't Worth the Hysteria

      Slate  |  Mar 27, 07 11:47 AM CDT

      HGH Isn't Worth the Hysteria

      (Newser) - Crusaders against performance enhancing drugs should lighten up about Human Growth Hormone: In the sports version of the war on drugs, anabolic steroids are heroin and HGH is marijuana, writes Daniel Engber. Studies haven't shown any definitive increase in athletic abilities resulting from taking HGH, and they have minimal harmful side effects. More »

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      drugs  • steroids  • medicine  • sports  • athlete  • human growth hormone  • hormones  • War on Drugs

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