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(AP) - Federal agents have rounded up more than 700 suspects in a wide-ranging crackdown on Mexican drug cartels operating inside the US. An official familiar with the sweep said the arrests culminated in a series of DEA raids around the country last night and this morning. The operation has led to... More »

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War on Drugs • Mexican drug war • drug cartel

UK Cops Nab Pot Farmer Who Posted Crop
on YouTube

Using his real name likely hastened bust

Feb 24, 09 12:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Police taught aspiring drug lords everywhere a valuable lesson yesterday: If you’re going to grow pot, don’t put a video of yourself doing it on YouTube—and definitely don’t sign that video with your real name. But one 25-year-old Somerset man did just that, and was treated... More »

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YouTube • War on Drugs • England • marijuana • cannabis • Bill Maher Grid

(Newser) - Arizona’s three state universities are following the State Department and attempting to dissuade students from spending spring break in Mexican border towns, a traditional pastime, because of drug-associated violence there, the AP reports. One federal official called the warning “sage advice,” noting “documented violence, attacks, killings”... More »

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War on Drugs • Mexico • Arizona • Mexican border • University of Arizona • Mexican drug war • gang violence • Tijuana • drug cartel • spring break • Ciudad Juarez • Nogales

OPINION

Phelps Toke Highlights Absurd Drug Laws

We elected a president who once smoked, so what's the big deal?

Feb 4, 09 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Poor Michael Phelps, who will have to be punished for something nearly half the country has also done, writes Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post. And poor Sheriff Leon Lott, who "probably doesn't want to press charges because it's a waste of time and resources." The real problems,... More »

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War on Drugs • drugs • Michael Phelps • South Carolina • marijuana • Bill Maher • sheriff • Leon Lott • Bill Maher Grid

Narcotic Khat Raises Cultural Rift in US

Police worry about growing use of common African drug

Jan 3, 09 5:15 PM CST
(Newser) - In Africa, it’s the perfectly legal pick-me-up and social lubricant of choice, but in America, khat is an illegal narcotic—and its popularity is growing, the Los Angeles Times reports. Cities like Washington and San Diego are stepping up enforcement measures against the green leaf as growing African... More »

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Africa • War on Drugs • African Americans • stimulant • Drug Enforcement Administration • khat

Mass. Cops Refuse to Ticket Pot Smokers

Police call new, softer marijuana law 'unenforceable'

Jan 3, 09 10:28 AM CST
(Newser) - Now that marijuana is decriminalized in Massachusetts, many cops say they won’t even bother issuing tickets to pot smokers, the Boston Globe reports. “We’re just basically not enforcing it right now,” said the chief of police in one Central Massachusetts town. Officers “probably handled... More »

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War on Drugs • law enforcement • Massachusetts • marijuana • marijuana legalization • Bill Maher

OPINION

 Prohibition Shadows
 War on Drugs 

Time to end the drug war

Dec 5, 08 2:13 PM CST
(Newser) - Today marks the 75th anniversary of the end of Prohibition, a convenient time to think back on another failed effort to prevent Americans from indulging in mood-altering substances. "A failed drug prohibition can cause greater harm than the drug it was intended to banish," Ethan Nadelmann of the... More »

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War on Drugs • drugs • marijuana legalization • Prohibition • 21st Amendment

US War on Drugs Has Failed: Report

Americans urged to focus on treatment, prevention, gun sales

Nov 27, 08 8:42 AM CST
(Newser) - America is treating the symptoms rather than the disease of drug use, and its war on drugs will continue to fail unless it changes course, a new report by an influential Washington think tank finds. The report urges the US to develop stronger ties in the Caribbean and Latin America,... More »

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War on Drugs • Mexico • drug trafficking • drug use • Brookings Institution • counternarcotics • drug traffickers • Ernesto Zedillo

 Latin American 
 Nations Reject DEA 

Bolivia, Ecuador latest to repudiate US anti-drug operations

Nov 10, 08 12:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Some Latin American countries are pushing back against the US by cutting off DEA operations, the Christian Science Monitor reports. President Evo Morales, saying DEA agents "worked to conduct political espionage," gave them 3 months to leave Bolivia. Ecuador, meanwhile, has refused to renew the US lease on... More »

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Latin America • War on Drugs • Venezuela • DEA • Bolivia • Drug Enforcement Administration • Evo Morales • Ecuador • Hugo Chávez • George W. Bush

 Mexican Boutique 
 Sells Bulletproof Duds 

Specialty boutique sells protective shirts, jackets to anxious customers

Oct 6, 08 3:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - As drug-related violence skyrockets in Mexico, anxious shoppers are buying bulletproof shirts and jackets for protection, the New York Times reports. A boutique in Mexico City sells only bulletproof garments, including leather jackets, polo shirts, windbreakers, and even tuxedo shirts. Who's willing to pay up to $7,000 for such... More »

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War on Drugs • Mexico • Mexican drug war • Hugo Chávez • bulletproof

Feds Bust Ring that Hid Cocaine in Legos

Drugs packaged with toys in Puerto Rico, mailed to New York

Sep 24, 08 11:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Federal agents announced the arrest yesterday of a pack of Bronx drug dealers accused of smuggling cocaine into New York with the help of the world’s smallest traffickers: Lego men. Agents say the cocaine was sent from Puerto Rico through normal US mail, ingeniously hidden within buckets of the... More »

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War on Drugs • drugs • New York City • cocaine • Drug Enforcement Administration • Bronx • Puerto Rico • Lego

DEA Nabs 175 Mexican Drug Cartel Suspects

Nationwide initiative a key step in border drug war, authorities say

Sep 18, 08 8:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - US officials arrested 175 suspected Mexican drug traffickers this week in raids in a dozen states, the LA Times reports. Prosecutors believe the suspects are part of the violent Gulf cartel, considered to be a driving force in Mexico’s escalating drug wars. The raids were part of a 15-month... More »

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War on Drugs • Atlanta • Mexico • Felipe Calderon • Mexican drug war • Drug Enforcement Administration • drug cartel • Bill Maher Grid

Wild Pot Found in Indiana National Park

Park officials, police plan search-and-destroy mission

Aug 22, 08 4:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The National Park Service has found wild marijuana growing in a northern Indiana federal park, the Chicago Tribune reports. Officials don't know how many plants are spread throughout the 15,000-acre Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, on Lake Michigan about 30 miles southeast of Chicago, but said they will work with... More »

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War on Drugs • Indiana • marijuana • national park • National Park Service

 Where Does
 All That Seized
 Money Go? 

Asset forfeiture: an ugly side of the drug war

Jul 13, 08 5:42 AM CDT
(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... More »

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War on Drugs • Texas • crime • police • Mexican drug war • drug cartel • asset forfeiture


 Watchdogs
 Say Hollywood
 Going to Pot 

Anti-drug advocates fret over 420-friendly new releases

May 20, 08 1:26 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Hollywood • young Hollywood • film • War on Drugs • drugs • smoking • marijuana • Drug Free America • soft drugs • Pineapple Express

 15 Dead in 
 Tijuana Shootout 

Mexico sends in thousands of troops to quell further fighting

Apr 26, 08 7:20 PM CDT
(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. "... More »

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

More Afghan Families Using Girls to Pay Debt

Farmers hit by crop woes give daughters
as 'opium brides'

Mar 30, 08 6:24 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

 Montana Ad Blitz
 Busts Meth Use

'Unselling the product' leads to 70% drop among adults, 45% in teens

Mar 27, 08 1:23 PM CDT
(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... More »

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War on Drugs • Montana • Drug Enforcement Administration • methamphetamine • Quest Diagnostics • Office of National Drug Control Policy • Meth Project • Siebel Foundation • Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America • Partnership for a Drug-Free America

 Cocaine on the Upswing in Peru 

US attempts to quell trafficking stagnate in coca-based economy

Mar 23, 08 3:48 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Feds Target 'Extreme Ecstasy' Spread

Potentially lethal drug, mixed with meth, coming from Canada

Jan 4, 08 6:11 PM CST
(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... More »

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War on Drugs • Canada • drug trafficking • methamphetamine • Scott Burns

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