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The Mexican federal government has sent hundreds of troops into the country's lime-producing heartland to help growers fend off drug cartels, and more. Chronicle. TD Bank got caught doing money laundering for drug traffickers, among others. …
This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories | StoptheDrugWar.org
Aug 4, 2022 · Police Corruption. A small-town Pennsylvania got too friendly with the local drug dealer, a small-town Ohio cop probably wishes he had maintained domestic bliss, and more. In Ironton, Ohio, an Ironton police officer was arrested last Wednesday after a domestic dispute turned into a drug bust. Officer Bradley Spoljaric, 29, went down after ...
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StoptheDrugWar.org's cannabis policy program includes reporting, lobbying, research and advocacy to help guide the transition to legalization, and engagement with drug policy at the United Nations. In 2023, we are engaging with US foreign policy related to drugs in the legislative process, pressing human rights, rule of law issues and ...
Reforming Global Drug Policy | StoptheDrugWar.org
StoptheDrugWar.org plays a leading role in US-based global drug policy reform. We advocate for drug policies prioritizing health, human rights and development. We call for revision of the three UN drug conventions in light of national moves toward marijuana legalization. On the basis of the supremacy of human rights under the UN charter, we assert countries' right to consider legalization or ...
Family Sues in Missouri Dog-Shooting SWAT Raid
Sep 21, 2010 · The Columbia, Missouri, family whose dogs were shot during a Columbia Police SWAT raid in February, video of which went viral on the Internet, filed a federal civil lawsuit Monday against the City of Columbia and 13 other defendants in US Western District Court in Jefferson City. The raid, in which police expected to find a large quantity of ...
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StoptheDrugWar.org works for health and justice by seeking to end drug prohibition and its excesses, while positively impacting related issues. How We Work. StoptheDrugWar.org is a primarily US-based organization that advocates on domestic drug policies and in the international sphere. We pick advocacy issues for which there are unfilled roles ...
The Truth About Driving When You're High on Marijuana
Jan 11, 2008 · NORML's Paul Armentano has prepared a scientific review of over a dozen studies evaluating marijuana's effect on psychomotor skills and the risks posed by marijuana intoxication behind the wheel. Armentano finds that marijuana impairment is generally "subtle and short-lived," falling far short of the threats posed by drunk driving.
Marijuana Legalization Will Hurt Mexican Cartels, But How Much ...
Jan 16, 2014 · More recently, research by the Mexican Institute of Competiveness released in October 2012 suggests that if only Washington, Colorado and Oregon legalized marijuana, then cartel profits would fall as much as 30 percent. Another variable which must be taken into account when analyzing the impact of legalization on the cartels is the nature of ...
Drug Legalization | StoptheDrugWar.org
Far from protecting youth from the perils of drug abuse, prohibition causes crime, and makes the drugs themselves more harmful, especially to the addicted. As a broad-mission, national membership organization that unambiguously comes out for drug legalization (which can also be thought of as regulation and control), StoptheDrugWar.org (DRCNet) plays a unique and important role in the public ...
Bad Precedent: When the Fourth Amendment Doesn't Apply …
Dec 23, 2019 · Under the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary ule, when such evidence is unlawfully gathered the evidence cannot be used by the government in criminal cases.. But in a stunning blow to the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, that same unlawful seized evidence was indeed used in court against him, and Huskisson now sits in federal prison serving a 20-year sentence ...