Though the war against drugs has got commitment, it will need a lot more resources to ensure victory.
Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa said the Merida program presents the United States and Mexico with a chance for "unprecedented" cooperation in the war against drugs.
We will not win the war against terror by chasing individual terrorists, any more than we will win the war against drugs by arresting the "mules" who pass through Heathrow.
Most exports from Colombia and Peru to the U.S. are free of taxes under a 1991 law easing access to the U.S. market for countries cooperating with us in the war against drugs.
This might some as something of a surprise to those who are invested in the war against drugs but the inert gas helium actually causes more deaths each year in the UK than cannabis, ecstasy and mephedrone put together.
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Opinion leaders, on both the right and left, have spoken out against the insane war on drugs for as long as politicians have been hiding their heads in the sand while they compete to see who is the toughest law and order advocate.
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Britain may lose the fight against drink but win the war on drugs.
But there was no discussion of the wisdom of a general war against drugs in Latin America.
Sicilia, whose son was killed in March, has given a voice to thousands of Mexicans suffering the chaos of the drugs war by starting the most significant protest movement against a war that has exploded since Calderon sent army troops into the fight when he took office in late.
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Though the decriminalization of drug use would have many benefits, it would not, by itself, reduce many of the costs of the war on drugs, since those involve actions against traffickers.
Here the eminent authors pinpoint three policy differences on immigration, the war on drugs and the embargo on Cuba that have pitted the United States against the consensus of the hemisphere's other 34 governments.
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Yet there is no denying that if your goal were to consign African Americans to a permanent underclass one which the rest of us would be culturally and legally permitted to discriminate against in employment, housing, voting rights, and government benefits the war on drugs would be a great way to do it.
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