war on drugs

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• SOURCE: Slate
  11/21/2022
  

  The Clinton-Era Law that Still Devastates Black Families

  by Dorothy E. Roberts

  The Adoption and Safe Families Act mandated state intervention to protect children from neglect, but did nothing to ensure an economic and social safety net to mitigate hardship. The result, spurred by anti-Black tropes, was an acceleration of family breakup by state agencies. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/7/2022
  

  New Colombian Leadership Means it's Time for the US to End the Disastrous Drug War

  by Christy Thornton

  The US has taken steps to pull back from the domestic war on drugs. But the violent, repressive and expensive campaign to fund militarized drug interdiction in Latin America has carried on uninterrupted, fueling political violence abroad and fentanyl overdoses at home. 

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• SOURCE: Teen Vogue
  8/11/2022
  

  Another 90's Trend is Back: DARE

  by Rebecca Kavanagh

  The brainchild of LAPD Chief Darryl Gates, DARE wasn't good at steering kids away from drugs. But it was good at bringing police into schools and encouraging kids to report anyone using drugs to the cops. 

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• SOURCE: WNYC
  7/28/2021
  

  Fifty Years Since the War on Drugs

  "This summer marks 50 years since the war on drugs began under President Richard Nixon. But the opioid overdose epidemic continues to ravage the country, and incarceration—especially of Black people—has skyrocketed over the past 5 decades." 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/8/2021
  

  The U.S. War On Drugs Helped Unleash The Violence In Colombia Today

  by Kyle Longley

  Counternarcotics operations have been a pretext for funding a buildup of the Colombian security forces, allowing a US-friendly rightist government to avoid dealing with the economic and social causes of unrest. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/18/2019
  

  Why abruptly abandoning the drug war is a bad idea for Mexico

  by Aileen Teague

  Long-term economic initiatives are good, but a power vacuum will make things more violent in the short term.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/15/19
  

  How the War on Drugs Kept Black Men Out of College

  A new study finds that federal drug policy didn’t just send more black men to jail—it also locked them out of higher education.

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• 2-26-17
  

  There’s One Last Big-Ticket Item on Trump’s Agenda: A War on Drugs

  by Matthew R. Pembleton

  Be afraid.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  3-22-16
  

  Former Nixon Aide Claims ‘War on Drugs’ Invented to Suppress Black People

  John Ehrlichman, an integral part of the Nixon White House, reportedly referred to the anti-war left and blacks as enemies of the Nixon regime, and outlined a method by which it “could disrupt those communities.”

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  3-7-16
  

  Nancy Reagan's Role in the Disastrous War on Drugs

  by Tony Newman

  President Reagan's drug war began the mass incarceration of blacks.  It was a disaster. 

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• 5-9-15
  

  How Our War on Drugs Undermines Mexico

  by Aileen Teague

  The continued dominance of multi-billion dollar Mexican drug cartels cannot be seen as separate from the aggressive drug policies emanating from the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s.

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• Obama's Lost War on Drugs

  by Jeremy Kuzmarov

  Rather than relying on our hopeless forty-fourth president and an even more hopeless Republican-controlled Congress, citizen groups need to mobilize together to oppose the waste of their hard earned taxpayer dollars in the War on Drugs.