Racial Justice Requires Ending the War on Drugs

The War on Drugs:

This paper was prepared for a Research Symposium on Bad Public Goods, sponsored by Northwestern University’s Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth to be held at the Searle Center Conference Center, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago campus, September 14-16, 2008. It draws freely from Benson (2008) and a number of other previous writings on drug policy, including Bens...

The empirical war on drugs.

In a special issue of the journal Addictions (1995) academics, researchers and health care professionals debated the status of the empirical in socially orientated drugs research. A number of researchers noted that our knowledge and understanding of drugs and drug users has changed significantly since the 1990s. Post AIDS this shift is identified as a consequence of the development of qualitati...

Escallating the War on Drugs:

The war? Program? Experiment? On drugs.

Environmental casualties of the war on drugs.

C hemical control methods against illicit drug crops in producer countries have long been a fixture of the 20-year U.S. war on drugs. In 1998, President Bill Clinton unveiled *an unprecedented $16 billion antidrug initiative that induded a generous allotment for applying herbicides to crops in drug-producing nations. The U.S. initiative follows protocols outlined in the 1988 United Nations (UN)...