war on drugs
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Overdose Deaths Skyrocket in 2020
Besides the pandemic, the leading reason is fentanyl smuggled across the border.
Trump Touts Plan to Combat Opioid Epidemic
The president's three-pronged approach shows the nation he is serious about tackling the problem.
NYC Pursues Opioid Suit Despite ObamaCare's Assist
Leftists are more interested in the money they can extract from frivolous lawsuits than they are in solving problems.
Marijuana: When the Rule of Law Goes to Pot
The best constitutional answer for the drug question (and many others) is returning to federalism.
A Nation of Addicts — The Resurgence of Opioid Deaths
There is an epidemic of opioid addiction if anyone takes note...
OK, Who Ordered the Mexican Heroin?
Heroin use in the United States increased by nearly 80 percent between 2007 and 2012 alone, and The New York Times' main reaction to this depressing fact is to be overjoyed that the new addicts are mostly white. The important point is not that ragingly addictive drugs are sweeping small-town America, young lives are being cut short, or that we lost one of the most talented actors of his generation to a heroin overdose. What matters is that that the drug epidemic is not having a disparate impact.
Going to Pot: Advocates Are Understating the Health Risks of Smoking Marijuana
A lot of things can date an old movie or TV show: clothes, furniture, cars. And another thing: cigarettes. They're all over the place in many films, markers of an era when smoking was far more common. It took a while — the surgeon general's report came out five decades ago — but the percentage of smokers has declined, and rather drastically. Growing awareness of the health risks of tobacco helped bring a sharp drop in public acceptance.
Under Mr. Obama, Drug Law Enforcement Lapses
Like too many politicians of his generation, President Obama seems to think that proper enforcement of our nation's drug laws would be hypocritical. We know from David Maraniss' highly acclaimed biography, *Barack Obama: The Story*, that the marijuana-smoking "Choom Gang" was all too much a part of the young Obama's days at Hawaii's exclusive Punahou prep school.
Law and Border
How many wars can we fight? Our presidential candidates demand "stronger action" against both illegal immigration and illegal drugs. But those goals conflict. The War on Drugs makes border enforcement much harder! America's 44-year-long Drug War hasn't made a dent in American drug use or the supply of illegal drugs. If it had some positive effect, prices of drugs would have increased, but they haven't. American authorities say drugs are more available than ever.
Drug Cartels' 'Vocabulary of Mutilation'
Don Winslow, novelist and conscientious objector to America's longest "war," was skeptical when he was in Washington on a recent Sunday morning. This was shortly after news broke about the escape, from one of Mexico's "maximum security" prisons, of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, head of the Sinaloa drug cartel. Guzman reportedly escaped through a five-foot-tall tunnel almost a mile long and built solely for his escape. Asked about this, Winslow, his fork poised over an omelet, dryly said he thinks Guzman might actually have driven away from the prison's front gate in a Lincoln Town Car. What might seem like cynicism could be Winslow's realism. Fourteen years ago, Guzman escaped from another "maximum security" prison simply by hiding in a laundry cart. With exquisite understatement, The Wall Street Journal reports that his recent escape raised "new concerns about corruption in Mexican law enforcement."