Source: Alternet.org
7 december 2011
By Aurelia Fierros
Selling the Drug War for $3 Billion?
In part of a move to transfer tactics from the “war on terror” to the “war on drugs”, the Pentagon is paying private security firms millions to fight the drug war internationally.
Source: Washington Post
16 December 2011
MEXICO CITY — Latin American leaders have joined together to condemn the U.S. government for soaring drug violence in their countries, blaming the United States for the transnational cartels that have grown rich and powerful smuggling dope north and guns south.
Source: News from Poland
09.12.2011
An amendment on illegal narcotics possession law allows prosecutors to
bypass courts in line with a “treat, not punish” approach to drug use.
The first episode of the new documentary “Weed Wars” about the californian medical marihuana dispensarys startet.
Source: Daily Mail
17th November 2011
By Ian Sparks
Swiss cannabis smokers will be allowed to grow four marijuana plants each (to stop them buying drugs illegally)
In her speech at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference a mother, Marilyn Howell gave account of her daughters experiences with MDMA assisted therapy in the end of her life. MDMA has huge potential in psychedelic medicine.