Comment: Misguided Drug Policies Can Have Tragic Results

Comment: Misguided drug policies can have tragic results
Filed under: cocaine abuse 1980s
… the challenges we've faced in confronting failures in our drug policies. Tuesday's passage of initiatives in Washington state and Colorado to legalize recreational marijuana use offers promising signs that change is in the air. … In their study … Read more on The Republic

Colombia: Drug lords fall from grace
Filed under: cocaine abuse 1980s
… aren't nearly as powerful as the Colombian capos of the 1980s and 1990s. “I will not say that [Barrera] is the last of the grand capos,” said Ariel Ávila, who has written extensively on the drug trade as an investigator for Bogotá-based research … Read more on Infosurhoy