- Mexico's President-Elect Plans to End the Nation's War on Drugs https://www.alternet.org/drugs/mexico-new-president-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-ways-end-drug-wars 75 comments worldnews
- Trump delivers shock rebuke to Colombia over cocaine surge: U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening that he may decertify Colombia as a partner in the war against drugs unless the South American nation reverses a record surge in cocaine production. https://apnews.com/32f78da86d8443b2948a4c0e49a58f81/trump-delivers-shock-rebuke-to-colombia-over-cocaine-surge 9 comments worldnews
- President Obama Declares September ‘National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month’ http://www.seasonsmalibu.com/president-obama-declares-september-national-alcohol-drug-addiction-recovery-month/ 6 comments politics
- Bodyguard Outs the president of Venezuela’s national assembly and vice-president of the ruling Government Party as Drug Cartel Chief http://panampost.com/panam-staff/2015/01/27/bodyguard-outs-diosdado-cabello-as-drug-cartel-chief/ 897 comments worldnews
- Mexican president accuses U.S. of harbouring drug cartels - National | Globalnews.ca https://globalnews.ca/news/11019350/mexico-us-drug-cartel-alliance-slander-harbouring-mexican-president-claudia-sheinbaum-trump/ 601 comments worldnews
- President Joe Biden's national drug control strategy urges more 'harm reduction,' fewer barriers to treatment https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/04/21/joe-biden-drug-control-strategy-overdose-deaths/2991650542070/ 19 comments politics
- President of National Association of Evangelicals, Ted Haggert, accused of 3-year sexual relationship with gay hooker, and of taking drugs http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?osgname=kusa&ikobjectid=a73db9d1-0abe-421a-01ee-15ec09b8ff7d&templateid=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf 72 comments reddit.com
- More than two dozen countries formally called on Thursday for a United Nations investigation into thousands of killings in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-rights-un/philippines-faces-call-for-u-n-investigation-into-war-on-drugs-killings-iduskcn1tz22m 78 comments worldnews
- Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla adds her voice to the rising clamor for discussions on drug legalization as an alternative to the current state of affairs, in which Central American nations see themselves as increasingly threatened by the illicit drug trade http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2012/mar/02/costa_rica_joins_call_drug_legal 140 comments worldnews
- Trump Says Executing Drug Dealers Is Effective. China Shows He's Wrong. The president claimed nations that use the death penalty for drug offenses have solved their drug problems. In fact they have not. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akw7k8/trump-says-executing-drug-dealers-is-effective-china-shows-hes-wrong 83 comments politics
- China expands surveillance of sewage to police illegal drug use - Some cities will use data from waste water to set targets for police arrests of drug users. President Xi Jinping says the war on drugs is tied to national security & the welfare of the Chinese people. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05728-3 20 comments worldnews
- In First Speech Back in D.C., Trump Confirms He’ll Rule Like a Dictator in Second Term | Among other things, the former president wants to start executing drug dealers and calling in the National Guard without going through the proper channels first. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/07/donald-trump-dc-speech-drug-dealers 558 comments politics
- End the War on Terrorism? Republicans Say No: G.O.P. lawmakers accused President Obama of misreading the threat in a way that will embolden some nations the republican stance is the war of terror must continue indefinitely like the war on drugs http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/wind-down-the-war-on-terror-republicans-say-no/?hp 4 comments politics
- Gary Johnson - "I will be the only national candidate for President on the ballot in all 50 states who favors the legalization of marijuana and the end of the expensive failed “war on drugs”." http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/help-me-debate-the-war-on-drugs-with-obama-and-romney 23 comments politics
- Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte insulted and threatened to leave the United Nations in response to criticism of his approach to drug crime since taking office. The pugnacious new leader made the comments in a speech Sunday in Davao City, the southern Filipino city where he served as mayor http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/21/asia/philippines-duterte-threatens-to-leave-un/index.html 5 comments worldnews
- Philippines President Makes Good on Pledge to Mass Murder People Who Use or Sell Drugs, Calls for "No Mercy" in State of the Nation Address http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/2016/07/philippines-president-makes-good-pledge-mass-murder-people-who-use-or-sell-drugs-calls-?utm_campaign=fy17social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=1607fbc3philippinespr 17 comments worldnews
- Philippines' Duterte vows comfort for Russian drug suspects - "Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has pledged two accused Russian drug traffickers will be detained in a "comfortable house", rather than his nation's badly over-crowded jails." https://www.yahoo.com/news/philippines-duterte-vows-comfort-russian-drug-suspects-045221203.html 14 comments worldnews
- Philippine President called Obama, the European Union and United Nations "fools" on Thursday, and warned they would end up humiliated and outsmarted if they accepted an invitation to investigate his war on drugs. "I will ask five questions that will humiliate you," Duterte said. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-duterte-iduskcn12d25n 29 comments worldnews
- Philippines might leave UN over criticism of drug trafficker killings | President suggests China, Philippines & African nations form new global organisation https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/21/duterte-says-philippines-might-leave-un-over-criticism-of-drug-trafficker-killings?cmp=twt_gu 17 comments worldnews
- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte railed against the United Nations on Sunday after it called for an end to the wave of killings unleashed by his war on drugs, saying he might leave the organization and invite China and others to form a new one. http://m.timesofindia.com/world/rest-of-world/philippines-duterte-threatens-to-quit-un-after-drugs-war-censure/articleshow/53793349.cms 15 comments geopolitics
- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte railed against the United Nations on Sunday after it called for an end to the wave of killings unleashed by his war on drugs, saying he might leave the organization and invite China and others to form a new one. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/philippines-duterte-threatens-to-quit-un-after-drugs-war-censure/articleshow/53793349.cms 286 comments worldnews
- News: New GAO Study Finds U.S. Pays Two to Four Times More for Prescription Drugs than Other Nations | Sanders Calls on President Biden to Back Negotiations with Pharmaceutical Companies to Lower the Outrageous Price of Prescription Drugs in American Families Plan https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-new-gao-study-finds-u-s-pays-two-to-four-times-more-for-prescription-drugs-than-other-nations/ 30 comments politics
- New GAO Study Finds U.S. Pays Two to Four Times More for Prescription Drugs than Other Nations | Sanders calls on President Biden to back negotiations with pharmaceutical companies to lower the outrageous price of prescription drugs in American Families Plan. https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2021/04/28/new-gao-study-finds-us-pays-two-four-times-more-prescription-drugs-other-nations 8 comments politics