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- How America Lost the War on Drugs http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17438347/how_america_lost_the_war_on_drugs 2 comments
- The Drug War: A War Well Lost http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/a-war-well-lost 3 comments politics
- Has the war on drugs been lost? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31922609 14 comments worldnews
- The War on Drugs Is Lost http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383913/war-drugs-lost-nro-staff 6 comments politics
- Have We Lost the Drug Wars? http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/01/13/have_we_lost_the_drug_wars_116669.html 12 comments politics
- Have We Lost the War on Drugs? - WSJ.com http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424127887324374004578217682305605070.html?mod=wsj_hps_middlenexttowhatsnewstop 4 comments politics
- How America Lost the War on Drugs http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17438347/how_america_lost_the_war_on_drugs 4 comments reddit.com
- The Lost War On Drugs http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/08/19/the-lost-war-on-drugs/ 3 comments reddit.com
- America Lost a 20-Year Drug War in Afghanistan. The Taliban Won Theirs in 2. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/world/asia/afghanistan-opium-heroin-taliban.html?smid=url-share&unlocked_article_code=1.iU4.brvh.iOe-vzbykQfy 34 comments politics
- Mexico lost its war on drugs 75 years ago, author claims http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-lost-its-war-on-drugs-75-years-ago-author-claims-10473796.html 5 comments worldnews
- How America Lost the Phony War on Drugs http://www.5min.com/video/how-america-lost-the-phony-war-on-drugs-2454069 2 comments worldnews
- Best article of the year comes from the Rolling Stone: How America Lost the War on Drugs http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17438347/how_america_lost_the_war_on_drugs?repost 53 comments reddit.com
- America Has Lost the War on Drugs. Here’s What Needs to Happen Next. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/opinion/harm-reduction-public-health.html 36 comments politics
- The secret story of how America lost the drug war with the Taliban https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/08/obama-afghanistan-drug-war-taliban-616316 26 comments politics
- Ohio's Top Cop: "We've lost the war on drugs" http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/bretprogressohio/c2sv 8 comments politics
- Uruguay’s First Lady and Senator Affirms Drug War Is Lost http://panampost.com/panam-staff/2013/11/18/uruguays-first-lady-and-senator-affirms-drug-war-is-lost/ 25 comments worldnews
- Senate Judiciary Committee Chair: "After Spending Billions on the War on Drugs…Well, We’ve Lost" http://blog.norml.org/2013/01/17/senator-leahy-after-spending-billions-on-the-war-on-drugs-well-weve-lost/ 39 comments politics
- Wall Street Journal: Have We Lost the War on Drugs? (x-post from /r/drugpolicy) http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424127887324374004578217682305605070.html 4 comments politics
- Thailand considering legalising CRYSTAL METH as ruling junta's general admits the world has lost the war on drugs http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3645552/thailand-considering-legalising-crystal-meth-ruling-junta-s-general-admits-world-lost-war-drugs.html 15 comments worldnews
- The Lost War: We've Spent 36 Years and Billions of Dollars Fighting It, but the Drug Trade Keeps Growing http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/17/ar2007081701716.html?nav=rss_opinions/outlook?nav=slate 21 comments reddit.com
- Scotland's Drug Tsar admits drug war is lost -- but still doesn't want to legalize drugs http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=892852006 14 comments reddit.com
- How America Lost the War on Drugs -- After Thirty-Five Years and $500 Billion, Drugs Are as Cheap and Plentiful as Ever http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17438347/how_america_lost_the_war_on_drugs?sid13 48 comments politics
- How America Lost the War on Drugs: After Thirty-Five Years and $500 Billion, Drugs Are as Cheap and Plentiful as Ever http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/17438347/how_america_lost_the_war_on_drugs/print 65 comments politics
- The 'war on drugs' has been lost – it's time to rise above the moral panic and decriminalise, regulate and tax http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/24/drugs-policy-transform-symposium 298 comments science
- Soaring prison population prompts Thailand to re-think 'lost' drug war https://ca.news.yahoo.com/soaring-prison-population-prompts-thailand-think-lost-drug-031602957.html 31 comments worldnews
- Two Professors of Economics at the University of Chicago, one being a Nobel Peace Prize winner, say we have lost the war on drugs. http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424127887324374004578217682305605070.html?mod=wsj_wsj_us_news_6#articletabs%3Darticle 6 comments politics
- Lost Highways - Can Mexico continue its impressive economic growth even as the drug war looks increasingly hopeless? http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/28/lost_highways?page=full 3 comments worldevents
- The war on drugs is already lost: The tide is finally turning in the debate over our drug laws. The prohibitionist argument has been reduced to rubble http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blogs/talking_politics/the-war-on-drugs-is-already-lost-p143664.html 10 comments politics
- Wasted Potential - The Cost Of Marijuana Prohibition: 850,000 Arrests, $340 Billion In Lost Tax Revenue, And $14 Billion On The Drug War A Year To Keep Marijuana Illegal http://www.prosebeforehos.com/image-of-the-day/11/14/revenue-from-marijuana-if-it-were-legal/ 352 comments politics
- "The drug war is over, and we lost. We merely repeated the mistake of Prohibition. Evil cannot be eradicated by making it more profitable." http://socialissues.wiseto.com/articles/fo3020630091/ 103 comments reddit.com
- Former President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, calls on US to legalize drugs: "This war on drugs is totally lost." http://www.kvue.com/news/former-president-of-mexico-fox-calls-on-us-to-legalizatie-drugs--147524865.html 183 comments worldnews
- Having lost the intellectual battle in its phoney "War On Drugs", Britain's Murdoch-owned Sun newspaper decides to get dirty and attack Prof Nutt's kids. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2729905/drugs-professors-son-in-spliff-pic-on-net.html?otc-rss 56 comments reddit.com
- Singapore 'fighting a war' against drug scourge given scale of lives lost, Victims Remembrance Day to be held: Shanmugam https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/shanmugam-singapore-fighting-war-against-drug-scourge-victim-remembrance-day-be-held-4320976 15 comments worldnews
- US has lost faith in Mexico's ability to win drugs war - US diplomats painted a scathing picture of Mexico's armed forces, singling out the army as bureaucratic, parochial, outdated and unfit to combat drug trafficking organisations (DTOs). http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/us-mexico-drugs-war-wikileaks 5 comments worldnews
- The Drug War strikes again. Crack dealers hide stash in neighbors wheel well, neighbor drives off, drugs are lost. Dealers shoot and kill his wife. Another innocent person dead. Why not legalize it all and save lives? http://investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5863:-news-flash-drugs-stashed-in-wheel-well-leads-to-triple-shooting-at-least-one-dead&catid=25:the-project&itemid=44 10 comments reddit.com
- War against cannabis "comprehensively and irreversibly lost", former Conservative leader William Hague said, as he urges Theresa May to legalise drug...Mrs May should be "bold" and introduce "major change" in policy, warning it is "deluded" to think cannabis can be "driven off the streets". https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/06/18/war-cannabis-has-lost-government-should-bold-legalise-lord-hague/ 467 comments worldnews
- The Iranian law enforcement and border guard police have disbanded 26 international drug trafficking cartels and gangs since March.Iran spends billions of dollars and has lost thousands of its police troops in the war against traffickers and terrorists. http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950325001212 7 comments worldnews
- Mexico’s Lost Drug War - "Corruption is so deep within the govt that it’s become a war for drugs, not against. I can’t say freedom of expression exists when I have to live with round-the-clock bodyguards. Journalists in other countries can walk freely on the streets & I can’t.” http://www.texasobserver.org/anabel-hernandez-on-mexicos-lost-war-and-her-new-book-narcoland/ 36 comments worldnews
- The war on drugs: "The results are gruesome at every level. We are creating a vast prisoner underclass in this country at huge expense, increasingly unable to function in normal society, all in the name of a war we have already lost." http://www.fareedzakaria.com/home/articles/entries/2012/3/25_incarceration_nation.html 325 comments politics
- Sister Helen (2002) Brash, foul-mouthed, and no-nonsense, Sister Helen is a recovering alcoholic who lost her husband and sons to substance abuse. She single-handedly fights her own war on drugs as director of a halfway house for recovering addicts in NYC’s South Bronx. [01:28:48] https://youtu.be/8CwCzc0Mi6I 32 comments documentaries