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Call Off the Global Drug War by Jimmy Carter

June 17, 2011

In an extraordinary new initiative announced earlier this month, the Global Commission on Drug Policy has made some courageous and profoundly important recommendations in a report on how to bring more effective control over the illicit drug trade.

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Sacrifice of the Innocents: Drugs, Money and Murder in Mexico by Amanda Feilding

In Roberto Bolano's novel 2666, the women of the city of Santa Teresa are being brutally raped and relentlessly killed. The culprits are unknown, but a shadowy alliance of drug dealers, police officers and local government officials is never far from the scene.

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End the War on Drugs by Sting

April 13, 2010

Whether it's music, activism or daily life, the one ideal to which I have always aspired is constant challenge — taking risks, stepping out of my comfort zone, exploring new ideas.

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Maine Referendum Would Scuttle Gay Rights

Groups that support gay rights have sent a 12-page letter to Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap outlining what they say is wrong with a proposed referendum question submitted last week by Michael Heath, executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine.

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A Debate at the Oxford Union by Michael Carmichael February 16, 2006