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5 days ago · 50-year war on drugs imprisoned millions of Black Americans. Fifty years ago this summer, President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. Decades later harsh penalties continue to feed a...
Apr 30, 2024 · Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, advocates argued that criminal bans on marijuana, cocaine, psychedelics, and other substances violate the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees of due process, equal protection, federalism, free speech, free exercise of religion, and humane punishment.
Use of drugs in warfare. Use of mind-altering substances in warfare has included drugs used for both relaxation and stimulation. Historically, drug use was often sanctioned and encouraged by militaries through including alcohol and tobacco in troop rations. Stimulants like cocaine and amphetamines were widely used in both World Wars to increase ...
May 1, 2024 · Information and statistics regarding civil and human rights, especially the rights of people who use drugs #DrugFacts
Apr 19, 2024 · The American war on drugs has always been thoroughly pervaded by racial (and class) discrimination, and incarceration rates for drug-related crimes have long been much higher for nonwhite communities and especially Black residents of poor urban areas.
Apr 23, 2024 · Alito's blithe dismissal of a fundamental right to consume psychoactive substances reflects "constitutional amnesia," Columbia law professor David Pozen argues in The Constitution of the War on...
1 day ago · This article appears in the May 2024 issue, with the headline “Reviving the Drug War.”. P ortland, Oregon— Measure 110, the landmark statewide drug decriminalization initiative that Oregon ...
