“How to Make Money Selling Drugs,” a new film produced by Adrian Grenier and directed by Matthew Cooke, zeroes in on the lives of low-level drug dealers and the network in which smugglers, dealers, and law enforcement all play a toxic part. The film has...
A new website, GatewayEffect.org, is dedicated to promoting “Five Facts” about the War on Drugs that might change people’s minds: Marijuana is less addictive than coffee. Marijuana is a useful medicine for both body and mind. Marijuana, unlike...
A milestone in America’s longest war passed quietly on Friday. Too quietly. On June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared that “Public enemy No. 1 in the United States is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a...
The Afghanistan war sometimes seems interminable. It just became the longest hot war in U.S. history. Europe’s Hundred Years War remains the world record holder, but things moved slower back then. Pentagon officials appear to dream of setting a new record in Kabul....
