Word: antidrug
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Although drug use is perhaps morally reprehensible, it should be legalized. Making drug possession criminal is a hydra, begetting yet more crime. Through legalization, huge savings can be realized from crime reduction. Revenues gleaned from taxing legal profits can be used for antidrug research, and standardized products will reduce drug deaths. Governments formerly beneath the heel of drug cartels can once again begin to function for their own constituents. DONALD H. RUDICK, M.D. St. Marys...
...portrayal of Archie; he won another for his role as a liberal-minded Southern cop on the NBC drama In the Heat of the Night (1988-94). In his later years, after his drug- and alcohol-addicted son Hugh committed suicide in 1995, O'Connor became an outspoken antidrug crusader (see below...
...ever felt was honest," says a DEA agent who has investigated the cartel for years. For his safety, Patino lived in San Diego. But in April 2000, two Mexican federal police comandantes--who had been polygraphed, vetted and trained by the U.S. to serve in a "clean" new antidrug unit--allegedly lured Patino and two aides into a trap in Tijuana. Patino's head was crushed in a pneumatic press, agents say, and the mutilated bodies were found in a ditch the next day. (One of the crooked comandantes has been arrested; the other is still a fugitive.) The cartel...
...first Bush Administration. "It's not. It is a long war of attrition. There is progress over time. We just need the political will to sustain the fight." And to swallow the hard realities of a slow war: a recent State Department report notes that total overseas U.S. antidrug spending is about $1.9 billion a year, or, as the report says, roughly the "street value of 19 metric tons of cocaine. The drug cartels have lost that much in a few shipments and scarcely felt the loss...
...missiles. With a multibillion-dollar bank account, it can clearly afford them. For U.S. planners--and American contract pilots--it's a big worry. It exposes the U.S. to a basic problem of policy: while U.S.-supplied planes and their American-trained crews are allowed to get involved with antidrug missions, they are not, by law, allowed anywhere near counterinsurgency operations. Thus, for instance, the U.S. Blackhawks in Plan Colombia can be used to hit FARC drug operations but not other FARC offensives. It's a tough distinction to draw in the real-time world of combat...