War on drugs

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• 2026-02-13 [L..T] Minnesota Demolishes Stephen Miller’s Theory of Force «Homeland Security Czar Stephen Miller’s attempt to impose his power in Minnesota, the same guy murderboating fishermen who might be carrying cocaine in the Caribbean in the name of halting fentanyl trafficking — has led to the collapse of drug trafficking cases because his attempt to subdue Minnesota by force has instead destroyed the Federal tools to impose order by law.» The administration's incompetence and "might makes right" approach in pursuing its supposed war on drugs agenda has eroded the tools to actually pursue that agenda. Even if you have a really strong hammer, not everything is a nail.
• 2026-02-11 12:40 UTC [L..T] Mexican Cartel ‘Drones’ Near El Paso Airspace Were Actually Party Balloons: Report «Medical emergency evacuation flights heading to El Paso, Texas, were forced to divert to New Mexico on Wednesday after the Federal Aviation Administration shut down all flights in and out of El Paso for 10 days. The order was rescinded after a few hours, but the excuse – Mexican cartel drones breaching the U.S.-Mexico border – doesn’t make any sense, given the fact that drug-smuggling drones do that on a daily basis.» ... «at least one of the objects shot down was just a party balloon, according to CBS News. CNN has since reported that it was four mylar balloons.»
• 2025-02-01 13:42 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] Imposing Duties to Address the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of China «I previously declared a national emergency with respect to the grave threat to the United States posed by the influx of illegal aliens and drugs into the United States in Proclamation 10886. Pursuant to the NEA, I hereby expand the scope of the national emergency declared in that proclamation to cover the failure of the PRC government to arrest, seize, detain, or otherwise intercept chemical precursor suppliers, money launderers, other TCOs, criminals at large, and drugs.»
• 2025-01-21 01:30 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] Declaring a National Emergency at the Southern Border of the United States «Because of the gravity and emergency of this present danger and imminent threat, it is necessary for the Armed Forces to take all appropriate action to assist the Department of Homeland Security in obtaining full operational control of the southern border.»
• 2014-05-30 [L..T] House votes to restrict DEA marijuana raids «The roll call on the vote is here. Note that it passed largely with Democratic support – the vast majority of Dems voted for it; a clear majority of Republicans voted against it – but the measure was backed by a bipartisan group of co-sponsors.»
• 2014-05-07 [L..T] Nobel Prize economists call for end to war on drugs «Five Nobel Prize-winning economists are calling for an end to the global war on drugs and a shift over to policies that focus on public health. The economists, along with over a dozen professors and politicians, have all endorsed a report released last night by the London School of Economics and Political Science, which breaks down the successes and failures of the worldwide drug war and finds that it has had "enormous negative outcomes and collateral damage." The report recommends that countries instead focus on individualized approaches to drug laws and encourages experimentation with lifting prohibitions.»
• 2014-03-18 [L..T] A Stillborn Child, A Charge of Murder and the Disputed Case Law on "Fetal Harm" «By smoking crack during her pregnancy, the indictment said, Gibbs had "unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously" caused the death of her baby. The maximum sentence: life in prison.»
• 2014-02-14 [L..T] How the Myth of the "Negro Cocaine Fiend" Helped Shape American Drug Policy «In 1914, a racist fiction helped sell one of the nation's first drug laws; 100 years later, it's still with us.»
• 2009-12-13 [L..T] Making Afghanistan Safe for Heroin «The "conspiracy theory" accusation comes up any time a journalist or a whistleblower points out that U.S. officials and agencies have been complicit in the global drug trade. ... It just can't be true that America would support drug lords, can it? ... YES, IT CAN.»
• 2008-05-16 [L..T] CNN's Lou Dobbs Is Clueless When It Comes to the Drug War «Mexico is experiencing a bloodbath right now thanks to drug prohibition. ... Lou Dobbs was outraged by the mass killings and wondered whether Washington is paying attention. .. While I appreciate Lou Dobbs' frustration with the mass killings, his analysis is totally clueless and his "solutions" will no doubt cause more harm than good. Here are three myths from Lou Dobbs that deserve attention.»