By Tim Lynch
President Obama recently gave an interview to Rolling Stone and tried to defend his drug war policies–especially his escalation of the federal war against medical marijuana providers in California. Obama now says anyone who thought he was hoping he’d change course from the Bush-Ashcroft policies somehow got the wrong impression from his 2008 campaign. And, besides, he said you can’t [...]
Obama Is But a Small Cog in Drug War Machine is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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In a lengthy piece on December 13, the New York Times reported on the role Western Hemisphere drug trafficking plays in financing the Shiite, pro-Iranian terrorist organization Hezbollah. The Times took a lengthy look at the Treasury Department’s investigation of the Lebanese Canadian Bank (LCB) and the organizational structure that moves illegal drugs from South America to Europe and the Middle East via West Africa and launders hundreds of millions of dollars monthly through accounts held at LCB, as well as through trade-based money laundering involving consumer goods throughout the … More
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In a lengthy piece on December 13, the New York Times reported on the role Western Hemisphere drug trafficking plays in financing the Shiite, pro-Iranian terrorist organization Hezbollah. The Times took a lengthy look at the Treasury Department’s investigation of the Lebanese Canadian Bank (LCB) and the organizational structure that moves illegal drugs from South America to Europe and the Middle East via West Africa and launders hundreds of millions of dollars monthly through accounts held at LCB, as well as through trade-based money laundering involving consumer goods throughout the … More
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By Tim Lynch
Federal Appellate Judge Andre Davis has penned an op-ed about mandatory minimum sentences. Here’s an excerpt: As a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, I learn of many personal narratives. Tony Gregg’s bears retelling. Mr. Gregg was a user, a seller, a “snitch” for the FBI. His early life was [...]
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By Tim Lynch
When a war is not going well, one response is to escalate. There has been a lot of escalation in the drug war. Here are two recent examples: 1. Federal agent loses his job for questioning the wisdom of the drug war. Some government officials do not like the fact that the group “Law Enforcement Against [...]
Drug War Update is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
Challenges to Florida’s unconstitutional drug laws continue to gain momentum. Following a successful federal district court challenge to the constitutionality of state statutes lacking a mens rea requirement (mental culpability, rather than, for example, incidental possession), people convicted under them have come forward en masse to ask Florida courts to reexamine their convictions. As described in the background [...]
More on the Constitution’s Lack of a Drug-War Exception is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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