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Violence-Plagued Mexico Sees Hope in US Border Plan
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Tom
- 275 days ago - reuters.com
U.S. officials announced a $184 million program to add 360 security agents to border posts and step up searches for smuggled drugs, guns and money, as Mexico's spiraling drug war seeps over the border into the United States.
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Mexican Drug Wars Now Worse Than Iraq
World  (tags: world, violence, mexico, america, Iraq, economy, marijuana, obama, law, government, drug war, narco-terrorism, freedom, culture, crime, rights, corruption, politics, war, medicine, drugs, consumers, civil rights, health )

Tom
- 275 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Mexican drug cartels are as heavily armed as America's enemies during the Iraq war and are extending their bloody conflict into the United States, say security experts. Armed with rockets and grenades, they've brought death and chaos south of the border.
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Drug Gangs Are Winning The Arms Race
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Tom
- 282 days ago - latimes.com
Traffickers have escalated their arms race, acquiring military-grade weapons, hand grenades, grenade launchers, armor-piercing munitions and antitank rockets with firepower far beyond the assault rifles and pistols that have dominated their arsenals.
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The Success of Drug Decriminalization in Portugal
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Tom
- 282 days ago - salon.com
There is a growing worldwide recognition that, strictly on empirical grounds, criminalization approaches to drug usage and especially the "War on Drugs" are abject failures because they worsen the exact problems they are ostensibly intended to address.
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Taking on the Drug Cartels
World  (tags: world, mexico, south america, Sinaloa, Gulf, Tijuana, drugs, cartels, narco-terrorism, crime, death, marijuana, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, violence, war )

Tom
- 299 days ago - latimes.com
After law enforcement agencies broke up the Medellin and Cali cartels, Mexicans stepped in to fill the void. Today, Mexico's big three, the Sinaloa, Gulf and Tijuana cartels, control most of the sales of drugs to U.S. consumers from San Diego to Boston.
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Latin American Leaders Just Say 'No' to U.S. Drug War
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Tom
- 302 days ago - alternet.org
Latin American Commission calls U.S. "war on drugs" a failure, says treat addicts as patients in the public health system; evaluate decriminalisation of cannabis possession for personal use; and reduce consumption through youth public education campaigns.
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Jamaica Explores Legalizing Marijuana
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- 663 days ago - rawstory.com
Jamaica is considering the legalization of marijuana, a drug revered by members of the island's large Rastafarian population who say smoking it is part of their religion.
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