Your Country on Drugs Pt. 2

Your Country on Drugs Pt. 2 – Since the first use of the term “war on drugs” by Richard Nixon, the campaign to rid America of illegal substances has been a failure. Drug use has remained constant in the 40 years since the start of the war on drugs, and the only thing that seems to change is which drugs people are using at any given time. But there’s a reason that this campaign has failed, and it has less to do with people wanting to get high, and everything to do with our failure to understand why people choose to use drugs. Air America’s Sam Seder talks about this with Ryan Grim, author of the new book, This is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America.

Sask. man recalls fight back from addiction's darkness

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Hrominchuk says his addiction spiralled out of control when he was 18 when he was a 'black-out' cocaine addict. In the past decade he has used just about everything from cocaine and ecstasy to crystal meth. He remembers moving across the prairies when …
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Horse Racing – Dettori banned for six months after positive test

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Dettori is no stranger to controversy, having won his first champion jockey title in 1994, the year after he was given a police caution for possessing a small amount of cocaine. …. Booze is worse than, coke, crystal meth, lsd, weed, and crack as you …
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Joint undercover drug operation yields significant arrests

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”You normally don't have cocaine dealers associating with methamphetamine dealers, and vice versa,” said Sgt. John Novy, who heads up Citrus County's Tactical Impact unit. “Pain pills also were heavily involved in the investigation,” he added …
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