Drug war racist, futile – Mon, 19 Jul 2010 PST

Published July 19, 2010

Drug war racist, futile – Mon, 19 Jul 2010 PST
Ron Allen probably thinks Alice Huffman has been smoking something. Huffman, president of the California Conference of the NAACP, recently declared support for an initiative that, if passed by voters in November, will decriminalize the use and possession of marijuana. Huffman sees it as a civil rights issue.
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Drug policies help keep HIV rates low in Central Europe – Feature
Prague – For Pepino, a 44-year-old Czech drug addict, needle exchanges are a routine affair. He started doing it in 1986, three years before the Velvet Revolution ended Communist rule and opened his country to visitors from around the world.
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New Mexico on forefront of dispersing Narcan
Get FREE Daily Headlines by email! Talk to addicts about Narcan, and it’s easy to believe in ghosts. Dwayne Gallegos, 21, who is in drug treatment, remembers being with a friend who overdosed, “and he went out, he wasn’t breathing.”
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