
“The DEA oversees a multibillion-dollar enterprise whose primary purpose is to criminalize millions of people for the use of drugs. Nearly half of those incarcerated in federal prison are there for drug violations, including 60 percent of all female inmates. The DEA has kept marijuana on the list of Schedule 1 drugs in the face of widespread evidence of its benign nature. Racial disparities in the policing of the drug war remain profound.”
Read more: https://www.thenation.com/article/abolish-the-drug-enforcement-agency/
Related posts:
No Exit: China Uses Passports as Political Cudgel
Russia and Greece to ink Turkish Stream gas pipeline deal
Revealed: Big Pharma tested dangerous new drugs on unknowing East Germans
Silicon Valley meets Bob Marley
China’s Spending on Renewable Energy May Total 1.8 Trillion Yuan
Asian economies turn to yuan
Perseus, Atlas Launch Global High-Frequency Bitcoin Trading Platform
D.C. house inspires 168 bids in red-hot real estate market
iPhone 5S fingerprint reader manages to remain secure for almost 3 days
Portugal Throws Open Europe’s Them-And-Us Austerity Divide
CIA 'mistakenly' destroys copy of 6,700-page US torture report
Hungarian savers say government is stealing their pensions
Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance
Test reveals Facebook, Twitter and Google snoop on links in private messages
U.S. promises to phase out landmines that target people