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Want to End the Drug War? Regulate Pot.

America passed a little-noted milestone in 2009 as drug overdoses outnumbered traffic fatalities for the first time ever to become the primary cause of accidental death . The cause? It wasn’t cocaine or heroin or some terrifying new criminal import. The doubling in drug related deaths over the …

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Written by Chris Ladd on Monday October 31, 2011

Fast and Furious Failure

Over at Huffington Post Canada , Sun News Network producer Miranda Frum points out the many problems with the enforcement of laws against contraband trafficking: The drug war in Mexico is an American war, the only difference being those fighting and those who are dying happen to almost be …

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Written by FrumForum Editors on Friday October 14, 2011