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Canadian groups welcome international report condemning failed 'War On Drugs'

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Evidence and human rights - not swelling prisons - are critical to sound drug policy, both here and abroad

June 2, 2011 -- We, the undersigned organizations, welcome today's release of a landmark report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy. It not only denounces the "war on drugs" as a failure but also puts forth a series of major recommendations for political leaders worldwide to adopt evidence- and rights-based approaches to drug policy.

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'They held Marc in solitary for three weeks': An interview with Jodie Emery

Marc and Jodie Emery hug before Marc is taken away, Sept. 28, 2009. Photo: Dave O/Flickr

The marijuana legalization activist describes what life in a U.S. prison has been like for her husband, Marc Emery, sentenced to five years on Sept. 10, 2010.

Cathryn Atkinson: You're going down to visit Marc tomorrow [The interview took place on Sept. 16], yes?

Jodie Emery: My visits are on Saturday and Monday, but I fly down a day early.

C.A.: How often are you allowed to see him at the moment?

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The Afghan War diary data -- an initial look

The Wikileaks dossier allows us to map where thousands of deaths have occurred in the war, and the evidence points to many failures by the NATO forces and the horrible price Afghanis have paid.

An initial look at the first 76,000 records in the "Afghan War Diary" leaked by Wikileaks yields some important information, much of which has been known or suspected by analysts for years. Given the sheer size of the database, there is a great deal more to be learned, but here are some initial findings.

Casualty data

The first impression is one of an extremely lopsided war, like all wars of occupation, where occupied casualties are vastly higher than those by the occupier.

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Hot on the heels of InSite's victory, Raw Opium will have its TV premiere on TV Ontario October 5

| October 5, 2011
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How the U.S. is fueling its own 'war on drugs'

The violent deaths of Brian Terry and Juan Francisco Sicilia, separated by the span of just a few months and by the increasingly bloody U.S.-Mexico border, have sparked separate but overdue examinations of the so-called War on Drugs, and how the U.S. government is ultimately exacerbating the problem.

Not Rex: Dope wars

The Global Commission on Drug Policy has just weighed in. The War on Drugs is an abysmal failure. They even get it in the U.S. So why is Canada going on a bad trip? The Harper government is trying to shut down Vancouver's In Site and legislating mandatory prison-filling minimum drug sentences.

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Prescription opiate abuse now a public health crisis in Ontario

Photo: Saynine/Flickr

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Timely release for new film about the war on drugs: 'Raw Opium: Pain, Pleasure, Profits'

| May 2, 2011
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