Former cop calls for the legalization of drugs

^{_{Please note that by playing this clip YouTube and Google will place a long term cookie on your computer.}}

2012 wiretap stats show drug war continues to serve as primary fuel for surveillance state

_{A telephone tower disguised as a giant tree.}

Money for nothing: the drug war and the war on Muslims

Terrorism and dissent: police war metaphors spell danger for democracy

End the drug war

^{_{Please note that by playing this clip YouTube and Google will place a long term cookie on your computer.}}

Read: War on terror + War on Drugs = War on Basic Rights

DEA administrator can’t say whether heroin or marijuana is worse for health

In June 2012, Democratic Congressman from Colorado Jared Polis questioned DEA administrator and law enforcement officer Michelle Leonhart about the differences between various illegal drugs. Polis represents Colorado, where marijuana has been decriminalized and medical marijuana legalized. He asked Leonhart directly about whether the DEA supports the latter. Watch the video to get a glimpse of what the agency's top administrator thinks about the war on drugs.

“Why didn’t black people Just Say No, then?”

Ending the war on drugs would not only alleviate over incarceration, it would also slow the rapid expansion of the surveillance state. 

Listen to Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, break it down.