Category: Needless Victims

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Needless victims of our failed drug war

July 9, 2012
07/09/2012
Houston Family | Ages 7 and up | San Diego, CA | May 2012

Houston Family | Ages 7 and up | San Diego, CA | May 2012

On Thursday May 24, 2012, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department raided Willie and Christine Houston’s home after being tipped that a robber who hit a medical marijuana...
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July 9, 2012
07/09/2012
Video: The Young Turks Shreds DEA For Equating Dead Children With Winning War On Drugs

Video: The Young Turks Shreds DEA For Equating Dead Children With Winning War On Drugs

The Young Turks Network shreds Drug Enforcement Agency Chief Michele Leonhart for saying “It may seem contradictory, but the unfortunate level of violence is a sign of success in...
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July 8, 2012
07/08/2012
Drug War Snapshot: Ocean City, Maryland

Drug War Snapshot: Ocean City, Maryland

07:04pm, (Issue #742) Ocean City, Maryland, is a popular East Coast beach vacation destination, but it’s also the scene of a major push for marijuana arrests,...
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July 8, 2012
07/08/2012
Drug War Snapshot: Nueces County, Texas

Drug War Snapshot: Nueces County, Texas

06:00pm, (Issue #742) Nueces County, Texas (pop. 340,000), sits on the Gulf Coast halfway between Houston and the Mexican border, astride drug trafficking corridors headed from...
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July 8, 2012
07/08/2012
Drug War Snapshot: Volusia County, Florida

Drug War Snapshot: Volusia County, Florida

04:51pm, (Issue #742) Volusia County, Florida, situated midway up the state’s Atlantic Coast, has just under half a million people, and if its July 6 county...
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July 6, 2012
07/06/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories

02:57pm A crooked narc scandal in Florida just keeps on giving, a sticky-fingered Kansas City cop goes to jail, a former Arizona cop is in trouble...
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July 3, 2012
07/03/2012
Video: Excessive Force Used On Long Beach Marijuana Dispensary Employee During Raid

Video: Excessive Force Used On Long Beach Marijuana Dispensary Employee During Raid

Check out this LA Weekly article on the bullshit June 19th raid by police on the THC Downtown Collective, aka The Happyending Collective (video below). This is a...
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July 2, 2012
07/02/2012
Five More US Drug War Deaths

Five More US Drug War Deaths

04:53pm At least five people have been killed in the drug war on America’s streets in the past few weeks. They become the 30th through the 34th...
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July 2, 2012
07/02/2012
Nevada Drug Dog Troopers Allege Official Misconduct

Nevada Drug Dog Troopers Allege Official Misconduct

05:58pm A group of Nevada Highway Patrol troopers and a retired police sergeant have filed a lawsuit against the Patrol and the Las Vegas Metro Police...
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June 26, 2012
06/26/2012
A Wrong Reading of the Right Ruling

A Wrong Reading of the Right Ruling

Mike Riggs at Reason writes about an important decision recently handed down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals but the article also gives an excellent example...
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June 23, 2012
06/23/2012
Feds Harass Robert Platshorn aka The Black Tuna

Feds Harass Robert Platshorn aka The Black Tuna

“Famed marijuana smuggler turned tireless pot activist Robert Platshorn (a.k.a. The Black Tuna) has been facing a series of threats from federal parole board officials in recent...
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June 20, 2012
06/20/2012
Jose Guerena | Age 26 | Tucson, AZ | May 2011

Jose Guerena | Age 26 | Tucson, AZ | May 2011

Jose Guerena, a U.S. Marine veteran who served in the Iraq War was killed in his Tucson, Arizona home, on May 5, 2011, by officers of the...
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June 18, 2012
06/18/2012
Wendell Allen | Age 20 | New Orleans, LA | March 2012

Wendell Allen | Age 20 | New Orleans, LA | March 2012

Wendell Allen On March 7, 2012, 20 year old Wendell Allen of New Orleans was killed by the NOPD, whose rich history of brutality & racism is...
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June 15, 2012
06/15/2012
Trevon Cole | Age 21 | Las Vegas | June 2010

Trevon Cole | Age 21 | Las Vegas | June 2010

Trevon Cole On June 11, 2010 21 year old Trevon Cole was killed by the LVPD in his own apartment with his nine months pregnant fiancée present....
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June 14, 2012
06/14/2012
Rachel Hoffman | Age 23 | Tallahassee, FL | May 2008

Rachel Hoffman | Age 23 | Tallahassee, FL | May 2008

Rachel Morningstar Hoffman On May 7, 2008 23 year old Rachel Hoffman, a recent graduate of Florida State University, was killed by the stupidity of local law...
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June 12, 2012
06/12/2012
Ramarley Graham | Age 18 | New York City , NY | February 2012

Ramarley Graham | Age 18 | New York City , NY | February 2012

On February 2, 2012 18 year old Ramarley Graham was killed by the NYPD in his own apartment with his grandmother and 6-year-old brother present. NYPD chased...
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June 11, 2012
06/11/2012
Gary Burton | Age 69 | Chippewa Lake, OH | May 2011

Gary Burton | Age 69 | Chippewa Lake, OH | May 2011

Gary Burton In January 2011, 69 year old Gary Burton of Chippewa Lake, OH was arrested for growing two marijuana plants for his wife of 44 years,...
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