Fog of War
Volume 36, Number 3, Fall 2009
Letter from the Editor
Front Section
Bursting at the Seams
IAN MERRIFIELD
Drug incarcerations, prison overcrowding, and community corrections
Escaping...
Critics have long derided America's "War on Drugs" as a mistaken moniker. Anti-drug policy, they argue, has no defined mission, no coordinated enemy, and...
Life after losing the Presidency
Among the flurry of political maneuvering and intrigue surrounding the vacancy of Edward Kennedy's Senate seat came the interesting proposition...
Turning from the coca fields to the cocaine market
While anti-drug policy rarely makes headlines in American politics today, the issue dominates politics in Colombia....
American anti-opium efforts in Afghanistan
Afghanistan's war-devastated economy has one booming sector - the country produces 90 percent of the world's opium. Money from this...
A look at marijuana decriminalization in Massachusetts
On Nov. 4, 2008, Massachusetts became the twelfth state to decriminalize possession of less than an ounce of...
The silenced economics of legalization
In 1998, the satirical newspaper The Onion boldly declared "Drugs Win Drug War." Satire aside, the headline embodied the increasingly prevalent...
How the debate over crack cocaine sentencing has moved beyond race
In 1986, amid America's crack epidemic and the associated violence in inner cities, Congress...
Drug incarcerations, prison overcrowding, and community corrections
America's prisons are overflowing. According to the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2007 over 1.5 million...
