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...
How drug policy made in response to crisis misses the mark
In 2008, 50,000 kilograms of cocaine and 660,000 kilograms of marijuana were seized within...
Confronting prescription drug abuse
Prescription drug abuse is perhaps the most overlooked addiction problem in America today. According to the Office of National Drug Control...
Urban America
Volume 36, Number 2, Summer 2009.
Letter from the Editor
The Ten-Year Plan
IAN MERRIFIELD
Daring to end homelessness
The Future of Urban Education
Tiffany...
