Manny Pacquiao isn’t the hero the Philippines needs
What’s not to like about Pacquiao? There’s plenty such as his lack of legislative accomplishments as a lawmaker and his support for President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.
Mexico's most dangerous profession
The country's crime reporters face a grim choice: dishonesty or death.
Only legalization can win the war on drugs
More people are dying as a consequence of the bloody war on drugs than by the consumption of illegal substances.
U.K. must not be left behind in the global drugs debate
Britain owes it to its own young people to help countries such as Colombia break the stranglehold of the drug lords once and for all, writes Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg,
Legal U.S. pot won't bring real peace to Mexico
The creeping legalization of marijuana in the U.S. does not spell doom for the Mexican drug cartels. In the final analysis, Mexico doesn't have a drug problem; its institutions are too weak to protect the life, liberty and property of its citizens.
Meet the journalist who calls Mexico's drug war 'a big lie'
During January 2011, Anabel Hernandez's extended family held a party at a favorite cafe in the north of Mexico City. The gathering was to celebrate the birthday of Anabel's niece. As one of the country's leading journalists who rarely allows herself time off, she ...
Five myths about the legalization of marijuana
With 16 U.S. states having decriminalized or legalized cannabis for non-medical use and eight more heading toward some kind of legalization, federal prohibition's days seem numbered.
One man's crusade against America's war on drugs
Once consigned to the fringes of libertarianism, the argument for the legalization of drugs has received an unlikely boost in America in recent months with the release of a documentary titled "The House I Live In." Coinciding with the decision by the states of ...
