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"Drug Decriminalization in Portugal:
Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies," by Glenn Greenwald, White Paper , April 2, 2009

"Troubled Neighbor: Mexico's Drug Violence Poses a Threat to the United States," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Policy Analysis no. 631, February 2, 2009

"Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America," by Radley Balko, White Paper , July 17, 2006

"Mexico Is Becoming the Next Colombia," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Foreign Policy Briefing no. 87, November 15, 2005

"Treating Doctors as Drug Dealers: The DEA's War on Prescription Painkillers," by Ronald T. Libby, Policy Analysis no. 545, June 6, 2005

"How the Drug War in Afghanistan Undermines America’s War on Terror," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Foreign Policy Briefing no. 84, November 10, 2004

"Deployed in the U.S.A.: The Creeping Militarization of the Home Front," by Gene Healy, Policy Analysis no. 503, December 17, 2003

"Back Door to Prohibition: The New War on Social Drinking," by Radley Balko, Policy Analysis no. 501, December 5, 2003

"Cigarette Taxes, Black Markets, and Crime: Lessons from New York's 50-Year Losing Battle," by Patrick Fleenor, Policy Analysis no. 468, February 6, 2003

"Unsavory Bedfellows: Washington's International Partners in the War on Drugs," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Foreign Policy Briefing no. 71, August 1, 2002

"Warrior Cops: The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in American Police Departments," by Diane Cecilia Weber, Briefing Paper no. 50, August 26, 1999

"Prison Blues: How America's Foolish Sentencing Policies Endanger Public Safety," by David Kopel, Policy Analysis no. 208, May 17, 1994

"A Society of Suspects: The War on Drugs and Civil Liberties," by Steven Wisotsky, Policy Analysis no. 180, October 2, 1992

"Alcohol Prohibition Was a Failure," by Mark Thornton, Policy Analysis no. 157, July 17, 1991

"The Drug War vs. Land Reform in Peru," by Melanie S. Tammen, Policy Analysis no. 156, July 10, 1991

"Perilous Panacea: The Military in the Drug War," by Ted Galen Carpenter and R. Channing Rouse, Policy Analysis no. 128, February 15, 1990

"Thinking about Drug Legalization," by James Ostrowski, Policy Analysis no. 121, May 25, 1989

"The U.S. Campaign Against International Narcotics Trafficking: A Cure Worse than the Disease," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Policy Analysis no. 63, December 9, 1985



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