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Latin American Nations Debate Legalizing Pot [13-06-13] At last week's annual summit of the Organization of American States, Latin American leaders distanced themselves from the United States' dru...
What is Different in the Drug Policy Debate in the Americas? [10-06-13] After four decades of the monologue of the “war on drugs”, the Americas open the door for the debate, breaking the taboo to discuss new approaches to ...
OAS chief calls for “long-awaited” debate on drug policy [25-05-13] Following the release of a major draft report on drug policy in the Americas, the secretary-general of the Organisation of American States (OAS) calle...
Drug-law reform: Inching forward [25-05-13] Seven of the world’s eight most violent countries lie on the bloody trafficking route from the cocaine fields of the Andes to the nostrils of North Am...
OAS recommends decriminalization of drugs [20-05-13] The decriminalization of drug use and the regulation of marijuana consumption are the principle recommendations made in The Drug Problem in the Americ...
Breaking the taboo about drugs [18-05-13] After more than four decades of a failed war on drugs, calls for a change in strategy are growing louder by the day. In Latin America, the debate is p...
OAS study eyes marijuana decriminalization [17-05-13] An Organization of American States study in response to calls by some Latin American leaders for rethinking the war on drugs advocates serious discuss...
Colombian President Santos, OAS Chief Insulza to present new study on drug policy alternatives [13-05-13] This Friday, May 17, in Bogotá, Colombia, Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General José Miguel Insulza will present Colombian President...
In Latin America, U.S. focus shifts from drug war to economy [04-05-13] Relationships with countries racked by drug violence and organized crime should focus more on economic development and less on the endless battles aga...
Legalize marijuana and other ways U.S.-Mexico can win drug war [03-05-13] There was a lot of drug-war hand-wringing in the U.S. leading up to President Obama’s visit to Mexico. That’s because Mexican President Peña Nieto is ...
Addicted to punishment [09-04-13] Over the past several decades, Latin America has seen penalties for drug crimes—even low-level selling—skyrocket. And in many Latin American ...
U.N. development chief flags failings of "war on drugs" [14-03-13] There is increasing evidence that the war on drugs has failed, with criminalization often creating more problems than it solves, said Helen Clark, the...
Guatemala proposes "alternative strategies for combating drugs" [25-02-13] The Secretary General of the OAS highlighted the assignment received during the Sixth Summit of the Americas in 2012, which urged the OAS to analyze t...
The great experiment [23-02-13] A whiff of change is in the air regarding drug control policy. Officials in two American states, Colorado and Washington, are pondering how to impleme...
Our Right to Poison [22-02-13] German officials take a decidedly cool stance toward drug policy reform. No top politician with a major German party is about to call for a new drug p...
Guatemalan leader sees paradigm shift on drug policy [13-02-13] Guatemalan President Otto Perez said he is feeling less alone in his drive to re-think the fight against drug-trafficking than a year ago, when he sho...
How the Latin American drug war will end [11-02-13] As the underlying rationale for the war on drugs falls apart, some may wonder whether Latin America is really prepared to push back against Washington...
Davos 2013: Soros calls for new strategy on drugs [23-01-13] George Soros has called for an end to the West's "war on drugs". Soros has thrown his weight behind a push by Guatemalan President Pere...
Guatemala's president: 'My country bears the scars from the war on drugs' [19-01-13] This is at the heart of the awakening in Latin America, a feeling that drugs prohibition has allowed rich and powerful cartels to rise to such promi...
U.S. marijuana laws ricochet through Latin America [07-01-13] Leaders from across Latin America responded within days of the Colorado and Washington vote, demanding a review of drug-war policies that have mired t...
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Study: The ‘gateway drug’ is alcohol, not marijuana

A study in the August edition of The Journal of School Health finds that the generations old theory of a “gateway drug” effect is in fact accurate for some drug users, but shifts the blame for those addicts’ escalating substance abuse away from marijuana and onto the most pervasive and socially accepted drug in American life: alcohol.

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