Richard Branson Leads Celebrity Chorus Calling to End 'War on Drugs'

Published June 9, 2013

Richard Branson leads celebrity chorus calling to end 'war on drugs'

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The letter claims the £3 billion spent on drug policy "does little to address the root causes of addiction and pointlessly criminalises people". The initiative …. Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned movie star, has died in Los Angeles at …
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After Six Years of Bloodshed, Mexico's Drug War Shows Little Sign of Waning

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He had come to check on the troops involved in counter-drug operations, to give them a morale boost; they had been deployed just weeks earlier to fight the narcos, as Mexico's drug traffickers are known. Calderon had …. The problem was, the owner …
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6 Filmmaking Tips from Richard Linklater

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This quote provides a fitting summation of the type of tone Linklater strikes across many of his films. Movies like A Scanner Darkly and Bernie deal with dark, serious topics like drug addiction and murder, yet Linklater imbues these films (and almost …
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