U.S. population was approximately $102 billion; the projected cost for the 2000 fiscal year (FY) was estimated to be $160.7 billion. In the same report, ONDCP restructured its budget to reflect new methods for reporting drug abuse. The requested drug control budget for FY 2004 was $11.7 ...
Posted in Commentary | Tagged capital punishment, Davao City, drug trade, due process, extrajudicial killings, Ferdinand Marcos, human rights, Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, rule of law, zero tolerance | 4 Replies Verdicts and Judicial Strength: Why Convictions Should Not Be the Focus of Anticorr...
An example of the effects of these challenges is the recent suspension of the DENV vaccine Dengvaxia in Philippines, which was developed by Sanofi Pasteur, after its brief clinical use because of potentially deadly side effects5,6. Significant outbreaks of yellow fever virus (YFV) in Africa and...
I’ve written before on the story of how a Vancouver public company’s main source of revenues was supplying the precursor drug which allowed Mexican drug cartels to cook crystal meth in underground factories in California, which started the crystal meth epidemic across the United States, and cau...
(See here for an example from the Philippines.) AMLO has advanced similar arguments in favor of the National Guard. He has also emphasized additional safeguards: the top commander of the National Guard will report to a civilian boss, civil courts rather than military tribunals will have ...
(which hit at the wrong time). Other research suggests the baby boom (more concentrated youth creates a “youth culture” that promotes rebellion), the explosive increase in the drug scene around the 60s, or some kind of disruption to norms about sex and the family caused by the ...