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Changes Made In Sentencing Drug Offenders in the Past Few Years

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drugIn the last couple of years, the US has seen a big shift in policies and laws that pertain to illegal substances. With the legalization of medical marijuana in several states, and the permissible use of the drug for recreation being allowed in Colorado and Washington, there has been pressure on the government to balance out some the discrepancies found in the sentencing laws of other drugs.

Under the Obama administration there has been massive changes in two laws that affect drug offenders throughout the country.

1. The Fair Sentencing Act

In the 1980’s there was a remarkable increase in the amount of crack cocaine use, as well as a rise in the statistics of violent crime in cities. This prompted the Anti Drug Abuse Act of 1986 (source), which was introduced to create harsher sentencing laws for crack cocaine offenders.

These new laws created extreme differences in the sentencing of crack cocaine offenders and those involved in cocaine powder busts. In what became known as the 100:1 disparity, offenders involved with crack cocaine received the minimum mandatory sentence for 100 times less the amount of drug they were busted with when compared with those caught with cocaine powder. Continue reading →

The Turkish Coup in Context

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Redrawing the Map of the CIA Drug Trade

It’s been four short days since the July 15, 2016 coup d’état (color revolution?) attempt in Turkey, and already, the open-source research community is well underway in digesting what’s just occurred. President Recep Erdogan was quick to place the blame at the feet of his long-time political opponent (and likely CIA asset), a multi-billionaire “refugee” hiding out in the woods of western Pennsylvania – cleric Fethullah Gülen. Gülen, in turn, pointed the finger back at Erdogan, suggesting that the coup was staged for the express intent of centralizing authority.

However, the Erdogan v. Gülen feud isn’t what this article is about; at least not directly. There’s a lot for the curious Reader to sink their teeth into there – from the ever-mysterious Gülen’s activities running the largest chain of Charter Schools in America (funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and currently under investigation by the FBI for money laundering) to Recep Erdogan’s love affair with NATO intelligence just a few years prior. Inquiring minds will quickly concede that this entire Turkish affair is (and has long been) a proverbial rat’s nest of Intelligencia and regime change.

Wherever the rats are scurrying, one’s likely to find some cheese close by – and the opium flows from Afghanistan bound for the Western world provide plenty of it. Buried among the headlines of the day was a story regarding Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base losing power during the attempted coup. When the lights came back on and the dust settled, Incirlik’s NATO-led “anti-Daesh” operations were given the continued green light, though the base’s Turkish commander remains in custody.

While many have been focused on the concerning amount of American nuclear warheads residing in Incirlik, its position as the drop-shipper of refined Afghan heroin bound for Western markets is equally pertinent. A politically uncertain climate in Turkey (to say the least) coupled with the general chaos of the region calls the future of NATO’s longstanding Incirlik drug-running operation into question – and that’s the finest wheel of Dutch Gouda the CIA’s had its mitts on since Iran-Contra.

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