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Summer 2009
Vol. 33 No. 2
Vol. 33 No. 2
In This Issue
Soldiers, Prisoners, Casualties—A Drug War's Characters
Just because the drug trade and the law enforcement crusade against it aren't as obvious as they wer
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Heroin: From the Civil War to the 70s, and Beyond
The heroin story of the 1990s was ignored, by and large, until it became so popular that some among
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Cocaine: A Club Drug Becomes Enemy No. 1
Sometime in 1975, Colombian drug dealers, who were already well established in the world's marijuana
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A Cop's Death Accelerates the City's War on Crack
On Feb. 26, 1988, members of a drug gang murdered a 22-year-old rookie police of?cer named Edward By
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Today's Drug War: Marijuana and Mass Arrests
Despite the extraordinarily low crime levels and the near total absence of drugs from the city's pub
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In the Drug War, a Stalemate?
City Limits estimates that the yearly cost to government for investigation, contraband seizures, arr
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The Meth Myth: A Drug that's Always on its Way
Like riding mowers or line dancing, meth—whether called "ice," "tina," "crank" or any of its dozen o
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Prosecutors See Risks in Rockefeller Reforms
In the past, prosecutors alone got to choose which defendants would be eligible to participate in dr
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After Rockefeller Reform, Drug Courts Face Big Test
While drug reformers see drug courts as preferable to prison, the courts do have critics. It remains
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Casualty of War: One Addict's Saga of Punishment
By his own count, during his years as an addict Casimiro Steven Torres piled up 67 arrests for a var
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High Times, 1890-Present
A timeline of the policing, politics and culture of drugs in New York and elsewhere.
Summer 2009
The 'war on drugs' continues as ever, though you might not hear much about it anymore. This issue of City Limits Magazine looked at its advances and setbacks -- and who's caught in the conflict today.
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Doing Time
In 2008, 12,000 people were incarcerated in New York State on drug charges. Over the past 40 years t
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Aiming Low
The pattern of narcotics arrests in New York City has shifted dramatically since 1980, with the numb
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Are the Kids All Doing It?
Recent city youth surveys show a slight dip in pot use and indicate that other drugs are substantial
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The Big Score
Each year, the NYPD seizes tons of illegal drugs. Much of the haul is shipped to an out-of-state inc
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Reefer Madness
In the 1990s marijuana arrests went from a minor aspect of enforcement to a dominant factor in New Y
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City Limits Magazine is devoted to the in-depth investigation of pressing civic issues in New York City. Driven by a mission to inform public discourse, the Magazine provides the factual reporting, human faces, data, history and breadth of knowledge necessary to understanding the nuances, complexities and hard truths of the city, its politics and its people.
