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[2] Adam Liptak, “U.S. Prison Population Dwarfs that of Other Nations,” New York Times, 23 April 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/americas/23iht-23prison.12253738.html. [3] “Timeline: America’s War on Drugs,” NPR, 2 April 2007, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9252490.
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[21] Drug Policy Alliance, Handout presented at press conference on the 40th anniversary of the war on drugs, 17 June 2011.
[22] Arizona Daily Star, "Drug War Reports Find Efforts, Money Wasted," editorial, Arizona Daily Star, 10 June 2011, http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_ffe4410b-6c26-57a0-8df8-c0b504924f3b.html. [23] Carter, “Call Off the Global Drug War.”
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