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		<title>NAACP Passes Historic Resolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Nicholson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NAACP PASSES HISTORIC RESOLUTION CALLING FOR END TO WAR ON DRUGS Neill Franklin at the NAACP Criminal Justice Summit President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous: Major step towards equity, justice, effective law enforcement (Los Angeles, CA) – Today the NAACP passed a historic resolution calling for an end to the war on drugs. The resolution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invitation to the 2011 Otero County Fair &#8211; PAJOLL</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Nicholson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denise Lang &#38; Ken Nicholson of Peace and Justice of La Luz invite you to visit our Otero County fair booth on Wednesday August 17 from 5 pm to 9 pm, Thursday August 18 from 5 pm to 10 pm, Friday August 19 from 11 am to 10 pm and  Saturday August 20 from 11 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Response to Ending the War on Drugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Nicholson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ken Larson Please help us in our fight by supporting a cause I personally believe in. Our traditional justice system has been inadequate to the task of breaking the cycle of substance abuse and crime. Four out of every five offenses are committed by someone with a drug or alcohol problem; and we just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ending the War on Drugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Nicholson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We at Peace &#38; Justice of La Luz are proud to have sponsored Mike Jones at the Otero County Fair. We were able to talk to hundreds of people who were curious about the subject. And if we did not convince them all that prohibition was a failure, we at least started this conversation in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addiction vs Incarceration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Nicholson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drug, alcohol treatment vital in solving problem Health Happenings Alamogordo Daily News By Ken Nicholson, For the Daily News In spite of the nationwide prohibition of street drugs, New Mexico and Otero County, as well as the rest of the United States, has a persistently growing drug problem with increasing numbers of younger students using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Are Mandatory Minimums?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From: Families Against Mandatory Minimums Mandatory minimum sentencing laws require harsh, automatic prison terms for those convicted of certain crimes, most often drug offenses. Congress enacted mandatory minimums in 1986 and toughened them in 1988 to apply to drug conspiracies and certain gun offenses. The sentence is determined solely by the weight and type of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addiction a Disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 02:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The American Medical Association recognized addiction as a disease back in 1956. But only now are we beginning to see treatments that target the underlying biochemistry of that disease.&#8221; &#8220;The addict&#8217;s brain is malfunctioning, as surely as the pancreas in someone with diabetes. In both cases, &#8220;lifestyle choices&#8221; may be contributing factors, but no one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Help for Addicted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Republished</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less Than One in Five Inmates Needing Addiction Treatment Gets Help, NIDA Reports January 13, 2009 Research Summary Half of all prison inmates are dependent on drugs &#8212; including many incarcerated on non drug-related offenses &#8212; but less than 20 percent get the treatment they need, according to a new report from the National Institute on Drug [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop War On Drugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Nicholson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five Essential Things We Must Do to Stop America&#8217;s Idiotic War on Drugs By Tony Newman, AlterNet Posted on January 12, 2009, Printed on January 13, 2009 The United States has spent hundreds of billions of dollars waging its 40-year &#8220;war on drugs,&#8221; responsible for the imprisonment of 500,000 of our fellow American citizens. Despite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Our Prison Policies Have Cost Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Republished</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Western, Boston Review Those coming home from prison, now about 700,000 each year, face an narrowed array of life chances. Mostly returning to urban neighborhoods of concentrated poverty, men with prison records are often out of work. The jobs they do find pay little and offer only a fraction of the earnings growth that [...]]]></description>
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