openDemocracy Drug Policy Forum

The British website openDemocracy publishes a regular feature called the Drug Policy Forum that takes a critical reformist look at stories about the "war on drugs" and criminal justice issues.

The most recent issue contains a promo for a documentary entitled The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs & the American Criminal Justice System produced by openDemocracy contributor Charles Shaw.

Other items in the issue include:

• Reagan Turning 100: Fawning Media Ignore His Disastrous 'War on Drugs'
• Is This the Year America Wakes Up to Its Prison Disaster? Why Conservatives Are Finally Jumping on the Bandwagon
• Drug Czar Outlines President Obama's "Public Health" Approach to Drug Policy in Huff Post Piece
• UN experts call for a moratorium on death penalty in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• The European Parliament adopts human rights resolution
• Reuters Special Report: in Russia, a glut of heroin and denial
• What Are the U.S.'s Real Motives for Launching a Drug War in Mexico?
• Italy – the poisoned fruits of the war on drugs
• and more