Dems Suddenly Silent in Face of Controversial Obama Stand on Global Drug Policy

Official negotiations among United Nations members begin today in Vienna over a U.N. declaration to guide global drug policy for the next decade.

As we’ve written here recently, the Obama administration has come out strongly in support of needle exchange programs — a break from previous administrations that’s been More…

Dems Question Efforts to Block AIDS Measure

Bush-era envoys to the United Nations are trying to block global efforts to promote HIV/AIDS-prevention programs such as needle exchanges, according to health and human rights advocates who supplied documents of the negotiations. The envoys’ opposition runs directly counter to the stated position of President Obama, who supports lifting a More…