UNDER CONSTRUCTION

US drugs prosecutors switch sides to defend accused Colombian traffickers. Senior former assistant US attorneys and Drug Enforcement Administration agents are turning years of experience in investigating, indicting and extraditing narcos to the advantage of the alleged traffickers they now represent. By Rory Carroll, The Guardian, February 27, 2013: TEXT | PICTURE

Jamaican-born leader of drug trafficking ring convicted. Jean Brown was identified as one of the leaders of “the Brown Organization,' a criminal organization whose members distributed narcotics in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Arizona, California and Jamaica.” Caribbean360, February 21, 2013: TEXT

US marijuana legalisation fuels Mexico drugs war debate. "What happened in Colorado and Washington was truly revolutionary," says Beau Kilmer, the co-director of the Rand Drug Policy Research Centre in California. BBC News, November 20, 2012: click here