Creating a ridiculous circle of denials. For a muscular agency that combats vicious drug criminals, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration acts like a terrified and obstinate toddler when it comes to basic science. For years, the DEA and the National Institute for Drug Abuse have made it all but impossible to develop a robust body of research on the medical ... MORE
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LA Times Editorial: The DEA's Marijuana Mistake
Creating a ridiculous circle of denials. For a muscular agency that combats vicious drug criminals, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration acts like a terrified and obstinate toddler when it comes to basic science. For years, the DEA and the National Institute for Drug Abuse have made it all but impossible to develop a robust body of research on the medical ... MOREGovernment Targets Vicodin In War Against Painkillers
More pain for patients helps fight drug war. The DEA for nearly a decade has pushed for tighter restrictions on Vicodin, the nation's most widely prescribed drug. The chronic abuse of such painkillers, and devastating toll associated with this abuse, has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. The agency could get its wish ... MOREMike Riggs: Federal Court Rules In Favor Of Federal DEA
Will continue to classify marijuana with heroin. The U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals for Washington, D.C. ruled today in favor of the DEA's
decision to keep marijuana a Schedule I drug--a classification for
substances that are highly addictive and have no widely accepted
medical benefits. "On the merits, the question before the court is ... MOREJacob Sullum: Legal Pot Could Be Contagious
Colorado and Washington lead the way. Shortly before the House of Representatives approved a federal
ban on marijuana in 1937, the Republican minority leader, Bertrand
Snell of New York, confessed,
"I do not know anything about the bill." The Democratic majority
leader, Sam Rayburn of Texas, educated him. "It has something to do
with ... MOREIoan Grillo: Hit Mexico's Cartels With Legalization
Death by prohibition. Whenever I’ve interviewed Mexican cartel killers, the aspect that I’ve found most disturbing about them is that they appear to be sane. Even though they have described to me such unfathomable actions as hacking off the heads of still-living victims, it is something other than mental illness that drives their violence. Their sanity is ... MOREAndrew Bernstein: Intensify The War On Drugs
But in a radically new form. The War on Drugs must forcefully continue. Toxic drugs destroy lives. No rational person wants to kill himself on drugs—or witness innocent others kill themselves in similar manner. The first step of a rational, morally proper, and effective war on drugs is to fully legalize all drugs for consenting adults. The government’s ... MOREArt Carden: Isn't It High Time We Legalize Marijuana?
Filling prisons and ruining lives is not winning. On a couple of different occasions, I have used this space to call for an end to the economic, moral, and cultural disaster that is the drug war (1, 2, 3). American governments at all levels have been fighting the war on drugs for over four decades now, and it’s overwhelmingly clear that ... MORE
Mike Riggs: Obama Is Making It Difficult To Get Pain Meds
The administration declares war on pain relief. In July 2011, the Office of National Drug Control Policy released its longterm plan for reducing prescription drug abuse. One of the bullet points in that report was this: "Write and disseminate a Model Pain Clinic Regulation Law within 12 months." Twelve months later, the ONDCP has yet to (publicly) ... MORELegalizing Pot Could Bring Big Bucks To Washington State
If the feds say out, that is. The initiative to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana in Washington was estimated on Friday to raise up to $1.9 billion in new tax revenue over five years — or zero. The wild swing, included in an analysis by the state Office of Financial Management, reflects broad uncertainty about the potential federal ... MOREMike Riggs: Cooking The Drug War Books Obama-Style
3 accounting tricks the Obama administration uses. "Since day one, President Obama has led the way in reforming our Nation's drug policies by, among other things, addressing drug use and its consequences as a public health problem,” reads a statement posted on We the People, the petition site started by the, er, Obama administration ... MORECops Claim That Face-Chewer Was On Bath Salts A Lie
Another drug warrior scapegoats marijuana as the culprit. Lab tests detected only marijuana in the system of a Florida man shot while chewing on another man's face, the medical examiner said Wednesday, ruling out other street drugs including the components typically found in the stimulants known as "bath salts." There has been much ... MOREVIDEO: The Incandescent Stupidy Of DEA On Display
Sad Truth Dept: Top drug warrior thinks pot is addictive and as bad as crack.
John Stossel: Crony Capitalism Stifles Competition
Instinctively, we look for people's motives. We need to know whom we can trust and whom we can't. We're especially skeptical of business because we know business wants our money. It took me too long to understand that business's desire for profit is a good thing. To get our money, businesses — if they can't look to the government for favors ... MORELaurence M Vance: The War On Drugs: Cui Bono?
Who benefits from government's drug war? Cui bono, a maxim of Cassius quoted by Cicero meaning “who benefits?” or “to whose advantage?” is a useful principle when investigating political assassinations, conspiracy theories, mysterious deaths — and the war on drugs. The war on drugs, which actually began in the United States before World War I with the ... MOREWhen Will Obama Evolve On The Drug War?
by Sheldon Richman. Much is made of how President Obama’s position on same-sex marriage has “evolved” to an endorsement of legalization. One hopes his position on the atrocity called the “war on drugs” is evolving. It’s not really a war on drugs. It’s a war on people, most of whom have committed no violence or other aggression against person or ... MOREKleiman/Caulkins/Hawken: Rethinking The War On Drugs
A policy that does far more harm than good. "For every complex problem," H.L. Mencken wrote, "there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong." That is especially true of drug abuse and addiction. Indeed, the problem is so complex that it has produced not just one clear, simple, wrong solution but two: the "drug war" (prohibition plus massive, ... MOREGlenn Greenwald: Obama Justice And Medical Marijuana
Crackdown justification must heard to be believed. President Obama gave an interview to Rolling Stone‘s Jann Wenner this week and was asked about his administration’s aggressive crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries, including ones located in states where medical marijuana is legal and which are licensed by the state; this policy is directly ... MORE
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