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Lowry often reflects a Vatican/Roman Catholic perspective. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/if_chris_christie_is_soft_on_drugs_StziL27JPVjHezCKrZ0RQI Exhaustion is finally setting in with the enormous human and fiscal costs of attempting to eradicate the ineradicable. People have always used intoxicants, and always will, in ways ancient and new. After all the countless resources expended trying to keep illegal drugs from entering the United States, The New York Times reported the other day, abuse of indigenous prescription drugs is the nation’s biggest drug problem. In 2008, it accounted for the lion’s share of overdose deaths. A new drug tends to go through a natural epidemic cycle. New users pick it up and spread the word about the good times. Then, it loses its allure as its ravages become plain in the wrecked lives of the hooked. The metrics say we are “winning” the fight against cocaine. Today, there are only 1.5 million users a month, a drop from nearl...

Allowing canabis cafes would reduce alcohol comsumption 25% in the U.K. https://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/science/2012/jun/19/david-nutt-alcohol-cannabis-cafes

AGAINST the consumers' right to know! Also BOTH of my NEW York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand --- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Marcospinelli/obama-marijuana-harborside-health-center_b_1678701_169340971.html 17 hours ago ( 6:17 PM) Let me exemplify the problem that I, as an old liberal Democrat, have with the state of our government and elections. You would think that Democratic politicians would be for the same things that I, as a liberal Democrat, am for -- Smart, progressive policies. Even just the basics, what might be called "compromises", like leaving marijuana illegal, but just rescheduling it. Or leaving it illegal for recreational use, but leaving medical marijuana dispensaries alone. Like (on another topic), forget about stopping GMOs from getting into the food supply (oh how I wish), but at least allowing states to permit the labeling of GMOs on food so that I can make a choice whether I want to put G...

Cannabis Oil shown to Cure Cancer Please see this link to see 'Run from the Cure' about the use of Cannabis Oil to cure Cancer http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/5169.html Father talking about his son's suffering alievated by Cannabis Oil Stephen DeAngelo talks about the Obama Adminstration's Eric Holder's criminal actions against Harborside Dispensary . PROTEST the OBAMA FUNDRAISER - JULY 23, 2012 http://www.harborsidehealthcenter.com/

New trial date set for Dana's bench (no jury) trial: Monday, August 27, 2012. From the Nebraska court calender: Beal,Irvin,D, 08/27/2012 8:30AM 01 Trial to Court State v. Irvin D Beal CR090000091 http://www.nebraska.gov/ courts/calendar/index.cgi Dana's contact info in jail as of April 20, 2012 By Nancy J. Allen in FREE DANA BEAL FREE OURSELVES ( Files ) · Edit Doc Dana's trial in Nebraska for transport of medical marijuana is scheduled to begin on August 27, 2012. He needs financial support and support in the form of letters to be written to Judge Mary Gilbride and to be mailed to his attorney, Glenn Shapiro. (Do not mail them to the judge.) Please write those letters of support for Dana ASAP. "They" are not allowing a medical marijuana defense, so those letters are extremely important! They will be used as a "proffer", i.e. evidence not permitted at trial that is entered into the record, to be used at appeal. If the judge gets ...

CFP: Challenging Punishment: The War on Drugs, Race, and Public Health http://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/cfp-challenging-punishment-the-war-on-drugs-race-and-public-health/ by ttravis From Donna Murch, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University, and Samuel K. Roberts, PhD, Associate Professor of History (Columbia University) and Sociomedical Sciences (Mailman School of Public Health) Historicizing the Total War This Call for Papers invites historical essays dealing with aspects of the U.S. War on Drugs, WWII to the present. The pre-circulated papers will be presented and workshopped at a two-part symposium to be held at Rutgers (April 5-6, 2013) and Columbia (Oct. 4, 2013). Most or all of the selected essays will be published in an edited volume or journal special edition. Please submit a detailed one to two page abstract which outlines research methods, sources, analytic framework as well as a one page bibliography to challengingpunishment [at] gmail [dot] co...

an excellent piece from Scott Morgan about the recent attempt to con people into again trust Obama after his numerous betrayals http://stopthedrugwar.org/speakeasy/2012/jul/02/will_obama_be_better_drug_policy by Scott Morgan , July 02, 2012, 05:52pm Marc Ambinder has a totally weird and distracting piece in GQ today saying that unnamed sources have told him to expect important drug policy reforms if Obama is re-elected. I think it's a bunch of crap. According to ongoing discussions with Obama aides and associates, if the president wins a second term, he plans to tackle another American war that has so far been successful only in perpetuating more misery: the four decades of The Drug War. [ GQ ] That's just the first sentence of many, but we can stop right here because I think there's been a huge misunderstanding. Marc Ambinder seems to think that Obama's people talking about reforming drug policies is a meaningful event, but alas it is anything but that. Not so many w...

A serious flaw of the drug policy reform movement- limiting attention to Marijuana while acting afraid of Coca-cocaine and Opiates; from a comment at Drug War Rant that quotes this article : "When we talk about legalizing marijuana, we inevitably have to decide what other drugs should be legalized. Do we legalize cocaine, crack, ecstasy, meth, heroin? If not, why not? Shouldn’t we legalize all drugs, regulate them and tax them like alcohol? I’m all in on legalizing marijuana. Tax it and we can retire the deficit overnight. Smoke it in bars and coffee houses and have laws governing where it can be used. I don’t know about the other drugs, though . We can debate it, but it seems futile to try to outlaw stuff that people want no matter the cost. At least maybe we could have a sane drug policy that recognizes reality.” Why do we continue to hear/see such nonsense. There’s NO reason not to legalize Opium and Coca, indeed no reason they go un-mentioned- the plants and products represen...