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posted Nov 16- written and backposted to October- DW   Jill Stein was perhaps the best with her position to ”let science decide”.   It allows her to explicitly endorse cannabis, while offering an objective hope for legal liberalization for other substances from Coca and opium to iboga-ibogaine.   As a basic principle, this should also mean that Tobacco and alcoholic beverage products loose their exemption from retail product labeling laws Gary Johnson was good for declaring his support for legal Cannabis.   Less than good though is his fear to go further, combined with his questionable over-generalizing/ fear-mongering more akin to something from prohibitionists concerning the ‘untouchable’ illegal drugs, most notably “cocaine”- it “puts holes in peoples’ hearts” stated Johnson, who notes his “addiction” to running and healthy living.   Why not instead spotlight prohibition promoting cocaine in its worst forms while eliminating the safe forms- think about prohib...

published November 18- bacposted to Oct 28 This photo from the October 24, 2012 ‘Russia Today’ advertising supplement - of Russia’s ‘Drug Czar’ Viktor Ivanov - next to photo of man smoking a tobacco cigarette next to a child- frames it succinctly It's captioned “Ivanov speaks at a forum on fighting drug production in Afghanistan”.   Ought to captioned – “Ivanov speaks at forum on Protecting Cigarettes and Vodka From the Market Threat of Safer Substances”-   “Protecting cigarette markets by kidnapping-extorting people with Opiates, MJ and “cocaine”. Pushes the cigarette-pharmacratic mercantilism-inquisition.   Is he part of some conspiracy to make Russia look exceptionally stupid, particularly with its true leading drug problems of alcohol (primarilPeople like to conflate the existence of a monolithic entity of “drugs”. That disregards the existence of many drugs, including the many that are not illegal- if it were a war on drugs then why only on some, and without reg...