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The Drug Policy Alliance talks about legalizing HARD rather than PLANT drugs http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-newman/drug-legalization_b_3473098.html Tony Newman Director of Media Relations, Drug Policy Alliance But what about the other drugs? My colleagues and I at the Drug Policy Alliance are committed to ensuring the decriminalization of all drug use becomes a political priority. Criminalization is not only failing to effectively control drug use, it's a barrier to protecting individual and public health. As long as drug use is a crime, people are going to be afraid to get help. Decriminalization means nobody goes to jail and nobody gets punished simply for possessing a small amount of a drug. This is a model that has proven successful, resulting in decreases in diseases and addiction, without increasing drug use. It also preserves scarce law enforcement resources that could be used to stop violent and predatory crime. And perhaps most significantly, it would reduce t...

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Excerpts from the "COCA '95 A Necessary Drug Policy Alternative From Abroad"  held in Santa Monica, California at the 9th conference of the Drug Policy Foundation Moderated by Douglas Andrew Willinger Featuring Dr. Jorge Hurtado, Roger Rumrill, Dr. Ronald K. Siegel and Anthony Richard Henman Note- this version does not have Dr, Jorge Hurtado's video presentation, which will be added when I find or otherwise obtain it. 6-14-13- I have located a copy of the video of the entire panel on vhs, and shall have it uploaded to this blog within the next few weeks. COCA '95 Panel http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2009/11/14-years-ago-coca-95.html

- regulations to ensure quality control, labeling of nicotine (or other drug) and ingredients of cartridges, and guard against poor designs - cheap knockoffs, which may give burnt plastic vapor. - regulations to minimize the landfill issue, guard against excessive production of disposables, encourage refillable-re loadable cartridge concepts Regulations need to avoid false morality of disdain for e cigarettes over other forms of nicotine administration (patches, gums, etc) - focus should be strictly health related.  E cigarettes being vaporizers should be exempt from anti-smoking rules, and should certainly be allowed to be advertised including on TV.   Groups as Tobacco Free Kids alas, are on the wrong side of the issue on e cigarettes , just as they are with their weird opposition to having cigarette ingredients labeled.

Since about June 1, 2013 I am seeing e cigarette commercials on television- a surreality given that cigarette ads last appeared on TV in 1971   http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/tobacco/e-cigarettes-could-eventually-become-leading-tobacco-product-expert-says E-Cigarettes Could Eventually Become Leading Tobacco Product, Expert Says By Join Together Staff | August 9, 2012 | 7 Comments | Filed in Tobacco   E-cigarettes, currently a small but growing part of the tobacco market, eventually could surpass traditional cigarettes to become a leading tobacco product, one industry expert says. “While difficult to predict, we think it is possible that consumption of [electronic cigarettes] could outpace traditional cigarettes over the next decade, especially given the rapid pace of innovation and consumers’ demand for reduced harm products,” Bonnie Herzog, Managing Director of Beverage, Tobacco and Co...

  A Substantive Due Process Challenge to the War on Drugs by Warren Redlich  http://www.redlichlaw.com/crim/substantive-due-process-drug-war.pdf We cannot go into tomorrow with the same formulas that are failing today. We must not blindly add to the body count and the terrible cost of the War on Drugs, only to learn from an other Robert McNamara 30 years from now that what we've been doing is, "wrong, terribly wrong." - Walter Cronkite, 1995 ABSTRACT Since the early 1970s, the United States has experienced a massive increase in the incarceration of drug offenders. This so - called War on Drugs is widely considered a failure by critics from a variety of ideologies and backgrounds. Litigants have challenged drug war policies from many different angles. Their efforts have been largely unsuccessful and the drug war conti nues unabated. Law review articles have been home to a decades - long discussion regarding whether substantive due process can limit the legislative power to...

Immortalized Dana Beal the protester, with the Eric Holder law firm- Covington & Burling as the protest's focal point Jim Sutherland , did the film of Dana's sentencing hearing in Wisconsin, and of his protest at Covington & Burling. Immortalized Covington & Burling law firm as a focal point of protest Played this film of Dana's protest at his sentencing in Wisconsin, and incorporating it into this film documentary "Antigone".