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Douglas A. Willinger , left Ethan Nadelmann , center at the 1992 Drug Policy Foundation conference,  photo from a Washington City Paper article 'Just Say Whoa' p 25 December 18-24, 1992 http://www.drugwarrant.com/2017/01/ethan-nadelmann-stepping-down-from-drug-policy-alliance/ http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/ethan-nadelmanns-farewell-letter-drug-policy-alliance-staff Dear DPA'ers: The time has come for me to step aside as executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. This is just about the toughest decision I've ever made but it feels like the right time for me personally and also for DPA. It's almost twenty-three years since I started The Lindesmith Center and approaching seventeen years since we merged with the Drug Policy Foundation to create DPA. We've grown from little more than an idea into a remarkable advocacy organization that has built, led and defined a new political and cultural movement. Transitions like this are never easy but I am confiden...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/20/full-text-president-donald-trumps-inauguration-speech.html But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of knowledge; and the crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now. To end the carnage- end the drug war. Not merely the asinine war on Cannabis that denies a useful medicine and alternative to alcohol. Not merely the asinine war on Opium and Coca leaves that not only denies useful medicines and alternatives to alcohol, nicotine and caffeine, but perverts these useful substances into infinitely more potentially dangerous ultra-concentrated drug forms. But a...

This blog Freedom of Medicine and Diet strongly opposes the "war on drugs." Not only for its shifting drug markets towards infinitely more dangerous concentrated and uncertain potency drug forms. Not only for its denying adults the right to purchase potentially dangerous substances OTC (over the counter) - even with reasonable restrictions to protect the ill informed (labeling) and children. But as well for its utter hypocrisy. Not in simply allowing near un-fetted sales of alcoholic beverages and Tobacco products WITHOUT the labeling of the ingredients - the sole two class of consumable products exempted from retail ingredient labeling requirements within the U.S.A. - while adhering to a maniacal hysteria over opiates. But in an apparent lack of regulations to moderately restrict access of potentially toxic forms of legal drugs. We have had the allowed internet sales of caffeine powder without adequate warnings of its potential toxicity- a situation that had led to a few de...