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Covington & Burling and Drug Policy Reform & Creation

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Drug Policy Alliance Panel Proposal  for the International Drug Policy Reform Conference; November 18-21, 2015 : Crystal Gateway Marriott 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington, VA 22202 Covington & Burling and Drug Policy James Harry Covington The Washington, D.C. law firm Covington & Burling has long been involved with the drug policy movement.  As mentioned by Dr. Arnold S. Trebach, co founder of the Drug Policy Foundation in his 1986 book The Great American Drug War at page 327: "... Mr Hutchins made urgent calls for assistance around the country, including one to Kevin Zeese of NORML in Washington.  Mr. Zeese contacted one of the most prestigious law firms in the country, Covington & Burling of Washington, D.C.  Lawyers David B. Isbell and Michael G. Michaelson, who is also a medical doctor, entered the case pro bono on behalf of Joe Hutchins, arguing in their first memorandum of law filed in November 1985 the the defense of medical necessity sho...

Family Research Council Disregards The Book of Genesis

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FRC ignores the Book of Genesis ' use the herbs of the earth as meat' via reactionary interpretations of versus against excess that would define any amount of use as such, even disregarding dosage.  Though supposedly 'evangelical' - 'protestant' , 'Christian',  FRC adopts the stance of the satanic Mystery Babylon as pushed by the Roman Catholic Church http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Genesis-1-29/ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. - King James Bible "Authorized Version", Cambridge Edition  http://www.frc.org/biography/rob-schwarzwalder-senior-vice-president http://www.frc.org/faithandmarijuana Christian Faith and Marijuana Use By Rob Schwarzwalder Senior Vice-President According to the White House National Office of Drug Control Policy, "Since 1996, 20 states and Wash...

The Prescription for Drug Abuse: Promoting CONCENTRATED Drugs - 1914 - 1970

Prohibition of drugs and any mixtures containing such .... http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1910/harrisonact.htm Public Acts of the Sixty-Third Congress of the United States Woodrow Wilson, President; Thomas R. Marshall, Vice-President; James P. Clarke, President of the Senate pro tempore; Claude A. Swanson, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, December 21 to 23, 29 to 31, 1914, and January 2, 1915; Nathan P. Bryan, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, January 22, 1915; Champ Clark, Speaker of the House of Representatives Chap 1. - An Act To provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax on all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound , deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations , and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that on and afte...

Illegal Drugs As Legal Drugs; Legal Drugs As Illegal Drugs - Natural CNS Stimulants

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Cocaine, Caffeine and Nicotine are all alkaloids that serves as CNS stimulants, that are found naturally occurring in small amounts in plants ... the whole issue of dilution-concentration goes about completely ignored by drug war supporters and reformers ! http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-warriors-ignore-pharmacokinetics.html http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-war-promotes-drug-abuse-over-drug.html http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/harvey-wiley-father-of-drug-problem.html Cocaine used as Caffeine https://www.mercadoinka.com/Inka%20verde%20tea%20deluxe http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-warriors-ignore-history-of-coca.html Caffeine used as Cocaine http://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-content/caffeine-powder Pure caffeine powder can be purchased by anyone to boost the caffeine content of food or beverages. However, this product is not recommended.  Just 1 teaspoon of caffeine powder has ab...

Hoffman LaRoche Supports Pharma Protectionism At The Expense of Human Rights

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the manufactures of anti depressants and sleeping pills want a "drug free" society to have people arrested and incarcerated for having cannabis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Hoffmann-La_Roche How Big Pharma Lobbyists Are Bringing Mandated Drug Tests To A State Near You by Nicole Flatow Posted on April 8, 2013 at 12:50 pm   Updated: April 8, 2013 at 2:12 pm http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/04/08/1833421/how-big-pharma-lobbyists-are-bringing-mandated-drug-tests-to-a-state-near-you/ In the Nation, Isabel Macdonald has an excellent long read on the history of U.S. drug testing , beginning with a government program to test returning Vietnam War veterans and the drug-testing provisions in President Ronald Reagan’s Drug Free Workplace Act as part of the misdirected War on Drugs. Even then, the medical community dismissed the Act’s provisions requiring all federal grantees to test employees as “chemical McCarthyism,” as well as unscientific and discriminatory, since...

Confessions of Herbert Kleber

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Herbert Kleber under the influence of buprenorphine? I have to get this off my chest. I have been a total shill for the status quo. I twist science in order to make it fit just as those would do in the old USSR to conform to that state's failed economic policies. Consider this.  I make a living bashing Cannabis, in order to support massive human rights violations required for keeping it illegal. Yet when have I ever called for such prohibitionist polices towards alcohol? I am as bad as all of these police unions.  They know how any times they are called to deal with alcohol related violence, and how rarely if ever anything related to Marijuana, asides perhaps from that which has been adulterated with something like PCP.  yet all they care about is their police overtime, busting, excuse me, kidnapping and stealing hapless drug dealers, excuse me, non officially approved pharmacist merchants, and being able to get away with shooting the family pet to death. And I also make ...