GRIEVING PARENTS: LEGALIZE ALL DRUGS Re: Heroin That Goes Far Beyond Junk, Joe O’Connor, May 13. As grieving parents of a son who died at age 19 in 1993 after ingesting some street heroin, may we offer our comments? When America prohibited alcohol, thousands were poisoned by adulterated market booze. […]
Letter of the Week
Letter Of The Week
HOW TO FIGHT DRUG CARTELS Two days ago, during a political discussion about border problems toward the end of a Sierra Club outing to look for Taylor’s checkerspot butterflies at the Beazell Memorial Forest in Oregon, I mentioned that the Mexican drug cartels have won. There is insufficient political and […]
Focus Alerts
ALERT: 468 Now There Are 16 States
NOW THERE ARE 16 STATES ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #468 – Saturday, May 14th, 2011 Today the front page of The News Journal, Delaware’s major newspaper, printed the article below. Will this, the most restrictive law any state has, ever actually help patients? Will the federal government allow the state […]
Letter of the Week
Letter Of The Week
WAR ON DRUGS NO ANSWER Thank you for the editorial, Insite’s proven benefits ignored in political fray (SP, April 25). The safe injection site operates in Vancouver with the support of local and provincial governments, but is under continual assault by the federal Conservatives. Insite has kept operating only through […]
Letter Writer of the Month
Letter Writer of the Month – April
ROBERT SHARPE DrugSense recognizes Robert Sharpe for his 11 letters published during April, bringing the total number of published letters archived by MAP to 2,475. Robert spends about an hour a day after work sending out letters. Where appropriate Robert references specific Drug War Facts http://www.drugwarfacts.org . Robert’s tips for […]
Letter of the Week
Letter Of The Week
MARIJUANA NON-THREAT Marijuana is medicinal, but it’s not for everyone. Pills aren’t for everyone either. Suffering with chronic pain in my pectoral muscle is not cancer, but it’s not enjoyable for me to be hurting, either. If I take too many pills to alleviate the pain, there’s a great chance […]
Letter of the Week
Letter Of The Week
INSITE: SAVING LIVES IN VANCOUVER Re: Injection Site Cuts Fatal Overdoses By 35, April 18. I am a doctor at Vancouver’s safe injection site, Insite, and I would like to address some misinformation about it. No one who works in harm reduction thinks that it is a replacement for rehab […]
Letter Writer of the Month
Letter Of The Week
SOME DON’T UNDERSTAND NEEDS OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA PATIENTS Today is a very sad day. As a medical marijuana caregiver, it is always sad to read in the obituaries that one of your patients has died from the debilitating effects of cancer. I watched her struggle with her disease for the […]
Letter of the Week
Letter Of The Week
DRUG FIRMS AGAINST PATIENTS GROWING MEDICINE Did you know the U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved pill form of marijuana (Marinol) only contains one of the compounds or cannabinoids that are found in the marijuana plant? That compound is tetrahyrdocannabinol or THC. Recent research in marijuana has shown it has many […]