Drug Policy Question of the Week – 1-11-12 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 1-11-12. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3706 Question of the Week: How many people are under the control of the U.S. criminal justice system? An April 2011 report by the […]
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Marijuana Prisoners
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 12-19-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 12-19-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3677 Question of the Week: How many people are in prison for marijuana? Aficionados will recall that there are important statistics in drug policy […]
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Cannabis rescheduling
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 12-15-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 12-15-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3671 Question of the Week: How can cannabis be rescheduled? According to the Congressional Research Service, the current scheduling scheme for various drugs called […]
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Synthetic Cannabinoids
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 11-30-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 11-30-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3650 Question of the Week: What are synthetic cannabinoids? As described in an October 2011 report by Congressional Research Service, “Synthetic cannabinoids are substances […]
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Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 11-21-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 11-21-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3639 Question of the Week: What are mandatory minimum sentences? As described by the Sentencing Project, “Along with the stepped-up pace of arrests in […]
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Count the Costs
By George Murkin Far from eliminating drug use and the illicit trade, prohibition has inadvertently fuelled the development of the world’s largest illegal commodities market – a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars, controlled solely by criminal profiteers. Produced in collaboration with project supporters Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Transform […]
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Cigarette and alcohol use at historic low among teens
But NIDA’s 2011 Monitoring the Future Survey also shows continued high levels of abuse of alternate tobacco products, marijuana and prescription drugs Cigarette and alcohol use by eighth, 10th and 12th-graders are at their lowest point since the Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey began polling teenagers in 1975, according to […]
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How can we get the media to tell the truth about drugs?
Professor Nutt is currently the Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College London. He received his undergraduate training in medicine at Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital, and continued training in neurology to MRCP. After completing his psychiatric […]