Drug Policy Question of the Week – 5-28-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 5-28-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3403 Question of the Week: What are Clinical Trials? Wikipedia defines clinical trials as, “a set of procedures in medical research conducted to allow […]
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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. […]
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Petition to End the War on Drugs
We call on you to end the war on drugs and the prohibition regime, and move towards a system based on decriminalisation, regulation, public health and education. This 50 year old policy has failed, fuels violent organised crime, devastates lives and is costing billions. It is time for a humane […]
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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 […]
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Feds Attacking Marijuana Clinics – Act Now!
Two years ago, the Obama administration promised not to waste federal resources interfering with state medical marijuana laws. But in recent months they’ve broken that promise, raiding licensed medical marijuana dispensaries and sending threatening letters to state officials.
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Snitch Site For Marijuana Informers Backfires In Utah
The state made it easy with a website with helpful links to assist its deputized citizenry in identifying marijuana and signs of grow operations, reports Greg Campbell at dscriber. “Did you know marijuana is being illegally grown in Utah?” the site, with a keen grasp of the obvious, ominously warns. […]
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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 […]
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Insite’s Fate And A History Of Safe Injection Sites
This explainer provides an overview and background information about Insite, North America’s only supervised injection site for drug users. It is the subject of a May 2011 Supreme Court of Canada hearing that will determine the future of the operation. This post will be updated as new information becomes available.