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Ten Reasons to Legalise All Drugs

17 hours ago ago from Not Another CONspiracy

comment from Transform: the campaign for effective drug policy 1 Address the real issues For too long policy makers have used prohibition as a smoke screen to avoid addressing the social and economic factors that lead people to use drugs. Most illegal and legal drug use is recreational. Poverty...

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Dana Milbank -- President Obama writes a new health reform prescription

23 hours ago ago from DEMOCRATS for SALE

One more item added to what candidate Obama said on the campaign trail about prescription drugs (see bolded paragraph) and what President Obama who cut a deal with drug companies has to say. No wonder Obama's poll numbers are falling so rapidly as he continues to do a 180 from what he said on the campaign trail. When we first heard about Obama's ties to radicals like Communist Frank Davis who was his mentor, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, ...

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Twenty Years Ago

7 hours ago ago from Keith Burgess-Jackson

12-16-89 . . . Rhetorically speaking, this society is engaged in a war against drugs. Presidents [Ronald] Reagan and [George Herbert Walker] Bush have taken every opportunity to complain about the “problem”, develop programs to solve it, and encourage young people to “Just Say No” to drugs. President Bush has gone so far as to appoint a “drug czar”, William Bennett (formerly the Secretary of Education). Bennett’s job, so far as I can tell, is ...

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Obama Keeps One Promise To the Drug Lobbyists By Breaking Five Promises To The American People

21 hours ago ago from Walker Report: Political Wisdom

Last night, we witnessed the sad defeat of Dorgan's drug re-importation amendment, which would have saved American consumers billions on their prescription drugs. Allowing Americans to buy cheaper drugs from Canada or Europe was one of Obama's campaign promise on health care. Allowing drug re-importation was instrumental to a variety of campaign promise made by Obama. Obama promised to stand up to the drug companies. That is a promise Obama ...

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Obama writes a new health reform prescription, Screwing the voters once again ...

8 hours ago ago from White Rabbitt

President Obama writes a new health reform prescription Washington Post Newspaper By Dana Milbank Wednesday, December 16, 2009 On the campaign trail, Barack Obama vowed to take on the drug industry by allowing Americans to import cheaper prescription medicine. "We'll tell the pharmaceutical companies 'thanks, but no, thanks' for the overpriced drugs -- drugs that cost twice as much here as they do in Europe and Canada," he said back ...

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