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10 Signs the Failed Drug War Is Finally Ending
13 hours ago ago from Disinformation
From Alternet : 2009 will go down as the beginning of the end of America's longest running war. Here's 10 reasons why. 2009 will go down as the beginning of the end of the United States drug war. I have worked at the Drug Policy Alliance promoting alternatives to the war on drugs for 10 years, and I can say without a doubt that there was more debate and movement toward sensible drug policies this year than in the last 9 years ...
Related contentNew Drugs Report from DEMOS
17 hours ago ago from Transform Drug Policy Foundation: Media Blog
A new report from DEMOS , titled CONNECTING THE DOTS includes a chapter on drug policy in the UK. A chapter entitled 'Addicted to heroin', suggests that drug policy is complex and includes some discussion of the legalisation issue: It includes the following: "The most profound difference highlighted by a systems approach is how the issue of heroin use is conceptualised, from ‘prohibitionist’ and ‘harm reduction’ to ‘addiction’ ...
Related contentDEA Forced to Scrub Misleading Info on the American Medical Associations Position on Marijuana | Texas NORML
10 hours ago ago from Texas NORML
Activists get the DEA to remove obsolete information from its website claiming that the American Medical Association (AMA) still opposes medical marijuana By Charmie Gholson , AlterNet. Posted December 7, 2009. On November 10th, the AMA reversed its long-held position that marijuana has no acceptable medicinal value and adopted a new policy position favoring medical marijuana . The AMA called on the U.S. government to reconsider its ...
Related contentWhy Drug Courts Might Save America
2 hours ago ago from new way law
The War on Drugs makes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan look like brilliant successes. While demand for illegal drugs continues, we just keep building more prisons, locking up more of our fellow citizens, and justifying that fact in crazy court decisions . The US has 2.3 million people locked up. That's 25 percent of all the prisoners on Earth, while Americans make up less than 5 percent of the Earth's population. The number of people locked ...
Related contentThe Light at the End of the Tunnel is a Grow Lamp
14 hours ago ago from SemiConscious Dot Org
Not much has gone right politically in America this foul Year Of Our Lord 2009, but amidst the torrent of shite, there are some positive developments: namely, that the stupid, pointless, expensive, destructive, anti-American, anti-personal freedom War On Drugs may finally be ending. 1) Three Former Latin American Presidents Call Drug War a Failure (February) 2) Michael Phelps and the Bong Hit Heard Around the World (February) 3) ...
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Is U.S. to Blame for Mexico's Drug War?
18 hours ago ago from Newsweek - World
Login Username: Password: SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to Newsweek and save up to 88% Close SPONSORED BY: Americaâs Role in Mexicoâs Drug War Is the U.S. to blame? That was the question at the latest Intelligence Squared US debate. By Jerry Adler | Newsweek Web Exclusive Dec 8, 2009 SPONSORED BY  Email ...
Related contentNew U.S. Plan to Battle AIDS Slows Growth in Treatment
5 hours ago ago from The New York Times
As the Obama administration slowly unveils its global AIDS plan, the drive to put more people on drugs is being scaled back as emphasis is shifted to prevention and to diseases that cost less to fight, including pneumonia , diarrhea , malaria and fatal birth complications. AIDS advocates complained bitterly that they had been betrayed and that the Bush administration's best legacy was being gutted and they blame a doctor and budget adviser ...
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