Drug War Chronicle

Un proyecto que define la adicción como enfermedad cerebral está tramitando en el Congreso. Los profesionales del tratamiento químico y los defensores de la rehabilitación lo alaban. También hay los escépticos.

Una serie de artículos recientes en el San Francisco Chronicle resaltó el problema de las jeringas contaminadas en el Golden Gate Park, pero parecía echarle la culpa a los cambios de jeringas por el problema. Los expertos discuerdan.

Los proibicionistas son aficionados a referirse a la marihuana como “embuste” – un “embuste cruel” cuando se entusiasman. Pero llamarla embuste es el verdadero embuste y lo sabemos porque los pacientes de carne y hueso paran escribiéndonos.

Prohibitionists are fond of referring to medical marijuana as a "hoax" -- a "cruel hoax," when they get excited. But calling it a hoax is the real hoax, and we know because the real live patients keep writing us.

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Are we about to see "Plan Mexico"? The US and Mexican governments are currently negotiating what could be a multi-hundred-million dollar anti-drug assistance package to help that country in its battle with wealthy and violent drug trafficking organizations.

MPP is hiring a government relations director in Washington, and petitioners and team leaders for efforts in Arizona and Michigan.