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DEA Feeling the Pain
The DEAâs war on pain doctors got a facelift today as explained in their ironically titled press-release âWorking Together: DEA and the Medical Communityâ.
Welcome Okies
Working for drug policy reform in Oklahoma can be interesting...want to help?Norma Sapp/[email protected]
Not Asking the Basic Questions
The North Hunterdon district in Clinton Township in southern New Jersey is debating their substance abuse policy, according to the Courier News.
book review of "Psychedelic Horizons"
This book review was originally posted in the Speakeasy Reader Blogs, http://stopthedrugwar.org/speakeasy/reader. With thanks to Tripzine 'Psychedelic Horizons', by Tom Roberts
Canadian Federal Government Demands More Research on Safe Injection Site, But Won't Pay For It
The Canadian federal government -- relatively hostile to harm reduction measures like safe injection sites since the Conservative Party took power in the last elections -- will not fund further research for Vancouver's InSite safe injection site, Health Ministry spokesman Eric Waddell told the Drug War Chronicle this afternoon. That was news to the site's operator, the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, whose spokesperson Viviana Zonacco said she had not been informed of that aspect of the ministry's decision.
Home Town Bust
Huron, South Dakota, is nothing special. It's a town of about 12,000 people on the plains of Eastern South Dakota. The biggest employers are the meat packing houses, the railroad, and the hospital. It's nothing special, but it's my home town--as much as anyplace is. I grew up there, I have family there, I own property nearby. I don't spend a lot of time there, bu it's where I register to vote and where I register my vehicle. It's where I was sent to prison for nearly three years over a quarter-pound of marijuana. It holds a special place in my heart.
DEA Issues Policy Statements on Pain Management, Prescribing Practices
Here are the links to the two DEA policy statements. I tried pasting them into this blog, but that crashed it. Sorry about that. http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/E6-14517.pdf
Going All the Way for Legalization
Many reformers are comfortable to say that they want to end drug prohibition. Why, then, are many major players in drug policy reform eager to avoid the big L word? Apprehension about legalization may be due in large part to the absence of a vision of our world without the drug war. But leaders and grassroots advocates can no longer blame this lack of vision on a scarcity of professional research and effective pro-legalization public outreach. There are great resources available to reformers today that will enable our movement to advance legalization and finally answer the great question: âand replace drug prohibition with what?â
Crafty Smuggler for Hire
What do you do when youâve been out of the workforce for quite awhile and potential employers wonât stop asking about your massive felony convictions?Try being upfront about it.
The Afghanistan Debacle
On Saturday, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime released its estimate of the 2006 Afghan opium crop, and the numbers are astoundingly bad. According to the UNODCO, this year's crop is 60% larger than last year's and will yield an all-time record 6,100 tons of opium. Afghan opium will account for a whopping 92% of global illicit opium production.
linking in posts and comments
Friends,This note is just to provide some information on how best to do linking in your blog posts and comments here. If you put a http:// at the beginning of your URLs (or at least a www.) then our system should change them to hyperlinks automatically. For example, StoptheDrugWar.org won't be hyperlinked automatically, but http://stopthedrugwar.org will. Making the links live rather than just text should increase the benefit that posting here will have for your own efforts.
Mexican Drug Trade Violence Approaching "Record Levels"
Sunday saw another article on the worrisome level of drug trade violence plaguing Mexico. (The link is to the Arizona Daily Star -- the web page attributes to the Dallas Morning News, but I could not find it on the DMN web site -- let us know if you spot it there.) The tone was ominous: The scale of the lawlessness, its geographical reach, and the apparent inability of the government to keep it in check threaten Mexico's political stability, some analysts warn. Analyst Javier Ibarrola of the Milenio newspaper says it is worse than it has ever been: "I have never seen anything like this, ever," Ibarrola said.
What's a Guy Gotta Do to Get Some Justice Around Here?
In 2003, Harrison County (Mississippi) Sheriff George Payne got a tip from a confidential informant (that's law-speak for "snitch") that marijuana plants were being grown on land leased to the Boarhog Hunting Club. Payne led a crew of lawman onto the property and chopped them all down, even though a field test on a sample plant didn't identify it as marijuana.
Keep on Keepin' On!!
Good work everyone! Santa Monica's lowest law enforcement priority initiative is going full steam ahead! Vote YES on Measure Y! If you're in in So.Cal, hit up our website and get involved! go to: voteyesony.com!
VOLSTEADISM ?
A page of interest. Link to a web page about VOLSTEADISM. A short controversial, informative page LINK ---> http://www.hometown.aol.com/mrthinkit/Mrthinkit8.html
Karen Tandy Retaliates Against DEA Whistle-blower
This ugly story provides a frightening example of the sordid relationships our government maintains when conducting international narcotics investigations.
Can't say they didn't warn us
The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates Necessary and Proper, Opposition to the Constitution, September 7,10, 15, 1787 (begining on page 171..175) Mr Randolph took this opportunity to state his objection to the System... on the general clauses concerning necessary and proper laws... Colonel Mason seconded and followed Mr. Randolph.. the laws will therfore be generally made by men little concerned in, and unaquanted with their effects and consequences. ...Under their own construction of the general clause, at the end end of the enumerated powers, the Congress may grant monopolies in trade and commerce, constitute new crimes, inflict unusual and severe punishments, and extend their powers as far as they shall think proper, so that the state legislatures have no security for the powers now presumed to remain to them, or the people for their rights.
It Can't be Stopped
As police departments around the country struggle to eradicate outdoor marijuana crops before the fall harvest, rogue cannabis plants are fighting back.
Lobbyes and paranóia.
Somehow, We managed to scare them heavely... troughout the entire world, the lobbys of Prohibition, as them action shows lately, are in a unspeakable state of sheer panic. We have being winning some big battles, and theyr forming ranks to overthrow us back "down the hatch". Yes, is a magnific picture to look at, as we know that the new generations wont be so easely subdued and kept ignorant, or accept the idea of "one" imposed on many...nor they will be misleded as our parentes wore (and still are), of the dangers of this or the goodness of that. Today, people start to see things clearly, and thats why our beloved fascist industrial entrepeneur friends are so scared about, so scared that they re-started or are triyng to bring back to life the more than dead ideas about how to deal with the drug ishue, an ishue that is only an ISHUE due to PROHIBITION, and nothing else. The "flagelation" is not the drugs, wich have been used since we were in caves and clearly took us out of them, but the PROHIBITION started 60 years ago by the lobbyes of fabric, farmacie and oils, just to name a few, to erradicate cannabis in all forms, industrial or recreational...those same people are now battling desasperately, and with tons of reason. We wont stand back, we are not afraid of you, and you and your ideas and politics and state and mass manipulation are dying and putrifying as fast as an rotten apple on august. As you "attack" "harm redution" affairs as if it was some kind of crime, and as if the drugs didn´t existed the same, and as if it wasn´t so, so, so much more worse, for ALL, as you do that, you are not beying heard as you once were, or believed in a single word you spell...PROHIBITION is bad, prohibition is deadly, unhumanly distorced on any "truths", it does´nt adresses the ishue in any way what so ever and as YOU KNOW BY NOW, PROHIBITION IS DEAD!