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Gil Kerlikowske on the Drug War
DWR from the Drug Czar’s “blog”
These consultations, across the country and across government, helped highlight an important truth — that public safety isn’t the only thing threatened by drug use; drugs also pose an extremely complex and dynamic challenge to public health. And the public safety community cannot bear the full weight of addressing drug use and its consequences. The result of our engagement with the American people is the Obama Administration’s National Drug Control Strategy — a shift in how we address drug control, by restoring balance in our efforts and treating drug addiction as a brain disease rather than a moral failing. continued...

SOS… This is your brain on drugwar…

US: McCaffrey's Brain On Drugs 05/04/00
The so-called harm-reduction approach to drugs confuses people with terminology. All drug policies claim to reduce harm. No reasonable person advocates a position consciously designed to be harmful. The real question is which policies actually decrease harm and increase good. The approach advocated by people who say they favor harm reduction would in fact harm Americans Mr. Barry R. McCaffrey.

McCaffrey Advocates Prevention, Treatment
The longtime rallying cry of a ``war on drugs'' to describe the effort to curtail illegal drug use in the United States has become ``misleading'' the White House drug policy director says. A more accurate comparison is to the fight against cancer -- ``Prevention coupled with treatment accompanied by research,'' Barry McCaffrey said in his final report on America's drug problem.

McCaffrey Blasts Medicinal Marijuana!



Czech Police Want to Use Seized Marijuana for Treatment
Czech policemen have proposed that the seized marijuana be used for medical purposes, for instance for the treatment of patients with multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease, the daily Lidove noviny (LN) writes Friday.

Washington State Politician Proposes Selling Pot in Liquor Stores
A Washington State Democrat has introduced a bill to legalize marijuana and sell it in liquor stores.

Oakland Plan Permits 5 New Pot Dispensaries, Farms
Oakland's dream of licensing some of the largest marijuana farms in the world was crushed by both a failed November ballot measure to legalize recreational pot and the threat of prosecution.

Medical Marijuana Employment Rights Bill Introduced in California Legislature
Jan 31 2011
State Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) introduced legislation Thursday that would prevent California employers from discriminating against medical marijuana patients. Senate Bill 129 would not change current law, which prohibits employees from using medical marijuana at the workplace. According to Senator Leno, his bill "simply establishes a medical cannabis patient's right to work." SB 129 would reverse a 2008 California Supreme Court ruling that granted employers the right to fire or refuse to hire workers with a physician's recommendation for medical marijuana.

Well, it’s a start…



Hillary Clinton on the Drug War DWR

Teen pot smokers? Don't blame medical marijuana laws
Feb 1 2011
You can argue all you like that medical marijuana laws are somehow behind the recent rise in teen marijuana use, but you won't find any support in the statistics.

Worth Repeating: Marijuana Halves Lung Cancer Tumor Growth
Feb 1 2011
A 2007 study, performed at Harvard University by Anju Preet, PhD and the Division of Experimental Medicine, is further evidence that supports the study performed by Donald Tashkin, M.D. originally published in 2005, indicating that THC appears not to start or promote lung cancer, and if anything, appears to slow or stop lung cancer.

Chemo or Cannabis: How Would You Like to Treat Your Cancer?
CANNABIS CULTURE - What if Cannabis Cured Cancer? CC presents an interview with Len Richmond, director of a new documentary film about how science is showing that compounds in cannabis attack cancer while protecting healthier cells.

Cannabis and cancer rhetoric 02/06/01

Clinton Quiet About Own Radical Ties
When Hillary Rodham Clinton questioned rival Barack Obama’s ties to 1960s radicals, her comments baffled two retired Bay Area lawyers who knew Clinton in the summer of 1971 when she worked as an intern at a left-wing law firm in Oakland, Calif., that defended communists and Black Panthers.

Bill and Hillary’s Hippie Daze December 13, 2007

The other thing you can bet the stash on about the Clintons in that summer of 1971 in Berkeley is that they were stoned, loaded, blasted, wasted, high as a kite, and just plain baked. At the very least.

The Clinton’s Berkeley Summer of Love by Josh Gerstein
The New York Sun

Hillary was clerking for the radical Treuhaft law firm in nearby Oakland.



The Eternal Drug War US CA: OPED

Agent Fired for Legalization Views Sues Border Patrol
The US Border Patrol is being sued by a former agent who was fired in 2009 after expressing opinions in support of drug legalization and of sympathy for illegal immigrants to a coworker.

East Lansing Moratorium on Medical Marijuana Nearing End US MI

Fruitport Township Imposes Moratorium on Medical Marijuana US MI

Obama: Drug Legalization is "An Entirely Legitimate Topic for Debate"

The Obama Admin's Anti-Marijuana Manifesto (thread)

Gil Kashkowske is Drug War Mentality Retarded…