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Drugs Won the War By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Op-Ed Columnist June 13, 2009

This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.

“We’ve spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs,” Norm Stamper, a former police chief of Seattle, told me. “What do we have to show for it? Drugs are more readily available, at lower prices and higher levels of potency. It’s a dismal failure.”

For that reason, he favors legalization of drugs, perhaps by the equivalent of state liquor stores or registered pharmacists. Other experts favor keeping drug production and sales illegal but decriminalizing possession, as some foreign countries have done.

Here in the United States, four decades of drug war have had three consequences: continued...

Time to Legalize Drugs? By Nicholas Kristof
NY Times On the Ground Blog

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Nixon lied to schedule Cannabis #1

"I want a Goddamn strong statement on marijuana, I mean one that just tears the ass out of them. You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish."
- Richard M. Nixon

The Joseph McNamara Collection

"The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents. Narcotics police are an enormous, corrupt international bureaucracy ... and now fund a coterie of researchers who provide them with 'scientific support' ... fanatics who distort the legitimate research of others."
~ William F. Buckley, Jr. Requiescat In Pace
Commentary in The National Review, April 29, 1983, p. 495



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F.E.A.R.
November
FAMM Foundation
Human Rights and the WoD

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning,
why don't they pass a Constitutional Amendment
prohibiting anybody from learning anything?
If it works as good as the Prohibition one did,
why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
-- Will Rogers

NixonTapesPotLies



The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority;
it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.
-- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Hypocrites Apologists tsk tsk

Myths and Facts About Marijuana

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Drug War Distortions

Calvina Fay vs. Jack Cole

"...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races."
- Harry J. Anslinger - America's 1st Drug Czar (FDR - JFK)



1890s Popular American “marriage guides” recommend cannabis extracts for heightened marital pleasures. Women’s temperance groups, lobbying for alcohol prohibition, suggest cannabis as a suitable substitute for the “demon drink.”

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Endocannabinoids
cannabinoids modulate immune cell function

872,721 marijuana arrests in 2007 Inhaling or Not

"We have spent over a trillion dollars trying to eradicate the world's most beneficial plant off the face of the earth. Imagine what a better world this would be if that money had been spent on treatment, education and studying the medical benefits of marijuana."
-- Steve Hager - High Times Editor (1988 - 2003)

Ganja/Hemp

The Elkhorn Manifesto