Dave Hartley
http://www.Asheville-Computer.com
http://www.ioa.com/~davehart
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Responsible
adults have a natural right to use whatever drugs they wish, for whatever
reason, provided that this is done in a way that does not harm others or place
them in danger. No legislation can nullify this natural right. If someone
wishes to run the risk of an early death by smoking cigarettes for decades,
that's their choice (provided they don't poison the air that others have to
breathe and don't expect others to pay for their terminal health care). If
someone wishes to contact hyperdimensional realities for a few hours with the
assistance of psilocybin mushrooms, that's their choice (provided they don't try
to drive). If someone wants to smoke hashish and listen to music in their own
home, that's their choice (provided the music is not so loud as to disturb the
neighbors). Society does not have a right to prohibit such choices. The sole
justification for the interference by society in the actions of an individual is
for the prevention of harm to others (see Liberty and Democracy), and
when it comes to using drugs, the user is the one who knows best for himself or
herself, not others who wish to impose their own moralistic ideas of what
is right or wrong.
"It is your right to do
anything as long as you do not purposely hurt someone else and you are willing
to accept the consequences."
� Dick
Sutphen, The
Basic Human Rights
The
real problem with drugs in the modern world is that they are illegal. This
provides an environment where the provision of drugs to those who want or need
them involves severe risk and consequently high prices for buyers (some of whom
must resort to violent crime to pay for their habit). A situation of enormous
potential profit has attracted organized crime (both within government � e.g. the CIA � and without) and
resulted in the widespread corruption of public officials. (Furthermore, the
illegality of drug usage prevents the dissemination of information concerning
safe ways to use drugs.) The Drug War exists primarily to support �
financially and otherwise � the maintenance of the criminal status of the
possession of (some) drugs so that those (including legislators) who profit big
� directly or indirectly � from the supply of prohibited drugs can continue to
do so, at the expense of everyone else.
Below are links to numerous
web sites which have information concerning the use and effects of psychoactive
drugs and concerning the consequences to society of the criminalization of drug
usage. It is hardly necessary to point out that not all of the maintainers of
these sites necessarily agree with the views expressed here on
Serendipity.
Numerous documents that were
linked to in earlier versions of this page have moved or have disappeared. None
of the links below are guaranteed to remain valid, so if you find information
that you wish to preserve then it's best to save the HTML document to disk.
In order for the evil of the
Drug War to triumph it is sufficient that basically decent people do nothing to
oppose it. By doing nothing, they allow those who profit from the Drug War to
get away with destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people
and destroying the civil liberties of whole nations, a crime of such enormity as
has not been seen since jack-booted thugs in official positions ruled Germany.
Recently added links:
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Jay Lindberg: The Drug War: An Industrial
Policy in America
If the rich control the
levers of power in America, it is safe to assume they control the drug war
agenda as well. This project addresses the drug war as an economic policy in
America. A war against American citizens for profit.
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WAR ON DRUGS
= War on American citizens
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Is Truth a Casualty of the Drug
War?
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Frank Morales: The
Militarization of the Police
The program, entitled,
"Technology Transfer From Defense: Concealed Weapons Detection," calls for the
transfer of military technology to domestic police organizations to better fight
"crime."
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Liz Michael's position paper on The Drug War
Liz Michael for State Assembly
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7am.com poll: Should marijuana be
legalized? 63% say Yes
(Well, they used
to, but 7am.com yanked this poll result from their Historic Polls page. Perhaps
they don't want it to get out that nearly 2/3rds of the people voted in favor of
legalization of marijuana. So much for democracy.)
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Time Magazine also conducted a similar poll, but unlike 7am.com
they have not yanked the results.
Marijuana as
Medicine
"Do you think the federal government should legalize the
medicinal use of marijuana?"
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26.19% No o
1.17% Not sure o
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Your Guide to
Amphetamine Manufacture
This web site exists for the
sole purpose of protesting Bill S.1428. This bill
attempts to make certain types of information
ILLEGAL!
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FBI
Probes Fatal Drug Raid in California
Grandfather, 64, Shot in Back In
Drug Raid
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United Nations General Assembly: World Drug Problem
"A drug-free world, we can do
it", says drug warrior, Mr. Pino Arlacchi, the Executive Director.
Jesus! � What's he been smoking? Must be good stuff!
This site also has MEASURES TO ENHANCE INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION TO COUNTER THE WORLD DRUG PROBLEM. They're getting pretty
desperate in their attempt to achieve a world-wide totalitarian dictatorship.
Soon they'll be urging all nations to introduce concentration camps for users
and the firing squad for dealers. Want your friends to wind up in another
Dachau? That's where this is headed.
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Chapter 42
from Alexander Shulgin's PIHKAL
In Germany the Jewish
population was attacked and beaten, some of them to death, in a successful
effort to focus all frustrations and resentments on one race of people as the
cause of the nation's difficulties. It forged a national mood of unity and
single-mindedness, and it allowed the formation of a viciously powerful fascist
state. The persecution of the Jews, needless to say, failed to solve the social
problems of Germany. In our present-day America, the drug-using population is
being used as the scapegoat in a similar way, and I fear that the end point
might well be a similar state of national consensus, without our traditional
freedoms and safeguards of individual rights, and still lacking resolution of
our serious social troubles.
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The Nation, September 20,
1999, has a forum on the theme of BEYOND LEGALIZATION: NEW IDEAS FOR ENDING
THE WAR ON DRUGS
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Michael Massing: It's Time for
Realism
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Peter Kornbluh: Life of a
Scandal
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Mike Gray: Perils of
Prohibition
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Elliott Currie: Yes, Treatment,
But...
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The Successes and
Failures of George Bush's War on Drugs
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'White
lies' about the drug war in Colombia
The answer to the drug
problem is not McCaffrey's war in Latin America. It is victory for progressive
movements like the FARC that are fighting to overturn capitalism's poisonous
influence on human society. And that goes for here [the U.S.],
too.
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The Drugs
Problem, Chapter 26 of Gregory Sams' Uncommon Sense.
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Amnesty International reports US Prisons 'Use
Electric Shock Belts For Torture'
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The New
Statesman Essay � Good drugs, Bad Drugs
Joshua Wolf Shenk on the
fractured logic behind America's war on narcotics
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Four-page summary of the Effective National Drug Control
Strategy (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
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Human Rights and the Drug War
Dedicated to the Prisoners
of the Drug War and their families, and to those who are working to regain their
freedom and restore respect for all Human Rights.
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James Arthur's Ethno-Mycology
In society today it has
become taboo to present the expansion of consciousness by drug/plant usage of
any kind in a positive light.
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Richard Glen Boire: Copitalism: Police State Promoters
and Profiteers
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Dale R. Gowin: Confessions of an
Amerikan LSD Eater
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A
Travesty of Justice � The Story of Will Foster
On Jan. 16 [1997], a jury
found Foster guilty of four drug felonies and one misdemeanor. Jurors handed him
a 70-year term and a $50,000 fine for cultivating marijuana. He received a
two-year sentence and a $10,000 fine for possessing marijuana with intent to
distribute, a 20-year term for possessing marijuana in the presence of a child
who lived in the residence ... A family man who has never been convicted of any
violent crime. He is now locked up with Rapists, Robbers and Murderers! THIS
SURELY ISN'T JUSTICE! Where is there justice in locking away a family man who
has tried to do his best all of his life? In light of Will's plight and others
with the same fate...This Page is Dedicated to William Foster and all others
unjustly imprisoned for healing themselves with the Herb
Cannabis!
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Oklahoma
Medical Marijuana Patient Gets 93 Years
But there is hope for Mr.
Foster, and it rests with us. It seems that the trial judge, B R Beasley,
erroneously disallowed the testimony of two witnesses for the defense. ... If
these witnesses were, in fact, improperly excluded from the proceedings, Mr.
Foster has a chance to have the trial thrown out on appeal and a new trial
ordered.
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Drew, Dane and Dad |
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A web site dedicated to the victims of this despicable drug war,
including the families of those locked up. This site includes the following poem
by 14-year-old Dane, whose father is currently in jail on a marijuana
conviction:
� In this country, the Land of the Free
� they took my dad, far away from me....
� During his life, in this Land of Liberty,
� never hurt anybody, he had taught me.
� So tell me, from sea to shining sea,
� pot smokers are in jail, how can this be?
� When weapons are legal, marijuana is not,
� one gets you high, but the other gets you shot.
� As he sits behind bars.... oh amber waves of grain....
� send my dad home, stop my tears, heal my pain.
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Mark |
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Mark Ingraham was a minor participant in a marijuana growing
operation. Despite being a first-time, non-violent offender, 50 years old, he
received a mandatory ten years (with no possibility for parole, twice as long as
the average sentence handed down for manslaughter) in the federal penitentiary
at Lexington, Kentucky. In poor health, Mark died of an esophageal hemorrhage on
1997-08-07, four years into his ten-year sentence.
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Prisoners of the U.S.
War on Drugs � a photo gallery.
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Eighty-six of the many thousands of prisoners of the Drug War.
Pick a few at random, and reflect upon the viciousness on the part of the
government of the United States of America, its Eichmann-like functionaries, and
all who profit from the Drug War, that underlies this evil.
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The
Committee on Unjust Sentencing
It
is wrong to send an 18-year-old to prison for ten or twenty years for smoking
pot and running a small business supplying pot to friends. It is wrong to
sentence a mother of young children to prison for twenty years for sending LSD
on blotter paper through the mail. It is wrong to torture black youth with ten,
twenty, or forty years of imprisonment for dabbling in even small amounts of
cocaine.
Do the legislators who created
these laws and those who enforce them, have any conscience?
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John Beresford, MD: Why I Am In The
Prisoner Business
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The enormity of this injustice, upheld by a tricky interpretation of the word
'mixture,' opened my eyes to the real meaning of the American criminal-justice
system as Congress and the courts allow it to be practiced
today.
Americans
must stop talking of a "war" on drugs for a war upon the American people is a
war no one can win. The results of more than two decades of this unwinnable war
has brought only hostility and division. We must shift to an agenda of peace and
seek terms for a lasting reconciliation and our intent should be a safer America
- not one that is simply less free.
This site has:
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Atrocities of
the Drug War .
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James Bovard's December 1997 Playboy article: Time Out for Justice
With our current
moral-judicial system, talking about drugs disapproved of by politicians is a
worse crime than killing citizens. ... The number of people in federal and state
prisons on drug charges has increased tenfold since 1980; since 1987, drug
defendants have accounted for nearly three quarters of all new federal
prisoners.
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Dissenting Opinions
of Federal Judges
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Federal
report reignites medical marijuana debate
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The Wall � from
where the names above, of prisoners of the Drug War, were obtained.
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Amnesty International's Rights for All
� Chapter 4: Human
Rights Violations in U.S. Prisons and Jails
Every day in prisons and
jails across the USA, the human rights of prisoners are violated. In many
facilities, violence is endemic. In some cases, guards fail to stop inmates
assaulting each other. In others, the guards are themselves the abusers,
subjecting their victims to beatings and sexual abuse. Prisons and jails use
mechanical, chemical and electro-shock methods of restraint that are cruel,
degrading and sometimes life-threatening.
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Families Against Mandatory
Minimums
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FCNetwork � for and about
families of offenders.
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Organisation for Sensible
and Effective Prison Policy
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Prison
Connections
A newsletter of prison activism in New England.
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Families to Amend
California's 3-Strikes
Peter
Webster's review of
Drug Warriors and
Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State
by Richard Lawrence Miller
There is a certain
difficulty in writing a review of [this book] ... but not because it is a
difficult book in any usual sense. On the contrary, it is disarmingly easy to
understand the author's every implication. Yet the theme of Mr. Miller's essay,
a point by point comparison of the reality of Drug Prohibition in the United
States today with exactly analogous situations leading up to Hitler's Third
Reich and the attempted destruction of the Jewish people, is certain to repulse
the very readers who need most to understand that, indeed, it can
happen again.
The Effective
National Drug Control Strategy
"Contrary to General
McCaffrey's claims, the drug war still relies overwhelmingly on incarcerating
drug users and trying to interdict drugs - the two least effective methods of
reducing drug abuse," said Kevin Zeese, President of Common Sense for Drug
Policy and one of the report's lead authors. "We know what works, but
General McCaffrey keeps investing in strategies that are destroying families,
hurting kids and undermining the Constitution."
The
Network of Reform Groups (NRG) - a coalition of two dozen organizations working
for more sensible drug policies, who collectively represent over 100,000 people
- examined government data and independent research, concluded that the drug war
has not deterred children from using illegal drugs, nor has it resulted in fewer
deaths and injuries from drug use.
The
report found that:
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The
U.S. government spent $3.6 billion on the drug war in 1988, and will spend
$17.9 billion in 1999 - $2 out of $3 are spent on law enforcement.
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From
1985 to 1995, 85 percent of the increase in the federal prison population was
due to drug convictions. Due to mandatory sentencing drug offenders spend
more time in jail (82.2 months) than rapists (73.3 months).
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Drug
overdose deaths are up 540 percent since 1980, 33 people per day are infected
with HIV from injection drug use and it is becoming the engine for a new
epidemic -- Hepatitis C.
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The
price of heroin and cocaine has dropped since 1981, while purity of both drugs
has increased.
The report recommends that
the Drug Czar
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Create
a non-partisan panel of experts to evaluate current drug control efforts.
All options from legalization to prohibition should be considered.
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Provide
funding for drug treatment on request and require coverage of drug treatment by
health insurance.
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Increase
funding for drug abuse prevention and redirect DARE funding into more effective
programs.
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Increase
drug treatment services for women.
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End
the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine as well as racially
disproportionate law enforcement.
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Allow
judges to sentence drug offenders by eliminating "mandatory minimum" drug
sentences.
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Provide
federal funding for needle exchange programs.
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Reverse
the trend toward cutting school budgets to invest in prisons.
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Enact
"family friendly" laws that keep families together, kids in school and social
networks intact.
� quoted from DrugSense Weekly,
March 5, 1999, #88
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Peter Webster: Rethinking Drug
Prohibition: Don't Look for U.S. Govt. Leadership
Drug Prohibition is now
preponderantly about the Prohibition of marijuana, so the logical first step for
Europe and the rest of the world will begin with not just the decriminalization
of marijuana use which will leave the black market intact, and thus the "reform"
open to legitimate criticism, but the repeal of Marijuana Prohibition itself.
Nothing less will do, and there is simply no other alternative for nations
espousing liberty and personal freedoms than a continuing and increasingly
radical reorientation of policy concerning all drugs and drug issues. Only a
timely and confident move in such a direction can avoid future defacto world
domination through the mechanisms enabled by U.S. Prohibitionism. The politics
of the War on Drugs is a politics of creeping totalitarianism: it will most
certainly lead to the end of free societies as we know them.
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Holy
Wars � a review of David Wagner's The New Temperance by Peter
Webster
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Some of the articles above, and more on the same subject, can be
reached via DRCNet
Special Features.
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Julian Heicklen: Death
to the Druggies
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Strategies to End
the Drug War
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Clifford A. Schaffer: Persuasive
Strategies
The issue is not
legalization or decriminalization because we really do not know if we will ever
do those things, or anything like them. The issue is prison. The issue is how
many millions of people will have to go to prison before this policy is
successful.
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Recent Articles in
the Media
A list of essays (with
abstracts) from The Nation, National Review, Reason, Atlantic, Dissent,
Economist, Consumer Reports, BMJ, JAMA, Lancet, Liberty, New Scientist and
others concerning the Drug War and its consequences.
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DrugSense � "access to
information and discussion groups focused on every aspect of drug policy"
"Daddy, why can't my role
model go on tour to Australia?"
"You
mean Lawrence Dallaglio, the England flank forward and rugby union
captain?"
"Yes, of course."
"Well,
my son, I am afraid that he has admitted to something very serious. He has
ingested a potentially dangerous drug, which can lead to antisocial behaviour;
which has mind-altering effects; which may impair physical and mental
performance; which causes long-term damage to health; and which can lead to an
addiction that has ruined millions of lives, careers and families � "
"Oh,
you mean alcohol? ..."
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MAP Inc. � the web site of
the Media Awareness Project: "Moving the Discourse on Drugs from Hysteria to
Sanity and Humanity." This site has (among much else):
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The
Peter McWilliams ad in Variety newspaper
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Number
Jumble Clouds Judgment of Drug War
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Purer,
Cheaper Snortable Heroin Floods U.S.
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For
Drug Pioneers, their Way Still the High Way � an article about the Shulgins
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Cannabis Campaign: Eight
In 10 Britons Favour An Easing Of The Law
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A Cop's
Plea To Decriminalize Drugs
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Drugnews Search � a
database of articles concerning drugs and the Drug War.
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What the
Speakers Said � at the Independent on Sunday conference on cannabis
use.
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The Anti-Corruption
Foundation, Inc. recognizes the extent to which the trade in illegal drugs
has corrupted American society, and calls for Congressional action.
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Ronin Books for
Independent Minds
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GROW
UP and WAKE UP! This link is now invalid. The document once included the
followng:
Legalize possession, and
sale to adults by pharmacists. Impose ban on advertising. (Products would come
only in plain "Green Wrap" packaging.) Pose high penalties for distribution to
minors. Set prices to reflect fair market value based on normal production
costs, plus a 100% tax. This would generate funds for rehabilitation, prevention
education, and enforcement of unauthorized distribution. This price structure
would make substances available for about 2%-10% of current black market prices.
That
means that users would, if they ever even heard of the drug in the first place,
be able to afford their habit on a minimum wage job. This would dissuade the
vast majority from even thinking of selling to minors to support their disease.
It would also make it possible for them to live a modestly respectable life
without turning to prostitution or street crime to generate the exorbitant sums
demanded by the black market.
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Legalize! U.S.A.
Fighting to end the
War On Drugs
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Arm
Yourself Against The "War On Drugs"
Let's
be clear: There is not now, nor has there ever been, a "War on Drugs." What
there is is a cynical program of political duplicity whose
intention is not to prevent drug abuse (which it encourages), but
to create a climate of alienation, divisiveness, distrust, fear, hostility and
violence within our society. The so called "War on Drugs" is in reality a war of
cultural prejudice waged primarily against the young, the poor, the non-white
and the socially disaffected to the advantage of the Elected, the Corporate, the
Privileged and the Few.
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Independent On Sunday:
Decriminalize
Cannabis
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Human Rights and the Drug
War
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Steve Bolt and Dave Burrows:
Beyond
Prohibition
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F.E.A.R.
The
United States government is exporting its draconian forfeiture laws to other
countries as part of the "Drug War." Now other countries are cashing in under
mutual legal assistance treaties, which allow other countries to forfeit
property located in the U.S. � in exchange for letting the U.S. forfeit property
located in other countries.
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Dr Lester Grinspoon interviewed by Jana Ray: MARIJUANA - A Medicinal
Marvel
Cannabis,
or marijuana, has proven medical benefits and few, if any, toxic side-effects.
Why, then, has it been a prohibited medicine for over fifty
years?
An article from the
August-September 1996 issue of Nexus magazine.
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The
Peter McWilliams ad in Variety newspaper
This Drug War is a beast
that�s out of control. The government spends $50 billion a year waging a cruel
war on its own citizens, mostly minorities. Every 48 seconds in the United
States a life is ruined by a marijuana arrest�2.9 million since Clinton, a pot
smoker, took office.
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Robert Lee Hotz: Chemicals
in Pot Cut Severe Pain, Study Says (Los Angeles Times, 1997-10-27)
New animal studies by
research groups at UC San Francisco, the University of Michigan and Brown
University show that a group of potent chemicals known as cannabinoids, which
include the active ingredient in marijuana, relieve several kinds of pain,
including the kind of inflammation associated with arthritis, as well as more
severe forms of chronic pain.
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MSNBC: Waiting to
inhale: hemp for health?
The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration will only recognize a study as good medicine if the marijuana
comes from one source: a federally funded pot farm in Mississippi. The catch:
access to the crop is controlled by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which
reviews all cannabis study proposals. And NIDA, critics say, has traditionally
resisted sharing its stash with scientists whose results might clash with its
own agenda � the war on drugs.
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S.F.
Club's Style Rankles Medical Pot Advocates
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Virginia I. Postrel: Reefer Madness
Why the
Clinton administration is terrified by medical marijuana.
For
drug warriors, Propositions 215 and 200 are terrifying because these laws
recognize that marijuana is not especially dangerous. "We have a problem," said
Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala at the Clinton
administration's anti-initiative press conference. "Increasing numbers of
Americans believe that marijuana is not harmful."
Oh, really? Now where could
they have got that idea?
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ABCNEWS: Shopping Holland's
Open Drug Policy
After
20 years of the open policy, Dutch statistics* show that
Holland has no more people using marijuana than other countries that enforce
stricter laws, and that the number of people addicted to hard drugs is generally
much lower. Health Minister Els Borst says marijuana is less dangerous than
alcohol or tobacco and allowing its open use keeps people from moving on to more
dangerous hard drugs.
*The statistics:
The
number of heroin and cocaine addicts in the Netherlands has dropped by one third
since the introduction of the open policy, to 1.6 per 1,000 people. The ratio of
hard drug addicts is twice as high in other European countries and six times as
great in the United States.
It is possible that this
Official policy on drugs does not reflect the views of most Americans. It is
possible that our government is not representing the Nation's best interest. The
purpose of this page is to provide links to a diverse assortment of information
on various controlled substances. There is no debate unless both sides have an
equal opportunity to present their views.
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Shadow of the
Swastika � "The Real Reason the Government won't Debate Medical Cannabis and
Industrial Hemp Relegalization"
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Owsley Stanley has a number of interesting essays on his web site, including:
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The
True Reason for Drug Prohibition
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WIN
THE WAR WITH NO MORE CASUALTIES
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Mit Hanf in die Zukunft (Into the Future with
Hemp)
We believe that Cannabis
Hemp is a valuable natural resource that can compete with cotton, flax, soybean,
timber and petrochemicals as a basic raw material for
industry.
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Tom's
Cannabis Information Pages
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USA Hemp Museum � with
information about the case of Richard M. Davis, arrested in 1997 by the State of
Arizona while exhibiting his Traveling Hemp Museum, "which he has set up many
times in strategic locations to educate the public about the history and uses of
cannabis and hemp."
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Indoctrination &
Propaganda vs. Education
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Waking Up
>From the Trance of Social and Scientific Orthodox Propaganda
In
a world torn by by the entrenchment of sectarianism, rapid change, and
uncertainty about our collective future Drugs represent the externalization of
our darkest fears of chaos. We see the specters of lawlessness, anarchy, and
disorder fueled by Drugs. We think that if only we could wipe out Drugs we would
be saved. This a naive and dangerous notion.
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Suppression
of Dissent, Misconduct and Whistleblowing
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Dark
Alliance: The Story behind the Crack Explosion
Stories by Gary Webb,
San Jose Mercury News Staff Writer.
For
the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of
cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled
millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency, a Mercury News investigation has
found.
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Update June 1997: What the Gary Webb
Corrections Mean
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Cocaine Import
Agency
This web site is a valuable source of information concerning the
"war on drugs" as a strategy of "disciplinary social control", with particular
attention to the involvement of the CIA in the importing of cocaine and its
distribution in urban America. It links to:
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The Contras,
Cocaine,and Covert Operations
National Security Archive Electronic
Briefing Book No. 2
The
U.S. "war on drugs" is a massive hoax that benefits only law enforcement and
penal bureaucracies while doing nothing to help the very real drug problem in
America's deteriorating inner cities. The corporate mass media play right into
the hands of corrupt officials and politicians by sensationalizing the drug
problem while encouraging an oversimplistic pseudo-debate on the complex
material issues at stake.
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CIADRUGS Rodney Stich's CIA web
site
The
author of this web site had first discovered this CIA drug trafficking while he
was an airline captain flying out of Japan and out of Lebanon in the early
1950s. During pilot-to-pilot discussions, these pilots nonchalantly revealed to
the author the drugs they were hauling for CIA-related operations. This
drug-smuggling practice was later revealed when the author became friends with,
and a confidant to, many former CIA and other deep-cover
operatives.
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DE-CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
The CIA undermines and
assassinates popular leaders abroad and at home. This organization that
routinely gets away with murder finds little challenge in dominating the world's
narcotics trade. The U.S. CIA and DOD usher in half of the narcotics that come
into this country --- all the while advocating "toughening" the drug laws that
make this trade so obscenely profitable. It is time something was done about
this ever more transparent problem.
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Border
Patrol, DEA tell two tales about drug bust
This link to the Express News
(Texas?) web site is no longer valid. The article contained this:
A man allegedly caught
red-handed with more than a ton of cocaine worth an estimated $83 million walked
away without being charged with a crime ...
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The Phony War
on Drugs, Chapter XX from Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin's George Bush: The Unauthorized
Biography.
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Drug Policy Forum of
Texas includes:
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Kevin B. Zeese: Where Does the
Slippery Slope of Militarization Lead?
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War On Drugs
links at Paranoia's Drug Information Server.
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The
Proemium of Jonathan Ott's Pharmacotheon. (Mirror site).
Although private prisons
have failed to save much money for taxpayers, they generate enormous profits for
the companies that own and operate them. Corrections Corporation ranks among the
top five performing companies on the New York Stock Exchange over the past three
years. ... By carefully selecting the most lucrative prison contracts, slashing
labor costs and sticking taxpayers with the bill for expenses like prisoner
escapes, C.C.A. has richly confirmed the title of a recent stock analysis by
PaineWebber: "Crime pays."
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DRCNET Online Library of
Drug Policy
"World's largest online drug policy library."
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A Guided Tour of the War on Drugs
by the
Drug Reform Coordination Network.
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The
Schaffer Library of Drug Policy has links to Basic Facts
About the War on Drugs and other interesting material.
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DRCNET's archive of
Week Online and Rapid Response Bulletins
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Office of National
Drug Control Policy � a source of statistics.
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Observatoire
G�opolitique des Drogues in English and in French. Has a link to the Annual Report (in three
languages), which has official reports on the drug status of various national
states.
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Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
Affairs:
International
Narcotics Control Strategy Report, March 1996
A wealth of information
about drug smuggling and money laundering, brought to us courtesy of the U.S.
Department of State. (Link anonymized. For faster loading use the non-anonymized link.)
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Nick Gillespie: Dazed and Confusing:
Politicians live by different drug laws..
In
1994 ... federal, state, and local police made about one million arrests for
drug possession, with marijuana busts accounting for close to half that total.
According to the Lindesmith Center, a drug-policy think tank, taxpayers shell
out between $20 billion and $30 billion annually on a war that the government
admits it is losing.
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Authorities
Slam Marijuana Trading Cards
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The web site of Portland NORML has much interesting
material.
NORML
is not 'pro-marijuana,' as the mass media and government sometimes put it.
Please understand that reform proponents and marijuana consumers are no more
interested in promoting marijuana use than people who enjoy an occasional beer
are in promoting alcohol use.
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New
group seeks amnesty for common criminals
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Jerianne Thompson: Why fight a war we can't
win?
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For articles concerning the Drug War, the Oklahoma City
Bombing, the Waco
Massacre and TWA
Flight 800 see: IAN
GODDARD�S ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN JOURNAL
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Harry Browne's
letter to the National Review about the Drug War.
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Marc Aurel's web site is
interesting, with a page of drug links and why you should avoid
France. But things are improving ...
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France
Will Allow Certain Medical Use Of Marijuana
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How you can
help legalise cannabis
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Drug Wars �
Financing the Far Right with Narcotics
Following the example set by the
Reagan administration's funding of the contras. Well, if drugs weren't illegal
there'd be little profit in drug dealing, and neither anti- nor pro-government
groups could use this as a source of funding.
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CSP-Sociology 10:
The War on Drugs � Related Information
Many links.
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European Cities on Drug
Policy
Harm Reduction - a policy that copes with reality
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James
Dawson's Freedom Page attempts to provide links to all
cannabis and hemp related pages on the Internet (good luck James!).
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Do It Now aims "to create
and disseminate accurate, creative, and realistic information on drugs, alcohol,
sexuality, and other behavioral health topics." Perhaps unnecessarily negative
and not entirely accurate concerning the psychedelics, but (if you read closely)
it's not "Just Say No."
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The
Publishers Group Web Site
A web
site for "Parents, Teachers, Students, DARE Officers, Researchers and others"
which advocates maintenance of the criminal status of drug usage. Particularly
interesting are the following documents:
o
The CONTROLLED
SUBSTANCE ACT
o
Federal
Trafficking Penalties - Marijuana
o
Federal
Trafficking Penalties - Other Drugs
o
NNICC: The
Supply of Illicit Drugs to the United States
o
OSAP: What
You Can Do About Drug Use In America
o
DEA:
Speaking Out Against Drug Legalization
The
final document in this list is especially interesting because although "compiled
from many sources, this guide evolved from a single event: the Anti-Legalization
Forum held at the DEA Training Academy in August 1994." (Isn't it the DEA's job
to enforce prohibition, not to make policy? Why are they holding an
"Anti-Legalization Forum"? Could it be to protect their jobs?) This document,
and those linked to it, might charitably be described as a tissue of lies. Some
claims are completely ridiculous, e.g.:
o
"There Are No Compelling Medical Reasons to Prescribe Marijuana or
Heroin to Sick People."
o
"Violent crime is also a major problem in the Netherlands. A 1992
study of crime victims in twenty mostly European countries ranks the Netherlands
as the number one country in Europe for assaults and threats."
o
"Taxes would likely push the cost of the product up. Taxing the
drugs would make them more expensive at the checkout counter. "
o
"There was also no guarantee ... that criminal justice costs would
decline if drugs were legalized. It is possible that law enforcement would be
additionally burdened with addressing violations of traffic and family violence
laws if more people had access to drugs"
Fortunately the falsehoods, distortions and absurd
claims are all collected here for convenient study and rebuttal.
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