from: http://www.prohibitionhasfailed.com/Fraud.html Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.prohibitionhasfailed.com/Fraud.html">Untitled Document</A> ----- Drug prohibition is a fraud. Sorry, folks, it isn't all just a goodnatured mistake. This is all about lies, power, and money. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Your Drug Czar lied to you about the murder rate in Holland. "On July 24, 1998 the Chicago Tribune quoted [General McCaffery] as saying: 'The murder rate in Holland is double that in the United States...That's drugs.' In fact, the Dutch homicide rate is only one-fourth that of the United States." Letter from prominent academics, journalists, public health experts, and community leaders to Drug Czar McCaffery It wasn't a mistake, or a case where the facts are in dispute. It was a lie. Murder is a real crime. When somebody gets murdered, there is a body, and the bodies can be counted. It isn't like drug use, where the government can make up any statistics they want. "Homicide is of interest not only because of its severity but also because it is a fairly reliable barometer of all violent crime. At a national level, no other crime is measured as accurately and precisely. " Homicide trends in the United States - Bureau of Justice Statistics "no other crime is measured as accurately or as precisely." To do his job, and campaign for prohibition, our nation's highest drug control officer lies to the American people about the relationship between the drug laws and the murder rate. In lying about the causes of murder, he is doing the job for which he was chosen by the President and both parties in Congress. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Your Drug Czar lied to you about the medical evidence on marijuana. He said, "there is not a shred of scientific evidence" that marijuana has medical use. On August 15, 1996, you said, "There is not a shred of scientific evidence that shows that smoked marijuana is useful or needed." Yet exhaustive research, including numerous studies by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, and other authoritative institutions, have concluded that marijuana possesses therapeutic value Letter from prominent academics, journalists, public health experts, and community leaders to Drug Czar McCaffery People who are trained in science and medicine say that is not true. ... American Academy of Family Physicians, American Medical Students Association, American Public Health Association, American Society of Addiction Medicine, California Medical Association, California Nurses Association, .... Partial list of Organizations Supporting Access to Therapeutic Cannabis, as compiled by Patients Out of Time "For patients such as those with AIDS or who are undergoing chemotherapy and who suffer simultaneously from severe pain, nausea, and appetite loss, cannabinoid drugs might offer broad-spectrum relief not found in any other single medication. The data are weaker for muscle spasticity but moderately promising." Institute of Medicine, 1999 54 percent of oncologists say they would or have recommended cannabis to their cancer patients Cannabis is Medicine "Every comprehensive, objective government commission that has examined the marijuana phenomenon throughout the past 100 years has recommended that adults should not be criminalized for using marijuana." Marijuana prohibition facts The patients themselves say that marijuana is the best medicine for them. But in Prohibition Washington, these patients are not American citizens, they are potheads. What do they know about what makes them better? What right do they have to choose their own medicine? September 15, 1998 -- Multiple sclerosis patient Renee Emry is arrested for smoking one medicinal marijuana cigarette in the office of U.S. Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Florida). Emry spent the rest of the day locked up with violent women and now faces a possible six months in D.C. jail. February 20, 1997 -- "This is the government's health care plan for these patients," explains Chuck Thomas on CNN. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The word "drugs" has been perverted to mean "some drugs." The Partnership for a "Drug Free" America gets the majority of its funding from drug companies. In the recent past, they were funded by alcohol and tobacco companies. Partnership for a Drug Free America Sources of Funding In "Drug Free" schools, nurses dispense Ritalin. "experts" [have put] approximately six million children on Ritalin in North America, up from one million in 1990. Most of the children being medicated are boys, with minority boys 11 times more likely to be on this stimulant. ... "From a medical point of view," said Sternberg, "there is no scientific proof that these children actually have a discernable ailment." Masking Pain With Pills Is Not The Answer The use of stimulants - most commonly methylphenidate, the generic form of Ritalin - increased twofold to threefold for children ages 2 through 4 enrolled in two state Medicaid programs and one health maintenance organization in the Northwest RISING USE OF PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS IN TODDLER CASES CALLED ALARMING I am the mother of a 22-year-old son. My son was given Ritalin by our family doctor for treatment of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactive disorder) at the age of 16. At the age of 17 he developed Ritalin-induced epilepsy. Now, five years later, he takes depakote daily to help control his seizures. Now finding out the true facts about marijuana medical benefits, I wish I was given the option of choosing between what I consider a God-given gift or man-made chemicals, for his treatment. Letter to the editor, Anchorage Daily News Does "pushing" drugs on children become legitimate simply because it is done by drug manufacturers? Psychiatrist Discloses Ritalin�s Hidden Dangers to Children The same politicians who run the "War on Drugs" are passing laws that force psychiatric drugs on unwilling patients. Most states have laws on the books that enable health authorities to ensure that the mentally ill take their medications -- drugs like Thorazine, Clozapine, and Haldol that will hopefully keep them free from the major features of severe mental illness, including disorientation and hallucination. As most prescription drugs do, these "neuroleptics" also cause side effects. ... these medications can damage the brain, with some causing involuntary movements in patients who take them. More than 1 million of those who are mentally ill, including perhaps more than 100,000 homeless people, may eventually be subject to forced drugging Problems With Forced Psych Drug Treatment A Berne couple who faced child abuse charges when they tried to take their 7-year-old son off Ritalin must continue giving him the drug, a family court judge has ruled. Court Orders Couple To Give Son Drug Meanwhile, America does have a policy for managing the distribution of legal drugs. The policy is that federal power is used to protect drug company profits, at your expense. "Prescription drugs are already the most regulated commodity except for nuclear weapons." J. Thomas Ungerleider, M.D. Slashing drug prices for elderly not as difficult as firms claim, Feb 4, 1999 Drug spending soars 84% in last 5 years, July 9, 1999 Drug firms seek to tighten lock on high priced prescriptions, Nov 17, 1999 Drug prices cheaper abroad, Nov 18, 1999 High drug prices help profits, harm consumers, Nov 19, 1999 Firms get relief patients could use, Dec 29, 1999 Headlines in USA Today ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Consider the case of Marinol The law says that the cannabis plant - marijuana - is addictive and has no medical use. Meanwhile, the government licenses a drug company to manufacture "the active ingredient" of marijuana in the form of a white powder. "Are there other drugs available for chemotherapy patients? Yes. Marinol is a synthetic pill with THC-active ingredients." Pot's Hazards, Peter B. Bensinger, Former administrator, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration "The medical marijuana referendums in various states are something of a hoax because Marinol -- the real "medical marijuana" -- has been available for 15 years." Drug 'Legalizers' Make a Weak Case, Dr. Linda Bayer, senior writer and strategic analyst at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Marinol is a pill, for patients who have nausea. "thousands of sick people choose to risk arrest for the smoked, whole form of this medication rather than obtain prescription "legal" Marinol. Why do they do that? Is it ... maybe people who are too nauseous to keep their medication down also can't use nausea medication in pill form?" Once We Were Free, Tom Howe The patients say Marinol doesn't work for them. "Marinol sucks! I got so hyper on it, I had to stop taking it. Marinol is nothing like marijuana." Washington State Medical Marijuana patient It is now known that tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, is not always solely responsible for medicinal action. The nonpsychoactive cannabinoids working synergistically with THC are equally valuable. This is part of the reason that the drug Marinol, a synthetic form of pure THC, is not as effective as whole marijuana. Cannabis Proves Itself Medically, The Columbian (Vancouver, WA) The prohibitionists say that natural marijuana "has mold on it." That's why they need all those billions of dollars, and all those jail cells, in order to attack people who think the natural plant works better for them than the white powder from the drug company. The vomiting hit him while in his bathtub, and he choked to death. Was there nothing he might have done to still the impulse to vomit? Yes, he could have taken marijuana; but the judge's bail terms forbade him to do so... Peter McWilliams, R.I.P. - William F. Buckley in The Sacramento Bee Suppose the government outlawed oranges, spent billions of dollars to suppress oranges, and justified it by telling you they were going to let a drug company sell you Vitamin C pills for $600 a month? Suppose they outlawed coffee, and offered to sell you caffeine pills from a drug company at monopoly prices? Suppose they did this in the name of a "Drug Free" America? For the cannabis plant, this has already happened. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prohibition kills. Columbians die. Drug addicts die. AIDS and hepatitis spread. Children die. Policemen die. Lives are destroyed. Who gains from all this? Judges and magistrates, whose miserable salaries were barely enough tto provide for the education of their children, were faced with an impossible choice: either sell out to the traffickers or be killed by them. The most admirable and heart-rending thing is that over forty of them, and many journalists and officials as well, chose to die. The Future of Columbia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Granta #31 "a meticulous scientific review has now proven that needle exchange programs can reduce the transmission of HIV and save lives without losing ground in the battle against illegal drugs" Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare - The report she describes was not released by the government. "Give 'em dirty needles and let 'em die." Judge Judy explains prohibitionist medicine "Judge Judy claims to feel sympathy for the babies born with AIDS, and not the parents from whom they caught it. But it doesn�t take a ... judge to figure out that needle exchange is the way to prevent children from being born with AIDS in the first place." Dump Judge Judy "Before joining the LAPD, Brown served his country. The Marine Corps veteran was awarded a Purple Heart for wounds he received during a tour of duty in Somalia." Slain police officer's little boy offers tearful tribute - cnn.com Before his arrest, David Ciglar ... had been injured on his job as a firefighter/paramedic as he was carrying a woman from a building. He has been credited with saving over 100 lives. ... "It will be proven in the near future that this is a miracle plant and the federal government has destroyed my life over it." David Ciglar - prisoner of the drug war "I pray someone will show me some mercy and give me a second chance at life. I'd like to have children someday." Melinda George, age 27, sentenced to 99 years for sale of 1/10 gram of cocaine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Remember, that after all of these lies and all of this viciousness, the prohibitionists have totally failed to reduce drug use. 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