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America's war on drugs is a war on it's own people.

The war on drugs has been very successful in one sense. It has succeeded in criminalising thousands of innocent people. America dictates it's laws to other countries and forces changes to their drug laws....

12 comments    america government cancer
ddsurfsca profile image69

Our War On Drugs

This poem was published in England, but the United States would not allow it's publication here.  It came back to me with the comment--"Questionable Content" on the top of it.  I think that possibly because...

2 comments    politics war lifestyles
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Alcohol kills 100,000/yr.....Pot has killed 0 since the beginning of time!

Okay, I've spent days and days researching the pros and cons of marijuana use. I'm extremely exhausted (not from smoking pot either...right now anyway) by the - VERY few - but detrimentally misguided...

18 comments    life government drugs
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What to do about the War on Drugs

First uttered by then President Richard Nixon during the Summer of Love in 1969, The War on Drugs is the official United States campaign of prohibition against certain substances that the government...

0 comments    united states ron paul
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Potentail "Drug Czar" Nominees

  Dan Bigg Director of Harm Reduction Chicago Recovery Alliance 400 East Ohio Street @3103 Chicago, IL 60611 (773) 471-1240 http://www.anypositivechange.org   Dawn Day, Ph.D. ...

0 comments    war on drugs drug policy
Should the War on Drugs end?52

Legalize Drugs

Should the War on Drugs end? The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the drug war has changed borders. Tougher law enforcement in Mexico has created a cocaine shortage in the Canada and now gangs in that...

0 comments    drugs canada mexico
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A Century of Lies -- An Interview of David Duncan

An interview of Prof. David F. Duncan conducted April 22, 2008 on KPFT, Pacifica radio of Houston, Texas.

0 comments    war on drugs drug laws
The wave cannot be stopped.63

End the War on Drugs

"Police and law enforcement understand the facts," said Aaron Zelman, President of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. "They know restrictive, prohibition type laws only breeds more crime." I...

0 comments    drugs addiction mexico
solarcaptain profile image59

Drugs: Dancing with the Devil

For many generations now, the U.S. has been locked into a losing battle it calls "the war on drugs.". Billions have been spent trying to catch drug users and punish them so as to do away with the...

1 comment    family relationships friends
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American Standard and The War on Drugs

There I was, standing in P.F. Chang's bathroom, trying to relieve myself in a porcelain American Standard urinal, when suddenly I was confronted with one of the last holdouts of that cultural vacuum we call...

1 comment    politics fda commentary
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