After the War on Drugs

18 December, 2009 - 17:19

How will a post-prohibition world look like? - learn from our video

We talk so much about ending the war on drugs – but do we really know how a post-prohibition world may look like? We know that we want the government and not the criminal organizations to control the drug market – but how different drugs will be taxed and regulated? What are the models for regulation and control? What lessons we learnt from the story of tobacco and alcohol, how can we avoid the same problems when we legalize currently illegal drugs? Should we regulate marijuana and heroin in the same way, or adjust the legislation to the specific risks of different drugs?

Transform Drug Policy Foundation, a London-based think tank presented its report on legal regulation of drugs at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We interviewed leading drug policy reformers – such as Ethan Nadelmann, Danny Kuschlick, Mark Haden and Sanho Tree - at the conference to give answers to the questions raised above.

If you would like to learn more, we advise you to download Transform’s report and visit Mark Haden’s website, where you can find several other resources.

Posted by Peter Sarosi

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Ok so I used Marijuana for

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 24 December, 2009 - 06:55

Ok so I used Marijuana for about a year now and I have kept a Record of its effects on Me. I also watched the black market control this substance and that is why people think it is a gateway drug, because the black market starts with Marijuana “which is the perfect Medicine by way” and then tries to sell Hard Drugs later on I have experienced No absolutely No negative side effects And I mean None I have attention deficit disorder and I belief based on what I have experienced that it cures that because I have only become more Concentrated white smoking Marijuana Also I have a bad case of shermans disease and with out use I am in pain all the time. On the drug I experienced less pain, slept better, ate better, was more Concentrated and aware, was reading better, became smarter, realized all the Perceptions about the drug and watched people judge me based on those Perceptions, what a sad world Well at least I am not sad Ok so lets look at the Facts 1st of all we have to realize and any Smart person can do this that Everything we know about it today is just Perceptions. And any smart person can realize that anything we where told about the substance has been only a Perception and everyone bought into It. Ok so Lets Look at what facts we Do Know I do not Claim any of this as my own work Medical 50 percent of medicine in the last half of the 19th Century was made from Cannabis Queen Victoria used medical marijuana to elevate her menstrual cramps The funny thing about Hemp being Legal is you cant get high from it. Marijuana was illegalized for the wrong reason It didn’t make people non violent . Does Marijuana kill brain cells? People think pot makes you stupid because the media says that they are stupid Ronald Rragon conducted this study People where told that marijuana kills brain cells Based on a test on monkeys that smoked 30 joints a day and then tested ones that had not and told everyone that it kills your Brain Chemicals, based on a this test Here is what they didn’t tell us After 6th years of request of how the study was done The doctor used a gas mask instead of using joints, They suffocated the monkeys What they did was they pumped the marijuana though the gas mask but without additional oxygen If you are suffocating the 1st thing that happens is your brain cells are going to shut down Based off this test it was concluded that marijuana use causes your brain chemicals to die. So people quoted it and quoted it so now people believe it We have been told year after year that marijuana use causes cancer But they have ? So who is really in control ? Been ever to prove that a case of lung Cancer from Marijuana Smoke. Not even one case We have had about 4 decades as a country been smoking Cigarettes Marijuana smoke does not cause cancer Study by Dr. Donald Tashkin, UCLA Results of a Case- Control Study The Element in Tobacco Smoke do cause Cancer and the elements in Marijuana don’t People only Think that Marijuana is bad for them. It has always just been there Perception and Perceptions Can be Controlled The number one killer in the country that beet out ads heroin crack cocaine alcohol car accent dents fire and murder Combined = Tobacco Tobacco is grown with radioactive fertilizer Over 85,000 Deaths a year is caused by Alcohol Caffeine Comes in with over 1 to 10,000 death a year And some of are most popular pain revealer such as Aspirin still make an appearance over 7 and a half deaths annually So where Does Marijuana come into this? The Truth There Are No Deaths Any ware! You can find One. In Ten Thousand years of know use of Marijuana there has never been a Single Death The true order of Addiction Truths Nicotine Alcohol Heroin Cocaine Coffee Marijuana Oh and not to mention hemp smart people should should know all about that, Unless there are not any people that know about it cause nobody Talks About Marijuana or the many hemp uses, Come on People HEMP MAKES FUEL And also Farmers could use the work Duh can't anyone get it Right? I Guess not Cause Nobody Looks into it Cause it's Illegal and everyone thinks its some kind of Devil Drug. People need to be educated, if they are not they are bound to find out the truth about it and everything about it anyways Any Argument other then to start to conduct studies does not hold any water anymore

The Union is a good movie to

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 24 December, 2009 - 07:14

The Union is a good movie to become educated about Marijuana

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