Pot Shots
Governmental resistance to medical marijuana represents a triumph of ideology over science.
When California and Arizona overwhelmingly passed initiatives allowing the medical use of marijuana, drug warriors were apoplectic. What do these measures mean?
Torture, despair, agony, and death are the symptoms of "opiophobia," a well-documented medical syndrome fed by fear, superstition, and the war on drugs. Doctors suffer the syndrome. Patients suffer the consequences.
This weed will make you stupid, unemployable, and lethargic. Now it's pot. It used to be tobacco.
There are signs of a healthy shift away from hostility toward alcohol in the United States.
A DEA manual on how to argue against legalization shows lack of imagination.
The Eighth International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, Washington, D.C. (1994)
Drug-policy scholar Ethan Nadelmann on turning people against drug prohibition
Seventh International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, Washington, D.C.
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