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Richard Nixon, in his effort to silence black people and antiwar activists, brought the War on Drugs into full force in 1973. He then signed Reorganization Plan No. 2, which established the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Over the course of five decades, this senseless war has waged on. At a cost of over …
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California legalized pot 5 years ago, but you couldn’t tell that from the scale of the drug war. Every few months brings another massive bust. A 40-acre illegal pot farm in an obscure part of Death Valley, the “most elaborate illegal marijuana” setup in Mendota with 50,000 pot plants that was so …
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For many years, those of us who are libertarians have been complaining about the war on drugs. As usual, in George Floyd’s death, the Republicans and the Democrats have missed the big picture, failed to see the problem, and bickered and fought over the detail.  They’ve basically fiddled while Rome …
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Prohibition does nothing to curb the supply or the demand of drugs, but it enriches the corporatocracy and gives the State immense power over our personal freedom. It creates a void in the demands for drugs and those voids are filled with even more dangerous substances such as flakka.
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Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. Gloucester, MA — Police Chief Leonard Campanello has been called a hero, a savior, and an innovator for opposing the war on drugs — implementing a program to assist addicts in his town — instead of arresting them and ruining their lives. …
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There is much talk about the legalization of marijuana these days, and the legalization of all sorts of “drugs” that grow in nature. Usually, people lean hard one way or the other without ever really dealing with the substance (no pun intended) of what the argument for legalization is. One …
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Despite the overwhelming evidence showing that kidnapping and caging people for possessing illegal substances does nothing to prevent use and only leads to more crime and suffering, government is still hell bent on enforcing the war on drugs. Like a crack addict who needs to find his next fix, the …
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This kind of thing is going to keep happening as long as the medical community continues to pump our young people full of anti-psychotic and anti-depressant medications.
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Instead of looking at the science and data on how to beat the opioid crisis, Trump is following the lead of Saudi Arabi whose plan of killing people for selling drugs has done nothing to deter use.
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Children under one and up are being given psychiatric drugs. What is wrong with parents doing this to their children?
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