DEA chief insists marijuana is dangerous and isn’t medicine

[BotanyBoy]

And the Saudis can behead women for adultery. Doesn't make it right.

Because freedom of speech are as bad or even in the same realm as beheading women for adultery.....

Hysterical control freak much?

No gun is illegal senior. They are undocumented.

Seriously though that would be an uphill battle in both goddamn directions and not worth it.

Ok I chuckled...

Not anymore so than the war on cannabis.....at least the people they toss in the can will actually be threats to society.

 

[1sickbastard]

Maybe they could declare war on guns or racist. You know something useful.

Or maybe those cops could be better employed walking a neighborhood beat and getting to actually know the communities they are supposed to "protect and to serve".

 

[Sean Renaud]

Oh, I didn't mean that the results would be poor. I just think the NRA would shoot (heh) you down so hard and so often and the Dems would at best offer half assed support. You'd be better off trying to convince people that we need to hire thousands of people for pest control. I promise you getting teens to hunt pidgeons with sling shots would go over well. And I saw the math, if someone were to use drones to find out where warthogs hang out and send hunters to eliminate the fucks we'd saved billions in crop damages every year! Red necks love it cus killing! Eco-Freaks love it because pigs are an invasive species fucking with the native wildlife! WINS FOR EVERYBODY! Democrats love it because guv'mint jobs! Republicans love it cus military hardware gets em hard! WINS, WINS AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE!!!

 

[DooleyDarter]

hmmm, all the negative reaction is coming from pot heads. Could that mean something profound?

 

[KingOrfeo]

The cops can't just shit can the 1st and 2nd amendment....

But, it's not the cops' call to say what those amendments mean, it's the courts' call.

Some cops appear to be persistently and willfully oblivious to that all-important point.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Like it or not cops are the first line of defense. IF a sufficient number of police disagree with any given law it stops being a law. And if a sufficient number of citizens disagree it also stops. (Encase you're argument was fire the fuckers and bring in people who'll do their jobs.) This rarely happens in practice since laws don't appear fully formed from a vacuum but still.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

the DEA is a corrupt obama regime dept. they want more money to have more toys.

this is what happens when the obama kind get into office or power

 

[Hard_Rom]

the DEA is a corrupt obama regime dept. they want more money to have more toys.

this is what happens when the obama kind get into office or power

Obama created the DEA. I did not know that. Thanks for yet again showing your degree of intelligence.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I don't even think the DEA really expanded much under Obama. I think there was a mild increase (mostly because Obama seems to care less about porn and more about drugs than Bush. And Bush was hunting pornographers for a while there.)

 

[NeverEndingMe]

please call your Dr have schedule to have your head removed from your ass

obama is corrupt
DEA is corrupt

you are a retard, sad as this is a choice made by you

no wonder you are poor and need government assistance

Obama created the DEA. I did not know that. Thanks for yet again showing your degree of intelligence.

 

[Boxlicker101]

hmmm, all the negative reaction is coming from pot heads. Could that mean something profound?

Yes. It means people who actually have first-hand knowledge of the subject are expressing their opinions.

 

[JackLuis]

Interesting thing about Drugs

This country cut drug addiction rates in half by rejecting criminalization

It is now 100 years since drugs were first banned—and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about addiction by our teachers and by our governments. This story is so deeply ingrained in our minds we take it for granted: There are strong chemical hooks in these drugs, so if we stopped on day 21, our bodies would need the chemical. We would have a ferocious craving. We would be addicted. That’s what addiction means.

This theory was first established, in part, through rat experiments that were injected into the American psyche in the 1980s, in a famous advertisement by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. You may remember it. The experiment is simple. Put a rat in a cage, alone, with two water bottles. One is just water. The other is water laced with heroin or cocaine. Almost every time you run this experiment, the rat will become obsessed with the drugged water, and keep coming back for more and more, until it kills itself.

The ad explains: “Only one drug is so addictive, nine out of ten laboratory rats will use it. And use it. And use it. Until dead. It’s called cocaine. And it can do the same thing to you.”

"Just Say NO!"

But in the 1970s, a professor of psychology in Vancouver named Bruce Alexander noticed something odd about this experiment. The rat is put in the cage all alone. It has nothing to do but take the drugs. What would happen, he wondered, if we tried this differently?

So Professor Alexander built Rat Park. It is a lush cage where the rats would have colored balls and the best rat-food and tunnels to scamper down and plenty of friends: everything a rat about town could want. What, Alexander wanted to know, will happen then?

In Rat Park, all the rats obviously tried both water bottles, because they didn’t know what was in them. But what happened next was startling.

The rats with good lives didn’t like the drugged water. They mostly shunned it, consuming less than a quarter of the drugs the isolated rats used. None of them died. While all the rats who were alone and unhappy became heavy users, none of the rats who had a happy environment did.

Why is it that Canadians can learn stuff but Americans just say NO?

How Portugal Halved Drug Addiction Levels

There is an alternative. You can build a system that is designed to help drug addicts to reconnect with the world—and so leave behind their addictions.

This isn’t theoretical. It is happening. I have seen it. Nearly 15 years ago, Portugal had one of the worst drug problems in Europe, with one percent of the population addicted to heroin. They had tried a drug war, and the problem just kept getting worse.

So they decided to do something radically different. They resolved to decriminalize all drugs, and transfer all the money they used to spend on arresting and jailing drug addicts, and spend it instead on reconnecting them—to their own feelings, and to the wider society.

Decriminalization has been such a manifest success that very few people in Portugal want to go back to the old system.

Good article, read it all and see if it makes sense to you.

Or send it to the DEA!

 

[JackLuis]

South Dakota tribe burned pot crop for fear of federal raid

Still oppressing the Native Americans. Thanks Obama!