*Distribution of Federal prisoners in the United States since 1950 In the face of this [overdose] crisis, Jeff Sessions has re-declared the war on drugs, a five-decade old boondoggle that civil-rights organizations, economists and even some law-enforcement groups believe to be discredited by years of failure. The war on drugs has already cost U.S.…
Policies based on punishment and stigma will only make our drug problems spiral. The path back to sanity can only come through love, compassion – and a regulated trade. For most of the history of the United States, drugs were legal. People could buy opiates and cocaine-based products from their local pharmacy. An opiate-laced…
Government policies are clear, and they encourage local police to allow drugs to flow on the streets. Here’s why: If the police seize drugs, they have to destroy them. If the police seize cash they get to keep it. This is a huge incentive for cash-strapped police departments to allow drugs to be “liquidated” –…
While it’s true that yes, the US is in the midst of a “historic drug epidemic,” marijuana is not the drug that kills 91 Americans every single day. It is also not responsible for the quadrupling in overdose deaths in the US since 1999. In fact, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration… no deaths…
*Operation Michoacán The right to health is also undermined significantly by punitive drug policies. Nowhere is this more evident than in Russia, where, as a result of tough drug laws and a lack of sufficient healthcare, one in 100 adults is HIV positive. This has been directly attributed to the prohibition of opiate substitute prescribing,…
“Initial results – to be published later this month in Royal Society for Public Health Journal – suggest almost one in five users (18%) opted to dispose of their drugs once aware of the true content, immediately reducing the amount of potentially harmful substances circulating on site.” Furthermore, The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH)…
CARERS stands for Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States. The original version of the bill would have ended the drug war, at least with regard to cannabis. This latest version is softer. First, CARERS would change the Controlled Substances Act to allow states to make their own medical cannabis laws. States already do…
This year, multiple lawsuits have been launched against opioid manufacturers and distributors. With the opioid crisis now having resulted in more than 300,000 deadly opioid overdoses since 1999 (greater than the population of Cincinnati), there’s a push to hold accountable the people and companies behind the products that spawned the epidemic. Original Article (Vox):US officials…
“You need not wait for Supreme Court censure before reforming these practices, and, in any event, the Department of Justice should err on the side of protecting constitutional rights” Suspicion of the confiscations has created unusual alliances among liberals, libertarians, and conservatives, which is reflected in the list of senators on the letter. The ACLU…
The lethal opiod [fentanyl] has been popping up in unexpected drugs [bought on the black market]. “Everywhere, it’s been in every drug we’ve been testing,” says Aasen. Health experts says testing drugs has never been so important…In the last two months, about 70 percent of the popular party drug MDMA came up positive for fentanyl.…
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