Illegal Drug Trade Essential to Geopolitics, Says Former Diplomat
Isaac Davis – Drugs, arms, oil and banking are the four pillars of modern geopolitics.
TAG: war on drugs
Cannabis Prohibition Insults Thousands of Years of Use of This Sacred Plant
Nathaniel Mauka – Archaeologists uncover a 2500 year-old cannabis shroud, yet pot is illegal today.
Canada Responds to Opiate Epidemic by Legalizing Heroin for Medicinal Use
Wes Annac – Heroin is evil, and its users deserve compassion, not ridicule or punishment.
DEA Adds Kratom To Schedule 1 List Alongside Heroin
Brandon Turbeville – More outrageous tyranny coming from the drug enforcement agency.
How the ‘Land of the Free’ Became the Home of the Slaves
Cortland Pfeffer & Irwin Ozborne – It is time to end the war on drugs and on humanity.
Medical Errors Now 3rd Leading Cause of Death – Time for New Approaches?
Phillip J. Watt – The entire corporate medical paradigm is questionable.
HMO Hitmen and the Profits of Heroin Addiction
Irwin Ozborne – Corporations are making huge profits by getting people addicted to drugs.
Why Is Marijuana Banned? The Real Reasons Are Worse Than You Think
Johann Hari – Across the world, more and more people are asking: Why is marijuana banned?
The Problem is Drug Law, Not Drugs
Phillip J. Watt – The war-on-drugs has been one of the biggest policy failures of modern society.
The US Federal Government Finally Admits the War on Drugs is a Failure
Dylan Charles – The nation’s newest Drug Czar just admitted to CBS that the war on drugs is a failure.
Study of 3 Psychedelics Finds They Do No Harm but Actually Improve Mental Health
Phillip Schneider – “Overall, it is difficult to see how prohibition of psychedelics can be justified as a public health measure.”
Portugal’s Experiment in Drug Decriminalization Has Been a Success
Mark Thornton – It is a happy anniversary for the Portuguese, but a scary one for all the drug warriors around the world.
Why Are The Top 3 Most Deadly Drugs Entirely Legal?
Victor Ochieng – The war against lethal drugs in America has been raging on for years.
Oligarchy and the War on Individualism
Ethan Indigo Smith – Anyone who says that people cannot change things, that we are powerless to the control systems that already exists, does not realize they are in a system that began as imagination, an idea, which came about through influence…
The Global Drug War: Ten Critical Developments in 2014
Nick Alexandrov – As criticism of the world’s war on drugs grew louder, legalization and prevention made some strides—even as violence, poverty and other social ills afflicted countries from Mexico to Greece to Ukraine to China.
Don’t Forget Why Marijuana Legalization Is Winning
Maia Szalavitz – “The magnitude of the change is hard to understand without knowing a bit of recent history—and if we are going to continue to move toward rational drug policy…”
Opiates, Iboga and the Roots of Self-Destruction
Dylan Charles & Jeff Cook Waking Times “Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to – alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person – you are using something or somebody …
Big Brother Is Watching You: Paranoia, Surveillance, and the Drug War
Brian Macaulay, The Fix Waking Times Police have new tech to help them predict and enforce the law better than ever—but that also means enforcing the racial bias of drug arrests faster than ever, too. “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you,” wrote Joseph Heller in 1961’s Catch-22. At the time, this comic statement …
How to Enslave People With Addiction
Charles Eisenstein, The Fix Waking Times Be it drugs, alcohol, porn, overeating or whatever your personal addiction, put an abuser in a playground and see what happens. You’ve probably heard about those addiction studies with caged lab rats, in which the rats compulsively press the heroin dispensing lever again and again, even to the point …
I Am Serving a 10-Year Mandatory Minimum for Marijuana in Colorado
Eddy Lepp, Cannabis Now Waking Times Oh, the joy and heartbreak of being here in Colorado. It is somewhat ironic that the Feds would send me here, to the only state that has made sales of marijuana completely legal, not only for its own citizens but also those just passing through. I am serving a …