Kerilkowske Signals ‘A New Direction in Drug Policy’

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[...] in Daily life, Drug laws, Obama administration at 11:15 am by LeisureGuy Aaron Weiner in the Washington Independent: Mike’s reported on the White House’s shift away from a “war on drugs” mentality toward an [...]

With drug use accounting for tens of billions of dollars per year in healthcare costs, and drug overdoses ranking second only to motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of accidental death

This seems misleading, or possibly conflating use and overdoses of prescription meds with “illegal” drugs.
And, both are orders of magnitude less than deaths resulting from heart disease and cancer.

6.5 % increase in prevention/treatment. What is the percentage increase for interdiction/enforcement and international effort(interdiction/enforcement)??
This doesn't look like any positive change in policy. Obamas own polling showed the number 1 issue , the most responses to the ?, was legalization of Marijuana. 18,000 civilians killed in last year of the drug war in the border areas of Mexico. Drug War, Terror War is a War on the people.

Gil is a bureau-con man. He has made a good living because he knows how to shovel it to the public.

Get the gov out of my body and medicine and leave my god given rights alone!

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Exactly what has prohibition prohibited? Is the government scared it can't control a controlled substance? Seriously, cannabis is all around us now. That's the whole point! Prohibition isn't working. If you can't keep dope out of prison…think about it! I don’t think legalization will make cannabis or anything else any more accessible than it currently is now. I can go to my corner convenience store and get anything, I really mean anything, in short order and the only question asked is, “How much?”. I don’t think that it can be any more accessible than that. Seriously…and some dealers are starting to deliver…just like the pizza guy.

Prohibition isn’t working by any stretch of the imagination…unless you work in the prohibition business. Legalization only takes the enormous profits away from the drug cartels. No, they will not go out of business but a suit case full of money is less dangerous than a semi truck full of cash. Seems like some folks need to get out more to actually see what is really out there. The real world is beyond the beltway. You know, where the prison fodder lives.

Take the enormous profits away from the drug cartels. Funny how law enforcement and the drug gangs both believe in prohibition.

Legalize and regulate.

As long as we are sending billions, yes billions on the Drug War, locking up tens of thousands of non violent dug offender every year, many for simple possession, nothing has changed except the retoric. Window dressing, nothing more.

Got to remember to use that spell checker to catch those typos.

At least we are allowed to buy the electronic nicotine sticks advertised in the banner along the right side of the page. One of the deadliest poisons known.

But don't stop arresting and seizing the assets of US citizens for the cannabis plant, which has no achievable LDL level of toxicity, but rather has proven science as to it's benefits. Not to mention is also safely enjoyable.

Maybe after another 70 years and some hundreds of billions of dollars this ridiculous war against our own citizenry can be stopped?

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We will always have adults who are too immature to responsibly deal with tobacco alcohol, heroin amphetamines, cocaine, various prescription drugs and even food. Our answer to them should always be: “Get a Nanny, and stop turning the government into one for the rest of us!”

Nobody wants to see an end to prohibition because they want to use drugs. They wish to see proper legalized regulation because they are witnessing, on a daily basis, the dangers and futility of prohibition. 'Legalized Regulation' won't be the complete answer to all our drug problems, but it'll greatly ameliorate the crime and violence on our streets, and only then can we provide effective education
and treatment.

The whole nonsense of “disaster will happen if we end prohibition” sentiment sums up the delusional 'chicken little' stance of those who foolishly insist on continuing down this blind alley. As if disaster wasn’t already happening. As if prohibition has ever worked.

To support prohibition is such a strange mind-set. In fact, It's outrageous insanity! –Literally not one prohibitionist argument survives scrutiny. Not one!

The only people that believe prohibition is working are the ones making a living by enforcing laws in it's name, and those amassing huge fortunes on the black market profits. This situation is wholly unsustainable, and as history has shown us, conditions will continue to deteriorate until we finally, just like our forefathers, see sense and revert back to tried and tested methods of regulation. None of these substances, legal or illegal, are ever going to go away, but we CAN decide to implement policies that do far more good than harm.

During alcohol prohibition, all profits went to enrich thugs and criminals. Young men died every day on inner-city streets while battling over “turf. We wasted a fortune on enforcement instead of on treatment. On top of the budget-busting prosecution and incarceration costs we also missed out on billions in tax. Finally the economy collapsed. Sound familiar?

In an underground drug market, criminals and terrorists, needing an incentive to risk their own lives and liberty, grossly inflate prices which are further driven higher to pay those who 'take a cut' like corrupt law enforcement officials who are paid many times their wages to look the other way. This forces many users to become dealers themselves in order to afford their own consumption. This whole vicious circle turns ad infinitum. You literally couldn't dream up a worse scenario even if your life depended on it. For the second time within a century, we've carelessly lost “love's labour” , and, “with the hue of dungeons and the scowl of night”, have wantonly created our own worst nightmare.

So should the safety and freedom of the rest of us be compromised because of the few who cannot control themselves?

Many of us no longer think it should!

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