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audioNew Orleans Drug Policy Update August 2016 (audio/mpeg 26.4MB) by WTUL News & Views
24 min New Orleans and surrounding area drug war news for 2016. Learn about: law enforcement officers and staffers booked or sentenced on conspiracy, drug distribution, malfeasance, and theft charges in Louisiana; official opiate overdose warnings from health departments, coroners, and law enforcement around the state; mixed bag state legislative actions; effects of prohibition on public health; findings on sentencing and jailing on municipal, state, and federal levels....
Posted: Sun, Aug 14, 2016 7:52am PDT
textFusion Green Liberty Party 2016 Presidential Campaign by End Terror and Drug Rackets
The Green Liberty Party is a fusion party that combines both Green and Libertarian concepts. Primarily the GLP is concerned with ending the rackets called "war on drugs" and "war on terror". GLP candidate Mark Paul Miller will use the Office of President to research, expose and stop these two government rackets that have taken lives and money from U.S. voters. It is possible for a write-in candidate to win the election if they get enough votes....
Posted: Sun, Jul 31, 2016 1:21pm PDT
audioOn Drug User Health and Dignity - Interview with Mike Selick from Harm Reduction Coalition (audio/mpeg 21.7MB) by WTUL News & Views
On Drug User Health and Dignity - Interview with Mike Selick from the Training & Capacity-Building Institute at the Harm Reduction Coalition....
Posted: Mon, Jul 11, 2016 6:22am PDT
imageAnd Here’s Another Thing the Clinton’s Fucked Up.
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by Lloyd Hart
In the late nineties Duh Prez. appointed General Barry McCaffery to be the Drug Czar!...
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2016 9:57am PDT
audioGovernments Disagree Over Global Drug Control: UN's drug meeting in Vienna (audio/mpeg 9.8MB) by WTUL News & Views
Drugreporter’s video advocacy team filmed key speeches and interviewed some of the participants at the UN's drug meeting in Vienna....
Posted: Sat, Apr 9, 2016 7:10pm PDT
audioReadaloud: Dan Baum "Legalize It All: How to win the war on drugs" (audio/mpeg 10.8MB) by WTUL News & Views
Gone viral: an excerpt of Dan Baum's piece, "Legalize It All: How to win the war on drugs," recently published in the April 2016 issue of Harper's magazine, has been shared across social media, resulting in videos, quotes, tweets, and more. Here's the full piece, it's a long one, with policy recommendations, data, and more....
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2016 1:20pm PDT
imageTen Minutes to a Not Guilty Verdict in San Diego Medical Marijuana Concentrate Case
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by via Terrie Best
It is hard to say exactly when the San Diego District Attorney’s Office lost their cannabis extraction case against legal patient John Mazula....
Posted: Sun, Mar 6, 2016 9:19am PST
audioProposed city ordinance would reform marijuana prohibition in New Orleans (audio/mpeg 23.4MB) by WTUL News and Views
Interview with Kevin Caldwell - Executive Director of CommonsenseNOLA - a marijuana reform advocacy organization. Listeners learn about why a proposed city ordinance that would reform marijuana prohibition in New Orleans is needed. Discussed are issues of racial equity, summonses, citations and the negative economic and humanitarian impacts of high bonds amounts on poor people who have committed low level non-violent offenses....
Posted: Fri, Mar 4, 2016 7:02pm PST
imagePerjury Entangles Sheriff Deputy in Embarrassing Web As Activists Look On
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by via Terrie Best
The prosecution rested their case after not having proven anything but that law enforcement are experts at reciting how to make butane honey oil. They were to have proven John was making BHO, they didn’t do it. And, there’s no honey oil, no blasted plant material, no used filters, piles of empty butane tanks or lengths of glass tubing to help them either....
Posted: Thu, Mar 3, 2016 12:22pm PST
imageDay One of John Mazula's Medical Marijuana Trial - Presecution's Case Built on Dishonesty
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by via Terrie Best
On March 1, the prosecution began its case against John Mazula, who is charged with manufacturing medical cannabis concentrates. Our jury, seated yesterday afternoon, is mostly white men and three white women. It took all Monday morning to vet them as unbiased in favor of police....
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2016 7:47pm PST
imageAsk the United Nations to Reschedule Cannabis
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by via Talana Lattimer
The UN must take action to address the clear disparity between their policy and the medical, scientific and legal realities. Cannabis is scheduled in Schedules I and IV of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs as amended by the 1972 Protocol (the “Single Convention”) which does not recognize the medical benefits. This scheduling status of cannabis was created based on a report created by the Health Committee of the League of Nations in 1935....
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2016 7:30pm PST
textCDC Guidelines: Drug Urine Tests for Pain Patients - Open Comment Until 1/13/16 by AVedanta
CDC Proposed 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain has an open comment period. The Guidelines include details regarding drug urine tests for all pain patients (Including cancer, end of life - despite claims these groups will not be affected). The Guidelines acknowledge that insurance may not cover the drug urine tests, which are known for inaccurate results....
Posted: Mon, Jan 4, 2016 12:40pm PST
imagePetition - Obama: Fire DEA Head Chuck Rosenberg for Calling Medical Marijuana a "Joke."
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by Hannah
This is a petition to fire the head DEA Chuck Rosenberg for calling medical marijuana a "joke" and enforcing unfair laws against marijuana....
Posted: Tue, Dec 22, 2015 4:26pm PST
textWorth Repeating: Suicide Rates Fall In Medical Cannabis States by Returning Sunlight
Rewrite of article showing suicide rates have dropped in states that have legalized medical cannabis compared to increased suicide rates in states that maintained cannabis prohibition. Theories for why this happened is that cannabis is more effective as self-medication for depression than pharmaceutical pills and is often substituted for alcohol once legalized....
Posted: Tue, Dec 22, 2015 7:16am PST
imageWas Anchoring Medical to Recreational in Ohio Bad for Patients?
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by via Mike Liszewski, ASA
By now, everyone in the medical marijuana reform movement has seen the results in Ohio, where the commingled recreational and medical cannabis voter initiative (Issue 3) put forth by ResponsibleOhio was defeated at the polls by a nearly 2:1 margin....
Posted: Fri, Nov 6, 2015 7:14pm PST
imageCanada's Plan to Legalize - the political implications
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by via Lanny Swerdlow
In 1967 Pierre Trudeau, who became Canada’s Prime Minister the following year, introduced legislation that would ultimately decriminalize homosexuality, noting in a famous quote that “the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation.” Almost 50 years later his son, Justin Trudeau, appears poised to do the same thing for marijuana....
Posted: Fri, Nov 6, 2015 6:40pm PST
imageNational Medical Association Urges Rescheduling
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by via ASA
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), one of the largest medical organizations in the United States, is calling for changing the federal classification of cannabis to a drug with medical uses....
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 10:40pm PDT
imageStudy Confirms Long-term Cannabis Use Is Safe
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by via ASA
A study of patients using medical cannabis to control chronic pain has confirmed that prolonged use is safe. Researchers found that pain patients using medical cannabis were no more likely to suffer serious adverse events than non-cannabis patients....
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 10:32pm PDT
imageKettle Falls Patients Get Federal Prison Sentences
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by via ASA
President Obama Urged to Pardon All Three Defendants and End Prosecutions...
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 9:35pm PDT
imageOhio Cannabis Legalization Initiative – A Cautionary Tale for California
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by via Lanny Swerdlow, RN
Receiving scant attention from marijuana legalization advocates and just about zero attention in the national media, voters in Ohio will be deciding on a very controversial marijuana legalization initiative this November. It is a cautionary tale that the backers of California’s multiple marijuana legalization initiatives should be paying close attention to....
Posted: Mon, Oct 5, 2015 10:48am PDT
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