Obama Official - "I've Ended The War On Drugs"

There's plenty more to be said on this, later, but for now the main details from the Irish Examiner :

The United States has "ended its war on drugs" and is now moving its focus to prevention and treatment, the US drugs chief has told top Irish drug officials.

President Barack Obama’s drugs adviser Gil Kerlikowske held a series of meetings yesterday with Drugs Minister Pat Carey, Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy and Department of Justice secretary general Sean Aylward.

The former police chief said the US had formally ended its much heralded – and hugely expensive – "war on drugs".

"We’ve talked about a ‘war on drugs’ for 40 years, since President Nixon. I ended the war," said Mr Kerlikowske, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).

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Goodbye Testicles

I've changed my mind. I will pay to read Rupert Murdoch newspapers online, but only if they consistently come up with stories of such a high quality as this one :

From The Sun :

The lad hallucinated for 18 hours and mutilated himself because he believed centipedes were crawling over his body and biting him.

Durham Police are warning that its use can result in severe nose bleeds, nose burns, hallucinations, blood circulation problems, rashes, anxiety and paranoia, fits, delusions and can lead to a heart attack.

But a police report - some of which was based on online forums about the drug - revealed a lad in Durham had tried to rip off his testicles after taking it.

Let me guess. The bit about a user getting so fucked up he wrenched off his own nuts came from an anonymous person on an online forum.

There's a bunch of kids in the UK high-fiving each other right now that the cops and The Sun are reporting this incident of testicle sack mutilation as fact.

The drug may well be causing a terrible amount of damage to users, but it's hard not to reminded of another British drug hysteria outbreak.

The drug purportedly affected an area of the brain called "Shatner's Bassoon" (altering your perception of time), can give you a bloated neck due to "massive water retention"....and..."…you can puke yourself to death on this stuff — one girl threw up her own pelvis-bone"

In Louisiana, a mother and son went to jail for growing this :



More at The Boston Daily Enterprise.

That's all. That pathetic little plant.

How could the arresting police officers feel anything but humiliation that they are ordered to arrest people for such a 'crime'? Perhaps they enjoy their work. Perhaps they sleep more soundly knowing the world has one less little cannabis plant in it.

Keeping America safe. From a non-toxic plant grows naturally in at least a dozen American states.

The people of the 22nd century are going to look back and shake their heads in disbelief that such pettiness existed in our days; that adherence to outdated, ridiculous laws ruined the lives of otherwise non-criminal people.

What a fucking joke.

What a con.

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