White House calls for end to "War on Drugs"

taku · Kickflip Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 2868 City: Central FL

But don't start polishing your bongs yet!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124225891527617397.html

MAY 14, 2009

Gil Kerlikowske, the new White House drug czar, signaled Wednesday his openness to rethinking the government's approach to fighting drug use.
Mr. Kerlikowske's comments are a signal that the Obama Administration is set to follow a more moderate -- and likely more controversial -- stance on the nation's drug problems. Prior administrations talked about pushing treatment and reducing demand while continuing to focus primarily on a tough criminal-justice approach.

The Obama administration is likely to deal with drugs as a matter of public health rather than criminal justice alone, with treatment's role growing relative to incarceration, Mr. Kerlikowske said.

The administration also said federal authorities would no longer raid medical-marijuana dispensaries in the 13 states where voters have made medical marijuana legal. Agents had previously done so under federal law, which doesn't provide for any exceptions to its marijuana prohibition.

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sidenote:

Painkillers kill more people than illegal drugs...

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/BackPain/3795
Opioid painkillers were listed as the sole cause of overdose for 4,451 deaths in 2002, more deaths than from cocaine (2,569) and heroin (1,061) combined, Dr. Paulozzi and colleagues reported online today in the journal Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.

Opioid painkillers in the study included semi-synthetic derivatives of opium, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, as well as fully synthetic opioid agonists such as fentanyl and methadone. All of these drugs are sold under a wide variety of brand names.

taku · Kickflip Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 2868 City: Central FL

Also crazy California:

"In a 2007 study, Jon Gettman, a senior fellow at George Mason University's School of Public Policy, valued the American marijuana trade at $113 billion annually. Between drug enforcement and potential taxes, the federal government and the states were losing almost $42 billion a year by keeping marijuana illegal, the study indicated. "

"California has come closest to outright legalization of the marijuana industry. Sacramento already collects around $18 million in sales taxes a year from $200 million worth of medical-marijuana purchases, according to data supplied by California's State Board of Equalization. Now Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a San Francisco Democrat, is sponsoring new legislation that would legalize marijuana completely -- and tax it. The state estimates the proposal could generate $1.3 billion a year."

Lollar · 360 flip Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 8253

AMERICA FVCK YEAH!

burn · Posted: May 14, 2009 2:00 pm Post subject:

cant wait...gunna polish up.

PIRATE · Kickflip Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2651

interesting stuff.

ZackFL(BRE) · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 2386 City: Tampa

TWG · Kickflip Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 3258

anybody wanna move coasts? i almost wish i never left california

burn · Posted: May 14, 2009 5:43 pm Post subject:

moving to the east coast soon...... Very Happy

CGA PFD · Posted: May 14, 2009 6:09 pm Post subject:

fentanyl. MMmmm

TWG · Kickflip Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 3258

burn0n3@420, go to this site download the petition and send it in. get all your friends to do it and it will be a start. damn everybody needs to do it.

http://www.pufmm.org/

Montgomery · Backside 180 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 976 City: Rogers

Drugs FTW ? Very Happy

ZackFL(BRE) · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 2386 City: Tampa

[quote="TWG"]burn0n3@420, go to this site download the petition and send it in. get all your friends to do it and it will be a start. damn everybody needs to do it.

http://www.pufmm.org/[/quote

Hell yes keep us alive

yookyle · Backside 180 Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 1002 City: Reno

llegalize it!

i got hydrocodone for my broken arm................. that was a crazy couple weeks Smile

dylo · Posted: May 15, 2009 12:53 am Post subject:

won't the price go up if the legalize it?

ZackFL(BRE) · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 2386 City: Tampa

dylo, who cares it will be 4x's as good

dylo · Posted: May 15, 2009 1:53 am Post subject:

just dont beach and moan about the taxes they put on it

BillyOLDS · Posted: May 15, 2009 2:47 am Post subject:

cant we just decriminalize it...seriously i dont want every joe shmo becoming a cool new pot head cause "change" is good.

my bong "jesus" pronounced hey*zues fires either way

lumpy pants · Posted: May 15, 2009 3:05 am Post subject:

BillyOLDS, well said, but in Cali and Oregonits so decriminalized its awesome

BillyOLDS · Posted: May 15, 2009 3:08 am Post subject:

lumpy pants, im in florida...were just as smart as one can be with it, but we get a lot of crazy stuff shipped from cali

taku · Kickflip Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 2868 City: Central FL