http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/24/health/policy/24veterans.html?hp

All the more reason to get in on the push to make your state a Compassionate one!

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(Angus Reid) In the online survey of a representative national sample of 1,003 adults, 64 per cent of respondents believe America has a serious drug abuse problem that affects the whole country. One-in-five (20%) believe America’s drug abuse problem is confined to specific areas and people, while seven per cent believe America does not have a serious drug abuse problem.

Two thirds of respondents (65%) believe the “War on Drugs”—the efforts of the U.S. government to reduce the illegal drug trade—has been a failure, while only eight per cent deem it a success.

More than half of respondents (52%) support the legalization of marijuana. While clear majorities of Democrats (57%) and Independents (59%) agree with this course of action, only about two-in-five Republicans (38%) concur.

And the numbers continue to grow every day.

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I’ve always said that the DrugWar was a ‘rich man’s hobby’, because it requires such massive amounts of discretionary spending; the program itself is a net loss to the taxpayers and produces nothing concrete but prisons which we can no longer afford to maintain.

Rich men usually live in rich countries. The US used to be a ‘rich man’, but no longer. The economic piper’s come for his due, and our pockets are turned out empty.

Now, imagine what’s happening in countries that never enjoyed our largesse. They’d been forced to play by the US drug law rules, with the US strong-arming poorer countries into compliance being the general rule. We can’t do that anymore, and those poorer countries cannot afford to tale up the slack.

The possible result? The Singe Convention Treaty’s legitimacy may eventually be challenged by nations who form a bloc intent upon exiting the SCT, which is provided for in the SCT. And the Vienna Declaration may become the catalyst towards that. Which has the prohibs, domestic and international, hurriedly trying to delegitimize the VD. They know what a house of cards the SCT is, and with the world economic situation becoming ever more dire in countries that couldn’t afford the US DrugWar to begin with, the economic impetus to leave the SCT has taken on even greater impact.

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Wouldn’t you rather have your kids smoking pot than drinking vodka? They would eat more and have babies–something you’ve been trying to get them to do for decades. Marijuana is overall a far healthier drug than alcohol.

As for the other drugs, you’re right–there is no guarantee usage rates would not go up, but the harms may go down. Maybe these “stringent measures” aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. Under current policy, your addicts still get their drugs, so you know stringent measures aren’t working very well, and you can always return to the iron fist if you don’t like the results. It’s not like your “democracy” is likely to object.

Seriously. Your AIDS rate is headed for the moon, your population is falling, and you have no way to support your old people on pension. Maybe it is time to break from traditional brute-force approaches and try something a little more subtle. Try legalization.

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It appears that the trick was to individually blacklist each url for rehab joints.

Apparently, even though nobody here clicks on rehab ads, the content on this site is just too delicious to them, so those sites beat out any other ads, meaning they’re not getting business, and I’m not getting ad revenue.

So I’ve started entering the rehab urls as they appear on my site in the competitor blacklist option in Google Ads. Problem is that there’s a whole lot of them! So I keep adding more when I get a chance.

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Until you show them what the real deal is…but even then, there’s that inertia, again. What’s required is the proverbial fire lit under their backsides, and 19 has that potential.

I say this every election year: Register to vote, and tell the registrars why. As in “Candidate X is for drug law reform by supporting 19, and I want to vote for him/her.” Enough of that filtering back into the ‘back rooms’ of the Dem Party ‘leadership’ and they’ll quit trying to be cagey and come out full bore in favor of it.

Many’s the time I’d wished I’d lived in CA, now more than ever. I can only implore our fellow cannabists there to go all out, for This. Is. It.

This will be the defining moment. If this passes easily, then stick a fork in the prohibs, ’cause they’re well and truly done. It’ll take a few years for the DrugWar Beast to die from that wound, but when the other States see what is happening in CA they’ll quickly follow suit in order not to be left out of the tax bonanza…and the Beast will expire faster from the additional swords stuck in it. Come on, November!

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