Author Archives: Pete Guither

In Thailand: Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday launched his government’s third war on drugs with the Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) setting a target for Thailand to be free of illegal drug production by the end of this year. … Continue reading →

Check out Bob Merkin’s post at Vleeptron — particularly the last half: “Do cannabis withdrawals need drug therapy? Controlled trial from America.” CASE STUDY: Cannabis Withdrawal in Adult Caucasian Male PUBLICATION: The Journal of Non-Peer-Reviewed Politicized Irreproducable Junk Science EXPERIMENTAL … Continue reading →

Via Hit and Run, Mr. Sun has a delightfully humorous post about DEA’s publication Drugs of Abuse.

US mercenaries spill blood over Afghan opium in today’s Independent (UK) [thanks, Sanho]. Hundreds of Afghan eradicators under the command of American private security contractors were going to head into the fields around the town and destroy the beautiful red … Continue reading →

Welcome Compassionate Coalition Bulletin Board — a place for anyone to discuss medical marijuana. They’ve got quite a variety of discussion topics, including discussion folders for each state.

The Drug Czar’s got a new set of advertisements coming out. According to his release: The Office of National Drug Control Policy’s (ONDCP) National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign today launches a new advertising campaign to provide scientific facts about marijuana … Continue reading →

I’ve been negligent in reporting that a medical marijuana bill is quietly working its way through the legislature of — yes that’s right — Alabama. I admire the persistence of some pretty incredible drug policy reformers in Alabama (Loretta Nall … Continue reading →

An article in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (Representative Mark Souder’s hometown paper) takes the drug warrior to task: Over the past six years, most major education, addiction recovery, civil rights and student organizations have said that Souder’s law is … Continue reading →

For those who are not aware of the significance/importance of the Data Quality Act complaint I mentioned in the previous post, I thought I’d explain a bit. One of the most critical ways to loosen the federal death grip on … Continue reading →

I’ve been reporting for some time about the efforts by Americans for Safe Access to use a new law called the Data Quality Act to force Health and Human Services to stop spreading false info about medical marijuana (a step … Continue reading →