War on Drugs Clock - How Much is Being Spent Every Second?

A second-by-second ticking clock showing all the money that federal, state and local governments are spending enforcing America's failed and and dangerous drug prohibition policies. Also shows a new marijuana arrest ticking by every 38 seconds (for a total of almost 900,000 people a year).

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Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?

Pop quiz: Which European country has the most liberal drug laws? (Hint: It's not the Netherlands.)

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Milk is a gateway drug to bourbon

You have never before seen -- nor will you ever see again -- FBI director Robert Mueller so thoroughly humbled in a discussion about drug policy before the United States Congress.

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Did the CIA test LSD on unsuspecting Americans?

A bad LSD trip can drive a person to suicide. So what would have inspired the CIA to use American citizens as guinea pigs for its drug research?

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Scientific American: 5 Years After: Portugal's Drug Decriminalization Policy Shows Positive Results

"In the face of a growing number of deaths and cases of HIV linked to drug abuse, the Portuguese government in 2001 tried a new tack to get a handle on the problem—it decriminalized the use of... street drugs. The theory: focusing on treatment and prevention instead of jailing users would decrease the number of deaths and infections."

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Heroin Cough Syrup: A Brand Name Gone Wrong

Some Heroin Will Fix You Right Up

"In 1874, German scientists developed a formula for a painkiller that they thought would be less addictive than morphine. They simply added two acetyls to morphine to synthesize diacetylmorphine. Heinrich Dreser, the head of Bayer drug development tried it on animals and humans. He, also, tried it on himself, which may have been the problem. He was very pleased with the results and decided it was a good treatment for many ailments especially respiratory ones like bronchitis, asthma and tuberculosis.

"The Bayer company started marketing Heroin in 1898. They derived the name from the German word heroisch. Often, they would place it in ads along with their Bayer aspirin advertising the merits of their new cough syrup, "Heroin- the sedative for coughs."

"Bayer gave out free samples of Heroin to doctors. The doctors prescribed it to their patients. Heroin quickly gained widespread acceptance in the medical community unaware of its addictive qualities. Bayer was soon enthusiastically selling it in dozens of countries.

"Something odd happened. The doctors began noticing an inordinate demand by their patients, who did not really seem to be in respiratory distress, for Heroin cough syrup.

"The scientists thought that Heroin was not as addictive as morphine, but it turned out to be two to three times more addictive. It was already metabolized and would go straight into the blood stream and immediately cross the blood-brain barrier causing immediate euphoria.

"Bayer stopped producing and selling Heroin in 1913 and deleted mention of it in their official company history. Heroin was outlawed in 1924."

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California to Legalize Weed for Everyone

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With enough signatures, Californians could be voting to legalize marijuana in the upcoming November election. They need 694,354 signatures by September, 5, 2008. It's totally do-able. Its been over a decade since Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, was passed with over 5 million votes in favor.

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Disapproval of Bush Breaks Record

By Susan Page, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.

In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt.

The previous record of 67% was reached by Harry Truman in January 1952, when the United States was enmeshed in the Korean War.

A Marijuana User Gets Arrested Every 38 Seconds in America

What a waste of taxpayers money....and when does he sleep??

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Congress Demands DEA to Allow Private Marijuana Cultivation

Ron Paul (R-TX) and John Kerry (D-Mass) want our universities to be able to start growing their own marijuana...

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Deputies Shoot and Kill Pot Farmer During Crop Raid

Members of a drug task force shot and killed one man and launched a manhunt for two others after they discovered an outdoor marijuana farm containing about 3,000 plants.

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"Marijuana martyr" -- Oakland deputy prosecuted twice by vengeful D.A.!

Ed Rosenthal was deputized by the City of Oakland to grow medical marijuana. But then the federal government arrested him for pot-growing anyways -- and in court refused to let him mention his legal grower status! When his conviction was overturned, the D.A. in the case just got revenge by inventing a new set of charges to take him back to court!

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