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Fuck Yeah Drug Policy

Fuck Yeah Drug Policy

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably
by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the
government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be
enforced. - Albert Einstein

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Graham Hancock on Plants We Destroy (via weedporndaily)

“Our world is in a state of hatred and fear and suspicion right now. There’s never been a time in the human story when we more needed to break out of our rigid patterns of behavior and start thinking about things from a different point of view. And nature has provided us with a means to do so. And those means are our plant allies.”

(Source: youtube.com, via weedporndaily)

“The War on Drugs” explained by Graham Hancock

“When the state sends us to prison for essentially exploring our own consciousness, this is a grotesque abuse of human rights. It’s a fundamental wrong. If I as an adult am not sovereign over my own consciousness, then I am absolutely not sovereign over anything. I can’t claim any kind of freedom at all. And what has happened over the last forty or fifty years under the disguise of the war on drugs, is that we have been persuaded to hand over the keys of our consciousness to the state. The most precious, the most intimate, the most sapien part of ourselves, the state now has the keys. And furthermore, they’ve persuaded us that that’s in our interests. This is a very dangerous situation.”

"Maximizing health is not the same as maximizing happiness. The public health mission to minimize morbidity and mortality leaves no room for the possibility that someone might accept a shorter life span, or an increased risk of disease or injury, in exchange for more pleasure or less discomfort. Motorcyclists, rock climbers, and sky divers make that sort of decision all the time, and not all of them are ignorant of the relevant injury and fatality statistics. With lifestyle choices that pose longer-term risks, such as smoking and overeating, the dangers may be easier to ignore, but it is still possible for someone with a certain set of tastes and preferences to say, “Let me enjoy myself now; I’ll take my chances.” The assumption that such tradeoffs are unacceptable is the unspoken moral premise of public health."

Jacob Sullum - An Epidemic of Meddling | Reason Magazine, May 2007

"To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated over, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither right, nor knowledge, nor virtue."

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

10 Questions for John Paul Stevens | TIME
Here is the former Supreme Court justice’s response to a question about the racial disparity in the U.S.’s incarcerated population:

One in nine black men ages 20 to 34 in the U.S. is incarcerated. Is that a judicial-system problem?
The use of mandatory minimum statutes has had a very adverse effect on the overall system, and I think generally, the so-called war on drugs has emphasized more-severe punishment than is appropriate throughout the country. There are some instances where penalties are so disproportionate that they could well violate the Eighth Amendment.

10 Questions for John Paul Stevens | TIME

Here is the former Supreme Court justice’s response to a question about the racial disparity in the U.S.’s incarcerated population:

One in nine black men ages 20 to 34 in the U.S. is incarcerated. Is that a judicial-system problem?

The use of mandatory minimum statutes has had a very adverse effect on the overall system, and I think generally, the so-called war on drugs has emphasized more-severe punishment than is appropriate throughout the country. There are some instances where penalties are so disproportionate that they could well violate the Eighth Amendment.

"With the federal budget on empty, the economy in disarray, our prisons overflowing, and prohibition-related violence raging across the border, it’s an outrageous misuse of federal resources to wage war on medical marijuana. Federal anti-drug bureaucrats are afraid because the dispensaries are proving that it’s possible for marijuana to become a safe, legal, tax-paying industry and so expose their own last-century policies as bankrupt and obsolete."

California NORML director Dale Gieringer - Obama’s San Francisco Visit Met With Medical Marijuana Protest | Drug War Chronicle

Ron Paul: Eat, drink, smoke whatever you want

“Where I think we have fallen down—and this is across the political spectrum—is this idea that it’s your own body. That means, if your spiritual life, which is a serious responsibility, and your intellectual life is a serious responsibility, why is it that…if we assume that you can have free decisions there, why shouldn’t you have free decisions on what you eat, drink, smoke and put into your own body?”

(Washington Examiner via NORML)

"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself."

Jimmy Carter

"The war, after all, cannot really be a war on drugs, since drugs cannot be arrested, prosecuted, or punished. The war is against persons who use drugs. As such, the war is a civil war, fought against the 28 million Americans who use illegal drugs annually."

Prof. Douglas Husak - It’s Time To Declare Peace In The War Against Drugs | Forbes