Cocaine

Noam Chomsky deconstructs the drug war

David Malmo-Levine — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:13:50 -0700

For those of you who have never heard of him, Noam Chomsky is the most quoted living human being:

According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980–92 period, and was the eighth most-cited source.[13][14][15]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

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He has opposed the U.S. global "war on drugs" numerous times. For example:

Crack kits do not mean its ok to smoke crack

Kirk Tousaw — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:09:44 -0700

Kudos to the City of Victoria (and to Philippe Lucas, whom I know was relentless in pushing for this initiative) for voting in favor of a crack-kit distribution trial.

Victoria addicts to get free crack-pipe parts

Council voted in favour of the idea on Thursday.

It’s hoped the harm-reduction kits, which cost less than $2 each, will help curb the spread of HIV and hepatitis C.

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Justice Department Urges Equalizing Drug Sentences

jeremiah — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:36:24 -0700

Justice Department officials this morning endorsed for the first time proposed legislation that would eliminate vast sentencing disparities for possession of powdered versus rock cocaine, an inequality that civil rights groups say has disproportionately affected poor and minority defendants.

Video For Sale Allegedly Shows Joe Biden's Daughter Snorting Cocaine

jeremiah — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:30:30 -0700

The White House was plunged into turmoil Saturday as an explosive video emerged allegedly showing Vice President Biden's daughter snorting cocaine at a Delaware house party.

The shocking video of Ashley Biden, 27, was shot this year and is being peddled for $250,000, a lawyer representing the seller told RadarOnline.com.

The White House did not return requests for comment Saturday night. The vice president, who was attending a summit in Chile Saturday, could not be reached.

Pot belly

karlis — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800

Pot almost always leads to the munchies, but sometimes it's the other way around. For example, an Ohio businessman delivered pot with pizza from his downtown shop until he was arrested in June. Also, this year's largest bust in El Paso, Texas, came when customs agents pulled over an 18-wheeler attempting to cross the border with 3,500 pounds of marijuana hidden in lettuce and strawberries.

Slaughter of the innocents

karlis — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Brazilian child-killers
On April 17, 2003, four unarmed male teens begged for their lives after being caught in a drug sting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Police shot them all in the back of the head, execution style. At their funerals, unrepentant officers harassed and intimidated the family members of their victims, hoping to scare them from pressing charges.

The fight to reform UN drug laws

karlis — Fri, 05 Sep 2003 00:00:00 -0700

For over 30 years, UN anti-drug conventions ? signed by Canada, the US, Holland and every other western nation ? have been our rulers' favorite excuse for not reforming drug laws, even under extreme public pressure. The three most powerful of these agreements were signed at the UN in 1961, 1971 and 1998.

Jailed generals

karlis — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 00:00:00 -0800

Two Mexican generals were found guilty in November of protecting drug smugglers and using military airplanes to transport shipments of cocaine and marijuana. They were accused of working for drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who died in 1997 after undergoing plastic surgery.
The pair were tried by a military court and sentenced to 15 and 16 years in prison. They were stripped of their rank and had cars and other goods confiscated.

Drug war pilot

karlis — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 00:00:00 -0800

Spraying herbicides: death from the air for plants, animals and humans.During a recent visit to Jamaica, I was standing on a hurricane-depleted beach in Negril when a middle-aged American man, who was holding a beer and smoking a cigarette, began a conv

Dirty cops

karlis — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 00:00:00 -0800

A Memphis police officer was convicted in September of multiple criminal counts relating to the theft of more than $135,000 in drug forfeiture money.?Officer Alandas McGraw was the forfeiture and settlement officer of the Police Department's vice and narcotics unit, and used his position to cut fraudulent settlement checks that were later split among himself and two others.

DEA Chief will help run new spy agency

karlis — Sat, 25 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800

America moved one giant step closer to becoming a complete police state this week when Congress approved $33 billion funding to authorize a new Cabinet level department called Homeland Security.

Database of doom

karlis — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800

US/Canada narks
A series of agreements between the US and Canada, purportedly to stop terrorism, has created cross-border teams with sights on destroying the Canadian cannabis trade.

Latin America rejecting US drug war

karlis — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800

Peasant women pick coca leaves during the harvest in the Bolivian mountains near Chulumani.The multi-billion dollar US drug war in Latin America is foundering on the shoals of resurgent democracy and indigenous leaders in Peru, Bolivia, C

Another Berlin Wall

karlis — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800

I've been contacted by an increasing number of people who asked me to investigate conditions at the US-Canadian border.
Many of my correspondents told me they had been turned away and/or harassed at land and air ports of entry going in either direction. These actions have ruined vacations, business trips, family reunions, weddings, and other important activities, and have cost people much money and heartache.

Bolivian peasants or narco-terrorists?

karlis — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 00:00:00 -0700

A legal plantation in the Yungas region of La Paz, Bolivia.Women and children die first

Drug war rebellion

karlis — Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:00:00 -0700

Colombian riot police moving against a protest of 3500 coca-farmers who oppose fumigation.In Bolivia, coca growers are angry; they elect anti-prohibitionist congressmen and block main highways, touching off general strikes.

Global lockdown

karlis — Tue, 02 Apr 2002 00:00:00 -0800

The US President and his Attorney General: introducing a police state.Since September 11 there has been a series of laws passed in the US, Canada and other western nations which introduce repressive measures to limit personal freedom, in the name of "fighting terrorism." Yet these laws restrict civil liberties and introduce ha

War on terror = war on drugs

karlis — Thu, 07 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0800

The suicide attacks of September 11 were both real and symbolic, an unforgettable and murderous swipe at symbols of US power and global domination.
The US and allied response to the attacks, which includes a massive war effort against Afghanistan and domestic security lockdown, troubles civil libertarians. Is the new war on terrorism just an extension of the war on drugs? What does this mean for the fate of personal freedom, and the survival of worldwide cannabis culture?

Cocaine vaccine

karlis — Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:00:00 -0800

US regulators have approved clinical trials on a "vaccine" for cocaine addiction. The product is called TA-CD, and it works by generating antibodies in the bloodstream which prevent cocaine from crossing into the brain.
TA-CD is produced by British biotechnology corporation Xenova Group Plc. Chief Executive David Oxlade told Reuters that a product to help cocaine users quit could command a good price, since most are "wealthy and well-insured."

DEA in BC

karlis — Thu, 01 Nov 2001 00:00:00 -0800

John Gordon(right): protesting the Drug War.The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has opened an office in Vancouver, Canada, to a chorus of complaints and protests from BC media and activists.

The DEA maintains 78 offices in 56 countries around the world?? Mexico tops the list with eight DEA offices. Most western countries have a DEA office in their capital city. Canada is now one of the few western countries with the honor of having two DEA offices.

The DEA museum

karlis — Thu, 01 Nov 2001 00:00:00 -0800

Wall of Shame: former directors of the DEABefore I started using medical marijuana in 1994, the acronym "DEA," which stands for Drug Enforcement Administration, meant little to me.

Prohibition and terrorism

karlis — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 00:00:00 -0700

Writing this editorial in the aftermath of the "Attack on America," I see a rapidly changing world in which it will become much more difficult to promote our cause of individual liberty and freedom to grow all plants.

Alternative 911 Viewpoints

karlis — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 00:00:00 -0700

Here are some links which we at Cannabis Culture have found to be interesting reading, in regards to September 11 and the events which have followed. We do not necessarily endorse all of the views expressed in the articles linked below, but we guarantee they will make for lively discussion and debate.

This list of links and information will grow, so please come back again!

ALTERNATIVE IDEAS

US military proposed secret plan to commit terrorist attacks against Americans in 1962

DEA exaggerates success

karlis — Sat, 09 Jun 2001 00:00:00 -0700

A 36-nation anti-drug operation coordinated by the DEA in late 2000 claimed far more success than it actually had, according to a report published in the Miami Herald.
The DEA initially told the media that $30.2 million in criminal assets were seized during the month-long "Operation Libertador." But actually $30 million of that was taken four weeks before the operation started, in the arrest of a single accused cocaine dealer.

Uruguay pres for legalization

karlis — Sun, 29 Apr 2001 00:00:00 -0700

On November 10, Uruguay's President Jorge Batlle became the first Latin American leader to call for the legalization of drugs.
During the Tenth Iberoamerican Summit of Chiefs of State and Government in Panama, Batlle said "If that little powder was worth only 10 cents, there would be no organizations dedicated to raising a billion dollars to finance armies in Colombia."