Prohibition doesn't work,
has never worked. 
Even God All Mighty 
who prohibited Adam and Eve from eating fruit from the tree of knowledge couldn't prevent them from doing so, and he only had two people to oversee.
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PROHIBITION DOESN'T WORK
POLITICIANS WHO SUPPORT PROHIBITION SUPPORT ORGANIZED CRIME-
So what has the war [on drugs] done? It has made a mockery of an anti-drug law that is simply ignored by millions ...
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The United States has been spending $69 billion a year worldwide for the last 40 years, for a total of $2.5 trillion, on drug prohibition -- with little to show for it. Is anyone actually benefiting from this war? Six groups come to mind.
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WHO survey of 17 countries finds that we have the highest rates of marijuana and cocaine use.
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A top drug cartel chief expressed his gratitude for the drug war, calling it 'a sham put on the American tax-payer' that was 'actually good for business'." He was right -- prohibition is the dealer's friend. They depend on it. They thrive on it.
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As long as Washington continues to focus on cutting the supply to the US rather than treating the drug problem from within, questions must be asked about its complicity in the escalating violence seen across the border.
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Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent to enforce Canada's drug laws, with little to show for it.
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The Downtown Eastside has been the country's most notorious centre for illicit drugs for a century now. Recent law enforcement campaigns have either been ineffectual or have simply shuffled drug activity onto the streets.
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The push for enlightened drug reform in Vancouver is 50 years old. Government crushed it then, as it wants to now.
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Law enforcement has "little adverse effect" on the availability of drugs in Britain, new research claims.
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2m Britons take illegal drugs each month; 1 in 3 adults has tried banned substances; 1 in 4 school-aged children has used drugs
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Billions of pounds spent on attempts to reduce the availability of drugs on the streets have been in vain.
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Gordon Brown is expected to announce tougher laws against cannabis possession, even though medical experts and the police believe he is wrong
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The day we legalize drugs is the day we can begin to clean up the mess that the drug prohibition experiment has created.
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The U.S., with its harsh user penalties, outpaced all other countries on use of pot and coke -- way beyond even the Netherlands, where legal action is not taken for pot possession for personal use.
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Will Bolivia's increased drug control achievements actually reduce the global supply of cocaine?
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The war on drugs is politically, emotionally and spiritually corrupt. This is not a war on drugs. This is a war on drug addicts.
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When discussing treatments for drug addiction, instead of arguing about ideology, let's look at science.
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The alcohol poisoning death rate in the United States is shockingly high, consistently between 300 and 400 a year. It's zero for pot.
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Many prescription drugs have effects similar to those of illegal drugs. But we still view some users as criminals -- the others as patients.
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Easing pain is arguably as important as saving a life. But far too many U.S. physicians focus only on the latter.
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Rate of deaths caused by prescription drugs is three times the rate of deaths caused by all illicit drugs combined.
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Oxycontin, Lorcet, and other pain control drugs are the leading cause of the tens of thousands of annual drug overdoses -- why the silence?
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The media pounced on his admitted love of weed and coke but did little to investigate the prescription drugs that did him in.
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Half of all Americans take prescription medications. Eighty one percent take some type of pill. 100,000 die every year from a prescription med that they either didn't need or that was not properly prescribed.
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Scientific studies indicate that marijuana can halt the spread of numerous cancer cells, including the type that Kennedy suffers from
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Rhetoric should not be driving drug policy. Legalization would strip addiction down to what it really is: a health issue.
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"If policy on drugs is in future to be pragmatic not moralistic, driven by ethics not dogma, then the current prohibitionist stance will have to be swept away as both unworkable and immoral"
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Lord Ramsbotham argued that the huge number of people in jail with a drug problem proved that current policy, based on "prohibition", was not working.
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A two-year study from a British commission is recommending a reality-based approach to drug law, rooted in science and focused on reducing harm. Americans should take note.
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Should drugs like marijuana, heroin, and cocaine be legal? Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, clashes with David Murray, chief scientist at the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy.
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Interview with Adam Scorgie and Brett Harvey, makers of the documentary, 'The Union - The Business Behind Getting High.'
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The drug war's built on a myth that we can create a drug free society. But there has never been a drug free society in human history.
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A considerable body of data shows that no state with a medical marijuana law has experienced an increase in youth marijuana use since its law’s enactment. All states have reported overall decreases...
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Prohibition has failed to control the use and domestic production of marijuana -- it's time everyone faced this and the rest of the compelling arguments for legalizing it.
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Five signs that pot might become legal soon -- and five reasons why it probably won't.
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With key medical marijuana ballot initiatives likely to pass, and a more pot-friendly majority in Congress, there is room for optimism.
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Congress is for the first time in a generation (1978) taking a serious look at reforming components of cannabis prohibition laws.
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"The Canadian government has never provided a valid reason for the criminalization of marijuana," said Osborne. "This study indicates that people who use marijuana are no more a criminal threat to society than are alcohol and cigarette users.
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Lou Dobbs talks nonsense to explain Mexican drug violence. Face it: Drug prohibition creates a profit motive that people are willing to kill for.
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An ex-convict says we cannot address poverty and race in America, nor can we talk about needless death and expense, without addressing the drug war.
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Not acknowledged anywhere either by Associated Press or most other news outlets, is the very large body of evidence suggesting that the whole "it's not your father's marijuana" scare story is phony.
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Claims that a large increase in the strength of cannabis over the last decade is driving the occurrence of mental health and other problems for users are not borne out by a study of the worldwide literature, say researchers in Australia
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For years now, British police and news reporters have blamed everything from psychosis and suicide to criminal acts like rape and murder on the after-effects of smoking “skunk,” aka allegedly super-potent pot.
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So for the second month in a row we have researchers from New Zealand telling us that pot smoking has little-to-no association with cancer.
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Headlines suggested a study proved pot is a greater cancer risk than tobacco -- but the media didn't even wait for the report to be released.
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It's laughable that the Feds are pushing the concept of pot addiction when science shows that withdrawal symptoms from caffeine are far worse.
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Since 1972, U.S. taxpayers have spent well over $20 billion enforcing criminal marijuana laws and 16.5 million people have been arrested. It's time to put an end to this waste
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Marijuana has been proven one of the safest therapeutically active drugs known to mankind. I have used it with little or no harm for 40 years. My mind still finds cannabis fun and enlightening after decades of inter-cranial adventures.
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Canada should learn from America's mistakes in the war on drugs and just say no to mandatory minimum sentencing, because of mounting evidence that it doesn't work.
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The U.S. pursues the war on drugs with an ignorant fanaticism. Despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent and millions of Americans incarcerated, illegal drugs remain cheap, potent and widely available in every community.
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The government's war on marijuana users has done real harm to our nation while chewing up billions of dollars every year.
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U.S. arrests for pot possession were up to 739,000 in 2006. And the cost to tax payers? $1 billion a year.
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President Bush's plan for battling the war on drugs will only cost taxpayers dearly and make trafficking more profitable.
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The 'war on drugs' has evolved into a war on weed. Billions of dollars spent, tens of thousands incarcerated, and marijuana is still as popular as ever.
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The "war on drugs" has led to an explosion in the female incarceration rate.
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Pot isn't illegal because the paper industry is afraid of competing with hemp -- it's because of racism and the culture wars.
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Recent surveys of drug habits among Americans found that blacks and whites use drugs at equal rates, yet blacks are more often prosecuted because the laws are biased against them.
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The drug war is still being waged only on some people and on some drugs. In other words, it's still a racist crock.
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The attorney general's last-ditch attempt to preserve our federal crack cocaine sentencing guidelines was pure "War on Drugs" propaganda.
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The newest exhibit in the DEA's museum is a desperate attempt by the flailing agency to hitch its wagon to the 'war on terrorism.'
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Cannabis is proven to be a fairly harmless drug -- so why is the American right still waging a massive war on weed?
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Last week's ludicrous governmental report, which denied the efficacy of medical marijuana, is the Bush administration's latest attempt to divorce science from policy.
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Cocaine may be considered a scourge in America's cities, but in the Andes, the plant from which it's derived is a way of life that provides food, shelter, healthcare and education.
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Why are we still incarcerating people who use controlled substances, when we have ample evidence that this "cure" is worse than the "disease"?
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At last the incurably traumatized may be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. And controversially, ecstasy may be key to taming their demons.
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After a 40-year moratorium, credible research for treating illnesses and addictions with psychedelic compounds has made a miraculous comeback.
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In 1986 he founded the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, and is on the board of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, a body working to repeal laws banning medical and recreational use of cannabis.
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It's the refusal to look at the evidence that keeps pot illegal. They misrepresented marijuana as an evil weed. I've always had a libertarian attitude toward drugs. I believe people should be able to do anything as long as it's not harmful to someone else
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Police caught Hoffman with pot but promised to drop charges if she agreed to go undercover in a drug bust. She was killed soon afterward.
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