Effort To Disguise a Medicine as an Illegal Drug

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Turn Back Effort To Disguise an Illegal Drug as Medicine
The organizations that represent Minnesota's police chiefs, sheriffs, county attorneys, police officers and narcotics investigators are united in opposition to legislation that would authorize the use of marijuana for medical purposes...
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NYC's Staggering Arrest Rate for Pot By Steven Wishnia
CN Source: AlterNet May 09, 2008 New York
New York City has been the pot-bust capital of the world for a decade, since Rudolph Giuliani's decision to make public toking a top police priority. A new study sponsored by the New York Civil Liberties Union says the city's cannabis crackdown is both racist and fraudulent. New York police have arrested almost 400,000 people for misdemeanor marijuana possession in the last decade. Last year, there were 39,700 such arrests. The vast majority of those seized have been black and Latino men, most under 25. And according to the NYCLU study, released last week, thousands of them are the victims of police scams, falsely charged with possession of marijuana "burning or open to public view."
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analysis ... drug war propaganda = 100%
CN Comment #3 posted by observer on May 12, 2008



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The Drug is Associated With a Hated Subgroup of the Society or a Foreign Enemy


drug crazed bohemians
The association of particular drugs with hated minority groups and foreign enemies has a long and colorful history in the United States. The association of opium with the Chinese, of cocaine with Blacks, of, alcohol with urban Catholic immigrants, of heroin with urban immigrants, of Latinos with marihuana, the claim that a myriad of foreign enemies were using these drugs against the U.S., and the image of drug crazed bohemians such as Ludlow, Baudelaire, and DeQuincy all were integral to the propaganda that generated the prohibitionist policies on each of these drugs.

Racial Inequity and Drug Arrests Editorial
CN Source: New York Times May 10, 2008 Washington, D.C.
The United States prison system keeps marking shameful milestones. In late February, the Pew Center on the States released a report showing that more than 1 in 100 American adults are presently behind bars — an astonishingly high rate of incarceration notably skewed along racial lines. One in nine black men aged 20 to 34 are serving time, as are 1 in 36 adult Hispanic men. Now, two new reports, by The Sentencing Project and Human Rights Watch, have turned a critical spotlight on law enforcement’s overwhelming focus on drug use in low-income urban areas.
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Reports Find Racial Gap in Drug Arrests By Erik Eckholm
CN Source: New York Times May 06, 2008 New York
More than two decades after President Ronald Reagan escalated the war on drugs, arrests for drug sales or, more often, drug possession are still rising. And despite public debate and limited efforts to reduce them, large disparities persist in the rate at which blacks and whites are arrested and imprisoned for drug offenses, even though the two races use illegal drugs at roughly equal rates.
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The Drug War: Still Racist After All These Years
alternet: by Bean, Lawyers, Guns and Money May 9, 2008



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Lock 'em all up, for Crist's sake!

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