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| Archived Daily News - 17th
January 2009 |
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Calling
off the war on drugs |
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Unlike past presidents, will Barack Obama's
own track record with drugs make his drug policy more enlightened?
[Guardian, UK] |
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Making
the Drug Problem Smaller, 2001-2008 |
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Facts and figures that chart the progress our
Nation has made in reducing the harms caused by illegal drugs
over the past several years 44-page PDF [ONDCP, USA] |
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Obama
Has the Chance to Be Another FDR - He Can End the Prohibition
Era on Marijuana |
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As FDR did in 1933, Obama must now help end
an utterly failed, socially destructive, reactionary crusade
against marijuana [Alternet, USA] |
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Half-Baked
Reasons For Opposing Pot Law |
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When citizens of Massachusetts voted yes in
November to Question 2, the “Sensible Marijuana Policy
Initiative,” many of them thought that they were voting
to legalize marijuana. Because marijuana is illegal under federal,
not state law, this would be impossible—states can only
choose how they punish use of the drug, not whether or not it
is illegal [Harvard Crimson, USA] |
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Prescription
Opioid Abuse, Addiction Less Common Than Many Believe |
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The abuse and addiction potentials of opioid
analgesics prescribed for patients with chronic pain have been
of great concern. However, current research indicates that these
problems are not as common or widespread as many seem to believe.
19-page PDF Scroll down [Pain Treatment Topics , USA] |
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Australian
children get their wish with plan to stem 'rivers of grog' |
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With the announcement of radical new measures
to combat alcoholism across the entire north of Western Australia,
where half a dozen towns with large Aboriginal populations are
blighted by despair and dysfunction [Independent, UK] |
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