This is the grave of Esequiel Hernandez, another innocent victim of the drug war .
Is it worth it ?
Is it moral ?
Mission:
To provide scientific information and expert opinion about drugs and to suggest a path to better policies.
DECRIMINALIZE MARIJUANA: IT'S FAR LESS HARMFUL THAN ALCOHOL
"I witness the adverse health effects of licit and illicit drugs daily. As emergency physicians, we are the ultimate realists. We know that the prohibition of marijuana is a failed public health policy."
Past president of the American College
of Emergency Medicine, Larry A. Bedard, MD
Speakers available throughout TX
Historical Power Point Slide Show
Begins when drugs were all legal
Retirees demand marijuana - helps her MS
3 minutes
MS Patient confronts Texas legislators over medical use of marijuana
3 minute video
Former undercover narc explains
drug war failure at Houston church
7 minute video
Houston Chronicle endorses debate on " legalization of drugs"
Mon, 30 Mar 2009
Source: Houston Chronicle (TX)
Needle-exchange programs Christian thing to do
Houston Chronicle, April 5, 2009
by William Martin
James A. Baker III Institute at Rice University
injecting illegal drugs."
'Think of the message we now send: 'You are social lepers and, as upright, moral, sincerely religious people, we prefer that you and others in your social orbit die.' ”
More: “Needle Exchange Programs: Sending the Right Message”
Physicians Urge Government to Recognize Marijuana as Medicine
by Eric Bailey, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, 2-25-08
The American College of Physicians, the nation's largest organization of doctors of internal medicine, with 124,000 members, contends that the long and rancorous debate over marijuana legalization has obscured good science that has demonstrated the benefits and medicinal promise of cannabis.
"We felt the time had come to speak up about this," said Dr. David Dale, the group's president. "We'd like to clear up the uncertainty and anxiety of patients and physicians over this drug."
The American College of Physicians position paper February 2008 http://drugsense.org/url/RTJp0V7l
See: Key Points
Drug Use, Abuse and Dependence (Addiction) In America
"We believe that the global war on drugs is now causing more harm than drug abuse itself."
Public Letter from
"It is time for America to move beyond its moral crusade and adopt a public-health approach to the problem of drug abuse, an approach that is likely to be much more successful and certainly more humane."
The Lancet, leading medical journal