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.
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