Drug Wars

A potentially habitable alien planet — one that scientists say is the best candidate yet to harbor water, and possibly even life, on its surface — has been found around a nearby star. By Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer Space.com ...

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Posted by Bernardo - IMVA Webmaster on 26 December 2011 It seems that marijuana is even helpful in reducing hate, something that certainly cannot be said for alcohol or any other drug on earth. In an article entitled ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-12-27 13:59 - 0 comments

By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News 05 December 11 Reader Supported News | Perspective Reporters at the Houston Chronicle are asking the wrong questions. A November 11 headline reads, "30,000 Arrests Caught in Backlog at ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-12-06 13:17 - 0 comments

By Eric Pfeiffer | The Sideshow – Wed, Nov 30, 2011 Every civil servant wants to experience his or her legacy firsthand--but not the way that onetime Arapahoe Sheriff Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. has. Sullivan, a nationally renowned law ...

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Posted on Nov 14, 2011 By   Bill Boyarsky One of the most striking inconsistencies of President Obama’s administration is its odd stand on the use of marijuana to relieve the suffering of those stricken with cancer, HIV/AIDS, ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-11-15 10:44 - 0 comments

By ETHAN NADELMANN Published: November 6, 2011 MARIJUANA is now legal under state law for medical purposes in 16 states and the District of Columbia, encompassing nearly one-third of the American population. More than 1,000 dispensaries ...

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By John Hoeffel, Los Angeles Times 08 October 11 California's US attorneys say they are going after for-profit marijuana sellers. Advocates of the sales say they are concerned about buyers with health needs. The Obama ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-10-11 06:26 - 0 comments

By Dr. William Campbell Douglass on 08/08/2011 So let's get this straight: Uncle Sam says you can gobble up addictive and dangerous painkillers until you're a crazed, self-medicating, drug-addled junkie -- but smoke a little pot on your ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-08-09 09:49 - 0 comments

Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) Four decades of the so-called "War on Drugs" has led only to the suffering of millions of innocents, the crowding of our prisons with non-violent citizens, the utter ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-06-23 07:04 - 0 comments

By JOHN SINCLAIR O nly the most nave, cynical or deluded among us can subscribe to the pervasive mythology of drug police, prosecutors and judges as fearless warriors valiantly fighting a depraved horde of heartless pushers and evil dope ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-05-02 12:09 - 0 comments

By Jeff Schwartz The black SUV pulled up, its illegally-dark tinted windows obscuring everything inside. I walked across the street toward it and, just as I arrived, the passenger window slid down to reveal Dana Point’s city ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-02-08 09:22 - 0 comments

(02-03) 05:22 PST Oakland, Calif. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors have warned Oakland officials that the city's marijuana farm ordinance violates U.S. law. In a letter Tuesday, the U.S. attorney's office says the pot cultivation law ...

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By  Keith O’Brien January 16, 2011 In the end, there was no way to ignore the problem, and no way for politicians to spin it, either. Young people across Portugal were injecting themselves with heroin. HIV and Hepatitis C infection rates were ...

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(AFP) – Dec 25, 2010 WASHINGTON — The US Drug Enforcement Administration has grown into a global intelligence organization whose reach extends far beyond international drug trafficking, The New York Times reported. Citing documents from the ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-01-14 10:56 - 0 comments

by Laurence M. Vance,Posted December 16, 2010 My title is a radical one, and deliberately so. There is a reason I did not say, “The Moral Case for Drug Legalization,” or, “The Moral Case for Drug Decriminalization,” or, “The Moral ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2010-12-16 11:50 - 0 comments

October 28, 2010 The nation's drug war warriors (led by current and past DEA chiefs and drug czars) along with sideline apologists (timid politicians, blinkered editorialists), are resorting to a last-minute campaign of hair-afire ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2010-10-29 11:02 - 0 comments

Nicholas D. Kristof I dropped in on a marijuana shop here that proudly boasted that it sells “31 flavors.” It also offered a loyalty program. For every 10 purchases of pot — supposedly for medical uses — you get one free packet. ...

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By Edward Schumacher-MatosFriday, October 15, 2010 BOSTON In the upcoming California referendum on legalizing marijuana for recreational use, Mexican President Felipe Calderón and U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske have something in common. Both are ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2010-10-28 08:15 - 0 comments

By ADAM COHEN Wednesday, Oct. 06, 2010 The cult movie Reefer Madness, released in 1938, warned of the horrors of marijuana — or, as a movie poster put it, "the torturer that never stops." The film was an extreme portrait, full of death ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2010-10-06 08:37 - 0 comments

By TIMOTHY EGAN It was early still, and daylight, so when I called up The Dude to get his take on new polls showing California on the verge of becoming the first state to legalize, tax and regulate recreational use of marijuana, I knew he ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2010-10-01 07:30 - 0 comments

Cannabis can realize its full therapeutic potential only when it is completely legal and people don’t have to go to their doctors to get it. Dr. Grinspoon Many physicians, even in California, refrain from approving use of cannabis by ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2010-08-20 09:44 - 0 comments

large_marijuana.jpg 10) MARIJUANA USE HAS NO EFFECT ON MORTALITY: A massive study of California HMO members funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2010-07-14 11:03 - 0 comments

Kim Hawk • June 27, 2010 Alcohol is the most popular recreational drug in the world and the most dangerous with 100,000 people dying annually in America from the direct health effects of drinking. Marijuana is the second most popular ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2010-06-29 11:04 - 0 comments

June 21, 2010 | Arizona This is just one small catch.  So, just how secure do you feel now, Mr. and Mrs. America?  Do you still think Jan Brewer is wrong?  I say GOD bless Jan Brewer for standing up to our federal government!  Don't back ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2010-06-25 08:33 - 0 comments

by Chris Hinyub Sat, May 29th 2010 Voters headed to the polls this November will be confronted with the option of legalizing the cultivation and recreational use of marijuana. Before deciding, Californians might want to take a cue from ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2010-06-16 11:41 - 0 comments

Tuesday, June 08, 2010 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer (NaturalNews) Doctors suffer in secret from a wide range of physical and mental health problems including addiction, according to the findings of a new health program in the United Kingdom. ...

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Monday, June 07, 2010 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer (NaturalNews) Nearly one in 20 U.S. residents above the age of 50 regularly abuses illegal or prescription drugs, according to a report issued by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2010-06-07 12:48 - 0 comments

A November ballot initiative could make California the first state in the nation to legalize marijuana. Hadn't they done that already? Not quite. by Jessica Bennett March 26, 2010   In downtown Oakland, there is a nine-block ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2010-06-02 07:54 - 0 comments

Shasana had just come home from school. It was midday, and she crouched on the floor of her family's mud hut, waiting patiently for her lunch and her opium. Her small head, cloaked in a bright green scarf, ducked towards the floor. She put ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2010-05-28 10:10 - 0 comments

By MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press Writer Thu May 13, 2010 MEXICO CITY – After 40 years, the United States' war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal ...

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