An uncommon display of how prohibition promotes drug abuse
http://criminaljustice.change.org/Free-Base Caffeine
by Matt KelleyPublished January 19, 2009 @ 07:36PM PST
Via DailyDish: A video from a citizen-journalist in Vancouver shows us step-by-step how to free-base caffeine for an amphetamine-like high.
This two minute how-to video makes quite a strong argument for the legalization of drugs. If we want to get wasted on legal substances, that's exactly what we're going to do. There will always be another drug, another method of using a common substance (like coffee) to get high. Alcohol is more destructive than marijuana, but only pot is illegal. People have used drugs for thousands of years - they are as much a part of human nature as having a system of justice. The law will never stay ahead of the ways we manage to alter our consciousness.
Legal drugs could be controlled and taxed (to a point). Instead, illegal drugs are dangerous and expensive and tax-free.
Which should we do - legalize drugs or make coffee and alcohol illegal?
(Images above via Flickr: left Lotzman Katzman, right uzi978)
This footage was prepared recently by a citizen-journalist / advocate in Vancouver.
Contrary to what one might think, it's a pretty good PSA for crack addicts wanting to manage their addiction ... and it's apparently legal, too.
Presumably Obama sees this.
Hence he has something to go on when he hears from Bolivian President Evo Morals about legalizing Coca.
1993 U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment Report Alternative Coca Reductions Strategies, which recommends legalizing Coca
Effectiveness of Criminal N.Y. Rockefeller Drug Laws- Douglas Willinger
Quantitative and Qualitative Effects of Cocaine Prohibition- Douglas Willinger
D.P.F. Coca Papers:
November 1989; "Drug Policy 1989-1990 A Reformer’s Catalog”,
“Coca: an Alternative to Cocaine?”
by Anthony Richard Henman
November 1990; “The Great Issues of Drug Policy”
“The Ever-Changing, Ever-Confused Popular Conception of Cocaine”,
by Douglas A. Willinger
November 1991; “New Frontiers in Drug Policy”
“Cocaine Prohibition, Water or Gasoline…?”
by Douglas A. Willinger
November 1992; “Strategies for Change”,
“Cocaine Conversion: Onwards to Coca”
by Douglas A. Willinger
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