tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73999728677638891182024-03-13T13:37:19.408-04:00Freedom of Medicine and DietWas the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now- Thomas JeffersonDouglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.comBlogger620125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-22949909561211449092024-01-28T22:59:00.007-05:002024-01-28T23:41:05.393-05:00Snorted Crack (cocaine SULFATE, instead of cocaine HYDROCHLORIDE)<p> pp 308-312 Intoxication, by Dr. Ronald K. Siegel, 1989<br /></p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> “Peggy Sue went square dancing. I saw the pictures and I still couldn’t
believe it. She was sitting in my office, passing photographs to me from
the family album, and explaining what had happened. Peggy Sue was
seventy-three and she looked very tired; the pictures told the story of
better days. In her youth she had been a champion square dancer; Bill,
her husband and partner, had posed with the trophies to prove it. He
still moved with grace as he guided her through the examination
procedures. They now lived in a retirement village where Bill took care
of Peggy. He helped her out of bed in the morning and tucked her in at
night with all the tenderness of a lovesick boy. Peggy could only smile
back. Sex was too difficult. </p><p></p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">As I examined her, I realized she needed
Bill’s help. Her hands were gnarled; her limbs were stiff; and her
joints were red and swollen. She could move only short distances with a
slow shuffle. While she was able to hold a glass of water with two
hands, turning a doorknob was impossible. She needed help in the bath
and with grooming. None of these signs of advanced rheumatoid arthritis
caused me to disbelieve her story of square dancing. It’s just that she
got out of her wheelchair to do it. </p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The medical records told of Peggy
Sue’s battle with arthritis for almost twenty years. She had received
all the conventional treatments, including gold shots, anti-inflammatory
drugs, even surgery on her hands. She sought unconventional steroid
treatments in Mexico and was desperate enough to try every new diet,
exercise, or massage that promised to ease the progressive stiffness and
pain. Then she moved to a desert clinic in California where she
received Esterene. Several weeks later, Peggy Sue danced. </p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The charts in
her file showed an increased range of motion as muscle and joint
functions became less restrained. Her strength improved, the
inflammation and swelling of her joints subsided, and all the examining
physicians agreed that Esterene had greatly improved Peggy’s condition.
Although she never looked forward to taking the Esterene—she thought
sniffing was a most peculiar way to take medicine—Peggy Sue had to agree
she felt better, suffered less pain, could move her neck and body more
freely, and could do without the dozen aspirins she normally took each
day. Even when she was told that Esterene was a stimulant, she still
didn’t get a rush from the drug. Bill was the one who seemed excited,
though, especially now that his lover could once again get into bed on
her own. </p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I remained skeptical. Peggy Sue’s rising out of the wheelchair
seemed like an act straight from a faith healer’s tent show, not the
result of medical treatment by a national arthritis center, and Esterene
was, after all, a slick trade name for crack! If used intranasally,
crack, which is cocaine free base, would be ever so slowly absorbed by
the mucous membranes of the nostrils. This would eliminate the rush that
Peggy Sue denied experiencing, but would it also prevent abuse? There
were over two hundred other people in the Esterene treatment program
that I had been asked to evaluate. I was hopeful that detailed study of
these patients would provide the answer. </p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Esterene had been used for more
than two years on hundreds of patients, yet I was unable to find a
single case of abuse. Some patients had been taking as much as 750
milligrams per day with no ill effects. The program had not proven that
Esterene was a cure for arthritis—at best it was only acting as an
analgesic and psychomotor stimulant—but it did show that use of a drug,
even one with the addicting power of crack, did not have to lead to
abuse. It was important to understand how such use could be achieved. If
crack could be used without abuse, then maybe any drug could be used
safely. </p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The key to this safety was the ultra-slow absorption of cocaine
free base from the nasal membranes. Unlike the smoking of the drug,
which results in almost instantaneous intoxication, the effects from
topical application were like a time-release capsule. The nose
functioned as the capsule and the cocaine free base slowly leached out
into the blood. Users experienced mild intoxication but one that seemed
to last for hours and didn’t need frequent boosts. It was the same
effect achieved by chewing coca. Another aspect of safety seemed to be
the medical set and setting for the Esterene use. Users were good
patients who were under the direct supervision of physicians; they
followed their doctor’s orders and their Esterene labels”</p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I didn't have long to wait for a group of such users to surface for study. Sensationalist press stories about the Esternene program had prompted many people to experiment with intranasal cocaine free base. Some were cocaine users attracted to the report that snorting the free base was safer than snorting cocaine hydrochloride. Others were elderly people like Peggy Sue who were seeking treatment for arthritis or depression. The state had halted the Esterene program and disciplined the physicians, and as a result people started whipping up home brews of the drug. The authorities were understandably worried. Cocaine free base was not a miricle cure for rheumatoid arthritis, but if people started believing it and feeling better we might have a new population of illegal drug users to worry about: senior citizens! They could be readily be sold on the idea of cocaine as on Coca Cola, which was originally intended as a cocaine tonic for elderly people who easily became tired. We would no more be able to raid retirement homes looking for little old ladies sniffing cocaine than to bust into cancer clinics where patients sometimes received other unconventional drugs.</p><p><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I found a total of 175 users in the greater Los Angeles area. Surprisingly, most were not experiencing problems. They reported anti fatigue effects, as well as the suppression of chronic pain and discomfort, but they failed to experience problems. They reported antifatique effects, as well as suppression of chronic pain and discomfort, but they failed to experience the rapid and reinforcing euphoria that gives cocaine its addictive <b>(sic- instead say something as <i>hyper alluric</i>, stop reusing a given term in different ways, that simply masks the true addictiveness of caffeine, heroin, and above all NICOTINE)</b> potential. Unlike daily cocaine hydrochloride users who repeatedly dose themselves throughout the day, <b>(into a toxic maniac cycle)</b> people sniffing cocaine freebase administered the drug infrequently and do not show signs of dependency. Some had financial or legal problems associated with their use; several also experienced loss of appetite or sleep. yet their ability to maintain daily doses as high as 1,000 milligrams <b>(?!) </b>without severe dysfunction suggested that safe use was possible even in non medical settings.</p><p><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The major conclusion of the Peggy Sue story is not that Esterene should be made available by prescription (???). Rather, we see that the people can use certain forms of intoxicants. They can do so safely on the streets as in the clinics. How? In the prescriptions of Esterene the doses of cocaine were as carefully fixed as they had in the coca tea bags. Even street users, without the constraints of a medical set or setting, were handling these preparations. Conversely, the uncontrolled doses of street cocaine or smokable crack can easily lead to abuse if not toxicity itself. The apparent safety of the Esterene emphasized the dictum that a major difference between drug use and abuse is one of dose.</p><p><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">But our culture also views the difference in terms of medical approval. Peggy Sue was engaged in the medical pattern of use. Her crack was a medicine, therefore acceptable. When used by street users for the purposes that are not approved by medicine, the pattern of use is called non medical, therefore unacceptable and immoral. Their crack is a poison. Yet the street users were medicating their health, with the same relative safety that Peggy Sue and other clinical patients enjoyed while medicating the symptoms of arthritis. The resulting intoxication <b>(??? "toxic"???)</b> in both cases was medical, not nonmedical.</p><p><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The medical purpose of intoxication is easier to understand if we think of intoxicating drugs as adaptogens. Technically, an adaptogen is a substance that helps people adjust to changes in their physical or psychological environments. Adverse fluctuations in their physical or psychological environments. Adverse fluctuations in physiological, chemical, biological, or neurological systems may be corrected by some adaptogens. Thus, if the body or mind is tired, an adaptogen perks up functioning. Conversely, if one is overly excited, another adaptogen may temper the arousal <b><u>(perhaps different coca leaf alkaloids)</u></b> perks up functioning. Some adaptogens not only correct imbalances but perform a normalizing function by helping even healthy humans increase their resistance to potential changes . <b><u>(Imagine applying these last few sentences to the matter of the effects of the different Coca leaf components and in different combinations, let alone the broader matter of food industry sciences).</u></b></p><p><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Many adaptogenic substances are of plant origin and the most famous is ginseng, a plant that can rival cocaine in costs for some exotic preparations. Ginseng has been used worldwide to help the body perform under stress, correct fluctuations in blood pressure, even repair damage from radiation. Many people find it has a mild stimulating effect and also use it for fatigue, depression, and sexual indifference. But this is really no different from the reasons chosen for using the other drugs, such as coca. Proportionately, there is no greater incidence of abuse among the millions who use ginseng than among the comparative number who consume coca.</p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">These findings do not mean that we should outlaw ginseng any more than we should legalize coca (???- let us not dare challenge the status quo). What they show is that coca, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, alcohol, tobacco, and the hallucinogens are just as much medicines as ginseng when used to help us adapt to changes in our physiological or physical environment. <b>(???Tobacco??? What is Dr. Siegel writing about, alien species from outer space with different types of bodies - physiologies - that respond different than humans?) </b>Intoxicating drugs (intoxicating rather than potentially toxic in some higher dosages?!) medicate the needs of the forth drive for a change in state or mood. Whether we use coca tea to help us cope with high altitude sickness, or cocaine to fight the gloom and despair of consciousness, we are still medicating our needs. The purpose of intoxication serves a legitimate medical purpose.</p><p><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The solution to the drug problem of our species begins when we acknowledge the legitimate place of intoxication in our behavior. We must ensure that the pursuit of intoxication with drugs will not be dangerous. How can we do that?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-37198420371757558492023-11-11T14:57:00.005-05:002023-11-11T21:19:35.446-05:00How The N.Y. Times Reported on Cocaine "THE BANEFUL DRUG" (while giving INJECTIONS a virtual free pass)<p> <br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">May 26, 1886 <br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">SLAVES TO THE COCAINE HABIT</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">THE PITIABLE CONDITION OF DR. HAZEN AND HIS DAUGHTER</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> Elmira, N.Y., May 25. - The victims of the cocaine habit, Dr. A.S. Hazen and daughter whose wild ravings at the Delavan House yesterday created such a furor among the guests and people in the vicinity, were seen by a TIMES representative today, after they had received treatment at the City Hospital during the night and morning. Although seeming rational, the couple presented a sorry sight and showed clearly that their brains had undergone slow but sure poisoning by the persistent experimenting of the doctor on himself and daughter. Hazen in his best spells, when balanced by cocaine, seems well satisfied with the result of his experimenting, and says that he will soon abandon the use of the drug; but this seems to be a delusion, as he is considered hopelessly lost to the cocaine habit. Dr. Hazen stated that he had gradually used morphine while experimenting, and that the habit of using that drug grew so strong on him that his cravings for it were unbearable, and that in order for him to break himself of the habit and appease the pain sometimes caused by his in-satiate longings for morphine he began taking cocaine. He was cured of the morphine habit, but he found the cocaine habit fastened upon him in its stead. He then thought he would continue to see what the results would be, and he paid dearly for it. He claims that he had demonstrated that those who have been discussing the drug did not know what they were talking or writing about, and said that he will himself write a work on cocaine and its effects on the human system. He expected to take his daughter to Wellsborough, Penn., this afternoon and then go to Sharpsville, Penn., himself.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">About noon Constable Fean repaired to the hospital, and on an attachment that had been sworn out by Bauch & Lomb, of Rochester, attached all of Hazen's belongings. The firm brought suit before Justice Roper, of this city, to secure about $250 worth of goods that they had sent to Hazen on approval while he had his residence in Indiana. The principle part of the goods sought after was a fine microcrope and a number of valuable objectives. The microscope was found and taken possession of by the officer, but the objectives could not be secured. Hazen had pawned goods with Watson, the East Waterstreet pawnbroker, to the amount of $38 50, and had invested a portion of the money in cocaine. At one of the railway stations the constable also had levied on several boxes of household goods that had been shipped as freight. Hazen had been running about the city considerably during the day, and both he and his daughter seemed to continue rational under the influence of the drug, which they use constantly to keep them braced up</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1886/07/04/103959900.html?pageNumber=1">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1886/07/04/103959900.html?pageNumber=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p>No mention of the route of administration- how taken?</p><p><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">A SLAVE TO COCAINE.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">ANOTHER PHYSICIAN A VICTIM TO THE BANEFUL DRUG.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">CINCINNATI, July 3, 1886 </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">For some time past the peculiar actions of Dr. J.W. Underhill, one of the most prominent physicians of this city, have excited the gravest apprehensions among his friends. The neighborhood in which he lives has been almost terrorized by his eccentricities, but his brother physicians have hereto refused to state the exact nature of his trouble. It is now developed that Dr. Underhill is a victim of the cocaine habit, being the third authenticated case on record in the United States. The eminent doctor, who was twice elected Coroner, and was for several terms President of the Cincinnati Board of Education, has been in poor health for two or three years. He went to the Bermuda Islands in the Winter of 1884, and returned in an improved condition. While suffering from lung disorder the doctor contracted a desire for opium, which he used immoderately. Upon the supposition that cocaine would cure him of the opium habit he began to use it, but it seems to have had a contrary and more horrible effect. The exact time when Dr. Underhill began the use of cocaine cannot be ascertained, but it certainly dates back three or four months. He is now a pitiful sight. The dreadful drug has reduced him in fresh until he is a mere skeleton. The pupils of the eyes are greatly dilated, and his whole appearance is indicative of a man under intense mental strain and excitement. On several occasions during the past two weeks the unfortunate physicians has shown a disposition to be vindictive when deprived of his drug. Persuasion has been useless, and coercive measures were not resorted to on on account of the high standing of the family and the unpleasant notoriety it would give them. Yesterday the doctor skipped out of his house while unobserved and went to a livery stable, where he hired a buggy and drove toward the country. Shortly after his nonappearance Mrs. Underhill left her home in great alarm, but could find no trace of him. It is certain that he had no trace of him. It is certain that he had been taking large portions of cocaine hypodermic ally, and he was frenzied from the effect. He had of late entirely neglected his practice, which brought him an income variously estimated at from $10,000 to $15,000 per annum, and his former patients awed by his horrible condition have avoided him. A searching party was sent out, and he was found and brought home. The publication of the distressing facts connected with this unfortunate affair will create a great sensation in this city. Friends of the family say that the doctor will be committed to a private asylum next week. At times he is quite rational, and after the influence of the drug has temporarily subsided it leaves him weak and debilitated. Dr. Underhill is about 52 years old.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1886/07/04/103959900.html?pageNumber=1">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1886/07/04/103959900.html?pageNumber=1</a></p><p> </p><p>Only a single mention of the route of administration - taken hypodermic INJECTION!.<br /></p><p></p><p>Zero mention nor discussion of the pharmacokinetics of taking cocaine or ANY stimulant by injections.<br /></p><p></p><p>The Headline should have read "Cocaine Injections" - or "Hypodermic Cocaine".<br /></p><p></p><p>Yet instead the N.Y. Times calls cocaine "the baneful drug", while giving a free pass to the idea of taking it by injection. </p><p></p><p>Cocaine occurs naturally in Coca leaves. People who consume Coca leaves are taking cocaine indirectly as Coffee drinkers take caffeine or Tobacco users nicotine.</p><p></p><p>By virtually ignoring the mode of administration - hypodermic injection" while labeling cocaine as "the baneful drug" The New York Times surrendered to caffeine/nicotine protectionism, and marked a surrender of journalistic integrity.<br /></p><p>This is what the U.S. government did with misrepresenting cocaine by framing it as a drug taken by injection. See: <a href="https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/us-state-department-deceives-chinas.html"><b>https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/us-state-department-deceives-chinas.html</b></a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p> <br /></p>Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-4449206363592717562023-10-14T02:32:00.028-04:002023-10-19T15:34:31.428-04:00Opium and Coca Thrown Under The Bus<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghVLc60d7i_GM3ePQimcQj-YMavT96d1YeUHaRwjC-YfmNCzcsKeLZsJCP2uF7DA4hF1BhyphenhyphenWUSMAuwYZLTSLZlbJXfshaD49w63_WDihvPPsxrdiiOLDvMAMVD20S39Ajd6RH8bivQxzfHL9pADg-jot4Pfo8vvb05sM07hgR-Z9DjPk6hhXjL6JyRL80/s600/teddy%20%20roosevelt%20cigarettes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="442" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghVLc60d7i_GM3ePQimcQj-YMavT96d1YeUHaRwjC-YfmNCzcsKeLZsJCP2uF7DA4hF1BhyphenhyphenWUSMAuwYZLTSLZlbJXfshaD49w63_WDihvPPsxrdiiOLDvMAMVD20S39Ajd6RH8bivQxzfHL9pADg-jot4Pfo8vvb05sM07hgR-Z9DjPk6hhXjL6JyRL80/s320/teddy%20%20roosevelt%20cigarettes.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0E60RHNUStKnpYXJO1DKavXE4L1TmNADbwW1WR1x2KyobjVE0Ae-kIR53ccyb7LRCtVgSr3xhr8tYUxObfjWNGUH5ZWIfxS4EIO5E5_G7DghgIsPPHZNgCP8GcKFqw4Yal8VZhZIWHGjFGsluxg4SFmSW9mD8DD4PY9LjBqtVL4Q_qJSd6dwCLdzsQxs/s225/DPA%20green%202023.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0E60RHNUStKnpYXJO1DKavXE4L1TmNADbwW1WR1x2KyobjVE0Ae-kIR53ccyb7LRCtVgSr3xhr8tYUxObfjWNGUH5ZWIfxS4EIO5E5_G7DghgIsPPHZNgCP8GcKFqw4Yal8VZhZIWHGjFGsluxg4SFmSW9mD8DD4PY9LjBqtVL4Q_qJSd6dwCLdzsQxs/s1600/DPA%20green%202023.png" width="225" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div><p></p><p>Mis-regulated to continually kill- Tobacco-Pharma Protectionism Masquerading as a "War on Drugs"<br /></p><p>Lets face it. Drug policy reformists had a bad idea of strictly focusing upon Cannabis, while saying nothing about any sort of legalization for Opium and Coca- the natural plant substances and products approximating their natural potency, simply resting upon fear of these substances select alkaloids in highly concentrated evermore problematic forms, even refusing to address ridiculous sentences, as a minimum of 1 year incarceration for possessing a dime bag with residue of cocaine/heroin etc.</p><p>The Drug Policy Alliance (previously the Drug Policy Foundation) started out as a great idea, especially for disseminating new ideas and perspectives, but was alas hobbled, particularly by tobacco industry connections, to with Ira Glasser and the Washington DC law firm of Covington & Burling. To wit, the D.P.F. Conference Paper Compendiums. Went from good to great 1989-1992, to subsequently crash and burn. To wit the D.P.F. conference itenery, like the panels.</p><p>Now consider that the D.P.F. was founded in 1986, having its initial international conference the following year in London, and then in 1988 in Washington, D.C.- the year that Covington & Burling announced its pro bono program was going to advise the D.P.F. on corporate and tax matters- according to a dated <b><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-policy-foundation-legal-connection.html"><span style="font-size: large;">March 1990 letter by D.P.F.'s Kevin Zeese and Arnold Trebach in the 1988-1990 Biennial Report</span></a></b>.</p><p>D.P.F. had been founded in response to the great 1986 mass media hyperbole over the substance "cocaine" - an alkaloid found in minute amounts in Coca leaves - as are caffeine and nicotine. Now, no one would expect to mess with powder caffeine rather than say drink Coffee or some other caffeine containing beverage, let alone the far deadlier nicotine. Yet the mass media acts under a dictate that discussing cocaine must always assume zero need to discuss the drug's form - a plant product or an ultra concentrate. So when a University of Maryland graduate who was accepted to play for the Boston Celtics, Len Bias, ODs from drinking a cup of tea laced with 1000 milligrams cocaine, the media simply reports that he died from cocaine (with zero mention of dosage), and the news industry starts singing in chorus the "need" to further increase cocaine prohibition statute violations. So, both establishment parties demand this new legislation. The 1986 Act, establishing the new mandatory minimum prison sentences for "crack" cocaine- a mass media coined term for cocaine sulfate (rather than cocaine hydrochloride), which the media sensationalized as the means for cocaine via the lungs- smoked or vaporized- for a far more toxic-alluring habit, though in fact is also the alternative means to take cocaine by inhalation (snorting), but in an infinitely more useful way, whereas snorting the hydrochloride yields a rapid absorption and subsequent crash, snorting the sulfate yields a considerably slower absorption, making it comparable indeed superior than drinking Coffee! So once again the mass media helps popularize more dangerous ways of taking cocaine while ignoring those considerably safer.<br /><br />So, where was the D.P.F. in going beyond Cannabis/Marijuana? Kevin Zeese had come from NORML - National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws - so where and what would be the attention and focus regarding opiates, starting with good old Opium, and especially - given the Len Bias response - cocaine? With people in problematic user relationships with such substances in the artificially concentrated forms guaranteed by prohibition - the 1914 Harrison Act set the practice of banning both the key active alkaloids and the respective parent plan, thereby eliminating safe, measured dose retail products, in favor of a contraband market of ultra concentrated key alkaloids without quality assurance. So instead of things as the true original formula Coca-Cola (about 1 1/2 milligrams cocaine per fluid ounce), and Vin Mariani (7 milligrams cocaine per fluid ounce, sold in 17 ounce bottles made with an extract of 2 ounces of a variety of three types of Coca leaves), or ridiculous stuff as encouraged by trade-tax codes favoring Coca Wines that were "medicinal"- with that phrase being defined as a minimum of 30 milligrams of cocaine per fluid ounce! (and made instead with a coca alkaloid paste. A 1905 NYS Pharmacy Law draft shows support for the idea of limiting the allowable amounts of cocaine, at 1/8th a grain, about 9 milligrams per fluid ounce- the same amount the Harrison Act allowed for heroin content. Nevertheless, the U.S. government embarked upon a strident political campaign to absolutely ban cocaine (re: Coca), with zero allowable cocaine content. This came about 1904, with the deliberations leading up to the U.S. Food & Drugs Act. This was just after the pair of attempted shakedowns of Vin Mariani (the January 1898 & 1904 Papal Gold Medles to Vin Mariani inventor Angelo Francois Mariani (December 17, 1838 - April 1, 1914) as a benefactor to humanity for making quality Coca available around the world, and of the U.S. acquisition of the project to construct the Panama Canal, which was completed in 1914, year of the Harrison Act, in time to block the canal for easing Coca leaf shipments to north Atlantic markets. Research clearly shows how "medical" interests subverted any sane rational use of Coca, initially by marketing 30 milligram per fluid ounce "Coca" (chalk cocaine) Wines/Tonics", along with cocaine injection kits! Subsequently then by not really addressing the massive differences in potency and effects, indeed just the opposite. To wit The New York Times front page headline "Slaves to Cocaine Habit" about what ought to have been headlines "Victims to Cocaine INJECTIONS" - as if it were thus safe to inject caffeine or especially nicotine. Medical guilds as the the American Medical Association, American Phamaceutical Association all insisted that state legislatures pass legislation to ban cocaine. No mention of coca leaves, nor coca leaf extract, nor methods of preparation, storage, nor production. And zero interest in setting allowable/permissible amounts (like the 1905 NY Pharmacy proposal for up to 9 milligrams cocaine per fluid ounce, versus the 30+ seen starting during the mid 1880s. NO interest in any allowable amounts! With cocaine/Coca natural/agricultural stimulants, the matter was not about simply prohibiting products with increasingly problematic, especially injections, and with that, mainly the cathhrr sniffing powders.<br /></p><p>Rather, the supposed "medical" lobby was working with the establishment of protecting key commodities, above all, Coffee, Tea, and most disgustingly, Tobacco. Coca as a stimulant had been examined and advocated as a substitute, even for alleviating the assumptions of nicotine withdrawal. And it is that use, Coca as a "Tobacco Habit Cure" that was clearly the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s concern. See their 1910 1910 USDA Farmers Bulletin article <i>"Habit-Forming Agents- their sale and use a menace to the public welfare"</i><br /></p><p>So given the relative health effects of Tobacco versus Coca, as well as the effects of prohibition and mis-regulation, we ought to have had an emerging political demand for stopping this criminal action of market subversion, starting with repealing the ban on cocaine, with restrictions based solely upon matters of content/potency. For instance, Coffee is legal. Caffeine powder is also legal, and can be sold on the internet to anyone, without any requirement of medical training. And people have killed themselves unwittingly by treating purified caffeine like say salt or sugar. Yet no one calls out in favoring a ban on caffeine. So where would be a movement to not simply just reduce penalties, but to re-legalize with a comparably safe, regulated formula/content retail products based upon Coca leaf?</p><p>I began attending the Drug Policy Foundation international conferences in 1989. Found nothing on Coca, though did find it included a pair of panels, each addressing opium/opiates, or cocaine. And the cocaine panel was inclusive, so panelists could talk about Coca leaf, as well as snortable or smokable white cocaine. And the November 1989; Drug Policy 1989-1990 A Reformer’s Catalog”,<br /><a href="http://www.drugpolicy.org/library/prehenm.cfm"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Coca: an Alternative to Cocaine?”</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">by Anthony Richard Henman </span></a></p><p style="text-align: left;">The early 1990s Drug Policy Foundation was great opportunity for overlooked matters relating to the whole "war on drugs" modern day pharmacological inquisition. So for 1990 D.P.F. conference, I submit a paper, <i>The Ever Changing Ever Confused Popular Conception of Cocaine</i>, which they publish. For 1991 I submit a paper, and offer myself as a panelist, and am placed upon the cocaine panel. I do likewise for 1992, and am again placed upon the cocaine panel, plus a second panel "Is America Exporting Its Problems."</p><p style="text-align: left;">These were my own authored papers that I submitted to and which were published by the Drug Policy Foundation 1990, 1991, & 1992:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> November 1990; “The Great Issues of Drug Policy”<br /><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/02/ever-changing-ever-confused-popular.html" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">“The Ever-Changing, Ever-Confused Popular Conception of Cocaine”</span>, by Douglas A. Willinger </a><br /><br />November 1991; “New Frontiers in Drug Policy”<br /><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/02/cocaine-prohibition-water-or-gasoline.html" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">“Cocaine Prohibition, Water or Gasoline…?”</span> by Douglas A. Willinger </a><br /><br />November 1992; “Strategies for Change”,<br /><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/02/cocaine-conversion-back-to-coca.html" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">“Cocaine Conversion: Onwards to Coca”</span> by Douglas A. Willinger </a></p><p>These were the panels were I was a panelist:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> - 1991 "<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Cocaine/Crack Scene”</span>
held Saturday, November 16, moderated by Bruce K. Alexander, Simon
Fraser University; Patricia Erickson; Steven B. Karch, forensic drug
abuse adviser, Berkeley, California; Randy Salekin, graduate student
Simon Fraser University; Douglas Willinger, graduate student, School of
Justice, Law and Society, American University. <br /><br />- 1992 "<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Cocaine and Trade”</span> Moderated by Craig Reinarman, University of California; Bertha K.
Madra, PhD, Harvard Medical School; Douglas Willinger, graduate student,
American University; John Lindsay-Poland, Fellowship of Reconciliation;
and Bruce Alexander, Simon Fraser University; as well as <b><i>“The Americas: Is the U.S. Exporting Its Problems”</i></b> Moderated by
Ethan Nadelmann, J.D., PhD., Princeton University; Christina Johns.
Ph.D. Alabama State University; Julius A. Gylys, Ph.D., University of
Toledo; Patricia Castana, Journalist, Columbia; Doug Willinger, graduate
student, American University.<br /></p><p>Yet things changed afterwards. <br /></p><p>For 1993, I again submit paper proposals, and I am rebuffed.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Thank you for your interest in the
Seventh International Conference on Drug Policy Reform. I have read
your recently submitted proposals addressing coca. Unfortunately, due
to the large volume of proposals received we cannot accept all of the
quality topics suggested for this year’s conference. Fortunately, with
your help, coca is one of the subject matters we have more then
adequately educated our members on in years past. This year, we must
make room in the manual and the panel discussions for the plethora of
current issues affecting drug policy. We thank you for your interest
and dedication to the reform of drug policy. I hope you will attend
the conference in November and encourage you to submit a proposal to
next year’s call for papers</span><i>.</i></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i> </i>D.P.F. to Douglas Willinger, June 3, 1993, signed by Kendra Wright, Director of Development,</p><p>Notably that was the day the Wall Street Journal had a page one article about Bolivia's campaign to open up a legal market for coca leaf, <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">“Bolivians
Are High On a Toothpaste Made From Coca; Exporters Express Resentment
That Kinship to Cocaine Is Blowing Their Business”.</span></span> I send D.P.F.'s Kendra Wright a copy of that article, along with others from the N.Y. Times and the Washington Post about Coca tea drinkers urine testing positive for
cocaine metabolites and the controversies about their loosing job eligibility. I also include an abstract of a study of the
medicinal use of coca tea to wean users/abusers of concentrated forms of
cocaine. All to no avail.<br /></p><p>Things radically changed at the Drug Policy Foundation after 1992.</p><p>No more serious conference paper compendium (book) open original independent research. No more 428 or 391 page D.P.F. conference paper compendiums with over 100 original article. Whereas previously square bound, 270+ pages with dozens of original article, and now a spiral bound tome 1/2 the size with all articles previously published elsewhere.<br /></p><p>And, get this, NO MORE REGULAR BROAD SPECTRUM COCAINE PANEL!</p><p>And any later cocaine panels are focused strictly upon the matter of crack smoking, so as to exclude any other modes of taking cocaine.<br /></p><p>But we get this new panel as the substitution, on "Latin America"- for a while entirely or mainly female panelists - chaired by Colletta Youngers, <a href="https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2023/08/jimmy-carter-continuing-drug-war.html">who was later involved with Carter Center work on Coca.</a><br /></p><p>For 1994, same refusal to place me on a panel, nor publish a paper.</p><p>With <b><u><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2009/11/14-years-ago-coca-95.html">the sole exception in 1995</a></u></b>, the organization refuses to hold any panels for coca, and only hold "cocaine" panels that are exclusively about "crack" cocaine. Arnold Trebach starts a "student paper competition" which is held 1996, 1997, 1999 and in 2000- its final year, which ended up being a paper on coca. </p><p>Zeese resigned October 1994, while Trebach would be removed by a D.P.F. Board of Directors at the 1997 conference, with Zeese involved in training new D.P.F. interns circa 1999.<br /></p><p>D.P.F. becomes the D.P.A. via its merger with the Lindesmith Institute that Ethan Nadelmann founded circa 1992/3. In its first 15 years, the D.P.A. held zero panels on coca, only doing so for 2015& 2017. The panelists were all spanish speaking/if not bilingual. ALL were from South America. And the focus was specifically about the rights of the indigenous to chew coca leaves, but nothing much if at all about expanding licit markets. ALL the panelists were of course invited by the D.P.A. the George Soros "Open Society Institute", which held the same panel at its headquarters in Manhattan in 2018. The D.P.A. though would not hold this panel at their 2019 conference in St. Louis, and it does not appear in their 2023 conference schedule.</p><p>Over the years, your truly made various panel proposals to the D.P.F./D.P.A., including:</p><p>1994- <b><i>“Coca- Turning Over a New Leaf in Reducing Health Care Costs.” </i></b><br />
</p><blockquote>
- Coca: powder cocaine and crack substitute: making their abuse obsolete.<br />
- Medical Coca: a multitude of valuable therapeutic applications.<br />
- Coca: the safer alternative to licit stimulants, particularly Tobacco.<br />
<br />
Presenting Coca in this context is a potent antidote to popular
misconceptions that drug prohibition somehow serves the general welfare.
People support prohibition, generally viewing it favorably in inverse
proportion to the degree they see illegal drugs as "bad." The story of
Coca though is a powerful indictment of prohibition.<br />
<br />
Here is something clearly good, useful for a variety of medical uses,
and as a daily stimulant. Indeed, to a greater extent than medical
Marijuana, drug war proponents acknowledge such medical uses of Coca as a
remedy for high altitude sickness, other forms of nausea, and stomach
aches; indeed recommendations for these uses of Coca are found in
virtually any Andean tourist guide book. People in most parts of the
world though are generally oblivious to this, focusing instead the
situation with concentrated cocaine that prohibition created and
sustains. As people have had the drug issue defined in such a convoluted
way to misperceive the illicit market in powder cocaine and crack --
cocaine hydrochloride and sulfate -- as the natural situation that would
exist without prohibition, ignorance of Coca is crucial towards
maintaining popular support for the drug war!<br />
<br />
The social importance of this panel is undeniably high. Let the
following serve as but one example. The leaf's reported utility to the
newly born --- as Coca is valuable to CNS stimulation and improves the
blood count of oxygen, giving it to women in labor has immense potential
towards reducing the instances of brain damage amongst new borns (see
the Saturday newsletter from the 1993 DPF conference) -- alone could
save millions of dollars in medical bills and lost productivity, to say
nothing of the prevalence of these heart-breaking tragedies sustained by
widespread ignorance of Coca's therapeutic benefits.<br />
<br />
Given the President's concerns over reducing health care costs and Coca
leaf's potential with this, is extremely valuable to the general
welfare. Indeed, perhaps this is the drug policy reformists' most
powerful approach towards dispelling the false utopic vision now
clouding a clear perspective of the drug war, for nobody can dismiss (or
ignore) it without appearing down right callous.<br />
<br />
The Clintons ought to find this irresistible. </blockquote><p>1996- <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">COCA '96: Medical, Legal and Social Considerations for the Next Millennia</span>, with the tentative Speakers: Dr. Ronald K. Siegel, Dr. Jorge Hurtado, Joseph Kennedy, Anthony Richard Henman. <br /></p><blockquote style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Medically,
economically and socially, the situation surrounding the Coca plant is
unjustifiable. Respected medical researchers suggest that the leaves of
Coca offer interesting medical benefits as an effective and relatively
safe medicine and stimulant. Dr. Andrew T. Weil, a proponent of Coca as
an alternative to Coffee, particularly for people suffering
Gastro-intestinal tract problems, noted in a recent magazine interview
that Coca is <span style="font-style: italic;">"very good for any type
of stomach or intestinal disorder. It stabilizes blood sugar, treats
motion sickness, [and] has a relaxing effect upon the larynx for people
who are speakers or singers. It also could be used as an aid to weight
loss, because you can chew coca instead of eating a meal and use the
energy to exercise. I think it could definitely be useful as a treatment
to get people off of cocaine [hydrochloride and sulfate].”</span>
Coca's use in treating cocaine addiction-- akin to the use of methadone
with regard to heroin abuse - is advocated by specialists such as Dr.
Jorge Hurtado of the International Coca Research Institute in Bolivia.
(Dr. Hurtado spoke via video at the premier D.P.F. conference Coca
workshop <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">COCA ‘95: A Necessary Drug Policy Alternative from Abroad</span>).
As can be gathered from numerous readings, unrefined Coca is far safer
than other substances -- prescription and over the counter preparations
-- employed for similar purposes. Revelations such as these suggest that
re-legalizing Coca's international trade would be immensely beneficial
from a public health standpoint. Indeed, Coca's historic use as a
Tobacco substitute or "cure", along with the government's interesting
concerns about this, as illustrated by such government publications as
the United States Department of Agriculture's 1910 Habit-forming Agents:
their indiscriminate sale and use a threat to the public welfare, in
conjunction with their relative health effects, make our "drug war"
exceptionally galling.</blockquote><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br />Towards helping the
public understand the Coca issue, this proposed Drug Policy Foundation
Coca session shall address Coca leaf as medicine and stimulant, along
with the current "war on drugs" now denying the world the myriad
benefits of the natural leaf. Tentative speakers include Dr. Ronald
Siegel [U.C.L.A.], Dr. Jorge Hurtado [International Coca Research
Institute, in Bolivia], anthropologist Anthony Henman, [author, the 1978
book, MamaCoca] and archaeologist Joseph Kennedy [author, the 1985
book, Coca Exotica]. [All the speakers have been informed of this
Proposal, and have responded favorably, conditional upon the Foundation
providing their registration, travel and accommodation expenses.] As the
audience participation and our speakers' lively presentations at the
recent COCA '95 panel in Santa Monica suggest that<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> COCA '96: Medical, Legal and Social Considerations for the Upcoming Millennia</span>
could be one of the 10th annual conference's more intriguing, if not
important, events. It is also intended that the session will include
discussion of new directions in drug policy reform advocacy. Discussion
is intended to include the effects of the last (almost) one hundred
years of government drug policies as well as identifying the policies
likely to promote drug abuse by creating more potent drugs such as
crack, i.e. banning the unrefined herb Coca and at the same time basing
the penalties visited for its possession or sale upon the gross weights
of the product. By shifting the entire "coca derivatives" market from
Coca tea and Coca Wine "" towards crack, the war on drugs cruelly
betrays the public's concerns over the problems of crime and drug abuse.<br /><br />This
proposal is best approved as a plenary panel with a workshop
afterwards, perhaps accompanied by a special session for speakers from
South America. It is further suggested that this proposal serve as one
for the Foundation to include the Coca issue as a part of its mission
towards educating the public about drug policy alternatives, via forums
on Capital Hill, as we approach the upcoming millennia.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Douglas A. Willinger; (914) 636-8214 (fax)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">COCA '96, Joep Oomen; 011 322 733 5708 (fax) </span><br /></div><p> </p><p></p><p>1997- <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Tinctures of
Opium, Wines of Coca, etc: Popular, Pre-prohibition Uses of Natural
Plants Perverted by Drug Prohibition into today’s “Hard” Drug Plague"</span>:<br />
</p><blockquote>
"Hard" drugs - e.g. "heroin" and "cocaine" -- have evoked great fears,
leading people to advocate or acquiesce to more repressive and expensive
drug laws and drug law enforcement, as if these molecules were
necessarily pernicious.<br />
<br />
Yet prior to prohibition, opiates and cocaine were widely used as safely
as aspirin and caffeine are now. Because we are so conditioned to react
to the powder forms of these drugs, we forget that these more direct
modes of ingestion -- sniffing, smoking and injecting -- were formerly a
relatively rare phenomenon.<br />
<br />
Prior to the twentieth century's "war on drugs," most people using these
drugs took them in dilute form, whether as raw plant material, or plant
preparation of comparable potency. Such plants and their popular
preparations, were widely recognized medicinal agents, worldwide.<br />
<br />
These substances have long and positive histories predating their
criminalization by U.S. federal statute via the 1914 Harrison "Tax" Act
and successive laws, and were used throughout the medical community as
effective, cheap, and safe treatments for a variety of ailments.<br />
<br />
Opium poppies have been taken medicinally for thousands of years, taken
topically, smoked and even brewed as a tea, as suggested in Hogshire's
"Opium for the Masses.""Cocaine" -- or more accurately, Coca just had
many uses. The Extra Pharmacopoeia (the British counterpart to the U.S.
Pharmacopoeia) cited Coca as a "nervine andmuscular tonic, preventing
waste of tissue, appeasing hunger and thirst, relieving fatigue, and
aiding free respiration ... useful in various diseases of the digestive
and respiratory organs.... "<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the Wine of Coca, became the most widely praised plant
preparation of the time. ’s creator, Angelo Francois Mariani was hailed
by Pope Leo XIII as a "benefactor of humanity" for making Coca available
around the world- after 40 years of Coca wine distribution."<br />
<br />
All of this of course, prior to prohibition. Any honest program of harm
reduction in drug use must go beyond the narrow-minded discussion of
today's "hard drug problems": heroin and cocaine HCI, to look at Opium
and Coca, to reveal the drug war's most intense effects upon drug abuse
-- shifting markets to the infinitely more dangerous concentrated
substances, while the natural forms are virtually forgotten.</blockquote><p>Meanwhile the Drug Policy Alliance failed to truly address the growing drug war threat from the mis-regulation of opiates. Prior to 2010, opiates became more available with the release of oxycodin and oxycontin- all good and useful pain pills that were oversupplied insofar as their prescribing for continual daily use. Every single day. Even if the patient felt no need. Also, the prescribed dosages may have been or were most definitely excessive. Such as prescribing a 30 milligram, when 10 would suffice. This sort of use would of course result in higher rates of problems. But as can be expected, the dopy authorities make matters considerably worse. First they replace normal pills that may be sectioned or ground, with hard shell "anti-abuse" formulas, that so end up resulting in a higher dosage administration when people attempt making a smaller dose. </p><p>Then they interfere with the patient-client privilege. </p><p>As they have done with the initial 1914 Harrison Act, where they claimed to allow prescribed medical use "within the course of professional medicine only"- with the definition of that crafted by the regulations made by un-elected bureaucrats at the U.S. Department of Treasury. Meaning the functionaries selected by and essentially through Georgetown University- of the society of jesus - jesuit order, strategic wing of the Catholic Church.<br /></p><p>What the government does to consumers of opiates is despicable, and a violation of due process and equal protection under the law. Imagine placing Tobacco-nicotine regular users under such restrictions.</p><p>It has made thing increasingly worse. They reduce and cut off the pills. They embark upon harassment suits, even suing Walgreens for simply filling prescriptions. And upon the manufacturers for simply producing them.</p><p>So with licit prescribed pills unavailable, the underground market response by manufacturing its own pills, which lack the quality assurance of the legal manufactured pills.</p><p>And fatal ODs have increased on a curve resembling the sales graph chart of tobacco cigarette production following the 1906 U.S. Food & Drugs Act. As can be expected when the government "drug warriors" attack licit supplies, spawning the inevitable contraband pills of sadly inadequate quality assurance. Yet what has Ira Glasser and Ethan Nadelmann done to combat such evil policies?</p><p>D.P.A. as set under the mismanagement of the likes of Ethan Nadelmann, and Tobacco lobby fund connected Ira Glasser, has undermined its support of "harm reduction" with their continual deference to the entire crony capitalist- mercantilist political order. All they can talk about is clean needles, crack pipes, and "safe injection rooms (for cocaine?!). But dare not even mention coca leaves, coca teas, coca wines and other sensibly formulated retail retail products. As that would conflict with above all perhaps, Tobacco.<br /></p><p></p><p>This is a clear, text book example of a beneficial substance being denied a legal market, upon behalf of entities in control of the government.</p><p></p><p>D.P.A. touts "harm reduction" as a slogan, though alas guts it with their
continual deference to the entire crony capitalist- mercantilist
political order. Though they claim to be working to carry forward drug policy reform, while actually working to considerably slow the pace of reform. </p><p></p><p>Just like the phony reformist smiley faces like Jimmy Carter, alas, who hid behind the made up excuse of the Jack Anderson - Peter Bourne affair to end even any talk of even just penalty reductions.</p><p>They are just being faithful to the 1914 Harrison Act ban on any detectable content of cocaine in retail Coca leaf products, in conformance to a Theodore Roosevelt administration period political pact to block Coca leaf in order to facilitate the mass growth in Tobacco cigarettes, post 1906. The U.S. had acquired control of the construction project for the Panama Canal in 1903. It would have potentially improved market access for Coca leaves via the considerably shorter shipping distances from the coast of Peru, to north Atlantic markets. And it would be completed and open to marine traffic in 1914, same year of the Harrison Act.<br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5tVpD1ET6dALfNlTJedWpA-0qGWYFroLJdJs7Ab6NO3qe2qrP6hzaFolaYh4WForwM6z_rw643OskhyDFqwBp9XQHqboydP1BFY_ow-ESZ7k7MIoXhcUu0hfK2UhgFBOEA7OboJi7W0ZxGX2-qSEoLhJzABV6OQv_Hw919uQalquSldxJj-PhNjUTwmM/s800/Cigarette+Production_1880_to_1968_cropped_800.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="800" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5tVpD1ET6dALfNlTJedWpA-0qGWYFroLJdJs7Ab6NO3qe2qrP6hzaFolaYh4WForwM6z_rw643OskhyDFqwBp9XQHqboydP1BFY_ow-ESZ7k7MIoXhcUu0hfK2UhgFBOEA7OboJi7W0ZxGX2-qSEoLhJzABV6OQv_Hw919uQalquSldxJj-PhNjUTwmM/s320/Cigarette+Production_1880_to_1968_cropped_800.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2023/08/theodore-roosevelt-market-supression-of.html">https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2023/08/theodore-roosevelt-market-supression-of.html</a><br /></div></div><div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2010/07/it-is-criminal-mercantilism-to-protect.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2010/07/it-is-criminal-mercantilism-to-protect.html</a></p><p><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2010/07/why-no-discussion-of-market-perversion.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2010/07/why-no-discussion-of-market-perversion.html</a></p><p><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2010/07/peter-lewis-ira-glasser-is-waste-of.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2010/07/peter-lewis-ira-glasser-is-waste-of.html</a></p><p><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2016/04/dpas-ethan-nadelmann-thwarts-discussion.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2016/04/dpas-ethan-nadelmann-thwarts-discussion.html</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2009/02/coca-come-back.html">https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2009/02/coca-come-back.html</a></p><p></p><p><br /></p></div>Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-27820468865155313132023-09-25T22:38:00.009-04:002023-09-25T23:56:57.561-04:00Drug Policy Alliance 2023 Conference Panels<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbOnxCqmHK6smS5TIjH7C-rjDXxEW2jz08j0M03HOPeqw4Hqk5ECzy_PckFIASi9fJ6QRQPv8rlxUo0TcFpRORRb35ZB57n80gXc99ZLWtAdzfhxywZGKOqUrdUCox-9aZm0uaW__1I4ifIfRAJ6QTkm0p6SAJqN1BUrl6kzyDjOFBA-xOUCzausvUpME/s225/DPA%20green%202023.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbOnxCqmHK6smS5TIjH7C-rjDXxEW2jz08j0M03HOPeqw4Hqk5ECzy_PckFIASi9fJ6QRQPv8rlxUo0TcFpRORRb35ZB57n80gXc99ZLWtAdzfhxywZGKOqUrdUCox-9aZm0uaW__1I4ifIfRAJ6QTkm0p6SAJqN1BUrl6kzyDjOFBA-xOUCzausvUpME/s1600/DPA%20green%202023.png" width="225" /></a></div><p>to be held October 16 - 21, 2023, Phoenix, Arizona<br /></p><p><a href="https://www.reformconference.org/full-conference-schedule">https://www.reformconference.org/full-conference-schedule</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> THURSDAY:</p><p> 11:30 am - 1:00 pm</p><h3>Breakout Sessions</h3><p></p><p></p><div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Small Town, Big Drug War: Rural Policing and Surveillance, Resistance, and Resilience<span> | Palo Verde A</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Drug Policy That Saves Lives and Transcends Borders: A Conversation with Government Leaders<span> | Palo Verde B</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Livestream available. Spanish interpretation available.</p>
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<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Illness and Wellness: The Tradeoffs Between Medicalization and Pleasure in Drug Policy Reform<span> | Palo Verde C</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Spanish interpretation available.</p>
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<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>The Disability Carceral State: Disability Justice Informed Abolition<span> | Yucca</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Unlearning the Drug War: An Exit Strategy for School-Based Drug Policing<span> | Willow</span></h4></span></div></div><p><time datetime="00Z">2:30 pm</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">4:00 pm</time>
</p>
<h3>Breakout Sessions</h3><h3> </h3>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>From the Ground Up: How People of Color Are Building Regulatory Models That Advance Equity in Marijuana Policy Reform<span> | Palo Verde A</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Righting Wrongs Worldwide: Drug War Reparations in a Global Context <span> | Palo Verde B</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Livestream available. Spanish interpretation available.</p>
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<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Psychedelic Decriminalization: Gateway or Hurdle to All-Drug Decriminalization?<span> | Palo Verde C</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Spanish interpretation available.</p>
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<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Methamphetamine as a Scapegoat: When an Old Drug is Framed as a New Social Problem<span> | Willow</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Resisting Surveillance: Movement Implications from Navigating Drug War Surveillance<span> | Cholla</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Book Talk: Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America<span> | Agave</span></h4></span></div></div><p> </p><p> <time datetime="00Z">4:30 pm</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">6:00 pm</time>
</p>
<h3>Breakout Sessions</h3><h3> </h3>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Who’s Body? My Body! The Fight for Bodily Autonomy When the Drug War, Reproductive Justice, and Family Regulation System Collide<span> | Palo Verde A</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>The Lure of Coercion: Don’t Be Fooled By “Kinder, Gentler” Drug War Tactics<span> | Palo Verde B</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Livestream available. Spanish interpretation available.</p>
</div></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Early Insights and Critiques of Safer Supply Models<span> | Palo Verde C</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Spanish interpretation available.</p><p> </p>
</div></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Introduction to Drug Policy Reform<span> | Yucca</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Environmental Justice for All: An Equitable Approach to Sustainable Development and Climate Justice in Drug Policy Reform<span> | Willow</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Who Deserves to Eat? Drug War Exclusion and the Fight for Basic Supports<span> | Cholla</span></h4></span></div></div><p> </p><p>FRIDAY:</p><div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z">9:30 am</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">11:00 am</time></div><div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z"> </time>
</div>
<h3>Breakout Sessions</h3><h3> </h3>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Decriminalizing Personal Liberties and Building Freedom Across Movements<span> | Palo Verde A</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>For Us, [Near] Us: A Conversation About OPCs, Gentrification, and Resource Allocation in Marginalized Communities<span> | Palo Verde B</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Livestream available. Spanish interpretation available.</p>
</div></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Transitional Justice and Engaging Cartels in Reforms <span> | Palo Verde C</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Spanish interpretation available.</p><p> </p>
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<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Policy Advocacy for Academics<span> | Yucca</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Reclaiming Our Movements: Building Power Between Drug User and Recovery Communities<span> | Willow</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Effective Communications for Difficult Conversations on Drugs: What’s the Secret? <span> | Cholla</span></h4></span></div></div><p></p><p> </p><div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z">11:30 am</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">1:00 pm</time>
</div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Feature Plenary<span> | The Show Room</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Livestream available. Spanish interpretation available.</p>
</div></div></div>
<div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z">1:00 pm</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">2:30 pm</time>
</div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Lunch<span> | Acacia Ballroom and Event Lawn</span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z">2:30 pm</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">4:00 pm</time></div><div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z"> </time>
</div>
<h3>Breakout Sessions</h3><h3> </h3>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment<span> | Palo Verde A</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>After Oregon: The Next Era of All-Drug Decriminalization<span> | Palo Verde B</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Livestream available. Spanish interpretation available.</p>
</div></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Will Drug Checking Save Us?<span> | Palo Verde C</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Spanish interpretation available.</p>
</div></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Lobbying 101 <span> | Yucca</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Fundraising Tips, Strategies, and Wisdom from the Field<span> | Willow</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Beyond Commercialization: How Regulation Can Create Legal Access and Safer Supply Without Big Business<span> | Cholla</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z">4:00 pm</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">4:30 pm</time>
</div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Afternoon Break</h4></span></div></div>
<div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z">4:30 pm</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">6:00 pm</time></div><div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z"> </time>
</div>
<h3>Breakout Sessions</h3><h3> </h3>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Combating Drug Panics in Congress: How Law Enforcement, the Media, and Lawmakers Perpetuate Fear-Based Drug Policy<span> | Palo Verde A</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>When Facts Fail: The Promises and Perils of Research in Drug Policy Reform<span> | Palo Verde B</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Livestream available. Spanish interpretation available.</p><p> </p>
</div></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Street-Based Harm Reduction Outreach to Combat “Public Disorder”<span> | Palo Verde C</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Spanish interpretation available.</p><p> </p>
</div></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>We Never Get Anywhere but Mad: Building Racial Equity Caucuses in the Southwest <span> | Yucca</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Drug Testing in Employment: Narrative Change and Policy Shift <span> | Willow</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>The Rise of Authoritarianism and Extremism in the Name of the Drug War<span> | Cholla</span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z">8:00 pm</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">11:00 pm</time>
</div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Karaoke Night!<span> | The Show Room</span></h4></span></div></div><p> </p><p>SATURDAY: <br /></p><p> </p><div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z">10:00 am</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">11:30 am</time></div><div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z"> </time>
</div>
<h3>Breakout Sessions</h3><h3> </h3>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>The Controlled Substances Act: Reform or Abolish It?<span> | Palo Verde A</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>The Deadly Game of Drug War Whack-A-Mole: Responding to the Ever-Changing Drug Supply<span> | Palo Verde B</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Livestream available. Spanish interpretation available.</p><p> </p>
</div></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Cannabis Legalization and the Dangers of Corporate Capture of Emerging Markets<span> | Palo Verde C</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Spanish interpretation available.</p><p> </p>
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<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Beyond Housing First: Limitations, Gentrification, and Visibility<span> | Willow</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>The Pueblo’s Budget Campaign: The Fight to Defund Phoenix Police and Build a Budget for the People<span> | Cholla</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Moving Beyond Alternative Sanctions: Assessing the Harms of Non-Criminal Punishment<span> | Agave</span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z">11:30 am</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">12:00 pm</time></div><div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z"> </time>
</div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Morning Break</h4></span></div></div>
<div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z">12:00 pm</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">1:30 pm</time></div><div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z"> </time></div><div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z"> </time>
</div>
<h3>Breakout Sessions</h3><h3> </h3>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>For Better or Worse? How Reform and Regulation Impact Drug Criminalization and Enforcement<span> | Palo Verde A</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Cashing
in on the Drug War in Daily Life: Following the Money and Motivation of
the Drug War Profiteers Outside of the Criminal System<span> | Palo Verde B</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Livestream available. Spanish interpretation available.</p><p> </p>
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<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Advances in Health and Harm Reduction Services and Persisting Barriers<span> | Palo Verde C</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Spanish interpretation available.</p><p> </p>
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<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Drug Policy in Disasters and Other Trying Contexts<span> | Willow</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>The
Intersections of Drug Policy, Policing, and Border Militarization in
the Borderlands: Challenging the Dangerous Rhetoric of the War on Drugs<span> | Cholla</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Radicals, Resistance, and Rebellion: Lessons from Civil Disobedience and Direct Action<span> | Agave</span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z">1:30 pm</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">3:00 pm</time>
</div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Lunch<span> | Acacia Ballroom and Event Lawn</span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z">3:00 pm</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">4:30 pm</time></div><div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z"> </time>
</div>
<h3>Breakout Sessions</h3><h3> </h3>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Power Structures of Drug Trade Economies<span> | Palo Verde A</span></h4><h4><span> </span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Early Insights and Critiques of Psychedelic Regulation: Who’s Benefiting from the Psychedelic Renaissance?<span> | Palo Verde B</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Livestream available. Spanish interpretation available.</p><p> </p>
</div></div></div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Immigration
in the Age of Fentanyl: How the Overdose Crisis is Fueling Xenophobia
and Racism and Undermining Sanctuary Policies in the U.S.<span> | Palo Verde C</span></h4></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"><p>Spanish interpretation available.</p><p> </p>
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<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Reclaiming Justice: Indigenous Perspectives Shaping Drug Decriminalization<span> | Willow</span></h4></span></div></div>
<div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z">4:30 pm</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">5:00 pm</time>
</div>
<div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Afternoon Break</h4></span></div></div>
<div class="section--date"><time datetime="00Z">5:00 pm</time>
- <time datetime="00Z">6:00 pm</time>
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<div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><h4>Closing Plenary<span> | The Show Room</span></h4></span></div><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-61942139944078179692023-08-05T03:05:00.010-04:002024-01-28T23:00:06.597-05:00Jimmy Carter & The Continuing Drug War<p>Jimmy Carter, born October 1, 1924, served as the 39th U.S. President (1977 - 1981).</p><p>Carter has since involved himself with philanthropy, most famously the Habitat for Humanity, and as well with something called The Carter Center, a 501(c)(3) charity</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">A non governmental center, The Carter Center has helped to improve life for people in more than 80 countries by resolving conflicts; advancing democracy and human rights; preventing disease; and improving mental health care.</p><p>With regard to the area of policy reform regarding Coca, The Carter Center, in conjunction with something called the "International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance" came out with a report DRUG POLICIES IN THE ANDEES: Seeking Humane & Effective Alternatives". Its listed authors are Socorro Ramírez and Coletta Youngers. It's opening letter is signed by Jimmy Carter and Vidar Helgesen.<br /></p><p></p><p></p><p>According to this report:<br /></p><p>Jimmy Carter wrote in the New York Times:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">"In a message to Congress in 1977, I said the country should decriminalize the possession of<br />less than an ounce of marijuana, with a full treatment program for addicts. I also cautioned<br />against filling our prisons with young people who were no threat to society, and summarized by<br />saying: “Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual<br />than the use of the drug itself.” These ideas were widely accepted at the time. But in the 1980s<br />President Reagan and Congress began to shift from balanced drug policies, including the<br />treatment and rehabilitation of addicts, towards futile efforts to control drug imports from foreign<br />97 countries."</p><p>NORML - the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws - famously claimed, such as in the following 1977 advertisement in Playboy Magazine, that Carter stated <i> </i></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i>"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself"</i> ...</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i>Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use.... The National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse concluded 5 years ago that marijuana should be decriminalized, and I believe it is time to implement those basic recommendations.</i></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i>"Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to 1 ounce of marijuana."</i></p><p style="margin-left: 320px; text-align: left;">Jimmy Carter</p><p style="margin-left: 320px; text-align: left;">Message to Congress, 8-2-77<br /></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibywdKQgI6viVYl71Ck19icPjaIDLGG4xq2naule9Wlz5oyVBIfQNtoMnRPdburX-5ShJBrilUg87i4y2e_cL3_Mj4XcX61vPSeDkqSthnzx1OK3u8O4VgBFuABtC6GDN3KbZUUvrefWSV-dQsGj8jVRJt_iRROoATHKSpnGS2_CqGAv2IOUHy_tK2oMw/s1125/NORML%20CARTER%201977.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="852" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibywdKQgI6viVYl71Ck19icPjaIDLGG4xq2naule9Wlz5oyVBIfQNtoMnRPdburX-5ShJBrilUg87i4y2e_cL3_Mj4XcX61vPSeDkqSthnzx1OK3u8O4VgBFuABtC6GDN3KbZUUvrefWSV-dQsGj8jVRJt_iRROoATHKSpnGS2_CqGAv2IOUHy_tK2oMw/s320/NORML%20CARTER%201977.jpg" width="242" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>From the actual remarks:</p><p> <a href="https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/pdf_documents/digital_library/sso/148878/35/SSO_148878_035_04.pdf">https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/pdf_documents/digital_library/sso/148878/35/SSO_148878_035_04.pdf</a></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> STATEMENT RE DRUG ABUSE AUGUST 2, 1977<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Today I am sending Congress a message which expresses my strong criticism about crime, sickness, and death caused by the abuse of drugs -- including barbiturates and alcohol. The estimated cost of drug abuse in America exceeds $15 billion each year.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I am ordering the attorney general to concentrate on breaking the links between organized crime and drug traffic, to enhance cooperation among all law enforcement agencies and to ensure more certain conviction and quick punishment for those who habitually traffic in drugs. </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">We will not have an effective and united federal effort against drugs unless we reorganize the current federal effort, now divided among more than 20 different, often competing agencies. Therefore, I am directing my staff to study ways to eliminate this duplication and overlap and end the long-standing fragmentation among our international drug enforcement programs. We must also have international cooperation to control the production and transport of dangerous drugs [and block their movement].</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">We are making some progress in this already, in part because of cooperation from the governments of Mexico, Burma, Columbia and Thailand. <br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Heroin sold on our streets is now in such short supply that it is only 4.9 percent pure -- the lowest quality detected since records have taken effect.<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">In our own country, I am ordering a study of how we can best control the abuse of barbiturates and other prescription drugs -- which cause many deaths -- while not interfering with their legitimate medical use.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">We will make further efforts to deal with the problem on the international level. By cooperating with law enforcement officials abroad, by sharing treatment knowledge, by backing United Nations Drug Programs, by helping to find alternate crops for drug producing countries, and by supporting the ratification of the convention on psychotropic substances.<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> In our own country, I am ordering a study of how we can best control the abuse of barbiturates and other prescription drugs -- which can cause many deaths - while not interfering with their legitimate use.<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I support a change in law to end federal criminal penalties for possession of up to one ounce of marijuana, leaving the states free to adopt whatever laws they wish concerning marijuana.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Decriminalization is not legalization. I do not condone drug abuse, and we will do everything possible to reduce this serious threat to our society. Federal civil penalties should be exacted as a continued deterrent to possession and use of marijuana</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Drug research and treatment programs will also be improved to lessen the adverse impact of drugs on the lives of our people.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">It is ultimately the strength of the American people, of our values and our society, that they will determine whether we can be successful in our fight against drug abuse." <br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another source for Carter's August 2, 1977 remarks <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/drug-abuse-message-the-congress">https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/drug-abuse-message-the-congress</a>t.</p><p>Carter would prove himself a disappointment, by surrendering to the drug war's faux morality in response to a piece by syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, tattling upon White House drug policy advisor Peter Bourne participating in a Christmas 1977 NORML party where powdered cocaine was reportedly taken up the nose. This report had come from remarks by NORML director Keith Stroup, who tattled upon Bourne for failing to oppose the Carter administration's efforts to poison Marijuana consumers by aerial spraying of Marijuana crops in Mexico with paraquat.</p><p>So rather than call for stopping the paraquat program, Carter makes an issue out of Bourne's purported sorting of a few bumps of cocaine recreational-socially at that Christmas party. Carter fires Bourne, replacing him with more of a drug war toady, Peter Bessinger. And for his remaining term, Carter reverts to being more overtly deferential to the status quo, as do others as shown with the ending of the various legislative moves in the various states to decriminalize Cannabis.</p><p>Seven states had decriminalized during the mid 1970s, but that ended with the Carter-Bourne affair. Carter was subsequently defeated in his 1980 re-election bid by former California governor (and Chesterfield tobacco cigarette spokesperson) Ronald Wilson Reagan, who served as the 40th U.S. President. Under Reagan, deference to the drug war was heightened. DEA budgets shot up. And at a 1985 CPAC - Conservative Political Action Conference - we heard DEA administrator Jack Lawn brag about expanded powers to disregard the 8th amendment by seizing people's entire houses for the "crime" of using a house phone for a phone conversation about drug "conspiracy" - e.g. two people discussing a drug deal. So much for Reagan's lip service to reducing the size and scope of government.</p><p>Marijuana policy reform would remain stagnate, as did that with any of the other drugs. And worse, following the highly publicized June 1986 cocaine overdose of University of Maryland Boston Celtics draft select Len Bias, both the Republican AND Democrat parties capitulated to orchestrated mass media drug war madness by dramatically escalating cocaine related penalties, with their hyperbole over "crack" cocaine- their name for cocaine in sulfate rather than hydrochloride form.</p><p>Up to then, contraband cocaine had been available mainly in hydrochloride form for sniffing. The sulfate form would emerge with the late 1970s fad of instead smoking cocaine which was highly intensely alluric ("addictive" in the psychological sense rather than physical sense like heroin caffeine and particularly nicotine) Smoking the hydrochloride was inefficient, so using sulfate for smoking became popularized. But here is the catch, taking the sulfate by sniffing - yes, sniffing the sulfate instead of the hydrochloride was an immensely LESS habituating. With sniffing the hydrochloride people would have to re-dose every 25 minutes. But with sniffing the sulfate, ground up into a power, the absorption was significantly improved, that is, slowed down. SO people got a considerably more useful effect. One can sniff powdered cocaine sulfate without any need to re-dose for over one or two hours. Works better than drinking Coffee. But smoking the sulfate gives an immense rush, too intense for work. And the mass media of course would report endlessly about smoking the sulfate, and sniffing the hydrochloride, while saying nothing about sniffing the sulfate. The 1989 book Intoxication by UCLA's Robert S. Seigel made a mention of sulfate sniffing for temporary relief of arthritis with successes, yet that would be suppressed by supposed medical boards. So rather than reporting upon a safer way of taking cocaine, the media sensationalizes and popularizes a more dangerous way. </p><p>The next U.S. President, Herbert Walker Bush further exploits drug war hyperbole with a televised address showing off a bag of cocaine sulfate reportedly purchased from a teenager at Lafayette Park across the street from the White House, touting the usual drug war garbage. Bush succumbs to some political chicanery with the supposed "independent" candidate H.R. Perot (also a drug war minion, who drops out of the race the day of Clinton's Democrat Party convention formal nomination, only to "re-enter" the day of Bush's Republican Party likewise nomination), who siphons enough votes to elect the next U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton. Numerous people are thrilled about Clinton's election, since he is of a younger generation far likelier to consume legalized substances, and for being seen playing a saxophone on the Arsinio late night television show (much as the Allman Brothers seduced the many endorsing Carter in 1976.) But as typical, Clinton likewise proved to be a tremendous disappointment.</p><p>As an example, in 1993, a report, commissioned by the U.S. government commissions a report on <b><a href="https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/alternative-coca-reduction-expansion.html" target="_blank">"<i>Coca Reduction Strategies</i>" - by Harvard University</a></b>. And to its credit the report suggests some legalization of Coca for a variety of medical uses, and even as a mild stimulant akin to Coffee (without any mention of Tobacco). Nonetheless, the Democrat Administration of 42nd U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton buries the report, as it did with a 1994 United Nations World Health Organization report. So much for all the enthusiasm we saw at the 1993 inauguration with posters and flyers of Clinton and his saxophone.</p><p>So where during all this time was Jimmy Carter?</p><p>We heard about his involvement with his favored charity Habitat For Humanity.</p><p>But what about anything towards alleviating let alone ending the drug war? </p><p><b><a href="https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2009/05/ex-us-president-jimmy-carter-to-harvest.html" target="_blank">In 2009, there appeared a bit of hope, with Carter's encounter with Bolivia's Evo Morales</a></b>. <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg_5JjiCE6xTYARNMdUuYjW2rIK2L2xPgPWCw_YODzz0ctEC2_mKY5hmdwXbRDnIMpKl_2RMawfyINhywryHy_LuOiyooehg5V227jSsqPLgNLbp7uLysEwp6jrKmjYFEUx36_ZPqPkqXfdqqeyKFMrEDPvDoI0KwoU_b_Amrd3b4n_AqmU47PDtXq7Es/s400/carter%20morales.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="400" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg_5JjiCE6xTYARNMdUuYjW2rIK2L2xPgPWCw_YODzz0ctEC2_mKY5hmdwXbRDnIMpKl_2RMawfyINhywryHy_LuOiyooehg5V227jSsqPLgNLbp7uLysEwp6jrKmjYFEUx36_ZPqPkqXfdqqeyKFMrEDPvDoI0KwoU_b_Amrd3b4n_AqmU47PDtXq7Es/s320/carter%20morales.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>However, what about the recommendations within the above referenced 2011 report?</p><p>And what did it call for?</p><p></p><p>Did it say build upon the 1993 U.S. Congress of Technology Assessment Report Coca Reductions Strategies report, which recommended legalizing Coca leaf as well as a few Coca leaf based preparations?</p><p>NO!</p><p>It simply regurgitates the typical jesuitical glacial approach, by calling for respecting the rights of some indigenous peoples for small scale Coca cultivation for personal traditional uses - as if directed by the very same people behind the George Soros backed "Drug Policy Alliance" (founded in 2000 from the wreckage of the previous "Drug Policy Foundation" - with this D.P.A. too timid to hold any conference panels addressing the Coca issue, except for two identical panels in 2015 & 2017.<br /><br />See this blog's numerous articles about the Drug Policy Foundation/Drug Policy Alliance, particularly about Ira Glasser and Ethan Nadelmann.....</p><p><br /></p>Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-79497531856546319482023-08-04T02:12:00.009-04:002024-01-28T23:44:59.896-05:00Theodore Roosevelt- market supression of Coca leaf to protect Tobacco leaf CONSPIRACY?!<div><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJFY2LH6_5gs2vlGh2RNmSTdKSxBpmrw19Qpze4JAGlXraxDvy9T7ri__AmfPKEVz3DH-tBJkL89JbFJwwEJeitWJe3Gu_7t_-H6Rt-u9_Zr9J3XsLMppBumTbLz2RivdWmNEAUNDOVdjneL9fROX64sw_TuITh8mWB0ssT6_ajwp85um7lAQWPo0ynHo/s600/teddy%20%20roosevelt%20cigarettes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="442" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJFY2LH6_5gs2vlGh2RNmSTdKSxBpmrw19Qpze4JAGlXraxDvy9T7ri__AmfPKEVz3DH-tBJkL89JbFJwwEJeitWJe3Gu_7t_-H6Rt-u9_Zr9J3XsLMppBumTbLz2RivdWmNEAUNDOVdjneL9fROX64sw_TuITh8mWB0ssT6_ajwp85um7lAQWPo0ynHo/s320/teddy%20%20roosevelt%20cigarettes.jpg" width="236" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">Teddy Old Virginia</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tobacco Cigarettes</div><div style="text-align: center;">introduced 1914, year of the U.S. Harrison "Narcotics" Act</div><div style="text-align: center;">(year of this particular label yet disclosed)<br /></div><br /><div><p>According to wikipedia:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>Teddy</b> was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norwegian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand" title="Brand">brand</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette" title="Cigarette">cigarettes</a>, owned by the multinational company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_American_Tobacco" title="British American Tobacco">British American Tobacco</a>. Cigarettes were manufactured by the Norwegian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">subsidiary</a> of BAT (formerly "Dr. J. L. Tiedemanns Tobaksfabrik").<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cigarettespedia.com_1-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_(cigarette)#cite_note-cigarettespedia.com-1">[1]</a></sup>
</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">History</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Around 1905, after the establishment of the British-American Tobacco
Co., (Norway) Ltd. in Oslo, the was an ongoing tobacco 'war.' The
conflict was between the American tobacco trust (led by American Tobacco
Company's James 'Buck' Duke) and the Norwegian manufacturers. In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt</a>
was fighting the American trust/enterprise, and he was seen as an ally
by the Norwegian manufacturers. In 1914 J. L. Tiedemanns Tobaksfabrik
honored Roosevelt by launching a cigarette brand named Teddy. The trust
war in Norway ended in November/December 1930 when BAT (Norway) was
split between BATCO (45%), Tiedemann (45%), DnC (5%) - a bank, Andresens
Bank (5%) - a bank owned by the Andresen family, the real owners of J.
L. Tiedemanns Tobaksfabrik, when A/S Norsk-Engelsk Tobakkfabrikk (NETO)
was established. In November 1933 NETO was completely in the hands of J.
L. Tiedemanns.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_(cigarette)#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_(cigarette)#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup>
</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">In a commercial shown on early Norwegian TV, Teddy was presented as a cigarette for sportsmen and physically active Norwegians.
</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The brand was introduced in 1914 and the cigarettes use a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_tobacco" title="Types of tobacco">Virginia tobacco</a>. The brand was discontinued in 2010</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_(cigarette)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_(cigarette)</a></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>Accordingly, these cigarettes were a reward to Teddy Roosevelt as a reward for his work in opposing the U.S.A. Tobacco trust. </p><p>But why no further elaboration?</p><p>Where are the books, magazine articles or even scholarly thesis papers upon any of this?</p><p>And why 1914? Which is incidentally the year of the Harrison 'Narcotics' Act banning whole Coca leaf and cocaine entirely (outside of a NON-refillable prescription), which the United States Department of Agriculture detested as an agricultural commodity market competitor to Tobacco. See the infamous 1910 U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin 393, issued April 29, 1910 "HABIT-FORMING AGENTS: THEIR INDISCRIMINATE SALE AND USE A MENACE TO THE PUBLIC WELFARE" by L.F. Kebler, Chief, Division of Drugs, Bureau of Chemistry, WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1910. Condemns ALL forms of "cocaine" regardless of how low-dilute the dose and the formulation. And mentions Tobacco ONLY in the context of TOBACCO-HABIT CURES, at page 15.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">"There are quite a number of so-called tobacco-habit cures on the market. All of them are ineffective, and some contain cocain [sic] in one form or another. Instead of eradicating what is commonly believed to be a comparably harmless habit [!], there is a grave danger of fastening a pernicious drug habit upon the user. Examples of preparations of this character recently examined and found to contain cocain and cocain derivatives are Coca Bola, Tobacco Bullets, and Wonder Workers. The Coca Bola is marketed by Dr. Charles L. Mitchell, of Philadelphia, and the Tobacco Bullets by the Victor Remedy Company, now the Blackburn Remedy Company, of Daytona, Ohio, while the Wonder Workers were promoted were promoted by George S. Beck, of Springfield, Ohio."</p><p> </p><p>Of course with the alkaloids cocaine, nicotine and caffeine ALL serving as central nervous system stimulants, each represents its own agricultural commodity - cocaine (Erythroxlyn Coca) - caffeine (Coffee and "Tea") - nicotine (Tobacco, naturally as Rustica, but as by the early 1800s crafted as Virginia "Bright Leaf" - a considerably larger leaf resulting in reduced nicotine content per area of leaf, rendering it feasible for inhalation deep into the lungs and making it far far more habituating). By the mid 1860s Virginia Bright Leaf Tobacco (crafted there and in the Carolinas), became popular. However, such was via hand rolled cigarettes. It was the 1881 development and patenting of the Bonsack cigarette mass production machines that tremendously facilitated far far greater levels of consumption. Such machines were industrially adopted during the early and mid 1880s. Yet sales growth was relatively modest until the period 1906ish-1914, with the imposition of Uncle Sam's bans upon Coca (as well as smoking Opium the importation banned by the U.S. Senate and House in 1908).</p><p>The Harrison Act was signed into statute December 17, 1914 by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.</p><p>The Opium Exclusion Act (banning the importation of Opium prepared for smoking) was enacted February 9, 1909 under U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (days before being succeeded by William Howard Taft).<br /></p><p>The Foods and Drugs Act banning the sale of "mis-branded" and "adulterated" products sold as "foods" was signed into statute June 30, 1906 by U.S. Theodore Roosevelt. On the surface this appeared sound. But the devil was in the details. Firstly, it limited its labeling requirement to its list of substances, without any consistency-e.g cocaine had to be listed, but neither caffeine or nicotine. This was even so in products clearly containing cocaine, e.g. Coca leaf products. But not with either Coffee, Tea nor Tobacco, thereby crafting a double standard, implying cocaine/Coca disparagingly, while granting the others a free pass. Nevertheless, such an inclusion of cocaine in the list of substances that had to be labeled should have logically indicated that cocaine was not illegal, nor any of the other such listed substances, including opium. Yet numerous manufacturers of beverages failed to so label the cocaine content, fearing loss of sales amidst the growing propaganda campaign by such publications of Colliers Magazine (try researching that publication), with its infamous series of articles bashing the so-called "patent" medicine industry, titled "The Great American Fraud".<br /><br />Indeed, such writings, published under the name of Samuel Adams Hopkins, were crafted together with the guiding hand of L.Y. Kebler as well as Harvey Washington Wiley, the latter the chief of the U.S.D.A. Division of Chemistry. BOTH Wiley and Kebler were American Medical Association stooges. And their official U.S.D.A. writings all bashed Coca leaf, Opium, "cocaine" and "narcotics" while saying absolutely NOTHING concerning Virginia Bright Leaf Tobacco, nor cigarettes.</p><p>But would not products labeled in accordance with this 1906 Act be permitted? For instance, the soft drinks, made with Coca leaf extract, and containing about 1 milligram of the alkaloid cocaine per fluid ounce. (The Act was silent upon limits upon allowable amounts, such as how many milligrams per fluid ounce).<br /><br />Apparently so from any rational reading of the Act, but definitely not so from the position of the U.S.D.A.'s American Medical Association stooges Kebler & Wiley. Manufacturers of such products sold as "foods" were finding themselves being charged - regardless of the matter of "mis-labling" - with supposed "adulteration". Under what supposed "argument"? The supposed "argument" was that the inclusion of the alkaloid cocaine in any detectable amount constituted a supposedly dangerous and deleterious ingredient. Yet the Act did not ban cocaine. Nor did it even grant the U.S.D.A. the power the declare cocaine or any ingredient occurring naturally within a non illegal substance (indeed the Act nowhere even mentions Coca leaf). The Act DID grant the U.S.D.A to declare ingredients that were ADDED. So the U.S.D.A. was being empowered to declare *added" ingredients, but not those already occurring. (The Act was silent upon any requirement of scientific backing, credibility nor consistency).</p><p>So, how were these U.S.D.A./American Medical Association stooges Kebler and Wiley able to bring prosecutions against Coca leaf extract beverage manufactures when Coca naturally contained the alkaloid cocaine?</p><p>Their argument was based upon a false & unsubstantiated supposition upon "injurious" regular and repeated use, hence having them more or less effectively ban the cocaine alkaloid entirely from products sold as "foods". Products sold as "drugs" would be preserved, hence the subsequent political push to "amend" the 1906 Act, (see April 1912 joint Senate-Congress deliberations, with the participation of a certain new U.S. elective official, Congressman Harry James Covington).</p><p>But with the Act not allowing such U.S.D.A. prosecutions for substances occurring naturally within a used parent substance, but only those that were ADDED, how could such prosecutions fail to be laughed out of court? Such after all was the distinction that caused the failure of their widely publicized and groundless suit against Coca Cola in 1911. </p><p>So why did we not continue to have bottled naturally cocainated soft drinks under federal statute until the February 1, 1915 taking of effect of the Harrison Act?</p><p>And why would Angelo Francois Mariani, who produced Vin Mariani Coca Wine - effectively surrender within the U.S. early in 1907? </p><p>Vin Mariani, sold in 17 fluid ounce (one pint) bottles, containing the extract of 2 ounces of a blend of several varieties, yielding a natural cocaine alkaloid of 6 or 7 milligrams per fluid ounce (others had such per fluid ounce content of perhaps 9 milligrams, while unscrupulous competitors sold so-called Coca wines made with either purely isolated cocaine or some chalk like alkaloid paste, with as much as even 30 or more milligrams cocaine per fluid ounce!). Vin Mariani was developed circa 1863 in Paris, France. It eventually was manufactured in other locals, including in New York City, with the same ingredients. The American Medical Association would condemn Vin Mariani during the first year of the existence of its "Council on Pharmacy" (1905). But that report as published to the public, contained nothing substantive, only for a supposed matter of "misbranding" for marketing implying that it was "French" product (its origin of initial formulation) when it was being compounded with the same components in New York- go figure.</p><p>What was the basis for Vin Mariani's surrender, by eliminating the cocaine alkaloid from Vin Mariani produced for U.S. markets, effective May 1907?<br /><br />And what was the specific reason for Mariani & Company's Jacob Jaros attempt at a meeting with Wiley sometime in late 1908, early 1909? <br /><br />That Vin Mariani so surrendered indicates that Mariani saw it as a lost cause within the U.S., as the U.S. government was so obviously and blatantly bent upon protecting its cherished agricultural commodity of Virginia Bright Leaf Tobacco from the market competition of Coca (which was NOT suitable as an outdoor crop within almost everywhere within the continental United States of America due to its inability to survive frost). After all, the Panama Canal would have undeniably significantly reduced shipping distances of fresh Coca leaves from the western coast of Peru to north Atlantic markets. The U.S. would gain control of the canal's construction project in 1903, and be completed by 1914, the year of the passage of the Harrison Act.<br /><br />So are these "Teddy" cigarettes a reward simply for supposedly reining in U.S. Tobacco interests for the sake of Tobacco interests elsewhere? Or is it also a reward for U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's overt participation for a blatant market conspiracy for banning Coca leaf (as well as smokable Opium) so as to enable the 20th century Tobacco-cigarette explosion?</p><p>Did Angelo Francois Mariani attempt a meeting with Theodore Roosevelt, perhaps somewhere around 1904-06?</p><p>See:<br /></p><p><b><a href="https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2017/02/defeating-drug-war-requires-better.html">https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2017/02/defeating-drug-war-requires-better.html</a></b></p><p><b> </b></p><p>Also:</p><p><b> </b></p><p><b><a href="https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/05/freemason-t-roosevelt-approved-wiley.html">https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/05/freemason-t-roosevelt-approved-wiley.html</a></b></p><p><b> <br /></b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b> </b><br /></p></div>Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-45739380325761705632023-07-24T00:49:00.002-04:002023-07-24T00:55:16.644-04:00Harrison "Narcotics" Act sponsor Yale Skull & Bones<p> according to wikipedia:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Burton_Harrison#Early_life">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Burton_Harrison#Early_life</a></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Harrison was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Harrison" title="Burton Harrison">Burton Harrison</a>, a lawyer and private secretary to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis" title="Jefferson Davis">Jefferson Davis</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Cary_Harrison" title="Constance Cary Harrison">Constance Cary Harrison</a>, novelist and social arbiter. Through his mother, Harrison was great-grandson of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>-planter, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fairfax,_9th_Lord_Fairfax_of_Cameron" title="Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron">Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron</a>. Through Fairfax in birth and marriage, Harrison was also relative to United States founding fathers: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouverneur_Morris" title="Gouverneur Morris">Gouverneur Morris</a> (his great-great-uncle), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_family_of_Virginia" title="Randolph family of Virginia">Randolphs</a>, the Ishams, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_family_of_Virginia" title="Carter family of Virginia">Carters</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee" title="Robert E. Lee">Robert E. Lee</a>. </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i>Harrison graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_College" title="Yale College">Yale College</a> in 1895, where he was a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psi_Upsilon" title="Psi Upsilon">Psi Upsilon</a> fraternity and the secret society <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones" title="Skull and Bones">Skull and Bones</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-psiupsilon_1-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Burton_Harrison#cite_note-psiupsilon-1">[1]</a></sup></i><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 166"><i>: 166</i> </span></sup> and from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Law_School" title="New York Law School">New York Law School</a>
in 1897. From 1897 to 1899, Harrison was an instructor in the Evening
Division at New York Law School. He later left to serve in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a>, as an assistant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjutant_general" title="Adjutant general">adjutant general</a> with the rank of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_(United_States)" title="Captain (United States)">captain</a>.
</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6kY8_unH7ZLBtL9YJrI0jTDk6DOhXeDxRG7Xw7pzIS-9egkFh1CSLM6sOMlSq_xerc1Kv1bg1fDvyO1MJpaI_bdAQaHypnFfj08zAxwLzCrGHh8t6BDXsPNUjLLRfUTu59O42zUuUi4lOF9-VuwH0nVX1MxBgd96bUIYk6fvWUcfp1T8E3PrmuXYlxH0/s550/Francis_Burton_Harrison.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="401" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6kY8_unH7ZLBtL9YJrI0jTDk6DOhXeDxRG7Xw7pzIS-9egkFh1CSLM6sOMlSq_xerc1Kv1bg1fDvyO1MJpaI_bdAQaHypnFfj08zAxwLzCrGHh8t6BDXsPNUjLLRfUTu59O42zUuUi4lOF9-VuwH0nVX1MxBgd96bUIYk6fvWUcfp1T8E3PrmuXYlxH0/s320/Francis_Burton_Harrison.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">A member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a>, Harrison was elected to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/58th_United_States_Congress" title="58th United States Congress">58th United States Congress</a>, and served from March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1905. In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904_New_York_state_election" title="1904 New York state election">1904</a>, Harrison ran unsuccessfully for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_New_York" title="Lieutenant Governor of New York">lieutenant governor of New York</a>. Afterwards, he resumed the practice of law. He was again elected to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th_United_States_Congress" title="60th United States Congress">60th</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/61st_United_States_Congress" title="61st United States Congress">61st</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/62nd_United_States_Congress" title="62nd United States Congress">62nd</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/63rd_United_States_Congress" title="63rd United States Congress">63rd United States Congresses</a>, and served from March 4, 1907, to September 3, 1913, when he resigned to become governor-general of the Philippines. His <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act" title="Harrison Narcotics Tax Act">Harrison Narcotics Tax Act</a> was eventually passed on December 17, 1914. </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">---<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act</a></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The <b>Harrison Narcotics Tax Act</b> (Ch. 1, 38 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large" title="United States Statutes at Large">Stat.</a> <a class="external text" href="http://legislink.org/us/stat-38-785" rel="nofollow">785</a>) was a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_law" title="United States federal law">United States federal law</a> that regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiates" title="Opiates">opiates</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca" title="Coca">coca</a> products. The act was proposed by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Representative" title="United States Representative">Representative</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Burton_Harrison" title="Francis Burton Harrison">Francis Burton Harrison</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> and was approved on December 17, 1914.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup>
</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">"An Act To provide for the registration of, with collectors of
internal revenue, and to impose a special tax on all persons who
produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell,
distribute, or give away <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium" title="Opium">opium</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca" title="Coca">coca</a>
leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other
purposes." The courts interpreted this to mean that physicians could
prescribe narcotics to patients in the course of normal treatment, but
not for the treatment of addiction.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (February 2022)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup>
</p><p></p><p>What it actually did was to prohibit sale and possession outside the regimen of a non refillable prescription, with the decision making upon what constituted legitimate medical practices for such to the dictatorial powers of the U.S. Treasury Department. </p><p>It so banned Opium, Coca leaves and any mixture, preparation containing any amount of cocaine, and any opiate preparation containing per fluid ounce amounts of more than 2 grains Opium, 1/4 grain morphine or 1/8th grain heroin, in any over the counter product without a prescription. The absolute ban on cocaine in any detectable amount reflected the protection of markets for Tobacco/nicotine. This act was timed with the completion and opening of the Panama Canal, which would have significantly improved importing Coca leaves to North Atlantic markets. The US had acquired the canal project in 1903, months prior to the USDA taking a sharp uptick in interest in blocking Coca, which the USDA had feared as a market competitor to Tobacco- e.g. the fear over "Tobacco Habit Cures" espoused in the infamous 1910 USDA Farmers Bulletin article <i>Habit-forming Agents their sale and use a menace to the public welfare</i> (which was strangely silent upon that of mass machine produced Tobacco cigarettes.. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia1aP4pE2olSF8T9Od41Udqbwcd4H4Q8beTCk9q6fEDvwOrsauqNyzbjaJu7LuOYUE-6WHg2e_8mBZAE0UscSK0KVvAWUyE7n1nnjgVfjlavA0LlfmNOtJ5Dy748BqkgYshW-DgagvMyLhl8XmkW6zAoWgvLiH1rvcevCAn2NvggeBoeKE76UZoy5XxOU/s800/Cigarette+Production_1880_to_1968_cropped_800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="800" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia1aP4pE2olSF8T9Od41Udqbwcd4H4Q8beTCk9q6fEDvwOrsauqNyzbjaJu7LuOYUE-6WHg2e_8mBZAE0UscSK0KVvAWUyE7n1nnjgVfjlavA0LlfmNOtJ5Dy748BqkgYshW-DgagvMyLhl8XmkW6zAoWgvLiH1rvcevCAn2NvggeBoeKE76UZoy5XxOU/s320/Cigarette+Production_1880_to_1968_cropped_800.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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coinciding with the crackdowns on Opium, Coca and Cannabis</div>
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(p230 <i>Licit & Illicit Drugs</i> Breecher)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2017/02/defeating-drug-war-requires-better.html" target="_blank">https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2017/02/defeating-drug-war-requires-better.html <br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2017/02/defeating-drug-war-requires-better.html" target="_blank"> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-78383947056230759442022-02-10T01:13:00.006-05:002023-07-24T00:14:34.676-04:00INVESTIGATE FDA/AMA & mass media campaign against Ivermectin Therapeutic Benifits for treating Covid<p style="text-align: left;"><b>Never forget how the mainstream media deliberately confused veterinarian and human formulation doses, much as their predecessors did with Coca and higher dosage "Coca" products.</b><br /></p><p>The U.S. National Library has reported favorably on the use of ivermectin - a patent expired medicine - for treating cases of Covid:<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33278625/">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33278625/</a></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">February 2021</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Ivermectin, a US Food and Drug Administration-approved anti-parasitic
agent, was found to inhibit severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) replication in vitro. A randomized,
double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was conducted to determine the
rapidity of viral clearance and safety of ivermectin among adult
SARS-CoV-2 patients. The trial included 72 hospitalized patients in
Dhaka, Bangladesh, who were assigned to one of three groups: oral
ivermectin alone (12 mg once daily for 5 days), oral ivermectin in
combination with doxycycline (12 mg ivermectin single dose and 200 mg
doxycycline on day 1, followed by 100 mg every 12 h for the next 4
days), and a placebo control group. Clinical symptoms of fever, cough,
and sore throat were comparable among the three groups. Virological
clearance was earlier in the 5-day ivermectin treatment arm when
compared to the placebo group (9.7 days vs 12.7 days; p = 0.02), but
this was not the case for the ivermectin + doxycycline arm (11.5 days; p
= 0.27). There were no severe adverse drug events recorded in the
study. A 5-day course of ivermectin was found to be safe and effective
in treating adult patients with mild COVID-19. Larger trials will be
needed to confirm these preliminary findings. </p><p></p><p>Nonetheless the USFDA postulates otherwise, focusing upon excessive use via formulations meant not for humans but for 900lb horses</p><p><a href="https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19">https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Numerous media organs report simply against ivermectin, often citing nameless multiples of "medical experts" while failing to report what can be found by simply searching *ivermectin - U.S. National Library of Medicine*</p><p>And of course, thoroughly discredited medical monopoly trade organizations as the viciously mercantilistic American Medical Association- an entity long overdue for being sued into oblivion for starters their key role in the banning of Coca leaf for the sake of market protectionism for Tobacco cigarettes, circa 1907. <br /></p><p>Why do these media organs, along with the AMA, almost never report on the US NLM findings? Why not even mention the favorable conclusions, nor any reports or article to the contrary showing some sort of study, agreement and even disagreements there regarding ivermectin for treating Covid? <br /></p><p></p><p></p><p>An investigation is needed into this mis-reporting by such media sources as CNN, MSNBC (Microsoft/Bill Gates NBC), the Daily Beast, Huff Post (what happened to Arianna Huffington over the past 15 or so years- did she join some club?), and even NPR. How about issuing subpoenas to the people running these news outlets for interrogators - public and televised <br /></p><p>If safety is an issue, why block the availability of human dose formulations? Even the FDA's safety concerns are focuses upon excessive dosages from veterinarian formulations, especially taken without adequate dosage information. And if ivermectin is dangerous in certain contexts, say with other medicines, then let the information be spread as to what to avoid taking it with. So why is youtube blocking videos on that very topic?<br /></p><p>If ivermectin turns out to be better some some cases of Covid than others, why the refusal to allow availability and conduct data gathering?</p><p>Why was CNN-MSNBC treating the head of the infamous American Medical Association as some sort of respectable figure and that organization as trustworthy?</p><p>Accordingly a dosage regimen of ivermectin costing less than $3.00 can be used to remarkably treat cases of Covid. With proper availability (human dosage formulations) and advise (informing about interactions, ivermectin could make a considerable dent in Covid.</p><p>Yet the same type of folks who decry ivermectin tend to be very pro covid 'vaccine' despite the lack of testing routinely demanded for vaccines. Go figure.</p><p></p><p>There MUST be a public investigation as to the obvious mass media conspiracy against non patented, as well as patent expired medications for potentially treating covid!</p><p>Particularly with the deceitful NPR National Public Radio.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-85798267016375926132021-10-02T15:07:00.006-04:002021-10-02T15:07:50.054-04:00Deleted Wiki Covington & Burling - Tobacco Industry Information <p> Information removed from the wikipedia article on the Washington D.C. regulatory powerhouse corporate law firm Covington & Burling, founded 1919.</p><p>Something to give pause to the idea of that law firm's connections with organizations as MPP, the DPF/DPA and others<br /></p><h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Philip_Morris_&_Tobacco_Institute">Philip Morris & Tobacco Institute</span></h3><p>Covington
& Burling represented tobacco interests for decades, instrumental
in the founding of, and serving as counsel to, the Tobacco Institute,
established in 1958.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202130007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covington_%26_Burling#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup>
The institute attacked scientific studies, although more by casting
doubt on them rather than by rebutting them directly. It also lobbied
Congress, although initially at a low level.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202130007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covington_%26_Burling#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup> The institute also served as corporate affairs consultants to the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202130007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altria_Group" title="Altria Group">Philip Morris</a>
group of companies, according to a 1993 internal budget review document
which indicated the firm was paid $280,000 to "serve as general counsel
to the Consumer Products Company Tort Coalition, agree the legal
objectives with member company litigators, draft legislation and
amendments, prepare lobby papers and testimony for legislative
committees and administer the coalition's budget."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202130007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covington_%26_Burling#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup>
</p><p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) brought suit against multiple
Tobacco companies and trade associations under the Racketeer Influenced
and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and after a lengthy trial, on
August 17, 2006, the Judge issued a 1,683 page opinion (449 F.Supp.2d 1,
D.D.C. 2006) finding the tobacco companies liable.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202130007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covington_%26_Burling#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup>
The court found "As set forth in these Final Proposed Findings of Fact,
substantial evidence establishes that Defendants have engaged in and
executed – and continue to engage in and execute – a massive 50-year
scheme to defraud the public, including consumers of cigarettes, in
violation of RICO." The court issued a harsh rebuke: "over the course of
more than 50 years, Defendants lied, misrepresented, and deceived the
American public, including smokers and the young people they avidly
sought as 'replacement smokers,' about the devastating health effects of
smoking and environmental tobacco smoke, they suppressed research, they
destroyed documents, they manipulated the use of nicotine so as to
increase and perpetuate addiction, they distorted the truth about low
tar and light cigarettes so as to discourage smokers from quitting, and
they abused the legal system in order to achieve their goal – to make
money with little, if any, regard for individual illness and suffering,
soaring health costs, or the integrity of the legal system."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202130007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covington_%26_Burling#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup>
</p><p>
But the Court also directly addressed the law firm Covington &
Burling specifically: "Covington & Burling was counsel for the
Tobacco Institute and was also described as counsel for the 'industry'.
... An attorney from Covington & Burling attended every meeting of
the Committee ... also cleared press releases issued by the Tobacco
Institute. ... Covington & Burling, became the guiding strategists
for the Enterprise and were deeply involved in implementation of those
strategies once adopted."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202130007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covington_%26_Burling#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup>
Along with two other firms, which helped create the Tobacco Institute
in 1958, and served the industry for the next 50 years came this
condemnation:</p><blockquote><p>"Finally, a word must be said about the
role of lawyers in this fifty-year history of deceiving smokers,
potential smokers, and the American public about the hazards of smoking
and second-hand smoke, and the addictiveness of nicotine. At every
stage, lawyers played an absolutely central role in the creation and
perpetuation of the Enterprise and the implementation of its fraudulent
schemes. They devised and coordinated both national and international
strategy;<span style="color: #2b00fe;"> they directed scientists as to what research they should and
should not undertake; they vetted scientific research papers and reports
as well as public relations materials to ensure that the interests of
the Enterprise would be protected</span>; they identified 'friendly' scientific
witnesses, subsidized them with grants from the Center for Tobacco
Research and the Center for Indoor Air Research, paid them enormous
fees, and often hid the relationship between those witnesses and the
industry; and they devised and carried out document destruction policies
and took shelter behind baseless assertions of the attorney-client
privilege. What a sad and disquieting chapter in the history of an
honorable and often courageous profession."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202130007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covington_%26_Burling#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>The defendants filed an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals. On May
22, 2009, the three-judge panel unanimously upheld Judge Kessler's
decision finding the tobacco companies liable. The court upheld most of
the ordered remedies, but denied additional remedies sought by public
health interveners and the Department of Justice (566 F.3d 1095, 2009).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202130007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covington_%26_Burling#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup>
</p><p>During the $280 billion U.S. federal lawsuit against <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202130007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_tobacco" title="Big tobacco">big tobacco</a>, Covington & Burling partner John Rupp, a former lawyer with the industry-funded <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202130007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Institute" title="Tobacco Institute">Tobacco Institute</a>,
testified that "the industry sought out scientists and paid them to
make an 'objective appraisal' of whether secondhand smoke was harmful to
non-smokers, a move they hoped would dispel the 'extreme views' of some
anti-smoking activists." He "said the scientists, who came from
prestigious institutions such as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202130007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University">Georgetown University</a> and the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202130007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst" title="University of Massachusetts Amherst">University of Massachusetts Amherst</a>,
did not consider themselves to be working 'on behalf' of cigarette
makers even though they were being paid by the industry." Rupp said, "We
were paying them to share their views in forums where they would be
usefully presented," according to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202130007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters">Reuters</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202130007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covington_%26_Burling#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup>
</p>Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-43924080362567747562021-08-02T12:50:00.003-04:002021-08-03T14:59:19.144-04:00U.S. Customs Now Stealing Peoples' Coca Tea Shipments<p>No legitimate legal authority</p><p>Based upon junk statutes that are grossly unconstitutional, a denial of equal protection, a criminal mafia agricultural market protection racket to flood the planet with TOBACCO, and a public health threat of monstrous enormity</p><p>Posted to the Facebook page of the Drug Policy Alliance:<br /></p><div><div dir="auto"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc e5nlhep0 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_8n"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><blockquote>U.S. Customs has embarked upon massive thefts of Coca tea shipments. They are stealing millions of dollars in merchandise that they have zero legitimate legal reason to steal (seize). They are making absolutely false statements regarding cocaine (the delightful alternative to caffeine and especially nicotine). The junk statutes that only morons would support were enacted to thwart this competitor to Tobacco to protect and open up markets for the 1907+ explosion in Tobacco cigarettes. Coca use as a Tobacco habit cure was the reason cited by the 1910 USDA <i>Farmer Bullitan article Habit-forming Agents their sale and use a menace to the public welfare</i>. U.S Customs needs to stop participating in this criminal tobacco mercantilism. Where is the DPA on ending this criminal and nonsensical ban? At the start a lawsuit enjoining U.S. Customs from this criminal involvement and pay damages for stealing peoples' Coca tea.</blockquote>--</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">U.S. Customs thefts of Coca tea: a criminal interference in trade based upon junk statutes best described as legislative crime in furtherance of a criminal mafia market protection racket to protect Tobacco and be instrumental in spawning the 1907+ market explosion in TOBACCO CIGARETTES. Note that the machinery for mass produced cigarettes was invented in 1881 and quickly deployed, yet sales growth was little, until the 1907-1914 period with the empowerment of the U.S. Department of Agriculture' to make baseless claims per se against cocaine in any amount and remove all cocainated products from retail, thus REMOVING THE COMPETITION TO NICOTINE. Both cocaine and nicotine are reinforcing CNS stimulants. Coca and Tobacco have overlapping uses. Coca leaf is smokable like Tobacco, yet Tobacco is too toxic to drink, thus no Tobacco Tea. The respective polices towards Coca and Tobacco represent a GROSS violation of equal protection as well as a crime against the public's health of monstrous enormity. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">U.S. Customs is now touting their criminal thefts of Coca tea shipments as concenrning so called "Green Cocaine" leaving out the word tea and behaving completely oblvios to its vast disticnions from say pure powder coaine with added green food dye.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><br /></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><span aria-label="See who reacted to this" class="du4w35lb" role="toolbar"><span class="bp9cbjyn j83agx80 b3onmgus" id="jsc_c_8q"><span class="np69z8it et4y5ytx j7g94pet b74d5cxt qw6c0r16 kb8x4rkr ed597pkb omcyoz59 goun2846 ccm00jje s44p3ltw mk2mc5f4 qxh1up0x qtyiw8t4 tpcyxxvw k0bpgpbk hm271qws rl04r1d5 l9j0dhe7 ov9facns kavbgo14"><span class="t0qjyqq4 jos75b7i j6sty90h kv0toi1t q9uorilb hm271qws ov9facns"><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"></span></span></span></span></span>Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-58601391312804275812020-03-13T00:50:00.000-04:002020-04-01T18:03:47.730-04:00Douglas Greene's 1st TV Appearance on the Morton Downey Jr. Show July 4, 1988<br />
<a href="https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/hewlett-ny/douglas-greene-8738520"><b>Douglas Greene</b></a><br />
<a href="https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/hewlett-ny/douglas-greene-8738520"><b>b March 13, 1967-June 4, 2019</b></a><br />
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July 4, 1988 appearance with Ron Paul and Dana Beal on <i><b>The Morton Downey Jr. Show</b></i> <br />
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July 4, 1988 <i><b>Morton Downey Jr. Show</b></i></div>
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It was 1987.<br />
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1986 had brought the the great new bi-partisan U.S. escalation of the 75+ year old "drug war".<br />
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Seizing upon the fatal overdose (cocaine) of Len Bias,
a University of Maryland student and draft pick of the Boston Celtics
in 1986, and in an orchestrated response to newspaper hyperbole, the bipartisan
government of President Ronald Reagan and U.S. Speaker of the House
William O'Neil, with rashly promoted legislation to further escalate the long-running drug war (started up during the years leading up to the start of World War I largely for the sake of making the world markets safer for cigarettes), by a so-called <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Drug_Abuse_Act_of_1986">Anti Drug Abuse Act of 1986</a></b>.<br />
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This spurred the entry of a bunch of us into the protest movement against the drug war.<br />
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We included Doug Greene and yours truly, meeting other more established protesters, and threading our way into a variety of venues. Greene, lived in Cedarhurst, N.Y., on Long Island near the eastern edge of Queens, was an NYU under-graduate in psychology, and involved with the Libertarian Party. I was from New Rochelle, N.Y. in southeastern Westchester County, and was an incoming 1st year student at University of Bridgeport
School of Law student, recently inspired to research the war on cocaine, as well as researching
the story of the longest used and favorably regarded cocaine containing product prior to the start of the drug war- Vin Mariani and its creator Angelo Francois Mariani.<br />
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Doug and I met at a Libertarian Party event in White Plains N.Y. in April 1988.<br />
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I vividly recollect seeing him that first time with his name-badge, and immediately recognizing his name from an article he authored for the (now
defunct) newsletter "<i>Burning Issues</i>" written and published by R.B. Wilks - an energetic anti-drug war female activist and for a time girlfriend of Libertarian Party activist (and former member of Young Americans for Freedom) Don Meinshausen. His article against the drug war made the rarely made much needed point that the self perpetuating problem is not "drugs" but rather prohibitionist policies banning a substance in any and all forms without regard to potency/concentration, with the dynamics meaning safer, dilute, guaranteed low potency options are eliminated and replaced with infinitely riskier higher concentration/wildly variable potency. Hence, Greene then advocated for legalizing Opium and Coca leaf, providing a welcome
contrast to the standard group thought of thinking of "heroin" and
"cocaine" concentrated white powders.<br />
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His name's irony was immediate and comforting. <br />
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Doug Greene, born March 13, 1967. A man with a surname suggestive of his public stance for green plant drugs - Cannabis, Opium and Coca - as well as his advocacy of veganism. And born a mere 3 months before the release of that Monkees song <i><b>"Pleasant Valley Sunday"</b></i> with its line <i>"Mr. Greene, he's so serene, he's got a TV in every room" - </i>a prophetic description of a Mr. Greene into having the newest level of computer/operating system.<br />
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Greene interned that year at the Drug Policy Foundation, working under Arnold Trebach and Kevin Zeese. We both attended the 1988 NORML convention, held in a hotel on Wisconsin Avenue in upper Georgetown, Washington D.C. And later that summer, Greene first introduced me to that most colorful personality and political protester long headquartered at 9 Bleeker in Manhattan, Dana Beal. A longtime drug war opponent - he has a recording of him calling out George McGovern on the issue back in 1972 - Beal holds annual pro marijuana legalization marches the earliest Saturday in May; and he has his own approach to the drug war: highlighting its absurdity via his advocacy of the use of Iboga plant root bark alkaloid Ibogaine as a drug-addiction interrupter, as discovered by his longtime friend Howard Lotsoff in 1962, who tried Ibogaine and found his physical addiction to Heroin had vanished. <br />
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Greene and Beal would get seen to the world by getting on an episode of that unforgettably late 1980s icon of "trash-talk" television- The Morton Downey Jr. Show, named for its host.<br />
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The show was started by WWOR of Secaucas, New Jersey, and first aired October 19, 1987.<br />
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It was textbook "trash-talk" - host with panelists and audience, with questions/statements from the latter permitted. It combined a variety of elements of "audience" shows from those devoted to matters as personal soap opera stories with its vast arrays of family feuds, into a show addressing political issues, with a design to provide a platform for dissident views, but in an arena so stacked as to have them effectively silenced with the
moderator encouraged a raucous audience to chant the establishment mode
of thought, regarding persons with ideas contra. The show's early ratings successes lead to it being taken on national syndication in 1988. <br />
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Hmm, allow a platform for a few dissidents, but in a sort of arena where rather than their ideas receiving a fair and just consideration, instead are met with the most simplistic ridicule, representing that of the powers that be be here presented as the popular opinion that they seek to perpetuate. <br />
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Of course include those espousing status quo views. For instance, Lisa Sliwa (Evers), then wife of the founder of the citizen vigilante organization the Guardian Angels, Curtis Sliwa.<br />
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The episode that Greene and Beal appeared was that of July 4, 1988, featuring - as its best known speaker that day - Ron Paul, Congressman from Texas..<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/ron-pauls-1998-appearance-on-the-morton-downey-jr">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/ron-pauls-1998-appearance-on-the-morton-downey-jr</a></span><br />
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See the following link at 18:30- 20.20<br />
Doug Greene and Dana Beal July 1988 Morton Downey Jr. Show<br />
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<br />Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-44347359587628090342019-09-13T16:18:00.000-04:002019-09-16T00:21:04.025-04:00DPA Drug Policy Alliance 2019 Proposal: Nicotine Versus Cocaine 1906+ Disaster!<div dir="ltr">
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“one
of the recommendations from the project was to examine a key factor that shapes
U.S. drug research: <u>the pervasive belief that some drugs are inherently
harmful and addictive</u>, a position that influences research questions and
populations studied, as well as the outcomes that are measured.”</div>
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This pervasive belief dates back in U.S. national legislation
to the <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/harvey-wileys-1906-us-food-drugs-act.html"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1906 Food and Drugs Act</b></a>.<br />
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It was widely lauded for its task of stopping the interstate
commerce in “adulterated” and “misbranded” products sold as foods or drugs, as
an “progressive” act of consumer protectionism. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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But, alas, it was seriously flawed and biased, a proverbial
wolf in sheep’s clothes, cleverly written to enable anti-competitive regulatory
abuse favoritism for key agricultural commodities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It did not prohibit any substance fought by the “drug war”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It introduced the idea of labeling ingredients, but only in
a fashion designed to convey the idea of a set of essentially blacklisted
substances, via the 1906 Act’s enumerated list - <b>morphine</b>, <b>opium</b>, <b>cocaine</b>,
<b>heroin</b>, <b>alpha or beta eucaine</b>,<b> chloroform</b>, <b>cannabis indica</b>, <b>chloral hydrate</b>, or
<b>acetanilide</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As this list is limited it
for instance conveys the a likely impression to potential and actual consumers
that such are intrinsically more worrisome than those unlisted, such as say
caffeine and nicotine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It established a bureaucratic regulatory <u><b>dictatorship</b></u> to
establish what was “legitimate” concerning not only foods and drugs, but also
medical practice; and committed the mortal sin of granting such regulatory
authority to the Bureau of Chemistry of the U.S.D.A. <u><b>without any requirement of
science credibility</b></u>; hence it was under this sort of initial legislative
direction that we the people got a wolf in sheep’s clothing, as a tool of
longstanding dominant economic interests to use the power of the expanding “progressive”
state to suppress their market competition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/coca-as-tobacco-habit-cure.html"><b>AKA cigarette protectionism</b></a>.</div>
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To wit, Opium and Coca Leaf.</div>
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2013/01/stop-overlooking-opium.html">Opium is the classic “narcotic”</a>, a drug inducing sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An effective pain killer and even
anti-depressant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Physically addictive,
and because of its utility and relative lack of toxicity, is adaptable to
higher and higher doses via the then recent – later 1800s – developed practices
of refining plants into powders, creating ultra-concentrated HC. forms of
alkaloids found in the plant matter in minute quantities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence, drinking or eating Opium, or Opium
infusion – tea – was far less addicting than an injected alkaloids, say
morphine or its man-modified form heroin.</div>
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Coca leaf, which contains the alkaloid cocaine akin to
Coffee containing the alkaloid caffeine and Tobacco leaf nicotine, has an
ancient history of use in South America, particularly the Andean mountain
areas, as in and near Peru, routinely served to tourists to help acclimate them to the high altitude conditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Europeans first encountered Coca leaf about
the same time as Tobacco, yet Coca was hampered due to its volatility – it more
easily went stale – making it a less desirable shipping commodity, thus
delaying its market penetration within Europe for 300+ years, to the creation
and marketing of Vin Mariani and its widespread medical use for the half
century leading up to its 1914 U.S. prohibition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vin Mariani was a “wine of coca” made with an
extract blending three varieties of Coca leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It contained roughly 6 or 7 mg of cocaine
alkaloid per fluid ounce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It inspired
numerous competing coca wine products, eventually including non alcoholic
beverages that became known as soft drinks, such as Coca Cola with reportedly 1 1/2 milligrams per fluid ounce .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/coca-to-combat-opiate-alcohol-and.html"><b>also</b></a> came <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/coca-smokables-fe-stewart.html">with products pattered after traditional uses of Tobacco</a>,
with <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/coca-cigars-cheroots-and-cigarettes.html">cigars, cheroots and cigarettes made with Coca leaves</a>.</div>
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These sort of uses of “cocaine” were comparable to <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/it-appears-necessary-to-keep-alkaloid.html">that </a>of
<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2009/02/coca-come-back.html">caffeine in Coffee, nicotine in Tobacco</a>.</div>
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Concentrated cocaine was only first made commercially
available as pharmaceutical forms about 1885 via Merck, in Germany, and Parke
Davis, in the U.S., in salt (hydrochloride) and freebase (sulfate) varieties, dry
or in solutions for injection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uses of
89% pure cocaine powder (HCI), and solutions of lesser concentration though
meant for the infinitely more direct mode of administration as injections,
would clearly introduce many undesirable case studies, particularly in the
field of anesthesia.</div>
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There are numerous medical records concerning all of this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/absurdity-of-simply-defining-cocaine-as.html">The issue became muddled </a>with those misrepresenting acute toxicities of ultra-high doses as intrinsic to any dosage, with
societies with relatively little exposure to Coca thus being susceptible to
dis-information designed to spark support for the drug war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, for its market competition being
squashed by the drug war, with <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-dark-ages-usda-crusade-against-coca.html"><b>the USDA prosecution of beverage manufacturers for containing a supposedly dangerous, deleterious substance, the cocaine alkaloid</b></a>, Tobacco cigarettes would be overwhelmingly the main daily use
stimulant drug war beneficiary. </div>
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“I have … used [Vin Mariani] to save smokers of exaggerated
habits from nicotinism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few glasses
taken in small doses … acted as a substitute for pipes and cigars because the
smokers found in it the cerebral excitement which they sought in Tobacco,
wholly preserving their intellectual facilities.”</div>
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The Drug Policy Alliance and allied groups need to
commission a study of uses of the parent plant products Opium, Coca, in
products so designed to deliver doses of opiate and/or coca alkaloids.</div>
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This DPA study should look at the health issues of relating
to any displacement of existing markets in Coffee, Tea, anything else that
contains caffeine, as well as those in Tobacco and anything else that contains
nicotine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine particularly Coca
displacing nicotine markets.</div>
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It could and should for instance ask a “what if” question
regarding alternative historical possibilities, a world that did not get the
drug war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Douglas A. Willinger<br />
Freedom of Medicine and Diet<br />
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San Marcos, California<br />
September 13, 2019<br />
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I am author of papers that were published in the Drug Policy Foundation Conference compendiums, <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/02/ever-changing-ever-confused-popular.html"><i>The Ever-changing, Ever-confused Popular Conception of Cocaine</i></a>; <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/02/cocaine-prohibition-water-or-gasoline.html"><i>Cocaine Prohibition; Water or Gasoline for the flames of drug abuse</i></a>; and <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/02/cocaine-conversion-back-to-coca.html"><i>Onwards to Coca</i>!</a><br />
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I was a panelist in the 1991 and 1992 Cocaine panels, and the 1992 panel <i>Is America Exporting its Problems.</i><br />
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I organized and moderated the panel <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2009/11/14-years-ago-coca-95.html"><i>COCA '95, a Necessary Policy Alternative from Abroad</i></a>.<br />
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Additional panel proposals I submitted, but which were rejected include (1994) <i><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/harvey-wiley-father-of-our-exploding.html">Coca: Turning Over A New Leaf Towards Reducing Health Care Costs</a></i>, (1997) <i><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/harvey-wiley-father-of-drug-problem.html">Tinctures of Opium, Wines of Coca: How Prohibition Perverts Useful Substances into white powder poisons</a>,</i>and (2009) <i><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/08/agrilcultural-politics-of-drug-policy_27.html">Agricultural Politics of Drug Policy</a></i>.<br />
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I have attended every main DPF/DPA conference since 1989.<br />
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2012/06/douglas-andrew-willinger-angelo.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2012/06/douglas-andrew-willinger-angelo.html</a></div>
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2007, I have authored a blog on drug policy related matters Freedom of
Medicine and Diet. It includes details on the polices towards Opium,
opiates, Coca leaf and cocaine, as well as the formulation of the
legislative and regulatory matters, dating forward from the 1906 U.S.
Food and Drugs A<i>c</i>t that empowered the USDA Chemistry Bureau dictatorial
powers, lacking any requirement of underlying consistent science.</div>
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/03/drug-war-tobacco-pharma-agricultural.html"><b>http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/03/drug-war-tobacco-pharma-agricultural.html</b></a>Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-19984139298096501942019-06-07T05:13:00.002-04:002019-06-10T02:33:04.957-04:00Douglas Greene's 1992 Drug Policy Foundation Paper<i><b>How to Make the Loyal Opposition Part of the Political Mainstream</b></i><br />
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<b>Strategies for Change New Directions in Drug Policy</b><br />
The Drug Policy Foundation Press<br />
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<b>Douglas Greene</b><br />
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At an April 1991 New York State Libertarian Party convention, drug policy scholar and Cato Institute associate James Ostrowski confirmed a suspicion of mine that had been developing for the past year. He claimed that the drug policy reform movement has crested and that it would require a new wave of activism to rekindle interest in the topic.<br />
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From the perspective of media attention to the subject,Mr. Ostrowski would appear to be correct. Although polls in the late 1980s consistently named drugs as the most critical problem for the country to deal with, more traditional concerns, such as foreign policy and the economy, have overtaken drugs both in the polls and on the air. The current lack of attention paid to the subject is a far cry from the hey-day of 1988 (which marked Baltimore Mayor Schmoke's historic statement to the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Ted Koppel's town meeting and Congressional hearings on legalization.<br />
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There are hints of renewal within the chaos of drug policy reform. From books by(three in the past year) to ballots (Proposition P in San Francisco) to the burnt out areas of L.A., drugs are still recognized as a significant public policy issue. More important, they were a fresh reminder of the failure of the status quo.<br />
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But we can no longer rely on the environmental factors that sparked the last wave of interest in drug policy reform - a high level of public salience and high visibility figures willing to discuss the issue. A new strategy is necessary to catalyze public support for reform.<br />
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It's fine for us to discuss cocaine and heroin legalization as possibilities for a future drug policy. But it's not going to happen, not in the near future at any rate. It might be possible to convince a substantial minority of the wisdom of cocaine and heroin legalization, but only at immense cost and I doubt that we would be able to convince enough of the public to change the drug laws, which must be our eventual goal.<br />
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We need to focus on attitudes that are already held by a significant proportion of the the public, including:<br />
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1) The need for a shift in emphasis from law enforcement to education and treatment.<br />
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Harvard professor Mark Kleiman does a good job at delineating the confusion surrounding persuasion, help and control, as he puts it, in Against Excess. Despite concerns over objectives and effectiveness, even libertarians will admit that there will always be ignorance about and problems with drugs. Promoting the therapeutic potential of ibogaine would help ease many qualms about the increased availability of drugs. It would be a great coup for the forces of reform if we were able to take credit for making available a treatment that has been suppressed by agents of the United States pharmacracy for decades. Unfortunately, the media and the Food and Drug Administration, not usually our two greatest allies, seem to have caught on quicker than some of us reformers.<br />
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2) The need for more aggressive AIDS prevention.<br />
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San Francisco voters passed Proposition O, calling upon the state legislature to repeal laws prohibiting the sale of needles without a prescription. The National Commission on AIDS recommended removing legal barriers to the purchase and possession of injection equipment. Needle exchange activists around the country have been acquitted of criminal charges.<br />
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And perhaps most significantly, the success of Hartford's needle exchange program has caused new York City Mayor David Dinkins and U.S. Rep. Charles Rangal to reconsider their opposition to needle exchange. This was quite a reversal from 1990, when I was told by a member of the Mayor's Study Group on Drug Abuse that legalization and needle exchange were taboo topics.<br />
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3) Medical Marijuana<br />
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This issue affects people with many different illnesses, and appeals to the compassionate nature of even those who oppose recreational marijuana use. On Nov. 5, 1991, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition P, recommending that the state of California and the California Medical Association restore hemp medical preperations to the list of available medicines. Let's work to convince the California state legislature to enact Proposition O and P into law.<br />
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In addition to these positions, which already enjoy substantial public support, there are two issues which we do need to change the public's opinion about:<br />
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1) The radically altered nature of a deregulated drug market.<br />
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In every debate I have seen on the drug issue, an unstated premise of opponents of reform is that the dominant forms of drug use would intensify. While we cannot predict its exact nature, we need to assert the radical impact of reform on the forms of drugs that would be available under a more liberal drug regime. There would be no doubt that a significant market share would be ceded by refined and synthetic forms (i.e. cocaine hydrochloride and base, and heroin, and fentanyl) to plant forms (i.e. coca and opium products). The resultant indirect form of administration, decrease in potency and improvement in quality control would lead to a dramatic improvement in the health of drug using populations.<br />
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2) Hemp for humanity instead of marijuana legalization.<br />
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One of the classic strategies of the advertising world has been to follow up a failed campaign by repositioning the product. Advocates of marijuana reform should learn from the lessons of Madison Avenue. Marijuana use has been on the decline for over a decade, and interest in drugs and drug policy has shifted to more potent pharmaceuticals and prescriptions for change. At the same time, everyone has become an environmentalist, and great concern has been expressed about the future of small farms. It's become clear that NORML's approach to the problem is not working. the generals of our loyal opposition ought to pay attention to the guerrilla soldiers of the Hemp Tour and the enthusiastic response of those who learn about the illustrious past and bright future of this plant.<br />
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But what about the best vehicle to deliver these messages to the public and the government? Our current approach is centered on 501(c)3 non profit educational organizations. These have been successful in attracting media recognition and in per-suing reform through the legal system. However, this has not bee enough to reverse the generally hostile attitude of the media, and the legal battles have been limited in scope and extremely lengthy in duration.<br />
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It is in the area of political action that these organizations have really failed to make an impact. This is due to their tax status (although IRS regulations do allow a limited percentage of revenues to be used for lobbying), their legal and academic bases of support and perhaps most important, the enormous amount of money necessary for effective political actions.<br />
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Candidates for public office have been reluctant to deal with the issue of drug policy reform, and can be expected to do so until we build public support for our positions. It's a cliche, but one that bears repeating: politicians are followers, not leaders (present company excepted of course). Libertarian candidates can always be counted on for support, but many supporters of drug policy reform are reluctant to embrace the rest of the Libertarian platform.<br />
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Initiatives seem to offer more of a chance of success than candidate campaigns. States with the initiative process could do well by trying to focus on some of the issues above. However, recent attempts in this area have been marred by the same lack of money and professionalism that has plagued other candidates and organizations.<br />
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This leaves us with the prospect of a lobbying organization. This is our best bet for accomplishing political change. This type of organization could focus on defeating bad bills and nurturing the seeds of change, instead of hoping that educational activities will motivate isolated individuals to stem the tide of repression on their own. Individual support is essential for financing and communicating with legislators, but coordination is necessary to track events and devise effective responses.<br />
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A lobby would also be better able to form alliances with other political supporters of our agenda, who have themselves learned the power of political action committees and lobbyists. It's hard to mobilize people around public education. We need specific goals that can be operationalized to measure their success or failure.<br />
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Although I believe a lobby would be the best organization to achieve our goals, sheer inertia and lack of funds may prevent it from happening. there are several ways we can improve our political effectiveness through existing organizations.<br />
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Probably the most important thing we can do is stop viewing other drug policy reform organizations as competitors. At a meeting at the national NORML officie, I heard references to NORML people or CAN people. While certain people may belong to one or another organization, we should view organizations by their mission, not their membership.<br />
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We should actively share information between organizations, especially membership and prospect lists, with agreed upon security and privacy precautions.<br />
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We must reaffirm that our ultimate goal is to change the drug laws, and to that end provide activists at the state and local levels with the information and support they need to accomplish their goals. Almost as important is focusing on defeating bad laws and initiatives (i.e. Proposition 2 in Alaska). Until we're consistently winning these battles, we can't hope to pass our own agenda.<br />
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We might consider pooling our resources to fund media and lobbying initiatives that would not be feasible for individual organizations. And until we can alter the drug laws, we should publicize the right of jurors to acquit drug offenders through the use of the jury veto (also known as "jury nullification"). Fully informed juries played a key role in undermining Prohibition and setting the stage for the passage of the 21st Amendment.<br />
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Washington is a seductive environment - not only for those in power, but for the loyal opposition as well. The Beltway mentality has a way of detaching those caught in its grasp from the grassroots of support that supply them with money and power. If we are to succeed, those of us in the capital must judge themselves by the peace they can conclude - partially fought and negotiated in Washington, but for the rest of the country too - and given the predominance of the United States in international drug policy, the rest of the planet as well.<br />
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<br />Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-58629690745970996932019-06-06T01:59:00.001-04:002019-06-08T02:02:17.113-04:00Doug Greene: Colleague, Advocate, Friend, Dead in SubwayWe met at an April 1988 N.Y. Libertarian Party gathering in White Plains, N.Y. where I recognized his name from an article he wrote for the (now defunct) R.B. Wilks newsletter Burning Issues, where he includes advocacy for legalizing Opium and Coca leaf, providing a welcome contrast to the standard group thought of thinking of "heroin" and "cocaine" concentrated white powders...<br />
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Douglas Greene: March 13, 1967 - June 4, 2019<br />
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Longtime Empire State NORML member and tireless cannabis legalization
advocate Doug Greene died in a subway accident on June 4. He was 52.<br />
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By Steve Bloom<br />
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Longtime <b><a href="https://esnorml.org/" target="_blank" title="esnorml.org">Empire State NORML</a></b> member Doug Greene died in a subway accident on June 4. The <b><a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-man-fatally-struck-train-manhattan-upper-west-side-20190605-4jc2vcnranaencryzsrsq4ncpq-story.html" target="_blank" title="nydailynews.com">Daily News reports</a></b> that, according to the police, "a man
was fatally struck by an A train after he fell onto the subway tracks
on the Upper West Side Tuesday night," adding that he was hit by "a southbound express train at the 72 St. station near Central Park West just before 10:45 p.m."<br />
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Though the police did not identify the victim, reports of
Greene's death started appearing on his Facebook page around 5 pm on
June 5. A transit police representative has since confirmed that it
indeed was Greene.<br />
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Greene attended the George Clinton concert at SummerStage in Central
Park with fellow activist Todd Hinden on Tuesday night. After the show
ended at 10 pm, they walked west and left the park, crossing Central
Park West, and parted ways after a fun evening of music, Hinden on
bicycle and Greene on foot. The last time Hinden saw Greene was when he
descended the stairs into the 72 St. subway station at approximately
10:30 pm.<br />
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The station is on the A, B and C lines. The A express passes the
station on one of the middle tracks. The B and C local trains make stops
in the station. Greene, who lived in Cedarhurst in Nassau Country,
likely planned to take the C train (or the A if it was running on the
local track) to Penn Station where he'd board a Long Island Railroad
train to Cedarhurst, a 50-minute ride.<br />
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What happened to Greene on the subway platform is unknown, though
police said they "did not suspect foul play." The possibilities are
several: he suffered a heart attack or stroke, he fainted, he slipped,
he was pushed, he had a confrontation with someone on the platform or he committed suicide. It's also unclear if there were any eyewitnesses.<br />
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The 52-year-old advocate had a 30-year history as a tireless champion
for cannabis legalization. I met him in the early '90s at NORML
conferences and other marijuana events. Doug was a student of drug
policy.<br />
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While he held a day job at a law firm that specialized in bankruptcy,
Doug's passion was legalizing marijuana. With a bill currently in the
state legislature, he worked incessantly to convince the oppositon to
change sides. In January, he was featured on the cover of <b><a href="https://www.crainsnewyork.com/features/legal-weed-coming-how-will-market-work" target="_blank" title="crainsnewyork.com">Crain's New York Business</a></b> and quoted in the article.<br />
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Recent negativity around the prospects for the legislation, the
Marijuana Taxation and Regulation Act, steeled his resolve. Doug
reminded me several times recently to not to buy into the general belief
that the bill didn't have enough votes. If it does pass, it should be
named for him.<br />
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In addition to his legislative pursuits, Doug was a ardent vegan and a
music fan. We attended several concerts together, including the Ziggy
Marley/Steel Pulse show last August at Pier 17. I was also at the
Clinton show, but we didn't run into each other. I last saw Doug at the
NORML FORML fundraiser on May 29.
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He's survived by his sister and his mother.<br />
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I will update this article when more information is made available.Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-74393139095890366122018-08-06T18:14:00.002-04:002018-08-07T00:24:28.033-04:00Wierdness At "Natural News"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An outlet for a good amount of much needed skepticism of conventional patent medicine, yet plagued by the recent "'opioid' epidemic"hysteria campaign that pushes the very polices creating and worsening the problem.<br />
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They censored me when I attempted leaving comments questioning that stance.<br />
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Now, with <a href="https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-08-06-the-internet-dark-ages-descends-upon-us-facebook-google-spotify-twitter-all-conspire-to-outlaw-conservative-speech-with-no-due-process.html"><b>an article charging a "liberal media" with promoting censorship</b></a>, Natural News informs me that they are banning me from even <u>attempting</u> to place any comments.<br />
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Natural News claims to oppose censorship. They have published a number of articles where they purport to be opposed to censorship, such as these:<br />
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Yet censorship is exactly what Natural News practices here, as I personally found, when I attempted to comment about their indefensible and irresponsible hysteria promotion of the self perpetuating "'opioid' epidemic".<br />
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Natural News claims to be for medical freedom.<br />
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Yet it has debased itself by jumping on this 'how we continue the misery of the drug war after Marijuana becomes legalized" mass media "'opioid' epidemic" campaign bandwagon.<br />
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Centered around a new scare word "opioid", and a lying through their teeth that they are working to thwart a problematic situation which they actually make worse, by unjustifiably further curtailing people's access to regulated pain meds, in order so we get a huge growth in essentially unregulated, wildly unpredictable potency black market opiates adulterated with far far more potent synthetic opiates (which the previously obscure term "opioid" initially referred to). Countless talking heads lied through their teeth tat too many prescriptions were being written (too many, yet never questioning qualitative matters as to why such prescriptions always insist upon taking such meds every single day without break). Yet when doctors thus began placing such dirty politics even moreso over the interests of patients, with prescriptions going down, yet fatal overdoses going up, we get such illustrious mass media organs misleading their readers with headlines reporting on such as <a href="https://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2016/05/opioid-prescriptions-down-deaths-up-"><b>"Prescription Dip Seen as Advance in Opioid Battle"</b></a><br />
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All of this simple, destructive, one-mindedness, reeks of some sort of organized campaign to lie to the general public for the sake of promoting evil polices designed to maximize human misery.<br />
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About this irresponsible hysteria promotion, as practiced by The New York Times:<br />
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<br />Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-84220460074807675512017-06-19T14:12:00.000-04:002017-06-19T14:16:20.327-04:00Epileptic Seizures, Autism, Dementia/Alzheimer’s, Cannabis … And Coca Leaf Tea?republished from:<br />
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<br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">Epileptic Seizures, Autism, Dementia/Alzheimer’s, Cannabis … And Coca Leaf Tea?</span></b><br /> <br /><b>First, A Short Summary: </b><br />
Researchers are “just discovering” that Cannabis can control Epileptic seizures (<a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1611618">Most recent New England Journal of Medicine</a>)<br />
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Researchers have not yet looked at Cannabis for use in Dementia/Alzheimer’s, even though seizures are common and are a leading cause of death in Dementia/Alzheimer’s.<br />
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Maybe that’s because while Congress has committed some $5.4 billion this fiscal year to cancer research, about $1.2 billion to heart disease and $3 billion to research on HIV/AIDS, research funding for Alzheimer’s is “only” $566 million. Clearly that’s just not enough for researchers (mostly Big Pharma employees) to look into Cannabis as a treatment. <br />
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On a related note, California researchers have just shown that a sleeping sickness drug developed in 1916 can reverse Autism in children; unfortunately, the test group was only 10 kids, and 5 of them were given placebos, and the researchers had to go $500,000 into debt to run the study. Evidently kids with Autism aren’t a big enough deal for Congress. Thoughtful of those researchers to care enough to go ahead though. <br />
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And to wrap all this up in a neat little package, I figure it would cost well under $100,000 to show that Coca Leaf can not only control Epileptic seizures (as already well-known and demonstrated in 1881), but probably also Dementia/Alzheimer’s seizures – not even a diagnosed disease in 1881. <br />
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So, a drug from 1916 is now “discovered” to cure Autism, after decades of high-dollar research into “new” cures. And Cannabis is discovered to cure Epilepsy, after more decades of research into “new” cures. And an 1881 proven cure for both epilepsy and likely for Dementia/Alzheimers, among many other killer diseases, is illegal. Go figure.<br />
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For several years researchers have been zeroing in on Cannabis as a source for potent medicines in treating & preventing epileptic and other kinds of seizures. The latest findings, published May 25, 2017 in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that @ 40% of those treated with a CBD-based medicine experienced dramatic improvement in seizure intensity and frequency.<br />
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So, let’s put this together with an interesting association between seizures and Dementia/Alzheimer’s. There is plenty of research on this association. Here’s just one example.<br />
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“Of the degenerative disorders, Alzheimer’s dementia and amyloid angiopathy are known major causes of seizures. Advanced Alzheimer’s disease has been identified as a risk factor for new-onset generalized tonic-clonic seizures in older adults. It is associated with a 10 percent prevalence of seizures, particularly late in the illness. <a href="http://www.aafp.org/afp/20030115/325.html">An increased prevalence of seizures also has been documented with other types of dementia.</a><br />
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So I suppose that it would make sense to investigate whether Cannabis-derived medicines, or perhaps the right strain of Cannabis itself, could be useful in controlling or preventing seizures in Dementia/Alzheimer’s, especially in late-stages of the disease when seizures are a known killer.<br />
I’m sure that researchers are already drafting multi-million dollar grants to study exactly that.<br />
So far, so good. In spite of decades of “Killer Weed” propaganda it looks like scientific minds are finally rising above the lies and finding that, consistent with centuries of well-established knowledge, the natural medicine Cannabis can be helpful in dealing with killer seizures better and with less risk of harm than pharmaceuticals.<br />
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But wait! If centuries of medical knowledge regarding the efficacy and safety of Cannabis are now appearing as “new findings” in prestigious medical journals, why not take a look at centuries of medical knowledge regarding the safety and efficacy of Coca Leaf in the same area?<br />
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Hmmmm. Could it be that a cup or two of Coca Leaf tea a day might be helpful to people with Dementia/Alzheimer’s – at least in preventing seizures, if not in other ways too. Let’s see. Who would know?<br />
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Well, there is a little book entitled “Erythroxylon Coca”, written by By W.S. Searle, MD and published in New York in 1881. (Dr. Searles book is included in its entirety in my ebook “Coca Leaf Papers” available on the sidebar of this post.)<br />
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Dr. Searles book is only one of many in which the use of Coca to treat and cure epileptic seizures is covered, but here is what Dr. Searles had to say:<br />
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“Coca Leaf & Acute Disease”<br />
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“The relations of Coca to acute disease are extremely important. As a physician, I would not be without it under any consideration. How thoroughly will every physician, understand me when I say that we are not seldom compelled to stand by and witness the death of patients who are really better of the disease which destroys them than perhaps at any previous time during their sickness. We are unable to support them, and they die from exhaustion of the vital forces.”<br />
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“But in Coca we have a powerful agent, whose disturbing influence over physiological processes is so little felt that it neither interferes with recovery from disease by natural course, nor with the action of remedies. And its sustaining power is so marvelous, that I prophesy that by its help we shall hereafter be able to cure many cases of disease which were otherwise hopeless.”<br />
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“I am informed by my colleague, Dr. John L. Moffat, of Brooklyn, that he has had very encouraging results from the use of Coca in hay fever in four instances. Of course, its action here is antipathic, or rather, it probably acts simply by its sustaining power, and by its antipathic relations to asthma. But even an efficient palliative, which can do no harm, will be welcomed by those who are annually visited by this plague.”<br />
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“It has been affirmed by some English authorities that Coca is valueless in epilepsy. For myself I can report that, in one instance of the fully-fledged disease, occurring in a middle-aged lady, but in whom the paroxysms did not recur oftener than once in six months, an apparent cure has been effected by means of Coca alone. She has now passed eighteen months without a seizure. I have also more striking reports from some of the members of this society, who report very marked results in several severe cases which would yield to no other remedy.”<br />
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“It is too early yet, however, to claim for Coca really curative powers in this terrible disease, which has so long been an “opprobrium medicorum”. Still, it is highly probable that the forms of it used by the English physicians in their trials were inert. This is rendered more than likely by the fact that one of the most expert chemists of New York City carefully searched both France and England during the summer of 1880 for good Coca, and was unable to obtain a single valuable specimen.”<br />
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“In view of the fact that all the drugs now ranked as anti-epileptic by the allopathic school of medicine are so injurious to the general health, and in view of the results attained by myself and my colleagues, imperfect as yet though they are, I earnestly urge the faithful trial of Coca in epilepsy.”<br />
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Well, about 140 years have passed and where are those “faithful trials” of Coca Leaf for Epilepsy – and incidentally for Dementia/Alzheimer’s, Congestive Heart Failure, Diabetes, Obesity, and a couple of dozen other killer diseases? Nowhere in sight.<br />
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Researchers with Ph.D’s and major institutions behind them are getting tens of millions of dollars to “study” Dementia/Alzheimer’s, but not a peep out of the research establishment about Coca Leaf Tea.<br />
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And, of course, since I’m not in the club I can’t get a grant, even though I could pretty much prove or disprove the efficacy and safety of Coca leaf for Dementia/Alzheimer’s with a few thousand bucks. But as noted, I don’t have a Ph.D. and I’m not a member of the club, so no institution gives a shit what I say.<br />
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Hell, maybe I’ll just do a GoFundMe request for a couple of tickets to Bolivia, grab a hundred kilos or so of fresh Coca Leaf, and come home and start handing out Coca Leaf Tea at a church social or two, and maybe a local nursing home. Think I would get past US Customs/DEA? Might actually be a great idea – let them bust me for trying to bring Coca Leaf in for Dementia/Alzheimer’s patients.<br />
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I wonder how many members of the US Congress, who make the laws forbidding Coca Leaf coming into the US, have someone in their family with Dementia/Alzheimer’s. (I’m resisting the obvious snide remark here because while it might be accurate it would also be cruel.)<br />
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Anyone have any suggestions?Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-4240915530133373802017-06-01T15:05:00.002-04:002017-06-01T17:09:50.861-04:00Both U.S. Democrat & Republican Parties Have Disregarded Truthregarding that criminal sociopathic racketeering scheme of the so called "war on drugs"<br />
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from a comment by b4integrity at:<br />
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President Obama refused to answer this communication to him.
President* Trump and AG* Sessions have also refused to answer similar
communications to them.<br />
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<a href="https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fcontact%23more%3AaBn2kNAgznUWB9iK9-UPl9eN3_s&cuid=73190" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.whitehouse.gov/...</a><br />
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5:07 PM, Thursday<br />
2016Jun09<br />
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President Obama,<br />
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The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) contains the following:<br />
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"The Congress makes the following findings and declarations:<br />
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(1)
The Congress has long recognized the danger involved in the
manufacture, distribution, and use of certain psychotropic substances
for nonscientific and nonmedical purposes, and has provided strong and
effective legislation to control illicit trafficking and to regulate
legitimate uses of psychotropic substances in this country. Abuse of
psychotropic substances has become a phenomenon common to many
countries, however, and is not confined to national borders. It is,
therefore, essential that the United States cooperate with other nations
in establishing effective controls over international traffic in such
substances."<br />
<a href="https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.cornell.edu%2Fuscode%2Ftext%2F21%2F801a%3A8vpFkau74FnInguzL7hg3Y-mBd4&cuid=73190" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.law.cornell.edu...</a><br />
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Tobacco & alcohol are psychotropic (mood-altering) substances, affecting mental activity, behavior, or perception.<br />
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Tobacco & alcohol are the two most deadly & dangerous of all drugs.<br />
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Tobacco
drug use accounts for more drug deaths (~480,000 tobacco drug
deaths/year in the U.S.A.) than the summation of the drug deaths from
the use of all other drugs, including alcohol, combined!<br />
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Tobacco meets the definition of a schedule I controlled substance.<br />
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Alcohol meets the definition of a schedule II controlled substance.<br />
<a href="https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.cornell.edu%2Fuscode%2Ftext%2F21%2F812%3AbY0h5Uzn_8U23_eCAaBt3uYNCL8&cuid=73190" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.law.cornell.edu...</a><br />
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Tobacco
& alcohol are unconstitutionally exempt from the CSA in violation
of the Equal Protection Clause [21 U.S.C. § 802(6)].<br />
<a href="https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.cornell.edu%2Fuscode%2Ftext%2F21%2F802%3AoZBpYIcjtNxbmGE6q15n2xrUGR4&cuid=73190" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.law.cornell.edu...</a><br />
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Are
there any scientific and/or medical purposes for the use of the
psychotropic substances tobacco & alcohol? If there are, what are
these scientific & medical purposes for the use of tobacco &
alcohol?<br />
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What are the legitimate uses of the psychotropic substances, tobacco & alcohol, in this country?<br />
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What is(are) the reason(s) that tobacco & alcohol are exempt from the CSA?<br />
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Do you acknowledge that the CSA violates the Equal Protection Clause?<br />
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Why do you enforce the CSA when it violates the Equal Protection Clause?<br />
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Why haven't you called for Congress to either:<br />
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1)
Repeal the exemptions of tobacco & alcohol and classify tobacco as a
schedule I controlled substance and alcohol a schedule II; or<br />
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2) Repeal the entire CSA and abolish the DEA?<br />
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Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-81613301938867558832017-02-14T00:07:00.002-05:002017-07-21T23:43:01.032-04:00Defeating The Drug War Requires Better Understanding It<i>prerequisite reading:</i><br />
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2016/02/points-about-progressive-era-war-of.html"><b>http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2016/02/points-about-progressive-era-war-of.html</b></a><br />
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Contrary to what is commonly regurgitated, <u>the drug war did <b>not</b> start with Richard Nixon</u>.<br />
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Rather, it was the phrase "war on drugs", that came with the re-codification of drug prohibition that occurred under Nixon with the enactment of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act"><b>1970 U.S. Controlled Substances Act</b></a>. This re-codification was necessary following the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leary_v._United_States"><b>1969 Leary case</b></a> that had the Supreme Court officially find the statutory basis of US drug prohibition since the 1914 - the power to tax - unconstitutional as violating an individual's right against self incrimination. The 1970 CSA would instead base itself upon the power to regulate interstate commerce.<br />
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The U.S. drug war dates back to the prohibitions established via the 1937 “Marijuana” Tax Act and the 1914 Harrison "Narcotics" Tax Act regarding “opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations”. Accordingly, such substances could only be legally possessed by those registered to
pay a special tax, which the U.S. Treasury Department was therefore
empowered to set regulations determining who could be allowed to pay the
tax. Thus though based upon the Congressional power to tax, this 1914 Act also relied upon a delegation of regulatory authority. <br />
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The stage for this would be set via the<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/harvey-wileys-1906-us-food-drugs-act.html"><b> 1906 U.S. Food and Drugs Act</b></a>, and the propaganda campaign used to bring it about.<br />
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The 1906 Act which did not specifically prohibit any substances, set up the population for the prohibitions to come, via an overly broad delegation of regulatory authority to the U.S.D.A. Bureau of Chemistry so empowered to ban products sold as foods, that contained what it claimed were dangerous-deleterious to human health ingredients, and hinted at via a grossly inconsistent retail packaging labeling requirement list of substances.<br />
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It would not be a true war against dangerous or addictive substances.<br />
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It would lump together all cocaine containing products regardless of the potency and hence actual properties, with the effect of effectively banning the relatively safe - re: dilute - products while shifting cocaine availability exclusively to the drug in its most dangerous concentrated forms.<br />
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-evil-prohibition-to-promote.html"><b>It would give a free pass to substances that were intrinsically the most dangerous and addictive as nicotine containing Tobacco, even allowing such products with a wide range of deleterious additives, more incredibly even unlabeled</b></a>, as perhaps <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/coca-as-tobacco-habit-cure.html"><b>should be expected</b></a>.<br />
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The 1906 U.S. Food and Drugs Act would be widely lauded as establishing reasonable regulations and regulatory authority to guard over the food and drug supply in interstate commerce.<br />
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Yet its inconsistencies and its unbridled regulatory authority to the Bureau of Chemistry of the U.S.D.A. would make it a springboard of authoritarian abuse via a U.S.D.A. allied with commercial interests most notably the <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/knights-of-new-dark-age-usda-apha-ama.html"><b>American Medical Association and the American Pharmaceutical Association, and in collusion with "muckracker" writers as Samuel Hopkins Adams</b></a>.<br />
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Its seemingly reasonable requirement for the retail product labeling of ingredients would be subverted by its limitation to certain substances that were being politically targeted, and the exclusion of others given a free pass: for instance cocaine had to be labeled but neither caffeine nor nicotine, even regardless of what was inferable from the product's label. Therefore products clearly labeled as "Coca" by name and/or ingredient list were <i>"misbranded"</i> for not listing the presence and proportion of cocaine alkaloid, even that occurring simply naturally in Coca leaf. Yet products were not required to list the caffeine content for instance even if their labels made no mention of Coffee, tea or some other caffeine containing plant- hence fortifying a false notion that cocaine was somehow necessarily more dangerous than caffeine or nicotine regardless of how low the amount, and thus engendering a popular overly broad fear of Coca products.<br />
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Its seemingly reasonable prohibition upon <i>"adulteration"</i> was likewise perverted by its empowerment of the U.S.D.A. Chemistry Bureau (Section 4) to make such a determination based upon its opinion of any such ingredient being <i>"deleterious or detrimental to human health"</i> (Section 7 regarding confectioneries and foods): a power given without any actual requirement of scientific backing! The U.S.D.A. Chemistry Bureau could thus exploit this to bring prosecutions against manufacturers of products containing substances it arbitrarily deemed so unacceptable, doing so <u>even those included in the Act's labeling requirement</u>! <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-dark-ages-usda-crusade-against-coca.html"><b>And it would do so, starting with products sold as "foods' for regular use, rather than as "drugs" sold for more occasional use</b></a>.<br />
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When a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Johnson_%281911%29"><b>1911 U.S. Supreme Court decision</b></a><b> </b>found the 1906 Act failed to confer the degree of regulatory power sought by the U.S.D.A. - namely that <i>"misbranding"</i> referred to a substance's identity rather than its efficacy - it was soon <a href="http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Sherley+Amendment"><b>amended</b></a>. That would thus set the stage for bureaucrats to suppress information about medical alternatives, via empowering them to declare such medical claims as false- even arbitrarily. This would build upon the Act's already established failure to require scientific backing regarding U.S.D.A. Bureau of Chemistry claims about ingredients, further establishing a medical - agricultural mercantilist scheme for patentable synthetic drugs and Tobacco- the U.S.D.A. after all being initially established in 1862 to promote U.S. agricultural interests.<br />
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The drug war after all has always involved <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-evil-prohibition-to-promote.html"><b>markets worth billions</b></a>, and the U.S.D.A., as an example of this drive for market control, was undeniably concerned about the market threat that Coca posed to Tobacco, as seen in their infamous 1910 Farmers' Bulletin article <a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc85674/"><b><i>"Habit Forming Agents Their Sale and Use a Menace to the Public Welfare"</i></b></a>. Notably the U.S.D.A. hysteria against cocaine - regardless of actual matters of a preparation's potency/abuse potential - escalated sharply after the U.S. took control of the project constructing the Panama Canal that would significantly reduce transport distances for Coca leaves from the coast of Peru to North Atlantic markets. Coca leaf is what experts as Dr. Ronald K. Siegel of U.C.L.A. have noted <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/coca-leaf-stands-out-among-all.html"><i>"...stands out among all the stimulants, licit and illicit, as the easiest to control and the one least likely to produce toxicity or dependency."</i></a><br />
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We know the worst are Tobacco products, particularly cigarettes, <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2015/03/self-styled-quackbuster-jama-editor-dr.html"><b>actively promoted for decades by American Medical Association figures as "Dr." Morris Fishbein</b></a>, and now credited by the U.N. World Health Organization with causing some 100 million premature deaths during the 1900s. We can see how cigarette production spiked in the wake of the successive 1906, 1914 and 1937 U.S. drug control legislative Acts, and can just begin to calculate this rarely acknowledged <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2016/02/points-about-progressive-era-war-of.html"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>enormity</b></span></a> of <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/criminal-mercantilism-public-health.html"><b><u>public health subversion caused by the war on drugs</u></b></a>. Yet article after article about the drug war can never dare mention any of this, choosing instead to fail to get beyond New York Times promoted <a href="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/negro_cocaine_fiends.htm"><b>fake news from 1914 that cocaine was banned in the U.S. because Black people liked it and that it made them impervious to bullets</b></a> prompting some police units to adopt larger caliber guns.<br />
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Has anyone ever seen a 20th century article about medical 'quackery' include the profession's promotion of Tobacco cigarettes so prevalent in the half century following the 1906 U.S. Food and Drugs Act?</div>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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That Act that so empowered the United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Chemistry over foods and drugs, had cleverly exempted Tobacco products, by cleverly limiting its jurisdiction to drugs listed in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia, which did list Tobacco prior to de listing it the previous year- 1905!</div>
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The 1906 Act would effectively grandfather Tobacco with its Section 6:<br />
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<i>"That the term “drug,” as used in this Act, shall include all medicines
and preparations recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or
National Formulary for internal or external use, and any substance or
mixture of substances intended to be used for the cure, mitigation, or
prevention of disease of either man or other animals. The term “food,”
as used herein, shall include all articles used for food, drink,
confectionery, or condiment by man or other animals, whether simple,
mixed, or compound."</i></blockquote>
Tobacco had been included in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia since at least 1890, yet was deleted in 1905.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/nc/nc2b_7.htm"><b>Accordingly</b></a>, <i>"Former [U.S.] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurine_Neuberger"><b>SenatorMaurine Neuberger</b></a> has claimed that the removal of tobacco from the Pharmacopoeia was the
price paid to get support of tobacco-state legislators for the Food and Drug Act of 1906.
The leaf was thereby removed from the jurisdiction of the FDA (Wagner, 1971: 74)." </i><br />
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That statement and the timing suggest that the 1905 deletion was done in anticipation of the 1906 Act.<br />
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<b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">The drug war's lack of scientific quality has a broader purpose.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">That would be a
campaign not only against opiates and cocaine, but also against the idea of
self medication (that is individuals medicating without a doctor's
prescription), <b>against medications that were based upon natural substances as
herbs and components of herbs, <u>and hence un-patentable</u></b>, <b>against products that
were generally dilute, <u>hence taking more shelf space than concentrates as
powders and pills</u></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That campaign relied
heavily upon such code terms as '<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/wiley-nostrums-quackery.html"><b>nostrums</b></a>' - see <i>Colliers Magazine<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/wileys-great-american-fraud-of.html"><b> </b></a></i><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/wileys-great-american-fraud-of.html"><b>cir 1905</b></a>, as
well as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Patent Medicines' -
actually a misnomer used against what were correctly termed 'proprietary
medicines' as patent medicines where those that could be patented because they
were man made chemicals rather than ones occurring naturally in things as
plants- hence the basis for today’s overly expensive and toxic- re side effects
- pharmaceutical monopoly medicines. The U.S. government's years of suppression of knowledge about the potential efficacy of Cannabis in fighting cancer, for instance, is but a part of this subversion of choice, <u><b>which is a key factor in the crisis of rising health care costs</b></u>. </span></div>
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The current habit of assuming that the 'war on drugs' simply started with Richard Nixon’s Presidency, and the near universal tendency to only focus upon Cannabis "Marijuana-Marijuana" <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2017/01/ethan-nadelmann-stepping-out-from-dpa.html"><b>distracts</b></a> from the broader picture, serving to further perpetuate the quite costly assault on <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2007/07/freedom-of-medicine-and-diet.html"><b>freedom of medicine and diet</b></a>.<br />
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<i>Also see:</i><br />
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-evil-prohibition-to-promote.html"><b>http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-evil-prohibition-to-promote.html</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://southmallblogger.blogspot.com/2012/08/drug-war-cigarette-mercantilism.html"><b>http://southmallblogger.blogspot.com/2012/08/drug-war-cigarette-mercantilism.html</b></a>Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-15363253485135001072017-01-28T13:39:00.002-05:002017-05-11T22:29:23.363-04:00Ethan Nadelmann Stepping Out From DPA Position<br />
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<b>Douglas A. Willinger</b>, left</div>
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<b>Ethan Nadelmann</b>, center</div>
at the 1992 Drug Policy Foundation conference, </div>
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photo from a <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2009/11/17-years-ago-just-say-whoa.html"><b>Washington City Paper</b> article <i>'Just Say Whoa'</i></a><br />
<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2009/11/17-years-ago-just-say-whoa.html">p 25 December 18-24, 1992 </a></div>
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<a href="http://www.drugwarrant.com/2017/01/ethan-nadelmann-stepping-down-from-drug-policy-alliance/">http://www.drugwarrant.com/2017/01/ethan-nadelmann-stepping-down-from-drug-policy-alliance/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/ethan-nadelmanns-farewell-letter-drug-policy-alliance-staff"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/ethan-nadelmanns-farewell-letter-drug-policy-alliance-staff</span></a></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dear DPA'ers:</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The time has come for me to step aside as executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This is just about the toughest decision I've ever made but it feels
like the right time for me personally and also for DPA. It's almost
twenty-three years since I started The Lindesmith Center and approaching
seventeen years since we merged with the Drug Policy Foundation to
create DPA. We've grown from little more than an idea into a remarkable
advocacy organization that has built, led and defined a new political
and cultural movement.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Transitions like this are never easy but I am confident that DPA will
continue to flourish. Our finances are strong and our donor base more
diversified than ever before, with new sources of potential funding
rapidly emerging. The talent, experience and commitment of staff and
board are extraordinary. Our mission and vision are as relevant today as
when we started, even as our many victories present new challenges and
opportunities.</span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I've been thinking about making this transition for almost two years,
for all sorts of reasons: passing the age at which my father died; the
prospect of turning sixty, as I will six weeks from now; my growing
sense of multiple missions accomplished, as evidenced by transformations
in public opinion, our political victories, and the rapid expansion of
our organization and movement; and also, I must say, by a desire for new
adventure and challenges. Even as I've imagined, with both trepidation
and anticipation, different futures for myself, I've made no plans or
commitments.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Most of you have heard me compare our drug policy reform movement to
other movements for social justice and individual liberty – notably
those for women's rights, civil rights and gay rights – and describe
each as inevitably a multi-generational struggle. I am immensely proud
to have played the role I did in the first generation of our movement
and to know that there are so many exceptional people who will lead –
indeed, are now leading – the second generation. It's time now for a new
person to assume the leadership of DPA and take this organization and
our cause where they need to go.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I had strongly hoped and assumed, as I came to this decision, that
Donald Trump would not be our next president. That development did
indeed give me pause but not change my mind. His administration will
surely hamper our progress at the federal level but do little to
undermine our progress and prospects in the states and cities where so
much of our work has focused. And there are always, as we've learned
from experience, unique opportunities that arise when our opposition is
clearly defined and when it overreaches, as it inevitably will.</span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">We are extraordinarily fortunate to have a strong board as well as a
chairman, Ira Glasser, who knows and loves DPA deeply. He and I have
agreed on a target date of late April for me to step down, at which
point, I am pleased to say, DPA's former deputy executive director,
<a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/derek-hodel-1a826733"><b>Derek Hodel</b></a>, has agreed to serve as interim executive director until my
successor is in place. The search for that person now commences.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">My greatest regret in making this move is the prospect of missing
you. My admiration and respect for the work you've done, and the
passion, commitment and superb judgment you've demonstrated again and
again, truly knows no bounds. I'll dearly miss our comradery and our
shared struggles. But I'm not going far, and nothing will give me
greater pride and joy than to watch DPA grow into an ever more powerful
advocate for drug policies grounded in science, compassion, health and
human rights!</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Onward and forward ...</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ethan</span></i></blockquote>
The interim executive direction, Derek Hodel served previously as the DPA's Deputy Executive Director from March 2006 to July 2011. According to <a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/derek-hodel-1a826733">his linkin profile</a>:<br />
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<section class="profile-section" data-section="summary" id="summary">Derek Hodel is a longtime social justice activist and nonprofit executive. For the past 28 years, he has held a variety of senior positions for HIV- and drug-policy organizations in New York and Washington, D.C., and operated a consulting practice serving foundation, government, and nonprofit social service organizations. He currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.</section><section class="profile-section" id="experience"><br />Experience <br /><br /> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/title/independent-consultant?trk=pprofile_title">Independent Consultant</a> <br /> Derek Hodel Consulting<br /><br />January 1998 – Present (19 years 1 month)Toronto, Canada Area <br /><br />Derek Hodel provides policy research, analysis, and development; writing and editing; strategic planning and facilitation; and organizational development advice for clients worldwide, from 1998-2006 as principal at the Daystar Group, and currently as an independent consultant. Representative clients include Action Hepatitis Canada, Arcus Foundation, Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE), Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), Ford Foundation, Funders Concerned About AIDS, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Gay Men's Sexual Health Alliance; Levi Strauss Foundation, M•A•C AIDS Fund, National Minority AIDS Council, New York Academy of Medicine, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York Community Trust, NYS AIDS Institute, Open Society Foundations, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Physicians for Human Rights, Trust for America' Health, Treatment Action Group, and UNAIDS. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/title/interim-executive-director?trk=pprofile_title">Interim Executive Director</a> <br /> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/ctac-canada?trk=ppro_cprof">Canadian Treatment Action Council</a> <br /><br />July 2013 – October 2013 (4 months)Toronto, Canada Area <br /><br />CTAC is Canada's civil society organization addressing access to treatment, care and support for people living with HIV. CTAC's mission is to identify, develop and implement policy and program solutions promoting treatment access and to respond to the health and human rights of Canadians living with HIV and viral hepatitis. <br /><br /> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/title/interim-executive-director?trk=pprofile_title">Interim Executive Director</a> <br /> International Treatment Preparedness Coalition <br /><br />October 2012 – May 2013 (8 months) <br /><br />The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition is the world's leading community-based movement of people living with HIV and their supporters who are united in promoting access to treatment. ITPC members include community organizations, local NGOs, researchers, and activists with strong expertise in HIV treatment, HIV co-infections, health systems and related issues. For nearly a decade, ITPC has advocated for treatment access and promoted treatment literacy, ensuring that PLHIV actively shape their own futures and lead productive lives. Through a global secretariat in NYC, ITPC supports nine regional networks in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. <br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/title/chief-operating-officer?trk=pprofile_title">Chief Operating Officer</a> <br /> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/ontario-hiv-treatment-network?trk=ppro_cprof">Ontario HIV Treatment Network</a> <br /><br />September 2011 – February 2012 (6 months)Toronto, Canada Area <br /><br />Responsibilities included management of day-to-day operations (50+ staff and $10 million budget) and the development and implementation of systems to promote program integration and increase accountability.<ul class="positions">
<li class="position" data-section="pastPositionsDetails"><header><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/title/deputy-executive-director?trk=pprofile_title">Deputy Executive Director</a> <br /> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/drug-policy-alliance?trk=ppro_cprof">Drug Policy Alliance</a> <br /><br />March 2006 – July 2011 (5 years 5 months)Greater New York City Area <br /><br />Drug Policy Alliance is the nation's leading organization advocating alternatives to the failed war on drugs based on science, compassion, health and human rights. <br /><br /> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/title/interim-executive-director?trk=pprofile_title">Interim Executive Director</a> <br /><br />Funders Concerned About AIDS <br /><br />June 2005 – January 2006 (8 months)Greater New York City Area <br /><br />FCAA is a philanthropic affinity group comprised of independent, community and corporate foundations committed to eradicating the global HIV epidemic and addressing its social and economic consequences<br /><br /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/gmhc?trk=ppro_cprof"><img src="https://media.licdn.com/media/p/4/000/156/2be/2e001a7.png" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/title/director-of-public-policy?trk=pprofile_title">Director of Public Policy</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/gmhc?trk=ppro_cprof">Gay Men's Health Crisis</a></header></li>
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July 1994 – July 1997 (3 years 1 month)Greater New York City Area <br />
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GMHC is the world's oldest and largest AIDS service organization. <br />
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Treatment and Research Director <br />
AIDS ACTION COUNCIL <br />
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July 1992 – July 1994 (2 years 1 month)Washington D.C. Metro Area <br />
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AIDS Action Council (now AIDS United) was the national representative of over 1000 community-based AIDS organizations. <br />
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/title/executive-director?trk=pprofile_title">Executive Director</a> <br />
PWA (PEOPLE WITH AIDS) HEALTH GROUP <br />
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January 1988 – January 1992 (4 years 1 month) <br />
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The PWA Health Group was an activist organization dedicated to improving access to experimental AIDS treatments. Focus Features recently commissioned a history of the PWA Health Group in conjunction with its release of Dallas Buyers Club: http://www.focusfeatures.com/slideshow/new_york_city_buyers_club</blockquote>
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Nadelmann, along with Ira Glasser are long-time participants in the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), as well as the predecessor organization, the Drug Policy Foundation (DPF). Both have featured prominently in the various DPF and DPA conferences, such as this opening session from the 1989 DPF conference.<br />
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Nadelmann appears on the DPF Advisory Board list in that organization's <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/10/1989-drug-policy-foundation-conference.html"><b>1988-1989 Biannual Report</b></a>.<br />
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I have known Nadelmann<b> <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2012/06/douglas-andrew-willinger-angelo.html">for more than a quarter century through my activism</a></b>, including attending these conferences that I started attending regularly in 1989, and <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/10/ethan-nadelmann-why-some-drugs-are.html">appeared on a panel with him in 1992</a>.<br />
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The DPF did a decent job during its early years, following its 1986 founding, and into the early 1990s.<br />
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However, after 1992, the DPF became increasingly 'conservative' insofar as becoming more restrictive in what they allowed at their conferences.<br />
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Although adopting the lexicon of "harm reduction" the DPF would narrow presentations to things as methadone, while denying coverage of natural substances other than Cannabis and some psychedelics.<br />
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2015/11/dpf-denied-1997-opium-coca-panel.html"><span style="font-size: large;">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2015/11/dpf-denied-1997-opium-coca-panel.html</span></a></blockquote>
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There are those that have already expressed opinions about Nadelmann consistent with that of this blog Freedom of Medicine and Diet, such as the comment found on the DPA's very post with the Nadelmann resignation letter:<br />
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<a href="https://disqus.com/by/disqus_XHXFNkrTM8/">henrymiller</a> • <a href="http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/ethan-nadelmanns-farewell-letter-drug-policy-alliance-staff#comment-3124409561">13 hours ago</a></blockquote>
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In May2000 I wrote a story published by AlterNet entitled, "Pot
Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in '74." It won a Project Censored award
and resulted in my having to go into hiding to safeguard myself and my
family. In the ensuing 17 years exactly zero national pot activist
"leaders" have followed up in any meaningful way on the federal
government's documented suppression of research revealing cannabis'
anti-cancer properties. As far as I'm concerned, Mr. Nadelmann won't be
missed. He mostly wrote the same things over and over again, recycling
material from other sources and refusing to address the central issues
of pot prohibition: how many people is it killing every day? How many
people has prohibition killed in the past 50 years? Does pot really cure
cancer and is that why the DEA and its puppet, the UN drug office, have
blocked human trials worldwide for nearly 50 years? Let's hope his
successor will be less concerned with who sits in the White House and
more concerned with having the courage to get to the bottom of the DEA's
conspiracy to keep people sick on behalf of Big Pharma. Obama had the
chance to reschedule pot. He didn't. Hillary Clinton had no intention of
rescheduling either, and Mr. Nadelmann knows it. Clinton was on record
as an ardent prohibitionist. Bon voyage, Mr. Nadelmann. Enjoy your
retirement. The rest of us will continue to fight.</blockquote>
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Having been involved with the DPA since its inception, and its predecessor entity the DPF since 1989, I agree with this assessment.<br />
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A fair question remaining unanswered is the influence upon the drug policy reform movement of that major pharma-tobacco law firm of Covington & Burling. It was founded by a Congressman with some involvement with starting drug prohibition, who started that firm which had as its first client the Grocery Manufacturers' Association. And it has long been involved with advising groups as the DPF/DPA/MPP and perhaps others:</blockquote>
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<b>Evening update:</b><br />
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<footer class="comment__footer"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">This comment appears to have been rejected, as it no longer appears upon a refresh later the same day.</span></span></footer><footer class="comment__footer"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"> </span></span></footer><footer class="comment__footer"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">This suggests that the DPA finds the matter of the Covington & Burling involvement with the drug policy reform organizations, to be a topic they would rather not address. Indeed one <u>so sensitive that they would be afraid to allow a comment about it</u>, even though allowing the comment above critical of Nadelmann, as well as another about long time activist Chris Conrad regarding the recent controversy about the California AUMA.</span></span></footer><footer class="comment__footer"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"> </span></span></footer><br />
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<footer class="comment__footer"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">The DPA has long displayed a narrow focus upon synthetic (patentable) pharmaceuticals, to the exclusion of non patentable natural alternatives.</span></span></footer><br />
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<br />
<footer class="comment__footer"><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/10/dpa-behind-curve.html"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/10/dpa-behind-curve.html</span></span></a></footer><footer class="comment__footer"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><br /></span></span></footer><footer class="comment__footer">"Notably the DPA promotes Methadone, see the blue pamphlet, yet strangely
has no such publications for Coca leaf nor Iboga- that latter a
particularly odd exclusion for a psychedelics conference."</footer></blockquote>
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<footer class="comment__footer"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">And it has long undersold the concept of 'harm reduction' by focusing upon the drugs as they are available under prohibition, forgetting how prohibition ensures their availability as 'hard' - re: concentrated - drugs.</span></span></footer><br />
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<br />
<footer class="comment__footer"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/dpa-under-sells-harm-reduction.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/dpa-under-sells-harm-reduction.html</a></span></span></footer></blockquote>
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<footer class="comment__footer">"Alas, the Drug Policy Alliance - successor organization to the Drug
Policy Foundation - seriously short-sells the concept of 'Harm
Reduction', limiting it essentially to the first stage: clean needles
and safer crack pipes."</footer></blockquote>
Indeed:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2013/10/missing-from-dpa-conference.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2013/10/missing-from-dpa-conference.html</a><br />
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"NO Panels on Coca, Opium nor Ibogaine nor any plants other than Marijuana<br />
<br />
NO Panels on <u><b>how the drug war encourage more dangerous drug forms</b></u> and
how that was done <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-evil-prohibition-to-promote.html"><u><b>to protect the most dangerous drug of all</b></u></a><br />
<br />
NO Panels on History- even at this final conference before next year's 100 anniversary of the infamous 1914 Co<b>n</b>gress Harrison Narcotics Act..."</blockquote>
Nadelmann has squandered opportunities - such as an interview with FOX's notorious drug war apologist Bill O'Reilly - to explain to the public how drug prohibition is a self perpetuating problem, that breeds the very problems cited as its justification:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2012/08/missing-opportunity.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2012/08/missing-opportunity.html</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
O'Reilly makes a valuable mis-step/half-truth, which Nadelmann neglects to answer</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"cocaine and meth incapacitate" (3:23)</blockquote>
Nadelmann could have at least mentioned the interplay of pharmakokenetics
and prohibition's iron law regarding Opiates and Cocaine in shifting
markets to infinitely more concentrated forms of drugs and more
problematic modes of drug taking. For instance cocaine is a stimulant
alkaloid found in small amounts in Coca leaves, as are caffeine and
nicotine respectively in Coffee/other beverages and Tobacco. But how
much of the later two are consumed in white powder form, essentially
unmeasured, of standardized potency, and in modes of taking that
invite overdosing leading to the very incapacitation O'Reilly cites.
Do a tiny line of cocaine hci or crystal meth and perhaps one is still
within a range of enhancement -- aka a milder effect not interfering
with life but rather the role of a gentle uplift. But do a slightly
larger amount, and they do interfere, like with cocaine crossing the threshold to where one does not want to hear music, and prefer to be
alone or silent. And they are easy to over-do in these concentrated
forms. So why Mr. Reilly do you insist upon a scheme that makes
Opiates and cocaine only available in their dangerous forms, and which
only really bans<b><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/coca-apogee-1898-and-1904-vatican-fetes.html"> the safe forms</a></b>? </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Imagine <b><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/coca-caffeine-substitute.html">replacing Coffee</a></b>
with white powder caffeine. Imagine replacing Coffee drinking with
caffeine powder sniffing - or smoking or shooting. Look at the <b><a href="http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-11-03/news/27080105_1_caffeine-red-bull-powder">caffeine overdose stories of those that have killd themselves with recklessly large doses</a></b> of white powder caffeine, akin to <b><a href="http://www.blastcaffeine.com/">BLAST</a></b>.</blockquote>
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Why is it ok to make cocaine powder and crack highly profitable and inefficient uses of police resources, while really banning only the <b><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/british-and-french-and-north-americans.html">safe and effective</a></b> products such as <b><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-warriors-ignore-history-of-coca.html">VIN MARIANI</a></b>?<br />
<br />
Why is it ok to ban Coca/VIN MARIANI?</blockquote>
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Yet it is ok to permit the mass sales of cigarettes and other Tobacco
products. Never-mind that they are more physically addictive than
heroin, and are most chronically deleterious, taking nearly half a
million lives every year in the U.S., and over 6 million annually
word-wide.<br />
<br />
Especially so. Why are these Tobacco products and alcohol the two
classes of substances EXEMPTED from ingredient retail labeling? The
initial 1906 U.S. Food and Drugs Act was predicated upon labeling some
drugs, such as opiates and cocaine - but not others such as caffeine and
nicotine. Indeed it exempted Tobacco from its regulatory jurisdiction,
by limiting such to substances listed in the U.S. Pharmacopeia which
de-listed Tobacco in 1905, never-mind that this regulatory authority was
vested with the U.S. Department of AGRICULTURE. <b><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/harvey-wileys-1906-us-food-drugs-act.html">Wow! the USDA gets to ban anything it declares as deleterious to health, yet could not regulate Tobacco</a></b>- and apparently was never challenged in a suit over this denial of equal protection under the law. </blockquote>
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Coca is the safest stimulant.<br />
<br />
Tobacco is the most dangerous.<br />
<br />
Why the hell is Coca illegal and Tobacco legal? </blockquote>
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Who decided that we had to ban Coca so that people could not go to the
trouble of chemically processing it into concentrated cocaine, so that
they no long had the option of Coca products, but only concentrated
cocaine and Tobacco products?<br />
<br />
What was the social costs of the 20th century ban on Coca and this
protection of Tobacco and cigarettes? Given their overlapping uses, the
fact that the U.S.D.A. was exploring the feasibility of growing Coca in
the U.S., that the U.S. had taken control of the Panama Canal project
in 1903 to be completed in 1914 that would have significantly shortened
Coca supply lines from Peru to North Atlantic markets, and the
U.S.D.A.'s stated concern specifically over the use of coca as a
'Tobacco Habit Cure', the drug war was anything other than about
protecting the public's health. <br />
<br />
That's a crime that's got to end.<br />
<br />
Sadly, drug policy reform organizations as the Drug Policy Foundation now Drug Policy Alliance <b><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2010/07/peter-lewis-ira-glasser-is-waste-of.html">act fearful of addressing this point</a></b>.<br />
<br />
They act in deference to protecting existing markets, as part of<b><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/11/ira-glasser-sells-300-year-agenda.html"> Ira Glasser's 300 Year time frame</a></b>
to go as slow as possible, such as down-selling "harm reduction" as
clean needles and safer crack pipes, bit don't talk about the parent
plant drugs of Opium and Coca- never-mind their listing in the 1914 U.S.
Harrison Narcotics Tax Act. It is as if they were being yoked, perhaps
in part by being feed some exceptionally questionable advice.</blockquote>
The matter of drug prohibition promoting its own justifications is long acknowledged, for instance the landmark Rich Cowan National Review article from 1986 about how prohibition spawned crack.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-narcs-created-crack-richard-cowan.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-narcs-created-crack-richard-cowan.html</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">It is difficult to admit that the medicine we are prescribing might just be the poison that is causing the illness</span>;
yet the "energy crisis" was largely a creation of federal regulations
meant to ensure adequate supplies at a reasonable cost. Infiation, a
very real threat to any economy, is masked and then made worse by price
controls. Forced busing, the statisticians now tell us, actually
increased racial segregation, while wrecking many public-school systems....<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">First, from the supply perspective,
it is good business to minimize the bulk of contraband. Smuggling beer
and wine was less profitable than "rum running." Tiny pieces of crack
are easier to carry than cocaine powder, which in turn is far less bulky
than the coca leaves that are used legally by the Andean Indians.
Heroin replaced opium for similar reasons. Obviously, the bulkiest
illegal drug, marijuana, will lose out in the supply channels to cocaine
and heroin.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span> <br />
Marijuana remains the principal target of
law-enforcement efforts, despite the current crack-generated headlines.
One result is that the weed, which can be grown anywhere, is being
cultivated in more potent strains to justify a higher price per pound.
The price must rise to justify the risk of transportation.<br />
<br />
The
same considerations also encourage the substitution, for marijuana, of
its concentrates, hashish and hash oil, which are many times more
potent. It is even possible that marijuana enforcement, with its effects
on price and availability, is pushing marijuana users toward cocaine
and worse.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> The New York Times recently quoted a Los Angeles narcotics officer: <span style="font-style: italic;">"I hate to say it, but we, law enforcement, may be driving people into the arms of the coke dealers by taking away their grass.</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> But we have got to enforce the law."</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span> <br />
Second,
from the demand perspective, the more potent forms of drugs offer the
user the same convenience of transportation that is of value to the
supplier. <span style="font-weight: bold;">However, while it is
impossible to overdose fatally on the marijuana derivatives, precise
dosage is at once more critical and more difficult to achieve with any
synthetic or concentrate like crack.</span> This leads us to an
essential point. Though the anti-drug crusaders'
self-righteousness, may imagine that most drug users are irrational and
self-destructive, the reality is that most of them are People Like Us.
Some drinkers drink to destroy themselves; the vast majority prefer to
drink safely and happily and therefore moderate their drinking. The
majority of recreational drug users would prefer to do the same<br />
<br />
Normal
people have good instincts for self-preservation. Thus, without much
pressure from the government, we have seen in recent years a powerful
trend toward weaker versions of legal drugs_wine coolers in place of
distilled spirits, filtered cigarettes low in tar and nicotine, even
decaffeinated coffee and tea. To be sure, drunk-driving laws may have
accelerated the trend; but, whatever their imperfections, the laws
against drunk driving are far more rational than the drug laws in that
they outlaw not substances but obviously reckless behavior. Just because
drunk-driving laws are fairly rational, there is less rebellion against
them. On the whole, the trend toward safer dosages of legal drugs gives
massive testimony to the rationality of normal people. </blockquote>
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Under
current law. no such trend is possible for illegal drugs. The war on
drugs is a war on rational behavior by drug users. With illegal drugs
the trend is accelerating in the wrong direction, not because of the
thrill-seeking or self-destructive minority, but because of the dynamics
of the markets for contraband. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/dpa-raising-suspicions-with-its.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/dpa-raising-suspicions-with-its.html</a></blockquote>
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The DPA continues to neglect the coca issue along with that of the
plants perverted into white power poisons of abuse- focusing upon
Medical Marijuana and limited sanitary measures for the existing
concentrated drug forms, thus pretending that MJ is the only illicit
substance with therapeutic benefit, while maintaining the fear of the
other drugs. Thereby, it serves to slow drug policy reform to a speed
of progress best described as glacial.<br />
<br />
Having attended the
conferences of the DPA and it predecessor organization the Drug Policy
Foundation since 1989, I noted that the DPF was more comprehensive until
about 1993- for instance downplaying the very issue that inspired their
creation -- the hysteria over cocaine --- eliminating the cocaine panel
and folding that issue into a virtual woman's panel on Latin America. <br />
<br />
Now
this year - 2011 - Bolivia has DENOUNCED the 1961 U.N. "Narcotics"
Treaty, yet the DPA still refuses to invite Evo Morales to its
conference, let alone hold a Coca panel- lest it educate people that
Coca has many benefits that remain widely unknown because of the drug
war.<br />
<br />
So what could be the reason, indeed the hidden hand, upon and strangling drug policy reform?</blockquote>
Naturally this has long inspired me to seek to identify the source[s] for this stranglehold on the pace of drug policy reform advocacy. Clearly the issues involve markets worth billions of dollars, hence further raising the likelihood of some high level interference to control the pace and extent of drug policy reform. Hence it is logical to look at the people placed high up in organizations as the Drug Policy Alliance, as well as those with an influence over such.<br />
<br />
Ira Glasser is logically a person of interest, and has received attention from others for his acceptance of funding from within the Tobacco industry, and the potential of that to influence decisions that could affect that industry.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/coca-as-tobacco-habit-cure.html"><b>As Coca leaf's potential to reduce markets in Tobacco products was a stated concern of the USDA in the years between 1906 and 1914</b></a>, the Ira Glasser - Tobacco industry connection is a plausible reason for <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/ignore-harm-reduction-of-highlighting.html"><b>the DPF-DPA reluctance to address the Coca issue</b></a>, by keeping the cocaine related focus upon the concentrated forms of the drug supported by drug prohibition. After all, the DPF had been founded in 1986 response to the drug war hysteria largely over "cocaine", and both the DPF and the DPA ostensibly stood for DRUG policy reform, rather than as simply an echo of NORML, which by definition had limited itself to Marijuana/Cannabis. The narrow focus upon cocaine as a hard drug simply made no sense for the sake of meaningful reform <u><b>rather than as a holding action to maintain the basic status quo as long as possible</b></u>.<br />
<br />
For that same reason, plus the broader issue of the drug war as a means to suppress the use of natural substances to favor markets for synthetic patentable drugs, the involvement of the law firm Covington & Burling is a fair issue to view as a plausible influence over drug policy reform to ask about.<br />
<br />
That firm was founded by a man who played a role in the establishment of drug prohibition.<br />
<br />
One who served as a U.S. Congressman from 1909 to 1914.<br />
<br />
Was present as a Congressman in deliberations regarding amendments to the 1906 U.S. Food and Drugs Act that ultimately lead to the 1914 Harrison Act.<br />
<br />
Who resigned from Congress that year to accept positions as a professor at Jesuit Georgetown Law School and as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia who upheld the supposed constitutionality of the Harrison Act's delegation of regulatory authority to the U.S. Department of Treasury to define what constituted legitimate medical practice: James Harry Covington.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/10/jh-covington-upheld-harrison-narcotic.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/10/jh-covington-upheld-harrison-narcotic.html</a></blockquote>
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Section 1 of that law provides, among other things: "That the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of
the Treasury, shall make all needful rules and regulations for carrying
the provisions of this Act" into effect."...<br />
<br />
...It is quite true that the law cannot be amended by a regulation issued
by the respondents in virtue of the power conferred upon them under
section l of the law. The regulations must be in harmony with the law
and in an appropriate proceeding a mere arbitrary and unwarranted
exercise of power by the respondents might be held invalid by the court .<br />
<br />
In
this case, however, the respondents have acted. They have exercised
their judgment and discretion, and they have acted under the power given
them to provide the appropriate administrative details for enforcing
the "Harrison Narcotic Law," including, of course, section 6 of that
law. The exercise of such a power certainly cannot be said to be
ministerial. In Field vs. Clark, 143 U. S. 694, the court said: "The
Legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law but it can make a
law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon
which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend. To deny
this would be to stop the wheels of government. There are many things
upon which wise and useful legislation must depend which cannot be known
to the law-making powers, and must, therefore, be a subject of inquiry
and determination outside of the halls of legislation."</blockquote>
In 1919, Covington, co-founded the law firm Covington & Burling.<br />
<br />
Its very first client would be the Grocery Manufacturers' Association- today infamous for opposing GMO labeling.<br />
<br />
Covington & Burling is not the average law firm.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/10/covington-burling-is-not-just-another.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/10/covington-burling-is-not-just-another.html</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/10/covington-burlings-unique-international.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/10/covington-burlings-unique-international.html</a></blockquote>
Covington & Burling would become perhaps the premier Washington, D.C. law firm on behalf of major food, drug-pharmaceutical industries, as well as Tobacco- <u><b>hence representing some major interests that benefit from the drug war</b></u>.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/tobacco-industry-httpwww.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/tobacco-industry-httpwww.html</a></blockquote>
<br />
In 1988 Covington & Burling established a relationship with the then recently established DPF via its pro bono program.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-policy-foundation-legal-connection.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-policy-foundation-legal-connection.html</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-policy-foundation-advised-by-c.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-policy-foundation-advised-by-c.html</a></blockquote>
This relationship has been maintained over the years. <br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/covington-burlings-continuing.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/covington-burlings-continuing.html</a><br />
<br />
The <a href="http://www.cov.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Covington & Burling</span></a>
website (Health page, early 2005) acknowledged the law firm's work with
the Drug Policy Foundation and other organizations involved with drug
policy reform:
<br />
<blockquote>
<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-policy-foundation-advised-by-c.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-policy-foundation-advised-by-c.html</a>
<br />
<br />
Commonwealth v. Hutchins. We represent Mr. Hutchins and the
interests of similarly situated patients for whom the medical use of
marijuana is necessary, in a variety of state and national initiatives
aimed at decriminalizing such use. <span style="font-weight: bold;">We work closely with the <span style="font-style: italic;">Drug Policy Foundation</span>, the <span style="font-style: italic;">Marijuana Policy Project</span> and sympathetic members of Congress and selected state legislatures. <span style="font-style: italic;">American Civil Liberties Union - Drug Policy Litigation Project</span>.</span>
We were asked to assist the ACLU in preparing a letter to the Drug
Enforcement Agency in support of an application by a professor at the
University of Massachusetts for registration to manufacture or
distribute controlled substances for the purposes of a scientific study
on medical marijuana. <span style="font-style: italic;">Specifically,
they requested that we opine on the consistency of the application with
the United States' treaty requirements pursuant to the 1961 Single
Convention on Narcotic Drugs.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">We have continued to provide advice on related aspects of this matter.</span></blockquote>
That the firm would use the <b><u><i>present</i></u></b> tense <br />
<blockquote>
"We work closely with the Drug Policy <span style="font-weight: bold;">Foundation</span>, the Marijuana Policy Project and ... the American Civil Liberties Union Drug Policy Litigation Project" </blockquote>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">in 2005</span>, five years<span style="font-weight: bold;"> after</span> the Drug Policy Foundation was superseded by the Drug Policy <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alliance</span>
(by merging with the Lindesmith Institute in July 2000), appears to
suggest that Covington & Burling works closely with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Policy_Alliance">Drug Policy Alliance</a>.
<br />
<br />
Notably,<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/dpa-raising-suspicions-with-its.html"> the Drug Policy Alliance has continued the Drug Policy Foundation's post 1992 malevolent malaise towards the Coca issue,</a> and elephant<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/ignore-harm-reduction-of-highlighting.html">
in the living room' continuing mega boondoggle - public health disaster
of pro Tobacco anti Coca Agricultural Mercantilism</a></span>, embodied in U.S. statute since the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/ignore-harm-reduction-of-highlighting.html">1906 Food and Drugs Act</a></span>. </blockquote>
The attorney assigned "primary responsibility for advising the [Drug Policy] Foundation" in 1988, was hired by Covington in 1987, and has worked there ever since, including participation in the firm's pro bono program.<br />
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Another attorney, who is no longer with Covington, played a prominent role in the 2005 Raich v Gonzales case before the U.S. Supreme Court.<br />
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Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder who served under U.S. President Obama, <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2012/05/newsweek-on-covington-burling-eric.html"><b>has long worked at Covington</b></a>, which <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2015/08/eric-holder-returns-to-covington-burling.html"><b>recently re-hired him</b></a>.<br />
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For the 2015 Drug Policy Alliance conference I submitted a panel proposal <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2015/06/covington-burling-and-drug-policy.html"><i><b>Covington & Burling- Drug Policy Reform and Creation</b></i></a><i><b> , </b></i>together with an <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2015/07/drug-policy-alliance-covington-burling.html">invite letter</a>. Following Holder's return to Covington, <b><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2015/10/eric-holder-suggested-as-speaker-for.html">I invited him to be added to this proposed panel</a>.</b><br />
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Despite the potential popularity of such a panel, the DPA not only declined to hold it, but unlike as in the past, issued me no letter or other communication declining the panel. Nor did I receive any reply from any of the 3 attorney's who I sent invites to all, including the Raich attorney who is no longer with Covington. <br />
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All of this, along with the DPA's failure to approve my recent comment, suggests a fear to answer questions about the Covington & Burling involvement with drug policy reform/organizations.<br />
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Never-mind that is relevant to ask just what sort of advice that Covington has given to the DPF/DPA.<br />
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Any future failures of the DPA to get its act together about addressing any of these issues after Nadelmann's departure are only going to further spotlight that the problem comes from higher up.<br />
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<i>But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists:
Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out
factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation;
an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and
beautiful students deprived of knowledge; and the crime and gangs and
drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much
unrealized potential.</i><br />
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<i>This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.</i></blockquote>
To end the carnage- end the drug war.<br />
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Not merely the asinine war on Cannabis that denies a useful medicine and alternative to alcohol.<br />
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Not merely the asinine war on Opium and Coca leaves that not only denies useful medicines and alternatives to alcohol, nicotine and caffeine, but perverts these useful substances into infinitely more potentially dangerous ultra-concentrated drug forms.<br />
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But as well the broader FDA war on natural substances, favoring synthetic patent monopoly medicines that are generally infinitely more toxic and expensive- driving up health care costs like crazy, by denying 1st Amendment Rights to Natural Substances sold as medicines.<br />
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Let's not pretend that the problem with health care simply started with Obamacare.<br />
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2016/02/points-about-progressive-era-war-of.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2016/02/points-about-progressive-era-war-of.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/harvey-wileys-1906-us-food-drugs-act.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/harvey-wileys-1906-us-food-drugs-act.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-evil-prohibition-to-promote.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-evil-prohibition-to-promote.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/01/drug-statutes-infinitely-worse-than.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/01/drug-statutes-infinitely-worse-than.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-war-promotes-drug-abuse-over-drug.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-war-promotes-drug-abuse-over-drug.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-warriors-ignore-pharmacokinetics.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-warriors-ignore-pharmacokinetics.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-narcs-created-crack-richard-cowan.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-narcs-created-crack-richard-cowan.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/criminal-mercantilism-public-health.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/criminal-mercantilism-public-health.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-warriors-ignore-history-of-coca.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-warriors-ignore-history-of-coca.html</a><br />
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Or, simply continue the carnage by continuing the same policies.<br />
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<i><b>Addendum:</b></i><br />
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Could have the 45th U.S. President been referring to the "gangs" and drugs of big pharma?<br />
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<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-01-20-trumps-attack-on-big-pharma-lost-the-drug-industry-about-25-billion-in-20-minutes.html">http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-01-20-trumps-attack-on-big-pharma-lost-the-drug-industry-about-25-billion-in-20-minutes.html</a>Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-21931852250089507862017-01-03T23:32:00.000-05:002017-01-31T23:29:05.564-05:00Caffeine Pills & Nicotine Gum In The Reach Of Children At CVS!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This blog <i><b>Freedom of Medicine and Diet</b></i> strongly opposes the "war on drugs."<br />
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Not only for its shifting drug markets towards infinitely more dangerous concentrated and uncertain potency drug forms.<br />
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Not only for its denying adults the right to purchase potentially dangerous substances OTC (over the counter) - even with reasonable restrictions to protect the ill informed (labeling) and children.<br />
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But as well for its utter hypocrisy.<br />
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Not in simply allowing near un-fetted sales of alcoholic beverages and Tobacco products WITHOUT the labeling of the ingredients - the sole two class of consumable products exempted from retail ingredient labeling requirements within the U.S.A. - while adhering to a maniacal hysteria over opiates.<br />
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But in an apparent lack of regulations to moderately restrict access of potentially toxic forms of legal drugs.<br />
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We have had the allowed internet sales of caffeine powder without adequate warnings of its potential toxicity- a situation that had led to a few deaths particularly by those who assumed that a drugs legality means that it is not potentially dangerous in purified form.<br />
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But what about retail stores?<br />
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What gives with the un-fetted shelf space availability of refined caffeine and nicotine products, particularly upon shelves low enough to the floor for children to reach and potentially imbibe.<br />
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Certainly pills and especially gums are far safer than powders; and are of an acceptable safety for informed generally responsible <u><i>adults</i></u> - something that our policymakers appear oblivious to regarding opiates.<br />
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But what gives especially with the placing of the various caffeine pills exclusively upon the bottom shelf mere inches of the floor where they could potentially be accessed by children?!<br />
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Why are not these products OTC - "over the counter"?<br />
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Or at least not placed upon retail shelf space mere inches off the floor?<br />
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<br />Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-66494905671428806072016-10-28T23:45:00.001-04:002016-10-28T23:45:30.491-04:00Sheldon Adelson Is A Fool Regarding Drug Policy<br />
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Sheldon Adelson and his 2nd and current wife Miriam</div>
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Is worth $28 billion, and the 18th wealthiest person on the planet. Is a casino and media magnate and philanthropist.<br />
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- chairman and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">chief executive officer</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Sands" title="Las Vegas Sands">Las Vegas Sands</a> Corporation, which owns the <i>Venetian</i> and the <i>Palazzo</i> in Las Vegas, Nevada, the <i><span class="st">Sands </span>Bethlehem</i> in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania<span class="st"><i>, </i></span><i>Sands Macau</i> in Macau, China, and the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Bay_Sands" title="Marina Bay Sands">Marina Bay Sands</a></i> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a> and the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited which operates <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Venetian_%28Las_Vegas%29" title="The Venetian (Las Vegas)">The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino</a> and the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sands_Expo_and_Convention_Center" title="Sands Expo and Convention Center">Sands Expo and Convention Center</a>.<br />
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- owner of the Israeli daily newspaper <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Hayom" title="Israel Hayom">Israel Hayom</a></i>, and the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Review-Journal" title="Las Vegas Review-Journal">Las Vegas Review-Journal</a></i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Adelson#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup><br />
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- donates to a variety of causes, with his wife's initiative, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelson_Foundation" title="Adelson Foundation">Adelson Foundation</a>.</blockquote>
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- a former supporter of the Democrat Party who now supports the Republican Party, who describes himself as "liberal on several social issues" </blockquote>
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Rabidly opposes any liberalization from drug prohibition status quo.<br />
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Is quite anti Marijuana, even anti Medical Marijuana<br />
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Spent $5 million of his own money on political campaign to defeat a relatively restrictive 2014 Florida initiative to legalize Medical Marijuana for "debilitating diseases".<br />
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Has<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/absurdity-of-simply-defining-cocaine-as.html"><b> reportedly </b></a>pressured the editorial board of the Las Vegas Journal Review to reconsider their pro Marijuana stance.<br />
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Is said to be anti Marijuana as he view it as a "gateway" substance to other illicit drugs. Never mind the relative safeties, and that the criminalization of Marijuana or any other drug is a man made condition, is not something intrinsically pharmacological, and that most Marijuana consumers don't graduate to say injecting heroin. If it were instead alcohol that were illegal, would he then oppose its legalization on the grounds that it was a 'gateway' substance to heroin use?<br />
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Is rabidly pro drug war as a personal passion for his son Mitchell - one of his three adopted children with his 1st wife Sandra who he divorced in 1988 -- who died of a drug over dose, who was said to have used cocaine and heroin from an early age, never-mind that it is prohibition that both shifts the availability and uses of these drugs into their most potentially dangerous concentrated forms and modes of administration. For instance, cocaine, a stimulant, has never been actually been shown to be more dangerous than other naturally occurring in plants stimulants as caffeine and nicotine <b><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/it-appears-necessary-to-keep-alkaloid.html"><u>when used in like dilute forms</u></a></b>, with <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/coca-leaf-stands-out-among-all.html"><b>Coca leaf regarded as very safe</b></a><b>; </b>that even caffeine can be quite deadly as a concentrated powder. Supporters of our cocaine prohibition as<a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/absurdity-of-simply-defining-cocaine-as.html"><b> this </b></a>hopelessly confuse dilute and highly concentrated forms and modes of cocaine and its use.<br />
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Adelson should recognize the effects of drug prohibition, as he ironically claims to be pro free market! For instance, in 2012, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Policy_Research_Institute" title="Nevada Policy Research Institute">Nevada Policy Research Institute</a>, a think tank in Las Vegas, gave him its Chairman's Award for his efforts to advance <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market" title="Free market">free market</a> principles in Nevada.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-48"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Adelson#cite_note-48">[48]</a></sup><br />
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Suggested readings for Sheldon Adelson & Co. about prohibition's effects upon drug use<br />
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<b><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-narcs-created-crack-richard-cowan.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-narcs-created-crack-richard-cowan.html</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-war-promotes-drug-abuse-over-drug.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-war-promotes-drug-abuse-over-drug.html</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-warriors-ignore-pharmacokinetics.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-warriors-ignore-pharmacokinetics.html </a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2016/02/points-about-progressive-era-war-of.html">http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2016/02/points-about-progressive-era-war-of.html</a></b></blockquote>
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With Trump surrounding himself with such rabid drug war supporters as <a href="http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2016/05/trump-to-accept-funding-via-straight.html"><b>Melvin Sembler</b></a>
and Sheldon Adelson, the former associated with coercive outfits as
Straight Inc that has kidnapped youth for the sake of 'saving' them from
Marijuana, the latter with bankrolling political campaigns to defeat
Medical Marijuana legalization initiatives in Florida, it seems al the
more likely that a Trump Administration would be rabidly pro continuing
and even intensifying the drug war.<br />
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To his credit, Trump has come out at least in favor of medical Marijuanna.<br />
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One can pray that a President Trump would be guided by God to rule wisely. <br />
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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/26/a-casino-magnate-is-spending-millions-to-fight-legal-marijuana-in-three-states/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/26/a-casino-magnate-is-spending-millions-to-fight-legal-marijuana-in-three-states/</a><br />
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<br />Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-76308657874343884442016-09-24T00:00:00.000-04:002016-09-24T00:00:19.630-04:00Bill Clinton Appointees Trash 2nd Amendment For MJ Users'well regulated' need not be so well regulated, with Court assuming that a substances status as 'illegal' renders any assumptions valid.<br />
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922 <span class="num" value="d">(d)</span><span class="chapeau"> It shall be
unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or
ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe
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is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/802" title="§ 802 - Definitions">21 U.S.C. 802</a>));</div>
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<b>Jed Saul Rakoff</b> (born August 1, 1943) is a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Judge" title="United States District Judge">United States District Judge</a> on senior status for the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_District_of_New_York" title="Southern District of New York">Southern District of New York</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DoJ_1-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_S._Rakoff#cite_note-DoJ-1">[1]</a></sup><br />
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Judge Rakoff was born in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania" title="Philadelphia, Pennsylvania">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a> on August 1, 1943. He grew up in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germantown,_Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania" title="Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania">Germantown</a> section of Philadelphia and attended <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_High_School_of_Philadelphia" title="Central High School of Philadelphia">Central High School of Philadelphia</a>.<br />
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Rakoff graduated with honors in English literature from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College" title="Swarthmore College">Swarthmore College</a> (B.A. 1964), where he was President of the Student Body, earned his M. Phil. from <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balliol_College" title="Balliol College">Balliol College</a> at <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a> (1966), and received a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">J.D.</a>, <i>cum laude</i>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School">Harvard Law School</a> (1969), where he was a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Legal_Aid_Bureau" title="Harvard Legal Aid Bureau">Harvard Legal Aid Bureau</a>. He has received honorary degrees from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Francis_University" title="Saint Francis University">Saint Francis University</a> and from Swarthmore.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Swarthmore1_2-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_S._Rakoff#cite_note-Swarthmore1-2">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Swarthmore2_3-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_S._Rakoff#cite_note-Swarthmore2-3">[3]</a></sup> After serving as law clerk to the late Honorable <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Freedman" title="Abraham Freedman">Abraham Freedman</a> of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Third_Circuit" title="U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit">U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit</a>, Rakoff spent two years in private practice at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debevoise_%26_Plimpton" title="Debevoise & Plimpton">Debevoise & Plimpton</a> before spending seven years as a federal prosecutor with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_for_the_Southern_District_of_New_York" title="United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York">United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York</a>.
For the last two of those years, he was Chief of the Business and
Securities Fraud Prosecutions Unit. He then returned to private practice
where he was a partner first with <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudge,_Rose,_Guthrie,_Alexander_%26_Ferdon" title="Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Ferdon">Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Ferdon</a>, and then with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried,_Frank,_Harris,_Shriver_%26_Jacobson" title="Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson">Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson</a>. He headed both firms' criminal defense and civil <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act" title="Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act">Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act</a> (RICO) sections.<br />
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On October 11, 1995, Rakoff was nominated by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_S._Rakoff#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> to fill a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_N._Edelstein" title="David N. Edelstein">David N. Edelstein</a>. He was confirmed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate</a> on December 29, 1995, appointed on January 4, 1996, and entered on duty on March 1, 1996. On December 31, 2010, he assumed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_status" title="Senior status">senior status</a>.<br />
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<b>Susan Pia Graber</b> (born July 5, 1949) is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> attorney and jurist. She is a circuit judge on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit</a>. A native of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>, she was the 90th <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associate_Justice" title="Associate Justice">Associate Justice</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Supreme_Court" title="Oregon Supreme Court">Oregon Supreme Court</a>, and served on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Court_of_Appeals" title="Oregon Court of Appeals">Oregon Court of Appeals</a>.<br />
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Susan Graber was born in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City,_Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma City, Oklahoma">Oklahoma City, Oklahoma</a>, on July 5, 1949.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fed_1-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-fed-1">[1]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> After high school Graber attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellesley_College" title="Wellesley College">Wellesley College</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellesley,_Massachusetts" title="Wellesley, Massachusetts">Wellesley, Massachusetts</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fed_1-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-fed-1">[1]</a></sup> She graduated from Wellesley with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> in 1969, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi_Beta_Kappa_Society" title="Phi Beta Kappa Society">Phi Beta Kappa</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fed_1-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-fed-1">[1]</a></sup> <u><b>Graber went to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_school" title="Law school">law school</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Law_School" title="Yale Law School">Yale</a> where she earned her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">Juris Doctor</a> in 1972.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fed_1-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-fed-1">[1]</a></sup> She attended Yale with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Rodham</a> (now Clinton) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>.</b></u><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-alr_3-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-alr-3">[3]</a></sup><br />
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<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-alr_3-0"> </sup>Upon graduation Graber became an assistant attorney general for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a> Bureau of Revenue, where she continued until 1974.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fed_1-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-fed-1">[1]</a></sup> That year she entered private law practice in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe,_New_Mexico" title="Santa Fe, New Mexico">Santa Fe, New Mexico</a>, until 1975.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fed_1-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-fed-1">[1]</a></sup> In 1975 she moved to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a> where she returned to private practice, this time in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati" title="Cincinnati">Cincinnati</a>, until 1978.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fed_1-6"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-fed-1">[1]</a></sup> Then in 1978 Graber moved to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland, Oregon</a>, where she became an associate at Stoel Rives Boley Jones and Grey (now <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoel_Rives_LLP" title="Stoel Rives LLP">Stoel Rives LLP</a>).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fed_1-7"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-fed-1">[1]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ou_4-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-ou-4">[4]</a></sup> In 1981 she became a partner.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fed_1-8"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-fed-1">[1]</a></sup> In 1986, the Northwest Women’s Law Center gave her their Founder’s Award to recognize her pro bono service.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ou_4-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-ou-4">[4]</a></sup><br />
In 1983, while she was a practicing attorney, Graber was designated
to serve occasionally as a state district court judge on a temporary or <i>pro tempore</i> basis when the regular judges of the court were unavailable.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Berkeley_5-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-Berkeley-5">[5]</a></sup> She also served as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediation" title="Mediation">mediator</a> for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Oregon" title="United States District Court for the District of Oregon">U.S. District Court</a> from 1986 to 1988.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ou_4-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-ou-4">[4]</a></sup><br />
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Graber began her career as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge" title="Judge">judge</a> when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Oregon" title="Governor of Oregon">Oregon Governor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Goldschmidt" title="Neil Goldschmidt">Neil Goldschmidt</a> appointed her to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Court_of_Appeals" title="Oregon Court of Appeals">Oregon Court of Appeals</a>.
She was appointed on February 11, 1988, to replace judge Thomas F.
Young, who had died in office. Graber served on the court of appeals
until May 2, 1990.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> While on the bench she served as president of the Oregon Appellate Judges Association.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ou_4-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-ou-4">[4]</a></sup><br />
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On May 2, 1990, Graber was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court by Governor Goldschmidt to replace <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Jones_%28judge%29" title="Robert E. Jones (judge)">Robert E. Jones</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-OSC_7-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-OSC-7">[7]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gov_8-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-gov-8">[8]</a></sup> However, Jones, prior to resigning his position, filed for re-election and won the election.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-OSC_7-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-OSC-7">[7]</a></sup> Thus Jones resigned a second time and Goldschmidt appointed Graber a second time on January 7, 1991.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-OSC_7-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-OSC-7">[7]</a></sup> She became the second woman to serve on that court, following <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Roberts" title="Betty Roberts">Betty Roberts</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-alr_3-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-alr-3">[3]</a></sup> Graber then won election to a full six-year term in 1992, but resigned on April 1, 1998, before the term expired.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-OSC_7-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-OSC-7">[7]</a></sup> While on the court she was considered to be a candidate for appointment to the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" title="United States Supreme Court">United States Supreme Court</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-alr_3-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-alr-3">[3]</a></sup><br />
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Graber resigned because, on July 30, 1997, <b><u>President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> nominated her to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to replace <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Leavy" title="Edward Leavy">Edward Leavy</a>, who assumed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_status" title="Senior status">senior judge status</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fed_1-9"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-fed-1">[1]</a></sup> She was subsequently confirmed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a> in a 98-0 vote on March 17, 1998, and received her commission two days later.</u></b><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fed_1-10"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-fed-1">[1]</a></sup> With her appointment she became the first female judge to serve on that court from the state of Oregon.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_P._Graber#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup><br />
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<b>Richard Charles Tallman</b> (born March 3, 1953) is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_judge" title="Federal judge">federal judge</a> for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit</a> and a judge on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court_of_Review" title="United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review">United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review</a>.<br />
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Born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland, California</a>, Tallman received his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">Bachelor's degree</a> in 1975 from the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Santa_Clara" title="University of Santa Clara">University of Santa</a><br />
Clara and his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">Juris Doctor</a> in 1978 from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University" title="Northwestern University">Northwestern University</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University_School_of_Law" title="Northwestern University School of Law">School of Law</a>, where he served as the executive director of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_review" title="Law review">law revie</a><br />
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Born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland, California</a>, Tallman received his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">Bachelor's degree</a> in 1975 from the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Santa_Clara" title="University of Santa Clara">University of Santa Clara</a> and his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">Juris Doctor</a> in 1978 from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University" title="Northwestern University">Northwestern University</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University_School_of_Law" title="Northwestern University School of Law">School of Law</a>, where he served as the executive director of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_review" title="Law review">law review</a>.<br />
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After serving as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_clerk" title="Law clerk">law clerk</a> for Judge <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morell_E._Sharp" title="Morell E. Sharp">Morell E. Sharp</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Western_District_of_Washington" title="United States District Court for the Western District of Washington">United States District Court for the Western District of Washington</a>, Tallman worked as a trial lawyer for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">Department of Justice</a> and as an assistant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney" title="United States Attorney">United States Attorney</a> in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle,_Washington" title="Seattle, Washington">Seattle, Washington</a>.
From 1983 until his appointment to the Ninth Circuit in 2000, Tallman
was an attorney in private practice in Seattle, including as chairman of
the white-collar criminal defense practice group at the former Bogle
and Gates law firm between 1990 and 1999. After that firm closed on
March 31, 1999, Tallman formed the firm Tallman & Severin.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-seattlepi.nwsource.com_2-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Tallman#cite_note-seattlepi.nwsource.com-2">[2]</a></sup><br />
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Among Tallman's higher-profile clients in private practice was representing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Mariners" title="Seattle Mariners">Seattle Mariners</a> in legal disputes over scheduling rights in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdome" title="Kingdome">Kingdome</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-seattlepi.nwsource.com_2-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Tallman#cite_note-seattlepi.nwsource.com-2">[2]</a></sup> Tallman also handled medical malpractice and defense procurement cases.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-seattlepi.nwsource.com_2-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Tallman#cite_note-seattlepi.nwsource.com-2">[2]</a></sup><br />
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Despite being a Republican, <u><b>Tallman was nominated by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>
to his current seat on the Ninth Circuit on October 20, 1999 and was
confirmed by a voice vote of the U.S. Senate on May 24, 2000.</b></u><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Tallman#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Tallman#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> Tallman was nominated to fill the seat vacated by longtime Ninth Circuit judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Binns_Fletcher" title="Betty Binns Fletcher">Betty Binns Fletcher</a>, who took <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_status" title="Senior status">senior status</a> in 1998. Clinton's previous nominee to that seat, conservative Washington State Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Durham" title="Barbara Durham">Barbara Durham</a>, had been nominated in January 1999 as part of a bipartisan deal brokered by Washington's senators at the time, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slade_Gorton" title="Slade Gorton">Slade Gorton</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Murray" title="Patty Murray">Patty Murray</a>. However, Durham withdrew her nomination to the seat just four months later because of her husband's terminal heart condition.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Tallman#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> Tallman then was nominated after he was one of three potential nominees that Gorton recommended to the White House.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-seattlepi.nwsource.com_2-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Tallman#cite_note-seattlepi.nwsource.com-2">[2]</a></sup><br />
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[1]<br />
Defendant argues that §922(g)(3) runs afoul of the Second Amendment because it deprives him of his constitutional right “to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.” <br />
District of Columbia v. Heller<br />
, 554 U.S. 570, 592<br />
(2008). But, in Heller, the Supreme Court instructed that the<br />
Second Amendment right “is not unlimited.<br />
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Id.<br />
at 626. InDouglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-3414799331474032292016-08-31T23:21:00.000-04:002016-09-02T01:27:19.441-04:00Sociopathic U.S. DEA Seeks to Make Kratom 'Schedule 1'<div class="tr_bq">
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<a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sociopathic">http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sociopathic </a><br />
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<span class="dbox-pg"><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">noun</span></span>, <span class="dbox-italic"><span class="oneClick-link">Psychiatry.</span> </span> </header>
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<span class="def-number"><span class="oneClick-link">1.</span> </span>
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<span class="oneClick-link">a</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">person</span> <span class="oneClick-link">with</span> <span class="oneClick-link">a</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">psychopathic</span> <span class="oneClick-link">personality</span> <span class="oneClick-link">whose</span> <span class="oneClick-link">behavior</span> <span class="oneClick-link">is</span> <a class="dbox-xref dbox-roman" href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/antisocial">antisocial</a>, <span class="oneClick-link">often</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">criminal,</span> <span class="oneClick-link">and</span> <span class="oneClick-link">who</span> <span class="oneClick-link">lacks</span> <span class="oneClick-link">a</span> <span class="oneClick-link">sense</span> <span class="oneClick-link">of</span> <span class="oneClick-link">moral</span> <span class="oneClick-link">responsibility</span> <span class="oneClick-link">or</span> <span class="oneClick-link">social</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">conscience.</span> </div>
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<a href="http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html"><span class="_Tgc">http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html</span></a><br />
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<span class="_Tgc">DSM-IV Definition. Antisocial personality disorder is
characterized by a lack of regard for the moral or legal standards in
the local culture. There is a marked inability to get along with others
or abide by societal rules. Individuals with this disorder are sometimes
called psychopaths or <b>sociopaths</b>.</span></blockquote>
<ul>some points:</ul>
<ul>Manipulative and Conning <br />They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims. <br /><br />Grandiose Sense of Self <br />Feels entitled to certain things as "their right." <br /><br />Pathological Lying <br />Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests. <br /><br />Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt <br />A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way. <br /><br />Shallow Emotions <br />When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises. </ul>
DEA <i>claims</i> to be protecting the public from especially dangerous drugs.<br />
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The DEA not only enforces existing prohibitions, but also claims a right to prohibit substances on its own without legislative sanctification.<br />
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The DEA now wants to ban Kartom, placing it on its 'schedule 1' meaning no acceptable medicinal or otherwise uses.<br />
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<a href="https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml">https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml</a></blockquote>
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Schedule I<br />
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Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Some examples of Schedule I drugs are: <br />
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heroin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), marijuana (cannabis), 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy), methaqualone, and peyote </blockquote>
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The DEA LIES THROUGH ITS TEETH.</div>
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The DEA now is doing so with Karatom.</div>
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It cites 660 emergency room visits over a 6 year period with the U.S.A. with a population of over 300 million people. Further putting this in to perspective, Jacob Sullum writes:</div>
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<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2016/09/01/the-deas-crazy-kratom-ban-dresses-pharmacological-phobias-in-scientific-garb/#1e2156b24f86">http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2016/09/01/the-deas-crazy-kratom-ban-dresses-pharmacological-phobias-in-scientific-garb/#1e2156b24f86</a><br />
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From January 2010 through December 2015, the DEA notes, “U.S. poison
centers received 660 calls related to kratom exposure.” It adds that
“during this time, there was a tenfold increase in the number of calls
received, from 26 in 2010 to 263 in 2015.” Reported symptoms included
“agitation or irritability, tachycardia, nausea, drowsiness, and
hypertension.”<br />
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An average of 110 cases a year may sound like a lot, but it’s not. It represents about 0.004 percent of the <a href="https://aapcc.s3.amazonaws.com/pdfs/annual_reports/2014_AAPCC_NPDS_Annual_Report.pdf" target="_blank">3 million or so</a> calls received by poison control centers each year. By comparison, exposures involving analgesics <a href="https://aapcc.s3.amazonaws.com/pdfs/annual_reports/2014_AAPCC_NPDS_Annual_Report.pdf" target="_blank">accounted</a>
for nearly 300,000 calls in 2014, while cosmetics and personal care
products, cleaning solutions, antidepressants, and antihistamines each
accounted for more than 100,000. The DEA not only fails to put the
number of kratom-related calls in perspective; it does not mention that
two-thirds of the cases were deemed “minor” or “moderate,” while only 7
percent (eight per year) were described as “life-threatening.” The CDC
noted a single death in six years, “reported in a person who was exposed
to the medications paroxetine (an antidepressant) and lamotrigine (an
anticonvulsant and mood stabilizer) in addition to kratom.”<br />
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These numbers are pretty reassuring, especially since the DEA says
“millions of dosage units” are imported into the U.S. each year. But the
agency draws the opposite conclusion, saying “such alarming quantities
create an imminent public health and safety threat.”</blockquote>
The DEA goes beyond hyperbolizing about Karatom's alleged dangerousness, pretending that the substance has no legitimate uses and that any such use is somehow by definition "abuse".<br />
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The DEA is doing this under the apparent leadership of one 'Chuck Rosenberg'.<br />
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<a href="https://www.dea.gov/about/leadership.shtml">https://www.dea.gov/about/leadership.shtml</a></div>
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Chuck Rosenberg was appointed
Acting Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on
May 13, 2015 by Attorney General Loretta Lynch.</div>
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Prior to joining DEA, Mr.
Rosenberg served as the chief of staff and senior counselor to Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Comey. Before rejoining the FBI,
Chuck was a partner at a Washington, D.C. law firm. Prior to that,
Chuck served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia,
which is routinely entrusted with many of the nation’s most sensitive
terrorism and national security prosecutions. As the chief federal
law enforcement officer for the district, Chuck supervised the
prosecution of all federal crimes and the litigation of all civil
matters involving the federal government. From June 2005 until March
2006, Chuck served as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of
Texas – one of the largest districts in the nation with six offices,
including one in Houston and three on the border of the United States
and Mexico.</div>
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Chuck also served in several
senior posts at the Department of Justice, where his work focused on
counterterrorism, counterintelligence, national security, and criminal
matters, including service as chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General
Jim Comey (2004-2005), counselor to Attorney General John Ashcroft
(2003 – 2004), and counsel to FBI Director Robert Mueller (2002 –
2003). From 1994 to 2000, Chuck was an assistant U.S. Attorney in the
Eastern District of Virginia. There, Chuck tried dozens of cases before
juries and briefed and argued many of those cases to the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Chuck prosecuted cases that ranged
from complex financial fraud crimes to violent crimes and espionage.</div>
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Chuck is a graduate of Tufts University (BA), Harvard University (MPP), and the University of Virginia (JD). </div>
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Some comments at the Huffington Post article:<br />
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<a class=" UFICommentActorName" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=565241849&extragetparams=%7B%22is_public%22%3Afalse%2C%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/Gullagher" target="_blank">Roxie Gullikson Figaratto</a> · <br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Director/129469867097597" target="_blank">Director</a> at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CAMPMaineGroup/" target="_blank">CAMP: Cannabis Action Maine People</a></div>
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<span class="_5mdd">Actions
like this make a joke of the Controlled Substances Act! The DEA - FDA,
etc, are fast losing any last shred of integrity they may have once
enjoyed. Schedule 1 is fast becoming a go-to miracle cures reference
list!<br /><br />Schedule 1 = Natural cures that Big Pharma can't make any money on.</span></div>
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2013 the CDC reported 480,000 deaths related to tobacco and 29,000
deaths related to alcohol, 0 deaths related to kratom, but alcohol and
tobacco are legal and will remain legal. Why isn't the DEA trying to
protect us from that? Could it be because alcohol and tobacco generates
billions in revenue and kratom doesn't?</span></div>
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Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7399972867763889118.post-48292136193250834482016-07-31T22:14:00.006-04:002016-08-06T23:14:48.289-04:00"Progessive Secular Humanist" Outs Itself as Big Pharm Shill<br />
Green Party Candidate Jill Stein makes sense on vaccine issue:<br />
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<a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/07/jill-stein-promotes-homeopathy-panders-on-vaccines/">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/07/jill-stein-promotes-homeopathy-panders-on-vaccines/</a><br />
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Jill Stein wrote: I
don’t know if we have an “official” stance, but I can tell you my
personal stance at this point. According to the most recent review of
vaccination policies across the globe, mandatory vaccination that
doesn’t allow for medical exemptions is practically unheard of. In most
countries, people trust their regulatory agencies and have very high
rates of vaccination through voluntary programs. In the US, however,
regulatory agencies are routinely packed with corporate lobbyists and
CEOs. So the foxes are guarding the chicken coop as usual in the US. So
who wouldn’t be skeptical? I think dropping vaccinations rates that can
and must be fixed in order to get at the vaccination issue: the
widespread distrust of the medical-indsutrial (sic) complex.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><u>Vaccines
in general have made a huge contribution to public health</u>. Reducing or
eliminating devastating diseases like small pox and polio. In Canada,
where I happen to have some numbers, hundreds of annual death from
measles and whooping cough were eliminated after vaccines were
introduced. <u>Still, vaccines should be treated like any medical
procedure–each one needs to be tested and regulated by parties that do
not have a financial interest in them.</u> In an age when industry lobbyists
and CEOs are routinely appointed to key regulatory positions through
the notorious revolving door, its no wonder many Americans don’t trust
the FDA to be an unbiased source of sound advice. A Monsanto lobbyists
and CEO like Michael Taylor, former high-ranking DEA official, should
not decide what food is safe for you to eat. Same goes for vaccines and
pharmaceuticals. We need to take the corporate influence out of
government so people will trust our health authorities, and the rest of
the government for that matter. End the revolving door. Appoint
qualified professionals without a financial interest in the product
being regulated. Create public funding of elections to stop the buying
of elections by corporations and the super-rich.</span></blockquote>
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Stein’s
answer is deeply disturbing. She gave a long winded and evasive answer
to a simple and straightforward question. As a physician, and a
scientist, her answer should have been clear and unequivocal: <b>Vaccines work; homeopathy is bullshit.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b> </b>Instead,
her answer is a confused and muddled hash invoking big pharma
conspiracy theory buzz: a convoluted political double-speak that would
make the most jaded and cynical politician proud.</span></blockquote>
The Progressive Secular Humanist blurs this together with the idea that
<u>simply because vaccines work, then any formulation presented as a
vaccine must be accepted without question</u> <i>and apparently without
testing</i>.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">I must note that the Progressive Humanist is a site with such junk code that must be edited out in order to coherently quote from it,. Go figure.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/hillary-clinton-vaccine-tweet"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/hillary-clinton-vaccine-tweet</span></a>Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.com0