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July 31, 2007 at 07:52:52

Drug Nation

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When people mix cocaine and alcohol consumption, they are compounding the danger each drug poses and unknowingly forming a complex chemical experiment within their bodies. The human liver combines cocaine and alcohol and manufactures a third substance, cocaethylene, that intensifies cocaine's euphoric effects, while potentially increasing the risk of sudden death.

A WORD TO THE YOUTH: is this worth it? I think not.

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MICHAEL D. ROBERTS is a top Political Strategist and Business, Management and Communications Specialists in New York City’s Black community. He is an experienced writer whose specialty is socio-political and economic analysis and local community relations. He has covered the United Nations, the Caribbean and Africa in a career that spans over 32 years in journalism. As Editor of New York CARIB NEWS, a position that he’s held since 1990, he is in a unique position to have his hands on the pulse of the over 800,000 Caribbean-American community in Brooklyn, and the over 2.5 million members resident in the wider New York State community.

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The author is a fifty-something year old physician soon to be expatriated.
YaybobThe author is a fifty-something year old physician soon to be expatriated.

Also a car nation, a stereo nation, an iPod nation. So what?

So, what's your conclusion?

Mine? Some drugs are bad or very bad, some not. Marijuana is safer than mother's milk (from which you could conceivably contact AIDS or tuberculosis.

Individual drug use is not a significant national problem just because some people say it is. If it wasn't for the war on drugs, there'd be very little cost to the nation for illicit drug use, economic or otherwise. The war on drugs produces more damage to society than illicit drug use. Most or all drug laws should be repealed.

Drug abuse is a charged term that should be dropped. It is nothing like abuse (child abuse, elder abuse). If using drugs in ways other than intended is abuse, then armed robbery is gun abuse and speeding is car abuse. Nonsense.

There is no meaning to the term gateway drug. So-called gateway drugs have no more effect on future drug use or anything else than drugs not called gateweay drugs.

The war on drugs is an insincere policy not intended to make America or Americans safer or healthier, but to serve as a gift to the industries that profit from it (Beer, cotton and wool, rehab, prisons, attorneys, etc.) and as a means of oppressing and disenfranchising poor and minority citizens (i.e., non-Republican voters) to increase conservative political power.

by Yaybob (12 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 174 comments) on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 12:48:39 PM

-Jason V. is a writer / web blogger with an agenda of uncovering corruption and elite modification of the financial / political realm.As the editor of several web sites, including a housing market web site (www.realestatedecline.com) and a political truth website (www.fight4Truth.com), he reaches over 8,000 visitors every week, who seek truthful insights and news that the mainstream media tends to shy away from or black-out.
J. Vorhees-Jason V. is a writer / web blogger with an agenda of uncovering corruption and elite modification of the financial / political realm.As the editor of several web sites, including a housing market web site (www.realestatedecline.com) and a political truth website (www.fight4Truth.com), he reaches over 8,000 visitors every week, who seek truthful insights and news that the mainstream media tends to shy away from or black-out.

Let Em Smoke Crack

I say let all the people use whatever drugs that they want. It would save lives and billions of dollars every year

It's funny that we send our troops overseas to die while slaughtering hundreds of thousands people but yet we arrest people in America for toking on a weed!

"you want to get rid of all the drug crime, fine then let's get rid of all the drug laws"
-Ron Paul

by J. Vorhees (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 67 comments) on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 11:28:59 PM

Recently retired activist with an MA in Public Policy from an Ivy League school. A born again believer who also believes in the separation of church and state and is outraged that the Word of the Lord has been highjacked to justify the actions of the current administration.
macdon1Recently retired activist with an MA in Public Policy from an Ivy League school. A born again believer who also believes in the separation of church and state and is outraged that the Word of the Lord has been highjacked to justify the actions of the current administration.

I agree

Just decriminalize drugs and a lot of the problems will go away. For those that want rehab, make it available. Drug use isn't the cause of our problems in America, it's one of the effects of trying to cope with a corrupt society. Some of are able to physically drop out and live off the grid. Others can't and cope by using mind altering substances.

by macdon1 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 103 comments) on Monday, August 6, 2007 at 8:57:37 PM

Young retired yank of 59 living in the highlands o Scotland. Been out of the old country for 20 some years now. I'm with the Dali Lama, kindness is the only thing that will work. LOVE cycling on or off road. My wife is a wonderful girl from Manchester England.We're haven fun.
davyYoung retired yank of 59 living in the highlands o Scotland. Been out of the old country for 20 some years now. I'm with the Dali Lama, kindness is the only thing that will work. LOVE cycling on or off road. My wife is a wonderful girl from Manchester England.We're haven fun.

Of course

In a "nation" as disfunctional and angry as america has become it is certainly no surprise. a bit confusing when so many "religions" preach hate. Look to the mess "education" has become. We MUST tailor our education system to fit the kids, not force kids to fit an old model of sit down and shut up or we wil put you on drugs, HUMMMM. America has become a sham run by the rich only for the rich, as long as keep em dumb and stupid works for the corporations than that they will stay. No band aids will fix this only understanding compassion and communication will. Only a fundamental shift in the heart and mind will save us. Drugs are the symptom.

by davy (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 240 comments) on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at 2:42:05 AM

not right now thanks
lwarmannot right now thanks

"White" and "wealthy" are not synonymous

You said " drug treatment at expensive private rehab centers are usually out of the financial resources of most Blacks and Latinos. White teenagers can be "cleaned" by their parents who have access and money to get them in these hush-hush institutions and the community will be none the wiser that Mr. So and So's son or daughter was a chronic junkie."

Expensive private rehab centres are out of reach for most white people too. Please don't spread the ridiculous racist stereotype that melanin deficiency automatically gives one access to a life of ease and privilege.

by lwarman (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 62 comments) on Friday, August 3, 2007 at 5:23:56 PM