Direct To Consumer Advertising Ban
Ban Pharmy Ads
You have a Champion Prescription Drug Ban -
- Big Pharma Big Bucks -
Let's make it one
Pharmaceutical Companies spend more for Advertising than Research - Let's change that One State at a Time
Dr Herbert Ley
Only two countries in the world allow DTCA for prescription drugs.
The Pharmaceutical Companies are the most profitable businesses.
They support the drugwar and fear competition from cannabis.
I am, along with most people, pretty sick of their commercials.
They are one more way to control you and your health.
Dr Benjamin Rush -
Mahakavi Bharathi -
I Ching - Kabir - One Drop -
No one rules if no one obeys -
- Zzen Proverb - The obstacle is the path -
Zen Quotation -
Zhuangi -
Okay, there will be change
colorado marijuana
The price of liberty is, always has been, and
always will be blood: the person who is not
willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to
the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying
to violate that person's liberty. Are you free?
-- Andrew Ford
species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of
reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and
makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.
A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon
which our government was founded.
-Abraham Lincoln
On the floor of Congress 1849
Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking
a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.
- Abraham Lincoln, 1855
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and some frustrated Americans see legalization as an
option that should be discussed.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing
because he could only do a little.
The effect of drug enforcement has been to lessen
people’s respect for the law because they believe the policy is irrational, because they believe they are being harassed,
and also because we see the dirtiest kind of policing in
the area of drug enforcement.
not South Dakota. It.s Pakistan
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of different opinion
-- William Ralph Inge
Legalization and any regulation of cannabis production, distribution and use would likely reduce some of the
adverse consequences of using the criminal law in this area.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with
keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
The only solution to the drugs problem is thelegalisation of all drugs.
"He that controls the Present --- Controls the Past"
George Orwell -- 1984
Gallery Jonick
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Be a part of History, Join the Campaign, VOTE & End Prohibition Again!
"Prohibition
was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud. It is wrapped
in the livery of Heaven, but it comes to serve the devil. It comes to
regulate by law our appetites and our daily lives. It comes to tear
down liberty and build up fanaticism, hypocrisy, and intolerance. It
comes to confiscate by legislative decree the property of many of our
fellow citizens. It comes to send spies, detectives, and informers into
our homes; to have us arrested and carried before courts and condemned
to fines and imprisonments. It comes to dissipate the sunlight of
happiness, peace, and prosperity in which we are now living and to fill
our land with alienations, estrangements, and bitterness. It comes to
bring us evil-- only evil-- and that continually. Let us rise in our
might as one and overwhelm it with such indignation that we shall never
hear of it again as long as grass grows and water runs."
The passage is from an 1887 speech by Roger Q. Mills of Texas.
It was quoted more than once during the December, 1914 debate in Congress:
If public trust is the capital foundation upon which police service is built, then we cannot afford to squander it pursuing an archaic interpretation of morality.
Why the world needs an international network
of activists who use drugs
We
are people from around the world who use drugs. We are people who have
been marginalized and discriminated against; we have been killed,
harmed unnecessarily, put in jail, depicted as evil, and stereotyped as
dangerous and disposable . Now it is time to raise our voices as
citizens, establish our rights and reclaim the right to be our own
spokespersons striving for self-representation and self-empowerment:
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To enable and empower people who use drugs legal or deemed illegal worldwide to survive, thrive and exert our voices as human beings to have meaningful input into all decisions that affect our own lives
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To promote a better understanding of the experiences of people who use illegal drugs, and particularly of the destructive impact of current drug policies affecting drug users, as well as our non-using fellow-citizens: this is as an important element in the local, national, regional and international development of these social policies.
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To use our own skills and knowledge to train and educate others, particularly our peers and any other fellow-citizens concerned with drugs in our communities.
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To advocate for universal access to all the tools available to reduce the harm that people who use drugs face in their day-to-day lives, including, i) drug treatment, appropriate medical care for substance use , ii) regulated access to the pharmaceutical quality drugs we need ii) availability of safer consumption equipment, including syringes and pipes as well as iii) facilities for their safe disposal, iv) peer outreach and honest up-to-date information about drugs and all of their uses, including v) safe consumption facilities that are necessary for many of us.
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To establish our right to evidence-based and objective information about drugs, and how to protect ourselves against the potential negative impacts of drug use through universal access to equitable and comprehensive health and social services, safe, affordable, supportive housing and employment opportunities
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To provide support to established local, national, regional, and international networks of people living with HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis and other harm reduction groups, making sure that active drug users are included at every level of decision-making, and specifically that we are able to serve on the boards (of directors) of such organizations and be fairly reimbursed for our expenses, time and skills.
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To challenge the national legislation and international conventions that currently disable most of us from living safe, secure and healthy lives.
Well aware of the potential challenges of building such a network, we strive for:
Value and respect diversity and recognize each other's different backgrounds,
knowledge, skills and capabilities, and cultivate a safe and supportive
environment within the network regardless of which drugs we use or how
we use them
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Spread information about our work in order to support and encourage development of user organizations in communities/countries where there are no such organizations
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Promote tolerance, cooperation and collaboration, fostering a culture of inclusion and active participation.
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Democratic principles and creating a structure that promotes maximum participation in decision making,
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Maximum inclusion with special focus to those who are disproportionately vulnerable to oppression on the basis of their gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, etc.
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to ensure that people who use drugs are not incarcerated and that those who are incarcerated have an equal right to healthy and respectful conditions and treatment, including drug treatment and access to health-promoting supplies such as syringes and condoms and medical treatment or at least equal to that they would receive outside
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to challenge execution and other inhuman treatment of people who use drugs worldwide
Ultimately, the most profound need to establish such a network arises from the fact that no group of oppressed people ever attained liberation without the involvement of those directly affected by this oppression. Through collective action, we will fight to change existing local, national, regional and international drug laws and formulate an evidence-based drug policy that respects people's human rights and dignity instead of one fuelled on moralism, stereotypes and lies.
The International Activists who use drugs
30 April 2006, Vancouver Canada
We have the largest prison system in the entire free world.
--Dan Quayle (US Representative, March 1977)
"Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true."
--Ann Shulgin (PhD, Therapist and Author, Lafayette, CA, at the DPF Conference, November 1996)
"This study indicates that there is little correlation between the use of ganga and crime, except in so far as the possession and cultivation of ganga are technically crimes"
--Jamaican Study (1970)
"Marijuana is not the determining factor in the commission of major crime....The publicity concerning the catastrophic effect of marijuana smoking in New York City, is unfounded"
--The LaGuardia sub-committee of New York (1944)
"Compared to alcohol, which makers people take more risks on the road, marijuana made drivers slow down and drive more carefully....
--Professor Olaf Drummer (forensic scientist at the Royal College of Surgeons in Melbourne in 1996)
"I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really
--Sir Paul McCartney (Independent, 1997-09-28)
"Medicines often produce side effects. Sometimes they are physically unpleasant. Cannabis too has discomforting side effects, but these are not physical they are political"
--The Economist (March 28th, 1992)
"Marijuana is one of the least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia"
--Professor Lester Grinspoon (Harvard Medical School, USA)
It would be hard to think of an area of U.S. social policy that has failed more completely than the war on drugs.
-- Michael Massing, Journalist
"If we don't end the War on Some Drugs, there will soon be little left to love in America, as there is already almost nothing to respect."
-- John Perry Barlow, December 1998.
"Satan for president -- why settle for the lesser of two evils."
-- Anonymous T-Shirt Quote.
"The two party system just means that the corporations cut two checks instead of one."
-- Barry Crimmins
"When I fed the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why are they poor, they called me a communist."
-- Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
--Emiliano Zapata
"Any man willing to give up any part of his liberty for a false sense of
--Benjamin Franklin
"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling power. Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing."
William Randolph Hearst's newspaper emp ire fuels a tabloid journalism propaganda campaign against marijuana. Articles with headlines such as "Marihuana Makes Fiends of Boys in 30 Days; Hasheesh Goads Users to Blood-Lust" create terror of the "killer weed from Mexico." Through his relentless disinformation campaign, Hearst is credited with bringing the word "marijuana" into the English language. In addition to fueling racist attitudes toward Hispanics, Hearst papers run articles about "marijuana-crazed negroes" raping white women and playing "voodoo-satanic" jazz music. Driven insane by marijuana, these blacks -- according to accounts in Hearst-owned newspapers -- dared to step on white men's shadows,look white people directly in the eye for more than three seconds, and even laugh out loud at white people. For shame! -
- Dennis Hopper
This Site Is Dedicated To This Man.....
and all the fallen in the War on Some Drugs
He got four years for two joints in Denver
and.........
