Obama Will Not Tolerate Federal DEA Raids

Raids intensified under former President Bush with nearly one hundred paramilitary style raids at medical cannabis facilities.

New Hair Drug Tests to Detect Pharmacuetical Misuse

Eroding the foundation of healthy parent-child relationships businesses are promoting a new HairConfirm kit to conduct drug tests with hair samples.

Progress for New Jersey Act

A recent measure would allow chronically ill residents of New Jersey to have medicinal cannabis for medical treatment.

Swiss Vote Positively For Medicalization of Opiate Addiction

A pioneering program to give opioid drug dependent individuals government approved heroin just recently was highly approved by Swiss voters.

Latest Medical Marijuana Recommendations for President Obama

Most recently ASA has released policy recommendations for President Obama and his Administration including:1. End federal raids, intimidation and interference with state law; 2. Encourage advanced clinical research trials that meet accepted scientific standards; 3. Ensure the quality and objectivity of information disseminated by federal agencies; 4. Authorize affirmative and legitimate defenses in federal trials; and 5. Remove cannabis from the list of schedule I controlled substances.

Hundreds of Thousands Locked Out of Voting Because of Drug War Policies

Estimates range from 300,000 to more than 900,000 former Florida felons who'll be staying home on Election Day because voting rights were taken--Many of these individuals are locked out of civic engagement because of previous drug charges.

Significant Differences Amid Candidates' Drug Policies

The differences among the two presidential candidates are sharp, including that of drug policies.

UCLA Prop. 36 2008 Final Study

The University of California - Los Angeles issued a new report on California's Prop. 36, also known as the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000.

Measures Would Greatly Expand Oregon Prison System

Oregon voters are faced with two competing measures that could expand the prison industrial complex by over $1 billion.

Methamphetamine: Prohibition Shifts Smuggling Routes

The demand for meth and prohibition of its ingredients is re-shaping the global drug trafficking map.

Tues Oct 14, 2008 News Articles

Voters could relax marijuana penalties
Stateline.org

Proposition 5: Measure requires greater leniency in drug crimes
Ventura County (CA) Star

S.F. leads way on patient-friendly pot clubs
San Francisco (CA) Chronicle,

Official: Drug problem in schools
Wheeling Intelligencer (WV)

As the violence soars, Mexico signals it's had enough of America's stupid war on drugs
AlterNet

A plan to win drug war
The Windsor (Canada) Star

"Three strikes and out" penalty for cannabis users falls apart
The Times (London, England)

Afghan minister welcomes NATO's role in war on drug
Xinhua (China)

Life in the midst of a drugs war
Nouse (York University, UK)

Incarceration Causes More Harm Than Benefit

Starting in 1996, the Vancouver Injection Drug User Study now demonstrates how incarceration creates more harm than benefit for injection drug users.

Overdose Fatalities Avoided

More research demonstrates the high importance of Insite, a harm reduction medical agency for injection drug users.

Medical Marijuana: Potential $40 Billion Pharma Market

Over the past 20 years studies have shown the efficacy of using marijuana in medicine specifically its psychoactive ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol. Forty billion dollars is the number of dollars up for grabs in the North American pharma market for pain, anxiety and mood disorders. Cannasat Therapeutics Inc, a junior drug developer located in Canada, is now targeting those conditions with treatments inspired by cannabis sativa.

Brother of Afghanistan President Alleged Drug Trafficker

Numerous reports and current and former officials from the White House, the State Department and the United States Embassy in Afghanistan link brother of Afghanistan President, Ahmed Wali Karzai, to drug trafficking.

Drug Decriminalization Proposed by Mexico President

Since December 2006 about 30,000 troops have entered eight states in Mexico in an attempt to quell drug prohibition violence, but almost 3,000 people have been killed this year due to drug trafficking violence.

Majority of Americans Oppose Mandatory Minimum Sentencing

A recent poll indicates that American attitudes regarding mandatory minimum sentencing for drug offenders may be experiencing a dramatic shift toward individualized sentencing.

Medical Marijuana and College Campuses

A Colorado student has been hassled by University administration even though he has adhered to state medical marijuana laws.

Poll: 60 percent of Americans oppose mandatory minimum sentences

Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 25, 2006

Common Sense on the Air

CSDP Director of Research Doug McVay is the guest host for the March 18th, 2008 edition of the Drug Truth Network's Century of Lies program. Doug reports from Vienna, Austria on the 51st annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs with guests Boaz Wachtel, executive director of the Green Leaf Party of Israel; Richard Elliott, Executive Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network; Eric Carlin, executive director of Mentor UK and a vice chair of the Vienna Non-Governmental Committee on Narcotic Drugs; and Mike Trace, co-founder and co-coordinator of the International Drug Policy Consortium.

A copy of the entire show can be downloaded from here, or listen to it via audio stream through the DrugTruth website.

Century of Lies is a half-hour weekly show produced at station KPFT-fm in Houston, TX and syndicated to 60-70 stations throughout North America. COL and its sister program, Cultural Baggage, are also available for download or as podcasts from the Drug Truth Network website.