RED BANK (Monmouth County, NJ) - Even after spending more than $50 billion a year on the drug war, drugs are more available and drug cartels are more wealthy than ever before according to Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) website. SSDP mission statement is an international grassroots network of students who are concerned about the impact drug abuse has on our communities, but who also know that the war on drugs is failing our generation and our society. SSDP will hold a free screening of the award-winning documentary, "The Union: The Business Behind Getting High" and host speakers Jim Miller, a medical marijuana patient's advocate and director of the non-profit, "Coalition for Medical Marijuana New Jersey" whose late wife suffered from multiple sclerosis. [continues 192 words]
To The Editor: As a parent who lost his son to drug use, I now work tirelessly to prevent the same tragedy from ever occurring again, I am dismayed to see the New Jersey Legislature even considering the medicinal use of marijuana, based upon dangerously deceptive claims about the medicinal potential of the crude marijuana plant. Marijuana has not satisfied the demanding requirements of the national drug regulatory agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). No crude marijuana liquid or otherwise, smoked or vaporized or eaten in brownies, can meet these criteria. [continues 187 words]
