http://www.drugnews.org/ Media Awareness Project Drug News en-us Wed, 28 Jun 2017 01:42:13 -0700 Wed, 28 Jun 2017 03:10:02 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Modperl editor@mapinc.org (MAP Editor) webmaster@mapinc.org (MAP Webmaster) http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n188/a10.html Harper's Magazine, 01 Apr 2016 - How to Win the War on Drugs In 1994, John Ehrlichman, the Watergate co-conspirator, unlocked for me one of the great mysteries of modern American history: How did the United States entangle itself in a policy of drug prohibition that has yielded so much misery and so few good results? Fri, 01 Apr 2016 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n188/a10.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n014/a08.html New York Times, 08 Jan 2016 - ALBANY - New York joined the ranks of nearly half the states on Thursday in allowing the use of medical marijuana with the opening of eight dispensaries statewide, serving a variety of tinctures, concentrates, vapors and other forms of the drug. How many patients actually received medicine from those dispensaries, however, was uncertain; several locations around the state had customers who entered, but it was not clear if any actually bought the drug, or were qualified to do so under the state's strict guidelines. On Thursday, officials at the state's Department of Health said that only 51 patients had been certified for the program thus far, though that process only began on Dec. 23 and requires the approval of a physician who has registered with the state. Fri, 08 Jan 2016 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n014/a08.html http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article52540410.html News & Observer, 03 Jan 2016 - Contrast what has happened since 1964 with tobacco, on the one hand, and marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other banned substances, on the other We can compare the effects of choosing a public-health paradigm or a criminalization paradigm for dealing with addictive substances Sun, 03 Jan 2016 08:00:00 GMT http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article52540410.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n004/a01.html Register Citizen, 02 Jan 2016 - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In January 1964, the Beatles first broke onto the Billboard chart with "I Want to Hold Your Hand;" by June, Ringo Starr had collapsed from tonsillitis and pharyngitis. In January, the surgeon general announced that scientists had found conclusive evidence linking smoking to cancer and thus launched our highly successful 50-year public-health fight against tobacco. In August, the North Vietnamese fired on a U.S. naval ship in the Gulf of Tonkin, which led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the public phase of the Vietnam War. Alongside an accelerating deployment of conventional troops would come their widespread use of marijuana and heroin. By 1971, cigarette ads had been banned from radio and television, the surgeon general had called for regulation of tobacco, and cigarette smoking had begun its long decline. The impact of drug use among troops and returning veterans provoked President Richard M. Nixon to declare a war on drugs. Sat, 02 Jan 2016 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n004/a01.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n716/a04.html Reason Magazine, 01 Jan 2016 - Was the Drug War Imposed on Black America, or Did Black America Demand It? Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, by Michael Javen Fortner, Harvard University Press, 368 pages, $29.95 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n716/a04.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n729/a05.html Washington Post, 30 Dec 2015 - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In January 1964, the Beatles first broke onto the Billboard chart with "I Want to Hold Your Hand"; by June, Ringo Starr had collapsed from tonsillitis and pharyngitis. In January, the surgeon general announced that scientists had found conclusive evidence linking smoking to cancer and thus launched our highly successful 50-year public-health fight against tobacco. In August, the North Vietnamese fired on a U.S. naval ship in the Gulf of Tonkin, which led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the public phase of the Vietnam War. Alongside an accelerating deployment of conventional troops would come their widespread use of marijuana and heroin. By 1971, cigarette ads had been banned from radio and television, the surgeon general had called for regulation of tobacco, and cigarette smoking had begun its long decline. The impact of drug use among troops and returning veterans provoked President Richard M. Nixon to declare a war on drugs. Wed, 30 Dec 2015 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n729/a05.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n691/a07.html Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 09 Dec 2015 - A group composed of Hawaii farmers, a naturopath and a University of Hawaii bioengineering researcher is preparing to apply for a medical marijuana dispensary license in January. The group, led by Dr. Ryan Ferchoff, founder of Medical Medicinals LLC, and Maui business consultant Steven Bronstein, issued a news release Tuesday announcing its intentions to vie for one of eight dispensary licenses next year. Wed, 09 Dec 2015 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n691/a07.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n629/a03.html Richmond Times-Dispatch, 04 Nov 2015 - BERNIE SANDERS IS RIGHT, BUT NOT ENOUGH While it's hard to pinpoint accurately, estimates place the current number of Americans in Alcoholics Anonymous at more than 1.2 million. AA members meet often; today alone there will be more than 50 AA meetings within a 50-mile radius of downtown Richmond. Attend just about any of them and you likely will hear personal testimonies about the shocking degree of human misery alcohol can inflict. Wed, 04 Nov 2015 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n629/a03.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n402/a02.html New York Post, 17 Jul 2015 - Tony Papa is living proof that a drug offender slapped with a harsh sentence for a nonviolent crime can turn his life around if given a second chance. Since he was sprung by then-Gov. George Pataki in 1996 after serving 12 years of a mandatory 15-years-to-life sentence under New York's Rockefeller drug laws, he has had a successful career as a painter, author and advocate for a truce in the country's War on Drugs. Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n402/a02.html