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I hope you’ve been enjoying my posts lately. I thought I might do something different today and rustle up a few bits of info from around the WWW. These are some of the news items and blog posts that have been popular over the last few weeks. Leave me your thoughts.

Men arrested for sexual assault at rehab center

Police received information about alleged abuse occurring at the organization's drug rehabilitation facility, Sagua Na Homlu. … Read More…

Harry Jaffe: Unemployment stats paint a tale of two cities

… of unemployed Washingtonians: those who have lost jobs, many who have no skills, and some who are coming into the work force from prison or drug rehab. … Read More…

Fighting to be a mother again

It took her 15 years — one stint in prison, several passes through drug rehab, months of weekly parenting classes. … Read More…
That’s all the news for today guys, so until next time, thanks for stopping by.

By Ian Dunt

The government’s drug policy, like that of most states in the western world, causes death and suffering on an unimaginable scale. It pumps money into the black market, and kills thousands by opening the door for dealers to add pollutants to their product. It robs people of their personal freedom, lies to the public, and operates on a level of dogma and calculation rather than ethics or harm reduction. It is, basically, a hideous, immoral and idiotic way to go about the business of government.

But it does have its upside. It gives many British youths their first lesson in British government: don’t believe anything they tell you.

There is a gap in politics, between what is discussed and what is known. Most political issues force the public to select the source from which they trust the evidence. Take the debate on equipment for our armed forces in Afghanistan. When David Cameron stands up in the Commons and says our troops are not sufficiently equipped, and Gordon Brown insists they are, most of us have no way of discovering for ourselves which is true, unless a friend or family member is fighting.

This holds true for most issues. Is Royal Mail or the Communications Workers Union telling the truth about working conditions and the state of the industry? Is there any way to split the banks? The data required to make those judgement is generally unavailable to someone who has to work nine to five. So we find sources we trust – from media outlets, or individual journalists, or experts. And then we take their assessment into account.

For young people, the debate on drugs is not like that. It follows from something they have personal experience of.

The government says skunk is vastly more powerful and dangerous than the normal weed ministers smoked in their youth. It says ecstasy is a perilous drug which can cause death at any time. It puts magic mushrooms, a diverting way for many university students to spend an afternoon, in the same class as crack cocaine, which decimates communities. But young people know several things about those propositions.

As Professor David Nutt said at a speech in King’s college last night, triggering the latest battle between himself and the Home Office, there has been no marked increase in schizophrenia levels since skunk became prevalent over a decade ago. Most young people know this to be true from personal experience, because their friends smoke this drug with no noticeable psychological damage. The professor, whose wisdom on the subject is quickly turning him into a mascot for those who value evidence and reason above foolishness and political manoeuvring, is similarly considered in his opinion on ecstasy, which he says is less dangerous than riding a horse. This statement, while provocative, is statistically true. That didn’t stop former home secretary Jacqui Smith berating him for it in empty moralistic terms. The professor’s wisdom is becoming significant enough for me to forget the illogical name of the organisation he heads: the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. It’s a mad name, because taking ecstasy and dancing, whatever you might think of it, if not a misuse of the drug MDMA, it is in fact the very use it was intended for.

Young Britons know that ecstasy is not as dangerous as the government says it is. They know this because they have friends who take it every weekend, and then go on to lead perfectly normal lives. They know that magic mushroom have no place in the same class as crack cocaine.

As their first instance of personal knowledge contradicting government pronouncements, this is an instructive lesson in political reasoning. Teenagers and students will have heard many statements from the government, but these will be the first which relate to things they have personal experience of. The lesson they will take from this is that either the government has a wilful disregard for the truth, or it is simply incapable of discovering what the truth is.

In actual fact, the government has no particular interest in the truth. As Professor Nutt said yesterday, the Home Office’s decision to upgrade cannabis from Class C to Class B had a far more significant political effect than the error of its imposition. With the experts all telling the government this was the wrong move, and all the data pointing to a reduction in use since the drug was downgraded in 2004, Smith, under orders from the prime minister, upgraded it to class B anyway. The precedent was clear: experts and evidence mean nothing. Tabloid headlines mean everything.

There could be no better lesson upon which to start a politically conscious life: the government is not telling you the truth. With that piece of knowledge you can become a fully active citizen, rather than the passive sponge government wishes you to be. The next time a prime minister tells the public that a country can attack us in 45 minutes in order to justify a war, the kids will be suspicious. The next time politicians throw insults at each other as a means of evading debate, they will be suspicious. The next time a politician justifies taking away British freedoms with reference to the threat of terrorism, they will be suspicious.

Given the damage our deranged attachment to a war of drugs does to third world countries around the world and our own society, this is scant reassurance. But it is something. All sensible political reasoning comes from a suspicion of power.

Lets look at the evidence, this author sporting controversy claims that That the Nutty Professor's analogy of taking drugs is statistically correct. How many more claims can the Nutty Professor make?

Regarding care in the community being disproportionately overburdened by the fallout of those poor blighters who took too many drugs; how many more claims can he make about a good percentage of non-admission policy relies heavily upon drug induced psychotics being refused, along with alcohol induced too? Are we missing this research or did he fall off a horse?

First page and i see what is a major factor is society.

No offence to who said it, but Alcohol is not exclusive, it is a drug.

“but if it wasn't for drugs then it would have been drink” is a destructive perception i see everywhere, Alcohol is a dangerous drug in over consumption, simple as that.

I make every effort to say “drugs including Alcohol” instead of “Alcohol and drugs”, a bit more of a mouthful to say but i'd have said illicit drugs or the legal drug drink/Alcohol and i invariably do so frequently.

I gave up that poison to human synergy, mind/body/spirit, in 2000 and going through rehab's and attending A.A. meetings, the perception Alcohol is not a drug was a ridiculously common supporting column to addiction denial, in N.A. the acceptance that Alcohol is a drug so much better.

One thing which is known about Cannabis is that it acts on the neurotransmitters of a Heroin addict to counteract cravings and any need for the drug, so weaning a heroin addict off with permission to use cannabis at times of weakness would aid a recovering Heroin addict, but i know Heroin addicts from when i was in recovery for Alcohol addiction myself in 2001 that Heroin addicts died because they didn't want to touch cannabis because everybody classed it as a dangerous drug, in ignorance of the facts regards what Cannabis does and they began drinking and quickly died from using far too much spirits to cope and poisoned themselves, like even 9-10-11+ year old kids do on a constant basis.

Point is, Alcohol is an extremely potent Nervous depressant-Neurosuppressant and is extremely dangerous but with so much emphasis that Alcohol is such a lovely substance, not like dirty and dangerous drugs.

We have a social conditioning that Alcohol is different and not dangerous, despite what evidences are there, Alcohol addiction carries with it physical and psychological dependence after initial tolerances from low use, into addiction and one the mind is dependant on Alcohol the psychological processes of denial over ride all common sense in so many people.

Prof Nutt is completely correct and social conditioning that Alcohol is not a drug must be broken and the propaganda regards soft Relatively safer drugs must stop.

With Alcohol, dependance/addiction denial is more dangerous than the drug itself!

I'm still reading, from this from page one.

I will no doubt say much more.

PaxDeltaPan.

Enlightened Evolution.

Tempered From The Chaotic Forge Of Life

Politics now means believing the electorate is stupid. That's why they get so worked up about the BNP. They assume that the people are unable recognise the BNP and our fragile intellects will be turned if the BNP has a platform to speak. The same thinking allows them to think that people voting for the BNP aren't doing so with a reason. We are just too stupid to understand according to the political classes. Expenses is another example, they are suprised by the depth of feeling it creates. And of course, if nobody votes thats because the voters are lazy or ignorant. It couldn't be that the political system gives them nothing to vote for.

Alcohol gets an easy ride, considering all the real harm it causes. But then our culture considers alcohol to be an acceptable drug.

never tell the truth,just tell them what they want to hear.joe and jane soap just love it

guyandrew…no40….you and your fellow BNP-ers are amazing! If the blog was on 'the finer points of knitting a shroud in the western hemisphere', you'd still all be blithering on about voatbnp!! That blog's been and gone and done it! At ease, soldier,you haf done vel!

45 diubell47

Too right an' all!

Indication of OCD, indeed.

On the subject of drugs, has nobody assessed these obsessives for their *appropriate* medication yet, they require help and quick, poor souls, in so much pain.

PaxDeltaPan.

Enlightened Evolution.

Tempered From The Chaotic Forge Of Life

The point of the piece wasn't just about drugs but about being lied to by government on many issues. The issue of most concern to us all has to be global warming. This is the biggest scam of the lot where we are told the world's scientists agree mankind's output of carbon dioxide has allegedly made the planet warm by 0.7 degrees in the past century melting the ice caps and flooding coastal areas. This is all utter BS to scare non-thinkers into paying higher green taxes.Real world data from all around the globe is showing cooling rather than warming over recent years despite unrelenting increases in greenhouse gases. During 2009 a further fifty-nine additional eminent scientists from around the world have been added to the U.S. Senate Minority Report of dissenting scientists, pushing the total to over 700 sceptical international scientists – a dramatic increase from the original 650 scientists featured in the initial December 11, 2008 release. But we dont see this reported on the news. Meanwhile satellite data since 2006 shows a drop of 0.6 degrees centigrade across the globe – wiping out the entire rise in man made 'global warming.' We should demand those lying scum bags in govt tell us truth now!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/oct/23/lsd-ecstacy-he
alth-benefits

What people should really take from this is not only are politicians liars they are also totally devoid of backbone. If the press were to suddenly change tack and support the legalisation of drugs, the same politicians who are now clammering for a crackdown would be beating the drum for legalisation. Even the so called iron lady ignored the advice she was being given, even by chief constables, and ridiculed the suggestion that legalising drugs would reduce crime in general. Why, because she was frightened of the backlash that would be whipped up by the press. The irony of this is that much of the wealth of this country was generated from trading in opium in th far east.

Soon generation x will be the ones running the government instead of baby boomers, thank god for that.

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