Watch an ex-cop explain why: “The War on Drugs is a joke.”

It’s a long video, so here are the highlights:

At [3:47] he demolishes the idea that we can enforce away the drug trade.

At [5:54] he explains how the drug problem can be fixed, and at [7:30] he points out how we can keep people from doing drugs without criminalizing them.

At [11:08] he points out the hypocrisy of ...

Harsh! Yippie Museum’s Building Manager Wants Pot Activist Kicked to the Curb

http://www.mindvox.com/pg/blog/read/6475/9-bleecker-foreclosure-and-possible-eviction

Already fighting foreclosure, the home of the Yippie! Museum faced another buzzkill last week, as attorney Meryl L. Wenig asked a State Supreme Court judge to consider civil contempt charges against its owners and even jail time for failing to pay rent at 9 Bleecker Street.

Wenig represents David F. Segal, the receiver, who claims that “not one ...

MYEBOGA COMMENT: ‘DRUG EXPERTS’ make comments which are damaging to the use of ibogaine as a treatment that saves thousands of lives whenever lives are lost, often due to the incorrect use of the substance. The pharmaceutical industry is rife with deaths due to the side effects of pharmaceuticals. Ibogaine threatens the usual modalaties for treating drug addiction. So the question is: how many lives have been saved that would otherwise have been lost?

http://www.3news.co.nz/Warning-over-drug-addiction-miracle-cure/tabid/423/articleID/307413/Default.aspx

Warning ...

In recent years, you may have noticed that the public and the media have shown an increasing awareness of the potential of plant medicines — and particularly psychedelics, or entheogens — to treat otherwise intractable psychological conditions, such as PTSD and addiction.

I know this as well as anyone — I struggled with heroin addiction for 20 years and tried everything I could to kick the habit. Finally, 11 years ago — convinced I ...