Why Drugs Should Be Legalized

Drug informants get killed all the time. But, because Rachel Hoffman was a sweet hippie college chick, her story has gotten some attention. The twenty-three year old Florida State coed was busted twice by the Tallahassee Police for having a baggie of marijuana. The second time they also found two ecstasy pills and four Valiums in her apartment—which apparently is a felony under Florida law. The cops made her an offer. If she would become an undercover informant, they would drop the... Read Full Story

Latest News - Put The Gangs Out Of Business: Legalize DrugsBy Michael C. Chettleburgh, Special to the National Post Childhood and adolescence should rightfully be a time of love, learning and life. But for thousands of young Canadians, their journey to adulthood is marred forever by street-gang involvement, which almost always means an active role in the massive business of illicit street drugs, too. I have seen and heard of too many cases to count demonstrating... Read Full Story

Latest News - Put The Gangs Out Of Business: Legalize DrugsBy Michael C. Chettleburgh, Special to the National Post Childhood and adolescence should rightfully be a time of love, learning and life. But for thousands of young Canadians, their journey to adulthood is marred forever by street-gang involvement, which almost always means an active role in the massive business of illicit street drugs, too. I have seen and heard of too many cases to count demonstrating... Read Full Story

In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs". After this declaration was made, our prison populations doubled in size, then, that number doubled, and after that, the number tripled. We spend, well over, 30 billion dollars a year and arrest over 2 million people per year, many of these people are charged with minor Marijuana possession charges. But after almost 40 years, millions of arrests and hundreds of billions of dollars spent on this "War against Drugs" we need to ask the... Read Full Story

With repeated use of narcotics, tolerance and dependence develop. The development of tolerance is characterized by a shortened duration and a decreased intensity of analgesia, euphoria and sedation, which creates the need to administer progressively larger doses to attain the desired effect. Tolerance does not develop uniformly for all actions of these drugs, giving rise to a number of toxic effects. Although the lethal dose is increased significantly in tolerant users, there is always a dose... Read Full Story