Easy Drug Rehabilitation

1988 Ron Paul contends that prohibition of drugs is ineffective and advocates ending the War on Drugs. “Prohibition doesn’t work. Prohibition causes crime.” He believes that drug abuse should be treated as a medical problem, “We treat alcoholism now as a medical problem and I, as a physician, think we should treat drug addiction as a medical problem and not as a crime.” The Constitution does not enumerate or delegate to Congress the authority to ban or regulate drugs in general. He believes the war on drugs is a racist policy against African Americans, who are affected disproportionally. Paul believes in personal responsibility, but also sees inequity in the current application of drug enforcement laws, noting in 2000, “Many prisoners are non-violent and should be treated as patients with addictions, not as criminals. Irrational mandatory minimal sentences have caused a great deal of harm. We have non-violent drug offenders doing life sentences, and there is no room to incarcerate the rapists and murderers.” When asked about his position on implementing the tenth amendment, Paul explained, “Certain medical procedures and medical choices, I would allow the states to determine that. The state law should prevail not the Federal Government.” Speaking specifically about Drug Enforcement Administration raids on medical marijuana clinics Paul said, “They’re unconstitutional,” and went on to advocate states’ rights and personal choice: “You’re not being compassionate by taking medical marijuana from someone who’s suffering from cancer or AIDS …. People should have freedom of choice. We certainly should respect the law and the law says that states should be able to determine this.”

A Parody of the Anti Drug PSA “I Learned it from you”

FOR THE LATEST MARIJUANA RELATED NEWS: www.NORML90210.org Marie Claire editor-in-chief Joanna Coles disagreed with Hollands view that there is a large social stigma attached to smoking marijuana. I have to say, thats not what we are hearing from readers, she said on the Today Show. First of all, its decriminalized in 13 states, and I dont think this is a generation of people who get excited about the fact that its illegal. The inspiration for the article, Coles said, was hearing from readers that they were feeling stressed. Clearly, the economy is a great deal of stress for people and they wanted a way to unwind. And they found more and more of them were doing this [smoking marijuana] and they found it had less impact on them when they were going to work the next morning. So they didnt want to drink. Its cheap and they felt they could do it in the privacy of their own home, and it was a very effective way to calm down. Holland agreed that marijuana may be a less harmful drug than alcohol, saying that marijuana has psycho-therapeutic properties that booze lacks. Its more of a mind drug, she said. Alcohols sort of a deadening, numbing maybe more like a body drug. On pot, people are unwinding and theyre relaxing, but theyre also able to think and maybe analyze or think clearly I think cannabis is more functional than alcohol, certainly in terms of anxiety. It can be a treatment or a medicine. Coles added that the Marie Claire article seems to have struck a nerve with readers. For additional information Contact: Cheryl Shuman www.NORML90210.org

Anti-Drug PSA made by students at Bert Corona Charter School

Experimental cancer drug IT-101 releases campothecin into cancer cells for effective treatment. We used a whole lot of trickery to make this piece for the PBS mini “Curious”. The whole episode for which we did loads of graphics is at thirteen.org/curious . Animated by Jordan Bruner

Anti-Drug PSA guest starring Integrity

This is an anti-drug PSA I made back in high school. It won 2nd place at the 1996 Long Island Media Arts Festival. Originally shot on VHS, I plan on eventually remastering the video and audio, but here it is in it’s original glory! Enjoy