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America’s Drug Czar: Programmed To Oppose Popular Drug Policy Reforms
    #14585128 - 06/09/11 11:48 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Predictably. Reflexively. Mandated by law.

Yawn….

So the current U.S. drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske*, in true Pavlovian style, reacted negatively to the umpteenth commission report issued last week opining that 1) the war on some drugs has totally failed to achieve any of its stated goals, 2) policy reforms based on public health–not arrest and incarcerate–models are most effective, 3) the war on some drugs wastes preciously needed tax dollars, military expenditures, destabilize international borders and cause havoc in the banking and financial industries and 4) that legalization should readily be on the table, notably legalizing cannabis.

As if a bell rang, the U.S. drug czar’s office dutifully rolled out a brief and defensive commentary published in The Hill (a virtually DC-only publication for inside-the- beltway-types) that touches upon the Obama administration’s only-slightly-different-from-previous-drug czars’-approach-to-maintaining-the-status quo…

*Mr. Kerlikowske is likely going to be resigning soon as drug czar (which is understandable as it is one of the most thankless bureaucratic positions in Washington, D.C. as a job with a prescription for failure) to become the next police chief of Chicago…

Drug policies must be rooted in science
By Gil Kerlikowske
06/06/11

Last week, the Global Commission on Drug Policy issued a report calling for the decriminalization of illicit drugs based on the notion that global efforts to reduce drug use have been a failure. Certainly, given the stature of the Commission and the long-term challenge of drug policies both nationally and internationally, the Commission’s message may appear compelling at first. But there are serious flaws with both the report’s conclusion and its proposed remedy.

We agree with the Commission that balanced drug control efforts are necessary, which is why this administration’s National Drug Control Policy is a marked departure from past strategies. We support diverting non-violent offenders into treatment instead of jail by encouraging alternatives to incarceration. And as a former police chief, I and my colleagues know that we cannot arrest our way out of the drug problem. As I’ve often stated before, drug use should be addressed as a public health problem because we know drug addiction is a disease that can be successfully prevented and treated. Legalizing illicit drugs increase drug use and the need for drug treatment, while also making it more difficult to keep our communities healthy and safe.

Our National Drug Control Strategy is science-based. And science shows that illegal drug use is associated with specialty treatment admissions, fatal drugged driving accidents, mental illness, and emergency room admissions. Illicit drug use has huge costs to our society, outside of just criminal justice costs.

A recent report by the Department of Justice’s National Drug Intelligence Center about the economic impact of illicit drug use indicates that the costs of illicit drug use on health care and productivity alone, are over $80 billion. Making illicit drugs legal would not reduce any of these factors. Nor is drug use a victimless crime. Just last month, during a visit to the Pediatric Interim Care Center in Kent, Washington, I saw firsthand the tragic impact drug use has on newborn babies.


In addition, despite the Commission’s assertions, efforts to reduce drug use over the last several decades have, in fact, achieved success. Overall drug use in the United States is half of what it was thirty years ago, cocaine production in Colombia has dropped by almost two-thirds, and the very same U.N. World Drug Report cited by the Commission concluded that, “Demand for cocaine in the U.S. has been in long-term decline.”

This administration’s efforts to reduce drug use are not born out of a culture war or drug war mentality, but rather out of the recognition that drug use strains our economy, public health, and public safety. The President’s inaugural National Drug Control Strategy – released one year ago – focuses on both the public health and public safety aspects of drug use and addiction. It focuses on addiction as a disease and on the importance of preventing drug use, as well as providing treatment to those who need it, including those who are involved in the criminal justice system. For the first time, it emphasizes support for millions of individuals who are in recovery from drug addiction.

And the United States is not alone. Our international partners across the globe – including Mexico’s President Calderon, Colombia’s President Santos, and Costa Rica’s President Miranda – have all clearly stated their opposition to drug legalization.

It is, of course, tempting to opt for seemingly easy answers to the world’s drug problems. They appear intractable at times. But we have made real progress and the steps we take in the future must be rooted in science and evidence-based policies that will make our communities healthier and safer.

Gil Kerlikowske is the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.


http://blog.norml.org/2011/06/08/americas-drug-czar-programmed-to-oppose-popular-drug-policy-reforms/


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Re: America’s Drug Czar: Programmed To Oppose Popular Drug Policy Reforms [Re: skatealex2]
    #14585287 - 06/09/11 12:24 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

statistics shows that alcohol is more detrimental to society than illicit drugs.
Gil, quit hiding behind the guise of science, you are not a scientist... you're a bureaucratic puppet.


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Re: America’s Drug Czar: Programmed To Oppose Popular Drug Policy Reforms [Re: piracetam]
    #14585327 - 06/09/11 12:34 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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piracetam said:
Gil, quit hiding behind the guise of science, you are not a scientist... you're a bureaucratic puppet.




QFT.  Gil:  Retire already you fucker.  Problem is, it'll likely be, as the Who so eloquently said,  "Meet the new boss....same as the old boss" when the newest Drug Czar fucker gets the position.

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Re: America’s Drug Czar: Programmed To Oppose Popular Drug Policy Reforms [Re: Nature Boy]
    #14585403 - 06/09/11 12:50 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Of course they are going to fucking refute it, what a fucking joke.


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Re: America’s Drug Czar: Programmed To Oppose Popular Drug Policy Reforms [Re: Dave Bowman]
    #14585530 - 06/09/11 01:20 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Wait, let me get this straight, we have a czar:wow: reining over our drugs with propaganda

I thought we were in america, since when does america have czars:awewtf: seems pretty fishy to me

Seems almost like the government is giving the people one big :doublefu:


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Re: America’s Drug Czar: Programmed To Oppose Popular Drug Policy Reforms [Re: Wise Toad]
    #14585548 - 06/09/11 01:23 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

good morning
what woke you, did you smell the coffee?
hooray for corporate interests :smirk:


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Re: America’s Drug Czar: Programmed To Oppose Popular Drug Policy Reforms [Re: piracetam]
    #14585604 - 06/09/11 01:33 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

It was intended to be sarcasm but the internet doesnt transmit such very well

Fuck the czar, time to wage full scale war on this czar and his drug war

What a faggot, I hate politics


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Re: America’s Drug Czar: Programmed To Oppose Popular Drug Policy Reforms [Re: Wise Toad]
    #14585960 - 06/09/11 02:46 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

ahh

you and me both.
it created a world of haves and have-nots.
the least they could do is allow people the right to alter their own
consciousness; it's really none of their fucking business (or maybe it i$..)

It's all just a means of control ("controlled" substances).
you know it, I know it.
and businesses know they can't control illicit drug users.
they're a legal liability, hence the Gestapo-esque pre-employment drug screen.


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Re: America’s Drug Czar: Programmed To Oppose Popular Drug Policy Reforms [Re: skatealex2]
    #14586399 - 06/09/11 04:16 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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skatealex2 said: Our National Drug Control Strategy is science-based. And science shows that illegal drug use is associated with specialty treatment admissions, fatal drugged driving accidents, mental illness, and emergency room admissions. Illicit drug use has huge costs to our society, outside of just criminal justice costs.





one word here alcohol

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A recent report by the Department of Justice’s National Drug Intelligence Center about the economic impact of illicit drug use indicates that the costs of illicit drug use on health care and productivity alone, are over $80 billion.




what is public health cost of McDonalds and Coca-Cola corporation?

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Our National Drug Control Strategy is science-based. And science shows that illegal drug use is associated with specialty treatment admissions, fatal drugged driving accidents, mental illness, and emergency room admissions. Illicit drug use has huge costs to our society, outside of just criminal justice costs.




SCIENCE lol


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Re: America’s Drug Czar: Programmed To Oppose Popular Drug Policy Reforms [Re: piracetam]
    #14586883 - 06/09/11 06:01 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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statistics shows that alcohol is more detrimental to society than illicit drugs.
Gil, quit hiding behind the guise of science, you are not a scientist... you're a bureaucratic puppet.




you're for making drugs legal correct?

so why say that one of the few legal drugs causes more problems than the ones that are illegal?

do you see how what you said implies that the drug war is actually a good thing?
imagine a prohibitionist sayin  "look alcahol causes all these problems, but you want MORE drugs on the market for people to use?"

all im saying is that this whole "look at all the problems alcohol causes, but these illegal drugs are half as harmfull" is counter productive.
i understand you trying to show the hypocrisy of the system but lets face it, drugs are NOT illegal for our well being. regardless of what DARE says.


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Re: America’s Drug Czar: Programmed To Oppose Popular Drug Policy Reforms [Re: Wise Toad]
    #14586935 - 06/09/11 06:13 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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This administration’s efforts to reduce drug use are not born out of a culture war or drug war mentality, but rather out of the recognition that drug use strains our economy, public health, and public safety.




Unlike alcoholism, nicotine addiction, prescription drugs, cops who see police brutality as a sport, an energy policy which emphasizes the least safe and most polluting form of transportation (cars) as the de facto way to move about, and neofascism pioneered by both major puppet political parties.

And let's not forget Justin Bieber.


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Re: America’s Drug Czar: Programmed To Oppose Popular Drug Policy Reforms [Re: I R Crankey]
    #14587196 - 06/09/11 07:17 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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Wut a Twist said:
all im saying is that this whole "look at all the problems alcohol causes, but these illegal drugs are half as harmfull" is counter productive.
i understand you trying to show the hypocrisy of the system but lets face it, drugs are NOT illegal for our well being. regardless of what DARE says.




you don't need to tell me that, I already know
and what I pointed out was equally obvious. it illustrates the same thing you're saying, and in
no way advocates the drug war, not sure where you came up with that idea. if anything, my point calls for drug reform, and repeal
of prohibition. the bigger hazard to society is the violence stemming from competition in the black market caused by
prohibition, another capt. obvious call...but if I need to point it out in pharmacological terms, alcohol inhibits glutamate signaling
in the preferontal cortex and parietal lobe, where as many of the commonly abused drugs do not.
what this translates to is judgement impairment, poor motor-coordination, and general stupidity; that's not to say that heroin, thc,
and mescaline may not alter judgment and motor-coordination, but they're not as American as a bottle of whiskey or a pilsner ale.
the powers that be are traditional, and illicit drugs have always been viewed as a foreign practice, and competition for various
industries.

through sensationalism and social programming, the stigma attributed to drug use has always been disguised as a moral
vice and a safety hazard, and children have always been a tool of the media.


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Re: America’s Drug Czar: Programmed To Oppose Popular Drug Policy Reforms [Re: piracetam]
    #14587409 - 06/09/11 08:08 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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no way advocates the drug war, not sure where you came up with that idea. if anything, my point calls for drug reform, and repeal




did you not read my post? your argument that alcohol is a much more dangerous drug can easily be used as a tool by any prohibition advocate to influence ignorant people.

look i'm not arguing that alcohol isn't dangerous, my point is simply that the morality of drug prohibition is not why drugs are illegal.
that's no better than saying drugs should be legal because they're good, when in reality drugs are the same as food. in the sense that there are no 'good' foods and there are no 'bad' foods.

drugs are illegal because big pharma companies shoved a shit ton of money down congresses throat untill they pass the prohibition laws. while the politicians simply fuel the fire by trying to get more votes by promising harder drug use punishment (like this drug czar). and everyone in between has something to gain (except drug users and taxpayers).

drug use should be legal because it's MY right as a human to do whatever the fuck i want with MY body as long as i don't harm anyone else. and in the end few people gain from drug prohibition while the majority of society as a whole lose.

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the powers that be are traditional, and illicit drugs have always been viewed as a foreign practice, and competition for various
industries.
the bigger hazard to society is the violence stemming from competition in the black market caused by
prohibition

through sensationalism and social programming, the stigma attributed to drug use has always been disguised as a moral
vice and a safety hazard, and children have always been a tool of the media.




indeed


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