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Official: U.S. has not lost war against drugs

By Hunter Lewis | The Herald-Sun | Aug 13, 2004

DURHAM -- Tad Davis of the National Drug Control Policy Office says America has not lost the war on drugs.

"Forty-six percent of our overall drug policy budget goes towards treatment,'" Davis said. "Our strategy has evolved."

He spoke Friday to parents at a conference at N.C. Central University.

Other countries spend more on treatment, Davis said. But the federal government's acknowledgment of drug addiction as a disease has shifted the focus of the national drug control strategy to a three-pronged attack: prevention, treatment and reduction.

Davis, acting deputy director for demand control, said marijuana is the top substance being used by children and adolescents in the state. Too many children buy into the "myths" of the drug, he said.

[Suetaznote: Too many children that are not buying your lies anymore. The illegality of marijuana makes it easy for them to get, what does he expect? ]

"The kids kind of get the sense that what they see on TV and in the media -- they're not clear that there's something wrong with smoking marijuana," he said.

But it's 30 percent more potent now than two decades ago, he added.

The agency also is concerned about the abuse of prescription drugs, the rise of methamphetamine use and inhalants, in addition to drugs such as heroin and cocaine, he said.

Davis said the national drug control policy launched two efforts to curb child and adolescent drug use: drug testing of students and TV commercials.

While the ACLU and other groups question random drug testing of high school athletes and students involved in other extra-curricular activities, Davis said the $2 million pilot program in 78 schools has been effective.

[Suetaznote: Effective? Not according to this article: Random Testing, Disappointing Results

The agency has requested another $23 million from Congress to expand the testing.

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Higher Logic

So another $23 million? I mean, once you go over $40 billion what's another fraction or so? The drug laws make me sick, and anyone who upholds the law and still allows the law to be in effect make me sick.

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xxdr_zombiexx

I watched GRASS last night for the second time.

I am always a pointing the finger at the GOP/Republicans for being behind the constant push to keep marijuana illegal and wrapped in 10 layers of lies. While I am and have been correct about this, it is Harry Anslinger and Richard Nixon who bear the bulk of the responsibility for the problems we all have now. Republicans have simplypounced on this as a route to extra-constitutional power and for the fascist qualities inherent in reefer madness. Either you are with us, or you are soft on crime..and terror.....

Again, the whole of marijuana prohibition has been built completely on lies. There is nothing factual about any claim made by Anslinger, Nixon, Walters, "Tad", Souder, McCffery - the list is freakin' endless.

Watch the film.

Anslinger used marijuana law and propaganda to increase the reach and scope of the Federal Government - to give it more power over the states than the Constitutiton allows.

Power hungry and reefer mad, he usd his clout to get all the way to the UN to make marijuana illegal around the world. (I really am glad this man is dead.)

Nixon and the Religous Conservatives reacted to people seeing through reefer madness and wanting the laws changed.

He responded by creating the DEA and giving them PATRIOT Act powers way back in 69 - wiretaps, sneak and peak entrance into homes, etc....

ALL FOR MARIJUANA.

Ford took over from Nixon and authorized Mexiacan fields to be sprayed with Paraquat.

The illegality of marijuana is based completely - totally, 100%, how ever you concieve of totally - on lies and a desparate wish of federal types to have more power over the states than the Constitution - which they hate- allows legally.

So, Tad, you are anti-American in your efforts to continue lies and efforts to circumvent our Constitutiton, and you are a communist.

Reefer Madness is still Job 1 and GRASS has ample proof.

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CheebaMonkey

Grass is a good movie.

You seen the one done by the History Channel?

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xxdr_zombiexx

Thanks for the heads-up. I have skimmed it and will watch it all later (lawnwork today) but I notice that it begins with both cannabis AND meth.

It's sort of impossible to talk about the "war on Drugs" without getting into other drugs.

This is why I say the war on drugs is simply a veneer the feds have put on the war on marijuana so people do not asily catch on to the FACT that 90+% of the money and effort wasted on the "war on drugs" is really wasted suprressing the public opinion and available truthful information about marijuana and how criminal cannabis prohibition really is.

Basic Bake

I love how he says that the media is biased FOR pot. You rarely if ever see pro-pot programing on any major stations....nearly all of it is against it.

smoking_joe_lee

It looks like we have a real battle going on here folks. It's reefer madness verses cold war rhetoric! This should prove WAY more intersting than Alien vs. Preditor or Freddie vs. Jason! OK, not as interesting as the freddie/jason flick...

On to the story. The true, die hard, WOD types will probably never admit defeat. It's sort of like the Japanese War Lords of WWII. Even after two nuclear weapons an a massive intervention on the part of the Soviet Army they would not admit defeat. Even Hitler finally admitted the war was lost when the Soviets were a couple of blocks from his bunker. He claimed it was NOT HIS FAULT, that Germany was unworthy of him. Talk about denial. And no, it ain't a river in Egypt. But that's a whole 'nother story...