- Florida Tea Party Leader: GOP Medicare Plan A ‘Public Policy Nightmare’
- Pharmaceutical industry links with senators revealed--"The pharmaceutical industry has given millions of dollars to 28 United States senators lobbying for an overhaul of Pharmac in trade talks with New Zealand." Kiwis shouldn't stand for this. The health of the nation is more important the financial health of a few companies.
- Supreme Court: Data Mining Of Prescription Drug Records Is Free Speech--Apparently protecting pharma's interests supercedes patients' privacy.
- Incentives for Drug Development — The Curious Case of Colchicine--"After the FDA approved Colcrys, the manufacturer brought a lawsuit seeking to remove any other versions of colchicine from the market and raised the price by a factor of more than 50, from $0.09 per pill to $4.85 per pill."
- Now That David Koch Is Gone From NIH Cancer Board, Formaldehyde Is Finally Classified As A Carcinogen
- Lamar Smith: Out of Touch on Marijuana Legalization--A bi-partisan piece of legislation was shut out by a Republican with some interesting contributors.
- Meet Your New Pot Dealer: Big Pharma--"Despite the US government's staunch opposition to medical cannabis farms in Oakland and elsewhere, the feds have begun licensing a whole lot of large legal pot grows throughout the country. But this weed is not for cannabis dispensaries and their patients; it's for Big Pharma." Looks like Big Pharma wants to corner this very lucrative market, and is getting the government to do it for them.
- Legalizing Marijuana Could Save Thousands of Lives
- Connecticut Marijuana Decriminalization Bill Passes
- Michigan medical marijuana user fired by Wal-Mart
- Michigan's medical marijuana profit: $8 million
- You can be fired for using medical marijuana, justices rule
- Amsterdam fights for your right to smoke pot
- Cops Hand Deliver Marijuana Legalization Report To US Drug Czar
- Aglukkaq confirms plan to tighten medical marijuana rules--"Medicinal marijuana users will be prohibited from growing their own weed and will have to obtain the drug from licensed, commercial producers under a new national marijuana supply program."
- Amsterdam fightsW for your right to smoke pot--"The capital's town council, backed by the tourist board and local campaigners, is opposing a new law proposed by the Dutch government that would ban foreigners from frequenting the city's cannabis-serving coffee shops by 2012."
- Call Off the Global Drug War NYT
- Creators of The Wire accuse US law boss of waging war on America's underclass--And they've advocated jury nullifcation as a legal means to counter it.
- United States Conference of Mayors Unanimously Passes Resolution Calling the War on Drugs a Failed Policy That is Driving Over-incarceration and Racial Disparities
- Senate Subcommittee Report: U.S. Drug War Spending Is Unjustifiable
- War on Drugs Resulting in Huge Paydays For Defense Contractors
- Mexican crook: Gangsters arrange fights to death for entertainment
- US State Department increases funding to fight Central American drug war
- Breaking The Taboo--"A film in search of solutions for the failure of the war on drugs."
- Dr John Marks talks about the controversial Harm Reduction drug treatment programme in Widnes--"It was with the visit of US current affairs programme 60 Minutes in 1990 that America’s Republican administration became aware of the little Widnes clinic, and – Dr Marks alleges – then put pressure on the British Government to close it down for ideological reasons."
- 'War on Drugs' is Drugs in War (Stupidity on Steroids)
