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Drug Czar’s Office: We Can’t Legalize Marijuana Because Some People Abuse Prescription Drugs
Wait, What?blogs.alternet.org
Obama’s Drug Czar Rejects Medical Marijuana
If you needed more proof that Obama’s promises on medical marijuana were false, look no further that his Drug Czar’s most recent report, which flatly denies that pot has any medicinal value.blogs.sfweekly.com
The Drug Czar is Required by Law to Lie About Marijuana!
Posted by admin in Political News on January 13, 2010
Most people know that the “drug czar” — the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) — is an advocate for the government position regarding the drug war. But not everyone knows that he and his office are mandated to tell lies as part of their Congressional authorization.
Drug Czar Lies About AMA Policy to Reschedule Marijuana
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on December 17, 2009
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy has updated their information to reflect new policy from the American Medical Association, while at the same time actually leaving out that new policy.
I mean, if they’re going to do this, why don’t they simply make up a quote from the AMA?
the Drug Czar is Required by Law to Lie
Posted by admin in Political News on December 9, 2009
Congress mandates that the drug czar lie about medical marijuana. Congress also doesn’t want you to know that the gov’t already owns the patent to marijuana claiming it does have medical value. US Patent # 6,630,507, which the gov’t secretly obtained from itself in 2003, is titled “Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants” and claims “….
Drug Czar’s Website Still Wrong About AMA’s Medical Marijuan
The drug czar’s website still offers a document entitled “What Every American Should Know About Medical Marijuana,” (PDF) which includes this passage: Major public health organizations do not support smoking marijuana as medicine.
AMA and the Drug Czar have opposing views on Marijuana
Posted by admin in World News on November 13, 2009
“Using smoked marijuana as a way to administer some type of drug isn’t something that is approved through medicine,” Kerlikowske told NPR earlier this month.
Medical Marijuana: The Drug Czar is Wrong (Again)
In its official response to the AMA’s recent call for a review of marijuana’s status as a Schedule I drug (barring any medical use) under federal law, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy stated that it would defer to “the FDA’s judgment that the raw marijuana plant cannot meet the standards for identity, strength, quality, purity
Could Marijuna Legalization sway your vote in 2010?
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on November 2, 2009
The Time is coming!! The drug czar is ready for pro wrestling. He already has the name, and now he’s got the prefight talk down cold. In every speech he makes in Nevada, where Bush appointee John Walters has traveled to fight an initiative that would legalize marijuana, he calls out his three sworn enemies as if he were Tupac Shakur. The czar has
Mason Tvert launches petition targeting drug czar
Posted by admin in Political News on October 30, 2009
The Obama administration’s relaxed rules regarding enforcement of laws regarding medical marijuana has led to renewed optimism among weed advocates that across-the-boards legalization might be a more realistic possibility. But shortly thereafter, Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske issued a statement…
Now, let’s decriminalize marijuana
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on October 29, 2009
Drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, thinks he’s protecting the president by repeatedly insisting that “marijuana legalization is not part of my vocabulary or the administration’s,” but it’s going to be increasingly difficult for him to maintain that posture if support for making marijuana legal continues to increase.
The Pro-Drug Czar
Posted by admin in Business & Finance on October 16, 2009
The son of a respected rabbi, Harvard grad, and former Princeton professor might seem like an unlikely advocate for legalizing marijuana. But when you meet Ethan Nadelmann, it all makes a lot of sense.
Is Bush’s “Drug Czar” Getting Paid to Keep His Mouth Shut?
Posted by admin in Political News on October 14, 2009
Mysteriously, no one has heard from former Bush “drug czar” John Walters in awhile, even though he has a cozy job where he’s paid to argue against legalizing marijuana and other drugs.
Whaddya Know, Bush’s Old Drug Czar Is Still a Major BS Artis
Posted by admin in Political News on September 24, 2009
John Walters uses classic anti-drug logic to pave over Schwarzenegger’s call to legalize marijuana.
Reefer Madness and Pathetically Ignorant Arrogant Drug Czar
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on August 27, 2009
What was Czar K. lying about? When I heard in an interview in the Fresno, CA newspaper he said “smoked marijuana is dangerous and has no medical value”. As president Regan (an alleged former weed smoker) used to say, “there he goes again”. We’ve heard this crap as a latrine rumor since the first Drug Czar troglodyte slithered out of his cage…
Drug Czar’s Explanation on Medicinal Cannabis is Inadequate
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on August 11, 2009
Americans for Safe Access on drug law reject the czar’s contention that smoked marijuana has no medicinal benefit. The article cites physicians, medical associations and research that support its therapeutic value.
Drug Czar Clarification: ‘Smoked Marijuana’ Is Dangerous…
Posted by admin in Political News on August 10, 2009
In an attempt to clarify an apparent gaffe stating that “marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal value”, drug czar Gil Kerlikowske in a new interview has only slightly, almost imperceptibly, modified his remarks by now implying that somehow how ‘smoked‘ medical cannabis is not a legitimate and effective drug delivery method.
Drug Czar’s Clarification on Medical Marijuana is Stil
Posted by admin in Political News on August 8, 2009
Oops…he meant to say “smoking” marijuana
Guest opinion: War on drugs picks wrong target in marijuana
Posted by admin in Political News on August 8, 2009
The Obama-appointed drug czar; Gil Kerlikowske, a former
Seattle police chief said, “Marijuana is dangerous and has no
medicinal benefit.”
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