José Carlos Bouso, psicólogo clínico, fue el primer investigador español en obtener permisos oficiales para investigar el uso terapéutico del MDMA; en la actualidad trabaja en el Hospital Sant Pau de Barcelona haciendo estudios con drogas alucinógenas y es experto y autor de diversos artículos y libros sobre las drogas de síntesis.
Eduardo Hidalgo es psicoterapeuta y máster en drogodependencias. Autor de diversos libros sobre drogas de síntesis, “Ketamina”, “Heroína”, “LSD”…, es experto en la prevención de riesgos en el consumo.
“Si tener más información nos hace más libres, hoy saldremos …

Pete Guither has a good post looking at the latest nonsense from U.N. Drug Czar Antonio Maria Costa:
His attempts to own the word “control” go to ridiculous lengths.
Drugs are controlled (not prohibited) because they are dangerous.

I beg your pardon? Drugs aren’t prohibited? Since when? Where? You can’t just waive a magic wand and say that since you don’t like the word “prohibited” you declare it to mean something else.

The fact that our opponents have resorted to revising their understanding of the English language is a powerful statement about how far …

Nobody opposes marijuana legalization except more than those who personally profit from prohibition. That much is easy to understand. What#39;s not so easily understood are the arguments they use:
[El Centro Police Chief] McGinley says if pot is legalized in California, it will be a devastating blow to a battle law enforcement has been fighting for years.…McGinley says the move would turn back the clock, and take away all the time and effort law enforcement has spent educating people on the dangers of drugs. [KSWT 13 News]

Actually, that time and effort …

July 08, 2009 Andrew Abramson, a Staff Writer for the Palm Beach Post said, last month, the FDA’s federal advisory panel voted 20-17 to ban Vicodin and Percocet, drugs that combine hydrocodone and ox

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We waist so many law enforcement resources fighting drugs, from outside our borders; we don’t have the resources to extradite wanted criminals within our borders.

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I spent 12 years working undercover drugs, in the beginning we were told this was a war, and the enemy was drugs.

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Dear friend of drug law reform,

As part of our summer fundraising drive, we continue to offer Ryan Grim’s exciting new book, This is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America, as our latest membership premium. Donate $36 or more and we will send you a complimentary copy of This is Your Country on Drugs as our thanks.
From the antebellum temperance movement, to the unintended consequences of Nixonian and Reaganite anti-drug efforts, to the hard-to-explain ’00s LSD shortage, This is Your Country on …

Dear friend of drug law reform,

As part of our summer fundraising drive, we continue to offer Ryan Grim’s exciting new book, This is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America, as our latest membership premium. Donate $36 or more and we will send you a complimentary copy of This is Your Country on Drugs as our thanks.
From the antebellum temperance movement, to the unintended consequences of Nixonian and Reaganite anti-drug efforts, to the hard-to-explain ’00s LSD shortage, This is Your Country on …

A bill that decriminalizes the possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use in Mexico is now the law of the land, although it will not go into effect for one year to give states time to adjust their laws. It was published Thursday in the Official Daily of the Federation, the Mexican equivalent of the Federal Register. (To read the complete text of the bill in Spanish, go to page 83 of the Official Daily.
According to the new law, the amounts of various drugs decriminalized for personal use …

Opponents of marijuana reform often try to act like it#39;s already no big deal. They say no one really gets in much trouble for it and it#39;s not a top priority for police. It#39;s a pretty desperate and counterintuitive strategy. It#39;s also total bullshit:
(AP) — TIGARD, Ore. – The Tigard Police Department has ended a sex-for-marijuana Internet sting because officers posting the online ads posed as promiscuous women, not prostitutes.…The officers posting the Craigslist ads posed as women willing to a have casual sexual encounter with men who had marijuana. …