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Partnership For Drug Free America Funded By Alcohol, Tobacco and Big Pharma
This is THOROUGHLY disgusting infromation to me. The nonprofit organization famous for the “This is your brain on drugs commercials” get a large portion of their funding from Alcohol, Tobacco, and Pharmaceutical firms and as a little bonus the largest prison building company in the U.S. as well.
Anybody else smell a rat?
Partnership for a Drug Free America
Sources of Funding from 1988 More..
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Added: Apr 24 2009 In: yoursay
Recorded on: Apr 24 2009By: Teahupoo 
- Tags:
- Drug War,
- marijuana legalization
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- Votes: 6 |
- Recommendations: 1 |
- Comments: 46
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Makes perfect sense. First it was Dupont trying to keep their large share of the paper buisness, and now these guys are looking out for their interests.
once again the little chris rock bit sums it up all to well, "the government doesn't want you to do YOUR drugs, they want you to do THEIR drugs"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GXb7-efd4M
Posted Apr-24-2009 by "DoubleD24" (R)
No real surprise there! On a related note, some argue that sugar is a drug.
Just watch how kids get into the stuff, and you can see why!
Posted Apr-24-2009 by "ChockFullOfNuts" (R)
right on...
Posted Apr-24-2009 by "NRW4life" (R)
good researching there Teahupoo, it doesnt suprise me at all. Its a racket just like everything else.
Posted Apr-24-2009 by "Glasswire" (R)
Not just that, I think the greatest lobby and obstacle to rewriting drug laws is the prison workers/guards lobby. More than 50% of our criminals are in prison because of drugs. And they don 't want to lose any jobs. It's truly ridiculous the types of groups that are paying huge dollars to keep the draconian drug laws on the books. Voted
Posted Apr-24-2009 by "Inhumancannonball" (R)
What cracks me up is how you can never get a straight answer. They NEVER want to look at the facts about Alcohol, Tobacco, and Pharmaceutical drugs killing nearly 1 million a year, TOTALLY ignore the stats on marijuana.
Marijuana is safer that aspirin!
http://govaporize.com/news/marijuana-is-safer-than-aspirin/
T
Posted Apr-24-2009 by "Teahupoo" (R)
Just watch how kids get into the stuff, and you can see why!
"Our findings with lab rats show that intermittent access to sugar can lead to changes in the brain and behavior similar to those caused by drugs of abuse," said Bart Hoebel, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University. "In certain models, sugar-bingeing causes long-lasting effects on the brain and increases the inclination to take other drugs of abuse, including alcohol."
Already been studied.
Posted Apr-24-2009 by "Plox" (R)
Bechtel is also one of the biggest contributors, the largest builder of prisons in the U.S.
n 2007 the Department of Justice reported that there were 1,841,182 drug arrests in the United States; the report noted that there were more drug abuse arrests than any other category of offenses.
Marijuana arrests accounted for 47.4% of the drug abuse arrests. This allows us to estimate that about 872,720 persons were arrested for marijuana offenses. Eighty-nine percent of these arrests were for possession. The 2007 arrest data is even worse than 2006 when 829,627 people were arrested for marijuana (a Project Censored%u2019s top 25 story in 2008). In 2005 there were 786,545 marijuana arrests, meaning that the number of arrests increased by 86K in just two years. Clearly, marijuana is an intense focus of police interest and activity; far more, apparently, than the less important crimes occurring at the same time on Wall Street.
The focus on marijuana may reflect its important role in feeding the prison-industrial complex.
Last year the Pew Charitable Trusts reported the somber statistic that one out of every 100 Americans is behind bars. This rate is far and away the world%u2019s highest making the US the world%u2019s preeminent jailer.
International comparisons (using a different estimate of incarcerations) highlight that the US incarceration rate of 750/100,000 population is 5.1 times that of England (148/100,000) and 8.8 times that of France (85/100,000).
The website of the Marijuana Policy Project notes that:
%u201CFederal government figures indicate there are more than 41,000 Americans in state or federal prison on marijuana charges right now, not including those in county jails. That%u2019s more than the number imprisoned on all charges combined in eight individual European Union countries.%u201D
http://govaporize.com/record-marijuana-arrests-feed-the-prison-industrial-complex/
You can see on the Drug Sense Clock on my blog that there have already been over 276,000 cannabis arrests this year in the U.S.
t
Posted Apr-24-2009 by "Teahupoo" (R)
Another point of interest in the comparisons is that the effects from marijuana are temporary, alcohol actually does IRREVERSIBLE damage.
T
Posted Apr-24-2009 by "Teahupoo" (R)
Marijuana is safer that aspirin!
http://govaporize.com/news/marijuana-is-safer-than-aspirin/
T
While I have no problems with weed, I do know some who have had schizophrenia brought on by it, which may not have occurred had they abstained.
That is the most frightening health hazard of weed, although I've read some strains are much worse than others, so perhaps it could be addressed.
Posted Apr-24-2009 by "ChockFullOfNuts" (R)
i have seen a few good PSA's on drug use, but that 'brain on drugs' add with the eggs is an abomination to anyone with an education.
i think it was highly ineffective and probably did more to hurt the anti-drug movement then help it.
you have to be honest with kids or they will not respect you or believe you. they're not stupid.
Posted Apr-24-2009 by "MaxBlacks" (R)
however, on a related note, police organizations have large lobby groups dedicated to, at a minimum, decriminalization of weed.
That's because if you talk to any cop on the beat, they will tell you what a waste of manpower it is. Not only that, but I truly believe that it makes us all less safe for another reason. Trust. Cops get a very bad rap today in part because they are made to enforce laws that are extremely unpopular and senseless. I think people would be very open and forthright and even helpful toward the police if they didn't fear that opening their house, car or otherwise would expose them to prosecution.
Posted Apr-24-2009 by "Inhumancannonball" (R)
however, on a related note, police organizations have large lobby groups dedicated to, at a minimum, decriminalization of weed.
L.E.A.P
My next yoursay is about one of the leaders of LEAP
http://leap.cc
T
Posted Apr-24-2009 by "Teahupoo" (R)
Marijuana is safer that aspirin!
http://govaporize.com/news/marijuana-is-safer-than-aspirin/
T
While I have no problems with weed, I do know some who have had schizophrenia brought on by it, which may not have occurred had they abstained.
That is the most frightening health hazard of weed, although I've read some strains are much worse than others, so perhaps it could be addressed.
Its not suprising that big pharm also have a very large selection of medicine's that aparently treat schizophrenia and other mental illness.
They'll get'cha one way or another.
Posted Apr-24-2009 by "Glasswire" (R)
Marijuana is safer that aspirin!
http://govaporize.com/news/marijuana-is-safer-than-aspirin/
T
While I have no problems with weed, I do know some who have had schizophrenia brought on by it, which may not have occurred had they abstained.
That is the most frightening health hazard of weed, although I've read some strains are much worse than others, so perhaps it could be addressed.
The schizophrenia cases were not brought on by marijuana, they may have caused the schizophrenia to appear at an earlier age but schizophrenia is not brought on by marijuana.
T
Posted Apr-24-2009 by "Teahupoo" (R)