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 "It is a weapon of choice in the war on drugs, and is used in aerial sprayings to eradicate poppy plantations in
Afghanistan and coca crops in Central America). It is categorized with "noncarcinogenicity for humans" in the United States, despite studies linking it to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, genetic damage and reproductive problems.
In 2007, a Los Angeles jury awarded 3.2 million dollars to six Nicaraguan farmworkers who claimed they were made sterile as a result of spraying DBCP while working for Dole Food."- Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) |
 "Alcohol is of course the constant. the war on drugs will likely never be won because Americans don't want it to be won. But even within that context of the ongoing love affair of Americans with their substances, the SSRI phenomenon has been exceptional in the rapidity of its penetration into the masses.
Prozac was blessed by having a great opening act: Valium. Valium did what all great opening acts are supposed to do—set the stage, pave the way, and make the main event shine. Introduced in 1963 after being developed by the legendary Dr. Leo Sternbach of Hoffman-La Roche, Inc."- Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
 "After World War II, the situation changed rapidly and radically: the establishment of the National Institutes of Health, the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid legislation, and the war on drugs soon made medical expenditures the largest component of the national budget, eclipsing defense. The following statistics illustrate the explosive growth of the therapeutic state since the end of World War II and especially since the early 1960s.
In 1950, funding for the National Institute of Mental Health was less than $1 million; ten years later, it was $87 million; by 1992, it reached $1 billion."- Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.) "IV Let me now say a few words about the moral dilemmas of medical killing, with special reference to personal autonomy, the prohibition of suicide, and the war on drugs. I have written extensively about these subjects and a few observations about them must suffice here. The Schiavo case touches on many of the difficult economic, moral, legal, and social dilemmas that the combination of advances in modern medical technology and the national socialization of heath care services present to advanced Western societies." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.) "They fail to appreciate, however, that the American enthusiasm for preventing masturbation and for promoting circumcision are manifestations of the same puritanical zeal for health as virtue that has fueled other typically American crowd madnesses, such as Prohibition, the war on drugs, and the mental health movement.10 For example, Edward Wallerstein, the author of Circumcision: An American Health Fallacy,11 writes, "So-called 'health' circumcision originated in the nineteenth century. . . ." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.) |
 "Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the war on drugs. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. 49. Kane, John L., Jr. "Prisoner to Drugs." Denver Post 2 Nov 1997. 50. Robert Sweet, et. al. "The War on Drugs is Lost." National RevieW\2 Feb 1996: 44. 51. Ayo, Laura. "Judge Calls Drug War an 'Exercise In Futility'." Knoxville News-Sentinel 2 Sept 2001. 52. Gray, Judge James P. Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the war on drugs. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. 53. Smith, Sam."- The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.) |
| "The sweet poison even the FDA didn't want to approve3
A good place to have started the war on drugs all those years ago would have been to bring down GD Searle Corp. and prosecute its CEO, Donald Rumsfeld, for his blatant violations of the Constitution and his shameless disregard for the safety of the American people. You see, Rumsfeld is not only the current point man for the disaster in Iraq, but he was also the point man who brought to your table the most toxic substance ever added to food — aspartame (commonly known as NutraSweet)." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) |
| "In 1942, the federal budget more than doubled, to $35.1 billion; and in 1943, it was $78.5 billion. In the next thirty-six years, the budget increased about sixteen times, to $1.65 trillion in 1998. According to James M. Buchanan, professor of economics at George Mason University and 1986 Nobel laureate in economics, "In the seven decades from 1900 to
1970, total government spending in real terms increased forty times over, attaining a share of one-third in national product." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.) |
| "Robert Sweet, et. al. "The War on Drugs is Lost." National RevieW\2 Feb 1996: 44. 51. Ayo, Laura. "Judge Calls Drug War an 'Exercise In Futility'." Knoxville News-Sentinel 2 Sept 2001. 52. Gray, Judge James P. Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the war on drugs. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. 53. Smith, Sam. Progressive Review Undernews, 5 Oct 2001. 54. "Drugs and Our Community: Report of the Premier's Advisory Council 1996." Victoria, Australia. 55. Ellison, Edward. Daily Mail (London) 10 March 1998. 56. McNamara, Joseph D. " - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.) "Smoke and Mirrors: the war on drugs and the Politics of Failure. New York: Little, Brown, 1996. Quoting Quayle from March 1977. 12. Wall Street Journal 27 Oct 1990. 13. Public Broadcasting System. PBS Frontline: Drug Wars. October 2000. 14. Castaneda, Jorge. "How We Fight a Losing War." Newsweek, 6 Sept 1999 15. Loyola, Arturo. "Federal Police Chief Proposes Legalizing Drugs in Mexico to Solve the Narco-Trafficking Problem." Tr. NarcoNews. Notimex News Agency, 15 March 2001. 16. El Diario-La Prensa 8 April 1994. 17. Gardner, Dan. "Losing the war on drugs, Part 2." Ottawa Citizen 6 Sept 2000." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.) "Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the war on drugs. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001, referencing Lay, Judge Donald P. "Our Justice System, So-called." New York Times, 22 Oct 1990. 47. "Federal Judge Concludes Drug Legalization Is the Way to Go." Buffalo News (New York) 2 March 1997. 48. Gray, Judge James P. Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the war on drugs. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. 49. Kane, John L., Jr. "Prisoner to Drugs." Denver Post 2 Nov 1997. 50." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.) |
 "The war on drugs II: The continuing epic of heroin, cocaine, crack, crime, AIDS, and public policy. Mountain View, Calif., London, and Toronto: Mayfield Publishing Co.
Isaacs, Jennifer. 1987. Bush food: Aboriginal food and herbal medicine. MacMahons Point, Australia: Weldons.
Isbell, H., and C. W. Gorodetzky. 1966. Effect of alkaloids of oloiuqui in man. Psychopharmacologia 8 (5): 331-39.
Tackes, Betsy R. 1992. Poisonous plants in northern Australian gardens. Townsville, Australia: James Cook University of North Queensland.
Jacob, Irene, and Walter Jacob, eds. 1993."- Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.) |
 "Kersh and Morone note that concerns with strict actions such as criminalization and prohibitions are warranted, given the history of the war on drugs and prohibition with alcohol. With tobacco, the concept has worked much better. Prohibiting smoking in public places, enforcing rules on advertising and sales to minors, and implementing taxes have had a major impact on smoking rates in the United States, to the point where these and other actions have produced some of the most impressive public health victories of recent years."- Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) |
 "Violence on both sides marks the war on drugs, with innocent, illiterate peasants in the middle. In Andean Chile and Brazil, North American pressure on the government is less significant than on the smaller Spanish-speaking republics, and coca bushes rather less important in their much larger economies.
But in the four smaller countries, it is arguable that the activity generated by the growing and purification of coca leaves plus the effort at the suppression of the trade constitute the single most important economic activity."- Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.) |
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