to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of
physical and mental health
Summary:
The current international system of drug control has focused on creating a drugfree
world, almost exclusively through use of law enforcement policies and criminal
sanctions. Mounting evidence, however, suggests this approach has failed, primarily
because it does not acknowledge the realities of drug use and dependence. While
drugs may have a pernicious effect on individual lives and society, this excessively
punitive regime has not achieved its stated public health goals, and has resulted in
countless human rights violations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/us/14florida.html
Legal Drugs Kill Far More Than Illegal, Florida Says ( 3 times as much )
http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/gen008.htm
Deaths in the United States in a typical year are as follows:
* Tobacco kills about 400,000
* Alcohol kills about 80,000
* Workplace accidents kill 60,000
* Automobiles kill 40,000
* Cocaine kills about 2,500
* Heroin kills about 2,000
* Aspirin kills about 2,000
* Marijuana kills 0
* 1,360,000 Drug Prisoners in America
* 1.7 million Americans are incarcerated in prisons or jails, more per capita than any other nation.
* Nearly 80% of all prisoners in America are for drug related offenses.
* Ten million people have been arrested for marijuana since 1965.
Anheuser-Busch, brewers of Budweiser, hair-test employees to be sure that they are not using any drugs less dangerous than the one they make.
America has only 5% of the world population but consumes 60% of ALL illegal drugs produced in the world.
http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/gen008.htm
http://www.naturalnews.com/021037.html
NaturalNews) A study by U.S. and New Zealand scientists has shown that about 3 million heart-disease-, stroke- and diabetes-related deaths are caused by high blood sugar levels each year world wide; one health author notes that the only way to raise blood sugar is by consuming sugars and refined carbohydrates.
http://hubpages.com/hub/obesity-smoking-and-death-statistics-leading-causes-of-death-in-the-united-states
Nearly 112,000 deaths in the U.S. are associated with obesity each year,
http://www.urban75.com/Drugs/drugdope.html
The acute toxicity of cannabis and the cannabinoids is very low; no-one has ever died as a direct and immediate consequence of recreational or medical use.
Official statistics record two deaths involving cannabis (and no other drug) in 1993, two in 1994 and one in 1995 but these were due to inhalation of vomit. Animal studies have shown a very large separation (by a factor of more than 10,000) between pharmacologically effective and lethal doses
Regular heavy use of cannabis can result in dependence but its addictive potential is far less than amphetamines, tobacco or alcohol.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lif_can_use-lifestyle-cannabis-use
# 1 New Zealand: 22.23%
# 2 Australia: 17.93%
# 3 United States: 12.3%
# 4 United Kingdom: 9%
# 5 Switzerland: 8.5%
# 6 Ireland: 7.91%
# 7 Spain: 7.58%
# 8 Canada: 7.41%
# 9 Netherlands: 5.24%
# 10 Belgium: 5.01%
# 11 France: 4.7%
# 12 Italy: 4.6%
# 13 Greece: 4.39%
# 14 Germany: 4.1%
# 15 Denmark: 4.02%
# 16 Norway: 3.82%
# 17 Portugal: 3.68%
# 18 Czech Republic: 3.58%
# 19 Poland: 3.38%
# 20 Austria: 3.01%
# 21 Finland: 2.49%
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/node/67
Comparing Important Drug and Violence Indicators
| Social Indicator | Comparison Year | USA | Netherlands |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifetime prevalence of marijuana use (ages 12+) | 2001 | 36.9% 1 | 17.0% 2 |
| Past month prevalence of marijuana use (ages 12+) | 2001 | 5.4% 1 | 3.0% 2 |
| Lifetime prevalence of heroin use (ages 12+) | 2001 | 1.4% 1 | 0.4% 2 |
| Incarceration Rate per 100,000 population | 2002 | 701 3 | 100 4 |
| Per capita spending on criminal justice system (in Euros) | 1998 | €379 5 | €223 5 |
| Homicide rate per 100,000 population | Average 1999-2001 | 5.56 6 | 1.51 6 |
Source:
1: US Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,
National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Volume I. Summary of National Findings
(Washington, DC: HHS, August 2002), p. 109, Table H.1.2: Trimbos Institute, "Report to the EMCDDA by the Reitox National Focal Point, The Netherlands Drug Situation 2002" (Lisboa, Portugal: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Nov. 2002), p. 28, Table 2.1.
3: Walmsley, Roy, "World Prison Population List (fifth edition) (London, England: Research, Development and Statistics Directorate of the Home Office), Dec. 2003, p. 3, Table 2.
4: Walmsley, Roy, "World Prison Population List (fifth edition) (London, England: Research, Development and Statistics Directorate of the Home Office), Dec. 2003, p. 5, Table 4.
5: van Dijk, Frans & Jaap de Waard, "Legal infrastructure of the Netherlands in international perspective: Crime control" (Netherlands: Ministry of Justice, June 2000), p. 9, Table S.13.
6: Barclay, Gordon, Cynthia Tavares, Sally Kenny, Arsalaan Siddique & Emma Wilby, "International comparisons of criminal justice statistics 2001," Issue 12/03 (London, England: Home Office Research, Development & Statistics Directorate, October 2003), p. 10, Table 1.1.
A study published in British scientific journal The Lancet and reported by The Guardian examined nine categories of harm caused by the use of various drugs on a scale from 0 to 100. Types of harm included overdose or death, loss of mental function and damage to relationships. The study still found heroin, crack cocaine and crystal meth the most damaging to their users, but found that alcohol was the most damaging to other people, followed by heroin and crack cocaine.
Overall, alcohol scored 72 out of 100 points, with heroin scoring 55 and crack cocaine scoring 54. Ecstasy was ranked less harmful than cannabis, but the remaining rankings aren't particularly surprising: crystal meth (33), cocaine (27), tobacco (26), amphetamine/speed (23), cannabis (20), GHB(18), benzodiazepines (15), ketamine (15), methadone (13), butane (10), qat (9), ecstasy (9), anabolic steroids (9), LSD (7), buprenorphine (6) and magic mushrooms (5).
The study, if ever legislated in Britain or the United States, would result in a drastic new classification system, with tobacco being ranked equal to cocaine, for example, and ecstasy and LSD ranking among the least harmful.
Although the extent of the medicinal value of cannabis has been disputed, and despite the opposition to research and use put forward by most national governments, it does have several well-documented beneficial effects. Among these are: the amelioration of nausea and vomiting, stimulation of hunger in chemotherapy and AIDS patients, lowered intraocular eye pressure (shown to be effective for treating glaucoma), as well as gastrointestinal illness. However as many think it is not a pain reliever just a muscle relaxer.
In 2006, Hashibe, Morgenstern, Cui, Tashkin, et al. presented the results from a study involving 2,240 subjects that showed non-tobacco users who smoked marijuana did not exhibit an increased incidence of lung cancer or head-and-neck malignancies. These results were supported even among very long-term, very heavy users of marijuana.
police job to protect life and property
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj11a_S6LrA
"Prohibition Is The Golden Goose Of Terrorism!" Cops Explain Why Marijuana Must Be Legalized
Conspiracy of Silence - Highest Quality Version
