
Drug WarRant
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A blog from the front lines of the drug war with news, analysis, and the occasional rant by Pete Guither. The mission of Drug WarRant is to educate the public about the damage caused by prohibition, so together we can end this dangerous and misguided drug war.
Drug WarRant
4d ago
Reactionaries who oppose recreational marijuana rest their objections solely upon its ability to produce pleasure in its users. Cannabis advocates argue that pleasure is as much a legitimate medical treatment as a trip to a luxury health spa. The political ..read more
Drug WarRant
1M ago
Twenty-four U.S. states have legalized sales of recreational marijuana, yet parts of the Rocky Mountain West remain steadfast in their opposition to cannabinoids. One reason is state and local political domination by the LDS or Mormon Church. Starting in 1915 ..read more
Drug WarRant
2M ago
Few major hospitals receiving Dave Weldon’s job resume would hire him. Few patients would trust him as their doctor. Yet, if confirmed, former congressional representative and physician Dr. David Weldon (R-Fla.) will head the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ..read more
Drug WarRant
3M ago
Florida and South Dakota Catholic bishops applauded the recent defeats of marijuana legalization in their states, something they easily aided and abetted given Florida’s population is 21-percent Catholic and South Dakota’s is 18.4-percent. Protestant factions in the two states also ..read more
Drug WarRant
4M ago
Complaints about the concentrations and strengths of active ingredients in commercial grades of marijuana are being raised by cannabis critics such as Malcolm Ferguson who appears to confuse marijuana’s THC with potentially lethal mind-affecting drugs. Much as Ferguson would have ..read more
Drug WarRant
5M ago
Ohio Republican Senator JD Vance is running his Vice-Presidential campaign on an anti-marijuana platform that promotes old and worn-out fallacies about cannabis that were debunked before he was born. Vance says marijuana causes violence and that it bears a direct ..read more
Drug WarRant
7M ago
Project 2025 is a creation of The Heritage Foundation, a think tank that has a longstanding position of being anti-marijuana. Their latest work is a political blueprint that sets forth its vision of America should Donald Trump win the presidency in November. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said Project 2025 is designed to “institutionalize Trumpism”. New drug policies and additional drug enforcement priorities are briefly mentioned that could be activated in a second Trump presidential term:
The National Drug Control Program agencies represented a total of $41 billion in fiscal ye ..read more
Drug WarRant
8M ago
The belief that smoking marijuana can lead to gratuitous acts of violence among young adults (18-34) was resurrected in April of this year thanks to a science publication by NIDA director Nora Volkow.
In it Dr. Volkow and her colleagues gathered data from the National Surveys on Drug Use and Health featuring 113,454 participants who revealed increases in associations with violent behavior in women ranging from 1.0 to 1.4-percent when correlated with various levels or categories and frequencies of cannabis use. For men, the increases ranged from 1.2 to 1.4-percent. News of the findings was seiz ..read more
Drug WarRant
9M ago
Inept efforts by the DEA to assign two psychedelic drugs to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act have backfired thanks to a granted request for a restraining order that stalls the scheduling process for 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine (DOI) and 2,5-dimethoxy-4-chloroamphetamine (DOC).
In addition to the scheduling controversy, DEA Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Paul E. Soeffing has cordially acknowledged a challenge to the legal authority of his court in a constitutional test of the ALJ process itself. The lawsuit filed by Panacea Plant Sciences, Inc. (PPS), a company researching DOI/DO ..read more
Drug WarRant
11M ago
Former ONDCP Director John P. Walters is at it again, only this time he has help from Donald Trump’s former US Attorney General, prohibitionist William P. Barr. Barr joins Walters in authoring a Hudson Institute publication claiming that marijuana is dangerous and its legalization was a big mistake. Their announcement was quickly debunked online here and here.
The Hudson Institute was originally founded by a nuclear war strategist named Herman Kahn who later became the inspiration for the character portrayed by Peter Sellers in Stanley Kubrick’s movie Dr. Strangelove. John Walters became the I ..read more