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Is the war on drugs nearing an end? [08-04-13] For four decades, libertarians, civil rights activists and drug treatment experts have stood outside of the political mainstream in arguing that the w...
Brad Pitt: America's war on drugs is a charade, and a failure [31-03-13] "Since declaring a war on drugs 40 years ago, the United States has spent more than a trillion dollars, arrested more than 45 million people, and...
Our Right to Poison [22-02-13] German officials take a decidedly cool stance toward drug policy reform. No top politician with a major German party is about to call for a new drug p...
The DEA's marijuana mistake [25-01-13] A pro-marijuana group lost its legal battle when a federal appellate court ruled that marijuana would remain a Schedule I drug, defined as having no a...
Doctors say UK drug policy should focus more on health [15-01-13] Although illicit drug use has been declining in the UK, long-term problem drug use and drug-related deaths are not decreasing, says the British Medica...
The 1971 Misuse of Drugs act was the stupidest and most ineffective ever passed [15-01-13] Yet another parliamentary group has pronounced in favour of drugs decriminalisation. It still won’t happen. What is baffling is the intransigence of B...
As US states legalise marijuana, is this the end of the drugs war? [11-11-12] Last week was a momentous week, the beginning of the end, perhaps, of a national depravity – the "war on drugs". The voters of Colorado and ...
U.S. vote may be beginning of the end for War on Drugs [05-11-12] "Exactly 80 years ago (in 1932), Colorado voters approved a ballot measure to appeal alcohol prohibition, and that came before it being repealed ...
Global drug policies need radical reform, says report [23-10-12] The global war on drugs has failed and international policy requires radical reform to remove outmoded, unscientific thinking, according to a major n...
75 years of racial control: happy birthday marijuana prohibition [28-09-12] As we approach the 75th anniversary of marijuana prohibition in the United States on October 1, it is important to remember why marijuana was deemed...
Time for open, informed debate on drug policy [19-04-12] Latin American leaders have said recently that the West’s "war on drugs" has failed, and a new book from the International Institute for Str...
The Prohibition of Illicit Drugs is Killing and Criminalising our Children [03-04-12] It is time to reopen the national debate about drug use, its regulation and control. In June 2011 a prestigious Global Commission stated that the 40-y...
The War On Drugs Hurts Businesses and Investors [01-03-12] “The drug war is weakening state institutions, infiltrating judicial systems and undermining rule of law,” all of which is bad for business, César Zam...
Rick Ross, '80s Crack Kingpin, Would Rather Have Sold Pot [11-01-12] A leading distributor of crack cocaine in the 1980s would have preferred to have been a pot dealer, but was unable to find enough supply, he told Th...
Nieuwe publicatie van het Transnational Institute raadt de regering af khat te verbieden [11-01-12] De engelstalige briefing Chewing over Khat Prohibition rekent af met de effectiviteit van een ban, zoals is gebleken uit andere Europese landen. Probl...
How well do international drug conventions protect public health? [07-01-12] The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961 aimed to eliminate the illicit production and non-medical use of cannabis, cocaine, and opioids, an ...
The great debate that no one's talking about [03-12-11] Scientists, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors and directors of public prosecution are pleading for change but no political party will touch t...
It's time to end the phoney war on drugs [29-11-11] We are supposedly engaged in a "war on drugs." What war on drugs? A phoney war, because it provokes that which it proclaims to repress. Take...
Dr. Evan Wood: There is nothing conservative about supporting marijuana prohibition [28-11-11] Imagine an extremely expensive government policy proven to be completely ineffective at achieving its stated objectives. Consider also that whenever ...
The global war on drugs has failed [21-11-11] To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the Beckley Foundation published a public letter calling for a new ...
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Study: The ‘gateway drug’ is alcohol, not marijuana

A study in the August edition of The Journal of School Health finds that the generations old theory of a “gateway drug” effect is in fact accurate for some drug users, but shifts the blame for those addicts’ escalating substance abuse away from marijuana and onto the most pervasive and socially accepted drug in American life: alcohol.

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