Jacob Sullum: In Defense of Drug Use

Jacob Sullum: In Defense of Drug Use – Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com and is a nationally syndicated columnist. In this lecture from a Libertarian Party of California event in 2000, Sullum goes beyond utilitarian arguments for repealing drug prohibition, saying that the nature of the act itself — using chemicals to alter one’s mental state — does not justify prohibition. Sullum notes that Americans use other chemical stimulants — alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, and a veritable panoply of other legal substances — to similar ends every day. He also points out that most Americans’ perception of drug addiction is misguided; according to many different sources (including the Drug Enforcement Administration itself) the overwhelming majority of recreational drug users are not addicts. Sullum’s remarks in this video would later be expanded in his 2004 book, Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use (www.amazon.com An .mp3 version of this lecture is available for download here: bit.ly

Sixteen Sailors Screened Positive for Synthetic Drugs Use

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Navy officials confirmed that sixteen Sailors from the amphibious transport dock New Orleans tested positive for using illegal synthetic drugs. Cmdr. Tamsen Reese, a Naval Surface Forces spokeswoman in Coronado, California, said all crew members of the …
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NIH Funds UCLA Phase 2 Study of MediciNova's MN-166 in Treating Drug …

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4, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The University of California, Los Angeles' (UCLA's) Department of Family Medicine/Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine, and MediciNova, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company traded on the NASDAQ Global Market …
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