Hiffington Post: Cops Decry Obama's Drug Policy

WASHINGTON DC -- Forty years after President Richard Nixon first declared a war on drugs, the police who fought the failed war are saying "enough is enough." 

Former law enforcement officials gathered in the District of Columbia on Tuesday to discuss a new report . . .

Since President Nixon declared 'war on drugs' four decades ago, this failed policy has led to millions of arrests, a trillion dollars spent and countless lives lost, yet drugs today are more available than ever," said Norm Stamper, former chief of police in Seattle and a speaker for legalization-advocacy group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

The officers' announcement came just weeks after the Global Commission on Drugs released a report urging a non-criminal approach to world drug policy.

The commission's recommendations were reportedly dismissed by both the Obama administration and the government of Mexico. 

Backed by the US, Mexican President Felipe Calderón began a crackdown on drug cartels in 2006.

Der Gropenator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, holds more progressive views on marijuana than Obama. Marijuana should be decriminalized and the cigarette industry showed be allowed to produce maryjane cigarettes. 

This would help the economy and get a lot of penny ante drug dealers off of the streets. The government could raise billions in taxes on marijuana agriculture and marijuana cigarette production. 

Prohibition didn't work for alcohol and it isn't working for marijuana. The police would be freed to work on the really dangerous drug crimes relating to heroin, morphine, roofies and prescription drug abuse like Oxycontin. 

We agree with the former DC police. Obama needs to be more 'out of the box" on drug policy. 

The GOP will probably whine about it, but "so what!" Let them whine! 

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1700 Workers hear 'you're fired" during conference call!

12/22/10::Workers Independent News
By Doug Cunningham

Giant drug maker Sanofi-Aventis made more than $23.4 billion in gross profits in the first nine months of the year.

Yet it fired 1700 workers by conference call earlier this month.

A company press release in October reported the profits. Sanofi-Aventis Public Affairs Director Jack Cox would not let WIN record his comments for broadcast.

But he said in a phone interview that a conference call was “not the ideal way” to fire the workers.

One of the fired workers told the Huffington Post that getting fired by conference call was brutal and inhumane.

Fourteen hundred of the workers were in sales. Cox said the 1400 sales workers were fired because drugs made by the company are coming “off-patent” as generics come onto the market and the sales force no longer had as many products to sell.

But the October company press release said “The group’s growth platforms offset the impact of generic competition on sales for the period.”

Cox said the reality is that it sucks to lose your job no matter how you’re told. He said the company chose a conference call so the firings wouldn’t be drawn out.

He also said it was a conscious decision to do it by conference call in part because the company “didn’t have the infrastructure of managers” to handle the firings in person because of an earlier company restructuring.

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Beware of drugs dealers bearing gifts

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Drug dealers are shipping drug parcels to homes that appear to be unoccupied during the day. The dealers then pick up the parcel with the drugs before the owner arrives home. the parcels contains multiple boxes sealed with duct tape and the drugs are enclosed in ground coffee to mask the smell.

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US Health Industry has been a cartel since 1946

the US health care indistry has been immune to anti-trust legislation since the 1940s. No wonder these corporations are so formidable.

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Coked Up Sharks busted off the Yucatan Penunsula

18:0318/06/2009

MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) - Mexican Navy officers have seized 893 kilograms (1,968 pounds) of cocaine that was stuffed into 30 frozen shark carcasses bound for the United States, Dive magazine reported on Thursday.

The Dover Strait container ship was detained off the Yucatan Peninsula by Mexican authorities on suspicion of drug smuggling. X-ray machines and dogs were used to search the ship. The narcotics were found wrapped in 870 plastic bags inside the sharks.

The discovery was made after the naval officers stopped the Florida-bound ship at the port of Progreso.

Navy Commander Eduardo Villa told reporters: "Those in charge of the shipment said it was a 'conserving agent,' but after checks we confirmed it was cocaine."

The ship received its cargo in Costa Rica and was sailing under a Marshall Islands flag.

Latin American drug cartels are notoriously inventive in smuggling drugs into the U.S., placing drugs in picture frames, boots, religious statues, and even sealed beer cans.

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