[The D’Alliance] "Got Milk?" Satirizes Pro-Athlete Witch Hunt [The D'Alliance] "Got Milk?" Satirizes Pro-Athlete Witch Hunt
See it for yourself.
I appreciated the fact that a statement forwarding milk as a "performance enhancing substance" was accompanied by the characteristic small type at the bottom of the screen, noting the source as the California Milk Processor Board -- a font of medical knowledge to be sure. The fine print also states: "muscle claim requires exercise program."
No mention was made of potential side effects, however.
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Informatory site link for Relenza I am a student ongoing for bachelor’s degree in medicinal science and I want to know about Relenza, In search of the information I have visited a site www.drugdelivery.ca/s33713-s-RELENZA.aspx it really has helped me a lot but am still not satisfied and want more such links.
I request the members of this site to give me a list of informatory sites links or just put here a short note which must include the general information on the Relenza.
Thanking you.
Kays
more spiral stuff just saw the threads about the old spiral parties-strangely enough have just dug out my old 12" s-got their first three 12" and a white label and a Youth remix-how cool is that!?
their parties were superb at the start, all got a bit messy tho didn't it, but still, Respect to the Hardcore
what became of the games bit? I never really played them myself but noticed they disappered with the new servers
did it get canned because it was taking up too much resources/attracted lots of young teens/jailbait?
I thought at one point someone had been flyering this site in secondary schools in the North of England!
I think its actually good that younger teens are on here because of the high quality but non-prohbitionist drug advice they get from the user community but it did seem the games just attracted kids who wanted to slack off from school (don't teachers watch what they are doing on line these days) and not even contribute to the discussions...
was that why they were canned or was it just one of those things to be fixed at a later date when time/resources permitted?
[The D’Alliance] More On Santa Cruz’s Department of Compassion [The D'Alliance] More On Santa Cruz's Department of Compassion
Several articles in today's papers detail the effort in Santa Cruz to distribute medical marijuana. Here're two.
"Santa Cruz City Council Creates Office to Help Patients Get Pot," Los Angeles Times
"Santa Cruz OKs pot strategy," San Francisco Chronicle
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[Action Alert] Tell Congress to Stop War on Hurricane Victims [Action Alert] Tell Congress to Stop War on Hurricane Victims
Two weeks ago we told you about the Alliance’s campaign to cut drug war spending (like cutting funding to those stupid anti-marijuana TV ads) to help pay for hurricane relief efforts. We hope to have good news to report in a few weeks.
Now, we need your help to stop the war on drugs from becoming a war on hurricane victims.
Nearly three million people have been displaced from their homes because of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Many have lost everything. Yet federal laws prohibit these victims from receiving welfare, food stamps, public housing, student loans and other benefits if they have a drug law conviction. People who have lost everything should not be denied public assistance just because they were convicted of a drug offense sometime in their past.
The Alliance held a press conference today with Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), ranking member of the House Crime Subcommittee, and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), ranking member of the House Immigration Subcommittee, to announce the introduction of the "Elimination of Barriers for Katrina Victims Act," which would temporarily suspend federal laws that deny public assistance to hurricane victims who have drug offenses in their past. If the bill is enacted, thousands of destitute families that would otherwise be denied food stamps, public housing and other aid because of prior drug offenses would be able to obtain benefits to help put their lives back together.
Fax Congress in support of this important bill.
In addition to holding a press conference, the Alliance released a statement in support of the bill signed by almost 100 state and national drug treatment, civil rights, and public health groups.
We would like to thank Joyce Ann Brown, president and CEO of Mothers (Fathers) for the Advancement of Social Systems (MASS), and Lorenzo Ford, a MASS case worker, for traveling all the way from Texas to speak at our press conference. We would like to especially thank Antoinette Samson for coming to DC to speak. Her family was evacuated from New Orleans, where they lost everything, and her courage in the face of adversity is amazing.
Introduced by Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), the “Elimination of Barriers for Katrina Victims Act” is co-sponsored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA), Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS). Since the bill was just introduced, it does not have a bill number yet.
Now we need you to speak up. Contact your U.S Representative today!
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DEALING WITH TROLLS! Although dealing with trolls is a sensitive issue for all of us please, please follow our existing policy of *completely ignoring them* and leaving Alex, Use (I'm about to make him a full administrator) and myself to delete their threads!
hugh
[Press Release] Drug Policy Alliance Supports Right of Church to Use Ayahuasca as Sacrament [Press Release] Drug Policy Alliance Supports Right of Church to Use Ayahuasca as Sacrament
New York- The Drug Policy Alliance supports a New Mexico church that currently has a case before the U.S. Supreme Court over their right to use a brewed-tea substance as a sacrament. The case pits the federal government against the Brazilian Ayahuasca Church, or Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal (UDV). The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case on November 1.
“The government is pushing its drug war too far - trampling on fundamental religious liberties; and manufacturing drug-related harm where there is none,” said Abrahamson. “To deprive UDV of its ayahuasca in the name of the war on drugs is like denying Catholics wine at communion to combat drunk driving – it just doesn't add up.
“What is more, ayahuasca – unlike alcohol, used by Christians and Jews in various religious ceremonies - is not an addictive, or even pleasant substance to consume. It’s simply not a drug of abuse,” adds Abrahamson.
The federal government banned UDV from using ayahuasca, also known as “hoasca,” because the substance, taken in the form of a brewed tea, is illegal under federal drug laws. In 1999 U.S. customs officials seized a shipment of ayahuasca and subsequently raided a church member’s home.
UDV eventually sued and last year a three-judge 10th Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld a lower court’s finding: the federal government did not prove that the drug posed a significant danger to its congregants or that use of ayahuasca would lead to non-religious use or abuse.
The Drug Enforcement Administration was forced to register UDV as a legal importer and distributor of ayahuasca since the plant does not grow in the United States. The Bush Administration, however, appealed the case to the Supreme Court.
Pending the Supreme Court’s decision in this case, UDV members are allowed to import and to use ayahuasca for sacramental purposes. The Drug Policy Alliance supports UDV’s right to practice their religious ceremony free of interference from the federal government. Like ritual peyote usage among some North American Indians, ayahuasca has been a component of indigenous South American religious practices since pre-Columbian times. Church members claim origins in ancient Incan Peru. Ceremonial ayahuasca use has also been long documented among Indians in Bolivia. Prohibition of ceremonial usage of ayahuasca would damage one of the central tenets of UDV, and thus severely and unduly impact UDV religious practice.
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[In the News] New Mexico Releases Comprehensive Methamphetamine Recommendations [In the News] New Mexico Releases Comprehensive Methamphetamine Recommendations
New Mexico has a new plan for taking on methamphetamine. A working group led by the Alliance's New Mexico office and New Mexico's drug czar, Herman Silva, has released comprehensive recommendations focusing on prevention, harm reduction, treatment and enforcement. The recommendations came out of a collaboration of local and state law enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the New Mexico Department of Health, treatment providers, harm reduction providers and academic researchers.
The recommendations, which were created to address what the group identified as the biggest gaps in current state methamphetamine policy, can be used to create a comprehensive legislative package. The key elements would include additional funding for prevention, expansion of harm reduction practices, increased treatment funding, jail diversion on the model of California's Proposition 36, and development of safety standards for cleanup of methamphetamine labs.
The recommendations will also be useful at the grassroots level. Though they highlight the most critical issues statewide, community coalitions will be able to use them to assess how methamphetamine is impacting their local community. They can also serve as a tool for people meeting with their city council members or legislators to advocate for particular aspects of the plan.
As a follow-up to the release of the recommendations, the working group will meet again in December to prepare for the next legislative session. The session will last only 30 days, but with strong interest from the governor and people across the state, there is a good chance for positive methamphetamine-related legislation to pass. Reena Szczepanski, director of the Alliance New Mexico, said, "I think we have a really good opportunity because so many people are concerned with methamphetamine."
Szczepanski sees in particular a strong potential for progress in the area of treatment. New Mexico has more people who need drug treatment and do not receive it than any other state. Szczepanski says, "What's really amazing about this state is that there have been so many people who have had family members affected by methamphetamine abuse or who have struggled with these addictions themselves who are stepping forward to say, 'We don't need to be throwing people in jail.'"
Progress in New Mexico may also translate into progress in other states. Szczepanski will be attenting the National Alliance for Model State Drug Laws conference next month, and will be sharing the recommendations document with policymakers from around the country. She expects this model to be of interest to other states because it facilitates creation of a comprehensive, coordinated policy that connects stakeholders working on different aspects of the methamphetamine issue.
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PSYCHO ACOUSTICS AT THE VOLKS
PSYCHO ACOUSTICS
AT
THE VOLKS
17TH OF JANUARY 2006
Native Beats, the drum and bass freeparty massive, are bringing a string of fresh fortnightly clubnights from january at the volks on brighton seafront.
The night is gonna start live and get hard and dark, starting with live acts blending into freeparty drum and bass from residents djs zeal, asbo and criminal element alongside a long roster of rotating guests.
Downstairs will be hosted by the legendary Itsy Bitsy sound system, veteran rave chillout crew.
visuals supplied by primal visions and caterax.
[The D’Alliance] The Bright Side of Brutality [The D'Alliance] The Bright Side of Brutality
In an article in yesterday's New York Times, Mexican president Vicente Fox is confident that the his country's drug war will be won: "We are going to win the battle against insecurity," he said, pounding his fist on a table. "It is a frontal war. It is a permanent fight. It is going to take time, but we are going to win." This statement begs the question as to whether a permanent fight is winnable, or an end in itself. The violence along the U.S.-Mexico border -- especially that in Nuevo Laredo -- has reached a fever pitch this year, with casualties including top law enforcement officials and elected officials. From what I've read, The Dallas Morning News seems to have had the best coverage of tumult.
So is the Mexican government winning its permanent fight? They think so:
When pressed for evidence that Mexico is winning this war, law enforcement authorities talked about the tens of thousands of drug dealers they have put behind bars, the hundreds of suspicious police officers and prison guards dismissed from duty and the thousands of federal police officers and soldiers sent to patrol cities all along the border.
No mention was made as to its plans to keep others from filling the void left by decapitating the heads of drug trafficking operations. Nuevo Laredo is the modern day equivalent of Chicago in the heyday of alcohol prohibition, and the cycle of violence is all but certain to continue as violent cartels engage in internecine warfare.
Vincente Fox is right to look north of the border when talking about his nation's drug war crisis. He asks, "What happens to all the drugs that enter the United States?" But he must look to misguided American policies, not simply drug consumption, as the direct cause of his country's carnage.
President Fox would commit a consummate act of political courage if he articulated this. It is also highly unlikely. From the standpoint of politicians, of whatever national origin, it is far better to bathe in their own blustery rhetoric and slam their fists on tables at opportune moments than to provide actual leadership.
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Hoodies: Hiding the Real Issue Over Social Breakdown? I've just seen yet another "hoodie" news article -
this time bedfordshire cops claim 60 street robberies were committed by people wearing "street clothes" which include hoodies....
so they are now openly stopping people wearing these garments
Quote:
To tackle the problem, police in Luton will be increasing the number of uniform patrols in the area and proactively stopping and searching anyone wearing a ‘hoody’, or similar clothing, which conceals their identity or might be concealing weapons. Most teenage ‘robbers’ dress in a similar way so by targeting people wearing these types of clothes directly, may prevent offences as well as detect them.
We also want them to think about what they are wearing when they go out as they will be stopped it they are wearing this type of ‘street’ clothing.”
TBH I can understand the reasons why they are doing this; you can indeed hide a fair bit of stuff in a hoody and 60 muggings is a lot for one city, and also unusual for this time of year.
but hoodies have in fact been street fashion for 15 years. I remember them in 1990, along with daft medallions of peace signs etc which slammed into your chest whilst dancing..
isn't the real issue the fact that kids have become so angry and dysfunctional they feel its OK to rob one another for their stuff instead of working for your own stuff and getting it by legitimate means, and if you stop people wearing hoodies they will still do crime wearing other garments?
perhaps making the 5-stretch for robbery be a real 5 years instead of 2.5 might help (but only if there is proper rehabilitation and re-education within that time)
[The D’Alliance] TV Tip: Marijuana in National Parks! Danger! [The D'Alliance] TV Tip: Marijuana in National Parks! Danger!
The latest episode of Outdoor Investigations on the Outdoor Life Network features a profile of the federal Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP), a collaborative effort between federal authorities and state and local law enforcement to eradicate marijuana planting on public lands. Having viewed it earlier this week, it is little more than a not-so-sensational call for more funding of an ineffective enterprise. The show's set up online reads:
The Mexican drug cartels have moved into remote portions of our national parks to grow marijuana crops worth billions of dollars. Sequoia National Park in California is getting hit the hardest, and rangers there have taken on responsibilities of drug enforcement agents. It's big business with a lot at stake for all sides: billions of dollars in profit for the cartels up against the safety of rangers, park visitors and a precious landscape in danger of being destroyed. Undoubtedly, the federal government has the authority to exercise dominion over lands that it controls. But the analysis must not end there. The primary shortcoming of the show is that it failed to thoroughly investigate the true nature of circumstances taking place in Northern California's national parks. In short, the whole scenario is a product of the larger failure of marijuana prohibition. The only tangible "solution" to the exaggerated problems posed by the show -- from physical harm to park attendees to environmental damage -- was more funding. So it is "case closed" for a tidy TV program that sought principally to heighten public anxiety, embellish the "virtues" of government action, and parade those who receive emoluments for their continued participation.
Were marijuana decriminalized, the reality is that there wouldn't be any Mexican drug cartel operatives "doing business" in our national parks. Period.
Earlier this month, USA Today ran an article on CAMP, painting a fairly clear and balanced portrait of how it operates and with what results. Seizures are up, but so is production. Overall marijuana prices are down, and potency is up.
As such, he government is failing by its own measures of progress. But the only voices to be heard from official quarters are calls for more funding. Indeed, if there is one function government performs supremely well it is the ability to throw taxpayer money down a black hole without restraint.
Dale Gieringer of California NORML notes the ultimate futility of CAMP, calling for an end to marijuana prohibition (which could bring up to $250 million is sales taxes, by his estimate). Humboldt County Supervisor Roger Rodini, a Republican, calls CAMP "a vast expenditure of public funds that for all practical purposes does no good."
USA Today subsequently published a letter to the editor from James May, a colleague of mine here in Sacramento. He writes, in part: CAMP's $1.1 million annual budget would be better spent on proven demand-reduction measures, such as treatment for those addicted to more dangerous drugs such as heroin.
Rational judgment is needed more than ever to combat a federal government gyrating in the throes of its own "reefer madness."
I couldn't have said it better myself...
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