I'm Doing an English paper on the War on Drugs! Where can I find info?

[sasquatch]

I'm looking for legitamte information about the failure of the war on drugs, no stuff written by a snakehandler or stoner in his basement that they made up. Please help.

[trof]

1. Sorry. We're much too busy with pronunciation threads.

Try later.
;-)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. "I'm Doing an English paper on the War on Drugs! Where can I find info?"

I'm looking for legitamte information about the failure of the war on drugs, no stuff written by a snakehandler or stoner in his basement that they made up. Please help.<<

You can find information on the internet. Try these. They rock.

http://www.guerrillanews.com/crack/
>>Tracking the covert history of CIA drug smuggling from Nicaragua to Arkansas and South Central Los Angeles, GNN sheds light on the darkest secret of the Agency's operational directorate. Cut to the ambient Hip Hop loops of DJ Trek-e, Crack The CIA features explosive footage of Mike Ruppert's historical televised confrontation with CIA Director John Deutch.<<

http://www.guerrillanews.com/reality_tour/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/peopleevents/pande08.html
Ronald Reagan's efforts to eradicate Communism spanned the globe, but the insurgent Contras' cause in Nicaragua was particularly dear to him. Battling the Cuban-backed Sandinistas, the Contras were, according to Reagan, "the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers." Under the so-called Reagan Doctrine, the CIA trained and assisted this and other anti-Communist insurgencies worldwide.

[sweetheart]

3. use a search engine

Therez plenty of stuff out there by good sources. Cato argues the
case for legallization well... many others do also.

The path of experience might be different. To write that paper will
take you a few days, perhaps weeks, depending on the depth of your
research.

Drugs primarily break in to 2 categories, opiates and halucinogens.
Grossly simplifying, but you can sample the two and pretty much know
what the others are about.

opiates = weed, cocaine, opium, heroin, morphine. Smoke a big fat
joint and have hot sex listening to good tunes... experience of
opiates... they are generally blissful, but can leave you feeling
out of interest with the contrived rat-race culture. This is why
the old-religions like hinduism, american indians, buddhism and such
all have histories of using opiates to learn some things about the
nature of life.

halucinogens = LSD (lysergic acid dyethylamide-25R), mescaline,
peyote, mushrooms, hawaiian baby woodrose seeds, morning glory seeds... and many more... do a web search. These will artificially
stop your ego-thinking mind. Best to take them in a totally safe
environment, ideally in nature, like a lovely forest, a beach or
some such place, and perhaps with a helpful friend.

Fundamentally, opiates kill pain, and are used by most folks to deaden
their experiences of the horror of republican americana. Halucinogens
can be used for religions awakening, as they are also used in all
religious traditions except christian-nazi nutter stuff.

The information you read about these drugs are completely lies just
liek the bush-war and all the other lies spewed by the corporate
congress and criminal whitehouse that would rather kill you in a
war than let you smoke a doobie.

Given that they are sooo afraid of these drugs, you have to wonder
why? What illusion do these drugs unmask that they would rather
terminate you for, than let you discover... that it is all lies, ALL.
They are all frauds, and desperately hope you won't notice.

You don't need to take drugs at all. Just some people in modern
culture have such rigid perceptions of self and ego, that are
difficult to transcend without radical means. You could simply
put down all your past and your ideas about yourself right now,
like excess baggage... and forever put them down... just this is
a bit hard for people who have been conditioned to bleieve they
are really that thinking ego, and not eternal consciousness.

Good luck in your pursuits. use google.

[skooooo]

11. Google is full of inaccurate information....

...why do people have such low standards when it comes to finding information?

[sweetheart]

13. Its better than when i was young doing "research"

I remember trying to learn about what drugs "really" do, at a
massive university library. The only works that i found were by
timothy leary... old ones... It was by the works of his mate
Ram Das that i discovered meditation that has changed me life
since.

I just looked around, and was absolutely amazed at the broad spectrum
of drugs-information on the web available by a simple google... heck,
i even managed to locate a cannabis supplier over the web using
such techniques. :-)

The thing i like about google is just to read several pages until
i narrow it down to what i'm really wanting to know... and wow,
its a major step forward for most of the world this search
engine thing. We might take it for granted as ubiquitous, but
were you in a small midwest christian prison-town, looking for
real info about life, the web is heaven.

Unfortunately, drugs-wise people are not available to help people
learn in person. It would be a great course in a university,
"recreational drugs 501" Leading a group of people through
experiences with different mind-altering substances and having
them tell their experiences openly without any police hate-crime.
Likely most folks would discover that they don't like most drugs
and learn that addiction has less to do with drugs, and more to
do with a culture that has us all addicted to something.

[Kenneth ken]

14. why do people have such low standards when it comes to finding information

erm - because those who are so "worldy-wise" and "in the know" treat knowledge as something secret not to be shared unless one knows the secret handshake and proper code words?

IOW - my, wasn't your post helpful, informative and friendly!

:think:

[HuckleB]

4. Check the archives of Progressive and The Nation.

You may have to hit the library, but they both published some great pieces back in the '80s and early '90s.

Anyway, actually, I'd say hitting the library is always a good idea. The Internet has a lot, but it's also missing a lot, and you can almost always shine above your fellow studients by hitting the library to dig further.

[johnnie]

5. That paper should be easy....one word

Failure.......
But seriously, it looks like some people have some good starting places for you. Good luck!

[a_random_joel]

6. I did one a couple of semester ago

Lost most of my links but maybe these can help...

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/dcf/du.htm

http://www.quaker.org/fj/wink.html

The second one is really good, and believe it or not ir written by a Quaker!

[cosmicdot]

7. the US Federal Government spent $19.179 Billion Dollars in 2003 ...

... on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $600 per second ...

almost $20 Billion ... how many years has the funding been going on?

Drug War Clock
http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm
check out links at bottom of webpage

"the illegal drug industry is now a worldwide enterprise with tens of millions of hard core consumers spending hundreds of billions (see the chart) on opiates, cocaine and amphetamines and marijuana, as well as other drugs"

"Imagine a typical weekend in New York City. Experts estimate that at least one percent of the population - 80,000 plus - spends $200 on illicit drugs. That alone would amount to $16 million dollars a week or $832 million a year. And that's just New York."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/math.html

what are ...
- the costs (finanacial, human) of incarcerating people charged with victimless crimes?
- the costs of trying to catch someone (DEA, DoJ, Customs, state, local, etc)
- the costs (and time) of litigating cases and use of the judicial system
- the costs to privacy; freedom; pursuit of happiness
- the costs of directing so much human energy and effort which could be focused toward projects with positive results

etc.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=how+much+money+spent+on+illegal+drugs

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=drug+war+clock

[JPJones]

8. How about a library? n/t

[Don_G]

9. You Have To Know How To Phrase Your Inquiry

[skooooo]

10. Geeze your tuition and tax money pays for library databases..

...take a few minutes to get acquainted with what it offers. I bet you'd be surprised, and you'll find better quality information too.

[sasquatch]

12. That would invole a thirty minute drive and I'm cheap on Gas

So I'm using the internet.