Law and Policy / General

Subtypes:

• Law and Policy / Drug Policy Reform
• Law and Policy / Anti-Drug
• Law and Policy / Drug Testing
• Law and Policy / Harm Reduction
• Law and Policy / Law Enforcement and Prisons

Documents:

• Crack Babies Excerpt from "Smoke and Mirrors"
  By Dan Baum, 1996.
• Coca: An Andean Tradition
• The High and the Mighty: JFK, MPM, LSD and the CIA
  Excerpts from a series of articles by G. J. Krupey, Steamshovel Press #12.
• DEA Administrative Law Ruling on MDMA Scheduling
  by Francis L. Young, May 22, 1986. Finds MDMA should be placed in Schedule III, but was ignored by the DEA.
• Report on MDMA from the Drug Abuse Information and Monitoring Project
  By Jerome Beck, April 1987. Funded by the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs
• California Senate Resolution on Medical Marijuana
  September 2, 1993
• An analysis of the problems presented in the use of LSD by Graham C. TAYLOR, M.D
  The sacredness, use in psychiatry, and LSD being a consciousness expanding drug are all listed as "Problems" in this paper.
• Problems in legislating against abuse of hallucinogenic fungi in Australia (1973)
  by Dr. Malcolm C. HALL M.Sc., Ph.D.,
• TV, LSD, and Life in the Country - A drug policy commentary by John Perry Barlow of EFF
  "It (LSD) is dangerous because it promotes the idea that reality is something to be manipulated rather than accepted. "
• Attitudes of young people towards drug use by Richard Hartnoll
  From the Medical Research Council, London 1973

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Contacts and URLs:

• Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics (homepage, more info)
• DEA (US Drug Enforcement Agency) (homepage, more info)
  Federal agency charged with enforcing US drug laws.
  • Club Drugs
    Report, February 2000 (related items...)
• Erowid (homepage, more info)
  "Documenting the Complex Relationship between Humans and Psychoactives"
• Exposing the Drug Warriors (homepage, more info)
  Links and articles about the War on Drugs
• FDA (homepage, more info)
  US Food and Drug Administration
• Forty-five years of CIA drug trafficking (homepage, more info)
  Information on books and other documentation of CIA involvement in drug trafficking.
• From the Wilderness Publications (homepage, more info)
  Publication by a former LAPD narcotics officer on CIA involvement with the drug trade.
• Hedonistic Imperative (homepage, more info)
  Entry point for an eclectic group of sites with information and opinions on many things, including drugs.
  • Cannabinoid mimics in chocolate utilized as an argument in court
    Abstract from Int J Legal Med 2000; 113(3):137-9. (related items...)
  • US pro-hemp propaganda from WWII. (related items...)
• Law Office of Jeffrey Steinborn (homepage, more info)
  Seattle attorney specializing in marijuana cases.
• Lindesmith Center (homepage, more info)
  • MDMA ('Ecstasy') Research
    When Science and Politics Collide (related items...)
• OASAS (homepage, more info)
  New York Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services
• ONDCP (homepage, more info)
  Office of National Drug Control Policy
• Rhodium (homepage, more info)
  Drug chemistry and pharmacology
  • Buy American
    "A politico/technical summary of the recent evolution in underground and psychoactive chemistry." by POPeye (related items...)
• Salon.com (homepage, more info)
  Web magazine with excellent reporting on drug policy issues.
• SAMHSA (homepage, more info)
  US Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
  • 1999 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (related items...)
• Trance-Formation (homepage, more info)
• Miscellaneous URLs
  • Dumb on Drugs
    "How the FDA has transformed over-the-counter GHB into a deadly underground date rape drug". From a newsletter on narcolepsy and sleep disorders. PDF. (related items...)
  • Opium, Made Easy: One Gardner's Encounter with the War on Drugs
    Fascinating article from Harper's magazine. (related items...)
  • R. v. Parker, July 2000
    Medical marijuana ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal declaring unconstitutional Canada's law prohibiting marijuana possession. (related items...)

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