COMMON SENSE; Revisited
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Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction
Book under: September 02, 2009 at 07:26 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedRational Recovery requires participants to give up AA's dependent thinking, relinquish the idea that they have an incurable disease, and seize control. Trimpey's program works well for those who are ready to assume full personal responsibility for their recovery.
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The New Prohibition, Voices of Dissent Challenge the Drug War
Book under: September 02, 2009 at 07:25 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedProvocative essays from peace officers, public officials, scholars, and policy experts analyze current drug laws and show how they have failed.
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Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It
Book under: September 02, 2009 at 07:23 pm by COMMON SENSE; Revisited"Judge Gray's thorough and scholarly work, based as it is on his personal experience, should help considerably to improve our impossible drug laws...[His] book drives a stake through the heart of the failed War on Drugs and gives us options to hope for in the battles to come." - Walter Cronkite
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The FDA, the Food Pyramid, and Our Health
July 24, 2009 at 09:38 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedPost under:It is interesting to consider the effect of the federal government’s involvement in the area of food choice and diet. I have previously stated that the founder’s were adamant that the federal government should not be involved in legislating food choices for our nation. No enumerated powers were given to the federal government in this regard. The 9th and 10th amendments clearly restrain any involvement in these issues. Despite these “chains of the constitution” we, the people, have sat back while the federal government goes merrily on dictating laws and choices for the American people.
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Joe Klein
July 15, 2009 at 03:24 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Joe Klein, Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense, (2009) http://www.time.com/time/nation/articles/0,8599,1889021,00.htmlThe U.S. is, by far, the most ‘criminal’ country in the world, with 5% of the world’s population and 25% of its prisoners. We spend $68 billion per year on corrections, and one-third of those being corrected are serving time for nonviolent drug crimes.
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Sheriff Bill Masters
July 08, 2009 at 04:47 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Sheriff Bill Masters, Drug War Addiction (Accurate Press, 2001) Chapter summary #2.What kind of peace officer, what kind of society would allow a peace officer to use one minute of time, spend one dollar, or use any jail cell for a marijuana smoker, when vicious child murderers are on the loose?…Our police departments suffer corruption as a direct result of drug prohibition. The most obvious problem is that police officers can make big money dealing drugs, protecting drug dealers, or simply looking the other way. But drug prohibition also creates problems that aren’t so obvious…Zeke [Hernandez] was an 18-year-old high school student who stumbled upon a group of camouflaged and armed U.S. Marines assigned to Join Task Force Six drug interdiction team. The Marines shot and killed young Zeke, mistaking him for a drug runner…Violence in drug sales is caused by prohibition, not by the drugs themselves.
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Judge James P. Gray
July 08, 2009 at 04:42 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Jim Wood, Coast Magazine Interview - Judge James P. Gray, (June 2001) Vol. 10 No. 7.No one, absolutely no one is even remotely talking of increasing young people’s access to harmful drugs. But what we are doing simply isn’t working. The way things are now, young people tell me it’s easier for them to find marijuana or cocaine than it is alcohol..The War on Drugs isn’t winnable, but it’s fundable…It’s not only the Drug Enforcement Administration’s nearly $20 billion annual budget but government agencies of every kind receive extra funding for drug enforcement…things must change; it is impossible to have both a free society and a drug-free society. We will have drugs; either with drug lords or without them. The answer is to hold people accountable for their actions, as we do with alcohol. And let’s get rid of this enormous and expensive bureaucracy. If you really think about it, most drug related problems stem from drug prohibition; not drugs.
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Ron Paul
July 08, 2009 at 04:06 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Ron Paul, Dietary Supplements and Health Freedom (2005) http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul246.html.Millions of Americans take dietary supplements every day, and the numbers are growing as the Baby Boom generation ages. More and more Americans understandably are frustrated with our government-controlled health care system. They have concluded that vitamins, minerals, and other supplements might help them stay healthy and less dependent on the system. They use supplements because they can buy them freely at stores and research them freely on the internet, without government interference in the form of doctors, prescriptions, HMOs, and licenses. In other words, they use supplements because they are largely free to make their own choices, in stark contrast to the conventional medical system.
“But we live in an era of unbridled government regulation of both our personal lives and the economy, and Food and Drug administration bureaucrats burn to regulate supplements in the same manner as prescription drugs.
“The health nannies insist that many dietary supplements are untested and unproven, and therefore dangerous. But the track record for FDA-approved drugs hardly inspires confidence. In fact, far more Americans have died using approved pharmaceuticals than supplements. Not every dietary supplement performs as claimed, but neither does every FDA drug.
