{"article":{"id":4318,"heading":"Drug War. Greens versus Libertarians. Harm reduction drug reform. Nader's views.","author":"Greenie","created":"2000-11-02 08:11:15","modified":"2005-08-15 00:29:58","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:29:58","article":"<p>Drug War. Greens versus Libertarians. Harm reduction drug reform. Nader's views. <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Ralph Nader and Greens worldwide. Drug War, cannabis, marijuana, hemp, etc.. Universal health care and its relation to harm reduction drug reform. Libertarians versus Greens. MANY LINKS and charts. Please vote for Ralph Nader. Stop supporting the Republican-led, Democrat-installed drug war. Please distribute widely. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Green Party candidates, positions, platforms, etc.. Concerning the Drug War, cannabis,\r\nmarijuana, harm reduction. Worldwide links. Ralph Nader \"called for the legalization\r\nof marijuana as part of an overhaul of the nation's 'self-defeating and\r\nantiquated drug laws.' ... Legalizing marijuana, Nader said, would allow the\r\ngovernment to regulate and potentially tax its use like tobacco products.\" -Albuquerque Journal, September 8, 2000. <\/p>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" bg>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td bg>\r\n\r\n<p><i><b>Greens and Drug War.&nbsp;Worldwide News, Links,\r\nPlatforms! Table! RALPH NADER news.&nbsp;Banners, directories.<\/b> <\/i> Last revised Wednesday, November 01, 2000 05:49 AM -0500&nbsp;<b><i><br>\r\n<\/i><\/b> \r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n    <\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" bg>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td><b><i>RALPH NADER on drug war,\r\n      cannabis, hemp, corporate\r\n      prison industry, etc..&nbsp;LATEST LINKS ON TOP.<br>\r\n      \r\n      <\/i><\/b>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/greens.htm  \r\n    <\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>If you are viewing this from somewhere (forum, message board, email list\r\narchive, IndyMedia site, etc.) other than a source webpage, and can't see the\r\nphotos, then click the source link just above. The source webpage shows the\r\nphotos, and the latest revisions.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*MAP\/DrugNews press archives search SHORTCUT for Ralph Nader. <\/i><\/b>\r\nThe press articles are pulled up in\r\nchronological order with the latest articles on top.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mapinc.org\/find?BK=ralph+nader\r\n&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*Excite Search Results for \"nader\" -- Web News, refreshed\r\nfour times a day, provides headlines from over 350 Web sites,<\/i><\/b> including\r\nABCNews, Boston Globe, CNN Interactive, E! Online and Popular Science.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/search.excite.com\/search.gw?c=timely&amp;search=nader&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*Excite Search Results for \"nader\" -- Newswires,<\/i><\/b>\r\nupdated every hour, collects breaking stories and photos from wire services like\r\nAssociated Press, Reuters, SportsTicker, Business Wire and Dow Jones.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/search.excite.com\/search.gw?c=hourly&amp;search=nader<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*Northern Light Search: nader. \"Current News: A searchable 2-week\r\narchive of real-time news from 56 continuously updated newswires.<\/i><\/b> ... To\r\nsearch news stories that are more than 2 weeks old, use the Power Search form,\r\naccessible through the navigation bar below, and limit your documents to news\r\nsources.\"<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.northernlight.com\/nlquery.fcg?dx=1006&amp;cb=0&amp;qr=nader&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*AltaVista - News Results for: nader. SHORTCUT for searching for latest\r\nRalph Nader news.&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.altavista.com\/cgi-bin\/query?stype=ntext&amp;pg=q&amp;q=nader&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*Yahoo! News Full Coverage-Green Party News.<\/i><\/b><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/fullcoverage.yahoo.com\/fc\/US\/Green_Party\/<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*AlterNet.org \"On the Road With Ralph\" page.<\/i><\/b>&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.alternet.org\/?IssueAreaID=10<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*10-00. 15,000 Help Nader 'Rock the Garden.' \"Tim Robbins,<\/i><\/b>\r\ncame out draped in an American flag in a wheelchair playing Bob Roberts, a\r\nfictional right-wing politician from his movie of the same name, and <i><b>sang\r\na satirical song called 'Drugs Stink.'<\/b><\/i> ... <b><i>Singer Ani DiFranco<\/i><\/b>\r\nplayed what she called <b><i>'a little ditty about the drug war.'<\/i><\/b> \"<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story.html?StoryID=9933\r\nand&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.workingforchange.com\/news\/article.cfm?ItemId=8294&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*Yahoo! Photo Search Results. SHORTCUT\r\nfor Ralph Nader news PHOTOS. <\/i><\/b>\r\nPages of thumbnail photos that enlarge when clicked. Each thumbnail comes with a\r\ndescription and date.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/search.news.yahoo.com\/search\/news?p=nader&amp;n=20&amp;c=news_photos&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*10-00.\r\nAbout 13,500 supporters pack a sold-out Madison Square Garden at a rally for\r\nGreen Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader<\/i><\/b> in New York on Friday,\r\nOct. 13, 2000. (AP Photo\/Ed Betz).\r\n- <i> <small>Oct 13 10:53 PM ET. Click thumbnail to enlarge.<\/small><\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*10-00. MTV.com. Vedder, DiFranco, More Play For Nader In NYC. Madison\r\nSquare Garden, Friday, October 13, 2000. <\/i><\/b>Article with photos and music\r\nvideo-clips of Eddie Vedder (of musical group Pearl Jam), Ani DiFranco, Ben\r\nHarper. Click photos to start RealVideo\r\nclips. <i>\"In his speech, Nader condemned the concentration of\r\ncorporate power, advocated ending the<b> war against drugs, ... <\/b><\/i>Actor\r\nTim Robbins brought a touch of humor to the event, taking the stage in the guise\r\nof the arch-conservative, folk-singing title character of his 1992 film 'Bob\r\nRoberts.' 'It's my honor to be at this rally to support George W. Bush,' Robbins\r\nsaid, taking in the crowd's boos before launching earnestly into anti-<b><i>drug<\/i><\/b>\r\nand pro-Wall Street folk songs.\"<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mtv.com\/sendme.tin?page=\/news\/headlines\/001016\/story10.html&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*10-00. Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader, left, and Pearl Jam's\r\nEddie Vedder, right, laugh as they listen to Phil Donahue speak at a press\r\nconference before a rally at Madison Square Garden<\/i><\/b> in New York, Friday, Oct. 13,\r\n2000. (AP Photo\/Stephen Chernin). - <i> <small>Oct 13 8:12 PM ET. Click thumbnail to enlarge.<\/small><\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*10-00. Salon.com Politics | Nader packs 'em in at the Garden. \"He\r\n[Phil Donahue] brought up a few of the central issues of the night: <\/i><\/b>the\r\nneed for universal healthcare, the evils of corporate mergers and the <b><i>failed\r\nwar on drugs.<\/i><\/b> 'If you fall while ice skating, you're covered in Canada\r\nbecause you're Canadian. Ask Canadians if they want to swap with us,' he said.\r\n...&nbsp; And, he said, <b><i>'Ralph Nader wants to end the rootin' tootin' Wild\r\nWest of the war on drugs.' \"<\/i><\/b><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.salon.com\/politics\/feature\/2000\/10\/14\/nader\/index.html<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*10-00. CNN.com - Loyal Nader fans pack Madison Square Garden. Friday,\r\nOctober 13, 2000.<\/i><\/b> \"Speakers assailed Texas Gov. George W. Bush and\r\nVice President Al Gore as ideologically similar candidates in the pocket of\r\ncorporate America. They said the two have similar views on trade, foreign policy\r\nand the <b><i>war on drugs.\"<\/i><\/b> Article with <b><i> photos.<\/i><\/b><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2000\/ALLPOLITICS\/stories\/10\/14\/nader.ap\/index.html&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*10-00. NYC-IMC radio<\/i><\/b> &gt; Keepin' it real on the streets and in the studio since 2000.\r\nGo to the section called \"Ralph Nader 'Super-Rally' at <i><b>Madison Square\r\nGarden,<\/b><\/i> New York City - <i><b>October 13, 2000.\" Many audio clips of\r\nmusic and speeches<\/b><\/i> archived at New York City Independent Media\r\nCenter.&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.nyc.indymedia.org\/audio\/nycradio.html&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*10-00. New York City IndyMedia site. Lots of articles, audio, and photos of the\r\nOctober 13, 2000, Ralph Nader, Super-Rally at Madison Square Garden.<\/i><\/b>\r\nAlso some video. Use the search engine from the home page. Here is a search\r\nshortcut using the search term \"madison\"&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.nyc.indymedia.org\/search-process.php3?medium=all&amp;keyword=madison&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>10-00. Rob\r\nLowe, left, host of \"Saturday Night Live,\" rehearses a sketch with\r\nGreen Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader on the show's set Saturday, Oct.\r\n7, 2000<\/i><\/b>, in New York. In the sketch, Nader is asking why he wasn't\r\nallowed to be in the \"debate sketch,\" a sketch which preceded this\r\nsketch. During the 2000 presidential campaign, Nader has not been allowed to\r\nparticipate in debates with presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush.\r\nPhoto by NBC, Mary Ellen Matthews (AP). <i><small>Click photo to enlarge.&nbsp;<\/small><\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*10-00. Hey eco! Nader did a skit on SNL &amp; mentioned Pot. Saturday\r\nNight Live season premiere October 7, 2000.<\/i><\/b> \"Ralph Nader did a skit\r\nwith Rob Lowe and he said in his mind that maybe I should tell him I want to\r\nlegalize pot when I become president.\" -as reported by FoM of\r\nCannabisNews.com fame.&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/cann.com\/b1\/messages\/30\/30496.shtml&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*10-00. Nader Alert on drug war, death penalty, prison industrial\r\ncomplex. October 2, 2000<\/i><\/b> Action Alert from the Nader 2000 Campaign email\r\nlist.&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/nader.htm&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*9-00. Nader Tells Corporations to Get Out of the Prison Industry.\r\nSeptember 27, 2000 at rally in Youngstown, Ohio. Nader on the&nbsp; prison\r\nindustrial complex.&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/votenader.org\/press\/000927corpprisons.html\r\nand&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.egroups.com\/message\/drugwarnews\/529<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*9-00. MAP\/DrugNews SEARCH\r\nSHORTCUT for many press articles about RALPH NADER's September 8, 2000 press\r\nconference in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he called for legalizing\r\ncannabis\/marijuana, and for harm reduction drug reform.<\/i><\/b>  Ralph Nader\r\n\"called for the legalization of marijuana as part of an overhaul of the\r\nnation's 'self-defeating and antiquated drug laws.' ... Legalizing marijuana,\r\nNader said, would allow the government to regulate and potentially tax its use\r\nlike tobacco products. \" -Albuquerque Journal, September 8, 2000.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mapinc.org\/find?BK=nader+johnson+santa&amp;YY1=1997&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*9-00. US: Nader Says\r\nDecriminalize Marijuana. Long article. \"Green Party presidential candidate\r\nRalph Nader, joining Republican Gov. Gary Johnson in criticizing the nation's\r\nwar on drugs, called Friday for the\r\nlegalization of marijuana as part of an overhaul of the nation's 'self-defeating\r\nand antiquated drug laws.'<\/i><\/b> ... Johnson has made waves politically for more than\r\na year by advocating the legalization of marijuana and heroin. However, he has\r\nsince dropped his support for making it legal to use heroin because it proved\r\ntoo controversial. He is the nation's highest-ranking elected official to\r\npublicly support drug legalization. ...<b><i> Legalizing\r\nmarijuana, Nader said, would allow the government to regulate and potentially\r\ntax its use like tobacco products.\" <\/i><\/b> <i> -Albuquerque\r\nJournal, September 8, 2000.<\/i> <span style=\"background-color: #FFFF00\"><i><b><br>\r\n<\/b><\/i><\/span>http:\/\/www.cannabisnews.com\/news\/thread6977.shtml\r\nand&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mapinc.org\/drugnews\/v00\/n1339\/a06.html&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*9-00. Nader favors legalizing\r\nmarijuana. \"Nader on Friday [September 8, 2000] advocated the legalization\r\nof marijuana as part of an overhaul of the nation's 'self-defeating and\r\nantiquated drug laws.'<\/i><\/b> ... 'Addiction should never be treated as a\r\ncrime. It has to be treated as a health problem,' Nader said at a news\r\nconference where he was flanked by the GOP governor. 'We do not send alcoholics\r\nto jail in this country. We do not send nicotine users to jail in this country.\r\nOver 500,000 people are in our jails who are non-violent drug users.' Nader --\r\nlike Johnson -- supports lifting criminal sanctions for marijuana possession.\r\nFor other drugs, such as heroin, he advocated <b><i>'harm reduction'<\/i><\/b>\r\nprograms, ...\" Short AP story was posted in various newspapers. For\r\nexample:&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mapinc.org\/drugnews\/v00\/n1339\/a02.html?34290\r\n-AP&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mapinc.org\/drugnews\/v00\/n1339\/a02.html?34296\r\n-press&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mapinc.org\/drugnews\/v00\/n1343\/a01.html?34296\r\n-press&nbsp;\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*9-00. Johnson Joins Nader\r\nIn Decrying Drug Laws. Long article. \"... criticizing the nation's war on\r\ndrugs, calling for the legalization of marijuana and reform of what Nader calls\r\n'self-defeating and antiquated' drug laws.<\/i><\/b> 'Addiction, no matter what kind of\r\naddiction, should not be criminalized,' Nader said at a news conference [on\r\nSeptember 8, 2000].\"  -Santa Fe New Mexican, September 9,\r\n2000.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mapinc.org\/drugnews\/v00\/n1345\/a05.html&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*9-00. Sept. 8, 2000. Nader Urges New Strategy for the War on Drugs.\r\nVoteNader.org&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.votenader.org\/press\/000908drugwar.html&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Green\r\n      Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader and Nader 2000 campaign staff\r\n      member Stacy Malkan, talk during a news conference in Washington, Tuesday <b><i>\r\n      Sept. 5, 2000, where Nader criticized a Drug Enforcement Administration\r\n      plan to ban hemp foods.<\/i><\/b> Photo by Rick Bowmer (AP).<br>\r\n      http:\/\/cann.com\/b1\/binaries\/29\/29857.jpg<\/p>\r\n\r\n      <p><b><i>*9-00. MAP\/DrugNews SEARCH SHORTCUT for press articles about\r\n      RALPH NADER's September 5, 2000 press conference about HEMP.<br>\r\n      <\/i><\/b>http:\/\/www.mapinc.org\/find?BK=nader+hemp+dakota&amp;YY1=1997&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*9-00. September 5, 2000. Statement of Ralph Nader. DEA Reportedly Will\r\nPropose New Restrictions on Hemp Food Products,<\/i><\/b> Ignore Plea by Farmers\r\nand Businesses to Allow Hemp Crops in the U.S.. VoteNader.org&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.votenader.org\/press\/000905hemp.html<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*8-00. August 2, 2000. Philadelphia Youth Conference, Question\r\nand Answer with Ralph Nader. Drugs section <\/i><\/b> excerpted after the link\r\nURL.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/votenader.org\/press\/000802PhillyYouthTranscript.htm&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n  <p>Drugs<\/p>\r\n  <p>The cost of imprisoning\r\n  one person each year totals $23,000, whereas the cost for treatment in a\r\n  methadone rehabilitation clinic totals only $4000. Yet, most alarming is the\r\n  percentage of minorities in prison. The US is comprised of 75% Caucasian,\r\n  nearly 75% of the prison population may be categorized as minority. Mr. Nader,\r\n  our goal is to help facilitate people with drug abuse problems to take control\r\n  become a positive part of the community. Funding must be reallocated to\r\n  rehabilitation centers across the country. Our first solution is to recall the\r\n  laws governing mandatory minimum drug sentencing that wastes monetary\r\n  resources and destroys communities. <b><i> How do you feel about this, Mr. Nader?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n  <p><b>Nader:<\/b> Agreed.\r\n  You have to treat individual's injustices as individuals. Our second solution\r\n  is to decrease prison funding and increase funding for drug rehabilitation. You\r\n  don't treat nicotine addicts as criminals; you don't treat alcoholics in this\r\n  country as criminals. Why are you treating drug addicts as criminals instead\r\n  of treating them as patients bringing all the problems up to the surface so we\r\n  can treat them? Instead, we are criminalizing the problem, we are militarizing\r\n  the problem and we are wasting tens of billions of dollars on policies that\r\n  are failing. The war on drugs has got no standard of failure attached\r\n  to it. There is no way of telling that their policies are failing. And by the\r\n  way, always distinguish between pharmaceutical drugs and street drugs. There\r\n  are a lot of young people in this country that are over medicated and over\r\n  drugged. [end of drugs section excerpt]<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*6-00. In his June 25 2000 acceptance speech, Ralph Nader elaborated beyond\r\nthe written statement. On the drug issue, <\/i><\/b>Nader\r\nasked of the Drug Enforcement Agency: \"What standard of failure would you\r\napply before we can go back to the table (to discuss drug policy)?\"<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.cannabisnews.com\/news\/thread6549.shtml<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><i><b>*6-00. Ralph Nader acceptance statement. Drug war quotes pulled to the top. Hemp,\r\ntoo. June 25, 2000 <\/b><\/i>  Green Party presidential nomination acceptance statement. Nader condemns drug war,\r\ncorporate prison industry, racist criminal justice system, and hemp prohibition.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/cann.com\/b1\/messages\/27\/27673.shtml\r\nand&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.egroups.com\/message\/drugwarnews\/382 <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\"At home our criminal justice system, being increasingly driven by the\r\ncorporate prison industry that wants ever more customers, grossly discriminates\r\nagainst minorities and is greatly distorted by the extremely expensive and\r\nfailed war on drugs.\" ... <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\"In Hawaii, we visited one of the only two plots in the United States\r\n(the other is on the Pine Ridge Reservation) legally permitted to grow\r\nindustrial hemp, that 5000 year old, versatile plant with thousands of uses,\r\nincluding textiles, fuel, food and paper. A fraction of an acre was surrounded\r\nby barbed wire fence, saturation night lights inside a larger fenced area. This\r\nmedieval experience brought home once again that for the sake of farmers, the\r\nenvironment, consumers and energy independence, it is necessary to free\r\nindustrial hemp from the proscribed list of U.S. Drug and Enforcement\r\nAgency.\" <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><i><b>*For archives of the latest press and media about all aspects of Ralph\r\nNader's campaign:<\/b><\/i><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/votenader.org\/newslinks.html<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*CannabisNews.com press archives search SHORTCUT for Ralph Nader.<\/i><\/b><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.cannabisnews.com\/thcgi\/search.pl?K=nader&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*6-00. Ralph Nader for President Press Information.\r\nJune 25, 2000 ACCEPTANCE\r\nSTATEMENT. <\/i><\/b> With some <b><i>PHOTOS<\/i><\/b>, too.\r\nAnd link to <b><i> VIDEO!<\/i><\/b><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.votenader.com\/press\/000625acceptance_speech.html <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*C-SPAN. Campaign 2000. RALPH NADER. Speeches and interviews. VIDEOS.<\/i><\/b>\r\nGreen\r\nParty presidential nominee. One needs to install RealPlayer first. Using RealPlayer one can move forward or backward in the videos almost\r\ninstantly. C-SPAN also has a search engine available for the whole site,\r\nincluding the video transcripts.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.c-span.org\/campaign2000\/naderspeeches.asp&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><b><i>*Greens. Drug War Platforms. Also\r\nsome info from Usenet messages by a webpage compiler of Green\r\nParty platform links.<\/i><\/b> Links, processes, history, and sources for Green platform positions on drug war.&nbsp; <br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/platforms.htm&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><b><i>*Green Party platforms. A collection of Green Party platforms for North\r\nAmerica.<\/i><\/b><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.greens.org\/plats.html&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><b><i>*Association of State Green Parties. This IS Ralph Nader's platform<\/i><\/b>\r\naccording to the the webpage of North American Green Party platforms above, and\r\naccording to VoteNader.org site.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.gp.org\/platform_index.htm<\/p>\r\n<p><b><i>*5-00. the Greens\/Green Party USA. Platform. This is NOT Ralph Nader's\r\nplatform <\/i><\/b>(according to the webpage of North American Green Party\r\nplatforms).&nbsp;\r\n<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.greens.org\/gpusa\/Platform061100.html<\/p>\r\n<p><b><i>Question: Do you think that cigarettes should be illegal?&nbsp;<br>\r\nRalph Nader:<\/i><\/b>&nbsp; No. You never prohibit an addiction because what you do is\r\nyou drive it underground and a huge black market occurs. What you do with an\r\naddiction is expose the addicters to massive information, protect them from\r\ndeceptive advertising, protect the young from being sold such [things] as\r\ntobacco products. Keep the research up to make whatever tobacco is consumed less\r\nlethal in terms of nicotine and other levels and increasingly make it socially\r\nstigmatized so that people often will stop smoking or won't smoke, not because\r\nit's bad for their health, but because it's no longer the thing to do. When I\r\nwas in college, non-smokers were on the defensive. The smokers would blow smoke\r\nderisively in non-smokers faces. You'd never see that today.&nbsp;<br>\r\n<b><i>--Source: David Frost interview Oct 21, 1994.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><b><i>A few of the many other interesting worldwide Green Links concerning\r\nthe Drug war:&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><b><i>*4-99. US CA: A Big Green Upset. Audie Bock, the first Green to win a\r\nstate legislature seat in the USA.<\/i><\/b> \"even though this will probably\r\nget me into trouble,\" <b><i> she wants marijuana legalized.<\/i><\/b> She\r\nwon a state office seat from the Bay Area in California. <b><i> April\r\n1999.<\/i><\/b><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mapinc.org\/drugnews\/v99\/n395\/a09.html<\/p>\r\n<p><b><i>*7-00. Germany. Greens, Social Democrats,\r\nSocialists. For medical cannabis in Bundestag.<\/i><\/b> IACM-Bulletin of 9 July\r\n2000.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/cann.com\/b1\/messages\/27\/27752.shtml&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><b><i>*12-99. The Greening Of NEW ZEALAND.\r\n Jeanette Fitzsimons's victory.<\/i><\/b> <i>\r\n\"Drug abuse is a social and public health problem, not a legal one...\r\npossession and cultivation of small amounts of cannabis for personal use should\r\nbe decriminalised.\"<\/i> <br>\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mapinc.org\/drugnews\/v99\/n1332\/a01.html?397  <\/p>\r\n<p><b><i>*MAP\/DrugNews press archives search SHORTCUT for Green cannabis press\r\nworldwide. <\/i><\/b> \r\nThe press articles are pulled up in\r\nchronological order with the latest articles on top. Most of the press is from outside the USA, since\r\n\"cannabis\" is the term for marijuana in many nations outside the\r\nUSA.&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mapinc.org\/find?BK=green+party+cannabis&amp;YY1=1997\r\n&nbsp; <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<b><i>*POWER LINKS. INTERNATIONAL. Saner Cannabis and Drug Policies\r\nworldwide.<\/i><\/b> Older compilation of many <b><i> world press articles. Many with Green Party info.\r\n<\/i><\/b> In\r\nchronological order. [Click table of contents\r\n(TOC) names, not the TOC URLs.]<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/homepages.go.com\/homepages\/m\/a\/r\/marthag1\/power_links.htm\r\n and&nbsp;<br>\r\ngo to the \"research\" section at:<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.cannabis.com\/linkscgi\/#research<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>-------------------------------------------<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" bg cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\">\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td><b><i>Tables, charts.&nbsp;<\/i><\/b>\r\n    <\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*WORLD DRUG WAR CHARTS. JUST THE\r\nCHARTS.<\/i><\/b>   Tables and rates. For incarceration, race, jail, prison, cannabis, drugs, mandatory minimums, drug related crime, poverty, murder, and more.  Revised. Very few notes.&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/charts2.htm<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<b><i>USA. 6.3 million people were on probation, in jail or\r\nprison, or on parole at yearend 1999 -- 3.1% of all U.S. adult residents.&nbsp;<br>\r\n<\/i><\/b>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/charts2.htm\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" bg>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td bg>\r\n\r\n<p><b>&gt;[code]&lt;font\r\n      face=Courier New&gt;_____________________<br>\r\n      &gt;23456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901<br>\r\n      <\/b><b>&gt;Fixed_width_Courier_font_lines_up_columns.________ <\/b><b><br>\r\n      <\/b><b>&gt; http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/charts2.htm<\/b><b>\r\n      ______<br>\r\n      &gt;<\/b><b>Persons_under_U.S._correctional_supervision.______\r\n      <br>\r\n      &gt;__________________________________________________<br>\r\n      &gt;_____June30____Dec.31__Dec.31__Dec.31_____________<br>\r\n      &gt;_____Jail______Prison__Parole__Probation___Total__<br>\r\n      &gt;__________________________________________________<br>\r\n      &gt;1975___________________143,164____________________<br>\r\n      &gt;1976___________________147,539____________________<br>\r\n      &gt;1977___________285,486_173,632___816,525__________<br>\r\n      &gt;1978_158,394___294,396_177,847___899,305_1,529,942<br>\r\n      &gt;1979___________301,470_217,697_1,080,385__________<br>\r\n      &gt;1980_182,288___319,598_220,438_1,118,097_1,840,400<br>\r\n      &gt;1981_195,085___360,029_225,539_1,225,934_2,006,600<br>\r\n      &gt;1982_207,853___402,914_224,604_1,357,264_2,192,600<br>\r\n      &gt;1983_221,815___423,898_246,440_1,582,947_2,475,100<br>\r\n      &gt;1984_233,018___448,264_266,992_1,740,948_2,689,200<br>\r\n      &gt;1985_254,986___487,593_300,203_1,968,712_3,011,500<br>\r\n      &gt;1986_272,736___526,436_325,638_2,114,621_3,239,400<br>\r\n      &gt;1987_294,092___562,814_355,505_2,247,158_3,459,600<br>\r\n      &gt;1988_341,893___607,766_407,977_2,356,483_3,714,100<br>\r\n      &gt;1989_393,303___683,367_456,803_2,522,125_4,055,600<br>\r\n      &gt;1990_403,019___743,382_531,407_2,670,234_4,348,000<br>\r\n      &gt;1991_424,129___792,535_590,442_2,728,472_4,535,600<br>\r\n      &gt;1992_441,781___850,566_658,601_2,811,611_4,762,600<br>\r\n      &gt;1993_455,500___909,381_676,100_2,903,061_4,944,000<br>\r\n      &gt;1994_479,800___990,147_690,371_2,981,022_5,141,300<br>\r\n      &gt;1995_499,300_1,078,542_679,421_3,077,861_5,335,100<br>\r\n      &gt;1996_510,400_1,127,528_679,733_3,164,996_5,482,700<br>\r\n      &gt;1997_557,974_1,176,564_694,787_3,296,513_5,725,800<br>\r\n      &gt;1998_584,372_1,224,469_696,385_3,670,591_6,126,300<br>\r\n      &gt;1999_596,485_1,284,894_712,713_3,773,624_6,318,900<br>\r\n      &gt;__________________________________________________<br>\r\n      &gt;_____Jail_____Prison___Parole__Probation__Total___<br>\r\n      &gt;____________________________________&lt;\/font&gt;[\/code]<br>\r\n<\/b>\r\n      &gt; http:\/\/www.ojp.usdoj.gov\/bjs\/glance\/corr2.txt\r\n      ______\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n    <\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<em><strong>BLACK AND WHITE MALE PRISONERS per 100,000\r\nmale residents in the U.S. <\/strong><\/em>(of same race as inmate). Compared to\r\napartheid South Africa. The USA rates do not include jail inmates (which would\r\nfurther increase the US rates).<br>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" bg>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td bg><b>&gt;[code]<\/b><b>&lt;font\r\n      face=Courier New&gt;________________\r\n      <\/b><b><br>\r\n      &gt;234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456<br>\r\n      &gt;Fixed_width_Courier_font_lines_up_columns.___<br>\r\n      &gt; http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/charts2.htm<\/b><b>\r\n      _<br>\r\n      &gt;________________________________________<br>\r\n      &gt;Male_prisoners_per_100,000_male_________<br>\r\n&gt;residents_of_same_race_as_inmate._______<br>\r\n&gt;No_jail_inmates_for_US_numbers._________<br>\r\n&gt;________________________________________<br>\r\n&gt;1993_was_the_last_apartheid_year._______<br>\r\n      &gt;________________________________________<br>\r\n&gt;_______________________________South____<br>\r\n      &gt;_____________USA_____USA_______Africa___<br>\r\n      &gt;Year_________White___Black_____Black____<br>\r\n      &gt;1985_________246_____1,559______________<br>\r\n      &gt;1990_________339_____2,376______________<br>\r\n&gt;1993___________________________851______<br>\r\n      &gt;1995_________461_____3,250______________<br>\r\n      &gt;__________________________&lt;\/font&gt;[\/code]<br>\r\n      <\/b>\r\n      &gt; http:\/\/www.sentencingproject.org\/pubs\/pubs.html&nbsp;__&nbsp;<br>\r\n      &gt; http:\/\/www.ojp.usdoj.gov\/bjs\/pub\/ascii\/p96.txt\r\n      ____<br>\r\n      &gt; http:\/\/www.csdp.org\/factbook\/racepris.htm&nbsp;______<br>\r\n      &gt;\r\nhttp:\/\/www.sentencingproject.org\/policy\/9070.htm\r\n      \r\n    <\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>----------------------------------------------<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n&nbsp; <\/p>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" bg width=\"100%\">\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td><b><i>Universal\r\n      Healthcare-based, HARM REDUCTION, drug reform. Greens versus Libertarians.<\/i><\/b> \r\n\r\n    <\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The separate and growing power of the corporate prison industrial complex. I\r\npledge allegiance to Wackenhut. Libertarians actually like the idea of\r\nprivatizing prisons.&nbsp; <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><i>\"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the\r\npeople tolerate <b> the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger\r\nthan their democratic state<\/b> itself. <\/i><b><i> That, in essence, is fascism<\/i><\/b><i> - ownership of\r\ngovernment by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling power.\r\nAmong us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is\r\ngrowing.\"<\/i> &nbsp;<br>\r\n-<b>President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.<\/b> (One Thousand Americans,\r\nGeorge Seldes, page 5.)<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.emperors-clothes.com\/articles\/randy\/swas3.htm <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><i>\"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.\"<\/i>\r\n<b><i>\r\n-Mussolini<\/i><\/b>\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><i>\"The only difference between Bush and Gore is the velocity with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock at the door.\"<\/i><br>\r\n<b><i>-Ralph Nader  (Green\r\nParty presidential candidate)<\/i><\/b>\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><i><b>The\r\ninsane worldwide drug war, the prison-industrial complex, and the CIA's (and\r\nothers') far-right, drug-funded, covert operation, death squad network worldwide\r\nis being dismantled outside the USA mainly through\r\nHARM REDUCTION drug reform, often led by Greens.<\/b> <\/i> This has been occurring mainly in\r\nWestern Europe and is spreading to other Western industrialized nations such as\r\nAustralia, New Zealand, and Canada.&nbsp;\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i> Prison is being less and less used,\r\nespecially for soft drugs.&nbsp;Drug maintenance, voluntary treatment, and\/or\r\nmandatory treatment outside prison is being implemented for hard drugs. <\/i><\/b> Prison\r\nis used less and less for all drug users, or not at all. Crime due to drugs is\r\nmuch lowered in the regions affected. Drunk driving, deaths due to driving while\r\nintoxicated, domestic violence due to alcohol, etc. are all drug harms that are\r\nbeing lowered through more targeted education and laws. Germany has drastically\r\nreduced drunk driving and driving-while-intoxicated deaths. By much lower blood\r\nalcohol limits, and loss of driver's license for a period of time depending on\r\nthe level of blood alcohol.&nbsp;\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Europe is exposing death squad groups in Latin America\r\n(some are drug-funded) and death squad leaders new and old (such as Chile's\r\nU.S.-supported ex-president and mass-murderer Augusto\r\nPinochet). The latest \"Plan Colombia\" military and death-squad\r\napproach to the drug war has been strongly opposed by European governments.\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*9-00. Europe Leading The Way To Smarter Drug\r\nLaws.<\/i><\/b>&nbsp;One of the most thorough and understandable histories of harm\r\nreduction drug reform in one article. (Canadian newspaper article from the Ottawa Citizen).<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.cannabisnews.com\/news\/thread7039.shtml\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>Nearly\r\nall Western nations other than the USA have universal healthcare.<\/i><\/b> It allows\r\nmuch more comprehensive care of drug users who desire help.&nbsp;It is essential\r\nfor in-depth harm reduction drug reform, since many drug users can't afford the\r\nhealthcare help they desire and\/or need.\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>The USA ranks badly when compared against other\r\nWestern industrialized nations concerning infant mortality rates, life\r\nexpectancy, child poverty rates, etc.. <\/i><\/b> Yet the USA spends far more yearly per\r\ncapita per person for total, combined, private and public, healthcare\r\nexpenditures. Much money in the USA is wasted on paperwork, overly priced drugs,\r\nand for care that is given far too late and when it is most expensive. Over\r\n70,000 (mostly untested and unsafe) chemicals saturate the air, food, water,\r\nworkplace, homes, etc. in the USA.\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>Links below have healthcare statistics and\r\nrankings for many nations. For example; overall performance, infant\r\nmortality, life expectancy, total health expenditures<\/i><\/b> per capita in\r\ndollars, or total expenditures as a percent of GDP (Gross Domestic Product =\r\ntotal economic output of a nation).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*WHO. World Health Reports 2000 and 1999.\r\nStatistics. Select topic<\/i><\/b> and then click. Pulls up ranked stats for all\r\ncountries.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www-nt.who.int\/whosis\/statistics\/whr_statistics\/select.cfm\r\nand&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www-nt.who.int\/whosis\/statistics\/menu.cfm?path=statistics,basic\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*OECD Health Data 2000- FAD (Frequently Asked Data). Links to 18 tables<\/i><\/b>\r\non the web.&nbsp; OECD = Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.oecd.org\/els\/health\/software\/fad.htm\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*OECD Health Data 2000. Total health costs. % GDP. 1960-98.<\/i><\/b><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.oecd.org\/els\/health\/software\/fad16.htm&nbsp;\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><i><b>*IDB Aggregations. Select \"Mortality Measures\" to get infant\r\nmortality rates and life expectancies<\/b><\/i> for all nations for any year\r\nselected. In one list! IDB = International Data Base of the U.S. Census Bureau.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.census.gov\/ipc\/www\/idbagg.html&nbsp;\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*Nader Calls for Single-Payer\r\nHealth Care System. July 29, 2000. <\/i><\/b> \"Ralph Nader today called\r\nfor a universal health care system in the U. S. which would be similar to the\r\nsingle-payer system in Canada. Nader noted that in the U. S. 24 cents of every\r\ndollar spent on health care goes to administrative costs compared to 11 cents in\r\nCanada. He said the difference could go a long way in covering the 47 million\r\nAmericans who now have no health insurance.\"<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.votenader.org\/press\/000729SinglePay.html\r\nand&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.votenader.org\/press\/000827healthcare.html\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>In the USA: Centrist, leftist, Green, European, and other harm\r\nreduction voices for drug reform are mostly kept out of\r\nthe censored U.S. news.<\/i><\/b>\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>Discussion of drug policy in the US mainstream corporate media has been\r\n(until recently) dominated for the most part by fanatical Republicans and fanatical Libertarian\r\nParty members.<\/i><\/b>&nbsp; Rabidly-rightist Republicans (supported by the\r\nfar-right National Rifle Association), \"law-and-order,\" drug warriors want ever-longer prison sentences. They\r\nhave been opposed (in the media) by equally-hard-right (at least on economic\r\nissues),\r\n\"sell-all-hard-drugs-in-the-cereal-sections-of-grocery-stores\"\r\nLibertarian Party members. As rabid rightists all three organizations\r\nreligiously oppose\r\nuniversal healthcare and most aspects of the safety net.\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>What a ridiculous and stark choice!\r\nHarm\r\nreduction drug reform is a cheaper 'THIRD WAY\" alternative that is working NOW.<\/i><\/b>\r\nThe Libertarian Party (LP) fanatically opposes such compromise, gradualism, harm reduction based on universal healthcare, the\r\nsafety net, etc..&nbsp;The LP is basically a cult of true believers and\r\nideologues.\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>Major stockholders of most big mainstream news\r\ncorporations are rich. Therefore most of them are Republican or rightist.<\/i><\/b>\r\nAllowing only Libertarian opposition to the drug war favors rightist politics\r\nin general, because Libertarians make Republican drug warriors look rational and\r\ncentrist in comparison. All while the media acts as if they are allowing a \"debate.\"&nbsp;\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i> Yet both sides of the \"debate\" are on the hard\r\nright!<\/i><\/b> Both talk about opposing government spending, yet both support a\r\nvigorous (and expensive) police and military. Libertarians believe\r\ngovernment spending is OK for services to protect their property rights. Such as\r\npolice, military, civil courts, contract law courts, criminal courts (to get\r\nback their property from criminals), etc..\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>The government wastes an incredible amount money. Agreed.<\/i><\/b> It\r\nwastes it in the areas Libertarians actually approve of. Get the picture? Property\r\nover mere people. That is the rightist mantra.&nbsp;\r\n<\/p><p><b><i>What is important are spending PRIORITIES, and keeping total taxes as a\r\npercent of the economy lower<\/i><\/b> than it is now. My priorities are the\r\nsafety net and universal healthcare-based harm reduction drug reform.<\/p>\r\n<p><b><i>The USA spends ONE-HALF of ALL the world's military spending. NATO\r\nshould be taking on MUCH more<\/i><\/b> of the West's share of military spending.\r\n<\/p><p><b><i>Charity will never cover the needs of the safety net and universal\r\nhealthcare-based harm reduction drug reform.<\/i><\/b> So this is an obvious area\r\nwhere government needs to do what people can't do for themselves. This happens\r\nto be the exact logic used by Libertarian ideologues for military and police\r\nspending. They are areas where doing it via the private sector just wouldn't be\r\npractical or feasible.<\/p>\r\n<p><b><i>Police and court and prison money have become the new safety net.<\/i><\/b>\r\n\"3 hots and a cot\" in a prison cell. With free (unwanted) sex via\r\nregular prison rape.&nbsp;\r\n<\/p><p>Universal healthcare is cheaper than Libertarian healthcare for the few.\r\nAmazing but true. A real safety net is cheaper than prisons and courts and\r\npolice. Amazing but true.\r\n<\/p><p><b><i>Green Harm reduction drug reform is cheaper than prisons and courts and\r\npolice.<\/i><\/b> Amazing but true.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>To explore working alternatives to this rightist drug policy insanity in the\r\nUSA media, see\r\nthe section called \"Politics 101\" farther down about \"big tent\" harm\r\nreduction drug\r\nreform worldwide.<\/i><\/b> And check out :) this surprising (to Libertarians) link:\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*7-00. July, 2000. Portugal. Socialists\r\nlegalize drug use! BBC.<\/i><\/b> The funny thing in this article is that relative\r\nto the Socialists, the Social Democrats are considered conservative. :-) And\r\n\"decriminalization\" is the more accurate description.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.cannabisnews.com\/news\/thread6323.shtml\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>-----------------------------------------------\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" bg>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>\r\n      <b><i> The MAJORITY (!!!) of the\r\n      2 MILLION U.S. inmates are incarcerated because of the insane U.S. DRUG WAR!&nbsp;The Drug-war Industrial Complex.&nbsp;<br>\r\n      <\/i><\/b>http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/charts2.htm\r\n      \r\n    <\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"6\" bg bordercolorlight=\"#FFFF00\" bordercolordark=\"#00FF00\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"8\">\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"421\">\r\n\r\n <b><i>The U.S. drug war inmate MAJORITY is shown by adding together\r\ndrug crimes, crimes to get money for drugs, and drug-related parole violations.<\/i><\/b>\r\n\r\n    <\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n<p> &nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p> <b><i>\"Nearly one in four\r\npersons (23.7%) imprisoned in the United States is currently imprisoned for a\r\ndrug offense. <\/i><\/b>The number of persons behind bars for drug offenses\r\n(458,131) is roughly the same as the entire prison and jail population in 1980\r\n(474,368).\" From the July 2000 report, \"Poor Prescription: The Costs of Imprisoning Drug Offenders in the United States.\"<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.cjcj.org\/drug\/exsumm.html\r\nand&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.drcnet.org\/wol\/index.html#distortion\r\nand&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/drcnet.org\/wol\/147.html#risingnumbers<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p> <b><i>In addition, \"The FBI has reported that\r\nalmost one-third of people convicted of robbery and burglary, and more than one-quarter of\r\npeople convicted of larceny, committed their crimes to get money for drugs. <\/i><\/b> Moreover, 6.5\r\npercent of the murders in the United States in 1990 occurred in narcotics-related\r\ncircumstances\" (The Washington Post, Jan. 18, 1994).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>The Nov. 2, 1995 Chicago Tribune reported: \"The latest Bureau of Justice\r\nStatistics survey of U.S. prison inmates in 1991 found that 27 percent of robbers admitted\r\nthey committed crimes to buy drugs; 30 percent of burglars said so, <\/i><\/b> and 5 percent of\r\nconvicted murderers did.\" Reader's Digest (September 1996) reported: \"The Drug\r\nEnforcement Administration (DEA) estimates that half of all violent crime and a third of\r\nall homicides are tied to narcotics.\"&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" bg>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td><b>&gt;[code]&lt;font\r\n      face=Courier New&gt;________________<br>\r\n      &gt;234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456<br>\r\n      <\/b><b>\r\n      &gt;Fixed_width_Courier_font_lines_up_columns.___<br>\r\n      &gt; http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/charts2.htm<\/b><b>\r\n      _<br>\r\n      &gt;USA_1997*___________________________________<br>\r\n      &gt;Percent_of_parole_violators_in_State_prison.<br>\r\n      &gt;____________________________________________<br>\r\n      &gt;Arrest\/conviction_for_new_offense.______59.5%<br>\r\n      &gt;DRUG_related_violations.________________13.7%<br>\r\n      &gt;Absconded\/failed_to_report._____________19.0%<br>\r\n      &gt;Other_reasons.__________________________13.9%<br>\r\n      &gt;_______________________________&lt;\/font&gt;[\/code]<\/b><br>\r\n      &gt; *Data are from the Survey of Inmates in State Correctional Facilities, 1997. Detail adds to more than 100% because some inmates may have had more than 1 reason.&nbsp;<br>\r\n      http:\/\/www.ojp.usdoj.gov\/bjs\/pub\/ascii\/p99.txt\r\n      &nbsp;<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n<p><i> *The USA\r\nhas 2 million of the world's 8 million prisoners. So, the USA has 5% of the world's\r\npopulation, and 25% of the world's prisoners. The USA surpassed Russia in 1999\r\nand now has the world's highest\r\nincarceration rate! It is 5 to 17 times higher than all other Western (long\r\ndemocratic traditions) nations. 6.3 million people were on probation, in jail or\r\nprison, or on parole at yearend 1999 -- 3.1% of all U.S. adult residents. See:&nbsp;<br>\r\n<\/i><b><i>*WORLD DRUG WAR CHARTS. JUST THE CHARTS.\r\nRevised. Very few notes:&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><i> <br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/charts2.htm\r\n<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>\"JUST SAY NO!\" -Nancy Reagan.<\/i><\/b> From page 100 of the\r\n1998 book \"Drug Crazy\" by Mike Gray: <b>\"In June of 1982,\r\n[Ronald] Reagan\r\nreopened the War on Drugs with a broadside from the Rose Garden. 'We're taking\r\ndown the surrender flag that has flown over so many drug efforts. We're running\r\nup a battle flag.'\"<br>\r\n<\/b>http:\/\/www.drugcrazy.com<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<b><i>\r\n*8-99. Ireland: OPED: Drugs War Invented By Nixon To Extend His Power.&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mapinc.org\/drugnews\/v99.n840.a11.html<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*U.S. Rightist Republican-led (GOP)\r\nDrug War. GOP fascists lead, Democrat flunkies follow. Huge LINKS list!\r\nAmnesty 2000. <\/i><\/b>Revised edition.\r\nGOP's holy war. Drug\r\nwar leaders: rabid right, hate radio, hate television, NRA (National\r\nRifle Association), religious right, (snortin') George Bush the hypocrite, etc..&nbsp;<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/gop.htm&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*Greens\r\nand the Drug War. Worldwide. LINKS.<\/i><\/b> Green Party candidates,\r\npositions, platforms, etc.. Concerning the Drug War, cannabis, marijuana, harm\r\nreduction, etc..\r\nRalph Nader info, links.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/greens.htm\r\nand&nbsp;<br>\r\n<b><i>*9-00. MAP\/DrugNews SEARCH\r\nSHORTCUT for many press articles about RALPH NADER's September 8, 2000 press\r\nconference in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he called for legalizing\r\ncannabis\/marijuana, and for harm reduction drug reform. <\/i><\/b> Ralph Nader\r\n\"called for the legalization of marijuana as part of an overhaul of the\r\nnation's 'self-defeating and antiquated drug laws.' ... Legalizing marijuana,\r\nNader said, would allow the government to regulate and potentially tax its use\r\nlike tobacco products.\" -Albuquerque Journal, September 8, 2000.<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mapinc.org\/find?BK=nader+johnson+santa&amp;YY1=1997&nbsp;\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*USA has 2 million of the world's 8 million inmates. 14K. FREE BANNER!&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/cann.com\/b1\/binaries\/28\/28259.jpg&nbsp;\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b><i>*World Incarceration Rates chart. 28K. FREE CHART GRAPHIC! <\/i><\/b><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/cann.com\/b1\/binaries\/28\/28291.gif\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" bg cellpadding=\"5\">\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>\r\n\r\n<i><b>The failed drug war causes far more harm than\r\ndrugs.<br>\r\n<\/b><\/i>\r\n      \r\n\r\n<p><i><b>The U.S. Drug-war Industrial Complex causes the\r\nworld's highest incarceration rate; years wasted in brutal prisons; broken,\r\none-parent families; many kids orphaned; bloody drug-trade turf wars; high\r\nviolent crime rates relative to all other Western nations; many property crimes\r\nto get money for drugs; lower inner city property values; insane prison, court,\r\nand police spending; spending cut from education and healthcare; violent\r\ncriminals released early to keep in non-violent drug offenders with longer\r\nmandatory minimum sentences; many unnecessary deaths from impure drugs; racist\r\ndrug law enforcement and sentencing; racial profiling; private prisons for\r\nprofits; powerful prison guard PACs supporting ever more prisons; rampant\r\ncorruption; drug-funded, CIA-supported, death squads throughout Latin America\r\nfor decades; Bill of Rights being shredded in the USA ...<\/b><\/i>\r\n      <\/p>\r\n\r\n    <\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>----------------------------------------------\r\n<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/greens.htm","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Ralph Nader and Greens worldwide. Drug War, cannabis, marijuana, hemp, etc.. Universal health care and its relation to harm reduction drug reform. Libertarians versus Greens. MANY LINKS and charts. Please vote for Ralph Nader. Stop supporting the Republican-led, Democrat-installed drug war. Please distribute widely.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2000\/11\/drug_war._.html","filesize":"52.7 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2000\/11\/4318.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}