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The DENVER POST 6/3/2011 pg. 13a

Global panel calls drug war a failure
By Edith M. Lederer

NEW YORK>> A high-level international panel slammed the war on drugs as a failure Thursday and called on governments to undertake experiments to decriminalize the use of drugs, especially marijuana, to undermine the power of organized crime.

Compiled by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, the report concludes that criminalization and repressive measures have failed with devestating consequences around the world.

"Political leaders and public figures should have the courage to articulate publicly what many of them ackowledge privately: that the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that represssive strategies will not solve the drug problem, and that the war on drugs has not, and cannot, be won, the report said.

The 19-member commission includes former presidents of Mexico, Brazil and Columbia, Greece's prime minister, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, former U.S. officials George Schultz and Paul Volcker, and British billionaire Richard Branson. The commission urged governments to experiment "with models of legal regulation of drugs to undermine the power of organized crime and safeguard the health and security of their citizens." It said this recommendation applies especially to marijuana.

The DENVER POST 6/9/2011 pg 10a

Reports: The White House can't show money spent in drug war helps

WASHINGTON>> The Obama administration is unable to show that the billions of dollars spent in the war on drugs have significantly stemmed the flow of illegal narcotics into the U.S., according to two govermnet reports and outside experts.

The reports specifically criticize the growing use of U.S. contractors, which were paid more that $3 billion to train local prosecutors and police, to help eradicate fields of coca, operate survaillance equipment and otherwise battle the widening drug trade in Latin America in the past five years.

"We are wasting tax dollars and throwing money at a prblem without even knowing what we are getting in return," said Senator Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who chairs the Senate subcommittee that wrote one of the reports, which was released Wednesday.

Administration officials strongly deny that U.S. efforts have failed to reduce production or smuggling.
Tribune Co, Washington Bureau

Johnny "Marijuana" Seed; a legend whose time has come.

Thanks to our Constitutional Rights and the miracle of the web...
we can expand our "grassroots" movement and do our part locally
to spread the word... spread the seed... and, imagine the harvest!

We must get Congress to decriminalize marijuana
and stop perpetuating this gangland style hoodlum attitude
about a plant that has no business being a "controlled substance".