Narkopolitik Archive

  • Former UK ambassador to Afghanistan calls for legalisation of drugs. Sir William Patey acknowledges west’s failure to eradicate poppy crops in Afghanistan as he calls for state-regulated drug trade. By Ewen […] 0

    Former UK ambassador to Afghanistan calls for legalisation of drugs, By Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian, 25. June 2014

    Former UK ambassador to Afghanistan calls for legalisation of drugs. Sir William Patey acknowledges west’s failure to eradicate poppy crops in Afghanistan as he calls for state-regulated drug trade. By Ewen […]

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  • Anja Plesner Bloch leader of the “Users Academy” say: “The war on drugs has left a river of victims for more than 50 years!” War on drugs “is an equally […] 0

    Anja Plesner Bloch, leader of the interest organisation “Brugernes (the users) Akademi” – Say: “The War On Drugs – a giant failure.

    Anja Plesner Bloch leader of the “Users Academy” say: “The war on drugs has left a river of victims for more than 50 years!” War on drugs “is an equally […]

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  • John Marks – The Paradox of Prohibition 1. July 1994. By John Marks, Psychiatrist, Chapel Street Clinic, Widnes. Widnes and Runcorn (population 150.000) have had a drug dependency clinic offering […] 1

    20 years ago – John Marks – The Paradox of Prohibition,

    John Marks – The Paradox of Prohibition 1. July 1994. By John Marks, Psychiatrist, Chapel Street Clinic, Widnes. Widnes and Runcorn (population 150.000) have had a drug dependency clinic offering […]

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    (Danish) Forskere: Europa risikerer ny AIDS-epidemi – Videnskab.dk, 30.6. 2014.

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  • “A friend of mine was refused entry into the United States because he has diabetes and needs a daily injection of insulin.” Anybody who hears this statement will almost certainly think […] 0

    Igor Kuzmenko: My Letter to Delegates at AIDS 2012

    “A friend of mine was refused entry into the United States because he has diabetes and needs a daily injection of insulin.” Anybody who hears this statement will almost certainly think […]

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    The Truth About Heroin – UK documentary

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  • The Truth About Addiction – and The Drug War! February 5. 2014. A video by Stefan Moluneux and Freedomain Radio: http://youtu.be/Qp4pEP3X_NY Philip Seymour Hoffman, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, […] 0

    The Truth About Addiction – and The Drug War!

    The Truth About Addiction – and The Drug War! February 5. 2014. A video by Stefan Moluneux and Freedomain Radio: http://youtu.be/Qp4pEP3X_NY Philip Seymour Hoffman, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, […]

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  • http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37572.htm 9/2/2014 By Russell Brand: Philip Seymour Hoffman is Another Victim of Extremely Stupid Drug Laws By Russell Brand In Hoffman’s domestic or sex life there is no undiscovered riddle – the man was a drug addict and, thanks to our drug laws, his death inevitable February 06, 2014 “Information Clearing House ­ “The Guardian”­ Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death was not on the bill. If it’d been the sacrifice of Miley Cyrus or Justin Bieber, that we are invited to anticipate daily, we could delight in the Faustianjustice of the righteous dispatch of a fast­living, sequin­spattered denizen of eMpTyV. We are tacitly instructed to await their demise with necrophilic sanctimony. When the end comes, they screech on Fox and TMZ, it will be deserved. The indignation, luridly baiting us with the sidebar that scrolls from the headline down to hell. But Philip Seymour Hoffman? A middle­aged man, a credible and decorated actor, the industrious and unglamorous artisan ofBroadway and serious cinema? The disease of addiction recognises none of these distinctions. Whilst routinely described as tragic, Hoffman’s death is insufficiently sad to be left un­supplemented in the mandatory posthumous scramble for salacious garnish; we will now be subjected to mournography posing as analysis. I can assure you that there is no as yet undiscovered riddle in his domestic life or sex life, the man was a drug addict and his death inevitable. A troubling component of this sad loss is the complete absence of hedonism. Like a lot of drug addicts, probably most, who “goover”, Hoffman was alone when he died. This is an inescapably bleak circumstance. When we reflect on Bieber’s Louis Vuitton embossed, Lamborghini cortege it is easy to equate addiction with indulgence and immorality. The great actor dying alone denies us this required narrative prang. The reason I am so nonjudgmental of Hoffman or Bieber and so condemnatory of the pop cultural […] 0

    Russell Brand: Philip Seymour Hoffman is Another Victim of Extremely Stupid Drug Laws

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37572.htm 9/2/2014 By Russell Brand: Philip Seymour Hoffman is Another Victim of Extremely Stupid Drug Laws By Russell Brand In Hoffman’s domestic or sex life there is no undiscovered riddle – the man was a drug addict and, thanks to our drug laws, his death inevitable February 06, 2014 “Information Clearing House ­ “The Guardian”­ Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death was not on the bill. If it’d been the sacrifice of Miley Cyrus or Justin Bieber, that we are invited to anticipate daily, we could delight in the Faustianjustice of the righteous dispatch of a fast­living, sequin­spattered denizen of eMpTyV. We are tacitly instructed to await their demise with necrophilic sanctimony. When the end comes, they screech on Fox and TMZ, it will be deserved. The indignation, luridly baiting us with the sidebar that scrolls from the headline down to hell. But Philip Seymour Hoffman? A middle­aged man, a credible and decorated actor, the industrious and unglamorous artisan ofBroadway and serious cinema? The disease of addiction recognises none of these distinctions. Whilst routinely described as tragic, Hoffman’s death is insufficiently sad to be left un­supplemented in the mandatory posthumous scramble for salacious garnish; we will now be subjected to mournography posing as analysis. I can assure you that there is no as yet undiscovered riddle in his domestic life or sex life, the man was a drug addict and his death inevitable. A troubling component of this sad loss is the complete absence of hedonism. Like a lot of drug addicts, probably most, who “goover”, Hoffman was alone when he died. This is an inescapably bleak circumstance. When we reflect on Bieber’s Louis Vuitton embossed, Lamborghini cortege it is easy to equate addiction with indulgence and immorality. The great actor dying alone denies us this required narrative prang. The reason I am so nonjudgmental of Hoffman or Bieber and so condemnatory of the pop cultural […]

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  • The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) NEWS January 29, 2014. Canada opposes harm reduction policies for drug users Draft guidelines for a new global drug control regime will be used to […] 0

    Canada opposes harm reduction policies for drug users

    The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) NEWS January 29, 2014. Canada opposes harm reduction policies for drug users Draft guidelines for a new global drug control regime will be used to […]

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  •  Newheroin-assisted treatment: Recent evidence and current practices of supervised injectable heroin treatment in Europe and beyond. Strang J., Groshkova T., Metrebian N. Lisbon: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug […] 0

    New heroin-assisted treatment: Recent evidence and current practices of supervised injectable heroin treatment in Europe and beyond.

     Newheroin-assisted treatment: Recent evidence and current practices of supervised injectable heroin treatment in Europe and beyond. Strang J., Groshkova T., Metrebian N. Lisbon: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug […]

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