So lets see - the Dutch have a significantly lower teenage frequent use of cannabis than the US and it has declined by pretty much the same percentage over time.

Yet in the Netherlands it's essentially legal for adults and in the US, over that time period, marijuana arrests went from 400,000 a year to around 800,000.

And Dutch youth have lower use rates of hard drugs than the US.

So which policy do you think is working better?

The black eye, the salt in the wound, now go for the gonads Dennis! Slice, Slice Kapt.!

Johnny Pee's little bureaucratic satrapy has enjoyed unparalleled immunity from true and effective Congressional oversight thanks to being shielded by the Republican domination of the political machinery. That shield has been removed.

It was bad enough the GAO gave the ONDCP a black eye thanks to this report: Aspects of Advertising Contract Mismanaged by the Government; Contractor Improperly Charged Some Costs http://tinyurl.com/2tqn7h This is the one where the GAO took the ONDCP to task for being ripped off by the advertsing wonks they hired to make those insulting 2002 Super Bowl ads. There were a couple of indictments out of that one; pity the ONDCP personnel didn't catch a little of the Hell those ad wonks did; they're just as guilty in my book.

Even worse when the GAO released this one: Contractor’s National Evaluation Did Not Find That the Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign Was Effective in Reducing Youth Drug Use: http://tinyurl.com/2vfdkn This one just poured salt in the wound made by the previous report; not only was their effort a flop, but a flop that thudded into the ground with the force of 1 billion dollars plus. That's a lot of treatment center budgets.

Both eyes blackened and bruised, and they have the gall to say that they are effective? They should lay off the alcohol; it's becoming evident they are suffering brain cell loss from claiming that they are having a positive effect when every government yardstick used says otherwise.

The numbers, of course, are driven by cannabis. Any use at any time of any drug for 12th graders was 54% in 2001 and 48% in 2006. Probably just outside the statistical noise. Drug use excluding marijuana was 31% in 2001 and 27% in 2006 - probably within the sampling noise.

More interesting, inhalent use essential steady over this period for 8th graders at around 17% ( actually went up a bit in between and then down a bit, all within the noise, I think).

So how successful is a policy where the main change in the last 5 years MAY have been a slight decline in pot use while inhalent abuse stay the same and misuse of powerful prescription drugs may have gone up?

It's not going to be as easy for them as it always has...and the thing is...the more people they arrest... the more our case is made.

Flood the world with cannabis and put out the fires of hatred, violence and intolerance. GROW, GROW, GROW!

CANNABIS: A history. Martin Booth.:

...'Twenty-three months later, Nixon announced to the US Congress a war on drugs, declared the situation was tantamount to a national emergency and instituted the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention and the Office for Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE). These were given the right to freeze suspected drug dealers' assets and seize property and bank accounts. US Embassies abroad were told to target drug producers and millions of dollars were put aside for crop-substitution programmes, replacing opium poppies, coca bushes and marijuana with commercial fruit or vegetable crops.

ADMINISTRATIVELY, THE WAR ON DRUGS ALSO RESTRUCTURED THE AMERICAN LAW-ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM.'

Yeah!!! They restructured it alright. They took away Peace Officers and gave us War Officers. WAR AGAINST US IS DISJUSTICE! WAR AGAINST US IS DISJUSTICE! Not to mention unconstitutional.

'By 1968, the FBN was in turmoil. It had become inefficient and, worse, corrupt. Additionally, it was also at permanent loggerheads with the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control (BDAC), the enforcement arm of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In 1968, these two bureaus were combined into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNADD) in the US Justice Department. In 1973, Nixon amalgamated the BNDD, ODALE and all other drug-associated offices, such as the Office of National Narcotics Intelligence (ONNI), into one unit. It was called the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) which, by the mid-1970s, had about ten thousand agents operating world-wide.'

And the entire world has suffered NEEDLESSLY since. It's up to us to heal the world. We must Free Cannabis.

This was what I saw last night.

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His DEAth legacy is Blind, Delusional and just as addicted to legal drugs as he was. Pray for it's DEAth. Obituary: THE DRUG WAR DIED ON -- NOVEMBER 2007, INTERNATIONALLY.

Here's something interesting about President Gerald Ford:

'One of those demanding the reassessment of Anslinger's and his successor's policies was President Gerald Ford who did not have the views on drug abuse held by his predecessor, Richard Nixon. Ford preferred that federal policy should admit the reality of drug abuse and ordered yet another commission to look at the issue. In 1975, it reiterated the previous findings that marijuana was not a threat to society, the elimination of drug abuse was unlikely and government actions could contain the problem and limit any adverse effects. It also suggested that federal funding should target the big international drug cartels not small domestic growers.'

Reform was within our grasp until Mexico started planting opium poppies along with cannabis and the rest is Drug War history.

CN NF: PUB LTE: The Drug Deal, The Aurora, (05 Feb 2007) http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v07/n151/a10.html?176 Russell Barth, Federal Medical Marijuana License Holder

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We elected a Democratic Congress with the understanding that they were to stop this war. Incredibly, leadership is falling back on narcissistic habits of posturing for imaginary electoral advantage, while the troops they insist we support die in greater numbers than ever.

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Often involuntarily....they use the kiddies, who probably don't know or can't read a constitution. Let alone, protect their own freedoms.

It's been said before: these numbers can't be accurate because of the incrimination associated with the illegal status.