Marc Emery speaks about his Extradition to the USA
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These drug laws are more harmful than all the drugs you can imagine added together and multiplied by the first number you can think of.
Government definition of what constitutes a 'drug' is extraordinarily broad and not based in reality. When a drug is listed illegal, it is defined in law as having no medicinal or pharmaceutical value - and no research can be done on a listed drug.
Psychedelics are not drugs. Marijuana is the oldest medicine known to mankind.
LSD was used during the 60s to treat alcoholism with a success rate in the high 90%s - this essentially makes it a CURE for alcoholism.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uoa-ltf100606.php
MDMA has been used in psychotherapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder with a success rate in the high 90%s - this essentially makes it a CURE for traumatic stress. American soldiers are starting to receive this treatment.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/feb/17/usnews.drugsandalcohol
Pharmaceutical companies aren't interested in cures.
Antidepressants like Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Paxil CR, Effexor, Remeron, and Serzone DOUBLE the suicide risk in young adults.
This is a HUGE political issue. For god's sake it's the 21st century and it's about damn time people started to waken the fuck up.