(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) The Drug Enforcement Agency just admitted that cannabis has never killed anyone. Ever. They also acknowledged that the little green plant, which has been used across civilizations for thousands of years, causes “merriment” and “happiness.” But they still want to keep it illegal.
21st Century Wire says…
Last April, the UN general assembly met to discuss how the world’s nations can “combat the global drug problem.” It was just the latest non-event in a long line of categorical failures, led by the United States.
Bolivia’s President Evo, cnter, attends a ritual ceremony honoring Pachamama, Mother Earth, at the government palace in La Paz, Bolivia. (A/Juan Karita)
President Evo Morales recalled today that the expulsion of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. military base allowed Bolivia to recover economic and political sovereignty.
“I do not regret the decision about the DEA and the military base,” the president said in a public ceremony marking the 47th anniversary of the municipality of Villa Tunari, in the central region of Cochabamba.
Honduran soldiers stand next to a plane in Brus Laguna , Honduras. A joint Honduran-U.S DEA drug raid targeted civilians in the remote jungle area, killing four riverboat passengers and injuring four others. (AP/Rodrigo Abd)
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(ANTIMEDIA) One-third of FDA-approved drugs were later found to have safety risks, according to a recent analysis of drugs cleared by the agency between 2001 and 2010.
According to the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, “Among 222 novel therapeutics approved by the FDA from 2001 through 2010, 71 (32.0%) were affected by a postmarket safety event.”
(ANTIMEDIA) Before the heroin epidemic became a nationwide problem, claiming thousands of lives, Plano, Texas, was already entrenched. And like many of the places caught in the crosshairs of the continuing heroin crisis, Plano is the last place that one would expect to be swept into the opioid tidal wave.
This week’s documentary screening, curated by our editorial team at 21WIRE.
This was quite a groundbreaking investigation and production at the time, which aired on US public television in 1988, detailing the US government’s own role, along with the CIA – in trafficking in illicit narcotics proceeds that were used to shore up the Contra “freedom fighters” effort in Nicaragua.
“The history of the CIA runs parallel to criminal and drug operations throughout the world, but it’s coincidental. Is the CIA using drug money to finance covert operations?”
This week on the New World Next Week: Pablo Escobar's son says his dad ran drugs for the CIA; Wendy's lays off 1,000 minimum wage workers for automatic kiosks; and Americans have fewer TVs on average than when we started making this show.
This week on the New World Next Week: Pablo Escobar's son says his dad ran drugs for the CIA; Wendy's lays off 1,000 minimum wage workers for automatic kiosks; and Americans have fewer TVs on average than when we started making this show.
