It’s Official: We’ve Lost The War On Drugs..

…and the Global Commission on Drug Policy says that it is now tine to stop locking up the individual user.   

Global Commission on Drug Policy Report (English)  (PDF)

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The Global Commission on Drug Policy, which includes several former heads of state and UN officials, has released a report calling the global war on drugs a failure.

"The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world," the report reads.

The report calls for an end to the "criminalization, marginalization and stigmatization of people who use drugs but who do no harm to others," and for governments to experiment with ways to regulate drugs so as to undercut organized crime and improve public health.

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Chris Christie’s Plan to Pay for Those Helicopter Flights….

   …seems to be cutting the income levels  in order for the poor to be able to receive Medicaid in the state of New Jersey.

Adults in a family of three that makes as little as $103 a week would earn too much to qualify for health care provided by Medicaid under a sharply curtailed program Gov. Chris Christie wants the federal government to approve this year, according to state officials and advocates briefed on the proposal.[...]

The Christie administration is expected to propose cutting the maximum income level of Medicaid from $24,645 to $5,317 a year for a family of three [...“That is about a third of the poverty level,” Castro said. “That means that an uninsured parent working full time at a minimum-wage job wouldn’t be eligible. … A parent who works half-time for minimum wage wouldn’t even qualify.

  Those darned Republican family values. Can’t live with them.

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