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Ending the Global Drug War: Voices from the Front Lines

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“Ever since the War on Drugs, everything has hit the fan,” says Romesh Bhattacharji, former Narcotics Commissioner of India. Rather than continue the unnecessary and costly drug war, Bhattacharji advises the United States to simply “Relax, take it easy, [and] tolerate.” Last month, at the Cato Institute’s “Ending the Global War on Drugs” conference, Bhattacharji’s sentiments Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Big Government Discovery Date : 13/12/2011 15:41 Number of articles : 3

Ending the Global Drug War: Voices from the Front Lines

Dispatch from the Front Lines of a War on Science

Photo via Wired You may have heard of Simon Singh long before his name rose to the top of the list of those championing sound science: He’d written two bestselling books, Fermat’s Enigma and the Big Bang . Despite the wide range of subject matter contained in those books, the topic that ended up casting him into controversy was much different — a seemingly benign newspaper article about some of the pitfalls of alternative medicine. He ended up defending his career from a powerful group, the British Chiropractic Association, who sued him for li… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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