Santa Fe Reporter, 07 Nov 2012 – One board member, a psychiatrist, said he was glad the issue was being discussed. After more than three hours of debate over dropping post traumatic stress disorder from the Medical Cannabis Program, the Medical Cannabis Advisory Board unanimously recommending to keep PTSD as a qualifier.
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US NM: Pot Of Gold
Santa Fe Reporter, 31 Jul 2012 – Pricey marijuana and other problems plague medicinal users Of the 16 states that allow medical marijuana, New Mexico is one of only three that haven’t experienced federal government crackdowns, according to Washington, DC-based National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Medical marijuana advocates cite the state Medical Cannabis Program’s stringent rules.
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US AK: OPED: Losing The Word War
Juneau Empire, 22 Jul 2010 – Leonard Pitts Jr. had an excellent editorial entitled "Battle of words in War on Drugs" in the July 19 Juneau Empire. In it, he points out that we have spent untold billions of dollars, ruined untold millions of lives and racked up the highest incarceration rate in the world to fight drug use and he concludes that the War on Drugs is a failure. To help clarify just why it is such a failure I’d like to expand on his thinking about the battle of words a bit. In order to survive as a congruent civilization, all cultures must determine how they will categorize the human behaviors of its members and thereby develop social mores, regulations, laws, rules and social expectations which help to make life more predictable and minimize social chaos. The primary behavioral categories are good, bad, sick, stupid, and crazy. Thus social means are developed to reward the good, punish the bad, cure the sick, educate the stupid, and contain the crazy.
