Are
the Drug Laws Constitutional?
"The truth is that behind
Congress's ostensible aim of combating drug misbranding lay its growing
antagonism to the habit of pharmacological self-pleasuring, manifested by
the act's specifically mandating the listing on the label of what were
then the main ingredients of Americans' favorite nostrums: alcohol,
hypnotics, and sedatives." By Thomas
Szasz
Ask Dr.
Shulgin
Drug education CCLE style. World-renowned chemist Dr.
Alexander Shulgin provides reliable answers to questions concerning
drugs.
Center for
Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE)
Our law and policy center frequently issues alerts and legal analysis of
proposed legislation, new laws and recent court decisions concerning drugs
and drug policy.
Cognitive
Liberty Legal Network
If you're a drug defense attorney or legal professional interested in
defending and helping to elaborate on the fundamental right to cognitive
liberty, please join our Cognitive
Liberty Legal Defense Network. If you've been arrested, and are
looking for a lawyer skilled in cognitive liberty cases, go
here.
Criminalization
of Drug Use
"America's drug war has always trifled with science. But the
assumption that the presence alone of a particular chemical in a person's
bloodstream is cause for imprisonment replaces the fundamental American
right of presumption of innocence with the police-state mentality of
assumed guilt. Nevertheless, we should not worry. The people in jail cells
are not prisoners, just patients undergoing the new therapy of coerced
abstinence." By Joseph McNamara, D.P.A.
Drug Law Library
Our comprehensive and ever-growing drug law library. State,
federal and international drug laws at your fingertips.
The
Drug War and the Constitution
"The thesis that I want to advance today is that the drug war and
the laws that prohibit the private consumption of certain drugs are
un-Constitutional. Prohibition laws, themselves, violate every tenet of
limited government that is embodied in our Constitution." By Paul
Hager.
On Cognitive
Liberty
Series of essays by Richard Glen Boire which elaborate on the
individual's fundamental right to cognitive liberty and autonomy of mind.
Includes a running critique of drug prohibition.
Salvia
Divinorum Defense Fund
Salvia divinorum a psychoactive plant traditionally used by
the Mazatecs for divination may become the next drug prohibited by the DEA.
The Alchemind Society has established a defense fund to prepare a
professional objection to any such move by the DEA. Donations are
tax deductible.
2002 Canadian Senate
Report on Cannabis: Summary
As the ever more costly domestic war on drugs redoubles its
paternalistic efforts to protect Americans from themselves, the Canadian
government begins to see the merit of a drug policy based on allowing
Canadians to decide for themselves. CCLE associate legal counsel Julie
Ruiz-Sierra summarizes the revolutionary Canadian senate report.
Schaffer
Library of Drug Policy
Fantastic collection of online texts concerning drug policy.
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