The Unholy Alliance Between Psychiatrists and Psychotropic Drugs: 36,000 Deaths a Year? Psychotropic drugs is a story of big money. These drugs fuel a $330-billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure -- and now kill an estimated 36,000 people every year, with the death toll still rising.This is part one of a riveting 10-part documentary containing more than 175 interviews with lawyers, mental health experts, the families of victims and the survivors themselves.

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NOTE: TO THE SKEPTICAL. Try not to make a BIG deal out of the link of this organization who made this documentary to Scientology, thinking that this is all propaganda and misinformation.
I hope some of you are smarter than that.

Christopher Fichtner is a psychiatrist and the former mental health director for the state of Illinois. In his new book, Cannabinomics: The Marijuana Policy Tipping Point, Fichtner predicts that marijuana policy is about to change radically. As Fichtner points out, three public policy trajectories are converging.

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During marijuana harvest season in the summer, local law enforcement agencies find many cannabis-growing operations hidden in remote canyons but also in unexpected indoor places.

Recently, authorities have found several significant operations in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties and Los Padres National Forest. Law enforcement officers hope that by busting the local undertakings, they can interrupt the drug trafficking and sales process and make a dent in the illegal narcotics industry.

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Front gegen das NRW-Drogengesetz. Gegen den Plan der neuen Landesregierung, Rauschmittel stärker zu legalisieren, formiert sich starker Protest.

Nach der Polizeigewerkschaft und der CDU schlägt nun die Drogenbeauftragte der Bundesregierung Alarm.

Mechthild Dyckmans (FDP) zum EXPRESS: „Das ist ein falsches Zeichen. In der Drogenpolitik muss es unser gemeinsames Ziel sein, den Konsum zu verringern und insbesondere den Einstieg zu verhindern.

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old shit

"Die Drogen lagen mitten auf der Straße. Ich wollte sie gerade zur nächsten Polizeiinspektion bringen." Mit dieser Ausrede hat ein 40-jähriger Salzburger versucht, seiner Strafe zu entgehen. Bei einer Verkehrskontrolle in Itzling hatten die Beamten ein Kilo Haschisch unter dem Fahrersitz des Autos des Arbeitslosen entdeckt.

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Eine 82-jährige Niederländerin hat im großen Stil Marihuana angebaut und verkauft. Dafür muss sie nun für sechs Monate hinter Gitter, entschied ein Gericht in Maastricht.

sueddeutsche.de

The California Chamber of Commerce and other groups representing employers are starting to line up to oppose the initiative to legalize marijuana, charging that Proposition 19 would allow pot smokers to light up on the job and operate dangerous equipment while stoned.

Stepping up the campaign on Thursday, the chamber released a five-page analysis that starts: "Imagine a workplace where employees show up to work high on marijuana and there is nothing you can do about it."

Allan Zaremberg, the chamber's chief executive, criticized the measure, saying it would set a high bar for employers to act against workers using marijuana by requiring proof that they were actually impaired. "Prop. 19 creates a new protected class of California citizens," he said.

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