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Drug Control Becomes Speech Control

Akagi2 Wrote: Sep 09, 2009 4:34 PM

No. It is constitutionl thanks to Marbury v. Madison in 1803. And to that we have the Commerce Clause and Wickard v. Filburn and on and on--it has nothing to do with the UN--although the US did ratify two important treaties which relate to drug prohibition. The International Opium Convention which the US joined in 1915 (and later various additions) and the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961, but the US was involved in drug prohibition well before the 1961 convention.

"I just wish that the party who claims to want to protect the constitution would get off their butts and do something about it."

There is only one party that does that and that is the Libertarian Party, but few are willing to support it. And it seems...

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Drug Control Becomes Speech Control

When the government accuses a doctor of running a "pill mill," prosecutors portray every aspect of his practice in a sinister light. Prescribing painkillers becomes drug trafficking, applying for insurance reimbursement becomes fraud, making bank deposits becomes money laundering and working with people at the office becomes conspiracy.

When Siobhan Reynolds thinks a doctor has been unfairly targeted for such a prosecution, she tries to counter the official narrative by highlighting the patients he has helped and dramatizing the conflict between drug control and pain control. But now the government has turned its reinterpretive powers on Reynolds, portraying the pain treatment...

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