All Posts Tagged With: "addiction"

What The Drug Warriors Have Given Us

Does anyone still think the “war on drugs” is a good idea?

That may strike some people as an odd question under the circumstances, so let’s take it from another direction. Have you seen the news stories about the violence on the border being perpetrated by the Mexican whiskey and cigarette cartels?

No? That’s probably because there was no such violence and are no such cartels.

So why are there violent cartels in marijuana, cocaine, and heroin but not in whiskey and cigarettes?

All together now: prohibition.

17Jun2009 | Sheldon Richman | 8 comments | Continued

I Never Dream of Nicotine

Ted Roberts is a freelance writer in Huntsville, Alabama.
Such is the intensity of tobacco litigation that every day somewhere in this great nation there’s a judge, lawyer, or juror pondering the evils of the weed. The sun never sets on tobacco litigation. Tobacco is addictive, say the trial lawyers. All I know is that if [...]

1May2003 | Ted Roberts | 0 comments | Continued

Addiction is an Illness

Dr. Berger is President of Richmond Memorial Hospital; Chairman of the Committee on Alcoholism and Narcotics of the New York State Medical Society; president. Medical Society of the City of New York.
Upon pressure from the World Health Organization and other branches of the United Nations, the government of the United Kingdom had announced that after [...]

21Nov2009 | Herbert Berger M.D | 0 comments | Continued