In a groundbreaking report released this month on the website of The Nation, journalist Lee Fang described how he followed the money behind colon the organizations colon that advocate against drugs, such as the Partnership for Drug Free Kids, CADC (Community colon Anti-Drug Coalition of America) Patrick Kennedy's Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana).
His research led him to several major pharmaceutical companies. colon Purdue Pharmaceuticals (Oxycontin), Abbott Laboratories (Vicodin) and Alkermes colon (Zohydrol) colon were the main contributors mentioned organizations for the fight against drugs.
Despite the fact that opioids such as the above are responsible for about 16,000 deaths per year (more than from heroin and cocaine combined), these companies do nothing to reduce this dependence. However, when it comes to the reform of marijuana use, they are dogmatically opposed.
Law enforcement agencies, some of the major players lobby against reform and legalization uprihodili approximately $ 1 billion of arrests for marijuana from 2001 to 2012. year. Pharmaceutical companies have earned and multiply times the amount (Purdue earned $ 27 billion from the sale of the drug OxyContin colon from 1996) from the sale of drugs for pain relief.
Non-profit anti-drug organization, the third and loudest link lobbies, are financially dependent and funded by federal grant funds for the fight against drugs, which are awarded through the Drug Free Communities Act of 1997, legislation that was passed with the support CADCAM (Community Anti- Drug Coalition of America).
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