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Here I am. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We need to change our drug forbition law. Too. That DRY LAW produces violence and deaths. If you come to Rio de Janeiro, call me: Phone : 55-21-9255-3145

First time at this. I hope I did it all right. Glad to see the Drug Reform movement getting empowered and organized. I will be checking this site regularly. I am an HIV Positive man in Oregon who is registered with the state for Medical use. With minimal state "coverage" I feel blessed to be able to have what I need to help me have a quality of life that has allowed me to be relatively healthy for almost 18 years!! If we continue organizing and educating people, I am confident we will prevail in ending prohibition of all kinds.

im a 16 year old pot smoking kid nothing to do with my life besides to live ill do what ever it takes to stop this damn drug war.....

It has been a scandal festering for a year now. Thousands of people being held in the Orleans Parish Prison and other facilities when Hurricana Katrina hit a year ago today are still behind bars. They have never seen a judge or had a hearing. They just sit. While the rest of the local criminal justice apparatus is up and running, the courts remain a mess and most of the public defenders are gone.

testing this new blog thing on DRC net. I am not sure what to write here.

Dear sirs I am so pleased to see that somebody is doing a proper figth against drug traffic. Please write it in spanish to improve our participation in Latin America I am sure many people will join you.

I like the new site. Keep up the great work. I am going to make StoptheDrugWar.org my first stop when I log on each day. Best, Clyde

Music lovers have long appreciated Brazilian composer and musician Gilberto Gil's enormous talent and his contributions to bossa nova, tropicalismo, and other uniquely Brazilian music forms. Of course, Gil was never just a musician; he and Caetano Veloso, another giant of Brazilian music, were imprisoned by the military dictatorship in 1969 for "anti-government activities," and the pair went to exile in London and the US after they were released.

When I first became aware of the drug war, I was a spirited anti-racism activist living in the Deep South. I chiefly saw drug prohibition as a war against people of color and wanted the crusade to end. I didn't yet know about the suffering of debilitated cannabis users, the widespread and avoidable risks to public health caused by abstinence-only policies, and the fierce linkage between the artificially inflated street prices of illegals and the subsequent emergence of crack and meth as a means to cut corners and cost. There was a time when I simply hoped that, in the spirit of bi-partisan unity and brotherly love, lawmakers would rewrite the prohibition rulebook in order to make the war "more equal."