Christie: War on Drugs a ‘failure’…
Christie: War on Drugs a ‘failure’… – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called the war on drugs a “failure” during a speech at the Washington, DC-based Brookings Institution on Monday, and tied his objection to the decades-long campaign to his anti-abortion stance. According to Christie, drug offenders in New Jersey are sent “back out on the street after their time of incarceration” with “no treatment.” He said this was the reason “why recidivism rates go up and why they don’t get better.” “For all first-time non-violent drug offenders, we have to make drug treatment mandatory,” Christie said. “Because, if you’re pro-life, as I am, you can’t be pro-life just in the womb. Every life is precious, and every one of God’s creatures can be redeemed, but they won’t be if we ignore them.” “We have the obligation to understand that addiction is a disease and that we need to give people a chance to overcome that disease and restore dignity and meaning to their lives,” he added. Christie also used his time to compare Obamacare’s rules governing Medicaid amounted to “extortion,” and said he was glad that that provision was struck down by the Supreme Court. “I was glad that the Supreme Court ruled that extortion is still illegal in America,” he said. “And that’s a relief because Obamacare on Medicaid to the states was extortion. It essentially said, you expand your program to where we tell you, and if you don’t, we’re taking all the rest of your money away. Well that’s extortion. It was in a whole bunch of nice words in the …
The history of pot
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Jim Rogan, R-CA, on March 30, 1998, in Washington, D.C. Rogan's office was targeted because he voted for favorable legislation in 1995, citing that a relative found relief by using the drug, and then voted for a House resolution proclaiming opposition …
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Call for Tougher Drug Laws
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Brian Morales, foreign affairs officer from the US Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, who is one of the authors of the report, told a gathering in Washington DC that the communities in Liberia with the …
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On World AIDS Day 2012, a National Institutes of Health Review, VOA Video
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The International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., this past summer energized HIV/AIDS researchers and focused on the potential benefits of broadly implementing scientifically proven HIV prevention and treatment tools. On World AIDS Day, the …
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