That’s %3.03 of total US drug deaths. (According to the Journal of the American Medical Association’s statistics, March 2004.)

Today’s drug laws aren’t protecting us. After all they exist to protect politicians - they need drug laws to look tough because they’re allied with the real crooks. (Their corporate donors.)

In february 2008, Reuters announced 22,000 Americans died just from one legal drug:

“22,000 lives could have been saved if Trasylol had been taken off the market”
— reuters.com

Those guys are buying vacation homes - they’re rewarded for tricking people into believing their drugs were safe. But who’s jailed? Backyard gardeners.

After all, what could be easier for the government than taking the big drug dealer’s money? Jailing the small drug dealers.

- NewsRogue

The DEA raided a dispensary on Jan. 22, the first such act by federal law enforcement since Obama’s inauguration earlier this week.

The raid flies in the face of campaign promises made by Obama, who said he would rein in this type of behavior from federal agencies. Holistic Solutions is was the name of the dispensary, and while cash and marijuana were seized, no arrests were made.

Senator Obama said in an August 2007 statement:

I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It’s not a good use of our resources.

I’m not quite sure if kicking down the doors of an unoccupied, state-sanctioned medical facility is the biggest waste of federal tax dollars (see: Bridge to Nowhere), but it has to be up there.

According to a statement on the Americans for Safe Access Web site, the raid is just one of more than 100 in California in the last two years (roughly two per week for those without a calculator). No surprise, since CA has received an overwhelming share of federal scrutiny for its pioneering of federally-outlawed efforts at medical marijuana.

New Mexico, which recently adopted a MMJ card program, was threatened by the DEA for its plan, according to the same release.