420 Campaign Editorial – Doug McVay (Common Sense for Drug Policy):

by Doug McVay, Wed Apr 4, 2007

By Doug McVay
Common Sense for Drug Policy
Drug War Facts

The debate over drug control policy can often be confusing. Drug warriors intentionally make it a confused debate, which is not surprising since public confusion helps perpetuate the status quo. The Bush administration uses that tactic quite a lot. That is probably why the American Dialect Society chose "truthiness," a word coined by Stephen Colbert, as its word of the year for 2005. Truthiness is defined as "The quality of stating concepts or facts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true."

There has never been a better word to describe the propaganda propping up prohibition.

The drug war is built on a foundation of lies. Yet they're not always outright lies. Facts in any debate are nuanced. Things are rarely simply black and white. One example of this: drug warriors frequently refer to the increasingly large numbers of marijuana …READ MORE

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