End War on Marijuana
Allow Research on Endocannabinoid System
The American Academy of Cannabinoid Medicine (AACM) rejects the failed U.S. drug war and the Feds’ refusal to recognize the medicinal value of cannabis and cannabinoids.
Forty years ago this year, Richard Nixon declared a War on Drugs (WOD). The WOD is now the longest running “war” in American history and a great failure. After four decades of government waste, anti-science rhetoric, millions of shattered lives, and the expenditure of hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, it is time to recognize, as more than 70 percent of Americans do, that the WOD has failed. The WOD has turned out to be a war on minorities and the U.S. Constitution.
In June of this year, the 19-member Global Commission on Drug Policy (including several former heads of state, former secretary of state George Schultz, former Federal Reserve chairperson Paul Volcker, and former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan) released their report, which states that “political leaders and public figures should have the courage to articulate publicly what many of them acknowledge privately: that the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that repressive strategies will not solve the drug problem, and that the War on Drugs has not, and cannot, be won.”
