DEA Poison Sprays Colombia Farms Monsanto Roundup Glyphosate WHO Probable Carcinogen Begged To Stop By Health Ministry Officials, Farmers, Environmentalists Yet Another Misguided Signature DEA Disaster? Probably

     Wednesday, 29 April 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Colombian Health Ministry has urged a halt to an "American-funded campaign to eradicate crops of coca, the plant used to make cocaine" which has all the markings of yet another disastrous misguided failed U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) campaign to doubtless haphazardly spray Colombia and its farms and people against its will with the "herbicide" poison glyphosate which the World Health Organization (WHO) belatedly finally has admitted "probably causes cancer in people" and is the active ingredient in Roundup therefore "the herbicide that commits homicide" which apparently kills crops as well as weeds and people made by arguably the world's most hated company Monsanto itself malignant in its relentless campaign to profit by spraying the earth's food supply with carcinogenic poison while at the same time mutating the genes of the world's food sources with "genetically modified organisms" aka "genetically mutated organisms" (GMO's) out of the public eye wherever possible in an apparent demented doomsday campaign to kill the planet off at any expense.
     The Ninth Amendment without editorial comment emphasizes to readers that its Bogota bureau has not yet been able to confirm that this "American-funded campaign" is being undertaken by the DEA but simply observes that it might as well be given the DEA's history of so many other disastrously failed initiatives and policies long extending to include destroying the world's natural environment stretching at least back to the spraying of paraquat over Mexico which as all are aware turned out very well for the DEA's party hosts the drug cartels but no so much so for the rest of the world. Readers interested in more details can go to the link to the article below which itself contains links to information about Colombia, the WHO and the details of its agency's finding that glyphosate "probably causes cancer in people".

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/world/americas/colombia-officials-urge-end-to-herbicides-use-on-coca.html?ref=todayspaper

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Obama Commutes 22 Drug Offenders Sentences All To Be Released From Federal Prisons - "Wave" Of Thousands Of Drug Commutations May Follow

     Thursday, 2 April 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Just as multitudes of corrupt U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents have been revealed to have been for years slapped on the wrist or not even that but moreover shielded by superiors for crimes much worse including most recently suspended for just two to 10 days for admitting to accepting money, weapons and expensive gifts while cavorting with prostitutes at "Feds Gone Wild" (N.Y. Times) parties hosted by drug cartels, President Obama this past Tuesday commuted the sentences of 22 drug offenders all but one of whom will now be released from federal prison by 28 July 2015. Eight were serving life sentences including one federal prisoner serving life in prison for growing and conspiracy to harvest a large amount of marijuana plants. Others were reaching advanced ages and/or sentenced under outdated guidelines and laws.
     In the past year the Obama Administration has encouraged non-violent drug offenders to apply for commutations shortening their federal prison sentences. The Department of Justice (DOJ) since has received thousands of such applications. Some expect that the 22 commutations announced Tuesday which outnumber all previously granted by President Obama in six years as President may signal the beginning of a "wave" of as many as thousands more commutations which only the President may grant in his final two years in office. Interested readers may find more information in the three articles linked to below.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/31/obama-commutations-drug-cases/70730452/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/31/obama-commutations-drug-sentences_n_6978826.html

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/03/31/3641430/obama-grants-early-release-man-sentenced-life-prison-pot/

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Fentanyl Narcotic Heroin Additive Nationwide Alert Issued By U.S. DEA

     Tuesday, 31 March 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters on 18 March 2015 issued a nationwide alert on the Schedule II narcotic anesthetic/analgesic fentanyl and analogs which reportedly are 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin according to DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart who also states that the euphoric effects of fentanyl are indistinguishable from morphine and heroin.
     Ms. Leonhart states that fentanyl is potentially lethal at doses as low as 0.25 milligrams. The Ninth Amendment does note that the drug not uncommonly is prescribed by pain control specialists including as patches for controlled release through the skin. Fentanyl may be laced into heroin and can be extremely dangerous by injection having been known to kill even anesthesiologists who given more ready access to fenatanyl have abused it and overdosed and according to at least one physician have in some cases even been found dead while on duty in hospitals with syringes still in their arms.
     The DEA warning was issued largely because nationally "heroin abuse has increased". Ninth Amendment field reporters confirm that in fact by all appearances a renewed heroin epidemic affecting all "classes" of society has been sweeping across the United States. This has been recognized individually by a rapidly growing number of states left to face the consequences of the problem but seemingly has not yet been publicly recognized by the United States government. CNN's Anthony Bordain in his "Parts Unknown" series while reporting one heroin ravaged upstate New York community where he attended a meeting of former addicts apparently identified himself as having been addicted and moreover also observed that a heroin epidemic has caught up not only traditional problem urban areas but small and rural communities stretching across the country without discrimination as to race or economic status.
     Reasons for this new heroin epidemic may include that not for the first time a hopefully well-intentioned DEA initiative has gone seemingly predictably badly awry in this case being the rescheduling of opiate medications widely prescribed in the United States with no effective followup or backup plan in the case of consequences unpredictable apparently at least to the DEA. The DEA is not a health agency but an enforcement agency like the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) both under the auspices of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
     The Ninth Amendment previously has reported in an earlier post for example on the DEA's years-long effort pressuring the independent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reschedule hydrocodone aka Norco aka Vicadin and other names apparently finally successfully resulting in later 2014 in the prescription medication's reclassification from Schedule III to Schedule II (with a six-month grandfathering exception into 2015 for patients with refillable prescriptions of the medication at the time of the rescheduling). At the time of the rescheduling hydrocodone was the second most prescribed medication in the United States after hypertension medications.
     Nationwide millions of former and present patients have become addicted to opiates in recent years by prescription medications from physicians who "Big Pharma" effectively through massive "promotional" bribery were convinced to suspend disbelief that opiates were addictive. At least one pharmaceutical company while hosting physicians to an all expenses paid week-long paid junket at an exotic location at one of the "teaching presentations" justifying the tax-free promotional holiday actually represented that obviously potentially highly addictive opiates posed less than a 1% chance of patient addiction. The aggressive efforts of big pharmaceutical companies to market opiates through physicians was wildly successful resulting in an unprecedented number of patients being prescribed them in various opium derived and synthetic opioid medications.
     Now with the changed regulatory climate many patients are finding themselves addicted to opiates as physicians effectively dump many of them on the streets as they try to distance themselves from intense scrutiny from the DEA, FDA or state medical boards according to more than one physician. This pressure has increased to the point of increased personal visits by federal drug agents extending according to one pharmacist even to pharmacies. Meanwhile many states have brought or joined lawsuits against the large pharmaceutical companies for their extreme marketing of drugs known to result in high addiction rates which are costing states hundreds of millions of dollars in health costs and untold potentially "ruined lives" of their citizens.
     The Ninth Amendment emphasizes "potentially" ruined lives as a reminder that as shown by Anthony Bourdain's above-referenced CNN "Unknown Parts" episode in which he sat in on a community meeting of former addicts where government assistance is completely lacking or unavailable there are others who have come to fill the vacuum or have long been there as in the case of Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and other similar groups. The Ninth Amendment does not purport to provide any medical advice whatsoever to anyone at all. Those in need of medical advice must seek it from a properly licensed health professional.
     Readers interested in more information on fentanyl and its analogs may go to the link directly below to the above-referenced DEA headquarters alert below although directed mainly to law enforcement is informative and also has a link to another DEA site section with apparently more scientific and/or medical background on fentanyl. Those who do not wish to visit the DEA site should be able easily to search for more information on fentanyl using their preferred search engine or the Wikipedia search function located here at the bottom section of the Ninth Amendment.

http://www.dea.gov/divisions/hq/2015/hq031815.shtml

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"Feds Gone Wild" NY Times Condemns DEA And FBI For Ignoring, Covering Up, And Obstructing Investigation Of DEA Agents' Criminal Offenses Such As Cavorting At Drug Cartel Hosted Sex Parties Compromising Entire "Mission"

       Saturday, 28 March 2015, NEW YORK, NY - The New York Times entire editorial board has condemned the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for their routine response or lack thereof to a history of DEA agents' criminal misconduct such as reported here yesterday expanding on a history of DEA agents' criminal misconduct and the virtual lack of consequences to agents for such activities not as to the duplicity of virtually ignoring such conduct effectively shielded by the U.S. Government while other U.S. citizens at home undoubtedly would suffer exponentially worse consequences for such criminal activities, but as to the obvious threat of drug agents completely undermining their claimed mission by exposing themselves to blackmail and extortion and moreover compromising the entire apparent objective of bringing to justice and successfully prosecuting those drug cartels under whose auspices they "cavort" (the Times word which a federal prosecutor certainly would not be nearly so charitable as to use in an "ordinary" U.S. citizen's domestic prosecution).
       For interested readers the link to the Times article follows directly below followed by the comment submitted by the Ninth Amendment published in the Times digital edition. Alternatively or in addition to the Ninth Amendment comment readers may find below it a published comment to the same New York Times article contributed by  a Times commenter identifying themself as having served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for 17 years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/opinion/feds-gone-wild.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0

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 waronnothing 1 hour ago

Although the Times editorial board is to be commended for following up on these lightly covered most recently reported incidents of law enforcement DEA drug agents' criminal misconduct effectively taking bribes in the form of sex parties, weapons, expensive gifts and money directly from drug cartels while untold thousands of United States citizens' lives are ruined sitting wasting their lives in prisons for much less "drug offenses", the editorial board of the Ninth Amendment at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com urges that the much larger issue of the spectacular failures of the Nixon-fabricated cynical bogus now forty-plus year "War On Drugs" must be emphasized at every available opportunity as the ceaseless series of unintended negative consequences has steadily grown until it has become a menace not only domestically but now undeniably to global order extending to the point of becoming a most serious threat to the very national security of the United States.

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 cambridge, ma 6 hours ago

The so-called war on drugs is a colossal disaster...drugs continue to flow into the United States, American prisons are filled to the brim with people convicted of non violent drug offenses, drug addiction continues to destroy whole communities and families, and American taxpayers continue to pay billions upon billions for the army of agents hired to "fight" the drug war, for the room and board of tens of thousands incarcerated for drug crimes, and pay billions annually for medical treatment for drug addiction and the many medical conditions that result from it. DEA agents partying down in South America is just a side show compared to this colossal failure. It's time we treat drug abuse for what it is: a social, economic, psychological, and medical problem. I had a front row seat to this horror movie for 17 years working as an Assistant U.S. Attorney.

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