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Posts: 2062 Nov 8 12 11:42 PM	Tags : None Remove this ad Stop the Drug War has done a follow-up of this blog post: Fast Talking Has Started Network media fail (updated) Some of the network media have been trying to cover the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington and clearly are in catch-up mode, not really knowing how to talk about it. And they’re completely thrown by the fact that the DOJ, for the most part, isn’t coming right out and commenting. So they’re all forced to turn to… Kevin Sabet. Check out this ABC piece by Christing NG: Marijuana Legalization Celebrations May be Premature, Lawmakers and Experts Say. The experts on what the federal government will do appear to be… Kevin Sabet. What’s that – something like a dozen paragraphs out of a not particularly long story dedicated to total speculation by a former employee of the federal government about what the federal government will do... Pete Guither Go to Hell Dung Worrier Sabet, You'll be among lots of friends. A Bad Trip for Democrats Tuesday's election was a victory for the marijuana lobby: Colorado and Washington State voted to legalize recreational use, while Massachusetts will now allow doctors to recommend it as medicine. I’m a lifelong partisan Democrat, but I’ve also spent 25 years as a doctor treating drug abusers, and I know their games. They’re excellent con artists. “We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.” - Bill Clinton The Obama Admin's Anti-Marijuana Manifesto Multiple DEA Raids Target Marijuana in Hawaii Obama: Drug Legalization is "An Entirely Legitimate Topic for Debate" Hil and Gil on the Drug War Obombo's Sublingual Attack on Ganja One Drug Arrest Every 19 Seconds Oh Gilligan! President Obama takes a dump on California Ed Gogek is an addiction psychiatrist and board member of Keep AZ Drug Free, which opposes medical marijuana laws. Does President Obama need treatment? Comments about ‘Ed Gogek: Legalizing recreational use marijuana a bad trip for Democrats’ Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding The Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse The vast majority of prohibitionists profit on the drug war,.. ... and that is their only motive. Ed Gogek is an addiction psychiatrist DEAth Merchants POLICING FOR PROFIT and board member of Keep AZ Drug Free, GOP Mogul Behind Drug Rehab 'Torture' Centers Calvina Fay Prohibition Inc. LEGALIZATION? GET REAL! Some years ago I wrote a column in this paper suggesting it might be time to consider legalizing marijuana since it probably isn't any more harmful than beer, a legal drug. But I have come to see I was wrong. Proponents of legalized marijuana make the point that it is not as harmful in its health and social consequences as alcohol, and they might be right. No doubt, we have lost our own war on drugs. But, in my opinion, legalization or decriminalization isn't the answer. So what is, better law enforcement? George B. Reed, Jr. is retired from AT&T and a former history teacher in the Hamilton County school system. He lives in Fort Oglethorpe and can be reached at reed1600@bellsouth.net or 706-858-3501. Weed Beat the Recession in Denver vs 60,000 Dead Mexicans 40 Years of Drug War Failure Represented in a Single Chart MARIJUANA RESEARCH STIFLED BY DRUG POLICIES The choice facing voters on Issue No. 5, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act, is complicated by key points that are not widely known. A common argument is that more research is needed to prove marijuana an effective medicine, and if that research could be done, and Food and Drug Administration approval granted, then everything would be fine. In fact, this is a classic Catch 22. The scientific community has struggled for years to gain permission to conduct this research. Such studies are never approved. Approval must come from multiple federal agencies including the Drug Enforcement Agency, which has billions of dollars of vested interest in the status quo. FDA approval requires millions of dollars in studies with test subjects, including humans. Not only are such studies blocked by federal policy, no pharmaceutical company will make that investment for financial reasons. How could they recoup their cost when the drug in question can be grown by the patient at almost no expense? After state medical marijuana laws began passing in the 1990s, increasing pressure for scientific information caused the federal government to commission a study through the National Academy of Sciences, which produced "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base," a thorough investigation of all scientific research on marijuana from before the federal bottleneck. The study concluded that while "there is a broad social concern that sanctioning the medical use of marijuana might increase its use among the general population ... at this point there are no convincing data to support this concern." http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n561/a09.html?102 The Effect of Controlled Substances Scheduling on Research FDA-Approved Medical Marijuana Research Blocked Congressional Research Service Report on Medical Marijuana Scientists Re-Re-Re-Discover Cannabis Stops Metastasis In Aggressive Cancers! "What we found was that his Cannabidiol could essentially 'turn off' the ID-1," Desprez told HuffPost. The cells stopped spreading and returned to normal. Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74 The ominous part is that this isn't the first time scientists have discovered that THC shrinks tumors. In 1974 researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institute of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice -- lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia. The DEA quickly shut down the Virginia study and all further cannabis/tumor research, Just pathetic... High on Hemp Endocannabinoids Starving Babies and Illegal Food Last Edited By: DdC Nov 9 12 1:13 AM. Edited 1 time.
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Posts: 2062 Jan 19 13 10:05 PM	Is David Frum a harbinger of Idiocracy? Conor Friedersdorf has a delightful retort to David Frum’s nonsensical article that we discussed here. Would Legalizing Marijuana Be Too Hard on Simpletons? Conor takes apart Frum’s seeming need for simple social rules like “Just Say No,” and points out that the Project SAM approach isn’t about simplicity at all. There are several problems with his argument. 1) Most obviously, under every proposal for legalizing marijuana it would remain illegal for minors, and perhaps for adults up to age 21. Parents won’t be deprived of the ability to say, “Marijuana is illegal, stay away,” until their adolescents are in college or living in an apartment and working. 2) Legalization advocates actually favor the simpler policy apparatus: everyone understands that you can vote at 18 and that you can drink at 21. Making marijuana legal for all adults, or all people 21 or older, is about as simple as it gets, and its laughable to compare a standard age rule to zero-down-adjustable-rate mortgages or the complexity of an open sexual relationship. 3) Using illegality as a heuristic for “most dangerous” is itself going to turn out badly for some people who aren’t very smart. Marijuana abuse isn’t anything to take lightly, but the substance is less dangerous than alcohol in many ways, less dangerous than huffing paint, less dangerous than lots of prescription drugs, and less dangerous than hang gliding. Legalizing Of Marijuana Raises Health Concerns? "It's much more potent marijuana, which may explain why we've seen a pretty dramatic increase in admission to emergency rooms and treatment programs for marijuana," said Dr. Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "When we hear, 'Well, I smoked and nothing happened to me,' we need to think about the context of when these people started to take it, how frequently they used and how active the marijuana was." Prettier, more expensive, less seeds but I tend to agree. Someone should tell these tax leeches 25 million are toking just fine in spite of illegalities. Ending prohibition would only improve quality assurance and measured potency labeled the same as booze. This lie among many lies is mostly so drug worriers can maintain their paychecks and corporations can breath easier without the threat of competition. Pathetic. Nora Vulture should be in jail along with the other liars and gossip mongers. I Still haven't found anything near what the Vets were bringing back from Nam. Meshmekon¿ out of lake Alice Gainsville, Pennsylvania, some huge choker lids at the May Day demo's, duffle bags out of Indiana. Sinsemilla in Fla and Maui, Kona, most Hawaiian. Chicago Green, talkin' 'bout Black Lebanese, Black napalese, it's got you weak in your knees. No MM sentencing just 30 days, 30 days in the hole... Pinrolls. Pot Potency? Boomers' blissfully unfazed by mere facts - 06/18/08 Marijuana potency increased last year to the highest level in more than 30 years. 9.6 percent level represents more than a doubling of marijuana potency since 1983, when it averaged just under 4 percent. -- John Pee Walters "Marihuana makes fiends of boys in thirty days -- Hashish goads users to bloodlust." Hearst newpapers nationwide circa 1936 "Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago." -- Presidential candidate Bill Clinton 1992 "[Marijuana] is highly intoxicating and constitutes an ever recurring problem where there are Mexicans or Spanish-Americans of the lower classes." New York Times- Dec. 3, 1933 - Pg. 6, Sec. 4. "Parents are often unaware that today's marijuana is different from that of a generation ago, with potency levels 10 to 20 times stronger than the marijuana with which they were familiar." John P. Walters, US Drug Czar 01 May 2002 Washington Post, p. A25. Panama Red.jpg "Is Marijuana Stronger Than It Was Back In the '60s, When Everyone Thought It Was Harmless?" Analysis By Richard Cowan (MarijuanaNews note: The prohibitionists like to claim huge increases in marijuana average potency make it much more dangerous today. That is simply not supported by the official data. Amusingly, I found this on the web site of the Swedish prohibitionist propaganda organization, Hassela Nordic Network. Obviously, they dont understand how devastating this is to the party line. Quite often that is the case. They are blissfully unfazed by mere facts.) Drugwar Distortion 11: Marijuana Potency False. Federal research shows that the average potency of cannabis in the US has increased very little. According to the federal Potency Monitoring Project, in 1985, the average THC content of commercial-grade marijuana was 2.84%, and the average for high-grade sinsemilla in 1985 was 7.17%. In 1995, the potency of commercial-grade marijuana averaged 3.73%, while the potency of sinsemilla in 1995 averaged 7.51%. In 2001, commercial-grade marijuana averaged 4.72% THC, and the potency of sinsemilla in 2001 averaged 9.03%. Source: Quarterly Report #76, Nov. 9, 2001-Feb. 8, 2002, Table 3, p. 8, University of Mississippi Potency Monitoring Project (Oxford, MS: National Center for the Development of Natural Products, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2002), Mahmoud A. ElSohly, PhD, Director, NIDA Marijuana Project (NIDA Contract #N01DA-0-7707). Rare Vietnam Brisk Tea.jpg ("Acapulco Gold and Vietnam blend" NORML Responds To White House's 'Potent Pot' Scare Campaign April 26, 2007 - Washington, DC, USA Responding to the "potent pot" scare by Paul Armentano CN Source: Cannabis News April 25, 2007 Talking points responding to the "potent pot" scare may be found in the 2005 edition of the NORML Truth report ALLEGATION #10 Average THC levels rose from less than 1% in the late 1970s to more than 7% in 2001, and sinsemilla potency increased from 6% to 13%, and now reach as high as 33% TRUTH This statement is both inaccurate and misleading. No population en masse has ever smoked marijuana averaging less than one percent THC since such low potency marijuana would not induce euphoria. In many nations, including Canada and the European Union, marijuana of one percent THC or less is legally classified as an agricultural fiber crop, hemp. Continued... Average Pot Potency No Stronger, Study Says July 1, 2004 - Lisbon, Portugal The overall strength of marijuana available in Europe has remained stable despite claims from US officials and others that it has increased significantly in recent years, according to a study released this week by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Don't Buy The 'Potent Pot' Hype By Paul Armentano CN Source: Huffington Post June 16, 2008 USA Government claims of highly potent pot must be taken with a grain of salt. As is the case with any black market commodity, definitive facts are difficult if not impossible to come by. That said, even by the University of Mississippi's own admission, the average THC in domestically grown marijuana -- which comprises the bulk of the US market -- is less than five percent, a figure that's remained unchanged for nearly a decade.** continued... Is marijuana more potent today than in the past ? Potency is a red herring. Average use today may be of marijuana that is about 2 to 3 times as potent as decades ago but users simply use less to get the same effect with less smoke. Even 30 years ago, much more potent strains than are normally used today were available, but were seldom used. As with alcohol and tobacco, users generally prefer milder versions. A respected annual University of Michigan study (MTF) asks respondents about levels of intoxication: 'The line for marijuana is flat as a pancake. Kids who get stoned today aren't getting any more stoned than their parents were. That ought to be the end of the argument.' - UCLA professor Mark Kleiman Quote: In users who develop a dependence or addiction Nixon's Treason "You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? "You're enough of a pro," Nixon tells Shafer, "to know that for you to come out with something that would run counter to what the Congress feels and what the country feels, and what we're planning to do, would make your commission just look bad as hell." - Richard Milhouse Nixon "Marijuana does not lead to physical dependency, although some evidence indicates that the heavy, long-term users may develop a psychological dependence on the drug" ~ The Shafer Commission of 1970 1972 US Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding US National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse Quote: “Once moneyed interests are involved, this trend will be difficult to reverse,” she added. ❝The majority of prohibitionists profit on the drug war, ... and that is their only motive.❞ ~ DdC Policing For Profit Money Grubbing Dung Worriers Forfeiture $quads THE DRUG WAR'S HIDDEN ECONOMIC AGENDA Arianna Huffington: Drug War a 'War on Our Own People' 02/13/2012 "[W]e're spending over $50 billion a year fighting a war that's become a war on our own people, especially among African-Americans and minorities in general." The Drug War Industrial Complex April, 1998 Noam Chomsky interviewed by John Veit "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." -- Saul Bellow Who Profits From Drugs February 21, 1989 Illegal drug traffic adds up to one hundred billion dollars a year. Who Really Profits From Drug Cartel Wars? February 21, 2011 Follow the money on the "War on Drugs" and it will expose a frightening truth: the drug cartels depend on a network of guardian angels and backers who come from where else: the ruling elites. Rolling Stone How America Lost the War on Drugs March 24, 2011 After thirty-five years and $500 billion, drugs are as cheap and plentiful as ever. An anatomy of a failure. The War Next Door 11-03-2008 INSTITUTIONS THROUGH WHICH CONTROL IS EXERCISED 1992 Yet we successfully overcame all problems. Why then is it impossible to defeat a well-defined enemy, far smaller and weaker than Germany, given the immensely improved weapons and surveillance equipment we have today? The real reason that the drug problem is not eradicated is because it is being run by the highest families in the entire world as part of a coordinated gigantic money-making machine. Quote: "Narcotics police are an enormous, corrupt international bureaucracy ... and now fund a coterie of researchers who provide them with 'scientific support' ... fanatics who distort the legitimate research of others. ... The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents." -- William F. Buckley, Commentary in The National Review, April 29, 1983, p. 495
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Posts: 2062 Jan 19 13 10:39 PM	Don't Step On The Grass, S.A.M. Steppenwolf "The Second" 1968 Words and music by John Kay Starin' at the boob tube, turnin' on the big knob. Tryin' to find some life in the waste land. Fin'ly found a program, gonna deal with Mary Jane. Ready for a trip into hate land. Obnoxious Joe comes on the screen. Along with his guest self-righteous S.A.M. And one more guy who doesn't count. His hair and clothes are too far out. While pushin' back his glasses S.A.M. is sayin' casually."I was elected by the masses". And with that in mind he starts to unwind. A vicious attack on the finest of grasses. Well it's evil, wicked, mean and nasty. (Don't step on the grass, S.A.M.). And it will ruin our fair country. (Don't be such an ass, S.A.M.). Well, it will hook your Sue and Johnny. (You're so full of bull, S.A.M.). All will pay that disagree with me. (Please give up you already lost the fight, alright). Misinformation S.A.M. and Joe. Are feeding to the nation. But the one who didn't count counted them out. By exposing all their false quotations. Faced by a very awkward situation. This is all he'd say to save the day. Well it's evil, wicked, mean and nasty. (Don't step on the grass, S.A.M.). And it will ruin our fair country. (Don't be such an ass, S.A.M.). Well, it will hook your Sue and Johnny. (You're so full of bull, S.A.M.). All will pay that disagree with me. (Please give up you already lost the fight alright). You waste my coin S.A.M., all you can. To jail my fellow man. For smoking all the noble weed. You need much more than him. You've been telling lies so long. Some believe they're true. So they close their eyes to things. You have no right to do. Just as soon as you are gone. Hope will start to climb. Please don't stay around too long. You're wasting precious time. Well it's evil, wicked, mean and nasty. (Don't step on the grass, S.A.M.). And it will ruin our fair country. (Don't be such an ass, S.A.M.). Well, it will hook your Sue and Johnny. (You're so full of bull, S.A.M.). All will pay that disagree with me. (Please give up you already lost the fight alright). Marijuana Debate Isn't Just Legalization By Patrick J. Kennedy and Kevin A. Sabet Kevin A. Sabet wrote: And they are both wrong. Got that right... Your Government Is Lying To You (Again) About Marijuana ALLEGATION #6 As a factor in emergency room visits, marijuana has risen 176 percent since 1994, and now surpasses heroin. TRUTH This statement is intentionally misleading as it wrongly suggests that marijuana use is a significant causal factor in an alarming number of emergency room visits. It is not. Federal statistics gathered by the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) do indicate an increase in the number of people “mentioning” marijuana during hospital emergency room visits. (This increase is hardly unique to marijuana however, as the overall number of drug mentions has risen dramatically since the late 1980s – likely due to improved federal reporting procedures.)44 However, a marijuana “mention” does not mean that marijuana caused the hospital visit or that it was a factor in leading to the ER episode, only that the patient said that he or she had used marijuana previously.45 For every emergency room visit related to drug use (so-called “drug abuse episodes”), hospital staff list up to five drugs the patient reports having used recently, regardless of whether or not their use of the drug caused the visit. The frequency with which any drug is mentioned in such visits is generally proportional to its frequency of use, irrespective of its inherent dangers.46 It is foolish for anyone – especially those in the administration’s anti-drug office – to imply that marijuana is in any way potentially more dangerous to one’s health than heroin. Marijuana is mentioned to hospital staff more frequently than heroin, not because it’s more dangerous, but simply because a far greater percentage of the population uses marijuana than uses heroin. It is also worth noting that alcohol is by far the drug most frequently reported to DAWN, even though it is reported only when present in combination with another reportable drug. Moreover, marijuana is rarely mentioned independent of other drugs. DAWN Drug Abuse Warning Network Shame on the Drug Worrier Profiteers Where are all of the Taxbaggers and Norquest? Sabet wrote: today's highly potent marijuana include 400,000 emergency room visits Logic states if something is done and results are maintained over decades, even centuries, nay thousands of years. Then when political opportunity knocks results start changing. Some one is behind it. Not a stronger pot leading to more ER visits. There has always been stronger pot. More expensive and harder to get. The governments own synthetic cannabinoids since the 50's. Nothing as potent as what came back from Vietnam to this day. Better groomed, besides its a pure red herring in that you just smoke less. Regardless the hospital visits are pure manipulation, as many of the DEA fabrications and the wannabes like sabet. No one more over jealous than a convert. First they want the junkies to be pharmacologist' and now writing policy on drugs? Ain't that America or rather is that America? A DEA subsidiary called DAWN records every admittance in hundreds of hospitals. Every one who admits to using pot has their private information taken without their permission and is put on a list. Saying a half a million pot users all of a sudden started showing up in ERs because of stronger pot is pure fiction. If you break a finger skateboarding and smoked a joint once three years ago you go on the list. Sabet wrote: Science-based drug education for parents and kids needs to become a top national priority. Diane Feinstein – the best argument for term limits "Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true." Ann Shulgin, PhD, Therapist and Author, Lafayette, CA, at the DPF Conference, November 1996 Sabet wrote: So if neither legalization nor prohibition, then what? Community coalitions that engage in multiple community sectors, and drug courts that leverage the criminal justice system with treatment must be brought to scale. Strategies that implement job and stable housing programs should also be more widespread. This third rail baloney over the drug war is rehashed McCaffrey conversions from prison to asylum treatment centers. All costing tax payers and most for profit private investments. Along with subsidiary urine testing, probation, court cost, lawyers, missed work. Then mandatory Califony rehab on what science says is not addictive. Just to make statistics claiming more seeking help from pot. In the looney-bin world of the DEA merchants there is no safe use of cannabis. None, not a toke. So no one can escape without their expensive "treatment". They call it drug abuse only to sell their product of war on American citizens. Sabet wrote: And marijuana use and sales remain illegal under federal law. And marijuana sales remain illegal under federal law. Reasonable amounts grown by individuals without exchanges are state jurisdiction. Dependent on state laws, sometimes more draconian than the Feds. How does one grow an ounce or less? The Feds have established what is reasonable. Selling pot by anyone is a Commerce Clause issue enforced by the IRS. Obama isn't going back on his word or being compassionate to individuals. He has no authority, the 10th amendment gives citizens use to the states. Before the Commerce Clause sales would have been a states right. Now it seems only those wanting the bucks want to blame and even short change individuals on what they already have as in CA's prop 215. Anyone for any reason. No amounts are determined leaving it to the Fed precedent of under 100 plants or 300 joints every 25 days or 12 per day, as legislated by the Feds IND program and continuing to this day. MMJ states have more prohibitive restrictions on individuals but no states are authorized to over ride Federal law established by Raich v Gonzales to sell or exchange freely as with charities. Regardless drug worriers profit on the war and that is their motive. Lies and manipulation of reality is their creed. Reefer madness to modern number crunchers misleading the public for their own selfish addiction to media spotlights and print. Calvina Fay Prohibition Inc. A Drug Warmongers Toll on Americans Or the justification for billions of tax dollars because they are keeping it out of the hands of kids in their silly wasteful eradication programs. Costing millions to Feds and states when the vast majority is nothing but ditchweed, wild unkept hemp. Saving the kids from burlap and canvas. Cannabis Eradications 99.28% Ditchweed These liars should be the ones in a Koch cage, not the public servants growing or selling pot. The audacity of ignoring 25 million regular users in this country who have no problems choosing a more benign natural stress reducer than beer or wine. 150 million around the world daily toking without problems. Decades of use and you can't even tell unless you disregard the 5th amendment and steal their bodily fluids. The fact that it resides in fat cells should red flag someone that means it can't be toxic as the pharmaceutical white powders that flush out of the body in days. The vast majority of prohibitionists profit on the drug war, ... and that is their only motive. WHAT DOES $2,000 MEAN TO YOU? Tell Congress: We Need Jobs, Not Cuts, Got Hemp? As sir Hilary said... QUESTION: In Mexico, there are those who propose not keeping going with this battle and legalize drug trafficking and consumption. What is your opinion? SECRETARY CLINTON: I don’t think that will work. I mean, I hear the same debate. I hear it in my country. It is not likely to work. *There is just too much money in it,* Shame on the Drug Worrier Profiteers Trillion spent is a Trillion earned. POLICING FOR PROFIT GOP Mogul Behind Drug Rehab 'Torture' Centers Money Grubbing Dung Worriers Forfeiture $quads High on Hemp The profiteers lie simply as a way to perpetuate the war. Their self imposed moralities are forced upon millions of citizens without a victim to name. Including Hemp and more lies when it is being sold on the internet and many of us wear it and eat it and buy it in local groceries. Just because of these lies by these naive x junkies or professional propagandists like sabet and frum. When the Reichwing neocons spout nonsense, we almost expect it No different if its a blue dawg neocon. They all end up tinkling down into the same G-20 pockets. The DEA has patents on cannabinoids. The x deputy drug czar is CEO of sativex sublingual whole plant marygwanna. RvG decided what was commerce leaving individual growers with intent to sell and buyers clubs as outlaws. As well as keeping Hemp away from the family farmers. And fossil fools competition. Plastic to biodiesel and biomass. Sabet is nothing more than a liar doing bogus commercials for the booze industry. Just like those twins... Note. CA's Compassionate Use Act not the MMJ Act A reasonable amount for Anyone for Any reason... Just can't sell or give it away. "Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system." ~ Dorothy Day Is The DEA Legalizing THC? You betcha, If a pharmaceutical product contains THC extracted from the marijuana plant, that would be a legal commodity. But if you or I possessed THC extracted from the marijuana plant, that would remain an illegal commodity. Wait, it gets even more absurd. Since the cannabis plant itself will remain illegal under federal law, then from whom precisely could Big Pharma legally obtain their soon-to-be legal THC extracts? There’s only one answer: The federal government’s lone legally licensed marijuana cultivator, The University of Mississippi at Oxford, which already has the licensing agreements with the pharmaceutical industry in hand. NeoCon Flicts of Interest Bush Barthwell & Drugs Health regulators have sent an uncompromising message that smoked cannabis will not be approved for use by MS sufferers, leaving the way open for GW's under-the-tongue spray version of the drug. Justin Gover, the managing director, said GW's shares had attracted attention from private investors. Kennedy wrote: Finally, studies show that the average "medical" marijuana user is a 32-year-old with no life-threatening illness. Less than 5 percent have cancer, HIV or a terminal illness. But that doesn't mean components of marijuana are not medicine. There are ways to deliver its medicinal potential without compromising public health. A pill containing marijuana's most active ingredient is available at pharmacies. We need more research into marijuana's other components, since many have begun to show promise. What an ass... No Medicinal Value $$$ Homegrown in the herb garden... The 'Virtues' of Ganja The Politics of Pot The Counterculture Colonel Bud Beats Mairdinol for Pain Granny Storm Crow’s MMJ Reference List for July 2012
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Posts: 2062 Jan 29 13 7:52 PM	"If we keep together we shall be safe, and when error is so apparent as to become visible to the majority, they will correct it." ~ Thomas Jefferson Belville to Sabet to Chapman Pete Guither dwr Russ Belville: A Response to Kevin Sabet's ' A Response to Steven Chapman's 'The War On Pot: Not a Safe Bet'' huffingtonpost An entertaining takedown by Russ Belville. He hits all the top Sabet talking points quite nicely. dwr One of these things is not like the others Anthony Johnson at National Cannabis Coalition catches this one: �� When asked by HuffPost Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim why we keep marijuana illegal, Chabot responded: “Why do we keep heroin, LSD, prostitution, child pornography illegal?” If Paul Chabot doesn’t know the difference between laws against marijuana and laws against exploiting children to make child porn, then perhaps he needs to be placed on one of those registries. … And in case you were wondering, the title of this post refers to child pornography, not marijuana. For what should be obvious reaasons. Advert dwr Clearly the UK is no better at making anti-drug ads than the ONDCP. (Frank, BTW, is essentially the UK equivalent of an ONDCP mascot.) Check out these others. The weakness of anti-legalization arguments dwr This is a comment by Transform’s Steve Rolles in response to a particular article, but it would be appropriate as a response for just about any argument against legalization. �� Neil McKeganey’s key concern with legalisation and regulation of drugs appears to be his assumption that use and abuse would rise. This is a legitimate concern, but itself assumes punitive prohibitions are an effective deterrent – the evidence for which is strikingly weak. �� McKeganey provides none. Comparisons between countries with different enforcement regimes show no clear pattern, nor is there evidence that increasing penalties decreases use, or vice versa. The influences on drug misuse appear to be mostly social, cultural and economic; with enforcement policy having, at best, a small impact. And this, of course, is the heart of the matter. After eliminating those whose arguments in favor of criminalization are self-serving, every other argument against legalization boils down to the assumption that legalization, regardless of the levels of regulation involved, necessarily means significantly higher levels of abuse than a criminalization model. And we are somehow supposed to ignore the fact that after decades of experimentation with criminalization, there is no hard evidence of this supposed fact. On our side of the argument, on the other hand, are reams of documented evidence of the harms of criminalization. It’s really a no-brainer. Drug War Rages On the Edge of Mexico City Medical Marijuana Law Goes to Arizona Supreme Court Maricopa County is asking the Arizona Supreme Court to decide if federal drug laws pre-empt Arizona's medical marijuana laws. Overkill In The War On Pot Obama has since "clarified" those promises, but it still makes no sense that Matthew R.� Davies, a business school graduate who set out in 2009 to create a medical marijuana dispensary that would be in full compliance with California law, is facing up to 15 years in prison - with a mandatory five-year sentence. NRA's MM Slavery, Another Fine Product Still Made in the USA! Mandatory Minimum for Marian "Mollie" Fry, MD March 19, 2008 U. S. District Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr. said federal law left him with no choice but to impose the mandatory minimum sentence in each case. Waterloo Regional Police Officer Gets House Arrest For Stealing A judge rejected calls Friday to give a local police officer a break for stealing two ounces of marijuana while on the job. Will Cigarette Manufacturers Jump Into The Pot Market? Oregon Bill Would Make Cigarettes Controlled Substances Organic Cannabis/Tobacco vs Chemical Cigarettes Med Pot Changes Burn Licencees, Says User NCAA to Tighten Up Marijuana Testing, But Reduce Penalties The NCAA is reducing the threshold for a positive result for marijuana, meaning that student athletes who smoke pot are more likely to be caught. At the same time, however, it is recommending reducing the penalty for those testing positive for marijuana. Victory in Caswell Motel case dwr Owner wins court battle against feds trying to seize his Tewksbury motel �� A federal magistrate judge has rejected federal law enforcement officials’ attempt to seize a Tewksbury motel due to drug activity that had taken place there over the years. �� “After careful consideration of the evidence, pleadings, and argument of counsel, this Court concludes that the Government has failed to meet its burden of establishing that the Motel is subject to forfeiture,” US Magistrate Judge Judith Dein wrote in a ruling today. This was one of the textbook cases of outrageous overreach (AKA federal theft of valuable property) in forfeiture, and fortunately, this judge saw through it. My thanks go to those who represented the Caswells and thereby represented the American people against the corruption of their government. Drug Exposé u2b Brilliant film. It’s hard to be more dysfunctional dwr than the federal government and drug policy This is dysfunction brought to the heights. ddc Shame on the Drug Worrier Profiteers US Civil War Generals Were Hash Heads “I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.” ~ Tolstoy CC Most Legalization Rawks, Most Decriminalization Sucks If the Roots are Poison, So be the Fruit. If You Find Yourself Going Down the Wrong Road, Turn Around! Will States Lead The Way To Legalizing Marijuana? Ending Marijuana Prohibition in 2013 Rob Kampia Executive director, Marijuana Policy Project Ending D.E.A.th & Pillage Incrementally CO MMJ Rules Rewrite Seeks Efficiency, Simplicity When Colorado rulemakers drew up regulations for the state's medical-marijuana industry in 2010, they put in a requirement that video-surveillance systems in stores and growing facilities be able to connect to the Internet. The intention was that state auditors — day or night, in their office or on the go — could sit before a computer and remotely monitor every minute detail of a medical-marijuana business to ensure full compliance. Someone would always be watching. Three years later, the state has quietly acknowledged it hasn't been looking. In a draft of new rules for medical-marijuana businesses, rulemakers have pulled the Internet-connectivity requirement for surveillance systems. WA Officials: Challenges Still Exist on Marijuana Pat Kohler, director of the state Liquor Control Board, told lawmakers on the House Government Accountability & Oversight Committee that those concerns include continued uncertainty about what the federal government will ultimatley do about Washington and Colorado's voter-approved marijuana legalization laws. Washington State Tries To Keep Legal MJ In State So far, no one is suggesting checkpoints or fences to keep Washington state's legal pot within its borders. But Gov. Jay Inslee insists there are ways to prevent the bulk smuggling of the state's newest cash crop into the black market, including digitally tracking weed to ensure that it goes from where it is grown to the stores where it is sold. Is it ever about getting good quality cannabis to the American citizens. Without someone trying to make a buck in the process? DdC Money Grubbing Dung Worriers Forfeiture $quads
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Posts: 2062 Feb 28 13 2:15 AM	Remove this ad Jan 23 2013 There is no science base to include cannabis as a schedule#1 narcotic in the states. The roots of the The Single Convention Treaty. By none other than Harry Anslinger. The base to list cannabis as a schedule #1 narcotic, including hemp is a profit for Wall St corporations and the prohibition industry. Not a science based conclusion. Nixon rejected his own science and then lumped in medicinal and hemp after the Marihuana Tax Ax was overturned in 69 as Un-Constitutional. So ethically, morally and economically for the majority of tax payers it would be prudent at this juncture to remove all laws concerning cannabis and its possession, manufacture and use. Thats logically speaking and most already know that doesn't mean governments or profiteers. Recently a judge decided the DEA wasn't arbitrary and capricious rejecting science, after-all their job is to perpetuate the Ganjawar. They never decided IF cannabis was worthy of such a status among the heavy duties such as crack and pcp. Only that the DEA wasn't being asses but simply following asinine rules. Not that there was no medicinal value in cannabis. Just that they weren't being arbitrary and capricious. As it stands states are persecuting individuals, not the feds. Feds IRS are enforcing Commerce Laws determined by Raich v Gonzales. States with mmj laws are restricting individual users to impossible amounts to legally grow. An ounce or less? Feds rule states in all matters as listed in the Constitution or amendments such as the Commerce and Patriot Axes. States under the 10th amendment have the jurisdiction of all else. Including individuals not growing more than reasonable amounts or selling or exchanging it as charity. A reasonable amount has been determined by the Feds own IND program. 300 joints every 25 days or less than 100 plants per year. For individual use or as a bona fide caregiver for their patients. So I'd highly advise writing the initiatives using the CA prop 215 template that has no limits or conditions. That makes the feds amounts law of the land for individuals. To get around the selling perhaps BYOB clubs could provide paraphernalia and music cover charges and individuals supply their own needs. ??? Top priority is to remove Ganja and Hemp from the CSA. No state can authorize Buyers Clubs as long as cannabis remains a schedule #1 narcotic. That's straight up even if we didn't know the true plan is to use cannabis medicinally and have it sold by Big Pharma. Already in the works from DEA patents on hundreds of individual cannabinoids to x deputy drug czar Barthwell heading up Sativex for GW Pharmaceuticals and distribution by Bayer. Grown on the same schwag farm as grows it now for bogus NIDA gossip or the 4 remaining IND patients. Prop 19 would have put CA in the same status as the remaining MMJ states with restrictions maintaining the dysfunctional prohibition on several levels. Not with the Compassionate Use Act written by we the people for we the people and over riding all politicians and local ordinances concerning individual users. In spite of many attempts to appease the prohibitionists from SB420 to selling bag ties. Locals or politicians can't regulate Buyers Clubs either according to the latest Supreme decision, even though the Feds can enforce Commerce Laws and Tax laws. And the drug war wages on... by Thom Hartmann Court Rejects Bid To Have Marijuana Reclassified By Frederic J. Frommer, January 22, 2013 Associated Press Shame on the Drug Worrier Profiteers California Supreme Court Deems Legality of Storefront Medical Marijuana Dispensaries "Final" "Arbitrary and capricious" is legal language that was used by DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis Young in 1988 to conclude that DEA was obligated under the Controlled Substances Act to reschedule marijuana as a prescription medicine. DEA Chief Administrator Robert Bonner proceeded to arbitrarily and capriciously disregard Judge Young's well researched and reasoned decision, which the Act allowed him to do.
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Posts: 2062 Mar 4 13 11:49 PM	Mooching Off Medicaid Profiteering middlemen inserted into Florida Medicaid Paul Krugman column indicates Gov. Rick Scott has made a Republican coup against Obamacare, taking the most efficient healthcare in the USA (that is, Medicare/Medicaid) and put the middleman right into it to scoop off the profits -- as if Obamacare never happened. continued... Business as usual for the Florida profiteers -- eager to prey on the sick and make profit off human misery. "Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." ~ Benito Mussolini "So ignore all the talk about too much government spending and too much aid to moochers who don’t deserve it. As long as the spending ends up lining the right pockets, and the undeserving beneficiaries of public largess are politically connected corporations, conservatives with actual power seem to like Big Government just fine." ~ PAUL KRUGMAN Older Americans Overwhelmingly Support Legalizing Medical Pot Warehousing Seniors as a Growth Industry Nixon Lie Keeps on Killing Granny Storm Crow's MMJ List Granpa's Marijuana handbook Trillion spent is a Trillion earned. Sorta depends on what side you stand whether its spent as wasted taxes or received as profits. "We have spent over a trillion dollars trying to eradicate the world's most beneficial plant off the face of the earth. Imagine what a better world this would be if that money had been spent on treatment, education and studying the medical benefits of marijuana." -- Steve Hager - High Times Editor (1988 - 2003) Where are all of the Taxbaggers and Norquest? Shame on the Drug Worrier Profiteers Money Grubbing Dung Worriers Potential Prohibition Profits Outweigh Citizens Benefits Prohibition Profiteers POLICING FOR PROFIT Forfeiture $quads Kochroach & Aleech NRA Slavery: Another Fine Product Still Made in the USA! Religious drug treatment in Texas Corporate Welfare Rats The Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer, 1993 The renewable resource alternative to OPEC wars, fossil fools crud, cotton poisons and many Pharmaceuticals. Stop the profit on misery! Free this Weed! The Corporate Muzzle So here we have yet another example -- perhaps the most glaring yet -- of the corporations that own our largest media outlets controlling and censoring the content of their news organizations based on the unrelated interests of the parent corporation. Media Reform Information Center 5 corporations control the majority of US media. (newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, books, music, movies, video's, wire services and photo agencies From Whom Did the Fascists Get Support? Italian fascism and German Nazism had their admirers within the U.S. business community and the corporate owned press. Bankers, publishers, and industrialists, including the likes of Henry Ford, traveled to Rome and Berlin to pay homage, receive medals, and strike profitable deals. Many did their utmost to advance the Nazi war effort, sharing military industrial secrets and engaging in secret transactions with the Nazi government, even after the United States entered the war. During the 1920s and early 1930s, major publications like Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Saturday Evening Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Christian Science Monitor hailed Mussolini as the man who rescued Italy from anarchy and radicalism. ~ Michael Parenti Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan & Kevin McCarthy: Plot To Sabotage US Economy with Frank Luntz Al Capone and Watergate were red herrings to divert the countries attention from the Fascist act's of eliminating competition. Booze/Ethanol or Ganja//Hemp.
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Posts: 2062 Mar 5 13 2:36 PM	More Overreaching Arguments Against Marijuana Legalization by DEA Chiefs and the UN by David Borden, March 05, 2013, 02:51pm The International Narcotics Control Board, a UN agency, and eight former DEA administrators came out swinging this week against marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington. The INCB says the state laws violate UN treaties. The DEA chiefs want the Obama administration to sue to block the laws. Former DEA Heads: Nullify CO, Washington MJ Laws Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs say the federal government needs to act now or it might lose the chance to nullify Colorado and Washington's laws legalizing recreational marijuana use. The onetime DEA heads plan to issue joint statements Tuesday saying the Obama administration has reacted too slowly and should immediately sue to force the states to rescind the legislation. The Associated Press received an advance copy of the statement Monday. One of the former DEA administrators, Peter Bensinger, told the AP that the more time goes by, the harder it'll be to stop the two states. Marijuana is illegal under federal law. The ex-DEA heads are issuing the statements though the Florida-based Save Our Society from Drugs, a national group lobbying against legalization. One of the group's spokesmen is based in Chicago. Calvina Fay Prohibition Inc. GOP Mogul Behind Drug Rehab 'Torture' Centers 11 Enemies of Marijuana Legalization Anti-Drug Campaigns Dumb Down Vital Message Calvina Fay is the Executive Director of Drug Free America Foundation and Save Our Society From Drugs (S.O.S.) From 1976-1985 it was known as Straight, Inc. and had a reputation for abusing kids as a drug rehabilitation program. Mel Sembler and his wife Betty founded Straight, Inc. In 1985 it changed its name to Straight Foundation, Inc. in order to protect its money and its principals from civil suits. In 1995 it was changed again to Drug Free America Foundation. DFAF is a national and international drug policy think tank and provider of services for drug free work places. This is dysfunction brought to the heights. A Drug Warmongers Toll on Americans Making Sure Drugs Kill The former DEA administrators are Bensinger, John Bartels, Robert Bonner, Thomas Constantine, Asa Hutchinson, John Lawn, Donnie Marshall and Francis Mullen. They served for both Republican and Democratic administrations. The Official Story Debunking “Gutter Science” Corruption/Carlton Turner Urine Testing Company After his resignation, Turner joined with Robert L. DuPont and former head of NIDA, Peter Bensinger to corner the market on urine testing. Soon after Turner left office, Nancy Reagan recommended that no corporation be permitted to do business with the Federal government without having a urine purity policy in place to show their loyalty. Just as G. Gordon Liddy went into high-tech corporate security after his disgrace, Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry: urine-testing. "At DEA, our mission is to fight drug trafficking in order to make drug abuse the most expensive, unpleasant, risky, and disreputable form of recreation a person could have." – Donnie Marshall, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) In my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and there was no drug use. -- x DEA Chief Thomas Constantine, July 1, 1998 Asa Isa Assa DEA Success Update: Let's see. After 20 years of relentless federal Drug War activity, while the price of world-class marijuana has gone from $60 an ounce to $450, the price of quality cocaine has plummeted from $125 a gram to $30, and 30%-pure heroin has dropped from $700 a gram to about $100. Way to go, boys! -- High Times, April 1995 The impact of legalization on treatment income “Follow the money.” Always good advice when considering the motivations of prohibitionists. Certainly it’s true with the true drug warriors, including DEA, police unions, etc. And, while the treatment industry is comprised of both the truly caring and the avariciously opportunistic, the general sense has been that most of their vocal opposition to legalization has come from those who see legalization as a threat to their revenue. Well, Kevin Sabet has been pushing back against that with his own notion that legalization will actually result in an increase in profits for the treatment industry (and even for the enforcement industry). Drug Worrier Kevin Sabet Gets Punk'd "Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." ~ Benito Mussolini Mooching Off Medicaid "So ignore all the talk about too much government spending and too much aid to moochers who don’t deserve it. As long as the spending ends up lining the right pockets, and the undeserving beneficiaries of public largess are politically connected corporations, conservatives with actual power seem to like Big Government just fine." ~ PAUL KRUGMAN The majority of prohibitionists profit on the drug war, and that is their only motive. "We have spent over a trillion dollars trying to eradicate the world's most beneficial plant off the face of the earth. Imagine what a better world this would be if that money had been spent on treatment, education and studying the medical benefits of marijuana." -- Steve Hager - High Times Editor (1988 - 2003) Where are all of the Taxbaggers and Norquest? Shame on the Drug Worrier Profiteers Money Grubbing Dung Worriers Potential Prohibition Profits Outweigh Citizens Benefits Prohibition Profiteers POLICING FOR PROFIT Forfeiture $quads Kochroach & Aleech NRA Slavery: Another Fine Product Still Made in the USA! Religious drug treatment in Texas Corporate Welfare Rats Trillion spent is a Trillion earned. Sorta depends on what side you stand whether its spent as wasted taxes or received as profits. The Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer, 1993
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Posts: 2062 Mar 7 13 3:56 AM	Former DEA chief won’t say why marijuana is different than alcohol Asa Hutchinson, a former Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, on Tuesday refused to say why marijuana shouldn’t be taxed and regulated like alcohol. Chief Edward Flynn, U.S. drug czar discuss marijuana Kerlikowske talked Wednesday of a 21st-century approach that looks at drugs as a public health problem rather than a criminal one. mccaffreycancertrmnt.jpg Private for profit prisons into for profit rehab asylums... The DEA gutter science believes one toke is abuse requiring treatment. Does President Obama need treatment? More Marijuana Arrests in US Than Apprehensions for Violence in 2011: A National Disgrace The most basic instinct of humans is self-preservation and keeping free from personal harm.� So when you have a nation where police arrest more people for marijuana possession than for violent crime, it would appear that protecting citizens from physical harm takes second place to enforcing archaic laws demonizing a weed that induces euphoria and an urge to eat. Rep. Polis talks marijuana policy with Wolf Blitzer on CNN Make GOP End the Drug War If Republicans want to pretend they're for less government, let's force them to get serious about it. Let’s assume that the New York Times was right this week when it asserted that in 2013, “the only issue that truly unites Republicans is a commitment to shrinking the federal government.” Even though there’s ample evidence that the GOP doesn’t actually want to shrink the government, let’s nonetheless assume that Republicans are trying to rhetorically brand themselves to the concept of small government, past votes be damned. And let’s assume that gerrymandering means the GOP will control at least one house of congress for the remainder of the Obama presidency. Does that, then, mean the next four years will automatically be mired in stalemate? Not necessarily, if Democrats call Republicans’ bluff and use the GOP’s small government argument for progressive ends. Indeed, with House Speaker John Boehner showing a penchant for violating the so-called Hastert Rule and allowing transpartisan bills to pass, the “small government” argument could be a perfect instrument for congressional Democrats to pick off just enough Republican votes to pass meaningful legislation in five key areas: 1. Ending – or at least limiting – the Drug War: To know the Drug War has been a disastrous failure at the policy level, take 10 seconds and look at this animated graph. And it hasn’t just been any run-of-the-mill policy failure involving unjust incarcerations, negative health consequences and little success in combating drug addiction – it’s also been an extremely expensive Huge Government boondoggle. Yes, depending on how you count it, government has spent somewhere between $1 trillion and $1.5 trillion on the Drug War over the last 40 years. According to the conservative Reason magazine, the Drug War now costs about $120 billion a year in direct expenditures. With Republicans showing a willingness to at least entertain questions about America’s existing drug policy, the “small government” argument could be the key to ending America’s longest war. Read the entire article at Salon. The Conservative Argument for Legalization Fellow Conservatives: Our Position Is Hypocritical Making Sure Drugs Kill "You Can't Stop AIDS Without Ending the Drug War" U.N. told to find alternatives to war on drugs UN: Colorado, Washington Legal Pot Violates Drug Treaties A United Nations-based drug agency urged the U.S. government on Tuesday to challenge the legalization of recreational marijuana use in Colorado and Washington, saying the state laws violate international drug treaties. The International Narcotics Control Board made its appeal in an annual drug report. It called on the U.S. government to act to "ensure full compliance with the international drug control treaties on its entire territory." "The entire international system is based on countries respecting the rules, and there's a broad fabric of international treaties that are part and parcel to that," added David Johnson, U.S. delegate to the Vienna-based board. Last fall, Washington and Colorado became the first states to pass laws legalizing marijuana. Pot remains illegal under federal law. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said last week he was in the last stages of reviewing the Colorado and Washington state laws. He was examining policy options and international implications of the issue. The federal government could sue the states over legalization or decide not to mount a court challenge. The International Narcotics Control Board is the independent monitoring body for the implementation of United Nations drug control conventions. Its head, Raymond Yans, called on Holder to challenge the state laws soon after voters approved the measures. Read the entire article at Daily Camera. Why the Federal Government Will Not Reschedule Marijuana Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs US, International Drug Warriors Attack State Marijuana Legalization In Prison Debate, Race Overshadows Poverty The way to stop filling up prisons is to end the War on Drugs, curb inequality and change our perspective on class More Overreaching Arguments Against Marijuana Legalization by DEA Chiefs and the UN Legalizers, Common Sense & Wrong Dollars No, thats just what they'll be expecting us to do... freethoughtblogs Will Holder or the Senate Judiciary Committee be relevant? So today, Attorney General Holder is supposed to be grilled by the Senate Judiciary Committee (going on right now). There’s a general sense that he will address the administration’s “response” to marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado. Update: HOLDER: “We are in the administration at this point considering what the federal government’s response to those new statutes will be. I expect that we will have an ability to announce what our policy is going to be relatively soon.” LEAHY: “I would think that — this is simply an editorial comment — but if you’re going to be, because of budget cuts, prioritizing on matters, I would suggest there are more serious things than minor possession of marijuana.” There’s also a general sense that the timing of a couple of other things were not coincidental. 1. A ridiculous letter from a bunch of former DEA heads, Drug Czars and other drug warriors, released through an organization with a history of torturing children. 2. The release of a report from the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) — a completely unaccountable organization through the United Nations that supports the killing and torturing of innocents through encouraging the ratcheting up of the drug war internationally. Both of these destructive groups want to save the United States and the world from someone eating a pot brownie in Denver, and are hoping the Senate will push Holder into kicking some heads in. Jacob Sullum does a great job of covering this so I don’t really have to: Totally Disinterested Drug Warriors Demand That Holder Stop Marijuana Legalization Before It’s Too Late However, I thought some of you might be interested in reading the section of the intro from INCB president Raymond Yans: �� We note with concern, however, that in this debate, some declarations and initiatives have included proposals for the legalization of the possession of drugs for non-medical and non-scientific use, that is, for “recreational” use, that would allow the cultivation and consumption of cannabis for non-medical purposes. Any such initiatives, if implemented, would violate the international drug control conventions and could undermine the noble objectives of the entire drug control system, which are to ensure the availability of drugs for medical purposes while preventing their abuse. Proponents of such initiatives ignore the commitment that all Governments have made to promote the health and well-being of their communities, and such initiatives run counter to the growing body of scientific evidence documenting the harm associated with drug abuse, including occasional �� use, particularly among young people during their formative years. �� Furthermore, such initiatives would create a false sense of security and would send a false message to the public, in particular children, regarding the health impact of abuse of drugs. Some have argued that these proposals would eliminate the illicit markets and organized crime associated with drugs of abuse. Yet, even if such initiatives were implemented, organized criminal groups would get even more deeply involved, for instance by creating a black market for the illicit supply of newly legalized drugs to young people. I really love the phrase “undermine the noble objectives of the entire drug control system.” Wow. That takes some chutzpah. And the notion that legalization would create a black market for the illicit supply of drugs to young people… Isn’t that what we have now? yoism.org Oh, no! If we legalize, North Korea will… wait.. what??? dwr I’m really kind of surprised that Forbes Magazine is giving space to an absolutely ignorant nut-job like Paul Johnson. The War On Drugs: A Defining Moment Johnson attempts to explain some of the terrible things that might happen if we legalize drugs… �� Another possibility to consider is that a rogue state, such as North Korea, will enter the burgeoning drug market. North Korea’s evil regime survives by performing tasks no other government is able or willing to contemplate. For instance, it has supplied nuclear technology to other rogue states in contravention of all international law. Both Syria and Iran have paid North Korea in gold for its aid in their nuclear efforts. There is no way to stop these transactions as long as China refuses to take punitive steps against its former military and ideological ally. �� Recreational drugs are comparatively easy for a ruthless and determined government to grow and/or manufacture. Supplying these drugs to Americans is precisely the kind of prospect that would appeal to the North Korean leadership. They’ve always claimed that capitalist democracies are essentially corrupt and decadent. This would enable them to “prove” it, especially if the release of vast quantities of cheap soft drugs into Western cities were followed by an increase in the supply and use of hard drugs, as many experts believe would be inevitable. �� China, which has a drug problem of its own, might be prepared to act against North Korea in this context. But it would extract a high price from the West, which might result in the balance of power in the Pacific tilting in China’s favor. �� I’ve been discussing possibilities. But in the world of highly dangerous drugs, it’s safer to treat possible outcomes as probabilities. If we allow this drug use to become legal, we’ll be embarking on a voyage into horror with our eyes open. This has got to be the stupidest reason for not legalizing that I’ve heard yet. It doesn’t even make enough false sense to debunk. If marijuana is legal, why in the world would we buy it from North Korea? Somebody at Forbes has got to have some egg on their face. huffingtonpost.com * full size image
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Posts: 2062 Mar 13 13 2:02 AM	Remove this ad The U.N.’s complicity in international human rights abuses dwr A very powerful OpEd in the New York Times by Fernando Henrique Cardoso (former President of Brazil) and Ruth Dreifuss (former President of Switzerland): An Ugly Truth in the War on Drugs This week, representatives from many nations will gather at the annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna to determine the appropriate course of the international response to illicit drugs. Delegates will debate multiple resolutions while ignoring a truth that goes to the core of current drug policy: human rights abuses in the war on drugs are widespread and systematic. Consider these numbers: Hundreds of thousands of people locked in detention centers and subject to violent punishments. Millions imprisoned. Hundreds hanged, shot or beheaded. Tens of thousands killed by government forces and non-state actors. Thousands beaten and abused to extract information, and abused in government or private “treatment” centers. Millions denied life-saving medicines. These are alarming figures, but campaigns to address them have been slow and drug control has received little attention from the mainstream human rights movement. [...] The U.N.’s International Narcotics Control Board has refused to condemn torture or “any atrocity” carried out in the name of drug control, claiming it was not its mandate to do so. This is both shocking and contradictory: oversight of international drug control treaties is the control board’s very mission. Late last year, despite the evidence before it, the U.N. Committee against Torture failed to condemn the widespread abuse of people who use drugs in the Russian Federation. [...] You can’t have a drug war without human rights abuses, and the harder you prosecute it, the greater those abuses. This is a painful truth often carefully ignored by those who have chosen the drug war as their path. Good to see this getting more visibility. I don’t expect much from the upcoming CND sessions – the same posturing from U.S., Sweden, Russia, etc. – but it’s getting harder for them to pretend that they represent the will of the world (or what’s best for it).… Just hours ago, the sessions began with ONDCP’s Yuri Fedotov calling Iran “UN’s number one partner in the war on drugs.” UN Report Slams Cruel Drug Treatment as "Torture" Mar 11 2013 Compulsory "treatment" for drug addiction in some parts of the world is "tantamount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment," according to report last month from the UN's special rapporteur on torture and other degrading treatments and punishments. Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs Why the Federal Government Will Not Reschedule Marijuana U.N. told to find alternatives to war on drugs The Drug War: Suppression Tactics Will Never Work US Government Patents Medical Pot U.S.Fort Schwag Mississippi Ending D.E.A.th & Pillage Incrementally Making Sure Drugs Kill You Can't Stop AIDS Without Ending the Drug War Victory? dwr It’s often been noted here that calling the drug war a failure is only true depending on what you consider to be the true goals of the drug war. Kevin Carson does a nice riff on that with Fifteen Benefits of the War on Drugs http://c4ss.org/content/17612 1. It has surrounded the Fourth Amendment’s “search and seizure” restrictions, and similar provisions in state constitutions, with so many “good faith,” “reasonable suspicion” and “reasonable expectation of privacy” loopholes as to turn them into toilet paper for all intents and purposes. [...] 5. As a result of the way DARE interacts with other things like Zero Tolerance policies and warrantless inspections by drug-sniffing dogs, the Drug War has conditioned children to believe “the policeman is their friend,” and to view snitching as admirable behavior, and to instinctively look for an authority figure to report to the second they see anything the least bit eccentric or anomalous. 6. Via civil forfeiture, it has enabled the state to create a lucrative racket in property stolen from citizens never charged, let alone convicted, of a crime. Best of all, even possessing large amounts of cash, while technically not a crime, can be treated as evidence of intent to commit a crime — saving the state the trouble of having to convert all that stolen tangible property into liquid form. 7. It has enabled local police forces to undergo military training, create paramilitary SWAT teams that operate just like the U.S. military in an occupied enemy country, get billions of dollars worth of surplus military weaponry, and wear really cool black uniforms just like the SS. [...] The Obama Admin's Anti-Marijuana Manifesto One Drug Arrest Every 19 Seconds Oh Gilligan! The majority of prohibitionists profit on the drug war, and that is their only motive. "We have spent over a trillion dollars trying to eradicate the world's most beneficial plant off the face of the earth. Imagine what a better world this would be if that money had been spent on treatment, education and studying the medical benefits of marijuana." -- Steve Hager - High Times Editor (1988 - 2003) No, thats just what they'll be expecting us to do.. The prohibitionists are living in an Airplane movie.. Trillion spent is a Trillion earned. Sorta depends on what side you stand whether its spent as wasted taxes or received as profits. Where are all of the Taxbaggers and Norquest? Billions in Tax funds spent each year, nothing said. State rights over ruled by the Feds, nothing said. Now the US has to bow down to UN laws? Taking profits from businesses wanting to grow Hemp. The Neocons seem a tad cornfused on their own philosophy...
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