Supreme Court Clears Way for Medical Pot
Declaration of Arnold Leff, M.D.
Conservative Addiction Good! Liberal Addiction Bad!
I wish I could remember who wrote this, because I'd like to give credit.
TOMMY CHONG: Whatcha in for, man?
RUSH LIMBAUGH: Dealing in drugs and being an addict. I bought synthetic opiate painkillers illegally and became addicted to them.
CHONG: Really? Rush Limbaugh an addict? Wow!
LIMBAUGH: What are you in for?
CHONG: Selling glass.
LIMBAUGH: Grass?
CHONG: No, glass. With an 'l.'
Like everything funny, there is great truth to that little skit. Tommy Chong, at 65, is in prison for six months for selling marijuana bongs over the Internet. He shouldn't be in prison. Limbaugh is not going to serve a day in jail. He shouldn't, either.
I tell people Chong should have bought thrift-store coffee pots and sold them, since they can be used for other purposes than making coffee. ("Bongs, your honor? They're coffee pots!")
Dittoheads rationalizing Limbaugh's addiction (which one, now? Painkillers, food or tobacco?) claim his "dependence" is okay because he was taking drugs for pain and therefore deserves compassion. On the other hand, people who use drugs for pleasure should be punished.
I guess all pigs are equal, but some pigs are more equal than others.
I've had substantial experience with addicts. You name it; I've seen it. Not a little experience, but a lot. My experience with addicts is that all are in pain. That's why they use drugs. They're trying to self-medicate.
None of them have been in physical pain. All have been in some kind of psychological torment. People who aren't in some kind of pain, either physical or psychological (what exactly is the difference?) don't become addicts.
From now on, can't anyone using drugs use the Rush Limbaugh defense? "I'm not using drugs for pleasure. I'm sick and in pain, and I need them to function."
What are prosecutors and judges going to do about that? "Well, gosh...if Limbaugh can go into treatment two or three times, and relapse, and never go to jail, how can I put anyone in jail for drug use when they're claiming their addiction is for pain, just like El Rushbo?"
I remember one woman in particular. I'll call her Joane. She was a junkie who told me one shot would hold her for eight hours. She didn't want to be a junkie, but told me the first time she tried heroin all the pain went away and she instantly knew she was an addict.
I never bothered to ask Joane her history, about what had happened in her past that might have contributed to what she became. But I do know she supported her addiction by being a whore. Didn't have enough talent to get behind a microphone, like Rush.
Finally Joane became so disgusted over what she was she went into rehab for 30 days, where she was basically given sleeping pills so she wouldn't feel too many withdrawal symptoms. "All I did was sleep and eat," she told me.
When she came out, she had gained 20 pounds. This makes me wonder if Rush will again have a weight problem when he finishes rehab. After all, like William Bennett, he appears to be an addictive personality.
Rush, like Bennett, should repeat over and over, morning, noon and night, "Judge not, lest you be judged." I never saw Joane judge anyone the way Limbaugh and Bennett judge, because her experience and understanding of addiction excluded that kind of self-righteousness.
How could Joane decide she was so superior to anyone that it gave her the right to look down on others, considering what she was? But when it comes right down to the basics, there's really no difference between Limbaugh, Bennett or Joane.
In a way, all of it makes me smile. All humans are inherently flawed, no matter how big their mouths, or how arrogant and grandiose. I never saw any arrogance in Joane, but I've seen a lot of it in the judgmental Limbaugh and Bennett.
Joane also told me that anyone who goes through rehab, and gets back on drugs, is probably never going to get off of them. Limbaugh has been through rehab more than once, and failed. Will he ever get off of painkillers? I don't know. But I suspect he's going to have cravings for the rest of his life. Maybe he'll just smoke a lot more cigars, or pour sugar down his throat, the way I've seen alcoholics do when they kick booze.
One thing I do suspect, though, is that Limbaugh will never, ever again say a word in support of the Drug War. Limbaugh is an addict, and is always in danger of relapse. I suspect he's smart enough to know this.
There would be a lot less problems in the world if drug were legalized. Some who think there would be an explosion of drug use don't realize that all societies are inherently conservative. They have to be, to survive. Social pressure against drug abuse would reduce it to the minimum. Abuse, however, will never be eradicated. As the old saying goes, "the poor are always with us."
State interference in societies is what exacerbates problems. Laws against drugs is what creates black markets, massive profits for criminals, and small quantities of concentrated drugs that are easy to smuggle.
Poor Rush. Like William Bennett, like Joane, and like everyone else, he has feet of clay.
I believe Rush has two paths: humility, or more arrogance. The first leads to repentance and atonement. The second, being the same thing as hubris, will lead to more problems for El Rushbo. It's up to him.
All we need now is for Rush to get wounded in a war. Then maybe he would give up being an armchair-warrior chickenhawk lusting after murder and destruction.
Nothing like the School of Hard Knocks, I always say.
Bob Wallace is the author of I Write What I See. Please visit his Shameless Book Promotion Page. And here is his Page Full o' Fun.
www.LewRockwell.com
Conservative Addiction Good! Liberal Addiction Bad!
By Bob Wallace October 14, 2003
Rush To Judgment
Hypocrisy Revealed
Rush To Jail? - Joel Miller
Limbaugh Won't Be Prosecuted, Attorneys Wager By John Pacenti
Ashcroft Nephew Got Probation After Major Pot Bust By Daniel Forbes
Ashcroft Limits Prosecutor Discretion
Stop John Ashcroft
Stop Ashcroft Coalition
Steamroller Ashcroft
Law Enforcement Shares the Wealth in War on Drugs
Has the Drug War Created an Officer Liar's Club?
DRUG SQUADS 'HIKING UP VALUE OF HAULS'
Newt Gingrich's Support for Medical Marijuana
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." - Aldous Huxley
Fair Deal for Noelle Bush
Noelle Bush Needs Help, As All Addicts Do
Jeb Bush Urged To Reconsider Drug Law View
JEB BUSH CAUGHT IN ILLEGAL DRUG COVER-UP SCANDAL
The Drug Policy Alliance
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
-- Aldous Huxley
Cunningham's Vote to Support the Death Penalty for Drugs
Cunningham son held on marijuana charge (thread)
Judge Lindsay sentenced Randall Cunningham to 2 1/2 years in prison,
half the federally mandated minimum. Dad's interest may have been noted.
Bush's Double Standard
In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the US. Of those,
46.5 percent -- 734,497 arrests -- were for marijuana.
There were 646,042 arrests for simple possession of marijuana in 2000.
drugwarfacts.org
U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana laws.
According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2001.
Keith Stroup, (NORML)
Tommy Chong Gets Nine Months
Tommy Chong's Web Site (closed?)
Cheech and Chong.com
CannabisNews Paraphernalia Archives
55 Charged in Drug Paraphernalia Sales
Tommy Framed?...
Tommy Chong's factory, Chong Glass,
as well as his home in California were raided by the feds today.
Busted for Art
Bill Bendit's Virtues * Poster
DEAth Flunky * Poster
Monsanto's Cliarence * Poster
Bush Religion Initiative headed by John J. DiIulio, Jr.
(Superpredator Kids on Pot!)
Moral Poverty and How to Win Americas War against Crime and Drugs
By William J. Bennett, John J. DiIulio, Jr., and John P. Walters
Marijuana Misinformation
Harry J. Anslinger
Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys
Soon after Czar 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.
Pisstasters * Poster
Racist Ganjawar
PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS
The Ganjawar is a Product Sold by D.E.A.th to Profit Fascist ... DdC
November Coalition
The November Coalition is a non-profit, grassroots organization who are educating the public about the destructive increase in prison population in the United States due to our current drug laws. We alert our fellow citizens, particularly those who are complacent or naive, about the present and impending dangers of an overly powerful federal authority acting far beyond its constitutional constraints. The drug war is an assault and steady erosion of our civil rights and freedoms by federal and state governments.
Human Rights and the WoD
Behind Czarist 'Truths' - Deception No Way To Wage Drug War
Drug Czar Seeks To Ban All Hemp Products
Annual Ditchweed Eradication Boondoggle Underway Again
May 7, 1998, Washington, D.C.: Over 99 percent of the marijuana eradicated by the Drug Enforcement Administration's federally funded "Cannabis Suppression Program" is nonpsychoactive hemp, reveals a 1998 Vermont State Auditor's report
99.28% ditchweed
Urgent Warning about Industrial Hemp...
The Toxic Alternative to Natural Fiber
Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible
"The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are convicted of nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens the lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially devastating to the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem accompany the perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Farmer v. Brennan
SPR - Stop Prisoner Rape
Human Rights Watch
Male Rape in US Prisons
Conditions of Confinement
Human Rights Watch has documented abominable conditions for children in detention in countries around the world. In the United States (Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, and Maryland), Pakistan, Jamaica, among other countries, children are subjected to excessive force, inadequate medical and mental health care, and are provided with little or no education. Often, these children are placed in the facilities along side adults, exposing them to physical and sexual abuse.
Close to Home: Juveniles in Adult Jails
Correctional Systems, Inc.
(CSI) is a publicly-traded corporation that contracts with governmental agencies to operate correctional projects.
Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations
UNICORE
Prison Industrial Complex ... Search top rght
("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.)
James Geddes-47
90 YEARS-5 PLANTS!
Release Petition
DEA Raids MMJ Garden of L.A. Patient Sister Somayah
October 10, 2003
The Murder of Peter McWilliams
Archives
Cartoon: Murder of Peter McWilliams
Rainbow Farm Massacre
'WE WILL NOT FORGET,' VOW RAINBOW FARM SUPPORTERS
CASSOPOLIS -- A downpour didn't deter friends of Rainbow Farm from gathering outside the old Cass County courthouse at 5:30 p. m. Monday on the second anniversary of the Labor Day weekend 2001 deaths of Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm.
Statewide billboard campaign against federal war on medical
marijuana featuring 8-year-old daughter of MMJ prisoner Bryan Epis.
Osburn Defense Fund
HEMP PLYWOOD Becomes a Reality by Lynn and Judy Osburn
HEMP SEED: THE MOST NUTRITIONALLY COMPLETE FOOD SOURCE IN THE WORLD
Part One by Lynn Osburn
Part II, Hempseed Oils and the Flow of Life Force
HEMP, THE PREMIER RENEWABLE RESOURCE
Energy Farming in America
RENEE BOJE
Mike's (Michael Moore) Militia Mission has also taken up Renee's cause
Help Renee Boje fight extradition from Canada, where she seeks political asylum from US drug war zealots. Only because Boje associated with medical marijuana activist Todd McCormick, these zealots intend to imprison her for a longer term than they would a rapist or murderer.
News items about Renee
CANCER VICTIM TODD McCORMICK PUNISHED WITH SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
LOS ANGELES - Medical marijuana patient, Todd McCormick, confined to federal prison while appealing his case, reports he is being sent to solitary confinement. Todd has a spinal fusion - the top five vertebrae were fused when he was two-years-old. A tumor had completely eaten the 2nd vertebrae and the old fusion is now literally carving grooves in the base of his skull,
prompting severe headaches as well, His left hip stopped growing when he was 9, a result of radiation treatments for childhood cancer. He has severe scoliosis, nerve damage in his upper back, shoulders and neck and severe muscle spasms in his lower back. He has received no medical treatment since January," said Mrs. McCormick.
Benefit For Todd McCormick
Todd McCormick in Prison for Perhaps Five Years
Uphold The Law By Steve Kubby
November 05, 1999
Cannabisnews search: Steve Kubby
What Will Happen To Will Foster?
There was absolutely no evidence of any sales, but a jury was convinced to convict him with cultivation and intent to distribute. Failure to obtain marijuana tax stamps increased the sentence to 93 years. In 1998, an appeals court found that the 93-year term "shocks our conscience" and reduced the sentence to 20 years, which opened up the possibility of parole for Foster. During Foster's trial, the prosecution claimed the plants were equivalent to 2,652 joints. Ed Rosenthal, a marijuana cultivation expert, testified that the yield would be at most 600 joints, a proper amount for a medical patent taking it as medication on a daily basis.
The Ohio Hempery
Ed Rosenthal's Trial Pictures & Articles
safeaccessnow.org
green-aid.com
NJ Weedman Wins Right to Advocate Drug-Law Reform
County's 'Weedman' Released from State Prison
Cannabisnews search: NJ Weedman Ed Forcion
UK Grandmother Gets 18 Months Probation For Drinking Cannabis Tea For Arthritis Pain
A GRANDMOTHER who narrowly escaped jail for drinking cannabis tea to ease her constant pain today insisted: "It should be legalised".
Pot Grower, 75, Given Year in Jail
US Prosecutes Cancer Patient Over Marijuana
TWO SUSPECTS KILLED IN SHASTA COUNTY MARIJUANA RAID
MANTON -- Two suspects were fatally shot by drug agents raiding a massive marijuana garden early Tuesday, the Shasta County sheriff's department said. Two suspects were killed during a gun battle with the 40 to 50 police conducting the raid, said Lt. Denis Carroll. None of the police officers was injured. Four helicopters helped a beefed-up contingent of about 75 police officers surround the area, search for the suspects, and bale the marijuana, Carroll said. Continued...
The Year In Pot
A Year in the Life of Pot Prohibition
2001: A Year in the Life of Marijuana Prohibition
2002: A Year in the Life of the Drug War
WAMM Plans Family Day
wamm.org
Cheryl Heart Foundation
MMJ Use Advocates Stage Protest at Barr's Office
Supporters of medical marijuana usage blocked the door to Georgia Rep. Bob Barr' s office Thursday to protest his efforts to overturn a District of Columbia referendum that would permit seriously ill people to use marijuana legally if their doctors recommend it.
MAKING THE WALLS TRANSPARENT
Change the Climate
(FAMM Foundation)
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation
F.E.A.R.
I LOST MY FREEDOM
and can't find it anywhere!Linx
The American Psychiatric Association has in their seal the portrait of Dr. Benjamin Rush. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He wrote "Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship... the Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom as well as religious freedom." - Benjamin Rush M.D.
Declaration of Arnold Leff, M.D.
Conservative Addiction Good! Liberal Addiction Bad!
I wish I could remember who wrote this, because I'd like to give credit.
TOMMY CHONG: Whatcha in for, man?
RUSH LIMBAUGH: Dealing in drugs and being an addict. I bought synthetic opiate painkillers illegally and became addicted to them.
CHONG: Really? Rush Limbaugh an addict? Wow!
LIMBAUGH: What are you in for?
CHONG: Selling glass.
LIMBAUGH: Grass?
CHONG: No, glass. With an 'l.'
Like everything funny, there is great truth to that little skit. Tommy Chong, at 65, is in prison for six months for selling marijuana bongs over the Internet. He shouldn't be in prison. Limbaugh is not going to serve a day in jail. He shouldn't, either.
I tell people Chong should have bought thrift-store coffee pots and sold them, since they can be used for other purposes than making coffee. ("Bongs, your honor? They're coffee pots!")
Dittoheads rationalizing Limbaugh's addiction (which one, now? Painkillers, food or tobacco?) claim his "dependence" is okay because he was taking drugs for pain and therefore deserves compassion. On the other hand, people who use drugs for pleasure should be punished.
I guess all pigs are equal, but some pigs are more equal than others.
I've had substantial experience with addicts. You name it; I've seen it. Not a little experience, but a lot. My experience with addicts is that all are in pain. That's why they use drugs. They're trying to self-medicate.
None of them have been in physical pain. All have been in some kind of psychological torment. People who aren't in some kind of pain, either physical or psychological (what exactly is the difference?) don't become addicts.
From now on, can't anyone using drugs use the Rush Limbaugh defense? "I'm not using drugs for pleasure. I'm sick and in pain, and I need them to function."
What are prosecutors and judges going to do about that? "Well, gosh...if Limbaugh can go into treatment two or three times, and relapse, and never go to jail, how can I put anyone in jail for drug use when they're claiming their addiction is for pain, just like El Rushbo?"
I remember one woman in particular. I'll call her Joane. She was a junkie who told me one shot would hold her for eight hours. She didn't want to be a junkie, but told me the first time she tried heroin all the pain went away and she instantly knew she was an addict.
I never bothered to ask Joane her history, about what had happened in her past that might have contributed to what she became. But I do know she supported her addiction by being a whore. Didn't have enough talent to get behind a microphone, like Rush.
Finally Joane became so disgusted over what she was she went into rehab for 30 days, where she was basically given sleeping pills so she wouldn't feel too many withdrawal symptoms. "All I did was sleep and eat," she told me.
When she came out, she had gained 20 pounds. This makes me wonder if Rush will again have a weight problem when he finishes rehab. After all, like William Bennett, he appears to be an addictive personality.
Rush, like Bennett, should repeat over and over, morning, noon and night, "Judge not, lest you be judged." I never saw Joane judge anyone the way Limbaugh and Bennett judge, because her experience and understanding of addiction excluded that kind of self-righteousness.
How could Joane decide she was so superior to anyone that it gave her the right to look down on others, considering what she was? But when it comes right down to the basics, there's really no difference between Limbaugh, Bennett or Joane.
In a way, all of it makes me smile. All humans are inherently flawed, no matter how big their mouths, or how arrogant and grandiose. I never saw any arrogance in Joane, but I've seen a lot of it in the judgmental Limbaugh and Bennett.
Joane also told me that anyone who goes through rehab, and gets back on drugs, is probably never going to get off of them. Limbaugh has been through rehab more than once, and failed. Will he ever get off of painkillers? I don't know. But I suspect he's going to have cravings for the rest of his life. Maybe he'll just smoke a lot more cigars, or pour sugar down his throat, the way I've seen alcoholics do when they kick booze.
One thing I do suspect, though, is that Limbaugh will never, ever again say a word in support of the Drug War. Limbaugh is an addict, and is always in danger of relapse. I suspect he's smart enough to know this.
There would be a lot less problems in the world if drug were legalized. Some who think there would be an explosion of drug use don't realize that all societies are inherently conservative. They have to be, to survive. Social pressure against drug abuse would reduce it to the minimum. Abuse, however, will never be eradicated. As the old saying goes, "the poor are always with us."
State interference in societies is what exacerbates problems. Laws against drugs is what creates black markets, massive profits for criminals, and small quantities of concentrated drugs that are easy to smuggle.
Poor Rush. Like William Bennett, like Joane, and like everyone else, he has feet of clay.
I believe Rush has two paths: humility, or more arrogance. The first leads to repentance and atonement. The second, being the same thing as hubris, will lead to more problems for El Rushbo. It's up to him.
All we need now is for Rush to get wounded in a war. Then maybe he would give up being an armchair-warrior chickenhawk lusting after murder and destruction.
Nothing like the School of Hard Knocks, I always say.
Bob Wallace is the author of I Write What I See. Please visit his Shameless Book Promotion Page. And here is his Page Full o' Fun.
www.LewRockwell.com
Conservative Addiction Good! Liberal Addiction Bad!
By Bob Wallace October 14, 2003
Rush To Judgment
Hypocrisy Revealed
Rush To Jail? - Joel Miller
Limbaugh Won't Be Prosecuted, Attorneys Wager By John Pacenti
Ashcroft Nephew Got Probation After Major Pot Bust By Daniel Forbes
Ashcroft Limits Prosecutor Discretion
Stop John Ashcroft
Stop Ashcroft Coalition
Steamroller Ashcroft
Law Enforcement Shares the Wealth in War on Drugs
Has the Drug War Created an Officer Liar's Club?
DRUG SQUADS 'HIKING UP VALUE OF HAULS'
Newt Gingrich's Support for Medical Marijuana
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." - Aldous Huxley
Fair Deal for Noelle Bush
Noelle Bush Needs Help, As All Addicts Do
Jeb Bush Urged To Reconsider Drug Law View
JEB BUSH CAUGHT IN ILLEGAL DRUG COVER-UP SCANDAL
The Drug Policy Alliance
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
-- Aldous Huxley
Cunningham's Vote to Support the Death Penalty for Drugs
Cunningham son held on marijuana charge (thread)
Judge Lindsay sentenced Randall Cunningham to 2 1/2 years in prison,
half the federally mandated minimum. Dad's interest may have been noted.
Bush's Double Standard
In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the US. Of those,
46.5 percent -- 734,497 arrests -- were for marijuana.
There were 646,042 arrests for simple possession of marijuana in 2000.
drugwarfacts.org
U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana laws.
According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2001.
Keith Stroup, (NORML)
Tommy Chong Gets Nine Months
Tommy Chong's Web Site (closed?)
Cheech and Chong.com
CannabisNews Paraphernalia Archives
55 Charged in Drug Paraphernalia Sales
Tommy Framed?...
Tommy Chong's factory, Chong Glass,
as well as his home in California were raided by the feds today.
Busted for Art
Bill Bendit's Virtues * Poster
DEAth Flunky * Poster
Monsanto's Cliarence * Poster
Bush Religion Initiative headed by John J. DiIulio, Jr.
(Superpredator Kids on Pot!)
Moral Poverty and How to Win Americas War against Crime and Drugs
By William J. Bennett, John J. DiIulio, Jr., and John P. Walters
Marijuana Misinformation
Harry J. Anslinger
Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys
Soon after Czar 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.
Pisstasters * Poster
Racist Ganjawar
PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS
The Ganjawar is a Product Sold by D.E.A.th to Profit Fascist ... DdC
November Coalition
The November Coalition is a non-profit, grassroots organization who are educating the public about the destructive increase in prison population in the United States due to our current drug laws. We alert our fellow citizens, particularly those who are complacent or naive, about the present and impending dangers of an overly powerful federal authority acting far beyond its constitutional constraints. The drug war is an assault and steady erosion of our civil rights and freedoms by federal and state governments.
Human Rights and the WoD
Behind Czarist 'Truths' - Deception No Way To Wage Drug War
Drug Czar Seeks To Ban All Hemp Products
Annual Ditchweed Eradication Boondoggle Underway Again
May 7, 1998, Washington, D.C.: Over 99 percent of the marijuana eradicated by the Drug Enforcement Administration's federally funded "Cannabis Suppression Program" is nonpsychoactive hemp, reveals a 1998 Vermont State Auditor's report
99.28% ditchweed
Urgent Warning about Industrial Hemp...
The Toxic Alternative to Natural Fiber
Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible
"The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are convicted of nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens the lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially devastating to the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem accompany the perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Farmer v. Brennan
SPR - Stop Prisoner Rape
Human Rights Watch
Male Rape in US Prisons
Conditions of Confinement
Human Rights Watch has documented abominable conditions for children in detention in countries around the world. In the United States (Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, and Maryland), Pakistan, Jamaica, among other countries, children are subjected to excessive force, inadequate medical and mental health care, and are provided with little or no education. Often, these children are placed in the facilities along side adults, exposing them to physical and sexual abuse.
Close to Home: Juveniles in Adult Jails
Correctional Systems, Inc.
(CSI) is a publicly-traded corporation that contracts with governmental agencies to operate correctional projects.
Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations
UNICORE
Prison Industrial Complex ... Search top rght
("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.)
James Geddes-47
90 YEARS-5 PLANTS!
Release Petition
DEA Raids MMJ Garden of L.A. Patient Sister Somayah
October 10, 2003
The Murder of Peter McWilliams
Archives
Cartoon: Murder of Peter McWilliams
Rainbow Farm Massacre
'WE WILL NOT FORGET,' VOW RAINBOW FARM SUPPORTERS
CASSOPOLIS -- A downpour didn't deter friends of Rainbow Farm from gathering outside the old Cass County courthouse at 5:30 p. m. Monday on the second anniversary of the Labor Day weekend 2001 deaths of Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm.
Statewide billboard campaign against federal war on medical
marijuana featuring 8-year-old daughter of MMJ prisoner Bryan Epis.
Osburn Defense Fund
HEMP PLYWOOD Becomes a Reality by Lynn and Judy Osburn
HEMP SEED: THE MOST NUTRITIONALLY COMPLETE FOOD SOURCE IN THE WORLD
Part One by Lynn Osburn
Part II, Hempseed Oils and the Flow of Life Force
HEMP, THE PREMIER RENEWABLE RESOURCE
Energy Farming in America
RENEE BOJE
Mike's (Michael Moore) Militia Mission has also taken up Renee's cause
Help Renee Boje fight extradition from Canada, where she seeks political asylum from US drug war zealots. Only because Boje associated with medical marijuana activist Todd McCormick, these zealots intend to imprison her for a longer term than they would a rapist or murderer.
News items about Renee
CANCER VICTIM TODD McCORMICK PUNISHED WITH SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
LOS ANGELES - Medical marijuana patient, Todd McCormick, confined to federal prison while appealing his case, reports he is being sent to solitary confinement. Todd has a spinal fusion - the top five vertebrae were fused when he was two-years-old. A tumor had completely eaten the 2nd vertebrae and the old fusion is now literally carving grooves in the base of his skull,
prompting severe headaches as well, His left hip stopped growing when he was 9, a result of radiation treatments for childhood cancer. He has severe scoliosis, nerve damage in his upper back, shoulders and neck and severe muscle spasms in his lower back. He has received no medical treatment since January," said Mrs. McCormick.
Benefit For Todd McCormick
Todd McCormick in Prison for Perhaps Five Years
Uphold The Law By Steve Kubby
November 05, 1999
Cannabisnews search: Steve Kubby
What Will Happen To Will Foster?
There was absolutely no evidence of any sales, but a jury was convinced to convict him with cultivation and intent to distribute. Failure to obtain marijuana tax stamps increased the sentence to 93 years. In 1998, an appeals court found that the 93-year term "shocks our conscience" and reduced the sentence to 20 years, which opened up the possibility of parole for Foster. During Foster's trial, the prosecution claimed the plants were equivalent to 2,652 joints. Ed Rosenthal, a marijuana cultivation expert, testified that the yield would be at most 600 joints, a proper amount for a medical patent taking it as medication on a daily basis.
The Ohio Hempery
Ed Rosenthal's Trial Pictures & Articles
safeaccessnow.org
green-aid.com
NJ Weedman Wins Right to Advocate Drug-Law Reform
County's 'Weedman' Released from State Prison
Cannabisnews search: NJ Weedman Ed Forcion
UK Grandmother Gets 18 Months Probation For Drinking Cannabis Tea For Arthritis Pain
A GRANDMOTHER who narrowly escaped jail for drinking cannabis tea to ease her constant pain today insisted: "It should be legalised".
Pot Grower, 75, Given Year in Jail
US Prosecutes Cancer Patient Over Marijuana
TWO SUSPECTS KILLED IN SHASTA COUNTY MARIJUANA RAID
MANTON -- Two suspects were fatally shot by drug agents raiding a massive marijuana garden early Tuesday, the Shasta County sheriff's department said. Two suspects were killed during a gun battle with the 40 to 50 police conducting the raid, said Lt. Denis Carroll. None of the police officers was injured. Four helicopters helped a beefed-up contingent of about 75 police officers surround the area, search for the suspects, and bale the marijuana, Carroll said. Continued...
The Year In Pot
A Year in the Life of Pot Prohibition
2001: A Year in the Life of Marijuana Prohibition
2002: A Year in the Life of the Drug War
WAMM Plans Family Day
wamm.org
Cheryl Heart Foundation
MMJ Use Advocates Stage Protest at Barr's Office
Supporters of medical marijuana usage blocked the door to Georgia Rep. Bob Barr' s office Thursday to protest his efforts to overturn a District of Columbia referendum that would permit seriously ill people to use marijuana legally if their doctors recommend it.
MAKING THE WALLS TRANSPARENT
Change the Climate
(FAMM Foundation)
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation
F.E.A.R.
I LOST MY FREEDOM
and can't find it anywhere!Linx
The American Psychiatric Association has in their seal the portrait of Dr. Benjamin Rush. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He wrote "Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship... the Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom as well as religious freedom." - Benjamin Rush M.D.
