"Not only are we here to protect the public
from vicious criminals in the street
but also to protect the public from harmful ideas."
- Robert Ingersoll, first director of the DEA
Ideas are more powerful than guns.
We would not let our enemies have guns,
why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin
Updates About Kubby, Overgrow.com, Mexico.
When A Mexican City Becomes More Dangerous Than Washington, DC…
Posted by*Richard Cowan on*2006-02-24 16:20:00
California officials say they will prove in court that lethal injection does not cause pain, so that executions can resume. It would be simpler to just move them to Placer County and say that they are medical cannabis patients and then no one will notice.
I was amused to hear that some people thought that the “RC” who ran Overgrow was Richard Cowan. No, the only alias that I use is “Dick Cheney.”
“Mexico is being destabilized by drug gangs warring over access to the lucrative U.S. market. A wave of killings of officials and journalists in places like Nuevo Laredo and Acapulco is reminiscent of the 1930s Prohibition-era crime waves in Al Capone's Chicago and the Purple Gang's Detroit.” – Wall Street Journal columnist, George Melloan.
Read Full Story...
http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=886
"Another weapon I discovered early
was the power of the printed word to sway souls to me.
The newspaper was soon my gun, my flag-
a thing with a soul that could mirror my own."
Adolph Hitler
Rawlins Radio Stations Pull Medical Marijuana PSA
By The Associated Press February 23, 2006 Rawlins*
A pair of local radio stations has pulled a set of public service announcements advocating medical marijuana use after receiving complaints from the police chief and others. Scott Freeman, a salesman for Mount Rushmore Broadcasting in Casper, which owns KIQZ-FM and KRAL-AM in Rawlins, said he pulled the PSAs as soon as he learned about them.
Read More...
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21624.shtml
Bad research makes headlines
Lou Dobbs and the Second Mexican War. Has It Already Begun?
Counting the Costs of the Drugwar.
Posted by*Richard Cowan on*2006-02-16 16:20:00
I would like to suggest to the leaders of the Mexican cartels that instead of killing reporters, they should just send them to intern at major US media outlets like the Washington Post, Time Magazine, the New York Times, etc. There they would quickly learn never to ask questions about the drugwar. Instead of risking their lives reporting an endless series of murders, they would just parrot the prohibitionist line from the government, like Lou Dobbs.
One should not invoke the truth if one is committed to maintaining a lie, as Dobbs and other supporters of the drugwar must be. Indeed, they would do well to remember the line from Pogo,
“We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
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http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=885
Why Support Cannabis Prohibition...
Drug Bust By Vince Beiser
Source: American Prospect January 09, 2006 USA
A $100-million anti-drug ad campaign was a complete waste. Here’s why.
The federal drug czar’s famous advertising campaign is suffering a serious buzz-kill. The series of anti-drug radio, TV, print, and Internet ads produced by the Office of National Drug Control Policy is under unprecedented fire--including a recent call for its elimination from dozens of Congressional Republicans. That caps a series of scandals and dismal evaluations of the program that brings such bon mots as “Parents: The Anti-Drug” and “Above the Influence” to your TV screen.
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http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21465.shtml
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda,
people can be made to see paradise as hell,
and also the other way around,
to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
Benito Mussolini.
"London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935
Your Government Is Lying To You (Again) About Marijuana
The Truth About Drug Hysteria
The James Frey fiasco is not the first time accounts, descriptions or even research about drugs have been sensationalized or fabricated and proven false.
The Ganjawar Fraud...
The Drug War Refugees
Prince of Pot Fights Extradition on Drug Charges
Emery contends a news release issued July 29, the day of his arrest, reveals the U.S. government's intention to mute his efforts to advance the spread of marijuana. In the release, Karen Tandy, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, wrote: "Today's DEA arrest of Marc Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine, and the founder of a marijuana legalization group, is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement. ... Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada."
The 'Virtues' of Ganja
Tandy's office has declined to comment about the statement, but locally, federal prosecutors have distanced themselves from her remarks.
Guest Rant: Ethan Straffin takes on Lou Dobbs 8/12/03
Last week, Lou Dobbs hosted a series on CNN called "The Forgotten War" (entire transcript) in which he gave particular emphasis to the distortions of drug war cheerleaders like former drug czar William Bennett and current drug czar John Walters.
Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia
"It also gives us a very special,
secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are
of what is really happening to them."
Adolf Hitler
Why legalizing drugs is dopey idea by Lou Dobbs
NY Daily News (August 10, 2003)
Richard Cowan's Lengthy Response to Lou Dobbs
"...somebody has to take governments' place,
and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it."
David Rockefeller - Newsweek International, Feb 1 1999.
Money-Lyin' with Lou Dobb$
