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A Drug Dealer's Toll on Americans By Karen P. Tandy
And of course, not only is this BS, it's recycled BS... anonymous
CN Source: Washington Post*March 29, 2006 Washington, DC

"Medicines often produce side effects.
Sometimes they are physically unpleasant.
Cannabis too has discomforting side effects,
but these are not physical they are political"
The Economist March 28th 1992

DEA Release Admits Marc Emery Extradition Politically Motivated
The US Drug Enforcement Administration admitted on the day of Marc Emery's arrest that his investigation and extradition were politically motivated, designed to target the Marijuana Legalization organization that Emery spearheaded and ran for over a decade in Canada.
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High Crimes, or A Tokin' Figure?
CBS: 60 Minutes Prince of Pot ~ Transcript
Prince of Pot Fights Extradition on Drug Charges

Canada's Supremes Cower Under DEAth Threats

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."

Tandy's office has declined to comment about the statement, but locally, federal prosecutors have distanced themselves from her remarks.

The 'Virtues' of Ganja

The Ganjawar Fraud...

"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."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935



NFL's Buzzkill

Fans Too Relaxed for Fights
Cannabis Helps Keep Fans Calm
Basketball Riots in L.A., Soccer Thugs in Europe
Euro 2000 Soccer Violence Could Vanish in a Puff

UNITED STATES DISPENSATORY also listed cannabis as a useful medicine. The 1851 edition states: The complaints in which it [cannabis] has been specially recommended are neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, tetanus, hydrophobia, epidemic cholera, convulsions, chorea, hysteria, mental depression, delirium tremens, insanity and uterine hemorrhage. Cannabis was removed from the US Pharmacopeia in 1942 because of political pressure from Harry Anslinger and the U S Treasury Department.



NORML: 68th Anniversary of Marijuana Prohibition
For the anniversary NORML has compiled some 'fun' facts and resources to help you get through another birthday.

"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

Nebraska -- Rape. Murder. Drunk driving.
None of these crimes will cost college students their Pell Grants, but walking down the street with a joint could. As of July 1, 2000, a provision in the Higher Education Act mandated that students’ eligibility for federal financial aid be suspended if they are convicted under federal or state laws of offenses involving the possession or sale of controlled substances.

"Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society."
U.S. Representative Dan Quayle, March 1977

CC:Cannabis and Driving
While acute cannabis intoxication has been shown to have demonstrable impact on psychomotor performance, these effects are typically mild and short-lived lasting at most one to three hours, and certainly not 24 hours, as claimed by the ONDCP. Moreover, unlike with alcohol, the accident risk caused by cannabis - particularly among those who are not acutely intoxicated - is often limited because subjects under its influence are generally aware of their impairment and compensate to some extent, such as by slowing down and by focusing their attention when they know a response will be required. This response is the opposite of that exhibited by drivers under the influence of alcohol, who tend to drive in a more risky manner proportional to their intoxication.

Marijuana is one of the world's most commonly used illegal drugs.
There are approximately 300 million users worldwide and 28 million users in the United States (Diaz, 1997)

300 million users worldwide vs "A" marijuana-intoxicated motorist?