A Searing Portrait of Abuse By Colbert I. King
Washington Post November 25, 2005*Washington, D.C.
This is the 12th column to be written about Jonathan Magbie, a 27-year-old man who was paralyzed from the neck down at age 4 after being struck by a drunk driver. Magbie lived at home with his mother, needed private nursing care at least 20 hours a day and was totally dependent upon others because he couldn't use any of his limbs. He got around in a motorized wheelchair that he operated with his mouth, and his breathing was aided by a tracheotomy tube and an implanted diaphragmatic pacemaker.
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The DrugWar, in micrososm
It mainly attacks minorities (Mr. Magbie was Black if you're not familiar with the case)
AS IT WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED TO
(see
http://www.drugwar.com/blackfiends.shtm and
http://www.drugwar.com/whitehope.shtm ).
The Racist Ganjawar
DEAth Sentence for Small-Time Crime
''Sen. George V. Voinovich, the Senate's watchdog for Washington, D.C., affairs, said yesterday he would try to block a new Washington city law allowing the medical use of marijuana.'' 1999
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THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE
`Efforts to legalize marijuana for medical purposes in the District were blocked yesterday when a federal appeals court overturned, without explanation, an earlier court ruling that had cleared the way for the issue to be put before D.C. voters. ... "It is too bad that a three-judge panel was able to thwart the will of tens of thousands of D.C. voters," said Steve Fox, a spokesman for the group. "It is sadder still that this ruling will cause the suffering of seriously ill patients in the city to continue." 2002
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Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia
MMJ Use Advocates Stage Protest at Barr's Office By David Pace
A P Star Tribune October 21, 1999
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.
Cheryl Heart Foundation
Klintoon ask Supreams to Overturn MMJ ruling
If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.
President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993
The Drug War Refugees
A diamond in the rough.
posted by lombar on April 09, 2006 at 22:09:57 PT
some dots for why the resistance to the end of the war on drugs is so fierce. About $500 B per year they claim are going thru the US economy yearly. To stop the drug war may crash the US economy.
THE FUTURE OF FOOD
1 hr 28 min 54 sec
Genetically Modified Food ..
53 min 33 sec
Texe Marrs Gulag USA Concen..
1 hr 21 min 31 sec
The Ganjawar is a Product Sold by D.E.A.th to Profit Fascists
Policing For Profit: The Drug War's Hidden Economic Agenda
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)
A little off topic, but interesting
posted by John Tyler on December 13, 2005
There was a strange article in the newspaper today. In Appalachia, it seems that quite a number of the elderly, in order to make ends meet, have taken to selling part of their prescription pain meds for profit. This is really quite sad, since they don’t have enough to live on, and no other way of generating an income, they are practically forced by economic circumstance to do this. Then the weird Drug War part comes in. The cops are now arresting these old people and throwing them in jail. I mean, how fast is someone with a walker going to be able to move. But, on the upside they can now be provided them food, shelter, and medical care (pain meds again) at government expense while in jail, a much bigger government expense by the way, than there would be if they could receive adequate care in the first place. Isn’t that something, jail as an assisted living facility? I wonder if anyone will figure that out. No, probably not.
The Business of Genocide: by Michael Thad Allen
The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps
"fascism - A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."
American Heritage Dictionary, 1983
Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations
UNICORE
Marijuana Arrests For Year 2004: 771,608
NORML: Special Report*October 17, 2005 Washington, D.C. USA
Record High, FBI Report Reveals
Pot Smokers Arrested In America At A Rate Of One Every 41 Seconds
Washington, DC: Police arrested an estimated 771,608 persons for marijuana violations in 2004, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual Uniform Crime Report, released today.
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YEAR MARIJUANA ARRESTS
2004 771,608 * 2000 734,498 * 1996 641,642
2003 755,187 * 1999 704,812 * 1995 588,963
2002 697,082 * 1998 682,885 * 1994 499,122
2001 723,627 * 1997 695,200 * 1993 380,689
Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys (Jack Herer)
Soon after xDrug Czar Carlton 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. (Mandatory tasting many of those arrested, usually along with "treatment" corporations as part of a plea bargain. More schools are being coerced into mandatory tasting or lose highway and/or school funding.)
Corporatism also exploits the Drug War
Fascism 101: Federal Marijuana Monopoly Challenged
U.S. Drug Agents Raid 13 Medical Marijuana Sites By Jeff McDonald
Source: SignOnSanDiego.com San Diego, CA December 12, 2005 *
Federal agents fanned out across San Diego County on Monday, executing simultaneous search warrants on 13 medical marijuana dispensaries that have been selling pot to sick and dying patients. No one was arrested on suspicion of drug-dealing, officials said, but agents seized dozens of pounds of high-grade marijuana along with equipment, computers, patient files and other materials inside the storefront offices.
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