Tommy Chong Gets Nine Months
Tommy Chong asked for leniency from a judge Thursday for conspiring to sell drug paraphernalia - saying he kicked his drug problem by taking up salsa dancing - but was sentenced to nine months in prison. Schwab's sentence was in the middle range of federal sentencing guidelines, which called for six months to one year in prison. The maximum possible punishment is three years in prison. Along with the fine, Chong will forfeit more than $103,000 and agreed not to profit from his case. He'll also be on probation for a year after his release. The business, though defunct, was also placed on probation for three years and its Internet domain name must be relinquished to federal authorities, along with any remaining paraphernalia.
"Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death. By contrast, aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year."
DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young
Opinion and Recommended Ruling, Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law
Addiction: A Brain Ailment, Not a Moral Lapse
The Ultimate Hypocrasy by Jack Herer
While waging its self-styled "War on Drugs" against Third World peasants and American civilians, the Reagan/Bush/Quayle/Clinton/Gore administrations (1981-1999) have encouraged and covered up drug smuggling and distribution by high ranking officials of the U.S. government.
On one hand, Bush violated international law by invading Panama to bring reputed drug smuggler and long-time Bush/CIA employee Manuel Noriega to the U.S. to stand trial.
On the other hand, he refused to extradite Oliver North, John Hull, Admiral Poindexter, General Secord, Lewis Tambs, and other Americans to Costa Rica, where they are under indictment by that government for operating a drug smuggling operation there.
(The Guardian, British newspaper, "Cocaine shipped by contra network", July 22, 1989.)
Federal hearings conducted by U.S. Senator John Kerry's (MA) Subcommittee on Terrorism and Narcotics in 1988 and 1989 documented widespread acts by the CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) to block investigations by the Customs Department and FBI into cocaine smuggling by "intelligence operatives" under the guise of national security. No indictments were ever handed down, and witnesses testified under grants of immunity with little media attention.
Special Iran-Contra investigators failed to act on this information or evidence developed by the Christic Institute implicating government complicity in narco-terrorism. And when General Secord was convicted in January 1990 for crimes related to the Iran Contra drugs-for-arms scandal, he was given a fine of $50 and a brief probation when a federal judge decided that the poor fellow had already "suffered enough".
This from an administration that promotes the death penalty even beheading For marijuana dealers.*
* On the Larry King Show in late 1989, then drug czar William Bennett, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2000, said he had no moral problems with beheading drug dealers -only legal ones.
What is the Law?
"All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at."Spinoza, (c. 1660)
To control marijuana is to give up our freedoms,
for ourselves, our kids, and our kid's kids, forever.
And that, my friends, is called fascism; and simply put, if the laws on cannabis are not overturned, and if present Earth-destructive practices, such as strip mining, oil drilling, clear-cutting of trees, industrial pollution of waters, and use of pesticides and herbicides are not discontinued, our planet will soon die at the hands of these ignorant (not-knowing and/or evil) politicians who think they have a right to pass more and more Draconian laws to fill more and bigger prisons and jails with some of our most decent citizens. These same politicians portray themselves as being motivated purely out of concern for children. Meanwhile, they promote the massive ongoing environmental poisoning of these same children every day!
The Elkhorn Manifesto
Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed
"A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly fifteen hundred pounds of marijuana within about 15 minutes to induce a lethal response... In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer than many of the foods we commonly consume. For example, eating ten raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death."
DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young
Opinion and Recommended Ruling, Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law
Reefer Madness Past & Present
"[In] my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and there was no drug use "
DEA Chief Thomas Constantine, July 1, 1998
I.G.Farben,Dupont,Fo rd,Hearst,Frankenfoo ds & Cannabis Prohibition
"If the hideous monster Frankenstein
came face to face with the monster of marijuana he would drop dead of fright."
Harry J. Anslinger The man who made pot illegal
"Since you [US "drug tsar" McCaffrey] control a federal budget that has just been increased from $17.8 billion last year to $19.2 billion this year, is asking people like you if we should continue with our nation's current drug policy like a person asking a barber if one needs a haircut?"
Judge James P. Gray Orange Country, California
Los Angeles Times 29 March 2000
Reefer Madness Quotes American Alliance for Medical Cannabis
Hempfiles Quotes
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Marihuana More Dangerous Than Heroin or Cocaine
-- Scientific American - May 1938
Authority for this statement is United States Commissioner of Narcotics H. J. Anslinger.
Google: Anslinger/Hearst Quotes
"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."
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini together in the heyday of 1930s fascism.
LIST OF OLD MAGAZINE/BOOK ARTICLES CONCERNING MEDICAL CANNABIS
W.R. Hearst Reefer Madness Essay Circa 1937
The sheer number of newspapers, tabloids, magazines and film reels that Hearst controlled enabled him to quickly and to effectively inundate American media with this propaganda. Hearst preyed on existing prejudices by associating cannabis with Mexican workers who threatened to steal American jobs and African-Americans who had long been the subject of White American Venom.
D.E.A.th Deceptions
