The Ganjawar Fraud...

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Drug czars failing grades
It may be a surprise to some people born in, say, the last thirty years to know that major drug abuse is a relatively new problem. It's a product of drug prohibition and punitive enforcement.

Souder Says Drug Czar’s Fake News Didn’t Break Law
Anti-Drug Office's Videos Defended
Priming The Propaganda Mill
Drug Control Office Faulted For Issuing Tapes

"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. We want them broken". You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
Atlas Shrugged

Reefer Madness By Abbie Hoffman
The Great Marijuana Hoax By Allen Ginsberg

Marijuana Revolution by John Sinclair
Or at http...msg7x4819.sht ml

The Marijuana Conspiracy - The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal
The Hemperor strikes back
Jack Herer's Emperor

The drug war fraud
by SHARON SMITH | August 31, 2001
RECENT STATISTICAL evidence gives the lie to the presumption underlying the "war on drugs"--that higher prison sentencing is a deterrent to crime. It’s about two decades overdue.
The war on drugs tripled the U.S. prison population since 1980--with the vast majority incarcerated for nonviolent drug-related offenses.
A Sentencing Project study released last week shows that California’s "three-strikes-and-you’re-out" law--one of the harshest imprisonment policies in the U.S.--has had no effect on the state’s crime rate in the seven years since it took effect.



THE WAR ON DRUGS FRAUD
Psychosis, Hype And Baloney
Hypocrisy & Double Standards

"Drug traffic is public enemy number one domestically in the United States today and we must wage a total offensive, worldwide, nationwide, government-wide, and, if I might say so, media-wide."
- President Nixon, June 18, 1971

Fraud at UN drug office
Low morale despite expensive offices, cars, and satellite TVs

UN Condemns UK Cannabis Laws
D.E.A. Confirms Grounds To Remove Cannabis from Sch#1
Police officials lied to toughen laws...

How The Canadian Media Import Counterfeit News From The States.
The Drug Czar Lies and Even The Best Papers Don’t Check the Facts.
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2005-03-17 16:20:00
“But it is time to acknowledge that the nation's news organizations have played a large and unappetizing role in deceiving the public….”— The New York Times

Front Page Fantasy: The New York Times Pushes Fact Free Journalism
Supposedly About “BC Bud”
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2005-03-17 16:20:00
This article was cited in the Canadian Parliament as proof that Canada cannot even decriminalize cannabis because of US opposition, “causing costly cross-border delays.” Lies have consequences, which is why people lie.

Bad research makes headlines
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Snitch culture

Straight, Incorporated
Orwellian anti-drug programs humiliate and abuse youth in a horrifying program of mind control.

U.S. GOVT. COVERS UP MARIJUANA CANCER CURE!
Last year, Spanish scientists found evidence that marijuana can (destroy) tumors in rats. But that came as (no surprise) to US. health (officials), (who quickly (deep sixed) the report). (Drug-war-obsessed federal officials) (have known) about the (cancer-beating) properties of (pot) for (more than 25 years) and have kept it a (secret) from (the public)!

Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
Drug Czar Manipulating Data in a Report to Congress
Marijuana Drug Czar Distorts Report

Maybe John Walters, unbeknown to us, has medical expertise beyond that of the world's leading physicians and researchers. Or maybe he's lying in a desperate attempt to save a collapsing policy.

Facts on the Drug Czar's Accounting Fraud
Compiled by Drug Policy Alliance. Feb 2003.

Anti-pot propaganda 14 Mar, 2005
US feds are addicted to making up fake anti-pot news.

D.E.A.th Deceptions
PDFA - Slickly Packaged Lies.
The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire
The Police State Cometh by Ron Paul
DEA implements US police state

Tulia: Tip of the Drug War Iceberg
Open Society Policy Center December 8, 2004

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Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417
Bush Crimes Against Humanity
Bushit: Timeline of Treason
Bushladen and the Terrorists Carlyles Groups



What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis
The report concludes, for example, that "in developed societies cannabis appears to play little role in injuries caused by violence, as does alcohol". It also says that while the evidence for fetal alcohol syndrome is "good", the evidence that cannabis can harm fetal development is "far from conclusive"
http://www.legalisieren.at/studien/a...who_report.htm

America's Private Gulags
The Real Price of Prisons
Shattered Lives
Human Rights and the Drug War

2 Million, Too Many Prisoners!
In the year 2000, the US prison population for the first time in history hit 2,000,000 inmates, largely due to the Drug War. This is mostly due to drug penalties. You will learn about this issue on our website, and we also recomend visiting november.org to become more actively involved locally in the reform effort.
November.org

Comprehensive Analysis Of US Marijuana Arrest Data
U.S. prison population largest in world
Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible
Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations
UNICORE

Partnership for a Drug-Free America and Corporate Drug Wars
Corporations profit from anti-drug propaganda

Florida's Journey for Justice

THE DRUG WAR CAUSES CRIME 12 Oct 96 The next time someone tells you that we need to fight the drug war to stopviolent crime, tell them to read a little book called Illicit Drugs andCrime by Bruce Benson and David Rasmusssen, Professors of Economics atF

Their Lips are Moving
D.E.A.th LAPDog Perversions Continue...



Death-spray legal defense
Courageous lawyer Terry Collingsworth helps Ecuadorian farmers
launch lawsuit against DynCorp's poison sprays.

Pesticidal Killers
DeLay Pesticide Co.
EU Scientists Legalize Controversial Herbicide Paraquat

Brussels 10-06-2003 -- EU scientists agreed on Friday to legalize the controversial herbicide paraquat, to the fury of environmentalists who insist the chemical is acutely toxic for both humans and animals.

Paraquat became widely known when it was sprayed on Latin American marijuana fields in the 1970s as a defoliant.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH),
Facts About Paraquat

The extent of poisoning caused by paraquat depends on the amount, route, and duration of exposure and the person’s condition of health at the time of the exposure. Paraquat causes direct damage when it comes into contact with the lining of the mouth, stomach, or intestines. After paraquat enters the body, it is distributed to all areas of the body. Toxic chemical reactions occur throughout many parts of the body, primarily the lungs, liver, and kidneys. The actual mechanism by which paraquat damages the lungs is not known.

MT NORML Files Suit On Killer Fungus Research!

Fungus Causes More Problems Than It Solves!

Officials in Florida are planning to risk the future of the state's agricultural economy in the name of eradicating marijuana. Jim McDonough, the recently appointed head of Florida's Office of Drug Control, is planning to spread a fungus genetically engineered to kill marijuana over areas where the plant is suspected of being grown. Is marijuana such a threat to the nation that it justifies recklessly interfering with nature?

The only rational answer to this question, regardless of one's personal opinions about marijuana, must be a resounding "no." Of course, Florida anti-drug officials deny that their plans are reckless at all and insist that the fungus will be rigorously tested before it is unleashed - but history and common sense say otherwise.

Poison Inc. Pesticides v Hemp



There are always a few, better endowed than others, who feel the weight of the yoke and cannot restrain themselves from attempting to shake it off.... These are in fact the men who, possessed of clear minds and far-sighted spirit, are not satisfied, like the brutish mass, to see only what is at their feet, but rather look about them, behind and before, and even recall the things of the past in order to judge those of the future, and compare both with their present condition. These are the ones who, having good minds of their own, have further trained them by study and learning. Even if liberty had entirely perished from the earth, such men would reinvent it. For them slavery has no satisfactions, no matter how well disguised.
--Etienne de la Boetie, The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Cannabisnews Medical Related Topics

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The Law on Drugs
October 06, 2005
By Peter Wicks, Observer Viewpoint *

USA -- Timothy Leary was a Sixties radical, a revolutionary. Nixon called him the most dangerous man in America. From the perspective of the burgeoning counterculture no greater endorsement could be imagined.

But while the Weathermen and the Black Panthers advocated overthrowing the government by any means necessary (and violently for preference), Leary was seeking a revolution of consciousness, and the means he advocated were hallucinogenic drugs. While Huey Newton said (quoting Mao) that political power came through the barrel of a gun, Leary enjoined the new generation of young people to "turn on, tune in, and drop out," which quickly became one of the signature phrases of the age.

After taking his Ph.D from the University of California at Berkeley, Leary went to Harvard where he founded the Psilocybin Project, which researched the therapeutic effects of hallucinogenic mushrooms and later LSD. In 1963 he was dismissed from Harvard but founded the Castalia Institute in Millbrook, New York to continue his studies, and as the Sixties continued he became the country's most prominent advocate of the beneficial effects of LSD.

As Leary's notoriety grew he inevitably attracted the attention of the authorities who eventually busted him for possession of marijuana and sent him to jail. Leary was made to take a series of psychometric tests to establish where he should be placed within the prison system. The test results, surprisingly, identified him as a strongly conformist character who would not attempt to escape. So Leary was assigned to a minimum security prison, from which he promptly escaped.

It was one of the greatest jailbreaks of all time. Not because escaping from the minimum security prison was especially difficult; it wasn't. No, what makes it great is that the tests which resulted in his being assigned to a minimum security prison were ones that he had designed while on the faculty at Harvard.

Leary was raised an Irish Catholic, but he didn't have much time for Catholicism or any other form of traditional monotheistic religion. But the tenor of his message was undeniably religious. He insisted that, used properly, psychedelic drugs had a sacramental effect and he composed a syncretistic theology which borrowed liberally from the I Ching, the Tibetan Book of the Dead and Shamanism - though calling Leary's views a theology probably makes it sound more systematic than it really was. Essentially, he surveyed different belief systems and seized upon whatever ideas seemed appealing, discarding the rest and seemed to regard the world's religions with much the same attitude that a man with the munchies takes towards the contents of his refrigerator. It was the spirit of the age.

You can still find people, most conspicuously in rave culture, who advocate the use of drugs in fundamentally religious terms. But no well-known figure has taken up Leary's mantle as prophet of the psychedelic revolution, and these days most of the arguments heard in favor of legalizing drugs are straightforward appeals to the right to privacy; people should be free to pursue their private pleasures in any way they see fit, provided that they do not harm anyone else.

The difficulty is that the boundary between public and private is rather more porous than this sort of argument typically assumes. This leads to problems, particularly for those who simultaneously advocate liberalizing drug laws and extending the government's support for the socially disadvantaged, through welfare, the provision of health care to those who cannot afford it and various other programs of government assistance.

Since the public purse is filled through taxation, the more the state does to help those in need, the more interest the general public has in the ostensibly private choices of individuals. The public has an interest in matters of public expense, so if you wish to claim a right to have your health care provided by the state, then it should come as no surprise if the state claims a right to prevent you from ingesting substances that are likely to damage your health. In general, the more we expect from the state, the more we can expect the state to regulate and interfere in our lives. I am not a libertarian on this issue, but it seems to me the libertarian position at least has the virtue of consistency.

I do think a compelling case can be made for the legalization of marijuana, based on pragmatic grounds rather than any absolute right to privacy. The health risks associated with the drug are not trivial, but they are far less severe than most other illegal substances and comparable to substances that are currently legal, most obviously tobacco. But most importantly, the current law is rarely and erratically enforced, which courts the danger of arbitrary enforcement.

In the case of harder drugs, the problem is less one of erratic enforcement and more that in the case of the rich and famous, the laws are often not enforced at all. The endless stories of celebrity drug binges that saturate the media don't just cater to a voyeuristic appetite, they also broadcast the fact that amongst the luxuries available to the very rich is the freedom to break the drug laws with something approaching impunity. The rule of law depends upon the idea that laws apply to rich and poor alike, otherwise people will be punished not for doing cocaine, but doing cocaine and not being able to afford to spend time at the Betty Ford Center.

Peter Wicks is a graduate student in the philosophy department.
The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Note: The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's.
Website: http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/main.cfm
Contact: http://www.nd.edu/~observer/today/edletter.html

Hallucinating Stars and Stripes
United Kingdom -- Forty years after Timothy Leary advised everybody to turn on, tune in and drop out, and despite the most punitive drug laws of any Western society, America is getting as stoned as ever. Alex Kershaw enjoys a former addict's "clear-headed examination of Americans' love-hate relationship with intoxication"

Dr. Timothy Leary's NEUROCOMICS



Hey you, out there in the cold
Getting lonely, getting old
Can you feel me?
Hey you, standing in the aisles
With itchy feet and fading smiles
Can you feel me?
Hey you, don.t help them to bury the light
Don.t give in without a fight.

Hey you, out there on your own
Sitting naked by the phone
Would you touch me?
Hey you, with you ear against the wall
Waiting for someone to call out
Would you touch me?
Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone?
Open your heart, I.m coming home.

Hey you, standing in the road
Always doing what you.re told,
Can you help me?
Hey you, out there beyond the wall,
Breaking bottles in the hall,
Can you help me?
Hey you, don.t tell me there.s no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall.
-- Pink Floyd, The Wall

Long Live Timothy Leary by John Perry Barlow
May 31, 1996
A couple of hours ago, at 12:45 am Beverly Hills time, my old friend and the corrupter of my youth Timothy Leary made good on his promise to "give death a better name or die trying." Willingly, peacefully, and unafraid, he headed off on his last trip.

Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension
Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna Land

Abbie List: Reefer Madness
"There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power stucture as a nobody,
giving it your all, and winning." --Abbie Hoffman

The Ganjawar Fraud...

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More vicious than Tricky Dick
John Dean says the Bush team's leaks are even viler than his former boss's --

Bush's War on Pot

Tricky Dick's guide to drinking and toking
In newly released transcripts,
Richard Nixon and Art Linkletter struggle to fathom the differences between demon rum and dope.

Outside View: Nixon Tapes Pot Shocker

One can imagine Nixon's surprise when rumors began circulating in early '71 that the "L-word" was on the table. He responded curtly at his next press conference: "Even if the Commission does recommend that it be legalized, I will not follow that recommendation.

Once-Secret Nixon Tapes Show Why US Outlawed Pot

Nixon Launched The 30 Years' War as Election Issue



Book Says Nixon Took Mood-Altering Drug
From Nixon to Now
Fixin' Under Nixon!
Fixin' Under Nixon Part Two!

"Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?"
- William A. Turnbow