The 'Virtues' of Ganja

[DdC]

The 'Virtues' of Pot
Vote Yes on initiative I-100
Reduce family and community violence in Denver
Alcohol use makes domestic violence 8 times more likely. . .
Marijuana use does not.

Safer Choice * Change The Climate



Controversial Pot Billboard Goes Up

Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative
WHEREAS, according to the National Institutes of Health, an average of 317 Americans die annually as the result of alcohol overdoses; and
WHEREAS, there has never been even a single fatal marijuana overdose recorded in the medical literature, as noted by the British Medical Journal in September 2003; and
WHEREAS, according to U.S. Department of Justice, “About 3 million crimes occur each year in which victims perceive the offender to have been drinking at the time of the offense. Among those victims who provided information about the offender’s use of alcohol, about 35% of the victimizations involved an offender who had been drinking”; and
WHEREAS, extensive research, documented in official reports by the British government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and the Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, among others, shows that -- unlike alcohol -- marijuana use is not generally a cause of violence or aggressive behavior and in fact tends to reduce violence and aggression;
WHEREAS, it is the intent of this ordinance to have the private adult use and possession of marijuana treated in the same manner as the private adult use and possession of alcohol;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER



Legalise Cannabis To Cut Heroin Addiction

Pot Less of a Cancer Risk Than Tobacco

TOBACCO USE AND IMPOTENCE

If you smoke, you're playing Russian roulette with your sexual function.
Dr. John Mulhall, Director, Center for Sexual Health, Loyola University Medical Center

There's absolutely no question about it. It causes it very commonly.
Dr. Culley Carson, Urology Department Chairman, University of North Carolina

If you smoke, you're about twice as likely to have erectile dysfunction.
Dr. John McKinlay, New England Research Institute

Smoking is clearly hazardous to your erection.
Dr. Lawrence Levine, Rush Medical Center, Director of Male Sexual Function Program

I feel confident that smoking does and can cause impotence.
Dr. Randolph Smoak, Chair, Board of Trustees, American Medical Association



Marijuana May Live Up To Be The Elixir of Life

'Cannabis' Acts as Antidepressant

The Failed War on Pot Users
USA -- In 2004, law enforcement officials arrested 771,605 people
for marijuana violations, according to federal statistics.

Remember The Failure of Prohibition



"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing"
Federal Bureau of Narcotics Chief Harry J. Anslinger, 1948

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

California Cops Go To Pot

"Cannabis can be used on an episodic but continual basis without evidence of social or psychic dysfunction. In many users the term dependence with its obvious connotations, probably is mis-applied... The chief opposition to the drug rests on a moral and political, and not toxicologic, foundation"
The USA Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 1987

Think of the message being sent to the kids?

Respectable Reefer By Gary Greenberg
Mother Jones October 18, 2005 *
If it weren't for the little photo gallery on the wall, the office where Dr. William Notcutt's research assistants keep track of their patients would be just like any other cubicle at the James Paget Medical Center in England. As phones ring and stretchers wheel by and these three women go about their business, the snapshots--Cheryl Phillips, one of Notcutt's staffers, gently holding an emerald green bud of marijuana; a group of people in lab coats smiling for the camera, sinsemilla towering over their heads; a hangar-sized greenhouse stuffed to the gills with lush pot plants--are about the only evidence that this hospital in East Anglia is at the epicenter of one of the most extensive medical marijuana research projects in the world.

Hypocrisy & Double Standards

Marijuana and Sex



Marijuana has been used in one form or another across many different cultures as an
aphrodisiac for thousands of years. Marijuana has been used in India for at least 3,000 years to increase libido and conquer impotence.

Marijuana and Sex: A Classic Combination
Ancient tantrists and modern researchers agree:
pot and sex are two great things that go together

Ganja and Sex

Marijuana: the ultimate sex drug by Chris Bennett

Metro's pro-pot ads get attention on Hill

Cannabis smokers 'number 163 million worldwide'

[Prophet Saddam]

FREE THE HERB!

[The Rev]

As always, an outstanding post DdC!



The Rev

[DdC]

Pot Measure Wafts To Victory By Alan Gathright
Rocky Mountain News* November 01, 2005
Denver, Colorado -- A measure that would legalize adult possession of small amounts of marijuana in Denver was approved by voters Tuesday, following a heated campaign that saw pot backers accused of exploiting residents' fear of crime. The measure was leading by more than 7,000 votes with just over 100,000 votes counted when the Rocky Mountain News called the contest. Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21252.shtml



Marijuana Measure Stirs Controversy By Alan Gathright
Rocky Mountain News*November 01, 2005
Colorado -- Denver voters went to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to legalize adult possession of small amounts of marijuana after a heated campaign saw pot backers accused of exploiting residents' fear of crime. The central theme of Initiative 100, the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative, is that adults should have the right to legally choose marijuana, because it's a safer alternative to booze, which supporters argue — citing national and local studies — fuels violence, deadly car wrecks, collegiate binge-drinking and alcoholism. Read More...
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21250.shtml



In the Morenos Mountains campesinos are planting their fields
While the ghost of Zapata rides a horse that can still outrun the wind
While free in the sky high above, nearly clear out of sight
It's the Free Mexican Air Force flyin' tonight.
In the City of Angels a cowboy is cooling his heels
Remembering that God gave us herbs and the fruits of the fields
But a criminal law that makes outlaws of those seeking light
Made the Free Mexican Air Force, Mescalito riding his white horse --
Yeah the Free Mexican Air Force is flyin' tonight!
(After every verse Flying so high - yi - hiyeeeee! ...

How strange that an innocent herb causes money to burn
They'll jail you or kill you for making those rich fat cats squirm.
They're the fools who make rules with no difference between wrong and right
That's why the Free Mexican Air Force is flyin' tonight.
Uncle Sam in his misery put a Nix on the fields of (Herreros, Guerreros?)
Sayin' shoot down all gringos and wetbacks who dare wear sombreros
Either run for your life, surrender, or stand up and fight --
Or join the Free Mexican Air Force, Mescalito riding his white horse,
Yeah the Free Mexican Air Force is flying tonight!

It is not marijuana destroying the minds of the young
But confusion continued for power and greed in all forms
Well, the borders of evil will fall to the smugglers of light
We're the Free Mexican Air Force and we're flyin' tonight!
In San Antonio they tell me that power and money are one
They can buy us or sell you to keep you afraid, on the run
But no one can stop us! My vision is clearly in sight
And the Free Mexican Air Force, Mescalito riding his white horse,
Yeah the Free Mexican Air Force is flyin' tonight

Some were smoking (falitas, Colitas?) while other were loading their guns
Blowing smoke from their six-shooters, spinning their barrels for fun
Contrabandistas, banditos alike --
We're the Free Mexican Air Force and we're flyin' tonight.
High in the hills we are harvesting sweet sensemilla (?)
Yeah the law wants it all 'cause they know that the wild weed can free ya
And freedom for us is a prison for the rulers of might
That's why the Free Mexican Air Force -- Mescalito riding his white horse --
Yeah, the Free Texican Air Force is flyin' tonight
Flyin' so high- yi- yee...Flyin' tonight! Free Mexican Air Force by Peter Rowan

Free the herb for sure!!! Thanks Ddc for posting this good read so far.

[DdC]

DENVER LEGALIZES MARIJUANA 53% - 46%!
Denver became the first city in the nation to make the private use of marijuana legal for adults 21 and older as an alternative to alcohol, a far more harmful drug. By 10.45 p.m. Tuesday night, with 100% of the votes tallied, the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative had passed 53.49% YES to 46.51% NO. F U L L S T O R Y
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4570.html

Pot Issue Gives New Meaning To Mile High City

Denver Pot Issue Passes


San Mescalito black light poster by Rick Griffin in 1967

[Mahavishnu]

fuck all this shit about taxing marijuana

fuck all this shit about taxing marijuana

if the shit were legal you would bitch bout it? I would be willing to pay taxes on weed if it were legal hell yeah. Right now we need every state to pass the same damn law that denver just got.

[DdC]

NORML's Weekly News Bulletin -- November 3, 2005
Washington, DC, USA November 3, 2005
Gallup: Public Support Grows For Legalizing Pot
The percentage of Americans favoring the legalization of cannabis has risen more than 33 percent since 1995 and now stands at its all-time highest level of public support, according to polling data published by Gallup this week.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21266.shtml

U.S. Not Ready To Puff The Magic Dragon
Editorial: Collegiate Times*November 03, 2005*
Denver, Colorado -- The mayor of Denver was highly disappointed with the passing of a new measure pertaining to marijuana. The measure instills new meaning into Mile High City. The measure passed Tuesday with a 54 percent vote. It allows adults who are over the age of 21 to possess no more than one ounce of marijuana without being penalized in Denver. A few other cities have adopted similar measures. Simultaneously, 12 states have procedures that prevent criminal charges from being issued against someone in possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, but still issue fines.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21265.shtml



I -100 Author Smokes Foes

Which is safer?

Evidence Reveals Health Potential for Cannabis By Brent Battle
Source: Daily O'Collegian November 03, 2005*
USA -- Recent research and public opinion make a strong case for the legalization of medicinal and recreational hemp, or marijuana. Denver residents voted 54 percent in favor of an ordinance decriminalizing city hemp laws, letting citizens possess up to one ounce, according to The Associated Press.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21262.shtml

Marijuana Vote Sends Message



Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate the public about the harmful consequences associated with alcohol, as compared with the much safer--yet illegal--substance: marijuana.

SAFER is looking for students at the colleges in Colorado who share SAFER's core beliefs:

1) marijuana is a safer recreational drug than alcohol, and
2) the penalties for the private use and possession of marijuana should be no greater than those for the private use and possession of alcohol.

[DdC]

City Must Enforce State Pot Law
Editorial: Rocky Mountain News*November 07, 2005
Denver, Colorado -- The decision by Denver voters to legalize the possession of a small amount of marijuana is more symbolic than real: Only 36 adults were charged last year under the now-defunct city ordinance prohibiting possession. Meanwhile, 1,565 were charged under the state law, which remains intact. But Mason Tvert, the executive director of the group that put the initiative on the ballot, insists Denver authorities should respect voter wishes and stop charging anyone under the state law, too.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21276.shtml

Rocky Mountain High By Joe DiPietro

Not a Legalized High, but Sensible Spending By Ben Bleckley
Source: Rocky Mountain Collegian November 07, 2005
Colorado -- Marijuana is considered an illegal substance by state and federal law. There seems to be some change of public sentiment in Denver however, whose citizens passed I-100, legalizing the possession of up to one ounce of cannabis for those 21 years and older. The issue narrowly passed 53 to 46 percent. Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER), which pushed for the passage of a ballot issue in last years ASCSU election, was a force behind the Denver issue.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21272.shtml

[DdC]

State Initiative Next Step for Marijuana Backers By Alan Gathright
Rocky Mountain News December 29, 2005 Colorado
Marijuana advocates vowed from the Capitol steps Wednesday to put a statewide measure
legalizing adult pot possession on Colorado's November ballot and mobilize an army of voters to
pass it. The statewide campaign is fueled by outrage over Denver authorities' rejection of
Initiative 100, said Mason Tvert, campaign director for the initiative's sponsor, Safer Alternative
for Enjoyable Recreation.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21421.shtml

Officials Sniff at Bid To Legalize Marijuana By Bill McKeown
Gazette December 29, 2005 Colorado
Two top law enforcement officials in the Pikes Peak region think proponents of a statewide
initiative to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana will not find much support
here. The group Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation, or SAFER, held a news conference
Wednesday at the state Capitol to announce plans to seek voter approval to legalize possession
of an ounce or less of marijuana for those 21 years or older.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21419.shtml



Pot Measure Rolled Out at Capitol By Alan Gathright
Rocky Mountain News December 28, 2005 Colorado
Marijuana advocates vowed today to put a statewide measure legalizing pot possession on the
November ballot and mobilize an "army of new voters" to pass it. Mason Tvert, campaign director
of Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) said the campaign is fueled by frustration
over Denver authorities' rejection of Initiative 100, which Denver voters passed Nov. 1,
ostensibly making it legal for adults to possess up to one ounce of pot.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21418.shtml

Pro-Got Group Aims at State Law in '06 By Alan Gathright
Rocky Mountain News December 28, 2005 Colorado
The same pro-pot group that persuaded Denver voters to approve a measure legalizing adult
marijuana possession in the city is now firing up a statewide campaign to place an identical
initiative on Colorado's fall 2006 ballot. The group, Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation,
plans to hold a news conference this morning outside the State Capitol announcing the launch of
the effort. The statewide "Colorado Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative," seeks voter
approval to make it legal for people 21 or older to possess 1 ounce or less of weed.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21417.shtml



Pro-Pot Group Seeks State Vote By Christopher N. Osher
Denver Post December 28, 2005 Colorado
Just two months after persuading Denver voters to legalize possession of small amounts of
marijuana, proponents today will announce plans for a similar statewide initiative. The group
Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation, or SAFER, will hold a news conference in front of the
state Capitol today to announce its filing of a proposed 2006 statewide ballot initiative.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21416.shtml

Grass Roots By Douglas Brown
Denver Post December 27, 2005 Colorado
They car pool in Crestmoor, read bedtime stories in Washington Park, and when they're away
from the kids, these Denver moms sometimes retrieve the hidden baggie, pack a pipe or roll a
joint, and smoke a little weed. "It slows me down," says a Washington Park 40-something mother
of a 10-year-old daughter. "It's a nice, relaxing, low-key thing." One Denver psychologist, the
46-year-old mother of a young child, smokes because it helps her find "that space that is so
about me and not about being a parent."
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21414.shtml

Controversial Pot Billboard Goes Up

Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative
WHEREAS, according to the National Institutes of Health, an average
of 317 Americans die annually as the result of alcohol overdoses; and
WHEREAS, there has never been even a single fatal marijuana overdose
recorded in the medical literature, as noted by the British Medical Journal in
September 2003; and
WHEREAS, according to U.S. Department of Justice, “About 3 million
crimes occur each year in which victims perceive the offender to have been
drinking at the time of the offense. Among those victims who provided
information about the offender’s use of alcohol, about 35% of the
victimizations involved an offender who had been drinking”; and
WHEREAS, extensive research, documented in official reports by the
British government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and the Canadian
Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, among others, shows that -- unlike
alcohol -- marijuana use is not generally a cause of violence or aggressive
behavior and in fact tends to reduce violence and aggression;
WHEREAS, it is the intent of this ordinance to have the private adult use
and possession of marijuana treated in the same manner as the private adult
use and possession of alcohol;
NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER



Marijuana Madness
Editorial*San Francisco Chronicle December 29, 2005
American law enforcement has a proud tradition of courageous souls standing up against corrupt and dangerous criminal elements. Think Eliot Ness, the federal agent who prosecuted Al Capone, or Frank Serpico, the New York cop who at great personal risk exposed dirty cops within his department. Then think about the new focus of American law enforcement -- marijuana -- and ask yourself if the expense of arresting, prosecuting and jailing offenders makes sense.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21422.shtml

The 'Virtues' of Ganja



Legitimizing Ganja

"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives,
and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas,
they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets.
We will control ourselves."
Howard Zinn, historian and author

Activists Vehemently Thwart Frisco DEAth Raid

Of all tyrannies,
a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
-- C.S. Lewis, in "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment,"
an essay from "God In The Dock

Protest Massive DEAth Raids in San DEAgo!

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency".
It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor
countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback.
And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps.
This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.
— Herbert Hoover

Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia

The passing of an unjust law is the suicide of authority.
-- Pastoral Letter of the American Roman Catholic Hierarchy, February 1920

Fascism 101: Fed Ganja Monopoly Challenged

Whenever the offense inspires less horror than the punishment,
the rigor of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.
-- Edward Gibbon,
"The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," 1776

S.D. Family Seeks The Right To Grow Hemp

Abusus non tollit usum. [Abuse is no argument against proper use.
-- Latin proverb

Ganjawar Monger "DEAth" Cunningham Busted

Government exists to protect us from each other.
Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
-- Ronald Reagan, The New York Times, April 13, 1980

[patriot]

I was watching an excellent documentary on the History channel on New Years Eve about that dangerous marijuana and how it got that way. Of course, the first arrest made 4 days after the Marijuana Tax Act went into effect was in Colorado.

[DdC]

Pot Shot By Michael de Yoanna *
Source: Colorado Springs Independent April 30, 2006*
Kicking up his bare feet at his desk and placing his hands behind his head, Mason Tvert says Colorado would be a better place if residents could light up big, fat joints — legally. That's the message the 23-year-old toils to impart from his Denver office. The space, which doubles as his bedroom, is the statewide headquarters of a political initiative that aims to ask voters this November to legalize adult possession of small amounts of marijuana.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21795.shtml

Virtues' of Ganja
Legitimizing Ganja
The Ganjawar Fraud
Pot Potency? Boomers' blissfully unfazed by mere facts.
Think of the message being sent to the kids?

Denver 420

[DdC]

Pot Group Pushing New Initiative By Daniel J. Chacon
CN Source: Rocky Mountain News May 18, 2007 Colorado *

Denver police would have to make possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults their lowest law enforcement priority under a proposal a pro-pot group is pushing.

"We're doing this because the city has been unwilling to recognize the fact that people in Denver do not think adults should be punished for using marijuana, a less harmful drug than alcohol," Mason Tvert, executive director of Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation, said Thursday.

In 2005, voters approved Initiative 100, which legalized, under city ordinances, possession and private use of an ounce or less of marijuana by adults.

Since then, arrests in the city for misdemeanor possession under state law actually have gone up.

"The people of the city have no other option but to move forward with a measure to tell the city how they want it run," Tvert said.

Tvert is meeting with city officials at 2 p.m. Monday for a hearing on the proposed ordinance. Tvert said he will then begin a signature-gathering drive to put an initiative on the November ballot.

David Broadwell, an assistant city attorney, said there is still a question whether a policy through an initiated ordinance can be enforced in the city.

"I don't think we've ever had an initiative quite like this one," he said, referring to its directive regarding the administrative behavior of the executive branch.

Contact: letters@rockymountai nnews.com * Website

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Mason Tvert, campaign director for Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation. SAFER is collecting signatures to place a measure on the November ballot that would make it legal for people 21 and older to possess 1 ounce or less of marijuana.

Pot shot April 27 -May 3, 2006

Mason Tvert's movement to legalize marijuana is causing reefer madness

Virtues' of Ganja