RESTRICTIONS ON AUTHORITY. The Commission shall have no authority to make findings related to current Federal, State, and local criminal justice policies and practices or reform recommendations that involve, support, or otherwise discuss the decriminalization of any offense under the Controlled Substances Act or the legalization of any controlled substance listed under the Controlled Substances Act.
Despicable.
UnAmerican.
Take Action Now. The Senate Judiciary Committee could vote on this as soon as Thursday.
Update:
* There was a problem with the Take Action Now link and apparently it was only processing entries that had email addresses already registered with LEAP. They’re working on getting it corrected.
You can also contact your senators directly here. And here is a list of the senators on the Judiciary Committee.
* Of course, one thing that’s interesting about this amendment is that Grassley is essentially conceding that the facts would support decrim or legalization as being best for the country. He doesn’t want it for his own reasons and therefore, the only way he can attempt to stop it is to prevent considering it.
Oh surprise surprise Gomer, Drug Thugs and Censorship,
why didn't they ever thimk a dat b4?
* High Court Upholds Chicago Park-Use Permit
* No Free Speech or Right to Assemble
* D.E.A. Confirms Grounds To Remove Cannabis from Sch#1
* Drug Czar Manipulating Data in a Report to Congress
* FDA-Approved Medical Marijuana Research Blocked
* Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
* Legislation Introduced to Overturn DC Initiative
* Food Stamps Become a Weapon in the War on Drugs
* Drug Czar Seeks To Ban All Hemp Products
* Meth Bill/Free Speech by Richard Lake
* The Anti-Meth Bill includes hemp - Washington Post
* Closing Ranks on MAPA/Secret Searches Bill Passes
* Knowledge Control - Reason Magazine
* A Lie College Students Might Want To Tell
* Drug Worriors Push Broad Censorship of Speech By Jacob Sullum
Rep. Ernest Istook has sliced the budget of the Washington transit authority by more than $90,000 because of ads placed on local buses promoting the legalization of marijuana.
Free Speech 4 Students Rally
Essentially arguing for a drug exception to free speech right in public schools.
The following activities could be banned:
• Writing a paper on the history of drug prohibition.
• Debating marijuana legalization on a debate team.
• Questioning the school’s drug testing policy.
• Anything that could be construed as promoting illegal drugs.
Setting priorities
Perhaps the leaders of California’s law enforcement community, that has spent so much time and money fighting against any kind of reform of marijuana laws, would be willing to explain this: Via MPP
What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis
HEALTH officials in Geneva have suppressed the publication of a politically sensitive analysis that confirms what ageing hippies have known for decades: cannabis is safer than alcohol or tobacco.
Internet Free Speech Goes on Trial07/14/01
An American investigative journalist is being sued over his website's reports of drugs trafficking in Mexico. So what are the implications for freedom of speech?
"The law would make it a felony to "teach, demonstrate, or distribute any information pertaining to the manufacture of a controlled substance," "This provision would make it a federal crime, for example, to provide to medical marijuana patients information on how to cultivate marijuana, even in those states where it is legal for patients to grow marijuana under state law,"
~ David Noack, Dec. 20, 1999
Censoring the internet for talking about hemp
WASHINGTON (APBnews.com)
Washington, DC: "We need, and I use the word 'all out war,' or all fronts . . . ." That was Richard Nixon's reaction to his national commission's recommendation that marijuana no longer be a criminal offense, according to Nixon's Oval Office tapes. The year after Nixon's "all out war" marijuana arrests jumped by over 100,000 people.
Late 1960s Recreational drug use rises in U.S.
In late 1960s recreational drug use becomes fashionable among young, white, middle class Americans. The social stigmatization previously associated with drugs lessens as their use becomes more mainstream. Drug use becomes representative of protest and social rebellion in the era's atmosphere of political unrest. continued...
That's ridiculous. There's no point in having such a commission if they can't make recommendations regarding the drug war since most (if not all) of the current problems in our criminal justice system come directly as a result of the drug war.
Means to an end, the end is to perpetuate. 72 years and going strong.
Trillion spent is a trillion profit to prohibitionists selling it. This basically puts Congress on the same bogus restrictions of the drug czar.
There's no point in having such a commission if they can't make recommendations regarding the drug war since most (if not all) of the current problems in our criminal justice system come directly as a result of the drug war.
Yup, There's no point. Just have to forget about reform I guess. Just another stall, catch 22, diversion, lie or threat to maintain the profits of dysfunction. The profits of "treatment" Treating druggies even if they have no signs of needing help. No victims calling the cops. Forced rehabs and pisstastes as part of a plea bargain 95% will take. 5% choosing a jury, not of their stoner peers. They are censored with a 404 gag rule so no one can mention it is "medicinal" since the Feds don't recognize it. Mandatory minimum sentencing if found guilty. 3 strikes its for life. Charlie Lynch was growing for the city of Morrow Bay and a meddling politicop sheriff busted hiim. Now he's appealing a fairly by standards, lenient sentence. Its a crooked lying system from the bloated budgets to keeping a versatile viable natural organic alternative off the market shelves and on the competition list of fossil fools, trees, plastic, steel, lumber, paper, clothing, cotton, crude oil, pharmaceuticals, meat, dairy, the prison, poison and military industrial complex,etc
"The point is, for them to do what we tell them to do."
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley
“Every day, I meet with Iowa workers and small business owners who can’t pay the mortgage or their insurance premiums while Mr. Grassley has been paid a federal salary of over $4,000,000.00 and collected millions more in campaign contributions from insurance, pharmaceutical and Wall Street fat cats. He has been one of the insiders in Washington so long that he can’t hear the voices of the thousands of Iowans who have lost their jobs.” Democratic Senate candidate Tom Fiegen
Grassley's Next Election Year: 2010
Grassley slams Justice Department’s medical marijuana decision By Jason Hancock 10/21/09
The decision this week by the U.S. Justice Department not to prosecute people using, prescribing or distributing marijuana in states where it is legal is a step towards legitimizing drug use, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said.
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