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It's High Time by Pete Guither
DWR: Thursday, April 2, 2009

Another big one dares to suggest the marijuana legalization question: Joe Klein in Time Magazine.

But, beneath the furious roil of the economic crisis, a national conversation has quietly begun about the irrationality of our drug laws. It is going on in state legislatures, like New York's, where the draconian Rockefeller drug laws are up for review; in other states, from California to Massachusetts, various forms of marijuana decriminalization are being enacted. And it has reached the floor of Congress, where Senators Jim Webb and Arlen Specter have proposed a major prison-reform package, which would directly address drug-sentencing policy.

Now, the article is pretty snarky, and Klein gives way too much legitimacy to the potential of marijuana legalization leading to a "less virtuous society," and leaves out entirely the value of taking profits away from the black market -- still, having this conversation in Time Magazine? Better than an expensive ad.

There was one section (a little over the top) where he really exaggerated the third rail effect of marijuana legalization -- it just isn't true any more, and he shows no evidence for it. But it was entertaining nonetheless to hear his description of some talk radio hosts...

In fact, the default fate of any politician who publicly considers the legalization of marijuana is to be cast into the outer darkness. Such a person is assumed to be stoned all the time, unworthy of being taken seriously. Such a person would be lacerated by the assorted boozehounds and pill poppers of talk radio. The hypocrisy inherent in the American conversation about stimulants is staggering.

Decrim in Portugal

D.A.s Gone Wild

It's much easier overcoming a perception than a reality.

The perception of a blue sky as a reflection of the oceans could be reasoned by lay persons observations. On Earth, the perception of the sun appears yellow. If you were out in space, or on the moon, the sun would look white. In space, there is no atmosphere to scatter the sun's light. Also, out in space, the sky looks dark and black, instead of blue perception. Rayleigh scattering is why the sky is blue. A physical phenomenon. The sky does look blue.

The perception of why Ganja is dangerous isn't physical science. It is fabrication of drug worrier imaginations. So no valid perception can be accepted as reason for continuing the terrorizing of American citizens. Decades of spewing hobgoblins from schizophrenia to bad driving have never been observed, only predicted or conjured as a reverse engineered theory to provide a means to an end. For profit.
That is the bottom line of this Prohibition.

Obese corporate Religions interfering with Justice and Democracy, needs strong leadership to keep us from contamination. The self appointed moralists coercing their deemed Vices as Crime with tangible definitions, has tortured more Americans than all of the wars. Jefferson and Adams had very good reason for separating the "sinners" from "criminals". Anyone concluding the use of Ganja, Booze, Gambling or Prostitution as a crime is a traitor to their country, flag and religion. As much as those in the past outlawing skin colors, sexual orientation, language, creed or gender from positions, participations or access and abusing their Constitutional rights under the guise of safety or life station.

How to suck tax dollars out of the citizens. Treating stuff. Vice, Crime, health, war, traffic jams, potholes or moral salvation. Perceptions can lead to ill gained profit, that truth kills. Stating perceptions as verifiable truth is also educated ignorance by arrogant egomaniacal politicops and old fashioned tyrants. Despots dictating how you should live and Free Will be damned. Forced sobriety on their knees appeasing the job master as a loyal cadet of a demoralizing religionist serving vengeful codependent corporatists. I've decided people take a stand but are cowards about showing it sometimes, especially when its out of the mainstream "good" list., And clues to their position stand out by what they don't say as much as what we hear/read.

Perception should be easier to overcome than a reality since I don't think we can "over come" reality, maybe in this Ganjawar foul atmosphere over such a great length of time. No a hoax is a hoax for ever and ever amen. Truth of cannabis is almost unheard of under the media censorship programming agenda. Worse when the only side heard spews phantoms and hideous results to the paranoid by nature parents. They convinced farmers that fossil fools would be better than what they grew for next to nothing. They convinced pseudo patriots to buy gas guzzlers feeding OPEC and spray poisons on their own food. Believe it or not they obediently send their own children they spent 18 years protecting from the horrors of doobie doing to die in foreign deserts protecting Boosh falsehoods camouflaged as duty. Most suits and uniform sheople are DEAthly afraid of perceptions, to the point of getting sick and even dying over them. Vietnam Iraq Slavery Korea Kuwait Kosovo Colombia etc.

Or to stigmatize by perceptions as with the hippies, Jews, Muslims, Italians, Irish, Asian, Indian, Blacks Browns Tans and even more on mix breeds. Some actually think looking like hippies has effect on Hemp tensile strength. Or Ganja's medicinal value. Let alone "legalizing dope", socially less harmful than OTC medications. Congress has no sense if they can't diferentiate between perceptions and reality, and that Tommy Chong's appearance can somehow change the molecular structure of Hemp blue jeans or the nutritional value of Hemp seed. They are retarded in spite of 6 figure salaries and their wannabe groupies. The Mentally derranged have rights but that doesn't mean they should hold public office. What does that say about those who follow them? Ganja is or it is not. btw it is.

Plastic people with phony lifestyles to appease the ruler set. In hopes they will trickle down excess wealth. You know, naive. Perception runs Wallmart St and DC and while these fascist steal us blind, we the sheople perceive its the fault of the poor and gut housing assistance on seniors and card carrying Rx Ganja patients. We only see TV memo readers and hear propaganda and then perceive to actually know reality, and reality seldom makes it onto the screen. But perceptions can get one caged for possession.

Boosheney had us perceive Sadamn was a threat, a proven lie and yet we are still killing Americans there. Reefer Madness was the Alcohol Distributors, fabrication of exaggerations and drama, It was their perception of Ganja use on the future public. The present public is a perception so I'm not sure what a future one would be.
McCains wife distributes alcohol.

75 years later, degenerate drug thugs still spew nonsense. I think Ganja is the reality to pull us out of this obedient existence. Prohibition is only one symptom of a very debilitating disease of Fascism. Reel in the Banksters and G-20 Thieves and the Ganjawar will go away. Reforming the Ganjawar without removing the Fascism,
it will continue to perpetuate itself as it has done since 1937. Or morph or change the title to protect the guilty. Can't hurt Hobgoblins with bullets, only with truth, no one hears. On purpose.

We the People have Birthrights that no drug worrier scum can remove. As long as the checks and balances are kept in place. The Ganjawar has removed many Constitutional rights and the Terror war even more. Wallmart St simply employed the politicians like Gramm, and oversaw placement of oversight committees and supreme court employees like Thomas still litigating for Monsanto. Protecting the robbers from regulations. And Faux Newts told us it was very complicated and not to fret while the Simpsons were on. Have a beer and fogetaboutit. Trust US. Many did and even more still do.

We the People have to exercise our rights or lose them. Government fascists are happy to collect them and dispose of them. No problem mon, sit tight let us take care of it. You don't even smoke pot what's the dif? Let the potheads pay for the missing tax money the Banksters and Corporatists stole. Exploiting the workers and poor and maintain the same dysfunctional racist slave market for the same dysfunctional racist reasons as always. Cheap labor = more profit.

Remove anyone from office or reform boards even suggesting perceptions about Ganja as valid points to punish people for using it, Take em out and get em stoned, with heavy rocks. Ganja Gossip is propaganda and only the most disloyal apologist would call it even close to a perception and the most psychotic list it as science to justify prohibition and misery on their own citizens. For profit... DdC

Consequences of the Mindless Ganjawar

Corporate Welfare Rats

If Lies are Laws then War is Peace

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Class is a Dirty Word by Michael Parenti
“Class is a dirty word”
word in that it gets close to the truth
about who governs and for whose benefit.”

In the land of those who think they’re free and the home of savage capitalism, class is indeed a dirty word. Remember, we’re a nation of Joe the Plumbers. If we just work hard enough and fend off those socialist vampires who want to suck us dry by redistributing our hard-earned wealth, we can all be financial successes. And if you’re a faux-progressive presidential candidate—like Obama, you’re doomed to political perdition unless you sign a blood oath disavowing your ties to socialism.
- Michael Parenti interviewed by Jason Miller 12/24/08

Cultural genocide



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Marijuana Compounds Have "Palliative" And "Curative" Effects On Cancer
April 2, 2009 - Salerno, Italy

Naturally occurring compounds in cannabis possess anti-tumor properties and present a novel approach for cancer treatment, according to a scientific review published in the February issue of the journal Best Practice & Research: Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

old old news
posted by konagold on April 02, 2009
(since this is a repeated story please let me repeat the reply)
In 1975 the report titled the "antioneoplastic activity of cannabinoids" demonstrated the effect cited above... continued

Ganjawar Prevents Brain Tumor Treatment



Medical Pot Grower Files Housing Complaint
US CO: Heidelberg, Katharhynn Montrose Daily Press 01 Apr 2009

The Montrose County Housing Authority knew months before William Hewitt went public that he was a medical marijuana patient, a housing discrimination complaint alleges. The complaint, which Hewitt signed Friday, accuses the housing authority, its director and the Colorado Division of Housing, of failing to reasonably accommodate Hewitt's disability and of terminating his housing because he kept and used medical marijuana.

Ganjawar on the Poor



Editorial: New York's New State of Mind on Drugs
CN Source: Los Angeles Times April 02, 2009 New York

Officials have agreed to repeal severe drug laws that wasted law enforcement resources and created an incarceration crisis. Now Congress should follow their lead. For more than 30 years, New York's draconian drug laws have been among the toughest in the nation, requiring sentences of 15 years to life even for nonviolent first-time offenders. Worse, New York's early example was followed by states across the country, furthering a flawed strategy that was as harmful to society, in many ways, as drug use itself.
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Lock 'Em Up? It Costs You By David C. Fathi
CN Source: Chicago Tribune April 02, 2009 USA

The United States is the world's leading jailer. On any given day, more than 2.3 million people are locked in our prisons and jails—more than in any other country. Just how bad is it? The U.S. has less than 5 percent of the world's population, but about a quarter of its prisoners. We have more prisoners than China—a country with a repressive government and more than four times the population of the U.S. We lock up 756 people for every 100,000 U.S. residents—that's about five times as many as England and Wales (152 per 100,000), more than six times as many as Canada (116) and 10 times as many as Sweden (74).
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SAFER to Colorado State Legislators:
What's So Damn Funny About Marijuana?
Written by SAFER Wednesday, 01 April 2009

Wouldn't it hurt the economy to make ALCOHOL ILLEGAL?

If so, then why wouldn't it help the economy to make MARIJUANA LEGAL?



During today's On-line Presidential Town Hall, President Barack Obama acknowledged that the most popular questions he received from the American people were in regard to marijuana, and whether making it legal, regulating it, and treating it like alcohol could generate revenue, create jobs and help the economy.

"I don't know what this says about the online audience," he said, laughing along with those in attendance. "The answer is no, I don't think that [is] a good strategy."

What this says about the online audience is that they're either more informed or less ideological than he is when it comes to the subject of marijuana. And although the President's small, hand-picked audience might have been laughing with him, millions of Americans are either laughing at him... or not laughing at all.

If you're one them, please visit Welcome to the White House today and use the on-line form to send a quick message to President Obama, letting him know you are outraged by his position on marijuana, as well as his continued failure to provide any logical explanation for it to the American people. Then be sure to forward this message along to others.

We also encourage you to ask him:

• Wouldn't it hurt the economy if local, state and federal governments were not receiving billions of dollars in alcohol-related tax revenue? If so, then why wouldn't it raise equally valuable tax revenue when it comes to marijuana?

• Wouldn't it hurt the economy if millions of Americans lost their jobs producing, distributing, selling, and promoting alcohol? If so, then why wouldn't it create these types of jobs when it comes to marijuana?

Most importantly, be sure to ask him:

Why are you so accepting of alcohol use and the economic benefits that accompany it, yet so opposed to the use of a far safer substance and its surefire economic benefits?

Is it because your presidential campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the alcohol industry? ($432,170 to be exact, according to OpenSecrets.org)

Is it because alcohol is your recreational drug of choice (these days)?

Just why do you prefer Americans use a drug that contributes to tens of thousands of deaths each year instead of one that contributes to ZERO? Why do you prefer they use a drug that contributes to domestic violence, sexual abuse, and other violent crimes instead of one that has never been found to contribute to such problems? Why do you prefer people use alcohol rather than make the safer choice to use marijuana instead?

Why are you driving Americans to drink, Mr. President?



Once-Secret Nixon Tapes Show Why the U.S. Outlawed Pot

Virtues' of Ganja

Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia

Reinstate Michael Phelps and stop driving athletes to drink!

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