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WAR ON PONY TAILS
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The Drug War Is A War Against Counter Culture

Apparently, it's OK to have more arsenic in water than it is to have hemp in cereal," comments U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., about a new Drug Enforcement Agency ban. The ban, which prohibits hemp food products containing even trace elements of THC, took effect on Feb. 6.

The crackdown on hemp foods is, according to the Washington Post, the result of lobbying by the religious right's Family Research Council, which believes "hemp has become a stalking horse for the drug legalization movement." The ban, then, is part of a political agenda.

What is that agenda, and why such a fuss over hemp in food? For that matter, why such a to-do over industrial hemp and medicinal marijuana? More "stalking horses" for the legalization of pot? Maybe, but why is pot illegal?

Pot is not physically addictive. "Marijuana addiction" refers only to psychological addiction, and research shows even this is suspect. It assumes pot smokers have a problem, and then when study participants display difficulty removing pot from their lives, it argues this is proof of addiction, much like assuming sex is bad, then when people have trouble abstaining, arguing this is proof of sexual addiction. Circular logic.

Nor does pot necessarily lead to truly dangerous drugs; the argument that marijuana is a gateway drug is pathetic. First, it's a cause- effect fallacy, confusing chronology with causality. Probably most whiskey abusers at one time drank beer; does that mean beer is responsible for whiskey abuse?

Second, the gateway argument defies common sense. If pot leads to harder drugs, particularly heroin, then because America has seen a dramatic increase in pot smoking since the '60s, there should be a corresponding jump in heroin addiction. But as reporter Daniel Baum notes in Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure, heroin addiction today is no greater than it was in 1970. Third, pot prohibitionists contradict themselves. The gateway argument says pot users become "bored" with a marijuana high; how can something be both boring and "psychologically addictive"?

Fourth, to the extent the gateway argument is true, it's a self- fulfilling prophecy. Baum quotes a University of Kentucky researcher: "By throwing subjects into a subculture that elicits heroin use, even moderate marijuana use can weld the first link of a casual chain leading to heroin." So, illegality is the problem, not marijuana.

A quarter of all federal prisoners, some serving life without parole, are in for marijuana. Neither the health claims nor gateway argument come even close to explaining why. What's really going on?

Pot prohibition is about repression. According to John Helmer in Drugs and Minority Oppression, America's first anti-drug laws were anti- opium laws, passed at the height of an anti-Chinese campaign and used to persecute "coolies." The original target of anti-pot laws were Hispanics; thus, an Alamosa newspaper editor's comments were read as testimony to Congress in 1937: "I wish I could show you what a small marijuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents." American drug laws have historical roots in the cesspool of racism and ethnic intolerance.

A primary target of today's repression is hippies. Oh, we say, "But hippies were a thing of the '60s and no longer exist"-a cliche we recite sheeplike. But anyone with eyes can see hippie-types everyday, and what we really mean is, "Hippies are no longer supposed to exist." Pot remains illegal because hippies use it, and the powers that be see the non-conformist, authority-defying values of America's counterculture as subversive. Thus, ever since the '60s, national policy has been to harass, persecute, and hopefully eliminate the counterculture. Did you know that in many jurisdictions, having Grateful Dead stickers on your vehicle is "due cause" for the police to pull you over? A lot like "driving while black." Did you know that at one time Norway had hippie soldiers-men in combat gear with ponytails and beard nets? Washington soon insisted the Norwegian units de-hippify if they wanted to participate in NATO drills. And so it goes.

This unstated but very real policy of "cleansing" America and the world of hippie culture is the ugly truth we tap dance around. We can't legalize marijuana or hemp in any form because to do so would be to legitimize hippie culture. No, anti-pot policies aren't just bad health-care policy; they're repression-a form of ethnic cleansing, I believe-disguised as bad health-care policy. That's exactly what the war on marijuana, hemp food and hippies is about: prejudice, bigotry, and intolerance.

US: Wire: Nixon Tapes Pot Shocker
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UK: OPED: 'It Was Not The Drug, But The Criminalisation Of It
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US: Web: Once-Secret Nixon Tapes Show Why The U.S. Outlawed Pot
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US: Column: Just What Was He Smoking?
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US: Nixon Dismissed Official's Intoxication
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US CA: Why Do You Think They Call It Propaganda?
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"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."
Adolph Hitler

"You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob?
Richard Nixon missing tapes
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"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935

American High Society
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A subchapter from "Hemp: Lifeline To The Future," by Chris Conrad. Dr. Burke, president of the American Historical Reference Society and a consultant for the Smithsonian Institute, counted seven early presidents as cannabis smokers: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor and Franklin Pierce. Madison once remarked that hemp gave him insight to create a new and democratic nation. Cannabis was twice as popular among American soldiers in the Mexican War as in Vietnam: Pierce wrote to his family that it was "about the only good thing" about that war.

Stepping Off Hard Drugs With Cannabis
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“If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster marihuana he would drop dead of fright.”
This is not an overstatement.
Users of the marihuana weed are committing a large percentage of the atrocious crimes blotting the daily picture of American life.
It is reducing thousands of boys to CRIMINAL INSANITY.
And ONLY TWO STATES have effective laws to protect their people against it.
The marihuana weed, according to Mr. Anslinger, is grown, sold and USED in every State in the Union.
He charges, and rightly, that this is not a responsibility of one State, but OF ALL — and of the Federal Government.
American women, aroused to this DANGER, will GET ACTION. (Aah-mmmmm?)

A Roundup of Hearst’s Hysterical Headlines
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I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigaret can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why our problem is so great; the greatest percentage of our population is composed of Spanish-speaking persons, most of who are low mentally, because of social and racial conditions.

"A violently active, intrepid, brutal youth that is what I am after...
I will have no intellectual training. Knowledge is ruin for my young men."
Adolf Hitler quoted by John Gunther "The Nation"

Anslinger read into U.S. Congressional testimony (without objection) stories about ‘coloreds’ with big lips, luring white women with jazz music and marijuana.
If he had bothered to check, showed at least 65-75% of all murders in the U.S. were then—and still are—alcohol related.

Bigotry and Aparteid
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"Marihuana Makes Fiends of Boys in 30 Days; Hasheesh Goads Users to Blood-Lust" create terror of the "killer weed from Mexico." Through his relentless disinformation campaign, Hearst is credited with bringing the word "marijuana" into the English language. In addition to fueling racist attitudes toward Hispanics, Hearst papers run articles about "marijuana-crazed negroes" raping white women and playing "voodoo-satanic" jazz music.
Driven insane by marijuana, these blacks -- according to accounts in Hearst-owned newspapers -- dared to step on white men's shadows, look white people directly in the eye for more than three seconds, and even laugh out loud at white people. For shame!

Self Perpetuating Lies
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Anslinger read an account of two “Negro” students at the University of Minnesota doing this to a white coed “with the result of pregnancy.” The Congressmen of 1937 gasped at this and at the fact that this drug seemingly caused white women to touch or even look at a “Negro.”

Missing Nixon tapes
excerpts begin with the Nixon doctrine on why marijuana is much worse than alcohol: It is because people drink "to have fun" but they smoke marijuana "to get high."
This distinction was evidently enormously significant to Nixon, because he repeats it.

"You're enough of a pro," Nixon tells Shafer, "to know that for you to come out with something that would run counter to what the Congress feels and what the country feels, and what we're planning to do, would make your commission just look bad as hell."

"... the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races."
"Marihuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death."
"You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother."
"marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind."
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President Ronald Reagan, at the urging of then Vice President George Bush, appointed Carlton Turner as the White House Drug (czar) Advisor in 1981.
Soon after Turner left office, Nancy Reagan recommended that no corporation be permitted to do business with the Federal government without having a urine purity policy in place to show their loyalty. Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry: urine-testing.

ACS - Division of Analytical Chemistry - DAC Awards
John P. Walters 1980 (present drug czar

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Nazi Air Force (Luftwaffe) commander, the Nuremberg Trials

"Terrorist operatives infiltrate our communities, plotting, planning and waiting to kill again....To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists."
United States Attorney General John Ashcroft

1936: DuPont obtains a patent license to manufacture synthetic "plastic fibers" from German industrial giant I.G. Farben Corporation. The patent license is obtained as part Germany's reparation payments to the United States after World War I. A few years later, I.G. Farben manufactures deadly Zyklon-B gas, used in Nazi death camps to murder millions of Jews (along with many homosexuals and drug users). DuPont owned and financed approximately 30% of Hitler's I.G. Corps, the military-industrial backbone of the fascist
Third Reich.
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SCAPEGOATING -
Blaming social problems on a cultural, racial, or behaviorial group.

PREJUDICE -
Selling the public on the idea that all members of the targeted group are 'bad' people.

LIES -
'Facts', which cannot be verified, and pseudo scientific studies are used as propaganda against the targeted group. History is rewritten.

NO PUBLIC DEBATE -
"These people have no right to have their viewpoiunt aired." and " Anyone who disagrees or questions us must be one of them!"

DEHUMANIZATION -
Characterizing all members of a targeted group as subhuman and typically capable of monstrous deeds and/or crimes.

PROTECT OUR CHILDREN -
"They corrupt, seduce and or destroy our children."

CIVIL LIBERTIES SACRIFICED -
"We must give up some of our freedoms, liberties, and rights in order to combat this menace to society."

LEGAL DESCRIMINATION -
Laws criminalize members of targeted group and they may be denied jobs, the right to own property and/or be restricted as to where they may live or go.

INFORMERS -
Citizens are urged to 'turn in' friends, neighbors, co-workers and family members.

SECRET POLICE -
Non-uniformed police squads set up to wage war on targeted groups utilizing deception, infiltration, espionage and entrapment.

CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY -
Property and assets are seized from people who are members of targeted group. Property may be divided between the informer and the state.

REMOVAL FROM SOCIETY -
Prisons, rehabilitation camps, 'hospitals', executions and genocide...
("kill them all" "Zero Tolerance")

From Whom Did the Fascists Get Support?
Italian fascism and German Nazism had their admirers within the U.S. business community and the corporate owned press. Bankers, publishers, and industrialists, including the likes of Henry Ford, traveled to Rome and Berlin to pay homage, receive medals, and strike profitable deals. Many did their utmost to advance the Nazi war effort, sharing military industrial secrets and engaging in secret transactions with the Nazi government, even after the United States entered the war. During the 1920s and early 1930s, major publications like Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Saturday Evening Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Christian Science Monitor hailed Mussolini as the man who rescued Italy from anarchy and radicalism.

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... Corporations have bee enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is
destroyed."
Abraham Lincoln, November 12, 1864,

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty, He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
Thomas Jefferson, 1814

"Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a hothouse for sexual ideas and simulations. Just look at the bill of fare served up in our movies, vaudeville and theaters, and you will hardly be able to deny that this is not the right kind of food, particularly for the youth...Theater, art, literature, cinema,
press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea."
Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf", Vol. 1, Chapter 10

"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . we need believing people."
Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933, from a speech made during negotiations leading to the Nazi Vatican Concordant of 1933

"The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
It's either Us or Them!"
Benito Mussolini Address, from Palazzo Venezia balcony October 27, 1930

"The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led."

"The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935

"How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured...No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer..."
HARRY J ANSLINGER Commissioner of the US Bureau of Narcotics 1930 1962

"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it."
"Just Say NO!"

"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935

"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."
Harry Anslinger, U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics, testifying to Congress on why marijuana should be made illegal, 1937.
(Marijuana Tax Act, signed Aug. 2, 1937; effective Oct. 1, 1937.)

"The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe."

"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.

"A violently active, intrepid, brutal youth that is what I am after...
I will have no intellectual training. Knowledge is ruin for my young men."
Adolf Hitler quoted by John Gunther "The Nation"

"Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder." - Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961)

"...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it."
- David Rockefeller - Newsweek International, Feb 1 1999.

US Drug Czar, in Colombia, Says Reviewing Policy
John P. Walters criticized ABC News for reporting on the Montgomery case. Walters showed no concern for Montgomery but rather complained, "Apparently ABC couldn't find a grandmother on death row for carrying a roach clip..."

ACS - Division of Analytical Chemistry - DAC Awards
- John P. Walters 1980 (Present Bush Drugczar)

Philanthropy Roundtable John P. Walters President
The Philanthropy Roundtable is a national association of individual donors, corporate giving representatives, foundation staff and trustees, and trust and estate officers. The Roundtable is founded on the principle that voluntary private action offers the best means of addressing many of society's needs, and that a vibrant private sector is critical to creating the wealth that makes
philanthropy possible.
Copyright © 1997-2001 by the Philanthropy Roundtable funding DARE propaganda groups giving tax write offs to corporations in competition with cannabis.

"There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice. A state that supresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for
improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law."
- Kurt Huber [The head of White Rose], killed by the Nazis in 1943.

DYING FOR A SMOKE

Cannabis Hunger Striker Faces A Grim Choice

Robin Prosser is a 45-year-old Missoula woman who has been on a hunger strike since April 20 protesting her inability to secure legal, medicinal marijuana in Montana to treat her diagnosed immunosuppressive disorder. The Independent sat down with Prosser earlier this week to discuss the circumstances that would lead a disabled, middle-aged mother to entertain thoughts of making the ultimate sacrifice. Continued...
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Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed
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The Elkhorn Manifesto
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MARIJUANA AND HEMP The Untold Story
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“A tidal wave of support for medicinal marijuana has begun in the western United States; the future of many federal officials depends, in large part, on whether they ride that wave into the future or, standing in the way, are rendered irrelevant by the voters.” -
Senator John Vasconcellos

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Toker00

The War on The Pony Tail is Real. The Federal Government is quilty of Genocide of our Cannabis Culture. Everything Hitler did to the Jews, is being done to us, by the Federal Government. It was clear to me, that Bush used Ozzie as a chance to belittle and ridicule our culture. Just as Ozzie is a burnt out rocker, many of us with Pony Tails, are not self destructive, or burnt out. But they picked the one rocker (hippie, druggie, counter culture...) who has OBVIOUSLY been impaired by alcoholism and drug addiction, (though he may be indeed recovering), to represent our culture at his whatever the fuck it was dinner. I have nothing against Ozzie, I loved Black Sabbath. But I think he was used as a joke by Bush. Just MHO.

Peace. Realize, then Legalize.