DdC

Study Shows Support Among Missourians for MMJ
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/20/thread20076.shtml

Police Launch Petition Drive Against Pot Law (Excerpted)
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20349.shtml

Blustery winds outside the Boone County Courthouse carried harsh words today against the city’s new marijuana ordinance by those who say it reduces possession of a small amount of the drug to "less than a parking ticket."

Sterling Infield, president of the Columbia Police Officers Association, or CPOA, led a news conference announcing a petition drive to reverse the ordinance passed in November. City voters also approved a separate law decriminalizing marijuana prescribed for medical purposes, which CPOA does not oppose.

Officers plan to go door-to-door in neighborhoods to gather signatures, which will be presented to the Columbia City Council...
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CPOA fears that people on parole for violent crimes would be treated like first-time offenders, he said...
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Eleanor Wickersham of the League of Women Voters said it’s wrong for Infield’s group to use parolees as a scare tactic

"He’s trying to associate it with rape and murder," she said.

Related Articles & Web Site:

Missouri NORML
http://www.gstlnorml.org/
Police Group Seeks To Alter City’s Pot Law
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20295.shtml
Bill Just Smoke, Lawmakers Say
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20145.shtml
Senator Seeks To Penalize City for Marijuana Laws
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20140.shtml

Missouri Senator with Cancer Supports Marijuana
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/13/thread13905.shtml

Columbia Police Officers Association Bulletin Board
http://www.columbiapolice.org/forum/



Pharmaceuticals Capitalize on Pot Prohibition By Barry Lipson
CN Source: Renegade Rip March 09, 2005
Drugs are bad. Most people will agree with that statement, although, most of these people will have no problem taking them when prescribed by a physician. The majority of these drugs are synthetic narcotic derivatives processed in a laboratory and full of side effects ranging from constipation to kidney failure and even death. Read More...
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20339.shtml

Cannabis FARMaceuticals http://www.mikuriya.com
http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc/farmaceuticals.html



Americans Funding Fascist'
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/msg1x79188.shtml

Police officials lied to toughen laws...
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/msg1x79321.shtml

Psychosis, Hype And Baloney
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg1x79370.shtml

REPORT OF THE INDIAN HEMP DRUGS COMMISSION, 1893-94.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/...p/7relhemp.htm

Drugged-Driving Legislation Misleading and Unfair
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20338.shtml

Cannabis/Driving Studies

Australia: No Proof Cannabis Put Drivers At Risk (2001)
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1849/a09.html
UK: Cannabis May Make You A Safer Driver (2000)
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1161/a02.html
University Of Toronto Study Shows Marijuana Not A Factor In Driving Accidents (1999)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0325110700.htm
Australia: Cannabis Crash Risk Less: Study (1998)
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98/n945/a08.html
Australia: Study Goes to Pot (1998)
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98/n947/a06.html



Pot Debate Should Stay Away from National Money By Tony Messenger
CN Source: Columbia Daily Tribune March 13, 2005

The whisperer wanted me to ask a question. It was a good question, but I ignored him. We were standing outside the Boone County Courthouse on a frigid Friday morning listening to Columbia police Officer Sterling Infield announce a petition drive to try to overturn the marijuana decriminalization ordinance that voters overwhelmingly approved in November.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20354.shtml

This headline would be nice, but it seems obvious this articles author neglects to mention any of the government/corporate contributions to maintaining the Ganjawar in its present draconian state. MPP doesn't even scratch the surface of the Czars budget. Soros either. Let alone the other bogus legislations and their side effects. Censorship bills, secret searches, no knock entries, snoop dogs, hemp statistics, plea bargain forced treatment, urine testing fortunes, gutter science, any reason arrests, mandatory minimum, three strikes, anonymous tip warrants, inferred, tax shelters and undocumented government expense reports. Media coverage scripted, movies and documentaries getting kickback, school books censored and what Libraries carry determined by Reefer Madness profiteers. Missing the point that its been so one sided for so long, just a little bit of truth seeping in was enough to pass the legislation. And please witness who is always in the front of the line to whine, the bloated budget Ganjawar mongers.
Peace, Love and Liberty or the Merchants of DEAth
DdC

UNIVERSAL SOLDIERS by Buffy Sainte-Marie
http://www.creative-native.com/lyrics/univelyr.htm



U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana laws.
According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2001.
Keith Stroup, (NORML) http://www.norml.org

In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the US.
Of those, 46.5 percent -- 734,497 arrests -- were for marijuana.
There were 646,042 arrests for simple possession of marijuana in 2000.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org

Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2A023806
UNICORE
http://www.unicor.gov

Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1CC63B28


http://www.bodyshop.com

Hemp, Hemp, Hooray? No Way, Says DEA
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S200461B6

"How can we re-imagine the world? How can we begin to dream of a world in which there is no hunger, a world in which there are no homeless people? How can we start dreaming of a place in which kids do not have to be put aside and forgotten and attacked? How do we dream this? The answer is within the dream. If you can imagine another world, you are already beginning to build towards it."
-- Luis Rodriguez on People's Tribune Radio



Congress Recommends $145 Million For Drug Office
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I3FF320B6

Blindness of the Prohibitionists Paradigm
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H581251B6

"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship... the Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."
- Benjamin Rush M.D.



Steppenwolf, "Don't Step on the Grass, Sam"

"You waste my coin Sam, all you can
To jail my fellow man
For smoking all the noble weed
You need much more than him
You've been telling lies so long
Some believe they're true
So they close their eyes to things
You have no right to do"

Istook the Constitution and set it on fire
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2D4222D6

Harsh Souder Drug Bill Coming Soon To Congress
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E280651B6

Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M6E5220E6

Astonishingly, Walters claims that the 1999 Institute of Medicine report didn't urge the government to allow seriously ill people legal access to medical marijuana on a case-by-case basis. What the institute did say about medical use of marijuana by AIDS and cancer patients was "nausea, appetite loss, pain and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and all can be mitigated by marijuana." Maybe these experts were duped. 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.
BRUCE MIRKEN M P P

DdC

Now they get to buy a "ticket", then get rehab for pleasuring themselves or relaxing or self medicating. Cause the cops don't get it. Lowest priority doesn't mean targeting or profiling to increase revenues. Hobgobblins do profit if you can make sure the voters don't find the truth. Thats becoming more difficult, as the vote proved. Cops work for the community, they don't whine and pout about having to stop the easy lucrative busts and work on the violent and unsolved crimes. Not enough time or money cause the cop force is looking for Ganja users and ditchweed statistics. Confiscations recycled. Forfeitured retirement ranches. Bloated budgets from the feds highway funds to dopeydare rallies. Ashrist' backyard and Monsanto's homeyland insurance risk of not poisoning everything eradicating pheasant habitat hemp... These cops and the others preceding, and those following in line, have wasted One TRILLION dollars arresting Ganja tokers!

Not enough for two guards to transport a violent prisoner though. Not enough for the hungry or housing and school repairs and programs for kids to occupy their minds instead of violence and addiction and more unsolved crime. Cause their ain't enough money for more paraphernalia they whine? Time to get neutral cops on the beat. Let the DA gather evidence. Eliminate victimless offenses and get real uncensored education. Prohibition causes the drug crimes and it ain't like its working or has it ever worked in the past. Cops go in hating, creating more trauma than any ole doober. Especially to sick ones, kids and frail elderly. If LEO's really can't see why the Ganjawar exists, that the trillion spent so far hasn't gone to someone, who might reinvest in perpetuating more profits. If your risking your ass and can't see why you really do, then should you even be carrying a loaded weapon? Do you think suicide is highest among LEO's for a reason?

Do you think your means to this never ending product sold won't wear on your soul? The abuse you write off as justified then can't sleep cause you can't hide from yourself. Booze addiction ramped. Speed for overtime. In the name of Peace you kick down doors and wrestle Polio victims to the floor. Your brotherhood is cause no one else trust you anymore. You no longer live in the same America we do. You bypass our rights for quotas and slave labor still legal here and in China. 2 million Americans caged and who protest against their rights in the name of protecting the rest? The rest who at any time can commit a crime and not even realize it. Why bother with a government when cops see everyone as suspects, already telling the media how guilty they are before the jury even deliberates. Many times to save money and time the courts are bypassed with snipers long rifles putting 8 slugs in the head, for self defense. Using tax money to overturn the will of the people educating themselves on the reality of Ganja and the insanity of the Ganjawar.
Peace, Love and Liberty or the DEAth war on everyone...
DdC

Marijuana Ticketing Increases By Joe Meyer
CN Source: Columbia Missourian March 14, 2005
Although Columbia police officers have made plain their disapproval of the city’s new marijuana ordinance, they are enforcing the law with zeal, and the numbers show it. Columbia police have ticketed more people per month for misdemeanor possession of marijuana since voters approved Proposition 2 in November, but most are not being prosecuted.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20356.shtml

If cops are this afraid of a joint, how will they ever fight terrorists? DdC



RAC...KET...EERING
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/message.shtml?1x36121

National Review: AN END TO Marijuana Prohibition
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/thd7x4795.shtml

Perjury everywhere? By William Buckley
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C33723D28

Lost political causes By William Buckley
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/w...fb000325.shtml

Write to William Buckley at Universal Press Syndicate:
4520 Main St., Kansas City, Mo. 64111.

The Police State Cometh by Ron Paul
http://freedompage.home.mindspring.com/police_s.htm



The war on drugs corrupts our police
For example, in 1995, six Philadelphia police officers pleaded guilty to charges of planting illegal drugs on suspects, the theft of more than $100,000 and the falsification of reports. The investigations into the officers actions have led to the release of hundreds of defendants whose convictions were overturned by the appeal courts. Also in 1995, two other officers from Philadelphia received prison sentences of five to 10 years for framing young men. Since 1993, the city of Philadelphia has paid out approximately $27 million in more than 230 lawsuits alleging police misconduct.
http://taxit.org/drug_war1.htm

America's Plague of Bad Cops
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn8.htm

Cops on the Dole
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn7.htm

Cop's View of the Drug War
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn9.htm

Has the Drug War Created an Officer Liar's Club?
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn6.htm

Code of Silence Must Come to an End
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/.../mcn/mcn11.htm

Bonus Payment To Informant Draws Criticism
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9855.shtml

White-Out
A book by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. tells the whole story from 1944 until the present of CIA complicity in the trade of illegal narcotics. The book also chastises the mainstream press for its shameful blindness to the problem.



The items posted here describe the growing disillusionment with the War on Drugs in the law enforcement community, the growing support for reform, and some of the ways in which the Drug War corrupts police forces and encourages a war mentality that is at odds with a police officer's intended role as an officer of the peace.
http://www.drcnet.org/cops

The Joseph McNamara Collection
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/...mcn/mcntoc.htm

Stop the War - A Former Police Chiefs Plea to the New Drug Czar
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn1.htm

Drug Peace
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/...mcn/mcn18.html

cops against the drug war
http://www.drcnet.org/cops/question.html

police chiefs question merit of drug policy
http://www.drcnet.org/guide1-96/police.html



F.E.A.R. http://www.fear.org
November http://www.november.org
(FAMM Foundation) http://www.famm.org
Human Rights and the WoD http://www.hr95.org

Conservative Addiction Good, Liberal Addiction Bad!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J2EC31D28
Bushît Hypocrisy & Double Standards
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H1E0221B6
Defrauding America
http://www.defraudingamerica.com

U.S. prison population largest in world The Baltimore Sun
With a record-setting 2 million people now locked up in American jails and prisons, the United States has overtaken Russia and has a higher percentage of its citizens behind bars than any other country.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P31523E28

The Real Price of Prisons
http://www.motherjones.com/prisons
Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1CC63B28



MAKING THE WALLS TRANSPARENT
http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/starke
http://www.zyworld.com/kay~lee/garywaid.htm

Journey for Justice
http://www.journeyforjustice.org
"We call it a war on drugs, but it's actually a war against our own citizens. Not only does treatment work, whereas incarceration does not, it's also less expensive. It's fiscally much more responsible to put our money in something that works, instead of continuing to put our money into this failed drug war that shows no sign of working." - Lisa Lane, Coalition of Compassionate Drug Policy Reform, in The Savannah Morning News (GA), Mon, Feb17 2003

Florida's Journey for Justice
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1592.html

I Lost My Freedom and Can't Find It Anywhere! By Kay Lee
I am gambling with a justice system that has no wisdom or grace to judge me. I am living in a nation with laws that could steal my family's stuff and put me in jail with no guilt; dealing with mentalities that clamor to make vicious or frightened animals out of humans the laws have captured.
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread5606.shtml

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stoneric

I wish there were more like you. Great post, as always.

DdC

NORML Releases Most Comprehensive Analysis Of US Marijuana Arrest Data To Date
March 11, 2005 - Washington, DC, USA
http://www.yahooka.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81683

DdC

Bill Restricting Tournaments Weeded Out By Xin Li
CN Source: Columbia Missourian March 18, 2005
High school athletic tournaments will go on in Columbia. At least for now. Sen. Chuck Gross, R-St. Charles, has decided to withdraw a proposed bill that would prevent public school tournaments from being held in Columbia because of its marijuana ordinances. In return, a warning letter will be sent to high school athletic teams by the Missouri State High School Activities Association. Sen. Chuck Graham, D-Columbia, announced the compromise at a press conference Thursday afternoon.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20372.shtml

Politics Stall Progress of Medical Marijuana By Steve Terrell
CN Source: Santa Fe New Mexican March 18, 2005
A bill that would legalize marijuana to treat certain medical conditions has stalled on the floor of the House of Representatives because of a dispute involving an unrelated bill dealing with developer impact fees in Albuquerque. Rep. Dan Silva told a reporter Wednesday that because of his difficulty in getting his House Bill 805 heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee, he's worked behind the scenes to delay action on the medical-marijuana bill, Senate Bill 795.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20374.shtml

Reform Group Criticizes State's Marijuana Fight By Doug Harlow
CN Source: Kennebec Journal March 18, 2005
U.S. taxpayers spend an estimated $7.6 billion a year on criminal trials and law enforcement activities to combat marijuana activities, yet policies are failing to control the use and sale of the drug, according to a study released this month. The report, issued by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, also asserts that arrests for marijuana possession and sales disproportionately hit blacks and young people, with 74 percent of all marijuana possession arrests nationwide being people under 30.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20371.shtml

Comprehensive Analysis Of US Marijuana Arrest Data
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg1x79547.shtml

Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do by Peter McWilliams
http://www.mcwilliams.com
http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/books/aint

snapshot

Great, now police can go around door to door to find out if you are pro or anti marijuana. It would be a nice way to tag an address for future reference if you're ever in need of a suspect to reach your quota. How groovy!

__________________
We are all atheists about most of the gods that society has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
-Richard Dawkins

patriot

What's wrong with you?? They have to stay employed by supporting crime and drug dealers. After all, we need to continue to have corrections as the fastest growing industry in the U.S.S.A.

__________________
A true patriot is always ready to stand up against his own government.

We can't be using plants that come from the Lord for beneficial purposes. Now hurry up, or we'll be late for church.

The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.-Adolf Hitler

Legalizing marijuana won't grow our economy-Barack Hussein Obama 2009