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New? Mexico, just another page in the book of fascists.
SOS Different Déjà Vu
Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia

BEYOND PROHIBITION: THE CASE FOR DRUG LEGALIZATION
by New Mexico Governor Gary E. Johnson
I recall when I was in high school in 1971. An Albuquerque police officer came in, lit up some marijuana weeds and said, "If you smell this, run. This is marijuana and you need to know that if you do marijuana, we're going to catch you and we're going to put you in jail." I remember raising my hand at that time, asking, "What are you going to do, put 15 million people in jail?" The police officer said, "I don't care about that. I just care about the fact that if you do it, we're going to catch you and we're going to put you in jail." I'm afraid that prophecy may be coming true. In 1997 there were about 700,000 arrests for marijuana-related offenses.

New Mexico governor calls for legalizing drugs


Gary Johnson New Mexico xGovernor

Drug Policy Official Fails To Sway Senate By Steve Terrell *
Source: Santa Fe New Mexican January 28, 2006*
The Bush administration got involved in New Mexico’s medical marijuana issue Friday, sending a top drug-policy administrator to testify against SB158. But David W. Murray, a special assistant to national drug czar John Walters, had little or no effect on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which gave the measure a do-pass with bipartisan support. And some senators said Murray’s presentation was heavy-handed.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21529.shtml



Drug Czar, Barry McCaffrey
Rebutes New Mexico Gary Johnson's Stance On Opening Nation Drug Reform Debate
Published in Albuquerque Journal September 22, 1999



Senate Panel OK's Medical Marijuana Bill

"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 J. Anslinger, testimony to Congress, 1937
Anslinger's Lies

Medical-Marijuana Bill Finds Support Moves Forward

Marijuana Bill Passes First Hurdle

Anslinger's hype: 'If the hideous monster Frankenstein
came face to face with the monster marihuana, he would drop dead of fright.


Anti-Drug Group Fights Medical-Marijuana Bill By Steve Terrell
Source: Santa Fe New Mexican February 11, 2006*
The founder of a New York-based anti-drug group came to the Capitol on Friday to persuade legislators to vote against a bill that would make marijuana legal for patients suffering from some serious medical conditions. Steven Steiner of Dads and Moms Against Drug Dealers said that passage of SB258 -- which is scheduled to be considered today by the House Agriculture and Water Resources Committee -- would lead to more drug abuse in the state.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21587.shtml



After everybody heard about our debate in New Mexico, Yale University Law School invited us to debate again up there. If you want a conservative audience, don't go to Yale University. (laughter). At the debate, Governor Johnson went first and gave his opening statement. It was well-received. I know I'm at a disadvantage at this point, so I asked how many in the audience believe we ought to legalize marijuana. 80 percent raised their hand. I looked down at the 20 percent who didn't raise their hand, and they're all DEA agents in the front row. (laughter) I just want to make sure they didn't raise their hands.
Asa Hutchinson Administrator Drug Enforcement Administration
Conservative Political Action Conference
Arlington, Virginia February 1, 2002
“Drugs and Terrorism”

House Committee Shelves Medical Marijuana Bill By Heather Clark
Source: Associated Press February 11, 2006 Santa Fe, NM
A House panel has shelved a Senate-passed bill that would have allowed patients suffering from illnesses like cancer or AIDS to use marijuana prescribed by a doctor to alleviate their pain. With the end of the legislative session set for Thursday, the move likely kills the bill for this session. The Agriculture and Water Resources Committee tabled the measure on a 4-3 vote Saturday. "Why are you trying to kill us?'' Essie DeBonet, 61, of Albuquerque shouted at committee members as the vote sank in after an emotional hearing on the proposal.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21588.shtml


Essie : Albuquerque, New Mexico * *
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Essie is a marijuana patient in Albuquerque. She is originally from Brooklyn and suffers from AIDS-related complications. continued...
http://www.unacceptablelosses.org/Wh.../MMJ3Essie.htm


Fred : Santa Fe, New Mexico * *
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Fred is a veteran and a marijuana patient who has Multiple Sclerosis and a spinal cord injury. continued...
http://www.unacceptablelosses.org/Wh...s/MMJ3Fred.htm

"...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races."
"Marijuana 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."
HARRY J. ANSLINGER
Commissioner of the U.S. 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."



U n a c c e p t a b l e L o s s e s
The federal government estimates that the War on Drugs costs the United States approximately $69 billion a year. However this figure does unjustice to the toll exacted on millions of Americans and their families. The far reaching and unintended effects of our drug policies have undoubtedly caused more harm than the drugs themselves ever could have.

Lester Grinspoon : Wellesley, Massachusetts
Lester Grinspoon, the world's most widely published authority on medical marijuana is a professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School. He began researching marijuana in the 1960's and his interest in its medicinal uses became partly driven by his own young son's struggle with chemotherapy

F O R M E R P R E S I D E N T S J U S T S A Y N O T O H O P E & H E A L I N G
by Ian Williams Goddard
Former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George Bush stood shoulder to shoulder in a joint letter stating that they ``categorically oppose'' access to cannabis medical therapies for the ill, which will become legal in California if Proposition 215 passes and in Arizona if Proposition 200 passes there. Even as cannabis has been found to be ``probably the most potent anti-epileptic known to medicine today [2],'' according to Dr. Van Sim, and even as it has been found to stop epileptic seizures in children not responding to legal drug therapies [3], these former presidents fear that medical access would send the message to children, true as it may be, that cannabis is safe.

hemphistorian
"Marijuana is the fourth most popular drug in the world, proceeded only by alcohol, nicotine and caffeine. Unlike these drugs however, marijuana has never, in the history of mankind, caused a single death. Also, unlike these drugs, marijuana is illegal in the United States.

professor meheh

good ol johnson keepin up the good work.

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<@hwx> you lost touch with the streets meheh

Isn't that illegal?