Brando56894

I'm surprised no one has posted this yet. Congressman Proposes 25 Years In Prison For Pot

Illinois Representative Mark Kirk is pushing for harsher penalties for any dealer caught selling kush, which he pretty much defines as cannabis with a THC content higher than 10% to 15%. He proposes that any first time (non-violent) offender caught selling it will have a maximum 25 year sentence and a $1 Million dollar fine compared to the current $250,000 fine and maximum sentence of 5 years.

His reasoning behind this is based on its profit revenue. He stated that since it is being sold for about $600 per ounce, much like cocaine is, that it should be regulated like cocaine even though the two drugs have nothing in common other than price. This is a quote from one of his supporters, Sheriff Mark Curran “When you amplify the strength of it, you are increasing the harm to the system ... They are more dangerous behind the wheel of a vehicle. It’s not a good idea to have people that messed up.”

I found a link so you can send him your thoughts on this issue. Send Rep. Kirk an email the only catch is that you MUST enter in the zipcode of the 10th congressional district of Illinois, one of which is 60091 + 1345. it also requires an address, if you dont feel like looking one up here are a few to use that are in the town of wilmette,Ill (60091 + 1345) courtesy of google maps:

lake ave
crawford road
central street
[any number 0-99] pawnee road

Dr. Drew

whatadouche

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Pot Potency? Boomers' blissfully unfazed by mere facts. 11/11/05

Do they ever check their own past hogwash? This is not your father's marijuana. No shit. 60's pot would be schwag from age. I guess comparing any potency pot with burlap would give you any number you want. 100000% stronger than seaweed too. What they need is too be held accountable for their gossip and liable to every toker terrorized by these threats and actions. When Waldo tried this it only gave BC growers a raise in salary. I remember a Chicago legal weed in the 70's called Bee Bee's. Pure lawn grass. Thai stick, Kona Gold Mauwi, Vietnam, Acapulco Gold and Panama Red, PA coal dirt and Gainesville Green Meshmecan. Pin rolls... DdC



"Kush" is a name given to a variety of indica strains thought to be ancestrally related to a strain originating in Asia. It's named for the Hindu Kush which is a region in the Himalayas where marijuana has been cultivated for a very long time. There are various strains purported to be in this family with names like "Afghan Kush", "Orange Kush", "Blueberry Kush", "Hindu Kush", etc.

Pretty much ANY Kush strain will be good as long as the grower is competent.I've had hindu kush and citral kush and the only real diff was how each tasted.Highs were pretty much comparable.
weedtalk

The Counterculture Colonel
Dr. James S. Ketchum, a retired U.S. Army colonel, was into weapons of mass elation, not weapons of mass destruction. He oversaw a secret research program that tested an array of mind-bending drugs on American GIs, including an exceptionally potent form of synthetic marijuana.



Congressman wants to outlaw Koosh

Who could be against this fun little stress-relieving ball?

Well, apparently, according to WGN 'reporter' Judie Garcia, that would be Illinois Representative Mark Kirk.

It also sells for more on the street, and on the street, it's commonly known as "koosh."

"Koosh is a modified marijuana that delivers up to ten times the THC level of the marijuana we may have seen in the 1960s and 70s," Congressman Mark Kirk said.

Except, of course, nobody calls it "koosh." (not even the Congressman) And a search of Google shows "koosh" most commonly refers to the ball pictured.



Judie Garcia also claims:

A strain of highly-potent marijuana is hitting the Chicago suburbs and causing concern for local lawmakers. Now they're calling for stricter laws against trafficking.

Yet she fails to mention a single lawmaker other than Mark Kirk.

Judie Garcia of WGN "News" also fails to actually report anything except what Mark Kirk says about "koosh" (such as, oh, any facts, or what someone else might say about Kirk's stupid bill).

Mark Kirk is an idiot and a fool. His "kush" bill (calling for up to 25 years for even a first offense of certain marijuana dealing) is ridiculous and unlikely to go anywhere. Hopefully a bone-headed move like this will term-limit him.

But irresponsible reporting like that of Judie Garcia's should also result in consequences.

For more coverage of Mark Kirk's outrageous bill, see Congressman Proposes 25 Years In Prison For Pot by Paul Armentano at NORML.



Bad research makes headlines
By Reverend Damuzi - Monday, March 21 2005
A misleading study claims that marijuana doesn't help epilepsy.

Front Page Fantasy: The New York Times Pushes Fact Free Journalism
Supposedly About “BC Bud”
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2005-03-17 16:20:00
This article was cited in the Canadian Parliament as proof that Canada cannot even decriminalize cannabis because of US opposition, “causing costly cross-border delays.” Lies have consequences, which is why people lie.

How The Canadian Media Import Counterfeit News From The States.
The Drug Czar Lies and Even The Best Papers Don’t Check the Facts.
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2005-03-17 16:20:00
“But it is time to acknowledge that the nation's news organizations have played a large and unappetizing role in deceiving the public….”
— The New York Times

Bad Science
DWR: Wednesday, June 17, 2009
It's remarkable how much truly bad science is related to marijuana research. The latest is this: Evaluation of the DNA damaging potential of cannabis cigarette smoke by the determination of acetaldehyde derived N2-ethyl-2'-deoxyguanosine adducts by Singh R, Sandhu J, Kaur B, Juren T, Steward WP, Segerbäck D, Farmer PB analysis continued...

Paul Armentano does a nice job of taking down the Fox article.

DdC

These lying bastards need to be held accountable.
Another Nahas. Real Journalists don't spread gossip.
No truth No credit. Ban the dungeaters!
If it weren't for bad science they'd have no science at all.
Gloom despair and agony on them!
Just think how despicable one has to be to lie about dangers just to eliminate natural remedies or competition. Traitors and Terrorists, DdC

The Official Story: Debunking 'Gutter Science' Jack Herer

"Narcotics police are an enormous, corrupt international bureaucracy ... and now fund a coterie of researchers who provide them with 'scientific support' ... fanatics who distort the legitimate research of others. ... The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents."
-- William F. Buckley,
Commentary in The National Review, April 29, 1983, p. 495



* Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974

"I now have absolute proof
that smoking even one marijuana cigarette
is equal in brain damage
to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast."
-- Ronald Reagan - Former "B" Actor

* The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys

In 1974, California Governor Ronald Reagan was asked about decriminalizing marijuana. After producing the Heath/Tulane University study, the so-called "Great Communicator" proclaimed, "The most reliable scientific sources say permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana."
(L.A. Times)

* The Facts: Suffocation of Research Animals

Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
The Madrid study marks only the second time that THC has been administered to tumor-bearing animals. In 1974, researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institutes of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice -- lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia. The DEA quickly shut down the Virginia study and all further cannabis/tumor research.

Basis for Joe Bliedens RAVE Ax,,,
United Nations Drug Report Disappointing
According to the report, ecstasy users risk suffering the effects of early decline in mental function and memory, or Alzheimer-type symptoms. The report was released just weeks after scientists at Johns Hopkins University retracted their research findings that suggested that a single evening's use of ecstasy could cause permanent brain damage and Parkinson's disease. The scientists admitted that they utilized the wrong drug in their studies. The UN report makes no mention of the retracted studies.

“When a well-packaged web of lies
has been sold to the masses over generations,
the truth will seem utterly preposterous
and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
- Dresden James



Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said on national television that radioactivity contained in tobacco leaves is probably responsible for most tobacco-related cancer.

No radioactivity exists in cannabis tars.

And so on...

Most of the anti-marijuana literature we have examined does not cite as much as one single source for us to review. Others only refer to DEA or NIDA. The few studies we have been able to track down usually end up being anecdotal case histories, artificial groupings of data, or otherwise lacking controls and never replicated.

Reports of breast enlargement, obesity, addiction, and the like all remain unsubstantiated, and are given little credence by the scientific community. Other reports, like the temporary reduction in sperm count, are statistically insignificant to the general public, yet get blown far out of proportion when presented by the media. Still others, like the handful of throat tumors in the Sacramento area and the high rate of injuries reported in a Baltimore trauma unit are isolated clusters that run contrary to all other statistics and have never been replicated.

Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia

"An age is called Dark
not because the light fails to shine,
but because people refuse to see it."
-- James A. Michener (1907-1997),
in the novel, "Space" (1982)

The Ganjawar Fraud...

The spurious results of Heath, Nahas, and the pregnant mice and monkey studies at Temple University and UC Davis (where they injected mice with synthetic third-cousin analogues of THC) are now discredited in the body of scientific and medical literature.

Though these studies are not used in scientific discourse, mountains of DEA and pharmaceutical company-sponsored literature about the long-term possible effects of these metabolites on the brain and reproduction still goes to parent groups as if they were brand new studies. This disinformation is still very much alive in U.S. government, DEA, DARE, and PDFA reports.

WomansWackyVengeance Union

"A great deal of intelligence
can be invested in ignorance
when the need for illusion is deep."
-- Saul Bellow

dubtrice

my senses tell me that DdC has a blog somewhere
id like a link

DdC

Prohibit Elected Lobbyists and Yellow Journalism

"Illinois Rep Cap't James T. Kirk is pushing for harsher penalties for any Journalist caught publishing krap, which he pretty much defines as reefer mad "yellow journalism". He proposes that any "Elected Lobbyists" in Congress or the Senate caught repeating or fabricating gossip about cannabis, will have a maximum 25 year sentence and a $1 Million dollar fine.

His reasoning behind this is based on its profit revenue. He stated that since it has been sold for about a $Trillion since 1937, much like Iraq is. This is a quote from one of his supporters, Sheriff Nark Murron “When you amplify the rhetoric, you are increasing the harm to the public ... They are more dangerous behind the veil of government protection. It’s not a good idea to have people that messed up, legislating or missinforming the public.”



Drug Czar's Pot-Potency Claims Go Up In Smoke By Ryan Grim
CN Source: Huffington Post May 29, 2009 Washington, D.C.

There's No Such Thing as a 'Gateway Drug' By Scott Morgan
CN Source: AlterNet May 29, 2009 USA (scroll up for article)

Nixon's 40 Year War On Drugs... Drugs Won!

San Diego Operation Green Rx - Eugene Davidovich

DOCTOR SUSPENDED OVER MARIJUANA PRESCRIPTIONS
A San Diego doctor has been suspended from practice for 15 days and placed on probation for seven years because he failed to follow established medical standards when prescribing marijuana.

Dr. Molly Fry gets 5 ******* Years! MM



Con Flicts of Interest Bush Barthwell & Drugs

CrazyCalvinaFay

Another installment of 'The Company You Keep'
DWR: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
It really does get interesting to see who comes out of the woodwork to defend prohibition. And more and more, they're the real nut cases.

John English: The Drug War
English also wrote: Medical marijuana

Kevin Sabet: The price of legalizing pot is too high

Stephen Baldwin... celebrity lush

Ted Nuget: We could be winning war on drugs



Pro military Ted Nugent literally shat in his loincloth when he got drafted for the Vietnam war and never went. Also, in his heyday, he used to sleep with underage girls and played in a 60's band called the Amboy Dukes, with such clean and sober hits such as "Journey To The Centre Of The Mind" and " and "That Orange Is More Orange Than An Orange". He's a draft dodger, a pedophile and a hypocrite. He wanted to become the new "drug czar" just as an excuse to take his automatic weapons to the US/Mexican border. Keep on firing those your rifles in that glass house of yours Teddy boy.
CMT • 6/17/09



The Bloody Truth Behind Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Daily Kos

Shawna Forde and Jason Bush, are leaders of an anti-illegal-immigrant group in Washington state called Minutemen American Defense. Its Web site says it secures the U.S. border from human and drug trafficking...

Raul Flores, 29, and his 9-year-old daughter were shot in the head May 30 after a group of people dressed in camouflage entered their home in the small southern Arizona town of Arivaca. The girl was apparently shot because she was a witness. Her mother, whose name is not being released, was shot in the leg.

Signs of Sickness and D.E.A.th

Forgotten man By Scott Henry 12.04.02
Steve Tucker served a 10-year prison sentence for selling light bulbs. Is America's drug war worth it?

Kill the Messenger

'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'

The D.E.A.th of Timothy Garon RIP

Starving Babies and Illegal Food

Rachael Hoffman RIP

Thanks to murderers like Sabet, English, Kirk, Baldwin and Teddyboy Nuget. Also the pseudo scienticks Singh R, Sandhu J, Kaur B, Juren T, Steward WP, Segerbäck D, Farmer PB

seattle420lover

I doubt that REP KIRK will ever read this web page.\so I took the liberty of looking him up for you so you can write him directly and tell him he is in fact a douche.
I'll bet he starts crying and smoking KUSH!

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seattle420lover

Congressman Mark Steven Kirk - 10th District of Illinois
his email link is right there
send him a letter

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"The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining to an understanding of compassion" SOCRATES, 470-399 BC

seattle420lover

here is a letter I just sent to him:

Dear Mark Kirk,

Alcohol was legalized -- in part -- in order to deprive organized crime of money. Over time, the war on drugs has had little impact on drug use.

By abolishing the war we would not only save billions of dollars in expenses, we could earn billions through taxing marijuana. Every scientific study shows that on-demand and court-ordered drug-treatment programs cut drug use more cost-effectively than programs attempting to cut access to drugs.

Darral Good

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seattle420lover

the asshole doesn't take out of state letters. so I am writing my representative and having him relay the message.

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seattle420lover

U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk to push tougher sentences for more-potent marijuana -- chicagotribune.com

in the imortal words of the famous dr drew of yahooka,
what a douche!

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smokinrav

JHFC, how in the hell are they going to test the potency associated with every cannabis arrest in Illinois? The mind boggles at the amount of work that would be and how much time it would take. Maybe Rep. Kirk has investment in gas spectrometer makers and wants one in evey Illilois county. Maybe he's not familiar with that whole 'speedy trial' thing in that outdated document, the US constitution.

Whatadouche....

seattle420lover

good thinking there smokinrav!
what a moron!


is absinthe legal there now?

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"The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining to an understanding of compassion" SOCRATES, 470-399 BC