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"one small bump for man, one giant line for man kind"

Purd Hupley

I'm not going to touch the philosophical part of this. But I will say I laughed my balls off when I saw this. I love the Onion, and I love their fake sports and fake news shows. I've been waiting a long time for these kinds of shenanigans.

DdC

US: Web: Is the Drug War the Next Big Civil Rights Issue?
With Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday approaching, we are forced to draw connections between the war on drugs and the disintegration of low-income and black communities in America. As Dr. King so poignantly reminds us in his critique of the Vietnam War, "a time comes when silence is betrayal."



US NV: PUB LTE: Good For The Head
No science, no facts, truth or even common sense were ever involved in the banning of cannabis. Instead it is a pile of xenophobic, racist newspaper fictions and the manipulations of career prohibition bureaucrat, Harry Anslinger.

Ganjawar on the Poor



States consider drug tests for welfare recipients By TOM BREEN
Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. Thu Mar 26, 9

Public Housing May 03, 2005
The Supreme Court ruled today that public housing authorities around the country may evict tenants because members of their households, or guests, are using drugs, even if the evicted tenant was unaware of the drug use.

Cover-Ups, Prevarications, Subversions & Sabotage



Unemployment Gap Between Blacks and Whites Keeps Growing
The recent unemployment data issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics was met with some degree of optimism by the Obama Administration. The discussion centered around the fact that the unemployment rate for the nation dropped to 9.4 percent, it's lowest since May of 2009. Good news, right? Well, it's very good news if you're white.

Thank you Miss Rosa

"Freedom Rides" in Texas against the racist drug war
Of the 43 people arrested, 40 were Black--amounting to 12 percent of Tulia's Black population. Almost every Black person in town had a relative or friend on the indictment list.



US PRAISES THAI DRUG WAR!
"U.S.-aided Death Squads and torture"

THAILAND'S WAR ON DRUG USERS:
THE ESTIMATE OF THE NUMBER OF EXECUTIONS
NOW PLACED AT BETWEEN 3,000 AND 5,000
The Thai Army receives U.S. training. Note the last half of message below to see your U.S. tax dollars at work recently in torturing people nearly to death. This is the normal result of U.S. training of armies and police worldwide, and why the U.S. is hated worldwide.



Kathmandu and the Black Prince
I left for India in 1973 just before Cannabis prohibition in Nepal. Richard Nixon and his recently formed DEA paid the new king 50-70 million dollars to outlaw pot--his in a Hindu country where everyone must take cannabis once a year on Lord Shiva's birthday. Hippies were deported to India. It was a sad day on Freak Street. I returned to Nepal in 1981 and to my amazement the country now had a heroin problem. Hashish was 20-30 times more expensive than in 1970 and a very cheap and low grade of smokable heroin was now making the rounds.



Richard Nixon On Pot

Nixon lied to schedule Ganja #1

DAREyl SWAT Gates LAPDog Perversions



Kill the Messenger
To the very end, Gary complained that no one had ever disproved a single fact in his series. The fact that so many respected newspapers so eagerly took this bait, and that one of our nation's last true investigative reporters had been driven to such desperation, is something I could not reconcile then or now.



Race and Prison
Rates of parental incarceration are roughly double among Latino children, with 3.5 percent of children having a parent locked up by 2008. Among African American children, 1.2 million, or about 11 percent, had a parent incarcerated by 2008."

Civil and Human Rights
"Our criminal laws, while facially neutral, are enforced in a manner that is massively and pervasively biased. The injustices of the criminal justice system threaten to render irrelevant fifty years of hard-fought civil rights progress."



Crack/Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
Crack cocaine and powder cocaine are different forms of the same drug, and have similar effects on the brain and nervous system. Federal law, however, sets a 100 to one sentencing disparity between the two forms. This means that distribution of just five grams of crack cocaine (about a thimble full) yields a five year mandatory minimum sentence, while it takes 500 grams of powder cocaine to trigger the same five year sentence. Crack cocaine is the only drug for which there is a federal mandatory minimum sentence for mere possession.


The key findings in the Human Rights Watch report were that across the 34 states, a Black man is 11.8 times more likely than a White man to be sent to prison on drug charges, and a Black woman is 4.8 times more likely than a White woman; in 16 states, Blacks are sent to prison for drug offenses at rates between 10 and 42 times greater than the rate for Whites.

Race, The War On Drugs And The United States Criminal Justice System
The link between racial discrimination and the "war on drugs" exists not only in the United States but also throughout much of the world. In one country after another racial and ethnic minorities are targeted and persecuted in the name of the "war on drugs."



Drug war’ tainted by race‘
National reports detailing racial disparities in arrests and imprisonment were recently released by the Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing Project.

Racial inequality in the American criminal justice system

Black Men's Jail Time Hits Entire Communities
Almost 10 percent of young African American men are behind bars. Many legal scholars argue that the prison system locks those men out of civic life long after time served — and that the social fabric of all American communities suffers as a result.



Drug War Policy and The Prison Industrial Complex
The war around the War on Drugs is a battle between public health and criminal justice. It’s a battle between conservatives calling for imprisonment and progressives calling for public health solutions. It’s the legacy of Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, and others, who used the fear of crime to build campaigns around law and order.



California Blacks Disproportionately Busted for Marijuana, Report Finds October 22, 2010,
In a new report released Friday, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and the California NAACP charged that African-Americans have been disproportionately targeted in low-level marijuana possession arrests. The report, Arresting Blacks for Marijuana Possession in California: Possession Arrests in 25 Cities, 2006-2008, found that despite lower use rates, African-Americans were three, four, six, or even 13 times more likely to be arrested for pot possession than whites.



Rainbow Farm Massacre
Scores of mourners grieve the deaths of Rainbow Farm Campground owner Grover "Tom" Crosslin and his friend, Rolland Rohm. Crosslin, 46, died Monday after he was shot by FBI agents stationed around the campground. Rohm, 28, met a similar fate when a Michigan state trooper shot him Tuesday. Authorities said both men were brandishing guns at law-enforcement officials when they were killed. But in the hearts and minds of those mourners, the two men and the ideals they stood for live on, along with the fond memories they have of the 34-acre campground which served, some say, as a gathering spot for those promoting harmony, trust and friendship.

The Columbus Project



A Lie College Students Might Want To Tell (Souder Thread)
If this law betters the lives of young people—Souder calls it a way to reduce youth drug use by reducing demand—then no state has done better than Souder's own Indiana. As of August 2005, nearly 9,000 Indianan students—one in 200—have been denied aid since the law passed. That's the highest proportion of students affected in any state by a wide margin.

PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS

Angela Davis on the Prison Abolishment Movement



Human Rights and the WoD
Dedicated to the nonviolent prisoners of the US Drug War, to their families, and to all who work for their freedom and to restore respect for all Human Rights. The Human Rights and the Drug War project was launched in 1995 as Human Rights 95 (HR95).

F.E.A.R.

(FAMM Foundation)
Families Against Mandatory Minimums is the national voice for fair and proportionate sentencing laws. We shine a light on the human face of sentencing, advocate for state and federal sentencing reform, and mobilize thousands of individuals and families whose lives are adversely affected by unjust sentences.

(Mandatory Minimum Sentences)

Prison Planet



A Prison State, If Not a Police State
The US has a unique distinction: It is the world’s greatest prison state. The US, "the land of the free," has the biggest prison population in the world and the highest rate of prisoners per capita of all countries – including countries that President Bush believes need liberating by US armed forces.

Even China, with one party rule and a population that is 4.5 times larger than the US population, has 30% fewer total prisoners than the US. China’s per capita rate is a small fraction of the US rate.

The US prison population per capita is three times higher than "axis of evil" country Iran, five times higher than Tanzania, and seven times higher than a civilized European country like Germany.

One out of every 142 Americans is in prison – and this does not include military prisons or INS jails.

The US Gulag Prison System 30 Mar, 2006
A Global Research Feature Article

Journey for Justice Pedaling for Pot

'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'
The group's handout -- targeted primarily at heterosexual men who have no desire to ever be involved in homosexual activity -- advises:

"HIV/AIDS transmission during a sexual assault is a serious concern. The following are practical tips for reducing your risk. ...

The Ganjawar Comes To The Rez

SageTree

If a 300lb black man was being brought to trial as a 120lb 'white-girl' what would this topic look like?


'Justice'

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DdC

SageTree

Might finally be able to FEEL the Truth that is being 'held', 'that all men are created equal.'

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DdC

Good one,

Maybe when they stop hoarding on to it they'll include women...

We have to realize that to war profiteers, war isn't a bad thing. So wondering what our Fascist politicians will do next, doesn't really matter. Anymore than it matters what is prohibited. When your money comes from prohibition, it matters not what you prohibit. Only that you perpetuate it. Lies don't exist in doublespeak. I was recently reminded why I've protested every "police action" since and including Nam. Always some politician egging on some idiot kid with a full magazine waiting to empty it. Always some general cheer leading and always some mother's heart broken because of it.

I was wondering?

Celebrity Stoners: American High Society

Thank God for Hippies

SageTree

For real man....

I just thought I'd let that irony stand on it's own instead of commenting....

Practically speaking... men would at least be a start, not that I think we ought to settle for that of course.

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