Bringing the Gateway Theory Back

[Ferre]

[Ferre]

[Pepper]

This proves that rats like to get stoned. Early in life they are conditioned to hit a button to get stoned. Later they get heroin instead and that's proof?

Next they will connect the button to a bomb and claim cannabis leads to suicide bombing.
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We will succeed unless we quit.

[Officer]

The first drug that could create a high that I was ever given was a prescription drug cited as being non-habit forming. Sounds like conclusive evidence to me that little white tablets are nothing mroe than a gateway to becoming a minister.
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The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and
worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed
in this state to all humankind - NYS Bill of Rights

[DdC]

One Soccer Mom's Take on the Drug War June 28, 2006

I figured she had something driving such reefer mad nonsense...



Karen Tandy has a malign tumour on her back and is admitted to hospital, where the doctors believe that it's a living creature, and that a foetus is being born inside the growth. What lays in wait for Karen is far more terrifying than she can possibly imagine: the growth is actually a demonic, 3-foot tall, 400-year-old Native American. A way must be found to exorcise the demon before it's too late.

• Another Sucker Mom's Take On The DEAth War July 07, 2006

Marijuana is against the law because it's a dangerous, addictive drug.

This is a health issue. According to the American Lung Association, marijuana smoke contains 50 to 70 percent more cancer-causing material than cigarette smoke. A June United Nations report refers to cannabis use as a "pandemic," noting an increase in cannabis- related health damage. This might explain why more teens now enter treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined, including alcohol.

A Drug Warmongers Toll on the Americas

Czar Waldo's Pimp Patrol



"Today's DEA arrest of Marc Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine, and the founder of a marijuana legalization group, is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement. ... Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada."[/b]

Tandy's office has declined to comment about the statement, but locally, federal prosecutors have distanced themselves from her remarks.

The Ganjawar Fraud...



How Marijuana Unavailability Leads to Use of Harder Drugs (1969)

"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."

No Link Between Marijuana Use and Lung Cancer

Cannabidiol Dramatically Inhibits Breast Cancer

The Shafer Commission of 1970

Marijuana does not lead to physical dependency,
although some evidence indicates that the heavy,
long-term users may develop a psychological dependence on the drug"



Pot Potency? Boomers' blissfully unfazed by mere facts.

• Dishonest Science meets Irresponsible Journalism

" The LaGardia sub-committee of New York 1944
The use of marijuana does not lead to morphine or heroin or cocaine addiction and no effort is made to create a market for these narcotics by stimulating the practice of marijuana smoking"

Organic aid for addictions

• Organic aid for cocaine addiction, other addictions as well
The implementation of organic psychedelics, hallucinogens, entheogens...
whatever one chooses to call them, I prefer entheogens...
in personal practice is a natural method of understanding addiction and is more efficient than most conventional techniques. Study is furthered when practiced with one other individual, preferably well trained in psychology-this includes individuals usually considered shamans. We do not need the pharmaceutical solution offered at the end of the provided article. Salvia Divinorum, a potent entheogen, can be administered as a natural agent to aid in the recovery from cocaine addiction.

• Information on Salvia and Dynorphin
• Erowid: SALVIA
• ibogaine's/Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy
• The Staten Island Project: The Ibogaine Story
• Scientists Test Hallucinogens for Mental Ills
• For Heroin Addicts, A Bizarre Remedy
• Ayahuasca Tourism in South America

• Ganja Could Help Cocaine Addicts Kick Habit
• Cannabis anti-addictive

And I will raise up for them a plant of renown,
and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land,
neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
Ezekiel 34:29

Ganja: The Tree of Life

• Study Turns Pot Wisdom on Head
Forget the stereotype about dopey potheads.
It seems marijuana could be good for your brain. While other studies have shown that periodic use of marijuana can cause memory loss and impair learning and a host of other health problems down the road, new research suggests the drug could have some benefits when administered regularly in a highly potent form. Most "drugs of abuse" such as alcohol, heroin, cocaine and nicotine suppress growth of new brain cells. However, researchers found that cannabinoids promoted generation of new neurons in rats' hippocampuses.

Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia

• Cannabis 'could reverse psychosis'

• Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
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
• The Myth of Potent Pot by Daniel Forbes
• The White House drug czar’s ludicrous pot potency claim.
• U.S. GOVT. COVERS UP MARIJUANA CANCER CURE!

Last year, Spanish scientists found evidence that marijuana can (destroy) tumors in rats. But that came as (no surprise) to US. health (officials), (who quickly (deep sixed) the report). (Drug-war-obsessed federal officials) (have known) about the (cancer-beating) properties of (pot) for (more than 25 years) and have kept it a (secret) from (the public)!

• Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
• Drug Czar Manipulating Data in a Report to Congress
• Marijuana Drug Czar Distorts Report

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.

• Facts on the Drug Czar's Accounting Fraud
• Anti-pot propaganda 14 Mar, 2005
• US feds are addicted to making up fake anti-pot news.
• What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis

The report concludes, for example, that "in developed societies cannabis appears to play little role in injuries caused by violence, as does alcohol". It also says that while the evidence for fetal alcohol syndrome is "good", the evidence that cannabis can harm fetal development is "far from conclusive"

• D.E.A. Confirms Grounds To Remove Cannabis from Sch#1
• Police officials lied to toughen laws...
• How The Canadian Media Import Counterfeit News From The States.

• The Drug Czar Lies
... and Even The Best Papers Don’t Check the Facts.
The New York Times Pushes Fact Free Journalism
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.

• Bad research makes headlines
• Marijuana-Based Drug Could Curb Brain Damage
• Smoking Pot Doesn't Harm Brain Function - Study
• Marijuana: Good for The Brain

• Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894
• Addiction: A Brain Ailment, Not a Moral Lapse
• Marijuana May Live Up To Be The Elixir of Life

A study by University of Saskatchewan researchers suggests beneficial aspects of smoking marijuana at least among rats, who appear to have sprouted new brain cells and besides benefiting from reduced depression and anxiety. The study's results appearing in the 'Journal of Clinical Investigation' have actually given a fillip to the traditional and mythological view that associates the addictive weed in some ways with immortality.

Only the Stoners Will Survive!

• ISRAEL WIRE: Marijuana Substitute Combats Nerve Gas
The best available protection against nerve gas attack comes from an Israeli-made synthetic equivalent of marijuana, U.S. military experiments have shown.

• Marijuana Protects Your Brain by Dana Larsen
Studies reveal that marijuana protects against brain damage from stroke,
heart attacks, and nerve gas.

• Could Medical Marijuana Have Prevented Gulf War Syndrome?
• Derivative Combats Nerve Gas, Say Israeli Reports
• Israel To Soothe Trauma With Marijuana
Under an experimental programme, Delta-9 tetrohydrocannabinol (THC), the active ingredient found in the cannabis plant, will be administered to 15 soldiers over the next several months in an effort to fight post-traumatic stress disorder.

• Medical Marijuana Information Links
• Pot Shots for Israeli Soldiers
• Study: Marijuana Eases Traumatic Memories
• Pot Blocks Painful Memories, Study Says
• Marijuana May Spur New Brain Cells
• Marijuana Compound Spurs Brain Cell Growth
• Marijuana may block Alzheimer's
• Cannabis prevents brain damage
• Science Daddies Rejoice: Marijuana Prevents Brain Damage!
• Cannabis Blocks Irreversible Brain Damage
• Cannabis May Prevent Brain Damage
• National Institute of Mental Health Study, But Reported In British Media

• Deaths in the United States in a typical year are as follows

* Tobacco kills about 400,000
* Alcohol kills about 80,000
* Workplace accidents kill 60,000
* Automobiles kill 40,000
* Cocaine kills about 2,500
* Heroin kills about 2,000
* Aspirin kills about 2,000
* Marijuana kills 0

• There has never been a recorded death due to marijuana at any time in US history.

• All illegal drugs combined kill under 20,000 per year, or a small percent of the number killed by alcohol and tobacco.

• Tobacco kills more people each year than all of the people killed by all of the illegal drugs in the last one hundred years

• The USA Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 1987
"Cannabis can be used on an episodic but continual basis without evidence of social or psychic dysfunction. In many users the term dependence with its obvious connotations, probably is mis-applied...

The chief opposition to the drug rests on a moral and political, and not toxicologic, foundation".

• The Economist March 28th 1992
"Medicines often produce side effects.
Sometimes they are physically unpleasant.
Cannabis too has discomforting side effects,
but these are not physical they are political"

Bush's War on Pot

It is enough that the people know there was an election.
The people who cast the votes decide nothing.
The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin



"To say that the [Bush-Cheney] secret presidency is undemocratic is an understatement. I'm anything but skittish about government, but I must say this administration is truly scary and, given the times we live in, frighteningly dangerous."
- former Nixon White House counsel JOHN DEAN