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Lilli
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 Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:30 am Post subject: Drug Warriors Make Millions Off Marijuana |
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Drug Warriors Make Millions Off Marijuana
Posted by CN Staff on December 18, 2004 at 21:55:09 PT
By Froma Harrop
Source: Providence Journal
The money in illicit drugs doesn't all go to bad guys carrying AK-47s and driving BMWs. About $69 billion of it last year went to police, federal agents, judges, jailers and other drug-law enforcers across the United States. These are the good guys, but most are not so good that they will admit that the war on drugs is a waste of money and lives. The war is how they make a living.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer wasn't thinking about the billions when he played the innocent during the recent arguments on medical marijuana.
Breyer conceded that he didn't really know whether marijuana helped cancer patients in ways that pills do not. But it puzzled him, he said, that the patients' lawyers didn't just go to the federal Food and Drug Administration and insist, "You must take it off the list of banned drugs if it has an accepted medical use and it isn't lacking in safety."
Sounds like common sense: Make a scientific evaluation of medical marijuana, and then decide whether or not it belongs in the people's medicine cabinets.
But that's not going to happen. A week later, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration told Prof. Lyle Craker, a horticulturist at the University of Massachusetts, that he couldn't grow marijuana for the purpose of making such an evaluation.
Craker is an expert on medicinal plants. (Over 25 percent of all prescription medicines are plant-based.) He wanted to grow the type of marijuana needed for secondary clinical trials -- which are run by DEA-licensed medical professionals.
Observe how DEA bureaucrats draw a perfect circle of frustration. They say that researchers should instead use marijuana grown at a University of Mississippi lab. But the marijuana there is low-quality and worthless to the scientists.
Then they tell Craker that there's no need for his improved marijuana, because no one is doing secondary trials, anyway. But people aren't doing secondary trials because they can't get the plant material to do them with. "It's kind of silly here," Craker concludes.
DEA officials are not biologists and have no idea what distinguishes one type of marijuana from another. But that's not the point of the exercise. The point is to stop any activity that might eventually hurt business.
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Complete Article: http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/warriors.htm
Source: Providence Journal, The (RI)
Author: Froma Harrop
Published: Sunday, December 19, 2004
Copyright: 2004 The Providence Journal Company
Contact: letters@projo.com
Website: http://www.projo.com/
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Ferre
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Thank you Lilli, that article is very clear, last week I read somewhere that Reagan/Bush had ordered all universities to destroy all the research done on cannabis from before 1974/75. Research is being sabotaged on the highest levels.
Read this here:
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html
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Romadon
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I'm gonna be blunt here. (The GD MutherFuggin A55holes  ).
And who screwed up the Emoticons?  |
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TSRev.
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It is right out of the history book script the Nazi party wrote, when you take over, you gotta burn the books.
Romadon is right, some of the emoticons got sick and turned green  .
I hope it's not catching because I could not get a flu shot this year. |
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