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Drugged on Democracy By Katie Rose Levin
Source: Technician November 13, 2005 North Carolina
Those who believe in a democracy, finical accountability and the U.S. of A., achieved a small but significant victory in Denver. I'm talking, of course, about the local legalization of marijuana (MJ). Although Colorado officials say they'll continue to prosecute under state law, Denverians have joined the sensible in speaking up against the governments racist, wasteful, anti-democratic program: the War on Drugs.

First, a bit o' history. Anti-marijuana legislation first came about because people hated Mexicans. As one Texas senator put it: "All Mexican's are crazy and this stuff is what makes them crazy." Then in 1934, MJ laws began to target blacks. "Marijuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice," proclaims an editorial. Back then officials used MJ laws to legalize racism and as an excuse to jail minorities.
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Pot Sale Case Puts Focus on Mandatory Sentences By Alicia Caldwell
Source: Denver Post November 14, 2005 Colorado  
For a first offense, a Utahn got 55 years in prison. A Circuit Court appeal says that's unconstitutional. Weldon Angelos was a part- time rap producer in Salt Lake City who had a gun when he sold small amounts of marijuana to an informant on two occasions. When police took him down in 2002, they also found guns at his house. For this, the first-time offender got 55 years in prison, far more than he would have gotten if he had been convicted of hijacking a plane, kidnapping or second-degree murder.
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"We have the largest prison system in the entire free world."
- Senior Texas Judge Larry Gist, 1998

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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
-- Aldous Huxley

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"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Speakout: Time Has Come To Legalize Marijuana By Jack Woehr
Source: Rocky Mountain News November 14, 2005 Denver, Colorado
The Rocky Mountain News editorializes that the city of Denver must enforce the state pot law in the wake of the repeal of the city ordinance by voters, as if some profound prinicple were at stake here ("City must enforce state pot law," Nov. 7). In fact, the marijuana laws of Colorado and the United States are a profound negation of American principle. First, the marijuana laws are unconstitutional. The Supreme Court denied Woodrow Wilson's attempt to extend wartime prohibition of alcohol to the post-World War I era, necessitating the 18th Amendment, later wisely repealed.
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"Corrupt police are separated into two distinct categories: "grass-eaters" and "meat-eaters." Grass-eaters described typical street cops who pocket $10 or $20 from contractors and tow-truck drivers and gamblers. Meat-eaters aggressively exploit situations for financial gain, especially gambling and drugs, where yields can be "thousands of dollars."
- 1998 report to Harlem congressman Charles Rangel