Federal Marijuana Monopoly Challenged

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Federal Marijuana Monopoly Challenged By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post December 11, 2005 Washington, D.C.  
For decades, the federal government has been the nation's only legal producer of marijuana for medical research. Working with growers at the University of Mississippi, the National Institute on Drug Abuse has controlled both the quality and distribution of the drug for the past 36 years. But for the first time the government's monopoly on research marijuana is under serious legal challenge. The effort is being spearheaded by a group that wants to produce medicines from currently illegal psychedelic drugs and by a professor at the University of Massachusetts who has agreed to grow marijuana for it if the government lets him.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21372.shtml

"I believe the DEA policy is one of delay,
and they've succeeded in essentially blocking marijuana development for 30 years,"
Richard Doblin, president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

MAPS



Medical Marijuana Research Should Be Legalized

Clash Over Pot Research Gets Personal

DEA To Argue Against UMass Growing of Cannabis
Source: U.S. Newswire December 05, 2005 Alexandra, Va.
Lawyers representing the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will make oral arguments before DEA Administrative Law Judge Mary Ellen Bittner on Dec. 12-16 to support a decision to deny Prof. Lyle Craker a license to grow medicinal cannabis for research at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, under contract to a non-profit organization. The hearings, which will last five days, will feature only DEA witnesses. Among them will be Dr. ElSohly of the University of Mississippi who is the only person in the U.S. with a license to grow "marijuana" for research. Dr. ElSohly is under contract to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which has been widely criticized for refusing to supply marijuana to some privately-funded research projects, and for the low quality and limited variety of the crop.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21355.shtml

Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."
- William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937.

The Elkhorn Manifesto

The Ganjawar Fraud...

Has the Drug Czar bought the media for a billion dollars?



The war on (certain) drugs
Noam Chomsky in What Uncle Sam Really Wants

Denial of Entheogens for All


U.S. Government Medical Marijuana crop. University of Mississippi. Oxford

U.S Government & Medical Marijuana

Excerpts: The University of Mississippi has the option to grow either 1.5 or 6.5 acres of cannabis per year or to not grow any, depending on demand.

Generally (as of January 1998) 1.5 acres are grown in alternate years which can typically produce 50,000-60,000 cigarettes per year of three grades of potencies [strength 1: 3-4% thc; strength 2: 1.8-2.2% thc; strength 3: placebo, as close to 0% as possible]. Virtually all of the nearly 65,000 cigarettes produced between 1994-1996 were for single patients.

They 'provide a contamination-free source of cannabis material with consistent and predictable potency' (as per NIDA, 1-98) for biomedical research

University of Mississippi- Marijuana Research Farm

THE WAR ON DRUGS' MOST WANTED WAR CRIMINALS!!
If its war they want it is war they'll get.... Here you will find a list of War Criminals that will be added to the Drug War Crimes Tribunal to be Filed at the World Court in Holland.

The Tribunal on US Drug War Crimes Russ Kick
Every day sees another violation of rights in the name of the War on Drugs. Property is seized without due process (often without any process at all); innocents are hurt and killed in raids of the wrong homes; tens of thousands of people suffer nightmare brutality in prisons merely for possessing marijuana, a substance much less harmful than alcohol and tobacco; people of color are sent to jail in disproportionate numbers; mandatory sentencing guidelines take away all judicial discretion; the military is used against the citizens of the US; and the US supports and funds a secret war in South America. Meanwhile, law enforcement and, perhaps to a lesser extent, the judicial system have become systematically infested with corruption due to the huge amounts of money involved in the illegal drug trade.

Drug War Criminals



Pharmaceutical corporations systematically obstruct and even fight the prevention and the eradication of diseases. More than 95% of the pharmaceutical drugs currently sold are without proven efficacy while the severe side-effects of these drugs have become the fourth leading cause of death in the industrialized world.

MEDICAL FREEDOM & HUMAN RIGHTS

Media Blacks out the Facts - We hope to enlighten the skeptical with the words of John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff for the New York Times ("All the News That's Fit to Print") and one of America's best loved newspaper journalists.

Freedom of Choice in Medicine - The FDA versus First Amendment rights One of the best overviews of what the FDA is up to, and what we must do to preserve our access to supplements and other health freedoms, is an article on the Life Extension site by William Falloon

For those interested in lobbying against further encroachments on our rapidly diminishing freedoms, the FDA will take e-mailed comments at FDADockets@bangate.fda.gov
Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305) Food and Drug Administration, Attn: Michael Friedman, MD Lead Deputy Commissioner 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061 Rockville, MD 20857 Fax: 301-827-6870

Abuse of Codex Alimentarius Cartel and the Berlin Tribunal....
PREAMBLE This is a public tribunal, a formal complaint to the International Court of Justice and other courts as well as a direct appeal to the patients and people of the world to bring to justice the pharmaceutical corporations, their executives, accomplices and all those responsible for the greatest crimes ever committed in the course of human history.



University Of Mississippi Denies Assertion Of California Narcotics Officers
Researcher Calls Claim Of Over 10,000 Studies Documenting The Harmful Effects Of Marijuana Groundless
June 12, 1996 - U. of Mississippi, MS, USA

A recent claim made by The California Narcotics Officers Association (CNOA) that there are over 10,000 studies documenting the harmfulness of marijuana has been flatly denied by University of Mississippi Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. For the past 25 years, the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences has been collecting national and international technical research papers on marijuana. The organization is regarded as the most comprehensive federal source of such information available.

CMCR * NORML

DEA Raids Medical Marijuana Club
Feds Clash with San Francisco Over Marijuana
Federal War Against The Sick
DEA Approves UC San Diego Marijuana Study

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Prof. Questions Gov't Monopoly on Marijuana By Andrew Miga
Associated Press December 12, 2005 Washington, D.C.
Put this in your pipe and smoke it:

A University of Massachusetts professor says the medical marijuana grown by the federal government isn't very good.

He wants a permit to cultivate his own pot, saying it will be better for research.

Lyle Craker, a horticulturist who heads the school's medicinal plant program, is challenging the government's 36-year-old monopoly on research marijuana.

Craker's suit claims government-grown marijuana lacks the potency medical researchers need to make important breakthroughs.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21375.shtml



Lyle E. Craker
Professor
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
Stockbridge Hall 12G
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-0910
Tel. (413) 545-2347
Fax. (413) 545-3958
craker@pssci.umass.edu

Pictures of Government Grown Marijuana
FoM on December 12, 2005
U.S. Government Medical Marijuana Crop.
University of Mississippi. Oxford



MPP, ACLU, scientists fight federal obstruction of research
Telephone Press Conference Monday, April 25, 2005
The Marijuana Policy Project reports that they will hold a telephone press conference today at noon to discuss "developments in the effort to overcome Drug Enforcement Administration obstruction of medical marijuana research."
Participating: Lyle Craker, Ph.D., director, medicinal plant program, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Rick Doblin, Ph.D., president, Multidisciplinary Institute for Psychedelic Studies; Allen Hopper, staff attorney, ACLU; Steve Fox, director of government relations, Marijuana Policy Project; Phillip Alden, patient living with AIDS who dropped out of a medical marijuana study due to the low quality of government-grown marijuana that researchers are forced to use.

ACLU enters marijuana research dispute

Bush's Reefer Madness By Louise Witt
Source: Salon.com  November 05, 2002
The new front in the nation's drug war came into sharp focus at 7 a.m. on Sept. 5, when loud shouts and stomping woke Valerie Corral at her home north of Santa Cruz, Calif. Suspecting that the intruders weren't ordinary burglars, she snuck out a back entrance and walked around to her front door to tell them to leave. When she opened the door, stunned federal agents in flak jackets trained M-16s on the 50-year-old homeowner. When she asked to see a search warrant, the officers screamed at her to get down. They pushed her to her knees, then forced her to lie face down on the floor. With her hands handcuffed behind her back, an officer pressed his rifle muzzle to the back of her head.



Pot Considered 'Murder Weed' in 1937 By James B. Meadow
Rocky Mountain News  November 05, 2005 Denver, Colorado
On Oct. 2, 1937, in the somewhat shady Lexington Apartments at 1200 California St. in Denver, Samuel R. Caldwell became the first person in the United States to be arrested on a marijuana charge.

Caldwell, a 58-year-old unemployed laborer moonlighting as a dealer, was nailed by the FBI and Denver police for peddling two marijuana cigarettes to one Moses Baca, 26.

If you're wondering why it took the U.S. government so long to bust a pot dealer, it's because until the Marijuana Stamp Act was passed - on you guessed it, Oct. 2, 1937 - cannabis wasn't illegal.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21270.shtml

Gil Puder, R. I. P. by Richard Cowan

The Joseph McNamara Collection
Joseph McNamara is a former police chief in Kansas City, Mo. and San Jose, Ca.. He holds a doctorate in public administration and is presently a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Oct 5 05 End of Ride Press Conference NYC
Board Member Howard Wooldridge brings his cross country horse back journey to an end today when he attends an "End of Ride Press Conference" at Castle Clinton National Monument, with the Statue of Liberty in the background. Howard and his faithful horse Misty (with help from friend horse Sam) have riden over 3,300 miles across America to bring attention to the failure of America's war on drugs. Howard has spoken to thousands of concerned and supportive citizens on this trip and has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs, as well as appearing in many newspapers. Howard and Misty will be joined by Executive Director Jack Cole, Audrey Silk, the Libertarian candidate for Mayor of New York City and supportive citizens to celebrate Howard's successful journey.

Howard Wooldridge interview



Drug Peace
Seize This!

Follow the money. When the government spends $10 billion arresting cannabis smokers each year, someone is also profiting on that $10 billion. Perpetuating the war is what profits. Not common sense ending it.
DdC

Stop the War - A Former Police Chiefs Plea to the New Drug Czar
America's Plague of Bad Cops
Cops on the Dole
Cop's View of the Drug War

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
-- Upton Sinclair, "The Jungle"

End the War by Anthony Lewis
Has the Drug War Created an Officer Liar's Club?
cops against the drug war
police chiefs question merit of drug policy
Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations



Who is the DEA? by anonymous
Answer: The Geheime Statspolizei of Amerika. [The Amerikan Gestapo] Identical inevery way. The Gestapo was decared a criminal organization at the Nuremberg Trials. A police organization directing medicine and medical research. Sound familure? Rousting people out of their beds in the middle of night for their political beliefs. Sound familure? Shooting and killing unarmed nonviolent people in their homes. Sound familure? Hauling people off to be tried in a kangaroo court and sent to prison. Sound familure? The DEA is as American as vinershnitzel. This is not my America.



U.S. Drug Agents Raid 13 Medical Marijuana Sites By Jeff McDonald
Source: SignOnSanDiego.com San Diego, CA December 12, 2005  
Federal agents fanned out across San Diego County on Monday, executing simultaneous search warrants on 13 medical marijuana dispensaries that have been selling pot to sick and dying patients. No one was arrested on suspicion of drug-dealing, officials said, but agents seized dozens of pounds of high-grade marijuana along with equipment, computers, patient files and other materials inside the storefront offices.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21376.shtml

Warrant Served After Drug Bought Without Paperwork

United States' Answer To Drug War Proves Harmful
War Against Marijuana is Crackpot
Anti-Ganja Laws Archaic, Says Doctor
Spoils of Drug War Forfeitures Prove Too Lucrative
Government Property Seizures out of Control

"John P. Walters is the United States Drug Czar, also known as the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. He is the governments minister of drug policy disinformation, insuring that historical experience and scientific data do not interfere with the propagation of government poliicies on select drugs."
Pete Guither

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Government's Medical Pot 'Just Isn't Strong Enough'

Council forgoes even phony compassion in marijuana vote

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

Ole Miss Marijuana Monopoly Under Fire By Andy Kanengiser
Source: Daily Journal December 17, 2005 Oxford, MS
University of Mississippi leaders are battling a legal challenge that threatens to end the school's legal monopoly to grow marijuana for research purposes.

legal monopoly? Is that legal?
Mississippi leaders legal monopoly... Oh, that's different.
Challenge threatens to end legal monopoly...
Ah. so that's the justification for battling sick people.
DdC



If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. (Prov. 29:12)

Government defends medical marijuana monopoly



The Economics of Fascism October 7-8, 2005
Supporters Summit 2005
Whenever the fascists came to power in Europe, they banned the work of the Austrian economists. The reason: the Austrians wrote as vehemently against "right-wing" central planning as against old-fashioned left-wing socialism. While many are alert to the dangers of socialism, far fewer know of the danger of fascism, which might be defined as economic regimentation toward monopolized state capitalism.

School of Pharmacy Office of the Dean
The following GRANTS/CONTRACTS have been awarded: Dr. Mahmoud ElSohly

CCRMG ... Dr. Mahmoud ElSohly, who has devised a test
that can distinguish between traces of Marinol and natural cannabis in the urine.

"We will not give up without a fight," said Andy Mullins, executive assistant to Ole Miss Chancellor Robert Khayat. Critics of the Ole Miss research are just trying to get the federal contract, he said Friday.
Andy Mullins, executive assistant to Ole Miss Chancellor Robert Khayat

MAPS

"Germany, of course, has developed within 15 years from an industrial autocracy into a dictatorship. Most people are under the impression that the power of Hitler was the result of his demagogic blandishments and appeals to the mob... Actually, Hitler holds his power through the final and inevitable development of the uncontrolled tendency to combine in restraint of trade."
Thurman Arnold, head of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in 1939

Prof. Questions Gov't Monopoly on Marijuana

Federal Marijuana Monopoly Challenged

DEA To Argue Against Growing of Cannabis



Drug Wars and Druggies
"1984 is a constant state of war."

The War on Drugs keeps most recreational drugs medically dangerous (including the danger of blood-borne pathogen transmission) and socially stigmatized, assuring that only law-breakers (the disobedient) take them and those who get in trouble are likely to stay in trouble. The net effect is that law-breakers die that would not otherwise be law-breakers or be dead, and those who engage in sexual relations with certain drug users are at high risk for fatal infection that would not be at risk but for the War on Drugs.
Social Decay and Laws Gone Mad



How Medical Boards Nationalized Health Care
by Henry Jones [Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005]
Excerpted: Corporatism in Action: The Medical Board of California
As an example of the huge threat to public safety these medical boards can represent, consider the Medical Board of California. This board hasn't decided a major issue in favor of consumers for decades. The agency is virtually owned by the Golden State's HMOs, health insurance companies, big chain pharmacies, hospital chains, and medical trade associations. The California medical monopoly has every right to its arrogant smugness when you realize that gullible taxpayers are funding its greatest asset.

Fascism Then. Fascism Now? by Paul Bigioni
November 28, 2005 by the Toronto Star (Canada)
When people think of fascism, they imagine Rows of goose-stepping storm troopers and puffy-chested dictators. What they don't see is the economic and political process that leads to the nightmare.

A revolution is coming - a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough - but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character, we cannot alter its inevitability.
John F. Kennedy

[indicaspice]

The real war on drugs should be against big pharmaceutical companies who ply us with "legal" drugs while filling their coffers to overflowing.
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What worries you masters you.

Haddon W. Robinson

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The real war on drugs should be against big pharmaceutical companies who ply us with "legal" drugs while filling their coffers to overflowing.
indicaspice Dec 18, 2005



Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."
- William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937

Shadow of the Swastika

The Danger of American Fascism By Henry A. Wallace
The New York Times Sunday 09 April 1944
From Democracy Reborn (New York, 1944), edited by Russell Lord, p. 259.
"The American fascists are most easily recognized
by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact."
"...They claim to be super-patriots,
but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution."
Continued... http://www.masters-of-war.net/friendlyfascism.html



Nazism or WoD

SCAPEGOATING -
Blaming social problems on a cultural, racial, or behaviorial group.

PREJUDICE -
Selling the public on the idea that all members of the targeted group are 'bad' people.

LIES -
'Facts', which cannot be verified, and pseudo scientific studies are used as propaganda against the targeted group. History is rewritten.

NO PUBLIC DEBATE -
"These people have no right to have their viewpoiunt aired." and " Anyone who disagrees or questions us must be one of them!"

DEHUMANIZATION -
Characterizing all members of a targeted group as subhuman and typically capable of monstrous deeds and/or crimes.

PROTECT OUR CHILDREN -
"They corrupt, seduce and or destroy our children."

CIVIL LIBERTIES SACRIFICED -
"We must give up some of our freedoms, liberties, and rights in order to combat this menace to society."

LEGAL DESCRIMINATION -
Laws criminalize members of targeted group and they may be denied jobs, the right to own property and/or be restricted as to where they may live or go.

INFORMERS -
Citizens are urged to 'turn in' friends, neighbors, co- workers and family members.

SECRET POLICE -
Non-uniformed police squads set up to wage war on targeted groups utilizing deception, infiltration, espionage and entrapment.

CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY -
Property and assets are seized from people who are members of targeted group. Property may be divided between the informer and the state.

REMOVAL FROM SOCIETY -
Prisons, rehabilitation camps, 'hospitals', executions and genocide...
("kill them all" "Zero Tolerance")



From Whom Did the Fascists Get Support?
Italian fascism and German Nazism had their admirers within the U.S. business community and the corporate owned press. Bankers, publishers, and industrialists, including the likes of Henry Ford, traveled to Rome and Berlin to pay homage, receive medals, and strike profitable deals. Many did their utmost to advance the Nazi war effort, sharing military industrial secrets and engaging in secret transactions with the Nazi government, even after the United States entered the war. During the 1920s and early 1930s, major publications like Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Saturday Evening Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Christian Science Monitor hailed Mussolini as the man who rescued Italy from anarchy and radicalism.

Why do you think they call it DOPE?

THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE

"...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it." - David Rockefeller - Newsweek International, Feb 1 1999.

The Toxic Alternative to Natural Fiber

"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
--Mussolini

Corporatism also exploits the Drug War



"We are talking about despotism.
The USA PATRIOT Act is as despotic as anything Hitler came up with--
--even using much of the same language."
- GORE VIDAL

1936: DuPont obtains a patent license to manufacture synthetic "plastic fibers" from German industrial giant I.G. Farben Corporation. The patent license is obtained as part Germany's reparation payments to the United States after World War I. A few years later, I.G. Farben manufactures deadly Zyklon-B gas, used in Nazi death camps to murder millions of Jews (along with many homosexuals and drug users). DuPont owned and financed approximately 30% of Hitler's I.G. Corps, the military-industrial backbone of the fascist Third Reich.
http://www.jackherer.com

1938 Popular Mechanics

"The National Security State uses fascism to protect capitalism while they say they're protecting democracy from communism."
Michael Parenti Pacifica Radio

The Ganjawar is a Product Sold by D.E.A.th to Profit Fascist

Farben's Bushit Circus Still In Town

Anslinger-Bush-Hearst-Nixon-Hitler- Jüs Déjå vü!!!

LAKOTA, HEMP, AND GLOBALIZATION

Corporate Predators...

Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations
UNICORE