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 Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:07 am Post subject: Law Would Increase Marijuana Use? |
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Drug Expert Says Law Would Increase Marijuana Use By Nick Bonham
CN Source: Pueblo Chieftain October 02, 2006 Colorado
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| Tom Gorman, a former undercover narcotics detective from California, said drug use in America is on the decline and voting to legalize an ounce or less of marijuana in Colorado would drive it back up. Gorman, local director of the national High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area organization, brought that message to Pueblo last week. |
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Drug Czar Says Question 7 Work of Rich Outsiders By Mary Baldasano
CN Source: Pahrump Valley Times October 04, 2006 Nevada
Question 7 on this year's general election ballot has caught the attention of many organizations within Nevada, as well as that of the U. S. Drug Czar's Office. Recently, Deputy Drug Czar Tom Burns visited Pahrump as a guest of the Nye Communities Coalition to discuss the matter.
Lloyd Platson, a member of the Nye Communities Coalition, advised, "There are education efforts being made throughout the state through the collaboration of 13 statewide coalitions. These efforts are ongoing."
The coalition works to educate adults and children on the negative impact of drugs and the debilitating affects of drug dependency.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
The Failed War on Pot Users
USA -- In 2004, law enforcement officials arrested 771,605 people for marijuana violations, according to federal statistics.
"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing"
Federal Bureau of Narcotics Chief Harry J. Anslinger, 1948
Lies, Hype, Balony, Hypocrisy & Double Standards
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Even though no one attended the night event at Pueblo Community College, Gorman, who now lives in Denver, discussed with Pueblo Police Chief Jim Billings what he sees as the problems of Amendment 44 which seeks to legalize possession of small amounts of pot.
"It's a bad law," Gorman said. "Drug use is down and this could have a reverse effect. I have spent my career trying to comfort families who have lost loved ones in accidents and deaths from people who were stoned." |
STUDENT POT USE DECLINES IN CALIFORNIA
FOLLOWING APPROVAL OF PROPOSITION 215
Use of marijuana by California students has declined since passage of Proposition 215. Biennial surveys of student drug use released by the state Attorney General's office show that marijuana use peaked around 1996, the same year Prop. 215 was approved, and declined continually in subsequent years through 2004.
For 11th graders, marijuana use in the past six months declined from 43% in 1995-6 to 30% in 2003-4 (a 30% reduction); for 9th graders, from 34% to 19% (a 45% reduction), and for 7th graders, from 11% to 6% (45% reduction).
The data refute claims by Prop. 215 oponents that legalization of medical marijuana would send a harmful message to school children. "The message that marijuana is medicine seems to have made it less attractive to kids," says California NORML Coordinator Dale Gieringer, "Apparently they realize it's one thing to get high, another to take your medicine."
(The California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs tried to suppress a 2000 report by UCLA researchers showing student pot use had leveled off, evidently due to political concerns by offficials who had opposed 215).
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Even if Colorado voted to legalize pot, federal law still classifies the drug illegal. The problem with the federal law, Gorman said, is enforcement.
"Oh, we have federal law, but it's not going to be enforced," Gorman said. "The federal government doesn't have the manpower. The DEA deals with tons and kilos of marijuana. They won't be able to enforce on these smaller amounts," of marijuana. |
Recent rise in CA cannabis prisoners
Oaksterdam News by Dale Gieringer, Ph.D
Increase in state POWs reverses long, post-Prop 215 trend
The number of cannabis prisoners in California increased 11% in 2005, reversing a decline dating from the passage of Prop. 215. As of Dec 31, 2005, the Department of Corrections reported 1,429 prisoners for cannabis and hashish offenses, up from 1,289 in 2004.
California Narks Lie to Justify Disobeying Prop 215.
Anti-pot propaganda 14 Mar, 2005
US feds are addicted to making up fake anti-pot news.
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| Gorman and Billings said that Pueblo is on law enforcement's drug-trafficking radar because of its location on Interstate 25 and its close proximity to ever-growing Colorado Springs. |
Counterfeit News & Fact Free Journalism
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| The last large drug bust came in Oct. 2004 when Pueblo police played a role in toppling an international drug ring. Pueblo and Peyton, near Colorado Springs, were said to be hubs for a drug ring that stretched from El Paso, Texas, to Chicago and New York. |
Bad research makes headlines by Reverend Damuzi (21 Mar, 2005)
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| Code named Choque (Spanish for "crash"), the bust confiscated 5,000 pounds of cocaine and $11 million in suspected drug money from a ranch in Peyton. Twenty-nine federal indictments were handed out in the operation, lauded as one of the biggest drug investigations of that year. |
5,000 pounds of cocaine? Cocaine is not mentioned on Amendment 44, but it does show how slimy the greed stricken Ganjawar profiteers are.
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| Gorman said drug traffickers aren't the sole supporters of Amendment 44. |
Tell this Gore-man puppet, traffickers make money on prohibition, not in legal sales. Drug price Inflation is directly related to liars like Gore-man.
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| "It's people who have a real liberal view, who want government to stay out of their life," he said. |
Main Entry: 1lib·er·al
Pronunciation: 'li-b(&-)r&l
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin liberalis suitable for a freeman, generous, from liber free; perhaps akin to Old English lEodan to grow, Greek eleutheros free
1 a : of, relating to, or based on the liberal arts <liberal education>
b archaic : of or befitting a man of free birth
2 a : marked by generosity : OPENHANDED
b : given or provided in a generous and openhanded way c : AMPLE, FULL
3 : BROAD-MINDED; especially : not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms
4 a : of, favoring, or based upon the principles of liberalism
b capitalized : of or constituting a political party advocating or associated with the principles of political liberalism; especially : of or constituting a political party in the United Kingdom associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives
lib·er·al·ness noun
synonyms LIBERAL, GENEROUS, BOUNTIFUL, MUNIFICENT mean giving or given freely and unstintingly.
LIBERAL suggests openhandedness in the giver and largeness in the thing or amount given
GENEROUS stresses warmhearted readiness to give more than size or importance of the gift
BOUNTIFUL suggests lavish, unremitting giving or providing <children spoiled by bountiful presents>
MUNIFICENT suggests a scale of giving appropriate to lords or princes .
Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible
Wallstreet's Spontaneous Abortionists
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| According to a handout produced by Guarding Our Children Against Marijuana, drug use among teenagers is down 20 percent from 2002, and drug use has dropped almost 50 percent from its popularity in the 1960s and 70s. |
Narcotics police are an enormous, corrupt international bureaucracy ... and now fund a coterie of researchers who provide them with 'scientific support' ... fanatics who distort the legitimate research of others. ... The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.
-- William F. Buckley,
Commentary in The National Review, April 29, 1983, p. 495
Guarding Our Children Against Marijuana? Who is guarding our children from pompous propagandists? These Witch hunters are doing more harm to kids than Ganja ever could. Save our Society from Save Our Society!
Legal Lies? Ambushing The Pot Initiative makes a huge assumption that every citizen in Colorado needs a parent figure to tell them how to act. As if the lies were even fresh. Rehashing the same old disproved theories only shows how out of touch with reality the prohibitionists are. Gambling with the lives of kids while letting the government take Civil Rights in the name of protecting them. The GOP pushing the drug war the same way they lie about Police Actions in the Mid East. No bid contracts, Mission Accomplished. As long as the Legal Liars cloud the issue and legislate behind closed doors.
As long as only their side is heard, it will continue. That is the goal. That's where the money is. GOPerpetuation! Why these Supremacists spin offs are given grants and media access to pervert the truth to the kids, only makes sense if your making dollars on it. Eradicating ditchweed doesn't keep kids from cheap white powders. It does raise statistics for liars to bilk the public and Congress. Keeping the price of Ganja high always lowers the cost of the controlled synthetics.
Anti-Drug Advertising Campaign a Failure again and again. Always was and always will be without a complete police state environment. In 1974 the Government discovered Cannabis Shrinks Tumors and then the government hid the results of the research. The infamous Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys Hype (Jack Herer). 20 years later as a result of these and many other lies, the PDFA/PFDA came out with a cartoon of a kid roped in a high chair with a straggly hippie forcing him to smoke a lit joint. It made some giggles if you were stoned, lame comedy right out of S.N.L.
Naha's Prescription for Bloated Police Budges
Incredibly, a famous study which found that cannabis reduces tumors was originally ordered by the Federal Government on the premise that pot would hurt the immune system. This was based on the "Reefer Madness" studies done by the disreputable Dr. Gabriel Nahas of Columbia University in 1972. Old, discredited Nahas studies are still trotted out by the Drug Enforcement Administration today, and deliberately given to unknowledgeable parents' groups, churches, and PTAs as valid research regarding the evils of pot.
Medical Marijuana: Then and Now
The Czars' Reefer Madness the Lies Our Drug Warriors Told Us have taken every ounce of dignity from the Justice System. It leaves Doctors as lackey's for Pharmaceutical reps. How many have studied or even heard of the bodies Cannabinoid System? Cops are despised or feared in communities, thought of as machines with little chance of really communicating with troubled community members. Other than spewing ignorance at PTA meetings and DARE events. Is it a coincidence they are the highest percentage committing suicide? Liars will never get respect. Not fear mongering grannies against some drugs lying or badges lying while bilking the system or corporatists propaganda keeping competition off the market and selling war paraphernalia to keep it going.
Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia, after a while the lies even get to the hard core. They start believing their lies and can't understand why they can't find any actual victims. Then they hear the same lies over the decades and after a while they meet Ganja users that are as patriotic and hard working as anyone. It all drives them crazy. 'Murder Weed' is what they've been whining about since the 30s', when every one of the prohibitionists supported Hitler and Mussolini.
The 'Virtues' of Ganja are recorded in many places. The information isn't gone, it's censored from school books and corporate media. The internet is the DEAth's biggest threat and our biggest weapon against those enthusiastically hoping to deprive education to the citizens. The FCC with Bush employees like Michael Powell, are working overtime trying to consolidate everything into a corporate state run, programmed puritanical media. Keeping the Ganja hemp virtues hidden and liars hobgoblins squawking out chicken little shrieks of upcoming disaster. In essence saying throw your money at us and pay no attention to the Creature of DEAth behind the curtain.
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Safer Choice
Safer Colorado
Adults Should Be Allowed To Choose
Measure Threatens Drug-Use Decline
Possession of Pot Object of Amendment 44
.Straight Dope on Police Scare Tactics
"Not Your Father's Marijuana" Canard Again Exposed
The term "BC Bud" doesn't refer to any specific strain of marijuana. It's just a general term referring to marijuana that's grown in British Columbia.
BC Bud's "reputation for high potency" is mostly the result of campaigns by politicians in the United States.
There's no question there's some quality marijuana being grown in B.C. but to assert that this marijuana is somehow different than the marijuana that's being grown throughout the U.S. is absurd.
There's plenty of marijuana grown in the US that is just as good as that grown in BC. But that's NOT what US Drug Czar John Walters wants people to know
That's why it's very important for him to portray Canadian marijuana as somehow different than US marijuana, as though it's some new drug. "It's not your father's marijuana" is also one of his favorite soundbites.
Walters' characterization of BC Bud as "the crack of marijuana" is one of his main arguments he uses to justify his ongoing vocal campaign against the Canadian government's proposal to "decriminalize" the possession of small amounts of marijuana, saying it's his duty to protect the people of the US by stopping the flow of "poison" coming across the border.
The US Drug Czar John Walters has seized upon the vagueness of this term and is defining it in outlandish terms designed to confuse people into thinking that it's some new drug that deserves be feared. It's a deliberate propaganda campaign targeted at the ill-informed.
John Walters has transformed the term "BC Bud" into a boogie man with his fear-mongering; a myth that is doing us more damage than good. It's time to expose the mythology of "BC Bud" for the sake of the Canadian cannabis law reform movement, and for the sovereignty of Canadians.
US Drug Czar John Walters
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
O! Had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear,
I would today, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach,
withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.
For it is not light that is needed, but fire;
it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.
We need the storm, the whirlwind, the earthquake.
The feeling of the nation must be quickened;
the conscience of the nation must be roused;
the propriety of the nation must be startled;
the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed;
its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
-- Frederick Douglass
Pot, Truth and The DEA By Paul Danish
CN Source: Colorado Daily October 03, 2006 Colorado
Colorado will be voting on whether to legalize possession of marijuana this November, and the Drug Enforcement Administration is not amused. When Safer Colorado, the group sponsoring a statewide ballot initiative to legalize the possession of small quantities of pot (up to one ounce) for personal use, turned in petitions with 129,000 signatures last month - twice as many as necessary to make ballot - the DEA sprung, or more accurately slithered, into action.
Reefer Reform
The war on drugs came down to the grassroots level when supporters of Measure Y squared off against local police on the enforcement of marijuana laws in Santa Monica in a debate on CityTV. Comparing current drug laws to the Prohibition laws of the 1920’s, advocates of the proposed municipal code ordinance that would make adult personal use of marijuana the police’s lowest enforcement policy see their campaign as part of a larger response to a national policy they call “indefensible.”
Time To Just Say 'No' To Anti-Drug Campaign
Imagine the following TV commercial: A close-up shot of an egg. A narrator says, "This is your tax money." Then the egg rolls onto the floor, smashing open. The narrator continues: "And this is your tax money working to keep kids off drugs." It might bring to mind a famous anti-drug spot. "This is your brain," a voice said as an egg was shown on screen. "And this is your brain on drugs," he continued ominously as the egg was seen frying in a sizzling skillet.
Adults Should Be Allowed To Choose
Amendment 44 poses a simple question: Should the adult possession of up to 1 ounce of marijuana be legal under state law? Or, as our campaign prefers to phrase the question, should adults be punished for making the rational choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol, if that is what they prefer? On its face, there seems to be no logical reason to oppose this. What we have are two recreational substances. The difference is that alcohol is more addictive and more toxic. It is also associated with aggression and violence, which means it is far more likely to lead to the harm of someone other than the user.
Colorado Voters Face Key Choice on Marijuana Law
Depending on your point of view, Coloradans have the choice this election between being trendsetters on marijuana law or protecting young people from drugs. Amendment 44 on the ballot would change state drug law to allow people over 21 to possess an ounce or less of marijuana without legal penalty. If the measure is passed, Colorado would join Alaska, now the only state that has no penalties for personal possession of a small amount of marijuana.
U.S. manufacturing growth slows
NEW YORK (AP) - The nation's manufacturing sector expanded at the slowest pace in more than a year in September amid weaker U.S. auto sales and a slumping housing market, a trade group said Monday. The Institute for Supply Management, based in Tempe, Ariz., said its manufacturing index registered 52.9 in September, below August's reading of 54.5 and the lowest reading since May 2005.
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| It's people who have a real liberal view, who want government to stay out of their life," he said. |
Odd, that.
Remember back in the day, when that was the rallying call of Conservatives?
There's nothing "conservative" about these NeoCon Fascists.
Bliss on,
Ben
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