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 Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:50 am Post subject: Reefer is Worth Getting Mad About |
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Reefer is Worth Getting Mad About By Antonio Maria Costa
CN Source: Globe and Mail August 05, 2006 Vienna
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| Supporters of the legalization of cannabis would have us believe that it is a gentle, harmless substance that gives you little more than a sense of mellow euphoria. Sellers of the world's most popular illicit drug know better. Trawl through websites offering cannabis seeds for sale and you will find brand names such as Armageddon, AK-47 and White Widow. "This will put you in pieces, then reduce you to rubble -- maybe quicksand if you go too far," one seller boasts. This is much closer to the truth. |
What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis
“The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... (Sellers of the world's most popular illicit drug) They were elements of disorder and subversion. On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. (houses, cars, kids, money, boats) This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.”
Benito Mussolini (address to the Italian Senate, 1931)
Seize This!
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| In Canada, as in most parts of the world, cannabis is by far the drug of choice. An estimated 4 per cent of the world's adult population -- that's about 162 million people -- consume cannabis at least once a year, more than all other illicit drugs combined. |
Canada's Supremes Cower Under DEAth Threats
U.S. Warns Against Liberalizing Laws on Pot
Canadian Pot Debate Worries U.S. Officials
PM Says No To Looser Drug Laws
U.S. Government Threatens Canada with Trade Sanctions
Canada Moves to Ease Marijuana Possession Law
Newsbrief: Walters Lies Pile Up in Canada Diatribe
Canadian Marijuana Organization Raided at Request of US
U.S. warns Canada against easing pot laws
Canada Renews Plan To Decriminalise Pot Possession By Reuters
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| Does that matter? I firmly believe it does, because the cannabis now in circulation (like Canada's BC Bud) is many times more powerful than the weed that today's aging baby boomers smoked in college. The characteristics of cannabis are no longer that different from those of other plant-based drugs, such as cocaine and heroin. |
Pot Potency? Boomers' blissfully unfazed by mere facts.
The Myth of Potent Pot by Daniel Forbes
Slate - November 20, 2002
The White House drug czar’s ludicrous pot potency claim.
The Politics of Pot
Hemp Files: Marijuana Myths
8. Marijuana is more potent today than in the past
This myth is the result of bad data. The researchers who made the claim of increased potency used as their baseline the THC content of marijuana seized by police in the early 1970s. Poor storage of this marijuana in un-air conditioned evidence rooms caused it to deteriorate and decline in potency before any chemical assay was performed. Contemporaneous, independent assays of unseized "street" marijuana from the early 1970s showed a potency equivalent to that of modern "street" marijuana. Actually, the most potent form of this drug that was generally available was sold legally in the 1920s and 1930s by the pharmaceutical company Smith-Klein under the name, "American Cannabis".
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| Evidence of the damage to mental health caused by cannabis use -- from loss of concentration to paranoia, aggressiveness and outright psychosis -- is mounting and cannot be ignored. Emergency room admissions involving cannabis are rising, as is demand for rehabilitation treatment. These health problems are increasingly being seen in young people. |
Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia
Marijuana May Spur New Brain Cells By Steve Mitchell
Source: United Press International October 13, 2005 Washington, D.C.
Scientists said Thursday that marijuana appears to promote the development of new brain cells in rats and have anti-anxiety and anti-depressant effects, a finding that could have an impact on the national debate over medical uses of the drug. Other illegal and legal drugs, including opiates, alcohol, nicotine and cocaine, have been shown to suppress the formation of new brain cells when used chronically, but marijuana's effect on that process was uncertain.
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| North America is the world's largest cannabis market and most of its cannabis is homegrown. The U.S. market alone has been valued at more than $10-billion. |
U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana laws.
According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2001
Keith Stroup, (NORML)
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| As Canadians are starting to discover, a market that size inevitably attracts organized crime. So cannabis is a security threat as well as a health risk. |
Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations
UNICORE
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people
forget that certain other sets of people are human."
- Aldous Huxley
In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the US. Of those,
46.5 percent -- 734,497 arrests -- were for marijuana.
There were 646,042 arrests for simple possession of marijuana in 2000.
drugwarfacts.org
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| Amid all the libertarian talk about the right of the individual to engage in dangerous practices, provided no one else gets hurt, certain key facts are easily forgotten. |
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken". You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
Atlas Shrugged
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| Firstly, cannabis is a dangerous drug, not just to the individuals who use it. People who drive under the influence of cannabis put others at risk. Would even the most ardent supporter of legalization want to fly in an aircraft whose pilot used cannabis? |
Cannabis and Driving
Legislators Should Revise Law on Pot and Driving
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Nazi Air Force (Luftwaffe) commander, the Nuremberg Trials
A Roundup of Hearst's Hysterical Headlines
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| Secondly, drug control works. |
Drug War Police Tactics Endanger Innocent Citizens
15 States Busted/WoD Collateral Damage
It's estimated that over 17 million people have been arrested for marijuana since 1965.
That's more than the combined populations of Alaska, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Journey for Justice Pedaling for Pot
More than a century of universally accepted restrictions on heroin and cocaine have prevented what would otherwise have been a pandemic.
The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--
delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Former DEAth Merchant's Delusions
X Drug Czars Believe Their War Has Been Won
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| Global levels of drug addiction -- think of the opium dens of the 19th century -- have dropped dramatically in the past 100 years. In the past 10 years or so, they have remained stable. |
Death Penalty for Two Ounces of Marijuana!
(from September/October 1996 Marijuana Policy Report)
Picture this: An indiscreet American college student returning from a vacation in Mexico is caught with two ounces of marijuana in his pocket. A judge is forced to sentence him to spend the rest of his life in federal prison. If this is his second offense, he will be executed. Could this really happen in America? Yes, if U.S. Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and his cronies have their way.
Thailand DEAth squads protest
DEAth Sentence for Small-Time Crime
Israel To Soothe Trauma With Marijuana
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| Cannabis is the weakest link in the international effort to contain the global drugs problem. |
Testimony of Professor Lester Grinspoon, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School,
before the Crime Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee,
U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., October 1, 1997:
"Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic
than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if it were legally
available. Despite its use by millions of people over thousands of years,
cannabis has never caused an overdose death."
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| In theory, it's a controlled substance. In practice, it's running rampant. It grows under the most varied conditions in many countries, a high-yielding plant that can be grown indoors. This makes supply control difficult. |
Drug Czar's Office "Obsessed" With Marijuana
TARGET AMERICA
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| But we can tackle demand, particularly among the young. That need not mean sending them to jail. |
Reefer Madness the Burning of Rainbow farm
Murder in California By Dan Mindus, NRO 6/20/00
The Case of Peter McWilliams (1949-2000).
Ushering in outbreaks of hysteria, Peter McWilliams, best-selling author and medical- marijuana activist, died on Wednesday. Some — mostly libertarians — are freely tossing around the word "murder" to describe the federal government's role in the 50-year-old McWilliams' passing. "What the federal government did is nothing less than cold-blooded, premeditated murder," charged Steve Dasbach, the national director of the Libertarian Party.
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| Young people caught in possession of cannabis could be treated in much the same way as those arrested for drunk driving: fined, required to attend classes on the dangers of drug use and threatened with loss of their driving licence for repeat offences. Prison would be a last resort. Schools and universities should apply zero tolerance. |
A Lie College Students Might Want To Tell
"A violently active, intrepid, brutal youth that is what I am after...
I will have no intellectual training. Knowledge is ruin for my young men."
Adolf Hitler quoted by John Gunther "The Nation"
Demonizing Drugs
Support the Drug-Addicted Troops
Tony Newman, AlterNet. August 8, 2005.
War experiences can lead to self-medication and drug addiction. Supporting the troops means providing proper mental health care and treatment programs when they come home.
Sam Stone: Collateral Damage
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| National policies on cannabis vary and sometimes change from one year to the next. The experience of countries that were more tolerant of cannabis use is ambiguous and not persuasive. |
Marijuana Smokers are Filling Jails with Cheap Labour for Corporate Profit
By Reverend Damuzi (Cannabis Culture Magazine)
The United States has a new form of slavery. SWAT teams are conducting military "cleansings" of poor, minority and marijuana-growing neighbourhoods under the guise of drug raids that particularly target women, black people and members of the cannabis culture.
Prisons are being privatized and converted into sweat-shops were, for example, pot huffers might find themselves in an ironic hell on earth, a dark cave where they are forced to answer unending calls for a travel agency for the rest of their lives. The entire operation is being coordinated by multinational corporate interests that reach deep into the heart and pockets of the White House. Imprisoning pot smokers.
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| The distinction between "soft" and "hard" drugs is, at best, artificial, especially with such a damaging psycho-active substance as modern-day cannabis. Even some advocates of cannabis as a "soft" drug are now reconsidering as they observe the devastating health consequences of abuse. |
Leaked Report : Drug Traffickers Obtained Classified DEA Documents from U.S. Embassy in Bogotá “At Will” - Informant Told Lie Detector that Corrupt U.S. Agents Helped Narcos Protect Drug Crops from Fumigation Raids:
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
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935
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| Canada was a pioneer in introducing systematic anti-smoking policies, which are now being copied around the world. Their success demonstrates that preventive measures can help to change attitudes. Similar policies are needed to prevent cannabis use getting completely out of control. |
UN Report Unintentionally Argues Against Prohibition
CAGW Report Calls Drug Policies a Waste
There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.
-- Harry Anslinger, 1937 testimony to Congress in support of the Marijuana Tax Act.
Another newspaper deserts
Losing the Drug War
The Wrong Way To Fight The War on Drugs
Marijuana: Then and Now
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.
— Herbert Hoover
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| Let's draw the right conclusions. Cannabis is dangerous. We ignore it at our peril. |
Who Do You Trust?
"Arbitrary and capricious" is legal language that was used by DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis Young in 1988 to conclude that DEA was obligated under the Controlled Substances Act to reschedule marijuana as a prescription medicine. DEA Chief Administrator Robert Bonner proceeded to arbitrarily and capriciously disregard Judge Young's well researched and reasoned decision, which the Act allowed him to do.
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| Note: Today's marijuana isn't the stuff baby boomers toked, says the UN's Antonio Maria Costa. Pot's characteristics now aren't that different from other plant-based drugs -- like cocaine and heroin. |
Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys (Jack Herer)
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)
Marijuana Potency Through the Years
The prospects of ever more potent types of marijuana have kept the fires stoked over the devil's weed. Obviously, the same claims can be heard today about how super potent weed is even more dangerous than the mild benign weed your parents and grandparents were smoking. To assuage fears about what happens when the THC content hits 100 percent, simply observe that "hippies" figured out how to make synthetic THC back in 1967, hash oil clocked in as strong as 90 percent THC by the mid-70's, and that you can now easily obtain 100 percent pure synthetic THC by prescription. Visit the manufacturer's site: www.marinol.com. What they have to say about the safety of their THC product and their advice about driving while under the influence of it are particularly interesting -- especially when contrasted with the hysteria over "drugged driving."
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| Antonio Maria Costa is executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. |
United Nations Drug Report “Disappointing”
According to the report, ecstasy users risk “suffering the effects of early decline in mental function and memory, or Alzheimer-type symptoms.”
The report was released just weeks after scientists at Johns Hopkins University retracted their research findings that suggested that a single evening's use of ecstasy could cause permanent brain damage and Parkinson's disease. The scientists admitted that they utilized the wrong drug in their studies.
The UN report makes no mention of the retracted studies.
Italy Seeks To Bring in Tough Law on Drugs
Italy Passes Worst Marijuana and Drug Laws in the World
The Italian government has approved a law that increases sanctions against people who smoke marijuana, putting the drug on a par with cocaine and heroin.
"Another weapon I discovered early was the power of the printed word to sway souls to me. The newspaper was soon my gun, my flag - a thing with a soul that could mirror my own."
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini together in the heyday of 1930s fascism.
Anti-pot Berlusconi defeated in Italy
United States' Answer To Drug War Proves Harmful
Wallstreet's Spontaneous Abortionists
Silencing Political Dissent
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.
Contact: letters@globeandmail.ca * Website
CannabisNews -- Cannabis Archives
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today."
- President Theodore Roosevelt
GOPerverted Officials
"The struggle between the two worlds Fascism and Democracy
can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!"
Benito Mussolini Address, from Palazzo Venezia balcony October 27, 1930
Bushladen and the Terrorists Carlyles Groups
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism
because it is a merger of state and corporate power"
Benito Mussolini Italian dictator and leader of the fascist Movement 1883-1945
STATE OF THE UNION: CORRUPT
And just what makes this guy a drug expert?
Sinsemilla Jones August 06, 2006
Mr. Antonio Maria Costa (Italy) was appointed in May 2002 Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV). He holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Costa: Prohibitionist, Jailer
observer August 06, 2006
"Fascism is on the march today in America. Millionaires are marching to the tune. It will come in this country unless a strong defense is set up by all liberal and progressive forces... A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government, and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. Aboard ship a prominent executive of one of America's largest financial corporations told me point blank that if the progressive trend of the Roosevelt administration continued, he would be ready to take definite action to bring fascism to America."
former U.S. ambassador to Germany William Dodd in 1938
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