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Don Quixote
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 Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:28 am Post subject: War on drugs - casualties |
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sorry , i can't remember where i found this :--->
"Since 1955, 24 million people worldwide have been arrested for their belief in cannabis, and many millions of them have spent substantial time in jail. Much of the world does not want to believe there is such an ongoing assault against the 164 million people who, according to the United Nations last year, cherish marijuana in their lives. Yet everywhere on Earth today cannabis users are hunted down, humiliated, arrested, jailed, or, as in the communist regimes in China and Vietnam, even executed."
i personaly doubt the accuracy of this figure . it is now 50 years since 1955 and in America alone nearly 1 million people a year are arrested for cannabis related offenses.
whatever the numbers , it is fucking rediculous .we are talking about a herbal plant for fucks sake , not nuclear weapons.
these phoney wars against drugs or muslims or whatever the fuck are just a pretext for maintaining a huge , standing , para-military police force.
hey it worked for hitler and stalin ok ?
sorry about the language.
PEACE.
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RogerChristie
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:15 am Post subject: That's why, in my opinion... |
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...it's useful, comforting and practical to hold-up the Bible verses of Genesis 1:11, "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so."
and 1:29 "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
... as the ONLY common law worth keeping in mind and showing to anyone; especially to law enforcement and/or a jury, if we must. Hold it high!!!
As our friend and co-THC minister, Paul von Hartmann likes to say, "You can make a drug from an herb, but you can't make an herb from a drug!" He also wisely says, "Drugs don't make seeds - herbs do." Brilliant! Thanks Paul.
Love, Roger
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zero
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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It's ridiculous the amount of lives have been taken by the war on drugs.
I happened to write an artical on this very subject just the other day. Funnily enough, some idiot commented that this was right wing BS.
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We all know the war on drugs has failed. There is no counter argument to this statement - it is simply a fact. Even the far right opposition can’t argue with me on that one. No matter where your moral compass points, or where you stand on the field of “family values”, any logical look upon this ill-fated venture brings about the same hypothesis. It has destroyed the lives of millions of the men, women and children in this great nation, forced its morality on many more, and infringed upon our basic rights as citizens of this Earth to do with our bodies what we will.
Any halfway intelligent person can read the facts like a Sunday paper. Even the police officers who enforce the laws know the truth. Organizations such as LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) regularly speaks out upon the subject. Recently a member of their ranks, Howard Wooldridge, a former Texas law enforcement officer, rode 3,300 miles on his horse across North America to protest the government’s stance and bring awareness to this subject.
"When I was a detective, I was realizing that about 75 percent of felony crime I handled was generated by the prohibition of drugs. People breaking into my houses, people robbing my 711's, stealing cars because they needed money for drugs. I know if people could buy their drugs cheaply, they wouldn't commit so many crimes." Wooldridge was quoted as saying.
He is right. A study done by Gary Jenkins, a professor at Vanderbilt University, entitled “Prohibition, Alcohol and Murder: Untangling Countervailing Mechanisms" states on page 31, “Generalizing from the findings on Prohibition, we can hypothesize that decriminalization would increase the use of the previously criminalized drug, but would decrease violence associated with attempts to control illicit markets and as resolutions to disputes between buyers and sellers. Moreover, because the perception of violence associated with the drug market can lead people who are not directly involved to be prepared for violent self-defense, there could be additional reductions in peripheral settings when disputes arise”
Basically, what these guys are saying is that by making drugs illegal, you are actually creating more crime. Imagine if cigarettes were illegal, and the lengths some would go to in order to get a nicotine fix. I know people that would cut off their own mother's head. Under our current nicotine laws, these people can go to the store and get their nicotine fix, and mom gets to keep her head.
Think about it, a heroin or crack addict will rob you and kill you to get a fix, and they do this because they never know where that next fix is coming from or how they are going to get the high amounts of money required. When you take away that problem by making the drugs they seek readily available and cheap, that takes away their motivation to rob and kill you. That, my friends, is a good thing.
Sure, we would have crackheads running the streets without shame, but we already have that now. I, for one, would feel better if I knew the money they spent on the crack they smoked earlier went to bettering education instead of buying their drug dealers latest piece of bling.
In these days of war and natural disasters, with the government screaming to anyone that will listen that they need more money, the answer to nearly all of our country’s financial woes is right in front of us. The problem is that if the government does legalize and take control of the drug system in this country, they would have to admit that they made a very, very big mistake.
That will never happen. To some, ego is more important than making this society a better place for all to live. |
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RogerChristie
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:31 am Post subject: Casualties? |
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Aloha. Drug war casualties? Collateral damage? Virtually every drug war casualty in the U.S.A. is from "friendly fire", the policies of our own country, paid for with our own tax dollars. How sad is that? Where's the blessing in that?
On the other hand, as far as I know about it, the metaphysical cause and effect must include the concept of the "responsibility game". It simply works like this: I am 100% responsible for everything that happens to me. :-O
What the f#@k? Yes, 100%.
The world is a 'reflection', a mirror-image of what's inside of our consciousness. Period. Zero excuses. We are the 'projector', the world is our 'screen'. Whatever EFFECT happens 'out there' is CAUSED by what's happening 'in here'. That's the ability to respond, or 'responsibility' played at a fairly high level. Zero victim in that game.
Go within - or go without.
Remember that "victim" comes from the old Latin word, victima, a small animal for slaughter. Just what we don't want to be!!!
In order to keep from labeling people as victims and keeping them in a kind of spiritual bondage, I have a duty as a religious science practitioner to remind them that they are God-beings and as such are 100% responsible for whatever they are receiving from their life now. It's not a "blame the victim" scenario, it's very much a form of empowerment!
If I caused such-and-such to happen to me, then it's at least possible that I can UN-cause it to happen to me, too. I can get well from a dis-ease that I allowed to occur. THAT'S a high-level of relating to life that pleases me most. It actually raises me UP! It builds my mana, or spiritual power, in the here-and-now. It's a form of instant personal evolution - and it rocks, in my opinion.
How can we raise-up our spiritual powers? Have another  -hit? Well...that has it's place, certainly, but mo' betta to take responsibility for 100% of our life - THEN have a -hit!
See ya, Roger
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