I LUV WEEEEED!!!!! GROW SUM MORE ...AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SEND ME SUM WEED
WINDEY SIMMONS
113 79TH ST.
OAKLAND CA.94603

The big news here in Iowa is the reduction of Federal Byrne Grants (JAG) for State Drug Task Forces. Our Iowa U.S. Senators are complaining and may find a way to restore some of the funding. However, this certainly means that resources for drug law enforcement are becoming scarce. So, it may not be a change of heart, but it's entirely possible that budget considerations are forcing federal law enforcement to reconsider their priorities in California.

Carl Olsen
Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church
http://www.ethiopianzioncopticchurch.org/

its about time

According to the article above, U.S. Attorney Russonielo compares going after cannabis dispensaries to trying to plough the sea, as if ocean calming and tidal alleviation were somehow a futile or wasted endeavor. That is an extremely irresponsible statement. The fact is that hundreds of people are drowned at sea each year due to rough waters, and dozens more become fatalities on our beaches during high tides, which also do hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage each year in this country to piers, sandbars, sea-walls, and other infrastructure and resources in coastal areas. Under the direction of Secretary Canute, OSPSS has been making great progress toward preventing the harmful effects of tidal actions and severe winds. We owe it to our children to make sure that they can grow up in communities where they can enjoy a day at the beach without fear of being swept out to sea, and to the hardworking American fishermen, Coast Guard sailors, and others whose livelihoods are threatened by storms, to make sure that the federal government's mission to plough the seas and shovel sand against the incoming tide remain fully funded in the coming budget year.

Sincerely,

John Sisyphus
Under-Secretary,
U.S. Office of Sea-Ploughing and Sand-Shoveling

A country has the morals it can afford. Even the misguided ones. The whole, socalled drug war , has always been about morals and money. Now the money is going away, and we know the morals were a racist crock. Inhale a breath of relief....carefully.

Prohibitionists are largely religious, many adhere to extreme religious views (killing and incarcerating those that disagree with their opinions), and believe they possess the moral authority to control you & me for the benefit of their godly vision of society!

Combine religious moral authority, the law making powers of a corrupt unrepresentative gov't, with the power of the paramilitary police state and you have an extremely dangerous and volatile cocktail capable of incinerating our Rights, Liberties, and Freedoms forever!

We are living the Orwellian nightmare where Pigs have made themselves more equal then the citizenry. We should take away their jack-ass & pachyderm and give the democrats & republicans the same Orwellian Pig as a mascot!

The purveyors of gods & gov’t have always struggled with 'self-evidence'... it's easier on their belief systems to turn a blind eye and shake an angry fist then engage in rational debate! Thank Yahweh we took away the popes army!

If anything is self-evident: 1) it's not the strength of their truth but the truth of their strength that threatens us and 2) It's not what they believe but how hard they believe it that really matters to them.

Fact is: the weak, antiquated, delusional Judeo-Christian value system is really not compatible with a modern egalitarian society that values things like: truth instead of ignorance, beauty over ugliness, reason rather than irrationality, facts over fear & fiction, and equal rights for all.

Fact is: orthodox Christians and the government continue to wage a bloody and ruthless war against skepticism & freedom of choice... the perpetual war against 'Gnostic Christians', non-conformists, anti-socialists, and free thinkers continues... as it always has!

The drug war is an unconstitutional, illegal, civil rights war. And, like civil rights movements before it, god & gov't are the antagonists and the biggest obstacles to the just legal solution.... re-legalization.

I fear that as long as we continue to tolerate intolerant immoral authoritarians we will suffer accordingly and will eventually end up on the funeral pyre... wondering when we fell down the rabbit hole! With a little luck you might be touched by there compassion... if they break your neck before they set you ablaze.

Hope that eliminates some cognitive dissonance?

Billy B. Blunt
Tacoma, WA

right on the money Billy.
Grand slam home run..........

4:41 a.m. February 5, 2008

LOS ANGELES – Two men have pleaded guilty to federal drug charges in connection with a medical marijuana shop that sold millions of dollars worth of the drug.

James Carberry and James Ealy entered pleas Monday in Los Angeles federal court.

Prosecutors say Carberry ran a shop called the “Yellow House” in West Hollywood that sold marijuana and products such as candy bars and sodas containing pot's active ingredient, THC.

Carberry faces up to 20 years in prison and Ealy could get a year behind bars.

They were indicted last year along with Larry Kristich, who owned the Yellow House and six other marijuana dispensaries around the state. He pleaded guilty last week to distributing more than 15,000 pounds of pot and faces up to 40 years in prison.

California approved medical marijuana sales in 1996 but they're illegal under federal law.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20080205-0441-ca-brf-socal-pots...
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"Guilty" of serving the ill, providing them with medicinal relief. Punished like a murderer. What an unspeakable atrocity.

See, No smoker should be jailed.

And if there were facilities that dished out the mowie wowie then the dealers wouldn't be dealers they'd be smokers.

And everything would work. I don't mind burning ditches as long as I can burn some herb before or afterwords, during isn't bad either!

They just don't get it and want to murder people. They let chemical drugs go rampant which kills hundreds of thousands of people a year, and they punish a plant and its conesuiers, like its even possible of criminalizing a PLANT - It has no fatality rate, it doesn't do what ciggs do to you, what is the point in letting people buy ciggerette if it kills them? They must enjoy killing you, have fun with that. If anyone even remotely understood what smoking a tabacco leaf is suppose to mean then they wouldn't do it in any form like they do now. Hell not only do smokers waste away they pollute too - tossing their crap all over the concrete jungle!

We look at middle eastern culture where brutality to women and religion driven fanaticism is widespread however for some reason Americans are having a very difficult time simply looking in the mirror and finding the same elements within our society. I hope Obama will be able to swing public opinion a little bit to the left simply because we are turning out to be as crazy as you know who!

Please people lets all put together a civil rights action like Rosa Parks started when she just didn't want to give up her 'seat'. But our 'seat' is our freedom to chose the medication that best suits us in our pursuit of freedom and overall well being.
It's time to think of more news worhty means of drawing attention to our plight. We need to organize a national day to smoke our medication in front of every US federal courthouse and ask to be arrested by a bunch of us who have valid doctors recommendations...Yes I mean we stage a sit-in across the fruited plain and demand the media to televise a bunch of us being arrested and hauled off.
Nothing is going to change with a bunch of us waving signs saying "hurray for our side" and sending letters to deaf ears in the government. None of this has worked for those of us activists who moniter the subject of marijuana thru news services across the world on the net. It's time to get busted for the movement, and I wonder how many of you have the balls or time to really say something to the masses that you are tired of it all. Lets stop the talk and do the Rosa Parks walk and sit anywhere on the bus.
I will offer myself for the common good but what about you folks who are reading this post for the first time? Do you have what Rosa had? Put up or shut up and do something besides running your mouth on injustice to all of us 'herb' users...Sincerely, Craig Bateman, Redding,Ca.