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It's Hoyer!
Let's hope he lives up to his record.
Don't get your hopes up
Ladies and Gentlemen:
If any of us in the medical cannabis or cannabis or anti-prohibition communitites expect any kind of progress in the drug war or in calling it off as a result of this election, we had better think again.
The Democrats brought us the drugwar, as the CSA was passed and ammended during a time when Democrats, including Barney Frank, who, like every other Congressman and Senator, was shoving everyone else out of the way of the microphone in order to propose or support the next draconian piece of legislation concerning drugs in the wake of the 1986 cocaine death of basketball player Len Bias.
In fact, all of the draconian legislation in the drugwar was passed prior to the 1994 Republican take over of Congress. No major legislation increasing drugwar or its penalties has passed in the last 12 years.
So don't expect Democrats to come riding to our rescue. Just look at and listen to Dianne Feistein's vitriolic whining and Barbara Boxer's -silence- on the issue, as well as Harry Reid's dead set opposition to any kind of softening of drug laws. So Nancy Pelosi, if she does anything at all for us as Speaker of the House, will not be able to be heard over this immutable din.
We are still not able to start singing, "amazing grace," and ,"we shall overcome," with respect to drug issues, as the Democrats simply are not the group to save us from their own pogrom.
Democrats love and depend upon the drugwar every bit as much as Republicans, and to believe otherwise is to fall into a trap set by drug warriors to get us, to opposition, to try to assign blame to one side or the other. This ties up precious time, energy and resources that should be used to fight drugwar and its henchmen, all of them, Republican and Democrat, as well as those police and DAs who continue to support prohibition because it enrichens their status, influence, budgets and political aspirations.
Eric Johnson
Nijenburg 72
1081 GG AMSTERDAM
The Netherlands
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