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I decided to start a blog. I have for over sixty years objected to any regulation of drug use, including presriptive medicine. The greatest misuse of drugs is by the medical profession and is completerly legal. The manufacturers of food subject the American consumer to products that often do much more harm than so[called illegal dtugs. The public is often forced to use drugs without its knowlege nor consent. I avoid as much as possible any processed food and water poisoned by water districts in a devious effort to purify the water and the processing of milk and wheat that deprive them of the ability to be utilized effectively by the consumer. If the use of drugs were to be declared unlawful, the dairy industry would not longer exist and nearly all foods consumed by the public could, perhaps for the better, no longer be consumed by the people..
The truth about MDMA.
Doblin, R. (Autumn, 1995). MDMA Neurotoxicity: New Data, New Risk Analysis. MAPS Volume 6, Number 1. Retrieved July 22, 2006 from MAPS. http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v06n1/06108neu.html
Marijuana Facts
Research into medicinal uses of cannabinoids. Hampson, J., Grimaldi, M., Axelrod, J., & Wink, D. (July 7, 1998). Cannabidiol and 9- tetrahydrocannabinol are neuroprotective antioxidants. Proceedings of
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I REALLY enjoy this site and am happy that there is a site out there that is fighting for this cause. There are much worse problems that this country has to face than drugs. Who are these people to tell me how to enjoy my free time?? And who are they to go to other countries and tell them how to live? I think that the US could stand to learn a thing or two from the rest of the world when it comes to drugs.
Johns Hopkins newz flash on shrooms
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article1171389.ece Magic mushrooms can induce mystical effects, study finds By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor Published: 11 July 2006
Harvest Season Hijinks
Every year in August, we see a flurry of marijuana eradication stories in local papers, as police target outdoor plants ripening for the fall harvest. Nowhere is this phenomenon more visible than in California where the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) makes Federal dollars available to local police departments wishing to send their officers on a treasure hunt in the forest.
What's a drug?
It continues to be amazing to me the level of hypocrasy surrounding the drug war. Who in this country ISN'T on some sort of 'substance'? Especially with marijuana, the level of injustice is simply phenominal in the face of the reality of those who are aware of all the properties of the plant. Personally, I'm not a big fan of any war. War supercedes reason and justice and only produces more tragedy.
Humankind Evolution
This is to start. Uses and - Benefits / Wrong - Ratio Each Drug Produces. To: _Persons. _ Person's Family.
Jess/FatFreddy
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Libertarian Candidates on Ballot in NY State
Unless someone filed objections to their submitted Petitions before Sunday, Aug. 27, 2006, the statewide candidates of the NY Libertarian Party will be on the ballot in New York State. All the Libertarian Candidates oppose the war on drugs.
Chronic pain
Hi everybody. My na,e is Todd. I suffer from severe Chronic intracable pain. When will the government realize the medicinal properties of Marijuana ?????????? Anyone care to talk abou it???
Become a Cantheist
The Most Useful of Plants, Cannabis in Latin, Kaneh Bosm in Hebrew (The âplant of renownâ ("I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more." Ezekiel 34:29)) was made that way so we would keep it close for our time of need. For many years the forces of evil have tried to keep the secret for the Tree of Life. For in its leaves are the Healing of the Nations. (Rev 22:1-2)
Marijuana prohibition
The law inforcement on marijuana use must be stopped immediatly. It is absurd tha youngsters who use marjuana mostly at the weekends are proseqiuted and send to prisone as if they were criminals, espetialy when used for medical perposes.
Dazed and Confused
Now all I have to do is find my way to wherever the hell one changes username and password.... ps: I believe... not think... html is for anacephalics. What is it about plain text that some folks do no
Don't Blame Medical Marijuana for State Park/Wildlife Harm from Illegal Grow-Ops
Earlier this month Mexico's El Universal paper reported on the . An article in today's San Francisco Chronicle made the same lament about Bay Area marijuana growing in state parks. Henry Coe State Park supervising ranger Mike Ferry told the Chronicle: "At these gardens, we've found dead animals and birds, ammonia sulfate, pesticides and herbicides, ponds and creeks lined with plastics, and garbage all over the place," he said. "The environmental damage is huge." El Universal's article made the key point, that the Chronicle article and few articles in US media yet make: If narcotics are decriminalized, then the black market might cave in, and along with it the smuggling relationships that undermine conservation efforts. So it would. And that's what has to happen here too. There is nothing intrinsic to marijuana growing that it should have this kind of effect on our national parks -- if people were illegally growing broccoli or tomatoes in the parks for the mass commercial market they would undoubtedly create the same kind of pollution that is hurting the animals. The problem is prohibition. The solution is: legalization. Unfortunately, while Mr. Ferry certainly seems to care about the environment and to be working hard on its behalf, he also has some ideas about drug policy that don't seem well thought out: One dilemma "that is really throwing us," Ferry said, is the wide-scale acceptance of medical marijuana and the perception that casual marijuana use hurts nothing. But if marijuana smokers saw the carcasses of deer, squirrels, songbirds, owls and other wildlife shot or poisoned at the illegal groves, as Ferry has, perhaps they would understand the price wildlife pays for their next toke. Blaming it on medical marijuana?!?!?!?!? No. Never mind that federal surveys found no increase in marijuana use in states that passed medical marijuana initiatives. (Could someone send in a link for this? I am having trouble finding it. I think it was part of a Monitoring the Future study one year.) Tell the feds and their ideological allies in certain cities and counties to stop shutting down coops who are in a position to contract with responsible growers. Hmm, I didn't set out to pick two SF Chronicle stories two days in a row. Maybe that's good. Again, here is their letter to the editor information. And again, please send us copies of your letters through our -- select the "Copies of Letter You've Sent" option -- or post a copy in the comments here below.
Oakland Officials Fooling Themselves If They Think Drug Crackdown Will Curb Violence for Long
The San Franciso Chronicle has reported that 30 suspected drug dealers were arrested in a crackdown on drug hot spots on Thursday. More arrests are planned as the sweep continues. Mayor Jerry Brown explained the reason for doing the sweeps: "This violent subculture is very much connected to the sale of drugs in the same locations, year after year.'' Talking tough for the media, Brown continued: "Oakland is not the place to do criminal business." Captain Dave Kozicki added to the tough talk: "Every drug dealer out there should be looking over their shoulder, wondering whether or not they, in fact, sold to an undercover officer." Maybe some Oaklanders will be impressed, but I'm not. Frankly, I think comments like Brown's and Kozicki's are pretty silly. Clearly Oakland is a place to do drug dealing, or the drug dealers wouldn't be there. Do they seriously believe the drug trade isn't going to continue, in basically the same form, with at most an extremely brief (probably already over) and highly partial reduction? Or just moving to different locations? Obviously these are not the first drug arrests Oakland police have made during the "year after year" to which Brown referred. While I didn't look at all the details, a search of the SF Chronicle's archives going back to 1995 on the words "Oakland Drug Sweep" pulled up 130 listings -- I'm sure they weren't all really about drug sweeps, but a lot of them clearly were. Guys, the drugs are still there from after the last time you did this, and the time before that, and the time before that, and the time before that... The way to make Oakland -- and all of our cities -- no longer places to do criminal business is to end prohibition. Sweeps and busts only move the trade from place to place or hand the business from one seller to another. Only drug legalization can actually make that kind of crime not pay. Let the Chronicle know what you think by sending them a letter to the editor. Send us a copy using our new -- select the "Copies of Letter You've Sent" option -- or post a copy in the comments here below.
We Told Them So...
Two weeks ago we that South Dakota medical marijuana patient Valerie Hanna had sued state attorney general Larry Long over a misleading (dishonest?) ballot summary of the state's upcoming initiative, charging the attorney general had violated state law. Yesterday Judge Max Gors opined in favor of Hanna -- and the rule of law -- according to the Associated Press: "The whole impression leads one to believe that the attorney general wants voters to reject the initiative. The attorney general should confine his politicking to the stump and leave his bias out of the ballot statement that is supposed to be objective," Gors wrote. The state is not appealing the decision because doing so would prevent them from meeting their ballot printing deadline of September 1. The AP story can be read for free on the web site of the Yankton Press & Dakotan, though you have to register first to get through. Score for our side! We told them so...
Poppy Scare in New Mexico!!
There was a story in the Santa Fe New Mexican this morning titled "Seized Poppies Perplex Officials" in which police raiding a marijuana plantation discoverd a tub full of poppies in the middle of the pot field. Despite a lack of clarity about whether the poppies in question were actually opium poppies (papaver somniferum), the cops consulted by the newspaper were ready to declare that the end times are upon us.
September 2006 - a change of 20 years
Immediately after Labor Day in September 1986, the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives brought to the floor the hastily conceived and written Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. At the top of the national political agenda was the war on drugs. Catastrophic concepts like mandatory minimum sentences were forced back into the federal justice system. Certification of other nations as meeting U.S. anti-drug standards was required, poisoning America's image and relations with peoples around the world. The voices of reason were largely silenced by the echo chamber of anti-drug hysteria.
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