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2002-Nov-11
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2002-Nov-02 McKinney TX (AP)
Couple indicted for giving baby
cocaine, using drugs around baby
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1644724
The
prohibitionists would be aghast at this, but I would file this case under
"cultures in conflict." A little cocaine used to be considered medically safe
even for babies, recommended for teething, and other ailments. The accusations
also include "dealing drugs with baby in arms." This is "inexcusable" according
to a Prohibitionist policeman, but just what is the actual harm of dealing
drugs while a baby is around? Now, the alleged exposure to secondhand pot smoke
could be somewhat harmful, but tobacco would be worse and no one gets
prosecuted for smoking that crap around babies. Yes, drug-addled parents could
be inattentive, but no charge of any actual harm to the baby was cited,
although it did test positive for coke. The father denies the charges, calls
witnesses liars. "Anybody who would do that is wrong." Sigh!
2002-Nov-02 Boston (GazetteNet.com/AP)
"Sweat
patches" used by drug tyrant governments to monitor substance
use
Federal courts in at least two districts have discontinued their use
because of unreliabilty.
2002-Nov-02 Salem OR (Olympian)
Oregon medical marijuana prescriptions doubles over past
year
Patients must have "debilitating medical condition" such as cancer,
glaucoma, AIDS or severe pain. If you use it for recreational or sacramental
purposes, or don't have quite that debilitating a medical condition, you're out
of luck, of course. DOCTOR SAYS: "Every patient I see says medical marijuana
works better than (other) drugs for them. Would they lie to me about that? I
don't think so."
2002-Nov-02 Singapore (channelnewsasia.com)
Three arrested, variety of drugs found
Prohibitionist
fanatics interfering with recreational substance trade
2002-Nov-02 CBS
Presumed Guilty: on the erosion of fundamentals of American law
in the name of fighting terrorism
CBS Editorial by Andrew Cohen
2002-Nov-01 ABC (Reuters)
Mexican Generals Guilty in Landmark Drug
Trial
Corruption may always be with us, but it's more common when you
have vice laws — if I presume correctly that many are more likely to
justify their corruption over "victimless" crimes than over true crimes like
murder and theft. If there were no drug laws to violate, there would be no drug
gangs. Vice laws dishonor the true rule of law.
QUANTITIES OF NATURE'S WEED LOST TO PROHIBITIONIST
TYRANNY
2002-Nov-02 Amarillo TX (Amarillo Globe-News):
436 pounds (a supposed random traffic stop...
suurrrrre)
2002-Nov-01 Yreka CO (MtShastaLive.com):
20 pounds (allegedly $80,000 in prohibition-pumped street
value)
2002-Nov-01 Wash Co UT (thespectrum.com):
68 pounds (over burned-out license plate light...
suurrrrre)
2002-Nov-01 Hamilton OH (channelcincinnati.com):
28 pounds (fool also had guns, records of
customers)
2002-Nov-01 Whittier CA (Whittier Daily News):
40 pounds
(allegedly $100,000 in prohibition-pumped street
value)
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,207%257E12026%257E962983,00.html
2002-Nov-01
Crawford County, Ark (Times-Record):
78 pounds In this case, the Judge must decide if pot
destroyed before charges were filed can still be used as evidence
2002-Nov-01 Francistown, Botswana (Mmegi)Police in F-town worried about drug
trafficking because of quantities of Dagga
(pot)
http://www.mmegi.bw/2002/November/Friday1/3102442691080.html
Primitive
societies like Botswana, China, and USA are especially infected with this
religious bigotry
2002-Nov-01 Haddam CT (Middletown Press)
Seventh-grade student suspected of passing out marijuana-laced
brownies
Er, well, on the bright side, at least they weren't harming
their innards by smoking!
2002-Nov-01 Ontario, Canada (canada.com)Half of Quebec's highschoolers have
smoked pot, twenty percent use it
weekly
http://www.canada.com/montreal/news/story.asp?id=%7B00B7137D-D014-4813-9785-C2C014FC03AF%7D
Booze,
gambling also rampant. Where are the families of these kids? Their
pastors? Their tribal elders?
2002-Nov-01 Grand Prarie, Alberta (Daily Herald-Tribune)
Debate over medical marijuana use hits home for MS-afflicted
man
Man finds otherwise impossible relief from pot, which he grows and
consumes legally: "It kills the pain, it gives me quality of life."
Doesn't hide it, isn't ashamed of it, but, the article says, he "admits it can
be a little confusing when a police presentation at school tells his daughter
that marijuana is bad." Gee, why would irrational, irresponsible prohibitionist
propaganda propounded in the schools be confusing?
2002-Nov-01 San Francisco CA (Dayton OH Daily News
SF voters have option to vote for city-sponsored pot. Not that
it will happen. It's a "sounding" vote.
And anyway, how very Californian
this is. We want to get government OUT of the drug business, not INTO it!
2002-Nov-01 Somewhere in Canada, possibly Winnipeg
(Canada.com)
(Online newspapers are notorious, I've noticed, for presuming
that only locals are reading the articles, and cities or other location
identifiers are often missing from articles.)Man defends his homegrown from
prohibitionists using fireworks, masonry
hammer
http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=%7B70239EEC-1B31-4CEE-A596-E9FDC9C407CE%7D
The
cops were originally called because of some neighborly dispute. The man's
violence was not right; the cops were hurt. But one could almost forgive a guy
for standing up for his personal liberty using only such primitive methods.
David loses to Goliath.
2002-Nov-01 Valletta, Malta (di-ve news)
Nineteen people charged by prohibitionist fanatics with selling
cocaine and marijuana
Bust began with arrest of two Maltese in Sicily.
No mention of guns, violence, or any real transgressions being
involved.
2002-Nov-01 USA (UPI)
What U.S. Papers are saying about medical marijuana
NY
Times, Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury News all agree on court decision about
doctors recommending marijuana, but all still support the insane war on human
liberty, the so-called "war on drugs"
2002-Nov-01 New York PostJam Master Jay may have been smoking pot and playing
video games when
killed
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/50036.htm
2002-Nov-01 New
York (KRT)
Gasp! Undisclosed quantity of marijuana found in studio where
Run DMC DJ was murdered
Um... so? If it was beer, would it have been
worth mentioning? Was there tobacco? Coffee? Sugar?
2002-Nov-01 Kangaroo Island, Australia (The Islander)
Pot growers tyrannized by Australia
Only the insanity of
prohibition could make 139 plants be valued at over $400,000. JUST LEAVE THEM
ALONE! But then there are
hidden agendas after all.
2002-Nov-01 Uzbekistan (UzReport.com/BBC)Tyrannists plotting to disrupt traffic
of recreational goods in Central
Asia
http://www.uzreport.com/eng/dispnews.cfm?ch=301&dep=34&vrec=7380
They
don't seem to understand that if the trade were legitimate, the profit motive,
the gangsterism, and all the problems deriving from prohibition would no longer
have the financial support of recreational substance users around the world.
But then there are
hidden agendas after all.
2002-Nov-01 Mombasa, Kenya (East African Standard)Police accused of stoning to death
four fleeing
potsmokers
http://www.eastandard.net/eahome/story01112002021.htm
Four
people were only allegedly smoking ghanga on the beach.
2002-Oct-31 Seoul, No Korea (Reuters)
Top science prize to constipation cure which includes
cannabis
Herbal concoction "completely cured" 97 percent of the
thousands of constipated patients who tried it
2002-Oct-31 Lambertville NJ (Beacon News)
Ninety percent of teens get high says retired police
detective
Same writer, same paper, same speaker, but club drugs
discussed
Read this to discover how fear-mongering and disinformation
continue in the mass media. Don't suppose there could be some
hidden agendas there, could there? In any case, drug cops
see the worst of humanity, and aren't to be trusted as impartial observers,
especially this old phart.
2002-Oct-31 California (Lodi News-Central/AP)
Mexican gangster drug cartels taking over California pot
growing from "hippies"
More proof that prohibition encourages
gangsterism rather than solving anything. If you really want to be sure your
weed is karma-safe, you'll have to grow it yourself. Oh, wait! That's not legal
either!
THE PAINFULLY SLOW, HALTING PROCESS TOWARD GRUDGING, WHINING
ACCEPTANCE OF HUMAN LIBERTY
The movement toward "legalization" or
"decriminalization" progresses at a glacial pace. Nobody seems willing to just
say repeal:
2002-Oct-30 Massachusetts (Georgetown Record):
Several local quantity-based alleged decrim questions on Mass.
ballots
2002-Oct-30 California (New York Times):
Court rules Feds
may not revoke licenses of doctors who recommend illegal
medicine
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/national/30POT.html?ex=1036818000&en=48e6e1236cd7a3af&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
BAD GUYS SMOKE POT, TOO
In the category "not helpful to the
cause" are all the cases where genuine criminality is associated with
cannabis consumption. Rarely do we see pot alone being used, as other drugs are
usually in the mix, or there are other obvious problems with the individual.
Pot's effect has a reputation among some as peaceable, but bad guys smoke pot,
too, proving that it's the individual, not the substance, that determines how
the "high" (or "low") will be used:
2002-Nov-02 Erie, PA (Newsday & many
others/AP): Couple
steals electricity from neighbors to power pot-growing
lights
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-high-electric-bill1102nov02,0,6319122.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines
2002-Nov-02
New Plymouth NZ (stuff.co.nz):
Pregnant 19-yr-old
allegedly raped by bike gang members. Had smoked some pot
(so?)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2098746a11,00.html
2002-Nov-01
Middletown CT (Middletown Press):
Thieving, weapons, car chase, threatening cops, crack, and oh
yeah also had marijuana
2002-Nov-01 Seattle WA Times:
Dirty cop admits to shaking down drug dealers, says he was on a
two-month bender of daily marijuana smoking — on and off duty
For
his betrayal of trust and dishonoring of the uniform, violence and extortion,
this jerk will get off with only five years???
2002-Nov-01 Philadelphia PA
Daily News:
Convicted of killing teen over $50 or less worth of
pot
2002-Nov-1 Reno Gazette-Journal:
Stolen car, high-speed chase, attempting to flee arrest, and oh
by the way possessing marijuana
2002-Nov-1 Lebanon, Ind (Lebanon
Reporter):
Coke dealer busted. Has history of theft, stalking, burglary,
and oh yeah pot possession
2002-Nov-1 Benton Ark (Benton Courier):
While serving rape warrant, officers find pot. Also, auto
speedster caught with meth, pot.
2002-Nov-1 Colchester VT
(TheChamplainChannel.com):
Mother & son busted selling coke; possessed coke, Oxycodone
(nasty stuff) and oh yeah pot
2002-Oct-31 Pataskala OH
(NewarkAdvocate.com):
Hockey player dies from morphine overdose; used booze; oh yeah
once had traces of marijuana
2002-Oct-31 Junction City KS (Salina
Journal):
Brutal carjackers were smoking weed but also, significantly,
drinking
2002-Oct-31 Covington KY (myinky.com):
Pederast sold small quantities of pot to lure young boys to his
home
2002-Oct-31 Mobile AL (wpmi.com):
Thirty people indicted for using day care center as marijuana
distribution center
File this last one under "not helpful to the cause"
of making potheads acceptable to the average ignoramus on the street. One
important factor about this story is the manner and value of the law's
confiscation, proving once again there are some not-so-hidden agendas.
2002-Oct-31 Nashville TN (AP)
Terror
task force invades 2 homes, takes property, makes no arrests or
charges
Iraqi immigrant supposes "I think it is because I sent money to
my family." WHO are the terrorists, really?
2002-Oct-31 Washington DC (UPI)
How our government monitors, infiltrates, and disrupts
organizations
They do it to Al Kayda, did it to the
Black Panthers, and they'll do it to you if they feel like it.
2002-Oct-31 F ramlingham, England (Evening Star)
Judge decides that growers must be growing for profit not
personal use just because of quantity they grew
Another case of the
twisted judicial problems of semi-legalization. Either pot's legal or it's not,
and as this case shows, it's still not.
2002-Oct-31 Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico (Washington Post)Mexican drug kingpin
speaks the truth: US demand drives
trade
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43810-2002Oct30.html
but
it's not the demand that fuels the criminal black market, it's the
prohibition-inflated prices.
2002-Oct-31 Linn Co., Oregon (SweetHomeNews.com)
DEA seizes marijuana plants from medical permit
holder
Quadriplegic feels "raped," plans to sue Federal government over
loss and harassment. Most plants were about a month from harvest.
2002-Oct-31 Arizona (AP)
Arizona Proposition 203 provisions
Legalization, it's so
simple, and yet they make it so complex-seeming. "Decriminalization" is always
done piecemeal; quantity limits are just half-assed cowardice. Like saying it's
okay to own and drink beer, but illegal to have an entire six-pack in your
fridge. But having the police providing medical pot out of confiscations of
recreational pot? That's utterly ludicrous! Just get the government OUT
of the drug business entirely. Equally absurd is increasing penalties for
committing crimes while "under the influence." Either it's a crime, punishable
because of what you did, or it's not. The influences are irrelevant. But then
there are
hidden agendas after all.
2002-Oct-31 Columbus, Ohio (NBC4 Columbus)
Responding to burglar alarm, cops see drugs, money,
guns
and although all those things should in and of themselves be
legal, the residents were busted. Nevertheless, it's never helpful to the cause
when dealers have guns, and if you have a bunch of contraband sitting out in
plain sight and a burglar alarm, maybe you should be arrested for
stupidity. We always suspect, however, whether the cops really
only "peeked through a window" to find contraband "in plain sight."
2002-Oct-31 California (Ukiah Daily Journal)Ninth Circuit permits doctors to speak
freely to patients about
marijuana
http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/Stories/0,1413,91%257E3089%257E961652,00.html
Doctors
relieved, but remain tyrannical about individual liberty for recreational
substance use. But then there are
hidden agendas after all.
2002-Oct-30 Lusaka, Zambia (AllAfrica.com)Prohibitionist fanatics disrupt
cannabis trade, arrest four with pot at absurdly-inflated "street
price"
http://www.zambiatourism.com/travel/Cities/lusaka.htm
Fanatics
call for "awareness" campaign, which of course means increasing their
anti-choice propaganda
2002-Oct-27 Jakarta, Indonesia (ABC News)
Indonesia's Moderate Muslim Majority Disdains Islamic
Extremists
One moderate Muslim notably even demonstrated toward his
Christian neighbors what Jesus called the greatest love
2002-Oct-25 Washington DC (Christian Bourge, UPI)
Drug war has hidden agendas, says report
Non-partisan
think tank reports on what most thinking independents have known all along.
2002-Oct-18 Greg Baker (Miami.com)
Big
Kick, Plain Scrap: History of the Drugs in the War On
How we got where
we are and who's really winning the so-called drug war
2002-May-30 Palestine and Israel (David Rudge, Jerusalem Post)
In the mind of a would-be suicide bomber
"I felt like
they were playing a game with the blood of the martyrs."
2002-Apr-03 Jerusalem (Jerusalem Post)"The attack didn't differentiate
between Arabs and
Jews...
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/04/02/News/News.46221.html
Stop
fighting and start talking. That is the only path to peace
Nando Times
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Victims of 2001-Sep-11 listed, many profiled