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2002-Nov-11 10:45pm CST
VETERAN'S DAY, née Armistice Day let us not
forget. May those who fought and died for freedom not have fought and died in
vain.
Iraq's parliament has rejected the UN inspection plan. My guess is, tomorrow, Saddam will come out beneficently defying this puppet congress of his, and graciously permit the UN inspectors anyway, leaving George W frustrated and impotent. I'm on record with this prediction, now. Beats war.
The new "smoking three joints is like twenty cigarettes" report is repeated on Cannabis News. Skip over the report and read cogent criticism in comment #9, "The Voice of Idiocy" by RagingDave. Ends with, "This is just another bunch of old fogies spewing nonsence [sic] about things about which they know absolutely nothing. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - things would be a lot simpler if these people would just shut up and smoke a joint before passing judgement upon those of us who do it regularly."
The war for liberty has some unusual fronts. Nigeria is now promising women there won't be stoned to death so that they can host the Miss World contest. My, what sensitivity that shows! Maybe they can just bury them alive instead? The battle is between modern sensibilities, such as that women in bathing suits is acceptable in God's sight, and those who think it's not, under ancient and frequently immoral fundamentalist taboos. Wait, am I talking about Falwellians here or Islamists?
Read about who the killers kill and you discover the beauty of humanity. Read about the ordinarily-good folks gunned down by a madman sniper in Maryland. Read about how Jews have lived in peace, and desired peace, with their Palestinian neighbors, in the kibbutz where a thug just killed five, including two little children in their mother's arm in their own home. But these violent thugs don't think, they just inflict horror in their self-righteousness. For the "religious soldiers," their tribal mentality is too primitive to grasp that they attack individuals, not "peoples." Like the Bali bomber who "thought many Americans were in Bali. When he knew mostly Australians died he was not happy.'' Australian, British, American, they were just people having fun. But then, their idea of fun, just like the Miss World contest, is contrary to the Fundamentalists. Just like potsmokers are in the Christian fundamentalist countries. Fundamentalists are not like your average imperial territorialists, who can be pushed back to their original borders; fundamentalists insist they know what God wants for you and me. They should be locked up and on medication, but they run most of the countries in the world, including the White House.
Have some extra time? Surf the DEA's website for scintillating articles such as "DEA Extends Grace Period for Disposal of Existing Inventories of HEMP Products" Eeewwww. Afterwards, shower.
More hints for potsmokers: Don't drink or whoop it up in public while holding (Ponca City, OK). Don't drink and whoop it up in private (Pewaukee WI--same police blotter: don't get high and break into your mother's house to steal a video game machine). In fact, just don't, holding or not. It's embarrassing, man! Don't do Coricidin and pot (Des Moines IA). (Easy guess: it wasn't the pot that caused the problems.) Don't be a Harlan, IA, city councilman and get disorderly while holding paraphernalia. Don't be an immigrant and get caught with pot. (Dartmouth). Don't drive while using pot and muscle relaxants (Londonderry). In fact, don't drive and use muscle relaxants at all; it can be murder.
Portland, Indiana, drug thugs now threaten 60-year-old Thelma J Hirschy with four years in prison, charged with bringing California weed to town. Yeah, that evil woman deserves prison all righty! Why someone might've got HIGH thanks to her machinations.
2002-Nov-10 6:00PM CST — POLICE BLOTTERS EVERYWHERE: PEOPLE JUST WANT THEIR STUFF, MAN!
Whoops! Nearly
sixty pounds found on the side of the road. If that
much bounced off the haytruck, I wonder how much wasn't lost!
Two more arrested in Manhattan, KS, for growing old mary
jane.
www.themercury.com/stories/article.8099.shtml
stuff.co.nz: A settlement with police over their addiction to cannabis they smoked while masquerading as criminals in the line of duty. Wow! Way to milk the system, boys!
South Bend Tribune: Article on Constitutional problems and judicial decisions regarding random drug testing of student athletes. Same paper, some kid propagandizes how great random drug testing is for kids. Teaches them to be considered guilty until proven guilty, just like in society.
Miami Herald: Estimates: 80 percent of baseball players use amphetamines... 80 percent of NBA players regularly smoke marijuana.
stuff.co.nz: National Organisation for Reform of Marijuana Laws (Norml) spokesman Chris Fowlie said yesterday it was not a case of "if" cannabis coffee shops would open in New Zealand, but "when".
SOUND THE ALARMS! MODERN SUPERSTRONG POT MAY CAUSE PSYCHOTIC DELUSION, LUNG DISEASE, AND IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION. Ohmigawwww! Smoke isn't a perfect thing to do to your body — who knew? Well, this will be more crap for the Prohibitionist Propagandists to use in their usurpation of an individual's right to toke.
SwissInfo.org: Swiss freaking out about kids on "alcopops." Article says "young consumers... are drinking to excess in ever-greater numbers." Tim Stockwell, the head of Australia’s national drug research institute, wisely says it: "This is a drug that kills many more people than heroin, cannabis or amphetamines – all these things we get our knickers in a twist about politically.”
Chico CA (Enterprise-Record): Woman offers pot for car
Iraq has internet... sort-of. Controlled by Saddam's
government, no sex, porn, or anti-Saddam websites, and certain American
government sites filtered. Favorite quote: "Even if we could, no Iraqi would
visit such pages," said Hassan, a 20-year-old medical student who gave only his
first name. "We are patriots and know well what we shouldn't do." Hassan,
you don't want to go there, that's fine. But you're still supporting
tyranny, not liberty, for your fellows!
www.news24.com/News24/World/0,1113,2-10_1281204,00.html
2002-Nov-10 3:30PM CST
There have been several sports and entertainment figures in the news lately with marijuana violations. They're just like everybody else.
Another growing tip: If you're growing, don't let your house catch fire. (Santa Fe, NM)
Another big ecstasy lab busted in Connecticut. Ecs sounds like nasty stuff to me, but I can't help but think, wouldn't it be better to legalize the stuff, so consumers know what they're getting?
Williamsburg VA (Va Gazette)
RAMPANT MISUSE OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS IS APPROACHING EPIDEMIC
PROPORTIONS!! WOMEN TWICE AS LIKELY TO BECOME ADDICTED!! SENIORS A SIGNIFICANT
PORTION OF THOSE ABUSING!! TEEN ABUSE IS SKYROCKETING!! EVERYBODY'S, LIKE,
DOING ONE BIG RAVE THING ALL THE TIME!! STOP THEM!! OH, WHY DOESN'T SOMEBODY
STOP THE MADNESS!! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!! (Just wanted to try a little
Drudge-type headline
screaming)
www.vagazette.com/news/va-news2_110902nov09,0,7212087.story?coll=va-news
Ohmigawwww! What's the world coming to? Students
smoking "weed" in a dorm room? Unheard of! (Univ of Wash Daily) Good
thing they had smoked it all. (And burn some incense next time, and stuff a
damp towel under the door, and don't tell the guard you were smoking weed. Ya
dumb kids!)
thedaily.washington.edu/news.lasso?-database=DailyWeb.fp5&-layout=List&-response=newspage.lasso&-recordID=33762&-search&-Token.Count=174
Christianberg, VA (Roanoke Times) — The cops had arrest warrants for a fellow for shipping pills. They found pills, coke, mush, and a little pot. But the apartment, the cops thought, smelled too much of pot. Following their noses, they checked the apartment downstairs and found a grow operation, 100 plants and two pounds of smoke-ready. Two morals, I guess: 1. If you're going to grow, don't have a pill-shipping suspect living upstairs, and, 2. REPEAL! (Review of American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition)
I just wanted to mention this item from the Bloomfield CO police blotter. Some unnamed juvenile was accosted by police in his car, the police found pot on him, and he was taken away while his three buddies were released to their parents. Just one kid, right? And even with legal pot, he's probably underage, right? (Unless we decide, like Canada has had recommended, that 16-year-olds should be legal for pot. Yeah, sure, Americans are known for their confidence in their youth!) Just wanted to mention that one kid, and all those thousands like him whose lives are affected by this stupid cat-and-mouse game of Prohibition.
Jennifer Sullivan, 16, caught holding more than four ounces within 1500 feet of a school and no clean underwear. Oakdale, Connecticut (Okay, I made that last part up.)
DEERFIELD, NJ (TheDailyJournal.com) — Drug tyrants imprison home-growing woman. Mighty forces of tyranny overwhelm mother and take away her child. Vegetables did not put up any reported resistance.
TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iranian students protest a second day against the theocratic overlords of Iran. A couple of members of parliament resign in protest of the death sentence pronounced upon university lecturer Hashem Aghajari for a speech earlier this year, in which he said Muslims were not "monkeys" to blindly follow the teachings of senior clerics. Blasphemer!
An AP report that among those wacky hillbilly Muslims in Dadu, south of
Islamabad, Pakistan, the village council permitted
a
villager to marry off his 10-year-old daughter to a 40-year-old man,
compensating the man for a borrowed buffalo that died in the father's
care.
www.news24.com/News24/World/0,1113,2-10_1283069,00.html
2002-Nov-10 2:00AM CST THE OUTRAGE CONTINUES
LONDON (London Free Press) —
Drug tyrants interrupt home-growing operations in three
London homes, value the vegetables at $1.43 million!
www.canoe.ca/LondonNews/lf.lf-11-09-0048.html
If we remove the prohibition statutes, we will remove the reason for
existence of modern-day Al Capones, such as Pennsylvania's
John Scalzitti. Removing prohibition removes the
incentives for illegal production and lessens the difficulties of control and
addiction such as they face in
India's northeastern state of Mizoram
www.irna.com/en/head/021109161921.ehe.shtml
PollStar.com: Daylong "Smoke Out" music and pot festival in Los Angeles Nov 23
Curry County, OR (Curry County Pilot) — Bob Walker gets medical marijuana program put into effect in Oregon.
If stupidity were the crime, they'd still be
under arrest. Once again, a photo lab developer (Edinburgh, Scotland) turns in home gardeners. The article
mentions other innocuous instances which have also upset the prurience
police.
In the category "not helpful to the cause", a man in
Ely, Iowa, arrested for possession... and trying to eat the
neighbor's goat?!? And a videotaping peeping tom (Everett, WA)
who blames his problem on his "prodigious marijuana use." Yeah, right, blame
the herb weirdo.
Everett:
seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/94961_brief409.shtml
news.com.au — Police on drugs an increasing problem in NSW. Who's in charge of doing what?
Racine WI: Theater fund-raiser party becomes drug-manic police ticket-writing riot. Hundreds fined, only three arrested with drugs.
Note to dealers and doers: Keep that car in good working order. Have all
your papers as well as your pipes. E.g. Don't let your registration lapse
(Burlington WI) while holding. But then, sometimes your car
will just burst into flame
(Fairbanks, Alaska) when you don't have your license or
proof of insurance, and then you'll get busted just for having some pot. Also,
don't run a red light
(Jersey City Heights, NJ) while you're burning
one (burning a joint, that is, not a car). They really heaped the charges on
these dudes.
Fairbanks:
www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113%257E7247%257E980949,00.html
Vallejo CA (VallejoNews.com) — Eeewww. Police found 16 grams of marijuana in 25 separate bags between the buttocks of a 24-year-old Vallejo parolee after a traffic stop.
Hamlet NC (Wash Post) — She's told her doctors that despite all the
prescribed medications she's on,
there's nothing like a toke from a marijuana cigarette now
and then to dim the pain. "I
told my doctors that. I won't lie."
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27913-2002Nov8.html
CBS — The Odd Truth Stories include: Philadelphia police shake down motorcycle club. Nude beach victory in Vermont.
MANILA (AFP) —
US State Department calls group's assassination by missile "legal
and necessary"
www.news24.com/News24/World/0,1113,2-10_1282893,00.html
DUBAI (Khaleeji Times) — Anti-drug zealots interfering heavily with recreational substance market
LONDON (Christian Science Monitor)—Imaging software used with closed- circuit TVs to detect overcrowding, loitering, and "suspicious packages" in public places.
2002-Nov-09 8:00PM CST amending Nov-08 p.m.
General articles: AustinChronicle.com has a
straightforward
report on the October 9th US Circuit Court decision on
doctor-patient discussions of marijuana, hopefully headlined "Medical Marijuana
Victory" — the only hopeful headline of its type. TechnicianOnline.com has
a well-informed opinion piece that leads off with
"America's attitude toward marijuana is being brought to the
forefront of a national discussion." Alas that the election seemed to push
it to the background again.
Tempering
the trauma of divorce with group programs — shows that working with
kids personally is better than not. Hm. Who woulda thought.
The state of the war: At last, we have actual
ray guns that shoot down artillery shells. Not quite sure
what this means when the enemy probably has
dirty bombs to sneak in. Meanwhile, the
military
cracks down on drugs. The problem with drug "crackdowns" is they favor
alcoholism. Residual pot or coke in your system doesn't mean you're still high,
or impaired, long after you have taken it. Indeed, residual such means you're
developing a tolerance, unlike the next-time effects of alcohol. Other than
that, we really don't want drugged-out troops, do we? Well, maybe on caffeine.
Or, I hear
Amanita Muscaria
has a warrior's reputation....
ray guns was:
www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/es.es-11-09-0083.html
The simple matter of repeal is too politicized. It's financed by big out-of-state bucks, which locals everywhere tend to resent. The proposals have outlandish "crazy Californian" restrictions or embellishments, like making the government responsible for actually growing (San Francisco, being explored) or handing out (Arizona, defeated) marijuana. The Nevada measure was fairly straightforward, but would it be so hard if people were just asked, "Should pot be sold, managed, and restricted essentially as alcohol is?" There's problems with that — it's a plant not a product, pot does not affect like alcohol, and alcohol is largely mismanaged anyway, but I'd vote for that! In any case, it's the Fed that's the main problem.
On the frontlines of the war on drug tyranny: In just the six days ending last Wednesday night, border guards stopped 4,575 pounds of marijuana and 63 pounds of cocaine. They also stopped over 25,000 rounds of automatic weapons ammunition heading south! Methinks the interdiction process would be improved by focusing on the latter matter, and legalizing the former to remove all trafficking incentives.
The general breakdown of civilization can be seen on many fronts:
deterioration of civil rights, as with "one of the crudest and least effective
police tactics,"
stop-and-search, on the rise in Britain, with worse racial
slant than in the past, and
vigilante groups patrolling the US border claiming to
defend against a Mexican "invasion."
Growers busted by drug creeps. A man was
arrested for growing pot in public park. The Park Supt.
says such an operation "damages park resources and destroys habitat." Maybe if
they were grown organically and in environmentally-friendly ways like the
coffee
proposal (defeated) in Berkeley? An
unattended dog complaint at a home lead the mighty drug
tyrants to finding six mere marijuana plants. Drug storm troopers mercilessly
slaughter 58 lovingly-grown plants and
arrest three Kansas women simply for cultivation (same
news, different source).
dog:
www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208%257E12588%257E977856,00.html
diff source:
www.themercury.com/stories/article.8041.shtml
If stupidity were the crime, they'd still be under arrest. Whoops, Dad! Sonny boy leads the baby sitter to the stash cabinet. Oh, those kids, huh!
College students are tokin'. Along with 20 million criminalized Americans, about 15% of college students study marijuana mentation. At Yale, students say marijuana use is "widespread and buying or selling pot is neither full of glamour nor fraught with danger." Of course they still smoke. Even the last 2 US Presidential candidates, hypocrites both, inhaled when they were smarter. But a recent ruling by the New Hampshire Supreme Court in a case involving Dartmouth may limit the privacy rights of students attending private colleges and universities
Legalization questions: "Tests also showed
Al-Joburi had enough marijuana in his system to be legally impaired."
What? What was that? Just how much marijuana, measured by what means, makes a
person "legally impaired"? I've never seen that term used that way with
marijuana before. And it's dangerous.
www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pdui08nov08,0,7110350.story?coll=sfla-news-palm
Sooo... pot is kids' stuff? A Fiji judge reprimands a
father of four that he should
"grow up" and not smoke pot. Brings to mind the old joke,
the punchline of which adapted to this case would be, "Did you ever try to be a
father of four not stoned?" The father was searched by a policeman who
saw him "acting suspiciously." Right. What does that mean? Happy? Smiling?
Dancing? Trying to hide a pipe from some Prohibitionist tyrant cop?
Random tidbits:
Nowich:
"DEA busts underground ecstasy lab" — is there some other kind?
"The Marijuana Logues," comedy trio tackles pot smoking in
these postmodern times
Nepalese police arrested four Indians for allegedly smuggling
cannabis to India from Nepal — Wait! Didn't they invent this
stuff? I'll bet it was goooood stuff, too. Please, God, let it stop!
2002-Nov-08 DRUG NAZIS ON RAMPAGE: "It's the largest amount of cocaine I've seen in my 17 years," cooed prohibition-enforcer Sgt. Detective Daniel Linsky, speaking of less than thirty pounds of cocaine and three pounds of pot valued at two-point-six million dollars, called one of the biggest drug busts in Boston history. Biggest bust of pot in Ontario's history, with 9,500 plants valued at ten-point-six million dollars. The drug "war" is a loser.
Lord, make this madness stop! Two poor shnooks travelling I-80 in Wyoming on Halloween were stopped "for an equipment violation" and agents of drug tyranny found 21 pounds of pot they say is worth $86,000. Clue, people! It'd be worth about $80 (if that) without Prohibition. Same goes for the alleged £500,000 value of 110 kilos the drug nazis took from a fellow in London. Or the supposedly quarter-million dollars value on sixty-six plants grown by a fellow in Broken Arrow, OK. One of those fellows they caught near Vinita, OK, last January with 211 pounds has been sentenced to twenty-two months in prison. A security guard at a nightclub in Omaha has been charged with moving more than a ton of pot. The drug "war" is a loser.
The drug war is especially a loser in Russia, where post-communist modernization includes an 85% increase in Russian drug traffic. When do you suppose that Statemongering people will discover that legalization solves everything from gangs to treating addicts?
Here's a big-time smuggling case by a vicious
criminal, and the headline makes it sound like major betrayal of trust by youth
leader: "Scout leader caught at border with marijuana." A Vermont Boy
Scout leader came in from Canada along with his troops, and they found all of
2.6 grams of pot in a medicine bottle. He probably took
it into Canada with him in the first place. Another vicious criminal
(according to the drug nazis) is a British "former lorry driver" who was
caught openly growing weed for his pain from a calcified
hip. "I take up to six Dihydrocodeine tablets a day, a pain relieving drug.
When I smoke joints I can get away with taking two tablets because cannabis
relaxes and eases the pain." He insists marijuana should be legal for medical
purposes. But he's out of luck, just like the medical marijuana farm raided by
the Puritanazis and who are
asking
for 167 plants back, or the councilwoman for the Yavapai-Apache tribe in
Camp Verde, Arizona, who complained that the drug nazis
took her "best stuff.", or the Nam vet in Oregon whose
dozen state-legal plants were taken by the feds.
2.6 grams:
www.cmonitor.com/stories/news/newengla2002/vt__scoutleaderplea_2002.shtml"best
stuff": www.tucsoncitizen.com/local/11_6_02pot_tribe.html
A Judge in Traverse City, Michigan excuses himself after
puffing a joint going by him at a Rolling Stones
concert. OOooooo!
Although opposed to prohibition, sometimes it does seem that some of these people should be busted sheerly for stupidity. Another case of a crazy man defending his pot plants with a sword in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They shot the poor bastard four times, but he'll live. And some idiot tried to swallow several bags of marijuana when the cops stopped him in Cedartown, GA.; we know he's an idiot because he had a bunch of weapons and an open beer in the car. In Edenburgh, England, a chemist (pharmacist to Americans) thought he saw drugs in the background of photos being developed, and this led to a prohibitionist raid imprisoning five people and stealing of "£15,500 worth of drugs including cocaine, amphetamines, cannabis and 1500 Ecstasy tablets." Dumb, dumb, dumb!
A Muscatine Iowa man was arrested by drug nazis in Columbus Junction, IA, with 135 pounds, first discovered during a "routine inspection" of a commercial shipper in Texas. Police were asked to check up on a man whom friends said hadn't been seen for a few days, and ended up arresting a Northampton, Massachusetts, man with a dozen small plants and some ready-to-smoke. Some snitch told Buxton, Maine, prohibition enforcers about a fellow whose major threat to the peace of society was having several pounds of marijuana in his freezer and more than 100 seedlings. An Englishman was stopped trying to send thirteen pounds of cocaine out of Antigua. "Within the last two months close to a dozen people, majority of whom are young adults, have been caught trafficking cocaine and cannabis in to and out of the country." Drug tyrants in Brasilia found 198 pounds of pot in the false bottom of a hearse. Remember, folks — these are just the little fish they catch.
Drug raiders called "over the top" in West Cumbrian cannabis bust, with eight officers, drug dog, and battering rams to catch two people with undisclosed quantity in their possession. Also in our "over the top" category, two women were arrested in Cumberland County, NJ. Police helicopters, and a dozen officers in camo proudly overpowered the dangerous vegetables, but there were not as many as they'd thought there would be. Read about abuse of police power against free speech in Tampa, and a drug-addled soul dying while hog-tied in police custody in Virginia.
It should come as no surprise to anyone but
those who get their information strictly from the government, but
pot is still popular on campus. This article also
tells how drug creeps trap students. Says one student caught with pot: "Why is
it anyone's business? Was I getting drunk and causing a disturbance? Is there
anything more harmless?"
An editorial in the Oregonian calls for abolition of the medical marijuana laws there. I agree, but from a wholly different conclusion: pot should simply be legalized everywhere.
DARE keeps redefining itself to avoid the obvious criticism that it doesn't work. Read about the secret of DARE's political (although not educational) success in Reason Online. Speaking of bogus information, false "facts" about marijuana fill a page at stuff.co.nz.
There are small dollops of hope in the sea of evil news and foul
disinformation. Inch by inch, baby step by baby step, governments crawl
painfully, glacially, toward the concept of liberty.
Ontario's minister of public safety and security wants to make
having a little pot a minor offense. (Sorry, no good, minister. Just
make it legal. Too simple a concept, eh?) A fellow wants to
restore hemp (asa) to Japanese society, and has become the
first person licensed to grow industrial hemp there, although he has been
busted for it anyway. And there is, at least, a small voice in the wilderness,
Christians for Cannabis whose founder says she was anti-pot
until she tried some. "I believe it made me think more." I would hope
so, if only about how wrong Christians for Prohib are. The general secretary of
the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, is quoted as saying,
"The war on drugs has been an abysmal failure in any practical sense." But the
drug nazis aren't listening.
minister:
canada.com/national/story.asp?id=%7BFCC51848-B68A-4F15-BDC9-094244E60C22%7D
2002-Nov-07 Just a few days of scouring Google News search on "marijuana OR cannabis OR hemp" told me that I didn't have time to keep up with the struggle in such detail. Besides, the struggle against tyranny goes beyond the drug nazis. I glean these tidbits.
On Nov 1, customs agents seized more than a half ton of
cocaine in Rio Rico, "just one in a string of seizures that netted more
than $16 million worth of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamines near
the U.S.-Mexico border during the course of eight days." Right. That's just
what they caught! Imagine how much is getting through!
www.tucsoncitizen.com/breaking/11_1_02cocaine.html
Halloween met drug-scare tactics in a school in Talequah, OK, with kids dressed up as drug overdose victims hanging around the school. Cute, but such negative propaganda doesn't as well as simple correct information that young people can believe, which is hard to get in a Prohibitionist society, and positive role models. That doesn't mean a society that's hypocritical, banning pot and having a huge booze and nicotine industry!
Speaking of the world's most deadly and most favorite
drug, Dutch researchers report that
just two glasses of wine can cloud a person's judgment so much
that he does not even realize he is making errors. This alone would explain
the vast majority of legislative and social ills.
Meanwhile, tyranny has other faces. The taboo-riddled justice of
fundamentalist Islamists is illustrated lately by a
boy killing his mother for her affairs, as a matter of
family honor, "the 18th woman to be killed in the kingdom in 13 'honour crimes'
since the beginning of the year."
www.news24.com/News24/World/0,1113,2-10_1281180,00.html
Such stark and merciless, primitive ideas aren't much different from the line we cross when America uses an unmanned drone plane for an assassination, and our armies and spies act as judge, jury and executioner for whomever their assassins hit.
Amidst this mad swirl of brutality, Ashcroft has at last confirmed what we knew they were thinking, that they can link the drug war with the terrorist war, decry the Prohibition-induced association of the "toxic combination of drugs and terrorism," and keep the war on drugs going hotter than ever. Illegal substances are used to raise money by gangsters? This is not news, this is history — why don't we learn from it?? Let's see, now, how did we end the war on illegal booze and the gangs that ran it? Could it have been... REPEAL!?!! REPEAL!!!!
Alas, we're going deeper into the mire. The big pharmaceutical
corporations are
hijacking nature's simple herb marijuana.
Nevadans refused medical pot "It would be a mess," said
Peaches Johnson of Las Vegas. "It's permission to get high." Oh, geez!
That's riiight, you booze-slugging, nicotine-gulping, caffeine-addled,
pill-popping middle Americans... it means permission to get high! Live with
it!)
Arizona rejects its admittedly goofy referendum.
New Mexico
loses its reform-friendly governor. And
PuritaNazi Republicans ruling Congress, Senate and
White House overthrow any hope of reform in this
generation.
Nevadans refused:
www.sltrib.com/11062002/nation_w/13868.htm
Republicans ruling:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20738-2002Nov6.html
Any relief from the
Puritan tyrants lies ultimately in education, but
the American people wax fat and their ears are stuffed with
lies and
more lies and they cannot hear the truths of the very
principles they ostensibly espouse.
Editorial opinion.
:)