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TUESDAY 2003-JAN-13
REALLY SCARY CONSPIRACY BY THE PURITALIBANAZI FORCES:
The Office of National Drug Control Policy has teamed up with
the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) as part of its escalating
war on marijuana.
Burns letter then listed a number of marijuana-related
"truths," including the following:
"The first is that marijuana is
addictive," Burns wrote, asserting that 62% of all dependent drug users are
dependent on cannabis.
Furthermore, "Marijuana and violence are
linked."
"The truth is that we aren't imprisoning individuals for just
'smoking a joint,'" Burns continued, noting that only half of one percent of
prisoners are doing time for marijuana possession.
"The truth is that
marijuana is a gateway drug.
GOD PLEASE RESCUE US FROM THESE INSANE
RELIGIOUS TYRANTS!
Tucson AZ (KOLD-TV Jan-11)- Anonymous tip leads to huge marijuana bust on Tucson's east side. "Someone called authorities...." and the NarcoNazis invaded an auto body shop and stole "more than 40 bales of pot stacked up in the bathroom." Est. $2 million street, five detained. Who snitched and why? A dissatisfied customer? A rival dealer? The cops do favors for gangsters all the time this way. Everything is corrupt when Prohibitionism is the real background evil.
Tucson Citizen (Jan-12): "In a separate pot bust over the weekend, U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Ajo Border Patrol Station seized 1,095 pounds of marijuana Friday, valued at an estimated $876,000." Siiiigh!
Jenalia Moreno, Houston Chronicle writes about the hard life of Mennonites in Mexico: "Some Mennonite men, restless and unable to find farming jobs, have even tried to make a living in the drug trade, growing marijuana and trucking it across the border. That's landed quite a few of these simple folk in jail. Other Mennonites are disappointed in what their brethren have done, but Friesen said he understands that people just want to feed their families." END THE EVIL OF PROHIBITION. It won't really help them much, removing the black-market cash incentive, but it will end the absurd evil of punishment for growing and trading in God's green weed.
R. W. Apple Jr. writes of life in California's Anderson Valley, in the New York Times Wining & Dining section: "Marijuana is a major cash crop; last summer the police uprooted 24,500 plants in two days, but the district attorney, a man of sturdy libertarian principles, refused to prosecute. No one asks at local dinner parties whether it's O.K. to light up a joint. It's standard practice." Civilization in transition from barbarous tyranny to simple liberty.
Also in the New York Times, Science section, Diana Jean Schemo writes of a conference weighing the value of the openness of scientific communication with the problems of safety and security: "Since the Sept. 11 attacks, new laws and regulations restrict who may work on 64 'select agents' that could be used to make biological weapons, barring students or scholars with a drug conviction or a history of mental illness and those from countries labeled sponsors of terrorism from participating in research. ... Lewis Branscom, a Harvard professor who is advising the university on future work with select agents and other security issues, said he feared not so much a 'frontal assault' on the First Amendment's freedom to speak and publish as 'an elaborate web of controls that look and smell and taste like classification.' Barring groups of people — certain foreigners, marijuana smokers or people with clinical depression, say, from the research, he said, 'reminds me very much of the McCarthy days.'" Yup.
TIme Magazine discovers hemp beer. Yawn.
THE WAR THAT WILL NOT END UNTIL SANITY PREVAILS!
El Paso Times, TX - Police found a duffel
bag filled with 13 pounds of marijuana while responding to an unrelated
call
San Diego Union Tribune, CA- Mexican federal
anti-narcotics squad were detained and their office abruptly closed Friday
night after soldiers found almost five tons of unreported
marijuana
Fulton Valley News, NY - ... several bags
containing a white residue that tested positive for cocaine, a film
canister containing a green leafy substance that tested positive for
marijuana...
Barbados Advocate, West Indies - A firm
'No' to legalisation of Marijuana ... may indeed have dealt with the
several topics indicated, but the only topic about which any substantial
information was given was “the issue of marijuana”. An insane
editorial which hypothesizes that legalizing pot would lead to legalizing theft
and so on.
Idaho State Journal, ID - Newbold said drug
abuse has recently shifted away from marijuana and cocaine toward
methamphetamines.
Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - ...The murders he
referred to were thought to have been the result of gangs battling for
dominance over the cocaine and ganja (marijuana) market in London.
...
Jupiter Courier, FL - ... Cannabis
possession: At 5:33 pm Jan. 5, a male juvenile and a female juvenile were
arrested in the 400 block of South A1A on charges of possession of marijuana
TUESDAY 2003-JAN-07 09:05pm CST
Alas that life tears me away from this important work. But seriously... What do you think of this radical bloggery?
Illegal music download sites will never be eradicated, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has admitted. -Darren Waters BBC News Online entertainment staff
Good reading: 'Strange Fruit' -- music that fueled a movement, an article about a documentary about the song. -Edward Guthmann, S.F. Chronicle Staff Writer
Just because: A cache of 500 original Beatles tapes stolen in the 1970s and containing tracks which have never before been released, has been recovered. -BBC 2003-Jan-10
Just because: Kids younger than ten generally, and under five certainly, do not understand sarcasm.
Civilization is a relative word in this world: Hundreds of angry Malawians hounded a senior political figure from his house and stoned him late Wednesday, accusing him of harboring vampires. Blantire Urban Governor Eric Chiwaya, a member of the ruling United Democratic Front, was the latest victim of a bizarre rumor that the country's government is colluding with vampires to collect human blood for international aid agencies. -Reuters
THE WAR ON HUMAN LIBERTY, DRUGS DIVISION
The real "drug war" is really not new news, and it's about controlling the public's mind and money with "legal" drugs: "Critics of the pharmaceutical industry claim drug makers are seizing on such loose definitions to unnecessarily 'medicalize' an ever-widening range of human behavior in the hope of selling more drugs." -Toni Clarke, Reuters 2003-Jan-10
Cocaine and Ritalin, chemically comparable, and the ironies of the illegality of one and the ubiquity of the other, by Joel Miller on WorldNetDaily 2003-Jan-11
Editorial by Kirk Makin, Justice Reporter for The Globe and Mail, Saturday, 2003-Jan-11, on the possible final decrim of marijuana in Canada.
CRUEL AND STILL ALL TOO USUAL PURITALIBANICAL INSANITY:
Malaysia: A lorry driver was today sentenced to death by the
High Court here after he was found guilty of trafficking in 958gm of cannabis
about three years ago. -Bernama.com
ANTI-SOME DRUGS MANIA PROPAGANDA:
Lutz said Rhodd asked for and received permission to search the
vehicle, where deputies found 120 pounds of marijuana, with an estimated
$120,000 street value. Yeah, sure. (The Topeka Capital-Journal) But
here's a hint from the article, kids, don't be "speeding and driving with
defective tail lamps."
Consider the involvement of drugs in the 15-day seige that ended with
the death of Jamaican native Eli Hall in London.
Article by Nick Hopkins and Tania Branigan
2003-Jan-11 The Guardian:
"Hall's stubbornness certainly surprised
police. They had hoped that, dispirited by eight days without electricity, six
without food and a fortnight without cannabis (the police were advised he had a
considerable habit) he would eventually emerge from his bedsit in Marvin
Street, Hackney." Instead, after being holed up playing sniper for a couple of
weeks, he immolated himself. Maybe they should have GIVEN HIM some marijuana???
His father was a victim in the war-on-some-people's-substances, just pot.
A follow-up on that family that was cruelly abused, and their dog murdered, by Tennessee military-style cop actions by John Gerome Associated Press, 2003-01-10 in the Washington Post The cop speaks out.
Screaming Headline: DON'T SAY CANNABIS IS HARMLESS. IT DROVE MY LOVING
WEE BOY TO TAKE HIS OWN LIFE Parents blame drug for James' mental collapse
Caroline Waterston Exclusive, Daily Mail Oh, well, better
keep it frippin' illegal then, eh, Nigel? Sorry about little Jimmy, ma'am. Most
people don't have your boy's problems, though.
www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=12523912&method=full&siteid=86024
Associated Press headline making the rounds in Alabama
sources:
Mobile's first homicide of 2003
drug-related
Truth-corrected headline:
Mobile's first homicide of
2003 prohibition-related
Papers lining up as usual repeating the
PuriTalibanical propaganda-slanted headline and article:
al.com/newsflash,
timesdaily.com,
Sarasota Herald-Tribune,
Tuscaloosa News, AL
On the basis of extensive interviews of those seeking to use cannabis under California's medical marijuana initiative, I discovered that virtually all had also tried alcohol -- usually just before they first tried marijuana, which is to say while still in high school or even junior high. Beyond that, a very high percentage had become black-out drinkers before settling on pot as their self-medication of choice. Once established as regular pot users, they did not become teetotalers, but for the overwhelming majority, their alcohol intake declined to the level of acceptable social drinking. The message, to which federal drug warriors remain obdurately deaf: The most significant "gateway" opened by cannabis seems to be out of alcohol abuse. -Tom O'Connell, M.D. San Mateo, Calif. at OregonLife.com (Radical's emphasis added.)
I'm tapped out. Check the war reports yourself at Google News search on "marijuana OR cannabis OR hemp" — it's a real war, and people are being imprisoned and dying every day for the wrong-headed, hypocritical, and just plain greedy purposes of those who want to keep the war going. REPEAL! REPEAL! REPEAL!
TUESDAY 2003-JAN-07 09:05pm CST
A new year, with the same old battles continuing.
Militarized police madness in Tennessee: "...Before their ordeal was over, three members of the family had been yanked out of their car and handcuffed on the side of Interstate 40 in downtown Cookeville, and their beloved dog, Patton, had been shot to death by a police officer as they watched...."
Time Magazine: Wal-Mart really does plan to take over the world! "...'Their goal is to have a 30% share of every major business they are in....'"
Guardian and
BBC: Early Christians used powerful cannabis oils?
"They suggest the extract, which is absorbed into the body when placed on the
skin, could have helped cure people with a variety of physical and mental
problems."
OLD NEWS to many folks. See
The Religion of
Jesus Christ: The Holy Herb.
See also:
The Burning Shiva Hour-Jesus used Marijuana
Part 4 of "When Smoke Gets in my I" a series on the history of
cannabis and human consciousness.
Christians For
Cannabis
Cannabis and the Christ, Jesus Used Ganja!
Global
Ideas Bank: Amanita muscaria and cannabis sativa - keys to
Christianity?
and just for fun...
Jesus Journal: Did Jesus Do Dope?
Christian Dollar Store: Hemp "What Would Jesus Do?"
Necklace
Seyfried: Jesus
and many other resources at
google.com:
search on "jesus cannabis OR marijuana OR hemp"
search on "jesus hawaii cannabis OR marijuana OR
hemp"
A continuing theme of humans being attacked:
Reuters: Escaped Lions Devour Three Malawians
A small
no-doubt pyrrhic victory:
Reuters: A Norwegian teenager who created a computer program to
copy Hollywood movies was cleared of piracy charges on Tuesday
Even
with legalized substance laws, prohibitive "prohibition-minded" taxes can
create black markets:
MENTON, France (Reuters) - A rise in French cigarette prices
has sent floods of smokers scampering across the border with Italy to stock up
on cheap tobacco.
SATURDAY 2003-JAN-04 12:42pm CST
I've been neglecting this. Who cares?
Daily Yomiuri, last month: Young female entrepreneurs discouraged by prude tyrants in Japan. (Some girls earn a million yen selling sex to old pharts.) Also from the land of the rising prudery: Ananova Dec-26: Police try to crack down on internet underage sex entrepreneurs. Hint from America to Japan: Whatever the problem, prohibitionism won't work.
This old radical has found agism to be about the worst hypocrisy of all the PuriTalibanical prudisms and taboos, worldwide, ever since I was a minor m'self. I keep asking, where are their parents?
Reuters Jan-2: Speaking of, LA politicos have proposed investigations and age restrictions on gaming cafes after several incidents of gang violence.
The Columbian Dec-29: A good analysis by Gregg Harrington of the Senator Patty Murray foot-in-mouth comments about Osama bin Laden.
newsobserver.com Dec-28: The truth-fearing Chinese have closed down over three thousand internet cafes in six months.
Follow-up to an off-topic I referenced on Dec 21 where in Guwahati, India, drunken rampaging elephants killed six. Now we have a drunken bull elk in Stockholm attacking a young boy (Reuters, Dec-30). The boy was not seriously injured. The elk was given capital punishment for its intoxicated bellicosity.
The
dark ages are still with us:
Thu January 2, 2003 08:52 AM ET JOHANNESBURG
(Reuters):
Villages Hound 'Witches' After Lightning
BBC Jan-4: Yahoo's list of best websites of 2002. Mindful Webworks isn't on it.
Does the
US government prescribe uppers to its military pilots? Were drugs involved in
the "friendly fire" death of our Canadian allies? Has the world gone nuts?
Yes.
www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-pills03.html