I at first thought Saving Grace was a great movie but now I think it helped American boomers who saw it believe that nothing really bad happened to people who got caught growing marijuana.

In this movie, a politically correct affluent white British woman starts growing pot as a way to save her lovely English estate from the debts left by her horrible scoundrel of a husband. She grows magnificent bud with the help of some friends, then she meets the ever-enchanting Tcheky Karyo who is a teddy bear with a switchblade of a drug dealer who promises to take her goods to market.

In the end they get busted and the pot goes up in flames and she and Tcheky get married and she writes a bestselling book about having grown the pot ---- then hints that maybe the whole movie was just that fictional book after all.

There has to be a movie on this subject that isn't a joke or an extended pun or a cuddly wuddly movie designed to make people think that the marijuana laws aren't really bothering anyone so why should they be changed...

It's a cultural war, you have to fight it on the cultural front.

Your entire comment is very important and touches at the heart of our efforts. Television and print have been criminally fettered, but why has the truth about the personal and social disaster of the drug war not been broadcast from Hollywood? The writers, moguls and actors know from close experience and know better than most the connections among marijuana, drug war, personal annihilation and social destruction. But the movie has yet to play, and that is what the public must see.

"Traffic", really, portrayed the war only gingerly, offering hints of truth, yet it was hungrily received by an audience that remains unsatisfied and confused, skeptical of the drug war and searching for answers. Especially today as we fail to find reasons or sense.

We know that Hollywood, too, has been hobbled and intimidated the same as all the aspects of our lives. But the response to "Traffic" showed that the time has come. The truths to be revealed and the horrors that have been hidden are too overgrown to conceal.

There are twenty or more million stories to be told, and this cruel orphaning of a twelve-year-old boy, five years growing up in Rainbow Farm, is one that must be told. Because it defies our humanity. No threat or manner of repression or dumb appeal to social cause or phony tale of ruin - nothing can justify this, nothing can excuse it, and the drug warriors now have nothing more they can say. Words only cheat us, but these killings must stop.

It's not about Cheech and Chong or drugstore cowboys any more, not even about drugs at all. It's about the awful bullies with lead for brains and guns for debates, the horror that we have become and the saner people whom we must learn to be.

She wore a sweatshirt with DIGNITY in huge letters across the chest.

Arsenio Hall especially.

This is so strange, it's weird to hear cute marijuana banter tee hee wink wink nudge on network TV and then compare that with this.

Like it can't happen to them. They can be lighthearted about it.

Tonight Jennifer Aniston is on the show...

The following is from Marc Emery

I am encouraging Americans and Canadians from Ontario to go to the property in Vandalia and camp there in protest of the murder of these two Cannabis Martyrs.

We are putting up money to cover some on-site costs and are currently talking with US activists about a camp out protest at the Rainbow Farm property.

Marc

http://www.rainbowfarmcampground.com/invlvd.htm

We can live better lives by following those suggestions. They died for the cause of cannabis/hemp and saving the environment, so lets all become better people by living our lives in a more environmentally friendly way by following some of the simple suggestions listed there.

http://www.rainbowfarmcampground.com/index2.html

It's so sad that the FBI felt it neccessary to execute kind, caring, peaceful people like that after it was stated in the media that they really wanted a "peaceful" resolution (sure they did, that's why they sent in snipers). All they had to do was wait, and sending in snipers was obviously a death sentence in that situation. They did that in front of us all, and we must not let them get away with it. They made a BIG mistake, because this tragedy will greatly help the cause of hemp/cannabis and personal freedom in this country. I believe those people died knowing that, because they were obviously not fools...

God bless them both!!

Someone should start working on a script right now.

This story is really over the heads of most Americans who do not understand the connection between marijuana and total descturction of a person's life.

They need to be led through that relationship in a dramatic and compelling fashion. In a manner where they can understand the motivation of everyone involved.

We have friends in the entertainment industry do we not?

our government is murdering it's citizens...

a half dozen supporters, a mile away...we are
ineffective...the government wins...another...

a general strike is in order...authority must be brought down...

we can no longer survive as a nation because we have no
morals...

And I keep reading that they told both of them to put doen the gun many times. How long is many times? 5 seconds? 10 seconds? In ALL that time, these jackbooted sharpshooters couldn't aim for the FREAKIN' SHOULDER?!?!?

How were the agents in danger? Tom had a mini-14 with no scope. He barely has time to get it to his shoulder, let alone take aim at a human sized target hiding behind, let's say a tree, the length of a football field away, before he gets shot. I guarentee the agent had him in his sights at all times. I have an SKS and if I shot into an average sized tree point blank , the bullet wouldn't even pass half way through the tree. Why couldn't the agent have just stepped back behind the tree? Why didn't the agents use non-lethal weapons like rubber bullets, bean bag guns, tranquilizer darts or some other means to subdue him? I don't buy the concept that the agents lives were in danger at any time. These chickensh*ts don't have the balls to put themselves in harms way.

My thoughts and sympathy to Tom Croslin and Rolland Rohm.

Their lives have been taken.

Liberty is dead.

The pursuit of happiness is just a memory.

"The most important thing you can do is simply to continue exposing them. Because why does the FBI do all this? To scare the hell out of people. Were they doing this because of a Soviet invasion threat or because they thought the Socialist Workers Party was about to take over the country? Are they going after whoever their current target is because the country is in imminent danger, internal or external? No. They are doing it because they don't like these organizations. They don't like the civil rights organizations, they don't like the women's organizations, they don't like the anti-war organizations, they don't like the Central American organizations. They don't like social movements. They work for the establishment and the corporations and the politicos to keep things as they are. And they want to frighten and chill the people who are trying to change things. So the best defense against them and resistance against them is simply to keep on fighting back, to keep on exposing them. That's all I have to say."

I guess I'll never get to the Rainbow Farm now, but I know that two good men lost were killed because of a stupid law that should never have been passed. I hope the good people of Michigan can get PRAyes on the ballot, and vote it into law.

You know you have always been an inspiration to me and you did it once again and I wanted to say thank you so much.