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Posted by FoM on February 16, 2002 at 21:00:17 PT
DrugSense FOCUS Alert #235 Feb 16, 2002  
Source: Mapinc. 

MAP Deroy Murdock, a columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service wrote this in his syndicated column:

The Bay Area clampdown recalls the DEA's Oct. 25 closure of the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center. It operated with the blessing of West Hollywood officials and the L.A. County sheriff, all elected authorities. That was not enough to keep 30 DEA agents from spending six hours yanking 400 marijuana plants from its premises along with computers, documents and the medical records of its 960 patients.

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Comment #10 posted by Dave in Florida on February 19, 2002 at 19:58:24 PT
concerned..
Just wondering about FoM.. She must be having computer problems or phone line issues.. no post and no notes!!

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Comment #9 posted by DdC on February 17, 2002 at 20:04:57 PT
Cannabis Has NO Medical Value...
Homegrown in the kitchen without chemicals and lab parephernalia, profits and taxes. No monitary inflation soaring cost past gold. Only prohibition keeps this vegetable so costly. Only prohibition kills people and rapes people in juviprison and steals peoples property for using it. Using it medicinally or preventively. Yet preventing illness is still taboo even amoung many hampsters and medcan users hoping to "bargain with the devil" as the saying goes.

The war on drugs they don't sell is still a product. It cost $19 billion a year in budget money alone. International companies earn this money then launder it through the Partnerships as tax deductions keeping competition away from themselves. Slick. It purchases over 400 million plants of which 99.28% are non-psychoactive ditchweed. Then destroys these crude, cotton, meat, plastic, nuke, polyfiber alternatives.

This WoD promotes the spreading of disease and adulterated scwagg and chemicals much cheaper than ganja that do harm people. Each new disease profits the same chemical treatment companies. Each new arrest pays someone in the prison industry. Each incarceration and future slave wager perpetuated by this intentional flesh farming. Now with the Military WoD is sold not only to Colombia so Sikorsky and Monsanto can profit. But Afghanistan through the Phillipines so Lockheed Martin and DowCorning can play. So Dyncorp servalence teams and equipment can be sold as it is too all the local copshops now using heat sensors on anonymous tip warrants. More war protecting Enron investments. More profits for Bush Cheney and Carlyles and Haliburton. While D.E.A.th groupies spread the lies of Nihas and Anslinger and Hearst.

All for a reason. Now after 5 years of information posted on the net and news services like this and MAP there is no excuse for the Joy-ces lies and DARE brainwashings and the PDFA partnerships all laundering money for chemical corporations we never get to hear from. Those behind the tobacco products adding their deadly flavors and preservatives and pesticides not included in organic tobacco or ganja. Yet these lies still get print. Print owned by the same Hearst WSJ backing the fascist Mussolini before continuing to promote the war on products in competition. The trees cut for paper, not hemp. The plastic and booze sold in the advertizments, not cannabis. The nukes they now must bury in yuka while hemp biomass doesn't get used or grown by the bankrupted farmers. Aborting their babies with herbocide runoff and jerking the flags to the same old tune. The liars still get advertized while the truth is banned in Boston.

Bush's enron ripped us all off in our CA power bills and now they continue raping this country of rights and cause suffering amoung the sick and frail portions with State rights, not for a lesser evil or to stop harm but for lousy profits. Duping the Joy-ce good intenders paving the roads to hell with their ends justifying means not unlike the past attemps throughout His-story. Pity is what we should give them, if they just didn't hurt so many, leave them alone.

No bystanders. No too fat polka's blaring while lederhosined malnutritioned stuffing sourkraut and sausages and washing it down with steins of beer while the Nationalist waved their flags and scapegoated another group to blame. No bystanders sitting in Starbucks stuffing down bagals and Latte's while Nationalist waving their flags and blaming and scapegoating another group just as totally unrelated to the real problem. This is war? Is that really what they want? Peace, Love and Liberty or D.E.A.th!
DdC

No Medical Value$$$
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Why I Support Marijuana Prohibition...
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Comment #8 posted by ekim on February 17, 2002 at 15:09:14 PT:

Montana doing a good job informing the people
Pubdate: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 Source: Montana Standard (MT) Copyright: 2002 Montana Standard

Author: Deroy Murdock

FEDS TERRORIZE CANNABIS COMMUNITY

Last Monday, the FBI warned that "a planned attack may occur in the United States or against U.S. interests on or around Feb. 12," thanks to 12 terrorists led by Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei, a Saudi-born Yemeni. Suspecting this, federal officials should have deployed as many dedicated, talented agents as possible to protect high-profile targets such as San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman's Wharf or the pyramidal Transamerica Tower.

Think again. Washington instead chose Feb. 12 to unleash tough, gun- toting Drug Enforcement Agency officers against AIDS and cancer patients. These federal agents raided a suspected cannabis garden in suburban Petaluma, Calif., and purported medical marijuana dispensaries in San Francisco and Oakland. They arrested four men who led these operations.

This unjust and ill-timed misallocation of law-enforcement resources epitomizes the Bush administration's new effort to repackage the War on Drugs within the War on Terror.

"If you're buying illegal drugs in America, it is likely that money is going to end up in the hands of terrorist organizations," President Bush declared Feb. 12. His point is not without merit when it comes to cocaine, some of whose proceeds reach Colombia's Marxist FARC guerrillas. Likewise, the Taliban profited from heroin and opium smuggling. Of course, the War on Drugs relegates these products to the black market, where shady characters dwell, rather than the sunshine of free trade.

That said, one has to smoke something pretty strong to conclude that someone who uses marijuana to fight side-effects of life-threatening AIDS wasting syndrome somehow is in cahoots with Al-Qaeda. The Sixth Street Harm Reduction Center, a facility the DEA crushed Feb. 12, served some 200 people enduring AIDS, cancer, Lou Gehrig's disease and other serious illnesses. They now must buy their cannabis through illegal drug dealers.

Three of the center's associates face between five and 40 years in federal prison. Officials say James Halloran, 61, grew more than 1,000 marijuana plants in Oakland. That could cost him 10 years to life behind bars.

Compare these staggering potential terms to the actual penalties two men received Jan. 31 for unwittingly helping 9-11 hijackers Abdulaziz Alomari and Ahmed Alghamdi secure bogus Virginia ID cards. Victor Lopez-Flores got 27 months in prison while Herbert Villalobos earned a four-month sentence. His previous 18 weeks in custody earned his immediate release.

The Bay Area clampdown recalls the DEA's Oct. 25 closure of the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center. It operated with the blessing of West Hollywood officials and the L.A. County sheriff, all elected authorities. That was not enough to keep 30 DEA agents from spending six hours yanking 400 marijuana plants from its premises along with computers, documents and the medical records of its 960 patients. Until the Feds intervened, these outfits operated legally.

Fifty-six percent of California voters approved Proposition 215, a medical marijuana measure, in 1996. Initiatives also have legalized medipot in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Oregon, Nevada and Washington. While the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last May that therapeutic grass suppliers cannot assert marijuana's "medical necessity" to avoid federal drug laws, it did not address the validity of state statutes permitting clinical cannabis.

Federal heavy-handedness has made drug decriminalizers rail against DEA chief and former GOP congressman Asa Hutchinson. As the Drug Policy Alliance's Glenn Backes says: "You have an appointed official, a career politician from Arkansas, who sits in Washington, D.C. and tells the voters of California and the other seven states that have supported medical marijuana: "It doesn't matter what you vote for. I have your tax dollars and I'm going to spend them going after sick people.""

Of course, drug warriors like Hutchinson target healthy pot smokers, too. The FBI reports that 734,498 Americans were arrested for marijuana violations in 2000. Nearly 88 percent of these individuals -- precisely 646,042 -- were arrested for mere possession.

As the U.S. confronts budget deficits and a growing surplus of enemies dedicated to America's destruction, Washington must rearrange its priorities. Neither cancer patients nor classic rockers who use marijuana will murder another 3,000 innocent civilians in cold blood.

Every federal agent who stops pot smokers from lighting up is one less agent who can prevent Americans from blowing up.

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Comment #7 posted by mayan on February 17, 2002 at 14:18:02 PT
goneposthole...
Joyce obviously has an ulterior motive...I mean, how could anyone post such blatant lies without one? Why does she never reply? What could she possibly say in the face of the truth? She never replies because she has no argument & it is comical when her ludicrous comments appear here because she gets ripped to pieces every time. Personally, I wish she would post here more often because it is quite evident who has the truth on their side...& it aint her.

Joyce,Grandpa,Frances,DEA regs...Neil - the list is not much longer of those who have attempted to spread myths, untruths,half-truths & flat-out lies here. Why is it that list of names not longer & why do most of these names not post on good old C-News anymore? Because they have no legs to stand on anymore. We simply chopped them off with the truth. That is how & why we will win.

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Comment #6 posted by FoM on February 17, 2002 at 09:22:39 PT
Just a Note
Well it's Sunday again and no news. I'll keep looking but this is normal for a Sunday. I hope everyone has a nice day.

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Comment #5 posted by FoM on February 17, 2002 at 08:25:52 PT
goneposthole
We are watching The History Channel and it was about building The Berlin Wall. They showed people jumping out of apartment windows to try to get free. Many died. They died fighting for freedom. We are fighting for freedom too. That's all I really want is freedom. Freedom to be myself and not hurt anyone in the process. Tha's all we want and they just don't understand how precious freedom is.

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Comment #4 posted by eco-man on February 17, 2002 at 08:17:25 PT
Will do, FoM. :)
RAID fallout. Father Nazarin. Re-Organization of the Former St. Martin de Porres Chapel. http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/02/116461.php

Medical cannabis RAID. DEA legal documents against Ken Hayes, Richard Watts, Ed Rosenthal. http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/02/116460.php

MAP-DrugSense FOCUS Alert. Please Help Remove the Cannabis Patients from the Battlefield. http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/02/116459.php

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Comment #3 posted by FoM on February 17, 2002 at 08:06:37 PT
eco
Thanks eco. Keep up the good work you are doing. Keep getting the word out.

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Comment #2 posted by goneposthole on February 17, 2002 at 06:35:09 PT
Be the media
I wonder sometimes why all of this stuff goes on. I seems to me that something other than just prohibition is on some agenda other than having marijuana illegal. Like the posts from Joyce. I am very suspicious of why they appear. Her name and the issue she purports are provocative. If she is trying to get a goat, she succeeds. However, if their is a game plan behind it all, and she is merely following orders, a nefrarious scheme is sure in order. Why is it that she never replies, other than she does not have a leg to stand on. She hides, but cannot run.

Call me a kook, paranoid schizophrenic, or just plain nuts. I don't care.

I will call it intuition.

At the heart of it all, winning the hearts and minds of poor wicked souls who are ensconced into the cracks and crevices of the DEA and wherever else it all is, is what is at stake.

Those poor wicked souls inhale everything in sight, but cannot let their breath go. They have no freedom to exhale. We can only pity the pathetic condition they have.

2 cents is starting to look like a lot of money.



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Comment #1 posted by eco-man on February 17, 2002 at 05:47:47 PT
Latest RAID articles at San Francisco Indymedia.
I posted the "DrugSense FOCUS Alert" above called "Please Help Remove the Cannabis Patients from the Battlefield" at SAN FRANCISCO INDYMEDIA. Along with other DEA RAID articles about the recent raids of the San Francisco and other medical cannabis centers, and people involved with them.

San Francisco Indymedia (part of the well-known, international, Indymedia network) for ongoing reports on the DEA raids. BE THE MEDIA. Anybody can POST INFO, PHOTOS, AUDIO, VIDEO, COMMENTS there: http://sf.indymedia.org/

Fast search engine for San Francisco Indymedia site archives. Can also just leave the form blank, pick any month and day and year, and browse the article titles for that date. http://sf.indymedia.org/news/search/

Last 100 articles and summaries. San Francisco Indymedia. For more articles just keep clicking the "more stories" link. http://sf.indymedia.org/news/?&limit=100

DEA Raid PHOTOS, links. San Francisco medical cannabis centers, arrests, etc.. http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/message.shtml?1x39701

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