Though I doubt this will get any media play over here, maybe a nice discrediting campaign of Dr. Simpson in the local papers? Like... Maybe he's a ... TERRORIST? (Cue dramatic music)

Economic sanctions? Daisy Cutters? Maybe they'll get the Queen to visit with one of her hats. That always scared me.

As Europe becomes increasingly less enamored of American style DrugWars, it's dropping of this approach will begin to reflect in their social policies. All perfectly predictable. But what is not so predictable is what effect this will have in trade policies.

As the EU becomes more autonomous from American political control, there are bound to be tensions between the two entities. This matter of the US using its' political and military clout unilaterally has already rankled them. To show their increasing independance, the Euros can be expected to find ways of accentuating that independence. They have already signalled their quiet displeasure with the American DrugWar by booting the US off the UN INCB last year. That displeasure is increasingly being made noticable; it is no accident that the term 'War on Drugs', an American term, is coming in for ridicule, here. We can expect even more of this in the future.

It matters little that the Scottish government is not a totally sovereign entity capable of making its' decisions Gospel. What matters is that a government official has made his displeasure with the present regime of the DrugWar public. As the old advertising cliche went, "Let's run it up the flagpole and see who salutes it." A lot of other European parliament members are watching this rising flag very carefully.

Changes in social policy generally lead to changes in international policy. Which in turn affects trade. The Euros are flexing their mercantile muscles, threatening to topple US dominance. The US knows it needs the Euros as a market. So pissing them off could prove to be increasingly expensive. Which is why we have not heard anything in our news media about the Lambeth/Brixton experiment in reducing penalties for cannabis possession.

To bring that up is to also bring up US expectations of Euro compliance to US demands concerning the DrugWar...which Lady Europa isn't playing along with...which would lead some DrugWar hawks to conclude that 'something' must be done about them. And the only thing that 'can be done' is trade. And we already suffer a trade imbalance with the Pacific Rim countries; can we afford to enrage the Euros, too?

That we live in 'interesting times' (as the Chinese mean the word/curse) is obvious to anyone. That this has entailed a change in the rules of the game has only just now, for many Americans, become an acknowledged fact...while the rest of the planet has been operating on those new rules for some time. We aren't the biggest kid on the block anymore, save militarily. And how much of our military operations is dependent upon foreign cooperation?

John Donne said that "No man is an island.' If he continues to tick off what used to be our strongest allies over his DrugWar, Shrubya will be finding this out, shortly ...and painfully.

A banana republic is sounding better and better.

If was here in Key West in 1982, I too would have attempted secession when the Feds put up WoSD roadblocks on highway 1, thus totally blocking traffic to and from the mainland!

Sorry to dampen your day with this comment, but I had to make it.

For those of you too young to grasp the import of those words, the entire thrust of US policy during the 1960's and 1970's was to stop that supposed 'domino effect' of nation after nation falling under Communist influence. One nation would fall, and it would be used as a base to spread the Communist 'contagion' to 'healthy' nations.

I'll leave it to historians as to effectiveness of such efforts. But one thing is becoming clear: the US is being increasingly isolated behind it's own version of a Sharps Curtain (with apologies to Winston Churchill) which has descended to surround an entire nation with darkness and lies. Other nations, fed up with the increasingly expensive (in every sense) DrugWar being orchestrated by dangerously clueless and increasingly bellicose American polls, have opted out. They see this for what it is: a transparent attempt to use American domestic policy as an excuse to meddle in foreign affairs of other nations for the gain of mega-corps that really run things economically, here. They have smelled this skunk's leavings, before, and don't want that particular polecat in their house, again...and who can blame them?

Last year I asked: which English speaking nation will be the first to repudiate Uncle's insane DrugWar and decrim first: the UK or Canada? My money is still on the Canadians. But the Scottish part of the UK has sent as clear and unambiguous message as can ever be sent: the game's over; the DrugWar is finished.

Don't forget the hempseed Energy bars to keep the revelers sustained and well-nourished during the celebration!

A sea of green! The Scots understand! Sounds like a trip to the land of my forefathers is in order....

Peace and Strength, Thanks and Praises!

This news made my day.

:-)

And then the last speaker was this guy who'd been a prison doctor in America, and he said he'd been through that same story because as a prison doctor you have to see things that any ethical doctor would and should protest and stand up against but he says people in the system get numbed to it by repeated exposure.

And he told us that the human rights crisis in America is with drug prisoners, especially people who enter prison with medical problems, often serious, related to their addictions.

He spoke about woman who had a medical crisis and died in a jail cell because the police decided she was just a filthy drug addict and didn't deserve medical care because of that.

The doctor said that for him, that was where the numbing stopped.

Glad to see another recovered prison doctor taking a stand.

Saturday, March 02, 2002

Bong maker wins national Republican business award

News-Journal wire services

SARASOTA -- A businessman indicted for making pipes commonly used by marijuana smokers won an award from the National Republican Congressional Committee and was in the running Republican of the Year.

http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/thread.shtml?1x39879

Many things will change on this earth as the TRUTH makes it's way around the world. Not just truth about Cannabis, but of the corrupt ways of the leaders of this world, and even our own inner evils we fight with daily. It's flooding the world, but you won't drown from it. You will ride it into a new consciousness of Man. Ruled by GOD. I think of GOD as Galactical Organization and Development.

Watch for the dominio affect.