Mr. Sabet, have you considered the damage done to the lives of those 7000 Americans? What about their families? Is it worth it to imprison these people for possessing a plant? Is getting high really that offensive to you?

Official Site of the Baha'i Faith: http://www.bahai.org/

Basic Teachings of Bahá'u'lláh: http://www.bahai.org/article-1-2-0-2.html

From the second link:

Bahá'u'lláh gave special attention to the problem of prejudice. At the heart of His message is a call for mutual understanding and fellowship among nations, cultures, and peoples. There is, Bahá'u'lláh insists, only one human race. Assertions that a particular group of people is in some way superior to the rest of humanity are without foundation. Prejudice--whether based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or class--is a baneful heritage that must be overcome if humanity is to create a peaceful and just global society.

The Baha'i's have met with all manner of religious persecution throughout their admittedly short existence. In Moslem countries such as Iran, Baha'i's have been slaughtered out of hand. All because of prejudice.

Yes, prejudice...such as the prejudice evinced against cannabis smokers by Mr. Sabet. Looks like someone is doing exactly as his faith demands he not do. For, if Mr. Sabet is wilfully following in the footsteps of his mentors, he will perforce be wearing the mantle of 'hypocrite', both socially and spiritually.

In short, a typical anti.

I now must admit that no thinking person armed with the facts can defend our government's current drug policy.

They arent the same school are they??

From:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n823/a12.html?397

Clarence Page should have named the person or people he quoted as saying nobody gets arrested for cannabis anymore.  If somebody wants us to believe that such arrests are a thing of the past, it should be taken as a tacit admission that such arrests ought to be a thing of the past.

John Turmel says 'genocide' by Reverend Damuzi (29 Apr, 2002) The 'Engineer' calls Health Canada's cannabis policy 'genocide' Prohibition hangs by a thread in Canada, as at least four constitutional challenges to pot laws are currently being heard in courts across the land. In the US, battles continue between the states and the federal government for the fate of medical pot. The reverberations are felt as far away as the Vatican, where Pope John Paul II recently rejected legalization, issuing a declaration late in 2001, calling the marijuana and drug economy "death trafficking." For cannabis users, it is a slap in the face. Doesn't the Pope remember when the Catholic sacrament of alcohol was prohibited in the early 1900's? Are we still living in the era of the witch hunts, when one's choice of sacrament or medicine meant facing extinction at the hands of storm troopers with a papal blessing? See: John Turmel: charged wiht contempt for revealing med-pot genocide. http://www.hempbc.com/articles/library/images/uploads/2392-turmel.jpg John Turmel says "genocide" In December 2001, Ontario med-pot activist John "The Engineer" Turmel was charged with contempt of court for violating a publication ban on cases in which he is involved. A judge ordered him to sit quiet on information that suggested Health Canada may be at least partially responsible for the deaths of 94 fatally ill Canadians who were seeking legal exemptions from the ministry to fill their doctor-prescribed need for cannabis. The next day, he published the information on his website, although he quickly removed it after being chastised by the judge. What Turmel revealed was potentially explosive. Cannabis has been known to dramatically extend the lives of people living with multiple sclerosis, AIDS and hepatitis. Yet Health Canada has been routinely stalling and turning down applicants with these fatal diseases, according to the testimony of Health Canada bureaucrats grilled on the stand by John Turmel and his brother, Ray, who bravely call Health Canada's cannabis policy "genocide." "Ninety-four [exemption applications] had been neither accepted nor refused, but instead had been classified as 'dormant,'" explained John Turmel. "I deduced that these were the number of people who could no longer finish their correspondence, probably by reason of death. Ninety-four people waiting for their doctor's prescriptions to be exempted by the Minister croaked while he successfully stalled them. Over the year in question, that's eight a month." He has been crusading endlessly for medical pot users with AIDS, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia and other chronic and fatal diseases, who were turned down by Health Canada for exemptions to legally use cannabis for medicine... See: (CC#33, http://cannabisculture.com/articles/2127.html Busted up dates). By bringing Health Canada to court, Turmel has forced the ministry to reconsider many med-pot applicants that they had previously turned down. The people who Turmel champions are moving examples of Health Canada's pathetic med-pot exemption farce. For example, Ron St Denis, a blind man living with AIDS who can barely get out of his bed, finally got his exemption on November 29, 2001, after being turned down by Health Canada in August of that year. St Denis is Turmel's fifth success story. Robert Neron, who also received his exemption with help from John Turmel, had criminal charges of cultivating marijuana withdrawn on December 10, 2001. His seized equipment was returned, and with help from Turmel he now enjoys the legal right to grow more pot plants than any other exemptee: 22 outdoor and 54 indoor. • John Turmel: tel 613-632-2334; email turmel@freenet.carleton.ca; web http://www.medpot.net

Whatever this guy's been smoking, it seems to adversely affect those regions involved in coordinating verbal expression. I suspect we will see more such Freudian slips from this nit-wit in the future.

I almost agree with one thing he says, however. "It is no wonder that half of teens and adolescents in substance abuse treatment are there for marijuana only."

Since most adolescents in substance abuse treatment are there against their will, it is in fact "no wonder." Given that more than half of teen "drug" use is in fact cannabis consumption, however, it is a bit of a wonder that only half of those in "treatment" are there because of cannabis.

The first part of the sentence is a lie, the second has been covered here on cannabisnews.com, do a search for caryophyllene...

from:
http://www.atlantabahai.org/news_ctr/biographies/sabet.htm

...Among the honors Kevin Sabet has received are: three first prize writing awards from the Orange County Register; the Orange County Sheriff Brad Gates Founder’s Choice Award; the Drug Use is Life Abuse Pacesetter Award; the Project: No Gangs Community Advocate Award; the California Alumni Association Emerging Leader Award; the Berkeley Certificate; and decorations from Thailand and Italy. He has been featured in the California Journal for Higher Education, “Teen People” and “Rolling Stone” magazines, the Cable News Network (CNN), and acted as an advisor to CBS’s 60 Minutes II. Kevin also wrote "Cannabis Sativa as a Medicinal Application: The need to distinguish between smoked marijuana and its isolated components," in the peer-reviewed 1999 journal of Addictions.

Contact:      

Kevin Sabet, President INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN ACTION Email: kevinsabet@hotmail.com

Mr. Sabet reminds me of the old Billy Joel song, "The Angry Young Man" http://www.billyjoel.com/discography/PreludeAngryYoungMan.html

There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend he refuses to crawl And he's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And struggles and bleeds as he hangs on his cross And likes to be known as the angry young man

Give a moment or two to the angry young man With his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand He's been stabbed in the back, he's been misunderstood; It's a comfort to know his intentions are good And he sits in his room with a lock on the door With his maps and his medals laid out on the floor And he likes to be known as the angry young man

I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage I found that just surviving was a noble fight I once believed in causes too I had my pointless point of view And life went on no matter who was wrong or right

And there's always a place for the angry young man With his fist in the air and his head in the sand And he's never been able to learn from mistakes So he can't understand why his heart always breaks And his honor is pure and his courage as well, And he's fair and he's true and he's boring as hell And he'll go to the grave as an angry old man

Yes there's always a place for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend he refuses to crawl And he's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And struggles and bleeds as he hangs on his cross And likes to be known as the angry young man

If truly studying at Oxford, he should be listening to Philip Robson, who is actually examining the effects of cannabis in medical patients, as opposed to Mistress Greenfield, the opponent of pot via unscientific pronouncements veiled in a thin veneer of science misapplied.