I think it sounds like fun. My problem is it's hard for me to get away for many reasons but mostly my father-in-laws failing health. He has been in very bad shape and is very old and they wanted to put him in a nursing home. We said no and are working around his health issues by being with him more. Something very interesting happened this week. He stopped taking the morphine they gave him and he is getting better. He isn't stumbling and can walk a little better and his mind is clearer. Maybe the morphine was making him so that it seemed he needed a nursing home but for now he is doing much better and maybe if he keeps doing better we can get away sometime.

Releafer

It's time to talk this one up. Spread the word that 4/20 is a great day to stay home and work in our gardens. Or attend a concert. Or write letters to elected officials, newspapers, and advertisers who support anti legalization TV.

Johnson/Ventura in 2004!

I feel that this will resolve the issue. Let's just wait. I believe our government is doing everything it can.

"It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber."Washington, D.C., April 10, 2002

"For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times."Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 18, 2002

"We've tripled the amount of moneyI believe it's from $50 million up to $195 million available."Lima, Peru, March 23, 2002

"We've got pockets of persistent poverty in our society, which I refuse to declare defeat—I mean, I refuse to allow them to continue on. And so one of the things that we're trying to do is to encourage a faith-based initiative to spread its wings all across America, to be able to capture this great compassionate spirit."—O'Fallon, Mo., Mar. 18, 2002

"There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought of all. ... I can't think of anything more deep than that right."—Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002

Cannabis is the only positive this world has anymore. I'm going to take a nap.

Goneposthole has gonefishing.

blah blah blah When is it over?

It was rather obvious that the Customs people were nervous. I can only conclude that they were nervous about showing the cameras how little they actually interdict. That nervousness was justified by Altschul's first day on the border: they found nothing.

The next day, a vehicle was pulled in because of the appearence of the lug nuts (too shiny and new) and the tires were rock hard. After a Yellow Lab was busily scratching at it, the tires were removed, cannabis found inside, and Alstchul comments (I don't recall the remark in it's entirety) "That's 100 pounds of marijuana that won't be on the streets" and the Customs guy says, (perhaps a little self-consciously) "Yep, Protecting the community."

But given the paucity of the amounts captured (and, of course, what's captured) you have to wonder. Given the fact that the harder drugs which command higher prices are much easier to transport than bulk cannabis, how many cars got by loaded to max with cocaine or heroin? And how much more damage can a 'payload' like that cause to a community? I'd wager vastly more than someone sitting with a silly smile on their face laughing themselves to stomach cramps at something only moderately humorous or raiding their refrigerator.

So, my question to this puff-piece 'journalist' is: Ms. Altschul, why didn't you point out that they caught the easily found - and far less dangerous - substance, but didn't find any heroin or cocaine - which does demonstrably more damage to society? Why let that Customs agent off so easily? Was this a fact finding mission - or an infomercial for Ms. Altschul's program?

Ever since MTV allowed Klinton to get away with one of the biggest lies in history ("I didn't inhale") they've shown themselves to have all the journalistic spine of a jellyfish and the depth of a sheet of paper. My watching the program last night was rarity, as I was informed by a fellow DrugSenseChat person when it came on. Normally, I just flip right past their dreck to C-SPAN.

"I don't want to indirectly pay some MTV VJ's (or on air "talent's") salary kids! YEA - Love it man, love it. Now I know why! This "journalist" chick sounds like a puppet joke - BAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHHHH...

Stop paying for cable, see how much "richer" you are spiritually & monetarily.

Personally, I believe you should be able to pay PER channel. For instance, basic fee should (& could) be bout $5 / mo. for box & cable service. Then, all those channels you don't want, you don't pay for...The weather channel =$.25, HBO =.80 maybe $1.25 etc, you get the point. You subsribe to only the channels you WANT. Darwins theory whould weed out the weak, it would be amazing.

It'll prob never happen, I know, but if it did, how many out there would you pay, mmmm, say even $0.50 per mo for MTV?

No?

Yea..that's what I thought.

That's why it'll never happen... so keep on payin that 49 shells a month for that USA grade P(for propaganda) subsidized "news" & I'll watch (& laugh still) for free at fox abc cbs n nbc & their gov't subsidized "news" but at least I have my $588 each year to do with it what I choose.

Think about it: Loose cable & write-in Johnson/Ventura in 2004 for President in 2004...

Things CAN look up people...

Extend the strike a second day in that case.

Who ever said freedom was free?

Churches in the USA have been woefully AWOL in speaking FOR one of the Creator's greatest plant gifts... leaving a tremendous opportunity for us to do the job.

In my 16 years as an activist and advocate for cannabis liberation I have felt one of the greatest boosts in my work came from being ordained, and then licensed by the State of Hawaii specifically as a 'cannabis sacrament minister', license no. 00-313. My own growth and faith in life and justice has become stronger.

Now I suggest to others to capture the flag and claim the highest moral and legal ground available for cannabis...religious freedom. There is nothing to vote on, and zero doctors to beg for a 'recommendation' to use it.

As far as I know, only some Rastafarians and some of those in the Religion of Jesus Church have earned the legal right in court to enjoy cannabis religiously. Ben Guerrero (Rasta) and Jonathan Adler (Religion of Jesus) are the two most immediate cases that I know of in the USA.

Here on Hawai'i island a few of us have built on the work of many others to create our own cannabis ministries. We serve the needs of people by providing the services and sacraments of our congregations, like most ministries do. Only our sacrament is cannabis, the famous 'tree of life', the 'burning bush' of Moses, the food of Buddha, John Lennon, Bob Marley, etc.

See www.jackherer.com www.forbiddenfruitpublishing.com www.taima.org and others for the history

God is 'on high'. God is the MOST high. We like to get high. There IS a connection!

In my opinion, religious freedom for cannabis as sacrament is much stronger, legally, than cannabis as medicine. Check it out for yourself if you are:

sincere legitimate (Be ordained at www.ulc.org.) the sacrament is mandatory and use is in private. (Good manners also help.)

This advice is for those over 18 who are not in 'commerce' with the herb. This is a ministry, not a 'business'. TLC+ THC = harmony.

All the best to you,

Roger Christie

The Hawai'i Cannabis Ministry "We use cannabis religiously." www.thc-ministry.org (808) 961-0488

And if they are musicians with videos playing on MTV and VH1, withdraw them from the rotation on that day -- so that all day long, the only music videos MTV or VH1 can play are videos made by artists who support marijuana prohibition.

MTV doesn't rely very much on classics because they don't come with great videos. But what MTV has relied on a lot in the last decade has been alternative and hip hop.

Almost every artist that has made them money in the last ten years smokes weed. Intensely.

Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Cypress Hill, the Foo Fighters, Missy Elliot, Queen Latifah, Erykah Badu, need I go on...

There would be no MTV without the weed, yes I think that is fair to say.

If you removed the profits made for MTV by the portion of their airtime where they played music produced by avid users of marijuana -- what would be left of MTV would be too poor to pay Serena, that's for sure.

Serena never added up all the money marijuana has made her.

MTV has gotten rich from purveying music created under the influence of marijuana, and that's what is paying her salary.

BUT, the same network blurs out a cannabis leaf on some article of clothing someone is wearing.

I knew from the second I saw the teaser advertising the show I'd be yelling like FoMs' husband, which irritates my wife as well.

Some people are of the opinion that thousands of people are arrested every year for simple possession.

It's not an opinion, dear, it is a fact, and when you let a law enfoprcement tell you what the facts are and you fail to look them up yourself and compare the actual fact with what the law enforcement claims it is --

YOU ARE A MORON AND A THREAT TO DEMOCRACTY AND HAVE A LOT OF NERVE TO CALL YOURSELF A JOURNALIST.

But oh doesn't she look hip and down with her funky attire!

Not too square for Pot-TV, not too hip for the DEA.

She could be the new DEA Barbie.

But this is what happens when tenured academics teach college kids that facts don't exist and everything is an opinion.

It's just an opinion that anyone is suffering. Look, here we have our model prisoner to tell us how bad marijuana is and how happy he is to live in shackles and work as slave labor for the state.

If this really represents the younger generation in journalism -- democracy is going to remembered as a transient phase of the planet.

I called her names I can't repeat.

i He has headaches in his family. Has he heard of aspirin?

Serena, have you heard of people WHO AREN'T YOU?

They are those other people standing behind you when you look at yourself in the mirror.

Of course, I don't watch TV much anymore, so it could be good by TV standards:)

Grrrrr....I may need another name to vent with here:)

I have no need of a salesmark, but maybe someone like NarcoNews or Cnews will see if they can have the salesmark that follows : All the news fit to print my ass.

I know it sounds bad when you say it this way but: THE DRUG WAR IS TREASON.

Clubs then could transcend the need for a permanent distribution center, per se. The main goal being the elimination of a public congregation point to be so easily staked out and raided.

The issue is that if not disturbed by law enforcement or (other) criminal element, cannabis clubs would be Pharmaceutical dispensaries and people would simply come get their requisition filled , or pick up regularly standing orders. Overhead could be quite minimal.

Combine this idea with either the "webvan" or i-Toke concept ( www.itoke.co.uk ) with clandestine transport (bikes/backpacks/dogwalking services/etc). Give a dedicated person several people's packages and essentially run a courier service.

This probably already is happening in some areas due to some people being unable to leave thier homes. Medicine on Wheels, so to speak. So perhaps there is a functional model to build upon.

Again, the elimination of people traffic at a packaging and distribution center and the development of a low-key courier-type network could be a great way around bein raided all the time.

Of course, it sucks to have to hide and sneak around in a "free country" when all we try to do is help people and stay the hell out of trouble.

At least the ostensible goal of prohibition- to keep pot away from us - is a complete failure and we can get weed...usually.

I really hope we prevail in court on Friday and our ballot initiative direting the City of Detroit Police to make enforcing the MJ laws as to medical users their LOWEST priority (after the city is proclaimed "jay walking free". maybe?) is ordered placed on the August ballot. If the judge agrees, the measure will be on the August primary ballot and I think it will win.

http://www.mtv.com/onair/schedule/index.jhtml?date=20020508&time=21