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  Another Round of 'Reefer Madness'
Posted by CN Staff on May 12, 2002 at 12:12:49 PT
Letters To The Editor 
Source: Plain Dealer 

cannabisnews.com The same old marijuana misrepresentations are served up by the new drug czar, John P. Walters, in The Plain Dealer's May 3 Forum section. To skim a few:

Most medicinal marijuana wisdom is anecdotal, because for decades the federal government forbade research on its potential benefits while encouraging research on its supposed detriments. There is not a single marijuana cancer patient to back up the claim that marijuana contains "hundreds of carcinogens."

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Comment #5 posted by DdC on May 12, 2002 at 17:01:07 PT
Stupid is Consistant with Jeb Bushits Florida!
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on May 12, 2002 at 16:22:54 PT
DdC
I thought how utterly stupid to arrest a well known 61 year old woman because she had some oh my god MARIJUANA ee gad you know? It is starting to get so crazy it's hard to take. Stop protecting us from ourselves and protect us from those who want to cause us injury.

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Comment #3 posted by DdC on May 12, 2002 at 16:11:38 PT
Why didn't she psychically warn herself? ¶8)
Meanwhile the entire security force at the airport standing around wasting their time on suspicious looking lipstick cases let pass five pounds of C-4, three Uzi's and a sawed off shotgun carried by people not fitting broadcasted profiles...Dah, ya think the terroristststs figured it out yet?. What praytell can one do with 11 suspected joints to hijack an airplane? Glad I don't fly, I'd have to Boycott! Maybe its cannabis that makes her psychic and thats why they want it prohibited. I know I predicted wod junkies were idiots a long time ago and have been suscessful 100% of the time. Ooooo I see the drugczar's profits going up with the new hair sampling approval. And profits temporarily going down by discovering the sham of Plan Colombia...

DdC

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Comment #2 posted by DdC on May 12, 2002 at 15:47:36 PT
Cannabis Leads One To Discover Free Will
A very dangerous practice in such a Fascist New Weird Odor.

Why do YOU think they call it DOPE?

Cannabis, is it or is it not medicine. Is cannabis as harmful as tobacco or alcohol. Does tobacco contain over 600 undisclosed additives? Were these additives discussed by the Congress as possibly effecting the health of a smoker? Would these chemicals have an effect when comparing tobacco to cannabis? Do the prohibitionist ever disclose this when they compare tobacco to cannabis? Is it competition out of the way under prohibition?

Is prohibition more costly to society in monetary terms and human suffering? Does it provide the prison industry (construction, linen, food, vehicles, guards, uniforms, etc) huge profits and the government taxes on these profits? Are there 2 million prisoners? Are 60% of these non-violent drug offenders? Does the Bush family have stock in the prison food supply industry? Cannabis in its hemp stage has or has not the greatest mass of any plant or animal? Does cotton require 270 thousand tons of chemicals, does flax destroy the soil and is soybeans hard on seniors digestive tracts? Can cannabis sativa (helpful hemp)grow almost anywhere, aerating the soil, without the chemicals (growing wild in many states providing 99.28% of the cannabis eradications in the US) replace cotton? Is it competition out of the way under prohibition?

Do living trees filter up to 5000 gallons of water each day? Do they require more chemicals than any process in paper making? Is hemp stronger than trees? Does it have greter yield? Do tree's provide oxygen? Do they remove carbon dioxide? Do they support thousands of living species in a co-operation that can not survive when they are hewn down? Can hemp replace the industrial use of trees? Is it competition out of the way under prohibition? Is meat the best source of protein? Does it cause health problems? Do poor countries without meat have the same diseases as countries using meat? Do cows require 80% of the US agriculture in grains? Have these corporate grain farms half emptied the Midwest fresh water underground reservoir called Ogalala with irrigation? Are dairy products nutritional? Do waste from daily cow bathings run off into the drinking water? Are corporations burning tropical rain forest to graze cows? Is Hemp Seed the most nutritionally complete food source known to man? Is it used by cultures? Is it competition out of the way under prohibition?

Is the use of fossil fuels the most devastating thing to ever hit humanity? Do 15,000 gallons leak into lakes rivers and streams each year? Do crude oil gasoline fueled cars emit harmful emissions? Do they contain lead and sulfur adding to the acid rain? Do they burn as clean as biomass? Could all of the nuclear, coal, crude and natural gas fossil fuels be replace with hemp biomass? Does Bush have crude oil interest? Did Henry Ford shelve a hemp/soybean biomass fueled automobile in the 30's? Did he produce and shelve an auto body from hemp and soybean fiber steel? Is petroleum carcinogenic? Is asphalt from crude tar breaking down and contaminating the soil and water? Do we really have to "protect" our oil rights with wars in South America, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq, Albania, and do states producing oil have the harshest cannabis sentencing? Are the herbicides pesticides made from crude oil? Can Hemp replace crude oil and fossil fuels? Is it a lubricant? Does hemp plastic biodegrade in compost? Is it legal? Is it grown in over 30 countries worldwide? Is it imported at higher cost? Is it on the list of things to become illegal? Can hemp produce paint. Can hemp make paper without the crude chemicals used in process the less cellulose tree paper? Can hemp grow without the crude oil pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers? Is it competition out of the way under prohibition?

Many have passionate reasons for choosing the side they stand on, many will profit from prohibition on both sides. The urine tester labs and the labs that make the antidotes to urine testing. The lawyers defending and prosecuting. The Bars and Taverns, Tobacco and hard drug dealers. The growers and the cops, the prisons, peddlers and pharmacies. The drunks released if they snitch and the prohibitionist propagandist receiving corporate funding. And they all spend it on everything advertised putting a big smily face on the tax collector.Is it competition out of the way under prohibition? Who makes money growing it for personal use at home? No one, and maybe thats also why its illegal. No taxes, and it doesn't raise the GNP. Ditchweed comprises 99% of Cannabis eradications, Cannabis is the Keystone of the War on drugs they don't sell and WoD is the meat and potatoes of modern Fascism. Its time to end it. Legalize Sacramental Cannabis Food, Fuel, Fiber, FARMaceuticals and Hardrug&Booze, fossil fuel, cotton, nuke, meat and wars protecting them alternative! Eliminating the competition by Lobbylacky politico's and administrated education depravation!
Peace, Love and Liberty or the Merchants of D.E.A.th!
DdC


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Comment #1 posted by FoM on May 12, 2002 at 14:47:30 PT
News Brief from CNN
Dionne Warwick Arrested for Pot Possession

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) --Legendary pop singer and "psychic friend" Dionne Warwick was arrested at Miami International Airport Sunday for possession of marijuana, police said.

Baggage screeners at Concourse D of the airport called for police help when they saw a suspicious item inside a carry-on bag belonging to Warwick, 61, a news release from a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department said.

The officers discovered 11 suspected marijuana cigarettes inside a lipstick container. She was charged with possessing marijuana totaling less than five grams, said the spokesman.

Warwick was released after signing an affidavit promising to appear in court. She had been headed to Los Angeles, but missed her flight.

During the 1960s, Warwick gained fame singing Bert Bacharach-Hal David compositions such as "Walk on By" and "I Say A Little Prayer."

In 1985, she had a brief comeback with another Bacharach song, "That's What Friends Are For," sung with Elton John, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight.

Later generations know her better as Whitney Houston's cousin and as a pitchwoman for the "Psychic Friends Network."

Find this article at: http://europe.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/News/05/12/warwick.arrest/index.html

Newshawk: Brian N.

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