in this first special hour, i'm also going to be thankful for the peace and understanding that is here and for those that made it possible.

even the color is a lie,

for can such deceit and evil lust,

ever be allowed to spread on this green world?

In the re-education camps run by the Chinese Communists after their 1947-49 Civil War, the opium addicts were physically brutalized...and psychologically indoctrinated to blame others for their addictions - in much the same way the captured 'treatment patients' have been indoctrinated with the offical catechism of the DrugWar, blaming their hard drug addictions on cannabis usage. The similarities of ideology are strikingly familiar, as are the methods used.

"Marijuana ruined my son's life, so I support any measure to keep it off the streets."

"Only after the fog of years of marijuana use had lifted did I realize that this is not a harmless drug and that it had taken away a large part of my life."

Remember a couple years ago, there was news that the Bush administration hired on some of the old Russian Commie crew to run some the the US afairs? Security or something?

The commie mind set is calculated and welcome by Bush to, -get under.

Our country is a capitalist one. Our political class doesn't use, or need to use, violent oppression to keep the people down. They can make each one of us work for them simply by taking more and more of our money through taxes. They don't need to ask for the money. They don't need to come to your house. They just take it right out of your paycheck.

What I'm saying is that every dollar in the goverment budget equals increased control over us. When the government is able to spend more money, it's actually (1) controlling more of the taxpayer's lives, making us work more to pay them, and (2) it's also gains control over those receiving the money. Mainly because they'll do almost anything to continue receiving the money, but also in the form of direct kickbacks to those in the political class.

Yeah, crossroads song sounds about right. You're very wise.

Tori was pretty heavily influenced by KaTe too. As for KaTe herself, she has a new double album (Aerial) out as of last year, really incredible.

Video excerpt:

http://tinyurl.com/9ylsc

The economics are pretty much obvious: money for those who couldn't find a job otherwise. It's a boondoggle to stick cannabis (ahem) 'addicts' (yeah, right) in treatments beds that could be used for REAL hard drug addicts. But it's *easier*, partly because cannabis is the drug one is most often arrested for...and cannabists are a largely peaceful bunch not prone to giving the 'treatment' staff the kind of 'challenges' to their methodology and their authority over their 'charges' as a hard drug addict would. Think of Noelle Bush, for example...

The second part is less obvious, but in retrospect it becomes even clearer than the first, for we're talking about nothing less than a culture war...and these 'treatment centers' are a part of the 're-education camps' made famous by the Commies and whose methodology has been adopted by the prohibs running these places. 'Re-education' means further indoctrination of those who didn't assimilate the first round of bilge while in school. So the culture war's commissars like Calvina Fay and Johnny Pee get to have a second go at putative adults who had already made an informed decision regarding their choice of intoxicants, and must be chivvied back onto the 'straigtt and narrow'...as *the prohibs* see it. The hypocrisy of the entire issue never enters their minds, as they cannot afford to entertain the slightest doubt in their convictions; such is indicative of 'weakness' in their beliefs, and that cannot be tolerated.

So, we have the whole crazy mess of lies, hypocrisy and waste...waste of time, waste of money and ultimately, wasting lives. Which will continue until the economy worsens enough for calls to end wasteful spending become louder...or until enough States enact MMJ laws and force the issue into Congress's awareness.

And you better say "Yes, Sir"...or "Yes, Ma'm", if you know what's good for you.

They treat people as though they have to be "decontaminated" or something.

"Illicit drug use among 8th, 10th and 12th graders had dropped by 19 percent, or about 700,000 teens, since 2001, he said."

John Holowach is an accomplished film-maker who has passionate feelings about the drug war (he's been a regular at Drug WarRant.com ). This film came about because of his realization that there was an important void to be filled. And "High" is the only documentary out there that provides a comprehensive contemporary view of drug policy reform.

- continue reading the review -

Sure! That's true!!!

They were all arrested and put into jail or forced treatment!

25 deaths linked to ADHD drugs: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060209-124320-7473r.htm

Number of deaths caused by cannabis: 0

More on Iowa...

Lawmakers cool to easing pot penalty: http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2006/02/09/news/local/doc43eaf4aa3638e702676307.txt

Way to be there with the quick comeback, Mason! You just made Johnny Pee look like the deceptive sack of crap that he is! It's about time someone called pee-brain on that one! Mason is on a hot streak and quickly becoming one of this movement's greatest assets. He just has a way of making his opponents look so silly!

THE WAY OUT...

BYU’s Dr. Steven Jones Blows the Roof off a Utah Auditorium: http://mujca.com/jonesphysics.htm

The Company We Keep: http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/green/company.html

World's first Sept. 11 convict released in Germany: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060207/ts_afp/usattacksgermany

210 9/11 'Smoking Guns' Found in the Mainstream Media: http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/911smokingguns.html

It's Religion when you drink arsenic and handle snakes. Yet, if you inhale Cannabis smoke, you're just "getting high". Tell me the difference between the American Indian having the right to use peyote as a sacrement, and American Hippies wanting the right to use cannabis as one. Where's the difference?

"Projection: Projection is one of the defense mechanisms identified by Freud and still acknowledged today. According to Freud, projection is when someone is threatened by or afraid of their own impulses so they attribute these impulses to someone else."

"Lying", Johnny Pee? *Lying*, is it? It's *lying* to present the facts regarding a singular lack of fatalities regarding cannabis use? It's *lying* to point out the racist origins of the cannabis laws? It's *lying* to show how so many DrugWarriors make their bread-and-butter from a pack of lies that you and your coterie refuse to debate about...indeed, as in the recent case of Ms. Fay, run with tail between legs rather than have the intestinal fortitude of standing up for and defending their convictions?

With a fair amount of Biblical reference, where does the lying start?

The very 1st page of the Bible, that's where. That's where Christ God Our Father, in anticipation of this problem, helped clear up and expose who is who.

The 1st page!

Genisis 1:11-12 & 29-30:

11Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

&

Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so."

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=1&chapter=1&version=49

Those who support prohibiting cannabis are literally stumbling starting from the beginning.

So, it is worthy to help youth resist booze, cigs, sex, cannabis, coffee etc. till they are older and responsible for themselves, however, caging adults who choose to use cannabis is the wrong way to do it.

From my own experience, I would also have to advise against Jimson weed in ones pharmacopia.

As John Lennon said.

"Whatever get's you through the night, is alright."

Harmful or harmless. The choice is still always a personal one, unless the harm is inflicted. The path of love and truth is not hidden, and part of that understanding is actually prohibitive of the kind of judgement and condemnation heaped unjustly on humanity by an small exclusive minority of humanity, who have in other times been known by many names, but always the same ruling game.

As far as the difference between the 'aspect' of negative destructive spirit, and the aspect of spirit of creation and eternity, that too is deeply rooted in that I am of our being, seen as only our eyes can see.

Yet who can know what I have seen through these eyes lest I should tell them? And can we transpose perpective so literally and easily that we could 'know' the way in which each of our souls see God?

There are myths and legends, which are based on history. There is history of record which is based on myth. Power of rule dictates the way the history is written. One can only attempt to sort it out for their own satisfaction and understanding.

As each of us live our daily lives we can come to understand the simplicity, and see the beauty in such simplicity of that birthright of freedom. Those of us who experienced the real agenda behind those wars so bravely fought in the guise of freedom, have a deep appreciation for those many who fell with a noble belief in their heart, and can deeply appreciate the real cost of that freedom.

To establish such freedom as an uncontested reality, was I believe the intent of designing a government that was 'of the people.' It was that intent which contracted the document of the U.S. Constitution as a format and formula for a progressive government that was closely relative, and so involved with the people, that it was the people itself.

The ideal of 'liberty and justice for all' is spoon fed to every American child from the first day of school. It is a high ideal, a wonderful and great concept, perhaps even worth dying for, however the reality of the situation is long past due for a good long look.

What is it that we needed freedom from? Was it not always the same form of tyranny and oppression that the world witnesses of us today? Is it not the same inciting of division among the people as it observed in this insidious and insane persectution of innocent American citizens for their use of a plant. Persecution of such a deliberate imbalance and injustice is nothing more or less than a fascist agenda.

How did this happen?

Greed. How long did it take before the stature of ones proprietary worth became the measure of politics? Almost immediately I would assume.

As long as the people are free to exercize the liberties that are within their god given endowments of life, and the providence of the Earths abundance without constant threat of losing them, they are content to live their lives as best as they can.

When those liberties which have been preached loudly as the justifcation for war, and the 'acceptabilty' of the death and destruction resulting, then the people who are being asked to make such a sacrifice have a deeply embedded right to expect responsibility and accountabilty on the part of their government.

When a significant number of the population of any country shares a common understanding, such as more than 60% knowing the truth about marijuana, then it is only reasonable to expect that kind of representation, at least in a truly representative government.

When a government assumes such power that it can literally imperialize the globe with it's doctrine and control it's wealth, then if it is not responsive to the right and true needs of it's people. It is left to the people to set aright the true course of destiny.

Thus as the oppression grows, and the pain inflicted upon us all by such greed and exploitation of life and resource continues to escalate, and as the very lifeblood of our liberty is turned to the dust in the wake of the rich man's passing carriages, let the powerful take heed.

You can only police the people so far.

Since they do not really know the true extent of actual usage (because who wants to admit being a criminal), how can they claim there is a reduction?. How do they know its just that people are more savy and know better than to admit being the modern day equivelent of a witch - a drug user. Just a number game. They are just trying to counter the (true) notion that the war on drugs is lost. There is a word for trying to program the populace to believe fiction as truth...

"Propaganda is a set of methods employed by an organized group that wants to bring about the active or passive participation in its actions of a mass of individuals, psychologically unified through psychological manipulation and incorporated in an organization." (p. 61) Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes

Sure, but the religious use of EITHER is properly protected. If you say that Jimson Weed is your sacrament, I will choose not to partake, and I might caution you of the dangers attendant to this, but it is your faith and the state does not have constitutional power to interfere.

""We could simplify law enforcement‘s job if we didn‘t have rock concerts. We could simplify their job a lot quicker if we just didn‘t have football games there where we arrest hundreds of drunks over the weekend."

My Guru said "You shall know them by their fruits."

Lets see marijuanna; Music, Medicine, Art, Literature, Philosphy, and Sacred Practices.

Prohibitionists; Liars, Torturers, B.S.ers, and Purveyers of empty hot air.

February, 06 2006

DES MOINES, Iowa - An Iowa sheriff‘s decision to hand out tickets instead of arrests for small amounts of marijuana invited a lawmaker‘s slap that it would be simpler to ban rock concerts and football games.

Johnson County Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek, who oversees the University of Iowa in Iowa City, told a legislative committee he would treat possession of small amounts of marijuana like a traffic violation, allowing hundreds of students arrested each year to graduate without a criminal record.

"The guy that‘s carrying 50 bales of marijuana ... that‘s a different animal," Pulkrabek said, adding he favoured rounding up intoxicated people in a locked "detox centre" in lieu of the crowded jail.

But Republican legislator Clel Baudler, a former state trooper, shot down the notion as sending the wrong message to drug users and abusers.

"We could simplify law enforcement‘s job if we didn‘t have rock concerts. We could simplify their job a lot quicker if we just didn‘t have football games there where we arrest hundreds of drunks over the weekend." Baudler said.

This is why I make the religious point explicitly, though I realize not everyone agrees with it.

There are people who have medical conditions that cannabis helps, and it should be available for that, but it would hardly end prohibition if we only managed to get cannabis rescheduled.

If you want to take the strict libertarian position that people should be able to use anything they want, then you must necessarily include heroin. Even in Schedule II, prescribable drugs, cocaine and methamphetamine would have to be swept into this argument. Many people will argue from this perspective, but if we are focused on cannabis specifically then it does place a larger onus on us to show that all of these drugs should be legalized.

The religious use argument is both sincere and avoids this dilemma. For the state to deny us the very Eucharist itself is to condemn us for practicing our religion altogether. We cannot practice our faith if we are constrained only to mouth words without participating in the actual mysteries of God. What has taken the Visible Churches so far from the truth is that they have never seen it in their lifetimes, they do not partake of the body and do not know the spirit, they have only words without context, forms without meanings, empty platitudes. You cannot testify to what you have never seen. It is hearsay, excluded testimony.

He's hurting people unnecessarily.

If something you are doing is hurting a lot of people...you need to stop doing it. It's not the cannabis that is hurting so many people. It's the law.

Example, for most people arrested for any marijuana offense ...smoking or eating that cannabis didn't ruin their lives or cause them serious harm...if any harm...it was the getting caught...the getting busted...the getting punished, the getting fed into the hungry prison industry complex... that made the children and the spouses and the friends cry and grieve.

Much as the prohibitionists would like to believe it...the cannabis didn't do all that harm.

It was the getting busted....and punished that took the breadwinner to a cell and left the family miserable and needy.

They say, "He/She knew it was against the law. It was their own fault. They didn't have to do it."

First of all...some of them did "have to do it". They had to do it for someone's health, or benefit and maybe for their own self respect as a free person and child of the creator and reciever of His natural gifts just like anyone else.

Prohibitionists don't understand because it's their law and their prohibition and we better all mind them like sheep or children on this matter or they will kill or hurt us in some way.

We're not talking about murder or rape. We are NOT.

We are talking about a plant that some people enjoy using for a benefit, because they like it, or just for fun.

Using cannabis for fun is probably less dangerous, if it weren't illegal, than riding a roller coaster for fun.

Now I'll have the purveyors of carnival rides up in arms agains legalization probably.