Hope, I am honored to be 'paired up' with your well grounded understandings.

G_W, you are an amazing person yourself.

Mrs. Museman might come a huntin you and me both!

You're sweet though.

I didn't know I was strong. I thought I was just stubborn. Thank you for thinking so, though.

Some of the worst things we consume in life come from man made chemisty and pharmacy dope is the king of the chem lab.

Mat 18:16 But if he won't listen, take one or two more with you, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every fact may be established.

Mat 18:17 If he pays no attention to them, tell the church. But if he doesn't pay attention even to the church, let him be like an unbeliever and a tax collector to you.

Mat 18:18 I assure you: Whatever you bind on earth is already bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth is already loosed in heaven.

Mat 18:19 Again, I assure you: If two of you on earth agree about any matter that you pray for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven.

That idol you are hiding behind

Was placed by 'me

I vote Yes

I vote end Cannabis Prohibition

I vote for FREEDOM

I bow before father universe

I bow before mother love

I will use every power that i have

to change this world

I did mention something about that blink,

that one twinkle

seeing is the beginning

use your good hand watch with your good eye

YES to tomorrow

who can say?

His Wisdom and Her Strength

Sparks into the Night.

Eternity is looking in

the wedding room

A vote for YES is Vote

It is Time

Instead of bombs

Can "We bring Healing Herbs

May "We Gather and Grasp Our Place

Mat 6:4

So that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

so that your giving "hand" may be in secret, much like that Good Eye. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

YES

It is going to happen state by state, starting with a Yes vote in Colorado and Nevada, 'We The People do not like the tone of this Legislature, "We The People Vote to Change the Law.

The idea, for example, that it is absolutely necessary to leave all medical responsibility and treatment to the select few (called dr.s), instead of the experience of many who have lived the situations, is an enforced ignorance. As example; My first child was born in the hospital- owing to that very ignorance I was referring, but because of that experience I learned that I would never again willngly subject my wife, or my child to be to such circumstance and conditions. I went on to home birth the other 6. I learned what was necessary, and delivered them myself. No Dr.s fees, nothing except having to avoid being charged by the state or county for 'practicing medicine without a license.'

You know what? Like so many other things that have been 'natural conditions', and common knowledge of life, that have been co-opted by the owners of wealth, re-arranged to suit their comfort, and sold back to us as some kind of limited user agreement-like our life was software owned by the government, and only leased to us for the daily fees, taxes, and contributions of time and labor, that we render to those who rule that game,...(inhale) this situation to which you refer is a result of social ignorance, misplaced morality, and erroneous delegation of authority.

Not the fault of the people who struggle for the most part unaware that they've been used, abused, and taken for a ride, but the fault, and the responsibility is getting easier and easier to see as we approach the next terminus of civilization. Corruption, bigotry, prejudice, arrogance- all negative human attributes that stink, that have a spiritual odor of death and destruction, and right now the world is getting a real big whiff of it.

I guess what I am saying, is that like your young couple, america has let their 'leaders' lead them down a rosy path to nowhere, when at any time every one of us has had other options. Life is a risky business, the idea of insuring it is ludicrous. Doctors, Lawyers, Politicans, "professionals" all, but only human beings granted powers beyond the common, who make both common and uncommon mistakes.

If I were them I'd take advantage of the time remaining before 'debtors prisons' are added to the growing industry, and ignore the collection agency, unless of course they are worried about their credit rating.

What was really onerous is the announcer went on in the next hour to rail against the protestors who were at capitol building protesting the government drive to defeat Ammendment 44.

This guy went on and on how it was terrible that the protestors were not allowing the governor to speak and shouting him down.

People that called in were supporting his view, so I called to give some balance. Some guy came on and screened me and when he found I was in support of the protestors, he said, "Sorry, we can't use you."

So much for fair and balanced.

If I had been able to speak, I would have said the real issue here is CONTEXT. Who can blame the few daring marijuana consumers for being exhuberant and, yes, angry, for the decades-long suppression of their point of view?

What they did, a lot of shouting, is pretty typical for protestors and doesn't really do any harm. What the government does, however, is a REAL suppression of free speech. Anyone who speaks out in support of marijuana reform becomes an immediate suspect and may soon find themselves in jail. Just ask Loretta Nall. That's exactly what happened to her. She wrote an article to the newspaper supporting marijuana reform, and a few days later, was raided by the police. Helicopters and all.

So, we have many millions of people who are intimidated into silence. If anything, those protestors who came out should each be given a medal for their bravery and willingness to stand up for the millions of people who can't.

I'm so sick of this land of bigotry. One of the many damages done by marijuana prohibition is that it sends the message that, "It's okay to hate!" And there's lots of people ready to jump on the bigot wagon.

I think a big force behind maintaining marijuana prohibition are the large corporations. They want to continue to be able to exclude or get rid of people who smoke pot on the weekends. They just don't like them. They're not "our kind of people." But if marijuana prohibition was over, they wouldn't be able to give urine tests anymore. They wouldn't be able to deny people employment because they smoke pot on Saturday instead of drinking beer.

The land of hate and fear.

And they still want to think of themselves as "the good guys."

It's nice that some few right-wingers should justify their attitudes by making marijuana legalization 'the lesser of two evils' kind of like contemporary elections, but personally I think these disrespectful 'dopes' (i.e. 'stupids') should not be allowed in the playing field. Talk about 'mixed messages!'

I understand the tactics of making a case for the failure of prohibition along economic lines, and 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend', but do I have to accept the blatant insult and disrespect of such persons just so I can gain back some of my personal liberties?

It's nice that a person can feel empowered enough to tell a smoker on a bus to 'put it out'. Having things you don't like thrust in your face, isn't pleasant for anyone.

Personally, I respect other people's space, and would never 'blow smoke' into that sanctum. However, I have to ask, "Where is my empowerment?" When I am forced to have to witness, day in and day out, the pure idiocy of right-wing prejudice, mockery, condemnation for everything that doesn't fit into their narrow confines of the status quo, when I have to 'bite my tongue' in public because some undead politician states an unequivacable lie as the truth, and then tells me that to disagree is treasonable?

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October 30, 2006

MPP Ad Slams Administration for Cutting Anti-Terror Funds While Arresting Medical Marijuana Patients

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The latest spot in an ongoing series of radio ads from the Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) blasts the federal government for taking anti-terrorism funds away from target cities like Washington, D.C. and New York City while using federal tax dollars to arrest and prosecute patients using medical marijuana legally under state law.