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New Drug War
Posted by CN Staff on September 16, 2002 at 12:48:49 PT
Will The New Batch of Anti-Drug Ads Work?
Source: ABCNews.com
A new round of anti-drug ads that start running on TV today pack a tough message about the "terrible things" — from street violence to drug cartels — that drug users unwittingly support. But the question that has haunted past anti-drug ad campaigns are expected to resurface with this batch. Will the ads actually work?
Going For GuiltOne of the ads introduces marijuana user "Stacey," hanging out with two friends. It then shows an image of her marijuana dealer, before moving up the drug chain to the person who supplies Stacey's dealer with pot. The next image is the kicker. "This is Carla, who was hit by a stray bullet from Stacey's supplier and paralyzed for life," the voice in the ad says. The ad closes with "Drug money supports terrible things. If you buy drugs, you might, too." John Walters, the new drug czar appointed earlier this year by President Bush, said his predecessor's expensive ad campaigns, featuring music stars like the Dixie Chicks, "flopped," and that there was no significant decline in marijuana use during their run. Walter's office now has a $1 billion ad budget for the next five years. "These ads are different," Walters told Good Morning America. "We toughened up the behavior not only to look at the harm drugs do to young people but using their idealism, their drug buying to things they care about," he said. Dan’s JointIn a similar ad, the focus is on the drug cartels: "This is Dan. This is the joint that Dan bought. This is the dealer who sold the joint that Dan bought. This is the smuggler that smuggled the pot to the dealer who sold the joint that Dan bought. This is the cartel that uses the smuggler that smuggled the pot to the dealer who sold the joint that Dan bought. And this is the family that was lined up by Dan's cartel and shot for getting in the way." Some young adults say they find the ads offensive. Elisa Roupenian, a college sophomore, told Good Morning America that her peers objected to linking the violence of the drug trade in other countries to drug use here. "It made people mad because they pointed the finger at teenagers," Roupenian said. "Some people think that if the government didn't create the war against drugs that made it such a huge black market, the terrorists and drug cartel wouldn't be able to make such a tremendous profit," she said. Roupenian's comments reveal a troublesome side to the anti-drug movement. When it comes to marijuana, young Americans often blame the government for the problems that result from the high demand for it. Getting the Message?Dr. Drew Pinsky, an addiction expert, said the new anti-drug ads were well executed, but some viewers could interpret the ads' depiction of a dangerous black market of drug dealers as support for the argument that marijuana should be legalized. "I will say, unfortunately, a lot of young adults and college students will say 'you are right, this does support a crime network; if the drug was legal, you wouldn't have that,'" Pinsky said. Pinsky said that many young people simply tune out when anti-drug ads focus on marijuana. "There's a lot about the drug and its legal issues," he said. Also, the "scare tactics" used in the ads tended to be ineffective, Pinsky said. "Social norm messages are better, like looking at how few of your friends are really partying and smoking pot regularly, he said. In the past, the drug office didn't test ads before running them, but testing has shown that children and parents who watch the ads get the message, Walters said. The ads also target older children, ages 14 to 18, rather than those ages 11 to 13. Highschool freshman Kadeem Coopers doesn't think the new ads will influence self-absorbed teens to think of others. "I don't think the ads will have any affect on teenagers," Kadeem said. "When someone buys marijuana, they are not thinking of Colombian cartels or little girls getting shot." Kate Farley, a high school senior, says she thinks the new ads do a good job of revealing other lesser-known areas of the drug dealing business. "It does give another view point, aside from the 'it gives you brain damage' one," Farley said. "This shows the other side of things." Source: ABCNews.comPublished: September 16, 2002Copyright: 2002 ABC News Internet VenturesWebsite: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Contact: http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/email.htmlRelated Articles:Drugs Warriors Losing Fight for Funds http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14105.shtmlInside The White House Drug Office Tanglehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14056.shtml Just Say No: Government’s War on Drugs Failshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13578.shtml
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Comment #36 posted by goneposthole on September 17, 2002 at 06:47:34 PT
Propaganda and Chutzpah
That's all the gov does and that is all it has.
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/wod.html
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Comment #35 posted by Ethan Russo MD on September 17, 2002 at 06:37:39 PT:
THC, Dopamine and Addiction
Please see info on this in this article:http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/hh.pdfby searching for dopamine.Also, see my previous comments on cannabis and dependency. The latest best article is by Smith in the journal, Addiction, and he concludes that no good evidence currently supports its existence:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12084124&dopt=Abstract
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Comment #34 posted by Jose Melendez on September 17, 2002 at 05:54:48 PT
Is this not correct?
Marijuana does not effect the dopamine levels in the brain. This is why it is not physically addictive.I was under the impression that THC blocks dopamine receptors, making more dopamine available to post-synaptic receptors. Is this not correct? Or does this mean that the actual amount of dopamine remains the same, and is simply distributed to different areas?
Thanks for the correction, I'd like to know how this works so I can arrest prohibition by exposing the hypocrisy of jailing people on the pretense that their substance of choice is "addictive and dangerous" when legal substances are not held to the same standard. Anyone? Dr. Russo?
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Comment #33 posted by DANA on September 17, 2002 at 02:24:11 PT
I dont know?
I almost think the "This is your brain__on drugs__" commercials from years ago,were alot less berzurk and offensive than these new psycho-madison ave terror/drug productions of now days. Such lines as "I helped kill a cop today"are more grotesque than;"This is your brain on drugs". Brain on drugs/fried egg.. No big deal.in fact the flavor of that type ad,illustrating some sort of brain fry,seems more like what anti-drug ads should be like.. I mean,if we must undergo the absurdity of actually having a federal government that robs the American people to finance the drug war fiasco media campaign,then they should at least try to stick to drugs and frying pans,instead of these high impact psycho-testimonial charades!
And while I on the subject;the ads for the military are putrescently disgusting! ;"life,liberty,and the pursuit of anyone who we call evildoers"
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Comment #32 posted by Phasetheory on September 17, 2002 at 00:23:59 PT
At least they don't lie...
I'm just glad they don't have the ads they aired during the Clinton years. Remember those??? They showed a heart monitor beating normally, and a voice says, "this is the heart beat of a 14 year old."Then they showed a heart monitor with no beat, and the long single beep you hear when you know the patient is dead. Then the voice says, "this is the heart beat of a 14 year old who just smoked marijuana."HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAThe little fact that marijuana has never killed anyone, EVER didn't seem to be interjected!
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Comment #31 posted by Phasetheory on September 17, 2002 at 00:15:21 PT
Wrong!
Hey Jose Melendezn the quote: "Virtually every drug of abuse, including nicotine, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine, elevates levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain pathways that control the experience of pleasure.
March 2001
- Jack Stein, Ph.D." TThis is wrong, at least the part with marijuana. Marijuana does not effect the dopamine levels in the brain. This is why it is not physically addictive.WOW
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Comment #30 posted by DANA on September 17, 2002 at 00:06:29 PT
Madmen Indeed
I just got done reading the ghoulish psycho-crud in that website .p4me is right.It's hard to believe that people could actually buy into this garbage.
Then again,I guess we must say;"compared to what?".I am still awestruck,to realize that the USA/PATRIOT act,("The Uniting and Strengthening
America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to
Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism" Act of 2001),was passed into law in less than a couple of weeks! It is a fact,that not one lawmaker even read the entire bill,before passing it! Now that's what I call Terrifying!
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Comment #29 posted by p4me on September 16, 2002 at 23:42:11 PT
Madmen are running the country
Here are the top paragraphs at the DEA.gov website. It is hard to believe people can buy these lies. Who is Hutchinson to criticize people wanting legalisation? How can you not unless you are a fascist representative concerned about corporate interest over the benefit of the people and their freedom, health, property, and good name before the law and I might ad the environment. And in the second statement the federal government is promoting Marinol for the pill industry while saying marijuana has no, as in none, nada, and zilch, medical value. It is a government of the rich, for their corporations and by their fascist representatives.The DEA website propaganda is below:DEA Speaks Out Against Legalization"In many circles, U.S. drug policy is under attack. It is being criticized primarily by those who favor a legalization agenda. It is also being challenged by those who approve of the trends in Europe of decriminalization, harm reduction, and distinctions between hard and soft drugs. I have had occasions to debate many of these proponents of a shift in U.S. drug policy. Invariably, the arguments for change are based upon misinformation and distortions of the real facts in the United States….In deciding where to go with drug policy, we have the responsibility to look at the facts, dispel the myths, and make progress." -Asa HutchinsonMedical Marijuana - It already existsMedical marijuana already exists for patients who actually need it. It's called Marinol, and it has been tested and approved by the medical community and the FDA. Are those who are calling for Legalizing marijuana really calling for medicine?---------------------The FBI still does not have the Uniform Crime Report for 2001 and if you go to the DOJ website looking for their posting of it, you get a bunch of stuff with years like 1995 and 96. It is pathetic at best that these people do not furnish the people with their information. Anyone in industry that put up information that was current maybe 3 or 4 years ago would be looking for another job. But the fascist run the country and the people have no role in the government except to pay the bills and listen to propaganda with the treats of an out of control government that uses the courts and the police to suppress dissent.It is not your country people. We are no more than batteries for the fascist machine.Read the hemp bible and spread the word of salvation for the earth's environment and people: http://jackherer.com/chapters.html1,2
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Comment #28 posted by FoM on September 16, 2002 at 22:34:31 PT
Can They Use Our Tax Money To Fight Us?
Do we know yet?Detroit -- Lawmaker Questions Drug-Policy Meeting
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13890.shtmlJust a reminder of how much our efforts are not liked. http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/ongoing/legalization.html
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Comment #27 posted by DANA on September 16, 2002 at 22:15:01 PT
Thank You CorvallisEric
I came up with that figure at first,but I thought it could not be true!Who would believe that the ONDCP,would be given Five Hundred and Forty Seven Thousand Dollars PER DAY,for the next five years,to fiddle about with,in some nebulous advertising campaign?I wonder what the "polls",would say about this?
$547.945.00! Each day,and every day.
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Comment #26 posted by CorvallisEric on September 16, 2002 at 20:55:54 PT
Sorry, DANA
Get out your calculator again. It's $547,945 per day.
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Comment #25 posted by FoM on September 16, 2002 at 19:34:05 PT
diana2030
I am so sorry. Everyone here is very upset about what happened at WAMM. I hope all goes well tomorrow and in the next week with protests. If you have the time and feel up to it please keep us posted. God Bless.
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Comment #24 posted by diana2030 on September 16, 2002 at 19:29:25 PT:
medical marijuana drug ad's
I am a grandmother with AIDS who worked on the garden crew for the WAMM Garden i use marijuana to keep down toxic med that keep me alive and to ease the nerve pain in my hands and feet.. last week the DEA ripped up our garden ...... we broke no laws, my state, county, and city approved of our garden... we are a co op of patients.
To stay alive i will now have to buy my medicine on the black market. the DEA is supporting terrorizm with every medical garden they destroy... sad, sick, tired, when will they get it... please help us any way you can www.wamm.org
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Comment #23 posted by Jose Melendez on September 16, 2002 at 19:26:04 PT
Arrest Prohibition: W.O.D. is FRAUD
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/14/thread14100.shtml
According to most available data, marijuana is more than twice as important as a source of addiction and abuse than the next most important illegal drug, which is cocaine.September 12, 2002- John Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policyfrom:http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:QV6ffv1qs00C:www.drugtext.org/articles/ial5.html+koop+angry+letter+reagan+tobacco+companies&hl=en&ie=UTF-8"when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the flow of cocaine, it is theheight of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco".September 19, 1989- US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop during testimony at a US Trade Representative (USTR) panel hearing in Washington to consider a tobacco industry request that the US impose sanctions on Thailand if it does not agree to drop restrictions in import of US tobacco. Dr. Koop's eight years in office ended a few days after his testimony, during which he backed reports branding tobacco a lethal addictive drug.from:http://reason.com/rauch/99_10_01.shtml"Some people who've tried it can quit easily, others don't quit. So I guess it's addictive to some and not to others."- Presidential candidate Bob Dole, during a 1996 televised interview in which he was asked if he thought tobacco is addictive. from:http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact09.html “Cigarettes are highly efficient nicotine delivery devices and are as addictive as drugs such as heroin or cocaine.”February 2000- from a published Royal College of Physicians report on nicotine addiction. The World Health Organization has defined addiction as: “A state, psychic and sometimes also physical, resulting in the interaction between a living organism and a drug, characterised by behavioural and other responses that always include a compulsion to take the drug on a continuous or periodic basis in order to experience its psychic effects, and sometimes to avoid the discomfort of its absences. Tolerance may or may not be present.” from:http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:BeagAakOKfkC:www.astho.org/infectious/documents/hivaids/highlights.pdf+%22August+1998%22+%22American+Journal+of+Psychiatry%22+nicotine+stein&hl=en&ie=UTF-8Virtually every drug of abuse, including nicotine, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine, elevates levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain pathways that control the experience of pleasure. March 2001 - Jack Stein, Ph.D.
Wider Public Health report
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Comment #22 posted by FoM on September 16, 2002 at 19:18:04 PT
Welcome DANA
You really are very sweet. You don't know how much this means to me. It really means a lot. Thank you.
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Comment #21 posted by DANA on September 16, 2002 at 19:10:13 PT
Now I understand.
That poor dddd/qqqq/pppp/bbbb guy could not resist the temptation to make use of profanities.Even a prudent individual such as myself is finding it quite a challenge to refrain from utilizing expletives.!
"Walter's office now has a $1 billion ad budget for the next five years. "
OK.That means that there is about 200 million a year for the new czars' ad campaign.I think that works out to be about $54.794.00 per day.(?)Fifty four thousand seven hundred and ninety four dollars per day.(is this correct?please verify my math.).For now,I will assume,that my calculation is correct.Each day,almost 55 Thousand Dollars!Every day.Cha-Ching,Cha-Ching!.Fifty Five Grand!.24/7.Cha-Ching Cha-Ching. That's absolutely disgusting!That's enough to make a person lose control of their spaceship!In fact,I cant continue to comment on the rest of this article.The descriptions of these new ads,are enough to make a nun flip out and cuss like a longshoreman!Too bad 4dpqb crashed and burned.I bet he would have some tasteful profanities to lambast this stuff with.
Gotta keep on keepin' on.
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Comment #20 posted by The GCW on September 16, 2002 at 18:50:54 PT
NEW?
Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda: Idolatry http://www.drugwar.com/idolatry.shtm by Dan Russell http://www.drugwar.com/index.shtm "...This was a cognitio extra ordinem, which, despite its name, became the ordinary form of criminal trial, such as the one Jesus was subjected to before Pilate. The likes of Domitian could then promulgate a prohibitio and instruct his magistrates to institute inquisitions on their own initiative, operating under the Emperor's legis vigorem. It was these seminal legal thinkers who institutionalized the concept of sacrilegium ('stealing of sacred things') as maiestas, treason, in Western law, via Justinian's Code, the violation of a prohibitio being a sacrilege. This is quite literally the originary legal precedent upon which contemporary American Prohibition is based..." cont.
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Comment #19 posted by nitrate on September 16, 2002 at 18:42:59 PT:
please protect us Mr. Walters
Thank you Mr. Walters for protecting us from the terrorism we support when we are forced to buy marijuana off the street. Did you ever consider that the only people getting rich off your policies are the college kids growing this stuff and the feds busting em? Don't use scare tactics to promote the idea that our government is only emproaching upon our personal freedoms to protect us from the evils of cannibus. People are smarter than that now. They're not going to swallow your taxpayer funded propaganda against an issue they themselves can vote on this november. Quit wasting your time and our money.peace
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Comment #18 posted by mayan on September 16, 2002 at 17:53:50 PT
Thanks For the Poll!
"This is Carla, who was hit by a stray bullet from Stacey's supplier and paralyzed for life," the voice in the ad says. The ad closes with "Drug money supports terrible things. If you buy drugs, you might, too."The ad should close with "Drug laws inflate the drug money which supports terrible things. If you support the drug laws, you might, too."The CNN poll's still holding the same. If ya' haven't voted , let's get on it! Should federal authorities leave California's medical marijuana growers alone?
Yes 86% 2763 votes
No 14% 440 votes
Total: 3203 votes unrelated - The World Trade Center Demolition and the So-Called War on Terrorism:
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/wtc.htmlSeptember 11, Black Tuesday: A Tragedy That Could Have Been Stopped -
http://onlinejournal.com/Commentary/Grant091202/grant091202.htmlPearl Murder Link to 9/11 Ignored:
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/qfisi.htmlRussians Link 911 To US Financial Crisis To Iraq War:
http://rense.com/general29/ruse.htmRandom Thoughts On 9/11:
http://www.wecs.com/patriot.htmHere is the original, pre-CNNed school video tape showing Bush just sit there after Andy Card informs him of the second impact:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/schoolvideo.htmlBush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President:
http://www.sundayherald.com/27735
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Comment #17 posted by The GCW on September 16, 2002 at 16:48:06 PT
Some news.
Nova Scotia Marijuana Party leader gets 6 years by Reverend Damuzi (16 Sept, 2002) Denied medicine in jail despite exemptionAfter spending millions on a marijuana investigation that involved phone wiretaps, bugs in his home, and a GPS tracker in his car, RCMP found no marijuana in his home, no marijuana in his car and no marijuana on his person. Regardless, in 2000, Nova Scotia resident Mike Patriquen, holder of a medical marijuana exemption, was bullied into pleading guilty to conspiracy to traffic in marijuana and convicted. Cont. http://www.hempbc.com/articles/2617.htmlPlusAnti-pot conference panned by Dana Larsen (15 Sept, 2002) Vancouver cops team up with Florida prohibitionists to embarrass themselves in Canada's pot capital. http://www.hempbc.com/articles/2592.html
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Comment #16 posted by prop203 on September 16, 2002 at 15:30:19 PT
1 question
Who the F^ # are the 13% saying no?? honestly what demographic do u think it is?Im guessing the old people who where around in 1937 that still belive the reffer madness video.Prop203-YES-AZ
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Comment #15 posted by FoM on September 16, 2002 at 15:04:23 PT
Updated Current Results
Should federal authorities leave California's medical marijuana growers alone? Yes 86% 2024 votes No 14% 340 votes Total: 2364 votes
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Comment #14 posted by FoM on September 16, 2002 at 15:02:26 PT
Please Vote on This Poll!
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/wolf.blitzer.reports/
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Comment #13 posted by FoM on September 16, 2002 at 14:59:54 PT
Comment on CNN Report - Federalism
McGinnis (sp) said this is about federalism. This will be war!
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Comment #12 posted by The GCW on September 16, 2002 at 14:53:54 PT
outdated poll
This is a poll I saw that is a bit old but heck, I like polls.Perhaps We can compile a list of polls, for Walters...http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E825690,00.html?search=filterCU a bit dazed by latest buzz
Magazine ranks school in top 10 for pot smokers
By Marcos Mocine-McQueen
Denver Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 29, 2002 - BOULDER - It isn't always good to be in the top 10.
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Comment #11 posted by The GCW on September 16, 2002 at 14:37:31 PT
p4me, seeing the other side of the pancake...
Once I / We can see "it", it is hard to UN-see it.We are in the process of helping other people see "it".=-=-=-= We are all Green Collar Workers =-=-=-=-=
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Comment #10 posted by FoM on September 16, 2002 at 14:16:27 PT
Poll Results So Far Thanks CorvallisEric!
Should federal authorities leave California's medical marijuana growers alone? Yes 79% 905 votes No 21% 239 votes Total: 1144 votes
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Comment #9 posted by CorvallisEric on September 16, 2002 at 14:13:45 PT
CNN Poll
Should federal authorities leave California's medical marijuana growers alone? Same link as FoM's comment #8
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Comment #8 posted by FoM on September 16, 2002 at 13:40:32 PT
Heads Up- Wolf Blitzer Report 5PM Today
On the WAMM Raids.http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/wolf.blitzer.reports/
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Comment #7 posted by p4me on September 16, 2002 at 13:30:19 PT
Wait till Oprah talks
One of these days Oprah is going to slam Walters. Even Dr. Phil has an expression worth mentioning- "No matter how flat the pancake it has two sides". Needless to say when you pay for propaganda the whoring media lines up for the federal checks and that side is well burnt buy now and sickening to look at. Reason is on the other side of the pancake and when it is presented to an open mind cannot help but be more appealling. But I think that the events that will heat up come 3PM tomorrow in Santa Cruz is going to compel the overloaded talk show schedule to bring debate into the mainstream media. And at some point Oprah will address the situation of the sick and dying and what will Walters say if he is asked to speak?It is time to clear House. The Senate too. Voting is November 5th. It is an opportunity that comes but once every two years, so don't miss it. Let's send a message FOR the children.Here is x-iles's report for this Monday's court trial of Colin Davies:the DE trial day6 - Pester & Jackson giving evidenceAt last, just over a year after the Dutch Experience was opened and Colin was first arrested, the court case started in earnest today.Giving evidence today were DS David Pester (head of Stockport Police Drugs Squad), PC Amanda Hardey, PC Andrew Jackson (aka Jacko) - both Stockport Drugs Squad - and Dawn Burrell (formerly with the Stockport Express). All were giving sworn evidence about events leading up to the opening of the DE, on the day of the opening (15/9/01) and the week following, up to a raid on Colin's flat on 22/9/ 01. PC Jackson's cross-examination has not yet been completed, so I'm afraid I'm saying nothing more here other than it looks promising.Both Pester and Jackson will be returning to the stand to give evidence about events on 20/11/01 and (in Jacko's case) 3/1/02.One thing - the trial now looks like it might be over quicker than we orginally thought - despite recurring problems with equipment and legal arguments at least once a day - so if you want to come and watch/show your support for Colin & co don't leave it too long! The spectacle starts 10 am each morning.......Billy Barker
news'ound[My current feeling is that it might be best to leave detail of the prosecution case until after they have completed it, but obviously people want to know how it's going, so I'll try to strike a balance)1,2
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Comment #6 posted by Hope on September 16, 2002 at 13:30:02 PT
Does this mean....
If any of the people that own stock in Wal-Mart is a demented horse's ass that window peeps in his spare time, does that mean that, if I purchase something at Wal-Mart,I support demented horse's asses window peeping?
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Comment #5 posted by Dan B on September 16, 2002 at 13:27:29 PT:
Fascists: "Lie, Lie, Lie . . . Blah, Blah, Blah&qu
Roupenian's comments reveal a troublesome side to the anti-drug movement. When it comes to marijuana, young Americans often blame the government for the problems that result from the high demand for it. Does this sound like a statement supportive to our cause to you? This article is not designed to tell people that prohibition causes these dangers, it is designed to argue that it doesn't. Notice, too, that yet again there is no author for this article. ABC "News" is editorializing in favor of the drug war, plain and simple.The problems associated with prohibition are associated with prohibition because prohibition causes those problems. A high demand for a particular substance does not cause terrorism. Dan buying a joint does not cause terrorism. Stacy buying "marijuana" does not cause terrorism. Terrorism causes terrorism, and prohibition IS terrorism.Notice that all of these ads have nothing to do with drugs that actually have been linked to terrorism (heroin, cocaine). When it comes to funding of terrorism, cannabis should be the least of these animals' priorities. Most cannabis in the United States is grown in the United States. Imports make up a minority of the cannabis here, and most of that comes from Mexico, where arguably one organization has been linked to terrorism, and that on a local level in Mexico. And terrorists in Canada? Please! Having said all of that, there would be no connection whatsoever between any substances and terrorism were it not for the fact that those substances are illegal. You and your Nazi buddies created the link between illegal drugs and terrorism by making some drugs illegal in the first place, John Walters! Dan B, Mad as Hell
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Comment #4 posted by TecHnoCult on September 16, 2002 at 13:07:23 PT
Back Fire
I think these ads will backfire on them. Kids are smarter than they think. Now that the government is going out of their way to illustrate the dangers of the black market, and most already know the relatively benign nature of marijuana, it won't take long for the public to put two and two together.All these ads will need is two words added to the bottom of them to make sure the point gets agross: "Alcohol Prohibition" or "Al Capone." We should get our own copy of the ads, make that simple modification, and adopt them for our movement.Thanks Mr. Walters!THC
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Comment #3 posted by druid on September 16, 2002 at 13:05:42 PT:
here's an ad we the people should run.
Shawn's BudThis is Shawn. This is the bud that Shawn got. This is the care-giver who supplied the bud that Shawn bought. This is the farmer that grew the pot to give to the care-giver who supplied the bud that Shawn got. And these are the sick and the dying that lined up by Shawn's grower to stand up for their rights and got shot for getting in the way." or something like that ....
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Comment #2 posted by Ethan Russo MD on September 16, 2002 at 13:03:23 PT:
Surprised
This is a hard-hitting piece, the likes of which we are not used to seeing from the networks. Taken with John Stossel's piece, there is genuine hope for ABC. Keep up the good work!
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Comment #1 posted by Windminstrel on September 16, 2002 at 13:03:20 PT
Ahh, at least we're paying for it
$1 billion this year to lie to the American public. That's $1 billion that won't be spent protecting us from terrorists, or defending our borders, or lowering taxes. It's $1 billion spent to keep Walters and his cronies in power, to keep oppressing brown people, and to alienate the very people they're trying to help. Great job, Mr. Walters -- keep it up.
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