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Pot Ordinances: One Ready for Vote
Posted by CN Staff on September 16, 2005 at 11:22:45 PT
By Claudia Reed, Staff Writer
Source: Willits News 
California -- The final version of an ordinance regulating in-city marijuana growing is expected to be up for a vote at the Sept. 28 city council meeting. An ordinance regulating medical marijuana dispensaries will not be on the agenda for another year. In the meantime, a moratorium will remain in effect. As presented at the Sept. 14 council meeting, the ordinance on growing bans all outdoor cultivation as a public nuisance. Cultivation is defined as planting, growing, harvesting, drying, or processing of marijuana plants or any part thereof.
It would be similarly illegal to own, lease, occupy, or have charge of a property in which outdoor cultivation takes place. The ordinance does not specifically limit or ban indoor growing, but gives the city the right to abate any nuisance that might result from indoor growing operations. Findings of associated possible nuisance include the generation of strong odor . . . offensive to many people and detectable far beyond property boundaries and an increased risk of burglary, robbery and armed robbery. The document refers to a near fatal shooting in 2002 over an outdoor marijuana crop on Franklin Street and a 2004 armed robbery of a home where medical marijuana was kept. The right of qualified patients and their primary caregivers under state law to cultivate marijuana plants for medical purposes does not confer upon them the right to create or maintain a public nuisance, the ordinance reads. I have no problem with the way this is drafted, said Mayor Tami Jorgensen. It doesnt prevent the growing of . . . medicine.There were no objections to the ordinance from other members of the city council. The proposed ordinance was developed by an ad hoc committee made up of council and staff members and worked into a legal document by city attorney Jim Lance.The one-year deferment of an ordinance on medical marijuana dispensaries relates to legal challenges to such ordinances taking place elsewhere in the state. Rather than crafting an ordinance and facing the cost of a court fight, the city plans to learn from the results of battles now underway.I recommend you wait for litigation to be resolved in other areas, Lance told the council. Complete Title: Pot Ordinances: One Ready for Vote, Another on HoldSource: Willits News (CA)Author: Claudia Reed, Staff WriterPublished: Friday, September 16, 2005Copyright: 2005 The Willits News Contact: editorial willitsnews.comWebsite: http://www.willitsnews.com/Related Articles:To Grow or Not To Grow?http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20337.shtmlPot Laws Conflicting, Confusinghttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19830.shtml
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Comment #19 posted by paulpeterson on September 23, 2005 at 18:12:09 PT:
jose melendez
good to hear from you jose. I finally got my own email. Thanks for your contact recently. I had to cocoon or something with this time interface I developed with the flax beef. Lost track with all social stuff here. Still trying to get village clearance to reopen and sell my stuff locally.If anybody wants to coordinate some sort of bulk distribution "I Have a Fast Car" would be my tune. I could easily drive a hundred pounds somewhere close by. To the coast, would probably require bringing 5 or 6 hundred pounds to make it worthwhile.I need to get enough people to try this and start getting the word out about its attributes before I lose the foothold I still have here on the North shore. Any coven of CB1 brain cell receptor site worshippers anywhere wanting to experience something totally new? Put together a delivery/party/worship hub and get back to me. All cuts, beef and pork, all USDA certified, just has a nice buzz added in with mega omega 3's.
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Comment #18 posted by FoM on September 23, 2005 at 13:03:38 PT
Jose and Paul
It's good to see you Jose and Paul. It's always hard for me to think much outside of the way I do. I don't understand somethings but pay attention to what means a lot to me and right now it's the hurricane and hoping that the damage isn't too great when it's over. We have Texas people here on CNews and I haven't seen anyone post so I assume that they have evacuated and will let us know when they can.
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Comment #17 posted by jose melendez on September 23, 2005 at 12:54:09 PT
ifigur
I figure you're all right, paulPeterson. I admire the righteous and cooperative stance. Keep up the great work, man. We're almost there.
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Comment #16 posted by paulpeterson on September 23, 2005 at 10:57:47 PT:
ekim
Cognitive dissonance. I believe that in wartime, paranoia and CD get really bad. I believe that it gets so bad that people browsing online will get it so bad that when they see an idea that is too weird, they will be fearful of even having been proven to have LOOKED AT the idea. Let's call this the Medussa metaphor. The Medussa metaphor is so strong that merely announcing to a locality that the Medussa head will be passing this way, you can keep people from even looking outside their windows, for to actually see it is death, right? That would be a good way to keep people from seeing some dastardly murder, by telling them it is a Medussa. Minos did that same thing with the Laborynth. Go there and it is death by Minotaur-Halfbull, half-human, eats humans. What, with cow cudd teath? get outa town. Minos just wanted to keep people away from his treasury, that's all. End of fear. As Homer finds out, (and Marge gives him notes: "Don't do what Bart says") all is not as it seems.And by the way, to prove my point: 1) I am too weird, to the point of scary & 2) whenever I post something, almost NOONE ever is willing to carry on a thread-they go elsewhere with conversations. Nobody wants to be known as having heard the weirdest stuff, or they figure I am so obtuse that I must be DEA, FBI, or the Religious Police, they are the worst ones. I donno. Whadayafigur? 
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Comment #15 posted by paulpeterson on September 23, 2005 at 09:13:39 PT:
ekim
Thanks for your response. I planned an event last September, even got letters out to 16 chiefs inviting themall-I called Jim and told him not to come-(Since I got absolutely no response)-that aint a way to have fun. I did call some chiefs up, Evanston wanted nothing to do with decrim. Skokie was outa town. Northfield got onna fone and told me "ever since I got your letter I have been mulling this over philosophically....I have referred the matter to the corporation counsel". (Since then he was quoted as having recommended an ordinance). That is when I realized I wouldn't even need to call the guys anymore-either the first volley blows all resistance away or there is no point in trying beyond the first volley.Most likely the first volley works so well as a pulse cannon by causing what in most people would be a cognitive dissonance spasm-then the idea would be totally disregarded and forgotten immediately. However, if it comes in a tangible, resilient medium, through an established, safe, (nonthreatening) transit into the mother ship, the person must be able to overcome such spasm, here by the fact that it is on paper, with ink, cleanly printed, by a wordsmith that can stealth information under the radar. The code is placed, all possible questions are preanswered, in sequential form, such that as the person reads the letter, I don't ever leave them with any unanswered innuendos or negativity-only compelling entroits into answers to pivotal questions that must have plaqued each and every one of them. For instance, when I suggest that police officers have been indoctrinated to incarcerate people for basically property crimes (ie: not buying prescriptions, using MJ instead) I say: "Now that has gotta hurt" (Direct emotional hit, seen and accepted as same, then I hitem with the inspirational tone of maybe breaking down a major wall of mistrust and divisiveness, etc. I donno-It seems to work! (cops love it when I talk rappy and sorta outa the great white north or somethin!)I did see Jim at a Northwestern rally this spring. I first spoke with him in 2001 when I first started my Don Quixote run at the system. Now, of course, when he finally saw me, I was reduced to a guy that no one in Wilmette will risk being associated with, other than the police, in their own offices (without preying eyes of citizens, I guess).Now, I am trying to enlist the police in an open revolt against city hall. I have had to threaten federal court action under the law which protects religious freedoms against zoning or land use strictures. I repeatedly chide corporation counsel to appoint the head zoning administrator as "ombudsman" so that he can waive any stricture, in the interest of avoiding my federal filing.This couldn't be any more obtuse of a position. Recently a guy shot a girl and killed himself in downtown Wilmette. The chief was quoted as wanting to know what caused the guy to do it. Since he is such a strong supporter, and I have some psychic bones or somethin, I knew I had INCOMING. Sure enough, I had a full spirit witness/interface/emotional/visual contact as he left this world. Basically I saw his total social isolation/desperation cause such a shutdown of cognitive function to the point that all he saw were three fences, which would have been the three cell walls he was accustomed to. I told my police liaison about this and told him that if that kid (who had no drugs involved) had learned the capacity to put his hands together and pray, he might have stopped the thoughts in time.I told him I think this is what I am supposed to do with my store and meat-get kids to experience a small, palpable sense of and contact with the divine, and a group, so we can avoid the sort of desocialization that causes people to commit carnage. This guy has been my prize student over the years. I also have had perfect timing, I think. This deputy was recently quoted as saying that the kid did not have drugs in his system. He then further stated "even if there was pot or something, that still wouldn't account for this". Wjat a positive metaphor, to erase 60 years of negative association with pot! And he had had such a mind-set change that he did not even notice how far we had come.Thanks for the details of stuff I need to investigate.
Yes, Ryan is getting hisself prosecuted, finally. This guy directly took away my career. The DHS guys (state agency in charge of MM) had told me to get cooking on a program and get in contact with the feds. I had federal friends within hours. The DEA special projects guy told me who and how to contact in the NIDA. Based upon my verbalized differential observation of varietal cannabinoids in various plant structures, my analysis of the differential filtration of THC, etc., these guys told me if I GOT MY STATE GUY TO CALL HIM (no paper work) they would work with me. The DEA guy told me he would grant SPLIT APPROVAL to give me a ton of it for me to press into pellets (for dietary intake) if I would bring it back for safekeeping as I solicited doctor money (IND, institutional oversight, 125 bed program, rigid protocols, etc.).Then, since I had also lobbied Ryan substantially, all doors slammed shut. His secretary told me "let the drug companies do it". That means Abbott, who had produced marinol (in ILLINOIS, NO LESS, using the very medical marijuana enablement statute as cover) told him to get Pauly outa town. DHS told Pauly get outa town. DHS told the mounties (lawyer goons, that is) to take away my badge.
The goons lied, and big time. I went to the FBI & Federal court. Then I found out the FBI had asked the goons to let them put a sheep in wolve's clothing-they napped a hunnerd bad guys. If I kept trying to break their sweetheart deal, I woulda let out a hunnerd bad guys, and I didn't wanna do it. So I dropped my case by saying the FBI did good police work. I also claimed MOOTNESS on the system since the RFRA was now presumed good law! And Patrick Fitzgerald, the chief prosecutor, prosecuting Ryan has never had his people stand up against me. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, now it has been 3 years since I have confirmed my religious convictions with filings in federal court! These village people (zoning, land use) just don't get it. Now, I am sure they are trying to get my police guys to bust me so they don't have to go to court.I may just try to enlist Patrick Fitgerald to try to MEDIATE my disputes with the local village, to avoid having to try to get him to prosecute the case on my behalf. (Not that he will even want to HEAR ABOUT me or this matter-that is just it-I will try to use this as a method of overcoming his cognitive dissonance, etc., who knows, a little publicity?)Oh well, thanks for listening. Over and out. Paul
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Comment #14 posted by ekim on September 21, 2005 at 19:43:52 PT
a "Paulie" burger -- or phase shifter
Paul did you have a town hall meeting with James Gierach . When was that a year or more ago. Can you get Leap to do a meeting. Did you have a chance to see Howard Wooldridge when he rode his horse thru the Windy City . www.leap.cc/howard Paul do you read Drug WarRant
by Pete Guither http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/
Pete produces stage shows in the Windy City. Monday, July 11, 2005 http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/2005/07/11.html
Light PostingI'm taking some time off work and I'm in Chicago this week working on the final touches for "The Living Canvas 2005" -- a show that I'm producing and directing.
It opens on July 22 at Victory Gardens Theater and runs through August 28. It has absolutely nothing to do with the drug war (even though one reviewer last year said "Stoners, Dali fans, sensualists of every stripe, this show's for you."), but I think it's a great show, and I encourage you to see it if you're in the area.
 
Please try to make contact as you have visualized many interesting concepts that are ripe for the people to witness.
 
http://leap.cc/speakers/gierach.htm
"Prohibition - not drugs - is at the hub of most U.S. crises worth talking about"  
James Gierach is a practicing attorney who has experienced the effect of the war on drugs from both sides of the legal system. As a Chicago prosecutor in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in the early 1970s, Jim scrutinized and perfected search-warrant complaints for narcotics officers to "make the charges stick" in court. He also worked "homicide court" and witnessed the violence that exists as a direct result of drug prohibition.After 35 years of courtroom and broad-based legal experience, Jim has concluded, "Not only does prohibition not work but it is prohibition (not drugs) that is at the hub of most U.S. crises worth talking about: gangs, guns, crime, prisons, AIDS, health care, corruption, and eroding of our civil liberties."As an attorney representing a "zero-tolerance" municipality, Jim once dutifully advised an applicant for street-sweeper that because he failed his drug test for marijuana he was ineligible for the job. However, Jim noted, the test results would not disqualify the applicant from running for President of the United States. In other instances of drug-war irony: Jim has counseled a law-enforcement juvenile officer who secretly maintained himself for years on a large daily-dose of methadone; seen divorce clients use "zero-tolerance" as a weapon against spouses in custody and visitation battles; represented a millionaire drug dealer, not yet an adult, enticed into the drug dealing because of the "excitement" offered by that life style; watched as a client and business-owner in his 50s, with no criminal history, was sent to the penitentiary because, as the client put it, he was "lured into the drug business by our government, who gave me the chance to make some extra money and I couldn't refuse"; listened to the anguished story of a distraught mother explaining that her daughter had turned to prostitution in order to afford her drug bills and had eventually been "executed" for failure to pay a $25 drug debt.Referred to as "Illinois' preeminent conscientious objector" to the war on drugs, Jim spent the last dozen years fighting drug prohibition as a candidate for Cook County State's Attorney and Illinois governor in primary elections, and as an author, speaker, and attorney. He has discussed and debated drug-policy issues on television, radio and in many other venues. -----------------------------------------------------------------i see Ryan is in the news for many counts.
remember the House and Senate both voted for Hemp bills only to have this impostor cut them down.
Paul there must be many more converts now for Hemp Bills as the oil industry is driving up the price on more products and the farming community is looking for new crops and more value added products to compete against oil derived ones.http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread8817.shtml
The Illinois House passed the bill 67-47 on Jan. 9, reintroduced after originally failing in November. The Industrial Hemp Act overwhelmingly passed the Senate 49-9 last spring. http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread10526.shtml
The Republican governor vetoed a similar bill earlier this year. The second version tried to address his concerns by studying law enforcement concerns and looking for ways to grow hemp with none of the mind-altering chemical found in marijuana.http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread10538.shtml
State Sen. Evelyn Bowles vowed Saturday to fight for an override of Gov. George Ryan's veto of a bill she sponsored that would have allowed a study of industrial hemp's potential as a crop for Illinois farmers. Ryan announced Friday he had vetoed the legislation, arguing that other studies have settled the issue. "To put it mildly, I'm very disappointed," said Bowles, D-Edwardsville. 
http://www.hempology.org
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Comment #13 posted by paulpeterson on September 21, 2005 at 11:55:27 PT:
ekim
Hello, again. Interestingly enough, it would appear that each and every time this flax beef (to the levels of which I speak of) has been discovered, the discoverer (if moneyed), would keep this secret and the secret would usually die with the miser's body, (or, if poor the guy gets killed as soon as he tells his boss, etc.). This, I think, is the way that the "cognitive dissonance gene" was firmly implanted in our gene pool. Critical anxiety and fear to the point of paranoia of control eschillon "authority figures" is certainly the most rational way to negotiate the barriers and constraints of society with, eh?So let's pick apart our society and choose any area where there is a critical disconnect between logic, reality, observation and control parameters, shall we? Oh, I heard someone say "how about the drug war". Good choice. Here is how it goes: The more of a charade an issue occludes, the more likely it is that the cognitive dissonance switch gets "tweeked" to a hairpin trigger. Any mere mention of something that would upset the dominance hegonomy here would trigger the "don't wanna listen" button. That fits-everyone is so conditioned to the fear of a "bust" nobody even wants to talk about stopping the "busts". My little experiment about shutting down the entire drug war with my stealth meat bombers just triggers too many fear buttons all at once. In reality, think about it. Once Jay Leno starts getting this as joke material, nobody will ever be able to look at a hamburger without wondering if his mom slipped him a "Paulie" burger or something. What cop could then EVER take seriously busting somebody if "Oh my god, now dey doing it in meat"!!!Now, if I can be so obtuse, I believe that by merely postulating the above, I am the first person in history to be able to argue that it is NOW POSSIBLE for such a change in paradigm to occur-This is the Dedilus metaphor for the day-oh, by the way, on his way out he tag teamed me into the picture. I'm now the guy that is supposed to push that rock up the hill, and now, since we know full well it is a pulse engine and pulse generator, it may just be that the rock only had to be started, and it will continue, and perhaps pickup steam, which seems to be the happening.You see, once I got one article in print, 10/04, with 5 chiefs of police quoted as to their thoughts on decrim-without any credit to anybody other than the police as the protagonists of change, the followup bits have ALL taken that stance, with chiefs getting all the buzz for change!
Same as to the 8/05 story about the southern flank adding 5 towns. Police got the microphone there also.So while all around the world, police are always poo-pooing and nay saying about change (which STOPS CHANGE) in Illinois the pump is primed, the pulse has started, the cadence set, and change is now indemic in the gene pool that most counts: chiefs of police that read the newspapers, and citizens that read the papers and talk to their chiefs of police.One further note: Any attempts to start the pump can NEVER COME FROM THE "advocates" that stomp around and talk bad about cops! Are the cops going to WANT? to overcome their cognitive dissonance switch? No-that means Norml, MPP, these local "Windy City Hemp" people are destined to fail, each and every time. Case in point: MPP wanted to change our statute to state that if police finger a guy to the feds, the police guy loses his job. Hello? Talk about a BACKFIRE? That just made every cop in the state get on board to DEFEAT the matter. They even lost the pivotal vote of my HOME REP. Beth Coulson, that had just 5 months earlier staunchly supported my efforts and agenda. She voted it down in committee even though she was the one that most strongly supported the matter earlier.No damage done, however. I did apologize by phone to the lobbiest for the Illinois State Association of Chiefs of Police and told him that I never would want to put any such fears and hobbles on law enforcement.Now-which effort seems to be working best-Adversarial ram-rodding through inflammatory legislation? Or personal calls to people that get quoted for positive change that is occuring? I just wish I wasn't losing my store, my inventory, my phone, my address and other tools of change.
Over and out. 
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Comment #12 posted by paulpeterson on September 21, 2005 at 11:20:25 PT:
ekim
Thank you for your posts thus far. You have no idea how important person to person contact is right now for me, as I continue to distance each and every person that will meet my eyes, sequentially, almost, because of the ideas that I am intended to impart ie: possibility, occurrence and my own involvement in this paradigm shift ie: the flax beef "barrier" that no one could ever see until after I had found, analyzed, designed around and in 6 repetitive tries reproduced in steers and pigs.But meanwhile, back at the ranch, ideas and how they change. I meditated on that Dedilus fellow, the one I still can't recall how to spell the name of, I think he was also the guy that got sentenced to eternity pushing that boulder up the hill, only to have it fall down and him start all over again at it. So I thought-hey! Let's reverse engineer accourding to my construct, that is that there must be a visual or clear verbal metaphor placed in the brain of a thinker for that person to attach onto so that a creative idea could be even ALLOWED to be thought (by persons other than the ordained members of a certain cult or subgroup that have found some practice, ritual or other even ingested substance to allow for out of the line crayon coloring, if you know what I mean and get my drift, eh?). So I thought I would figure out a few important inventions that our friend Dedilus has given us so far, for his efforts in being held in abeyance to repeat this chore so odiously intended for him, eH?Then the list started to just spew out, seamlessly, with such force that I closed my eyes so's to get the full force of the projection so well colored (I even got the 64 crayon salute, where they all undressed, melted into paint and before it was over I had full skin toned the Greek guy hiself, full force full eye contact as he bowed to me and thanked me for noticing and finally releasing him from his sentence-a full Jumanji game, my move, his spirit moved on, finally, finely, exit stage right, leaving the endeering, pulsing vibration of each and every machine that could never have been invented without him priming that mound with his moving cursor. You see, pushing that element up, causes it to fall back down, completing the stroke that is at the heart of each and every gear, pinion, pump, eccentric, sin wave, motor, engine, engineer, etc. His has been the labor that every labor saving device has relied upon to fire the visual imagination. His has been the device contemplated as the starting point of each and ever "necessity" based "invention".This was also the way his society wanted to punish his memory (boy, he must REALLY have been feared and regiled and hated upon his death!) probably for merely causing such a strong cognitive dissonance each and every time he, himself, scribbled a little too close to the edge of the globe or something.Oh well, now he is gone, thanking me for being the one to release him forever. You see, now, at least you and I can never look at his metaphor again, without giving him the proper credit for all of the visionaries he has spawned since he was thus seemingly imprisoned in a seemingly narrow cell. Don't look so bad after all, eh? 
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Comment #11 posted by ekim on September 20, 2005 at 20:55:24 PT
thank you for all you are doing Paul Peterson
sometimes i wonder who is reading this site and how things happen. I wished for farmaid to be a tribute to cannabis, Willie did a good thing by representing the leaf on his cover. 
 
 you have the early adapter course. no matter you are one with the plant -- you have and are now saving many from HEA Act and its impact on college students. thank you and the 15teen outposts of reason you have watered.http://leap.cc/events/Sep 21 05 Drugs and Crime Class 03:00 PM Howard Wooldridge Syracuse New York USA 
 Dave Owens, Criminal Justice Chair at Onondaga Community College, welcomes Board Member Howard Wooldridge to speak to his Drugs and Crime Class about the failure of drug prohibition. Howard will be covering numerous topics such as the HEA Act and its impact on college students, the racial impact of the current drug laws, methamphetamine use and a host of other very important topics. Howard will also discuss his cross country horse back journey to end America's failed war on drugs. Location: Room A-345 of the Academic One Building 
Sep 21 05 Child & Family Policy Class, Syracuse University 12:45 PM Howard Wooldridge Syracuse New York USA 
 If you've ever had to go into someone' house and watch the children cry as mommy and/or daddy are taken away in handcuffs, then you know what Board Member Howard Wooldridge experienced when he was a cop enforcing America's terrible drug laws. Howard will be speaking to Professor Carrie Smith's Child and Family Policy Class about this frightful matter. Howard will discuss the ripple effects of a drug conviction, how it effects families and the community and the interlocking policies that impact a drug felon's family. Location: Simms Hall, Room 437, Syracuse University 
http://www.leap.cc/howard
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Comment #10 posted by paulpeterson on September 20, 2005 at 18:54:49 PT:
ekim
End of story. I lost all anticipation of any contact from farmaid, I was around all weekend, I had been shooshed off one farmer's market and did not want to have armed guards awaiting me at the next one so I took that guy seriously and didn't call them, I waited for their call. Didn't come. Remember, if an idea is not ripe for consideration, it doesn't even get remembered.I just realized, in fact, that only because of the enduring myth of Dedilus (sp) and Icarus devising those wings and taking flight, were little boys and girls inspired to believe that someday, someone might invent just such a contraption. Why, without such an empowering metaphor to guide one's pursuits of the outer limits of potential, cognitive dissonance would have dashed the very hope and no dreaming thus charged would have ever occured. Burned at the stake, twot/st be, the bold lad that would think thusly. End of story. Paul  
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Comment #9 posted by Truth on September 18, 2005 at 13:57:13 PT
The city of Willits,
my neighboring town,is asking to be sued.My belief is it will happen.FREE MOTHER NATURE
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Comment #8 posted by mayan on September 17, 2005 at 18:26:30 PT
Posse Comitatus 
Sorry, unrelated..."Speaking on the Senate floor Thursday, Sen. John Warner, R-Va., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said, "I believe the time has come that we reflect on the Posse Comitatus Act." He advocated giving the president and the secretary of defense "correct standby authorities" to manage disasters."Military May Play Bigger Relief Role:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/D8CM6FB00.html
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Comment #7 posted by runderwo on September 17, 2005 at 09:04:01 PT
hmm
"The document refers to a near fatal shooting in 2002 over an outdoor marijuana crop on Franklin Street and a 2004 armed robbery of a home where medical marijuana was kept."Two incidents in three years? That's a pretty good track record. How many people encounter near fatal shootings and armed robbery over any other desirable things they own? Should we outlaw nice things because criminals might see them and be encouraged to commit a crime?
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Comment #6 posted by ekim on September 16, 2005 at 19:53:30 PT
where are all the Windy City reformers
heresssssssssssssssssssss Paul tell us the rest of the story
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21096.shtml#10
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Comment #5 posted by ekim on September 16, 2005 at 19:43:11 PT
just got this back
Hi!
Thank you so much for sending along your questions, challenges and thoughts. I can already tell that this is going to be a really fun project. In order to read everyone's questions and select a winner to be posted on the web so the rest of the Farm Aid world can benefit from your thoughtful letter, I will have to wait until the next e-mail blast to send everyone their answers. Also, anything sent after the 27th of each month will automatically be added to the batch for the following month. For now, keep shopping thoughtfully and as Willie says "Eat well and be well!"
Best Foodie Wishes,
Laura: The Farm Aid Shopper
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Comment #4 posted by Hope on September 16, 2005 at 19:37:15 PT
Howard Wooldridge is a great man...
"If you've ever had to go into someone' house and watch the children cry as mommy and/or daddy are taken away in handcuffs, then you know what Board Member Howard Wooldridge experienced when he was a cop enforcing America's terrible drug laws. Howard will be speaking to Professor Carrie Smith's Child and Family Policy Class about this frightful matter. Howard will discuss the ripple effects of a drug conviction, how it effects families and the community and the interlocking policies that impact a drug felon's family."I sure do appreciate him and what he is doing.
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Comment #3 posted by ekim on September 16, 2005 at 19:36:33 PT
am emailing this bloger about Paul Peterson
http://www.farmaid.org/site/PageServerBackstage Pass
Our blogger will be backstage during the show getting you the real scoop on what's going on. Check back during the concert Sunday for live updates! http://www.farmaid.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6407What is grass roots organizing?I read a lot about grassroots organizing on the internet, on the Farm Aid website and all over really. I sort of understand what the term means but I am not quite sure. Where did it come from? What exactly does it mean and can anyone get involved?Right on! Good question. For most of the people who work here at the Farm Aid office the concept of grassroots organizing is almost second nature. More than half of our nine person staff came here with a background in grassroots organizing from labor standards to fair housing campaigns. I have to admit that when I came here right out of college, I felt a little behind the curve: “grassroots organizing” was right next to “counter cyclical payments” on my list of things to look up. Lucky for you, I can handle the grassroots; now, crop payments on the other hand, I am still working on!
http://www.farmaid.org/site
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Comment #2 posted by ekim on September 16, 2005 at 18:55:48 PT
see Howard and Misty finish 3000 miles 
http://leap.cc/howard/On Thursday afternoon, Sept. 15th, Howard arrived in Syracuse, and will stop there over the weekend making appearances, giving interviews, and even riding in a parade. He expects to be back on the road on Monday. 
Sep 18 05 Westcott Parade 08:00 AM Howard Wooldridge Syracuse New York USA 
 Howard Wooldridge and Company stop to talk to visitors at the Westcott Street Cultural Fair. Howard, with his trusting horse Misty, will be discussing the issue of America's failed policies of drug prohibition with anyone that will listen. And it's guaranteed that a lot of people will be listening. Vist the web site www.westcottfair.org for more information. Sep 19 05 WFBL 1390Am Bill Colley Show 08:15 AM Howard Wooldridge Syracuse New York USA 
 Board Member Howard Wooldridge is a guest on the Bill Colley Show at WFBL 1390AM, Syracuse, New York. Howard will be discussing his cross country trip to end America's failed policies of drug prohibition, specific issues related to these failures and offer tips and advice that everyday citizens can use to end this dismal and disgraceful attack on citizens everywhere. Follow Howard's journey at http://www.LEAP.cc/Howard Sep 21 05 Drugs and Crime Class 03:00 PM Howard Wooldridge Syracuse New York USA 
 Dave Owens, Criminal Justice Chair at Onondaga Community College, welcomes Board Member Howard Wooldridge to speak to his Drugs and Crime Class about the failure of drug prohibition. Howard will be covering numerous topics such as the HEA Act and its impact on college students, the racial impact of the current drug laws, methamphetamine use and a host of other very important topics. Howard will also discuss his cross country horse back journey to end America's failed war on drugs. Location: Room A-345 of the Academic One Building Sep 21 05 Child & Family Policy Class, Syracuse University 12:45 PM Howard Wooldridge Syracuse New York USA 
 If you've ever had to go into someone' house and watch the children cry as mommy and/or daddy are taken away in handcuffs, then you know what Board Member Howard Wooldridge experienced when he was a cop enforcing America's terrible drug laws. Howard will be speaking to Professor Carrie Smith's Child and Family Policy Class about this frightful matter. Howard will discuss the ripple effects of a drug conviction, how it effects families and the community and the interlocking policies that impact a drug felon's family. Location: Simms Hall, Room 437, Syracuse University 
http://www.leap.cc/events
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Comment #1 posted by mayan on September 16, 2005 at 18:24:32 PT
Public Nuisance
The most versatile plant on this earth is not a nuisance. Those who would prohibit it in all it's forms are certainly public nuisances!unrelated...Another Bush child gone bad...Jeb Bush's son arrested for public intoxication, resisting arrest:
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050916/APN/509161097U.S. says Venezuela no longer ally in war on drugs:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3356406THE WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN...Weldon: Atta Papers Destroyed on Orders: 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050916/ap_on_go_co/sept11_hijackersLawmakers Ask CIA to Open Sept. 11 Report: 
http://tinyurl.com/coqy79/11 Was an Inside Job - A Call to All True Patriots:
http://www.911sharethetruth.com/
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