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NORML's Weekly News Bulletin -- February 2, 2006
Posted by CN Staff on February 02, 2006 at 15:22:36 PT
Weekly Press Release
Source: NORML
Alaska: Governor's Bid To Challenge State's Long-Standing Pot Policies StallsFebruary 2, 2006 - Juneau, AK, USAJuneau, AK: House representatives voted this week to reject Senate provisions that sought to overturn a 1975 Alaska Supreme Court ruling (Ravin v. State) upholding the right of citizens to possess up to four ounces of marijuana in the privacy of their homes.
The Senate had approved the provisions, which would make the possession of less than four ounces of marijuana a misdemeanor and the possession of greater amounts a felony, as amendments to House Bill 149, which primarily addresses the manufacturing of methamphetamine. However, last night the House voted 23 to 15 to send the bill back to the Senate, ordering them to withdraw the changes. If the Senate refuses to do so, a conference committee of representatives and senators will try to reach a compromise that both chambers can agree on.A similar, 2005 stand-alone version of the marijuana bill failed to garner a vote in either chamber.NORML's Legal Counsel Keith Stroup praised the House for voting down the Senate's anti-marijuana provisions. "These provisions, introduced at the behest of the Governor, had not been properly debated by House lawmakers," he said. "The Senate's attempt to merge these provisions with a popular anti-methamphetamine bill that had been previously approved by the House was a cynical attempt to try and recriminalize cannabis without engaging in any substantive legislative debate."If the conference committee approves the proposed marijuana penalties, it will likely force the Court to revisit its 1975 ruling.If that happens, the Court will likely rebuff the legislature, Stroup predicts. "The right to privacy is more important to the Court and to most Alaskans than the Governor's ill-advised war on marijuana smokers," he said.In 2004, the Alaska Supreme Court rejected a petition by the state attorney general's office to reconsider a September 2003 Court of Appeals ruling finding that the possession of marijuana by adults within the home is constitutionally protected activity.For more information, please contact Keith Stroup, NORML Legal Counsel, at (202) 483-5500.DL: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6805New Mexico Senate Approves Medical Cannabis MeasureFebruary 2, 2006 - Santa Fe, NM, USASanta Fe, NM: Senators overwhelmingly approved legislation this week to exempt seriously ill patients who use medical marijuana under a physician's supervision from state criminal prosecution. The Senate voted 34 to 6 in favor of the measure, which now moves to the House.If passed, Senate Bill 258 would exempt authorized patients from state criminal prosecution for the possession and use of medicinal cannabis. Qualified patients would be issued identification cards by the state Department of Health. The proposal also encourages the health department to develop a "distribution system" for medical cannabis that provides for "licensed cannabis production facilities."State Governor Bill Richardson (D) has stated that he will sign the bill.Similar legislation passed the state Senate last year but stalled in the House.To date, eleven states - Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington - have enacted laws exempting physician-supervised marijuana patients from arrest and criminal prosecution.For more information, please contact Paul Armentano, NORML Senior Policy Analyst, at (202) 483-5500 or visit: http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/bills/?bill=8407996DL: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6806 Evidence Rebuts Supposed Cannabis And Aggression LinkFebruary 2, 2006 - Washington, DC, USAWashington, DC: Allegations published in the current issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry stating that "the use of cannabis is ... strongly associated with delinquent and aggressive behavior" are a cynical attempt to falsely imply that marijuana is a causal factor in violent behavior and are not supported by the scientific record, said NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre."No credible research has shown cannabis to be a contributory factor in violence, aggression or delinquent behavior, dating back to United States government's 'First Report of the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse' in 1972, which concluded, 'In short, marijuana is not generally viewed by participants in the criminal justice community as a major contributing influence in the commission of delinquent or criminal acts,'" St. Pierre said.More recent scientific reviews affirm this conclusion. For example, a 2002 inquiry by the Canadian Senate found: "Cannabis use does not induce users to commit other forms of crime. Cannabis use does not increase aggressiveness or anti-social behavior."A 2002 report by the British Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs also concluded, "Cannabis differs from alcohol in one major respect. It does not seem to increase risk-taking behavior. This means that cannabis rarely contributes to violence either to others or to oneself, whereas alcohol use is a major factor in deliberate self-harm, domestic accidents and violence."Most recently, a logistical regression analysis of approximately 900 trauma patients published in the Journal of TRAUMA Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, determined that the use of cannabis is not independently associated with either violent or non-violent injuries requiring hospitalization. By contrast, alcohol and cocaine use are associated with violence-related injuries, the study found.Clinical trials during which volunteers are administered marijuana also fail to demonstrate that cannabis intoxication increases hostility in a competitive setting, said NORML advisory board member Mitch Earleywine, author of Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence.Earleywine said that a forthcoming study investigating aggressive behavior among 4,700 long-time adult concomitant marijuana and alcohol users finds, "Marijuana use does not lead to aggressive behavior in adults, even among frequent, long-time users." That study is now under review by the journal Aggressive Behaviors.For more information, please contact Paul Armentano, NORML Senior Policy Analyst, at (202) 483-5500.DL: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6804Source: NORML Foundation (DC)Published: February 2, 2006Copyright: 2006 NORML Contact: norml norml.org Website: http://www.norml.org/CannabisNews NORML Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/NORML.shtml
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Comment #47 posted by global_warming on February 04, 2006 at 13:51:23 PT
another comment
a dog, needs a master,a horse needs 'freedom,
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Comment #46 posted by global_warming on February 04, 2006 at 13:36:36 PT
sorry fom
i do respect you,
wish i could be your helping hand,
respectfully 'gw
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Comment #45 posted by global_warming on February 04, 2006 at 13:08:05 PT
some more filler
Mat 7:1 "Do not judge, so that you won't be judged.Mat 7:2 For with the judgment you use, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.Mat 7:3 Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye but don't notice the log in your own eye?Mat 7:4 Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' and look, there's a log in your eye?Mat 7:5 Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.Mat 7:6 Don't give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them with their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.Mat 7:7 "Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.Mat 7:8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.Mat 7:9 What man among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?Mat 7:10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?Mat 7:11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!Mat 7:12 Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do also the same for them--this is the Law and the Prophets.Mat 7:13 "Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it.Mat 7:14 How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.Mat 7:15 "Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravaging wolves.Mat 7:16 You'll recognize them by their fruit. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?Mat 7:17 In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.Mat 7:18 A good tree can't produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit.
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Comment #44 posted by global_warming on February 04, 2006 at 12:17:54 PT
this sounds like a criticism
that could be said of the dea or an arresting officer, surely, you are not placing me with the likes of those mules?Be assured, I am not your enemy.If I pressed some wrong buttons, maybe, this has caused some of us, to see, that face in the mirror.
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Comment #43 posted by Hope on February 04, 2006 at 12:09:10 PT
Global Warming comment 18
I have to tell you. That was very and unnecessarily insensitive and ugly.
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Comment #42 posted by global_warming on February 04, 2006 at 11:50:40 PT
does he smoke?
that is michael?
http://www.ravensrants.com/poetry/000339.html
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Comment #41 posted by Dankhank on February 04, 2006 at 09:57:11 PT
Fatass?
way above the kind crap that fat ass michael moore could ever do.----------------------------------------------Guess since I am a trifle overweight I am a fatass also in your view ...Or is that just when I piss you off?If Michael Moore didn't exist it would be necessary to invent him.He has asked many questions that needed to be asked.Best one?"Congressman, will you send your son/daughter to Iraq to 'defend freedom?'"Michael asked the questions no one else would ask.can't we who resist the antichrist Bush just get along?
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Comment #40 posted by whig on February 03, 2006 at 21:56:28 PT
museman
Anger is important, and we need to let ourselves feel enough that we speak the pure and obvious truths against those who pervert it. But anger should not control us, nor should we let ourselves be consumed in its fire. We must also have peace within our hearts to keep ourselves in balance.All happens for a reason. Everything proceeds according to the way it must in order for the lessons to be learned and kept. Should we prevail with too little effort or loss, we would place upon our victory too low a value and yield it too readily. Should injustice not be apparent to all who are of good heart, they will not speak against it.Would that it were possible to achieve the aim without suffering. We should never be ones to impose suffering on others, but we must accept that it is unavoidable that others will continue to do so until they either choose to stop or are condemned for their continuation.And as all of this passes, it seems an eternity to us, but when it is through it will seem as if an eyeblink compared to what we will have accomplished.
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Comment #39 posted by FoM on February 03, 2006 at 21:39:06 PT
museman
I'm a little bit of a Neil Young fan. LOL! I have a 25 disc cd player and right now have 21 of his cds in it. I appreciate lots of music but there's something about NY and what he sings about that I can relate too. My husband and I saw him for the first time on our 30th Wedding Anniversary in 03 and the war in Iraq had just started and it was a hard time but when he sang about the Patriot Act I felt right if that makes sense and then we saw him one more time. So I am a new old NY fan I suppose. "Leave The Driving"And we'll be watching youIn everything you doand you can do your partby watching others too.
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Comment #38 posted by museman on February 03, 2006 at 19:07:21 PT
FoM
Gee...ya wouldn't be a Neil Young fan would ya? I'd like to jam with him someday...before it's over.You have to understand that I am a musician myself, and I am really more interested in listening while playing, than just listening...though Young is definitely one of the few that I listen to.And I'll say again I respect, and admire his integrity over most of those who were his peers at one time. True Blue, that's Neil.
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Comment #37 posted by museman on February 03, 2006 at 18:46:23 PT
A poem
Today Runruff said I should post this;Einstein was a poet, he wrote about you and me.I guess he had to know it when he put out that emc.It was just his way of having the first of the last laughs.Y'shua was a singer, and he sang the first real song,but I guess the others missed it somehow,'cause they got the melody all wrong.It's just his way of making surenot all could find it on a dark night.And our president is a fool like most puppets are,and our lives are just a tool, for a falling Czar.It's just his way of having it all , and taking it with him...             BOOM!
more poems
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Comment #36 posted by global_warming on February 03, 2006 at 18:29:19 PT
time is coming
when 'genderhas 'no meaning,please - step up,there is a 'healing moment,twinkle...
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Comment #35 posted by FoM on February 03, 2006 at 18:21:14 PT
museman
This is a signature I use in my one e-mail account. It's from Neil Young's Greendale. I find this very much how I look at life. "Falling From Above"      "A little love and affection         In everything you do    will make the world a better place         with or without you."http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/young.htm
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Comment #34 posted by global_warming on February 03, 2006 at 18:02:01 PT
awesome
writing, your apology,is so unnecessary,my humble placein this WONDERFULTapestryis my 'little 'blessing,bet you know how i will 'vote!
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Comment #33 posted by museman on February 03, 2006 at 17:53:21 PT
Pardon
All 'ex-marines' are not pinheads. (only just about 98% of the current military-trained police force!) Sorry just got carried away in the moment.
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Comment #32 posted by museman on February 03, 2006 at 17:48:03 PT
words do have power
And the ones we choose as the vessels to carry our need to share, and participate in the verbal concert carry our spirit into the fray or forum, yet we can choose whether to ride or get off that horse at any given moment.All my life of attempting to walk a good path has led to much judgement and condemnation by those who look and claim to be that which I strive to be. So many times has the accusation 'you are so negative' been said to me, and has been said of my music (by those who never listen).As a human being, and a father of 7 children, I struggle with my anger on a daily basis, yet some time ago I reallized that there are at least 2 different distinct and seperate forms;Emotional anger, lashing out in percieved emotional pain, quite often directly asscociated with physical pain - I know that since I became disabled my physical pain threshold has lowered drasticly, as well as my emotional.
This is destructive, selfish anger which no one, not even the angry person likes to see or feel. This is the anger that most are familiar with, and I only scratched the surface.Then there is 'Righteous Anger.' There is a false righteous anger, which is just a more sophisticated control of the emotional anger, used by Ruling powers of church and state to justify their conquest and aquisition, but there is also righteous anger like the anger Y'shua felt AND DEMONSTRATED when he saw how corrupted the temple had become by the money mongers. This anger is what some of us feel when pinhead ex-marines with the IQ of about 57 come busting in our bedrooms in the middle of the night to destroy our lives over something like marijuana posession. This is the anger we feel when we see Mr. GWB strutting around with the smile of a gluttonous idiot justifying the horrors that he and his fellows have perpetrated upon the entire planet.This is the anger I feel when the local high school threatens to take me to jail over my daughters attendance record.The list goes on.We have to bite it, chew it, and eventually spit it out. We have to move on and not linger in it, but there is great danger in not aknowledging it.
http://wholeearthfamily.org
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Comment #31 posted by global_warming on February 03, 2006 at 17:36:40 PT
re"cogniteve ;liberty 
cognition is a giftfrom the Lord"
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Comment #30 posted by global_warming on February 03, 2006 at 17:26:11 PT
you are so'very beautiful
thank you whig,
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Comment #29 posted by global_warming on February 03, 2006 at 17:18:21 PT
i 'am bitching
may i have the strength, i am going to 'bitch, through my 'short lifetime, here is this journey, 'we 'all mark this passage, i wonder, how 'all these 'mules, can ever find the spiritual energies, to 'buy toilet paper?Let me say, Amen, with a deep respect, that all who can 'read, have evolved, feel the Light....
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Comment #28 posted by whig on February 03, 2006 at 17:11:00 PT
global_warming
I know that FoM doesn't always favor religious threads, but I think that different approaches are important to reach different people. With some people, I will discuss constitutional law, with others I will talk about the practical consequences (like violent crime) of prohibition. With some I will discuss the need for individuals to be able to choose what to ingest. With others I will talk about the idea of cognitive liberty. None of these perspectives are exclusive of one another, all are valid perspectives which reach different people according to their own priorities.For you, I want to reiterate what I think you agree with, the perspective that we are each of us divine, and we each get to construct the reality that we want to exist in. If we act with deception and cruelty, then we create a malicious reality. You reject this, as I do.But let me go another step, and say that if we choose to live in despair and suffering, then this too is the world we would create. Moreover, this implicitly grants power to those who inflict the darkness upon you, for you decline to turn on the light that is yours to shine.
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Comment #27 posted by FoM on February 03, 2006 at 17:02:49 PT
global_warming 
Yes we all know and what I have been doing is quietly and privately praying for the both of them but I won't bitch.
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Comment #26 posted by global_warming on February 03, 2006 at 16:59:49 PT
looking
at runruff, he 'may be going to a jail, a cage, that is also known as 'prisonis this not 'happening, in front of your eyes?it 'is, happening before mine eyes,
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Comment #25 posted by FoM on February 03, 2006 at 16:49:57 PT
global_warming
We all have seen terrible things. You aren't unique. I'd sure appreciate silence rather then being so judgmental or preachy. I'm sure you are a nice person but you do so much grumbling that it's hard to handle. Look at runruff. He is going to jail and yet he is keeping his spirits up. He is kind enough not to bring us down. We don't have to be miserable? Life is short. Take a little time and smell the flowers.
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Comment #24 posted by global_warming on February 03, 2006 at 16:43:00 PT
so sorry,
i have no movies, except that one of 'my life,i have watched that movie, since i could reach the screen,i have seen 'every form of butchery,that my 'neighbor can perform,if you are looking for some positive and healing 'word from my mouth, you will here my positive affirmation, when Cannabis is Free'd, when 'we those people can 'freely explore this Grace, that is our world, when 'we can affirm, that this war on people, is over, that the mules of this world, will look 'up, and see the path, towards what is required, to enter the 'glory Trail
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Comment #23 posted by FoM on February 03, 2006 at 16:27:04 PT
global_warming 
I have a serious question for you. Besides quoting scriptures what do you love to do? What are your hobbies? You like to dwell on painful scriptures instead of wonderful hopeful scriptures. Did you ever hear of Debbie Downer from SNL? If you love and want to lift up someone share good things and don't tell us about what young people think of us because it means nothing. Why do you have to say anything about Michael Moore? I like Michael Moore and don't you realize you are insulting others views? Try to say something good and kind. It will do you good. Are you better then Michael Moore? Where are your movies that I might see them?
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Comment #22 posted by global_warming on February 03, 2006 at 16:20:28 PT
some filler
Luk 13:31 At that time some Pharisees came and told Him, "Go, get out of here! Herod wants to kill You!" Luk 13:32 He said to them, "Go tell that fox, 'Look! I'm driving out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete My work.'Luk 13:33 Yet I must travel today, tomorrow, and the next day, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem!Luk 13:34 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The city who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
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Comment #21 posted by global_warming on February 03, 2006 at 16:12:57 PT
,,you
are 1 good looking dude,and has some kahunes, for the lAdies,my guest that made that comment,is a young man, a young professional,
he thought that the points that your movie made were 'very valid, and the presenters of this information, should look like serious people, in the 'majorities world view of an upcoming, and successful person.
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Comment #20 posted by museman on February 03, 2006 at 16:01:09 PT
g_w
Just goes to show you that people don't really pay attention to history, most specially people who are in denial.Al those guys in the colonial days had long hair, barbers were expensive, and all but the aristocracy just tied it in back like a lot of modern day long hairs. Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, just to name a few all had hair similar to that which was depicted. They could have chosen politically correct but historicly incorrect short haired actors, believe me there was plenty around in Takilma and surrounding area when this was made.Bigotry and prejudice comes in all colors and flavors, though they are getting ranker and smellier all the time- such is the way with dead things, they stink.My hair is nearly to my a** and still growing...very slowly.
But you know what? The length of hair is a pretty lame excuse for not accepting or even looking at the truth. Short or long, bald or thick. Hair is something we all get, and some of us lose it. Why should a persons personal 'grooming choices' have anything to do with anything of any real importance? It shouldn't of course, but it does. I've heard some pretty outrageous reasons for bigotry and prejudice in my time, this is definitely a big one in my life.You know I tried cutting my hair once a few years back. I found out I was just as mean and scary looking (even more so) as with long hair. The same freaky uptight poeple still judged me just the same. I had no better chance at getting work, but the cops all waved at me and smiled.Go figure.I'm glad people are getting to see this video. It's classic.
My ugly mug
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Comment #19 posted by global_warming on February 03, 2006 at 15:54:51 PT
here 'we are
just another day'guess, 'we all have to come up with that 'cash,to pay our taxes, what can 'you do,pay up, give it up, ceaser is long dead but apparently not forgotten.when did evolution and religion sleep together?i reckon i will just chew my cud and spit it out,the cunning will always be a step ahead,in front of their user agreements,hoping to cash' that check,or some 'pieces of silver,who knows, maybe 'smoking silver,is better than fresh Cannabis.
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Comment #18 posted by global_warming on February 03, 2006 at 15:24:31 PT
also,
thanks museman for that link to that movie, i think i watched the whole thing, was at work w/t3, someone commented on how the long hair detracted from the serious presentations, he thought that all that hair looked like some kind of foolish stoner, and could not be taken seriously.i personally thought that it was well done, way above the kind crap that fat ass michael moore could ever do.
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Comment #17 posted by global_warming on February 03, 2006 at 15:16:36 PT
man, muse-man
you got that so correct..
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Comment #16 posted by FoM on February 03, 2006 at 11:37:38 PT
museman 
I think we can make changes as a culture and be able to function if we keep working towards that end. As long as people are born, raised and work in a city paying taxes is necessary or trouble could come their way. We all can't live in a rural area that care about changing the current laws surrounding cannabis.
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Comment #15 posted by museman on February 03, 2006 at 10:08:28 PT
DEA
"They have a general rule at the DEA,” St. Pierre explained. “If it doesn’t involve 1,000 pounds or 1,000 marijuana plants it's probably not going to concern them."unless of course your local DEA has his fingers in the 'pot' (just ask runruff) then 2 or 3 pounds is enough. Liars, thieves, thugs, and criminals, that's our government folks. It's nice to see some of the victories happening, but the source of the problem has not yet been addressed by the American people. As long as we are willing to support this fascist Republic by being rabid consumers, and paying the taxes (without representation I might add) to fuel the coffers of the rich, then wars continue, innocents still suffer, and prohibition still creates false power and authority from the local township to the FED.
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Comment #14 posted by FoM on February 03, 2006 at 07:17:27 PT
potpal
I didn't notice the video until you mentioned it. It most definitely is worth a look. Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you.http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_033194417.html
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Comment #13 posted by potpal on February 03, 2006 at 07:01:08 PT
cbs video
Wow. That's powerful. “What fuels all of this is that there is such a large customer base. Customers seem to come in all shapes and sizes." -- NYPD detective Eugene O'DonnellOr in the words of the Beatles, even though they never admitted to it, "everybody smokes pot".180000 phone numbers hacked and now to investigate, yeah right. We know where the money comes from to have such a huge federal operation and then to pass it on to the state and locals, 'here, now you go and chase the cannabis users'. Find them, weed them out, expose them, humilate them, cage them, harass them, extort their property, for they smoke a plant other than tobacco. Do they think now that they turned over the evidence that another network down the street doesn't spring up and deliveries continue as always. Many of the calls from the leo properties were possibly bribes and pay and tip offs etc., that's what comes with prohibition, or of course, more likely, they were just looking to cop. So what now, another investigation, since this is going on in every city across America, how can they maintain the force to even dent the trade a little bit? Legalize it! Hemp in all its former glory. Hemp for victory. Rah rah. Bet hemp beats 'switch grass' hands down.Aloha.
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Comment #12 posted by siege on February 03, 2006 at 05:39:01 PT
Health
When Trust in Doctors Erodes, Other Treatments Fill the Voidhttp://tinyurl.com/9c7sf
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Comment #11 posted by whig on February 02, 2006 at 23:59:05 PT
Correction, read link
http://www.maps.org/mdma/bcp121003.html
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Comment #10 posted by whig on February 02, 2006 at 23:56:59 PT
lombar
"There was a study a year or so back that proclaimed "Cannabis use damages the brain" then a few months later the researchers published a retraction saying they were actually giving the simians in question methamphetamine. Perhaps they are referring to increased aggression in these same monkees..."I think you're referring to the retracted MDMA study, where the "good doctor" was INJECTING 100mg of purported MDMA into chimpanzees. It turns out that it was Methamphetamine, which is about 10x as potent by dose. Most of the chimps died. Before retraction, his study seemed to be claiming a greater than 50% chance of death for anyone who ever ingested a standard dose of MDMA one time.
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Comment #9 posted by lombar on February 02, 2006 at 23:41:35 PT
Funny mayan :)
"Did the writers of the British Journal of Psychiatry base their "findings" on the film, Reefer Madness?"There was a study a year or so back that proclaimed "Cannabis use damages the brain" then a few months later the researchers published a retraction saying they were actually giving the simians in question methamphetamine. Perhaps they are referring to increased aggression in these same monkees...I know it mellows me out, others as well, we call it 'smoking patience' sometimes. Some people abstain from use because its effect on them is to lower their aggressive tendencies and desires. I think this is another reason the PTB do not want cannabis legal, people with increased want and aggression are more prolific consumers of many industries. Alcohol does not so much increase aggression as it releases the inhibitions that keep it in check so it can easily be connected to violence. Pot makes people think and thinking people are a threat to tyrants and moral busybodies everywhere. Once one sees how deceptive many things are, one has to question it all."Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. "
C.S. Lewis
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Comment #8 posted by FoM on February 02, 2006 at 21:05:05 PT
Quote from the CBS Exclusive
“What fuels all of this is that there is such a large customer base. Customers seem to come in all shapes and sizes." -- NYPD detective Eugene O'Donnell
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Comment #7 posted by FoM on February 02, 2006 at 21:02:51 PT
Cannabis Is Everywhere
CBS 2 Exclusive: Breaking Down 'The Network'Prominent People, Businesses Linked To Massive Marijuana Ring 
Scott Weinberger, ReportingFebruary 2, 2006(CBS) NEW YORK -- Marijuana. It's everywhere in New York City -- as easy to get as a pizza delivered to your front door. If you have the right number. So, it came as no small surprise to federal drug agents when One Police Plaza, headquarters for the NYPD and one of the most secure buildings in New York City, came up on the call list of the "Cartoon Network" marijuana ring. Federal investigators logged at least a half-dozen calls between the drug delivery service and telephone numbers registered to the NYPD. One of those numbers was even traced, federal sources say to the NYPD's rape hotline. Federal investigators do not believe the calls were part of any NYPD investigation of the Cartoon Network.*Former prosecutor and NYPD detective Eugene O'Donnell said that while it’s not known who made the calls, the drug ring found success throughout the city."One thing that we are learning is that there was no shortage of customers,” O’Donnell said. “What fuels all of this is that there is such a large customer base. Customers seem to come in all shapes and sizes."Marijuana was big business for the Cartoon Network drug ring. DEA photos show how the drug was packaged. Federal investigators say that until it was shut down in December, the Cartoon Network drug ring averaged sales of a pound-per-day of high-grade marijuana, making a minimum of $10,000 a week. Authorities tell WCBSTV.com it was a 24/7 operation. The dealers would set up shop at New York City hotels, including the Marriott Marquis and the Bedford, both near Times Square. Packages with the drug ring’s logo, the “Budburglar,” were then delivered from those hotels. Up to 20 drug couriers would be dispatched to make deliveries on a daily basis.O’Donnell explained why the calls might have been made from phones in what seem like secure locations. "(People) think it's a public phone. So many people use (that) phone that it won't come back to them (individually), whereas if they use their cell phone, there would be a record of that,” O’Donnell said. “I'm sure some people will be very surprised that their phone numbers have been captured in connection with a case like this."Sources say other calls were also traced to telephones at four police precincts in Manhattan: the 25th, 7th, 10th and the 19th. Sources say the drug ring was on the line with a telephone at New York City's Office of Emergency Management. The city's nerve center during any major emergency and the place the mayor slept during the subway strike. Now, WCBSTV.com has learned, that federal drug agents have turned those phone records over to the city's Department of Investigations.If all that wasn't a big enough concern, just add calls to or from 26 Federal Plaza. Sources say DEA agents working the case have traced multiple phone calls involving phones on the 23rd floor, phones belonging to the New York field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.To be clear, who initiated the calls or even if they are members of law enforcement is still under investigation, but federal sources, in response to questions from WCBSTV.com, say it's "highly unlikely" that either the NYPD or FBI initiated the calls as part of any independent investigation.Other phone numbers tied to the investigation have been traced to NYU's Medical Center, the NYU campus, the corporate offices of Yahoo, and to MTV studios in Times Square.Federal sources confirm that investigators also intercepted calls from a number of A-list Hollywood celebrities and professional athletes on New York-area teams, several high profile musicians and a number of prominent New York City attorneys and doctors."The DEA, we're told, is not interested in arresting those individuals for casual use of marijuana. Alan St. Pierre works for NORML, the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws. "They have a general rule at the DEA,” St. Pierre explained. “If it doesn’t involve 1,000 pounds or 1,000 marijuana plants it's probably not going to concern them."WCBSTV.com has learned that federal agents have informed the NYPD and the FBI of the calls made involving phones registered to those agencies and that internal affairs offices for both are investigating.But the star-studded clients still -- may -- not be totally off the hook. Sources say federal prosecutors still may choose to call them as witnesses in a grand jury proceeding.The NYPD, FBI, MTV, NYU and NYU Hospital all declined to comment. Yahoo and the city's Office of Emergency Management did not return our calls.Lastly, during the DEA's investigation, we're told, agents intercepted and captured more than 180,000 telephone numbers. So far, only about 4,000 have been identified.*The “Cartoon Network” marijuana ring is not to be confused with the Cartoon Network cable TV channel. Copyright: MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_033194417.html
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Comment #6 posted by FoM on February 02, 2006 at 20:53:41 PT
Runruff 
Bless your heart. I loved your movie and so did my husband.
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on February 02, 2006 at 18:32:59 PT
OverwhelmSam
I did read it but I didn't post it. Thanks for posting it. Since I try to do news and I do NORML's Weekly Press Release I hope others will keep updates on other organizations for us. I try but if they are asking for money I generally won't post it. No one has any money so I have a hard time in that area.
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Comment #3 posted by OverwhelmSam on February 02, 2006 at 18:28:07 PT
I Hope New Mexico Is Successful
I just think it's so wrong for the federal government to interfere with state politics. I hope New Mexico passes their Medical Marijuana bill to give the federal government a big fat figurative finger. 
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Comment #2 posted by OverwhelmSam on February 02, 2006 at 18:18:57 PT
Anyone Hear About This?
The Alliance's bill to make marijuana legal for medical use in New Mexico has passed the New Mexico Senate, 34 to 6! The bad news is that our opponents - including White House employees who have traveled to New Mexico at taxpayer expense to oppose us - are organizing to stop the bill in the House. They have even managed to get the bill referred to a committee that is hostile to medical marijuana, the House Agriculture Committee, with the goal of keeping the bill from getting an up-or-down vote in the full House. http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/020206newmexico.cfm
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Comment #1 posted by mayan on February 02, 2006 at 18:13:27 PT
DESPERATION
Regarding the last article on the bulletin, the British establishment sure is getting desperate aren't they? Did the writers of the British Journal of Psychiatry base their "findings" on the film, Reefer Madness? The British establishment is under siege by those who oppose false-flag terror attacks,lies,wars and injustices of any kind. Tony Blair is even more despised than Bush Laden and that's pretty friggin' bad.On an unrelated note, the House used a voice vote yesterday to extend the Patriot Act until March 10th...Congress to Give Patriot Act Another Month:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/01/AR2006020100912.htmlFrom the above linked article..."The extension "will give members a chance to work together," said Rep. Robert Scott, D-Va."A chance? They've had over four years to work out the kinks!!! How many extensions do they need? These dolts know that there is tremendous pressure to do away with the Patriot Act altogether so they are pretending like they are trying to preserve civil liberties while desecrating Our Constitution. In reality, they are likely waiting for the next "terror attack" so they can pass it permanently, as is.Hope the Super Bowl is safe...Super Bowl Sunday terror chatter high:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48559And it seems that the Department of Homeland Security is focusing on bogus NFL memorabilia this week. You've got to be kidding... Bogus NFL memorabilia is not welcome in Detroit:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060131/SPORTS0106/601310310/1126/SPORTS0101Considering that there is the threat of a terror attack at the Super Bowl that makes perfect sense. Why would the terrorists want to focus on terrorism anyway?If anyone is planning on going to Detroit for the Super Bowl, be very cautious.THE WAY OUT...Questions remain from 9/11 report, professor says: 
http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/163875/3/Prof. Jones' Utah 9/11 Seminar - Feb.1, 2006:
http://www.gnn.tv/blogs/12675/Prof_Jones_Utah_9_11_Seminar_Feb_1_2006Al-Qaeda Propagandizes For Bush On Eve Of State of the Union:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20WA20060201&articleId=1867Unplug the War Machine By Facing the Disturbing Truth of 9/11:
http://www.911sharethetruth.com/
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