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MMJ Raids To Continue After House Defeats Bill
Posted by CN Staff on May 10, 2012 at 18:15:28 PT
By Lucia Graves
Source: Huffington Post
Washington, D.C. -- A bipartisan measure that would have eliminated funding for federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in states where they're legal failed Wednesday in the House of Representatives. The legislation, introduced by Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), Sam Farr (D-Calif.), Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.), and Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), was part of the appropriations bill to fund the Department of Justice for fiscal 2013. It failed 262-163.The bill came as the administration of President Barack Obama has unleashed an interagency crackdown on the cannabis industry, with raids on pot dispensaries, many in California operating in full compliance with state law.
Since October 2009, the Justice Department has conducted more than 170 aggressive SWAT-style raids in nine states that allow medical marijuana, resulting in at least 61 federal indictments, according to data compiled by Americans for Safe Access, an advocacy group. While medical marijuana is legal under laws in 17 states and the District of Columbia, federal law says any use of marijuana is illegal.The failed bill's text reads as follows:None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to the States of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, to prevent such States from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.Of the 190 Democrats in the House, 134 (more than 70 percent) voted in favor of the bill. Only 29 of the 242 House Republicans (less than 12 percent) did."If states' rights aren't a good enough reason to pass this amendment, do it because of compassion. Compassion demands it," said Farr in his statement Wednesday on the House floor. "We offer this amendment for terminal cancer patients," he added, "for AIDS victims, for persons who suffer chronic pain. We offer this amendment not only to protect those people, but we offer this amendment to protect the states that are progressive enough to provide alternative medical options to those who need it."Watch Farr's address to Congress below.Youtube: http://drugsense.org/url/7NqVKYdfSource: Huffington Post (NY)Author: Lucia GravesPublished: May 10, 2012Copyright: 2012 HuffingtonPost.com, LLC Contact: scoop huffingtonpost.comWebsite: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/URL: http://drugsense.org/url/57Z4PFw7CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
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Comment #60 posted by Hope on May 22, 2012 at 13:37:09 PT
Comment 58 "This weekend"
I wonder if there will be a lot of paranoia there and what that might look like.
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Comment #59 posted by Hope on May 22, 2012 at 13:34:35 PT
Afterburner 58
I just... I don't know what to say about that. I get dumbstruck by information sometimes!
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Comment #58 posted by afterburner on May 22, 2012 at 11:21:36 PT
More Pushback
Ryerson hosts international conference on Mad Studies.
Published On Sat May 19 2012.
Comments (0).
Photo:
"The academic elite have literally organized against mad people through a multitude of oppressive practices and ideas,” says Prof. Geoffrey Reaume.
Michael Stuparyk/Toronto Star.
Jim Coyle,
feature writer
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/1181057--ryerson-hosts-international-conference-on-mad-studies
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Comment #57 posted by Hope on May 18, 2012 at 18:20:10 PT
Afterburner
Allen J. Frances on The Overdiagnosis of Mental IllnessVery interesting. Pretty much what we've been saying. More precise, clinical, and complicated, but about the same thing.Thank you.
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Comment #56 posted by afterburner on May 18, 2012 at 10:55:25 PT
Hope #24
Big Ideas: Allen J. Frances on The Overdiagnosis of Mental Illness
http://ww3.tvo.org/video/177352/allen-j-frances-overdiagnosis-mental-illness
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Comment #55 posted by FoM on May 18, 2012 at 07:07:33 PT
Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit
How did we fall so far behind and get where we are now? We were almost there and then it all changed.This is from The Smothers Brothers Show in 1967!!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0
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Comment #54 posted by FoM on May 18, 2012 at 06:25:01 PT
BGreen
Really good comment. How long until people let people be who they are and not try to make everyone think and be the same?
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Comment #53 posted by BGreen on May 18, 2012 at 05:56:59 PT
Treatment? How about better treatment?
We've endured all kinds of treatment because of the war on cannabis. We've been treated like we're animals, like we're trash, like we're criminals, like we're insane, like we're stupid, like we're dangerous, like we're contagious, like we're outcasts, like we're terrorists, like we're soulless, like we're scary, like we're inhuman, like we're worthless and just plain sick.If we can't be treated as human beings then I would argue that it's everybody on the side of cannabis prohibition that really needs psychiatric treatment.The Reverend Bud Green
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Comment #52 posted by FoM on May 16, 2012 at 12:03:21 PT
Hope
Back in the 70s when the Spirit of the 60s still had a little light shining we took a course at Kent State University on how we should handle the use of drugs in society. It was really good and made so much sense to us. Right off the bat the teacher said marijuana is not a topic since it is mild and an herb and would soon be legal.No one should be forced to get help but we should be there for them if they came in and felt they needed help. It was simple, loving and good.What in the world went wrong?
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Comment #51 posted by Hope on May 16, 2012 at 10:23:10 PT
Treating the addicted....
I think they commit them or lock them away from family and friends, in "hospital" like settings for awhile, days, to weeks, to maybe months or more, dry them out, and "counsel" them, probably accuse, and judge them, threaten them, and give them other drugs, that are "FDA approved" and that prohibitionists get the profit from. With probably continuing counseling and "medication" when they are released, I'm sure. They probably drug test them regularly.Oh yes, and I think I've heard that they make them do janitorial and domestic housekeeping type work around the clinic, hospital, or rehab center, to teach them self discipline and routine following. I'm just guessing though from things I've heard and read. Brrr. It sounds rough, but it probably helps some people and it does save some people's lives I'm sure. Unless it's one of those cruel crazy places like the Straight places were. The wrong place and the wrong people and the wrong drugs could, of course, ruin lives, too.
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Comment #50 posted by afterburner on May 16, 2012 at 09:07:44 PT
These Are the Days When We Tred through Babylon
Bob Marley - Jah Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvVles_EqXUBob Marley - Natural Mystic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAS1EZIYVE&feature=relatedBob Marley - Forever Loving Jah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3TlLCm7V8g&feature=relatedTwo days ago, I tried to post this set or something very similar. I thought it was posted, but I must have hit a wrong key since it disappeared. Last night I recreated a version of this session, but was too tired to post it. Here it is now. Celebrate the coming power of Jah truth.
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Comment #49 posted by FoM on May 16, 2012 at 04:36:50 PT
Hope
I know and we will talk soon.
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Comment #48 posted by runruff on May 15, 2012 at 23:34:25 PT
A little riddle:
What is the difference between a pot farmer and a narc?Pot farmers work for a living!
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Comment #47 posted by Hope on May 15, 2012 at 21:41:35 PT
Sorry I didn't get back here today in time
to answer any of your posts. It's late now and I can't even think. I couldn't think too well earlier... but for sure I'm down for this time cycle.Say what?:0)Good night, my friend.
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Comment #46 posted by FoM on May 15, 2012 at 17:14:09 PT
Hope
I know you know I didn't mean you putting people in boxes but I wanted to say I mean people in general. Some people can only see thru the narrow window of their views and can easily hate what they don't care to understand. It's amazing how narrow minded some people are even with the Internet able to teach them that there are other ways.
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Comment #45 posted by FoM on May 15, 2012 at 13:11:11 PT
Hope
We shouldn't put people in boxes. We have right wing fundamentalists that cause us shame and grief around the world but they are not the majority of people that are U.S. citizens. Every country has those type of extremists but they are not the majority in any country.
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Comment #44 posted by FoM on May 15, 2012 at 13:07:14 PT
Hope
I really don't know how they treat addiction. I know people go to pain clinics and are drug tested. I don't know how they deal with people who drink too much or people who gamble all the families money away. I really am uniformed in that area.
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Comment #43 posted by Hope on May 15, 2012 at 12:30:14 PT
Addiction Diagnoses May Rise
Everybody must be addictedhttp://www.drugwarrant.com/2012/05/everybody-must-be-addicted/
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Comment #42 posted by Hope on May 15, 2012 at 11:58:42 PT
It's so sad and horrible...
but every race, ethnic group, and country has some bad, mean, hate filled, violent, murderous people in it. It's so sad that everyone can't treat everyone else decently."What a wonderful world it would be!"Indeed.
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Comment #41 posted by FoM on May 15, 2012 at 05:04:35 PT
Hope
I agree. I have a Muslim friend who is a very sweet person. We should only blame those who are seeking power and money. Those 2 things corrupt.
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Comment #40 posted by Hope on May 14, 2012 at 20:23:11 PT
FoM
I know that was impossible for you to read. But I have to say this, as bad as that all may look to people that may not have been around many Mexican people, not all Mexican people are capable of acts like that. Not by any means.
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Comment #39 posted by FoM on May 14, 2012 at 19:56:45 PT
I Don't Know What To Say
I did see but didn't read the story but it is about power and money. As long as people think power and money are the goal in life this is what can happen. It's emotions the average person luckily doesn't feel. Nothing is worth killing for.
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Comment #38 posted by Hope on May 14, 2012 at 19:37:17 PT
comment 35 ekim
That's so hideous, isn't it? Unbelievable that people can treat other people that way. Unbelievable. And it's over money and power, I think. They may like to say it's over drugs... but it's over money and power, and it's inhuman. Brrrr. So horrible. So unbelievably horrible. God help us all... as a human family. As humanity itself. Help us all.
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Comment #37 posted by FoM on May 14, 2012 at 19:09:57 PT
Hope
Very well said. It's the balancing act of life.
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Comment #36 posted by Hope on May 14, 2012 at 18:49:51 PT
Addiction Diagnoses
I can't say what it will mean, but my feeling is that more people will be accused of being "sick" or having a "disease"... but you may be right, FoM. I like the way you perceive it. That more people that want or need help might get it sooner or easier. I hope that's what it means. It likely does since it looks like the insurance companies will be forced to cover more treatment and they are not happy about that, it seems. But that's a two edged blade. As we know. Not everyone that uses a so called "drug" is an addict and frankly, I don't see that being an addict is always worse in a person's life situation than what it was before they became "addicted" to their drug of choice. Not everyone needs or wants to be hospitalized or treated for their use of a drug or herb, or whatever. I hope it doesn't mean more forced treatment. I guess we'll just have to see. I also tend to agree with The GCW about what all too often can seem to be the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist. There are good people doing good work in both those fields. There are people that need their help and they do save lives. I do worry about people forced into treatment for addiction, though. I like that people maybe can get help they need easier... but I do worry that people may be treated against their will easier, too.Your welcome, Oleg the Tumor.
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Comment #35 posted by ekim on May 14, 2012 at 17:54:00 PT
see comment 6 please
http://michiganmedicalmarijuana.org/topic/39713-mexico-drug-wars-49-headless-dismembered-bodies-found-dumped-along-highway/page__pid__385839#entry385839
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Comment #34 posted by runruff on May 14, 2012 at 15:47:22 PT
Anyone who pays to see a shrink...
...ought to have their head examined!
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Comment #33 posted by FoM on May 14, 2012 at 09:33:39 PT
Psychologists
I have always felt they are good. Sometimes talking through issues is all that is needed not anti psychotic
drugs and the like.
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Comment #32 posted by FoM on May 14, 2012 at 09:30:42 PT
The GCW
You are exactly right.
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Comment #31 posted by The GCW on May 14, 2012 at 09:22:36 PT
FoM,
Taking care of our mental health is as important as taking care of our physical health. Psychologists are the people to see, not psychiatrists. In case people don't know, one of the differences is that phychiatrists quickly resort to cocktails.And I don't know but I suspect there are times when people really do need a psychiatrist and their cocktails. But most of the time, stepping into their lab office is a huge mistake. They turn people who need to talk through issues into the mentally disabled.
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Comment #30 posted by runruff on May 14, 2012 at 08:56:28 PT
"sick people in prisons"
Hey, I resemble that remark!
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Comment #29 posted by FoM on May 14, 2012 at 08:10:11 PT
One More Thought
I remember when Reagan shut down many mental health hospitals and now we have sick people in prisons because they didn't have a mental health hospital to live in and they got in trouble.
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Comment #28 posted by FoM on May 14, 2012 at 08:01:14 PT
The GCW
I don't think Psychiatrists are really helpful. I do believe in mental health care though.
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Comment #27 posted by Oleg the Tumor on May 14, 2012 at 07:59:01 PT:
Hope number 24
Thank you for the link.
To me, this article is about Big Pharma finding new ways to categorize people into "previously undiscovered cubbyholes", or labels, to benefit not only the insurance industry, but the Health Care and corrections industries as well.It is not enough to reduce you to a number, there must be a prefix as well– signifying your "dysfunction".When the dollar finally collapses and We, the People, take to the streets in righteous anger, expect to hear reports on the news about people suffering from some form of "Hysteria Addiction", and others with "Treason Disorder".You are not hungry. You have a "calorie addiction"!You are not "yearning to breathe free".
You are addicted to subversive literature.(Witness the noun to verb change for the word "addict").The English language is spinning out of control!Restore the hemp industry before it's too late!
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Comment #26 posted by The GCW on May 14, 2012 at 07:19:02 PT
#24 & 25,
Psychiatrists can be bad news. Heck, they are bad news. I wonder if they help as many people as they harm? It looks like they have a chance to make mo money.-0-http://www.alternet.org/health/155001/how_psychiatric_drugs_made_america_mad_/
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Comment #25 posted by FoM on May 14, 2012 at 04:47:34 PT
Hope
I don't understand the article. I wonder if it will mean more people that have problems might get help or maybe not?
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Comment #24 posted by Hope on May 13, 2012 at 22:13:50 PT
Addiction Diagnoses May Rise
Under Guideline Changeshttp://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/us/addiction-diagnoses-may-rise-under-guideline-changes-635618/
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Comment #23 posted by FoM on May 13, 2012 at 20:00:23 PT
afterburner
That was very nice. Thank you.
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Comment #22 posted by runruff on May 13, 2012 at 17:04:45 PT
Mothers day for me too?
A guard in prison said "hey you mutha, get over here"!
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Comment #21 posted by afterburner on May 13, 2012 at 10:21:13 PT
One Love for Mothers & Children
Happy Mothers' Day to all mothers: single mothers who struggle without a mate, mothers who have lost their children, children who have lost their mother, and happy mothers living the family dream. We are family -- one love.Bob Marley - One Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdB-8eLEW8g&feature=relatedBob Marley-No Woman No Cry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYoLGiW7muc&feature=related
Bob Marley - One Love
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Comment #20 posted by FoM on May 13, 2012 at 05:12:18 PT
ekim
Thank you so much!
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Comment #19 posted by ekim on May 13, 2012 at 04:47:19 PT
Happy MothersDay FoM
thank you for this wonderful site, i do feel like all here
are my brothers and sisters.over the past two years i have lost three of the best
brothers a person could have and soon will be having dinner
with my Mother. Again thank you FoM and everyone for
creating a place for a vision of peace.
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Comment #18 posted by FoM on May 13, 2012 at 04:43:55 PT
Canis420
I don't remember that event. I lived in south eastern Ohio. I think I didn't watch the limited news we had back then very often. I do remember Kent State well though.
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Comment #17 posted by Canis420 on May 13, 2012 at 00:57:34 PT:
Ohio
I grew up in NE Ohio. I vaguely remember the fateful protest. I do however remember the second one in summer of 77. The blanket Hill tent city. Occupiers swarmed onto campus when admin was ready to develop the site of the murders into a gymnasium. I spent time on campus that summer as an 18 year old. My brother was a student. The NG eventually came in an erected a fence around the tent city locking everyone in. They then opened one end of the fence and saturated blanket hill with CS gas and all the occupiers stampeded out of the opening. This drama played out for weeks until that climactic gassing. I witnessed it and will never forget it. During the time of the occupation (I was not an occupier) I remember seein the J. Geils band and Joe Cocker playin a free concert on some big lawn on campus. Summer of 77
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Comment #16 posted by sam adams on May 12, 2012 at 20:31:34 PT
speaking of Ohio
read a great column by Chomsky recently, there are links to other great article by him on the right, including a recent one about the drug war in Latin America:http://inthesetimes.com/article/12679/anniversaries_from_unhistory/excerpt:Right now we are failing to commemorate an event of great human significance: the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s decision to launch the direct invasion of South Vietnam, soon to become the most extreme crime of aggression since World War II.Kennedy ordered the U.S. Air Force to bomb South Vietnam (by February 1962, hundreds of missions had flown); authorized chemical warfare to destroy food crops so as to starve the rebellious population into submission; and set in motion the programs that ultimately drove millions of villagers into urban slums and virtual concentration camps, or “Strategic Hamlets.” There the villagers would be “protected” from the indigenous guerrillas whom, as the administration knew, they were willingly supporting.Official efforts at justifying the attacks were slim, and mostly fantasy.
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Comment #15 posted by museman on May 12, 2012 at 12:20:27 PT
runruff #8
Yea verily! Ecotopia is just around the bend. And if the gobbers keep pushing, it'll get here sooner.And how about the local sheriff whining about how us here in the middle of Jefferson will be 'lawless' and criminals will run amok breaking and entering, murdering and raping -all because the PEOPLE are all sick of their shenanigans, and know what is really going on with them?Pity the fool!And for those who can appreciate it, here is one of my best renditions of "Ohio"third down from the top in the playlist of the Jukebox
Famjuk
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Comment #14 posted by Hope on May 12, 2012 at 12:18:03 PT
Huzza! Runruff!
"Are we as a Nation, obtuse?""We have allowed the sociopaths in congress to convince us that a plant is the boogieman. Consequently; nearly 75 years of environmental and economic disaster for the people and the planet, humongous financial growth and power by the 1%, yet, we still have gridlock in congress. This is a phenomenon as great as; why did the people of Germany follow the "Little Corporal" to destruction?""We have allowed those sworn and paid to protect us to do us in. We have lost most of our rights due to the war on cannabis. We have allowed this fed gov to scare us so badly that we have traded all that is sacred to ME for the protection from a plant! How has that gone anyway? The protection thing from the evil plant that is? This is one crowd I do not need to outline the results of that one.""The single most important issue to the 1% who are in control of our gov is "The Plant". How to play this down while throwing everything they've got at it. We are to believe that it is just one of those things they are trying to protect from, an over-scale invasion of "The Plant". What a balancing act to act as if cannabis is just some rogue plant with no medicinal or industrial value."
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Comment #13 posted by Hope on May 12, 2012 at 12:11:22 PT
Remembering.
It's hard. Remembering it is one of those memories that can actually seem to affect your physical heart. Like it might skip a beat or race for a moment. A gasp. A sigh. It's something we'd rather not have to remember. FoM is right, though. We have to. Hopefully, to keep it from happening again.
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Comment #12 posted by Hope on May 12, 2012 at 11:59:14 PT
"Ohio"
It took my breath away.It still does.
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Comment #11 posted by FoM on May 12, 2012 at 09:57:17 PT
afterburner
Thank you for sharing your story of that terrible day with us. I know I remember just staring at the tv in disbelief. I guess I knew then that the system would always try to stop us.
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Comment #10 posted by afterburner on May 12, 2012 at 09:17:27 PT
FoM #9 & runruff #8
Some people in Ohio don't want to be reminded of that horrible event. I once played "Ohio" on the jukebox in the student union, and some jock went over and shook the jukebox, making the record skip and the song stop. I guess it was just a case of my state right or wrong. I don't think such people learned from the protest. However, it turned my dad against the Vietnam War. He didn't like to see the government that he voted for killing its own children, non-combatants not soldiers or commies.
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Comment #9 posted by FoM on May 12, 2012 at 09:01:06 PT
runruff
And for us that remember what happened that fateful day in Ohio many years ago shame on us if we don't care to remember. It can never happen again.Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - "Ohio" (1970) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnOoNM0U6oc
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Comment #8 posted by runruff on May 12, 2012 at 07:56:00 PT
Are we as a Nation, obtuse?
We have allowed the sociopaths in congress to convince us that a plant is the boogieman. Consequently; nearly 75 years of environmental and economic disaster for the people and the planet, humongous financial growth and power by the 1%, yet, we still have gridlock in congress. This is a phenomenon as great as; why did the people of Germany follow the "Little Corporal" to destruction?We have allowed those sworn and paid to protect us to do us in. We have lost most of our rights due to the war on cannabis. We have allowed this fed gov to scare us so badly that we have traded all that is sacred to ME for the protection from a plant! How has that gone anyway? The protection thing from the evil plant that is? This is one crowd I do not need to outline the results of that one.The single most important issue to the 1% who are in control of our gov is "The Plant". How to play this down while throwing everything they've got at it. We are to believe that it is just one of those things they are trying to protect from, an over-scale invasion of "The Plant". What a balancing act to act as if cannabis is just some rogue plant with no medicinal or industrial value. The one area where the fed pulls out all the stops to protect us citizens, but wait, why is this concern so incongruent with every other damn policy ever written by these criminals. Where they are shielding us from "The Plant" while they pass scores of legislation favorable to the mega-corps and harmful to us. Like killing our kids in uncalled for wars. Like restricting medical research. Like destroying our economy for profit. Like creating an IMC and an PIC that has been and is being abused for profit.We here in the Jefferson State don't cotton much to the federales. I doubt if the fed judge will be elected here unless they cheat. However, they have gotten this far by cheating, why stop now? "Four Dead in Ohio"
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Comment #7 posted by afterburner on May 12, 2012 at 06:09:45 PT
Morning Magic Music
Bob Marley - Jah Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8oRqXKYXvs&feature=relatedBob Marley and The Wailers - So Jah Seh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZwSJrk1YPoBob Marley - Work [05]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huOtZVPxzT8&feature=relatedIt's always darkest just before the dawn.Look at all the Congressional seats on board with our un-"substantial" issue!
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Comment #6 posted by ekim on May 11, 2012 at 16:41:55 PT
Mexican Poet Javier Sicilia wants end to drug war
today on Democracy Now the Mexican Poet Javier Sicilia told
the story of how he marched thru Mexico with thousands of
others asking for a end to the Drug War.
He did end up with a meeting with the Mexican President.Now his is here and will be marching in TX and AZ on his
way to Washington DC to try to meet with President Obama.I hope all the anti prohibition groups will march with this
brave poet all the way to Washington in August.http://www.democracynow.org/2012/5/11/stop_the_drug_war_mexican_poet
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Comment #5 posted by christ on May 11, 2012 at 08:16:59 PT
the US House votes
there were a few party-line surprises. make sure you know before their next elections
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll238.xml
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Comment #4 posted by The GCW on May 11, 2012 at 06:41:57 PT
Election OREGON
Speaking of election related...Their duking it out in Oregon. It's a fight against an IGNOID.-0-Pot Politics: Will Oregon's Attorney General Election Send a Crucial Message to Dispensary-Busting Feds?
If the candidate who ordered raids on medical pot growers in Southern Oregon loses the election, the loss may reverberate with US Attorneys around the country. Cont.http://www.alternet.org/drugs/155354/pot_politics%3A_will_oregon%27s_attorney_general_election_send_a_crucial_message_to_dispensary-busting_feds/And the results will be coming soon.
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Comment #3 posted by MikeEEEEE on May 11, 2012 at 04:50:46 PT
Failed Policy
This is an election year, but these guys just don't get it, or don't care. I think it's the latter.The bottom-line, more tax dollars wasted on a failed policy.
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on May 11, 2012 at 04:02:54 PT
Mitt Romney Does Not Want To Talk About MMJ
Mitt Romney Does Not Want To Talk About Medical Marijuana [Video]Mitt Romney was appalled when a reporter asked him about medical marijuana during an interview with a local CBS affiliate in Colorado today. He responded by angrily listing off a list of questions he’d prefer to be asked.
“Aren’t there issues? Aren’t there issues of significance that youd like to talk about? The economy? The growth of jobs? The need to put people back to work? The challenges of Iran? We’ve got enormous issues that we face,” Mr. Romney said.URL: http://www.politicker.com/2012/05/mitt-romney-does-not-want-to-talk-about-medical-marijuana-video/
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Comment #1 posted by afterburner on May 10, 2012 at 22:20:00 PT
Save for Morning - or in case of emergency, listen
now, play again at sunrise...BoB Marley-Sun is shining
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Lphth5Exc&feature=related
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