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DEA Chief Stonewalls on Marijuana
Posted by CN Staff on June 24, 2012 at 04:31:56 PT
By Vincent Carroll, Denver Post
Source: Denver Post
Washington, D.C. -- You know federal drug policy is bankrupt when the chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration is reluctant to acknowledge even a simple fact that any eighth-grader could confirm. "Opiates are far more addictive than marijuana," Congressman Jared Polis said last week. "That is a fact."
Yet this particular fact is one that the Democrat was able to extract from DEA administrator Michele Leonhart only after a stunning interrogation in which she acted as if he were demanding she choose between Hitler and Stalin on a scale of evil. The relevant exchange began at a congressional hearing on the DEA's priorities when Polis asked Leonhart if crack cocaine (not an opiate, obviously) were more dangerous for a user than marijuana. Leonhart: "I believe all illegal drugs are bad." Polis: "Is methamphetamine worse for somebody's health than marijuana?"Leonhart: "I don't think any illegal drug ..." Polis: "Is heroin worse for someone's health than marijuana?"Leonhart: "Again, all the ... ."Polis: "Yes, no, or I don't know. I mean, if you don't know, you can look this up. ... I am asking you a very straightforward question."Leonhart: "All illegal drugs are bad." Polis: "Does that mean you don't know?"Leonhart: "Heroin causes an addiction. ... It causes many problems. It's very hard to kick."Polis: "So does that mean that the health impact of heroin is worse than marijuana ... ?" Leonhart: "I think you're asking a subjective question ... ." Polis: "I'm just asking you as an expert in the subject area ... ." SnippedComplete Article: http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_20911858Source: Denver Post (CO)Published: June 24, 2012Copyright: 2012 The Denver Post Website: http://www.denverpost.com/Contact: openforum denverpost.comCannabisNews DEA Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/DEA.shtml
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Comment #69 posted by runruff on July 02, 2012 at 07:32:02 PT
Lies, dangerous lies!
To go before the congress and lie to save her job DEA Chief Michele Leonhart said that cannabis belongs in schedule one with heroin, meth and coke. This she lied about to save her agency at the sacrfice of our youth.
"Marijuana is illegal because it is bad. Marijuana is bad because it is illegal" was the best she could do.
If kids believe her and see their friends using pot with no bad consequences,they will think that the DEA must also be lying about the other drugs in schedule one as well. It is as perfect a "bait and switch" as any carney would be proud of.
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Comment #68 posted by FoM on June 30, 2012 at 16:33:12 PT
Hope
They are using electric for the next year until they can get it set up the way they do it. I am not sure how they do it but they do. They got permission because of moving and not being set up yet to use electric. They have a booth for phone calls but they use what would be like a cell phone I think. It sure is different.
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Comment #67 posted by Hope on June 30, 2012 at 16:09:57 PT
So there are no ponds
or tanks that hold water for them?Oh my. And no running water? Well there will be now, I guess. Times like this we could appreciate an old fashioned hand pump on a well, I guess.
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Comment #66 posted by FoM on June 30, 2012 at 16:08:54 PT
The Power is Back On
The Amish children were dancing in the yard and now that the electric is back on they are getting water to their horses. What a relief. Horses drink so much water and hauling it was going to be a very difficult task. Just in time.
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Comment #65 posted by FoM on June 30, 2012 at 14:10:37 PT
Hope
I think the Spring water is drinkable. The Amish family called and they are getting frantic because the 7 horses need water. We are trying to figure out how to get water to the horses in this heat right now. We don't have the generator wired to pump water. That is something he wants to get done but it won't help the horses today and today is when they need water.
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Comment #64 posted by Hope on June 30, 2012 at 13:27:34 PT
Whew.
Yes, I'm so glad you got that generator, too.And obviously, you'll are able to drive in and out. That's good.So that spring water is drinkable?
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Comment #63 posted by FoM on June 30, 2012 at 12:44:05 PT
Hope
I don't need to remove anything really. We just got back from moving my sister from the hospital near Cleveland to the Nursing Home for re-hab. We have the generator going now. What a mess down here and no power for a couple more days. This is the first time we had to use the generator and I am so happy we bought it. We can run the refrigerator and tv and computer. It is very hot without air conditioning but we will get by. There is a Spring a few miles from here where we can refill water jugs.
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Comment #62 posted by afterburner on June 30, 2012 at 09:36:36 PT
Thanks to darkcycle over at Pete's
"We Are Star Dust" - Symphony of Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g4d-rnhuSg&feature=player_embeddedYou might be high before or after you view this. Enjoy!
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Comment #61 posted by Hope on June 30, 2012 at 09:34:13 PT
Must be too verklempt.
I sent a private message to a facebook page the other day. That was disturbing. To one of their resale pages that everyone in four counties looks at. Aaargh.
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Comment #60 posted by Hope on June 30, 2012 at 09:31:36 PT
Dang.
I'd claim Chemo brain, but I remember doing stuff like this before chemo. Dang, though.I was writing an email to my daughter... telling her about what happened in the storm and I wrote it here instead of an email. But it was a bad awful storm and I meant to post something else entirely about the storm and FoM's apparent situation. I must have sent that to my daughter.Sorry guys. Sorry, FoM. I hope she'll remove these when she powers up.
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Comment #59 posted by Hope on June 30, 2012 at 09:23:43 PT
That storm was bad.
Is bad.Storms leave at least 4 dead, 2M without powerhttp://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33816_162-57464335/fierce-storms-leave-2-dead-2m-without-power/ struck my friend Martha's place. It blew the doors off their barn.I'm sure they are conserving as much energy as possible and will be online intermittently until the power is restored.Storms knock out power to 2M in eastern U.S.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33816_162-57464378/storms-knock-out-power-to-2m-in-eastern-u.s/
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Comment #58 posted by Hope on June 30, 2012 at 01:27:49 PT
Comment 56
Oh my gosh! I am so thankful you guys are ok!
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Comment #57 posted by afterburner on June 29, 2012 at 23:31:24 PT
A Blessing that your Strong House Stood Firm
To help you rest after your ordeal:Canada Day: Things We Love About Canadian Music.
Posted on Jun 29th 2012 9:30AM by Joshua Ostroff
http://www.spinner.ca/2012/06/29/canada-day-canadian-music/Happy Canada Day & soon come Independence Day!!!
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Comment #56 posted by FoM on June 29, 2012 at 17:40:33 PT
What a Storm
We lost power and are running off our generator. It took our very large barn door and ripped it off the barn and threw it about 50 feet. We got it pulled off the road. The back yard if filled with tree branches and trees came down all over. A tree I was told came down on a semi on Interstate 77. Our house is ok thank goodness. All I can say is unbelievable.
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Comment #55 posted by FoM on June 29, 2012 at 13:14:48 PT
afterburner
That's a very good article.
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Comment #54 posted by afterburner on June 29, 2012 at 11:39:22 PT
OT: Liberty vs. 'Liberty' on the Plantation
AlterNet / By Sara Robinson.
147 COMMENTS.
Conservative Southern Values Revived: How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Rule America.
America didn't used to be run like an old Southern slave plantation, but we're headed that way now. How did that happen?
June 28, 2012 | It's been said that the rich are different than you and me. What most Americans don't know is that they're also quite different from each other, and that which faction is currently running the show ultimately makes a vast difference in the kind of country we are.
http://www.alternet.org/story/156071/conservative_southern_values_revived%3A_how_a_brutal_strain_of_american_aristocrats_have_come_to_rule_america_?page=entirePeople used to say, "The South will rise again." I have felt for a long time that the 2000 election of George W. Bush heralded this very prediction. Southern Plantation justice does not bode well for cannabis law reform. We must be very vigilant about who will represent our common interests and freedoms."Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure." --The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
November 19, 1863 [ironically a Republican, but not a rich man].
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Comment #53 posted by afterburner on June 29, 2012 at 10:48:02 PT
Welcome Back, FoM
It good to hear everything went well. Rest up. Big box stores, malls, hospitals, schools, office buildings, airport terminals are all tiring places, so much walking in artificial environments.Posted June 28, 2012, 11:06 am MT.
Marijuana regulation: parents for pot group backs Amendment 64 in November.
UPDATE: The co-director of the marijuana campaign says opponents are distorting facts.
Photo:
A billboard backing Amendment 64, which would regulate marijuana like alcohol, will be highlighted at a news conference today.
http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/files/2012/06/CardMySonBillboard-495x149.jpg
By Lynn Bartels.
The Denver Post.
Comments (25)
http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2012/06/28/marijuana-regulation-mom-pop-group-amendment-64/75224/
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Comment #52 posted by FoM on June 29, 2012 at 09:43:30 PT
Hope
Me too. I am so tired today. We did a lot of walking.
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Comment #51 posted by Hope on June 29, 2012 at 08:57:18 PT
So glad everything went well.
We didn't tear the place up. Much.I am so glad it all went well with your sister.
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Comment #50 posted by FoM on June 29, 2012 at 07:46:48 PT
Just a Note
I haven't found any news to post today. Everything went well with my sister and thanks everyone for keeping the site going.
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Comment #49 posted by Hope on June 28, 2012 at 10:59:28 PT
DRUG POLICIES 'CAUSED HIV EPIDEMIC'
DRUG POLICIES 'CAUSED HIV EPIDEMIC' http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n328/a06.html?397Governments around the world have failed in their war on drugs and fuelled a pandemic in HIV, a leading think tank warns. The Global Commission on Drug Policy criticises nations for imprisoning non-violent drug users and for driving them away from public health services. In its report published today, the commission condemns "the remarkable failure of drug law enforcement policies" in cutting the world drug supply. The report's authors praise countries where "addiction is treated as a health issue", such as Australia, Portugal and Switzerland, where newly diagnosed HIV infections have been nearly eliminated among drug users. But the authors criticised nations including the United States, China and Thailand, which have "ignored scientific evidence and resisted the implementation of evidence-based HIV prevention programmes with devastating consequences." The commission is composed of figures such as Virgin's Richard Branson and Paul Volcker, ex-chairman of the US Federal Reserve.
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Comment #48 posted by Hope on June 28, 2012 at 08:09:47 PT
The GCW and Ripit
I am so glad you and yours are safe, The GCW. Those fires are terrifying. Last summer was bad here in Texas. On one of the I Survived programs, I think it was, they had a show about those wildfires and how they can overtake people so wickedly suddenly. It's very frightening how dangerous they are. Be careful and keep a lookout and be ready to evacuate. But of course you know all that. Be safe.Congratulations on that Grandson, Ripit. I am so happy for Museman, too. They are Grand. No doubt about it. The children are wonderful. But the grandchildren! I don't know what it is. I think its because we can give them back when the going gets rough. Lol! They are wonderful though. Very wonderful. Especially that first one.
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Comment #47 posted by ekim on June 28, 2012 at 07:21:24 PT
last night Jon did a great job on decrim
http://www.thedailyshow.com/
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Comment #46 posted by The GCW on June 27, 2012 at 19:54:55 PT
Stopping ignoids
NYPD Sued Over Stop and Frisk Marijuana Arrestshttp://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2012/06/26/NYPD-Sued-Over-Stop-and-Frisk-Marijuana-ArrestsThe Legal Aid Society in New York City announced Friday that it had filed a lawsuit against the NYPD over its continuing practice of making misdemeanor marijuana possession arrests when they order suspects to empty their pockets during the department's controversial stop and frisk searches. Police Commissioner Raymond issued a memorandum last fall directing police not to make the arrests, but only to ticket pot possession offenders, but police continue to charge people with misdemeanors, according to the lawsuit.
"It’s certainly a sad commentary that the commissioner can issue a directive that reads well on paper but on the street corners of the city doesn’t exist," said Legal Aid’s chief lawyer, Steven Banks.
Under New York state law, marijuana possession is decriminalized, but public possession remains a misdemeanor. In New York City, police order suspects to empty their pockets, then charge them with public possession if a baggie appears. CONT.
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Comment #45 posted by greenmed on June 27, 2012 at 19:33:33 PT
#35 belated
❁✽✼ congratulations, ripit! ✼✽❁
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Comment #44 posted by The GCW on June 27, 2012 at 16:12:02 PT
Hope,
For Me all is good. The closest fire to Us is over 10 miles away, over the Ten Mile Range. Every time I hear a siren, I look for smoke. My child is in the middle of Boulder for the rest of the week, but not very close to that fire.
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Comment #43 posted by greenmed on June 27, 2012 at 15:42:20 PT
Chicago: ticket not arrest
"Chicago City Council passes pot possession ticket ordinance"Fran Spielman, City Hall Reporter,June 27, 2012Most people caught in Chicago with small amounts of marijuana will be slapped with tickets instead of being carted off to jail, beginning Aug. 4, thanks to a groundbreaking ordinance approved Wednesday by an emotionally-torn City Council.Forced to choose between their desire to get more police officers on the street to stop a 38-percent spike in homicides and their fears about sending the wrong message to kids, it wasn’t even close.The vote was 43 to 3 in favor of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to issue $250-to-$500 pot tickets.“The calls I get at 2 o’clock in the morning are not about marijuana possession. They’re about someone who’s been shot in my ward. I want those calls to cease. The way we do that is to make sure our police are fighting violent crime and free up their time to deal with those issues,” said Ald. Will Burns (4th). (cont'd)http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/13441629-418/city-council-pass-pot-possession-ticket-ordinance.html
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Comment #42 posted by Hope on June 27, 2012 at 10:43:49 PT
California
Bill regulating state's medical marijuana industry delayedhttp://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120627/WIRE/120629606/1036/business?Title=Bill-regulating-state-s-medical-marijuana-industry-delayed
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Comment #41 posted by Hope on June 27, 2012 at 10:32:53 PT
More news
Marijuana Legalization Tour Spearheads National Human Rights CampaignRead more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/27/4592582/marijuana-legalization-tour-spearheads.html#storylink=cpy
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Comment #40 posted by Hope on June 27, 2012 at 10:31:55 PT
News
Court: Medical marijuana users can be arrested if they don't have paperworkFrom The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120627/POLITICS02/206270401#ixzz1z13LvBoe
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Comment #39 posted by Hope on June 27, 2012 at 10:24:20 PT
Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana people, too.
Those fires are bad. Really bad. I hope and pray all of you are ok.
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Comment #38 posted by Hope on June 27, 2012 at 10:16:08 PT
All our folk in Colorado and New Mexico.
Are you ok?
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Comment #37 posted by Hope on June 27, 2012 at 10:15:18 PT
The GCW
What's your situation out there?Have you had to evacuate?Are you and yours ok?
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Comment #36 posted by afterburner on June 27, 2012 at 09:33:31 PT
Hidden Agendas & Human Rights Violations
TruthOut.org / By Mark Karlin.
14 COMMENTS.
How Can We Stop the Mexican Drug Insanity When Banks and Much of the Establishment Profit Big Time from Illegal Drugs?
Corruption in the drug war extends far beyond the hands of drug cartels - our own banks, businesses, and government profit from illegalization of drugs.
June 26, 2012
http://www.alternet.org/story/156048/how_can_we_stop_the_mexican_drug_insanity_when_banks_and_much_of_the_establishment_profit_big_time_from_illegal_drugs?akid=8987.313040.Xt02LE&rd=1&t=5The Pentagon and Slave Labor in U.S. Prisons.
by Sara Flounders.
Global Research, June 23, 2011.
International Action Center
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25376 America's new Jim Crow system.
The US war on drugs created a whole new generation of the dispossessed, with millions of black people denied their rights.
Michelle Alexander, author of the paradigm-shifting book on racism through the criminalization of being a black male, "The New Jim Crow,"
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 31 March 2011 17.13 BST .
Comments (163).
Photo:
President Barack Obama
Despite voting in its first black president in Barack Obama, data shows much of black progress in America is a myth. Photograph: Rex Features
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/31/america-jim-crow-race-war-on-drugsThis is not good enough, America! Where are the real jobs? When will the 1%-ers realize that their own vaunted position is dependent on the rest of the crumbling 99% of the pyramid?Stop the sham War on Drugs!
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Comment #35 posted by ripit on June 26, 2012 at 16:36:19 PT
#10 my first..
my first grandson arrived this fathersday. coolness!has put quite the good smile feelings thru my tired bones!with all the depession in my life its amazing how babies make ya feel!
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Comment #34 posted by Hope on June 26, 2012 at 15:49:03 PT
The comment... that is...
to the stupid editorial.Prohibitionists are so low and they think they are so high and mighty.They're low. They are so low.
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Comment #33 posted by Hope on June 26, 2012 at 15:47:54 PT
The comment... if read by Lynch or any
prohibitionists might infuse them with a bit of truth and cure their disease of denial... but it's not likely any of them will read it much less know it as the truth it is.More controls before any approval of personal cultivation of medical marijuanahttp://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120626/GJOPINION_01/706269915/-1/FOSNEWS
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Comment #32 posted by Hope on June 26, 2012 at 14:32:34 PT
More
Uruguay’s Plan to Legalize Marijuana Sales: Should the Rest of the World Follow?Read more: http://world.time.com/2012/06/26/uruguay-wants-to-legalize-marijuana-sales-should-the-rest-of-the-world-follow/?iid=tsmodule#ixzz1ywAZgSX5Medical Marijuana Inc. Shareholder Update - Dixie Elixirs Licensing ExpansionRead more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/26/4589355/medical-marijuana-inc-shareholder.html#storylink=cpy
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Comment #31 posted by Hope on June 26, 2012 at 14:27:39 PT
News
California bill to tax, regulate marijuana dies in state legislatureRead more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/26/2868379/california-bill-to-tax-regulate.html#storylink=cpy
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Comment #30 posted by runruff on June 26, 2012 at 10:35:07 PT
Kings-X
It is what we called when we crossed our fingers when we were kids, it meant time-out
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Comment #29 posted by Hope on June 26, 2012 at 10:27:42 PT
Oh no!
I don't know what King's X is... but I bet it's a game and I don't know the rules!Let's just don't wreck the furniture!
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Comment #28 posted by Hope on June 26, 2012 at 10:26:19 PT
Runruff
Thank you, sir. I knew what you meant though. But don't forget ... he did have a little help.
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Comment #27 posted by runruff on June 26, 2012 at 10:16:48 PT
Hope,
I call kings X.
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Comment #26 posted by runruff on June 26, 2012 at 10:15:04 PT
corrected to say...
"..there are no flys..."
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Comment #25 posted by Hope on June 26, 2012 at 10:14:51 PT
Hmmmmm.
We're home alone.This seldom happens. Actually only once before, that I recall.Well. We better be good... because there will be "evidence".:0)
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Comment #24 posted by runruff on June 26, 2012 at 10:13:23 PT
Hope,
"Single handedly", no pun intended!Even after correcting myself I came across very chauvinistic, huh?Boy, the are no flys on Hope! lol
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Comment #23 posted by Hope on June 26, 2012 at 09:26:25 PT
Comment 21
It's like "The watched pot never boils". So if we aren't looking... maybe the news will be announced. "The war on cannabis and cannabis users is over."Oh happy day. No more killing. No more home invasions. No more handcuffs, and prisons, and guns pointing at people and their children. No more pets killed. No more seizures and strangers invading homes and prowling through personal belongings. No more disrespect. No more horror and injustice perpetrated on people because of plant. Hallelujah!
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Comment #22 posted by afterburner on June 26, 2012 at 09:17:11 PT
I Say A Little Prayer, Soulful Song, Enjoy, All
I was blessed to grow up in the shadow of Motown. Much of the time I think in music.FoM, for you and your sister:Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer.
"The Cliff Richard Show" 1970.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKkWj2WpWMmuseman, for you and your daughter and your new grandson:Dionne Warwick I Say A Little Prayer 1967 Original Million Seller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kafVkPxjLYg&feature=relatedMay those joyful days of music return to heal the nations.
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Comment #21 posted by Hope on June 26, 2012 at 09:12:32 PT
:0)
FoM. It's a funny phenomenon... or a sad one... that when an anti drug war activist gets out of pocket... they hope, by some miracle, when they get back... the war will be over.Sigh.Maybe this time?Be safe and do what you do so well. Comfort those in need of comfort.
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Comment #20 posted by Hope on June 26, 2012 at 09:05:10 PT
"single handedly"?
Runruff?Men.
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Comment #19 posted by runruff on June 26, 2012 at 07:09:17 PT
Museville, Oregon?
You have single handedly increased the population of the state, You and Mrs. Museman. I am thinking you all could settle your own community and call it Museville Oregon.You know how it is when you see someone like Ferale grow from small child to motherhood. I can still see her, an intelligent, engaging little girl. I am so proud of her as a woman, what she is doing with her life and the choices she has made. I am so happy for her cause I know she will be a wonderful parent and mother to her little one. I am happy for your wife who must be bursting with joy! This little one was born into a family with lots of uncles and aunts to love him and later I believe he will be blessed with many cousins and that is real cool.Good on you old buddy, you and the Mrs. and all of your fine and talented kids.Your friend Jerry
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Comment #18 posted by FoM on June 26, 2012 at 06:38:32 PT
Hope
Thank you. I will be getting out of here soon. I wish I could come home and find out cannabis was legalized. I know that won't happen but it's a nice thought. Have a great week. Please say a little prayer for my sister.
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Comment #17 posted by Hope on June 25, 2012 at 21:33:05 PT
Godspeed, FoM.
Congratulations, Museman!I hope your sister does well, FoM.Museman. I'm so happy for you.
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Comment #16 posted by FoM on June 25, 2012 at 16:21:25 PT
ekim and greenmed
Thank you! This is her last joint replacement. She had one knee, both hips replaced and now her last knee failed. She is almost 80 so my niece and I are staying at a hotel right by the hospital to be able to be nearby. It is a branch of the Cleveland Clinic and well worth the miles to travel. We leave in the morning tomorrow. Been busy getting ready today.
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Comment #15 posted by FoM on June 25, 2012 at 16:16:13 PT
Museman
Congratulations Grandpa Museman!!!
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Comment #14 posted by greenmed on June 25, 2012 at 13:56:59 PT
museman
❁✽✼ ☺ ✼✽❁
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Comment #13 posted by greenmed on June 25, 2012 at 13:48:55 PT
museman
Congratulations to you and your entire family! Wonderful news Grandpa!❁✽✼ ☺ ✼✽❁
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Comment #12 posted by greenmed on June 25, 2012 at 13:34:09 PT
FoM
Our thoughts will be with your sister and you.
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Comment #11 posted by ekim on June 25, 2012 at 10:21:28 PT
safe trip FoM and good going Grandpa museman
http://michiganmedicalmarijuana.org/topic/40296-first-hempcrete-building-course-taught-in-the-usa/page__pid__393169#entry393169
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Comment #10 posted by museman on June 25, 2012 at 10:04:49 PT
OT: runruff - friends
This morning at 2 AM, my firstborn Ferale, gave birth to her first, a healthy boy.My first Grandson. :)
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Comment #9 posted by FoM on June 25, 2012 at 08:39:51 PT
Just a Note
I have to be gone for most of this week so I hope CNews folks post links to articles. I will still be able to post an article if I find one today but after that probably not. My sister is having surgery and I should be back by the end of the week.
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Comment #8 posted by afterburner on June 24, 2012 at 12:58:39 PT
'We No Know How We & Dem a-Go Work This Out'
Bob Marley - We And Dem [04]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxvubt39yVU&feature=related"Someone will have to pay for the innocent blood that they shed every day"We now have some friends in a high society. One is named Congressman Jared Polis.
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Comment #7 posted by runruff on June 24, 2012 at 10:29:26 PT
Lyin'heart makes about 140,000 per year.
But she can spend a years salry on one trip.Should you or I wish to fly from Washington DC to Bogota, Colombia and back, Orbitz discloses a nice flight taking a little over 5 hours each way on an Avianca Airlines Airbus 319. The total cost is $491. A federal bureaucrat recently managed to spend 260 times as much to make the same trip.
Marisa Taylor, reported in McClatchy Newspaper that DEA bureaucrats hired an extravagantly costly private jet when traveling from the American capitol to the Colombian capitol late last October. The (acting) DEA administrator had many choices for her flight.
She could have flown commercial, like the rest of us, for less than $500.
She could have flown commercial first class, for about twice that much. Many taxpayers, though, feel that bureaucrats should not be flying first class. We sit back in coach, paying not only the government employee’s salary but also their privilege up in front?
She could have use one of the 100 + aircraft in the DEA’s air force. However, using an airplane just for her transportation flaunts taxpayer values and is a climate mini-disaster pouring tons of carbon into the atmosphere.
Barring the availability of the DEA aircraft, she could have borrowed a plane from another government agency.
But instead, the DEA paid a contractor $5,380 to hire another contractor to fly her to Bogota and back for $123,750!
The (acting) DEA administrator’s flight was just weeks before auto execs were chastised by congress for flying to Washington in company jets in their search of government assistance. At least these auto exec flew in on their own company aircraft, not hiring pricey chartered jets for 10 times the cost as did the DEA bureaucrat. And the auto companies own just a few planes each, the DEA owns 106.
One other difference, the auto exec’s salaries were paid by private industry (at that point, at least). The agency administrator draws her salary (and bloated pension) from the taxpayer trough. Check the McClatchy Newspaper article for the agency’s pathetic justification of such bureaucratic extravagance in an age of economic peril.
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Comment #6 posted by HempWorld on June 24, 2012 at 10:28:51 PT
DEA = Rockefeller Goons!
Nothing will ever change because the head of the DEA is appointed, not elected, as in a democracy!
I fought Rocky and Rocky won!
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Comment #5 posted by runruff on June 24, 2012 at 10:22:50 PT
Thick as a brick!
While the DEA Administrator rightfully does have a lot of "splannin'" to do she is incompetent in either explaining the DEA stance on Cannabis or making a competent or believable cover-up.So here we are eighteen years later, different DEA Administrator same questions same answers."Marijuana is illegal because it is bad, marijuana is bad because it is illegal".This answer did not fly for me when Gamblin' Bill Bennett used it and it does not fly for me eighteen years, 17 states mmj, twelve states considering mmj, four states voting to legalize this year, and the parade of scientific evedence that has surfaced along with millions of individual testimonies to it's efficacy.Michele you were beautiful. A perfect foil and a boost to our cause. I have meet many federal officials in my time and I was delighted and suprized that this female "Lurch" was more obtuse and less lucid than even I had imagined. She is a gift from the hemp gods as well the Indian cannabis gods. Even with her mammoth makeover she was still as dense as the aftershave at a cop convention. Obama has already been embarrassed by her. Will he try to redeem himself from her, that is the question?Consider this; Thirty-two years will bring her about seventy-five percent of her base pay [$ ?] for the rest of her life. Plus a medical plan that will keep her alive until the next generation of Bushes come into office.All in all she brings a new low even to the political "useful idiots" throughout history.
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Comment #4 posted by The GCW on June 24, 2012 at 09:42:30 PT
Consider
If Obama were to consider how much He's upset the cannabis community and consider ways to regain votes He may be losing because of it, yet not want to come out and call for cannabis RE-legalization, there is a number of things that will help.*********** ONE move that will go far is to FIRE DEA administrator Michele Leonhart RIGHT NOW, with regards to Her actions. ***********THAT MOVE ALONE WILL SEND A MESSAGE TO ALL SIDES YET ALLOW HIM TO NOT ENDORSE ENDING CANNABIS. HE CAN STEP ASIDE AND ALLOW THE COUNTRY TO DEBATE THIS ISSUE AND STAY NEUTRAL. He must be held accountable for Leonhart's harmful leadership and take action against the harmful testamony Leonhart gave.If this doesn't embarrass Obama and nothing changes between now and election day, I promise I will not vote for Him.A vote for Obama is a vote for Michele Leonhart and Eric Holder.-0- And isn't Leonhart a holdover from Bush????
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Comment #3 posted by greenmed on June 24, 2012 at 07:53:44 PT
DEA Oversight Hearing - complete video
From C-SPAN, the entire proceedingshttp://www.c-span.org/Events/DEA-Administrator-Testifies-at-House-Judiciary-Oversight-Hearing/10737431736/
Administrator Testifies at House Judiciary Oversight Hearing
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Comment #2 posted by Paul Pot on June 24, 2012 at 07:28:18 PT:
Where is this going?
What actually was the setting for this grilling?
Is there going to be more of this?
I do hope so.
Vote to Legalize come November.
War is Over! 2012!
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Comment #1 posted by The GCW on June 24, 2012 at 05:18:19 PT
TRIPLE GRAND SLAM
WITH A SLAM DUNK
FOR THE CHICK DINK'S BUNK
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