I’ve been on the road visiting family, and now I’m going to my Dad’s where there’s usually only dial-up available, so posting may be light for a few days.
Support for legalizing marijuana grows rapidly around U.S
The “Drug War” is doing far more harm than marijuana itself ever will. Requires subscription to Hightower Lowdown to read the entire article. I have no idea if that’s worth it.
BBC: Steve Rolles, who led in the creation of Transform’s Blueprint for Regulation debated old-school drug warrior Robert DuPont. I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet.
Visiting my Mom in Iowa, I opened up the Des Moines Register to see an OpEd by Senator Grassley, defending his amendment. The amendment would have prevented the commission that is looking into all aspects of our criminal justice system, from even discussing drug legalization or decriminalization.
Grassley’s OpEd? Congress should debate drug policy
What??? Grassley has never been interested in Congress debating drug policy.
Here’s the thin rationale:
First and foremost, Congress ought to tackle issues whenever possible before bucking them to commissions. Increasingly, Congress is using commissions to avoid doing what Americans elect members to do: ask tough questions, identify possible answers, debate policy solutions and take a stand. This commission also would cost $14 million. It’s hard to justify that expenditure in the current fiscal situation, especially when it’s work that Congress should be doing itself.
The point of a commission is that Congress is unwilling to tackle the problems directly, nor do they have the expertise. A commission is supposed to look at all aspects of a problem and report back recommendations which Congress can then debate.
Pretty weak, Senator. (But it’s interesting that he got so backed in the corner over the furor of his amendment that he felt it necessary to defend it this way.)
Update: What Scott said.
I see this thread has evoled into something beyond. Lets look at A new american agenda. As the american economy ha gone down the tubes it now seems clearr we need radical change inorder to restore the rights of the people to that expressed inouur Constitution.over the last 50 years we have been witness to an economy based on manufacturing prowess decimated we nolonger really produce commoditys to sell overseas and at home. Our textiles no longerexist even the standard working mans blue jeans are made in 3rd world countrys we no longer make electronic such as radio an tv auto cost more than houses did just thirty years ago . Jobs have dissapered at an alarming rate. The growth industyy of the latter half of the 20th and the 21st century has been in building and staffing prisons . the militarization of the police state who very existance depends on screat police and goverment informants . health care who profit from the immoral practic of profiting from the sick and dieing.
Well my friends its time we kicked out the bankers awers the agribussness conglomerates .
I could go on and on wih this rant but we all know. at the heart of this losts of freedom is the War on Drugs. It is time for t to end.
Controversial Herb May Have Medicinal Benefits
Early research has found that salvia may treat Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, dementia, pain and substance abuse.
Winds Of Marijuana Law Reform Rebuffed At White House
http://www.youtube com/watch?v=68dM1H
Cannabis fights cancers.
MPP.blog just has this very recent information.
Please, let’s keep spreading the word.
DdC; I feel discriminated against once more.
I have habitually tried to link to your above-referenced links;
CONTROVERSIAL HERB MAY HAVE MEDICINAL BENEFITS
NORML won’t allow me to even read my own comments since around the beginning of July nor will NORML permit me to link to freedom of the press in this situation.
I AM BI-POLAR; does that now give NORML the right to use me as a mirror image too?
I am getting more and more upset by the day at the PRIVILEDGED INFORMATION ACT CREATED BY SOME.
MAYBE NORMAL ADVOCAY GROUP WANTS TO BE NEXT ON MY LAWSUIT LIST THE PHONEY FUCKERS!~!!!
THEY HAVE IT WORD FOR WORD ABOUT ME COMING OUT OF MY DRUG-INDUCED COMA OF PHARMACEUTICALS THIS SUMMER AS MANFORD MANTIS POSED AS A FALSE PROPHIT OF GOD FROM GREECE.
R.O.E. YOU ARE MY WITNESS AND I HAVE ALL THE NAMES IN MY NOTES THAT NORML IS WITHHOLDING INFORMATION FROM ME NOW.
I have habitually tried to link to your above-referenced links;
CONTROVERSIAL HERB MAY HAVE MEDICINAL BENEFITS
NORML won’t allow me to….
Wendy, both links seem to work. The Salvia article is from Cannabis Culture I don’t have a membership to NORML articles. Some places are pretty uptight about posting. Many freeper boards flat out censor content. Some censor behavior. The only censors of articles I know of are Newspapers. Sometimes they’re snipped. Cannabis News and MAP Inc always have references to the article if they are snipped. Canada.com and Hightower Lowdown etc. require registering as do many Newspapers comments. More of an inconvenience. I use a Firefox browzer but have to switch to Int Explorer to edit some forums. I tried Netscape and was barely able to post in my own Cybrary. I’m probably the last remaining dial up in Central Cali and can’t get (hulu?), only U2b. I haven’t been able to view your U2b’s. Only half of the url shows up and it directs me back to DWR? I figure after 40 years of observing drug worriers and politikans. Literacy is an obstacle in Government, Corporations and especially the extreme Pro-hibitionists rendered dumbfounded by Chronic Hibitionsm. A rare but highly contagious strain of Co-Dependency with Religious overtones. Reality seeping into their blissful ignorance causes traumatic fidgeting, squirming and even oral flatulence. A doobie a day keeps the spooks away.
This is the html I use…
“The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth.
Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions.
Let us not leave it to the charge of an antiprohibition organization,
or to any other private association,
let us have an official survey
and let the American people know what is going on.
A complete and honest and impartial survey
would reveal incredible conditions….”
– Fiorella H. LaGuardia,
The National Prohibition Law,
Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary,
U.S. Senate, 69th Congress, 1st Session (1926): 649-52
This is the html I use… disappeared…
but here’s the addy.
Thanks DdC..you help me alot…
..and George Washington grew marijuana in HIS garden.
…but NORML is still breaking The Freedom Of Information in my book.
…People like that are too supreme for the likes of a cement lock up for their actions I guess, or so they seem to think so anyway.
…NORML is contradicting itself about any FREEDOM period.
…my ex-shrink is stoner and leaked out NORML to me.
DdC – if you don’t have a membership in NORML’s articles then why do I get the face-slapping from them if I hit the mouse to link on it above?
I don’t know. I have had trouble posting comments. I believe NORML is an evil necessity fighting the Ganjawar. But still fighting it under the Kings rules. I have no affiliation with them but can’t think of a reason why they wouldn’t want their info read. Commenting maybe, but not gaining access to articles doesn’t make sense. ???
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