Comments on: Michele Leonhart? Really? That’s your best choice?

By: Brian Kerr

Brian Kerr — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:01:10 +0000

Only one answer is to vote independent in 2010 and 2012,

and write Obumer and tell him so.

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By: Obama nominates Leonhart as the Head of the DEA | Cannabis Fantastic

Obama nominates Leonhart as the Head of the DEA | Cannabis Fantastic — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:04:32 +0000

[...] was front and center during the federal closing of California dispensaries during the Bush years. Pete Guither writes on his blog her relationship with super-snitch Andrew Chambers, who was paid over $2 million by the DEA to [...]

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By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:05:28 +0000

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By: kaptinemo

kaptinemo — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:50:10 +0000

DdC, I look at it this way: the anti-Prohibition forces honestly thought in 1930 that it wouldn’t be until 1940 that Prohibition would end…and two years later it did. And that because the economy was so far in the toilet that people were making serious noises about adopting Socialism and Communism to replace a broken Capitalist system.

The same thing is happening today.

Take a look around. The hard core Left in this country are calling for many things that smack of Socialism, and it has the Investor Class in wide-eyed, gibbering hysterics, as any monitoring of TeeVee Nooz business sections will illustrate.

For the longest time, Big Business was given just what it politicked for starting back in the mid-1970′s, they were given the run of the political and economic roost in return for promised greater wealth for all thanks to reduced regulation, but instead, look at what happened: they trashed the place…just like they did to bring on the Great Depression. Once more, the social pendulum is swinging in favor of the electorate rather than Big Business, and items like ending cannabis prohibition, just as was ending alcohol Prohibition, are symptoms of that pendulum swing.

It’s our turn, now.

The inevitable end of cannabis prohibition may be only a couple years away, given that a confluence of irresistible forces has formed to force the issue into mainstream consciousness. The forces of drug prohibition have always sought to keep it out of the spotlight, to denigrate it, to silence its’ proponents…and thus keep the ineffectual but highly lucrative gravy train going.

But that’s getting harder and harder to do, and when it becomes evident to the electorate that DrugWar funding = less money for Unemployment and other desperately needed ‘social safety net’ programs, the jig will be up.

But this does not mean that anyone can rest on their laurels; when it looked like cannabis prohibition would end in the late 1970′s, my generation kicked back and relaxed rather than deliver the killing blow to what was then a weakened monster. We dropped the sword, the monster was given time to heal from its’ wounds and savagely counter-attacked, and thus we consigned ourselves and the next generation to the Hell of the Reagan phase of the DrugWar, which only got worse with successive Administrations.

This time, we must not stop until the monster’s head is on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some ‘crusades’ carry too high a price to be engaged in ever again.

Victory is close, the monster is weakening once more, and this time, we have the generational numbers to pull it off, mine and the next’s. A lot of arms to heft a lot of swords. All we have to do is develop the will to swing those swords. I’m up for it, if only as atonement, but others have lost far more than I did, and they have even greater impetus to start hacking and stabbing. It’s time to show those swords to the pols and and ask the question: with us or against us?

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By: DdC

DdC — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:30:58 +0000

Yea Kap’t,
Unfortunately as you well know, common sense seems to come around about every leap year. Maybe lately a little sooner. It doesn’t seem that complicated but inevitably as soon as sense is printed reefer phobic worriers hit the fan. I just wish they weren’t so boring. SOS, getting easier to point out the trolls when they repeat so much. But its sad they do this to their own neighbors. Worse when you hear them grip about government intrusion and wasted taxes and in the same breath blame the hippies for doping everybody up with all that equality and PC psychedelics. I keep wondering if Americans and the Western world even deserve Ganja. I mean if you have to fight them for safer alternatives, clean air and water or equal pay and an actual wage people can live on. Its clear they are allergic to common sense. Who in their right minds can object to affordable health care? I don’t get it. But this reminds me more and more are getting real and since its not the first time I won’t celebrate a victory, but it keeps a few seeds of hope, covered in lint in the corner of the pocket. Like Nixon’s promise about flashbacks. I wish they’d hurry up with all these horrendous things to actually happen, if I have to toke another 40 years before I get all the weird funky schtuff, I’m demanding my money back!
Be well…

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By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:54:39 +0000

Clay, the inertia of the perception that things are still status quo regarding public support for the drug laws (when, in fact the long-awaited groundswell for changing those laws has begun to have an impact on local and State politics has become evident) is still ruling the actions of Reps and Senators.

That’s why state action is very important. The Feds aren’t going to act until it’s clear that repeal is supported across the board, and that the effects of repeal are manageable. Think about it this way: for the vast majority of Americans, there has never been a time when they remember pot being legal(Fed Prohibition 1937), and only a centenarian plus remembers when all drugs were sold over the counter (Harrison Act, 1914). Even the original Prohibition is stuff that only someone who’s pushing a century has even vague memories of. So there’s a lot of fear and not a little concern about secondary effects of legal pot. As states experiment, real time info can be gathered that can be most useful about moving forward on this issue.

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By: kaptinemo

kaptinemo — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:37:06 +0000

Thank you, DdC; that article is the kind that I believe will become even more frequent as it becomes obvious we are nowhere ‘out of the woods’ yet WRT the economy.

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By: DdC

DdC — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:11:35 +0000

Ma Bell?

Seriously we have to stop believing in DC commix like Biraq Obombo are going to be the great white hope for reform. He plays the game and doesn’t mind hypocrisy one bit. He toked and knows its not qualified to be a schedule#1 narcotic. As for Lionheartless La Bitch, is this really a surprise? He choose Klintoons whisperer Rahmdom and Iran Contra Gates. Joe frickin Liar Bieden of the RAVE Ax scam, outlawing bottled water and glow sticks but really only deterring NORML gatherings. Its all either in the present acting Americans or “others” turning their backs and bartering away Constitutional protections for hobgoblins. Gutting checks and balances promoting blind faith. Censored press and programmed media. PC school books and diplomas of ignorance determining the future of what they never learned from the past. Its bound to be a failure, but keep it going for the gipper, we might as well get rich on the misery.

A STINKY STOCKYARD FULL OF SACRED COWS
Suppose the dopeheads were allowed to buy their intoxicants at a pharmacy or liquor store, minus the enormous premium built into the price by contraband law, and go home and get high in peace. It would not be the end of the drug problem, but it might be the end of most of the crime problem.

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By: kaptinemo

kaptinemo — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:35:09 +0000

Sorry I wasn’t clear enough. That’s just what I meant. The same kind of autocratic move the prohibs have engaged in previously, as if they were The Pope and speaking ex cathedra on something, preventing further debate. A tactic that Grassley tried, and was kicked in the political arse for this time.

It’s just one more instance of the ‘sea change’ we’ve long been waiting for…and the one the prohibs have tried to forestall for many years.

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By: Duncan

Duncan — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:01:44 +0000

“(the 1998 DC MMJ amendment preventing a vote count comes to mind).”
Actually they held the vote, and it passed with 70%. The Barr Amendment was attached to the DC appropriations bill which forbid them from spending money to implement. Initially it prevented them from even counting the vote but the Courts struck that down. The House repealed the Barr Amendment earlier this year, and I59 will take effect if the Senate confirms and Obama signs. There’s a darn good chance it’s going to happen, as it certainly seems that DC home rule is one agenda of this administration. When they’re going to get around to finishing appropriations for FY2010 I sure don’t know. Maybe in time for FY2010 at the rate they’re progressing.

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