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“Decriminalize Marijuana,” Says Rhode Island’s Largest Newspaper
Article by Marijuana Policy Project
(3 Hours Ago) in Society / Drug Law

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Take tax money for kids sports and pay for cops to bust sick stoners and then sell the ill gotten goods to donate to sports? Seems we are taking money for sports from kids to pay cops to bully sick people. Ain’t dat a Merika! USA! Qaeda! Who needs foreign terrorists when we have such fine examples right here?

Dollar vs. Dollar: Feb 4 2010
U.S. Consumers Battle U.S. Taxpayers in Global Drug War
The drug war is best understood as a battle of dollar versus dollar — a bloody war between the dollars of U.S. taxpayers and the dollars of U.S. consumers.

check the date on the following…

For over fifty years the United States has been committed to a policy of suppressing the “abuse” of narcotic and other “dangerous” drugs. The primary instrument in carrying out this policy has been the criminal sanction. The results of this reliance on the criminal sanction have included the following:
(1) Several hundred thousand people, the overwhelming majority of whom have been primarily users rather than traffickers, have been subjected to severe criminal punishment.
(2) An immensely profitable illegal traffic in narcotic and other forbidden drugs has developed.
(3) This illegal traffic has contributed significantly to the growth and
prosperity of organized criminal groups.
(4) A substantial number of all acquisitive crimes – burglary, robbery, auto theft, other forms of larceny – have been committed by drug
users in order to get the wherewithal to pay the artificially high prices charged for drugs on the illegal market.
(5) Billions of dollars and a significant proportion of total law enforcement resources have been expended in all stages of the criminal process.
(6) A disturbingly large number of undesirable police practices – unconstitutional searches and seizures, entrapment, electronic surveillance have become habitual because of the great difficulty that attends the detection of narcotics offenses.
(7) The burden of enforcement has fallen primarily on the urban poor, especially Negroes and Mexican-Americans.
(8) Research on the causes, effects, and cures of drug use has been stultified.
(9) The medical profession has been intimidated into neglecting its accustomed role of relieving this form of human misery.
(10) A large and well-entrenched enforcement bureaucracy has developed a vested interest in the status quo, and has effectively thwarted all but the most marginal reforms.
(11) Legislative invocations of the criminal sanction have automatically and unthinkingly been extended from narcotics to marijuana to the flood of new mind-altering drugs that have appeared in recent years, thereby compounding the preexisting problem.
A clearer case of misapplication of the criminal sanction would be difficult to imagine.
– “The Limits of the Criminal Sanction,”
by Herbert Packer, 1968

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F.E.A.R.
Forfeiture Endangers Americans Rights

Rainbow Farm Massacre 11/06/01
“I have discussed this with my family and we are all prepared to die on this land before we allow it to be stolen from us,” Crosslin wrote in a March 29, 1999, letter to Cass County Prosecutor Scott Teter. Teter had sent Crosslin a letter five days earlier warning him he could lose his 34-acre farm if drug use and distribution there

L.A. Forfeiture Squads Kill California Millionaire 03/13/00

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Here’s another sickening story — I don’t see it covered here, apologies if it was. Who the hell do these cops think they are? They are acting like a gang. And it’s nice to see the casino people being honest for once.

At the January meeting, Woznicki said he walked into a room of more than 100 police officers, undercover vice cops, surveillance and security staff from Mandalay Bay, and gaming control and alcohol bureau officers…”Even at the meeting, a Mandalay Bay security guy said, `Pot smokers don’t drink and gamble and that’s where we make our money. It’s bad for business.’”

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….and our government keeps using that credit card. Its a sad time when we the people must suffer in order for our leaders to live well…and they do….

http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/un-frickin-believable-u-s-military-serving-as/

…on our dime. This is just ONE small example.

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