The Issue Here Is Not Marijuana
Marijuana is the messenger, not the message
The issue is whether we will live in freedom
or under tyranny.   The most basic of all
human rights is the right to your own body.
The lighted marijuana weed is the torch of freedom
--Dr Julian Heicklen

           

Argentina Ready for Full Decrim

          

High school boys who were fans of 'protest rock,' – music characterized as articulating anti-establishment, anti-war, pro-drug use and pro-free-love messages – were more likely than boys who were not fans to report they had used marijuana (56% to 22%).
- Protest rock and drugs. Journal of Communication 1976



The first federal marijuana decriminalization bill in 25 years was just introduced in Congress. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) introduced H.R. 5843, the “Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of 2008,” which would decriminalize possession of marijuana for personal use. Please urge your representative to support this important legislation



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• What does marijuana law enforcement cost us in tax dollars?
• How effective is prohibition at controlling marijuana use and availability?
• What are the social consequences of marijuana prohibition?
• Are the consequences of marijuana arrests and convictions fair? Are the laws applied fairly to all Americans?
• How did we end up with these laws in the first place?
• Is marijuana prohibition doing more harm than good?

         
The War on Some Drugs
The USA TODAY/CNN poll found support for (marijuana) legalization highest among 18- to 49-year-olds, people in the West, and independent voters. Opposition was greatest among the elderly, those who attend
church weekly, and Republicans.
-- Dennis Cauchon, "USA Today"

           

The Greatest Generation's Longest War

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good
of its victims may be the most oppressive
- C.S. Lewis



Film & Print
Fed The World Propaganda

                   

'But this paste is hashish, unless I'm mistaken,' replied the stranger, pushing away the glass in which Yusuf had put a dose of the fantastic mixture. 'And hashish is forbidden.''Everything pleasant is forbidden,' said Yusuf, swallowing the first spoonful
- Gerard de Nerval, "Journey to the Orient," 1851




It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public
opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the
masses of men exhibit their tyranny
- James Fenimore Cooper 1789-1851



In war, truth is the first casualty.
~Aeschylus

The World War on Cannabis

OK, Maybe Marijuana Is the Issue

It is nonsense that we should be devoting so many law-enforcement resources to marijuana. I am skeptical that a society that is so tolerant of alcohol and cigarettes should come down so hard on marijuana use and send people to prison
-Richard Posner, Chicago's chief federal appeals judge, 1995



We found a book put out by the Department of Health and Human Services called Correlates and Consequences of Marijuana. It has about 100 government studies on marijuana. The studies find there is a certain personality type that's more likely to smoke marijuana, [someone] who's creative, broad-minded, fun, smart, literate,
usually college-bound
- Debbie Goldsberry, Cannabis Action Network



Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done
far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could
 -William F. Buckley, Jr.


so you know..the virtual slave prison labor industry produces the immediate
equipment of the US Military Empire soldier's uniform, armor, boots, kits and packs

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
~Aesop



We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them
-Alexander Bickel - Constitutional scholar



There are 50 million people out there using marijuana and they're being called criminals. So are the people who are raising it.
It would be nice if these people could be recognized
as legitimate citizens again
- Willie Nelson



Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures
- Aldous Huxley, "Drugs That Shape Men's Minds," Saturday Evening Post, 1958

     

The fact that cannabis is relatively easy to obtain in coffee shops has not resulted in a greater increase in use than in other countries
- Dutch Cannabis Policy Fact Sheet, October 2000



           

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep
the Government from falling into error
- U.S. Supreme Court, in American Communications Association v. Douds




So, a Marihuana Tax Act was introduced and presently enacted
as Federal law. And the foundation was thus laid for a racket that should quite eclipse even the billion-dollar illicit drug industry
that the Harrison Act (as misinterpreted) developed and fostered.
For the new drug has qualities that put it in a class by itself.
For example: Marijuana, despite its high-sounding name, is merely
a product of the familiar hemp plant - an agricultural product to which (according to statements made before the Congressional committee) upward of 10,000 acres of land in the United States are devoted. . . . Racketeers who developed a billion-dollar illicit drug-industry, using opium that had to be smuggled into the country, should have no difficulty at all in developing a five-billion-dollar racket with marihuana - provided only that the press can be induced to stimulate curiosity by giving the drug publicity.
-- Doctor Henry Smith Williams, "Drug Addicts are Human Beings," 1938

         

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

.In strict medical terms
marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume.
It is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death.
Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.

-- Francis L. Young, DEA Administrative Law Judge  1988...

Summing It Up

 

The love of liberty is the love of others;
the love of power is the love of ourselves
- William Hazlitt



 The greatest service which can be rendered any country is
to add a useful plant to its culture.
- Thomas Jefferson
.




Hemp will prove, both for the farmer and the public, the most profitable and desirable crop that can be grown, and one that can make American mills independent of importations.
- Mechanical Engineering, February 1937

        

Cannabis was originally classified as a member of the nettle family (Urticaceae) and then of the mulberry family (Moraceae). It is now considered most closely related to the hop plant,
and is thus a cousin of the fig tree.
- Peter Stafford, "Psychedelics Encyclopedia," 1978



US statistics of the 1970s indicated that you will live 8 to 24 years longer if you substitute daily cannabis use for daily tobacco and alcohol use. New research is outlawed, of course.
-- Jack Herer, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes"

reschedule cannabis


Criminal penalties have clearly failed to prevent widespread use of marijuana.. Law and health are two entirely separate issues
-Bob DuPont



Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results
of the use of marijuana.
-- Ronald Reagan, 1974



The US Pharmacopoeia admitted marijuana as a recognized medicine in 1850 under the name Extractum Cannabis or Extract
of Hemp, and listed it until 1942. Fluid extracts were marketed
by The Smith Brothers, Parke Davis, Squibb, Lilly, Burroughs Wellcome, and other leading drug manufacturers

          

Between 1840 and 1900, more than a hundred contributions were made to Western medical literature that recommended
Cannabis for one ailment or another.
- Peter Stafford, "Psychedelics Encyclopedia," 1978



Whether you suffer from glaucoma or you've just rented The Matrix, medical marijuana can make things fabulous... medically.
- Homer Simpson, "Weekend at Burnsies"

The Biggest Lie - Any Harm
Marijuana Harm is the missing WMD of the DrugWar


And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on
to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed
by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much
that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary
bath in water, which they never use   - Herodotus, 446 B.C.



So - Who Burns?



I'm breaking the law every day, and I will
continue to break the law
- Talk show host Montel Williams on treating his MS with marijuana

Watch Weeds - You Know You Wanna



We did call ourselves Vipers, which could have been anybody
from all walks of life that smoked and respected gage.
That was our cute little name for marijuana...
- Louis Armstrong - "The Louis Armstrong Story" by Max Jones & John Chilton



Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
~Albert Einstein



The Partnership For a Drug-Free America really isn't for a
drug-free America. It's a lobbying arm for the liquor
and prescription drug industries.
-- Bill Maher, host of Politically Incorrect

Enact an Anti-Bogart Law in Your Town


I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how
to return the treatment
-Malcolm X



“One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can
feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one.
One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness
of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war
between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks
to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is
attacked by the nothingness in others.”
-Norman Mailer



The use of drugs to alter consciousness is nothing new.
It has been a feature of human life in all places on
the earth and in all ages of history.
- Andrew Weil, "The Natural Mind

The World's Best Reefer Mag

        

I have sold well over a million marijuana seeds. That represents tens of millions of plants because cuttings are taken and hundreds and hundreds of copies are made. There's just no way the government has destroyed as much pot as we've created.
- Marc Emery, Emery Direct Marijuana Seeds



No man is free who is not master of himself.
-Epictetus


Links to my Hemptopia
It is better to die on your feet
than live a lifetime on your knees
- Emiliano Zapata

Viva La Conquista



Tesoro Nacional
La cucaracha, las cucaracha      The cockroach, the cockroach
Ya no puede caminar                       He can't travel......
Porque le quiere                         Because he wants
Porque la falta                            Because he lacks
Un marijuana que fumar                Marijuana to smoke......
- traditionally sung by and about Pancho Villa's soldiers


"I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind.
From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border.
...I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable."
-Alexander Shulgin, PhD - Chemist and Author

nonarchist

Moi - Jeff Christen-Mitchell

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep,
and never to refrain when awake
~ Mark Twain



All war is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu, "The Art of War," circa 500 BC



The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind
- Ayn Rand   1905-1982



War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace
- Thomas Mann

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Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it,
and eventually they will believe it.
~Adolph Hitler



The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly
is to fill the world with fools
- Herbert Spencer



An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine,
but because people refuse to see it
- James A. Michener

Didn't Blow Up The Towers



The welfare of the people in particular has always been
the alibi of tyrants.
~Albert Camus



We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark.
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light
- Plato



"PREPARE FOR INTERPLANETARY WAR"
The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets
-spoken on October 8 1955. Five Star General Douglas MacArthur

       

“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth … For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.”
- Patrick Henry



Only the educated are free.
-Epictetus



My definition of a free society is a society where
it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai Stevenson



The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination
of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels
duty bound to do his share in this defense are
constitutional rights secure
- Albert Einstein
.




He does not need opium.  He has the gift of reverie.
- Anais Nin



Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong
-Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher 1844-1900



One candle can light a thousand others
without diminishing its light
- Proverbial

What were the beginnings of the DrugWar?

Some quotes from Harry J. Anslinger, who pretty much
convinced Congress to outlaw marijuana and without
whom it would still probably be legal:

“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use.
This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others.”

“...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.”

“Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.”

“Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men.”

“Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.” (becoming  pacifist murderers?)

“You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother.”

“Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.”

“Marihuana makes fiends of boys in thirty days – Hashish goads users to bloodlust.”

“By the tons it is coming into this country – the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms.... Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him....”

“Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.”

“Was it marijuana, the new Mexican drug, that nerved the murderous arm of Clara Phillips when she hammered out her victim's life in Los Angeles?... THREE-FOURTHS OF THE CRIMES of violence in this country today are committed by DOPE SLAVES – that is a matter of cold record.”

As we always used to say, gage is more of a medicine than a dope. But with all the riggermaroo going on, no one can do anything about it. After all, the vipers during my heydays are way up there in age - too old to suffer those drastic penalties. So we had to put it down. But if we all get as old as Methuselah our memories will
always be of lots of beauty and warmth from gage.
- Louis Armstrong, in a letter to his biographers



If God dropped acid, would he see people?
- Steven Wright



The passing of an unjust law is the suicide of authority
- Pastoral Letter of the American Roman Catholic Hierarchy 1920



Where is there any book of the law so clear
to each man as that written in his heart?
- Leo Tolstoy



When the power of love overcomes the love of power
the world will know peace
-Jimi Hendrix



The God that gave us life
gave us liberty at the same time
- Thomas Jefferson



First they ignore you;
then they mock you;
then they punish you;
then you win
-Mahatma Ghandi
Indian independence leader

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