Qui Tacet Consentit
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He who is silent gives consent
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Reefer Sanity Save The Planet Reduce Reuse Recycle Relegalize
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A Higher Education
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We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt
and that it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past. . .
while we silence the rebels of the present - H.S. Commager
Prohibition is a new form of tyranny by the old over the young.
You have the adult with a cocktail in one hand and a cigarette
in the other saying `you cannot' to the child. This is untenable
- Anthropologist Margaret Mead The Dick Cavett Show
As a smoker becomes more acquainted with the drug, he will find that
many occasions lend themselves to a marihuana intoxication
He is always plagued by the law, however, and must filter
his desires through the 'being caught' possibility before he
can think of lighting up - J Rosevear Pot - A Handbook of Marihuana
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state
as are the souls of those who live under tyranny - Thomas Jefferson
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The most that one can say on the basis of ascertainable facts is that prolonged use of marihuana constitutes a 'sensual' addiction, in that the user wishes to experience again and again the ecstatic sensations and feelings which the
drug produces. Unlike addiction to morphine, which is biochemically
as well as psychologically determined, prolonged use of marihuana
is essentially in the service of the hedonistic elements of the personality
- Dr. Walter Bromberg Bellevue Hospital 1939
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Cannabis can be used on an episodic but continual basis without evidence of social or psychic dysfunction. In many users the
term dependence with its obvious connotations, probably is misapplied... The chief opposition to the drug rests on a
moral and political, and not toxicologic, foundation
- USA Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 1987
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
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No impairment of physiological, sensory and perceptual
performance, tests of concept formation, abstracting
ability, and cognitive style, and tests of memory.
Cannabis smoking does not lead directly to mental or physical deterioration.. Those who have consumed marijuana for a
period of years showed no mental or physical deterioration
which may be attributed to the drug - US Jamaican Study 1974
sensual addiction
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
human rights watch rosie the reeferter
There are some things higher than the laws - Clarance Darrow 1920
Yes We Cannabis!
How much should I smoke, Master?
One smokes until one can no longer think of Marijuana, Grasshopper
www.CannabisNews.com
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 Foundation of American Fascism
Nixon's Controlled Substance Act, unprecedentedly put Fucking Feddies in Every State
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
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The Greatest Generation's Longest WarOf all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good
of its victims may be the most oppressive - C.S. Lewis
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 1851
Film & Print Fed The World Propaganda
No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips,
whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven,
a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer
- Harry J Anslinger Commissioner of the US Bureau of Narcotics 1930-1962
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
Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at
the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to
drugs which will end war? - Albert Hoffman
The World War on Cannabis
The 20 Millionth US MJ Arrest was in October 2008
Force always attracts men of low morality ~ Albert Einstein
OK, Maybe Marijuana Is the Issue
Benjamin Franklin started one of America's first paper mills with cannabis. This allowed America to have a free colonial press without having to beg or justify paper and books from England
- Jack Herer The Emperor Wears No Clothes
The more I look into the detailed history of hemp in this country, the more I realize the basic question again boils down to destroying the economic base of all indigenous, good people in the world
- John Splitting-the-sky Hill
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
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
You can not tell me that you're a civilized country if you are incarcerating individuals for smoking marijuana... that's barbaric
- Larry Campbell Past Vancouver Mayor
1 out of 100 Americans is Behind Bars
1 of 32 is in the System
Is the Injustice System working?
so you know..the virtual slave prison labor industry produces all the immediateequipment 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
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
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
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest
or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is
always stirring up some war or other in order that
the people may require a leader - Plato
I always wondered what would happen if marijuana were
legalized for anyone over 18. It seems it already has
been and nothing happened - Joel Stein
The people of the world genuinely want peace
Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them - Dwight Eisenhower
Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
The biggest and most powerful law enforcement agency in the
United States has the absolute, non-negotiable power to ignore laws, judges and prosecutors, to keep people out of prison,
to make any jury trial come out the way they want it,
and to make our government honest. What is this agency?
The Fully Informed Jury
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 - Dr H S Williams
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.
Summing It Up - The Bottom Line.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
of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man
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
Rather Slams Corporate News Media
..the forces and the trends that imperil journalism and
... democracy itself. - Dan Rather
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save the planet - reduce reuse recycle relegalize
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 1937
In my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and
there was no drug use - Thomas Considine DEATH
why use forests and mines use hemp
in the annual growth of the hemp fields - henry ford
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
educated yourself jack herrer
hemp oyle 1633
The earliest known woven fabric was apparently of hemp, which began to be worked in the eighth millennium 8,000-7,000 BCE
- Columbia History of the World 1981
the earth
the earth won't miss us
US statistics of the 1970's 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
reschedule cannabis
the healing of the nation merck cannabis study 1987
Criminal penalties have clearly failed to prevent widespread use of marijuana.. Law & health are two entirely separate issues -R DuPont
the golden age of cannabis 1837 1937
all use is medicinal
When I received my medical marijuana from the government, the judge who had acquitted me was asked, 'Where can Elvy smoke?'
My attorney suggested wherever nicotine is permissible, and
the judge agreed with him - Elvy Musikka - legal pot user for 30 years
Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana - Ronald Reagan 1984....obviously a heavy user then
marijuana laws in north america
Meanwhile, in 1833 Samuel Carey in his Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia and Treatise on Pharmacology advised that
cannabis could be used to make "an agreeable intoxicating
drink" This is the only British reference to cannabis
as an intoxicant known to us from this period
us pharmacopoeia
to add a useful plant to its culture - Thomas Jefferson
Rather Slams Corporate News Media
..the forces and the trends that imperil journalism and
... democracy itself. - Dan Rather
save the planet
save the planet - reduce reuse recycle relegalize
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 1937
In my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and
there was no drug use - Thomas Considine DEATH
why use forests and mines use hemp
in the annual growth of the hemp fields - henry ford
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
educated yourself jack herrer
hemp oyle 1633
The earliest known woven fabric was apparently of hemp, which began to be worked in the eighth millennium 8,000-7,000 BCE
- Columbia History of the World 1981
the earth
the earth won't miss us
US statistics of the 1970's 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
reschedule cannabis
the healing of the nation merck cannabis study 1987
Criminal penalties have clearly failed to prevent widespread use of marijuana.. Law & health are two entirely separate issues -R DuPont
the golden age of cannabis 1837 1937
all use is medicinal
When I received my medical marijuana from the government, the judge who had acquitted me was asked, 'Where can Elvy smoke?'
My attorney suggested wherever nicotine is permissible, and
the judge agreed with him - Elvy Musikka - legal pot user for 30 years
Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana - Ronald Reagan 1984....obviously a heavy user then
marijuana laws in north america
Meanwhile, in 1833 Samuel Carey in his Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia and Treatise on Pharmacology advised that
cannabis could be used to make "an agreeable intoxicating
drink" This is the only British reference to cannabis
as an intoxicant known to us from this period
us pharmacopoeia