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

- Carl Sagan, in "Marijuana Reconsidered"

The November Ballot Will Find...
Massachusetts voting to be the 13th State to Decrimin &
Michigan voting to be the 13th Medical Marijuana State
Currently one in six Americans enjoy these freedoms

          

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, on "The Dick Cavett Show," 1969

           

JOIN US FOR DRUG PEACE
@ THE REPUBLICAN &
DAMOCRATIC CONVENTIONS

Denver: Saturday, August 22nd 3 pm.  March from State Capitol  at  Colfax/Lincoln to the convention Center,  via 14th to 14th and Chaplin. Stay around for the Demcon, August 24th to 27th. Contact: Tiny Martinez denvergmm@hotmail.com 720-365-8187
                                                                    Hope you enjoyed Rome
     
                                                                                         Crusin' past the White House
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



"The suffering that drug misuse has brought about is deplorable; however, drug prohibition causes more harm than drugs themselves"
"The so-called 'War on Drugs' is in reality a war against the American people, our Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is a grave threat to individual liberty to domestic order and to peace in the world."
- Bob Barr

       
pretty dam strange world we live in

Cannabis News
The Pulse of the Movement
Informing the Public about Cannabis
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
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

                   

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

                                        Canada's Anslinger                                                     Evil

                

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



Force always attracts men of low morality.
~Albert Einstein

OK, Maybe Marijuana Is the Issue



If laws worked, there would be no crime
- Claire Wolfe



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.



1 of every 100 Americans is behind bars
1 out of 32 is caught up in the system
Is the Injustice System working?


so you know..the virtual slave prison labor industry produces all 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



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
     

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

Forfeiture Endangers American Rights


The biggest and most powerful law enforcement agency in the United States has the absolute, non-negotiable power to tgnore 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.
- 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...

Despite Marijuana Reclassification...
No Jail for Low-Level Sellers....

      

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door
that leads into madness
- Christopher Morley

Summing It Up - The Bottom Line
 

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

no free press - no free country
..the forces and the trends that imperil journalism and
... democracy itself.  - Dan Rather


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, 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

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


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, given legal pot from the US government for 30 years



Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results
of the use of marijuana.
-- Ronald Reagan, 1974...obviously a heavy user then



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


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

Federal Program to supply Med MJ hits 30th year
        
But it isn't medicine?

According to a report published by NIDA last year, Utah Power and Light actually 'spent $215 per employee per year less on the drug abusers in health insurance benefits than on the control group.' Those who tested positive at Georgia Power had a higher promotion rate than the company average. Moreover, Georgia workers testing positive only for marijuana (about 35 percent of all positives) exhibited absenteeism some 30 percent lower than average.
- Scientific American, March 1990

The Biggest Lie
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



All animals, except man,
know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it
-Samuel Butler



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

hit it or pass it
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


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



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

Viva La Conquista
Mexico Heads To Decriminalization
No charges will be brought against ... addicts or consumers who are
found in possession of any narcotic for personal use


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

reefer poker      tax stamps  
         
"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


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