Transforming Ourselves and Our World!

Throughout history people have found ways to alter their conscienceness. In primitive societies psychoactive plants were sacred and ingested with care, with supposed spiritual intent, but use was often limited to a corrupt powerful few who used fear and superstition to control the masses.

Today to celebrate, to relax, to just feel better, to live without pain, fear, uncertainty, depression and doubt we use our favorite legal or illegal drug. Nationally, globally, enmasse, we are a High Society!

Dr. Albert Hoffman, LSD inventor, is dead at 102, a son died at 53 of alcoholism. Dr. Hofmann called LSD "medicine for the soul," and believed LSD could be "used to awaken a deeper awareness of mankind's place in nature and help curb society's ultimately self-destructive degradation of the natural world." Before his death, he said, "I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that's all."

When we stand in awe of the wonders of creation, all the animals, all the plants and are struck with the magnificent power and beauty of nature, our spirit connects with our source. This feeling of oneness or love gives us more self control, more compassion for others. It heals our spirit. If some carry on the ancient tradition of using drugs as a sacrament, to enhance spiritual growth, it is cause for rejoicing not incarceration.

The Almighty Creator is the source of all creativity. Our individual dreams, the American dream and all dreams of freedom around the world come from our source. The Holy Spirit has the power to make them manifest.

What kind of life, what kind of world do we want to create? Focusing on the true nature of creativity as a spiritual issue, not an ego issue, can help us transform ourselves and our world. This simple shift in focus creates the nurturing atmosphere needed to work together to overcome obstacles and solve problems.

"DRUGS R US!" according to Jack Cole a founding member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. "Despite all the lives we have destroyed -- the trillions in tax dollars and the 37 million arrests for nonviolent offenses -- today illicit drugs are cheaper, more potent and far easier to get than they were 35 years ago at the beginning of the war on drugs."

Arianna Huffington has just published a new book, "Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe." Shame on US for allowing tyranical fanatics, who worship nothing but money the root of all evil, to use propaganda, lies and scare tactics to oppress US!

Our Founders were not into forcing people to be good, they were into self-government and instituted the people are grand and government is small plan! They separated church and state to keep the government out of moral issues. Yet, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of '76 is still our true north.

The tool we need to fight drug abuse is compassion. Treat nonviolent abusers as patients not criminals. Fight use with factual evidence! We are diminishing the use of tobacco with the campaign, Knowledge is Contagious, so Infect Truth!

The cumulative effect of current policy is becoming obvious; while we police individual recreational and medicinal use of drugs, murderers and violent sexual predators roam free. Get tough on violent crime! Restore justice! Warriors can earn their pay and get their adrenaline rush solving homicides, molestations and rapes.

Psychiatric drug use is soaring in the UK and the US. American children take anti-psychotic medicines, mostly to treat autism and hyperactivity, at about six times the rate of children in the United Kingdom.

It seems the anti-addiction 'super pills' aren't. They block pleasure, raising the risk of depression and suicide!

It should be a crime for prosecutors to intentionally withhold evidence. If they cause a grave injustice they should be prosecuted, duh. Right here in Big D, the battle for justice turns to ethics! Craig Watkins is a Dallas County district attorney who has a national reputation for freeing the wrongfully convicted. His Texas jurisdiction leads the nation in DNA exonerations.

Tim Garon's death due to being denied a liver transplant for using medical marijuana is shocking! It is testimony to the ignorance and bigotry of our medical establishment!

"I think people in this country, when they see a patient in pain, will not deny that person a medication just because the drug has abuse potential," said Dr. John Halpern, a Harvard psychiatrist who is testing the effect of MDMA - assisted psychotherapy in late-stage cancer patients. MDMA, LSD and other psychotropics may yet prove to be be of tremendous value in psychotherapy.

The Greatest Story Never Told is smoking cannabis doesn't cause cancer instead data suggests a possible protective effect.

US Representative Barney Frank has filed a bipartisan federal bill to legalize "small amounts" of marijuana and make room for serious criminals. Dr. Ron Paul, is a cosponsor. This Texas straight talker says we are "politicizing pain." Ask your Congressperson to cosponsor, "The Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act"- HR 5843.

If they are hard line drug warriors, ask them to at least support HR 5842 which would allow the medical use of marijuana in states that have chosen to make its use for medical purposes legal with a doctor's recommendation. The debate over medical marijuana or cannabis is really a scandalous controversy over whether this very easy-to-grow herb should be allowed to compete with pharmaceuticals for pennies on the dollar.

Harassing the sick and dying is an un-American activity.

Big business and big government have a scandalous mutually beneficial love affair going on! The Constitution doesn't authorize Congress to subsidize industries or grant special favors for particular businesses, Congress will have an impossible time justifying special-interest legislation. Tell Congress to pass the Enumerated Powers Act

US Representative Ron Paul says, "Big Government Responsible for High Gas Prices!"

Special interest money has a huge influence on our resident bully, Uncle Sam, and it has a tremendous effect on both foreign and domestic policy. Members of Congress, without ethics, effectively sell their votes to those who can give them money and keep them in office. The best, true solution to this is to return to constitutional or small government and a free market or not trying to control our economy.

The real cause of this huge quagmire of failed policy is the beast, big government, that money hungry beast, Uncle Sam! Ma Freedom tells it like it is! The beauty of it is when we focus on downsizing our government we regain our roots of self-government and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and future generations.

Colleen McCool