I taught my children that their bodies are the temples of their souls. However, when my children became young adults I told them the truth about drugs. Including that marijuana or cannabis is a safer health choice in a recreational drug but the collateral damage from arrest can be devastating and life long."
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm
"Save the children from Prohibition," was a slogan used to end alcohol prohibition. Punishing children or adults for making a safer health choice today is absolute madness. Again, we need to save the children, this time from drug prohibition's collateral damage. The drug war tries to destroy families and does destroy the family value of practicing health safety. Dear Reader, the spacing is crazy here and I am unable to correct it, sorry.
Abstinence from recreational drugs is safest for all, especially youth but few will choose it. Parents do need to set an example for their children. However, most parents who use drugs and alcohol do not abuse them. They are
responsible drug users, especially marijuana users as it is the safest choice.
Effective drug education based on medical science builds student's confidence to make informed responsible choices. Present policy falsehoods and scare tactics undermine our credibility. We want to encourage drug free
behavior not awaken their curiosity. Truth, trust and reason encourage open communications between youth, parents and faculties.
Over a thousand people die each day due to tobacco use! Close to 300 a day die from prescribed pharmaceuticals. The tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceuticals gangs deal drugs that kill many more annually than all illicit drugs. We tolerate their salesmen!
Alcohol makes domestic violence 8xs more likely; marijuana does not according to a 2003 study. There is a link between pharmaceutical psychotropic drugs and violence including school violence!
http://video.google.com:80/videoplay?docid=-3609599239524875493
It is down right sinister, a crime against humanity, for the medicinal uses of cannabis to be suppressed. Some scientific researchers speculate that cannabinoids play a protective role in the brain, slowing the rate of disease. Ooooops! Who spilled the beans? Scientists and patients all over the world, that's who!
http://mccoolportraits.com/2007rebelwithjustcause.htm#Ooooops!
Patients testify to Cannabis' help in treating Alzheimer's, chronic pain, multiple sclerosis, gastrointestinal (GI) tract disorders, Cancer and HIV/AIDS! A 2007 Columbia University in New York study reported smoking average strength cannabis was as effective as taking 8 times the US FDA recommended dose of Marinol!
Drug abuse is a medical problem. We will do a better job preventing overdose deaths, of keeping intoxicated folks off the road and our children drug free with compassionate policy offering helpful treatment.
Remember the Texas Youth Commission scandal. Prisons propagate violence, sexual abuse and crime. Placing non-violent drug users in this "breeding ground" is policy bordering on insanity or reefer madness!
"All men having power ought to be mistrusted," said James Madison the primary author of our Constitution. What we need is narrow-eyed, deeply skeptical attitude, if our concern is a political issue or a health issue.
When will we declare our independence from big government's scandalous waste of our precious lives and resources?
The real visionaries, who laid down our laws, those who defined what an American patriot would be, were rebels with just cause. It's not just our right it's our patriotic duty to rebel against government corruption.
"Give me Liberty or give me death" - Patrick Henry, "Live Free or Die Hard" - Bruce Willis, Americans believe self-government is worth sacrificing our precious lives for. Our founder's believed the best way to spread the freedom philosophy is by being a shining example.
James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: "We have staked the whole future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."
The drug war is unconstitutional. The land of the free has become the most incarcerated nation in modern history.
The Iraq war is, too. We have abandoned our Constitution and the founder's ideal of nonintervention."In the end, however, no constitution can be self enforcing....For the Constitution will live only if it is alive in the hearts and minds of the American people." Roger Pilon, senior fellow and director of CATO's Center for Constitutional Studie.
The Cato Institute offers copies of its popular Constitution booklet.
http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=ShowBookIndex&scid=40
Move America out of the dark ages of war by returning to our true north, self-government free of tyranny and oppression. We have freedom of religion, all faiths are welcome here, but we have separation of church and state to keep the government out of moral issues. That is how our founders set things up based on Jesus' teachings.
They were good Christian men led by the holy spirit but money the root of all evil was part of it. They wanted to create the land of abundance. They knew ethics would have to rule for it to work. The Spirit of '76 is the Holy Spirit and our true north.
Leaders responsible for current quagmire will one-day answer to a higher power for their crimes against humanity. It's time to end the terror by changing our intrusive, big-bully policies, both foreign and domestic. The monetary and environmental costs are staggering and the human suffering unconscionable.
Legalizing and regulating drug distribution would immediately cut off the major source of funding for terrorists worldwide. When will we declare our independence from big government's scandalous waste of our precious lives
and resources? Our founders believed the best way to spread the freedom philosophy is by being a shining example.
Save the American Dream! Restore justice in the world; construct science based drug policies about saving and rehabilitating instead of ruining lives. Warriors can get their adrenaline rush increasing public safety; chasing murderers and violent sexual predators. Support for the war on drugs is inconsistent with support for individual freedom, Constitutional, small government and the teachings of Jesus, the Prince of Peace.**
You might be interested to know that McCool recently finished her two yearly awarded portraits dedicated to the freedom philosophy or the American dream. Colleen calls it the, "Rebel with Just Cause Award." It is given to true American patriots; those who stand for freedom against tyranny and injustice. The Dixie Chicks for their 2006 documentary called, "Shut Up and Sing" and Joe Frederick for the media blitz created by the banner "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" are recipients of the 2007 Rebel With Just Cause Award. Both free portrait awards this year are about freedom of speech.
http://mccoolportraits.com/2007rebelwithjustcause.htm
Cindy Sheehan founding member of the Gold Star Families for Peace & the Camp Casey Peace Institute and Howard Wooldridge of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition were the recipients of the 2006 Rebel with Just Cause Award!
http://mccoolportraits.com/rebelwithjustcause.htm
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Drugs, sex and politics; a national shame!
by Ma Freedom
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You talk about a lot of different (although similar) issues in this post. I'm going to be honest; I didn't read all of it. Remember, on this site, you're writing for an audience and looking to keep their attention. These days, people have the attention span of small rodents.
You could probably make a few blog posts using the things that you said here.
I don't see how the drug war is unconsistutional (considering that congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce), but I do very actively believe it is one of the biggest wastes of time and money and a considerable unwarranted infringement upon our personal freedoms.
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Thanks Mike for your helpful comment. However the rich text editor is enabled in my blog post and the spacing looks fine in the edit box but not in the blog post.
Really glad to meet another person who sees the corruption and waste of our precious lives and resources we call the drug war.
Prohibition is unconsistutional because it has turned the land of the free into the most incarcerated nation in modern history.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/world-prison-pop-seventh.pdf
Throughout history, big government has caused more harm than good; often hiding tyranny under the guise of good intentions. Our founders knew big government would always mean a gang of evildoers.
I believe most people are smarter than you give them credit for and most agree with us but out of fear of the powers that be don't speak out. How can that have come to pass in America!?
Okay you are probably right I went on too long. I will say again, Thanks...and hope you will find the time to read the whole piece and check out the links.
Colleen McCool is a portrait artist, poet and peace activist.
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Prohibition is unconsistutional because it has turned the land of the free into the most incarcerated nation in modern history.
I'd just like to point out that that is not a sound argument. The incarceration rate has nothing to do with whether something is constitutional or not.
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Well, Mike it may not be unconstitutional under the letter of the law but what about the spirit? Our founders would be appalled if they saw what America has become today.
Colleen McCool is a portrait artist, poet and peace activist.
http://mccoolportraits.com/2007rebelwithjustcause.htm
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The constitution is a pretty clear, concise and abstract document. There really isn't anything in the spirit of the constitution that isn't expressly stated.
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The Constitution is clear and concise but the Declaration makes it perfectly clear.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." (excerpt from the Declaration of Independence)
Our founders new big government would always mean a gang of evildoers. We are being "reduced to absolute Despotism."
Are you happy with the way your tax dollars are spent? We have taxation without representation again. The documentary, "America: Freedom to Fascism," is a thorough investigation into the creation of the Federal Reserve and the controversial legislation (or lack thereof?????) that requires all American citizens to pay income taxes. It demystifies federal income tax and the creation of money.
Politicians are concerned about the next election because there are few true patriots among them. Too, many of these folks want to serve God, but only as advisors. Few are Public Servants who are concerned about the rights of the individual and working for downsizing to a more limited constitutional government. These are true patriots as defined by our founders.
The blinded by the light of billions in tax and lobby money, bleeding leaders thus corrupted are blithely unconscious of the societal harm their policies cause. Many of today's leaders seem to have minds like concrete; thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
Prohibition fuels corruption of public officials and injustice in our courts. It triggers violence in our streets and along our borders. It incites terrorists by forcing senseless policy on other countries. The black market supports despicable people who sell to children and who recruit them to sell to their peers. The statistics reveal that racism is epidemic in the drug war.
Colleen McCool is a portrait artist, poet and peace activist.
http://mccoolportraits.com/2007rebelwithjustcause.htm
Member - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
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& Drug Policy Forum of Texas
Again, you're diverting the argument to irrelevencies. The Declaration of Independence is not a document of our country's legal system (much less the constitution).
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Mike, I think your arguement is irrelvant.
How's the Current System Working for You? Maybe okay if you are a worker in the system. It is a different story when you ask someone who needs: Disaster relief, Food stamps, Welfare, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, Disability or ask a veteran in a Veteran's Hospital, "How's that working out for you?
What are we sowing? What are we reaping from big government but corruption and waste?
Sowing the Drug war reaps violence, fiscal irresponsibility, orphans and overdose deaths.
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Colleen McCool is a portrait artist, poet and peace activist.
http://mccoolportraits.com/2007rebelwithjustcause.htm
Member - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
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& Drug Policy Forum of Texas
Again, you're diverting your argument, now to an appeal to the people. The point that you made was that the war on drugs is unconstitutional. You've said plenty, but nothing that you've said so far backs up that claim.
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