Truth Spreads like Molasses in January or. . . like Wild Fire?!

Dear Ted Kennedy has glioma, cancer of the brain! He may not be long for this earth. Can he be unaware US scientists back in the seventies found that cannabis killed glioma cells? This report suppressed by Uncle Sam has recently been validated by scientists in Israel and Spain who reproduced these same findings.

"If laws banning the use of force are relaxed when an intruder crawls in your window and you're home, shouldn't stringent FDA regulations bend when you're backed into a dark corner by a terminal illness?" That was the argument made by the UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh in the Harvard Law Review. In his opinion and mine, a terminal cancer patient is in precisely the same situation as a home-intrusion victim or a victim of a rampaging bear, both of whom are exempted from certain legal prohibitions. (You don't have to check endangered-species regulations before knifing or shooting the bear.) "Medical self-defense is not an analogy," Volokh says. "It is self-defense."

Here's an example of Uncle Sam at his most beastly! Paul Armentano of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), discusses this situation that is enough to make a preacher cuss!

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! Ever wonder why doctors call what they do "practice"?

Charles Grassley (R., Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee has requested that the Government Accountability Office launch an inquiry into whether the FDA behaved appropriately in granting the "accelerated approval" of Avastin, a drug for treating women with metastatic breast cancer. Cannabis killed breast cancer in rats. A study on cancer funded by the National Institute of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, instead found that THC slowed the growth of these diseased breast cells. Many patient's including those with cancer, Alzheimer's and AIDS testify to cannabis benefits.

Research on cannabis offers hope of a nontoxic therapy that could treat aggressive forms of cancer without any of the painful side effects of other treatments. It may through new research prove more helpful in control of hyperactivity in children without the bad side effects of current prescribed drugs as well.

Our DEA overseers have harassed the sick and dying, shamed and destroyed families, locked up and killed many (including the innocent as well as members of enforcement) over one of the safest therapeutically active plants known to man.

While FDA"overseers"allowed more pharmaceutical killers on the market, suppressed the truth about cannabis and failed to grant the terminally ill access to investigational drugs. Both agencies exacerbate problems instead of solving them. They should be disbanded.

Ron Paul is one of the few true American heroes alive in government today, willing to be a rebel with just cause, against big government waste of our precious lives and resources.

Thomas Jefferson thought the US should have a political purge or revolution every 20 years or so because “lethargy” is the “forerunner to the death of liberty.” What would he think of voter apathy today? Will 2008 be different?

Dr. Paul tells it like it is! "We have seen cases where harmless elderly women, having committed no act of violence, are arrested for raising marijuana in the yard to use for relief of severe arthritic pain . . ."

"We have strict drug laws written by those who generously use the drug alcohol. Our laws drive up the price of drugs a thousandfold, to the delight of the dealers, the pushers, and terrorist nations around the world who all reap huge illegal profits. Crimes are committed to finance the outrageous prices, and drug usage never goes down. Enforcement costs soar, and its success remains 'mysteriously' elusive. The whole system creates an underground crime world worth billions of dollars; and addicts must then entice others to join, getting new customers to finance their habits – forever compounding a social problem epidemic in proportion. Any new suggestions for changing our drug laws that is, liberalizing them – is seen as political suicide by the hypocritical politicians and a society legally hooked on alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, aspirin and Valium."

"Drugs R Us." Jack Cole, director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.puts it suscinctly. He is another mighty rebel with just cause, a true American hero, fighting for truth and justice.

The really dangerous drugs are the legal ones. 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!

The Netherlands drug policy of peace; no drug war cost and no ruined lives, is worth considering. They tax cannabis just like any other commodity and medicinal use is legal. They incarcerate one per thousand of their citizens compared to seven out of every thousand of US citizens behind bars; making the "Land of the Free"have the largest prison system in the world.. A recent survey showed 19% of Dutch teens have tried cannabis and less than 3% have ever used any illegal drug. Their public schools are exemplary while ours sometimes seem more like prisons than institutions of learning and free thought.

Harassing the sick and dying is un-American and un-Christian activity! We have spent close to a trillion dollars waging war on a disease, a sickness! We lock up sick people. Use is considered abuse so nonviolent recreational users are incorrectly locked up as addicts. Rarely is the true addict treated as a patient instead of a criminal. Less poor souls would get stuck on skid row or in prostitution with compassionate policy offering helpful treatment.

Arresting nonviolent people for making a safer health choice in a medicinal/recreational drug is shameful reefer madness. Can law enforcement find something better to do?

We can never agree on everything but surely we can agree that responsible behavior; weighing the choices and making a safer, wiser health decision is to be encouraged in America not criminalized.

The cumulative effect of current policy of $70 Billion a Year for Drug Law Enforcement 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! Warriors can get their adrenaline rush increasing public safety; chasing killers and other perpetrators of violence

US Representative Barney Frank has filed a bipartisan federal bill to legalize "small amounts" of marijuana and make room for serious criminals. Representative 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.

Literally war! The total carnage in Mexico's drug war is "an estimated 6,000 deaths in the past 2 and a half years." Prohibition triggered these deaths and triggers other border violence.

We are shooting ourselves in the foot, by forcing terrorist supporting, senseless policy on our citizens and those of other countries. Drug prohibition triggers violence in our streets as did alcohol prohibition; history repeats itself.

Prohibition fuels corruption of public officials and injustice in our courts. The black market supports despicable people who sell to children and who recruit them to sell to their peers. It has devastated minority communities; statistics reveal that racism is epidemic in the drug war.

Official lawlessness rules once more, "There's No Justice in the War on Drugs!"

A medical marijuana employment rights bill that would protect California patients from being fired because their medication is marijuana passed the California Assembly. The bill has broad support from labor, business, civil rights, and medical groups. It now heads to the state Senate.

In 2008, the UN must do better at addressing epidemics of HIV and hepatitis C driven by injected-drug use. This should weigh heavily in the considerations of member states on whether they really can, or should even try to achieve a drug-free world.

People filled with the Holy Spirit, who believed in Christ's teachings of freedom of choice, of free will, wrote our Founding documents. They 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. The Spirit of '76 is our true north.

The Future of Freedom Foundation is once again holding one of the most important conferences in the history of the libertarian movement, “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties.”

"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.

Our courts are supposed to be a check on government tyranny and oppression. Save the children from the tyranny of good intentions. CPS and Enforcement go too far! The Texas Supreme Court decides the children were improperly removed from their families.

"As females become sexually active at younger and younger ages, state legislatures have stupidly raised the age at which it is legal to engage in sexual activity. Today, a significant percentage of new prisoners are young men imprisoned for engaging in sexual activity with teenage girls. In the US, criminal justice (sic) has more to do with ruining people than with punishing criminals," says Paul Craig Roberts. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.

In many of these cases the so-called victim gave consent and did not want to prosecute; meanwhile violent sexual predators get away with murder.

Let's resolve to right the wrongs that exist today by focusing on how much better off each individual American will be in a truly free society with a very small government. Return to our founders bright idea of America, a shining light of liberty for the world, leading by example.

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Compiled and written by Colleen McCool