It is much safer for us, as individuals, to grow herb gardens and take responsibility for control of our own health and appetites than to expect the government or a pill to fix all of our ills.
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!
What a farce! The Office of National Drug Control Policy is pushing the concept of pot addiction but science shows that withdrawal symptoms from caffeine are much worse than those for cannabis.
Cannabis is one of the most benign chemicals we can ingest. Arresting nonviolent people for making a safer health choice in a medicinal/recreational drug is scandalous reefer madness. Can law enforcement find something better to do?
Some scientists speculate that cannabinoids play a protective role in the brain, slowing the rate of disease.
A study has shown THC is far more effective than available Alzheimer's drugs to treat symptoms and halt the disease's progression. Another has shown it does not cause cancer like tobacco. This was not what they expected. "What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect."
In fact many studies expose the lies and show cannabis to be a cure for cancer. They have shown it to slow the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice namely, virus-induced leukemia, lung and breast cancer. In another study THC destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats! Ooooops! Who spilled the beans? Scientists and patients all over the world, that's who!
Drug and alcohol abuse is a disease not a criminal activity. Harm reduction is a balanced, science based drug policy, de-emphasizing law enforcement and instead focuses more efforts on treatment, prevention and education, while maintaining the right to health which includes adequate pain management and ending basic human rights violations.
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.
Running a business in a city in Mexico is like running one in Chicago when Al Capone ran that city. Duh, history repeats itself. Prohibition didn't work the first time and surprise, surprise; we get the same results in our second noble experiment, another utterly futile effort. This insane policy must be rescinded.
Special interests like the pharmaceutical, prison and defense industries, lobby for harsher drug laws or a military approach to drug enforcement. Other special interest groups are simply disinclined to support a dialogue that could lead to more effective polices because they benefit from current policy and do not care if lives are damaged by the status quo.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington is launching a multimedia public-education campaign on the country's marijuana laws and their impact on taxpayers, communities and those arrested.
Creators of “The Wire” indict War on Drugs and offer the solution of jury nullification. The problem is if you disagree with the drug war on moral grounds, you will not be chosen for jury duty.
The solution is to keep an open mind and insist that you will listen fairly to all the evidence presented, tell them honestly that you care passionately about the law, and that you'll withhold decision until you've heard the entire case. Getting on that jury is the first step. After closing arguments are through and the judge has instructed you on the law, you have earned the opportunity to refuse to convict on nonviolent drug crime.
We are rebels with just cause, when we exercise our right to nullify bad laws like those brave jurors who refused to convict during the hard times of the Fugitive Slave Act, way back and until FDR said the Volstead Act was licked! Jury nullification is a constitutional power tool we the people pack.
UN Drug Czar refuses to answer question on Dutch Cannabis Policy and wants to be tougher on celebrity drug users, criticizing lenient treatment for celebrity drug users for sending a bad message to youth. The Drug War is an international problem and the US the biggest barrier to progress.
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.
You can help downsize big government. Write your US Representatives and Senators asking them to refuse to authorize these agencies, disband them! US Representative Barney Frank announced he plans to file a federal bill to legalize "small amounts" of marijuana, late Friday on the HBO show "Real Time," hosted by Bill Maher. Ask your Congress Critters to co-sponsor the "Make Room for Serious Criminals"bill.
Considering that across the US last year 40% of the murders, almost 60% of the rapes and about half of the aggravated assaults went unsolved, there is plenty of enforcement work available on these threats to public safety. The horrendous cumulative effect of present use of enforcement resources is becoming obvious. While we police individual recreational and medicinal use of drugs; murderers and violent sexual predators roam free.
A very small percentage of U.S. voters ever contact their legislators about pubic-policy issues. The Internet makes contact easy and our voices joined together will have influence on decisions made in Washington and state capitols.
Barry and Candi Cooper are on the front cover of the March/April issue of Cannabis Culture magazine. Barry is now a columnist for Cannabis Culture and he is running for Congress as a Libertarian candidate in the 31st Congressional District in Central Texas. He advocates the legalization of all drugs and believes, "American cages were intended to house the violent." They were never intended to be money makers for government and other opportunists without ethics.
Drug laws will be broken, whether or not the law is changed, is Barry's stance. He will continue to try to help people avoid jail time for nonviolent behavior.
Both of Barry's parents are public school teachers of 20 years and often complain of having to teach students how to pass a federally mandated test in return for Federal moneys. They say, "Teaching a test is not the same as educating our youth."
Barry's and Candi's daughters, ages 15 and 12, were recently kicked out of public school because of the red highlights placed in their hair by a licensed beautician. Both daughters were strait "A" student with zero disciplinary problems. The girls are now home schooling. Home schoolers are one of the fastest growing groups in America because parents are beginning to realized our public schools have turned into government schools. Barry will work toward public school reform.
I am happy to report I was taught to think for myself by my public school teachers but times have changed. Move America out of these dark days by returning to our roots, 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.
Restore justice in America; construct science based drug policies about saving and rehabilitating instead of ruining lives. Support for the federal war on drugs is inconsistent with support for individual freedom, constitutional government and the teachings of Jesus, the Prince of Peace.
