Washington, DC: Police arrested 847,864 persons for marijuana violations in 2008, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual Uniform Crime Report, released today. The total marks a three percent decrease in marijuana arrests from 2007, when law enforcement arrested a record 872,721 Americans for cannabis-related violations.
Marijuana arrests now comprised one-half (49.8 percent) of all drug arrests reported in the United States.
Of those charged with marijuana violations, approximately 89 percent, 754,224 Americans were charged with possession only. The remaining 93,640 individuals were charged with “sale/manufacture,” a category that includes all cultivation offenses, even those where the marijuana was being grown for personal or medical use.
Marijuana arrests were highest in the Midwest and southern regions of the United States, and lowest in the west.
The 2008 marijuana arrest total is the second highest annual total ever reported.
Commenting on the 2008 figures, NORML Director Allen St. Pierre said: “Federal statistics released just last week indicate that larger percentages of Americans are using cannabis at the same time that police are arresting a near-record number of Americans for pot-related offenses. Present enforcement policies are costing American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars, ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, and having no impact on marijuana availability or marijuana use in this country. It is time to end this failed policy and replace prohibition with a policy of marijuana regulation, taxation, and education.”
NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano added, “According to a just-released Rasmussen poll, a majority of American adults believe, correctly, that marijuana is less harmful than booze. The public has it right; the law has it wrong.”
It’s hard to believe how stubborn and ignorant the U.S government is.
Damn When is the gov gonna wake up? Im excited to see what happens after the big convention that is the 24th-26th.I check this site everyday sometimes more than once a day to see if theres any new news,an everytime i do it seems its getting better an better .Awsome work Normal
Can I get a DUH??
Well what can you expect? The economy is bad abd all those cops, prosecutors and prison guards need to make some overtime.
I think I’ve finally figured out how this country came up with it’s national drug policy. First, they filled a room with hypocritical, lying, self-righteous, religious-inspired, sociopathic and psychopathic prohibitionists. Then they agreed to totally ignore God’s will for people to live in freedom with liberty as acknowledged and cited in the Constitution of the United States. Then they came up with a policy that was the most counter productive, had the most unintended consequences, would cost the most money indefinitely, destroy the most property and hurt and kill the most people. The policy had to make drugs readily available to our children, degrade the domestic tranquillity of at least several allied nations and directly fund terrorists, gang and mob drug profiteers. And finally, the policy could never, ever work. How could anyone possibly say our national drug policy is not working? It is working exactly as obviously designed and intended.
see, prohibition is working…….NOT!!!!!!!!
These are sad statistics indeed, where now nearly 50% of all drug arrests are for Marijuana, and nearly 90% are for simple posession. I’m sure there will be further analysis of these statistics, but my curiosity makes me wonder what the percentages of these arrests are young people and minorities?
My hope is that 2010 is the year this changes and that legislation in the wings of the Federal and State governments will pass bringing us closer to legalization of Marijuana. I will continue to keep in touch with these blogs and write to my representatives at every available opportunity. Thank you NORML for your assistance in this.
I pledge to donate $1,000 to NORML in 2010 as I did in 2009, and I hope this committment encourages others to do the same. I know economic times are difficult for all of us, but if this is a cause you believe in, be willing to feel a little pinch in the pocketbook! In perspective, this is only the price of an ounce of weed four times a year. Give what you can, please.
I’ve read the book, Marijuana is Safer. I think the message is focused and I highly recommend the book. I’ll talk to anybody who will listen at every opportunity on how Marijuana is safer than alcohol, and I believe it is unconscionable that culture and society are forcing me to drink. Well, I’m still a rebel. I quit drinking!
This madness has to stop. Too many people have had their lives ruined or died due to prohibition. There are statistics on how many people die as a direct result of the War on Drugs. The fact is families are broken, individuals are needlessly incarcerated to feed our #1 growth industry, PRISONS! Parents lose custody of their children. Assets are forefeited. Arrest records follow individuals for life and impact the possibility of future employment. There is a social stigma needlessly attached to those who use Marijuana either for recreation or as medicine.
As if this were not enough, look at all the research that has been done on the efficacy of Marijuana for numerous medical conditions, not the least of which is Brain Cancer! Cannabis causes the cancer to EAT ITSELF in a process called Autophagy. The research has been published.
I’m sick and tired of our government’s hypocricy where one bureaucracy says there is no acceptible medical use for Marijuana, while another government bureaucracy holds the patent on a Marijuana medicine.
Please, let us end this nightmare. Let us educate ourselves and others. Become politically active and write your elected officials. Fund the organizations and lobbies that will also get the ears of our elected officials. Come out of the closet! Let us together unite to change these unjust laws and end the nighmare of Marijuana Prohibition!
Johnny D
That is 847,864 people too many taking up space in prisons. I don’t see why people don’t start rioting in the streets about themselves, friends, or relatives being locked up for using a substance, OH YEAH! It’s because If people do start stepping up to the corrupt politicians and police they will get there “Riot police” ready and throw teargas at people and abuse there power more and more
I’m thinking the number of arrests are actually higher. You really can’t beleive what comes out of the Government’s mouth. It’s alway a lie.
The 3% drop from arrests is that people die everyday, they are still in jail or on some kind of drug rehab. Numbers can be twisted around and the states that changed their marijuana laws have not really changed the arrest rate in our country. THE FEDERAL LAW AND THE 21 CENTURY INQUISITORS=POLICE STATE. They are still going to do what they want to, THERE ARE STILL PLENTY OF UNICORNS FOR THEM TO ROUND UP, THE VICIMS OF MARIJUANA PROHIBITION. WHEN WILL THE DEAD END ATROCITIES END?
Now I wonder how much money was wasted on incarcerating these harmless people…
Johnny D-Amen, God bless you
45% of all arrests in America are for simple possession of a dead plant. How ridiculous is this?
Time and money and government lives are lost trying to create a pot-free society. It’s just never going to happen.
Stop voting for Democrats guys. Only people like Ron Paul will end this hypocritical policy. Democrats merely support whatever expansion of government is possible, and support unions. Since Dems support government jobs as well, its very unlikely that they would “fire” their own people over at the WONDERFUL DEA or ONDCP. SO stop supporting our president!!!!
WHY DON’T WE JUST GET TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER, AND QUIT KIDDING OURSELVES ANY LONGER?
FIRST: “It’s going to come down to the vote.” It’s going to come down to a “Mandate of an overwhelming people”…to our elected representatives. Even at that…it’s going to be a crap shoot. Money v. the Game. So!…we better be a good game player to play. If we want to play the game…we have to know the rules…and…the rules apply to everyone, including, but especially prohibitionists…who traditionally go to great lenghts to put their inherests above the law.
SECOND: “It has nothing to do with cannabis”…legal or illegal. Once again…”Cannabis is a pawn.” It has everything to do with “Power”…the power of special interests…the radical religious fundamentalists. It has everything to do with “Money”
…payola from alcohol, tobacco, pharma-beasts, and many hemp industry opponents.
LAST: “It’s all about liberty.” It’s all about one someone regulating another someone’s morality. “It’s all about anti-trust”…and one or more dominant industries conspiring to restrict another industry from free trade. “It’s all about a government defying the will of its people”…only to serve the will of the Lords of the Modern World…capitalism v. socialism…secularism v. religion. At any rate…once again…cannabis will be the “All American Pawn…in a war of opposing forces.”
So!…If We the People want to be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people…ever again…instead of a pawn of prohibitionists…”WE MUST VOTE.” Abstention is no longer an option. A vote for cannabis is a vote for liberty, and is a Constitutional obligation…if we claim to be Americans.” “WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS…IT BECOMES NECESSARY.” “Just do it!”…do it for our common culture world-wide.
Manford Mantis [CA-GD]
I wonder if the 09 numbers will be higher with Obama being president and all,.
The reason why we don’t go rioting through out the street is because us ( us marijuana advocates) is because no matter how much THC you consume you won’t get agressive, unlike alcohol, so why does the government not legalize this PLANT. Makes me laugh at the illegality of this plant material that brings so much happiness when used ( not illegally traded with enemies accross the world )
Johnny D,
Your post is excellent and I encourage more people to follow your example. I have written my elected representatives numerous times and always receive a “form letter” reply. But when I continue to press the issue with them, eventually they are forced to look at the published studies on the safely and medical benefits of cannabis. Change starts at the grass roots, and we are all the grass roots! Let’s make a difference!
Notice that all the regions with a large amount of states that have decriminalzation laws are low in the Marijuana % of arrests. These are worth fighting for at the state level. We can also use the orgnaiation in the state level to advance the national campaign for the final goal of legalizing once and for all.
Use is up, arrests are down…. thats actually bitter-sweet news. but like callum yeater#9 said, thats 847,864 too many. I recently started reading the emporer wears no clothes cause i found it on jack herers website…. im so furious with our government… something needs to be done, before its to late….maybe we should not focus so much on the financial benefit of taxing marijuana in debates… that is merely a small bonus of legalizing it… we should focus on the positive enviromental effects and how it can bring money and security to almost everyone and not just the big companies of the world, which fail anyways. Cannabis Sativa can save the world, we just need to let it.
btw http://www.jackherer.com/chapters.html is where the book is….. everyone who hasnt read it….read it…. take notes for debating….. like i said, focusing on the tax benefits alone is not going to get it legalized… there are soooooooo many other reasons for it to be legalized and the tax money is just a small bonus
A lot of ppl say they dont care, but wait until this fools get cought and then they gonna see how much it affect everyone!
SO IS NORML GONNA SIT ON ITS ASS TOO WHILE THAT VOTER INITIATIVE PETITION IN CALIFORNIA DIES TOO? MPP WONT HELP SO WILL NORML? IF NOT, I GUESS I WILL HAVE TO START MY OWN WEBSITE…ITS CALLED GETTING FUCKED BY THE POLICE IN MISSOURI.GOV!!!!!!!!!! LEGALIZE AND QUIT FUCKING AROUND!
[Editor’s note: There are three initiatives in CA that seek to ‘legalize’ cannabis. The upcoming NORML conference will feature a debate about all three initiatives. Some organizations, funders and individuals are waiting and watching the public debate about these three different initiatives before supporting any one effort.]
JUST A FEW MORE MONTHS AND WE WILL BE WATCHING ANOTHER VIDEO ABOUT A CRIPPLE GETTING THROWN IN ANOTHER COP CAR BY CORRUPT COP BASTARDS! LEGALIZE AND QUIT FUCKING AROUND!!
Mike Stroup, I think you put it very well, sadly.
I’ll just keep right on standing up and speaking my mind about this magnificient plant, because the louder we get the less they will be able to manipulate and control society about this important issue.
Marijuana is Safer is an awesome book and I just sent a copy to our state Representative Denny Rheburg who is opposed to cannabis legalization. I’ll be sending one to our state Senator Max Baucus next as he opposes it as well.
I also submit letters of support to the editor of our local paper. The more people read and hear, the more we can reverse the lies that have been enforced all these years. It is time to be heard, and we all need to get this message out loud and clear to whoever will listen and even ones who won’t.
any thing short of war against us police will keep them killing inocent people.15000 folks a year die in the war on drugs .if there were 15000 police widows in a year you bet it would already be over.
I believe it all about the money. Look at the HUGE numbers posted in the article. If you took all those people out of the system, what will the government replace them with? They wont close prisons. They wont lay anyone off. History has shown they target a new Victim to replace the old one. If prohibition ever ends, the frightening question is Who or What will be next?
Callum Yeater:
But of course people arent rioting in the streets, or government and way of life keep us busy with medicine that only makes us dependable and has side effect, medical bills that are too expensive for most, houses we cannot afford to live in, tv shows and reality shows that dope the mind and turn us into automatons. The sense of community in America, unlike the middle part of the last century is becoming a fossil. We are unfortunately not united like our parents may have been, and it is our lack of organization, and the overbearing everyday responsibilities that keeps the status quo the way it is. And the powers in charge do a very subtle(and sometimes not so subtle) attempts at keeping us busy with trivial things, when our well being and liberty is being stepped on.
Oh YesYesYes! I feel so much safer now that so many non-violent cannabis users are in jail , let the murders and rapists and child molesters out so we have more room for these non violent dregs of the world. Gawd I love sarcasm!
Just legalize it #2:
I would like to think 2012 will be the end of many things, oil,corruption, the elitists walking on the backs of the meek. All it takes is for people of all walks of life to stand up and DEMAND! not ask .DEMAND these things come to an end and make those that would continue these thing pay. Wrong is wrong no matter how you twist the picture or spin your words.
Maybe a serious up rising in this country would inspire the rest of the world to throw off their chains.
Hear Us leaders of this great nation, Change your ways or they will be changed for you. No matter what you do or say , your time is up. We are coming.
If this trend continues in just a few years the million arrests a year will have been reached. I’m quite sure that is a target of law enforcement/for profit prisons. Is there any other crime in America that rises to that level? One can not imagine the wasted time of law enforcement, prosecutors,judges, jailers and the list goes on and on. Can you even begin to imagine how much this is costing us in terms of lost productivity and federal income tax as most of those people probably lost their job. This is the single most insane law this country has ever tried to enforce!
I wonder, what percentage of the population does this number represent? I am one of them btw.
Will the government finally listen to the people and end marijuana prohibition.
They will spend our money to jail almost a million of us every year, but don’t want to give us health care? We need real change. Now!
Well they wanted a war? They got one. Over 800000 inocent victims of the goverment. Countless more unnamed family members affected. A failed war is it? lol i dont think so. Over 800000 men and women who fill arrest quotas without much fear of reciprocative violence against them.They all dressed in their little body armor, got their assault rifles, and their armored vehicles they dont want to go after murderers or crack addicts or anyone who might actually fight back. Why go after mafia or violent gangs when they can comprise nearly 50 percent of their arrests from known non violent plant growers and smokers.
ALL those 49 percent of arrests are derived from a human interacting one way or another with a plant. All you and i are guilty of is smoking a plant and ppl actually are denied freedom because of this. Its a sweet deal for cowardly law enforcement to know like we do that pot is harmless but still be able to put the billy jack upside your head for doin it.
There are many people of good will who post here, but guess what?
Talk is cheap. You have a mouth, so USE IT!!! You have a computer and a video camera, so USE IT!!!! Take action. I did. I’m risking my career. What have you all risked????
Make every election a 1 issue election: the legalization of cannabis!!
Contact your local legislators and candidates for political office and demand that they state publicly their position on cannabis legalization. If they are for prohibition, make it clear to them that you will not vote for them. And if their opponent is also for prohibition, use the WRITE IN OPTION. Vote for someone else!!!!!!!!!
This is the ONLY way things get done in this country.
Venting on a public forum like this is the equivilent of “preaching to the choir”. You accomplish NOTHING!!!
So get up off of your asses and take some REAL ACTION!!
#9 yeah that could b 847,864 phedophiles instead of non-violent cannabis users
One person alone is a tragedy. 847,864 is a statistic.
Here in Hawaii County, Hawaii Island is where the active volcano is.
We passed a bill to stop accepting feds money to raid.
Well the choppers are flying today. The local government just does not care what the people say. Radio stations here say “the secret is out! Grow your own medicine.” An ad for the local doc who will prescribe for medical use.
No change though. You have to register your prescription with the POLICE DEPARTMENT. Ya! How lame.
Clog up Obama’s hotline. We need to keep this fight moving and we can’t stop until Marijuana is being sold at 7-11’s all over America
202-456-1111
Let the government know how you feel. If everyone in America started calling, maybe we could put some pressure on them
I think it’s about time someone nails Obama in an interview on the discussion of Cannabis
With the number of states that have decriminalized small amounts of MJ, it seems that the other states might be picking up the pace. Goobers.
#37 way good video ,im with u 100% thing is i dont hav a webcam but everything he said i fell the same way
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness – DENIED.
Next time there’s a cannabis reform march I’m going. I’m already planning to take the day off work. As far as I know, it’s the first Saturday in May.
Maybe if lots of people show up the news media would at least mention it.
What a sickening statement these cannabis arrests and imprisonments make about the USA. Political prosecutions are alive and well in this country.
ROOKIE #29
You say they wont lay off cops…good. You say they wont close prisons…good
PUT THE 10,000+ CHILD MOLESTERS IN PRISON…PUT POLICE WORK TO WORK TO ACTUALLY PREVENT CRIME INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR CRIME TO HAPPEN…SAVE A LIFE…LEGALIZE CANNIBIS THIS YEAR…STOP FUCKING AROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m part of that 89%, i got screwed over for merely having a bowl. It’s time these laws be reformed. NORML, whatever it takes i back you guys all the way
The statement is simple and obvious.
Leave us alone. Who are we hurting?
There are people who do terrible things that still go free. How do you (law enforcement) have the time to lock up the better part of a million folks who are mostly small fry and minor possession charges, and still have enough left to go after the rapists and child molesters and crack dealers and wife-beaters, etc.?
Our founding fathers believed that you were free to do as you wished in the pursuit of your happiness, as long as you didn’t infringe on the rights of others. If I’m leaving everyone else alone, whose rights am I violating to the point that I should be arrested? It doesn’t make sense to me how something can be outlawed if it doesn’t hurt anyone…
Everyone please submit your questions for Pres Obama before Sunday!!!!
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/question-president-barack-obama-email-george-stephanopoulos/story?id=8578184
Thanks!
WARNING…WARNING…WARNING.
DRUG STORES OF AMERICA…YOU MAY BE THE NEXT TO BE RAIDED.
Thursday 09.10.09 San Diego, Ca.
Nine(9) medical cannabis dispensaries were raided. Operating a medical cannabis dispensary illegally remains to be determined…but…this latest aggressive action by San Diego may cause a firestorm of protest…the flames of protest fueled by angry citizens who have…”HAD IT…AND…AREN’T GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE….PERIOD!” If brute force is what prohibitionists are angling for…they may very well accomplish their objective…sooner rather than later. If prohibs believe, for one minute, that they can continue to impose “UNJUST LAWS” on We the People, without exacting retaliation, they are very, I repeat, very sadly mistaken. They can only stretch that rubber band so far before it snaps.
43 R.O.E. wants to know…”HAS REVOLUTION COME YET?”
YES! It has begun. Verbally at this point…but…
actions like San Diego, could very well spark the fire works.
The word is…”INTENSE”…We the People are…
“INTENSE.” The word…”CIVILITY”…is lost in the…”UNJUST ACTIONS”…of prohibitionists…a self inflicted wound. Political correctness be damned. We the People are going to…”tell it the way it is.” We the People are pissed…and…collectively we are going to restore our Constitution…and…see some new faces. If a prohibitionist’s face is one that disregards the Will of the People that elected them, regardless of their political affliction…”they lose!” We the People have come to the point, driven by nonsensical obstinacy, where “WE’RE DONE TALKIN’
…DONE.” This is of course is prompted by the fact that we’re being heard by someone that isn’t listening…deaf ear syndrome. So! I ask…”HOW DO YOU GET A SPOILED CHILD’S ATTENTION, IN THE MIDDLE OF A TEMPER TANTRUM?” Right!…you don’t pay atttention in the first place. So! We the People…are not going to pay attention to your…”UNJUST LAWS.” We “REJECT AND RESIST” them as a violation of human rights, and the laws of nature, and natures God. If you want to take it outside…we can do that too. We didn’t throw the first punch.
Here’s a new name we can add to the long political prohibitionist re-election hit list.
Bill Horn…San Diego County Board of Supervisors.
Manford Mantis [CA-GD]
Pot is only a pawn. A pawn used to divide “them” from “us”. Unfortunately pot proponents allow themselves to be dragged into this “them or us” mentality when no such thing could ever exist.
Believing that all cops are mean-spirited evildoers is not different from prohibitionists believing that all pot smokers are reprehensible scumbags. We’ve been fed too many lies for too long by prohibitionist to allow ourselves to fall for the “all cops are bad” lie.
People are people and sane people do not enjoy hurting other people. It’s got to be psychologically easy, even satisfying for a cop to justify the arrest of a child molester or a thief or a violent drunk. Contrarily it must be psychologically burdensome for a cop to invade the home of law-abiding peaceful citizens simply because they are are growing some pot in the basement, while knowing that this action will destroy their lives and the lives of their children. The cop knows that those arrested are about to enter a world of torture. The cop knows a child molester deserves this treatment and knows a public predator has been taken off the street. That cop can sleep well once off duty. But the cop tasked with destroying the lives of peaceful productive citizens hurting no one must regret those actions. If a cop actually enjoys arresting people doing no harm to others that cop is a sociopath and little better than the child molester.
The trouble is that as we teach more and more cops to arrest nonviolent people who have hurt no one, we end up torturing the cops who we pay to protect us.
Ignorance is bliss right? Keep in mind the negative image cannabis has been tagged with over the last 70 years or so. Those who are opposed to cannabis probably know nothing more about it… other than what has been preached to them (ie: “reefer madness”). Some realize it is harmless, but if they admit that they face the possibility of losing their jobs, (especially if you’re L.E.), or being ostracized. So is it a surprise that some people think cannabis is an awful, dangerous substance? We need to continue the education of the ignorant, and correct the negative perception.
All i know is im 37 yrs old……and have 1 charge on my record and just got fired again due 2 background…this is my 5th time trying 2 be a member of society..for a manufacturing weed felony….It has ruined my life… I give up trying 2 even get a job..cause i cant get a job even at mcdonalds…it’s not fair.. im a damn hard worker..and good guy…and that 1 charge is all i have ever had in my life…yeah we need change..And the only way things will change is when we the people vote some of the sob’s out….We have 2 vote….And i can vote again now may not can get a job but bygod i will vote all the way…it’s been 5 yrs since my conviction..will be soon filing motion for appropate relief…wish me luck..
I have read somewhere that there are over 60 lobbyists for each and every member of the US Congress that represent the medical profession. I would assume that includes Doctors, Insurance and Pharma. Even if my memory is wrong and there are only 6 per member, that’s STILL a LOT OF LOBBYISTS!
Now I ask you, how will our message be heard over the din of these lobbyists representing only ONE industry. There is only one way I can think of, and that would be to hire our own lobbyists.
How will we hire lobbyists to help legalize Marijuana? There is only one way I know this is going to happen. We have to donate to an organization(s) that will lobby for us!
Please donate to NORML!
#16, GREN DOOR REFERENDUM: Voting does no good, sorry. If anyone can prove to me that it does please do.
#41: It IS NOT possible to nail Obama in an interview, they’re all orchestrated and planned carefully.
Besides MSM, state run media actually, hasn’t done a thing to help end the ridiculous Prohibition.
I don’t buy the stats. They lie about everything and spin every truth. They know the heat these high numbers bring about. They also have a new plan to put people on probation forever. Then if popped again they get big time. A friend of mine just failed a piss test for a misdemeanor probation and they locked her up for 90 days. They said sigh away your right to a court trial. Because she would have to wait 90 day to get to court then go to jail so she was black mailed to sigh because she could not post bond…
The legal system is rigged big time against the ones that advocate freedom….
CFH
he is right a must see
As a college student I have seen a lot of problems.
None of them involved pot, except for when the police were literally knocking on our door.
We need to change this policy. Right now every potential youth about to see success is the target. Do we really need to be holding our youth down right now?
SSDP
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again,”If every cannabis consumer & sympathizer out there would send just $1 to NORML,they can buy an end to prohibition.”
And when a million of youns get serious about lighting up in D.C. all at once, I’m there!!
While the House spent today disciplining each other all acting like they are still in highschool… they COULD have been having meaningful debate on marijuana reform. Vote out every incumbent in 2010 and 2012. Freedom.
I’m trying to establish myself in self-employment so I can do just what Johnny D is suggesting, but for now I have other lives I’m responsible for so I can’t afford to lose my job and potentially my house. But the point is, that if all of us, myself included were to commit to a certain amount, NORML could overtake the NRA or AARP as the most vocal special interest group in Washington.
I have a feeling support for legalization is reaching a critical mass and will soon teeter the lever in our favor.
The truth always bears itself out.
I sure feel safe knowing the dangerous criminals are off the street (sarcasm).
I also read something about them destroying a massive ammount of crops this year. One official was quoted as saying, in bad economy more people grow to make ends meet, especially those in poorer areas of the Appalachians, where they said they have felt the bad economy longer than the rest of us. So they feel good about squashing these people who have to somehow feed their families, they feel good about this, like they really helped society out. Its sickening to me the way these out of touch pricks go out of their way to destroy people in the name of public safety. And its disgusting to see how precious tax dollars are wasted in these tough times. Who in the hell are they saving us from? What is to save us from them?
will the majority understand once we reach 1 million arrests across the nation that the prohibition on POT is immoral & doomed to fail?
I AND MY OLD LADY WILL BE THERE TOO REV. STEVEN. ILL HOLD YOU HAND AND SING CUM-BY-YA AND LIGHT THAT FUCKIN JOINT THEN BLOW THE SMOKE UP OBAMA’S ASS…ASKING IF HE LIKES IT AS MUCH AS I DID!@!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll say it again and again marijuana will never be legalized in the USA. With the type of dictatorship we all are part of in this country the heads of this tyranny group would never want people to start thinking open minded. Put it this way if that day comes anytime soon consider us all in very big trouble because you no something isn’t right. This is how the top officials get their humor at night always laughing at the peasants. Just consider yourself blessed if you live in California or somewhere out west because I would put my life savings on states like Georgia and Florida you will never even see decriminalization come into effect. I am a 420 supporter all the way however the powers that rule us will never accept marijuana being readily available this is a proven fact. I’m still praying for a miracle……….C!T!B!~
Everyone sits and wonders why it’s illegal lol…..(maybe if you stopped sitting in front of the computer all day and actaully stood up in the masses america would get somewhere. This is why in america it’s a total child’s game for the higher ups. It is so easy to brainwash americans. So who watches the 6pm news every night, better catch the football game, o wait did you catch the o reilly factor gosh i missed it. O Obama congrats on going back on your promise and humiliating millions about medical marijuana…..WE LOVE YOU TO
Funny how in 99% of government building’s,court’s,ect have a bible they want everyone to place their hand on and swear to tell the truth.But the government refuse to OPEN the book and see that Genesis 1:29 clearly state’s what our right’s are concerning seed bearing plant’s and the instruction’s given.Guess the bible mean’s nothing to these dip’s? ALL translation’s say the same.How could this not mean anything?But swearing or placing your hand on the bible doe’s?
wow… look at this article on the wall street journal website entitled “Mexico’s Isn’t the Only North American Drug War”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203917304574413323701520540.html?mod=djemITP
its a step in the right direction!
exactly. we’re not all just a bunch of potheads trying to get what we want, but that’s exactly what the government is thinking of all of us. sure, most of us, including me, smoke weed on a regular basis, but it doesn’t change the fact of us trying to reform the economy, especially in this time of need. WE’RE NOT JUST POTHEADS TRYING TO GET WHAT WE WANT, WE’RE REFORMERS TRYING TO SAVE THE MILLIONS OF LIVES BEING RUINED BY EITHER SMOKING POT AND GETTING CAUGHT, OR JUST THE MILLIONS OF NON-STONERS WHO HAVE TO PAY SO MUCH IN TAXES! an old cliche for the old u.s. of a. might be in order at a time like this, IF YOU CAN’T BEAT ‘EM, JOIN ‘EM!
http://drugwarcoalition.ning.com/
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Cherokee Fred Jesus
I do wish you luck 53. Thats a bum rap for sure. Hopefully soon none of us will havta worry about this helpful plant.
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Everyone please submit your questions for Pres Obama before Sunday!!!!
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/question-president-barack-obama-email-george-stephanopoulos/story?id=8578184
Thanks!”
Just did this. Make sure to give a lot of facts with evidence such as marijuana usage and arrest rates. hopefully abc has some balls and will bring this long running issue up.
The truth is an apparition to the ghosts of American justice.
Eric Blair
The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.
Carl Sagan
Harrison Narcotics Act – 63rd US Congress 1914
Marihuana Tax Act – 75th US Congress April 14, 1937, signed August 2, 1937
The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act – 91st US Congress October 27, 1970
The Legislative Branch of the United States, sitting past & present, lacked / lacks the constitutional privilege or right granted to Congress by the United States Constitution in which to abrogate the natural inalienable rights secured by the people unless the U.S. Legislative branch has reviewed valid evidence, held fair, impartial, and publicly transparent hearings which showed, or shows, that our nation’s health and or welfare would be, or is, negatively effected should the United States peoples’ continue to execute their natural inalienable right of access to the cannabis plant can it be outlawed. Absent of these reasonable conditions Congress can not, may not use it’s privilege or right of abrogation of Constitutional Rights secured by the people.
It is only upon the reasonable presentation of scientific evidence which presents a valid social claim, and or an individual claim of harm that negatively impacts upon the whole, or part of, the Nation’s people does Congress have the responsibility to secure the nation’s health and welfare by use of it’s congressional privilege or right of abrogations by due process to secure said health and welfare of the Nation. But no U.S. Legislative body, past or present, has the congressional privilege or right to abrogate the natural inalienable rights secured in the United States people based on distortions, fanciful conjecture, and intentionally misleading medical and legal information. No where in the people’s founding contact adopted by the people and sworn to by this elected government does it allow deception, criminal and civil fraud, intentional misinformation, purposely tainted testimony, and the denial of any expert testimonies as bases for granting any elected and sworn U.S. Legislative body present or past with the misuse of it’s privilege or right of abrogation which allows the outlawing of the inalienable rights of the peoples’ of these United States without proper due process of law.
Mr. Broun, my name is Joshua DeVere and I am absolutely disgusted that we have lawmakers like Tommy Benton. Mr. Benton declared that minor marijuana offenders should be caned and dealers of the drug should be executed.
My questions are these, If Georgia was the first state to legalize medicinal cannabis in 1981, then why dont doctors prescribe it to people who would ultimately benefit?
If Georgia is a tax stamp state, where can i get one?, because under georgia law, a holder of a marijuana tax stamp can posess up to 3.5 grams legally.
Lastly how can we allow someone who is completely ignorant to the studies of cannabinology, historical documents promoting cannabis cultivation, by our first four presidents, and the all too numerous societies in which cannabis has played a vital role for thousands of years,
to make caning a punishment. Literally beating someone to the point of severe hemmoraging, with wounds that are bone deep, and taking months to heal ALL FOR A PLANT THAT IS NOT HARMFUL, ADDICTING, OR DEADLY IN ANY WAY.
Therefore the foundation laid in Congress to abrogate the natural inalienable rights of the people lacked any real evident that the cannabis plant is or was, ever a safety issue which negatively impacted the health and welfare of the American Society, in part or as a whole. Furthermore, the U.S. Congress did not, can not, and still does not have the privilege or right granted in the United States Constitution to write any such legislation that would abrogate the American people from their natural inalienable rights to use the cannabis planet for reason of traditional medicine, or as a traditional food supplement, as an alternative fuel source, for the making of clothing, used as a replacement for wood, used in the making of traditional paper, and or for the peoples’ ancient spiritual, religious, or cultural practices of which is clearly protected for all time sake by our founding fathers’ constitutional preamble and the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution.
Hence, the United States Legislative actions known as the Harrison Narcotics Act of the 63rd legislative session, the Marihuana Tax Act of the 75th legislative session, and the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of the 91st legislative session and all those sub-action therein, which abrogate the natural inalienable rights of the people to have unfettered access to the cannabis plant is built upon a fraudulent act and therefore unconstitutional because these legislative foundation is based on fanciful propaganda which lacks any real legal scientific evident that demonstrates any negative impact on society by the use of the cannabis plant. The three legislative action listed above do adversely effect the safety and welfare of the America. These fraudulent acts of congress continue to harm the nation and drain the people of their valuable resources. Most importantly these acts have eroded the relationship between all three branches of government and the people they are suppose to represent.
Our Federal Congresses in the above named sessions have acted upon the U.S. constitutional provision involving the American peoples’ natural inalienable rights and have unlawfully abrogated those natural unalienable given rights of the United States people based solely on questionable congressional witness testimonies, a bombardment of fraudulent media presentations, and grossly misquoted medical and legal data, of which is still pervasive today in the minds of the American people. There is however an overwhelming, and ever growing mound of world-wide scientific data that demonstrate to the contrary the fraudulent education material perpetrated upon our society as well as the 63rd, 75th, and 91st United States Congresses. Our U.S. Congress therefore lacked then and still lacks now it’s constitutional privilege or right to abrogate the cannabis plant from the American people. All legislation, status, and laws written and enacted from these fraudulent act of intentional misguided legislation should be ruled by the Supreme Court in the land as null and void because they are repugnant to the foundation of the United States Constitution.
The Constitution is a written instrument, as such, its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it means now.” South Carolina v. United States, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905)
Mr. Broun, my name is Joshua DeVere and I am absolutely disgusted that we have lawmakers like Tommy Benton. Mr. Benton declared that minor marijuana offenders should be caned and dealers of the drug should be executed.
My questions are these, If Georgia was the first state to legalize medicinal cannabis in 1981, then why dont doctors prescribe it to people who would ultimately benefit?
If Georgia is a tax stamp state, where can i get one?, because under georgia law, a holder of a marijuana tax stamp can posess up to 3.5 grams legally.
Lastly how can we allow someone who is completely ignorant to the studies of cannabinology, historical documents promoting cannabis cultivation, by our first four presidents, and the all too numerous societies in which cannabis has played a vital role for thousands of years,
to make caning a punishment. Literally beating someone to the point of severe hemmoraging, with wounds that are bone deep, and taking months to heal ALL FOR A PLANT THAT IS NOT HARMFUL, ADDICTING, OR DEADLY IN ANY WAY.
Now, you are obviously an educated man Mr. Broun as am I. but as an American you and your collegues, are as cold as a winter snow, and completely oblivious to your duties to uphold MY wellbeing and the wellbeing of this state.
In conclusion Mr. Broun, i would like you to contact me via email and i will leave you my email adress at the end of this message, but because of the futile “war on drugs” our children are suffering. All of the taxpayers dollars that guarantee a spot in jail for a cannabis users could be spent on healthcare for our children, and get this, it would mean more money in your wallet. It is a win-win situation. finally Mr. Broun, my email adress is josh.devere@yahoo.com feel free to contact me at any time. In the meantime tell Tommy Benton to pick up a book and read it sometime. He can get one at this great place called a library. These books are normally hard on two sides and have a lot of paper in them. but the thing that he needs to look for as well as yourself, is behind the paper, its a little thing called a spine.
ladies and gents i just sent this in to my district rep, maybe it will do some good, so i encourage all of you to send similar letters to your reps.
FOR A VOICE TO BE TRULY HEARD IT MUST BE MADE UNMISTAKEABLE, AND UNFORGETTABLE.SO RISE UP CHILDREN, AND LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD.
this is the wolfman singing off.
Till next time, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Here is just a little of my legal support in my statement above. Forget the Legislators, we as a people need to class action writ to the high court to attack these unlawful acts against the American people once and for all! What if you are the next 500,000 arrested? Time to attack before being arrested to make the courts change everything, remember check and balance.
“To disregard such a deliberate choice of words and their natural meaning, would be a departure from the first principle of constitutional interpretation.” “Every word must have its due force and appropriate meaning; for it is evident from the whole instrument, that, no word was unnecessarily used, or needlessly added.” Chief Justice Taney in Holmes v. Jennison, 14 U.S. 540, 570-1
“ Every word appears to have been weighted with the utmost deliberation and its effect to have been fully understood.” Wright v. United States, 302 U.S. 583 (1938)
“All laws which are repugnant to the constitution are null and void.” Chief Justice Marshall in Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 174, 176 (1803)
“If the legislator clearly misinterprets a constitutional provision, the frequent repetition of the wrong will not create a right.” Amos v. Mosley, 74 Fla. 555; 77 So. 619. (Congress)
“Where rights are secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or legislation which would abrogate them.” Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 491.
“When any court violates the clean and unambiguous language of the constitution, a fraud is perpetrated and no one is bound to obey it.” State v. Sutton Minn. 147, 65 NW 262, 30 L.R.A. 630 Am. St. 459)
“The due process clause of the Fifth Amendment guarantees to each citizen the equal protection of the laws and prohibits a denial thereof by any federal official.” Bolling v. Sharpe, 327 U.S. 497
Black’s Law Dictionary:
Fraud: “An intentional perversion of the truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right; a false representation of a matter of fact, whether by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by concealment of that which should have been disclosed, which deceives and is intended to deceive another so that he shall act upon it to his legal injury.”
This is a civil rights movement, we need to stop going to the back of society (Bus). This unlawful acts come from the Jim Crow laws and need to be legally attack in the highest court.
“If you like your plan then you can keep it.” Well sort of. Now that everyone is looking this new health care bill in the face I hope that each and everyone of you look at what is being presented. They play with peoples lives and they wonder why people get so upset. We don’t need you telling us what’s best for us or our country. If it felt right then I don’t think they’d be having any trouble but if it feels wrong in your gut then it shouldn’t even be a question on what’s right and what’s not. Although, not everyone has a conscious and they allow their instincts to be clouded by material possessions or beneficial promises. Let me get this straight. 13% increase for a tax depending on how much the family makes total? Even though no one really knows the exact numbers/percentages. Then we are told that if we like our coverage then we can keep it. No, not really. So why would a middle class family pay for two separate insurances. One being a tax and the other being by choice? Sounds like we’re on a hook. I don’t believe you would. So when they say we have a choice in deciding what coverage we want and who we want it with the wording is askew. It would push people to drop their existing coverage plain and simple. Unless this plan is as great as some of the dems say and their will be no need for our previous coverage? But none of us really know what’s going to be in the bill, now do we? Keep writing and calling your reps. You may think that nothing will come about when you place your time and energy into trying to change this country. You do have a voice and an opinion and I ask that you use it in a way that is respectful but at the same time gets your point across. Send the same letter once per week. Call and ask tough/detailed questions. Do anything. It’s a lot better than doing nothing and watching our country collapse. I know that you’ll say this isn’t the place for talking about HCR but it’s important and if they have their way you will want to know what new laws you have to abide by. What happened to our country? “If the govt. fears it’s people; their is liberty. If the people fear it’s govt.; their is tyranny.”
This is absurd…all those lives ruined. I am one of those 847,864 that got arrested last year. I was arrested for possession of 0.01 gram (one hundredth, not even a whole gram). I have had a damn hard time finding meaningful employment after my arrest. And with the economy in the shape its been in, I ultimately lost my house, my car, and ended up living on the streets for about a month until I was able to save what little money I made working temp jobs to get myself another residence. I thank God everyday that I was able to somewhat bounce back like I have. But I fear that this year will be just as bad for private marijuana smokers.
In the present legal climate against our culture there is no forgiveness and we are forever abused due to misinformation by the media. Where are they now?
So basically nothing has changed except people are smoking less weed because of the depression, so there are less arrest. I thought Obama was going to call the feds off. I tell ya Bush’s third term is moving right along. Same crap different president.
Lets place the legislation below against the ideas of the original draft of the Declaration of Independents written by Thomas Jefferson. Let see how these legislative acts create peace, respect, and honor in the relationship of the people with their elected government. Let see how these acts of legislation promote liberty and justice which is the very essence of the founding fathers’ spiritual dream for a country without tyranny and persecution. These legislative acts are known as the Harrison Narcotics Act of the 63rd US Congress (1914), the Marihuana Tax Act of the 75th US Congress (1937), and the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of the 91st US Congress (1970). VS. “We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles & organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness.”
Does these acts of congress preserve the inherent & inalienable rights of the people? How are the inherent & inalienable rights preserved by the government for the people? Among those rights are the preservation of life, liberty itself, and the very pursuit of happiness as an equal and independent person / people. Where has this elected government respected the preservation of life? Where is our liberty today, are we free to pursuit our independent happiness as long as it does not step on the rights of others? To secure these ends, governments are in instituted among men, driving their just powers from the consent of the governed. The Governed want a change in the cannabis law not a negotiation with the hired help. 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 the shall most likely to effect their safety and happiness. So how does the present cannabis prohibition laws effect our safety and happiness. Do we not as a people have the right to alter and or abolish laws and aspects of government that we the people no longer have any use for. As we learn and are better educated should we have to maintain the fraudulent information of the early 1900s or will we be allowed our liberty to case off that which is untrue and create a better and safer America?
Can the American Government continue to unjustly defraud the American People of their inalienable rights to the cannabis plant even after the lies are exposed? Why? Why would the American People let this government, knowing there is no real safety issue with the use of the cannabis plant, allow 800,000 plus fellow Americans be labeled as criminals? Why will we Americans, the employer, let our government, the employees, spend billions of dollars, we don’t have to spend, on incarcerating these cannabis plant users?(average cost of prisoner $23,500) How does taking Americans who have had their inalienable rights unjustly abrogated away from them, placed in prison, or placed on probation and forced to attend drug treatment, how does this make these folks a better person? Or for that matter where is the benefit to society? If we harden a person’s heart do we get a better citizen? Will it make for a better republic?
TIME TO MAKE THAT CHANGE, TIME TO ACT! TIME TO STOP THIS FRAUD!
55 Lea…”Voting does no good.”
What are you going to do!
…..and it’s quite normal for NORML to keep collaborating with LEAP……
#85 this site is about the legalization of cannbis your fears about a bill that doesn’t acctuly exist on health care and is acctuly 5 seperate commitee bills only 4 of which are completed is kind of pointless. Wait untill the bill gets to the floor and then find a better avenue to speak of actual grivences of it.
I am one of their statistics. I got busted for a personal grow earlier this year and now have two D felonies pending against me. I live in the midwest and its terrible here. So far I am in the hole for over 3 grand and havent went to court yet.
The United States Of America, Has a corrupt complete utter failure of a government and as society.
Money is the center of everything.
Corruption is a disease that spares no one.
Has corruption touched you today?
just submitted my longwinded question to BHO..thanks for the link to abcnews!
Mr President, after the citizens of CA pass the http://www.californiacannabisinitiative.org in 2010 legalizing Marijuana & Hemp what is going to be your response? You do know this will defund 70% of cartel profits (cash&Guns), help prevent forest fires & further damage caused by rogue marijuana grows in national forests, create a whole chain of jobs with quite a few taxes collected, drastically reduce overtime and better focus our cops, jails, prisons, re-hab clinics, pee testers, etc. But i doubt you know that blacks make up 7% of CA population yet 33% of all marijuana felony arrests? EXPLAIN THIS NOW MR PRESIDENT
Cannabis Meditator Says:
September 16th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Everyone please submit your questions for Pres Obama before Sunday!!!!
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/question-president-barack-obama-email-george-stephanopoulos/story?id=8578184
found this of interest…
Green Soul Jah { 09.14.09 at 1:26 pm }
MPP : Sounds like Canna-Politics is delaying your endorsement of one of the 3 proposed initiatives.
I understand if you don’t want to endorse any of them, but I think it’s only fair to at least notify or discuss the initiatives to the visitors of your website and it’s donors. To think you guys even made a commercial to Tax & Regulate yet don’t want to endorse any of the 3 or even present all 3 of the initiatives??
Keeping a lid on it will not help any of the 3 initiatives and will only leave them struggling to get the word out and time is running out. I’d rather have at least one of them make the ballot instead of none of them.
To wait another 3 years is senseless, we need to strike while the iron is hot. The 2012 election will only suck out all the momentum from initiative. We thought things would change when Obama came in office as he tried to appeal to cannabis users, and look what happened!!!
It’s a very unwise move on behalf of MPP to stand on the side lines and see who comes out on top without encouraging anyone to sign up for any of the 3 initiatives….I hate Canna-Politics because it causes division within the Cannabis Community, that should have one goal in mind : LEGALIZATION!!!!
This is a time to draw out our guns, not keep them holstered for another day. We’ve had way too many “maybe next time” moments in the cannabis legalization movement.
We must act on the current voter’s emotions while we have their attention. Who knows what kind of event that may happen in 2012 that would overshadow our cause to be placed on the back burner for another “maybe next time” moment………
I wish “mars attacks!” would really happen, just a buncha nut bar aliens from space come down an zap congress, the senate and john q president.
Jason: How did they even find .01 gram?
Want to know who runs this country? Look at the health care debate 76% of Americans are for a public option. The legal drug companies are against the public option. Who is winning? It ain’t the people. Same deal with cannabis the major loser in legalization would be the legal drug companies losing an estimated 544 billion. YOU CAN BUY A LOT OF SENATORS FOR LESS THAT 544 BILLION…
I too was once locked away for 3 years on a 5 to 20 years sentence. I did not hang my head low, I fought, I had a jury trial where I got the same time as I would of had I made a plea arrangement. I went to jury trial because those are my pearr. Bottom line is the laws which are used against us are a fraud. The evidence is out there, history has recorded the contractual fraud upon the people. We are unlawed culture within our society. Look up Mr Harry Anslinger and you will find the animal that started this fraud.
A special writ to the Supreme Court claiming that the legislation is based upon fraud, a fruad does not grant abrogation of our rights, the law is wrong. It is the duty of those 800,000 plus people who are arrested demand a jury trial, Do not plea out. Those of us not cuaght up in the fruadulent justice system must apply the class action writ to the High Court. The legislators can take a flying leap for all I care. The fight is in the court, so lets bring it to them in stead of waiting to fight after the fact. We must strike them in their home base, in the court room on the floor of the Supreme Court. Writ after writ class action or not will fill the Court and the people will be heard. Legislators and Judges will take notice, Jury will be educated and act like the one in Colorado. The civil rights movement faced the very same lawless government we are faced with now. It time to fill the Court house around the country, it is time to make 7 judges think about the people, fraud, and the constitution.
O, by the way. 20 years after I did my time I was working as a fire chief, saved 7 people from drowning in the local river at great risk to my own live and I was fired due to my history. After 20 years! I lost that health care plan and my step-daughter died of cancer.
Million of people like myself have suffered way beyond our convictions.
Cngress an the senate need to quit putting it off n putting it off jus face the fact AMERICA WANTS IT LEGAL.I thought mr. Obama wanted to hear from US he did n here we still r fighting for OUR Right
Makes me wonder if he would listen to n e thing else we all suggested???
I just find it extremely Ironic(our “gov’t”).
A House Divided can not stand( metaphorically or Literally). YET, we are under the rule of two parties that argue and remain consistantly DIVIDED on COMMON political issues/policies. What gives???!
Hey, I have a new Tshirt slogan….
WELCOME TO AMERICA…PLEASE TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES AT THE DOOR AND LEAVE YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES BESIDE THEM!
THE FACT IS THIS: IF MJ HAS ONLY ONE MEDICAL PURPOSE, FIGHTING CANCER CELLS, THEN IT JUST BECAME A MEDICAL NESSESSITY. WHY THEN IS IT STILL A SCHEDULE ONE AND WHY ARE WE NOT TESTING THIS PLANT TO SEE IF IT IS IN FACT THE CURE FOR CANCER?
I want to know if Obama has ever watched someone die from cancer. Has he ever seen a 90 year old man walk out into a field and blow his brains out cause he didnt want to suffer from “treatment”. Has he ever watched his grandma cut herself 140 times because she is a schitzo and thinks there is someone living inside her? Has he ever watched a Meth head rape a 10 month old baby cause he was strung out? Has he ever really seen pain and suffering?
He will….My next question is WHAT OH WHAT ARE WE THE PEOPLE OF MJ SMOKERS AND TOKERS GONNA DO TO THE PROHIB’S WHEN POT BECOMES LEGAL. IM PRETTY SURE THAT ANYONE KILLING AMERICANS IS CONSIDERED TERRORISM AND TREASONISTS! AND IM PRETTY SURE THAT THE PUNISHMENT FOR TREASON IS TO BE HANGED!
HEY..SOMEONE IN CALIFORNIA…OR ANYONE THAT WANTS TO DEBATE WITH A LOSER PROHIB GO TO THIS WEBSITE…IF YOU HAVE FACEBOOK!
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=9751&post=38152&uid=9269711759#post38152
After much study, this is my basic understanding of how THC fights cancer. I wanted to share it with you all. Correct me if you understand it better.
Every second of your life 50,000 cells in your body die and are replaced by new ones. This is “programmed end of life” on the cellular level. There are approximately 100 trillion cells in your body. Occasionally, one of these cells does not die, but instead mutates. This mutation seems to be caused by the CB1 receptor (cannabinoid receptor 1) being “switched off” randomly. The survivin protein is produced as part of the process and may be infectious to healthy cells and spreads the cancer.
What this means is, when the CB1 receptor is off and the mutated cell is in close proximity to healthy cells, the healthy cells in turn switch off their own CB1 receptors.
Over time, a lump of these cells form. This is the cancerous tumor(s) your doctor informs you about. Cancer is the presence of mutated cells. Cancer screenings look for the presence of survivin, a protein. Malignancy means the cancer is spreading. If the cancerous tumor(s) can be killed (chemo-radiation) or surgically removed, you get rid of the cancer through conventional means.
The newest method simply “switches on” the CB1 receptor again (via THC infusion) and the cancerous tumors burn themselves out through a process called “autophagy” in which they literally eat their own cell walls. The healthy cells are not affected. No more tumors or “CB1 off” cells means no more cancer.
The Cannabinoid receptors in the human body are like light bulb sockets. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) plugs in like a missing component. There are several naturally occurring compounds in cannabis which plug in this way and several receptors.
You can’t cure cancer by smoking a joint as burning the compounds make them ineffective. It has to be ingested in a high enough quantity to permeate the body, hence the THC oil. It can cure cancer and other diseases caused by mutating cells in a way not currently understood or accepted by the mainstream medical community.
This also raises the question; Should cannabis be part of our diet? Cancer was not prevalent in the previous century. Hemp fields were everywhere. It seems to have multiplied since prohibition began. Is this a coincidence?
#104CKDK29:
YES They(congress/Obama) want to hear from you!….AS LONG AS IT FURTHERS THEIR AGENDA!
Anything that doesnt further their agenda you are labled a racist,nut job, extremist,terrorist….ect ect ect.
i think We need to make a record breaking collaborative movement.
Has there ever been a march with millions of people in front of the white house protesting our marijuana laws?
If we could get a small percentage of America in Washington D.C., we can make a huge city/world wide strike and demand Cannabis law change.
It’s fucking insane that marijuana is still illegal after 70 years and I don’t see why this wouldn’t be possible . I feel like the marijuana movement is going to reach a breaking point soon and we best take advantage of the times………….
The economy has gone to shit in America and I would say at least 25% of America is smoking marijuana on a weekly basis. I want to be able to buy my sour diesels and purple kush’s from a nice and legal cannabis shop in my town or where ever I travel to. I’m sure many people would like this.
It would be really messed up if marijuana is still illegal 20 years from now…………..
Let’s start the next revolution!! but this time we can be smarter than the way it was handled in the 70’s……..
If anybody has some better ideas, feel free to share them- I am really high right now and bothered that I can be arrested for doing so, when it is actually something I use to motivate myself to get out and do something- not the other way around, although it’s fun to sit around occasionally with a Cannabis Edible
R.O.E. #96:
Corruption touched me in October 2008.
I was pissing on a tree at a rest stop, next thing you know I got a gun pointed to my head by a New Jersey pig named Burgess who says: “Get out of the car, I smell weed!!” I wasn’t smoking, so it must have been my pony tail that tipped him off – hippie profiling…
The police video clearly shows I was parked next to a gas pump, but the (falsified) police report says I was slumped over the wheel and the car was parked on a berm….(the car certainly WAS on a berm – AFTER the pig returned me to my car after booking – I got a ticket for that too.. and a fucked up muffler…)
I was not charged with intoxication however,because I wasn’t intoxicated, but possession of a pipe and a bag I had hidden under the seat. My lawyer (recommended by NORML) could have done better…..cost me 2 grand for him and another grand for the fine and conditional discharge, not to mention the reoccuring problems I have from staying clean as I am a medical qualifier…….in California………..It won’t be long before I move to a more cannabis friendly country…..
EVERY COP IS A CRIMINAL………….
[Editor’s note: NORML does not make lawyer recommendations (it provides a public listing of NORML members who’re lawyers for folks to peruse) and every cop is not a criminal.]
in the hindu scriptures, cannabis was given to man from shiva himself for a “casual past time”. There was no alcohol then? There was a prohibition of alcohol, what has alcohol given to society? Many car accidents and deaths i could recon? What has cannabis given to society? It has given a possible medical aid, and yes people do abuse it but it will not cause there death and there is no reasonn to lock these people up. It is a god damn waste of tax payer money and only furthers a bureaucracy where we reward the individuals who lock these people up and the prisons that they put these people in. It is a new form of slavery and you should be god damn ashamed. Cause i know i would it is an injusttice to every man.
In this alcohol staturated society which i have come to hate. Morons prevail rather than reason. It is costing our tax payers dearly to enforce these laws while the criminal gangs and cartels continue to make our country unsafe and violent. Thomas jefferson himself would be ashamed. It is about the rights of man, the god given rights of liberty and free will. Rather we trample on freedom and make every man our common enemy. When we in our
selfs should establish a common cause for liberty.
Cannabis users with chronic ailments lobby City Council
About 150 people show up in Lake Forest to ask city officials for compromise on marijuana dispensaries.
The next day the city council initiated legal action to remove the collectives in Lake Forest despite the efforts by those 150 people.
Please read the article and remember the Lake Forest city council is reading the comments left by supporters so speak up and show your support this may be Lake Forests patients last chance: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/city-marijuana-medical-2568038-forest-council
@#92
I know their is more than one bill. I’m talking about one in particular. So if I want to say something about it I will do so. Doesn’t exist? Ok. Whatever you have to tell yourself. People read an article from a paper or online and their experts. Guess it would be to much to ask you to look into it instead of just posting something you’ve learned from reading for 5 minutes.
Forget the bill writing, forget about Marching on washington. Time to file writ after writ in the court. Time to demand a fast and speedy trial, no pleas. If your in prison it is time to strike, refuse to do anything unless you are released. Time to educate the juries who will sit and judge each case. Time to hang the jury and refuse to convict anyone involved with the cannabis plant. Time to say NO to big unlawful brother. The time is NOW, not tomarrow, today. Let the legislator and law enforcement know we will not convict anymore cannabis users, your laws, your arrests are all just a waste of time. It is time to take back what is ours, our liberty! Not open for negoiation by the hired help. Next election send those folks packen. 40,000,000 plus Americans make a political party. Your motivation should be to stop the next 800,000 people from suffering under these unjust laws that have no regards to human life. Remember they have been doing this for 70 years, unlawful act is an unlawful act, there are millions who have suffered just waiting for their day to take back what belongs to the American people. I can’t afford to go march in washington, but I can file writs from where I am. I can use my CPU and the internet to band together as Sons and Daughters of Liberty and refuse to step back, but march forward in the courts. Please if your asked to sit on a jury, asked to convict a pot grower, just say Not Guilty, the law is wrong not the person. We can refuse to aid the system in it’s presecution of our people. We don’t have to sit to the back of the bus! We can refuse to ride the bus.
Another way to protest this unlawful act and support your local growers is to seed the land. Yes don’t throw those seed away, plant them in ever open space in your city and county. 40,000,000 plus people throwing seeds out into the face of government. We can over run them if we just think, we do not need to subject ourselves as earily civil rights workers did. Remember the government killed some of those folks. Let your seeds do your marching, let your seeds stand for us all.
It is time to put up or shut up. Are you all ready to take the next step and turn this crap around? Or will we continue to be like sheep and allow the wolf to get us one at a time? Will you wait until they come for your children? The time is now, like never before, this is the moment to fight back in every legal way available. We have been here before and we have always won.
Im kinda getting tired of thinking a “movement” will get our point across…look at how they are treating the people of this country that KNOW the proposed health care bill is a bunch of shit. they are calling people that want real government and big business to START FOLLOWING THE WAY OF WE THE PEOPLE, they are calling us TERRORISTS, EXTREMISTS, ANARCHISTS, UNAMERICAN, RACISTS, etc. but isnt the term terrorist included in the definition of killing americans? I am really beginning to believe that history is about to repeat itself many times. You guys know what I am talking about, the one where immigrants came to north america cause English were taxing without representation, killing anyone that didnt beleive the way they did, and even worse, does the name HITLER ring a bell? Killing millions, yet billions, of innocent americans FOR ANY CAUSE IS UNJUST AND CONSIDERED TREASON…I SAY FUCK THE MOVEMENT and enjoy the revolution!
FUCK VOTING!!!!!
BOYCOTT—–WAY more Powerful!!!
Fellow slaves help I have sent the following to the huffington post drop them a support follow up at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
To The Huffingtonpost,
Before you me off due to your programing. I am not a stoner I am 60 retired from a top fortune 500 company and now work part time. I am also a volunteer serving my country during the Vietnam war. So please read what I have to say and help our cause it is the number one cause in our nation. That gets no main stream media attention. Due to billions of corporate money working to keep the facts secret. It was number one when our leader ask for input, then blown off. It is number one on every poll site, I see, it was double the second issue on change.org.
My name is — —- Cherokee Fred Jesus (Internet alias)
I fight the racist war on drugs. I have seen it destroy so many young people and the wasting of almost 100 billion a year. There are so many facets to this war it could reap head lines for years.
I started reading you paper and find it is honest. So the first thing that comes to mind is they can help. All I ask for is publish the truth if you need facts I will provide them to you. At no cost I will do anything you ask as a volunteer. I have a score to settle with our country. My small home was raided by a team of, “Drug Task Force” types they found nothing. But the disrespect and pure stupidity of this action still haunts me. I wake up at night and think I hear “NARCS” outside my house. I have been violated and it will not go away. They took this action based on an anonymous tip place by someone I upset using. My sons now X wife overheard me telling my son she was a bar whore. Then used her get back book full of trailer park things you can do to people. Since that night I have read everything about this war. The facts are plain and easy to find for anyone that looks for them.
THE BIGGEST CONSPIRACY PLAYED ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN HISTORY “THE WAR ON DRUGS”
THE CORPORATIONS BEHIND “DRUG FREE AMERICA FOUNDATION” THEY MAKE BILLIONS
FOR PROFIT JAILS BRIBING JUDGES TO INSURE THEY MAXIMIZE PROFITS
OUR LAWMAKERS TAKE MILLIONS EVER YEAR TO ENSURE OUR ENSLAVEMENT
WE PAY OTHER COUNTRIES BILLIONS TO SUPPORT OUR FAILED WAR ON OUR OWN PEOPLE
FEDERAL COURTS INSURE CONVICTIONS STAY AT 99% USING THE LAW TO STOP FREE SPEECH
THE WAR ON DRUGS WAS CONCEIVED BY RACIST AND GREEDY CORPORATIONS
CANNABIS BEFORE PROHIBITION WAS A POPULAR “CURE ALL” IT HELPS MANY PEOPLE TODAY
THE DEA AND DRUG CZAR = THEIR JOB IS LIE NEVER TELL THE TRUTH AND INSURE THE WAR LAST FOREVER
LOCAL COMMUNITIES ARE STARTING TO VIEW THE WAR ON DRUGS AS A CASH COW
WHO BENEFITS THE MOST FROM BILLIONS WASTED ON THIS WAR ON US
WHERE DOES 50% OF OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT MONEY GO?
THE INFLUENCE OF GEO CORP A FOR PROFIT JAIL CELL PROVIDER AND GROWING
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT CANNABIS PROSECUTION
HATE FOR A SEGMENT OF OUR POPULATION BY THE RIGHT FUELS WAR ON DRUGS
GROW ONE HERB PLANT GO TO JAIL FOR FIVE YEARS GUARANTEED
DYING PEOPLE, SICK PEOPLE PUT IN JAIL FOR SEEKING RELIEF
I could go on for days and write a factual article on every one of these headlines how about you?
Cherokee Fred Jesus
95,96 R.O.E.
The entire world knows that San Diego has a drug problem on the U.S./Mexico border…but…raiding sitting duck medicinal cannabis dispensaries “DOES NOT” convince We the People of San Diego county that the new Sheriff in town has even a recognizable plan to solve that problem. Instead, the Sheriff’s political tactics only create bigger problems…of which undoubtedly medicinal cannabis will be the “PAWN.”
San Diego, once again, has poignantly eclipsed the will of its citizenry, the laws of the State of California, and the American Policy…even though we all speak with a loud and clear voice. Perhaps the real truth is that the new Sheriff Gore has publicly announced that “HE INTENDS TO MAKE SAN DIEGO THE SAFESTR COUNTY IN AMERICA.” That’s a tall order, and sounds like a bunch of hot air, artificial eloquence, and the usual B.S. political rhetoric. Frankly, personally, I view that as an objective I could lend my alligiance to…but…fails to get my alliance by
using medicianl cannabis as a “PAWN’ to achieve his fame. The fact is…it’s already made him infamous, and not in a good way.
To add insult to injury…the San Diego County Board of Supervisors have extended their moratorium on medicinal cannabis dispensaries for an additional ten (10) months, directly after raiding nine (9) dispensaries. As if San Diegans can’t see through this “SKULLDUGGERY,” this leadership will no doubt come up with another “PUNY EXCUSE” to defy the people, the law, and the nations policy at the end of those ten (10) months. Who needs this kind of nonsensical leadership?
The county prohib’s…”ACE UP THEIR SLEEVES”…which clearly identifies and exposes that caliber of leadership…if one can call thatleadership…is “ZONING.” When opening a dispensary
…one can do “EVERYTHING CORRECTLY AND LEGALLY”…
but…can’t get “ZONING.” Talk about restricting free or fair trade. Thre’s got to be some anti-trust issues here. The city is more than happy to tkae one’s money for, and issue a city business license
…”LULLING ONE INTO A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY”…but then…one can’t get “ZONING.” Talk about the old shell game/three card monty.
If a revolution occurs, my guess is that it will appropriately start in San Diego.
I have to wonder. A friend was pulled over, for what exactly I have no idea. During his conversation with police he told them he had some cannabis in the car. They told him, “we don’t care”, and sent him on his way, without a ticket. He was later pulled over, and arrested for possession. He told the judge that he was an Iraq veteran, and used cannabis to control his PTSD. The judge told him, “If you can show me proof of this, the charges will be dismissed. This is in Texas, there is NO medical marijuana program in Tesas. Wasup? I use cannabis to treat skin cancer, and prostate cancer. If I get caught with cannabis in my possession, will it all be dismissed? Actualy I would hope not. I would love to take it to court, and be found Not Guilty by Reason of Medical Necessity. Not being a lawyer I don’t know for sure, but wouldn’t that make me immune from prosecution for possession, provided the amount did not excede that which was necessary for me to continue my treatment? The police cannot come right out and say it, but could the rediculous number of people being arrested for simple possession be a way of sending a message?
Stompedonmyrights: Wow man your story is sad…im sorry about your daughter. Its sad we live in such times. However much as id like to agree to all your saying about the writs and the like sadly it wont do crap. The freedoms built by our forefathers are long dead. Our own government has militarized against us. They use assault rifles to shoot plant growers and smokers. This is because those who have the power to change are too corrupt and the people who could vote in change are to brainwashed into thinking its poison. Our government has more bureaucracy than it does anything… we are all goin to suffer far more from our gov before our time on earth has expired.
GRRRRRRR! We need a healthy dose of civil disobedience to fix this. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, y’all.
My story may be sad, but I am still standing, refuse to shut-up! I understand that you all may not know the power behind the writs, but it will be like a great wave and wash over them before they can run. It would only work if we all band together, no pleas, just jury trials, prisoners boycott working for the system, civil disobedience forces the issue upon the government, they will not be able to ignor it. Again I think it is wrong to argue with the hired help, we as their employers nedd to think outside the box to bring change. I told my story not so you a sorry for me, please don’t, I am a warrior for the creator and these events are but life leasons. Even under oppression by my society I refuse to shut-up, I refuse to stop my writing, be nice if I got paid for it but I will go the distance, take this fight to them even if they take my life. For I have lived, and fear not these monkeys still slinging their shit upon us. I am just one of millions.
There once was a man in my area who was arrested by the feds, they took all the wild pot around his area and piled onto his crop, said he should go to prison for the rest of his life, pushed him to his end, he went to the Fed Building in Topeka, Kansas and killed himself upon them, he killed one of them too. Do not agree with him but understand that he had been bullied enough to cause him to use violance. If we use violance then we have become just like them, and I for one will not ride that bus, I rather face creator with a clean heart, not one of evil. We can stand against evil without become evil ourselves. After all they will see the same maker as I in the end. Let us agree to stand and be counted, let us come at them head on, face to face. Lets teach the juries of America Jury Nullification and Jury Lawlessness and put an end to their reign over us. I am a Son Of Liberty! Liberty lives in my heart and soul. No human, no law, no act of legislation, no lie, no fruad, no Judge can remove it, only I can let it die, and I will let this human body die before I surrender my heartfelt liberty. I am under God’s law not these monkeys still slinging their shit at me and calling it good. I refuse to be obedient to unjust laws.
arresting people for having weed is probably the stupidest thing i’ve ever heard of.
it’s like arresting someone for having a morning cup of coffee.
IF YOU BELIVE IN GOD…cannabis is a divine benevolance
…a gift from God of Holy Sacrament. To deny me my sacrament… is to deny me my God and my Faith. As I can only be judged by my God and my self…at communion
…which is a common Faith, experience, and expression
shared by a family of believers, as well as their intimate relationship with God…I examine my conscience, and make atonement with God. The prohibiton of my sacrament is a violation against my Faith, and the “FREE EXERCISE THEREOF.” By prohibiting my sacrament…I am denied the ability to judge my self, and hold my self responsibile for the results of my actions. Therefore…I declare that any law prohibiting my Faith, and “THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF” is voidable.
References:
Article I, Constituttion of the United States of America.
Religious Freedom Protection Act.
Holy Bible, Genesis I:11,12 Genesis I:29,30,31 Genesis IX:3
I have read and understand these liberties, and I declare, I am who they say I am, and I can do what they say I can do.
Manford Mantis
I’m here, Hello from Oragon. I’ve been away from ya’ll too long. I will tell how to rock the boat. First, Change your W-2 form, You can do this at any time, Just ask the I.R.S. This is how to fill it out to un-volenteer. Fill out Name Address, Other pertenant info using all capital letters. But when it call’s for you to apply numbers to determine your deductions apply a hyfen – to all spaces availible till no numbers can be applied. Then, “CIRCLE” that great big “EXCEMPT” in the corner. Then, In the signiture space,(this how you sign your name).”Without Prejugdice U.C.C 1-207″ YOUR SIGITURE HERE. THATS IT, TURN IT BACK IN. You are no longer a volenteer to pay income tax. Dont let them tell you nothing cause you no longer volenteer to be the patsy and a robot for the rich and evil country we became with the power god let us weild. Do something for your family. BE FREE.LIVE FREE. DIE FREE. Let Freedom Ring and the Martyers have began to die for Freedom. Whom will be next?. PEACE…. AL…
YEA NO SPELL CHECK TODAY.
Teach Juries to nullify the law
I am an ex-drug addict/alcoholic who became a drug couselor after a near death experience. I see countless of patients nearly everyday who are addicted to marijuana and other drugs. I have had the opportunity to work in the public school systems for almost twenty years. My observations with working many students who began using marijuana was that many of them gradually developed an “I don’t care attitude” and with time began losing interest in things that were once important to them. Many of these students liked the marijauna so much that after awhile all they wanted to do was get high and chill. Many of them began skipping classes and entire school days just to go and get high. The results of that was that they got behind on their school work and lost complete interest in their education and eventually dropped out. Some of these students ended up on the streets because their families could no longer tolerate their addictive behavior to marijuana. I was raised in a family of alcoholics and drug addicts which included most of my relatives. I have personally seen and experienced the devastation associated with the abuse of marijauna and other drugs. Most of us started abusing marijuana and then went on to harder drugs, that’s probably the reason that marijuana in considered by many to be a gateway drug. I was a Hippie in the late sixties and early seventies and I was there when the drug epidemic started to transpire. There is much more that I can say about this issue from first hand experience. The fact that so many people want to legalize marijuana just sends chills up and down my back. I know what marijuana did to me and what it has done to many others and it is not good. Respectfuly, The Drug Counselor.
[Editor’s note: Your abuse of cannabis was your problem….but prohibition is a totally failed policy (for example, where did you get your cannabis?) that, thankfully, fewer and fewer of your fellow citizens support.
You may get chills up your spine that a majority of Americans no longer support the prohibition that failed to keep you from having personal problems with cannabis, but thousands of citizens across the country are working harder every day to finally end the failed policy of cannabis prohibition.]
its hard to believe that you people believe anything thats on this website. the UCR does not record anything drug related. Everything on this blg is false