The pure, unadulterated, distilled essence of Reefer Madness, courtesy of California Assembly Candidate, Republican Paul Chabot:
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Let’s tear this thing up, shall we?
- It’s not “a few million here and there”, unless you count one-thousand, four-hundred millions as “a few millions”. The California Board of equalization has estimated that $1.4 billion dollars would be raised by regulating marijuana.
- Also, you’re absolutely right that every $1 in tobacco taxes is subsumed by $8.50 in health costs… because smoking tobacco is really, really bad for you! 400,000 Americans die annually from tobacco-related illness, compared to how many for cannabis? Oh, right, ZERO! I can walk into any hospital and find you a dozen people there solely because of tobacco smoking; I dare you to find me just one in the hospital solely for cannabis smoking.
- If there is any social cost from cannabis use, it is going to be far less than that of alcohol, tobacco, or even caffeine in our society, and we’re already paying those costs now and taking in ZERO tax dollars to mitigate those tiny costs. 22 million Americans smoke pot now, and an estimated 4 million Californians smoke pot now. In order for the social costs argument to make sense, $1.4 billion worth of new pot smokers would have to take up the habit following legalization. Even if pot smokng went up by 20% (a stretch to imagine), each of the 1 million new California tokers would have to cost California $1,400 annually to just break even on the tax revenue. For comparison’s sake, a recent study in Canada found the health costs of every smoker to be $800 annually, for drinkers it’s $165 annually, and for tokers it’s just $20 a year.
- Any burning vegetable matter – tobacco, cannabis, and a campfire – share some of the same carcinogenic hydrocarbons. That’s why so many patients now prefer to vaporize or eat their cannabis medicine. However, what tobacco and campfires don’t have are THC and CBD, both of which are non-toxic and have been shown to have anti-tumoral properties.
- A recent study in the journal Cancer Prevention Research concluded that “10 to 20 years of marijuana use was associated with a significantly reduced risk of [head and neck cancers].“
- Dr. Donald Tashkin studied marijuana smokers for 30 years, seeking to find a link between cannabis use and lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and in 2006 told the Washington Post: “We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use,” he said. “What we found instead was no association [between cannabis use and lung cancer and COPD] at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect.“
- Dr. Tashkin later told McClatchy news: “Early on, when our research appeared as if there would be a negative impact on lung health, I was opposed to legalization because I thought it would lead to increased use and that would lead to increased health effects,” Tashkin says. “But at this point, I’d be in favor of legalization. I wouldn’t encourage anybody to smoke any substances. But I don’t think it should be stigmatized as an illegal substance. Tobacco smoking causes far more harm. And in terms of an intoxicant, alcohol causes far more harm.”
- Furthermore, nobody on our side suggests we should be selling marijuana to kids! That’s your side that insists on maintaining a prohibition on cannabis that continues to feature one million teenagers dealing marijuana to other kids with nobody checking IDs. When’s the last time you heard of a high school tequila dealer?
- Prop-215 was passed with the following very easy-to-understand wording for all the voters to read: “Seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes where that medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person’s health would benefit from the use of marijuana in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.”
- The 1996 California Ballot Pamphlet on Prop-215 read, in part: “Exempts patients and defined caregivers who possess or cultivate marijuana for medical treatment recommended by a physician from criminal laws which otherwise prohibit possession or cultivation of marijuana.”
- The 1996 write-up by the Legislative Analyst stated: “The measure provides for the use of marijuana when a physician has determined that the person’s health would benefit from its use in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or ”any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.” The physician’s recommendation may be oral or written. No prescriptions or other record-keeping is required by the measure.”
- The 1996 Argument in Favor of Prop-215 read: “MARIJUANA DOESN’T JUST HELP CANCER PATIENTS — University doctors and researchers have found that marijuana is also effective in: lowering internal eye pressure associated with glaucoma, slowing the onset of blindness; reducing the pain of AIDS patients, and stimulating the appetites of those suffering malnutrition because of AIDS ‘wasting syndrome’; and alleviating muscle spasticity and chronic pain due to multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and spinal cord injuries.
- The 1996 Argument Against Prop-215 even warned: “Proposition 215 DOES NOT restrict the use of marijuana to AIDS, cancer, glaucoma and other serious illnesses. READ THE FINE PRINT. Proposition 215 legalizes marijuana use for ”any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.” This could include stress, headaches, upset stomach, insomnia, a stiff neck . . . or just about anything.” And yet, 56% of Californians supported it anyway!
- The 2% of San Diegans Chabot refers to are those using medical marijuana for cancer and AIDS. Paul doesn’t consider people suffering the pain and spasticity of multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to have “significant illnesses”. People going blind from glaucoma or wracked with the pain of migraine don’t have “significant illnesses”.
- So, how is it that within our community, we allow our school bus drivers and airplane pilots the choice of using alcohol and impairment-producing prescription medications? It’s not a “Pandora’s Box” we’re opening – marijuana is already here! If someone is going to be irresponsible and drive a school bus high, they are doing so now; prohibition isn’t stopping them.
- How do we bust people for driving high now? Chabot is referring to the use of urinalysis to determine whether someone has inactive THC-COOH metabolites in their system, which do not prove impairment and can remain in the system for weeks. However, there are blood tests which can fairly reasonably determine recent marijuana use, and new technologies are arriving that analyze saliva or armpit sweat (really) to determine recent use. Finally, there’s always the good old fashioned roadside sobriety test… you know, actually testing someone to see if they are impaired, not what they may have ingested.
- Who are you to tell anybody – terminally ill or not — how to feel or how not to feel? If someone is dying and smoking a non-toxic herb, you’re okay with it, but if they’re healthy, you’re going to have to lock them up in a cage to keep us all safe?
- “Pro-drug lobbyists?” We are not pro-drug lobbyists; we’re pro-marijuana. Johnson & Johnson Pfizer GlaxoSmithKline Roche Sanofi-Aventis Novartis AstraZeneca Abbott Laboratories Merck Wyeth Bristol-Myers Squibb Eli Lilly, with a combined $392 billion in annual revenues and 2.3 lobbyists for every lawmaker on Capitol Hill – that’s your pro-drug lobby.
- By the way, I’m still waiting for the first medical marijuana patient to beg me to stop fighting for medical marijuana laws because she felt he was being used.
- Marijuana doesn’t have “400 carcinogens”, it has 400 or so constituent chemicals, 64 of which are cannabinoids, and which don’t even become carcinogenic compounds until the marijuana is burned (but not eaten or vaporized).
- Marinol is 100% pure synthetic THC (people like you constantly complain about the new super-potent pot, some of which registers 20% THC) and is eaten. The delta-9 THC when ingested coverts to 11-hydroxy-THC which is far more psychoactive than smoked cannabis, and unlike smoked cannabis, lacks the cannabidiol that acts as an anti-psychoactive and mitigates the psychoactivity of delta-9 THC. In other words, Marinol will get far higher than smoked cannabis and it is a paranoid, anxious, terrible high.
- Sativex is a whole-plant extract sprayed under the tongue, and is superior to Marinol, but only because it is more like the natural plant cannabis that is superior to them both.
- As for the “sip of whiskey” comment, let me just quote the American Medical Association: “short term controlled trials indicate that smoked cannabis reduces neuropathic pain, improves appetite and caloric intake especially in patients with reduced muscle mass, and may relieve spasticity and pain in patients with multiple sclerosis.” Furthermore, the report urges that “the Schedule I status of marijuana be reviewed with the goal of facilitating clinical research and development of cannabinoid-based medicines, and alternate delivery methods.”
On medical marijuana, who do you trust, the American Medical Association or a guy who believes there can be such a thing as a Drug Free California?
touche paul chabot
Owned.
[Russ adds: I think the kids today would say “pwned”. 😉 ]
It’s this simple we have control, let’s control these elites with are voting power, we don’t stand together and vote. These crooks vote with their pocketbooks whoever controls their canidate contrubutions controls the vote.
You can’t wake someone pretending to be asleep.
He makes money from taking a prohibitionist stance. CBS is really the poor soul here, 10 minutes investigating marijuana on google and you know the official stance is not only wrong but a lie. I wonder if they have anything to loose?…
I hope you Californians are flooding this guy’s inbox with facts. He needs them pretty badly.
What a Dick head! I can’t believe that an asshole like this can get enough votes to get elected. But maybe now that the Supreme Court has changed all of the rules regarding campaign contributions I’m sure he will get plenty of money from the private for profit prisons and law enforcement unions and anyone else that profits from prohibition. I can’t believe that the people of California want a lying asshole like this to represent them.
This guy is a freakin’ joke! Yet another example of idiots who like to get on TV and spew lies in favor of their so-called “supported opinions”. Let’s pray to god this guy is never in a position of power!
Well done! You just tore him apart. This guy in the video obviously doesn’t have a clue what he is talking about. I wish this guy could read this.
His comments would be funny if there weren’t so many incredibly stupid people who will take his constant stream of lies as truth since its on CBS.
Such a great response 😀
Ok something also doesn’t add up about this guy.
He is 35.
Has over 14 years of Law Enforcement experience.
Has a B.A. from CSU: SB
Has a M.A. from USC
Has a doctorate degree from George Wasington University.
He holds a certificate in legislative studies from Georgetown
Is a graduate and lecturer of the Delinquency Control Institute at the University of Southern California.
Began his military career in 2001.
Worked at the White House for 6 years.
http://www.paulchabot.com/about/bio.html
On his other website he says he has over 18 years in law enforcement.
http://www.drchabotconsulting.com/about.html
This guy makes no sense unless he is a genius and has been attending college from the age of 6.
B.A. = 4 years
Masters = 1-3 years
Docorate = 4-8 years
Worked @ the white house for 6 years
Did several tours of duty in Iraq
Has been in Law Enforcement for over 14 years
Where do they find these idiots. i swear these people can’t read, if they can’t read research papers. they always throw out there “kids”. come on it would reduce their access to it. kids are their psycological motherly weapon of choice. what they don’t add is how the kids will be less able to get the material and how the streets and the highways will be safer due to less violence and potentialy fewer drunks on the roads and less domestic violence. they are only playing to the ignorant. don’t they relize there are fewer and fewer people that don’t know the truth? oh well some day they will figure it out.
Who care really if its for illness or not. we should be able to purchase and use marijuana the same way we buy alcohol and use it to have fun. I mean what are the health benefits for drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco.
Alcohol has been shown to make people violent while tobacco has a death toll that increases dramatically every year. So in other words quit ducking trippin on marijuana.
” Selling Pot to our kids ” is just another statement used to deceive you by Paul Chabot . He’s also suggested that you use pharmaceuticals
( marinol / Sativex ) derived from Cannabis rather than use it in a natural State where you can control the amount of intake .
Ok , Mr. Chabot let’s put more drugs on the market that people can die and overdose on .
Notice at the end of his interview how it’s sponsored by pharmaceuticals / prescription medications to stop smoking .He’s already advocated prescription medications v/s marijuana .
Wonder how much money he’s taken in by the Drug & Alcohol Companies for his ridiculousness ( they probally paid him quite a lot ) .
Oh WOW!!!!! Hes young too. He is clueless !
look, i like to be told what to do from a government that knows what it’s doing–i believe when o’cama gets voted out ill get my wish in 2 years or whatever it is. please god, help this person in the article be president or something–drugs are bad. coffee and beer are fine. cigs are cool too. just ban everything else, especially that dopey stuff. i found some one day in my daughters purse and burned it on her stomach to teach her that its bad. from what i heard, pot makes u dumb and kills u. i hate being dumb and hardly anyone wants to die. i dont do pot and all my co-workers at work say im really smart for not doing it. go mavericks!
PS – Notice how the Drug industry attempts to deceive you
by lumping in tobacco addiction after his interview regarding Marijuana . They are trying to make you believe through deception that Marijuana is addictive like tobacco .
Politicians speak the truth.
I believe we can have a “Drug” free California, as well as an America, as long as we specifically leave out legal drugs (marijuana included) as a classification of being a drug.
This guy probably makes money of of prohibition. Look at every time he mentions something that’s suppose to touch your heart, he looks into the camera.
People that enjoy pot like I do should get it together and vote,be loud and stick together. Never have we been so close to changing these laws. We need to keep fighting. If we don’t the progress we have made will slip back to where we were a few years ago.
As a powerful force, those of us who are for the legalization of cannabis our focus is better serving our cause if we focus on the gazillion of people who will back our cause and those who are on the fence, not on the ones who are against our cause.
If you look at the numbers, who is for and who is against cannabis, there are many undecided, there are many for it- we have to organize a focus on those who are either for it or undecided- not the pigs who are against it- its a waist of time and energy to argue over our cause, its more time and energy effective to just haul ass on talking to as many people as possible, if ya find a person who is against it, move on, you want to find people who belive in our cause or those who are possibly open to it, not the ones who are already decided against it. That should be our most effective strategy.
People who use cannabis for medical reasons, for goodness sake be bold, be brave, medicate in public in places where it would be reasonable and legally right to do so- normalize it, pack a bowl at the cafe, on the bus, let the scent of cannabis come out in the open- go ahead roll! Get the conversation started.
Bring it out into the open, talk to everyone you know, family members, friends, co-workers, service people, doctors, EVERYONE! Get a critical mass happening, then things will tip the scales in favor of our cause.
Use responsibly, set the example of what it is to be a responsible adult who uses cannabis- NORMAL guidelines, common sense.
I’d like to let people know that on several occasions I have had 15-17 year old friends of my little brother offer to trade me pot for cigarettes.
What does that say about availability?
this guy must work for the pharmaceutical companys
He looks very insecure. Like as if he has anxiety issues. Somebody bent over as a quire boy.
Ok is he really comapring marijuana to tobacco? Hey peckerhead how many people die a year from tobacco compared to marijuana? If you didnt know tobacco contributes to more then 400,000 deaths a year while marijuana has 0 deaths a year! Now go put your assless chaps back on and get spanked with a wooden paddle by the entire bush adminastration you conservative republican!!
Ok is he really comparing marijuana to tobacco? Hey peckerhead how many people die a year from tobacco compared to marijuana? If you didnt know tobacco contributes to more then 400,000 deaths a year while marijuana has 0 deaths a year! Now go put your assless chaps back on and get spanked with a wooden paddle by the entire bush adminastration you conservative republican!!
Arguing the pros and cons of medicinal marijuana can go either way. Really it should always be about the criminalization and demonizing of this plant and it’s users. It is legal to brew your own beer and drink it as a responsible person, you should be able to grow some herb next to your tomatoes for god’s sake. Any thing that does not exceed the personal space of consenting responsible adults should be preserved by the Bill of Rights. Certain unalienable rights of life liberty, and the persuit of happiness.
The affects of anti-counterculturalists are alive and well from the oligarchs of the post WW2 generation. We have a long way to go before it’s free your cheeba willy time.
This guy is obviously a moron. I’d like to see that Columbia research study that says cannibis and tobbaco contain the same cancer causing elements??? THC kills cancer it doesn’t create it. And they keep saying that pot will be marketed towards kids. Every bill that has been propsed talks about adults 21 and over being able to purchase cannibis it has never mentioned kids. And yet the only excuse they can come up with to keep it illegal is saying that it will be marketed towards kids. NONE OF THESE BILLS MENTION KIDS GET THROUGH YOUR REEFER MADNESS HEADS. If your an idiot you’ll re elect this genius
get owned chabot
Coalition for a Drug Free California. Enough said. I like how all these “suits” attack the use of cannabis and don’t say anything about pills/alcohol that are far more toxic and addictive than this herb. Cannabis=Tobacco? BS. If you want to cover drugs that plague our society then don’t leave out the one’s that have the highest rates of death and overdose, even if they happen to be legal. “By selling pot to our kids.” Did I hear him just say that? We’re not the one’s handing it to them it’s the black market and you think they give two squirts about the age as long as their pockets are fat? 21 and over, anyone caught selling to a minor faces the fine(s) and penalty(ies). This guy just got stats about usage from the San Diego DA, WOW! No special interest there. “We don’t need to allow another substance that will cause more harm.” Who is we exactly and how do you know that the harm that it will cause can be seen as fact? Oh, I get it you and the big wigs have a crystal ball and can see into the future. Omniscient? All knowing all seeing crap of the world. “Who am I to tell them how and what to feel?” Then why open your mouth if that was your intent during the entire interview? This guy is definitely being paid for in full by big pharmacy companies. Don’t step on them to much cause we want their money gently brush them aside. “Pro drug lobbyists stood on the backs of the sick.” I know your not talking about the pill mills that paid you to say these things. “There are much better drugs out there.” Yeah, like the one’s that kill and are more toxic/addictive than cannabis or the one’s that are nothing more than a placebo. Marinol, Sativex? Synthetic isn’t the way to go, all natural is the only way to know for sure that it hasn’t been tampered with by the corrupt. Their in the business of spreading more lies and business is good. “The truth shall set you free.”
Could Republican Paul Chabot be so dumb as to really think that anyone would want to regulate marijuana use for kids?
The only campaigning going on is for the regulation of marijuana for ADULT USE ONLY. NOBODY, not one single person, has ever mentioned regulating it for use by kids.
Honestly, how stupid is this guy?
all this guy is trying to do is brain wash people to get him elected
This guy is simply a paid shill for the Some Drug Free whatever and is paid to lie, just like the drug csar. He stands there and lies thru his teeth, mouthing DEA lies and regurgitatingn the same old nonsense we have heard for decades.
People like him CANNOT and will not debate an intelligent pro-drug choice debater because he knows he would be shredded by common sense and facts.
If you say;” Who should be controlling and regulating and dispensing potentially harmful substances. the federal and state governments/private sector….OR the criminal cartels and street dealers?”
Theose prohibitionists are forced into admitting that they are in fact supporting the violence and waste and money by way of Prohibition, and he can offer NO, none, nada, nyet proof that Prohibition does ANY good whatsoever.
EVERY ONE of his ‘ arguments’ meaning lies, is easily refutable and easily shown to be nonsense. he has no facts, no studies ( notice that when he mentions a study from some univ. he uses tobacco and not weed as the’ proof’….what crap!!
these guys are so pathetic….if I ever say that sorry stuiffed shirt in public I would surely humiliate him for being such a phony: NO ONE with a brain could possibly believe that crap he says.
This guy is a sock puppet getting fisted by his masters. His points made against cannabis are outdated and have already been shot down as being real argument points against it. It feels like the fuel tanks of the drug war machine are running on empty. Douchebags like this popping up arguing on the other side of things give me nothing but hope for the future.
evan if you do make weed illgeal it will never stop it is actualy easer to get weed than cigarets or liquor because any body can buy it not just people 18 or over so if you make it legal to people over a certen age it would be harder for kids to get you idiot and one last thing you are just trying to get elected and i very serisouly dout that cali will go back insted of foward
He said some people smoke weed because it makes them feel better just like some people drink wine in the morning and it makes them feel better! well wine is legal why isn’t weed? Let the people decide…
What a tool!
“a guy who believes there can be such a thing as a Drug Free California?”
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH YEAH OKAY!!! I smoke Marijuana before I ever got drunk, because I was so terrified of alcohol poisoning… Drug Free California, pfft hold your breath guy, we dont want to hear you speak.
I love how people against legaliztion like to bend the truth or leave out fragments of the truth just to scare the public. I’m really not sure if they actually care about public safty or just want to win this argument.
I’m so sick of knowing how non-toxic marijuana and it not being legalized. I can’t wait until we get to the point where marijuana is just a normal part of society and we see prohibition of it and laugh.
I want a safer alternative to alcohol!!!
I’m saying it here: If marijuana is legalized, I will NEVER drink again.
The advertised CV sounds a little inflated. My first question would be, is what is to verify the actual existence and veracity of his thesis for his masters degree. Which library in the USC (SB?) system is it located and what is the content and quality of the research? The second question is the same as the first..exchange George Washington University for USC and dissertation for thesis.
What is a certificate in legislative studies from Georgetown worth?..a weekend seminar?, a few CEU’s?..is it an associates degree???a certificate of achievement…a certificate of appreciation???.what..?? I don’t know but am very curious…
Same inquiry for “graduate of the Delinquency Control Institute at the University of Southern California”. How many hours of classroom time does it take to get this exalted title????
who the fuck does this guy think he is? i can’t believe they put this clown on the news.
How can a politician talk about something he is clearly not educated in this topic. The person to say its right or wrong its my body what goes in it is my choice. My right to privacy what invaded when I was born prohibition, is unconstitutional. clearly he will not be elected into office. the majority of the people voted for it.
The following is quoted from http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Divisions_Boards/BOPH/PChabot.html
“CommissionersPaul Chabot
Paul Chabot, Ed.D was appointed to the Board of Parole Hearings by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on June 25. He is a combat veteran and recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq serving as an intelligence officer with U.S. and British Special Operation Forces. Prior to that, Chabot was a commissioner on the Juvenile Parole Board from 2006 to 2008 and currently serves as a reserve deputy sheriff with the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department and a reserve officer for the U.S. Naval Reserve since 2001. Chabot was previously a senior policy analyst for the White House Office of national Drug Policy from 1999 to 2006. From 2002 to 2006, he was a professional speaker with CAMPUSPEAK, where he addressed drug and alcohol addiction issues on college campuses and, from 2001 to 2002, Chabot was a presidential fellow and worked on counter-narcotics policies for the U.S. Office of the Inspector General. During this time, he also worked on anti-methamphetamine efforts for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. Chabot was a police officer for the University of Southern California Police Department from 1997 to 1999, congressional assistant at the district office for Congressman Jerry Lewis from 1995 to 1996 and community service officer for the California State University, San Bernardino Police Department from 1993 to 1994. He earned a doctorate in Executive Leadership from George Washington University, a Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, San Bernardino.”
Sounds like a lot of sizzle and not much steak….
…From 2002 to 2006, he was a professional speaker with CAMPUSPEAK, where he addressed drug and alcohol addiction issues on college campuses and, from 2001 to 2002,….
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people actually believe this bullshit? complete utter ignorance. i swear…
I’ll answer my own question here…
Same inquiry for “graduate of the Delinquency Control Institute at the University of Southern California”. How many hours of classroom time does it take to get this exalted title????
Apparently it only takes six weeks…
http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/programs/special/dci/sixweek/
Six-week Programs
Juvenile specialists are in a strategic position to provide professional services to youths and their families. DCI’s intensive six-week programs:
•provide participants with a social science and systems-oriented overview for their challenging responsibilities
•emphasize networking to develop close working relationships with schools, social agencies, health resources, churches and other community organizations
•foster a “teamwork relationship” with the juvenile court and probation department as well as with institutional and parole agencies
•teach students to use their discretionary authority to meet the needs of each offender through the most appropriate disposition
•discuss diversion from juvenile court processing and new juvenile justice standards
Class Dates
•Class 129: January 11 – February 19, 2010
•Class 130: August 23 – October 1, 2010
•Class 131: January 10 – February 18, 2011
He holds a certificate in legislative studies from Georgetown
Let’s take a look…
http://gppi.georgetown.edu/academics/certsprograms/legislativestudies/
http://gai.georgetown.edu/cert_groups.cfm
Okay..now for what it takes
Certificate Program
As previously stated, the required program of study consists of five courses:
one course from Group A;
two courses from Group B; and,
two courses from Group C.
Okay..Group A…that must be pretty tough…
Let’s apply for the first class listed…
Congressional Operations Seminar …that sounds tough..must take years…what?…only 5 days…what a deal…
Okay..but what about Group B?…we need to classes from there…that’s gotta take years of dedication? what? You mean we can choose any two of the following four classes…
Advanced Legislative Process
Advanced Budget and Appropriations Process
Preparing and Delivering Congressional Testimony
Executive – Legislative Branch Relations
…and each of them only take 2 days to complete for a total of four days…so…let me think…5 days plus 4 days…that’s like almost two weeks…oh well one and four fifths of a week….
But surely the sacrafice comes in the last group of courses…???
But…
Courses in Group C are conducted at the Government Affairs Institute. Each course meets four times for two hours in the late afternoon, over the course of 12 weeks
So that’s another …let me see…4 times two hours…that’s like …well 8 hours…although not on the same day….and spread out over a number of weeks…
So for the final summation…9 days plus eight hours…equals ..10 days (and at 8 hours per day..i.e…a 40 hour week)…TWO WEEKS…excluding weekends….
and you too can hold a prestigious “CERTIFICATE IN LEGISLATIVE STUDIES FROM GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY”
this guy is such an idiot it hurts to watch.
“my heart goes out to anyone with a terminal illness. Who am I to say how they should feel??”
… who are you to say what a free american citizen should or should not feel?? This guy is ridiculous!
I’m so happy there’s people this idiotic/rude/inconsiderate/devious/conniving/inconsistent representing prohibition. It will only make it that much easier to pass any marijuana legalization initiative in November.
I honestly feel bad for the republican party, this guy, really? How can talk openly about a subject you know obviously nothing about? He’s a fool.
whata fucking tool. shows you how overated a college education really is.
Fa sho!! take that chabot!!
2 tours in Iraq. I’ve seen alot and after all that nothing calms my nerves and helps my back pains more then smoking every now and then when the pain gets bad. I wish I was able to do this legal but I can’t. I must turn to other means to get ahold of buds. If this type of treatment was legal for me to use in the military I would use it more then i do now. But I can’t so most of my days I have to deal with the pain. If I took the meds the doctor gave me. I would be a zombie. Besides the pain meds put me to sleep right away. Oh and by the way i’m still in the military. I’m getting another promotion and i’m always first on the list to go to military schools. My walls in my office are full of awards and medals I earned during my 7 years in the military. If my life isn’t enough to help prove what this guy is saying is wrong then what will? So I ask you the people to help me and speak out against this type of hate. Because I can’t I must remain anonymous. Since i’m a soldier I gave up my rights 7 years ago when I swore to defend my country. I ask that you please speak out for me.
This man needs to be voted out of office. Also he needs facts e-mail, mail, call his office and flood this fool with truths not lies!!! He should also be informed of other methods of ingestion of Marijuana. Being a republican he should see the massive windfall of money this could earn for the state. ” A few million dollars” its more like a few billion not to mention the countless millions from tourism. This man is in need of some education on the facts. And another thing by a small majority 55% thats a large majority in the political world. IDIOT!
This guy has obviously been bought . 1) We wont be selling to our kids. He made that statement as if we WANT our kids to get cannabis. Quit the opposite , we will be I.D. ing kids where dealers do and could care less.2) Its been proven that cannabis(if smoked) has far less cancer cuasing chemicals than cigarettes, and, any societal cost of cannabis are already here. These pee brains always state that as if there arent people using cannabis now.3) Any money made from cannabis sales is money not made by cartels and money not being made by states, no matter the amount.4) We will NOT be adding one more drug to society, it is already here, people already use it and will….legal or not.4) The synthetic concotions have been proven to not work, you can keep your man made crap.
I could go on, but I think the rest of the postees here will pick up where I leave off…ripping these lies apart.
Is it not painfully obvious this guy is either an ex-Pharmaceutical sales rep. or his campaign is funded by Pharmaceutical companies. It sad to know that many uninformed, uneducated and illogical people will fall for smooth talkers such as this guy. Complete bogus non-sense. It’s just as pathetic as the DEA’s website which is tongue and cheek, stating marijuanna is Schedule I with no medical value and highly addictive, yet if you scroll down further, there is a link to Marinol. Stand up for something or fall for everything. This issue is hotter than it’s ever been. The only decent argument many of the prohibitionist’s have is that smoked marijuanna is cancerous. Take the wind from their sails. Tell them you vaporize or use edibles such as butter. If that doesn’t shut them up, don’t waste time, the brainwashing is so deeply intrenched with that person, the next thing their likely to tell is that America is the Land of the Free. What a joke!
He is sickening
Paul,
The 1950’s called and want you back real bad. Remember when you could lie to the public like that and they just ate it up?
So weed still cause’s lung cancer apparently. Oh and us prohibitionists are just throwing the terminally ill in front of cameras so we can get high….. Wow.
The problem is, someone gives this buffonary air time, while not giving any to the other side. This is how the media, particularly here it seems, works.
paul chabot = kook!
sounds like he can’t hold a job fuck’n pog
In His defence,people are allowed the wrong opinion.
I have 2 words to say to Paul Chabot “GROW UP”. I have been smoking cannabis for as long as you been alive and it benefits me in many ways. Have you ever try it or did you know someone who died from it? People like yourself really make me sick, spewing nothing but false information about Cannabis like it’s more dangerous than your precious drug (alcohol). I don’t care how many college degrees you have or how long you have worked for law enforcement, if you never tried Cannabis then how in the hell you know it’s so bad for you?
To the people of the great state of California, this is your chance to vote out people like Paul Chabot and have your state run by the people.
sigh…ok, I will continue to slowly die with prescribed drugs like oxycontin digging into your organs, while you refuse to recognize that RX is WORSE than the marijuana that does far more with far less of a cost.
if you want to talk about us turning this into money, then what is a lot of the RX meds? its the same concept…I get relief from one prescribed med, but what about that isnt about making money? Big Pharm much?
Gotta love the “drug free” concept…If you want no drugs, take away oxycontin too…ALL major pain killers, remove them…no more alcohol either….no cigs….hey I just listed 3 things WORSE than pot. Since some smoke pot in SMALL SMALL amounts throughout the day, not to get high, but to relieve pain…just like taking a pill…heck we even have it in liquid form now…cmon…over the counter, whats the difference between a glycerin based tincture, and some liquid over the counter drug? big pharm?
as my generation would say, you got served.
I just wrote this guy a Letter .. Here is the Letter I wrote. I live In Michigan and I believe we as a Society should stick together… Michgian is a Medical Marijuana State as well but they are trying to change our laws up here as well from Growing 12 Plants and having 2 and a half ounces allowed dried on you, they want to Not allow us to do this … Here is my Emial to MR. Chabot.
I am appauld at your recent Assesment of Medical Marijuana, First off you need to get your facts correct. No one has ever died from Marijuana and Marijuana has helped many who are in Pain and Need it. We as Citizens have Constitutional Rights and I am Glad the Supreme Court IN California has Agreed that People should be able to Have Medical Marijuana. There is way to may people getting prescription drugs that cause very bad Side Affects, And they can cause Death. Yet they are legal. I dont’ live in California I live In Michigan another Medical Marijuana state. I believe Our Govenment has gotten away from Our Original Constitution . Our Rights as Citizens to vote for something and then someone in Government tries to change the Law… The People has Spoken. Why is Alcohol Legal? How many Deaths has it caused? How about Tobacco? How about talking on the cell phone and Texting Messages. Our Country Needs to protect us alright , and Laws NEED to be changed. Make Alcohol Illegal and Cigarettes and talking on the phone while driving.. There is Advantages to taking Marijuana as Medicine.. I’ve read that Medical Marijuana helps protect us from Head and Neck Cancers… I know the reason why No One wants it legal , its’ because if grown the pharmaceutical companies would Not be Needed. You Need to do Some Research about Marijuana before saying bad things about it. Also God Put this plant on earth for all to Use. Who is anyone to say it is bad and Lie. Before it was made Illegal the Government Lied and said that it will make you go crazy and Kill People. Marijuana should be Legal for all to use.. I am glad Americans and other Countries are finally seeing the truth about this Precious Plant. Hemp also should be legal because we shouldnt’ be cutting our trees down for Paper, and Hemp is a crop that can provide not only Nutritional benefits from the seeds but a Long lasting fiber that can produce so many products.
Here is what they are trying to do in Michigan.. go to this website.. This is also Unconstituional.. http://www.freep.com/article/20100119/NEWS15/100119080/1001/rss01
Hearing people like this guy piss me off..reallly Paul Chabot youve shown me nothing in your argument ,simply put your ignorant..and im gonna throw a prayer in for you today , just for you, that you some how by the grace of god gain knowledge of this plant and realize anybody whos smoking pot and so called raising health costs is already doing so now.. just because its legal doesnt mean my moms gonna go out and start smoking pot and for the real issue marijuanas 10x safer than alcohol and cigerettes..Here I got an Idea how bout we trade both of those horrible drugs in for a sensible marijuana law…….
Paul Chabot + John Walters = Negative credibility
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paul-Chabot-for-Assembly/250961715499#/photo.php?pid=9372631&id=250961715499
Hey, this is a weed, right? Why don’t we all throw a handful of seeds out into all the open spaces like prairies and road sides and just let it grow. If every toker did this, even just a few seeds, the long arm of the law would be hard pressed to capture it all. Maybe they would just give up!
Why is it that when talk is about a system that will make it harder for persons under the age of 21 to obtain cannabis, the nay sayer always say “what kind of message will that send out kids?”. It sends the best message possible, We Care, and will do everything we can to protect you. Now we are telling them that we care, but not enough to do anything inteligent about it. Legalize, control, regulate, and educate is the only to go. Mr. Chabot I don’t like you. I see in you a man who thinks he’s better than those he serves. Mr. Chabot we do not work for you. YOU work for us, and never forget we get regular chances to FIRE you.
I stopped the video at 2:47 – however, I wanted to stop it about 30 seconds in. This guy is an uneducated, stupid immoral jackass. What a piece of garbage Chabot is. If you live in CA, please please please vote this piece of gutter trash out. We wheel sick people out to further our cause? Screw you, dude! That is very far from the truth. But even so, it’s better than inhumane stuffed shirts like yourself to lock them up. Not to mention ruining countless lives and careers.
I live in the California Inland Empire and this guy is a well known local “anti-marijuana” nut case. His efforts are funded by the government yet his organization has nearly no members. He will not debate the issue nor speak to groups who do not already share his views. He is basically a well-known fraud who is never worried about things like the truth. The scary thing is that the local press puts him up as some kind of authority whenever there is a news story about marijuana.
I don’t blame him so much (he is just a whore who has found a niche), but I do blame our local media for giving this guy a platform to spread his lies.
Hopefully thinking voters will see this guy as the opportunist and shill that he is.
I wrote him an email. I hope many others did as well.
the information he provided is complete bullshit. and each point has been debunked right here on this page. but none of it will matter if the same audience that seen this stupid segment seen the debunks. we need to get this information on tv for everyone to see we need people to see what we know not what this dumbass thinks he knows
wish i could remember the year. william f buckley, on pbs,(paraphrasing): …at a party you dont pass your drink around for all to share…but a joint…get’s passed around…a very sociable action.
and what i would like to see is the actual number’s,
verity of pot leads to other, hard durg use. please prove to me pot is bad…PROVE it!!!
ps john lenon sang it and i belive it…just give me some truth.
I had to turn the video off after 30 seconds because of how stupid this man is.
Another snot nosed punk who has his head up his derriere. 55% of the electorate voted for MMJ and he calls that marginal?
I am a conservative but I am in favor of legalization.
What this punk does not understand because he is too young is that after the age of 50 everyone is experiencing pain, muscular, skeletal, and pot is option for us.
I get really tired of this “I wanna be elected clone”
who is now becoming reactionary.
so what if people want to get high. Did Junior ever get drunk every weekend when he was in college and suffer from two days of hangover and miss class.
He should engage in getting high one saturday evening and see how he feels after a good night sleep on sunday morning.
People don’t get it when it comes to these “supplements” that are supposed to replace marijuana. You cant just make a medicine that contains thc and say “problem solved”. Alot of dispensary workers will recommend a particular strain to a patient based off of the symptoms they’re suffering from. It’s just like walking into a pharmacy with no knowledge of medicine and asking the pharmacist what they would recommend for a headache. The different strains of marijuana out there are like a whole new line of medicines. Instead of realizing this, the drug companies just try to make a substance that replicates marijuana without being marijuana. We have to make people realize that the answer isn’t developing and marketing new pills (this country has enough problems with the illegal pharmaceutical trade as it is). It’s only through the approval of expanded medical research for marijuana that they will realize that legalization is the answer. As long as people like Paul Chabot are allowed to sit there and lie about it without repercussions, no ones ever going to listen. Because everyone would rather watch the news and believe what they hear before going on the net and reading about weather or not what they heard was true.
Edible marijuana oil, marijuana vaporizers and a regulated market to restrict possession by minors as opposed to prohibition chaos. Simple facts, that’s all that is needed to counter this entire interview. Pharmaceuticals are not what the people want and we need to continue to speak out about why organic plants are the only future we will accept. The right to grow personal amounts or the right to have organic uncontaminated marijuana shipped to your home should be had by any American with serious illness immediately.
Since Sativex was brought up Russ I’d like to clarify for NORML readers something.
Sativex is nothing more than a plant extract made from marijuana bud and leaf in a ten part bud to one part leaf ratio according to GW Pharmaceuticals website.
It could be easily made by any person and would certainly be more affordable. With it prescribed in Canada people can’t afford to purchase it as its cost is too high. So what do they do? they return to the black market.
And not to take away from the jerk Chabot there are some readers here that may want to know this:
Bottom of page 203, going on to page 204 in the book Dying to Get High – Marijuana as Medicine by W. Chapkis and R.J. Webb wrote “GW Pharmaceuticals has enlisted the assistance of a powerful but surprising ally: former U.S. Deputy drug czar Andrea Barthwell. In 2005 GW hired Barthwell to help them make their case to U.S. regulators that their marijuana medicine, unlike its homegrown counterpart, deserves federal support. During her years at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Barthwell was an outspoken opponent of medical marijuana, arguing that, unlike synthetic derivatives, “a crude plant is definitely not a medicine.”
But after becoming a paid consultant to GW Pharmaceuticals, Barthwell threw her support behind the pharmaceuticalization of botanical marijuana. Confronted with the apparent contradiction, Barthwell declared, “Comparing crude marijuana to Sativex is like comparing a raging forest fire to the fire in your home furnace. While both provide heat, one is out of control.”
1. I watched the CBS interview and noted that there were occasional quick cuts now and then showing buds being transferred in and out of various sacks, a bit of finger-work removing stems, and someone sucking hard on a crackling hot paper-wrap “joint”. No indication that by screening herb down to a uniform particle size (1/16″) and using a narrow screened long-stemmed one-hitter you can semi-vaporize 25-mg. single tokes at subcombustion temperatures, let alone use a vaporizer as one or two commentors mentioned. Note: this emphasis on showing hot burning overdose smoking procedures was the responsibility of CBS not of the speaker.
2. Modest proposal for NORML: post your own how-to-video (after all, you posted CBS’s), showing how to screen herb to low-temperature particle size, how to suction-load a one-hitter, how to suck slow for ten or more seconds, how to do 30 intense Warm Wet W’s in and out of a 1-liter Launchbonnet (lunchbag) and other health-protective measures.
Really enjoyed all your posts Questioning this.
Thank you so much for taking the time to do so.
Chabot is the name of a wine that comes out of the Napa Valley , Cali.
Hmmmm , i seem to see a connection here between Alcohol & his dislike of Cannabis & his love of pharmaceuticals .
( Makes senses to me .)
I just checked out his web site & in it is him & his buddies holding up while smiling a sign ( don’t choke now ) that says ” Inland Valley ; Drug Free Community Coalition “. Did’nt say in his interview to use alternatives to Cannabis……..to use drugs like Marinol & Sativex or am i mistaken ?
THIS IS ONE HYPOCRITE IF I EVER SAW ONE .
We know the truth, he is ruining his own credability. He was very tense, I think he knows he ruined his career with those baseless accusations. Everyone just remember it our country dont give up and we will get the changes we constantly are fighting for.
most be getting a kickback from drug cartels ..
He is interested in the Marinol and other such products because it keeps the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company’s in the game. Heaven forbid citizens obtain a natural, inexpensive plant to help them with medical issues. This guy is too transparent!!!
Yep someone bought him.
And a note on the new campaign fund laws – although corporations have millions, there are ways for we the people to organize and collect money for a cause. Remember, we the people outnumber special interests by the millions.
It is important that people like this are given a voice. It shows just how ridiculous the prohibition lobby is.
I”ll try to be brief but I’d like to make a point by point argument here, at least the points where I think I can add to what’s already been said:
1: not only 1.8 tbillion from tax revenue, but also eliminate the social costs incurred by people who have been arrested or lost their jobs for it. Do they not end up getting some public assistance? Do they not have an even harder time finding a job because of that, and then they aren’t contributing to the state income tax pool? Or the subsequent mental health problems that result from having these things happen to you, and if you don’t have any income, or very little, guess who pays for THAT? That’s right, you the taxpayer!
2. False argument of applying the same characteristics of tobacco to cannabis, and adding on the element of THC,(which is totally nontoxic btw) to make it SOUND worse.
3. See #1.
4. right, and there are also space cakes.
5. ibid.
6. wow.
7. Someone in a position to know actually GETS IT!
8. To this I might add: The Hippocratic Oath starts out with First, do no harm. That means that you start treatment with the least potential harm, but in this country doctor’s don’t take three minutes before they write out a prescription for an antidepressant or a mood stabilizer or a pain med. The term “bipolar” is thrown around like confetti.
If marijuana caused obesity, diabetes, arthritis, insomnia, memory loss, risk of tardive dyskinesia (a permanent neurological movement disorder not unlike Parkinson’s) liver damage, death from overdose, that information would be smeared all over the media like graffitti. But the truth is that so many prescription medications do cause these side effects. And recent studies are starting to show that antidepressants aren’t nearly as effective as they’re made out to be, and they are incrediblhy expensive, and something like 10% of American’s are on one or another. And these are pills commonly stolen by teenagers and taken to parties. And these types of pills can cause serious addictions. and there are a lot of people who use some of these types of meds to attempt or threaten suicide. And you want to talk to me about marijuana’s harm to society versus these drugs?!?!? wtf?
9. I just don’t understand what the big deal is. If people feel they benefit from it and can use it responsibly, let them use it FOR WHATEVER REASON.
10. ibid.
11. yeah, alll that and more.
12., 13. ,14. ibid. ibid. ibid.
15. if “releasing marijuana into society” were causing the antipated problems, then with a minimum of 30% of Californians who smoke pot, you’d be seeing those problems now. Let’s have a comparison between the states where there’s med mj and the more restrictive states and let’s look at the accidentrates, arrest rates, hospitalization rates, etc. line by line.
16. ibid. (BTW, I’d be far more inclined to trust the stoned pilot than the drunk one, and maybe even more than the sober one.)
17.18. 19. What he said x 3!!!!!!
20.AND it’s theorized that many of the chemicals in cannabis have mitigating effects on the carocinogins.
21. 22., and both of these will be the next things that high school students take to parties with them. And also, because you now are changing the chemical makeup of the plant, do you then make something that is toxic or has a lethal dosage?
23. Again, first, do no harm.
I think I’ll go with the AMA on this one.
16.
P.S., where’d he get that tie!?!
To # 54 The Unknown Soldier,
I will speak out for you everyday of my life. I am a 2 tour veteran of Vietnam and will do everything I can for any veteran that needs pain relief. Paul Chabot is a the worst kind of asshole. He brings dishonor to veterans. We all gave so that everyone could enjoy freedom. We don’t want our elected officials dictating to us about what we can or cannot use for pain relief.
#96 Jed the head: The husband went to Vietnam, nice to meet you sir. And I’m with the Unknown Soldier too.
#81 john burg: “What this punk does not understand because he is too young is that after the age of 50 everyone is experiencing pain, muscular, skeletal, and pot is the option for us.”
Was happy to read that john. It’s funny how the young can’t possibly phantom what their body is going to feel like once they get up there in age. At age 50 I was saying how good I still felt, at age 52 the walls came crashing down.
#54
You are not the only soldier I have met who returns home and runs afoul of the “drug warriors” or an overzealous cop. What a welcome.
Mr. Chabot-
I can understand your point about carcinogens in marijuana smoke, and the ratio of taxes to health care costs. Let me ask you and others a few questions.
1) How many people have died solely and provably forensically documented from marijuana?
2) What harm succumbs the body from eating it?
3) Aren’t vaporizers diminishing carcinogens to a fraction of a percent?
Got a dozen more questions waiting if you want to get ‘political’ with me.
It embarrasses me to be a registered Republic when you and many others are so NAIVE
To think that this country is controlled by the same people who make 3 lane highways converge into a single ramp leading onto a different highway under a bridge really makes me laugh to think that they are so dillusional and this is our time our generation lets go for the GREEN!!!USA is slowly changing,THE END IS NEAR AND I WILL BE SMOKING THE REEFER ON THE END OF DAYS 🙂 PEACE TO ALL DONT FEAR THE REEFER and DO NOT LET THESE OVER DEMANDING CONTROLLING POLITICIANS BRAINWASH YOUR MINDS
Keep it illegal. I don’t want to pay taxes on my revenue.
1st. They already did a study on the average health care costs of alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis and we found that marijuana was significantly less.
Who is is this young (probably first time running) CLOWN who thinks he’s going to tell people what ailments marijuana aids.
I think someone should bake a batch of special brownies and leave them at his door step. It will change his mind.
Fuck this piece of shit asshole slam this mutherfucker!!!
CBS and KYW have the best pics of buds I have ever seen, though.
Since when is a 21 year old considered a kid?
You can really tell this guy is someones puppet. He is trying to sell somthing to the public that he himself has no experience or education in. I bet it took him 30 minutes to review his script and position. What a asshole.
This article from The Washington Post makes Chabot’s argument about cannabis smoke containing the carcinogens found in tobacco irrelevant.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729_pf.html
smoke that cheeba cuz California needs ya
He forgot to mention ALL the drug traffickers that would be taken off the streets. People put in jail. Paperwork for law enforcement officers that could be fighting other crimes more serious. Violence that would cease to exist from dealers. Etc, etc. Just the start…
You can tell he hasn’t tried cannabis. I’m so fortunate to have been able to “see the light” in the truth. Peace and openness, the grass IS “greener” on the other side! 🙂
i think that it is funny how he says when someone is under the influence of marijuana it is hard to determine when that person actually used their medicine 5 minutes ago or three hours ago. On a broader scale of things liquer and booze are very easy to determine if they are under the influence at all.Also the state could make lots more money if they had their cops at bars waiting for irresponsible drunks leaving at 1-2 in the morning…and wouldnt be such a lopsided cost to have a substance that had been under prohibition just like marijuana.
take it from me a 16 year old who smokes for his back that he had to get surgery on and have bars put in. I smoke weed every day without a medical card and ill tell you its much easier to get than tobacco and much safer. Ron paul 2012 wake up and smell the bud
I have no idea where to begin. The fact that the prohibitionists still crank out such tools to spew their bullshit is disturbing! How are kids going to be able to buy marijuana if it becomes legal? Right now kids can get a hold of pot easier than alcohol and tobacco, Why? STREET-DEALERS DO NOT CARD USERS!!! In a legal market we can prevent most under-age use, under prohibition we cannot prevent any….Which do you think will be better for our kids?
Under prohibition, companies, state and federal agencies spend BILLIONS every year for urine-tests, in a legalized regime, we would get rid of that cost. Under prohibition we spend BILLIONS every year arming and training militarized police units specifically for taking down growers and dealers, if pot were legal, we could reduce these raids to compliance checks (making sure commercial growers are properly licensed, and that their production facility meets code conditions). Every year California alone spends millions cleaning up grow-ops in our national forests, if it were legal, there would be no reason to grow on public lands!
To me the whole reason to keep pot illegal is to disenfranchise Americans. Dirt-farmers could be growing hemp, and keeping themselves out of bankruptcy. Bad for international mega-corps, good for the lowly American farmer. Hemp could replace wood, cotton, oil, and some foods. Good for American’s looking for work, bad for big government that wants us all panting at the public tit. As long as pot is illegal, industrial hemp will also remain illegal. This allows cops to charge us millions every year to rip up plots of wild “untended” feral hemp and call it marijuana (according to some study I read, 90% of all “out-door grow-ops” the police destroy are actually plots of “feral hemp”).
-Oz
This guy is ignorant. People that smoke pot whether for medicinal or recreational purposes will continue as always. I think it should be legal and taxed.
haha ok why make more pills that generates more money to the goverment that they dont need marijuana is very resourceful let it grow free on the EARTHS land people need true facts forget all these bull crap thoughts it has been view to the public as bad in the us since 1913 everybody just smoke it up who cares about the risk enjoy life
#1, it is spelled ” Douche”
I can’t tell if this guy is a giant douche or a turd sandwich.
San Francisco News Blog
She states she is 100 % against legalizing marijuana .
She has ties with PayPal ( Drug dealers , pharmaceuticals & Alcohol & now Pornography ? ) ) & people like the McCain’s ( Drug pushers )
Smut Peddler, Guv Hopeful Meg Whitman Waffles on Porn Subsidies
By Matt Smith in Politics
Wed., Apr. 15 2009 @ 4:37PM
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Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, who as eBay CEO proved her mettle as a hardcore fetish pornography entrepreneur, did not respond to an inquiry Wednesday about whether as governor she would seek to continue a California program that, until recently, subsidized the production of smut.
Next week’s SF Weekly includes an exclusive report about a California economic development program that has routed tens of thousands of dollars in subsidies to an Internet pornography producer. Continuing — or even bolstering — this practice would seem a tailor-made campaign issue for Whitman, who bills herself as a business whiz ready to revive the California economy. She backs her economic talk with real chops: In 1998, just as eBay was preparing an initial stock offering, Whitman oversaw the creation of a special eBay site exclusively for the sale of pornography. The move was prescient — though much porn consumption has shifted to streaming Internet video, there’s still a market for specialized fetish material best sold in DVD — or otherwise physically-shippable form.
In this spirit, Whitman’s “eBay Adults Only” brainchild is a place where, on April 15, $5.94 got one into the bidding for a DVD titled Redneck Trailer Torture. With $12 one could vie for “porn star Brianna Ryder’s personal g-string,” and $7.99 put one in the running for the DVD Grandma Has Sex With Everybody! Anal, Oral, Group!
By mid-day on April 15, Whitman’s adults-only Web-auction brainchild had more than 87,000 items for sale, with prices the $5-$20 range. If this is typical, a back-of-the-used-thong calculation suggests an eBay porno-based income of several million dollars per year, potentially funding dozens of California jobs.
On Wednesday SF Weekly asked Whitman spokesman Mitch Zak whether, given Whitman’s smut-peddling success, the porn-industry could count on her support as governor. Zak had not responded by press time
If that guy were to punch me in the face,I would love it.
I love how didn’t ask any questions that go against what he is saying. Now days they just let people come on their shows and say what ever they want without even proving that its right? Nobody mentioned vaporizing…. or the fact that just because i dont have a significant illinuss im just “getting high”? what kind of shit it that? i guess my depression and anxiety that i get just doesnt matter because its not terminal i shouldnt be treated for it… and he is saying weed is worse than cigs? please… look at the biiiiger picture guy. I hope you enjoyed the check you got for looking like a idiot on tv because ur a Hater
anyone else find it ironic that his address is…12223 Highland Ave
As a former conservative and hypocrite, I can say without doubt that Paul Chabot is a lost soul. Its not that Facts and truth mean nothing to him, its the fact that he lacks the intellectual curiosity needed to find the facts and truth.
Its is proven that when a object is illegal it is more attractive therefore more “cooler to do” If we make it legal than the sense of doing something wrong will soon go away and I bet people will not even want to smoke anymore because the glam factor will be removed and the medical patients that need it will be left alone and to live a normal life.This guy is fanboy of the tobacco industry and paper and oil.I say if marijuana never gets legal than we make Alcohol illegal and see how far that goes …..freaking hypocrites..
this guy is one of the crookedest sob’s sponsored by the ONDCP. He gets 50k each year from the White House to “keep kids off drugs”, then he willfully and intentionally and illegally missappropriates that funding in direct attacks on patients. He goes after patients individually, harassing and slandering them in their lives.
If this wicked man is supported by the Republican party, I will never vote for a Republican again- he is that evil.
here is a link to a debate he was in a few months ago
http://www.inlandsocal.com/healthfitness/forum/
I love it how he explains his personal experience with cannabis is limited to his “addiction” at 12 years old, demonstrating his understanding of the effects of cannabis is quite immature.
If th RNC supports this wicked and murderous hearted man, I will never vote for a Republican again.
i hope he doesn’t get elected
This just goes to show that politicians are compulsive liars. Not a fucking word this tool said is correct.
“Marijuana is the healer of a nation, Alcohol is its destruction” -Bob Marley
i say keep it illegal. i love the idea of kids easily getting a hold of it. its great that my money is not going back to the country and instead going into criminals pockets. i love how Mexicans are killing each other and other people because its illegal. i get a hard on watching peoples lives destroyed for a plant and sick people in bad pain. its great that the Constitution doesn’t mean much anymore. if you excuse me im off to die from cancer ridden cigarettes and get alcohol poisoning.
KEEP IT ILLEGAL!
The Democrats will be a footnote until the candidate of change changes himself and removes marijuana from Schedule 1 status.
What a moron “we have better drugs out there” he said let me guess he is refering to oxycotin these stupid fucking idiots piss me off so bad it is time for us potheads to take back control alcohol and tabacco is the real problem here.
I thought the GOP stood for Personal Responsibility and Small Government? Doesn’t everything he said said stank in stark contrast to those IDEALS?
FKn Hypocrite!
THC in front of it….lol
NORML needs to really distribute the movie: the union: the business behind getting high. why not get a michael moore type of character for NORML? and put the movies in theaters..
[Editor’s note: NORML is a non-profit organization that specializes in educating and organizing cannabis consumers, lobbying and litigation…the organization is not in the entertainment or movie distribution business.]
When did President Obama’s popularity begin to plunge?
In March 09, an online town hall meeting was held by President Obama. The President was asked the question if he thought marijuana legalization could help the US economy. He flat out said “No I don’t. But what bothers me more is what this question says about the Internet online community.”
Then his staff offered unqualified remarks that special interests groups such as NORML conspired and hijacked the town hall meeting with their marijuana questions.
Popularity polls have been steadily going south for President Obama since he made his funk remarks back then.
See “63rd District: You need to know Paul Chabot” at http://bbvm.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/you-need-to-know-paul-chabot-dont-let-him-gain-office/ .
Paul Chabot is a sick man. He comes from the drunken Military District of San Bernardino County, where everyone kisses the Feds for Jerry Lewis’s earmark handout, and promotes alcohol for its tax value.
Paul Chabot looks like an ignorant little boy who worked really hard to learn his lines for the school pagent. I bet he’s a closet queen.
Anyone voting for this idiot should have their head examined. They might find relief for their mental illness with medical cannabis 😉
Thanks Russ, that was an excellent rebuttal, as the facts are on your side.
It is seriously depressing to me that politicians can get away with such blatant lies. It depresses me that the public is either really ignorant, really gullible, really stupid or all of the above. I think that the public should really hold politicians accountable. I think the fact that everyone accepts that politicians lie as just being part of life is retarded. If the public were smarter, then politicians who deliberately try to mislead the public would be looked upon with disgust and wouldn’t be elected to any office.
When people are lied to, it is the same as taking away their right to vote. Democracy depends on an informed public. When people make decisions based on lies told to them, then the decisions really are not their own.
Who paid this guy to say this crap, I am tired of the lies. The difference between marijuana and tobacco is simply life and death. There are thousand of people who die every year from from tobacco, name one person who died from marijuana. And on top of that Doctors want to prescribe drugs that comes from plant like poppy seeds, coca plants etc. that has more of a chance of an addiction that is a struggle to kick. Maybe if we pushed congress to banned tobacco and these other drugs like they do marijuana, I wonder if they would sing a different song.
Hmm…how starnage that this “gentleman” has a blog yet you can not comment on it. Imagine that. These laws are the reason I now a felon…for the rest of my life cause I choose cannabis over alcohol. I consider politicians like him my personal enemy.
I butchered my last comment…
Hmm…how strange that this “gentleman” has a blog yet you can not comment on it. Imagine that. These laws are the reason I am now a felon…for the rest of my life cause I choose cannabis over alcohol. I consider politicians like him my personal enemy. I mean these guys aren’t about liberty or freedom or fellow citizens but the almighty dollar and power. I also contacted him and have asked that he turn on his commenting system on his blog page so we could have a healthy debate with him…it’s something I think he needs to do.
do you work for the drug componie or somthing, yes cannibus has 400 cancer causing ethogens but i dont know one person who smokes as much marijuana as a a tobbaco smoker does, especcialy now days when the thc content is higher so you have to smoke less to acheive the same high. so excuse me but go fu** yourself you unfactual a hole. you mentioned two studys that go against legalization, we can mention millions!
Some people who have made up their minds absolutely refuse to allow themselves to be confused with the facts. The truth about cannabis will be around long after this idiot, complete with his irrational fear and hate, are long gone. Cannabis should be re-legalized immediately. On a related topic, not growing industrial hemp has to be very near the top of the list of the absolutely most stupid things this country has ever done. Mr. Chabot seems very comfortable with his self-appointed superiority to dictate how others should be allowed to lead their lives, even though they do no harm to others, and little if any to themselves. I wonder how Mr. Chabot would react if I ran his life in violation of God’s will for people to live in freedom with liberty as acknowledged and cited in the Constitution of the United States. At the very best, Mr. Chabot is a dangerously bad joke; at worst, he is an example and part of the problem, definitely not any part of a viable solution.