Over the past several months, the Federal government escalated its war against medical marijuana to previously unseen heights. The Drug War machine kicked into high gear starting in October when the IRS began applying an obscure part of the US tax code, meant to target drug cartels, against medical dispensaries in attempts to shut them down. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms joined in the fight when it issued a heavy handed one page memo to every gun and ammunition dealer nationwide informing them that they must, by law, deny sales to lawful medical cannabis patients.
The hammer really fell when the US Attorneys for the four federal districts in California formally announced a crackdown on medical marijuana dispensing operations and began issuing memos threatening operators and landlords of these properties. Threats were even waged against news publications who ran advertisements for medical marijuana businesses. All of this in an environment where over 70% of Americans support medical use of cannabis, the country’s largest physicians group endorsed full legalization, and at least four governors are petitioning the DEA to reclassify marijuana based on overwhelming evidence of its medicinal value. Unfortunately, It doesn’t appear an end is in sight as new threats of intervention are looming in Colorado.
That is why today, in cooperation with other reform organizations, NORML is encouraging you to contact President Obama and tell him to end his administrations war on cannabis patients. Click here to use NORML’s Take Action Center to directly email the below letter to the White House and tell President Obama to stand by his promise to not interfere with state medical marijuana laws.
Dear President Obama:
I urge you to end your war on medical marijuana patients. More than 70 percent of Americans are in favor of legal medical marijuana. 16 states and the District of Columbia have passed medical marijuana legislation.
At least four governors are petitioning the DEA to reclassify marijuana based on overwhelming evidence that it has medicinal value. While this reclassification is pending, your Administration should respect — not attack –state medical marijuana laws that provide patients with safe and reliable access to this medicine.
Given the fiscal crisis our country finds itself in, it doesn’t make sense to waste federal tax dollars and law enforcement resources interfering with state medical marijuana laws.
Dear President Obama:
I urge you to end your war on medical marijuana patients. More than 70 percent of Americans are in favor of legal medical marijuana. 16 states and the District of Columbia have passed medical marijuana legislation.
At least four governors are petitioning the DEA to reclassify marijuana based on overwhelming evidence that it has medicinal value. While this reclassification is pending, your Administration should respect — not attack –state medical marijuana laws that provide patients with safe and reliable access to this medicine.
Given the fiscal crisis our country finds itself in, it doesn’t make sense to waste federal tax dollars and law enforcement resources interfering with state medical marijuana laws.
Stop wasting the tax payers dollars on a “War” that will never be won. In fact, while you are at it. Just LEGALIZE Cannabis for everybody and save our money so we can have more in our pockets to help with this hideous economy. Concentrate on the REAL drugs like Meth, Cocaine, etc.
It makes perfect sense for Obama to vote in favor of who is paying him the most!
I suggest a national speak up day on 4/20/12 and peaceful protest at every state capital similar to the Occupy Wall St. movement. Do it now so this cannot be avoided in the 2012 Presidential Debates! Get off the couch and DO SOMETHING!!
If they (the Government) make it legal to grow, package, smoke and possess but illegal to sell not even for a penny or to recoup cost, it takes the crime out of it. It diffuses the whole thing. Everyone who wanted to smoke would simply grow their own, either in or out. Or a real collective situation would arise. MJ would no longer burden our prisons, our police, our courts or our taxes. Home Depot would have classes. Not a perfect world but better.
Why can’t our government respect the wishes of 70% of its citizens?
This is a country where democracy rules (at least that is what I was taught in school) why dose it not work that way? Stop listening to the drug co. lobbyist and LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S.A. We all know why it’s illegal ….MONEY! D.E.A. can find other ways to do their jobs. Locking up otherwise law abiding citizens is unjust, unfair and in my eyes dose more harm than good.
Sincerely,
Mr. Richard Pisz Sr
Obama doesn’t care what the people who voted for him want. He has made that crystal clear. Less than a year to go before he is voted out of office. I just hope its not Newt Gingrich that takes his place.
I agree with Joshua Schreiber!!!I think thats a great idea
Nothing can change his mind unless your able to give him more money ( political contributions ) than pharmaceutical, oil, tobacco and the alcohol industry has . Bribing used to be illegal but now have you ever heard of a politician being jailed for accepting a bribe ?
This type of governmental inflexibility will only help to push the cause for legalization. This is exactly how alcohol prohibition came to an end almost a hundred years ago. These are the death throes of American cannabis prohibition.
Keep running the economy into the ground until cannabis is legalized.
If 2012 rolls around, and the Republicans get the presidency, still keep running the economy into the ground until cannabis is legalized.
It’s about people more than politics. It’s about people more than profit of the drugs cartels.
Why are all of you even wasting time on this topic with Obama? Really? He openly mocked and laughed at us when he first got into office and had those online questions (Top 9 I think were abt legalizing weed). Where is all the talk about Ron Paul? You know the guy that actually will legalize it and actually has a good shot at winning not only the nomination, but beating Obama. That should be the focus. Vote Ron Paul in the primaries to get him the GOP nominee and we will see him beat Obama and legalize it. Stop wasting your time on Obama. Its just falling on deaf ears.
RON PAUL 2012
”Can anybody say SCREWGED?”
Sign the petition and a comment.
There will be a protest in Concord New Hampshire at the Capitol building on 4/20 2012.
Let us deside
The US Drug Laws and the people who support and enforce them represent Crimes Against Humanity. The death, suffering, incarceration and waste of resources all represent one of the great Crimes Against Humanity in history. The President, DOJ, House, Senate and Drug Czar should be brought up on charges in a World court and be tried for crimes against humanity.
Contact your representative today and ask them if they support the deaths, pain and waste of taxpayer dollars caused by the US drug laws. If they do, vote them out.
Write to leaders of other countries like Mexico who suffer as a result of US prohibition and urge the to bring charges against US leaders for Crimes Against Humanity for not legalizing a plant and ending the suffering caused by the US drug laws.
For 35 years now our Federal government has provided 4 American citizens every month with tin canisters containing 300 University of Mississippi grown cannabis cigarettes.
Our federal government also allows the pharmaceutical company Unimed(and others associated with Unimed) to profit millions of dollars from Marinol which is an extremely scientifically processed form of THC used for Aids and cancer patients. Marinol has been patented and profitable for the company since 1992.
Yet we. The American people. Are subject to prison,persecution,harassment,discrimination, and plain old bullying from the very government that is supposed to protect our sovereign rights to life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
When President Nixon put together a commission to see what steps he should take on the question of his stance on cannabis. His commission called The Shafer Commission came back with the study that none of the reasons cannabis was made illegal in the first place stand up to the truth of the plant or the science behind it and that they didn’t feel Americans should be arrested for something citizens want to do in the privacy of our homes.
Nixon disregarded the helpful insight and set out a full scale war on cannabis which we have been waging ever since.
With information so blatantly available to all. It is a disgrace to live in a time where our current governmental administration continues to follow the most unhealthy path of unjust laws undermining the entire structure of our freedom. Yet our government will allow the destruction of our society with promotion of alcohol and chemically enhanced cancer sticks(cigarettes) and any pharmaceutical drug approved by the FDA no matter the side affects of DEATH!
DEATH the only thing you CAN NOT attain from ingesting cannabis no matter which way you like it.
The question is no longer how long we will have to wait before our government will allow us to have this special and beloved plant cannabis? But when will we the American people take a stand for our deepest well know truths, rights and justices denied us by the 21st century politics of more talk and more laws?
Now all the government officials in states that have medicinal cannabis are fighting to get the upper hand with fees more fees more fees and territories to profit from the plant they all see as a gold mine for themselves and those with clout in the system.
America. What are we to do? There seems to be no end to the injustices perpetrated on our citizens by our very own government because of a harmless plant. America. How can we really end this crazy situation we’ve let get so out of hand?
I am an underemployed American. I constantly search Craigslist for part time work. I’m willing to do cleaning jobs.
MOST of the jobs I look into require pre employment drug screening.
For what?
Are you, Mr. Potential Employer(paid off by the government in the form of a tax break), really and truly concerned that the joint I ADMITTEDLY smoked yesterday or last week is seriously, logically going to have some sort of effect on my potential job performance TODAY????
REALLY??????????????????????????????????????????????
Or is it more likely that I have broken an unjust and immoral law and nothing detrimental to the world happened as a result of my breaking this unjust and immoral law AND THAT YOU HAVE TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OUT OF ME??????
I am starting a NEW CAMPAIGN TODAY and I hope you will all join me.
This takes VERY LITTLE TIME & WORK. I do this EVERY DAY!!!!!
Log into Craigslist. Look for a job that requires pre employment drug testing. Reply to the job posting with your own personalized lecture on why pre employment drug testing is wrong in every way and on every levl.
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Get the message out there that as long as booze is legal, discrimination based on private drug use will not be tolerated.
Why can’t we just petition the government to unschedule cannabis? According to the Bill of Rights that is an option.
Looking for spending cuts? Legalize marijuana and save 10 billion a year
Obama’s a two-faced liar,Ron paul 2012!!! Don’t fear change,embrace it 🙂
Why dont you guys throw your support behind congressman Ron Paul? He will end the drug war and has spoken about it may times. He believes the federal government should butt out of states rights on social issues completely. He believes in the power of hemp and that weed should be treated like alcohol. RON PAUL 2012
[Editor’s note: FYI — Non-profit organizations like NORML, DPA, DRCNet, ASA, MPP, etc…can’t legally endorse or provide support to elected candidates or parties. NORML has a Political Action Committee (PAC), but it is non-partisan and to date has not made a presidential endorsement.]
Legalize and move onto real important issues in the world.
Corndog sticks are more dangerous than marijuana!
Ever wonder who law enforcement will lock up, if or once, cannabbis is legal. Maintaining the status quo is in several organizations’ interest! I will not mention names, but the advents on the right side of the page driving people tp attorneys is an excellent indication.
What is that thing called, that which, the government promised to former african-american slaves for being subjected to inequality. Well, I believe, people should start sueing for just that reason. I have been unjustly discriminated, persecuted, proseccuted, you name it, all of the above. I need compensated for all the BS the governmnet has put me through. I need an attorney that is willing to stick up for me and my rights, without greedily wanting something in return.
Please Mr. Obama — I voted for your ass… know I feel like you are squatting on my MMJ vote.
If those who make the laws refuse to listen to consensus or reason, why should we abide by their laws in the first place?
@Steve the word you are looking for is REPARATIONS
As much as I want to send this email it makes a me a little nervous that my name, address, and email are required.
How difficult would it be to have tobacco farmers who are in jeopardy of losing their farms due to decreased tobacco usage switch over to becoming hemp and cannabis cultivators? Talk about “Green Jobs…” Farmers in the 1800s used to be MANDATED by the federal government to grow hemp.
i think we are doing excellent people. although theres some signs of negativity in our movement i believe the mainstream population is really taking a shift on the issue of cannabis and i believe a big reason is alot of really intelligent people are starting to shed light on the issue of cannibas and as a result people are learning more about this once mysterious, benign, all natural plantlife and its benefits. im really thankful to norml and all of their hard work. i feel as if your efforts put hands in really dark places to pull good people out of bad situations and thats the kind of stuff that really makes this world a better place. thank you norml.
Obama is going to do nothing about this. We need a president Ron Paul or a President Gary Johnson.
I agree with Joshua Schreiber as well as Melissa Bell. The real problems are the users of alcohol, meth, Cocaine and tobacco. I feel my rights are being depleted as an American. I feel like this government
Has become a total failure especially after the completion of Ronald Regan’s term . I believe in medical marijuana and harvesting within one’s property. We must stand up and flight against those who has revenues to bribe the Government. I think we should bring back the WIG and utilize our votes and
Knowledge to obtain the labeling of products: Made in the USA. Perhaps then we can honestly say we are securing our future.
We will never go away.
President Obama is a jackass.
#28, I dont we should compare our MMJ right to Slavery.
It’s about alot more than a buzz. Of the three we have to choose from Dr Paul will draw more votes from the other sides. They’re corruption and treason is so great they can’t hide the truth. They are the cartel.
This coming year might be the last chance at freedom.
It’s actually up to us norml’s to vote for the best chance for our membership. Hope he’s got 4-8 years left in him. rotflmao
Why don’t we sue the federal government?For Crimes Against Humanity?I lost a 60k a year job, was unemployed for a year,damn near lost everything, got to wait 3yrs and maybe might be rehire-able for another CDL job?Now i make 22k-24k a year, for smoking Marijuana,and having a bad UA really!The unconstitutional treatment of American people needs to end, lets take it to the big courts and the media.We the people need Retribution…
When I was a young boy,(many years ago),one of my classes in High School was typing.Not that I benefited a great deal from learning how to type,but I do recall a few of the things that I learned beside a,s,d,f j k l ;,which are the start keys for hand movement on the keyboard.There was a sentence we learned to exercise our key strokes, and that sentence really has meaning today, I think.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
We are going to have to physically wrestle with the politicians and corporate geeks to get them to understand the harm that they are causing Americans by Urine testing for pot,making it extremely difficult to find employment,get an education,feed a family.
Making sick people have to score their medicine from a street dealer is a crime,and the DEA and the Obama administration should be legally held responsible.
People in this country being put in jail for cannabis is a crime.
People in Asia being used for slave labor on drug charges is a crime.
People in countries like Russia and Iran being executed on drug charges is a crime.
Governments of the World lack any kind of Wisdom when it comes to cannabis,and the citizens of the world are suffering.
Science and the logical evidence that many years of usage, should outweigh all the ages old propaganda that the American gov spews.
LEAVE NO AUTHORITY EXISTING NOT RESPONSIBLE TO THE PEOPLE. Thomas Jefferson
start by putting some clean cut people on that drugs wars show on discovery…the more we keep showing fuck heads on tv that smoke herb…the world will never change their opinion. what do you expect??? it’s ridiculous these burnouts pot shows put on tv…find some business looking potheads to show…it’ll help trust me
You claim to have 70% popular support, over 25% of the states on board and we still command less political respect than the National Association of Mosquito Breeders. Maybe I’m crazy ( I look at this world and wonder every day) but is being non political really the best way to reach a political goal.
they know medical mj will lead to full legalization, and thats very bad for big business
Marijuana is a Class I narcotic. By the DEA’s own system, it IS already among the hardest drugs. Therefore, it’s impossible for marijuana to lead to a “harder” drug! If marijuana was a gateway drug, then it might lead to “softer” drugs, like meth, cocain, or the opiates.
ISN’T THAT RIDICULOUS?!
“Given the fiscal crisis our country finds itself in, it doesn’t make sense to waste federal tax dollars and law enforcement resources interfering with state medical marijuana laws.”
I couldn’t have said it any better.
@30 Nathan: You are correct. Respect for the law works both ways.
Because Obama changed his tune about Cannabis so quickly, I wonder if the powerfully political DEA sat him down, and basically told him, this is the way it’s going to be. That’s the stick. The carrot was Holder’s memo to lay off the raids.
Obama is almost as bad as Nixon concerning Cannabis. I recently found out that a new politcal party has started up. It’s called the Justice Party (economic-social and environmental justice).
What I’ve read about them on their web-site appeals to me. However, I dont know what their stand is on Cannabis.
Has anybody noticed when a shooting occurs that militarized police show up in force. Pretty soon drones will be in everybody house listening and watching. If they find what they like the whole ‘homeland security’ operators militarized to the hilt will be outside waiting to barge in. Dont they consider Cannabis part of the war on terror also?
It is getting down right scary this encrouching police state.
NORML’s PAC should officially endorse Ron Paul!!! He is the only candidate who will actually change and reform drug laws in this country!
[Editor’s note: NORML and the NORMLPAC are non-partisan (NORML is a diverse group made up of conservatives, liberals, libertarians, greens, independents, etc…, so it does not engage in partisan politics, nor does it need to effect positive law reforms). Also, Ron Paul is not the only GOP candidate to support reform as Fred Karger and Gary Johnson do too.]
Dear President Obama:
I urge you to end your war on medical marijuana patients. More than 70 percent of Americans are in favor of legal medical marijuana. 16 states and the District of Columbia have passed medical marijuana legislation.
At least four governors are petitioning the DEA to reclassify marijuana based on overwhelming evidence that it has medicinal value. While this reclassification is pending, your Administration should respect — not attack –state medical marijuana laws that provide patients with safe and reliable access to this medicine.
………..and you were wondering what the Fema camps were for ?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=26e_1324093458
Ok Obama We’ll say it is also a drug and you say it is also a medicine. Earn that nobel prise.
I can’t decide which e-mail to send the President. Help me decide, let me know what think.
1. Dear Mr. President, please legalize Marijuana, or else I’ll e-mail you again and again until you do. You can’t just delete my e-mails as soon as you see the word Marijuana because,,,, you just can’t.
Or
2. Dear Mr. President, please legalize Marijuana soon so I can go back to voting for Republicans. (actually saw this one in the comment section awile back, one of my all time favorites.)
fishcreekbob is absolutely correct in stating this upcoming year may be the last chance. At least for us to try and do this properly. Congress has been holding hearings to try and censor the internet. If you think once they get this new legislation passed, and they will, that they won’t shut down any objectionable website because of its content, check your head. If they don’t like your opinion they will shut you down. What happened to Richard Nixon, the President who started the War on Drugs? The President who held a formal inquiry into marijuana but didn’t like the results? He got impeached, but his civil war remained. Did you know that in the 1800s the very same government that poisons your heads with propaganda required U.S. farmers to grow hemp? Dig deeper.
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Republic Bureau of Drugs and Money , it’s them saying :
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and thas not what I want .,. I want Peace and Pot Amen.
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If we are start going yo job and taken drug screening it will shut the company down.
Of course they are now going to go after states for their approval of mmj and the opening of pharmacys. Now that they have decided to fund the opening of their newly built federal prison in Berlin NH, they now need to fill it to justify its existance.
I think cannabis could have saved Heath Ledger died from an accidental “toxic combination of prescription drugs”.
He wasn’t getting enough sleep and his mind was racing,
if marijuana was legal his doctor could have prescribe
him some cannabis.It’s all your fault Obama you killed
a great actor.
So we can’t have or do anything, no house,tent,blanket or even jobs? does anyone remember what happens next? WE WIN!
Without shaking the rafters too much: how many of the very sincere people who have posted in response to this “blog” and Obambi’s war on mj/mmj will post that they not only voted for this Manchurian candidate’s “Hope and Change” mantra, but really thought since he’s half-a-brother he would really have the balls to change our nation’s executive policy, if not be willing to follow legislative lead on decrim and sign it as POTUS? Really people: bash Newt, bash conservatives, bash Republicans, but first and foremost, bash yourself for voting for this sinister person.
Ummmm…..is there ANY good news at all for marijuana movement?
This war against medical marijuana shows who the enemies are. DEA, ATF, IRS, and the US attorneys are just a bunch of thugs. All that tokers want is to be left alone and not have to go to the black market. This petition to Obama is pointless because he is part of the problem. Might as well petition the wolves to increase security of the chicken farms… it’s not going to happen.
Please read Jack Herer’s “The Emperor Wears No Clothes.” The book is loaded with useful information. Through knowledge, we can help shed light on the truth.
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I can see Obama telling us he wants cannabis legalized right before the elections… I won’t buy hit, he’ll just do what he did this time.
I think it’s pretty clear by now that Obama doesn’t care what We The People want. He has had plenty of opportunity to protect cannabis patients and has failed to do so. His pick for head of the DEA is a slap in the face.
Let’s stop begging him to leave terminally ill people alone and start focusing on making sure he doesn’t win the presidency again.
Presidential candidate Ron Paul will abolish the DEA and legalize drugs if elected. His record shows he has voted to uphold the Constitution throughout his entire career. He is winning in Iowa and is gaining an enormous amount of momentum. If we truly hope to end the war on drugs and get rid of the DEA then vote for Ron Paul.
I’m a POW of the war on marijuana. I’m 50 years old, living with hep C for about 30 years. All the meds the doctors give will distroy my liver. i don’t drink or smoke tobbaco. Mr. Obama you drink and smoke tobacco, did you know that will KILL you. You also make you own beer. I use marijuana for my meds. Why is our goverment so afraid of marijuana. I’ve never committed a crime in my life, not even a parking ticket. Now my life is being destoyed by our goverment. We have lost our jobs, my son will be droping out of college, losing our home. Now i’m labled a criminal for life. Impossible to find a job. We will be homeless very soon. My only crime is marijuana. I’m sure i’ll be in jail soon, guess i won’t need a home. But my family does! I believe my death is the only way out for me or living poor and homelss. PLEASE SAVE MY LIFE, MR, Obama.
This war against medical marijuana shows who the enemies are. DEA, ATF, IRS, and the US attorneys are just a bunch of thugs. All that tokers want is to be left alone and not have to go to the black market. This petition to Obama is pointless because he is part of the problem. Might as well petition the wolves to increase security of the chicken farms… it’s not going to happen.I am a soldier that served my time in Iraq and was injured,Drs. want to put me on narcotics to relieve the pain i’m in but I told the Drs. I don’t want to injure my liver or kidneys and marijuana eases the pain(degenerative disc disease,degenerative arthritus,metal plat in foot pins in both shoulders,deveated septum)
Wow read this!, look how worse the drug violence with the Mexican Cartels has increase to the highness level that the Mexican police can’t keep up with it much and many small towns police are scared and don’t want to be part of it because they will retaliate right back on them. You know why this is on a high increase of violence, MARIJUANA!, YES MARIJUANA! Soon the FBI and DEA can’t keep up with it because If they arrest more Mexicans for selling marijuana in the USA to get prosecuted it will increase to the highness level of wasting millions to billions of tax payer dollars No do we really want that. I bet you that the Mexican
President will meet with Obama begging him to end the Drug war for good. Wake the hell up Congress and President reality is stepping in like never before, the pigs are about to fly!!
Yeah Ron Paul has a plan to end the war on drugs. As President, Paul would also pardon all non-violent drug offenders.
Everyone should blast this out to facebook and everything social! This message needs to bombard the White House until they start to actually represent the people and value that the majority of Americans want marijuana to be decriminalized. WE NEED TO START MAKING MOVES ON GETTING OUR VOICE HEARD! Do as much as you can! If you want to follow me on facebook, I post recent and relevant information on all cannabis topics! Search me as Captain Cannabis, or my link is…..
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Captain-Cannabis/126565704115180
Don’t be mean, go Green
Question: How do you feel about a Black American President?
It would not matter to me if he were Green, just so he is not Mean and goes Green by:
1. Installing Grow Rooms in the White House and changing its name to the Green House.
2. Changing the DEA (drug enforcement agency) into a Drug Education Agency.
3. Apologizing on behalf of the American people to the world for the governments unholy war on the precious cannabis plant and those who use it, by creating a a nonprofit “CCWPDC” agency, and implementing its agenda.
* The “CCWPDC” agency is the Control Center for Worldwide Proliferation and Distribution of Cannabis.
Why don’t we form a rally and march on the steps of the White House, the women’s right’s activist did and sure as heck got their way, so stoners grab your bongs, pipes, rillo’s, and jay’s and let’s smoke until they arrest every last one of us! I’m sick and tired of being scared for smoking bud, I smoke to escape my depression and thoughts of suicide and Mr. Obama you expect me to pop a pill to “cope” with my depression, I don’t freaking think so! I will never take any synthetic, man- made pill because those are physically addicting and kill people, more teens die from prescribed medication than any other drug! Talk about a war on drugs, you’re fighting the wrong people here! Mr. Obama I hope you sincerely understand that you are putting more people’s lives at risk than ever before, will you be remembered as the President who legalized marijuana or threw every depressed teen, every cancer patient who copes with their illness, and every freaking “pothead,” as we are commonly and loosely referred to, in jail?! Sounds like a great way to end your Presidency, hope you enjoyed the power, I wish you had done what you promised; change. Oh wait, you did… P.S. I read this… and thought I should re-post. I’m a POW of the war on marijuana. I’m 50 years old, living with hep C for about 30 years. All the meds the doctors give will distroy my liver. i don’t drink or smoke tobbaco. Mr. Obama you drink and smoke tobacco, did you know that will KILL you. You also make you own beer. I use marijuana for my meds. Why is our goverment so afraid of marijuana. I’ve never committed a crime in my life, not even a parking ticket. Now my life is being destoyed by our goverment. We have lost our jobs, my son will be droping out of college, losing our home. Now i’m labled a criminal for life. Impossible to find a job. We will be homeless very soon. My only crime is marijuana. I’m sure i’ll be in jail soon, guess i won’t need a home. But my family does! I believe my death is the only way out for me or living poor and homelss. PLEASE SAVE MY LIFE, MR, Obama.
You’ll let all those greedy banksters off the hook for their crimes and reward them with bailouts, but ccccrack down hard on pot-smoking sick people. How could I call this a free and just country?
Gary
Cannabis Culture
Theology, Humor, & Cannabis test positive for THC.
Theology:
Cannabis is God’s medicine for relief of stress, anxiety, depression and living in New Jersey.
Cannabis is excelent for medication, therapy, meditation, and prayer, eliminating the need for multiple visits to the doctor’s office and church. This could be why there is such a fierce resistance to its use. I can only conclude with “holy hemp, that’s good smoke”. Thank you Jesus.
God gave the herb (cannabis) for the service of man. psalm 104:14 Also called the herb bearing seed. genesis 1:11
Humor:
Why was I laughing?
That smoke was so good I forgot why I was laughing and couldn’t stop, cause I couldn’t remember why I was laughing, which I needed to do in order to stop.
I finally remembered why I was laughing. I was laughing at these fools who set out to eradicate God’s cannabis plant from the earth and persecuted those who used it, their folly being exceeded only by their guilt. When it is all over men will mock them and laugh at their utter foolishness, because they were not able to finish what they started and are fit to be eradicated, except they repent and find mercy, because there is a storm blowing in from eternity called judgement, that will overflow with righteousness and sweep away the refuge of lies. psalm 52:6-7 Isaiah 28:17
Cannabis:
The most valuable plant on the planet for production of textiles, medicines, food, fuel, and other products has been banned as poison, and use of it a criminal act. An outrage of epic
proportions, a colossal blunder and a blight on human behavior, which will not be forgotton, teaching us how to avoid this great evil (prohibition) in the future and judge those wicked men who brought it upon us.
OCDSF, the acronym for operating a controlled dangerous substance facility. In this instance for the manufacture of cannabis.
O:
To OPERATE or maintain a cannabis manufacturing facility, you would have to create the plant, which God has already done.
C:
Cannabis is not a CONTROLLED substance, it is banned. Control is not an option.
D:
Cannabis is not a DANGEROUS substance, it is benign and beneficial for those who appreciate its use.
S:
Cannabis is an excellent SUBSTANCE for medication, therapy, meditation, and prayer, providing physical and spiritual benefits.
F:
A FACILITY is a place where research and/or takes place.
A garden is a place where plants (including cannabis) can flourish and grow.
In reality, the goverment is guilty of multiple OCDSF violations by creating criminals with unjust drug laws through prohibition, resulting in the on going seven atrocities, or abominations in the sight of God.
1. Ordinary citizens are criminals for the use of a medical herb, given by God for the service of man. (gen; 1:11, ps; 104:14)
2. Locking people up, separating spouses, leaving children without parents, mixing violent felons and sexual predators with
non violent non criminal targets of an unrighteous criminal justice system.
3. Using prohibition to finance (at the taxpayers expense) the criminal (not righteous) justice system, expanding its power to create a police state.
4. Making a business out of incarceration (merchandising in the souls of men Rev – 18:13) by building prisons, court rooms, administrative offices and other facilities, creating construction and DOC jobs, plus positions for judges, prosecutors, public defenders, parole and probation officers. Then, increasing police power and presence to insure the efficiency of a police state economy enforceing prohibition.
5. The malicious evil genius of outlawing a substance that is enjoyable, beneficial, and sanctioned by God, violating the freedom of worship guaranteed by the constitution as well as the liberty to use cannabis for medication, therapy, meditation, and prayer.
6. The poison fruits of the government’s insane drug enforcement policies (local, state, and federal) ARE:
A. Respect for authority is replaced with fear and contempt. When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice, when the wicked bear rule they mourn. (prov-29:2) When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: But when they perish the righteous increase. (prov-28:28)
B. Creation of a black market where supply, demand, and are controlled by the principles of prohibition, which are lies, deceit, advarice, and greed.
C. Corruption and criminal activity runs rampant with no end in sight. Law enforcement is forced to oppress their neighbors, subjected to dangerous situations, tempted to bribary, theft, to be partial in judgment, etc.. Citizens are subject to drug tests to qualify for employment, unlawful searches, always suspect, living under constant scrutiny of probable cause, where respect, honesty, and integrity are rare commodities, and if prohibition never ends, will not be found at all.
7. Finally, the enormous amount of money, resources and non productive human energy (man power) spent on prohibition, would be enough to solve the national debt, poverty, education, and unemployment problems combined.
Section A
Who are these bullies and cowards that created unjust laws to enforce cannabis prohibition and the war on drugs? It is iniquity to pervert judgment with unjust laws. Psalm 94:20
Section B
Why? For what ungodly reasons did these crimmials persue this disastrous course of action?
Section C
How do we resist this insane, unlawful assault on our persons by these unrighteous wicked men who through lies, deceit, avarice and greed force prohibition on their fellow citizens?
Section A:
The evil doer’s responsible for this carnage Are:
1. Harry Anslinger – Drug enforcement administration chief and all subsequent drug czar’s.
2. Dupont corporation’s petro chemicals industry with their family, friends, and cohorts.
3. William Randolf Hearst’s timber and paper industry with their family, friends, and cohorts.
4. Billy Graham, who was featured in Hearst newspapers to strengthen support for prohibition by declaring illegal drugs sorcery according to scripture (his interpretation) and use of them punished with an eternity in hell.
5. American presidents who have never considered that prohibition is an insult to decent intelligent people, and a national disgrace. A mockery of freedom where liberty is myth, and zero tolerance rules.
6. The status quo maintained by the media and and their constituents (thoes in power, the rulers of the darkness of this world or age), never showing the real reason why everything ls falling apart. Eph-6:12
7. The American people who sat by and did nothing while wicked men made unjust laws to oppress them. The most valuable plant the world has ever known for production of textiles, medicines, food, and fuel has been banned as poison, and use of it a criminal act.
Section B:
The ungodly reasons why ARE;
1, Harry Anslinger’s lust for power and his unholy alliance with DuPont and Hearst corporate business interest’s, by outlawing hemp in favor of petro chemicals and timber for paper industries.
2&3. The Dupont and Hearst influence on Harry to somehow convince congress, using whatever deception necessary, to pass into law their diabolical scheme.
4. Billy Graham’s role was to get people into church where they would be taught that sorcery in the scriptures were illegal drugs, and use of them justified the government’s prohibition policies and the war on drugs.
5. The American presidents: Not one American president has ever done anything to put an end to this despicable war on drugs, for the ungodly fear of not pleasing their constituency (those who put and keep them in (their) power).
6. The prohibition mind set (media controlled status quo) that thinks drug laws are fair and any use is abuse, embracing partnership for drug free america propaganda and goverment zero tolerance policies as legitimate.
7. Do American’s really think that what is going on is right, or is it too late for a wake up call. Let’s hope to God it is not, because if there is still hope, we can (with God’s favor) turn things around and recover ourselves from our apathy, neglect of truth, the statutes of liberty (scriptures), and a healthy fear of God, which brings stability and peace of mind.
Section C;
Where do we go from here? What can we do to protect ourselves? How can we win this war (we did not start) and obtain peace and tranquility?
EXPOSURE is the one and only thing prohibitionist’s fear, because it shows them up for what they are, and can, and will bring them down.
JESUS said, everyone that does evil hates the light and does not come to the light lest his deeds should be reproved (exposed). Everyone that does what is right, comes to the light, that it may be seen that what they do is approved of God. John-3:20 & 21
Any and all wars waged upon lies and deceit are lost from the beginning, its just a matter of time. A lying tougue is for a moment, the lip of truth abides forever. Prov-12:19
Exposing the real criminals:
Harry Anslinger said in his yellow dog news that if the Frankinstein monster were to meet the Marijuana monster the Frankinstein monster would drop dead of fright, and that Marijuana was the assassin of youth. The reason the Frankinstein monster never met the Marijuana monster is because he never met Harry, the real Marijuana monster and the assassin of our youth, prohibition being the proof, the bitter fruits of his (and his friends) war on cannabis and other drugs labeled as narcotics.
Big business conspired with the goverment to eliminate competition from the Hemp industry which threatened DuPont’s petro-chemical, and William Randolf Hearst’s timber for paper industries, plus the more sinister aspects of forced compliance with unjust anti-cannabis and other drug laws, the formation of a police state.
Religion is in bed with the government gaining tax exempt and non profit status favors as rewards for supporting prohibition. Hearst newspapers promoted Billy Graham and temperance preachers who gathered americans into churches where they taught them that the word pharmakeia (medication) in the book of revelation (18:23) translated as sorceries was directly related to the use of illegal drugs (sorcery meaning to poison with medication). Actuality, the word understood as a metaphor in a symbolic book (as it should be) would mean that false teaching was sorcery, not the literal use of medication.
Our presidents and their impact on the evils of prohibition:
1, Ronald Regan said that smoking one marijuana cigarette would be like standing at ground zero when an atom bomb went off.
2. Richard Nixon said if you smoke marijuana you deserve to die. See Larry King live interview with Henry Kissinger. He also said he would put an end to drug abuse, when he really meant any use.
3. George Bush said if you smoke marijuana you are aiding and abetting terrorism.
4. Bill Clinton said he didn’t inhale.
5. Jimmy Carter said that punishment for use of a substance should not be more detrimental than the use of the substance itself and did nothng to alleviate the situation, showing that the prohibitionist cartel is more formidable than presidential power.
6. All other presidents during the tenure of prohibition have done nothing but maintain the status quo, leaving the goverment created drug problem in the hands of the DEA.
7. All of the above goes to the credibility of our goverment and religious leaders, who have led us down the garden path of disaster through prohibition.
How to Fight to the Finish, and Win.
What we can and must do is eliminate the prohibitionist mind set, and set our mind on a future where liberty is a reality and the right intelligent choice is our heritage.
1. Learn to think for yourself.
2. Trust no one, not even yourself, test everything to measure its worth. He that trusts his own heart is a fool, whoever walks wisely will be delivered. Prov-28:26
3. Seek to mind your own business, because if you are minding someone else’s, you are now neglecting your own.
4. Maintain an attitude of constant awareness towards those that would malign your life style and bring you into subjection to them.
5. Keep yourself under the discipline of a healthy, spiritual, fruitful lifestyle.
6. Cultivate friendships with like minded people, and spread the cannabis culture.
7. Seek a relationship with God (through his son Jesus) without which all of the above would be futile. John 3:16
Finally:
If we all applied the counsel given above, the truth would spread like a prairie fire burning up these wicked men and their ungodly agender. The system is goliath and fit for destruction, that is why I am taking him down. He is a bully and a coward and has four brothers. I am going after them next. If you want some of the action, its your’s, otherwise I’ll do it myself, because if God is for me, who can be against me? No one can, Amen.
Former stealth fighter,
Member of an IS crew,
Your brother in truth
and love. Art Buist
* IS means Invincible Spirit
Does anyone know why Cannabis is illegal? I have no clue. I was watching the union, and this bald guy was arguing with some idiot about the legal status of Cannabis ( and completely wrecked him). I dont know why they made Cannabis illegal in the first place, but is there actually any hope of Cannabis becoming legal ( i don’t think its going to happen sadly, and its due to the fact that the people of this country are uneducated about the truth of Cannabis). You NORML guys should save up some money from your donations, and broadcast a commerical or show for supporting full scale legalization. i dont know politics very well, but there has to be a way to get some substantial momentum in the movement for legalization.
[Paul Armentano responds: Cannabis is illegal largely because too few Americans have chosen to get involved in the political efforts seeking its liberalization.]
I think the government should back the fuck off and back out let the states get on with it let the sick live free
Horse Sense
Believing cannabis to be the poison our government says it is, is like believing
that rolling in fresh horse manure cures cancer. However, rolling cannabis and smoking out every day could, which is not only good horse sense, but perfect sense.
PS: Banning cannabis makes our
government a horse’s ass.
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The punk loves skunk.
The truth is:
It smells good.
It tastes good.
It makes you feel good.
It is good for you.
Question:
Is that why cannabis is illegal?
Government’s reply:
Yes it is! What are you going to do about it punk?
Answer:
Grow and smoke skunk and share it with my punk friends.
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A letter to Santa
Dear Santa,
please bring enough cannabis for mommy and daddy so they won’t be stressed out and fight and argue with each other (and others) next year.
Thank you.
Love, Mary Jane.
PS: Don’t forget the
rolling papers.
Note: Mary Jane will be disappointed when the Cannabis does not arrive, poor child. The up side to her disappointment is the realization that Santa is really Satan misspelled and the jolly old elf is the devil himself. Cheer up Mary Jane, cause we do not have to rely on false hopes like Santa and the government to obtain God’s gifts. Mommy and daddy can grow their own and Mary Jane will have fun and be glad to help.
“President Obama: End Your War on Cannabis Patients.”
Erik Altieri, NORML Communications Coordinator
“Erik Altieri, NORML Communications Coordinator even though you voted for me once and would probably do it again please don’t think I give a crap about you or your crummy blog because I’m a Nobel Peace Prize, POTUS, once cocaine sniffing, pot smoking mutha who could care less about you or anyone who supports NORML or reads this re-hashed blog because I got mine.”
Love & Peace: Obambi
I have grown tired of hiding behind screen names. My name will be public soon enough anyway because I have become one more of the twenty million or so victims of this obscenity we have come to know as the war on drugs.
In August of last year I was indicted by the federal government for 1. Manufacture of a controlled substance 2. Distribution of a controlled substance 3. Running a drug related establishment. A superceding indictment for further manufacture at my home has since been filed, as well as a gun enhancement for possession of most of a disassembled gun nobody in his right mind would EVER attempt to fire.
All semblance of constitutional protection has since been stripped away and I have acquired a “federal probation officer” to whom I am forced to report once a week. I am forbidden the lawfully approved medication on which I depend for a variety of purposes and must prove my abstinence three times a month through urinalysis. I can, however, seek relief from these symptoms using any number of substances proven to be toxic to humans but approved by the department of (justice?).I have yet to meet with any of the department of (justice?)s’ physicians.
Most recently I was ordered by the federal Magistrate to undergo “drug abuse assessment” at the same place where I go for the urinalysis. The woman there said “The best solution I can recommend for your drug problem is for you to get a good lawyer”. The report submitted to the court said “No services required”. (no rehab)
The very fact that I DON’T DO DRUGS is the reason that I am forced to suffer PRIOR to any possible conviction. I’m 57 years old and I feel like I have aged 40 years in three months. THESE PEOPLE ARE INSANE!!!
Jerry W Laberdee
Medical Herb Providers
Spokane Washington
“I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore”
F@#K THE FEDS!
FREE THE WEED!
Jerry W Laberdee for Governor
The war on “certain drugs” will continue in earnest. Logic and common sense have no place in the prohibitionist mindset. I agree with paul’s comment, not enough people are out in favor of re-legalization and speaking up. But it’s illegal and that can be a career and yes life wrecker. Its the people who have no fear of that, that are to blame. So many famous people, celebrites, atheletes and actors smoke herb. And yet they, for the most part, do little to push the MJ agenda. We need to push for a NATIONAL REFERENDUM on the FEDERAL ballot, either yes or no… do you support re legalizing. Obama has been a lousy President for the movement, so many times he has side skirted the issue and kept the status quo intact. I am hoping that Ron Paul will make some headway but he really has no chance to succeed with some of his baggage. We are still moving forward, this will be a long, hard fought battle. Stil, we must perservere. We will win!
I don’t understand how the government can justify making a plant that grows naturally on its own illegal. I can’t smoke because I drive for a living but can see the stupidity of pot being illegal, especially when it has so many positive things that it is capable of. Watching documentaries it seems that the people that are against it are basing their decision on false information. Everybody always goes back to “it’s the gateway drug”. They seem to me to be stuck in their ways and because they heard this several times from another uneducated person it must be true. I wish that the president would step up, be a man and admit how ridiculous this whole war on marijuana really is. We are supposed to be free in this country, why do I feel like our freedom is constantly getting less and less? What happened to a wrong is a wrong and a right is a right? People suffering everyday and being forced to live under the thumb of the “legal” drug companies, that’s extortion! I want to choose how I live, and if it doesn’t effect anybody else and makes me happier, then I should have the RIGHT, the FREEDOM, to do so. After all, isn’t that what America stands for?
For the answer to why Marijuana is illegal, I have come up with a logical explanation, but that explain is very flawed logic.
Marijuana is illegal because it is immoral and it is immoral because it is illegal.
In the philosophy of logic this is known as a circular argument because it constantly makes the loop. The only way to break the loop is to remove the status of it being illegal, which is something that can only be done by the people of the great nation. Sadly, the demands of life, encourage by the corporations, keep the American people at a distance that allows for the few to control the many, when it should be a country with the few serving and protecting the many. I believe that is what our founding fathers envisioned for future generations, but that did not happen.
Give Americans the freedoms entitled in the constitution. Stand together and VOTE for the candidates that seek to serve the populus instead of the individual.
Political Views: If I would be President, Governor, own my house, or whatever, I would be Legal Marijuana!
I tell you that Marijuana Poster, It said…
1-Cannabis and hemp are the same. “Marijuana” was the Mexican name given to cannbis.
2-Cannabis was first cultivated in China around 4000 B.C.
3-The original drafts of the Deciaration of Indipendence were written on hemp paper.
4-One acre of hemp will produce as much paper as four acres of trees.
5-Hemp is a source of fiber for cloth and cordage for rope. The Hemp fiber is localed inside the long stem of plant.
6-George Washington and Thomas John grew hemp. George Washington, the first President of the States,declared: “Make the most of the hemp seed. Sow it everything”.
7-Hemp seed is nature’s perfect food. The oil from hemp seeds has the highest percentage of essential fatty acids and the lowest percentage of satured fats.
8-Sterilized hemp seed is commonly sold as bird seed.
9-Rolling papers, like Bambu, made from hemp paper.
10-In 1937, the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act prohibited the use, sale and cultivation of hemp/marijuana in the United State.
11-Five years later, during the World War ll, the U. S. Deptartment of Agriculture released the film “Hemp For Victory”, which encouragd Amerian farmers to grow hemp for the war effort.
12-Hemp is cultivated all over the world. Today, China, Korea, Italy, Hungay, Russia and France are among the countries that grow hemp for fiber, paper, and other products.
13-Cannabis is classified as a schedule 1 drug by the Food and Drug Administration. Designated as a narcotic, it cannot be prescribed by physicians to patients.
14-In 1988, the DEA’s own administrative law judge cesconcluded that “marijuana is one of the safest, therapeutically active aubstances known to man”.
15-Cannabis can be used as medicine to treat nausea, pain and muscle spasms. It alleviates symptoms of glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, AIDS, migraines and other debilitating ailments.
16-Thirty-five states have passed legislation permitting medical use of marijuana.
17-Twelve Americans receive prescibed marijuana from the U.S. government.
18-More than 400,000 Americans are arrested each ye ar on marijuana charges.
19-More than 400,000 Americans die from diseases related to cigarette smoking each year. More than 150,000 Americans die of alcohol abuse each year.
BUT IN 10,000 YEARS OF USAGE NO ONE HAS EVER DIED FROM MARIJUANA
That’s why It should be Legalize…
Thanks, Mark
Great fact file points Mark. I have a couple of remarks that I think are novel and of interest to all who care about this issue:
1.) Why did the US government apply for, and receive a US patent (6630507)for Cannabinoids? According to the patent filing, cannabinoids like those in Marijuana, have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism.
“This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia.”
As it pertains to the inclusion of Marijuana on DEA Schedule I, three requirements must be met and it is the second requirement for Schedule I status that is germane to my argument:
“The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States”
The logical fallacy of our government’s position is that on one hand, they are saying that Marijuana has no medical use. Yet the government itself has applied for and received a US patent for medical use of components within the Marijuana plant. Specifically, these are non-psychoactive components (CBD, CBN) but it seems odd dosen’t it to maintain this position that there is no accepted medical use? Why is this not a topic of contention?
2.) The American Medical Association itself has appealed to the DEA to have marijuana rescheduled, but it still has not been addressed and this charade continues as the DEA apparently is more in control of medicine than the eminent medical authority in the nation.
3.) Finally, I am curious why nobody has caught on to this question. The government and prohibitionists in general are quick to point out the “dangers” of marijuana.
We have NORML to fight for our rights to be free to responsibly use cannabis.
Since marijuana is always lumped in with harder drugs tell me why is there no:
-NORCL-National Organization to Reform Cocaine Laws
-NORHL-National Organization to Reform Heroin Laws
-NORPL-National Organization to Reform Psilocybin Laws
Sounds like a silly argument but it is curious that we have an organization that works diligently to reform Marijuana use but no substantial one for any other drugs?
Are Heroin and Cocaine users more apathetic than Marijuana users in seeking legalization?
Doesn’t that run contrary to the prohibitionist view that Marijuana users are apathetic?
Why are re-legalization supporters so adamant in their support of responsible Marijuana use when no other recreational drugs elicit such support?
And why is more emphasis placed on Marijuana prohibition than any other drug, when all the scientific research is contrary to this approach?
Food for thought!
One more nugget of wisdom from former President Carter:
“Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.”
That quote is in a nutshell the basis of harm reduction. It seems our policies on Marijuana are actually having the opposite effect. Why would the government continue on this course of actually increasing the harm of Marijuana to society instead of seeking a real solution to the problem?
Many more thoughts coming from me on this subject. It is clear to me that President Obama has no conscience about this issue and I heartily implore all those who support the cause to vote against him in the upcoming election.
NORML if you are listening, get me a job there and I will be the biggest and best advocate you have ever imagined! I have spent years of personal research and study of the issue from fundamental and philosophical counterpoints. Grill me, I can do it!
It isn’t bad enough that the president & the entire government in DC has tromped all over states laws that want to STOP THE INSANITY of the useless drug wars against Americans-it’s even worse that the LEGAL drugs that patients are prescribed are highly overpriced AND unavailable. With the stoke of a pen by the governor of Florida-this noncompassionate fool made the already hard life of a patient suffering in intractable pain EVEN HARDER. And once again-legitimate patients pay the price for lousy governmental regulation & interference into our formerly privileged private doctor-patient relationships. That our rights are stripped more every day is despicable! Doctors HAVE GOT to stand up for us as well. I’m damned tired of seeing them just buckle & slink away-leaving us out on a limb.
To be short and sweet the prohibition is not only wrong it is a crime against the people of this nation. A nation that is built for the people by the people and founded with the intentions to give its citizens the respect and privalage of freedoms we deserve and are entitled to as Americans and human beings. A life in the persuit of happiness and prosperity. Why then is there no representation taken seriously on an issue that is so supported by the majority even of the American people. Not only will decriminalization of canibus create jobs for thousands if not more Americans but it is a safe alternative to many perscription drugs that cause harmfull side effects not only to those who take them but can effect our children. It can even be used in clothing, rope, and cooking. So the time has come to stand up for smokers and patients by the citizens and our representatives. Thank you
–==::RON PAUL 2012::==–
The “president” said he wouldn’t allow this, and yet it happins. “They” are threatened by this medacine because it can replace so many expensive synthetic drugs.
ALSO, they want to control you and let you know who is boss.
YOUTUBE: MONEY MASTERS and watch the whole thing. After you understand how the system works vote RON PAUL!! HE WILL END THE DRUG WAR
It is ok to admit you are wrong. All the people that will be freed will not hold it against you. This so called war needs to end. It all hinges on the pride of you in the federal government. Admit you are wrong. The drug war is a senior now, it has not worked, it will not work no matter how many dollars and countless lives you have wasted. Now is the time to retire the drug war. The federal government can be wrong, its ok to own up to your mistakes. eigthy years of the same results means it is time to say ” I’m sorry we were wrong, it is time for something new”. I do not use cannabis legal or illegal so this is not a stoner’s rant. i just know when something is wrong it is time to move on to a new angle.
While major corporations have managed to get their federal tax bills down to zero, the IRS has determined that pot clinics can’t deduct salaries, rent, the cost of bud or other operating expenses on their tax returns. If a business can’t deduct those expenses, its tax bill almost always winds up exceeding even its profits.
I can’t help but wonder what would happen if ALL drug companies in the USA were told that there were no deductions for those expenses!
I would love to see someone with a big bank roll file a law suit with the Feds to change weed to a schedule 2 or 3! Let the DEA defend their position in open court! I find it hard to believe that the government is asking us to believe that crack and heroin are as harmful as weed.
Seems like state and local governments are trying to force medical marijuana patients back into the arms of big pharmaceuticals and the liquor industry! How is marijuana worse than opiates or booze? But the government has to protect us from the evil cannabis.
Great e-book on medical marijuana: MARIJUANA – Guide to Buying, Growing, Harvesting, and Making Medical Marijuana Oil and Delicious Candies to Treat Pain and Ailments by Mary Bendis, Second Edition. This book has great recipes for easy marijuana oil, delicious Cannabis Chocolates, and tasty Dragon Teeth Mints! goo.gl/iYjPn goo.gl/Jfs61
Legalizing marijuana would mean that more people will be open to the fact that marijuana is not at all bad for health.It means there will be more local medical marijuana dispensaries.
Politicians are too busy trying to impress their voters. Hope they can pass a law protecting medical marijuana users. There should be a clear law supporting Medicinal Cannabis patients and protecting them from violating the law.
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