The internet was ablaze yesterday with talk of President Obama’s youthful pot use. Which is odd, considering the only thing atypical about Obama’s high school years is how common and relatable they seem.
Recent polling has shown support for marijuana legalization growing exponentially. Just this month, 56% of people responded in favor of legalization in a survey from Rasmussen Reports, with only 36% opposed. This is just the latest in a continuing trend of polling data demonstrating majority support for regulating cannabis. In October 2011, a Gallup poll had 50% support amongst those polled. Ending the war on cannabis consumers is no longer a political liability, it is a political possibility. President Obama should use this opening to embrace reforming our country’s marijuana laws and encourage Congress to pass laws to facilitate ending the arrest of 850,000 American citizens a year.
It is time for Barack to get in touch with his inner “Barry” and advocate for ending this country’s war against responsible adults who choose to consume cannabis. The majority of this country is waiting for your opinion to “evolve” on this issue, this could be your chance.
We encourage you to make your voice heard as an American voter and let the White House know this is an issue you consider to be of importance in this election. It is time those in Washington realize supporting rational reforms to our country’s marijuana laws can win them support at the ballot box.
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Legalizing marijuana is a no brainer. you have tobacco that kills over 400,000 people annually. how is marijuana illegal when 0 deaths have been reported?? Its a plant. not a pill
Please follow the will of the People of this Country….We have Spoken.. Have you Listened?
Legalize It NOW ! I am really sick and sure could use some pain relief ! I know it would help me ! It’s illegal in Iowa & I don’t want to get thrown in PRISON for 5 YEARS ! REALLY ! -Tony Thran
Don’t re-elect Obama.. He’s not going to influence changes to be made to the Marijuana Prohibition. Vote for Ron Paul, cause he’s more likely to influence real and good change to this nation. He’s consistent with his beliefs and values and the knowledge of the constitution.
i had the cops raid my house and take me to jail for a bowl on a trey! now im a felon! fuck this country!
the war on weed is stupid! i became a felon cus i had less then a fucking dime bag! fuck this country! fuck the goverment and fuck anyone who disagrees with me
My Mom doesn’t deserve jail time. She deserves treatment!
Yes it is time for the politics put aside and get common sense issues done. Yes I Really support Obama on same sex marriages!! Now it’s time to clear the air n Cannabis for real folks. Many of Americans support this as I Hope you will as well. This has to happen,so Mny want this and We Are The People. 56% of Americans Say “YES” ! I hope you will as well. Thank You.
Well, Barry should nudge things along a little closer to the legalization end of the cannabis continuum. We’d be farther away from total prohibition and closer to legalization if the federal law enforcement agencies–including the IRS and other offices–are de-funded via this restriction and thus prevented from enforcing prohibition of MMJ in the MMJ states. Then inactive programs will go active. Other states will jump on board for the rescue. Everyone is hurting and needs the money and the jobs. TV spots entitled along the lines of “Add One More Job” featuring job openings and someone who got the job on local network affiliates just isn’t cutting it for all the people out of work who want jobs or who want to go from part-time or 2 part-time to a full-time. We need this rescue of the economy as little as it may be. Every little bit helps. Get Madison Avenue ad agencies and others doing television commercials with the weed or or the morphem/part of the word such as the wee in wheat. A wee lad, etc., with some sort of pro-cannabis subtext or background imagery or music. Get the semiotics working.
Other states will enact MMJ laws.
States will want control from the feds for cannabis for more than just medical but also for adult recreational and industrial.
Politicians who know the drug war is a miserable failure are afraid it’s a third rail to advocate legalization–hard to believe as it is with the approval percentages from the polls.
Well Barry, if you just see to it that the de-funding takes place in the automatic cuts, then no one has to take credit for it and no one has to be blamed for it. Oops, it just happened automatically, and then point out the polling in favor of outright legalization, and be, hey, we didn’t even go nearly that far, just showing some respect for patients and the states.
It is a crime the way this Gov. has divided this country on such a vital issue. So many ppl are unable to come to decisions on their own. They depend on Gov. to be honest and lead them. The problem is our Gov. is not honest! And if ppl could think for them selves they would begin to peel the greedy layers of lies away and see the bright glowing TRUTH! And let me say this I have smoked cannabis for 40 years and have used it for my pain relief. But I NEVER even began to understand the health benefits from cannabis. It is like a pencil I could see and use the tip of the pencil but I NEVER knew there was a wealth of lead inside! That is the same with cannabis because the Gov. has known that cannabis is a 2 way health cure. The smoking part would heal only pain.. So as long as they could stop every one in the world from growing it personally they could stop anyone from ingesting it which is the REAL health benefit and no one would know! When my husband’s Veteran Doctor put on this road of medical marijuana I still thought it was just a way for ppl with pain to feel better even tho my husband was a diabetic which was why his doctor wanted him to give it a try before going on more med. he was taking 7 pills 3 for diabetics and testing 180 to 250 70 to 140 being normal. we both got mmj cards. I am a cancer survivor of 14 years and I had many other health issues. I did not want him to smoke it he is 70 and smokes cigs so I began making butter and making edibles which we eat a gram or less every night 2 hours before bed. 7 months later he is on no meds his glucose comes in between 65 and 120 he takes no high blood pressure or high cholesterol meds either NONE! Me I had a bowel disorder for 29 years no control since I delivered my son. Now my bowels are normal! Do you Mr Obama know what that feel like after going like a baby to become an adult again!! I had restless leg syndrome, leads to heart attacks and strokes, it is gone! I have had insomnia for 14 years since a hysterectomy no more we sleep like babies through the night and nether of us snore anymore either! I have lost 60 Lbs. I was 180 when we started using the butter I am 122 now just what I weighted in my teens, my 20’s, and my 30’s until they cut me! After that was when I gained more and more with each passing year. My husband has lost 45 Lbs! You can not eat mounds and mounds of food when you add cannabis to your diet! We feel 20+ years younger and we look it too. when ppl see us that have not seen us for awhile they can not believe it! and want to know what we are going! Our bodies are like being taken in reverse back to where we should be. It heals things you do not even know you have. I have a family member that has lowered her blood pressure by 40 points in 3 weeks! My mother lost her husband last year to their cancer. We should have known about cannabis oil! We should have been given the choice of cemo or cannabis oil that should have been our choice AND our doctors choice! Not the GOV and our doctors!! Now my mom could not even hold conversation she could not remember for longer than 10 min. Like every 15 min.she would ask are you hungry? she could not drive , or eat. well 8 weeks ago I moved her here to AZ got her a MMJ card put her on edibles she drives, lives alone, converses, loves to eat and can remember anything you ask her! She is now off her 5 prescriptions! Her doctor is checking her every 30 days but so far he agrees she does not need any meds! SO YES IT IS TIME FOR THE GOV. AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO COME TOGETHER ON THIS ISSUE. BECAUSE FROM WHAT I HAVE SEEN WITH MY OWN BODY AND EYES YOU CAN NOT SPELL HEALTH CARE WITHOUT THC!! IT IS TIME FOR THE GOV. TO BE HONEST WITH THE AMERICAN PPL. AND GIVE US THE CHOICE WHEN IT COMES TO OWN HEALTH AND THE DIRECTION WE WANT OUR HEALTH TREATMENT TO GO! I BELIEVE OUR LIFE IS A GIFT FROM GOD AND IT IS OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO PROTECT OUR LIFE HOWEVER WE SO CHOOSE. IF I AM NOT HURTING YOU OR MYSELF FOR THAT MATTER THAN MY HEALTH CARE IS BETWEEN ME, MY DOCTOR AND MY GOD!!!!
Ron Paul 2012 ! Legalizing marijuana will not only allow ready access for patients to medication, as it rightfully should have been done for decades now, but also to bring about one of the largest, most influential movements towards reform of Federal authority to which is unconstitutional towards its own citizens! It will, for the first time in modern history, bring down perhaps the largest network of incumbent power within the U.S., which is currently backed by billions of dollars via Big Industry.
Genesis 1-13
Erik Altieri, You are well spoken, informative and well awesome keep the articles comming
2010-07
Barack Obama, “My Drug Use Was No Big Deal. Yours Should Get You Prison Time!”
https://ChristiansAgainstProhibition.org/node/404
How many years of addiction treatment did President Barack H. Obama need for his cocaine use?
https://ChristiansAgainstProhibition.org/node/381
How many years of addiction treatment did President Barack H. Obama need for his marijuana use?
https://ChristiansAgainstProhibition.org/node/387
What drug did President Barack H. Obama have the most trouble quitting?
https://ChristiansAgainstProhibition.org/node/382
Barry, Barry, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
I believe that Obama will listen to the will of the people and go through a political “evolution” on this topic in the same way he has with gay marriage… even if that may be quite naive and hopeful of me…
@Garret
Ron Paul won’t get elected…
I am also not sure why you hope he will be. His economic policies would throw us into another recession. I agree with him on some points but on other matters I consider him to be downright nutty.
Give Obama another shellacking on November 2012 along with his walking papers and his eviction notice.
Do anyone remember the November 1992 presidential election when 60% of the people did not vote for Bill Clinton, and he won.
We will know for sure what Ron Paul’s next move is at the Republican Convention in Tampa, Florida.
There are many registered democrats who would also vote for Ron Paul and that is a fact. He is not going to quit and surrender your own Freedom and Liberty.
VOTE!
I would rather smoke cannabis then drink alcohol.
Finally now it’s time to take a stand against those dumb marijuana laws and keep the goverment out of ours bussiness!
@randy verse 11 &12
Hey this could be kinda awesome…If NORML and their supporters could endorse Obama and his campaign, if for nothing else than to keep the OBVIOUS nay-sayers and UNSWAYABLE opposing candidates(because let’s face it, Ron Paul is prolly not going to get the republican nomination, and being a texan, cannot legally run as an independant) out of office, then his “big supporters” (NORML and us) would probably have a shot of influencing some laws and reform…I’m registered to vote this year and if Ron Paul doesn’t make it in as the rep nominee im going democrat for obama 2012…”Obama 2012: The closest chance we got!”
Let me clarify to avoid trolling; Ron Paul is still in it to win it and I REALLY hope he gets it, but, Romney is pushing his Christian values as one of th basis for his campaign and Christianity is selling (no offense to any)…I’m saying, if Ron Paul doesn’t make it, Obama is our best shot for a breakthrough…just sayin!
This could be his true leap of faith galvanizing his support or will he just bend and wither. I’ll still vote for him. He is a good man with a good heart. Seize the time. End the Drug War and he will have undying support.
Sorry, but Ron Paul doesn’t like pot, everyone that thinks he does has been d[o]ped on the issue. He said he’d resign that decision to the states and that as a doctor he personally would never prescribe it. Obama, in his first election bid, ALSO said he’d leave it to the states, and we see where that’s gone. So don’t expect Dr. Ron Paul, a darn near 80 year old CAREER POLITICIAN, to be any different than any other career politician.
The Feds would still crack down like they did under Bush, because a lot of those agencies aren’t working in consort with the White House on this issue in the first place.
The best bet, if we really want this to happen, is end it the same way Alcohol Prohibition ended: Get separate states to hold popular votes. 3/4 of the states (38) would need a 2/3rd positive vote from registered voters. If we get it done this way, we cut out all of the too-slow-to-react politicians that are all caught up in Big Tobacco and Big Pharm money and, more importantly, it becomes a Constitutional Amendment that is hard as SHIT to overturn.
Also, Ron Paul supporters, a guy that postpones his active campaigning has almost ZERO chance of staying enough in the public eye to secure a Republican nomination.
Do you also remember how Bill Clinton gave this country its greatest economic foundation since before the Great Depression? Do you remember how Bush managed to take a budgeted surplus and torpedo it to the point it became substantially adding to our massive debt back in ’06? Remember how the whole economy damn near crashed in ’07? Then, Clinton moved to the center of the aisle in his second term, and got much more positive things done for this country because of it?
Or is the election cycle the only part you remember?
I believe marajuana should be legal it has so many medical benifits and I think it sucks that its still illegal in Pennsylvania
It’s odd how these recent dramatic polling results have not stimulated much discussion in the mainstream press. Marijuana legalization probably now has more public support than same-sex marriage, and like that issue, it’s fundamentally about fairness, equal treatment and responsible personal freedom.
I had less then a quarter ounce and im a fellon and cant find a job that will hire
Plus bad ptsd from haveing assualt rifles in my face and paranoid skitzo from the way the pigs setme
Vote for Gary Johnson/ Jim Gray for president. Ron Paul will obviously not be the republican nominee. Jim Gray is a staunch proponent of pot legalization as is Gary.
Mr. President, please use this as my voice on this matter. I voted for you four years ago. And am doing again this year as well. But, I am currently in the process of relocating to Denver. For many reasons, but the medical marijuana card is key. The revenue from the sales across the country could help us out as a country. It is helping California and Colorado.
why do we need a hippocrit’s permission in order to smoke a natural plant that was put here by God? even if barry said he’s changed his mind and will support pot legalization after he gets re-elected, i wouldnt believe one lying word crossing his lips. is guantonomo closed down? nope. is all of our troops home and the wars ended? nope. is unemployment below 8 percent? nope. he says what people want to hear so he can get votes. DONT FALL FOR HIS LIES AGAIN, FOLKS!!! ron paul wants to let the states decide for themselve what their MJ policy will be! ron paul wants us to be free and prosperous again! ONLY ron paul wants US to be strong, and government to be weak! wake up people, ron paul IS electable, and is probly our last and only chance to save our country and restore our economy to become a prsperous nation again. a vote for obama is a vote for government slavery….
peace
Dont believe the fake posts praising obama, he has an army of bloggers in his employ. People hate obama vote paul,vote for your dog just dont vote for this dog eater
THEY MAKE MORE MONEY OFF OF IT BEING ILLEGAL…NOT TO MENTION THEY LOVE ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO IT SERVES THEM WELL IT HELPS WITH POPULATION CONTROL…THE 1ST STEP TO LEGALIZATION IS TO GET IT OFF AS A SCHEDULE 1 DRUG UNTIL THEN IT WILL STAY ILLEGAL NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU ALL COMPLAIN ABOUT IT..LEGALIZATION ON A FEDERAL LEVEL WILL NOT HAPPEN ANYTIME SOON..IF IT BECOMES LEGAL ON A STATE LEVEL THERE WILL BE LOTS OF CONFLICT BETWEEN THE FEDS AND THE STATE
and sheila why would you vote for the same president who is epically failing and continuing with the same propaganda and same agenda as bush…who stripping our right away behind our backs after lying to our faces and promising he wouldnt…why would you vote for someone who promised they would leave marijuana patients alone…and then later starts arresting the same ppl he swore he would not harass…sounds like you want more of the same…just another puppet on a string doing what his master tells him..obama is a SELLOUT bottom line
I hope everyone realizes that the stupid crap they put out yesterday was just propaganda…..he just got the gays to re-love him after promising all kinds of stuff to us for the past 4 years, funny how 6 months before November you start keeping your promises….Be smart people this isn’t going to be to legalize marijuana, hes just using the potheads to get into office.
Why is all Pot smoking in need of treatment? Maybe as with most social drugs its used to unwind after work and I dont want treatment.
“The internet was ablaze yesterday with talk of President Obama’s youthful pot use”
Oh really? What fucking planet are you living on, NORML?
There is no mention of this at the MPP site, and no mention at SAFER.
Then of course, there is no mention in the more important MAINSTREAM MEDIA either. Put this story on CBS, ABC and NBC around dinner time. Then we’ll have a fucking discussion. Until then, NORML, you are just preachin to the choir!!!
It’s just totally unbelievable.The stupidity these politicians exhibit when it comes to what people Really care about, it’s just insane.They think we would rather go to jail then be a productive citizen,then someone should inform them that that is why no one votes anymore.No one trust them or the Armour plated pigs.No one respects them or their opinions.Well I really shouldn’t say no one because there are those citizens who think that their Federal Government really cares about them.We all know that our politicians care about 1 thing and 1 thing only, and that is how can I keep suckling from the public tit.The President could have marijuanna rescheduled in a day with just his signature,but he is afraid he won’t get reelected.
I wouldn’t dare “let the White House know” that I supprt something Obama opposes.
Beside a few minor grammatical errors, I’ve made a very good reply.
People who support Ron Paul knows a lot about him. They go to his website, make donations and purchase his books and attend his large rallies.
He is a bestselling author and people are constantly buying his books.
There are Democrats who would rather vote for him than Obama, and there are Republicans who would rather vote for him than Romney. It will be an interesting political race.
Ron Paul is a very smart candidate.
I’m an independent and I’ve read his books and I’m going to vote for Ron Paul.
I think we give presidents too much credit for having power and autonomy to use it. Presidents could be more rightly called puppets as they really represent the interests of the faceless companies behind them, the ‘military industrial complex’ as Eisenhower put it. I think we know who’s side this noble laureate is on. The only way this president or any president would ever change is if we force them too. Which is why the presidents of South America are saying something now because they’re being forced to cause its so bad. Hopefully an American president will be forced to change because we all get out and tell him to before it gets any worse here.
I wouldnt vote for Obama even if he did promise to legalize marijuana!
I can’t believe this is even a issue. Cannabis should of never been illegal in the first place. How on GOD’S GREEN EARTH! do you outlaw a plant? Not only that but you outlaw a plant that has so many uses. On top of that you do it in a country that used to be the Wild, Wild, West. Home of the brave, land of the free The United States of America. None of your BS words or statements can change the fact that your not going to completely eliminate the Cannabis plant or the demand for it nor could you ever. Just like alcohol prohibition you can’t even eliminate a liquid why would you try a plant? Nobody gets hurt smoking Cannabis it being illegal is what causes the pain. So Barack Obama I urge you to at least get it done your next term. Legalize it!
The real issues with marijuana…
How to form laws around public use. (driving vehicles and the like, where using it is banned)
How to debate over the issue and get direct answers/responses from those who are preventing change the most.
Which kinds to use on which days.
How much is too little?
I hate the fact that there is absolutley nothing we can do to even get Obama to even have that real debate about the issue like he promised. He knows how much of the country wants change but just pretends it is not an issue. No stories make it to any of the major news networks most people watch and even when he asks us what we want to hear about he just laughs it off. I really don’t wan’t Romney as President but if this isn’t addressed by them he will get my vote. WHAT CAN WE DO TO GET SOME KIND OF RESPONSE? Every time a big story hits or news like this comes out my hopes get up for a few hours until I realize it has already been ignored. PLEASE. SOMEONE DO SOMETHING TO FORCE THIS MAN TO STOP IGNORING US! ANYBODY
Come on Mr. Obama, do the right thing! I don’t want for my kids possibly going to prison, or even a single day in jail, just for doing something you and your friends used to do! If you choose to continue on your current path (ignoring and snubbing those who were once your biggest supporters), there is no way I’m voting for you this time around. There is also no way (in hell) I’m voting for Romney!
Gary Johnson will get my vote and I hope and pray that every closet toker out there feels the same way!
You watch, just like last election cycle, Obama will come out saying “I think states should be allowed to make their own decisions” again. Then people will swoon again – and BAM – he’s used you again to get votes. He can’t help it – he’s a politician. Are his lips moving – then he’s lying.
I eat hemp seed on my salad. I drink hemp milk. My cholesterol is perfect. Get caught with a cannabis seed go to jail for 1 year. Get caught with an oz of bud go to jail for 10 years. Get caught with more than that, go to jail for life. Get a prescription for a schedule three Marinol pure THC, anyone can get now, take the pill, jump in the car and drive all over the place once comfortable as per pharmaceutical description, get a job and pass the drug test cause they don’t care cause you have a prescription. A prescription for pure mind blowing THC. What a hypocrisy.
Mitt Romney doesn’t remember his bullying behavior in high school. I wonder if Barack Obama remembers any of his own antics.
Hopefully they Legalize it soon… All this Federal shit takin stuff from legal states…ain’t that treason. and what does the bill of right say when the government committs treason
Dave, that is probably why Ron is not going to be elected. However, did you see the debates, where all the other contenders spent more of their time being forced to say things like, “Well is Dr. Paul is correct… But…”
Dr. Paul is not nutty. He really is the best person out of those running from the two major parties. Straight up, Clinton and Bush II were nutty psychopathic liars; I suppose someone that isn’t crazy seems odd to us now… Ron Paul doesn’t do bait ‘n switch which is what we usually get. If that makes a person nuts, I’ll for for nuts each time.
I think if the MJers could demonstrate that we will consolidate our vote around one preferred candidate that would really help. I was thinking there should be a website (and associated phone apps), something like votemarijuana2012.com or .org and it would have x number of members that pledge to vote for whatever candidate is chosen by a consensus of the subscribers. Then maybe the politicians will see the combined number as something to pay attention to. If so, JACKPOT!
Will the real Obama please stand up? O wait, he did and he smacked us down like little roaches SO WHY ARE YOU VOTING FOR HIM AGAIN? Vote anything, vote your conscience, Hell, I might not even vote at all this year.
Did you ever feel like Charlie Brown getting ready to kick that football and then Lucy (Obama) pulls it back just when you’re getting ready to boot it. ARRRHoG!!!
I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.
Barack Obama, When asked, “Unlike other presidents, did you inhale?
@Galileo Galilei – I am pretty sure that both Romney and Obama remember perfectly well the events that have recently become public knowledge. Obama actually acknowledges it and I think he’s secretly proud of his behavior!
As for Romney, he knows what he did is pathetic and cruel and therefore simply says he doesn’t remember. IF he really doesn’t remember perhaps it is because the incident involving the brutal haircut was simply one of many many mean things he did back then…
If theres any chance of legalization it sure wont happen if Romney is president.> DONT VOTE FOR ROMNEY.
He said he was going to legalize it five years ago on his campaign trail, then as soon as he got into office, just went on a rampage, raping the world and our Constitution, fuck that guy
If Obama come’s from a radical background. Why didn’t he legalise to stick it to the man. Cannabis is illegal by it being safe low cost competition. Cannabis is a multi Trillion dollar crop. idk
I haven’t voted for years because I really didn’t see any change in the politicians from 1 to another until President Obama. I actually thought that we had elected a down-to-earth democrat. I apparently was wrong because he has let the power and responsibility of the office corrupt him as it has so many other presidents. Mr. Obama has clearly forgotten his roots and his younger days in favor of being one of the good old boys club. Honestly I expected more than that from him. He has not only been on the smoking end of this issue, but he has seen first-hand what happens when your family is arrested for a minuscule amount of cannabis no matter what the circumstance. Surely he hasn’t forgotten all of the inner-city youths he ran across when he was helping people rebuild communities that were just trying to survive. Some did turn to selling illegal substances. If cannabis was legal for medical use, these same youths could have jobs that they not only could sustain, but love and would be able to hold down those jobs even with certain disabilities because there are a few disabilities that cannabis not only helps greatly with the symptoms but can render that person “normal” by today’s society with the right strain and dosage. There are several “chronic” illnesses that cannabis will, if not cure, alleviate the symptoms of. It has even been proven to cure some types of cancer! Mr. Obama has also forgotten that his campaign is only as good as the word he kept in his tenure as president. If he didn’t even attempt to keep all of his promises the first term, what incentive would we, the people, have to elect him again? I, for 1, have had enough of the lies and shiesty behavior. At least Mitt Romney is openly saying he doesn’t believe in legalizing cannabis.
I am sure if he could he would its not in his hands its in other three letter agencies that control this country unfortunately!
Obama and every policy maker should read the book “Marijuana Gateway to Health: How Cannabis Protects Us from Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease” and come into the 21st Century and throw the discredited reefer madness laws out. Marijuana’s cannabinoids fight cancer and protect the brain from dementia and alcohol poisoning.
If you want politicians to listen to the will of the people you have to speak the language they understand. Money and votes they understand. Logic and compassion, not so much.
I know it’s ancient history to most of you youngster, so buy a history book and look up the last two major party nominees to endorse marijuana legalization. I’ll get you started. George McGovern in 72, and Jimmy Carter in 76. Remember what happened to them. And it’s not like the U.S. has gotten more liberal since then. In 72 Nixon proposed Universal Health Care and in 1980 Newt Gingrich advocated Medical Marijuana.
Remember when Obama wanted to do a televised address to school children encouraging them to stay in school and work hard. In Arkansas many school districts allowed parents to keep their precious little ones home that day so as no to hear such radical subversion. I’m not making this up.
Can you imagine what the Republican backlash would be if he were to even in the most abstract sense mention legalizing Marijuana. Obama embacing Marijuana legalization would knock the whole movement back 70 years. If you want to change the law you first have to change Congress. When you have about 60% percent of congress willing to pass such a Bill, then you elect a President who would sign such a Bill. In the present congress support for Marijuana legalization is about 1%. Again you can’t smoke your dope and vote for one too.
No mater what The Big”O” has realized or wants to do the bureau-rats won’t let him do anything until next year. They told him four years ago his first bills will only pass if approved by the rich elite.
Here’s something I think needs to be spread!
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“56% of people responded in favor of legalization in a survey from Rasmussen Reports, with only 36% opposed.”
100% of American Genesists want our Sacrament legalized, with no opposition. Ya think prohibitionists are going to believe that? No! – they will deny it – because – they have no logical defense for it. The more untruths that are said about Manna – on the spot – the more knowledgeable people are setting the record straight before they leave the table. Education – the truth – and a good defense is working quite well.
Romney believes his magic morman underwear protect him from knives and guns doods, he is CRAZY! Well crazier then the other guy I guess. They both believe in the invisible man in the sky, but I do suspect Obama is an athiest, which would make him a closet sane person who knows how to use their brain to do basic reasoning, but I digress.
Newsflash, politicians are not listening to you!
I just saw a few minutes of a show called Marijuana Inc on MSNBC, and they showed people working and paying taxes in the marijuana market, just like with any other commodity.
Then they interview the police, and they talk about the house fires caused by indoor grow and violence. WELL, isn’t that the direct result of Prohibition?!
How many people grow coffee in their homes? How many people break into homes looking to steal coffee? How many people are murdered over coffee? None, none, and none. But if they made it illegal to posess and use coffee, the price would skyrocket, and all of these things would happen. Then the police would say the exact same things about coffee.
Prohibition IS the problem. Of course, the police can’t see it. They’re paid not to see it.
President B. O., End the hypocracy. If your ass had been busted, you’d be shinning shoes!! Free god’s herb.
If Obama don”t do as his bosses say to do…..Think about it, the man can only do as he is told to do. he has bosses and we are not his boss. if thy say jump, Obama will say how high . he has no power at all. Don”t you think his dream is to do something good for his race? sure it is. or should i say was. the only CHANGE i see, is the change the 1% did to obama.just think what thy had to tell him to make him be a SLAVE to them. talk wont get you far now days, it is time for ACTION. SKYRIDER.
@A Concerned American Citizen – What’s your point and purpose? Are you trying to discourage us from attempting to right a very obvious wrong in this country?
I believe that these posts are monitored and that, at least some of, this information makes it’s way to key decision makers. Unfortunately, I also believe that some of those decision makers are members of the DEA and they look for ways to use our comments against us and our beliefs…
Still, I encourage all of you to show courage and to continue this fight, but not just here on this site but on every blog you come across. Make mention of the attrocities committed in this war against cannabis consumers every chance you get.
i believe that obama could have had intentions to bring about change concerning cannabis legalization…i also thhink their is a greater power in office an, that people, is MONEY! big business runs this country people!and barry cannot stand up to it.no president can…including ron paul…it has to be all of us to make this happen..id be willing to bet, if all of you were to feel the STING of drug testing…..more people would be steppin out on this thing….c’mon people.it is so frustrating to here people who can still work and consume the remedy sitting on their asses while the folks like me that must refrain from the comfort of the remedy in order to keep a reasonable job cannot do enough at any level to find change…we all have to step out in order for change to occur…..those who feel that only the president is going to change all of this is grossly ignorant!! i have done more in three the years ive been hair tested then in all the other 32 years as a cannabis consumer.unfortunatly, that is what it took for me to relize that i must TRY to make a difference…write your letters, get the correct information from norml and start telling people about the good in cannabis..BUY THE BOOK marijuana is safer and read it, copy exerpts and post them everywhere…like, at friggen work or the mall, or the g/store.do friggen something…dammit….peace to you all..
How fucking stupid. Dam norml your really reaching for articles. NO obamas not gona do shit for marijuana. Barry was a different person then now hes a scab. I hung out with a guy 90s who nice as hell and always hooked good pot. NOW hes a goddam cop busting potheads with vengence. Its a powertrip prohibition is to the government.
Like this article a lot. NormL, should tak it a step further. I, as one who doesn’t communicate my views well, and finds it hard to even write this post. I admit to being lazy, and feel disenfranchised by our governments from federal to local.i own up to being lazy, but help us to help you, help us. Get it? The only organization I’ve even appemted to join / help was yours. I have contacted the local normL to see what I can do to help. Because I feel so strongly about this cause. But I have not had any response. Why? I can’t contribute financially, maybe that’s why they disregarded me? I don’t know. But you can have my voice, as minuscule as that may be.
NormaL would further it’s/our cause to provide a form letter that each of us could print / email and sign (snail mail is better, I’ve been told) and send off to our representatives. When our voices finally become louder than the one whispering constantly in the ears of our representatives. then and only then the true voice of will be heard., and not the voice of some big corporate lobbyist. It will be deafening.
Wow how lazy am I . I just found your form letter.
I encourage everyone to send mutibles off the every representative. Get your friends and family to do it too.
Doctors smoke it nurses smoke it… judges smoke it even the lawyer too… so you got to legalize it and don’t criticize it legalize it and i’ll advertize it.
Yeah Obama i was a highschool stoner too. But at least i never (crapped ) on my cannabis community. We know you remember! when it comes to your old age later on in life, what will you choose for pain relief?
Keep running the economy into the ground until cannabis is legalized.
The de-funding of at least federal prohibition in MMJ had better be in the automatic cuts that take effect in January 2013. It’s a way to piss on Romney’s parade before he gets into office if he even gets elected. It’s damn shame Obama isn’t going for the revenue grab now so that the market can avoid double dip turmoil. If he did that and saved Syria, he might have a better chance of getting re-elected as Joe Public doesn’t like to change presidents during wartime.
Thank the Eye of Dangma!
How is it that Obama never got addicted on cannabis enough to go to get help ? and still did well in school?
More than anything I just want some kind of response from Mr Obama to the fact that over half of the country supports full legalization and around 75% in favor of medical use. We have tried petitions, letters, twitter, facebook, email, protests, and the worse is that it was the top issue by far in his “we are the people” website where he wanted to answer the questions we asked. If I remember that the thousands of peoples voices who voted for that were taken off the site due to it “offending people”. He even made a negative comment about what it says about the people online. Another time there was a general response which whta he said included alcohol to make things sound bad. And the latest was when Jimmy Kimmel got serious and asked the question to just be laughed off.
And now we find out he did it just as much as most regular users while he wants to lock us up for doing the same. And I’m sure he won’t even comment on why it was ok for him to do it but not everyone else. Can’t say it causes long term harm since he became President. But if he were to ever have been caught smoking years ago he wouldn’t have even made it through college. Sorry for going on but it is very frustrating.
You all should take a look at the Libertarian candidate for president – former governor of New Mexico – Gary Johnson. He openly is calling for legalization of cannabis, and is running on many other sensible posiitions. Although I don’t think he can win, it is my hope that voting for a third party will send a message to the republicans and democrats that the American people are sick of all the corruption and misrepresentation! Big Pharma is in bed with Obama, the police unions want the work of arresting for possession, and alcohol companies force his hand in the medicinal marijuana raids!
Or alternatively I think it would make sense to establish an online letter of intent not to re-elect anyone who will not make drug reform a first priority. An executive order regarding MMJ or drug policy reform could be attained if everyone who otherwise supported Obama or any other candidate resolved to vote for an someone else or not at all unless real steps were taken on one of the most important issues of our times. PS Learn from history. Prohibition doesn’t work.
The worst President ever..knows full well from much use that cannabis is harmless. Yet has no problem seeing people sent to prison where they are raped and killed..that is if the DEA or a cop doesn’t kill you first..Thumbs UP for Penn Julette he hit it on the head..catch his Obama rant on Youtube.
Marijuana is also a preventive just by low usage. A joint a day keeps the doctor , dea, etc away. Health problems are evident where cannabis has been unavailable as well. This is why diseases will be on the rise and uncontrolable in the population. Cannabis was created for many reasons as a benefit for all who need or want treatment for many illnesses. Oh and stop fighting God on this because if it was bad God would have never created cannabis and you opposed would be better people. People need cannabis not prohibition restraint on it.
If I remember correctly, Obama was the first president who strongly used the Internet for his election campaign. He promised the people change and was eventually elected, especially by those people from the Internet.
Then when he asked those people what change they actually want, they answered with an overwhelming voice and plenty of times that they want MJ legalized. It was mostly the Number 1 top answer whenever he asked.
So what was his answer? Not only did he ignore the question several times. He also laughed it off and even called the people on the Internet crazy!
Does he really think, the people on the Internet who helped him to become president are different people from those who ask him again and again with an overwhelming voice to legalize MJ?
I think it’s really time to show him a number! Someone needs to get a website up where people can sign up and let Obama know that legalizing MJ is a main reason to vote for him. Maybe he’s going to use it as a last chance if he’s going to lose the election…
I think we should be talking about Gary Johnson. The libertarian party is a good voting block of people who support ending prohibition. That’s what we’re here to do. Does Norml endorse him or Obama?
Obama is smart, but he is a pussy. That is all it comes down to. He is better than George and Bill, but he is too entrented with that stupid “blacks are criminals, and weed helps make them so” bullshit. He says it is time for something new, but he’s not ready for it. Weird, huh?
Barry, are you trying to waste our votes?
@Piz – Making statements like “Although I don’t think he can win…” could be part of the reason that Ron Paul didn’t win the Republican nomination. I fear that many people will read that and decide that a vote for that person would be wasted (I refer to the millions of sheeples out there – the ones that don’t really think for themselves).
That said, I agree with you that voting for Gary Johnson, whether he wins or not, will hopefully send a message to the Democrats and Republicans that we are tired of their BS and want for them to get on board for our (the People of America) agenda instead of continuing to pursue their own selfish interests.
One further thought is that I am absolutely disgusted with President Obama’s current views on the subject! If I only had Romney and Obama to choose from to be our next president, it would be Obama. But, those are NOT our only choices – wise up everyone!
Has anyone ever thought of having an organized peaceful civil protest whereby users light up in front of or in federal buildings throughout the country? Imagine trying to jail all those people?
obama is just gonna lie through his teeth again like he did the last time. anyone who votes for obama again has got to be stupid. i dont care who gets offended.
The statement from Bilbray (R) “Supports MJ Spray” 5-30-12 changes the game, and because it’s a republican wagon (built better) everyone in Washington is going to jump on it and say they invented the idea, when 6 months ago you couldn’t get opinion-one from Bilbray on the positive for MMJ – and his daughter Briana medicates and advocates.
Not one leading candidate had expressed any positive opinion about MJ and while not a B.O. supporter, if it weren’t for Obama, we wouldn’t have been able to have the MMJ network foundation established in California, before he had to flip on the issue. Thanks big-time for the former. 🙂
Imo, having the MJ spray recognized by the republican hardliners sends a clear message to Ma & Pa in Burnt Stump, USA, (totally targeted now) who have no television or radio, or to the devote religious (who until yesterday, felt that using MMJ was getting Jesus high too! – that now,finally for sure, the Federal Government has attached it’s Seal of Approval of the organic ingredients within Marijuana, and it’s OK to ingest – and “By Golly, I’m going to go out and get a “script” and try that MMJ out for my chronic constipation”.
That’s a WIN.
Let the free market begin !
“As you may know, the Rohrabacher amendment to H.R. 5326 would prohibit the Department of Justice from using federal funds to prevent the implementation of state laws authorizing the use of medical marijuana. Currently, 16 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws allowing the use of marijuana for the treatment of diseases from cancer to AIDS.
Under current law, marijuana is considered a Schedule I narcotic meaning that its cultivation, use, or possession is a federal crime. The Supreme Court of the United States has established Congress’s constitutional authority to enact the existing federal prohibition on marijuana, but “principles of federalism” prevent the federal government from mandating that the states actively support or participate in enforcing federal law. Under the “Supremacy Clause”, state laws that conflict with federal law are “generally” preempted and therefore void.
Some of the concerns with using marijuana for medical use are: 1. Its organic nature makes proper dosage a “guess”, and must be smoked which is harmful to the patients lungs. As a result, I am working to encourage the Food and Drug Administration to approve a drug currently available in Europe and Canada that distributes a real cannabis extract through a spray which addresses the very real concerns that have been raised. To this end, I have introduced H.R. 5334 with Congresswoman Diana Degette (D-CO), which would expedite the development and review of new drugs which affect people with cancer and AIDS among other diseases.” 5-30-12
Please Listen to the voices of American and reform the Marijuana Laws.
Not since the ill-fated days of “Camelot” in the early 1960’s,and the Kennedy’s, have we seen such a dynamic-duo of President and Attorney General 1-2 punch.
The obama/Holder Dick-swingin regime is old hat..These TWO RACIST MORONS are RUINING OUR COUNTRY-If you don’t believe me, READ the Federal Register..(federalregister.gov) It’s the “log-book” of the govt. In it, you will see laws passsed-SIGNATORY Mr. Holder-To SUPPRESS VOTES, De-List people from the voter rolls. It’s not only a Republican thing, anymore. Cannabis IS THE LYNCHPIN ISSUE of the WAR ON AMERICANS, MASS INCARCERATION AND THE WAR ON OUR CIVIL RIGHTS..
Anyone hear how THAT worked out?
GROW-UP..STOP FIGHTING WITH ONE ANOTHER-AND FOCUS THE ENERGY ON IMPROVING THE “PROCESS” that allows such atrocities.
I just don’t understand. mexican drug lords number one export is marijuanna to this country. They are making millions & millions, and we can’t stop it
They are even growing millions of dollars of this product in our own state parks.???
Our government, and our rights are lost
Ron Paul is the only person who I heard make any sense.
Political possibility? No. Legalization is a Political *responsibility*
OK folks its time to make a stand. The only thing that can get things done is money and votes. Most of us have voting rights, some have money. Email this message to your elected officials and stand firm. Also send to like minded friends and family;
To the President, Members of the US Congress, State and local elected officials:
Criminal marijuana prohibition is a failure. Over 20 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana offenses since 1965 with over 800,000 arrests in 2010. The problem is getting worse – not because of the benign plant, but because of the obsolete laws. The time has come to amend criminal prohibition and replace it with a system of legalization, taxation, regulation, and education.
I can no longer vote for elected officials that support the the current laws. I have decided not to vote for any politician that does not publicly support the removal of all penalties for the private possession and responsible use of marijuana by adults, including cultivation for personal use, and casual nonprofit transfers of small amounts.
Signed
Voting Citizen
& Member of the Movement
I agree Bob. We threw our permanent-status mail-in ballots in the trash. We won’t be voting, because none of the candidates running support safe local access to medical marijuana. Having posted such on the Rhode Island NORML blog, May 30, 2012, “Regular Joe” posted this opposite view, and while a valid opinion years earlier, we’ve been stalled by politicians for 75 years. DO NOT VOTE THIS JUNE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS. WE’LL GET NATIONAL PRESS…WORLDWIDE!
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Kirk,
If you don’t vote at all, it’s one less vote that a prohibitionist has to worry about. it makes it easier for them to stay in office. say for instance that both parties are opposed to any form of legalization…well, choose the lesser of the two evils. say one candidate is hard nosed and unwilling to listen or compromise on the issue and the other candidate is opposed, but willing to hold audience and at least listen to the pro arguments – that’s a foot in the door. we need someone who will give our voice a public forum to be heard. it’s all about education. you, i, and everyone else on this site knows the facts…but the general population is still subject to all of the old propaganda that comes from those 3 letter agencies you speak of. not all will listen, we want to speak to those who will, or at least those capable of being objective.
simply not voting is not the answer. in fact, it may serve to lengthen prohibition. – Regular Joe
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Again, Joe’s got a point, but it’s not urgent enough. Play hardball with the political process. DON’T VOTE THIS JUNE PRIMARY and spread the WORD. NO VOTE!
Your form letter posted on Steve Kroft’s Blog – 60 Minutes. It gets read:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8618-500495_162-13544.html?assetTypeId=30&messageId=12434117&tag=contentBody%3BcommentWrapper
The “money is no object” war on weed cannot be out of ignorence in the 21st century. It is money. Big Corrections needs to fill its cells and 850,000 arrests at about $125 a day to fill a cell is good money.
IF WE STICK TOGETHER AND DON’T VOTE TODAY … it will be recognized tomorrow and CONTEMPLATED BY THE PROHIBITIONIST WHO DICTATE TO “THEIR” CANDIDATES WHAT “THEIR” POLICY WILL BE BEFORE NOVEMBER.
Some of these races will be run-offs and SOME OF THE SURVIVING CANDIDATES FROM TODAY, will jump on the MEDICAL MARIJUANA wagon BECAUSE WE REPRESENT VOTES THAT COULD TIP THE ELECTION IN THEIR FAVOR OF A LANDSLIDE OF SUPPORT.
USE OUR POWER WISELY NOW!!! and then hold our cards in Reserve until we garner their support.
TRY IT OUT TODAY. NO VOTE !
Bob Filner needs to be elected as mayor. He supports MMJ.
And if NORML decides to back Bob Filner for mayor of San Diego, it should be only after he is vetted by NORML, when a NORML representative stands up in a public forum and ask Bob point-blank how his actions will speed-up safe access for tested medical marijuana (and how he will refute the federal class-A Narcotic assertions of “non-measured doses”, being one of only two issues, preventing federal down-grading of MJ to a Controlled Substance.
Dosage does not matter, since under normal one or two, or even 25+ toke ingestions will not kill you or even make most persons sick).
Having Bob Filner in a run-off with Carl DeMiao (s.i.c.) is NORML’s invitation to put our hat in the ring as well. We need a local San Diego NORML representative to be at every press conference from now until November and be actively asking questions and putting candidates on the spot.
My wife signed a petition in front of the market this morning – to obtain a dispensary here in Encinitas, and she doesn’t medicate. She signed, to gain a dispensary that was closer to home than a 46 mile round-trip for me.
Time Moves Forward. Do something little towards Permanent Safe Access and you’ll feel a lot better – and part of a righteous movement.
Were the Bob Filner team to craft an MMJ information message that included a “blitz review” of MJ history in 1800’s America (no one person turned crazed from hash-oil and it was sold by the gallon jug) including the fact that the DEA has yet to broadcast one iota of residual harm from even smoking MJ on a moderate-use basis, and in fact, OTHER countries are making inroads into MJ’s healing-benefits and no one country has found definitive harm in cannabis yet.
MJ is a big tax haul. Where’s the state tax of $15.25 going that I paid $212.00 in a pot transaction Bob? If 100 people go into that shop and 8 grams of pot, that’s $15,000. of tax income in one day.
How much if any of that state tax money stayed in San Diego? If it all went to Jerry Brown, what did he do with it?
How can we re-direct the tax flow river, Bob?
Luckily for team Bob, there’s boodles of past information and current information available abroad – and crafting such a message in a way that can be used by candidates from the other states suffering under prohibition. More bang for our buck. When the same message gets repeated in many states it becomes saturated and the new norm.
The more public awareness nation-wide, the quicker for mass acceptance.
Do regular cannabis smokers (canabaholics) experience fewer colds (MJ is an expectorant) and miss more work-days because of common colds?
Yes! on fewer common-colds.
No! on more missed work-days.
Compare those assumptions with the “cold”-facts of sole alcoholics (those who have at least one or more drinks a day). Somebody. And get back to us. Thanx!
“Bob says:
June 4, 2012 at 4:45 pm
OK folks its time to make a stand.”
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Truer words were never spoken so urgently as today.
Imo, we need to FIRM COMMITMENTS OF SUPPORT TODAY from legislator/ive hopefuls that need our “collective” vote in November – because Obama will be lucky to escape impeachment (did you see the “rat” demeanor of DAVID AXLEROD on CBS this morning when he spoke with Charlie Rose? No wonder stocks plunged -149.
Get Democratic commitment now on MMJ or lose-out completely when Mitt Romney takes office.
What’s his stand on MMJ? Need we ask?
I vote republican because of prop 13. I know how they think. There’s not one Republican that sides with anything EXCEPT British-inhalent for AIDS and hospice sufferers only.
Isn’t that in the fine print of the pending? Rep. back bill?
It’s going to get taken away if we don’t act. The dispensary owners have learned that fighting the city on re-locating MMJ shops to industrial sites was a mistake. No grandfather to fall back on. Greed got you that. The patients had no input. The dispensaries didn’t support the city.
Right?(in part at least?) I don’t live in San Diego).
Doomed to repeat?
Better get hard-nosed organized (and no yelling at the DEA in the street to get it done either). Get federally minded or plan on driving to Santa Ana for decent OG meds – right after November.
Message from Congressman Brian Bilbray (50th Congressional District)
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:16 PM
Dear Mr. Perry :
Thank you for contacting me with your thoughts regarding the Rohrabacher amendment to H.R. 5326, the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2013.
As you may know, the Rohrabacher amendment to H.R. 5326 would prohibit the Department of Justice from using federal funds to prevent the implementation of state laws authorizing the use of medical marijuana. Currently, 16 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws allowing the use of marijuana for the treatment of diseases from cancer to AIDS.
Under current law, specifically the Controlled Substances Act (P.L. 91-513), marijuana is considered a Schedule I narcotic meaning that its cultivation, use, or possession is a federal crime.
Marijuana, because of its organic nature, cannot be placed into a proper dosage for the patient and must be smoked – which is harmful to the patients lungs. As a result:
“I am working to encourage the Food and Drug Administration to approve a drug currently available in Europe and Canada that distributes a real cannabis extract through a spray which addresses the very real concerns that have been raised. To this end, I have introduced H.R. 5334 with Congresswoman Diana Degette (D-CO), which would expedite the development and review of new drugs which affect people with cancer and AIDS among other diseases.”
Considering the fact that the authority to regulate controlled substances such as Marijuana resides with the federal government and that there are other treatments available to treat cancer and AIDS,
I voted against the Rohrabacher amendment when it came before me in the House of Representatives. The amendment failed by a margin of 84-335 and as a result was not included in the final bill when it passed the House on May 10, 2012.
Please be assured that as we continue to discuss issues related to medical marijuana, I will keep your thoughts in mind.
Sincerely,
Brian Bilbray
Member of Congress
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Folks, this is the same rubber-stamp “NO” issued by both Bilbray (R) and Feinstein (D) since 2010 and a dictionary example of what bi-partisan means.
It doesn’t matter who gets elected…no body is going to be able to force the DEA to re-classify cannabis to a controlled substance and NOT a NARCOTIC.
Forgetaboutit, unless the MMJ issue gets put to a vote in a federal election and the people vote the DEA DOWN.
You will not find any Republican that supports anything but the inhaler and that will be strictly enforced for all but the terminally ill.
If NORML is without direction, how about keeping status-quo on dispensaries in San Diego now, like SDDC (next to the strip joint) on Midway.
How about standing up in both republican and democratic fund raisers and demanding some answers.
Don’t let the politicians bully our unorganized masses. Make some noise or we won’t be heard well before November. The only thing we “can be assured of” is Mr. Bilbray and Ms. Feinstein are in lock-step because they party orders them so. Both are canned in D.C. and worthless to change. Barbara Boxer like Filner are sympathetic but what else?
I would have scheduled an appointment with Ms. Feinstein as NORML requested, until I received Bilbrays email.
Either one of those puppets would nod their heads, but they don’t care, unless there’s an opportunity to act like they’re “empty-sponsoring” just for votes.
Bob Filner’s power to do anything is limited. No one person can get past the DEA and that will continue to be used as their excuse. Boo!
NO VOTING and we’d better make a NATIONAL SLOGAN OF IT or create a unifying slogan that will keep people away from the polls in November. THREATEN NOW – to get the media jitterbugging about the “Voting Boycott” before July.
Yes? or What then? Whatchagot?
San Diego U~T – Editorial Center-Page Fri. 6/15
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“Uninformed citizens & low voter participation are silent threats to our democracy.” – June/7/12, Tony Young, S.D. City Council President
“Voter participation for the previous 10 presidential primary elections (40 yrs.) is only about 50-percent.
Final figures for June 5, 2012 are not yet in, but drew barely more than 29-percent of voters statewide.
San Diego County turnout was somewhat better, at about 36-percent. The city of San Diego, where a mayor’s race and two contentious ballot initiatives, had only 38.4-percent.
And more astounding because 67-percent of very hip voters, do so by mail, natch.
Voters respond to stimulus and all the ballots and initiatives had an anti-stimulative effect.
That’s the real threat to our economy” – (truncated text for brevity) Editor, San Diego U~T.
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So, the candidates are deathly afraid of low voter turn out.
And this is why we need to organize cannabis users to NOT VOTE in NOVEMBER.
Doing so is going to wreck the politicians vote forecast. If NORML gets a No Vote Campaign started, I will post the news on Cyril’s site, which is the Biker World’s “morning paper” (broadcast from Florida daily at 4:30 a.m. (EST).
http://www.cyrilhuzeblog.com/
I need to be selective in what I say (Florida is controlled by the church), but when I find an “In” that blends with a topic, and I’ve been occasionally allowed to “bend” into a topic, in the past, then I will post it (them).
So, NORML has the biker world in their pocket. Biker’s are a reliable world of people, who know the value and effectiveness of petitions. That would be biker’s from all the (17) states and D.C. on our side.
Create a “No Vote” plan and count us in.
Does anyone know? Is any one alive from the year 1937, that remembers why Marijuana was determined to be a Class-1 Narcotic?
Cannabis was available everywhere between 1850-1936. Did the government find that people who used cannabis stayed home and refused to work a regular 40-hour week?
Was reefer madness real? Did students smoke pot and then break the necks off of Pepsi bottles and jab the glass-shard necks into their faces as the film depicts?
What happened to make cannabis OK during pre-1936 and not in 1937?
Is everyone in America stupid to why we lost the right to use cannabis?
We’re sure that’s why the DEA won’t allow hemp for commercial use. Too hard to spot the real thing from the fiber thing.
Alcohol is the same chemical composition today that is was in the year 1.
What made alcohol different that deterred the alcohol prohibitionist? Nothing, except the will of the people (over 50-percent we’d guess).
I think NORML should “reverse engineer” the “Alcohol Prohibitionist Failed Attempt” at keeping poison out of dad’s reach and harming the family structure, and do the same with marijuana. Find out what worked with the “alcohol-fiends” that got them their liquor back and play it back on the cannabis prohib’s.
Sounds like we need a lot of pro-cannabis voters.
Clothing made of hemp is softer than cotton and lasts 3 times as long.
I think we’re getting close to the reason(s)the alky controlled population have the country in a death-grip . It’s all about money and control.
It’s always about money, so let’s roll out how much marijuana brought to the tax table in California. HOW MUCH TAX MONEY DID POT CONTRIBUTE IN 2011 TO .
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ALWAYS HAS A STEAM-RELEASE MECHANISM…
that’s why the DEA not only, cannot close-down ALL dispensaries in San Diego, they MUST provide the same highest commercial quality-meds at $50. maximum 1/8 price.
THERE IS NO WAY THE DEA CAN CLOSE DOWN THE SDDC® DISPENSARY ON MIDWAY DR. (next to the strip joint). Period. If they do, then they have to open another one, before the SDDC closes.
We don’t hear S.D. city attorney Jan (I’ll close every dispensary in S.D.) Goldsmith complaining do we? Not a peep from city hall.
Another federal steam-release mechanism is the VA. The MMJ (civil) WAR can be won through the Armed Forces Veterans Administration.
I personally made an in-road towards the VA’s accepting marijuana-use admissions from Vets, without disqualifying the Vets from federal medical treatment programs in 2010.
My participation in the Veteran’s Hep-C program put me in the position to challenge the La Jolla branch of the VA, to accept marijuana as a (here’s the key folks, listen and plan) PROVEN ANTI-NAUSEA deterrent and remedy.
Note: Currently in the the world at large, there is no pill for nausea that works without making the patient tired. Prilosec® [s.i.c.] is useless against the nausea of chemotherapy (weekly interferon injections). Marijuana use enables a patient to overcome nausea (even the slightest trace of nausea will wreck your day completely from the start. You “day” it’s over before it began).
AND, because the V.A. accepted the NAUSEA REMEDY, they passed a law that protected Vets from MMJ persecution. THAT WAS A FEDERAL WIN. Do you understand?
Because the V.A. accepted MMJ for nausea relief, they HAD to prescribe me GUAIFENESIN (guaff-fin-nee-son) to thin-out the excess Phlegm cause by interferon, which helped with the phlegm caused by the expectorant marijuana.
Do you see the connection?
Well there is one. The VA now cannot disqualify MMJ users within the VA system. That’s federal. That’s an unlocked door that has been left cracked-open.
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Side note: Marijuana smoked is an expectorant. The body produces mucous non-stop daily, gallons of the it. In the morning, if you smoke, be SURE and first drinkl tow full glasses of water. Reason? When expectorating the mucous is only semi-soluble in water. There are other reason for that, but when it comes time to expectorate, if the mucous isn’t pre-thinned, you’ll spend valuable time trying to “hack one up”. Not so with proper water consumption – the mucous gets thinned and runs down the back of your throat like it should. Hep-C patients should drink one gallon (but no more) of water a day to “run-right”. Mass water intake daily makes you feel good and most of the good stuff in you is all slightly-soluble, so it takes alot of water to release those.
It don’t matter if a person is (R) or (D) they will say what you want to here untill there in office. I, say vote then all out and it’s time for the people of Americia to stop this B.S. and start a revolution. other wise there never will be a change. the rich will still get richer and the poor will stay poor.
June 19, 2012
Thank you for taking time to contact my office and share your thoughts on Senate Bill 1182 (Leno). I appreciate hearing from you on this issue.
SB 1182 would guarantee that business entities operating within guidelines set by the Attorney General shall not be subject to prosecution for marijuana possession or commerce. This bill also provides that the employees, officers and members of business entities operating within the Attorney General’s guidelines shall not be subject to prosecution for marijuana commerce. This measure was approved by the Senate Committee on Public Safety by a vote of 5-2 and will next be heard on the Senate Floor however, no hearing dates have been scheduled at this time. Should this measure come before me, I will be sure to keep your concerns in mind.
Thank you again for contacting me. Should you have another concern related to state government, please do not hesitate to contact me again in the future.
Sincerely,
MARK WYLAND (Republican)
Senator, 38th District
Attack the foundation of the 1937 Marijuana Narcotic designation Harrison Act.
At exactly what point in time:
What day, what hour, what minute, and WHO was in the room, on or before 1937, to make the decision that Marijuana was a (now in 2012) Mortal Threat to Society? We’re pretty sure Harrison signed-off on the “Act”.
What else now 75 years later?
What made Marijuana a narcotic?
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When will all of the “Human Behavior Statistics” (including a listing every violation of any kind), from all registered patients, garnered from the SDDC® MMJ dispensary be made available to NORML??
NORML needs those stats to rail against “Dead Harrison Act of 1937? and it’s underpinnings which provided the “NARCOTIC” handle that Pot got.
~ SDDC $50. “Top-Shelf” Dispensary Closed ~
Their site http://Sandiegodiscountcaregivers.com/
is down.
I called and was told, “We’re no longer in business, but keep trying our site and we’ll let you if we re-open at another location”.
Methinks, as out-front and nonplussed as the staff at SDDS were, it still seems to be a DEA operated business.
Methinks, they will re-open at another location and that the closure was related to mobs of people, and was the reason for not accepting new patients, then accepting new patients the last couple of weeks and establishing a 21+ policy.
Those were the best meds, humanely priced and manicured pre-packs.
WTF DEA?
Leave us in one place goddamnit.
~ Medical Marijuana Annual Parade ~
Back to “As the Marijuana World Turns in San Diego County”: After being forced-out of my 4th MMJ Home at the SDDC, by using WeedMaps®, I found a local delivery service that provides $50. top shelf buds, locally grown, for a $45. one-eighth price. The Green Nectar is behind the beach cities petitions to operate MMJ storefronts.
Iron Lung is deliver in SDNC. Both deliver to San Diego North County.
Both have a portion of their menu’s devoted to “Tested Meds”.
“Tested” $45. 1/8 meds are becoming the demand amongst patients. We don;t see that price in Orang COunty and L.A., many are still pricing meds at $60. and $65.
As the DEA forces store front dispensary’s to close in S.D., more delivery operations are springing-up. And, the delivery services operate in farm practices, where one dispensary will buy from another grower, add $5.00 and sell for $50. just to keep their menu fully stocked for deliveries.
The DEA’s plan now has morphed into propagation of delivery services, because they reach more people and more growers get legally established. It’s not illegal to be a grower if you play by the rules. Everyday, more people are growing.
If everyone in California grew a couple of plants, it would be hard for the DEA to be Syrian about cannabis.
What NORML lacks after 35 years of existence is a state-wide “Medical Marijuana Day Parade”.
No one is really aware of Medical Marijuana because we do not have T.V. coverage.
If we organize a state ” Medical Marijuana Awareness Parade” we will, because stations will compete, because we will educate the truth, that MARIJUANA IS NOT A CLASS-1 NARCOTIC.
Floats in the parade will include one from the Veterans Administration. The floatees will stage an “operations” theme, where one vet at the front of the float is taking a once weekly injection of Interferon, the second-staged vet would be nauseous and throwing up into a bucket. The 3rd vet would be smoking a bong-load of weed, and the 4th vet on the float would be gorging on fresh fruit and smoothies packed with protein and smiling.
Bob Filner can lead the parade.
Does this make any sense at all?
June 2, 2012 –
“Last month, Ms. Leonhart (DEA) testified before Congress that she believed that heroin and marijuana posed similar threats to the public’s health because, in her opinion, “all illegal drugs are bad.”
– More lying fraud from the DEA, dictating an outdated law, never backed-up with a shred of scientific reason, other than pressure from alternative substance commerce and the church.
Boo!! The DEA is an un-American institution.
Vote them down or don’t vote at all.
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How much longer will MMJ patients allow the DEA to stonewall on the Heroin-MJ connection?
Another (4) years?
Once Bob Filner leaves his post in Washington, his power to accomplish anything on the federal level relating to pro-marijuana is DONE. No fork needed.
~ Stop the DEA ~
Don’t Vote in November
“Last month, DEA director, Ms. Leonhart, BA (Criminology), testified as an unqualified medical spokesperson for the DEA before Congress, that she believed that heroin and marijuana posed similar threats to the public’s health because, in her opinion, “all illegal drugs are bad.”
– NORML 7/2/12
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That’s it. Ms. Leonhart, who is not a medical doctor, and holds a 4-year degree in criminology, somehow has “channeled” every legal and health related issue, and every single crime status report from all over America, to arrive with an empty-handed conclusion, and without a shred of medical evidence, that:
“Heroin and Marijuana pose similar threats (similar? What frickin’ threat?) and that all illegal drugs are bad.”
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Well….how are you going to argue with that? It’s a drug-lord dictatorship. The DEA won’t come clean about cannabis, so you KNOW they have something to hide, along with the ATF, who’s problems are forever buried from public scrutiny. Same old story, year after year after year.
Ms. Leonhard is TOLD WHAT TO SAY, BY ANOTHER ENTITY. She has no real knowledge about cannabis, only the same old boilerplate of a Stonewaller, protecting the interest of alcohol producers.
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Here is what scares them deeply to the core of their existence, even NORML:
The THREAT OF NOT VOTING. No one in VOTING in November GETS THEIR ATTENTION.
IF NORML DOES NOT HAVE A “Type-1 Narcotic re-classification” BALLOT IN THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS, THEN THREATEN NOW….NOT TO VOTE.
Believe that then…… your “voice” will be heard loud and clear.
~ NO VOTING in NOVEMBER ~
Thank you for taking time to contact my office and share your thoughts on Assembly Bill 2312 (Ammiano). I appreciate hearing from you on this issue.
AB 2312 would create a nine-member Board of Medical Marijuana Enforcement to regulate the medical marijuana industry and to collect fees from medical marijuana businesses to be deposited into a new Medical Marijuana Fund. In addition, it would authorize local taxes on medical marijuana up to 5%. This measure was approved by the Assembly by a vote of 41-30 and will next be heard in the Senate. Should it come before me, I will be sure to keep your thoughts in mind.
Thank you again for contacting me. Should you have another concern related to state government, please do not hesitate to contact me again in the future.
Sincerely,
MARK WYLAND
Senator, 38th District
The only reason i would vote Obama is
If stated he could repeal prohabition.
Where’s WeedMaps® online?
What are the dispensaries plans to deal with the L.A. closures pending? All close but a “steam release valve” few….. to serve many?
Don’t Vote in November, if the DEA does not have co-existing plan for L.A., announcing limited dispensaries that will operate in Los Angeles, just as they do In San Diego.
As forewarned earlier this year, San Diego was the “testing ground” for the DEA’s weed management program.
San Diegan’s listen up! Here’s the breakdown of my last MMJ sales ticket:
7/26/12 • Dispensary transaction: # 17,3818
(27) employees
1/8 Mack-10 (2) @ $46.40 – Extended….. $92.81
State & Local Tax….. 7.19
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Total……$100.00
(The dispensary paid the tax for us. We’re getting 23.3/.45/na/ meds for $46.40)
You can see that I was transaction # 17,338. If those customers only donated for a 1/4 oz. then…let’s multiply……and get….wow…$,24975.14 !! Really? Tax money that goes to San Diego? Any? None? We can change the direction of tax flow dollars and the minds of the public, but we need a National Forum perch other than this site or WeedMaps®.
Does NORML have a delegate that will attend press conferences and ASK Mitt R. and Barack O. what they plan have for ending the Civil Rights-War between MMJ patients and the DEA? Face to face for all to hear.
How much longer will the “Cat & Mouse” go on as a national distraction?
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Thanks to the DEA for removing the poisons
“Bath Salts” and “Spice” from warehouses in
North County, and helping sieve the opinion of “Cannabis” from “Chemicals”, to a society kept in the dark for 75 years, still fearful and steeped in lies about the so-called “Killer Marihuana!”.
Are we prepared for the Romney Administration?
My most recent reply from Diane Feinstein was that she was “concerned” about trace amounts of tHc in Industrial Hemp, which is old guard speak for “show me how IndyHemp can be genetically altered to have zero tHc and I’m on board”.
Hemp is THE plant that will re-introduce cannabis to society. Once the public becomes saturated with how long clothing lasts, the blenda-bility with other fabrics, seed oil as fuel. The first Levi’s were hemp.
Hemp (even Gen-Hemp) should be a combined target with MMJ.
Look out for the USA Cotton Council and the pesticide mfgrs. – and start looking for Hemp Support now, before November.
The more you read about the benefits of hemp, the more it makes sense, and why was Industrial Hemp abandoned in 1938?
Press the issue at press conferences.
Okay, well it’s August 22, 2012 and unless the current administration slides us into aerial combat above Syria, B. Obama’s term is over. Thanks to him, imo, (and not G. Bush) we established a network of pesticide-tested 23.8+ % tHc medications that work for us.
How will we be accepted by the Republican party GOP? By face to face.
How are the Washington D.C. collectives preparing for the new Republican administration? Montel WIlliams is a principal in a prominent MMJ dispensary, according to CBS. He’s a public figure. How about him meeting with Mitt Romney today and ask those questions. Doesn’t even need to be televised, just “quoted” from transcript.
Why should we not know what the Romney-Ryan’s administrations plans are for directing the DEA in the future? We’re being lured into status-quo complacency, imo. Once Romney wins, do we?
How many years of investment do you have monitoring and participating in the fight for the truth about MMJ?
Have we ever been told an exact reason for the federal law against marijuana?
We’ll be in Washington D.C between October 20-27 as tourist. If I can help NORML in any way, let me know, as I am eager to ask the questions myself, and then report what I’ve learned.
Steve Kroft Blog
by Hydra-Glide August 29, 2012 2:57 PM EDT
~ The GOP hasn’t announced their position on Medical Marijuana. ~
I’m a “permanent status” absentee voting Republican and ex-felon (hashish importer), and medical marijuana user. I do not drink alcohol.
The Republican Party stands for two things (regardless of our individual opinions):
1. Less government spending.
2. A human moral “bottom of the barrel” code that must continually try and protect every fetus before conception.
That’s it.
Concerning #2, if there was no group that spoke for the unborn, then no one would. We as Republicans must stand firm on this foundation that protects even slightest possibility, that “life exist” at any time beyond that “instant” of conception (which in turn gives our group a foundation base to operate from, see? We can be “under-cut from our moral stance before that “instant”.) We fluff our pillows up at night with that security.
The reality of everyday living for Republicans, is that we’re glad that a “moral foundation exists”, but 95% of us would be relieved to have that abortion-option open for unwanted pregnancies if a need arose, and in concert with the morals-thing, Do Not as a “group” want the federal government to subsidized abortion 100%, so we gotta say we’re against abortion. Does that make any sense? We hope so, because this also ties in to #1 of less government spending.
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What you’ve just read above represents the newest branch of the Grand Old Party, known collectively as the GNP (Grand NEW Party). We’re the group of disenfranchised Medical Marijuana patients and users, who have insight enough to “see through” the political-speak b.s. and we’re not going to be given the continued “run-a-round” that deprives us of our civil rights, and has since marijuana was demonized in 1937.
What-Was-The-Reason-For-Outlawing-Marijuana-in America in 1937?
What-Was-The-Reason-For-Outlawing-Marijuana-in America in 1937?
Alcohol ruins lives. Marijuana does not.
Alcohol causes fetal-damage syndrome. Marijuana does not.
Alcohol makes people dangerous. Marijuana does not.
Marijuana is reported to be destructive to pre-18 yr. old DAILY USERS.
What does repeated ALCOHOL binge/ingestion cause in pre-18 yr. old brains? Sis-boom-ba…rah,rah,rah. Have another “kegger” nitwits. Get stupid. Who’s footing the bill for that line of thinking? Does it hurt?
Marijuana has not been given a fair shake since 1937.
What-Was-The-Reason-For-Outlawing-Marijuana-in America in 1937?
Alcohol leads to Heroin use, not Marijuana. Think about it. Alcohol breaks down inhibition and sound judgement (i.e; vehicular accidents, not Marijuana).
Marijuana, especially that of a 24+% tHc content provides insight and introspection, not meanness.
What’s (Mr. TeaParty), PAUL RYAN GOT TO SAY ABOUT THAT today at the convention?
Here’s what I have to say to you.
If I ever read another slant-article about Republican Mark Wyland in the Union Tribune, criticizing his lack of being present for a vote, for which he gave good reason, (by not being redundant in voting for a bill being covered in future amendments, where he will be present to vote, and or excluding him from the “loop”, for his supporting the “States Right to Choose Medical Marijuana Policy”, then you’ll be hearing from me, @ CBS, again.
I’m telling you something you already know, but now more people do.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8618-500495_162-13544.html?assetTypeId=30&messageId=12840750&tag=contentBody%3BpostComments
Now is the time to roll the largest Joint in History and “bring Marijuana into the home” of T.V viewers all across the world.
ZigZag® can produce the rolling paper (12′ long) for the King Size splif.
Front loaders and bulldozers will collect the weed off the warehouse floor and dump it in the center of the paper.
10 people will create the “fold-over”, and with a synchronized effort continue the “roll”. The glue-line on the paper will be moistened with a huge sponge.
A “filer” cap will be constructed that has 100 toke hoses attached.
The joint will be lit with a blow-torch.
We will be seen. We will be heard.
SteveKroftBlog:
~ Paul Ryan and Cannabis Strategy ~
If the (my) Republican Party is WISE, they will allow Paul Ryan to
convince Mitt Romney that “States Should Decide” on the Cannabis issue;
follow Paul Ryan’s “early-lead on state’s choice” (before the Demo’s
can comment) and convince the fence-sitting public (me included) to
vote Republican in November and “move on” to the dire needs of the
country (which aren’t going to be affected one way or another by
cannabis… except for the tax revenue).
The (17) free-states have already proven that they can handle the
situation – don’t let the Federal Government continue to muddle-up
the marijuana issue. The DEA cannot win the Marijuana War. Make the
DEA use our tax money on eradicating hard drugs and precursor
chemicals. The DEA Can DO That Job Well.
We the people own the DEA.
Do not let the DEA control our suburban living. CHANGE THINGS BEFORE
NOVEMBER. Make them go away – or continue to suffer under the “deck
shuffling” tactics… of the little predators. Wake Up!
“Seventeen states – including Colorado – and the District of Columbia have enacted laws that allow for the limited legalization of cannabis for therapeutic purposes.
Immediately following Ryan’s public remarks, however, campaign aids told reporters that Ryan “agrees” with Presidential candidate Mitt Romney views opposing any liberalization of cannabis prohibition. Romney has previously stated: “I would not legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes. … I know there are some on the Democratic side of the aisle who will be happy to get in your campaign. But I’m opposed to it, and if you elect me president, you’re not going to see legalized marijuana. I’m going to fight it tooth and nail.”
– Mitt Romney (prohibitionist)
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• Don’t Vote for Romney-Ryan.
• Ryan is a party puppet.
• Romney will destroy everything NORML people have worked for.
If Obama doesn’t support states rights to choose, and say so before November, then DON’T VOTE at all.
NO Representation…NO VOTE AT ALL.
The DEA estimates that 1,000 to 1,500 people use medical marijuana in San Diego County.
Actually we believe the number of prescribed patients to be thousands higher.
San Diego needs to create a Medical Marijuana Rally in a stadium. The attendance would rival that of a yearly Jehovah’s Witness gathering.
The voting public needs to be aware of the support our organization has. We are a voting block. If NORML has a rally in San Diego, it will let the public know who we are and that we’re prepared to fight for our state voted right to smoke weed and have tested meds available 365 days of the year.
And, we will keep fighting for our rights and vote or not vote at all accordingly as a “group”, so our support will have an impact.
Concerning the Sept. 14, 2012 raid/closure of SDDC:
The effort made of recurring DEA raids is to keep our supply of cannabis upset. Please help convince NORML to hold a rally for Medical Marijuana in a stadium event, with a spokesperson, that will concisely deliver the message that we want the voting public to hear. Maybe our rally will help support Colorado in their November challenge. If we do nothing as a dispersed group of taxpayer/voters we will not be heard. Think “HomeOwners Association”. If you quack LOUD and LONG ENOUGH, a deal will be struck that we can all live with. If we let Ronmey-Ryan take over, they will devote all of their energy into destroying all we’ve worked to build and Romney will act fast. Now we can act. Later it will be harder. We can act NOW at a bargain rate.
Mitt Romney’s neighborhood is going to be a big circle that encompasses the Mormon Temple/Steeple on the east side of I-5 (south).
Anyone who surfed “Trestles” or “Cotten’s” knows what Nixon did to the neighborhood and beach access. There was none.
Romney will be another Nixon. Neither would/will allow a medical marijuana dispensary where they live.
Keep us up to date about which candidate is making concessions for medical cannabis and let us know whether to vote for Obama or Romney.
If neither, why vote at all. We’d only be electing the same old guard. Old and out of touch.
Were it a RYAN-Romney ticket, it might be a different story. Ryan initially told Coloradans he was for “states rights to choose”, then later that afternoon, Romney pounced on him and made him retract the statement about his personal feelings.
Romney is as poison as Dick Nixon, and an evangelist to boot. Who needs a preacher as president?
Unless we get a commitment of cannabis support, then why support either one of them?
For what? The country’s not going to fail..ever. It’s the U.S.A. for cry-yi, it doesn’t matter whose president. Does it. Did any one of them ever ruin the country for very long? No. Vote for hemp or not at all.
Yesterday, a group of black religious enthusiast threatened NOT TO VOTE AT ALL, over Obama’s approval of same sex marriage, and it made team Obama nervous…. Nelly.
It’s the only TOOL we have. USE IT.
Please consider being a permanent status “Mail-In Ballot” voter.
We’ve been mail-in’s for 27 years, and have never gotten in our car and burned gasoline to motor over to a voting station and stand in line and wait to vote.
Many people do not become mail-in-voter’s because they feel they’re not worthy.
You are. It’s your right and today, it’s a green thing to do.
Vote in your pajamas – and this year cast your vote for whichever candidate has the courage to support medical cannabis, no matter which party they represent.
If we don’t gain ground in November and be recognized as a united group, the next four years are going to be the same misery of periodic DEA deck-shuffling, cannabis supply delays, angst, stress, or worse.
DON’T LET THE DEA CONTROL YOUR LIFE-STYLE.
DeMaio (R) & Filner (D) On Same Page in Push for Marijuana Dispensaries” – Union Tribune, Monday 9/24/12.
“For now, the two candidates are asked about medical marijuana at nearly EVERY debate.” – Union Tribune, Monday, September 24, 2012
Great! Nice job NORML
~ H.R. 1831, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act ~ At House Energy & Commerce
9-24-12 Thank you for taking the time to contact me about H.R. 1831, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act.
As you know, HEMP is a variation of cannabis sativa with low-grade tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) strains. Today, hemp is used for industrial purposes such as paper, clothing and bio-fuel. Earlier this Congress, Representative RON PAUL (Texas-R) introduced H.R. 1831, the INDUSTRIAL HEMP FARMING ACT.
This piece of legislation AMENDS the (75 yr. old) CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE ACT to EXCLUDE industrial hemp from the DEFINITION of “MARIJUANA”.
H.R. 1831 also defines “industrial hemp” as any part of the Cannabis plant that meets the THC concentration limit of NO MORE than 0.3 PERCENT.
If a person grows or processes it for purposes of making industrial hemp THIS WOULD BE in accordance with state law.
H.R. 1831 has been referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Please rest assured, should this or similar legislation comes to the House floor for a vote, I will keep your thoughts in mind. Thank you for contacting me. If you have any further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me or my office at (202) 225-0508. – Congressman Brian Bilbray (R), 50th district, California
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Please Americans!(and the world at the same time)..Hemp for Fuel/Clothing..Corn for Cattle.
The hemp act is sending the DEA into a mad scramble this morning. It’s been 75 yrs. since the federal government made the (5) leaf plant an evil symbol.
Hemp looks too much like marijuana, and the DEA does not want the serrated (5) leaf plant to become commonplace, much less an energy savior for the USA. That’s a big plate of CROW to swaller’.
DEA jobs are on the line in November 2011. If even one (1) state like Colorado legalizes marijuana, other states will follow and the DEA is sweating over it. Big time.
If you have a moment to send A.G. Eric Holder a message we would all benefit from your effort in the future.
Not since the Vietnam War has their been so much muted public upheaval about a social lie.
Imagine, (9) retired DEA executives attempting to persuade Eric Holder to “cancel out” pro-voters ballot decision by federal decree.
Help win the 37 year battle today, if you haven’t already on this secure petition site:
https://secure2.convio.net/dpa/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=881
Last night’s debate was the “hand-off” from Obama to Romney. Obama is through, unless the United States goes to conflict overseas.
NORML’s report of a hoped 15,000 letters of petition are puny, compared to actual marijuana users in California.
Petition Eric Holder absolutely, but he’ll leave as A.G. after November.
SDDC dispensary on Midway is closed.
Delivery is the only “tested-menu” option in North County.
L.A. dispensaries were sent DEA notices last week.
What happens when Mitt gets his mitts on marijuana?
Rep. Bilbray Has No Position On Industrial Hemp
Contact your representative now through this petition. It only takes a minute to register and there’s a “remember me” box for pre-filled out petition forms in your future.
http://capwiz.com/votehemp/callalert/index.tt?alertid=51919501
The “new marijuana reform” hand-out circulating throughout my fellow Republican party incumbents is the, “marijuana only to the terminally ill” boilerplate, and only available through DEA chosen pharmacies, with prescriptions filled out in (narcotic) triplicate copy recordings.
San Diego city attorney Jan Goldsmith penned a Union Tribune article, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2012 that suggested so, taking credit for being one of three who originally fought for prop. 215, only to now side with this ridiculous republican solution to ending MMJ dispensaries. Grandstanding, Jan used “fake” MMJ i.d. cards” in the past as part of the problem. Hardly. He’s grasping at any hand-hold he can, to remain in the political spotlight. His narrow focus on MMJ now is to keep his job and stay aligned with the new Romney righteous.
I wrote the Union Tribune editor yesterday asking him/her what about the other 5,000 people in San Diego that use marijuana daily? What about those people? Do you think they will just stop medicating with marijuana? Or, do you think that they will return to the underground market and reverse all the progress we’ve made towards regulation?
I’ll get no answer from the editor at the UT. All of the news media is locked. All the republicans are in lock-step with the MJ for the terminally ill only. What will happen?
How many DEA agents are there in the USA devoting their time to eradicating Marijuana?
What is the base salary for a DEA agent?
I think there’s one agent too many, and the DEA needs to have their projected “drug focus” brought out into the daylight. How about you?
Let’s open up the closed doors at OUR DEA.
Who are these guys and what are they doing about Bath Salts and precursor chemicals TODAY…. and TOMORROW?
The DEA needs GUIDANCE from the public.
Where’s Bob Filner in all of this? 🙂 Trying to win an election for Bob that’s where.
Haven’t heard an MMJ word from BoB to date.
Sunday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7:00 p.m. PT
Correspondent Steve Kroft starts us off Sunday with an eye-opening report on the status of medical marijuana in the U.S. He goes to Colorado’s “green rush” to see some of the state’s 537 medical marijuana dispensaries. Colorado is one of 17 states where it’s legal to grow and sell medical pot. But there’s one hitch: it’s still illegal in the eyes of the federal government.
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Finally, a voice! 🙂
Well done! The public has all the facts they need to know to make a rational decision.
Key statement from Colorado’s Pot Czar, Ex-Narc, turned positive thinking believer, when asked by Steve what the impact-outcome of Marijuana was on the State of Colorado?
“Nothing!, replied the Ex-Narc.
WE TOLD YOU SO!
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Thanx Steve Kroft and 60 Minutes.
D.C. Senate and Hemp Tour, from the office of 5th District Brian Bilbray (R) October 24-27 2012:
http://vintagetwin.com/topic.php?id=294#post-1055