I am writing a nice lengthy essay to each of my senators and my representative. I was wondering if you all can give me some suggestions for a sub-topic for each paragraph.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. -- C.S. Lewis, "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment," an essay from "God In The Dock" Jack Herer’s “The Emperor Wears No Clothes” Why Do YOU Think They Call it DOPE? Starving Babies and Illegal Food Pro Life? Not even anti abortion High on Hemp "Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system." ~ Dorothy Day WHAT DOES $2,000 MEAN TO YOU? Tell Congress: We Need Jobs, Not Cuts Cancer in the Family "I'd like to see the government back a programme of research into the medical properties of cannabis and I do not object to its responsible use as a recreational relaxant." Richard Branson, Independent on Sunday, 28th September 1997 Richard Branson's 'Breaking The Taboo "No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back." ~ Turkish Proverb Your Government Is Lying To You (Again) About Marijuana Weed Beat the Recession in Denver vs 60,000 Dead Mexicans 40 Years of Drug War Failure Represented in a Single Chart Using the drug war to keep blacks from voting "I want a Goddamn strong statement on marijuana, I mean one that just tears the ass out of them. You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish." - Richard M. Nixon Nixon lied to schedule Ganja #1 GOP Mogul Behind Drug Rehab 'Torture' Centers "Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true." Ann Shulgin, PhD, Therapist and Author, Lafayette, CA, at the DPF Conference, November 1996 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs Why the Federal Government Will Not Reschedule Marijuana Trillion spent is a Trillion earned. "Medicines often produce side effects. Sometimes they are physically unpleasant. Cannabis too has discomforting side effects, but these are not physical they are political" The Economist March 28th 1992 Obama Doesn’t Need Congress With 99 percent of federal laws this would be the case, but the Controlled Substance Act is fairly unique. The law explicitly gives the executive branch the right to change the legal status of any drug without Congressional involvement. If the administration, after examining the latest scientific research, determines that cannabis shouldn’t be Schedule I it has the power to move it to a lower schedule, which would make medical marijuana legal under federal law, or even unschedule it all together, which would effectively legalize it. ZARA Toxic T-shirts Political Correctness Gone Reefer Mad Chevron’s SF Bay oil refinery fire v Hemp Poor Community Still Sickened by Chevron Refinery Fire Chevron’s Dirty Legacy Felt from Brazil to the Bay Area Navy Ship Crashes Into Oil Tanker Chevron subpoenas non-profit for defending the Rainforest Where are all of the Taxbaggers and Norquest? The vast majority of prohibitionists profit on the drug war, ... and that is their only motive. Weed Beat the Recession in Denver vs 60,000 Dead Mexicans Chevron’s SF Bay oil refinery fire v Hemp Poor Community Still Sickened by Chevron Refinery Fire Chevron’s Dirty Legacy Felt from Brazil to the Bay Area Navy Ship Crashes Into Oil Tanker Chevron subpoenas non-profit for defending the Rainforest The House I Live In dwr The 13th Amendment to the constitution reads "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime..." NRA Slavery: Another Fine Product Still Made in the USA! Mon$anto'$ WoD on Ditchweed UPLAND GAME IS GOING TO POT in the Midwest. And if hunters and conservationists are not careful, upland -game hunting could do the same. The pot that the game is going to is Ditchweed or wild hemp, often called "pot" by its high-flying advocates. It grows as a weed in many Midwestern States. Ditchweed is one of the Midwests most valuable cover plants for upland game, and some of the proposals for eradicating it could have terribly damaging effect on all other upland-game cover. And cover is the name of the hunting game. No cover means no game and no hunting. Cannabis Eradications 99.28% Ditchweed Schwagg! "The national total of ditchweed eradicated compared to the total number of plants seized is 99.28 percent resulting in less than one percent cultivated indoor and outdoor plant eradication percentage at the national level," the report concludes. It further notes that each cultivated plant seized by the DEA costs taxpayers an average of $3.02. Nationally, the program spent over $9 million for marijuana eradication in all 50 states in 1996 As sir Hilary said... QUESTION: In Mexico, there are those who propose not keeping going with this battle and legalize drug trafficking and consumption. What is your opinion? SECRETARY CLINTON: I don’t think that will work. I mean, I hear the same debate. I hear it in my country. It is not likely to work. There is just too much money in it, Shame on the Drug Worrier Profiteers The War On Drugs Is a $2.5 Trillion Dollar Racket:. How Big Banks, Private Military Companies and the Prison Industry Cash In" Trillion spent is a Trillion earned. Forfeiture $quads GOP Mogul Behind Drug Rehab 'Torture' Centers Money Grubbing Dung Worriers And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition, or that which it implies, is the direct negation of the term self-control. In order to save the small percentage of men who are too weak to resist their animal desires, it aims to put chains on every man, the weak and the strong alike. And if this is proper in one respect, why not in all respects? Yet, what would one think of a proposition to keep all men locked up because a certain number have a propensity to steal? -- Felix Mendelsohn, 1915 [U.S.Fort Schwag Mississippi The National Institute on Drug Abuse pays the University of Mississippi to grow what a spokeswoman called a "consistent, reliable source of research-grade cannabis" A North Carolina manufacturing plant receives $62,000 a year from the government to roll the cigarettes and ship them in sealed tins of 300 each, to the 4 patients' doctors and pharmacists. This 6-inch diameter canister held 254.89 grams of federal medical marijuana for an IND patient, a typical monthly supply mailed from the federal cannabis research garden in Mississippi.