Cannabis in Costa Rica - A Study in Chronic Marijuana Use, 1980-82, by Edward W. Carter, Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 3401 Science Center, Philadelphia, PA. Proven : Cannabis is Safe Medicine by Ian Williams Goddard LUNG CLEANER AND EXPECTORANT Cannabis is the best natural expectorant to clear the human lungs of smog, dust, and the phlegm associated with tobacco use. Marijuana smoke effectively dilates the airways of the lungs, the bronchi, opening them to allow more oxygen into the lungs. It is also the best natural dilator of the tiny airways of the lungs, the bronchial tubes... US cigarettes v organic cannabis/tobacco The 'Virtues' of Ganja "More people die every year as a result of the war on drugs than die from what we call, generically, overdosing." -- William F Buckley Hidden Weapons o GradeA Radioactive Mass Destruction D.E.A.th Lies: Ganja vs U.S.Tobacco American High Society A 'wire' war vs. the drug war CLARENCE PAGE: Tribune Media Services March 12, 2008 If you're called for jury duty, let the lawyers and judges know up front that you're not going to send nonviolent drug offenders to jail. That provocative piece of advice comes from the creators of my all-time favorite television show, "The Wire," which ended its five-year run on HBO last Sunday (March 9). "If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented," the writers declare in a Time magazine essay. Jury Nullification DWR Feb 20, 2006 DWR Friday, March 14, 2008 The Second Chance Act has been passed by Congress to provide prisoner re-entry services. The drug czar's budget has not been getting a free ride in the press this year. Here's the Washington Post.
The Drug War is Working? * Tobacco kills about 400,000 * Alcohol kills about 80,000 * Workplace accidents kill 60,000 * Automobiles kill 40,000 * Cocaine kills about 2,500 * Heroin kills about 2,000 * Aspirin kills about 2,000 * Marijuana kills 0 Deaths in the United States in a typical year... Outrageous Anti-Pot Lies: Media Uses Disgraceful Cancer Scare Tactics By Paul Armentano, AlterNet. Posted March 10, 2008. Headlines suggested a study proved pot is a greater cancer risk than tobacco -- but the media didn't even wait for the report to be released. For those who actually bothered to read the study's full text, which appeared in the European Respiratory Journal days after the global feeding frenzy had ended, they would have learned the following. Among the 79 lung cancer subjects who participated in the trial, 70 of them smoked tobacco. These individuals, not surprisingly, experienced a seven-times greater risk of being diagnosed with lung cancer compared to tobacco-free controls. As for the subjects in the study who reported having used cannabis, they -- on average -- experienced no statistically significant increased cancer risk compared to non-using controls. U.S. GOVT. COVERS UP MARIJUANA CANCER CURE! Last year, Spanish scientists found evidence that marijuana can (destroy) tumors in rats. But that came as (no surprise) to US. health (officials), (who quickly (deep sixed) the report). (Drug-war-obsessed federal officials) (have known) about the (cancer-beating) properties of (pot) for (more than 25 years) and have kept it a (secret) from (the public)! Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74 Drug Czar Manipulating Data in a Report to Congress Marijuana Drug Czar Distorts Report "Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. We want them broken". You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boyscouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." - Atlas Shrugged A Liberal Goes Undercover to Brave America's Premiere Right-Wing Gathering By Mister Leonard Pierce, AlterNet. Posted March 1, 2008 Posing as a lobbyist for the American Milk Solids Council, one lefty blogger entered the belly of the CPAC beast. FRIDAY MORNING. George W. Bush, when you get right down to it, is a fucker. That's why I don't like him. He's a fucker who does fucked-up things. He's a privileged little shit who doesn't give a damp hell for the opinions of the people he was elected to govern. He buys into the toxic economic theories of unreconstructed capitalism, despite never having had to earn an honest living in his life, and he supports a worldview that cuts out anyone who hasn't had his good fortune -- the worldview of a murderous plutocracy stained with swaths of luck and cruelty where first is first and second is nobody. He's stupid in the truest sense of the word: willfully ignorant and determined to surround himself with people who keep him that way, not only resistant to different ideas but actively hostile towards them. He is neurologically incapable of thinking ahead, and he consigns the consequences of his actions to the status of dreams. And he forced his country into a pointless, unnecessary, unconscionably wasteful war that will poison every aspect of American life for generations. Full Article:alternet/77888 George, you're the one destroying the country... Is it in any way a "theory" that the one, single name that can be directly linked to the Third Reich, the US military industrial complex, Skull and Bones, Eastern Establishment good ol' boys, the Illuminati, Big Texas Oil, the Bay of Pigs, the Miami Cubans, the Mafia, the FBI, the JFK assassination, the New World Order, Watergate, the Republican National Committee, Eastern European fascists, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the United Nations, CIA headquarters, the October Surprise, the Iran/Contra scandal, Inslaw, the Christic Institute, Manuel Noriega, drug-running "freedom fighters" and death squads, Iraqgate, Saddam Hussein, weapons of mass destruction, the blood of innocents, the savings and loan crash, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the "Octopus," the "Enterprise," the Afghan mujaheddin, the War on Drugs, Mena (Arkansas), Whitewater, Sun Myung Moon, the Carlyle Group, Osama bin Laden and the Saudi royal family, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and the presidency and vice-presidency of the United States, is: George Herbert Walker Bush. "Theory?" To the contrary. It is a well-documented, tragic and—especially if you're paranoid—terrifying fact. - Michael Hasty Shadow of the Swastika Boosh! Witch hunts and the war on weed 20 Jun, 2002 The persecution of "witches" was really a war on sacred plants that continues today. Bush's War on Pot Police officials lied to toughen laws...
Ok im all for the idea of using "drugs" in a responsible way but the reason drugs are outlawed isn't necessarily because they kill a lot of people while that is a reason the main reason is that if heroine or cocaine were legal you would end up with a great influx in the amount of crackheads on the road and people in a heroine coma. By making these drugs illegal you will keep the country running. Now im all for marijuana being legal i hardly think weed will harm the country too much and it will open up necessary jail space in america i don't think that the "war on drugs" should be stopped all together
