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		<title>The War on Drugs is a Hoax</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US military admits to guarding, assisting lucrative opium trade in Afghanistan.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Afghanistan is, by far, the largest grower and exporter of opium in the world today, cultivating a 92 percent market share of the global opium trade. But what may shock many is the fact that the US military has been specifically tasked with guarding Afghan poppy fields, from which opium is derived, in order to protect this multibillion dollar industry that enriches Wall Street, the CIA, MI6, and various other groups that profit big time from this illicit drug trade scheme.&nbsp;Prior to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Afghanistan was hardly even a world player in growing poppy, which is used to produce both illegal heroin and pharmaceutical-grade morphine.&nbsp;In fact, the Taliban had been actively destroying poppy fields as part of an effort to rid the country of this harmful plant.&nbsp;But after 9/11, the US military-industrial complex quickly invaded Afghanistan and began facilitating the reinstatement of the country&#8217;s poppy industry. According to the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP), opium cultivation increased by 657 percent in 2002 after the US military invaded the country under the direction of then-President George W. Bush.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>More recently, The New York Times (NYT) reported that the brother of current Afghan President Hamid Karzai had actually been on the payroll of the CIA for at least eight years prior to this information going public in 2009. Ahmed Wali Karzai was a crucial player in reinstating the country&#8217;s opium drug trade, known as Golden Crescent, and the CIA had been financing the endeavor behind the scenes.&nbsp;But the mainstream media has been peddling a different story to the American public. FOX News, for instance, aired a propaganda piece back in 2010 claiming that military personnel are having to protect the Afghan poppy fields, rather than destroy them, in order to keep the locals happy and to avoid a potential &#8220;security risk&#8221; and FOX News reporter Geraldo Rivera can be heard blatantly lying about poppy farmers being financially supported by the Taliban, rather than the CIA and other foreign interests.&nbsp;So while tens of thousands of Americans continue to be harmed or killed every year by overdoses from drugs originating from this illicit opium trade, and while cultivation of innocuous crops like marijuana and hemp remains illegal in the US, the American military is actively guarding the very poppy fields in Afghanistan that fuel the global drug trade.&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Say No to Drugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The say no to drugs campaign was never a big part of my upbringing. We had a brief health class when I was in high school, but it was not very well designed. Basically, it consisted of us watching antiquated and outdated videos from the 70s. They depicted people getting into all kinds of improbable problems because they used drugs and alcohol. They were not very well made videos and, to tell you the truth, most of the class found them funny. To this day, I still remember laughing out loud while we watched the health videos.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The real problem is that most saying no to drugs education is done in such a hysterical way that kids don&#8217;t take it seriously. You don&#8217;t get to talk to real former junkies and learn how they got addicted to drugs and alcohol. You don&#8217;t get to see both sides of the argument. The fact is that some drugs are worse than others. High schoolers are sometimes told that marijuana is equally dangerous to harder drugs such as heroin. Then, if they&#8217;ve try marijuana or have friends who do and don&#8217;t get into any trouble, they assume that other drugs are equally mild.</p>
<p>That is why I helped my local school district develop a more honest workshop On why to say no to drugs. It is based on a different theory than most of these workshops. There is a very law and order emphasis to a lot of say no to drugs education. It presents a world view where one side is definitely right and the other side is definitely wrong. We thought that it might be more useful to give students all the facts and let them decide for themselves. Rather than trying to tell them what to do, we simply gave them the information about the different drugs. We told them the risks, let them meet people who have dealt with drug addictions, educated them about drug laws, and had them write their own essays describing how they felt about the war on drugs.</p>
<p>The results have been outstanding. Students have an easier time knowing how to say no to drugs than in any of the neighboring high schools. Although we have a similar rate of marijuana usage To the other neighboring high schools, almost none of our kids tend to fall into the trap of using hard drugs. We have helped to keep them safe from the most dangerous street drugs, and for that we all feel proud.</p>
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		<title>The Newest Craze: Legal Herbal Incense.. The Next Mary Jane??</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With new legal herbal incense, the War on  Drugs should be over..]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marijuana. &nbsp;Everyone&nbsp;has heard of it, and according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health an estimated 104 million people aged 12 or older have tried it at least once in their life. Americans part take in it&#8217;s use everyday, but is it really worth the risk and hassle of getting in trouble with your local law enforcement? In 2009 <i>alone </i>an<i>&nbsp;</i>estimated amount of &nbsp;1,663,582 state and local arrests for drug abuse violations in the United States. &nbsp;So is it really worth it? &nbsp;Not to mention the high cost for such a high risk, so what do you ask can we do about this? &nbsp;Well, the answer is simple&#8230;. Find a <strong>LEGAL VERSION.</strong></p>
<p>Yes. You heard correctly, there are legal alternatives for marijuana. &nbsp;Often referred to as &#8220;Spice&#8221; this product is a legal blend of herbs and herbal botanical extracts. &nbsp; All substances on the products are legal in the U.S. &nbsp;It&#8217;s use and affects are similar to Mary Jane, only just a little more pinpointed. &nbsp;THC normally reacts with your C1 receptors, well the substances in Herbal Incense react with your C1 <strong>AND</strong> C2 receptors gibing you a more intense and good feeling 100% legally. &nbsp;So no more having to worry about getting caught by the police, going to court, and no jail time. &nbsp;Since it&#8217;s legal everyone can part take. &nbsp;So that means people on probation, people who take drug tests for work, you can all once again take part in your smoke-ables.</p>
<p>So, now that I&#8217;ve got you interested, you might be wondering where you can find this holy grail. &nbsp; The answer is yet again simple. Check your local head shops, gas stations, or find it on the Internet. &nbsp;Their are so many different choices to choose from, ranging in price from state to state, but always cheaper than Mary Jane, plus you get so much more &#8220;burn&#8221; for your buck.</p>
<p>So if they can create a legal version of this drug, who&#8217;s to say that they can&#8217;t make legal substitutes for all drugs? &nbsp;It would free up our prisons and save many people time and money. &nbsp;With that being said, The War On Drugs should come to an end.</p>
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		<title>America and, The Worlds Failed Drug War!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never ending drug war doesn't work.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The BBC has released a article on June 2, 2011 on the failed drug war, by the governments of the world.<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13624303" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13624303</a></p>
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<p>Several important and key figures have come forth, talking about all the lives lost because of this war. The article stated that 34, 000 people have died in Mexico since 2006 because of government crackdowns. It looks to me that more people worldwide die not because of the sell or use of drugs, but because of the violence that happens when the drugs are controlled or taken away. The American drug tsar said drug use is a disease, and I think he is wrong. The world is currently in this &#8220;1984&#8243; state like George Orwell&#8217;s book. In America, where the definitions to words are too broad or are changed to often to cover almost any and everything. The use of drugs is a personal choice not a disease, I have no desire to use because I see others using. Drug use is not communicable, I don&#8217;t have someone breath second hand smoke on me and then suddenly I start smoking weed. Think of all the lives lost because of alcohol but yet it&#8217;s legal, that just makes no sense. As long as no one is being killed for the drug or it&#8217;s not being sold to children where is the harm ? Watch this video on the start and propaganda about the never ending pointless drug war from 2009 !<br />
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<p>I never used a drug before in my life and I don&#8217;t want to. It should make no government afraid that new drug users will spring up because drugs become legalized. I have never known anyone like me who even joked that they would use if drugs are legalized. In my opinion most non drug users are quite proud of their drug free status and won&#8217;t jeopardize it.The more some one is told how bad something is for them, it just makes the person more interested in that very thing. I&#8217;ve seen with my own eyes how some drug users are completely functional, and show no signs of the drugs negative effects on them. The more a person uses a drug, the individual builds a tolerance to that drug. I have known heavy drinkers, smokers and users of other drugs, the problems that might occur differ for each individual. If people want a drug bad enough they will do almost anything for it, why make a criminal out of somebody who just wants to make their own choice. I&#8217;ve talked to cigarette smoker who always joke about dying of cancer, the truth is even when people know the facts they just don&#8217;t care. People should have the right to live as they choose, just help them if the drug use becomes a problem. It seems to me that people could be informed, say along the lines of the food pyramid, but for drugs on how to use them properly. Individuals then could self medicate, instead of becoming hooked on the drugs of the medical&nbsp;industry. The medical industry is a joke any way getting people hooked on medications for big profit, it&#8217;s not about helping people. The lives of far too many people have been ruined for something that should have not been made illegal. A criminal record of any kind makes it hard permanently to find a job. How can thinks that grow from the ground, and are found in nature be illegal anyway ? Big brother has gone too far as usual, but as in America case they never want to listen. How many never ending wars are we going to allow America to fight, with no real solution ? All the experts and world leaders can&#8217;t possibly be wrong. If God put drugs in nature then he must have intended for everyone to decide if they want use them. People in the governments that don&#8217;t even believe in God, wanting to control your right to what he has given the world is wrong. I say make all drug use legal, nothing has changed by making it illegal and nothing ever will. The stats and information available prove this, but the ones in control know this and don&#8217;t listen, how sad. Light one if ya got one, Peace !</p>
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		<title>The War on Drugs in a Nutshell</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 05:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since the early 20th&nbsp;century, the powerful and elite always tended to decide what common Americans should their bodies. But this decision was truly manifested in the 1970s when president Nixon declared the war on drugs. This piece of shit is comparable to Adolf Hitler by starting a war that is over 40 years old and killed millions of people on both sides of the law. Nixon was a dirty swine who hated the youthful generation of his time and to destroy the modern pop culture he created the DEA, his Gestapo, to enforce his new drug laws, especially the ones that involve marijuana. Marijuana seems to be the heart of it all, killing a whopping ZERO people each year. To give you the idea of how ridiculous the American is, each drug is classified in a schedule. Schedule I drugs are drugs that are highly addictive and have no benefit at all. Marijuana is a schedule I drug. Marijuana is a known medicine since 2737 BC in China and has been prescribed to thousands of cancer patients to help combat the menacing disease. No benefit at all, huh. But isn&#8217;t it addictive? No it is not, unlike opium marijuana does not have any physically addicting chemicals properties. Schedule II drugs are those that are highly addictive but are not as dangerous as schedule I drugs and have some medical benefit. schedule II drugs include cocaine, amphetamines, morphine, and crystal meth. The reason of marijuana&#8217;s strict scheduling is that it is considered a gateway drug to harder drugs such the schedule II drugs. So how can a schedule I drug, the hardest drug type, lead to the more dangerous softer drugs. Its bullshit there is a difference between the two so my question is how Crystal meth, a drug known to destroy,&nbsp;labeled less dangerous, by bureaucratic&nbsp;swine who only do what they are told instead of think about what is said, than marijuana which is a known medicine and named the safest therapeutic&nbsp;substance known to man by DEA judge Francis Young. The American drug war is not only a war on pot but on the American people and their constitutional right to the pursuit of happiness. Not only that but the Drug war is a perfect <i>1984 </i>situation,&nbsp;where the government controls everything the people does including what they put in their bodies. Or is it just me who sees the irony of America, who claims to be the freest country but still does not grant the citizen its rights to ingest what ever they want. Is America George Orwell&#8217;s&nbsp;Big brother, do we really need the government to protect us from our selves? But the truth of the matter is that the drug is much more complex than the government protecting us from our selves it is also involves racial issues, fiscal issues, and political issues. The drug war characterizes everything wrong with America.</p>
<p><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pyschoactive_Drugs.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/2011/05/17/pyschoactivedrugs_1.jpg" alt="" width="457" height="400" border="0" /></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Examining the practicality of the "War on Drugs", and reasoning whether it's even viable on any level.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The U.S. spends most of its funding for the &#8216;War on Drugs&#8217; on stopping the flow of drugs altogether by seizing drugs and arresting anyone who owns drugs, instead of spending more to prevent the desire to possess drugs by informing the general population on the dangers and issues of drug use, and rehabilitating habitual drug users.  In the 80s and 90s many Americans were jailed for drug charges.  They now account for more than 30% of all inmates. Sadly, the U.S. imprisons a larger portion of its population for drug-related offenses than European nations do for all crimes.  Over the years the &#8216;War on Drugs&#8217; has shown itself to be ineffective, economically wasteful, and unethical.</p>
<p><a target="_blank"></a><a target="_blank"></a> Portugal&#8217;s drug policy shows that fighting drugs isn&#8217;t necessarily the best way to stop drug usage.  In 2000, Portugal put in place a drug policy that decriminalized the use of illicit drugs for personal use, improved rehabilitation programs, and made needle exchange programs to slow the flow of diseases transmitted through blood. After Portugal&#8217;s drug policy passed, there were small increases in illicit drug use among adults, but decreases for adolescents and problem users, such as drug addicts and prisoners.  The number of cases in court over drug charges dropped by 66%.  In 2002, 49% of people who had AIDS were addicted to drugs.  By 2008 it was down to 28%.  The number of people who frequently used marijuana stayed at about 3% after the drug policy change in Portugal, and cocaine and heroin usage stayed at less than 0.3%.  The statistics show that decriminalization didn&#8217;t cause an increase in drug usage at all.  While one may realize that Portugal is a much smaller country than the U.S. with different problems, and where the same solution can have a different effect, it&#8217;s not to say that there aren&#8217;t many things that can be learned from Portugal&#8217;s policy.</p>
<p><a target="_blank"></a><a target="_blank"></a><a target="_blank"></a> The &#8216;War on Drugs&#8217; has also enabled criminals to profit from an illegal industry, and gain control of people in their areas.  Street gangs in the U.S. fight over their territory in which they sell drugs and endanger the lives of their members, rival gang members, law enforcement officers, and even innocent bystanders on the street. The gang members are also severely underpaid for the work they do, as they put themselves at great risk selling drugs.  Legalizing drugs would take away the ability for them to even be able to put themselves at risk for a small bit of extra cash.  The U.S. has named three paramilitary groups struggling for power against the Colombian government there as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Army of Liberation (ELN) have shown notable control and influence in areas with large amounts of coca and opium poppy production (2010 International).</p>
<p>The amount of money in the illegal drug system has made the crime organizations that run them so powerful and rich, they can fight against the governments trying to stop them.  Colombia has been destroyed internally by the drug organizations in that country and the consistent fight by the Colombian and U.S. government against them, which has only been vaguely successful.   The prohibition of drugs has given these illegal organizations the money to operate the way they do, just as the prohibition of alcohol did with the Mafia in the 20s and 30s.  When Prohibition was ended, it cured the corruption that was involved with the alcohol industry in no time.  Legalizing drugs would probably increase drug use since it would lower the prices on the street and intimidate fewer people from trying drugs since they would be legal and criminally risk-free.  The aforementioned issue could be counter balanced, however, by putting heavy taxes on drugs.  The extra money brought in from the taxes could go towards rehabilitation and education on drug use.</p>
<p><a target="_blank"></a> The national survey results on drug use showed statistics that showed that young adults view experimental use of any of the other illicit drugs as distinctly more risky than the use of marijuana. About 26&ndash;31% of young adults ages 19 to 30 think trying sedatives (barbiturates) involves great risk; the corresponding figures are 36&ndash;41% for amphetamines, 39&ndash;43% for LSD, 44-51% for ecstasy (MDMA), 44&ndash;48% for cocaine powder, 51&ndash;56% for crack, and 67-69% for heroin.  The issue with the aforementioned statistics is that fewer than half of fully grown adults in the U.S. think most drugs are dangerous to take, and this percentage decreases the younger the age group.  Making drugs illegal doesn&#8217;t make people believe they&#8217;re any more dangerous.  Spending money on education and awareness on the real dangers of drugs does.  The &#8216;War on Drugs&#8217; is based on trying to stop people from using and distributing drugs by fighting with laws and physical force, which will never happen.  Trying to wipe drugs off the face of the earth is ineffective.  Instead, the government must educate the consumers on the real issues of drug use.  Don&#8217;t attack the supply, get rid of the desire and demand.</p>
<p><a target="_blank"></a><a target="_blank"></a> The economics of the &#8216;War on Drugs&#8217; also shows a lack of feasibility.  In 1969 the Federal government spent $37 million on enforcing drug laws.  In 1983 the spending rose to $1.06 billion.  During the next ten years spending rose to around $30 billion, a spending increase of almost 100,000% in about thirty years.  Today, approximately 40 billion dollars a year are spent trying to fight the &#8216;War on Drugs&#8217;.  Some opponents may say that if drugs were legalized and regulated to be sold by selected licensed retailers, there would still be nothing to stop people from going underground to make money and avoid the taxes and restrictions put on drug use.  That said, just like with alcohol, gasoline and tobacco, some manufacturing and sales would be taken underground to lower prices and such. However, history has shown that with those products most people prefer to do their business legally. The ability to go to law enforcement over issues and not have to duck under the radar unnecessarily are conveniences most businesses want to have. Customers will prefer buying legally since the drugs would have better quality and safety controls. Their drugs would stay pure and there would be no risk of their drugs being mixed with other dangerous chemicals.</p>
<p><a target="_blank"></a> San Francisco put drug courts in place back in the 90s which allowed minor drug offenders to take treatment instead of jail time.  The drug court in San Francisco saves $14,297 per case.  If the drug courts were expanded to all of the drug offenders in the U.S., about 1.5 million, it would cost the U.S. about 13 billion dollars a year, but would save over 40 billion, which is approximately the amount spent in the U.S. fighting the &#8216;War on Drugs.&#8217;  The current Obama administration has firmly opposed the legalization of drugs. Drug czar Kerlikowsk said &ldquo;that it would increase access and promote acceptance&#8221;. The U.S. is spending $74 billion this year on criminal and court proceedings for drug offenders, compared with $3.6 billion for treatment.</p>
<p><a target="_blank"></a> One also has to beg the question of whether the &#8216;War on Drugs&#8217; is even ethical.  Due to the taboo opinion most adult Americans have on drug use, the seemingly obvious answer would be yes.  However, the main ethical issue involved in the legislation of drug manufacture and distribution has always been one of personal privacy: is it acceptable for a country founded on democratic ideals to legislate what can and cannot be ingested by its private citizens?  Telling fully informed adults that it&#8217;s not okay for them to do what they wish in their personal and private time by doing something that isn&#8217;t endangering anyone aside from themselves seems hardly fair or truly rational from an ethical standpoint.</p>
<p>In the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s the Supreme Court decided over multiple cases that police officers could search car interiors, mobile homes, trash cans, luggage, barns and fenced private property, and bus passengers without a warrant.  In the case of ethics, being able to search people&#8217;s property such as their luggage, car interiors, or even their trash cans with no truly defined reason or warrant is a massive invasion on privacy.  To intrude on one&#8217;s privacy and tell them that it&#8217;s more acceptable to invade their privacy than for them to recreationally use drugs in the privacy of their own home, affecting no one but themselves is ridiculous.</p>
<p>Since the &#8217;70s, a useless initiative has plagued the U.S.  While the &#8216;War on Drugs&#8217; has had the problems of being ineffective, economically wasteful, and immoral, they are not such small issues that they only apply to the &#8216;War on Drugs.&#8217;  It is not okay in any circumstance for the government to waste years of time and effort on a worthless initiative, it is not okay for the government to spend billions of tax payers dollars on a war that is going nowhere, and it is definitely not okay for the government to invade the privacy of its free citizens to tell them it&#8217;s not okay to spend their money and time on one recreational activity or another.  It&#8217;s not just about the &#8216;War on Drugs.&#8217;  It&#8217;s a much larger issue.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>&ldquo;I hear the train a comin&#8217;; it&#8217;s rollin&#8217; &#8217;round the bend,</p>
<p>And I ain&#8217;t seen the sunshine since I don&#8217;t know when.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m stuck at Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin&#8217; on.</p>
<p>But that train keeps rollin&#8217; on down to San Antone.&rdquo;</p>
<p>~ Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues ~</p>
<p>Whoever didn&rsquo;t see this coming, raise your hands! I saw it coming and this train is gaining speed as days go by. I can&rsquo;t help but want to get out my guitar and sing this song, especially to my Avon Lady who deleted me from her Facebook profile (she is the one that wanted me on her profile to begin with, just a note) because of all this &ldquo;marijuana crap&rdquo; I post on there. Well, the answer to her nagging question is: I am an activist for marijuana law reform! Why? I think and have always thought that prohibiting a non-toxic, non-addictive, less harmful than that bag of potato chips you&rsquo;re eating or that coffee you are drinking, plant is absurd. Our prisons are overflowing and in bad condition for the guards and inmates as it is without having a bad law on the book to overcrowd them even more and make the conditions inside one worse. Fact is, I saw this coming. Didn&rsquo;t you? I began screaming to the lawmakers and public on this issue in the 1990s and haven&rsquo;t quit. My point is, this is coming to a voting ballot box near you and we all need to be prepared to make an informed decision as opposed to an uneducated one based on what we think is moral and in turn legislate morality which is not only wrongful to other people but simply does not work. Back to the Avon Lady, I had this to say to her; if my blog is good enough for opencongress.org to follow my posts (yes, real United States senators and house members) then it shouldn&rsquo;t have bothered her eyes. That was of no importance to her, however. I do not get my Avon anymore simply because I&rsquo;m standing up for a bad law to be removed. Even the 700 Club&rsquo;s Pat Robertson would agree with me and does. He said so himself. As Radical Russ from NORML Show Live says in his infomercial &ldquo;When the Reverend Pat Robertson makes more sense on marijuana law reform than our own government we know we&rsquo;re winning&rdquo;. That quote may not be exact but that is the effect of what he said.</p>
<p>In a week&rsquo;s time I looked at the states that had marijuana law reform of some type on the table and the list had tripled since my last article on this subject, &ldquo;New Book On Marijuana vs. Alcohol&rdquo; which can be read here <a href="http://socyberty.com/issues/new-book-on-marijuana-vs-alcohol/" target="_blank">http://socyberty.com/issues/new-book-on-marijuana-vs-alcohol/</a>. I was the first one shocked by the momentum of the issue although I shouldn&rsquo;t have been. When I first began this activism in the 90s my words and passionate voice fell either on deaf ears or ears that led to mouths that were quick to judge and condemn me for my stance on the subject from a religious perspective. It is beyond my mode of thinking to understand why this could be a moral or religious issue since the earth and all that is on it is made by God him/herself according to their own theology. I digress. Out of some of these attitudes, although the most momentum for it came from the lies and propaganda that our own government put out on the plant during Refer Madness and beyond which began with President Nixon and onward, it was then somehow acceptable to legislate morality even though the perception of what true morality really is was warped in this particular context.</p>
<p>Now it is not only on the state level but the federal level. You can check some of it out through a campaign some of our braver congressmen began in the past six months called The Fearless Campaign and it can be seen here: <a href="http://www.fearlesscampaign.com/" target="_blank">http://www.fearlesscampaign.com/</a>. I will keep you updated on the federal legislation in the United States as it comes out into the open. Inform yourselves. You will soon need that knowledge to vote properly.</p>
<p>When a law or policy exists that puts non-violent offenders into prison for anything they deem they should do so because of then that law or policy should not exist. It is called having civil liberties. Our whole country needs a lesson in civics it seems. There are certain things that we, as American citizens, should be secure in and those things are outlined in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution with its ten amendments we separately named The Bill of Rights.</p>
<p>In my own blog a subject I cover a lot simply because this is one of the ugliest facts about the drug war is the 100-150 daily Para-police type raids that happen at gunpoint in American homes. I&rsquo;ve shown kids having guns put to their heads or then watching their parents with guns to their heads, dogs shot for only barking at the intruders. Dogs do not understand, &ldquo;Police! Search warrant!&rdquo; nor do they understand a sudden crashing down of the door at 3-5 am or during a family meal or TV show. A lot of these raids that happen in this fashion are false alarms because the officers have the wrong address. What then, well not one but two or three additional families have to go through this experience before the right house is attainted. Most of the drugs found are marijuana. Marijuana arrests make up over 75% of all drug related arrests and raids in the United States. The ones that have had this happen to them, and yes some mistaken addresses did have their family dog shot in front of them by police others had a family member shot by police, say that people will never understand what this is like and how wrong this really is until they are the one with the gun pointed at their head while pinned down on the ground or floor. They all suffer injuries from this. The good news is the police act so quickly that the ones being invaded have no clue what is happening until they are already on the floor or ground with a gun to their head being injured that the police hardly ever get injured during it or killed. I do not want the police harmed but isn&rsquo;t this a bit ridiculous especially because over 75% of it is over just a plant? A weed, a flower, call it what you want but it is not harmful enough to warrant this type of behavior from our government!</p>
<p>This is not the only harm our prohibition against marijuana does to the people of America. Put two people side by side. According to government surveys, keeping in mind that these are people who were willing to admit to smoking cannabis to a government surveyor which is admitting breaking federal law, so my good guess is that the numbers are actually much higher than admitted, one in two Americans &ndash; half of Americans at least &ndash; have at least tried marijuana (cannabis). That means that one of those two people we just placed side by side are federal criminals and should by law go to jail. If half of America had gotten caught they would be sentenced to at least five years minimum sentence in jail and be completely financially broken for life by the high fines on the possession charges and court fees. They would be banned from employment at most companies for life. They would be banned from student loans. They would have a permanent drug arrest record. Their kids would be taken away for good. The list of what is taken away from their life even if they never touch the stuff again is endless almost. One arrest and their lives are doomed by the way society&rsquo;s laws treat them. That is not all. The list is just as long for medical marijuana patients and it gets worse. Some are denied health care, hospital care (keep in mind these people are very, very sick or dying), organ transplants are denied, custody of children is denied, and the horrid list goes on and on. However, it remains a fact that at least half of Americans by government statistics are criminals in the eyes of the law. Are they true criminals in the eyes of my readers or the world? I think the story changes at that level a bit. President Obama would not be President at this time if he had only gotten caught smoking those joints he admitted to smoking during his presidential campaign. Think about it. By law our president should not be qualified to be president because he was a teenage toker. Does that make sense?! I don&rsquo;t think it does.</p>
<p>Simply because an adult choses a lesser of two evils in terms of health risks, smoking a joint over drinking alcohol to relax in the evening, and can still function as a productive citizen going to work and living an otherwise normal life does not mean that they are criminal. Most of the cannabis (marijuana) users in America are middle to upper class mostly wealthy white males. We would never know that if it were not for this movement and the information that has come out because of activists like me and others that are fighting for the same cause. The arrest reports in most states, taken by themselves, shows that more black and other nationalities of people are actually arrested and charged for marijuana possession or distribution. The scales are tipped in a racial blur. In most states one in three black males are arrested and serve time for some type of cannabis violation. The name the plant is now commonly known by, marijuana, is also a racial blur to obscure the facts of a well-known and once loved plant cannabis which is marijuana&rsquo;s true name. The name marijuana is Spanish and was renamed that by the American government&rsquo;s campaign Refer Madness to entice the minds of ordinary people to believe lies put out against this &ldquo;new&rdquo; evil weed that they claimed was brought in by illegal Mexican immigrants.</p>
<p>I could write books and books on this subject and still not get all the wrongful things prohibition has created in them. I suggest you all take a look at this article. It is worth the time and coming quickly toward your state and our federal legislature! Get ready America, the train speeds on.&nbsp;</p>
<p>My blog:&nbsp;<a href="http://endprohibitioninsc.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://endprohibitioninsc.blogspot.com/</a></p>
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		<title>Legal Issues Surrounding The Legalization of Drugs in United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States, along with much of the world, is engaged in a &#34;war on drugs,&#34; and the legal system is the main weapon in that war. Although governments spend some money on education and drug treatment, by far the greatest expenditures are for legal interdiction, confiscation, and incarceration.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The United States, along with much of the world, is engaged in a &#8220;war on drugs,&#8221; and the legal system is the main weapon in that war. Although governments spend some money on education and drug treatment, by far the greatest expenditures are for legal interdiction, confiscation, and incarceration.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>This enormous legal effort to control illicit drugs has resulted in a patchwork of state and federal laws that defies understand&shy;ing. In some places, arrest for a marijuana cigarette may result in a simple citation like a traffic ticket; in other locales, a person could receive a felony sentence. If the differences in laws are not enough, you must also consider the discretion of the local prose&shy;cutor. Some enforce the letter of the law, while others simply won&#8217;t prosecute minor drug-related offenses. You just never know, and neither will the child you are educating.</p>
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<p>For most drugs other than marijuana, the issue is much sim&shy;pler&mdash;possession and distribution results in a felony conviction. And all you have to do to be charged with the higher crime of &#8220;distribution&#8221; is give a drug to someone else. If you give a con&shy;trolled substance to someone and he or she dies, you can be pros&shy;ecuted under a little-known federal law that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of twenty years. So if a teenager gives an Ecstasy pill to a friend and she has a bad reaction and dies, the federal authorities have the power to prosecute that teenager, even if it ruins her life. Kids need to know just how harsh the rules can be.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><p><strong>Authorization of drugs &#8211; the dependency care and learning choice</strong></p>
<p>Prohibition may not work, but making drugs legal is no pledge too. A better strategy might be to fully utilize dependency care services.&nbsp;</p>
<p>More and more groups are shaping to push the authorization of drugs. There is even a famous group of law execution officer who think that taking drugs should not be versus the law. It&#8217;s conceivable that settle, like the guard, who fight the never-ending battle versus drugs would want to see an end to it. But it&#8217;s possible that the real question is not the drugs, but how we treat, or, more to the point, don&#8217;t treat drugs addicts.&nbsp;</p>
<p>According to law execution versus prohibition (leap), the war on drugs has cost citizen more than a trillion wealth since it began nearly forty years ago. There have also been 37 million stop of non-violent drug transgressor, and our prison population has fourfold. We arrest almost 2 million more transgressor every year and, according to leap, $69 million will be spent every year this war continues.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Despite our labor, and all the money being spent, drugs are an even bigger question than they were when the war began.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Consequently, leap part, and many others, believe we should sanction drugs. While not having to track down, arrest and jail drug seller and drug users would debatably save millions, leap also claims that fewer settle would take drugs if they were legal. This is obviously an assumption: no one really knows what would happen if drugs were freely available.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It is possible that those who take drugs only because they&#8217;re not think to &#8211; like a child or teenager who will do quiting merely because their cause said they couldn&#8217;t &#8211; won&#8217;t take them. But it is also possible that those settle are few and far between.&nbsp;</p>
<p>However, there are choice. The rand corporation released tell as far back as 1994 proving that drug care and learning were seven times more cost striking as going inward the illegal judge method.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Despite this fact, and even with drug courts being execute in many say, few non-violent drug transgressor stop ever get drug care so they can kick the habit. Some statistics say fewer than 5%.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bring human inward a drug rehab plan, particularly at a good *dependency care center*, not only raise their risk of lodging off drugs and turns them into prolific resident, it also saves a lot of money &#8211; just like the rand corporation said. It costs about $6,000 to get an transgressor inward drug rehab, and about $26,000 to jail them.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Aside from these direct cost redemption, we also save money on repeat attack. According to recent statistics, jailing transgressor for the second or third time eats up the lion&#8217;s share of the inexpensive. If drug transgressor were no longer on drugs, and no longer doing drug-related sin, the risk of them going back to jail would be greatly reduced.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s quiting wrong with how the drug court method is being used. Learning about the several courts and their organize, you often see sum like &#8216;eight&#8217;, or &#8216;forty-five. &#8216; how can so few settle be enrolled in these plans when they have proven to be so famous and when we have a question of huge proportions?&nbsp;</p>
<p>With two million settle a year being stop, it seems improbable that only single or double digits would wind up in drug court rehab plans. And what about the millions previously jaild &#8211; why aren&#8217;t those non-violent drug transgressor being deflect to drug rehab plans?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Concerned cause and other resident should demand coins in this method. Bring drug transgressor off the street briefly isn&#8217;t quite. As long as there&#8217;s a market for drugs, there will be provider. Only when we rehabilitate drug transgressor and users will we truly turn the corner in the war on drugs.&nbsp;</p></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The word bankrupt is derived from two words, banca rotta, which means broken bench.&nbsp; Money changers in Italy were once given a bench in the town square to lend and borrow.&nbsp; If they made bad loans and couldn&rsquo;t pay back their creditors, their bench was broken, sometimes over their head.&nbsp; They didn&rsquo;t get a chance to explain how important they were to the economy and why the people of the village should be on the hook to bail them out.&nbsp; They were discredited by their poor decisions, and allowing them to continue would have been a poor example to others who wished to lend or borrow.</p>
<p>Today, we live in a nation that is morally bankrupt.&nbsp; Not only are there few consequences for incompetence, but outright corruption is allowed to fester until institutions collapse.&nbsp; Churches file for bankruptcy not because of financial mismanagement, but because they&rsquo;ve repeatedly raped children for decades.&nbsp; Camden, New Jersey has the second highest crime rate in America, yet it must lay off half its police force because our police state is running out of money.&nbsp; Crime profiteers have broken the taxpayers&rsquo; back, without even beginning to solve our crime problem.&nbsp; Drug and alcohol abuse have skyrocketed since the beginning of the recession.&nbsp; So much for the trillion dollars spent on the War on Drugs.&nbsp; Where are the results?</p>
<p>While there are always those who look for the apocalypse, many are now hoping it will come soon.&nbsp; After Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot, people wondered whether she would recover and run for president in six years.&nbsp; Could she fulfill Revelation 13, 3?&nbsp; &ldquo;I saw that one of its heads seemed to have been mortally wounded, but this mortal wound has healed.&nbsp; Fascinated, the whole world followed after the beast.&rdquo;&nbsp; A head refers to a head of state, etc&#8230;</p>
<p>My point isn&rsquo;t that this poor lady is the&nbsp;devil, and if she were she could hardly damage the nation any more than what our politicians have done over the last twenty years. The problem is that there is so little hope in our leaders&rsquo; ability to solve our problems that people are looking forward to the end.&nbsp; What impact will this have on their thinking and behavior?</p>
<p>After the shooting in Tucson, there was a lot of attention given to the tone of public discourse.&nbsp; What about the substance?&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t see how we start holding our leaders accountable for what they&rsquo;ve done in a nice tone.&nbsp; Millions are losing their livelihoods and there are so many tragedies as a result.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s absurd that the debate hasn&rsquo;t become more blunt.&nbsp; Our politicians have now wasted two years dancing around the issues with their rhetoric.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Our nation&rsquo;s fiscal crisis is the direct result of a bankruptcy of morals, ideals and leadership.&nbsp; When leaders fail and we don&rsquo;t recognize it, and discredit them, what incentive is there for fellow politicians to do the right thing?&nbsp; None, and the failure becomes systemic.&nbsp; We&rsquo;ve stepped over a precipice and only after falling hundreds of feet have some realized that errors have been made, others fight to maintain our suicidal policies.</p>
<p>It won&rsquo;t be one leader that saves us.&nbsp; Only an informed public can save a democracy.&nbsp; Let&rsquo;s not waste any time trying to figure out who will be the antichrist, or we might end up seeing him/her everywhere.&nbsp; Let&rsquo;s advocate the ideas that will turn America around.</p>
<p>To see the solutions I have proposed, please check out www.politicsandjustice.com.</p>
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