Thursday, July 7, 2011
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
YouTube - A Drug Law Charge Can Follow You
"U.S. prisons are filled with drug law violators. When they get out, shouldn't they have fewer hurdles to jump over in order to rejoin society?"
Today in Marijuana News: Nike, Unpaid Tickets and Nebraska
Nike Caves!!!! The Boston Nike store that generated controversy for shirts with “Get High” and similar slogans on them has pulled the display from windows. After Boston Mayor Thomas Menino complained about the display “giving credence to the drug issue,” and even reportedly wrote a letter to Nike, the company has quietly removed the shirts. “It’s good news that Nike has removed the display,” said the Mayor’s spokeswoman, Dot Joyce. “It’s inappropriate and we will continue to make sure that all displays in our city do not promote the use of drugs. It is unacceptable and we’re happy they agree.” Nike has stuck by their position that the slogans are about extreme sports rather than drugs
Steady Growth in Hemp Food and Body Care Sales and Increased Acreage in Canada Shows Strength and Viability of U.S. Hemp Industry - PR Newswire - sacbee.com
"Estimates the total retail value of hemp products in the U.S. at around $419 Million, when including clothing, auto parts, building materials and other non-food or body care products. This number combined with the increased acreage in Canadian hemp fields further validates U.S. farmers' concern that they are being shut out of the lucrative hemp market that Canadian farmers have cashed in on for over a decade now"
Monday, June 27, 2011
Northwest Voices | Marijuana fight continues | Seattle Times Newspaper
Common sense and refer madness are NOT good bedfellows! Take up the good fight! END THE MADNESS! If you're already fighting, keep up the good work. We're spreading truth!
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Cannabis plant extracts can effectively fight drug-resistant bacteria. - ABC News
Cannabis plant extracts can effectively fight drug-resistant bacteria. - ABC News: "Cannabis plant extracts can effectively fight drug-resistant bacteria."
Bill to Regulate and Tax Marijuana Introduced in Massachusetts Legislature
Contact Officials - NORML: "Bill to Regulate and Tax Marijuana Introduced in Massachusetts Legislature"
Friday, June 24, 2011
Full Text of bill: HR 2306: Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011 | Prohibition's End
Full Text of bill: HR 2306: Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011 | Prohibition's End: "Full Text of bill: HR 2306: Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011"
Contact Committee Members
This is a link to the list of committee members that will determine the fate of the bill that would end the federal prohibition of cannabis. Feel free to contact each and every one of these members with your thoughts on the bill!
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Internet activists crash White House phone lines calling for an end to the War on Drugs | CAIVN
Oh, look - our government can't tell the difference between an ATTACK and a mass protest!
Fear and loathing surrounds decriminalisation - Features - Al Jazeera English
News from a surprising source: aljazeera.net!
Jesse Levine: Has the Movement Opposing America's Drug War Broken Through to the Mainstream?
The social movement has been here since Nixon, where have you guys been?
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: Descending through Dante´s Circles
How much evidence will it take to convince people that this war on drugs must end?! Ending the war on marijuana will begin this daunting task. It is so easy, use your voice. For the stoners I know out there who have looked me in the eye and refused to step up and ACT, this one is for YOU! How can there be any more pressing things to "attend" to in government?! That is an excuse to my ears.
YouTube - Georgia Man Fined $5000 for Growing Too Many Vegetables
!!!!!!! Case still pending. Marijuana isn't the only plant under attack...... So are chicken farms, raw milk farms .... Should I go on or have I made my "this is crazy" point?
Support the States' Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act
This bill is FEDERAL. Not to be confused with any state's legislation! If you want to benefit from it, then please HELP, get involved! Put your pen, phone, or keyboards where your mouth is!
Support The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2011
This bill is FEDERAL. Not to be confused with any state's legislation! If you want to benefit from it, then please HELP, get involved! Put your pen, phone, or keyboards where your mouth is!
YouTube - Alex Jones Round Table with Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, Michael Boldin & Brandon Smith
I don't respect the host anymore but I highly respect the GUEST! Marijuana activists, people everywhere, pay close attention to when the second guest comes in! Crucial info to help states fight the feds and end the war on drugs!!!!
YouTube - Swat Team audio/video reveals how deadly raid went down
Another version of actual video and more audio from the shooting of Jose Guerena.
YouTube - Sheriff Richard Mack Memorial Day Address to Oathkeepers
People, START PAYING ATTENTION!!!!!
YouTube - Arizona SWAT kills innocent man?
Actual video of the SWAT killing of Jose Guerena!!!!! Grab this, save it to your computer! We may need this one day!
YouTube - Swat Team audio/video reveals how deadly raid went down
Another version of actual video and more audio from the shooting of Jose Guerena.
YouTube - Lindy: "No Knock Raid" - a song about the drug war's deadliest tactic.
Truth. This is a powerful, emotional song with intense video of drug raids.
Will Tim Pawlenty's Crazy Ideas About Marijuana Hurt His Presidential Hopes? | StoptheDrugWar.org
Will Tim Pawlenty's Crazy Ideas About Marijuana Hurt His Presidential Hopes? | StoptheDrugWar.org
This election cycle may really turn the tables all the way around!!!!
Thursday, April 7, 2011
U.s. Banks Launder Drug Money, ATF Supplies Guns, and The CIA Supplies Drugs
This may look like old news but it’s not. March 2011 several news agencies reported on events akin to the Iran Contras with the ATF gun smuggling operations and bank drug money laundering.
Summary:
U.S. banks caught laundering drug money, the ATF is allowing illegal guns to pass into Mexico with knowledge that they will be used by the drug cartels and ample evidence of CIA drug smuggling involvement throughout history. Stop the Drug War.
“April 6, 2011
Try dancing to the tune of $378.4 billion in drug money. That is exactly what it seems what Wachovia, who is now owned by Wells Fargo, and Bank of America did from 2004 to 2007. What would happen to any ordinary U.S. citizen if they committed such a crime? They would spend the rest of their life in jail but for the big banks involved it seems to be just a slight “Oopsie, we didn’t see the money quickly enough to catch it” kind of thing. That’s the largest violation of the Bank Secrecy Act, an anti-money-laundering law, in U.S. history – “a sum equal to one-third of Mexico’s current gross domestic product,” according to Bloomberg.”
Read full article: http://socyberty.com/economics/u-s-banks-launder-drug-money-atf-supplies-guns-and-the-cia-supplies-drugs/
Friday, April 1, 2011
Feds Remove Anti-Tumor Cannabis Info After Just Days Online
http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/03/feds_remove_anti-tumor_cannabis_info_after_just_5.php
By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ in Medical, News
Tuesday, March 29, 2011, at 7:10 pm
Just 11 days after adding a section on medical marijuanato its treatment database, the National Cancer Institute has altered the new page, removing any mention of the evidence that marijuana can diminish and even reverse tumor growth.
In an edit appearing Monday afternoon, NCI replaced a sentence about marijuana's direct anti-tumor effect with one saying that it is prescribed mainly to control nausea, pain and insomnia for cancer patients, reports Kyle Daly at The Colorado Independent.
The original language, published to the Web on March 17, had read:
The potential benefits of medicinal Cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, and improved sleep. In the practice of integrative oncology, the health care provider may recommend medicinal Cannabis not only for symptom management but also for its possible direct antitumor effect.
After being changed Monday, it now reads:
The potential benefits of medicinal Cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, and improved sleep. Though no relevant surveys of practice patterns exist, it appears that physicians caring for cancer patients who prescribe medicinal Cannabis predominantly do so for symptom management.
Information which acknowledges that marijuana has been used medicinally for thousands of years was left on the site, as were statements regarding cannabinoids and their benefits in ameliorating the side-effects of conventional cancer treatments.
Was Big Pharm behind the changes? Were the pharmaceutical companies protecting their profits derived from harsh and often ineffective chemotherapy?
Do we live in a free, science-based society or one where medical research can be deleted and ignored for political reasons?
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
ACTION ALERT! Tell Attorney General Holder: End federal raids of medical marijuana dispensaries
Click here to sign the petition: http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/fedraids
Dear Attorney General Eric Holder,
In 2009, your office issued a memo declaring an end to the use of federal funds to raid medical marijuana dispensaries in states where they are legal.
However, these raids have continued unabated. Just this past month, federal agents raided 28 medical marijuana dispensaries in under 24 hours, destroying family businesses, restricting patient's access to care and superceding states' rights to make laws for their own citizens.
On top of that, US Attorney General Haag of Northern California has issued a memo in complete contradiction to yours, declaring that anyone selling marijuana under any pretense - legal or not - will be federally prosecuted.
The confusion and deception has to end now. Raiding medical marijuana dispensaries in states that allow them unfairly targets patients and small businesses in an economic climate that can tolerate neither.
Attorney General Holder, enforce your 2009 memo and end federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries.
Sincerely, the co-signed.
My personal additional comments:
Even the AMA states that marijuana is a real medicine that works, Mr. Holder. Stop this madness of arresting patients, the para-police raids on patients and caregivers that are following their state laws, and the horrid killings of their pets, mental and physical trauma beyond what they already have to endure due to their health because of police brutal force. 100-150 marijuana raids daily in the US? This has to stop and yesterday isn't soon enough!
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Federal Marijuana Law Reform Legislation Happening Sooner or Later
The United States Congress will introduce cannabis legislation soon, they say. So, I wrote an article about it.
It is coming on a state and federal level in the United States sooner than you think! Get informed!
Read more: http://socyberty.com/issues/federal-marijuana-law-reform-legislation-happening-sooner-or-later/
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
New Book on Marijuana vs. Alcohol
My personal article on the book and the reality of prohibition. More to come!:
"Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People To Drink?" by Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, Mason Tvert is a well research and well written book to educate the public on the facts of cannabis in order to help them when the vote on marijuana (cannabis) comes to a ballot box near them and on the social implications of cannabis use.
Read more: http://socyberty.com/issues/new-book-on-marijuana-vs-alcohol/
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Must-Watch Video: Marijuana Legalization Hearing in Washington State
By Jeremiah Vandermeer, Cannabis Culture - Wednesday, March 16 2011
CANNABIS CULTURE - Marijuana activists, politicians, and former law enforcement officials spoke at the Washington State Legislature today in support of Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson's House Bill 1550, which would legalize cannabis and make it available for retail purchase in state-run liquor stores.
Cannabis Culture's Executive Director Jodie Emery was invited to speak to the House Ways and Means Committee along side other distinguished panelists including Seattle City Attorney Peter S. Holmes, Former United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington John McKay, Seattle City Councilmember Tim Burgess, and Former WA State Senator George Rohrbacher.
HB 1550 would allow the sales of marijuana at state-run liquor stores, and also allow Washington State Residents personal gardens of up to 50 square feet in size. The bill would legalize domestic hemp production, allowing WA residents to obtain a grower’s license for $5,000. Residents would also be able to obtain commercial cannabis licenses for the same price, but the product must be sold directly to the Washington State Liquor Control Board.
Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson, who introduced the bill, started the session off with a short history of cannabis and hemp, and spoke about the potential economic benefits of legalizing, taxing, and regulating the sales of cannabis in Washington State.
"In these trying times, do you think that $440 million in new revenue would be of interest?" she asked committee members. "I hope so. ... I don't think prohibition has worked. We need something new, and that something is to legalize, to regulate, and to tax cannabis. Now let me be clear, I don't support legalization because I want to see more people use cannabis, I support it because I know an incredible amount of people actually do use it. Why shouldn't the state reap the benefits from that use, rather than drug cartels or criminals. Not only will the state generate profits, it will also decrease costs, because the state spends about 25 million a year to arrest, to incarcerate, and to provide for the prosecution of people who simply have possession."
Seattle's elected City Attorney Peter S. Holmes, who recently criticized cannabis prohibition in a Seattle Times editorial, told the committee that the War on Marijuana has failed.
"The only clear result members of this committee should be aware of as far as marijuana prohibition has been is to create a highly profitable market for the product itself and to relinquish its control to criminals," he said. "I'm here to speak unequivocally in support of ending this prohibition in favor of a rational and regulated manner."
John McKay, the former U.S. attorney for Western Washington and the man who worked to put Canadian activist Marc Emery behind bars for selling marijuana seeds, has done a complete 180-degree turn away from the Drug-Warrior rhetoric he used in this 60 Minutes broadcast about the Emery case, and is now a staunch supporter of drug law reform.
"I want to address … the threat imposed by the black market of marijuana," he said. "I believe that it is a dangerous law enforcement threat and it exists because of our failed policies on marijuana – in particular, our failed attempt to prohibit marijuana. Marijuana prohibition has failed at the federal level, it's failed at the state level, its failed at the local level."
Seattle city councilmember Tim Burgess said he supported the legislation because he wants to "see a more rational, predictable, and cost-effective response to drug use and crime in our communities. Continuing to prohibit adult possession and use of small amounts of cannabis and then using our police officers and the powers of the criminal justice system to enforce this prohibition is not rational and it is not cost effective."
Cannabis activist Jodie Emery, wife of imprisoned seed-seller Marc Emery, talked to the committee about her successful pot-related business, CCHQ, and about the hardships of losing her husband to a possible five-year prison term because of the Drug War.
"I think it is obvious to say that if your loved one is taken away and imprisoned, it leaves an enormous void in your life," she said. "I struggle with loneliness, I struggle without him being there, I worry about his safety, and that has caused a lot of harm to me and to all of his family and loved ones – and he has hurt nobody. He is just one of hundreds of thousands of people across America who have lost family members and friends."
King County public defender Phillip Tavel and Chair of the Sociology Dept. at the University of California - Santa Cruz Dr. Craig Reinarman also spoke in support of the legislation.
The bill was not without its detractors, however.
Don Pierce of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and police chiefs and Seth Dawson of the Washington Association for Substance Abuse Prevention spoke against the bill, telling the committee that legalizing pot lead to an increase use and would hurt children.
The hearing's most impassioned plea to end the War on Marijuana in Washington came from former Probation officer and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition member Matt McCally.
"The prohibitionists have had the run of play for the last 40 years," he said. "This year is the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon first using the phrase war on drugs. And in those 40 years the prohibitionists have spent more than $1 trillion, they have shredded the US Constitution ... have packed our courts ... and they have packed our prisons. It is far beyond any of our peers in Western Europe, it is far beyond any of our peers in east Asia is now approaching the state of servitude we saw only in Communist Russia and Nazi Germany. And you would ask me to trade specifics with people who are in favor of this policy? Not at all not for a moment. It's up to them to prove that they've been able through their fascist policies to keep marijuana out of the hands of our children and they have not done it."
Concluding the hearing, former State Senator and medical marijuana patient George Rohrbacher spoke about his use of cannabis as pain reliever and the industrial use of hemp, and Heather Villanueva of the SEIU 775 gave the support of 40,000 long-term health care workers who see the bill as an alternative to massive budget cuts to state health care.
Read more about Washington House Bill 1550 or read the entire bill (PDF).
Watch the entire legalization hearing on Pot-TV.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Action ALERT! Breaking News: DEA Raids In West Hollywood
http://the420times.com/2011/03/breaking-news-dea-raids-in-west-hollywood/
A developing story from West Hollywood, CA. From our friends at Americans For Safe Access:
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is raiding two medical cannabis collectives in the City of West Hollywood right now. There is no word yet on arrests. Protesters and legal observers are needed at both locations:
AHHS (Alternative Herbal Health Services) 7828 Santa Monica (@ Fairfax)
Zen Healing Collective, 8464 Santa Monica Blvd (@ La Cienega Blvd.)
Americans for Safe Access strongly condemns the raids and calls on the Administration to live up to its promise of a more reasonable federal policy. ASA will publish more information about the federal raids and the grassroots response later today. Join the ASA mailing list at http://www.AmericansForSafeAccess.org or follow @ASAdonduncan on Twitter for information.
Stay tuned to The 420 Times for more information on this story as it breaks.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Hemp Houses: Extravagant and Environmentally Friendly Creations
A brief view of the amazing benefits of hemp houses and why we have to import the materials, raising the costs.
Read more: http://socyberty.com/issues/hemp-houses-extravagant-and-environmentally-friendly-creations/
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Canada’s Hemp Electric Car: The Kestrel
Canada is in the process of producing the first marketed hemp electric car, The Kestrel. The idea is not a new one. There were other prototypes in the past as late as 2001. Motive Industries, Inc. has the jump on the United States because of cannabis prohibition.
Read more: http://socyberty.com/issues/canadas-hemp-electric-car-the-kestrel/
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Go Healthy with Hemp Seed Oil
My first professionally published article. I hope you learn from and enjoy my work! Check it out!
Go Healthy with Hemp Seed Oil
Go Healthy with Hemp Seed Oil
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