Kerlikowske for Drug Czar

if marijuana is considered a drug that has contributed to not one death and only helps those who is in suffering then so should tobacco and alcohol whose properties kills over 500,000 people a year and destroys peoples lives be considered a drug and should be illegal also.

Just as long as you dopes understand that no one stumbling upon this article cares at ALL about your long, long, long arguments. On either side.

Are you trying to use this copy and paste to explain your side of the earlier arguement? Because it doesn't work. let me put this on the table, part of the reason cannabis should be legalized is because it is so very different and safer than "other drugs" and that there is absolutely no reason for it to be illegal, and infact there is no comparison to "other" drugs, the drugs which we all know to be painfully addictive and dangerous and harmful to all who use them, the gov't seems to have been convinced that the two are in the same catagory, but honestly they shouldn't be, and we need to convey that to them, you don't get that done by saying "everything should be legal, coke, meth, heroin, and pot, all of it" you might as well be saying poison should be legal too, so children know it's dangers, or anthrax and nukes should be legal, because they can be fun, in short, don't tout the right to poison yourself as reasoning to legalize cannabis, it sounds stupid and backwards and won't help it move any faster. we need to break people's image of pot as being dangerous and a "drug", it being listed as a schedule one doesn't help either, but using the "free to poison myself" arguement is very counterproductive, and at a time where the possibility of relegalizing cannabis is closer than ever, that kind of talk is doing much more harm than good. Although history may have an important part in the arguement that will take place during the true fight for legalization, abusing it to try to support every drug when really it's the history of cannabis being referred to does more harm than good and doesn't make much sense. The people fighting against pot want to use your arguement against all of us to keep pot down in an effort to keep the real dangerous drugs away from it's potential victims, because they see the two as one, perhaps because people like yourself are trying to merge the two in this way, but they are not one, and by all means they should be separate, and they are by no means equal.

By John Flowers mark Feb 1986 HT p.80

RIP John

In 1789 when the new Constitution was ratified , many people still remembered the abuse they took from the royal government and demanded a "Bill of Rights" which would explicitly enumerate the rights reserved to the people. Some of the framers of the Constitution argued that any enumeration of these rights would be incomplete and a dangerous inference might be created that no other rights were intended to be reserved, just the ones expressly reserved. In the Federalist No.84 Alexander Hamilton stated, "The Bill of Rights... would be dangerous. Why for instance should it be said that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed?"

While there might be a certain logic to not having a bill of rights, the people insisted on it. James Madison drafted four resolutions which were expanded to nine amendments enumerating various rights retained by the people. He sought to make clear that this enumeration in no way ceded the peoples other sovereign rights to the government either directly or through implication.
The ninth Amendment stated that:
The enumeration of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people.

In explaining the purpose of the Amendment, Madison said, " It has been objected also against the Bill of Rights that by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of powers it would disparage those rights which were no placed in the enumeration... by implication, those rights which were not singled out were intended to be assigned into the hands of the general government and were consequently insecure...[This] must be guarded.against."

In the framing of the Constitution, the Ninth Amendment has been used only a few times in trials before the Supreme Court. In several cases involving labor law, and the right of the government to engage in economic activity, litigants argued unsuccessfully that this amendment precluded the government from engaging in business in which private companies were also involved. It was not until Griswald vs Connecticut, the famous case which stopped the Nutmeg state from outlawing birth control, that the Ninth Amendment was activated. The Supreme Court found that the right of privacy was implied in the Constitution as it was stated in the Declaration of Independence. This right was more compelling than any reason the state had to regulate activities in the bedroom.

Continued...

Continued...

The Ninth amendment has been sort of a sleeper. But now that the government is trying to usurp powers reserved for the people, it may well become a most important "right."

It is ironic that the retained sovereignty of the people should now be at its greatest danger under the influence of political forces that claim to be "conservative" and "strict constructionist", who seek to " get government off the backs of people". Should they ultimately prevail, we may indeed discover something harmful about marijuana--it will have destroyed the Constitution. From a Constitutional standpoint,the current criminalization of the private use of marijuana, through a claim sovereignty relinquished by the people under the "police power" presents serious problems. You see, when the Constitution was framed, people could buy any drugs they liked in a pharmacy. There were no restrictions regarding prescriptions. The right to peruse happiness or medicate oneself was an absolute right, so absolute that no one thought of enumerating it. It was not until 1937, when the Marijuana tax Act was imposed,that the federal government tried regulate or restrict the use of herb which was well-known to the colonists and very early republicans. For 148 of 196(now 208 yrs) years that the U.S. has had the Constitution, the right to use marijuana was absolute, like all other rights not listed: to walk down the street, drink alcohol,eat the food of your choice, and play whatever sports you like.

The right to use euphoriants was implicitly recognized with the Volstead Act, the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture and sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors. Even this amendment recognized the inherent right of individuals to posses alcohol for their own use; there was no statute against simple possession included in its language.

I have been using the Ninth Amendment in my argument of simple possession cases of marijuana before the courts I contend that the government is trying to usurp rights retained by the people. Among these is the rights is the pursuit of happiness and the sovereign right of each person in the sphere of personal liberty , to make his or her own decisions, no matter how minute, without interference from the government except where there express relinquishment of power(sovereignty) allows.

So far, I have not had actually go to trial, since the DA's dismiss the cases because the arguments are to complex for them to deal with.

In his arguments before the Supreme Court, Stephen Gaskin, founder of the pioneering alternative commune. The Farm, discussed laws which aimed at limiting the process of consciousness, that is how one thinks. He said:

"We believe the existing legislation against marijuana is legislation against a state of mind or plane of existence, one which cannot be proven or disproven by any instrument of the State or science. The State can demonstrate no compelling interest in that plane by reason of material inability and Constitutional proscription.

We know that psychedelics did not give us any new senses that God had not already given us and that our perception of those planes at all proves the rightness and appropriateness of our access to them in and of itself. We believe that the U.S. Constitution protects our freedom to access tospritual planes given to us as our birthright.

Today the government is trying to impose a new policy: that any right not specifically enumerated in the Constitution is reserved to the state to be granted to the people only at the states discretion. This argument is both spurious and dangerous. It flies in the face of the constitution and threatens the rights of all citizens, to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Justice Brandeis summed this up in a dissenting opinion which has risen above the Mundanity of legalisms and attained independenet status as a declaration of rights:
The makers of the constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They recognized the significance of mans spritual nature, of his feelings and of his intilect. They knew that only a part of the pain, pleasure,and satisfaction of life are found in material things. they sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotionsand their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be left alone-- the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized man.
1. Elliots debates 436-7 (2ed.1836)
2. State of Tennessee vs Stephen Gaskin et al., Lewis County Criminal Court, Lewis County, Tenn #3948, Nov.11,1971.
3. Olmstead vs U.S. 438,72 L.ed. 944 (1928)

ok although the way most drugs are taken they CAN be a health problem, you can cook your weed up in a lot of delicious foods and get super high. and it doesnt eff up your jesus-given organs or your temple-body that you destroy with aspartame anyway. so gfy with the hurtful excuse.

@ HU210 You clain to be an activist, but everytime you comment your putting everybody's opinion down even fellow activist and supporters. fucken kill yourself already. Try arguing agenst the cops or political figures thats were the fight is.

Dang,had too put a couple of new seeds in this am,one never did anything and the other had damaged roots and was trying to
die,so I offed it and replaced it. (sound of taps is heard)
But the four that are up now look great,and two of them are
already opening their second set of jagged leaves,so the grow is on. Will make a quick inspection of my outdoor grow,but don't expect ground has warmed up enough for them to germinate yet. If they have started,will probably have a night or two of having to cover them before all cold has quit coming down.
STOP the BUY GROW YOUR OWN

You taka da seed,and you pudda in da ground,and you water it
and feed it and in da fall,when appx 1/2 the flowers are amber
and brown,you picka da weed. Then you dry da weed and you smoke da weed and everything is better.

Your entire "moralist" arguement is bullshit, if you take a second to compare it to REALITY you'll see that these other drugs WHICH ARE DANGEROUS AND DEADLY AND RUIN PEOPLES LIVES Don't need to be legal to "expose how dangerous they are", BECAUSE WE ALL ALREADY KNOW THAT THEY ARE, THESE DRUGS ARE NOT NEW, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS HAVE DIED ALREADY, MILLIONS MORE HAVE THEIR LIVES HIJACKED BY THEIR ADDICTION TO THESE DRUGS, it isn't I who am telling you that these drugs are deadly and harmful and dangerously addictive, THOSE ARE PROVEN FACTS. Proven in blood, and proven again everytime I see the living victims of addiction day after day, it isn't a "learning experience for personal growth", espcially for those who tried it once and couldn't stop regardless of how hard they try, pouring every last dollar they have into it only to still crave more. IDK where you copy and pasted that bullshit from, but I highly reccomend that you never visit that site or related sites again, they are poisoning your mind. Wake the fuck up.

get real, you are living in a fantasy world, you claim to have "exposed me", when in truth it is I who expose your backhanded comments and faulty accuastions and attempts to undermine the movement piece by piece, using facts alone, while you respond by attempting to label me this or that and make widespread unfounded claims while ignoring the legitimate challenge I made to your claims and insinuations, all in an attempt to cover your ass and keep the lies you tell going. If you expect me to just let you spread as many venomous lies as you want unchallenged by the truth then you are very wrong. Calling me a "moralist" doesn't mean a thing, as your own values are so twisted that it is about as true as any of the other lies you try to sell the people of hightimes. In fact I'd be within reason to call you a propagandist, if there is such a word, as well as calling you a liar. I have a feeling that you are under advice of another, perhaps some fringe websites puffing you up with false pride and misinformation leading you here to spread that misinformation you've been soaking in. I reccomend you seek other advice.

PLANT MORE WEED!!!!??GIVE ME A BREAK!! THEY WILL NEVER "GIVE" ANY OF 'US' ANY OF OUR RIGHTS BACK TO US WITHOUT A FIGHT NOW., THE GOVERNMENT IS soooooo BIG and in DEBT up to its ass and then some.,THAT IT CANNOT afford us to have any power to grow a plant that might cheat them out of a proffit or take their mind controling mega government out of your life for a moment.,THEY WANT TO CONTROL IT AND YOU THEY ARE THE PROBLEM NOT YOU!! GROW YOUR WEED AND BE CAREFULL AND PROSPER!PEACE!

Obama says he doesn't want the US Mexico border to become militarized. Bullshit all the way round. The only solution ever on the news, both msnbc and fox, is to more carefully monitor gun sales near the border, checking exiting vehicles from US to Mexico, and to increase border security. The news is telling Americans about all the violence at the border and nobody is seriously considering ending prohibition.

We dont have the money to keep up the war on drugs but our media still manages to convince americans that ending prohibition would spell disaster for all sides. LET THEM ALL SUFFER FOR THEIR IGNORANCE! If the marjority is not willing to consider any solution other than military force, then let them spend their tax dollars on fruitless endeavors such as increasing border security.

If the border violence is severe enough, then the states along the border should consider legalizing AND increasing border security. I CAN BE A MINUTE MAN for the border. Or we can just call the national guard too right...? not

We,the marijuana smoking people of America,do here and now declare that the war on marijuana is now over. We will no longer buy marijuana from anyone or sell marijuana to anyone.
We will either grow our own marijuana,or hire gardeners or skilled persons to maintain our own personal gardens,so that we can be 100% sure that our money is not going too any
terroristic or unlawful activities by anyone. We will donate
any excess too a local community pot bank for medical use.
We promise too spend the money we now spend on marijuana in the American economy. We believe this will do more for the economy than letting the government collect taxes and use it
responsibly, like they have now for so long,and we believe
it will help the economy more than if big business makes money from it and continues with their present practices
with money. We will BEAT the CARTELS,BEAT BIG BUSINESS and we will do it with a hoe and a water can.
STOP the BUY GROW YOUR OWN


If you can live with that pledge,copy/paste it too your federal and state reps,and yes,too OBAMA too.

Policy change?
Here's a 2009 blog


http://druglaw.typepad.com/drug_law_blog/2009/03/a-federal-prosecutors-odd-flipflop-on-medical-marijuana-cases-.html

March 07, 2009
A Federal Prosecutor's Odd Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana Cases
Via LA Times:

The U.S. attorney in Los Angeles sent a confidential memo to prosecutors last week ordering them to stop filing charges against medical marijuana dispensaries, then abruptly lifted the ban on Friday, according to sources familiar with the developments.

U.S. Atty. Thomas P. O'Brien declined comment on what prompted him to issue the directive or to later rescind it.

. . .

O'Brien's initial order was delivered in a memo by Christine Ewell, head of the U.S. attorney's criminal division, according to three sources who read the document, which was distributed by e-mail on Feb. 27.

In addition to being told to stop filing new cases, prosecutors were instructed to refrain from issuing subpoenas or applying for search warrants in pending cases, said the sources, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. In fact, a few hours after the memo was circulated, Ewell sent out another e-mail admonishing prosecutors not to discuss the contents of the memo with anyone outside the U.S. attorney's office, the sources said.

Another e-mail came out Friday instructing prosecutors to resume work on medical marijuana case__


Maybe these Government folks been smokin some of that schitzophrenic(spelling) weed-eh?

The blog is from 2007. So what. The federal law cited has not been repealed.
If so would you please provide a cite?
Didnt the Fed's raid a clinic last month in California?

As usual your post in reply (this time using my handle) is both specious and spurious.

The new drug czar comes at a very critical time in the legalization process; California's dynamics and the rising Mexican drug cartel problem can lead any well-informed person to the obvious solution: legalization. The next drug czar, whomever it may be, will certaintly have to adress these issues.
The most important issue, by far, is the steady increase of Mexican gang violence along the border. Groups such as Los Zetas and the Mexican Mafia, who used to transport weed from Nicargua and other Central American countries to America, began growing their own bud. This led to an increase in profits for these gangs, and with it came more violence and government corruption. These gangs have created a reign of terror on the Mexican side of the border, where reporters and politicians are forced into silence. Any soul brave enough to stand up against these gangs is made into an example; in one Mexican town an outspoken anti-gang police commisioner was killed in his first day at the job. This problem is only going to get worst, and if I was part of the Mexican government I would be pressuring the Americans to legalize marijuana. This would result in a huge drop of revenue for these gangs, whose activites have createc northern Mexico into a narco-state.
The next drug czar needs to focus on the Mexico situation, and fast, because one small, dirty river is not going to hold this gang war from erupting in our country, which by the way has more Mexicans than any other minority.

your blog is out of date,it was written in 2007 and under the bush admin. When they changed government policy 2009 in accordance with Obama's campaign promises,it trumped the rules you brought forth,and the federal government recognized pot as medicine when they changed the
policy to allow medical marijuana clinics to operate where
the states have laws allowing it..or do you think they allow the clinics just to give out medical advice?

pot is the #1 cash crop now,but where it stands if legalized depends on many factors. You'd have to know what they plan on paying the farmer that grows it. And is he going to grow seeded pot or is it going to be sensed. Even with feminized seeds,there is still a possibility of a hermaphrodite so the farmer would have too have a crew of workers checking plants continuously,and I'm sure the Immigration Service has the #'s of immigrant workers per 1000 acre field already figured. At least you could hire experienced help.Then there will be the distributors(big business),they will make their money processing(removing all seeds,naturally)and packaging,probably in different size packs of joints. And,finally the sales point,store,etc. and
before any of those people make a dime,taxes will be paid,federal and state. too much trouble to figure this shit out,just grow your own

Oops omitted in haste

Office of Nation Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act 1998 H11225 Responsibility #12: New Drug Czar/Old Laws

Its Friday the 13th. Keep your head low and your sprits high.

Hey Marijuana Reformers,


I just want to send this reminder in hopes this very important issue can be addressed (and eventually changed) during this very unique opportunity. I've seen and read some of you already talking about the new Drug Czar. I have nothing against him & I am as excited about his appointment as all of you.

My biggest concern is the Congressional mandate the requires him (and his office) to OPPOSE ALL legalization efforts of Cannabis for ANY reason (including medical). We all have seen how Walters (and other former Drug Czars) have taken this responsibility to extreme measures.

I'm not concerned this is something that Kerlikowske will seek to do but I am concerned it's his responsibility to do. I'm not willing to accept that he may just ignore this responsibility. I think this is a major concern,.


Please bring this up in your media coverage and conversations. We may not have another opportunity to bring this up for some time. We could get a conversation started on this important issue and maybe able to get it changed.


@ the no name poster. Bitch slapped again,ya are!
See why they put Biden in control?


We have Joe Biden to thank for the following nonsense:


(12) shall ensure that no Federal funds appropriated to the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall be expended for any study or contract relating to the legalization (for a medical use or any other use) of a substance listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812) and take such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize the use of a substance (in any form) that--

is listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812); and
has not been approved for use for medical purposes by the Food and Drug Administration;
http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2007/10/09/theDrugCzarIsRequiredByLaw.html

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this is a prime example if why you can't take propaganda seriously until you know exactly whose behind the film,what they expect to gain from it or if not gain,what are the results or impact they think the film will cause. With a computer,and a person that has enough footage filmed of him,editing a film to show what the editor wants is easy.
It doesn't have to be true or even partially true. If they
add the right scenes and their narration,you could make Donald
Duck look like a child molester.

Infowars Presents "The Obama Deception" directed by Alex Jones.

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7886780711843120756

copy and paste that ^ and watch it with your family, friends, play it at your school, and MOST IMPORTANT BURN THEM TO DISK! The 2nd American Revolution is here!

Drugs don't destroy people's lives, the laws do; drugs don't change, people do.
Jail does not cure addictions and those with addictions need help through public health service.
Prohibition culture strengthens the black market and is open to criminal enterprise.
LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) says legalize all drugs. At least it will prevent 9 year olds from getting their hands on it and decrease crime.
A drug lord's main source of income is anything that is illegal and will do anything to protect their product and sell to whomever need be.
Do you really want your children growing up around that?
It is time to educate and regulate!

cannabis
my anti-drug

peace love dope

Screw NBC and Phelps

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29664124/

@ ah shut up
I exposed your cowardice and ignorance durring the election-repeatedly. You and Biden are both absolute moralists. Who are you to determine what is " safe" for another individual to consume?

The Absolute Moralist, in his role as Anti-Drug Crusader determines which substances are bad for you. He, along with other crusaders, pushes to get laws passed restricting these "noxious" substances. The drug user, with the threat of jail staring him in the face, is told that he can no longer use them. Obviously there is something wrong. The actions of the Anti-Drug crusader are illogical. The individual owns himself, how can these people tell him what he can and cannot consume? The truth is evident, the Anti-Drug Crusader dosen't accept the fact the individual owns himself. He believes the state or "society" owns the individual, and any rights granted to him are special privileges.

Drug use is one of the many steps some individuals go through. Some people use them to learn new ways to tap the powers of the subconcious,after the techniques are learned, they discontinue the use of drugs and move on to more natural ways of expanding awareness. Others moderately use drugs in certian social settings or when listening to music or watching TV. Although some people wreck their lives through drug abuse, must we also destroy the lives of individuals who are going through a necessary step in their development? It is a crime to interfere with someones personal development. It is even a greater crime to wreck his life by imprisoning him, and practically ruining his chances for a successful career.

It has been proven through history that individuals learn from their own experiences, than they learn from government edicts. If a drug has harmful effects, allowing unrestricted use will expose them faster, thereby discouraging people from using it. Anti-Drug legislation prevents this from happening

Do I have to show ya 400+ years of failed attempts at substance prohibition, that you are advocating?

BWA HA HA HA HA HA You're so full of crap I can barely cover it all in one pass, so I'll just point out a few things, for one, yes he has shown that he can tell the difference between the "hard drugs" and cannabis, he said as much in a video, I don't have it, but the link to it was in a hightimes newsstory, and when asked something about the raids on medical users or something like that, he was "Absolutely" against them. also, you claiming saying "shut up" doesn't make hu wrong, obviously, but I also said alot more relevent things than the "ah shut up" header, didn't you notice? infact the only reason I used it is because I am tired of hearing people constantly try to label every new person in the Obama cabinet as a "drug warrior" or "just another scumbag" or whatever you call them when the fine print says otherwise, and sometimes even the bold print says otherwise but somehow it doesn't register with them, they just jump at any scrap of info that looks scandelous, but isn't the whole picture, and only pay attention to that one scrap and keep misusing it over and over, even when directly debunked they still hold onto their belief, this is similar to the actions of the "Obama isn't a citizen" Nutjobs who are so far from reality they may as well click their heels together and wish themselves home. Though so far this is a step down from that. I'm gonna wrap this up because I can't remember what else you said, but remember this, if you keep thinking "they are bad people and won't do shit for us" it just might come true, be careful what you wish for, and also, don't believe everything you read in blogs and on conspiracy sites. BTW, your post reeks of CYA tactics.

That's good news.

Pot is an elixir for the soul,a medicine for the mind,and a
pain reliever for the body. As far as I know,and I've searched the internet,there has never been a death certificate issued with pot listed as a cause of death. That is enough argument too put down any anti-drug cartel propaganda and too raise a 1 finger salute too the new drug czar.

When the anti drug cartels are shouting"what about the children" ask them "what about the stupid parents that give their children enough money too buy drugs" or "what about the lazy ass parents that don't teach their kids moral values and
want too blame their inaction on drugs"

Please continue with a letter every week to your senators and reps,state and federal,so that they know your wishes on any bill for legalization or decrimenalization of marijuana. The squealing wheel gets the grease. And please add STOP the BUY
at the end of your letter. They know it means that we can beat the cartels by removing the market.

Freezing rain again tonite,man I'm itching for spring. I didn't know what cabin fever really was till this spring. I
think I'm going too try putting one of those mesh tents that knock 70% of the sunlight off over two or three of my plants
about the middle of July,to see if they will kick into the flowering mode earlier and finish out quicker. They will be in
a full day exposure site,and if I erect it as a partition on the west side of the plants,it should reduce light enough
hopefully too induce early harvest. Waiting till the end of October and sometimes November can be such a drag.
STOP the BUY GROW YOUR OWN

Biden probably came up with the propaganda that smoking weed hurts your gaming skills. And telling HU210 to "shut up" doesn't make his point invalid. Biden has never differentiated hard drug use from marijuana use. In fact, we have every reason to worry that Biden WILL lump together drug use and marijuana use whether medicinal or recreational. Im willing to bet that both Obama and Biden now will be passive and complacent on marijuana laws and will ultimately say that legalizing marijuana "sends the wrong message to kids".

I hate drug warriors that say regulating a substance sends the wrong message to kids. In reality, they are saying that the fact that alcohol and ciggarettes are legal, sends the wrong message to kids already. So what is their real position? THEY DONT WANT ANY DRUGS LEGAL. But, since they are all stubborn idiots, they never concede that regulating a substance, prevents children from obtaining the substance.

was biden rallying against pot, or against DRUGS? you know, the bad drugs that fuck up peoples lives and make them slaves to addiction and destroy their bodies and minds, the kind of drugs that everyone SHOULD be against, because there is a difference, biden knows this, he said as much, and taking a strong stand against the most dangerous drugs is an important thing, not something that should reflect badly on him, don't cite his willingness to help protect us from the dangerous drugs as a reason to suspect him of being anticannabis, his actions were designed to combat drugs like meth and crack, not to sling "reefer madness" type propaganda or follow that lead at all. People are way too willing to completely dismiss one politicain or another based off of the smallest pieces of information, yet back in the bush days no one said a damn thing and let them do what they please, but once the tides turn, you're ready to criticize and dismiss as corrupt at the drop of a hat. Let their current actions speak, but don't ignore their words.

The article also should have stated The reporter should have mentioned that Biden, who advocated and named the job "czar" in 1982, attacked Bush I in 1989 for not making it a cabinet level position, saying this would hurt action against drugs. It was cabinet level from 1993 to 2009

Until I see their actions, this "change"looks like double speak to me.

(AP)...

The drug policy coordinator's office will lose its Cabinet-level status, however, due to Biden's experience and knowledge about federal drug policy. But Kerlikowske will be involved in decision-making and will have a direct line to Obama and Biden.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs rejected suggestions that the change in status amounted to a demotion. Kerlikowske will have "full access" to Obama, as do the administration's other czars, Gibbs said Wednesday.

In other words Drug warrier Biden Will really be running the show

ROB KAMPIA is the shit! Owns Glen Beck big time bitch. Check it out on youtube. 2/25/09 Rob Kampia Glenbeck. Glenbeck is the biggest irish prick ever. Watch him get his ass owned.

Rob Kampia for Drug Czar. Not this polish putz or whatever he is. Fuck the old dirty cop. ROB KAMPIA BIAAATCH

who fucken cares just get stoned!

President Obama removed the Drug Czar position from his cabinet.


Drug Czar is a name for the person who directs drug-control policies in the United States. The title was first published in a 1982 news story by United Press International which reported that “Senators... voted 62-34 to establish a ‘drug czar’ who would have overall responsibility

for U.S. drug policy.
”



This is great news! Especially for those of us who have legislation coming up anytime in the next four years. No more plane trips on the tax-payers dime to violate the letter and intent of the law and interfere with state legislation.




I've been to the mountaintop, I've seen the Promised Land... uh, sorry... I got a little carried away.




Peace, Buds & One Love,



Leon Jackson

Director

DFW NORML

Fundamentalists are american terrorists. They terrorize civil rights by shitting on the constitution in the name of the bible. Is it really necessary to worship and believe every word of a thousand plus year-old BOOK? What's wrong with just having faith in a higher being?

Back to the point,
This cop wont fix any real problems with the Drug War. Cops enforce laws. As long as marijuana is still an illegal substance at the federal level, we still have a problem. This guy will just be passive on the issue of marijuana. Passive and complacent.

@ Follow Jesus,
If drug use had to do with religion like you are inferring then it would only be enforced by God himself. Genesis 1:12 "I have given you all the seed-bearing plants to use." Psalms 104:14 "He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man, that he may bring forth food out of the Earth." If your gonna come on here and try to preach that if that something missing is filled with something positive(religion) then know what the book that you are supporting actually says. Decriminalization in this country needs to happen not only for us smokers but for consumers of regular products. Hemp-based products will reduce american dependancy on Chinese products. Also most of the health risks associated to Marijuana are false proven by Doctors, hidden by the government. Research the reason marijuana is illegal in this country. it is not because of its high-risks, Harry Anslingler and William Hearst worked together. Anslinger started the Bureau of Narcotics but coke and herion use was not prominent enough to keep the bureau open. Hearst was the owner of many newspaper chains. He hated mexicans and had invested in timber. Together they doctrinated a piece of legislation linking weed to the overflow of mexicans, the african american jazz in the south, and violent behavior. Once again ignorant racism is the fuel for politics.

@ follow jesus
Correction:
That should be 2nd sentence of your post

@follow jesus

The first sentence of your post would be accurate had you used "abuse" rather than "use". They are not one and the same. That is, not interchangable.

The rest of your post is just absolute moralist horsecrap.

Jesus saves sinners and redeems them for neat gifts and prizes

'Drug war to focus on treatment'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29649079/

So, from what I understand now, we won't be thrown in prison, but we'll all be thrown into rehab centers?

Is this really the new policy?

Does it include marijuana smokers? When does it go into effect?

So far I'm not too impressed, because the war on drugs continues. It just has a different leader now.

Does that mean it's my turn for a hit after Jesus? Welll then,
Don't bogart that joint my friend,pass it over too me.

Drugs are a health problem, not a criminal problem. If it's treated as a health concern then drug use can be treated. People who do drugs have part missing in themselves. They try to fill it with a substance that allows them to excape. If that part that is missing is filled with something positive then they will stop doing drugs. The people that cannot are addicts and then they should be treated. Not thrown away.

no more to say... just legalize pot! other then that just a seat filled...

is pretty much saying exactly what everyone needs to agree on what a dumbass that knows nothing about marijuana sounds like.

I forgot to mention that those 10 busts are the most I have made in my time on the force, you can always find me at the Dunkin' Dounuts or Burger King, listening to kids talking about their parents and then I hit them up for cash to keep from busting them, I have to support my habit too, dounuts and beer!
Meanwhile the gang down the street pays me to leave them alone and to turn a blind eye as they break into your homes.
I don't miss a trick on the corner neither, beats jerking off to my child porn I make with my hiden cam in the girls washrooms that I placed while I was faking looking for drugs in the schools, can't beat that with a stick.

Yeah, think of the kids is right!!! They will learn about all the horrible drugs for your body when they take DARE, I do not consider marijuana one of these drugs. This is old news anyway I have already heard about the new, "Drug Czar". It will be a nice change from the other asshole.

Anyway thats my piece of mind on that. Remember, "If your smoking in the woods, make sure to put your j or blunt completly out before you adventure. Only YOU can prevent forest fires!"

I am just a lame excuse for a human being and a waste of tax payers money and time. I can't solve the real crimes but I do know what pot looks like, smells like so my job is easy, just a few blocks away from a dealers house and bust who comes out.
Yes, I am a lowlife and just about as low as low goes but that coincides with my IQ as well as my pay.

But but, think of the kids.

Anything in moderation is ok. If you drink 20 cups of coffee youd prolly die of a heartattack, or if you took8 aspirin it'd be your last headache. Same thing goes for recreational drugs like pot. Moderation is ok, too much is bad for you.

I don't recall ever hearing of anyone hurting themselves by
chewing coca leaves or eating a poppy,only after man manipulates them do they get truly dangerous and bad for you I guess man is his own worst enemy.

The need for the DEA has not diminished but it is long past time for them to use the money they've been wasting on fighting pot and redirect there efforts toward stopping the man made drugs that are killing our young people every day,
alcohol,crack,ice,ecstasy and almost every natural drug that man has tampered with should be their target.

Change is happening right now and everyday from now on. For the first time on over 80 years,there are Americans growing,
distributing and consuming pot with the federal government not
busting them. As each state adopts new laws or decriminalize
their present marijuana laws,they no longer have too worry that the law they are passing is contrary to federal law when they allow medical pot in their state.
Along the border of Texas,N.M.,AZ,and CA,the locally based
cartels are committing atrocious,violent crimes on both sides of border and our gov't is gearing up to throw more of our money away trying too control them.
We are in the worst economic recession since the great depression in the 20's and we don't have the money to continue with the wars we already have going,much less a new one. We,the pot smokers of America,can defeat the cartels and organized crime and we don't need guns and gunships to
fight with,all we need is a hoe and the freedom to
STOP the BUY,GROW YOUR OWN
It is a viable,non-violent solution for a stagnant,violent
situation. STOP the BUY GROW YOUR OWN

Upon further reflection. It sure is a pipe dream to assume that a cop-any cop- will ask for a smaller budget or fewer powers.
Obama would be better off eliminating this as a cabinit level position thus cutting the authority and starve it to death budget wise.

this man when being appointed to the position, will have to swear on a holy bible that he will enforce all laws currently which are law. So i agree that this position should not even exist. I am tired of even hoping that some change will happen or that an elected official will choose to end a program which provides so many jobs to government employees. I wonder if this man will even refute the statement that weed makes your gaming skills suffer. Fuck the GOV, STOP the buy, GROW YOUR OWN!

We don't need a drug czar. This is not change I can breathe in. It's the same old crap we've always had. Policemen should not be regulating drugs and continuing drug wars. Scientists and their advisers should be leading the way. This is a health issue, not a law enforcement issue.

Are you kidding? All the problems of prohibition would still be a problem. You would still have drug cartels banking, snakes, rats, and a extremely overpriced market price. The smartest choice is Legalization. Of course a minority of Americans still are narrow minded enough to believe the propaganda, but that is hopefully changing. Don't settle for less then what we deserve. I've known too many peoples who's lives were ruined by enforcement of current laws.

I think that this will be a positive change for the country. Legalization would be nice but doesnt need to occur. As long as its decriminalized to enjoy a J in the privacy of your own home and to posses, cultivate, or smoke your own stash would be nice. I mean we cant expect to be able to light a Blunt in public with a couple of your friends any time soon. The country is not open minded enough, especially those soccer moms who are trying to protect their children from all the evils in life... while their little jimmy is lighting a spliff in his room due to the control on his life!!!

lets hope he gets "confirmed" cause we all need this to happen now in 2009 and all future years to come.

What stands out is the courage of Breaking Rank. A character in
Louis de Bernières’s novel, Birds Without Feathers, could just as well be describing Norm Stamper: “His courage
was not the foolish kind of a young and silly man. It was the courage of a man who looks danger in the face, and
forces himself not to flinch".

If the Senate does not confirm Kerlikowski( is that polish or what?). I hope Obama nominates Stamper as his 2nd choice.

A breath of fresh air perhaps, if he gets confirmed.