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NORMLIZER - PROHIBITIONISTS GET PANICKY
As America embraces marijuana, the Feds get desperate.
Thu, Oct 18, 2007 11:51 am
The federal raids this past summer on state-sanctioned medical-marijuana dispensaries located primarily in California demonstrate how disconnected the federal government is from the American people concerning cannabis, as well as how pugnaciously its employees behave.
Recently, the Cato Institute in Washington, DC, hosted a debate between professors Matthew Robinson and Renee Scherlen of Appalachian State University, and the Drug Czar’s top policy analyst, Dr. David Murray. Robinson and Scherlen are authors of Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Following their presentation, Dr. Murray engaged in petty reprisals, including an attack on the authors as “silly” for citing The Emperor Wears No Clothes author and hemp historian Jack Herer in their work. (Check out your government in action: The video and audience Q&A can be found at cato.org/event.php?eventid=3807.)
Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) also got a lesson on the gall of the government: A reply from the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) regarding a Freedom of Information Act request that SSDP had made indicated that SSDP could expect a reply by 2207. SSDP then blogged in jest about “federal bureaucracies moving really slow.” ONDCP assistant general counsel Daniel Peterson shot back: “If you’re going to play games like this, you can expect the same kind of games played on you.”
Is harassing student organizations a good use of taxpayers’ dollars? Again, your government in action.
Jessica Peck Corry is a conservative think-tank policy analyst from the Independence Institute. After writing a July op-ed in the Denver Post in favor of medical access to marijuana, she received a rambling e-mail full of misspellings from the US Justice Department. It was sent by a local DEA agent from the Rocky Mountain Division named Thomas D. Miller. In the message, Miller blasted Corry for “liberal spin” and misleading the public along with her “liberal friends.”
The Colorado media confronted Miller’s boss at the DEA, Jeff Sweetin, about Miller’s harangue. Sweetin responded by saying that the DEA doesn’t believe marijuana is a medicine, and that the agency “will go after cannabis clubs wherever they exist.” He also stated that DEA agents have a right to an opinion and free speech.
Just like the rest of us—except they don’t suffer harassment for exercising theirs. It’s time for some major changes.
—Allen St. Pierre, Executive Director of NORML. Visit norml.org or call 888-67-NORML.
Recently, the Cato Institute in Washington, DC, hosted a debate between professors Matthew Robinson and Renee Scherlen of Appalachian State University, and the Drug Czar’s top policy analyst, Dr. David Murray. Robinson and Scherlen are authors of Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Following their presentation, Dr. Murray engaged in petty reprisals, including an attack on the authors as “silly” for citing The Emperor Wears No Clothes author and hemp historian Jack Herer in their work. (Check out your government in action: The video and audience Q&A can be found at cato.org/event.php?eventid=3807.)
Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) also got a lesson on the gall of the government: A reply from the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) regarding a Freedom of Information Act request that SSDP had made indicated that SSDP could expect a reply by 2207. SSDP then blogged in jest about “federal bureaucracies moving really slow.” ONDCP assistant general counsel Daniel Peterson shot back: “If you’re going to play games like this, you can expect the same kind of games played on you.”
Is harassing student organizations a good use of taxpayers’ dollars? Again, your government in action.
Jessica Peck Corry is a conservative think-tank policy analyst from the Independence Institute. After writing a July op-ed in the Denver Post in favor of medical access to marijuana, she received a rambling e-mail full of misspellings from the US Justice Department. It was sent by a local DEA agent from the Rocky Mountain Division named Thomas D. Miller. In the message, Miller blasted Corry for “liberal spin” and misleading the public along with her “liberal friends.”
The Colorado media confronted Miller’s boss at the DEA, Jeff Sweetin, about Miller’s harangue. Sweetin responded by saying that the DEA doesn’t believe marijuana is a medicine, and that the agency “will go after cannabis clubs wherever they exist.” He also stated that DEA agents have a right to an opinion and free speech.
Just like the rest of us—except they don’t suffer harassment for exercising theirs. It’s time for some major changes.
—Allen St. Pierre, Executive Director of NORML. Visit norml.org or call 888-67-NORML.
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Bird dog
Jan 21 2008, 8:49 am
nate
Nov 22 2007, 11:15 am
The Democrats like Clinton, Edwards, and Obama don't even want to decriminalize marijuana. Disgusting, isn't it?
big nasty nate
Nov 19 2007, 1:54 am
chronicsmkr23
Nov 17 2007, 6:55 pm
CloneHorder
Nov 16 2007, 1:47 am
Viva Revolution
Nov 12 2007, 3:02 pm
Its time we STAND together and take back our country and what it stands for.
Its our constituional right.
JOSHUA MCCURDY
Nov 11 2007, 4:16 pm
THE JUST & THE UNJUST
Nov 1 2007, 8:10 pm
If a juror feels that the staute involved in any criminal case being tried is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural God-given inalienable, or Constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all--for no one is bound to obey an unjust law. That juror must vote NOT GUILTY regardless of the pressures or abuse that may be heaped on him by any or all members of the jury with whom he may in good conscience disagree. He is voting on the justice of the law according to his own conscience and convictions--and not someone else's. "The law itself is on trial, quite as much as the cause which is to be decided."
Bummer, Dude!
Oct 31 2007, 3:25 pm
(Is MPP or NORML listening?) (Hint,Hint.)
SmokieMcFatBlunt
Oct 26 2007, 10:54 am
FED Desperate
Oct 24 2007, 9:26 am
MassHaze
Oct 23 2007, 12:15 am
As soon as we have socialized everything from the democrats(socialized as in the gov controls all business and service, the complete opposite of FREE MARKET and CAPITALISM, which if you can remember are what America was founded on) you will see how much it will be easier to convince Republicans than it will be to hold the reigns on Democrats.
AREIAL
Oct 22 2007, 10:00 pm
Phoenix posidon
Oct 22 2007, 4:00 pm
STOP VOTEING REPUBLICAN
LovesToSmoke
Oct 22 2007, 8:34 am
Not The Messiah
Oct 22 2007, 6:46 am
One of the things that marks out a totalitarian government is making rules that are impossible to follow... Draw your own conclusions...
Love.
Sir Smoke a Lot 420
Oct 20 2007, 1:08 am
LovesToSmoke
Oct 19 2007, 8:29 am
Zach
Oct 18 2007, 11:33 pm
SOCIAL MOVEMENT
Oct 18 2007, 9:25 pm
Lets rock the fucking boat. Who will suffer, "Bombing for peace is like fucking for verginity". Can we say that? Ofcourse we can. We can even go as far as saying in 2005, the DEA seized a reported meazly $1.4 billion in drug trade related assets and $477 million worth of drugs. However, according to the White Houses Office of drug Control Policy, the total value of all of the drugs sold in the US is as much as $64 billion a year. Control this mother fucker! Be liberal === Be YOU at work tommorow tell those around you how you really feel. Don't be a phony communist American worker that cannot say FUCK YOU, when you want to. Be the Alpha you always wanted to be. Just be you, or wait you can't be you, you have children to raise, keep your mouth shut at work. Controlling you at work, loosing your true identity. For 19.95 you to can learn how to become a true liberal and not a panty waist bitch. Let your boss know you are the Alpha Dog. Working for all these communist American companies scares me, with there unconstitutional rules and regulations, drug testing. 4th ammendment. Is America turning communist? Control the people control the people. Well, Fuck you, I don't have any children, and thank God for that.
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