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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.

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Bird dog

Jan 21 2008, 8:49 am

you think the government would promote CannaClear to help americans come down from their buzzes,i mean fight it at the source

nate

Nov 22 2007, 11:15 am

RON PAUL WANTS TO END THE DRUG WAR! HE VOTED AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR AND THE PATRIOT ACT!

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

yea the government sux balls. if u really want to find out about our government go to www.freedomtofascism.com order the dvd if u can. at least go to the website it basically says that theres no law that requires us to pay an income tax plus our government is planning a takeover right now. u can say ur a patriot or u can be one and the first step is to go find out the truth! if we dont do anything about this we will SUFFER!

chronicsmkr23

Nov 17 2007, 6:55 pm

the reason my medicine is illegal is because anybody with a love for the plant can grow it... which means that our government can't regulate its trade, therefor they say the "commerce clause" of the constitution grants them the liberty to raid and shut down our dispensaries. Prop 215 was enacted in 1996 by a majority of voters that to this day continues to grow; but instead an organization created in 73' by nixon is intent on telling others HOW and WHAT they can use to relieve thier aches and pains. Well Vicodin doesn't work nearly as well as my Sour D so im going to continue to smoke that dank!

CloneHorder

Nov 16 2007, 1:47 am

Dude Your fuckin weak sauce. Truely Pathetic. I never say this but maybe you should put the bong down and get a life. Serious.. You fuckin disturb me with your neediness. Im shocked no one else has talked shit. Your all fuckin weak.

Viva Revolution

Nov 12 2007, 3:02 pm

Let the revolution begin already. Do you think the forefathers of this great nation would take this shit? Fuck NO!!!
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

I am 20 years old and i think it is bullshit that the government can take our smoke away it is the only natural high that you can take a seed and grow it and takes no chemical like tabacco they put thousands of shit in it weed is all narural and who would rather get fuckin sick on some alchol and in all the years i have been cheffin started smokin when i was 11 i have never been sick for 2 days after on it so ya i LOVE my smoke peace out and thanks for listning blaze up

THE JUST & THE UNJUST

Nov 1 2007, 8:10 pm

James G. Cozzens, The Just and the Unjust [1942] 57.
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

I think if MPP or NORML asks McCain about medical marijuana one more time, he's going to flip out! Totally unreasonable and unwilling to listen to any information that doesn't fit into his tiny, perfect(?) world. I would like to see a melt-down on national TV.
(Is MPP or NORML listening?) (Hint,Hint.)

SmokieMcFatBlunt

Oct 26 2007, 10:54 am

Vote Ron Paul he's the only one that says he wants to end federal funding for the drug war, its not exactly legalization but its a good start. also i'd like to say im completely pissed off at the DEA for saying they have rights while at the same exact time tring to trample other peoples rights. the same rights. I'm getting quite sick of life of the double standard.

FED Desperate

Oct 24 2007, 9:26 am

Of Course the Feds are getting desperate. The 6 billion in Treasury liabilities shows that the Treasury Department doesn't use a private banker but rather uses the Fed directly (the lone exception to this rule is Treasury Tax and Loan because government worries that pulling too much money out of the private banking system during tax time could be disruptive). Total capital represents the "drug busts" the Fed has earned which comes mostly from the assets (siezures) they steal with the deposit and note liabilites they create. Excess capital is then turned over to the Treasury Department and Congress to be included to be included into the Federal Budget as "Miscellaneous Revenue". If a person likes to smoke, their legal choice is #1 killer in America cigarettes.

MassHaze

Oct 23 2007, 12:15 am

Phoenix posidon, dont ever forget that DEMOCRATS are for bigger government that controls everything we do. Conservatives just dont change their mind about things once they happen.

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

THE DEMOCRATES ARE NOT ANY BETTER THEY ARE NOT GOING TO LEGALIZE POT EITHER.

Phoenix posidon

Oct 22 2007, 4:00 pm

People should not be afraid of there goverments. Its Goverments that should be afraid of there people.
STOP VOTEING REPUBLICAN

LovesToSmoke

Oct 22 2007, 8:34 am

The reason drugs are illegal is that it boosts price and profit. And yes, our gov't does profit from it.

Not The Messiah

Oct 22 2007, 6:46 am

Come on guys, the only reason any substance is artificially prohibited by government is that then they can lock up almost anyone they (don't) like. Humans have evolved to experiment with consciousness. There are many ways to do this but most of us will try something prohibited at some time in our lives. How many people in the USA or the UK (where I am) can honestly say that thay have never taken ANYTHING illegal?
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

Social Movement, I agree with about 90% of what you said (all but the part where you insulted everybody that reads the article over and over again). I smoke multiple times a day and currently maintain a job as a bartender. I walked out of three prior interviews prior to this one because they had a drug testing policy. When they asked me why I refuse to take a drug test, I simply reply " What I do in my own time is my own buisness and that in no way affects my performance at work". No denial and no admission of guilt. Then I walk out the door. The real reason(s) that marajuana is not yet legal is two simple reasons: 1. There is not yet a difinitive test to prove whether or not you are under the influence at the time of suspicion, and 2. There is no way for the government to stick their greedy hands into probably more than half of the profits from the sales of marajuana because too many people can grow it on their own. Every year more and more bills go up against state and federal judicial bodies to legalize it for madicinal purposes or to decriminalize the act of possessing it. Not many have succeeded but america is shifting the proverbial weight onto our side of the voting mountain. The prohibition of marajuana is the most monumentalfailures of all the prohibitions. Since it was outlawed, the percentage of people that smoke cannibis on a regular basis has increased by over 2000%. I will now leave you with a quote from Bob Marley "Legalize it, Don't Criticize it".

LovesToSmoke

Oct 19 2007, 8:29 am

So,once apon a time,a group of people, weak in themselves, wanted to dominate the others of their clan. "Why should we work when we have all these, how shall we say it, useless cattle that can serve us". "But we are not strong enough, we do not have the numbers and they will kill us" one responded. So they planned. What they did was turn everyone against each other then offer to 'help' set up a 'government' to protect them from those who would hurt them. So the people worked for them and even built them a war machine, which of course, was now used to enslave them. Moral of the story? Look out your window and see.

Zach

Oct 18 2007, 11:33 pm

do we really need the federal government??? Is there any good reason for them, because all the federal state does is start wars and spin hate on people. Fuck them

SOCIAL MOVEMENT

Oct 18 2007, 9:25 pm

It is time for a CHANGE... A social movement a type of group action. It will be nice for a large informal grouping of individuals and/or organizations focused on specific political or social issues, in other words, on carrying out, resisting or undoing a social change.
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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