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Setting the Record Straight Posted on Facebook by Nancy J. Allen in FREE DANA BEAL FREE OURSELVES · First are the links to the two articles written by Paul Hammel in June, 2012 for the Omaha World-Herald regarding Dana's case in Nebraska, followed by Dana's response: "Marijuana Advocate in a Tough Fight" - June 12, 2012   http://www.omaha.com/article/20120612/NEWS97/706129933/0   Court Rejects Medicinal Marijuana Argument" - June 20, 2012   http://www.omaha.com/article/20120620/NEWS/706219997/1690   "Setting the Record Straight" by Dana Beal - June 29, 2012 Dear Paul [Hammel]:   Thanks for the article, but as always, a few little inconsistencies crept into your well-intentioned coverage. Most important, our understanding with the Manhattan DA’s office does not allow for a dispensary. We meet in the apartments, which change every week, of patient “hosts.” Hosts get their medicine for free. Dennis Brennan was one such host. Given the threat of ongoi...

The sheer injustice of banning safer substances for the sake of protecting more dangerous ones demands these prohibitions be nullified.  A legislative failure to respect basic liberties is no requirment upon the judiciary to follow suit, as our oath is not to the legislature but to the U.S. Constitution. - some future judge This was the basic defense offerered by Dana Beal's legal counsel, which was rejected by Judge Mary C. Gilbrite http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Necessity+defense A defense asserted by a criminal or civil defendant that he or she had no choice but to break the law. The necessity defense has long been recognized as Common Law and has also been made part of most states' statutory law. Although no federal statute acknowledges the defense, the Supreme Court has recognized it as part of the common law. The rationale behind the necessity defense is that sometimes, in a particular situation, a technical breach of the law is more advantageous to societ...

43rd annual July 4th Smoke In - A Movement  Stalled Since Summer 1971 EVENT WEBSITE: http://www.smoke-in.org/mj/ RALLY with SPEAKERS at NOON to 3 PM Lafayette Park north side of the White House MARCH 3 PM to 4:20 PM to Constitution and 23rd CONCERT with SPEAKERS at recreation field at Constitution and 23rd just to the north of the Lincoln Memorial from 4 PM to 9PM - I shall be at this entire event with other drug legalization activists This is the annual July 4th Smoke In to Legalize Marijuana , in Washington D.C.at Lafayette Park immediately north of the White House, held every year since 1971. Held annually on July 4th in Washington, D.C. for the past 43 years, this rally, march and concert is one of the oldest demonstrations advocating drug policy reform in the United States. The Smoke-In has undergone several changes since being created out of the BE-IN era of political movements. During it's history elected politicians in Washington DC have tended to view...

Douglas Willinger and Ethan Nadelmann - 1992 DPF conference Mid 1986 - Became extremely concerned about Ronald Wilson Reagan's insane ratcheting up the socially destructive - mega continuing boondoggle 'drug war' April 1987 - purchased the book 'Cocaine- Its History Uses and Effects' by Richard Ashley, where I first read about Angelo Francois Mariani and his Vin Mariani created amidst the 1860s female Parisian opera performer culture , and found  safe and effective in western Europe and North America . September-October 1987 - wrote the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Library Memorial Library about  Mariani - Coca  and received letter informing me of Chas Vermeulen Windsant in Amsterdam who got obsessed about the Mariani story, in spring 1978 , at about the 64th anniversary of Mariani's April 1, 1914 death in southern France. 1, April MCMXIV December 1987 - wrote letter to the Westchester Gannett newspapers about the banning of Coca and its perversion into concentrated coc...

the pure quantatative approach that disregards the qualatative 4.Reduce Drug Use to Reduce Drug Consequences. The best way to reduce the substantial harms associated with drugs is to reduce drug use itself. Public health services for drug users, including HIV interventions for people who inject drugs, should be implemented in the context of comprehensive, recovery-oriented public health systems that also provide drug users access to treatment for addiction. Policies and programs such as injection rooms, drug distribution efforts, and drug legalization should be opposed because they tolerate drug use and allow the debilitating disease of addiction to continue untreated. This ignores whether the 'cocaine' use is coca or concentrated cocaine, and hence has NOTHING to do with public health, and EVERYTHING to to with criminal mercantilsim for protecting caffeine and cigarettes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-morgan/obama-marijuana-drug-policy_b_1576479.html?ref=green&ir=Green Scott Morgan: If You Think Marijuana Isn't an Important Issue, You're Dead Wrong : As the debate over marijuana legalization continues to heat up, those who'd rather duck the discussion are increasingly incapable of concealing their discomfort. We recently saw Mitt Romney snap at a reporter for asking about marijuana in Colorado, and in a recent segment, CNN contributor LZ Granderson went further still: CNN's Carol Costello asked contributor LZ Granderson to respond to any of the Colorado voters who might be less likely to back President Barack Obama because he does not support marijuana legalization. "Well, they're idiots," Granderson explained. "If you're voting for a president, any president, on one single issue -- especially one issue that is so peripheral such as marijuana usage -- you're a idiot. I don't want to mince any word...

New York City's Mayor Bloomberg seeks to ban certain establishments from offering sugared drink sizes above 16 ounces.  No word how this shall impact my 32 ounce McDonald's *half* sweetened, *half* unsweetened habit which gives me the larger drink but with the limit of the 16 ounce size sweetened.  No mention is given to the sugar-high fructose corn syrup issue. This makes me wonder about the pre-cigarette mercantilism days -- aka the early 1900s cocaine demonification scares of the infamous USDA-AMA-APhA drug racketeering to get people to fear cocaine in any form in order to clear the way for the increased marketing of Tobacco cigarettes -- when Coca Cola and other such soft drinks contained cocaine.  Small amounts of cocaine, often 3-4 milligrams per fluid ounce, or 6 or 7 milligrams per fluid ounce as in Coca wines such as Vin Mariani. Do the math.  If say a Coca leaf extract or even isolated cocaine beverages contained for the sake of arg...