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we petition the obama administration to: End the war on drugs and work with O.A.S. Presidents to open the U.N. Single Convention Treaty on Controlled Substances. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/end-war-drugs-and-work-oas-presidents-open-un-single-convention-treaty-controlled-substances/dlkkBzfx Many Presidents in Central and South America, our friends in the Organization of American States have expressed interest in ending the war on drugs the USA is conducting in their countries. Direct our UN Ambassador to support reopening the Single Convention Treaty on Controlled Substances. Follow your own statements about not wasting resources for cannabis enforcement. Make sure your Attorney General and Department of Justice stops wasting money for enforcement of cannabis prohibition, that would include elimination funding for Drug Enforcement Agency. Direct the Dept. of Agriculture to draft regulations for certification of farmers to allow cultivation of hemp and cannabis. Endi

Less addictive than Tobacco and non carcinogenic, Opium was nonetheless demonified by the twentieth century pharma-cigarette criminal mercantilism - with a regimen that would otherwise be seen as silly if applied the methadone model to nicotine. http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/20/if-you-know-too-much-about-poppies-you-c Last July the Kennewick, Washington, Tri-City Herald profiled Poppydog Farms, a new local business selling dried pods from poppies grown on 40 acres in Pasco. The operation had attracted 2,400 customers from across the country, including wholesalers as well as consumers. "Every single day we're getting new customers," enthused co-owner Ken French. "It's turned out to be a lot more successful than we ever dreamed." The paper explained that "crafters use the pods for ornamentation," while "florists grow red, pink and white-and-purple flowers with the seeds." French described the flowers as "stunningly beautiful." Th

23 months to the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Harrison 'Narcotics' Tax [Prohibition] Act effectively banning most Opiates and anything containing any amount of cocaine, signed into 'law' December 17, 1914. The following is an article about the predessessor to the Harrison Act, the U.S. Food and Drugs Act of 1906 so empowering the Bureau of Chemistry of the USDA the iniitial thrust of what became the 'drug war'. Centennial of Federal Drug Laws - June 30th, 2006 By Dale Gieringer,Ph.D This month marks the centennial of the first federal drug laws. On June 30th, 1906, Congress approved the Pure Food and Drugs Act, giving the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry - the forerunner of today's FDA - the unprecedented power to ban certain drugs from the market. The act proved to be a fateful step toward a regime of total federal control that would eventually restrict Americans' access to valuable medicine, stifle research, and create a vast new field of criminal ente

Bolivia re-acceeds to the UN 'narcotics; convention while still being allowed to legal Coca within Bolivia, over objections of USA and a largely northern bloc - U.K. and Sweeden http://www.druglawreform.info/en/home/item/4245-objections-to-bolivias-reservation-to-allow-coca-chewing-in-the-un-conventions http://www.undrugcontrol.info/en/newsroom/press-releases/item/4267-bolivia-wins-a-rightful-victory-on-the-coca-leaf excerpt After a first attempt to amend the Single Convention failed in 2011, Bolivia left the Convention with the intent to rejoin with a new reservation designed to align its international obligations with its Constitution. [i] The reservation applies only to Bolivian territory, and exportation of coca internationally remains proscribed. Similar to the effort mounted by some countries to derail Bolivia’s proposed amendment two years ago , a group of countries again attempted to block Bolivia’s new reservation on coca. The United States spearheaded an arrangement wh

Virginia Bright Leaf (Large Leaf) Tobacco designed so places as Virginia could make more money Ever notice the difference between Tobacco as initially found my Europeans during the 1500 and 1600s, and that developed by the 1800s. The original Tobacco was a small leaf- Nicotiana Rustica .  It was of sufficently high nicotine content, and that of other natural components making it too harsh and psychoactive to take more then a few 'hits' daily.  It was taken smoked in clay pipes.  Or taken as a finely ground snuff intranasally or in some fashion suckeled- but not swalled as the juice was simply too toxic. The later stuff is this gigantic leaf - Nicotiana Tabacum Its designed to make more money by making more smoking .  By breeding out Tobacco's more interesting psychoactive properties, and such breed results in a significently reduced nicotine content per given amount of leaf material.  The Tobacco, though still too toxic to be swallowed, is now sufficently 'mild' to

by Chris Ryan If your plan consists of merely trying to treat cannabis as if it were alcohol or tobacco, you will loose my support. Cannabis is a HERB. It is not brewed. It is not distilled. It is not fermented. It is NOT like alcohol. Alcohol KILLS thousands of people every year. Cannabis, by contrast is not only non toxic, but the latest findings show that it is a powerful anti-caner agent. Cannabis does not need a government subsidy to survive, the way tobacco does. It is not a particularly labor intensive plant to grow, in fact, it grows wild naturally in all 50 states.Tobacco does not. Tobacco is accountable for thousands of deaths annually, and cannabis is NOT. So if you plan to say that your strategy to end the pothibition is to simply treat it like alcohol or tobacco, you are making a MAJOR MISTAKE! There are OTHER ways to go about thinking about how cannabis regulation ought to be changed. One thing that you need to keep in mind is that by treating pot like alcohol you are a

Deaths not treated by Cannabis by Guard1an (not verified), January 03, 2013, 09:17pm http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/jan/02/who_was_killed_americas_drug_war   Would be nice to also perhaps try to cover people who could have been potentially treated by Cannabis, but because of Federal Law were not treated. While it would be statistically incorrect to capture all the number of deaths associated with each disease, it would be interesting to extrapolate, if only it were legal... Marijuana Cures Cancer http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/cannabis/healthprofessional/page4 Quick facts regarding cancer: Approximately 500,000 deaths were expected for 2012. 1,638,910 new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in 2012. In 2012, cancer is expected to be the second most common cause of death in the US, exceeded only by heart disease, accounting for nearly 1 of 4 deaths. Quick facts regarding Leukemia: An estimated combined total of 140,310 people in the US are expected to be