The Pope Supports the Drug War Status Quo
Pope Francis S.J.'s Vatican Continuing to Encourage Drug Abuse, Alcohol & Cigarettes http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2013/07/image-over-substance-pope-francis-sj.html
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July 4 - Washington, D.C. Smoke In
Re-read- http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2012/06/july-4-seize-it.html It's all relevant regardless of the year so long as prohibition continues. http://www.smoke-in.us/?q=rally The Rally starts at "High Noon" in Lafayette Park (North side of the White House). From 12:00-3:00pm Activist speakers from the front lines of the "War On Drugs" comment on the progress and direction of ending marijuana prohibition and other aspects of drug policy reform. Lafayette Park has been chosen as the location for our Rally because of its use by the woman's suffrage movement in the late 1800's when women where fighting for the right to vote. During that time the park across the street from the White House became known as "People's Park". The place where ordinary people could go to voice their grievances against government policy when no elected representative would represent them on Capitol Hill or in the White House. At the peak of the...
Tobacco $$$ Subverts Tea Party
http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2013/06/study-tea-party-planned-long-ago-by.htm Study: Tea Party planned long ago by tobacco industry and Koch brothers Huffington Post- A new academic study confirms that front groups with longstanding ties to the tobacco industry and the billionaire Koch brothers planned the formation of the Tea Party movement more than a decade before it exploded onto the U.S. political scene. Far from a genuine grassroots uprising, this astroturf effort was curated by wealthy industrialists years in advance. Many of the anti-science operatives who defended cigarettes are currently deploying their tobacco-inspired playbook internationally to evade accountability for the fossil fuel industry's role in driving climate disruption. The study, funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health , traces the roots of the Tea Party's anti-tax movement back to the early 1980s when tobacco companies began to invest in third party grou...