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by attempting to belittle cause of Cannabis Legalization; ignoring its relevance to human rights, the environment, energy security, and health care reported at Drug War Rant http://www.drugwarrant.com/2015/03/why-marijuana-isnt-at-the-bottom-of-the-list/ Why marijuana isn’t at the bottom of the list President Obama : “Let’s put it in perspective,” Obama said in response. “Young people, I understand this is important to you, but you should be thinking about climate change, the economy, jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana.” That, of course, completely misses the point regarding what “thinking about marijuana” actually is about. Tom Angell: “But he should think again about how important this issue is. On average, there’s a marijuana possession arrest in the U.S. about every minute. Billions of dollars are wasted on enforcing prohibition laws that don’t stop anyone from using marijuana but do ruin people’s lives with damaging criminal ...

Scalia: an alcohol protectionist that favors abusing the 'supremacy clause'  to support pharmacratic inquisition junk statutes against Marijuana http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/19/colorados-neighbors-say-theyre-spending-too-much-on-minor-pot-offenses-so-maybe-they-should-stop-prosecuting-them/ What a HUGE hypocrite Nebraska is! - From Russ Belville: "The tiny town of Whiteclay, Nebraska, population 10, holds the distinction of being the US town with the greatest beer sales per capita of any American town. This town of 10 has four licensed off-sale beer stores that sold 3.6 million cans of beer in 2013, or almost 10,000 cans of beer per day. How is that possible? Well, Whiteclay, you see, lies on the northern Nebraska border with South Dakota, where it directly abuts the Oglala Sioux (Lakota) Indian Nation on the Pine Ridge Reservation. And Pine Ridge has maintained absolute alcohol prohibition... [where]alcoholism affects an estimated 8...

Gov Conflict of Interest? Lies By implying that Cannabis as more dangerous than alcohol to distract from its benefits for cancer treatment. From Stop the Drug War http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2014/jan/15/new_hampshire_house_passes_marij The New Hampshire House Wednesday afternoon approved a bill that would regulate marijuana like alcohol. The measure, House Bill 492 , passed on a vote of 170-162. The bill sponsored by Rep. Steve Vaillancourt (R-Manchester) with a bipartisan group of four cosponsors, would make the private possession and home growing of limited amounts of marijuana legal for adults 21 and older. It would also direct the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration to license and regulate marijuana retail stores, cultivation facilities, product manufacturing facilities, and testing facilities. As amended by the House, it would enact a wholesale tax of $30 per ounce and a sales tax of 15% per ounce. The House voted down a similar bill 228-89 in 2012. ...

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...

No on 3- an anti MJ legalization lobbyist group reveals prohibition is all about Pharmaceutical market protection- telling us that Sativex is ok while supporting maintaining the ban on natural MJ http://mavotenoonquestion3.com/the-joke-is-on-us-or-is-it/ The first video is a throw back to major quacks as Harvey Wiley who banned the non carcinogenic Opium and Coca leaf, for the sake of protecting markets in pharmaceuticles and cigarettes. Plants as medicine are bad- nevermind the Bible's Book of Genesis. But pharmaceuticals are good- so much so that they must be protected by mis-defining people possessing or growing their own as "crime". Such is the big money reason behind such sorry excuses of politicans as Obama-Romney's contempt for public opinion and basic decency, debasing the judicary as accomplices to a costly and ongoing criminal mercantilism.

http://www.isidewith.com/blog/43316191-interview-with-jill-stein Are you in favor of legalizing all drugs or just marijuana? We would do something revolutionary. We would actually use science to determine which drugs are dangerous and which ones are not. That means right off the bat marijuana and hemp are removed from the list of dangerous substances because these are not dangerous substances in relative to other unregulated substances including nicotine and alcohol. We would start with the legalization of marijuana and transform the drug system from a criminal system to a public health system. If people have issues of dependency which would apply to legal drugs as well as illegal drugs including alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and heavier drugs they need to be treated within the public health system. These are psychological problems not criminal problems. If you don't treat the problem it only aggravates it and compounds it with issues of public safety and criminal violence that are...

  Ted and Pat Oparowski, citing Romney's compassion of visiting their young son with cancer. The boy died.   http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2012/08/31/vt_couple_says_romney_helped_ill_son_before_death/ MONTPELIER, Vt.—A Vermont couple says they're grateful to Mitt Romney for helping them and their terminally ill son decades ago when he was suffering from cancer.   Speaking Thursday at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Ted and Pat Oparowski, of Randolph, tenderly recalled how Romney befriended their 14-year-old son David as he was dying of cancer in the late 1970s.   Pat Oparowski said they would "be ever grateful to Mitt for his love and concern."   She said Romney, who they knew through their church in Massachusetts, spent time in the hospital with their son, helped the boy write a will and bought him fireworks that were eventually set off in Maine.   She said Romney also gave the boy's eulogy at his funeral.    He...

Cannabis Oil shown to Cure Cancer Please see this link to see 'Run from the Cure' about the use of Cannabis Oil to cure Cancer http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/5169.html Father talking about his son's suffering alievated by Cannabis Oil Stephen DeAngelo talks about the Obama Adminstration's Eric Holder's criminal actions against Harborside Dispensary . PROTEST the OBAMA FUNDRAISER - JULY 23, 2012 http://www.harborsidehealthcenter.com/

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...