Turn Back Effort To Disguise an Illegal Drug as Medicine
cannabisnews.com: Turn Back Effort To Disguise Drug as Medicine (http://cannabisnews.com/news/23/thread23924.shtml)
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Is The Drug Czar Is Lying? His Lips Are Moving
Deconstructing the Drug Czar's latest pot and mental illness claims NORML Blog » Blog Archive » How To Tell If The Drug Czar Is Lying? His Lips Are Moving (http://blog.norml.org/2008/05/12/how-to-tell-if-the-drug-czar-is-lying-his-lips-)
Why Would We Want People To Suffer Needlessly?
By Anthony Clark May 12, 2008
Postbulletin.com: Rochester, MN (http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?a=342128&z=12)
New Federal Report on Marijuana Use is Misleading, Groups Say
New Federal Report on Marijuana Use is Misleading, Groups Say - Salem-News.Com (http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may102008/pot_truth_5-10-08.php)
May-10-2008 15:32printcomments
New Federal Report on Marijuana Use is Misleading, Groups Say
Tim King Salem-News.com
Is this a reaction to the beginning of the end of marijuana prohibition?
Salem-News.com
Salem-News.com
(SALEM, Ore.) - A new federal government report on the ill effects of marijuana on teens may be a last ditch effort to demonize the medical weed before it sees its own day of emancipation. As it stands, even the most hardcore marijuana legalization advocates do not support children using anything that causes intoxication.
This new report uses scare tactics and seems to regard medical facts as a meaningless burden, and they are enlisting the help of celebrities with big money and big media ties to drive their message home.
http://www.salem-news.com/stimg/may102008/marijuana_advocate_sized.jpg
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Lies are all You Need
Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies.
There's nothing you can do that can be done.
Nothing you can say that can't be spun.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.
There's nothing you can grow that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be caged.
Nothing you can do but you can learn to be fools.
It's easy.
All you need are Lies, all you need are Lies,
All you need are Lies, Lies, Lies are all you need.
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're told to be.
It's easy.
All you need are Lies, Lies, Lies are all you need.
All you need are Lies (all together now)
All you need are Lies (everybody)
All you need are Lies, Lies, Lies are all you need.
J.P.Waldo &â?*he D.E.A.th
Pot Potency? Boomers' blissfully unfazed by facts
Pot Potency? Boomers' blissfully unfazed by facts - Cannabis Culture Forums (http://forums.cannabisculture.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/1175070/site_id/1)
Medical Marijuana Group Plans Ad Campaign
Posted by CN Staff on April 29, 2008 at 19:42:43 PT
By Mark Brunswick, Star Tribune
Source: Star-Tribune
medical Minnesota -- A group advocating a medical marijuana bill in Minnesota said Tuesday that it will run ads to counter what it says are false law-enforcement arguments against the measure.
The group, the Marijuana Policy Project, said three ads will be posted on the Internet and a fourth will run on television statewide. They are designed to allay fears that medical marijuana increases youth access to marijuana, that there is no proven medical value to using medical marijuana, and that there is no support in the medical community for medical marijuana.
cannabisnews.com: Medical Marijuana Group Plans Ad Campaign (http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread23882.shtml)
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Womanâ??s Christian Temperance Union:
First Wrong On Alcohol, Now Wrong On Cannabis
April 24th, 2008 By: Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director
NORML Blog » Blog Archive » Womanâ��s Christian Temperance Union: First Wrong On Alcohol, Now Wrong On Cannabis (http://blog.norml.org/2008/04/24/woman%E2%80%99s-christian-temperance-union-first-wrong-on-alcohol-now-wrong-on-cannabis/)
Seventy-five years after the American people and its representatives in government rejected prohibitionistsâ?? â??great social experimentâ?? by repealing alcohol prohibition with the passage of the 21st Amendment, one of the leading anti-libation organizations of that era these days espouses Reefer Madness and pseudo-science.
Web pages of friends of WCTU
Friends (http://www.wctu.org/friends.html)
Womanâ??s Christian Vengeance Union
Womanâ??s Christian Vengeance Union - Cannabis Culture Forums (http://forums.cannabisculture.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showthreaded&Number=1409474#Post1409474)
The Medical Marijuana SCAM: Update 1996, Lapey
EURAD: Europe Against Drugs (Statements) (http://www.eurad.net/research/The%20Medical%20Marijuana%20Scam%20Update.htm)
Janet D. Lapey, M.D
Concerned Citizens For Drug Prevention,Inc.
PO Box 2078. Hanover, MA 02339
617-826-5598
Just as there is a powerful tobacco lobby, there is a well-funded marijuna lobby
HEMP SCAM Janet D. Lapey, M. D.
Hemp (http://www.wctu.org/hemp.html)
The drug legalization lobby is currently targeting farmers, such as tobacco growers, in an attempt to persuade them to grow hemp, a crop which would not be profitable.
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Lapey...
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Over 130 years of being wrong
DWR: Thursday, April 24, 2008
You may have thought the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was merely a sadly delusional chapter in our nation's history. And yet, every now and then I see a letter to the editor in the local paper signed by someone who calls herself head of the local WCTU chapter.
What I didn't realize (until I read Allen St. Pierre's post today) was that they also take a position on marijuana.
At their marijuana 'facts' page you can learn a number of interesting things, including: Drug WarRant (http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/2008/04/24.html#a2812)
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Womanâ??s Christian Vengeance Union
* long-term marijuana users experience withdrawal symptoms such as stomach pain, irritability, and aggression. [...] I was going to quit, but after hearing that... not now.
* Sudden heart attacks have been linked to pot smoking [...] sausage linked.
* Loss of fertility in both males and females may occur. 6 billion people.
You sure it's not your wonderful sex abstenance program working?
Marijuana can disrupt testes and uterine function.
Seems to be functioning to me. Maybe you're doing it wrong.
In males testosterone levels and sperm counts can decrease and abnormal sperm form.
also decreasing is violent crimes, rape and say what? Ab-normal, like Ab-stenance? Large numbers of abnormal sperm are forming into groups of ill-mannered disodents.
Menstrual periods have ceased in females who use pot regularly. [...]
In females only you say, while only males sperm counts can decrease. By gholly there's a clue... Smoking pot makes genders different.
* fathers who smoked pot might increase the chances of their babies dying from SIDS. [...]
Ref.Dragnet, 1972, Not mothers smoking pot? It is the WCTU. Ab-normal sperm forms no doubt. 5000 years of using Ganja... No SIDS. 12 years Bush Rayguns... AIDs and SIDs and Gays. One year after Nixon took office there were 12 million tokers. Conservatives were breeding them in what are known as "think tanks". Outside of these tanks Conservative Christian women are prohibited from thinking, and what is learned in thinktanks stays in thinktanks for the message it might send the kids... and the general population frowns on multi billion dollar scams like the drug war. Must keep em smiling...
* Marijuana use is a major risk factor in the development of full-blown AIDS in HIV-positive persons. HIV marijuana smokers progress to full-blown AIDS twice as fast as non-smokers. [...]
and they always said we were antimotivational...
* Chronic use results in adults being four times more likely to be depressed later in life and to have suicidal thoughts. [...]
Depressed at getting old? Hum, another clue blue. Maybe slightly miffed at the higher prices caused by dumbass prohibitionist killers. Not like the younger daze of chronic from returning vets or at antiwar rallies. As we still do on Holidaze. Nothing like a good christian flag waving war for obtaining exotic chronic.
* In a 1999 report of 664 drug-related deaths, 187 of them resulted from marijuana use alone. [...]
That means 497 out of 664 died from something else, we must ban something else, we must, we just must!
* A scientific study of airplane pilots showed their inability to properly land a plane using a flight simulator even 24 hours after smoking one joint. [...]
* A scientific study of Booze Hangovers showed they are the leading cause of pilots toking.
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt. And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, So I had one more for dessert. Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes, And found my cleanest dirty shirt. An' I shaved my face and combed my hair, An' stumbled down the stairs to meet the day... Wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.
* As of January, 2001, the Mississippi Research Center for the National Institute on Drug Abuse had on record more than 15,000 studies on cannabis. None of them show the raw material marijuana to be safe or effective for medical use. [...]
A very good reason for calling it NIDB instead of IOM. 150,000,000 tokers disagree.
* Many of the state-based referendums on medical marijuana have been supported and funded by individuals and organizations who favor decriminalization and legalization and who would profit from producing and selling marijuana.
Secrets out now, might as well quit and go get drunk. Although, now under prohibition, these "individuals and organizations"make 10 times more money producing and selling Ganja. Between the Drugczar advertizing BC bud and the WCTU cheerleaders inticing young people to try a new adventure. One might think they profit on the Ganjawar.
Hey, another clue...
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Temperance may be defined as:
* moderation in all things healthful;
* total abstinence from all things harmful.
-- Xenophon (Greek philosopher), 400 B. C.
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Opium Made Easy - Michael Pollan
...........Michael Pollan........... (http://www.michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=24)
One gardener's encounter with the war on drugs
It's worth noting that during the period of anti-alcohol hysteria that led to Prohibition, certain forms of opium were as legal and almost as widely available in this country as alcohol is today. It is said that members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union would relax at the end of a day spent crusading against alcohol with their cherished "women's tonics," preparations whose active ingredient was laudanumâ??opium. Such was the order of things less than a century ago.
Until this century hard cider was probably the most popular intoxicantâ??drug, if you willâ??in this country. It shouldn't surprise us that one of the symbols of the Women's Christian Temperance Union was an ax; prohibitionists like Carry Nation used to call for the chopping down of apple trees just like the one in my garden, plants that in their eyes held some of the same menace that a marijuana plant, or a poppy flower, holds...
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The Victorian era
Laudanum, and its many uses « the Victorian era (http://19thcentury.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/laudanum)
Laudanum, and its many uses
March 2, 2008 by 19thcentury
In many episodes of the series"Gunsmoke,"
Doc Adams gives laudanum to his patients.
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Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in '74
Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in '74 | | AlterNet (http://www.alternet.org/story/9257)
By Raymond Cushing, AlterNet. Posted May 31, 2000.
In 1974 researchers learned that THC, the active chemical in marijuana, shrank or destroyed brain tumors in test mice. But the DEA quickly shut down the study and destroyed its results, which were never replicated -- until now.
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Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
Jack Herer - Chapter 15 (http://www.jackherer.com/chapter15.html)
The Hype: Brain Damage & Dead Monkeys
In 1974, California Governor Ronald Reagan was asked about decriminalizing marijuana.
After producing the Heath/Tulane University study, the so-called "Great Communicator" proclaimed, "The most reliable scientific sources say permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana." (L.A. Times)
Reports of the study have also been distributed by the hierarchy of drug rehabilitation professionals as part of their rationalization for wanting to get kids off pot, based on supposed scientific studies. It is used to terrorize parent groups, church organizations, etc., who redistribute it still further.
Heath killed the half-dead monkeys, opened their brains, counted the dead brain cells, and then took control monkeys, who hadn't smoked marijuana, killed them too, and counted their brain cells. The pot smoking monkeys had enormous amounts of dead brain cells as compared to the "straight" monkeys.
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Top Story: Dan Forbes Documents Waltersâ?? Lies About Potency. Understanding That The War On Cannabis Is Built On Lies Is Key to Understanding More Than Just Drug War.
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2002-11-20 17:39:18
MarijuanaNews.com : Dan Forbes Documents Walters� Lies About Potency. Understanding That The War On Cannabis Is Built On Lies Is Key to Understanding More Than Just Drug War. (http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=597)
Newsbrief: Walters Lies Pile Up in Canada Diatribe
Newsbrief: Walters Lies Pile Up in Canada Diatribe (http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/306/walters.shtml)
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Lies Our Drug Warriors Told Us
Drug WarRant :: View topic - Lies Our Drug Warriors Told Us (http://drugwarrant.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=344)
CN Source: Reno News & Review August 24, 2006 Nevada
The reporters made their way through the dim lights and small huts of Virginia City's Chinatown... The Comstock journalists produced racist and inaccurate news coverage that relied on uninformed sources (law enforcement instead of physicians), inflamed the people of the town, and produced the nation's first anti-drug law, an ordinance banning opium smoking within Virginia City, enacted on Sept. 12, 1876. The local politicians, discovering that fear of drugs and minorities sold, were just as irresponsible, blaming everything from poor sanitation to child molestation on Chinese drug "fiends." When the local prohibition ordinance failed, they pushed for a statewide law which failed (and, of course, would be followed by national laws that failed).
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Anslinger's Lies
Pot Culture: Anslinger's Lies (http://www.ukcia.org/potculture/20/lies.html)
Many of Harry Anslinger's marijuana horror stories have been tracked down to stories in the yellow press. Of 200 specific cases referred to by Anslinger, his accusation that marijuana was the cause of a gory crime was proved false in 198. The other two stories were untraceable and no account of them ever appeared in print where the crimes allegedly occurred.
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Bennett's Fuzzy Drug-War Victory
cannabisnews.com: Bennett's Fuzzy Drug-War Victory (http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread9819.shtml)
In other words, Bennett's "most successful public policy efforts of the latter half of the 20th century" is an illusion. It's reasonable to conclude that more people were using drugs "during the most intense period of antidrug efforts" than admitted it. And just in case Bennett can't tell the difference, that's not success -- that's denial.
More Fuzzy Drug-War Math
cannabisnews.com: More Fuzzy Drug-War Math (http://cannabisnews.com/news/9/thread9832.shtml)
Misleading numbers are the stock and trade of drug warriors, it seems. Arguing against medical marijuana in his April 2 column, for instance, Don Feder rattles off an alarming statistic: "According to the Drug Abuse Warning Network," says Feder, "marijuana use accounted for 87,150 emergency-room admissions in 1999, up 455 percent from a decade earlier."
First off, this is a red herring, since the discussion is not about all-purpose marijuana use, but medical. The DAWN data are not controlled for why an emergency-room patient may have been using marijuana; it only records the presence of the drug in his system.
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DAMN DAWN! Dug Abruse Makeitup Netvork...
Reefer Madness, Courtesy of Senator Tom Harkin
March 3rd, 2008 By: Ron Fisher, NORML Outreach Coordinator
NORML Blog » Blog Archive » Reefer Madness, Courtesy of Senator Tom Harkin (http://blog.norml.org/2008/03/03/reefer-madness-courtesy-of-senator-tom-harkin)
the number of marijuana related emergencies
This is an untruth propagated by the drug czarâ??s minions. The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) collects its data on â??marijuana related emergenciesâ?? by noting every single time someone tells their doctor that they use marijuana. So if I were to accidentally break my leg and go to the ER, and my doctor asked if I use any drugs and I say I occasionally smoke marijuana (as I should, as we should all be honest with our physicians), then this would be a â??marijuana related emergency,â?? even if I hadnâ??t smoked in weeks.
Your Government Is Lying To You (Again) About Marijuana - NORML (http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5515#alleg6)
The (F)Utility of DAWN: Experts Look at the Drug Abuse Warning Network
The (F)Utility of DAWN: Experts Look at the Drug Abuse Warning Network (http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/252/futilityofdawn.shtml)
"Mr. Walters and many, many others have used this data in the wrong way," Duncan continued. "DAWN was never set up to collect enough information to tell you useful things about problems coming into the emergency room. When someone uses DAWN numbers to try to tell you how dangerous a drug is, it's just not set up for that."
Harkin to Lie
Harkin to Lie - Cannabis Culture Forums (http://forums.cannabisculture.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=161478&Number=1392209#Post1392209)
5429 harkintolie.jpg 648x468
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/5/5429.jpg
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Supreme Court's Reefer Madness
cannabisnews.com: Supreme Court's Reefer Madness (http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread9723.shtml)
In the rush to cure all the ills to which humans are heir, liberty is too often an innocent bystander -- and an accidental casualty. --Barry Goldwater, 1964
The Supreme Court handed in their black robes for brown shirts yesterday, as that formerly august body decided 8-0 against medical marijuana, ruling that federal law trumps state initiatives to legalize the substance for treatment of illnesses such as AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis and glaucoma.
Apparently, Clarence Thomas and Co. forgot a slightly more important statute than the Controlled Substance Act -- the Constitution of the United States! Remember that one? I think it's still mentioned in high-school civics classes.
Grab a copy if you have one handy and open that grand, national operating manual to Article 1, Section 8. This section lays out in very clear terms the enumerated powers of Congress -- what our representatives are permitted to do. (Pay attention, Clarence.)
There are not many items listed, and you'll probably notice the striking absence of anything about regulating marijuana -- or any drugs for that matter. It's not in there. Establishing postal roads, declaring war, coining money -- that much is enumerated, but not a word about dope.
Justices Bar Medical Defense for Distribution
cannabisnews.com: Justices Bar Medical Defense for Distribution (http://cannabisnews.com/news/9/thread9721.shtml)
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William Randolph Hearst
Inventor of yellow Journalism. Supposedly very ruthless to his competition and in his personal relationships. He was the basis for the movie Citizen Kane and also responsible for the prohibition on marijuana of the 1930's. The Marijuana Stamp Tax Act effectively outlawed the sale of marijuana. Hearst apparently made a fortune from the criminalization of marijuana due to the money he had invested in competing industries. Right before Hearst began his war against marijuana with newspaper headlines in the many dailies that he owned, Popular Science announced the invention of a hemp processing machine that they predictied could effectively make hemp the single most useful processing material.
yellow journalism
One of the great breakthoughs in propaganda. The ability to prove a point just by over exposing it to the masses. If they see it enough they'll believe it. Planting fear and then playing the fear into action. Using different sources to corrodinate the effort to make it seem as if the whole world thinks this way. Pioneered by William Randolph Hearst in his reefer madness style campaign of the 1930's.
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Convicted robber got $42,363 from fund for victims?
He had been convicted of dealing heroin, stealing a car
and holding up a man and a woman at gunpoint, court records show.
Yet look what made the title...
Warrant issued for man in case over marijuana!
By Josh Mitchell | Baltimore Sun reporter April 29, 2008
I think he means... Warrant issued for Convicted armed robber/heroin junkie...
Theft : Theft News and Photos - chicagotribune.com (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.gaskins29apr29,0,3954089.story)
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Senator Joseph McCarthy: Unrepentent Junkie? By Stephen Young
Senator Joseph McCarthy- Unrepentent Junkie?- by Steve Young: Drugwar.com (http://www.drugwar.com/youngmccarthy.shtm)
Sen. Joseph McCarthy: Unrepentant Junkie
Sen. Joseph McCarthy: Unrepentant Junkie - Applicable Information - All - Ending Cannabis Prohibition - Message Board - Yuku (http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/397/t/Sen-Joseph-McCarthy-Unrepentant-Junkie.html)
The war on drugs has always served a political agenda. During the Red Scare in the early 1950s, Sen. Joseph McCarthy blamed Red China for peddling heroin to weaken the moral fiber of the United States and the Free World.
Ironically, it appears that McCarthy himself developed a nasty little addiction to morphine while leading the anticommunist crusade. But his dope wasn't coming from Maoist China. According to Ladies Home Journal, that bastion of left-wing political correctness, McCarthy was getting his daily morphine script from Harry Anslinger, longtime head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
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Scientist's death haunts family (Merc News Complete Article)
Home - San Jose Mercury News (http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/3820722.htm)
excerpted: The death in 1953 of a government scientist, Frank Olson, in a fall from a New York hotel window, is one of the most notorious cases in CIA history.
The documents show that two of the key officials involved in the decision to withhold that information were White House aides Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, today the nation's vice president and secretary of Defense.
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How The Canadian Media Import Counterfeit News From The States.
MarijuanaNews.com : How The Canadian Media Import Counterfeit News From The States. The Drug Czar Lies and Even The Best Papers Don�t Check the Facts. (http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=797)
The Drug Czar Lies and Even The Best Papers Donâ??t Check the Facts.
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2005-03-17 16:20:00
â??But it is time to acknowledge that the nation's news organizations have played a large and unappetizing role in deceiving the publicâ?¦.â?ťâ?? The New York Times
Front Page Fantasy: The New York Times Pushes Fact Free Journalism
MarijuanaNews.com : Front Page Fantasy: The New York Times Pushes Fact Free Journalism Supposedly About ââ?¬Ĺ?BC Budââ?¬Âť (http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=796)
Supposedly About â??BC Budâ?ť
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2005-03-17 16:20:00
This article was cited in the Canadian Parliament as proof that Canada cannot even decriminalize cannabis because of US opposition, â??causing costly cross-border delays.â?ť Lies have consequences, which is why people lie.
Bad research makes headlines (thread)
Bad research makes headlines | Cannabis Culture Magazine (http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4186.html)
Marihemp - Message Boards Closed (http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/thd7x5019.shtml)
mediapercent.jpg 328x451
Marihemp - Message Boards Closed (http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/5/5408.jpg)
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A CULTURE OF LYING (PART 4)!
One scribe noted what Bush had done. You could call it a senior moment (http://dailyhowler.com/dh051503.shtml)
It truly takes a low, slimy man to call the other guy a liar on the basis of â??factsâ?ť which heâ??s simply made up. But a Culture of Lying surrounded Bushâ??and the press corps already knew not to notice.
20 Lies About the War
20 Lies About the War (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0713-01.htm)
Iraq Lies
TvNewsLIES.org - No Distractions, No Deceptions, No Diversions, No Delusions! (http://tvnewslies.org)
Bush and Blair - â??The Killer Bâ??s!â?ť
Here is another example of Bush hypocrisy; he pulls the US out of the World Court excludes American from participating so that no American can be charged with a war crime, but he and his clan keep screaming about Iraqi war criminals! How does he get away with it? Are most Americans stupid or are they just bad people? I can not figure out what is happening to this country.
The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions
Professor Griffin argues that "omissions and distortions" in the report amount to a cover-up by government officials and says that the available evidence suggests that the Bush administration was complicit in the 9-11 attacks.
Broadcast On C-Span 2 - Thursday, April 28, 2005
ITâ??S NOT WHAT THEY SAY - ITâ??S WHAT THEY DONâ??T SAY! -
War & Terror = Ratings Ratings = Money $$$
Bush + Cheney = War & Terror Do the Math!
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Their Lips are Moving 200x200
Marihemp - Message Boards Closed (http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/thd7x4937.shtml)
Source: Missoula Independent October 14, 2004
Everyone has heard the joke about how you can tell when operatives from the Bush administration are lying - their lips are moving. Given the Bush presidency's horrid record of lying about everything from preemptive war to domestic issues such as the environment, health care and education, it should come as no surprise that they're at it again. This time, it's to interfere in Montana's election on medical marijuana, I-148. And guess what? Their lips are moving again.
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We want our 'role models' to lie
Drug WarRant (http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/2008/04/26.html#a2815)
DWR: Saturday, April 26, 2008
Link (Via Baylen)
The next big scandal in sports comes from a statement made on radio by Dallas Mavericks forward Josh Howard. Howard explains:
"What I was stating was just [in response to] a random question he asked me about the marijuana use. I just let him know that most of the players in the league use marijuana and I have and do partake in smoking weed in the offseason sometimes and that's my personal choice and my personal opinion. But I don't think that's stopping me from doing my job."
He's not using marijuana during the season, and he hasn't flunked any drug tests.
So now the league and the press are scrambling to find how you punish someone for... um... telling the truth.
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said before Friday's game against the Hornets that any punishment from the club will be meted out "internally."
"We won't make it public," Cuban said. "But we'll deal with it.
"We'll do what we need to do and deal with it internally and then that's it."
What really bugs them is that he is matter-of-fact and unrepentant about it.
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment — Infoplease.com (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762136.html)
The United States government did something that was wrongâ??deeply, profoundly, morally wrong. It was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens. . . . clearly racist.
â??President Clinton's apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to the eight remaining survivors, May 16, 1997
For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for â??bad blood,â?ť1 their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all.
Sean Bell
Drug WarRant (http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/2008/04/25.html#a2814)
Friday, April 25, 2008
Did you get carried away and shoot 50 times at an unarmed man killing him? No problem.
The Sean Bell case ends up with acquittals on all charges. Apparently nobody did anything wrong.
Anger Spills Over at Killing of Kathryn Johnston
Drug WarRant :: View topic - Anger Spills Over at Killing of Kathryn Johnston (http://drugwarrant.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=684)
http://www.november.org/razorwire/2003-01winter/artwork1/banner.jpg
160350 WOD RACISM HYPOCRISY
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Federal and state police kill owner of Rainbow Farm
Federal and state police kill owner of Rainbow Farm (http://www.november.org/razorwire/rzold/26/page1.html)
On the Friday before Labor Day 2001, rather than face a bail revocation hearing for holding an unauthorized marijuana rally last August Grover "Tom" Crosslin and Rolland Rohm retreated to Rainbow Farm...
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http://www.november.org/razorwire/rzold/26/artwork/tomandrollie22.jpg
Tom Crosslin - Nov. 10, 1954 - Sept. 3, 2001
Rollie Rohm - Dec. 27, 1972 - Sept. 4, 2001
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The Murder of Peter McWilliams
The Murder of Peter McWilliams - Applicable Information - All - Ending Cannabis Prohibition - Message Board - Yuku (http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/478/t/The-Murder-of-Peter-McWilliams.html)
Whatever the "official" cause listed on McWilliams' death certificate, he was, by any definition of the word, murdered by the federal government. If a lone human being forcibly denied a patient their lifesaving medication, which then hastened their death, that cruel person would certainly be indicted for murder. Yet Peter is only the latest victim of an uncaring, unaccountable, unquestioned "drug" policy run by a retired 4-Star Army General, Drug "Czar" Barry McCaffrey- the stone cold heart of Marijuana Prohibition.
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(The Elkhorn Manifesto)
The Elkhorn Manifesto (http://www.mega.nu/ampp/elkhorn/elkhorn.html)
SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA:
The Real Reason the Government Won't Debate
Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Re-legalization
An Open Letter to All Americans
By R. William Davis
Before the Gatewood Galbraith for Governor Campaign in 1991, few Kentuckians knew that the plant that the federal government had demonized for over 50 years as "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth," was, in fact, Cannabis Hemp, the most traded commodity in the world until the mid-1800s, and our state's number one crop, industry, and most important source of revenue, for over 150 years.
Today, thanks to the efforts of pioneer hemp researchers and public advocates such as Galbraith, Jack Fraizer, Jack Herer, Chris Conrad, Ed Rosenthal, Don Wirtshafter and others, the federal government's unjustifiable suppression of our state's right to develop our most valuable and versatile natural resource, is facing increasing opposition from an informed public.
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