Time for US to "send a message"

I keep hearing about the government worrying over "what message" they will send if they are "soft" on pot! Well kids, WE got a chance to SEND BACK a message how WE feel about things! :thumbsup: Obama has a site for input on issues. Cannabis isn't among the issues, but there IS a spot for "another issue". THAT'S where you type in "marijuana"! Then say what you think about it in the box below. Here's the link-

Change.gov | Of the People, By the People


This is what I wrote.


"Cannabis is an inexpensive (if home-grown), remarkably safe and versatile herb that can lessen the need for many expensive and addicting pain killers and other drugs. Seniors are often forced to chose between costly medications and food. An easy to grow healing herb could be a blessing for them. Let the states decide if they want it or not. Stop the raids on the dispensaries on "Day One"! Reclassify cannabis, since it clearly DOES have medical value! Stop property seizures for cannabis "offenses". Eliminate the "drugs" question on college loan applications- we "lose" a lot of our brightest to cannabis prohibition's draconian punishments. In recent polls and elections, 65%+ of the public agrees with medical cannabis use- a clear mandate."


OK kids, your turn to write! We got a golden opportunity here! Go for it!


Granny :hippy:

Will do Granny!!!
Let's submit these suggestions maturely and as grammatically correct as possible 420 brothers and sisters...:)

:bump2:
lets keep this in the high traffic

tell your president that you think marijuana has been ILLEGALLY placed in schedule 1 of the substance abuse act, it has medicinal value! which the DEA has known for decades, its merely a ATM machine for them too collect money:wtf:

Thanks for the link Storm Crow. My testimony for changing our anti marijuana laws has been submitted. Come on everyone else, flood the white house with support for legal marijuana use, proven to be safer by far than the use of fatal and addictive drugs like alcohol, nicotine and addictive opiates...Peace...:thumbsup:

i sent my message in :thumbsup: now time to wake and bake :jointsmile:

COME ON PEOPLE NOW IS YOUR CHANCE USE YOUR WIDE VOLCABULARY AND LET HIM NO THAT POT HEADS ARE NOT STUPID AND POT DOSE NOT BURN YOU OUT AND WHY IT SHOULD BE LEGAL AND WHY BOOZ AND GIGGERETS SHOULD BE ILLLEGAL AND SEND HIM IN THE ALL THE PROS AND CONS AND THE POLES THAT SHOW WHAT KILLS AND WHAT DOSEENT KILL HOPEFULY HE WILL GET IT I SENT MINE IN

I sent mine in and I plan to do so every day until change comes.
STIMPY21

Well, I started writing this, two and-a-half hours ago, then picked it back up to finish. I hope it makes sense.

Just thought I'd share:

Hi, I am a Traumatic Brain Injury survivor, who suffers from permanent pain from a subsequent car-accident. I've tried every way possible, legally and, because of the T.B.I., nothing has been effective. I've been at wit's end, for years, trying to justify the fact that cannabis works amazingly, within seconds. Starting in 1994, I've had problems with double-vision, tinnitus, right-sided slowness, and, an imbalance in my hips. Since 2002, I've been afflicted with daily left-sided pain. In both accidents, I've been granted lawsuit-settlements, yet, they leave me with no medicine for my pain. Life has dealt me a harsh hand, and, if I had found a medicine that works, I would've received it, free through Medicaid/Medicare, plus pain & suffering for the rest of my life. Cannabis works. If the doctors were allowed to prescribe it to me, I would've received it, plus pain & suffering (result of the lawsuit/another driver's failure to yield (eight years after a coma)), for as long as I felt pain (which is permanent). The doctor's prognosis was that I felt it because of the earlier brain-injury. Cannabis works through the cannabinoid system, which has been adversely affected, as opposed, to my opioid system, because of the influx of neurotransmitters at the time of brain trauma. My eyes were tested thirteen, and, thirteen and one-half years after my coma. The first time, cannabis-abstinent for three days, the ophthalmologist said that my eyes weren't working together. The second time, three lung-filling hits in three, and a half, hours beforehand, my vision tested perfect, with my eyes working together. Cannabis speeds up the half of my brain, which was severely injured during the head-injury (another driver, with a station-wagon, broke his legs, while broadsiding into my passenger-door, pushing the door, through my stick-shift, into my driver's seat. I went through a coma, for ten days, waking up on November 1, 1994. I was nineteen. I need Medicare/Medicaid to pay for the only medicine that works, cannabis. Thank you. Chris

Thanks for the site, Granny!

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Originally Posted by wishpotwaslegal

COME ON PEOPLE NOW IS YOUR CHANCE USE YOUR WIDE VOLCABULARY AND LET HIM NO THAT POT HEADS ARE NOT STUPID AND POT DOSE NOT BURN YOU OUT AND WHY IT SHOULD BE LEGAL AND WHY BOOZ AND GIGGERETS SHOULD BE ILLLEGAL AND SEND HIM IN THE ALL THE PROS AND CONS AND THE POLES THAT SHOW WHAT KILLS AND WHAT DOSEENT KILL HOPEFULY HE WILL GET IT I SENT MINE IN

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Please tell me this was meant as a joke, right?

This post is in all caps and has misspellings of the words: vocabulary, cigarettes, illegal, doesn't and hopefully. The word 'no' is substituted for 'know', 'doze' is substituted for 'does', and 'poles' is substituted for 'polls'. There is also a complete lack of punctuation such that no sentence is even divided from another. People, if you can't write then maybe you shouldn't be volunteering to represent the views of legalization and medical advocates? If you can write, then help counteract some of the effect that this kind of thing is going to have by submitting well cited and well reasoned letters which do not contain unproven assertions or opinions presented as fact, written in proper English.

Here was my :twocents: for Mr. Obama:

"I know this will only be a drop in the bucket, and possibly even disregarded because of so many other pressing issues in our country, but as a citizen of the United States with an opportunity to possibly hand an opinion to President-elect Obama, I can't pass up the need to ask for equality when comparing the criminal status of a drug like cannabis to other more deadly (and regulated) drugs like alcohol and tobacco.

Regardless of much deeply held public opinion about the use of cannabis, it's becoming increasingly more difficult to deny that medical marijuana could actually be beneficial for people with many ailments like AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, migraines, and so many more. Actual doctors have agreed that there are many perceived benefits to certain groups of people who haven't responded so well to other conventional drug treatments, and are now looking to change the public opinion of cannabis from just another "street drug" to a drug with actual medical uses. I hope that, as President, Mr. Obama will take the time to understand the plight of these patients, and at least be willing to keep an open mind about their testimonies.

Again, I know that the economy, energy independence, stabilizing world relations, and so on, are going to be focal points for a presidency that's coming into existence during very difficult times, but I just have to ask that U.S. citizens be allowed to express why they view medical marijuana (which has been traditionally used as medicine for hundreds of years) as a drug that has proven to be useful, and what benefits they hold for people who need and/or responsibly use them. Here we have a President-elect who is talking about equality and change, well... this would be a landmark issue to prove that he's honestly willing to be open-minded. American citizens are tired of being told they're 'criminals' because they choose to responsibly use a substance that is far less deadly than alcohol and nicotine, and which can greatly reduce the pain of many specific ailments -- many of which, again, can't be controlled via conventional medical methods.

Thanks for your time."



Hopefully a lot more people will view this thread and take the time to express their opinions, too. Thanks again Granny! :thumbsup:

"The squeaky wheel gets the oil."



So squeak up, already! ;)



We have been living under a regime that has absolutely refused to listen to the will of the people. Now, we MAY have someone who will listen! I don't want this opportunity to fade away from lack of use!

Our younger members, those who have been robbed of their vote by unjust laws, and those who are in other countries- none of you got your say in this election! Well here's your chance to influence things!

Obama wants feedback? Well, let's give him a clear idea of what WE NEED changed! :thumbsup: In a sense, Obama just gave everyone a "vote" in shaping US policy! :D

I think this is just SO COOL! And it takes, what, all of 10 minutes? Government BY the people! A revolutionary idea!

Granny :hippy:

I let my voice be heard. Thanks for posting this Granny.

Not being American, I can't submit anything, but great work, you guys! I of course want to see any pot persecution end. Hell, it being in Schedule I is probably the most ridiculous thing ever, with the exception of any penalty ever being attached to such a safe and fantastic herb in the first place. I hope Anslinger's in hell.

Obamajuana by R. V. Scheide
Source: Sacramento News & Review 6 Nov 2008 (CA)
US CA: Column: Obamajuana

The president-elect remains deeply indebted to Wall Street aristocrats, as evidenced by his enthusiastic support for the taxpayer-funded $750 billion bailout of the very same banksters who crashed the world economy with their $500 trillion pyramid scheme.

There'd be no better place to start and achieve immediate results than dismantling America's disastrous drug policies and the prison industrial complex along with it.

Submit your ideas to the transition team. Make it polite and constructive. Talk about reforming drug policy as a means toward revitalizing the economy, putting people back to work, restoring families, and building communities.
Change.gov | Of the People, By the People

I left my two cents, and will be spreading the word as well. We get enough people to voice their opinion to ONE place/site/person like this, they can't ignore it.
Good on ya for the link Granny!!!!
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Bolivia accuses DEA of drug trafficking, bribery and murder

The winds of change are a blowin'. Before the Bankster Heist paying Wall St. ransom, Pete posted this list of D.E.A.th spots back on August 24, 2008, Now with the Busheney $11 trillion debt it is mind boggling how much infrastructure money is being flushed. Just the rent/mortgage and upkeep of this many buildings let alone the hundreds of salaries getting paid by our taxes. But that's only a part of it. All these countries politico's relying on US Military training and big bucks for covert coups, Kickback to the dictators and their Military, who moonlight as paramilitary intimidators and even drug lords. Now with the money crunch here, how will we bribe these puppets? If we don't give them guns will they still love us in the morning? It's dissolving right before their eyes. Moralas as a native, treats the coca plant sacramentally and thinks it is a good nutritional source for his people. And as a cash crop outside of the Pharmaceutical aspects. Weird how all these offices probably have better living conditions than 2 million American homeless.
J Pee Waldo's D.E.A.th Wish and Busheney's U.S.Al Qaeda!
Good Riddance!

Exporting DEAmocracy

This is part of our global contribution. The drug war has become the preferred foreign policy approach toward controlling much of the world. We export our drug war, our tactics, and, most of all, our DEA.

(Now with offices in Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Canada, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Turks & Caicos Islands, Haiti, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Thailand, Mongolia, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, New Caldeonia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna, Western Samoa, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, Kiribati, Nauru, Philippines, Burma, South Korea, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Laos, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Greece, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Bahrain, Chad, Dijibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Russia, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Western Sahara, Channel Islands, Ireland, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Azores, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Gibraltar, Portugal, Principality of Andorra, Spain, Spanish Enclaves (Ceuta & Melilla), Algeria, France, Monaco, Morocco, Tunisia, Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Slovak Republic, Ukraine.)

With that kind of presence, we insure that the rest of the world follows our lead.

Bolivian President Evo Morales Says US Government/DEA Encourage Drug Trafficking

Bolivian leader Evo Morales on Thursday accused the US government of encouraging drug-trafficking as he explained his decision to banish the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Morales, a staunch opponent of the Washington government, said the staff from the US agency had three months to prepare to leave the country, because "the DEA did not respect the police, or even the (Bolivian) armed forces."

Bolivian President Evo Morales Tells DEA to Leave His Country

Bolivian President Evo Morales said Saturday that he was suspending the work of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Bolivia and that the government will take control of its activities in the war on drugs. Bolivian President Evo Morales, seen last month, says his government will control its anti-drug activities. Morales made the remarks in a speech in a remote part of Bolivia, carried on national television and radio stations. full story

Coca, Bolivia, and Law 1008

Getting Rich Off Prohibition

Prison Industrial Complex Attacks Prop. 5

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"House Republicans Thursday unveiled a package of bills to combat drug abuse and vowed to make America virtually drug-free by 2002."
-- Reuters news report, May 1998

DAREyl SWAT Gates LAPDog Perversions

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"Our testing showed that the children of women who used ganja had better alertness, stability and adjustment than children of women who didn't use ganja."
-- Dr Melanie Dreher,
Dean of the University of Iowa's College of Nursing

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"The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year."
-- Jimmy Carter, 1990

Police, DEA: Vote Won't Stop Pot Busts By Peter Sur
CN Source: Hawaii Tribune Herald November 07, 2008 Hawaii

The Police Department won't ease enforcement of marijuana laws following the passage of a ballot initiative making that the "lowest law enforcement priority."

"No. 1, it's not a law. It's a resolution," Police Chief Lawrence Mahuna said. "No. 2, there will be no change how we prioritize the enforcement of marijuana.

COPsAgainstGanjawar

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"It is recorded that the Chinese Taoist recommended the addition of cannabis to their incense burners in the 1st century as a means of achieving immortality."
-- Ernst Abel, "Marijuana, the First Twelve Thousand Years"

Pot Policy at The Federal Level By Paul Armentano
CN Source: AlterNet November 07, 2008 USA

We've had our celebrations; now the real work begins.

In Massachusetts, where 65 percent of voters mandated an end to minor marijuana possession arrests, police and pundits are already calling on lawmakers to amend -- or even repeal -- the new law. Therefore, if you reside in Massachusetts, it is critical that you contact your state elected officials, as well as Democrat Gov. Deval Patrick and Attorney General Martha Coakley, and demand that they fully implement the will of 1,938,366 registered voters of the commonwealth of Massachusetts who voted "yes" on 2.

"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."
--Albert Eistein: My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921

At least maybe Obama can calm down the whining politicops.
What kind of message are they sending?

"The classification of (mis)behavior as illness provides an ideological justification for state-sponsored social control as medical treatment."
-- Thomas Szasz, MD

Police Fear New MJ Law Will Lead To Increased Use By Brian Messenger
CN Source: Eagle-Tribune November 09, 2008 Massachusetts
Law Would Increase Marijuana Use?

Law Would Increase Marijuana Use?
FOLLOWING APPROVAL OF PROPOSITION 215
Use of marijuana by California students has declined since passage of Proposition 215. Biennial surveys of student drug use released by the state Attorney General's office show that marijuana use peaked around 1996, the same year Prop. 215 was approved, and declined continually in subsequent years through 2004.

'After Two Puffs, I Was Turned Into a Bat'

Admitting to marijuana use became a popular way of avoiding conscription, and murderers cited the brainwashing powers of "an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality and death" to plead diminished responsibility for their crimes. Their claims were frequently supported by an expert witness, the pharmacologist Dr James Munch, who claimed that "after two puffs on a marijuana cigarette, I was turned into a bat". Sentences were commuted from death to imprisonment on Munch's evidence, and Anslinger had to ask him to stop testifying.

Potâ??s a Gateway Drug That Leads To Heartache By Joe Fitzgerald
CN Source: Boston Herald November 10, 2008 Massachusetts

BostonHerald.com comments (registration)

Once Secret Nixon Tapes Show Why the US Outlawed Pot

Police and DA's Not Sure How To Proceed By Lisa Przystup
CN Source: Milford Daily News November 09, 2008 Massachusetts

400 DEAth agents x $60/hr...

Must be Friday...

Who is going to maintain the registry for the offense?

The coach. As well as the D - Fence!
Who issues firearms to such irrational fears?

How are the police going to be trained?

Fish? Kibbles and bits? Bribes, Confiscations and Shake downs as usual. Trained in not busting sick people self medicating? Or trained to not caging peaceful people minding their own damn business?

What happens if someone doesn't pay the fine?

Get it from the Banksters $750,000,000,000.00
Really, they actually carry loaded weapons? Naw, thats just in the movies. Isn't their a check for chronic dementia before they get bullets? If they're protecting us from "bad ideas" who the hell is protecting them? The drug war is the worst idea outside of the Busheney prezdentury.

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"Why are we the ONLY industrial nation that does not allow hemp? Every hemp product that is purchased in the US is imported! From Dr. Bronner's hemp soap, to hemp seeds for snacks, to clothing, to bio-fuels, to oil and animal feed- every bit of hemp we use is foreign grown! Not one single legal hemp-nut is American grown! WHY?

Hemp is easy to grow, needs little in the way of fertilizers or pesticides and can produce multiple crops from one planting (fiber, seed for feed or oil, and CBD for medical uses). It is useful in crop rotation.

One source I read claimed that the levies in Mississippi were once stable because they were covered in wild hemp. The DEA wiped it out and the levies failed. Whether this is true or not, millions of tax dollars are wasted on the futile attempt to wipe out feral hemp- that won't even get you high! The war on cannabis MUST stop! It is a total waste of my tax dollars!

Why must we keep acceding to the wishes of a long dead timber baron, and prevent hemp from being a new and profitable crop for America's farmers? "




What did you write today? :D



Granny :hippy:

Thanks for the link, I sent in a note to whomever is gonna read that stuff on the site...


"Cannabis, or hemp, should be treated the same as prescription drugs at the very least. Many scientific studies have debunked the claims of "marijuana" being harmful to the mind and body when used properly. In fact, ingesting cannabis in a healthy manner helps the body's Endocannabinoid System (the ECS) to fight pain, stress, and inflamation. Cannabinoids also serve as a neuroprotectant, which is the total opposite of killing brain cells like the infamous rumors often state. The entire role of the ECS is still unknown and more research must be approved to study it.

Cannabis can be easily and cheaply grown for the medicines that can be extracted from the flowers. The flowers and oils can be heated to vaporize the cannabinoids and inhaled for immediate effects. An all-natural pill can be taken orally to avoid any side effects produced from the combustion of plant material. In highly concentrated forms it is virtually impossible to suffer from an overdose.

Industrial hemp alone can save our country's impending energy crisis, since hemp is the number one best source for creating biofuel - a renewable energy source! It's rapid rate of photosynthesis will even help clean our air. Also, the hemp plant's root system is great for holding the topsoil together to prevent erosion.

Hemp seeds provide much nutritional value too. Foods made from hemp seeds contain all the essential amino acids, easily digestible protein, and the perfect balance of omega fatty acids that our bodies are often deprived of.

I could mention all of the benefits from building materials and textiles made from industrial hemp, but that would make this comment very lengthy.

Medicine, renewable energy, fresh air, nutrition, clothing, and building materials; most of our basic needs can be met by one plant. It's a plant that mankind has relied on from the dawn of creation and should never be neglected nor outlawed."

I wrote a letter, this morning, and, I'm wondering if I'll have the secret service watching me, because I mentioned Al-Qaeda.

Check it out:
Dear President-Elect Barack Obama & V.P.-Elect Joe Biden, after living nineteen years as an athlete, a painless, yet, dramatic life-changing event occurred in my life, without my knowledge. It was a car-accident, and, my body shut down wiping out five previous days and a few subsequent weeks out of my memory. Everything that I worked for, in life, had to end, with the exception that I still had hope to make music out of a guitar. Ever since a second car-accident, I've nearly given that up, because the second car-accident has given me permanent left-sided pain, which I wake up with every morning.
Cannabis prohibition is killing me. Everything I've been asked to try, I've taken, but, nothing works. Al-Qaeda says, "Death to America," while, my own doctors, and, essentially, government, says, " (until we legalize cannabis)a slow, painful death to you, Chris Bagdon." I hate terror. I hate pain. What do I do, move to Trinidad or Ghana? Either move, it's another end of my life. You are my only hope. My life sucks, now. With anything legal that is offered for my pain, my life sucks. When I smoke cannabis, my life is great, again.

Can I post If I'm not an American?

the answer is YES! :thumbsup: When you fill in the personal data, the country box is NOT fixed on "United States"- ALL COUNTRIES are listed. I look at this as a "friendly invite" for EVERYONE to chime in! A good idea from Anywhere, is still a good idea!


Granny :hippy:

I think this thread should be made a sticky and moved to the activism section. Its important that we get as many people as possible and post this on other boards to get our voices heard. Everyone who reads this needs to take a minute and write them.
:hippy:

Hm, I don't know if it's changed or not but there is NO country field. Just state and zip code. I'll just search for american zip codes and put one it.