Chief Justice Attacks Law as Infringing on Judges

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist criticized Congress in unusually pointed
terms on
Wednesday for a recent law that places federal judges under special scrutiny for
sentences that fall short of those called for by the federal sentencing
guidelines.

The legislation, enacted last spring as a little-noticed amendment to the
popular Amber
Alert child protection measure, "could appear to be an unwarranted and
ill-considered
effort to intimidate individual judges in the performance of their judicial
duties,"
the chief justice said in his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary.

"It seems that the traditional interchange between the Congress and the
judiciary broke
down" when the amendment passed without any formal evaluation from the
judiciary, he
added.

At its most recent meeting, in September, the Judicial Conference of the United
States,
a group of 27 judges who make policy for the federal courts, voted unanimously
to ask
Congress to repeal the amendment. Congress has not acted on the request from the
conference, which the chief justice heads, and the prospect that it will do so
appears
slight.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative F. James
Sensenbrenner
Jr., Republican of Wisconsin, issued a statement on Wednesday defending the
legislation
and responding to the chief justice's criticism. Mr. Sensenbrenner said it had
been
necessary for Congress to act because the "growing problem of downward
departures" —
the term for sentences that fall below the minimum produced by the guidelines —
had
been "undermining sentencing fairness throughout the federal system."

Mr. Sensenbrenner said Congress was aware of the judiciary's opposition when it
adopted
the amendment.

"This disagreement," he said, "resulted from a policy dispute between Congress
and the
judiciary and did not result from any breakdown in communication between the
branches
or a lack of opportunity for judges to express their thoughts on this issue."

Nonetheless, it is clear that Congress is not of one mind on the question.
Senator
Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a leading Democrat on the Senate Judiciary
Committee, called the chief justice's criticism "extraordinary" and said he
agreed that
the amendment was undermining judicial independence, by creating "blacklists
based on
the sentencing practices of individual federal judges." Mr. Kennedy said he had
introduced a bill to repeal the amendment.

The measure at issue is known as the Feeney Amendment, for its sponsor,
Representative
Tom Feeney, Republican of Florida. It instructed the United States Sentencing
Commission, the agency that sets the guidelines, to issue new rules to "ensure
that the
incidence of downward departures is substantially reduced." The commission was
ordered
to maintain judge-by-judge records of sentencing departures and to send the
files to
the attorney general, who in turn is obliged to provide the information to the
Judiciary Committees of both houses.

In one sense, given the Judicial Conference's official opposition to the Feeney
Amendment, Chief Justice Rehnquist's critical remarks did little more than
reflect
existing judicial policy. The Judicial Conference's action itself reflected the
views
of many federal judges, who have become increasingly resentful of the limits —
mandatory minimum sentences in some cases, in addition to the guidelines — that
have
been placed on their traditional sentencing discretion.

But the chief justice's choice of subject for his year-end statement — this was
his
18th — is never casual, and by making the sentencing debate the focus of the
report, he
was clearly trying to raise the issue's public visibility and bring it more
forcefully
than before to the attention of Washington policy makers. He has long been
concerned
about guarding judicial independence, and it was in those terms that he framed
his
critique of the Feeney Amendment.

The chief justice said that "by constitutional design," judges had "an
institutional
commitment to the independent administration of justice and are able to see the
consequences of judicial reform proposals that legislative sponsors may not be
in a
position to see."

He suggested that while "judges are bound to respect" the Congressional
perspective on
questions of judicial administration, the respect should run in both directions.

"Consultation with the judiciary," he said, "will improve both the process and
the
product."

Complete Title: Chief Justice Attacks a Law as Infringing on Judges by Linda
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Rehnquist practically WAS a 'pharmaceutical industry'...will all the weird pills
he
took...while judging: Rehnquist was addicted to the powerful sleeping aid called
Placidyl...which can cause dementia. You have every right to ask what lasting
effects
those pills had on his ability to properly judge cases of the most important
nature
imaginable.
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Narco News Reborn By Al Giordano Publisher January 1, 2004

A $30,000 Matching Grant, and a New Model for Authentic Journalism

Happy New Year, kind readers… I bring good news. Here's the short version:

Narco News will begin publishing again - "reporting on the drug war and
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You can take that to the bank, literally: Narco News is coming back.

In gratitude to all of you who made this happen, we will shortly be opening the
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002 Drug Truth Update 12/31/03
003 CO: Marijuana Fight Continues
004 In N.H., A Parallel Opportunity
005 Jamaica: Towards Legalisation: Revisiting The Ganja Debate
006 US: Medical Marijuana Decision Doesn't Sanction Pot Sales To The Sick
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Neil Bush's Silverado S&L debacle
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"Strike behind the Mask" said Ahab
In other words, the surface is just a front; what's going on behind it is much
more
interesting.

What if you learned that all the heads of the major networks belonged to the
same
exclusive club? As well as various well-known newsreaders and journalists?
Wouldn't
that practically render any differences between the various networks and their
handling
of the recent wars moot? As simplistic an explanation as it might seem, that's
just
what has happened:

The Council on Foreign Relations by Michael Collins Piper
http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/the_new_world_order/cfr.html

Now, would it surprise us Kucinich supporters that Ted Koppel is a star member
of the CFR's media circus animals?

The Council on Foreign Relations (Compiled by Barry Chamish)
http://radiobergen.org/powergame/cfr.html

You'll have to do a search on the page, but he's there, all right. Scroll way
down and
you'll see for yourself.

So, with all these not-so "Stupid White Men" as Michael Moore incorrectly calls
them
getting together yearly behind closed doors and the media people amongst them
ARE SWORN
TO SECRECY TO NEVER DIVULGE THE CONTENTS OF THESE MEETINGS OR THAT THEY EVEN
TOOK
PLACE, who's being a 'journalist'? Who's serving the public interest? Certainly
not
Koppel and his crew.

And yet it is Koppel and his CFR ilk who have the audacity to determine, before
even
any primaries have been conducted, that certain candidates are 'marginal'. Do
you think
he's being frank, or just rolling over and barking on command for his real
employers?
Kucinich represents the people these CFR types have exploited since their formal
inception...namely, you and me. The little guy.

They are scared of how his message would carry if it got the attention it truly
deserves. This is why I said last year that Mr. K had better have fanatically
loyal
security people around him at all times (think of Gordon Dickson's Dorsai, or
Frank
Herbert's Fedaykin from DUNE; that kind of loyal). Because Kucinich is a threat
to this
very real "Establishment", as much a one as Wellstone was...and we all know what
happened to *him*.

This is why the major networks are pulling their reporters out of Mr. K's
campaign
teams. "Out of sight, out of mind" works all too well on the American mind-set,
with
it's notoriously short memory span. The major networks are attempting to put
blinkers
on the public with this gambit. But this time, the stakes are higher than they
have
ever been before.

This is why I have totally forsworn paying any attention to corp-rat media, and
rely on
the Internet for alternative views of 'current events'. I refuse to have my
intelligence insulted while being literally sold a bill of goods courtesy of
equally
insulting commercials.
Kaptinemo on January 01, 2004
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FAMILY CIRCLE By Susan Braudy
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 460 pages, $27.95, hardcover.
radtimes  Dec 29, 2003

Excerpted: A family from radical to reactionary By John Davis
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Special to THE DAILY

History often plays upon our perceptions. Consider the "revolutionary '60's  and
'70's," which have become a part of the American story. Did the young 
revolutionaries
of that era spring wholly formed from the American soil?  Or, were they caused
by great
social dynamics such as the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement and other
events?
Additionally, were there other, earlier causes, perhaps more emotional or
familial that
led them to rebel against the established order of the time? Susan Braudy,
author of
several books and numerous articles in prestigious magazines, examines this
theme in
"Family Circle," subtitled "The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left."
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On June 8th, the first day of the G8's behind-closed-doors meetings off the
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Georgia, the Biotechnology Industry Association's (BIO) annual convention will
convene
in downtown San Francisco. According to the BIO website, "The BIO Annual
International
Convention is the largest gathering of biotechnology leaders in the world,
attracting
more than 15,000 biotechnology experts, and featuring over 150 sessions and over
1,200
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Witch's garden
by Stan Czolowski (01 Nov, 1999)
The origins of witchcraft belong to an ancient heritage reaching far back into
prehistory and worship of the Goddess. Before written language, domestication
and
agriculture, when wild Dionysus still reigned, witches were the traditional
midwives,
healers, herbalists and oracles of village and tribe.

Following Christianity's rise to power came the systematic annihilation of all
pagan
(non-Christian) religions. The church associated certain plants and animals with
pagan
worship, and claimed they were Satanic in nature.

This same attitude is perpetuated today in America's longest war, the War on
Drugs. The
new Pharmacratic Inquisition is a flashback to past injustices. Falsely
providing
society with convenient scapegoats, while shielding us from the larger, more
complex
issues at the root.

Entheobotanical (Entheo is Greek for God generated from within) research into
Europe's
shamanic past now reconnects us with once this forbidden knowledge.
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NORML: 2003: The Year In Review
Top Ten Events That Shaped Marijuana Policy
Source: Washington, DC, USA NORML December 31, 2003
#1: Brits Vote To Abolish Pot Prohibition
The British Parliament voted in November to downgrade marijuana from a Class B
to a
Class C scheduled drug so that its possession is no longer an arrestable
offense. The
policy change will take effect on January 29, 2004, and will be similar to the
laws in
12 US states where the possession and use of small amounts of marijuana is no
longer
punishable by criminal arrests and/or jail time.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18071.shtml
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Marijuana Fight Continues By Susan Bacon
Source: Steamboat Pilot & Today December 31, 2003
A Hayden man has asked a state court to cite officers who seized marijuana from
his
home with contempt for not following a judge's order to return the drugs. Don
Nord, 57,
who has battled kidney cancer, diabetes and other illnesses, is registered with
Colorado's Medical Marijuana Registry program. Agents with the Grand, Routt and
Moffat
Narcotics Enforcement Team, who searched Nord's home and seized the drugs in
mid-October, argue they are not bound by the county judge's ruling because
federal law
prohibiting the use of marijuana supercedes state law.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18070.shtml
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Federal Authorities Refuse To Return Marijuana By Jon Sarche
Source: Associated Press December 29, 2003
Denver -- In a clash between state and federal law, a Routt County man whose
medical
marijuana was seized in a law enforcement raid was still waiting to get it back
Monday,
the deadline set by a county judge for the government to return the marijuana. A
federal officials said the government had no intention of giving it back. Nine
officers
in a drug task force made up of local and federal officers seized the drug and
other
items from Hayden resident Don Nord in October.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18061.shtml

National Issue Hits Home By Jeremy Browning
Source: Craig Daily Press December 26, 2003
The defense attorney for a Hayden medicinal marijuana user is questioning the
ethics of
a local drug task force, which appears to be ignoring a court order to return
some of
his client's property. The Grand, Routt and Moffat Narcotics Enforcement Team
(GRAMNET)
has until Monday, Dec. 29 to return marijuana plants, marijuana pipes and two
ounces of
marijuana seized in an October raid of the home of Don Nord, 57, of Hayden.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18052.shtml

Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
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Ashcroft Bows Out of CIA Leak Probe By The Associated Press
Source: Associated Press December 30, 2003
Washington -- Attorney General John Ashcroft on Tuesday recused himself from the
politically-sensitive investigation of who leaked the name of a CIA operative.
The
Justice Department quickly named a special prosecutor to take over the
investigation.
The announcement was made by James Comey, the department's new No. 2 official,
at the
Justice Department. He called the new top prosecutor "Elliot Ness with a Harvard
law
degree and a sense of humor."
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Alaskans to Vote on Pot Legalization in '04 By Timothy Inklebarger
Source: Juneau Empire December 30, 2003
Registered voters will get a chance to decide next year whether to legalize
private use
of marijuana for Alaskans 21 and older. Lt. Gov. Loren Leman notified initiative
sponsors in late November that the petition has the 28,782 signatures necessary
to get
the question on the 2004 ballot. Sponsors must collect signatures equal to 10
percent
of those who voted in the most recent general election.
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High Times Cover: Alaska Goes Legal!
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A Time and Place for Drugs By Christopher Hutsul
Source: Toronto Star December 29, 2003
Two things were certain for anyone who grew up in the Eighties: 1) If you
experimented
with sex, you'd end up with AIDS, and 2) if you experimented with drugs, you'd
end up
covered in scabs in an east end-crack house, soliciting $5 tricks for junk cut
with rat
poison.  As part of my elementary school anti-drug conditioning, I also learned
that
the current strains of marijuana were "X times more potent" than what our
parents may
have smoked.
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Police Raids in B.C. Linked To Drug Investigation By CBC News Online Staff
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Ad Targets High Marijuana Use Among Nevada Teens By Mike Zigler
Source: Las Vegas City Life December 29, 2003
In November, the D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project aired an interesting
television
ad, comparing Nevada teens to teens in Amsterdam. On one side, the split-screen
ad
featured somber Nevada teens wearing T-shirts reading 67 percent. The other side
spotlighted some cheery Dutch kids wearing T-shirts that read 28 percent. The
message:
Two-thirds of Nevada high school seniors have taken a toke of marijuana, while
more
than two-thirds of Dutch teens haven't. While some could see the ad as anti-drug
because it draws alarm to teen drug use, the MPP is a group that staunchly
supports the
legalization of marijuana.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18060.shtml

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In N.H., a Parallel Opportunity By Jonathan Finer
Source: Washington Post December 30, 2003
Keene, N.H. -- At a retirement home here on a recent Monday morning, a young man
asked
presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) about federal drug raids on
people
smoking marijuana for medical purposes.  Two hours later and 80 miles away on
the
campaign trail, another concerned citizen waited patiently to ask former Vermont
governor Howard Dean that same question at a town meeting in Exeter.  That
evening in
Concord, the state capital, 10 protesters picketed the local Comcast cable
television
office because the company refused their ads outlining each presidential
candidate's
position on marijuana issues.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18069.shtml

GraniteStaters.com
http://www.GraniteStaters.com
Marijuana Group Targets Vt. Legislators
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17535.shtml
Presidential Candidates Pressed on Marijuana Issue
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread16805.shtml
Democratic Candidate Backs Medical Marijuana
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread16448.shtml
Democrat Kucinich Endorses Medical Pot Use
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread16441.shtml
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TroutMask on December 30, 2003
Comcastholes
Anyone seen the latest Comcast Loves Partnership for a Drug-Free America
commercials
yet? How about the fact that Comcast has refused to run any marijuana policy
reform
ads?? If you can do without, do without! If you can get DSL, get DSL! It's often
faster, cheaper and easier than cable anyway! http://www.speakeasy.net is a
great
place.  I just placed my order for 1.5 mbit DSL and will cancel my cable as soon
as the
DSL is connected.
Propaganda-mongers! -TM

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Wednesday, December 31 2003     Volume 2003 : Number 316
001 UK: Culture Chief Uses Cannabis
002 Canada: Editorial: Pot Law Back To Martin
003 OR: Students Get Straight Talk About Marijuana
004 Drug Truth Update 12/30/03
005 CO: Feds refuse order to return marijuana
006 AK: Alaskans to Vote on Pot Legalization in '04 Election
007 UK: Pro-Cannabis Campaigner Fights Charge
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"Worried Pain Doctors Decry Prosecutions" by Mark Kaufman
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Return of the Undead
Arch-Drug Warrior McCollum Seeks Florida GOP Senate Nod
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Democratic presidential candidate opposes war on pot by Pete Brady
Cannabis Culture: (22 Dec, 2003)
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3240.html

Courageous congressman Dennis Kucinich needs grassroots help

The Congressman has proposed lifting criminal penalties for most
marijuana-related
activities, and although he stops short of recommending full-on legalization of
the
herb, he is the only candidate for president who is generating enthusiasm among
the
marijuana community.

First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.— Gandhi

Congressman Kucinich's on Ganja
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/marijuana_decrim.php :

http://www.kucinich.us
http://www.corvusworld.com/dk4.htm
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Howard Dean Speaks to MMJ
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Wesly Clark - drugwar fascist?
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Comcast bans MPP's marijuana ads -- fight back!
From: Rob@... Tue, 30 Dec 2003

Dear Friend:

Comcast, the largest cable TV provider in the nation, has told the Marijuana
Policy
Project that it will not run any kind of marijuana policy reform ads, including
medical
marijuana ads. This national policy, which Comcast refuses to put in writing,
was
brought about by MPP's campaign in New Hampshire.

MPP was seeking to spend approximately $10,000 on "issue ads" in mid- January to
pressure the presidential candidates to strengthen their medical marijuana
positions
before they leave the state on January 27 (the date of New Hampshire's
first-in-the-nation presidential primary election).

We are fighting back. As a short-term solution, a congressional candidate in New
Hampshire said he is willing to run MPP's medical marijuana message in his own
TV ads.
(Under federal law, TV networks and cable TV providers cannot refuse advertising
money
from federal candidates!)

As a long-term solution, however, MPP must sue Comcast. Would you please visit
http://www.mpp.org/donate to help get this unexpected lawsuit off the ground? If
you so
choose, your donation can be tax- deductible.

For the long-term health of MPP and the marijuana policy reform movement, it is
absolutely crucial that we change Comcast's policy. If we do not, we will not be
able
to purchase the necessary airtime to pass ballot initiatives, pressure elected
officials, and educate the public about the need to end marijuana prohibition.

This year alone, the White House drug czar's office is spending $145,000,000 of
taxpayer money to run anti-marijuana scare ads. And, in the meantime, the
Partnership
for a Drug-Free America is receiving $50,000,000 worth of free airtime to run
its own
untruthful TV ads. Yes, that's right ... To add insult to injury, Comcast
recently
announced it is donating $50,000,000 worth of free airtime to PDFA. Please see
http://www.mpp.org/releases/nr122203gsmm.html for MPP's news release, which
features
our protest outside of Comcast's Manchester office on December 22.

We have been researching our legal options, and it's pretty clear that the case
law
makes it very hard for us to win a broad-based lawsuit against Comcast.

However, we have a fighting chance in court if (1) Comcast has a virtual
monopoly in a
geographic region, and (2) this monopoly has been granted by a local or state
government (as opposed to a voluntary lack of competition by other companies).
In
addition, in order to strengthen our First Amendment argument, we plan to sue
Comcast
in a state where a marijuana policy reform initiative is likely to appear on an
upcoming ballot.

Please consider visiting http://www.mpp.org/donate to help pay for the MPP staff
time
and legal fees associated with this lawsuit. Given what's at stake, we
absolutely must
file this lawsuit -- and soon.

One added benefit of this lawsuit is that it is sure to generate a substantial
amount
of free media coverage. This media coverage will be enormously positive for MPP
and the
forces of medical marijuana. Newspaper editorial boards across the nation --
which
almost universally oppose censorship and support a free and open political
debate --
will run editorials against Comcast and in favor of MPP.

We are playing to win in court. But, even if we lose in court, we might be able
to
cause Comcast to buckle because all of this free media coverage will (1) be bad
for
their business, and (2) help promote a political cause they oppose.

To supplement this barrage of publicity, MPP is now also calling for a
nationwide
boycott of Comcast. The boycott starts with me, as I will be signing up with
Starpower
at home instead of Comcast in a couple of days.

Please visit http://www.mpp.org/donate to fight Comcast's censorship of the
marijuana
policy reform perspective.

Comcast's ban is particularly chilling when one considers that Congress is
poised to
enact a law banning all marijuana policy reform advertising on public transit
systems
that receive federal money (which is almost all of them). See
http://mpp.org/DC/news_5704.html for details.

If you are one of the 31,500 people on this e-mail list who have never donated
to our
work, your donation to the lawsuit will automatically make you an MPP member. If
you
are one of the 8,800 supporters who have let their MPP memberships lapse, your
donation
today will renew  your membership.

If you are one of MPP's 5,000 current members ... which includes 158 Lifetime
Members
who have donated $1,000 or more in one calendar year ... as well as 515 people
who make
automatic credit card donations each month ... thank you, thank you, thank you.

Would you please make a year-end donation at http://www.mpp.org/donate so that
we can
launch our lawsuit against Comcast as soon as possible?
Thank you in advance for considering this request.

Sincerely, Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.

P.S. To mail in a check, please direct it to "MPP" or "MPP Foundation" at P.O.
Box
77492, Washington, D.C. 20013. Donations to MPP are not tax-deductible, while
donations
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"I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug.
Marijuana
is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to
grow,
what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?"- Willie Nelson
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Smiling Willie Nelson Reflects On A Lifetime Of Weed And Women
LUCK , TX— Taking a long, slow drag off a joint, country-music legend Willie
Nelson
reflected on a lifetime of weed and women Monday. "I've had some pretty fine
times,"
said a smiling Nelson between hits at his West Texas ranch. "And some pretty
fine
ladies. Some of the names have escaped me, but the memories never will." Nelson
then
retired to his backyard, where he drank beer and strummed his favorite guitar
while
watching the sun go down.
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STATEMENT FROM WILLIE NELSON "I am endorsing Dennis Kucinich for President
because he
stands up for heartland Americans who are too often overlooked and unheard.  He
has
done that his whole political career.  Big corporations are well-represented in
Washington, but Dennis Kucinich is a rare Congressman of conscience and bravery
who
fights for the unrepresented, much like the late Senator Paul Wellstone.  Dennis
champions the environment, peace, individual freedoms privacy, safe food laws
and
family farmers.  A Kucinich Administration will put the interests of America's
organic
family farmers, consumers and environment above the greed of dangerous genetic
engineered and industrial agribusiness.

"I normally do not get too heavily involved in politics, but this is more about
getting
involved with America than with politics.  I encourage people to learn more
about
Dennis Kucinich at
http://www.kucinich.us I will be doing all I can to raise his profile with
voters.  I
plan to do concerts to benefit his campaign."

"It's an honor," commented Rep.  Kucinich, "to earn the support of a man who has
come
to symbolize the best values of America."

"ON THE ROAD AGAIN": With Willie Nelson's endorsement, momentum continues to
build for
our insurgent campaign -- as we increase our support base, our volunteer base,
our
endorsements and fundraising.

RALPH NADER, on last night's CNN Crossfire, said "If Dennis Kucinich gets the
nomination, it'll be less reason to have a third-party challenge.  He's a very
progressive Democrat..."

Dare to dream.  We can win this nomination.  With so many candidates in the
race,
everyone is a long shot, not just us.  To see why KUCINICH WILL DEFEAT BUSH,
check out
http://kucinich.us/electable.htm
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My New Years Eve "Gift" to you all:

Note: You must read all the lyrics below if you wish to get the full effect of
the message I am trying to send here. Unless of course, you already know the
lyrics by heart of a particular song - then skip to the next of course.
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"Disorder in the House" performed by the late great Warren Zevon with Bruce
Springsteen on the raw but still sweet guitar - from his final album "The Wind":

Disorder in the house
The tub runneth over
Plaster's falling down in pieces by the couch of pain

Disorder in the house
Time to duck and cover
Helicopters hover over rough terrain

Disorder in the house
Reptile wisdom
Zombies on the lawn staggering around

Disorder in the house
There's a flaw in the system
And the fly in the ointment's gonna bring the whole thing down

The floodgates are open
We've let the demons loose
The big guns have spoken
And we've fallen for the ruse

Disorder in the house
It's a fate worse than fame
Even the Lhasa Apso seems to be ashamed

Disorder in the house
The doors are coming off the hinges
The earth will open and swallow up the real estate

I just got my paycheck
I'm gonna paint the whole town grey
Whether it's a night in Paris or a Fresno matinee

It’s the home of the brave and the land of the free
Where the less you know the better off you'll be

Disorder in the house
All bets are off
I'm sprawled across the davenport of despair

Disorder in the house
I'll live with the tosses (it's really "losses" - I have heard this song over
several times - they must have made a mistake)
And watch the sundown through the portiere

Particular Lyrics' Source:
http://www.lyred.com/lyrics/Warren+Zevon/The+Wind/Disorder+In+The+House/
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"Masters of War" performed by (the late?) Bob Dylan:

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly.

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain.

You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion'
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud.

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins.

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do.

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead.

Particular Lyrics' Source:
http://www.lyricsdomain.com/2/bob_dylan/masters_of_war.html
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"Fortunate Son" performed by CCR [Creedence Clearwater Revival]:

Some folks are born to wave the flag,
Ooh, they're red, white and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief",
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son, son.
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no,
Yeah!

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don't they help themselves, oh.
But when the taxman comes to the door,
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes,

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, no.
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no.

Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord,
And when you ask them, "How much should we give?"
Ooh, they only answer More! more! more! yoh,

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no military son, son.
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, one.
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no no no,
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate son, no no no,

Particular Lyrics' Source:
http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/f/fortunate_son_creedence_clearwater_revival.html
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"Bad Moon Rising" peformed by CCR [Creedence Clearwater Revival]:

I see the bad moon arising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin'.
I see bad times today.

Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise.

I hear hurricanes ablowing.
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear rivers over flowing.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.

Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise.
All right!

Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we're in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.

Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise.

Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise.

Particular Lyrics' Source:
http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/b/bad_moon_rising_creedence_clearwater_revival.ht\
ml
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"You've Got to Die for Your Government" performed by Anti-Flag:

You've gotta die, gotta die, gotta die for your government?
Die for your country? That's shit!
There's a Gulf War vet, dying a slow, cold death
And the government says, "We don't know the source of his sickness."
But don't believe what they say, because your government is lying
They've done it before and don't you know they'll do it again?
A secret test, government built virus
"Subject Test Group: Gulf Battle Field Troops"
You've gotta die, gotta die, gotta die for your government?
Die for your country? That's shit!
First World War veterans slaughtered, by General Eisenhower
You give them your life, they give you a stab in the back
Radiation, agent orange, tested on U.S. souls
Guinea pigs for Western corporations
I never have, I never will
Pledge allegiance to their flag
You're getting used, you'll end up dead!
You've gotta die, gotta die, gotta die for your government?
Die for your country? That's shit!
I don't need you to tell me what to do
And I don't need you to tell me what to be... fuck you!
I don't need you to tell me what to say
And I don't need you to tell me what to think! What to think!
What to think, what to think, what to think, think, think, think!
You've gotta die, gotta die, gotta die for your government?
Die for your country? That's shit!

Particular Lyrics' Source:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/antiflag/youvegottodieforthegovernment.html
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"For What it's Worth" performed by Buffalo Springfield:

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Tellin' me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's goin' down

There's battle lines bein' drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speakin' their minds
Gettin' so much resistance from behind

I think it's time we stop, children,
What's that sound?
Everybody look what's goin' down

What a field day for the heat.
A thousand people in the street.
Singin' songs and carrying signs
Mostly saying "Hooray for our side"

Stop, children, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's goin' down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line the men come and take you away

You better stop, hey, whats that sound?
Everybody look what's goin' down

Particular Lyrics' Source:
http://www.absolutelyric.com/a/view/Buffalo_Springfield/For_What_It's_Worth/
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Misc. lyrics...
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"Thank God for the Bomb" performed by Ozzy Osbourne

Like moths to a flame
Is man never gonna change
Time's seen untold aggression
And infliction of pain
If that's the only thing that's stopping war

Then thank god for the bomb
Thank god for the bomb
Thank god for the bomb
Thank god for the bomb

Nuke ya nuke ya

War is just another game
Tailor made for the insane
But make a threat of their annihilation
And nobody wants to play
If that's the only thing that keeps the peace

Then thank god for the bomb
Thank god for the bomb
Thank god for the bomb
Thank god for the bomb

Nuke ya nuke ya

Today was tomorrow yesterday
It's funny how the time can slip away
The face of the doomsday clock
Has launched a thousand wars
As we near the final hour
Time is the only foe we have

When war is obsolete
I'll thank god for the war's defeat
But any talk about hell freezing over
Is all said with tongue in cheek
Until the day the war drums beat no more

Then thank god for the bomb
Thank god for the bomb
Thank god for the bomb
Thank god for the bomb

Nuke ya nuke ya

Particular Lyrics' Source:
http://www.lyricsdir.com/o/ozzy-osbourne/thank-god-for-the-bomb.php
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"Children of the Grave" performed by Black Sabbath:

Revolution in their minds - the children start to march
Against the world in which they have to live
And all the hate that’s in their hearts
They’re tired of being pushed around
And told just what to do
They’ll fight the world until they’ve won
And love comes flowing through

Children of tomorrow live in the tears that fall today
Will the sun rise up tomorrow bringing peace in any way?
Must the world live in the shadow of atomic fear?
Can they win the fight for peace or will they disappear?

So you children of the world,
Listen to what I say
If you want a better place to live in
Spread the words today
Show the world that love is still alive
You must be brave
Or you children of today are
Children of the grave, yeah!

Particular Lyrics' Source: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/black-sabbath/19371.html
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"Rub Me Raw" lyrics performed by the late great Warren Zevon - from his final
album "The Wind":

I know these blues are gonna rub me raw
Every single cure seems to be against the law

Went and told my psychic
I said "Keep it to yourself.
I don't wanna hear it and don't be telling no one else."

Word's out on the street
Whispers in the night
They come out of the woodwork, wanna see what it's like

Pickle-ickle-ickle
Gonna run that voodoo down
How the crowd gets fickle when your face is to the ground!

Oh no these blues are gonna rub me raw
Oh no these blues are gonna rub me raw

Now I'm shaking all over
I'm a shattering mass
But I'm gonna sit up straight
I'm going to take it with class

Old man used to tell me
"Son, never look back,
Move on to the next case.
Fold your clothes and pack."

To the green horned chicken hoppers I say
"Get yourself a trade, or go hack (it's "back" - once again, I think they made a
mistake) to the chat room and fade in the shade"

Oh no these blues are gonna rub me raw
Oh no these blues are gonna rub me raw

I know these blues are gonna rub me raw
Every single cure seems to be against the law

I was walking pretty well then I fell into a hole
I should climb out quick, but I hate doing what I'm told

Got a wang-dang-doodle wrapped in bog snake hide
This goat head gumbo is keeping me alive

I don't want your pity or your fifty-dollar words
I don't share your need to discuss the absurd

Oh no these blues are gonna rub me raw
Oh no these blues are gonna rub me raw

Particular Lyrics' Source:
http://www.lyred.com/lyrics/Warren+Zevon/The+Wind/Rub+Me+Raw/
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"Dreamer" performed by Ozzy Osbourne - from his most recent album, "Down to
Earth":

Gazing through the window at the world outside
Wondering will mother earth survive?
Hoping that mankind will stop abusing her sometime

After all there's only just the two of us
And here we are still fighting for our lives
Watching all of history repeat itself
Time after time

I'm just a dreamer
I dream my life away
I'm just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days

I watch the sun go down like everyone of us
I'm hoping that the dawn will bring a sign
A better place for those who will come after us...
This time

I'm just a dreamer
I dream my life away oh yeah
I'm just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days

Your higher power may be God or Jesus Christ
It doesn't really matter much to me
Without each others help there ain't no hope for us
I'm living in a dream of fantasy
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

If only we could all just find serenity
It would be nice if we could live as one
When will all this anger, hate and biggotry...
Be gone?

I'm just a dreamer
I dream my life away
Today
I'm just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days
Okay
I'm just a dreamer
Who's searching for the way
Today
I'm just a dreamer
Dreaming my life away
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

Particular Lyrics' Source:
http://www.lyricsdomain.com/15/ozzy_osbourne/dreamer.html
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"Where is the Love?" by Black Eyed Peas featuring Justin Timberlake:

What's wrong with the world, mama?
People livin' like they ain't got no mamas
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin'
In the USA, the big CIA
The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah
Badness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach?
And would you turn the other cheek?

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)?

Where is the love (The love)?
Where is the love (The love)?
Where is the love?
The love, the love

It just ain't the same, always unchanged
New days are strange, is the world insane?
If love and peace is so strong
Why are there pieces of "love" that don't belong?
Nations droppin' bombs
Chemical gasses fillin' lungs of little ones
With on goin' sufferin' as the youth die young
So ask yourself is the lovin' really gone?
So I could ask myself really what is goin' wrong?
In this world that we livin' in
People keep on givin' in
Makin' wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends
Not respectin' each other, deny thy brother
A war is goin' on but the reason's undercover
The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug
If you never know truth then you never know love
Where's the love, y'all, come on (I don't really know)
Where's the truth, y'all, come on (I don't really know)
Where's the love, y'all

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach?
And would you turn the other cheek?

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)?

Where is the love (The love)?
Where is the love (The love)?
Where is the love?
The love, the love

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I'm gettin' older, y'all, people gets colder
Most of us only care about money makin'
Selfishness got us followin' our wrong direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema
Yo', whatever happened to the values of humanity?
Whatever happened to the fairness in equality?
Instead in spreading "love" we spreading animosity
Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' under
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' down
There's no wonder why sometimes I'm feelin' under
Gotta keep my faith alive 'till love is found

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach?
And would you turn the other cheek?

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)?

Where is the love (The love)?
Where is the love (The love)?
Where is the love (The love)?

Where is the love (The love)?
Where is the love (The love)?
Where is the love (The love)?

Particular Lyrics' Source:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blackeyedpeas/whereisthelove.html
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May there Eventually be True Peace, True Love, and True Liberty for All the
World to Share...

With True Sincerity,
*~ D. M. Z. - The Neo Hippie: PreZZ - Ale Earth - For Peace N Love - for 420 ~*
http://profiles.yahoo.com/NeoHippiePrezz420

Hello dear friends,

The following lyrics are beautiful in my honest opinion, and very near and dear
to my heart.
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"One Tin Soldier" performed by Coven:

Listen children to a story
That was written long ago
'Bout a kingdom, on a mountain
And the valley folk below
On the mountian was a treasure
Burried deep beneath a stone
And the valley people swore
They'd have it for their very own

Go ahead and hate your neighbor
Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of Heaven
You can justify it in the end
There wont be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after who...
One tin soldier rides away

So the people of the valley
Sent a message up the hill
Asking for the burried treasure
Tons of gold for which they'd kill
Came an answer from the kingdom
With our brothers we will share
All the secrets of our mountain
N' all the riches burried there

Now the valley cried in anger
Mount your horses
Draw your sword
And they killed the mountain people
So they won their just reward
Now they stood beside the treasure
On the mountain dark and red
Turn the stone and which beneath it
"Peace on Earth"
Was all it said

Go ahead and hate your neighbor
Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of Heaven
You can justify it in the end
There wont be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after who...
One tin soldier rides away

Go ahead and hate your neighbor
Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of Heaven
You can justify it in the end
There wont be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after who...
One tin soldier rides away
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History of the Cherokee "Indians" [My Ancestors]:
http://www.aboutcherokee.com/history.html
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May there Eventually be True Peace, True Love, and True Liberty for All the
Would to Share...

With True Sincerity,
*~ Neo Hippie: PreZZ 420 - Ale Earth - For Peace N Love - for 420 ~*
http://profiles.yahoo.com/NeoHippiePrezz420
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The term "Ale" in my screen name is supposed to mean "I love you" in Cherokee
Indian lingo, therefore my screen name states I love you Earth. The reason being
is that I truly do love this magnificent planet we live and thrive on and I
think we should treat it with as much respect as humanly possible and try and
make it as safe, clean, and liveable as possible for the 7th generation [as my
Cherokee ancestors would probably say]. The 7th generation meaning 7 generations
after us. As I see it, if we continue down this same destructive path and
continue to destroy our planet and not try to work towards the common good,
there is no hope for the human race and all other living things to survive all
that much longer. It's all up to us my friends...


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You mock me, laugh at me, and spread lies about me and my cause out loud because
I'm different, I laugh at you silently because you're all the same - like robots
sinking on a ship of fools. Well, as the Grateful Dead once produced: "ship of
fools, sail away from me...".

I have discovered, through my life experiences, that it is inner beauty that
matters most. If you only look at the outer shell of someone and persue any form
of relationship with them then you could be in for some trouble. I believe that
there is and will be wolves in sheeps fur as well as sheep in wolves fur. In
other words, I believe that there is and will be people who appear to be light
and kind hearted on the outside, but really are dark hearted and cruel as well
as people who appear to be dark hearted and cruel on the outside but are really
light hearted and kind people. It all comes down to that age old saying: "never
judge a book by its cover".

"It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the D. E. A. to continue
to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of
the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer
than many of the foods we commonly consume... marijuana in its natural form is
one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." -Francis L.
Young; Former Administrative Law Judge for the D. E. A.

"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana
never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does
not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more
harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." -William F. Buckley, Jr.

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Pubdate: Tue, 30 Dec 2003
Source: Juneau Empire (AK)
Copyright: 2003 Southeastern Newspaper Corp
Website: http://www.juneauempire.com/
Author: Timothy Inklebarger
Initiative: website Free Hemp in Alaska http://www.freehempinak.org
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/states/ak/ (Alaska)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)

ALASKANS TO VOTE ON POT LEGALIZATION IN '04 ELECTION

Registered voters will get a chance to decide next year whether to
legalize private use of marijuana for Alaskans 21 and older.

Lt. Gov. Loren Leman notified initiative sponsors in late November
that the petition has the 28,782 signatures necessary to get the
question on the 2004 ballot. Sponsors must collect signatures equal to
10 percent of those who voted in the most recent general election.

Since the marijuana initiative was filed prior to the 2002 election,
it is based on 10 percent of the voters in the 2000 general election.

"We have enough signatures," said initiative sponsor Linda Ronan of
Anchorage. "The problem is that it hasn't been certified. We don't
know what the holdup is." Annette Kreitzer, Leman's chief of staff,
said she expects the initiative to be certified within the next two
weeks.

Sponsors of the initiative have grown accustomed to delays.

On Jan. 13, 2003, Leman rejected 194 of 484 signature booklets over
what Anchorage Superior Court Judge John Suddock described as "trivial
rule violations."

Following a lawsuit from the initiative sponsors, Leman was ordered in
September to recount the signature booklets.

Tom Godkin, an administrative supervisor for the Division of
Elections, said the division has not yet completed the total count of
the petition booklets but confirmed that the group has more than
enough valid signatures.

Ronan said the initiative sponsors and backers plan to begin a public
relations campaign next year to build support for the proposed new
law.

THE UNPARDONABLE LENNY BRUCE By Norman Solomon
Creators Syndicate Fri, 26 Dec 2003
From: radtimes resist@... Mon, 29 Dec 2003

No doubt Lenny Bruce would have laughed with at least a tinge of bitterness if
-- like
millions of Americans -- he picked up a newspaper the day before Christmas 2003
and
read that he'd been "pardoned" by the governor of New York for an obscenity
conviction.

In their own time, people who are stubbornly ahead of it usually get a lot more
grief
than accolades. And decades later -- in this case, 39 years after Bruce's bust
for a
nightclub performance and 37 years after his death -- the belated praise from on
high
is predictably insufferable.

The New York Times lead sentence on Dec. 24 called Bruce "the potty-mouthed wit
who
turned stand-up comedy into social commentary." Actually, far from being
"potty-mouthed" in an emblematic way, Lenny Bruce was a Fool in the
Shakespearean
sense, jousting with a society dominated by various aspiring Lears -- and quite
a few
Elmer Gantrys.

Most people who can remember Lenny Bruce have their favorite moments. I think of
when
he took the opportunity, on a network TV show, to "play" a dollar bill as a
percussion
device, snapping it in front of the microphone. Or his bits, taped and then
captured on
record albums, satirizing the entrepreneurial zeal of evangelical moralists. He
anticipated the unctuous likes of Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell
and,
yes, George W. Bush.

Lenny Bruce lampooned hypocrisy, yet he avoided the earnest fervor that dulls
the teeth
of much would-be biting humor. Bruce may have occasionally lapsed into
sermonizing, but
he was not pious. The 1974 movie "Lenny" strayed when actor Dustin Hoffman
wasn't quite
able to portray Bruce's righteousness without preceding it with the hyphenated
"self."

Bruce was a consummate mimic who spent many hours fiddling with tape from his
on-stage
routines. As an instrument of enormous versatility, his voice was orchestral in
scope.

Protracted struggles with judicial repression for saying "bad" words made him
obsessed
with absurdities in law books. For Bruce, legalistic labyrinths culminated in
August
1966 with a morphine overdose, two months short of his 40th birthday.

We ought to note that his last two years spanned from the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution
through a period of rapid military escalation in Vietnam, with U.S. troop
deployments
mounting into the hundreds of thousands.

On a noncommercial radio station about 30 years ago, while the war was still
raging, I
used to air an obscure record that featured some of Bruce's final performance.
He did a
bit he'd presented many times before, reciting (with a thick German accent) a
poem by
the radically humanistic Trappist monk Thomas Merton -- a meditation on the
high-ranking Nazi official Adolf Eichmann.

Here are words I've often remembered over the course of three decades:

"My defense: I was a soldier. I saw the end of a conscientious day's effort. I
watched
through the portholes. I saw every Jew burned and turned into soap. Do you
people think
yourselves better because you burned your enemies at long distance with missiles
without ever seeing what you had done to them?"

Such questions are still too hot for mainstream media to handle. We may
congratulate
ourselves on how risque the words and images are now, in mass media, but the
lasting
power of Lenny Bruce's caustic humor has nothing to do with four-letter words.
Today,
naughty language and sexual images are big media sellers. The tacit taboos are
in other
realms of expression.

Though it wasn't then the propaganda mantra that it has recently become,
President
Johnson referred to people violently resisting the U.S. occupation of Vietnam as
"terrorists." These days, President Bush is fond of applying the "terrorist"
label to
people violently resisting the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

Naturally, as one of the home-front politicos eager to boost the latest war, New
York's
Gov. George Pataki could not resist combining the announcement of his pardon for
Bruce
with a plug for the sanctification of present-day militarism under the guise of
combating terrorism. "Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American
liberties,"
Pataki declared, "and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious
freedoms
we are fighting to preserve as we continue to wage the war on terror."

But the question that Lenny Bruce kept voicing from the stage, meanwhile, still
hangs
in the air: "Do you people think yourselves better because you burned your
enemies at
long distance with missiles without ever seeing what you had done to them?"

Norman Solomon is co-author of "Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell
You."

37 Years After His Death, Lenny Bruce Receives a Pardon
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/23/nyregion/23CND-BRUC.html

LENNY BRUCE
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~flip/lenny.html

"Liberals will buy anything a bigot writes. In fact, they really SUPPORT
hatemongers.
George Linciln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party is probably a
very
knowledgeable businessman with no political convictions what so ever. He gets
three
bucks a head and works the mass rallies consisting of nothing but angry Jews,
shaking
their fists and wondering why there are so many Jews there. And Rockwell
probably has
only two real followers--and they're deaf. They think the swastika is merely an
Aztec
symbol."

Lenny Bruce (1925-1966)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lbruce.htm
"I'm totally corrupted. I mean, really. My whole act, my whole economic success,
whatever that is, is based solely on the existence of segregation, violence,
despair,
disease and injustice. And if by some miracle, the whole world would suddenly
tranquilize, be pured, I would be standing in an unemployment line somewhere. So
you
see, I'm not a moralist." (Dustin Hoffman in Lenny)

Lenny Bruce's Interviews Of Our Times
http://members.aol.com/dcspohr/lenny/intrview.htm

Norman Soloman
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A6DB43CE6

Abbie List: Reefer Madness
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Poster 1496 x 1908 pix
http://www.agiftforlaughter.com/images/lennybruce.jpg
Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce Pics
http://members.aol.com/dcspohr/lenny/lenny1.htm

Cybrary: Lenny Bruce
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce Pics
http://members.aol.com/dcspohr/lenny/lenny1.htm
http://members.aol.com/dcspohr/lenny/lenmik.jpg
essential
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barred
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Poster 1496 x 1908 pix
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Free Tommy Chong!
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Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n572/a11.html?1979

What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/marijuana/news.jsp

D.E.A.th Deceptions
http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc/DEAth.html
Conservative Addiction Good, Liberal Addiction Bad!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K512241B6

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762136.html
Waldo's Insolence
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4218.gif
Racist Ganjawar
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4259.gif
Primary Reasons
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4260.gif
PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/13/ECH13_00.HTM

Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M6E5220E6
Bushît Hypocrisy & Double Standards
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H1E0221B6
Bushit: Timeline of Treason
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q2C0261B6
Bushladen and the Terrorists Carlyles Groups
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J6A0231B6

Bill Would Outlaw Internet Drug Information
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U311421D5

Meth Bill/Free Speech by Richard Lake
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W62645BE5
Making War On Free Speech! S. 486/H.R. 2987 Passes
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C21652BE5
The Anti-Meth Bill - Washington Post
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F20652BE5
HATCH BILL THAT STIFFENS DRUG PENALTIES IS OK'D
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Secret Searches Bill
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Orrin Hatch wants to destroy your computer!
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2223811
Urgent Warning about Industrial Hemp...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z34261265
Internet Free Speech Goes on Trial
http://www.narconews.com

The Agenda
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N16125CD6
Istook the Constitution and set it on fire
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Harsh Souder Drug Bill Coming Soon To Congress
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E280651B6

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In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I
wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a
trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a
Protestant.

Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.

-Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984)

May there Eventually be True Peace, True Love, and True Liberty for All the
World to Share...

With True Sincerity,
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You mock me, laugh at me, and spread lies about me and my cause out loud because
I'm different, I laugh at you silently because you're all the same - like robots
sinking on a ship of fools. Well, as the Grateful Dead once produced: "ship of
fools, sail away from me...".

I have discovered, through my life experiences, that it is inner beauty that
matters most. If you only look at the outer shell of someone and persue any form
of relationship with them then you could be in for some trouble. I believe that
there is and will be wolves in sheeps fur as well as sheep in wolves fur. In
other words, I believe that there is and will be people who appear to be light
and kind hearted on the outside, but really are dark hearted and cruel as well
as people who appear to be dark hearted and cruel on the outside but are really
light hearted and kind people. It all comes down to that age old saying: "never
judge a book by its cover".

"It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the D. E. A. to continue
to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of
the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer
than many of the foods we commonly consume... marijuana in its natural form is
one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." -Francis L.
Young; Former Administrative Law Judge for the D. E. A.

"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana
never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does
not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more
harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." -William F. Buckley, Jr.

Personal Plug/Link:
The AMSL Hangout - A Marijuana Smoker's Lounge Hangout:
http://www.geocities.com/prezz_420/index.html

Note: You don't _have_ to be a toker to get information and education out of the
above web site.

Wesley Clark

Wesley Clark has been pounced upon with adoration by progressives and Democrats
as
though he were a God of reason and salvation. This late-comer entered the race
in
September at the top of the polls. In fact, he is a reincarnation of the most
corrupt
and violent aspects of William Jefferson Clinton. I have great respect for
author and
filmmaker Michael Moore, but when I saw him endorse Wesley Clark, I nearly
choked.
Let's refresh everyone's memory by looking at the retired NATO Commander's
history. It
shows us is that he has the perfect résumé to continue the job that the Bush
gang
began, and then botched.

Clark first hit my radar screen way back in 1993, after it was learned that US
Army
troops had been dispatched to the Branch Davidian compound in Waco Texas. At the
time,
Clark was the commander of the 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Hood Texas. As the
division
commander, Clark was the one to authorize the release of armored units and - as
later
disclosed by filmmaker Michael McNulty - very likely also in command of Delta
Force
personnel who operated on his turf, and engaged in a brutal massacre of unarmed
civilians trying to flee the burning compound. According to a well-documented
September
2003 story at www.frontpagemagazine.com Clark's second in command, Pete
Schoomaker, was
one of two military officers to meet with Janet Reno in preparing the plans for
the
final assault. That made him Clark's representative.

This is not a good progressive credential.

Clark's real notoriety came in 1999 when, as NATO Commander under Bill Clinton,
he led
another US military invasion, which the UN also refused to sanction, into Bosnia
and
Kosovo. Clark's aggressive command nearly resulted in a military confrontation
with a
Russian armored column. As it turns out, the reasons for that invasion were as
fabricated as were the reasons for Bush's invasion of Iraq. For weeks, the
American
people were bombarded by warnings about mass graves containing tens of thousands
of
bodies. In the April 1999 issue of FTW, I wrote about Kosovo and our allies, the
Kosovo
Liberation Army, or KLA:

Has everyone forgotten that the U.S. government referred to the KLA, just a year
ago,
as terrorists? Has everyone forgotten, in the current "wag the dog" propaganda
assault,
that the Serbs, going back to World War II have been U.S. allies - that they are
Christians and that they are not receiving military training from countries
which
sponsor Islamic terror? We hear reports of mass graves. We hear reports of rape
and
atrocities. Have we yet seen any of the victims?

Kosovo is vastly different from the Contra war or from Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Why?
Because U.S. air power is overwhelmingly committed at the outset. Because the
"Mighty
Wurlitzer" of American media is feeding on the hapless plight of helpless
victims on a
scale akin to Wm. Randolph Hearst's coverage of the sinking of the Maine in
Havana
Harbor…

The only difference now is that the quick and cheap capital and funding
mechanism of
the drug trade has replaced the much more time consuming process of investment
and
extraction of war costs from a producing economy. The fact is that the entire
world
economy and political decision making machinery is now hooked on drugs. To me,
that is
a sure sign that the economic models operating at the end of the 20th century
are about
as adaptable as the dinosaurs were when the asteroid hit.

There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and there were no mass graves
holding tens of thousands of bodies ever found in Kosovo. Yet, as we documented
in 1999
using reports from Jane's Intelligence Weekly and The Christian Science Monitor,
in the
process of conducting that war Clark made safe the KLA's control over 70% of the
heroin
reaching Western Europe.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/regional/KLA1.html

Another parallel to the post-9/11 world is that, under US rule, Afghanistan has
again
become the number-one producer of opium in the world, estimated at 75% of world
supply,
all under CIA control. Afghanistan is the source of the heroin that is being
smuggled
through the Balkans into Western Europe (and all over the world) to this day.
And,
Osama bin Laden had Al Qaeda personnel training the KLA with US permission.

As Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the University of Ottawa reported in June
2002 in
his publication Global Outlook:

The U.S. Congress has documented in detail, the links of Al Qaeda to agencies of
the
U.S. government during the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as in
Kosovo.3 More
recently in Macedonia, barely a few months before September 11, U.S. military
advisers
were mingling with Mujahideen mercenaries financed by Al Qaeda. Both groups were
fighting under the auspices of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), within the same
terrorist paramilitary formation.4

It is absurd to think that the Al Qaeda operatives in Kosovo were there without
Clark's
knowledge or that he did not control their interactions with US military.

In June of 2000, I was stunned to see an announcement in the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette
that a retiring Wesley Clark was going to go to work for billionaire investment
banker
and Presidential kingmaker Jackson Stephens in Little Rock. This set off alarm
bells
that Clark was someone to watch. In his current campaign literature, Clark lists
his
profession as an investment banker. And he is still employed by Stephens.

Stephens was the man who gave a down-and-out Bill Clinton a $2 million loan to
jumpstart an ailing presidential campaign in 1992. There is also a glowing
photograph
of Stephens with a young George W. Bush in the brilliant expose of the drug
money
laundering and covert operations bank BCCI, False Profits. Several BCCI players,
including Saudi banker Khalid bin Mahfouz, have been directly tied to the
financing of
Al Qaeda.

A search of the FTW web site shows that I have written about Stephens - Jimmy
Carter's
roommate at Annapolis -- six times. Stephens' firm Systematics, which has since
gone
through two name changes to become Axciom, was deeply connected to the PROMIS
software
scandal, the Worthen Bank, the Lippo Group, and subsequently through a 2001 FTW
investigation to drug money laundering out of the Mena Regional Intermountain
Airport
in Arkansas. In that investigation, looking into the apparent release from US
prison of
Medellin Cartel co-founder Carlos Lehder, we found that one of Stephens'
subsidiaries,
Beverly Enterprises, had been connected to a suspected money laundering
operation
involving bearer bonds sold by Bill Clinton's Arkansas Development Financial
Authority,
sold by Stephens Inc, and underwritten by the insurance giant AIG and Goldman
Sachs.

Please See:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/gray_money.html

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/part_2.html

On Oct. 7, Wesley Clark's campaign manager, Donny Fowler, resigned suddenly --
according to a CNN story the following day -- because his authority had been
usurped by
two insiders from Clinton's 1992 campaign. That Bill Clinton would turn up all
over the
Clark campaign is no surprise. The day before announcing his candidacy, Clark
received
an endorsement from Harlem Congressman Charlie Rangel. Rangel, a black Democrat,
is
closely tied to the Clinton machine. Clinton maintains an office in Harlem. That
being
said, what has Wesley Clark ever done to endear himself to black voters? What
was
Rangel thinking?

Bill Clinton is a member of the Bilderberg Group, The Trilateral Commission and
the
Council on Foreign Relations. Clark is a member of the CFR.

Wesley Clark is also one of two presidential candidates to have "discovered" his
Jewish
ancestry in an election year. The September 26 issue of The Jewish Forward
revealed
that Clark was the son of a Jewish lawyer from New York named Kanne. After his
father's
death when Clark was four, Clark was taken to Arkansas by a Southern Baptist
mother and
raised as a Baptist. According to the story, Clark did not discover his Jewish
ancestry
until he was in his twenties. The Forward story is the first-known public
disclosure of
this ancestry.

And, last but not least, Wesley Clark has a business relationship with George
Soros.
According to Heather Cottin's excellent deconstruction of Soros (above) Clark
sits on
the board of Soros' International Crisis Group (ICG) with the likes of Zbigniew
Brzezinski and Richard Allen, former Reagan National Security Advisor.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/102003_beyond_bush_2.html

Wesly Clark - drugwar fascist?
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F39D22AE6
From: David Malmo Levine Sun Dec 28 2003
dagreenmachine@...
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"I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute
another."
Desmond Tutu
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There is only one logical choice.
Kucinich.
Babylon won't fall with Fascist in Control.
Not Dean or Clark or the status weird.
Bushit should be tried for treason with Askrapt and Rumsfeld and Cheney.
Peace, Love or Liberty or DEAth
DdC

First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.— Gandhi

http://www.kucinich.us
http://www.corvusworld.com/dk4.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Kucinich4President

Democratic presidential candidate opposes war on pot by Pete Brady
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3240.html
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Major Parole Moves on The Table By Gary Delsohn
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18055.shtml

Howard Dean Speaks to MMJ
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N25E12DC6
Istook the Constitution and set it on fire
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2D4222D6

GOPerverted Officials
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F6B8527E6
Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M6E5220E6
AWOL Bush
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S14125CD6
The Agenda
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N16125CD6
Bushît Hypocrisy & Double Standards
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H1E0221B6
Bushit: Timeline of Treason
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q2C0261B6
Bushladen and the Terrorists Carlyles Groups
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J6A0231B6

Harsh Souder Drug Bill Coming Soon To Congress
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E280651B6

Canada's Supremes Cower Under DEAth Threats
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2FB112E6

Abbie List: Reefer Madness
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S258322E6
Free Tommy Chong!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B2C1421B6

Federal Appeals Court OKs Medical Marijuana
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R272127D6

Mad cow: Japan bans US beef
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q5D6322E6

Al Gore's Son Arrested for Pot Possession
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T525230E6

Unrepentant Junkies
Sen.Joseph McCarthy
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J537219B6
DJ Rush Limbaugh
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K512241B6

Corporatism also exploits the Drug War
http://drugwar.8m.com
Corporate Patriotism  By Ralph Nader
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1110-07.htm

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Londoner Lynn Harichy, whose efforts helped to legalize medicinal marijuana use
in
Canada, died Christmas Day after a lengthy battle with multiple sclerosis. She
was 42.
As part of a national network of lobbyists, Harichy was a longtime crusader for
the
legalization of pot for medicinal uses. She once lit up a joint on the steps of
London
police station, an act that led to her arrest.  Two years ago, following the
efforts of
pot crusaders like Harichy across Canada, the federal government eased the law
on pot
use for those suffering from serious illnesses.

The Office of Cannabis Medical Access was established to regulate use of
medicinal
marijuana in cases where it would have some medical benefit.

Harichy's efforts to that end leave a proud legacy, says her brother, Wayne
Fortnum. "A
lot of people when they go, they didn't leave anything behind. She has
something. I'm
proud that she did what she thought she needed to do."

Harichy ran the Cannabis Compassion Club, which supplied pot to sick people. She
served
more than 600 people who suffered from such diseases as MS, AIDS, cancer,
epilepsy and
chronic pain.

As the rules began loosening around marijuana use for the seriously ill, Harichy
once
told The Free Press why she started the club.

"The people who bought from us just couldn't go out on the street," she said.
"It would
have been too dangerous for them."

Despite the criminal charges it caused her, and the social embarrassment she
once
admitted to feeling, Harichy continued pushing the cause until her MS began to
take its
harsh toll over the past year, her brother noted.

"She was dedicated to her cause," Fortnum said. "When she got her mind (set) to
do
something, she did it."

Crusader for Pot Dies After MS Fight By Patrick Moloney
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18058.shtml
Source: London Free Press December 29, 2003
Contact: letters@...
Website: http://www.lfpress.com

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Worried Pain Doctors Decry Prosecutions

Dear friend:

If you've been reading Drug War Chronicle, you are already  familiar with the
problem
of the under-treatment of chronic pain  in the US and the drug war prosecutions
(persecutions) of  physicians who treat pain aggressively with opioids
(narcotics) in
inappropriate cases.  As mentioned in my year-end wrap up
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Today, readers of the Washington Post got a dose of drug war  reality as it
affects
pain patients.  "Worried Pain Doctors  Decry Prosecutions" by Mark Kaufman can
be read
at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37015-2003Dec28.html  online --
it is an
outstanding article that discusses the  travails of many of the doctors you may
have
read about in our  newsletter -- Jeri Hassman, William Hurwitz, Frank Fisher,
Cecil
Knox, the Comprehensive Care and Pain Management Center in South  Carolina -- as
well
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Democratic presidential candidate opposes war on pot by Pete Brady
Cannabis Culture: (22 Dec, 2003)
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3240.html

Courageous congressman Dennis Kucinich needs grassroots help

The Congressman has proposed lifting criminal penalties for most
marijuana-related
activities, and although he stops short of recommending full-on legalization of
the
herb, he is the only candidate for president who is generating enthusiasm among
the
marijuana community.

First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.— Gandhi

http://www.kucinich.us
http://www.corvusworld.com/dk4.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Kucinich4President

Howard Dean Speaks to MMJ
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N25E12DC6

Wesly Clark - drugwar fascist?
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F39D22AE6
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BUT DID HE INHALE? by Marcella Bombardieri and Jenna Russell
Source: Boston Globe (MA) Sun, 28 Dec 2003

It's not easy having a famous dad. After Harvard student Albert Gore III -- yes,
son of
that Albert Gore -- made the news last week for being arrested in Maryland for
marijuana possession, activists made him a poster boy for their campaign against
a 1998
law that denies financial aid to any student with a drug conviction. The law has
deprived more than 124,000 students of financial aid, according to Students for
Sensible Drug Policy, which bills itself as the fastest-growing student
organization in
the United States. No other crime triggers the same punishment. "If Al Gore's
son was
paying for school with financial aid, a conviction for marijuana possession
could end
his education and seriously damage his future," said SSDP national director
Darrell
Rogers in a statement. "Since his parents can afford to pay for his education,
Albert
Gore III's Harvard education will continue uninterrupted." Gore, 21, and two
passengers
were arrested Dec. 19 when he was stopped for driving without his lights on. An
officer, who noticed the windows and sunroof open in cold weather, found a
marijuana
cigarette and a cigarette box containing suspected marijuana.

Al Gore's Son Arrested for Pot Possession
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T525230E6

Abbie List: Reefer Madness
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S258322E6
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Restore-Digest Monday, December 29 2003 Volume 2003 : Number 315
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001 UK: Cannabis Law 'Sends Mixed Signals'
002 Canada: Editorial: Drug Czar Abuzz
003 CA: Pot Club Owner To Fight Drug Charges
004 Canada: Local Pot Supporter Unfazed By Ruling Supreme Court
005 Democratic presidential candidate opposes war on pot
006 MA: But Did He Inhale?
007 ME: Medical Pot User Says Law of Little Help
008 Canada: Crusader for Pot Dies After MS Fight
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--- In AMarijuanaSmokersLounge2@yahoogroups.com, "Neo Hippie: Prezz"
<AleEarth420@z...> wrote:
Thank you much for posting this educational information Brother [even
though I believe it may have been posted by Mr. Weed before, it is
always nice to refresh the message archives with a positive,
informataive and educational post]. It doesn't matter what the facist-
like major media outlets want to put out [not to me at least] about
political "endorsements" over the 'net, this _is_ America right?
Isn't that what this country was founded upon? Freedom? True Freedom?
I once read a definition of "freedom" as defined by the original
Contitution of the U. S. as to mean something to the equivelent of
being able to do what you want, as long as you harm no one in any
way. Well, there was also another definition underneath of that was
revised in 2000 [what major change happened in this country that year
that caused a _mysterious_ chain reaction in which the rights of the
people seemed to start to vanish right before our own eyes, with out
our input?] in which the definition was totally different. I mean, I
can't really prove this because it was just a chance happening in
which I found the web site and I can't seem to find it anymore
[Hmm?]. I remember that I googled a search relating to the definition
of freedom though.

Anyway, everyone's educational input in these A. M. S. L. groups
[that is not a bunch of false rhetoric or disinformation - on either
side of the debate] is much appreciated by those of us who are
serious about our cause. In fact, I personally feel that _more_ is
needed. Discussion is needed as well as long as we don't end up
getting our selves into child-like arguements. Professional debate is
welcome and is needed in certian instances in my honest opinion too.

Follow Up Link to Your Post Regarding Dennis Kucinich [whom I support
as well, since Ralph Nader isn't going to give a shot at it this
year]:

Dennis on the Issues Facing America Today - Downloads*:
http://www.kucinich.us/supporter_resources/dwnldissues.php

*Apparently, some of the files listed in the link above "require the
FREE Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader to open" - which may be downloaded at:
http://www.adobe.com

With Hope for True Peace, True Love, and True Liberty,
*~ Neo Hippie: PreZZ 420 ~*
An Original Co-Founder and Current Moderator of the A. M. S. L.
Legalization Groups
*~ http://profiles.yahoo.com/NeoHippiePrezz420 ~*

P.S. Some of you old timers [as far as the A. M. S. L. groups are
concerned] may be wondering why I am posting [replying to be more
exact] directly from the groups' home page [when I usually do it
through e-mail]. The reasoning behind that is that my secure, web
based e-mail service seems to be having technical difficulties [quite
possibly due to upgrades] and I get an error page when I try to
access the main page. Hopefully, the problem will be cleared up soon
but if not I will try to let y'all know what I'm going to do about it
ahead of time to prevent mass confusion.

--- In AMarijuanaSmokersLounge2@yahoogroups.com, Ryan Stone
<pamphletsite@y...> wrote:
>
> http://www.kucinich.us
>
> A Prayer for America
>
> I offer these brief remarks today as a prayer for our country, with
love of democracy, as a celebration of our country. With love for our
country. With hope for our country. With a belief that the light of
freedom cannot be extinguished as long as it is inside of us. With a
belief that freedom rings resoundingly in a democracy each time we
speak freely. With the understanding that freedom stirs the human
heart and fear stills it. With the belief that a free people cannot
walk in fear and faith at the same time.
>
> With the understanding that there is a deeper truth expressed in
the unity of the United States. That implicit in the union of our
country is the union of all people. That all people are essentially
one. That the world is interconnected not only on the material level
of economics, trade, communication, and transportation, but
innerconnected through human consciousness, through the human heart,
through the heart of the world, through the simply expressed impulse
and yearning to be and to breathe free.
>
> I offer this prayer for America.
>
> Let us pray that our nation will remember that the unfolding of the
promise of democracy in our nation paralleled the striving for civil
rights. That is why we must challenge the rationale of the Patriot
Act. We must ask why should America put aside guarantees of
constitutional justice?
>
> How can we justify in effect canceling the First Amendment and the
right of free speech, the right to peaceably assemble?
>
> How can we justify in effect canceling the Fourth Amendment,
probable cause, the prohibitions against unreasonable search and
seizure?
>
> How can we justify in effect canceling the Fifth Amendment,
nullifying due process, and allowing for indefinite incarceration
without a trial?
>
> How can we justify in effect canceling the Sixth Amendment, the
right to prompt and public trial?
>
> How can we justify in effect canceling the Eighth Amendment which
protects against cruel and unusual punishment?
>
> We cannot justify widespread wiretaps and internet surveillance
without judicial supervision, let alone with it.
>
> We cannot justify secret searches without a warrant.
>
> We cannot justify giving the Attorney General the ability to
designate domestic terror groups.
>
> We cannot justify giving the FBI total access to any type of data
which may exist in any system anywhere such as medical records and
financial records.
>
> We cannot justify giving the CIA the ability to target people in
this country for intelligence surveillance.
>
> We cannot justify a government which takes from the people our
right to privacy and then assumes for its own operations a right to
total secrecy.
>
> The Attorney General recently covered up a statue of Lady Justice
showing her bosom as if to underscore there is no danger of justice
exposing herself at this time, before this administration.
>
> Let us pray that our nation's leaders will not be overcome with
fear. Because today there is great fear in our great Capitol. And
this must be understood before we can ask about the shortcomings of
Congress in the current environment. The great fear began when we had
to evacuate the Capitol on September 11. It continued when we had to
leave the Capitol again when a bomb scare occurred as members were
pressing the CIA during a secret briefing. It continued when we
abandoned Washington when anthrax, possibly from a government lab,
arrived in the mail.
>
> It continued when the Attorney General declared a nationwide terror
alert and then the Administration brought the destructive Patriot
Bill to the floor of the House.
>
> It continued in the release of the bin Laden tapes at the same time
the President was announcing the withdrawal from the ABM treaty.
>
> It remains present in the cordoning off of the Capitol. It is
present in the camouflaged armed national guardsmen who greet members
of Congress each day we enter the Capitol campus. It is present in
the labyrinth of concrete barriers through which we must pass each
time we go to vote.
>
> The trappings of a state of siege trap us in a state of fear, ill-
equipped to deal with the Patriot Games, the Mind Games, the War
Games of an unelected President and his undetected Vice President.
>
> Let us pray that our country will stop this war. "To provide for
the common defense" is one of the formational principles of America.
>
> Our Congress gave the President the ability to respond to the
tragedy of September 11. We licensed a response to those who helped
bring the terror of September 11th. But we the people and our elected
representatives must reserve the right to measure the response, to
proportion the response, to challenge the response, and to correct
the response.
>
> Because we did not authorize the invasion of Iraq.
> We did not authorize the invasion of Iran.
> We did not authorize the invasion of North Korea.
> We did not authorize the bombing of civilians in Afghanistan.
> We did not authorize permanent detainees in Guantanamo Bay.
> We did not authorize the withdrawal from the Geneva Convention.
> We did not authorize military tribunals suspending due process and
habeas corpus.
> We did not authorize assassination squads.
> We did not authorize the resurrection of COINTELPRO.
> We did not authorize the repeal of the Bill of Rights.
> We did not authorize the revocation of the Constitution.
> We did not authorize national identity cards.
> We did not authorize the eye of Big Brother to peer from cameras
throughout our cities.
> We did not authorize an eye for an eye.
> Nor did we ask that the blood of innocent people, who perished on
September 11, be avenged with the blood of innocent villagers in
Afghanistan.
> We did not authorize the administration to wage war anytime,
anywhere,anyhow it pleases.
> We did not authorize war without end.
> We did not authorize a permanent war economy.
>
> Yet we are upon the threshold of a permanent war economy. The
President has requested a $45.6 billion increase in military
spending. All defense-related programs will cost close to $400
billion.
>
> Consider that the Department of Defense has never passed an
independent audit. Consider that the Inspector General has notified
Congress that the Pentagon cannot properly account for $1.2 trillion
in transactions. Consider that in recent years the Dept. of Defense
could not match $22 billion worth of expenditures to the items it
purchased, wrote off, as lost, billions of dollars worth of in-
transit inventory and stored nearly $30 billion worth of spare parts
it did not need.
>
> Yet the defense budget grows with more money for weapons systems to
fight a cold war which ended, weapon systems in search of new enemies
to create new wars. This has nothing to do with fighting terror.
>
> This has everything to do with fueling a military industrial
machine with the treasure of our nation, risking the future of our
nation, risking democracy itself with the militarization of thought
which follows the militarization of the budget.
>
> Let us pray for our children.
>
> Our children deserve a world without end. Not a war without end.
Our children deserve a world free of the terror of hunger, free of
the terror of poor health care, free of the terror of homelessness,
free of the terror of ignorance, free of the terror of hopelessness,
free of the terror of policies which are committed to a world view
which is not appropriate for the survival of a free people, not
appropriate for the survival of democratic values, not appropriate
for the survival of our nation, and not appropriate for the survival
of the world.
>
> Let us pray that we have the courage and the will as a people and
as a nation to shore ourselves up, to reclaim from the ruins of
September 11th our democratic traditions.
>
> Let us declare our love for democracy. Let us declare our intent
for peace.
>
> Let us work to make nonviolence an organizing principle in our own
society.
>
> Let us recommit ourselves to the slow and painstaking work of
statecraft, which sees peace, not war as being inevitable.
>
> Let us work for a world where someday war becomes archaic.
>
> That is the vision which the proposal to create a Department of
Peace envisions. Forty-three members of Congress are now cosponsoring
the legislation. Let us work for a world where nuclear disarmament is
an imperative. That is why we must begin by insisting on the
commitments of the ABM treaty. That is why we must be steadfast for
nonproliferation.
>
> Let us work for a world where America can lead the day in banning
weapons of mass destruction not only from our land and sea and sky
but from outer space itself. That is the vision of HR 3616: A
universe free of fear. Where we can look up at God's creation in the
stars and imagine infinite wisdom, infinite peace, infinite
possibilities, not infinite war, because we are taught that the
kingdom will come on earth as it is in heaven. Let us pray that we
have the courage to replace the images of death which haunt us, the
layers of images of September 11th, faded into images of patriotism,
spliced into images of military mobilization, jump-cut into images of
our secular celebrations of the World Series, New Year's Eve, the
Superbowl, the Olympics, the strobic flashes which touch our deepest
fears, let us replace those images with the work of human relations,
reaching out to people, helping our own citizens here at home,
lifting the plight of the poor everywhere.
>
> That is the America which has the ability to rally the support of
the world.
>
> That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil,
but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and
freedom. America, America. God shed grace on thee. Crown thy good,
America.
>
> Not with weapons of mass destruction. Not with invocations of an
axis of evil. Not through breaking international treaties. Not
through establishing America as king of a unipolar world. Crown thy
good America. America, America. Let us pray for our country. Let us
love our country. Let us defend our country not only from the threats
without but from the threats within.
>
> Crown thy good, America. Crown thy good with brotherhood, and
sisterhood. And crown thy good with compassion and restraint and
forbearance and a commitment to peace, to democracy, to economic
justice here at home and throughout the world.
>
> Crown thy good, America. Crown thy good America. Crown thy good.
>
> Thank you.
>
> D-NOTE: Some may be offended at the posting of a partisan
candidate's speech. I submit to everyone that perhaps any
truthtelling speech, by ANY politician in ANY party, is a good thing
for everyone to receive and benefit from.
>
>
> http://www.marijuana.com/article.php?sid=7625
>
> http://www.kucinich.us

For the sake of the kids, lie. John Walters 2001

Major Parole Moves on The Table By Gary Delsohn
Source: Sacramento Bee December 28, 2003
Convinced that California can no longer afford its $5.3 billion prison and
parole
system, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration is exploring moves that
would all
but eliminate parole conditions for nonviolent, nonserious offenders and
eventually --
through early release and lighter penalties -- dramatically shrink the prison
population. Some of the moves result from recent court settlements. Others are
efforts
whose planning began under former Gov. Gray Davis and have been speeded up by
Schwarzenegger.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18055.shtml

CannabisNews Justice Archives
http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/justice.shtml

Prison problems in California
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C559638E6

Surplus Prisoners to Fill California Teacher Shortage
http://www.futurefeedforward.com/front.php?fid=90

Parole reforms aim to improve rehabilitation
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z589228E6

Corruption in California's state prison
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K679228E6

In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the US. Of those,
46.5 percent -- 734,497 arrests -- were for marijuana.
There were 646,042 arrests for simple possession of marijuana in 2000.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org

U.S. prison population largest in world
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X690121B6

More laws increasing sentencing...
Istook the Constitution and set it on fire
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2D4222D6
Harsh Souder Drug Bill Coming Soon To Congress
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E280651B6

U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana
laws.
According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in
2001.
Keith Stroup,  (NORML) http://www.norml.org

Todd McCormick
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I288152E6
Ok: Free James Geddes/90 years for 5 plants
http://hr95.org/Geddes,J.html
Al Gore's Son Arrested for Pot Possession
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T525230E6
Will Foster 93 Years For Cannabis
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O35755DD6
Abbie List: Reefer Madness
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S258322E6
Ventura transcripts
http://www.mpp.org/ventura/transcript.html

Editorial: Drug Czar Abuzz
Source: Abbotsford News December 27, 2003
Perhaps the most disconcerting aspect of the Supreme Court of Canada's 6-3
decision
this week to uphold the laws prohibiting possession of marijuana is the reaction
of
John Walters, the United States' drug czar. Walters was positively abuzz with
excitement upon learning that Canada's top court had decided against ruling that
the
possession law was unconstitutional.
This is, of course, not new.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18053.shtml

Waldo's Insolence
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4218.gif
Racist Ganjawar
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4259.gif
Primary Reasons
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4260.gif

Canada's Supremes Cower Under DEAth Threats
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2FB112E6
Cannabis Hemp: Why cannabis is illegal...
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/invpro.html
Shadow of the Swastika
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html

White House Budget Office Flunks the DEA
White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) assessment of the DEA that
gave the
agency a zero on its 100-point "Results" scale. Busy raiding the homes of
disabled
medical marijuana users, the DEA has been, in the words of the OMB, "unable to
demonstrate its progress in reducing the availability of illegal drugs in the
U.S."
Read the report at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/pma/dea.pdf
DEAth Flunky
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4237.gif

Cannabis News Canadian Links
http://freedomtoexhale.com/can.htm
U.S. Drug Czar Praises 'Positive' PM
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18045.shtml
Dreams Go Up in Smoke for Marijuana Activists
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18043.shtml
Canada Supreme Court Upholds Marijuana Ban
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18036.shtml

Editorial: Pot Law Back To Martin
Source: Toronto Star December 28, 2003
With last week's Supreme Court of Canada ruling, the marijuana debate is once
again in
full flower. In a 6-3 decision, the high court upheld current federal pot laws,
concluding Ottawa has a right to declare marijuana possession is a crime.  And
if the
government, in its wisdom, decides in future to declare possessing small amounts
of
marijuana is not a crime?  That's fine, too.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18054.shtml

Thurmond nephew Mickey and me,
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J388247E6
Tom Delay tied to bribery scandal
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q198617E6
GOPerverted Officials
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F6B8527E6

HOWARD DEAN THE GLOBALIST
http://www.corvusworld.com/deansellout.htm
DEAN the WAFFLER
http://www.corvusworld.com/deansellout.htm
http://www.corvusworld.com/WAFFLEHOUSEDEAN.jpg
Howard Dean Speaks to MMJ
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N25E12DC6

Roadside Bombs Kill 2 US Soldiers, 2 Iraqi Children
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=01B463FB-4254-498C-9BB9FC2A2A70F734

FBI LINKED TO 1993 WTC BOMBING
http://www.investigate911.com/wtc93.htm

Canadian officials urge patience...
No connection between Holstein cow and infected Alberta animal found last May
BETH GORHAM CANADIAN PRESS
CALGARY - Canada's chief veterinarian says it's premature to say Alberta was the
source
of the mad cow found in Washington state, noting there are serious discrepancies
over
the age of the animal involved.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H529118E6

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - Thursday, January 1, 2004
3:00 a.m. ET New Year's Eve Web-a-Thon
Live from the National Headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio
Watch online at kucinich.us
http://www.kucinich.us/schedule.php

Executive branch powers on the day that Sadam was captured.
Patriot Act II was signed into law
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V219138E6

Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M6E5220E6

On Lenny Bruce
SORRY -- FORTY YEARS TOO LATE
by Marty Jezer

New York's Governor George Pataki pardoned comedian Lenny Bruce this holiday
season for
an  obscenity conviction that happened almost forty years ago. It was the first
posthumous pardon in the history of New York State and Pataki, a Republican who
has
nothing politically to gain from the decision, deserves the public's
appreciation. But
the humorist himself was unable to celebrate his vindication. He died, weighted
down by
his legal troubles, a broken, bankrupt and defeated man, believing passionately
that
the Bill of Rights would save him.

Lenny Bruce was one of the great comedians of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
His
influence on the world of stand-up comedy is profound. Think Richard Pryor,
Robin
Williams, George Carlin and, for better or for worse, just about every stand-up
comedian of the modern era.

Bruce came out of the Jewish Borsht Belt and the hipster world of improvising
jazz
musicians. He wrote his own material and then riffed on it as if he was Charlie
Parker
taking a bebop solo. Bruce was determined to speak like Americans talked. His
monologues mixed hipsterisms, Yiddish phrases, and vernacular English with taboo
"four
letter words" that no one was supposed to use or write in the scrubbed,
buttoned-down
world of postwar America. With Lenny Bruce, the Emperor was always naked. "I
want to
take the covers off," he said. "Whatever you do, you should say the words."

Ostensibly, it was his use of "dirty words" that got him into trouble. Though he
performed only in nightclubs for adults only, the guardians of public morality
consistently harassed him. Undercover police agents would tape his shticks and
then
bust him for obscenity. But only in New York City, in 1964, did the charges
stick. Poor
Lenny. In court he had to listen to an undercover cop read a verbatim transcript
of his
stand-up routine without any understanding of the comic craft. "He's bombing,"
Bruce
supposedly told one of his lawyers. "And for this I'm going to jail."

Facing four months in the workhouse, Bruce fired his lawyers, immersed himself
in
constitutional law, and prepared a legal appeal. A better comedian than he was a
lawyer, Bruce botched his case and lost the appeal. Governor Pataki described
the
pardon as "a declaration of New York's commitment to upholding the First
Amendment."
But in doing so he noted that he probably would not have been a fan of Bruce's
humor.
"I'm not a great fan of profanity as satire, but it is protected speech, and we
certainly cherish all our freedoms," Pataki said.

While profanity was the subject and the obsession of New York's prosecuting
district
attorney, it was not the point of Bruce's nightclub act. While other comics
focused on
human foibles, Bruce's subject, his obsession really, was hypocrisy -- the
well-manured
field between official statements and real-life acts, as well as the
self-righteous
delusions of everyday life. "Every day people are straying away from the church
and
going back to God," he famously said. And, "In the Halls of Justice, the only
justice
is in the halls." As civil liberties attorney Floyd Abrams told writer and
long-time
Bruce supporter Nat Hentoff, "As we look back on the prosecution of Lenny Bruce,
it was
less about `bad language' than about supposedly bad thoughts -- thoughts about
religion, culture and sex that must be protected in a free society."

Bruce's quest for truthfulness struck even the conservative National Review as
admirable. After his death, a staffer wrote, "He also had, more than most
commentators
on the contemporary world, the tragic sense of life, and for many people his
relentless
honesty about the world as they see it is the closest thing to heroism they have
encountered."

One of the young people who considered him a hero was political activist Abbie
Hoffman.
Hoffman saw Bruce's use of language as a liberating and truth-telling force. He
wanted
to expose the hypocrisy inherent in the Vietnam War. The government and its
supporters
thought it all right to napalm children or destroy a Vietnam village "in order
to save
it," but would not tolerate the public expression of a four-letter word. Freedom
of
speech, bottom-line, means the right to describe government policy or call an
elected
official a dirty word.

Lenny Bruce opened the door to public profanity and Abbie Hoffman and his
friends blew
the door off its hinges. But there was a context to their profanity, a need to
break
through silence and fear and say publicly what was in a lot of people's heads.
That
context is gone. Now we have Hollywood movies in which scripted profanity takes
the
place of emotionally descriptive words. And comedians now use "gutter language"
as a
cheap and easy infantile means of getting laughs. As a fan of both   Lenny Bruce
and
Abbie Hoffman, I believe we're all degraded by the gratuitous use of "dirty
words."  If
Lenny Bruce were alive today, he'd be satirizing the promiscuous profanity
that's
become commonplace.

Obscenity was the excuse but not the real reason that the authorities busted
Lenny
Bruce, and it is not the reason he should be remembered today. It was his
acerbic and
accurate social satire that made him dangerous, funny, and brave. Lenny Bruce's
pardon
is being described as a "victory for free speech." Some victory. A citizen says
something that offends the powers-that-be and is silenced by the law. Forty
years later
the law says, sorry, we made a mistake. What's important is not the pardon but
the
silencing. Free speech is not something you celebrate in theory or in
retrospect. It's
a right to be exercised everyday, without fear or threat of imprisonment, and
let the
chips fall where they may.

You can hear excerpts of Bruce's shticks at
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/lennybruce

Marty Jezer's books include Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel.
He welcomes comments at mjez@....

Two books by Marty Jezer
Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel (Rutgers University Press), $14
The Dark Ages: Life in the U.S.1945-1960
with material on Lenny Bruce and the "sick comedians" (South End Press), $16
Each mailed postpaid (cheaper than Amazon!) or both books for $25 I'll sign each
copy.

Send check to: Marty Jezer
22 Prospect St.
Brattleboro, VT 05301

See my website for more reviews and excerpts.
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overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the
Constitution."
Abraham Lincoln

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. Prov. 29:12

"Rumsfeld Backed Saddam" After Chemical Agent Use in 1984 by Andrew Buncombe
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=475931
"Fresh controversy about Donald Rumsfeld's personal dealings with Saddam Hussein
was
provoked yesterday by new documents that reveal he went to Iraq to show
America's
support for the regime despite its use of chemical weapons."

Government Officials Profited From Illegal Arming of Iraq
http://www.TomFlocco.com
Bush Concealed Iraqi Chemical Weapons Plant in Florida which shipped WMD
to Saddam Just Prior to Gulf War I. Continued...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F257347E6

We Finally Got Our Frankenstein... and He Was In a Spider Hole! -- by Michael
Moore

Thank God Saddam is finally back in American hands! He must have really  missed
us.
Man, he sure looked bad!  But, at least he got a free dental exam today. That's
something most Americans can't get.  America used to like Saddam. We LOVED
Saddam. We
funded him. We armed him.  We helped him gas Iranian troops.   But then he
screwed
up... Continued
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?messageDate=2003-12-14

Rense.com: Kurds Captured, Drugged Saddam Before US Got Him
Sydney Morning Herald The Courier-Mail 12-21-3
http://www.rense.com/general46/drgg.htm

Kurds, Not U.S. Captured Saddam: Report
by Lycan • Monday December 22, 2003
http://utah.indymedia.org/news/2003/12/7067.php
Talabani is said to have held Saddam first and negotiated a deal with the U.S.

Corporations That Supplied Iraq's Weapons Program
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4229.gif
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J336256E5
Bushit Rumcheney Cocktail:Fascist Nationalism and MKULTRA
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K5CA22DF5

"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious
instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is
built on
air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from
faith . . .
we need believing people."[/b]
Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933, from a speech made during negotiations leading to
the
Nazi Vatican Concordant of 1933

Bushit: Timeline of Treason
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q2C0261B6
Bushladen and the Terrorists Carlyles Groups
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J6A0231B6
Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M6E5220E6

McCollum advocates sodomy deterrents and legislating
..."Kids into Adult Prisons, secret searches"

"The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are
convicted of
nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens
the
lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially
devastating to
the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem
accompany the
perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure."
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Farmer v. Brennan
Stop Prisoner Rape  http://www.spr.org

DRCNet: McCollum/Return of the Undead
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/mccollum.shtml

Former Congressman Bill McCollum (R-FL), who as head of the House Judiciary
Committee's
Subcommittee on Crime played a key role in much of the repressive  anti-drug
legislation to pass in the last 15 years, is seeking to return to Capitol Hill,
this
time as a senator. McCollum gave up his House seat in 2000 to run for the 
Senate only
to be defeated by Democrat Bill Nelson, and then was passed over in his bid to
be named
drug czar for the new Bush administration. Since then, he  has licked his wounds
as a
Washington lobbyist.

But McCollum's has been condemned not only by drug reformers but by privacy
advocates
as well. He was winner of the Orwell Award at the 1999 Computers,  Freedom, and
Privacy
conference in Washington, DC. That dishonor goes to the person who has most
promoted
Big Brotherism. McCollum scored the award for  his efforts to give the FBI
expanded
wire-tapping capabilities and the ability to read encrypted emails.

Ho hummmm Bob the Doorman again,

DRCNet: "B-1 Bob" Dornan Return of the Undead
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/dornan.shtml
During his time in Congress, Dornan developed a well-earned reputation as a man
of the
far conservative right. A fervent anti-communist, he never met a military 
procurement
bill he didn't like or a liberal issue he did. The slogan prominently displayed
on his
campaign web site is "Fighting for Faith, Family, and Freedom  2004." Dornan is
a
particularly loud-mouthed and belligerent politician. He sucker-punched
Democratic
Congressman Tim Downey on the House floor in 1992 and famously referred to women
critics as "lesbian spearchuckers."

Evil Lurking
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The Anti-Pat Robertson/Christian Coalition Site
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7027/patrobertson.html

The Distinctly Non-Christian Origins of the United States of America
http://www.chestnutcafe.com/cafe/US_History.html
Primary Reasons
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Istook the Constitution and set it on fire
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2D4222D6
Harsh Souder Drug Bill Coming Soon To Congress
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E280651B6
Hemp, Hemp, Hooray? No Way, Says DEA
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S200461B6
Howard Dean Speaks to MMJ...
I thought he was running as a Democrat?
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N25E12DC6

George "Dubya", Banking and Other Scandals
http://www.tylwythteg.com/enemies/Bush/bush21.html
The Carpetbagger Report
Commentary, Analysis, and Tirades on Politics in America
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com

THUNDERING DRUMS  "THEY ARE NOT FORGOTTEN"
http://www.angelfire.com/wy/nainmatessupportgrp/index.html

Tom Delay tied to bribery scandal by Deroy Murdock
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q198617E6

Google: Tom Delay
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G368247E6

The Two Faces of Tom Delay Page
http://www.tylwythteg.com/enemies/tom.html

"Two Groups Try to Block Charity Tied to DeLay"
http://www.stateandfed.com/weekly_updates/email1208.htm
Two groups working to limit money in politics have asked the IRS to deny
tax-free
status to a charity that offers donors a chance to spend time with U.S. Rep.Tom
DeLay
(R-Texas) at the Republican National Convention and to have part of their
donations
help abused children.

The Enron Meltdown
http://www.jonchristianryter.com/2002/020204.html
The House and Senate are going to have a hard time—or at least half of the
members
are—holding unbiased hearings on the Enron failure since approximately 40% of
Congress
received contributions of some type from Enron
Leading the pack was George W. Bush with $113,000 of Enron pocket money. Next
was Kay
Bailey Hutchinson [R-TX]; $99,500 • Phil Gramm [R-TX]; $97,350 • Bob Dole
[R-KS];
$95,650 • Democratic National Committee; $55,000 • Ken Bentsen [D-TX]; 42,750 •
Shelia
Jackson-Lee [D-TX]; $38,000 • Joe Barton [R-TX]; 28,909 • Tom DeLay [R-TX];
$28,900 •

Lobbying or Bribing? excerpted
http://dukeemployees.com/washington37.shtml
According to the Dallas Morning News. Texas Republican Congressman Joe Barton
admitted
to attempting to protect a utility from federal oversight. He explained that his
own
legislation would uniquely provide regulation.

The legislator denied that contributions to Republicans, at fund raising events
that he
hosted, had anything to do with it. Perish the thought!

The donations apparently did not go directly to Mr. Barton. The money went to
candidates that Mr. Barton raised money for, or to candidates that they favored.
Mr.
Barton campaigned for: House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Sugar Land, Texas,
Sen.
Richard Shelby of Alabama and Rep. Billy Tauzin of Louisiana.

Corruption Dec 03
http://www.crisispapers.org/topics/corruption.htm

Power Rangers

"At the start of every fundraising stump speech, President Bush insists he’s
focused on
the 'people’s business' and that 'the political season will come in its own
time.' Yet
as his fundraising haul tops $102 million, the only people the president seems
to have
time for are those bagging bundles of $2,000 checks. The Bush-Cheney re-election
campaign’s unprecedented fundraising effort over the past six months has relied
on
super-donors -- 309 contributors who have attained elite status with the Bush
organization, including 24 new bundlers quietly added to the list last week...
In
return for their largesse, these rainmakers want more than a pat on the back
from the
president or a snapshot with Dick Cheney. The Rangers and Pioneers expect
rollbacks of
environmental regulations, million-dollar tax breaks and plum presidential
appointments. And Bush delivers. Consider a few examples of the administration’s
track
record." Continued...
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9465

Risky Business in Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1219-01.htm
Patriots and profits
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/16/opinion/16KRUG.html
Capitol Kickbacks
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9600/view/print
Baker takes the loaf
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=300&row=0
GOP at work: Resistance to business regulation paved way for accounting scandals
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031207/SROXLEY/31207007
Blood Kin
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2003/12/05/120.html
Iraq Could Produce Another Enron
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1202-04.htm
The Gathering Storm Around Richard Perle
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/11/26/perle/index_np.html

Why Tom DeLay is one of the biggest threats this country faces
http://www.differentstrings.info/archives/002544.html

Arab Lobby Gains Clout
http://www.aaiusa.org/news/aainews052602.htm

TOM DELAY'S INNER CIRCLE MADE BUCKETS OF CASH OFF OF ENRON: DELAY INITIATED THE
DEAL
http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2002/02/news0225a.html
[RollCall, By JOHN BRESNAHAN and DAMON CHAPPIE, 02/25/02]
Feral-humans just having some Quid Pro Quo 'business' "In early 1998, Enron
Corp.
secured a $750,000 contract for political operatives tied to House Majority Whip
Tom
DeLay (R-Texas) to
secretly conduct an aggressive grassroots campaign pushing energy deregulation,
according to documents obtained by Roll Call and interviews with individuals
involved
with the effort."

Nothing but a pawn
http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories/opinion/973039724.shtml
In vote after vote Bono has revealed herself to be a pawn of the far right wing
leadership of the House. Tom DeLay and Dick Armey do not reflect the common
sense
values of the Coachella Valley and yet Mrs. Bono consistently votes as they
wish.

Krugman on DeLay: 'Some Crazy Guy' (scroll .5)
http://zzpat.tripod.com/cvb/impeach108.html
Last year I tried to illustrate just how far to the right America's ruling party
has
moved by quoting some of Representative Tom DeLay's past remarks. I got some
puzzling
responses. "Who cares what some crazy guy in Congress says?" wrote one liberal
economist, chiding me for being alarmist. Some crazy guy? Public images are
funny
things. Newt Gingrich became a famous symbol of Republican radicalism. By
contrast,
most people know little about Mr. DeLay, the House majority leader. Yet Mr.
DeLay is
more radical — and more powerful — than Mr. Gingrich ever was.

Off the Kuff
http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/cat_scandalized.html
Remember how the Texans for a Republican Majority PAC, the one that helped elect
a
bunch of new Republicans to the state House so that Tom DeLay's redistricting
do-over
could be rammed through, claimed that they'd only ever used corporate money for
overhead and not for campaign funds? Turns out that ain't necessarily so.

Thurmond nephew Mickey and me, 1975 pot prisoners
by David Crockett Williams
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J388247E6

The Agenda
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N16125CD6

Unrepentant Junkies
Conservative Addiction Good, Liberal Addiction Bad!
Sen.Joseph McCarthy
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J537219B6
DJ Rush Limbaugh
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K512241B6
Bushît Hypocrisy & Double Standards
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H1E0221B6

Texass Tom "Coup" DeLay
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4364.gif
list/websites/articles
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4364.shtml

Monsanto's Cliarence
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4376.shtml
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Bill Bendit's Virtues
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Pisstasters
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http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/drug_testing.shtml
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O'Really?
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Trench Rot/Stench Rot
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A Whole Lotta Racism
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/lott.html
PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/13/ECH13_00.HTM

"Anybody who wants to legalize marijuana
or any other illegal substance is the enemy of this country"
Bob Dornan
Part time Fauxnews Gossip Commentator

Racist Ganjawar
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Waldo's Insolence
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DEAth Flunky
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Stop Fascism
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D.E.A.th Deceptions
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Latest Cybrary
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GOPerverted Officials
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Tom Delay tied to bribery scandal
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q198617E6
Thurmond nephew Mickey and me,
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J388247E6
David Crockett Williams
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O153227E6
Canada's Supremes Cower Under DEAth Threats
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Besieged hippies prepare to make war - not love
By Roger Boyes / The Times of London (Reg req.)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-943911,00.html

Copenhagen - Christiania, the last independent hippy colony in Europe, is to be
closed
on a legal technicality, a move that seems set to provoke street fighting in
Copenhagen
as drop-outs and drug dealers resist government bulldozers.

For more than 30 years the self-governing settlement in the centre of the Danish
capital has acted as a magnet for those trying to escape the rat race.

The residents of Christiania set up their own city state in a sprawling
18th-century
naval fortress once used as a barracks by the Nazi occupation forces.

The hippies' economy was almost self-sustaining: pony-tailed craftsmen built and
sold
eccentric bicycles, 24-hour bakeries turned out biologically pure bread and
carefully
tended gardens supplied vegetables. Food was traded for make-shift schooling,
firewood
and roof repair for books: it was a primitive free-wheeling bartering economy in
the
middle of one of Europe's most prosperous cities.

But Christiania also became the hub of the capital's trade in soft drugs - sold
freely
on Pusher Street - and it was this that stirred successive Danish governments to
consider a crackdown.

This time, the authorities are serious. Government lawyers have discovered that
an
earlier deal with the hippies, struck in 1989, merely gives the residents the
right to
borrow the land, not to rent it.

Christiania had been recognised as a "social experiment' 'in 1987, but two years
later
it was made clear that the use of the land - some 80 acres inhabited by about
1,000
people -was a concession rather than a formal rental contract.

That freed the way for a cleanup.

The current conservative government coalition has been growing impatient with
the
hippies. Last month the police raided the enclave 146 times, even though police
are
technically supposed to keep their distance.

The live-and-let-live policy, symbolized by the sign hanging over the entrance,
which
declares "No uniforms allowed, no bullet proof vests," is crumbling. There have
been
459 body searches in the past three weeks and cars driving past the colony are
regularly searched for drugs.

Popular Danish opinion has been evenly divided over Christiania with many
regarding it
as a harmless offbeat tourist attraction.

But the housing shortage in Copenhagen is swinging Danes behind the idea that
the large
terrain, much of it green parkland, could be better used to develop urban
housing.

The flower power disciples could be comfortably rehoused and still leave space
available for others.

On top of that, the drug trade would be brought under control.

But the residents are ready to turn an eviction into a massive act of civil
disobedience. The last eviction attempt, in 1976, sucked in tens of thousands of
anarchist sympathizers from across the continent who set up barricades and waged
war
with the police. The aim of the authorities in the coming months seems to be to
start
digging up the streets. Bulldozers will be sent into Pusher Street.

The street's drug traders, however, are tough, typically surrounded by packs of
fierce
fighter dogs; they are capable of more than symbolic resistance. A hoard of
weapons was
found recently in a back room in one of the dilapidated cottages.

"We are prepared for street fights and civil war-like conditions,' 'Pernille
Hansen, a
29-year-old Christiania resident, said.

"People have had enough of the present government and it won't take much to
spark
full-scale violence."

The community is divided into 15 self-governing districts, each controlled by
so-called
anarchist councils. Reports suggest that they have elaborate plans for defence
should
the police move in.

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http://www.hotels4travellers.com/copenhagen-denmark-tourist-information.phtml
Copenhagen Christiania

Christiania, a squatted 'free town' unlike anything you have ever seen (at least
this
far from Kingston), further emphasises the Amsterdam-feel of Christianshavn.
Here, all
manner of goods are sold in the open and anarchy reigns, although more or less
controlled by self-appointed authorities.

Copenhagen's Christiania District: A Cyclist's Paradise
http://www.baystep.org/christiania/chrisslideshow1.html

Christiania Trike: Miracle Workhorse of Copenhagen
http://www.baystep.org/christiania/christiania.html

Wonderful Copenhagen - Christiania tour
http://www.visitcopenhagen.dk/composite-655.htm

Google: Copenhagen - Christiania
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P285127E6

Denmark: Besieged hippies prepare to make war - not love
From: "D. Paul Stanford" stanford@... Sat, 27 Dec 2003
http://www.drugsense.org/lists/restore/v2003.n314

Hippies Reinvent Selves...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I3D5227D6
Poverty? Dubya Says Blame the Hippies!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2D0231B6
Free Tommy Chong!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B2C1421B6

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National Issue Hits Home By Jeremy Browning
Source: Craig Daily Press December 26, 2003
The defense attorney for a Hayden medicinal marijuana user is questioning the
ethics of
a local drug task force, which appears to be ignoring a court order to return
some of
his client's property. The Grand, Routt and Moffat Narcotics Enforcement Team
(GRAMNET)
has until Monday, Dec. 29 to return marijuana plants, marijuana pipes and two
ounces of
marijuana seized in an October raid of the home of Don Nord, 57, of Hayden.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18052.shtml

SB 420 Goes Up in Smoke By Steve Kubby
Source: Sierra Times December 26, 2003
Next week Californians with AIDS, glaucoma, cancer, multiple sclerosis,
epilepsy,
chronic pain and other ailments were supposed to begin getting state-issued
identification cards -- supposedly freeing them from jail time as they debate
their
medical need with cops.  Instead, Sen. John Vasconcellos, the author of the
legislation
aimed at completely re-writing the Compassionate Use Act, is learning first hand
what
happens to those who place their trust in polilticians and police. It seems that
officials charged with running the program say they don't have enough money to
get it
going.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18051.shtml

Pot Measure Stuck at Starting Line
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18050.shtml
Hempery Owner Will Fight Drug Charges
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18049.shtml
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Restore-Digest Saturday, December 27 2003 Volume 2003 : Number 314
http://thc-foundation.com/restore

001 UK: Top Cop Accepts Payout
002 CA: SB 420 Up In Smoke?
003 CA: Hayward Hempery Owner Charged With Intent to Sell MJ
004 CA: OC Caretaker for Elderly Arrested on MJ Charges
005 UK: Police on Trail of Internet Cannabis
006 Canada: Editorial: Pot Issue Likely To Cause Smoke
007 Denmark: Besieged hippies prepare to make war - not love
008 N: Canada: Highest Court Backs Pot Law
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MPP: Almost all presidential candidates support medical marijuana
From: Rob@... Thu, 25 Dec 2003

Dear Friend:  In stark contrast to the presidential campaigns of 2000 and
previous
years, almost all of the current presidential candidates are calling for an end
to the
federal government's raids on medical marijuana patients.

And some candidates are calling for broader marijuana policy reform measures.
According
to The New York Times on November 9 -- in response to the question "Which of you
are
ready to admit to having used marijuana in the past?" -- Congressman Dennis
Kucinich
replied that he had never used marijuana and then added, "But I think it ought
to be
decriminalized." Kucinich is one of the nine Democratic contenders.

Please see http://www.GraniteStaters.com for details on the Marijuana Policy
Project's
campaign to influence the presidential candidates in New Hampshire, as well as
the
candidates' positions on medical marijuana.

In addition to Congressman Kucinich, there are at least three other presidential
contenders who are calling for an end to the government's war on all marijuana
users --
not just medical marijuana patients.

* Aaron Russo, an independent candidate and accomplished movie producer and
director
who spoke at MPP's national conference in November 2002, has a video clip from
his
interview with the BBC (that was aired internationally but not in the U.S.) in
which he
expresses his support for medical marijuana.
http://www.russoforpresident.com

* Gary Nolan, a Libertarian, told MPP, "At the state and community level, I
believe
that currently illegal drugs like marijuana should be treated similarly to
currently
legal drugs like alcohol. There should certainly be no restrictions on the
ability of a
patient and his/her doctor to employ any treatment they think might be
effective,
including marijuana."
http://www.garynolan.com

* Michael Badnarik, also a Libertarian, has this to say on his Web site: "The
government's war on drugs violates the rights of Americans so egregiously that
it is a
bigger threat than the drugs themselves. Libertarians do not want our children
taking
drugs either, but we recognize that the several decades of drug interdiction
haven't
slowed the flow of narcotics into this country. Children take drugs because
criminals
actively sell them. Criminals sell drugs because they are astronomically
profitable.
Drugs are highly profitable only because they are illegal. The Libertarian
solution is
to decriminalize drugs, which will make drugs extremely cheap, which will remove
the
profit motivation for selling drugs, which will result in fewer children taking
drugs."
http://www.badnarik.org

And there will likely be Green Party and other candidates who will call for
similar
reforms; MPP will also report on these candidates in the months to come.

While it is true that Libertarian, Green, and independent candidates have the
deck
stacked against them and therefore are unlikely to win the presidency in 2004,
it is
telling that virtually all of these candidates -- from across the political
spectrum --
are calling for an end to marijuana prohibition.

And just as telling is the news that one of the Democratic candidates -- a
sitting
member of Congress -- is also calling for an end to marijuana prohibition. This
is from
Congressman Kucinich's Web page, which is found at
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/marijuana_decrim.php :

"The rationale for continuing this draconian policy of marijuana prohibition is
unclear. Statistical evidence shows that marijuana use follows a pattern very
similar
to that of alcohol. Most marijuana users do so responsibly, in a safe,
recreational
context. These people lead normal, productive lives -- pursuing careers, raising
families, and participating in civic life. In addition, marijuana has proven
benefits
in the treatment of numerous diseases, such as providing a valuable means of
pain
management for terminally ill patients. In either of these contexts, there is no
rational justification for criminally enforced prohibitions. These unnecessary
arrests
and incarcerations serve only to crowd prisons, backlog the judicial system, and
distract law enforcement officials from pursuing terrorists and other violent
criminals."

When we launched our campaign in New Hampshire in April, we did not predict this
degree
of success. Thanks to MPP's team of medical marijuana patients and other
dedicated
activists in New Hampshire -- as well as other advocates who are in regular
contact
with the various presidential campaigns -- we have changed the tenor of the
marijuana

Sincerely, Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.

P.S. Please visit http://www.GraniteStaters.com to donate to MPP's work in New
Hampshire. Or, to mail in your donation, please direct it to MPP at P.O. Box
77492,
Washington, D.C. 20013.
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First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.— Gandhi

Kucinich v. Dean, issue by issue
http://www.bobharris.com/kucinichdean.html

http://www.kucinich.us
http://www.corvusworld.com/dk4.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Kucinich4President
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From: "K4LIFE" kucinichforlife@...
Sat, 27 Dec 2003 The Flip-Flops of Howard Dean
http://slate.msn.com/id/2088207

Flip: In 1992, Dean said, "I don't support the death penalty for two reasons:
One, you
might have the wrong guy, and, two, the state is like a parent.Parents who smoke
cigarettes can't really tell their children not to smoke and be taken seriously.
If a
state tells you not to murder people, a state shouldn't be in the business of
taking
people's lives." The Rutland Herald,a Vermont newspaper, says that in those days
"Dean
was an outspoken opponent of the death penalty."

Flop: In early June 2003, Dean issued a statement declaring, "As governor, I
came to
believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain,
especially
heinous crimes, such as the murder of a child or the murder of a police officer.
The
events of Sept. 11 convinced me that terrorists also deserve the ultimate
punishment."
http://www.wafflepoweredhoward.com

Flip: On Feb. 28, 1995, Dean said on CNN's Crossfire that Social Security
absolutely"
needed to "increase the retirement age." According to a March 3, 1995 Newhouse
News
Service report on a subsequent Dean breakfast with reporters, "The way to
balance the
budget, Dean said, is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement
age to
70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans pensions, while the states cut almost
everything
else." In June 2003, Dean said on Meet the Press, "I also would entertain taking
the
retirement age to 68."

Flop: At a presidential candidate forum on Aug. 5, 2003, Dean said,
"I have never favored Social Security retirement at the age of 70, nor do I
favor one
of 68." http://slate.msn.com/id/2088207/ .................r o n

by William Saletan
Dec. 22, 2003 Jihoward: Howard Dean, suicide bomber
http://slate.msn.com/id/2093083
Dec. 18, 2003 Howard Dean triangulates the triangulator
http://slate.msn.com/id/2092895
Dec. 16, 2003 Howard the Hawk
http://slate.msn.com/id/2092724
Dec. 15, 2003 Senator, Have You No Shame?
http://slate.msn.com/id/2092540
Dec. 14, 2003 Is Dean Toast?
http://slate.msn.com/id/2092520
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Howard Dean Speaks to MMJ...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N25E12DC6
Doctors Organization Scales Back Proposal
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread10107.shtml
AMA Inc.
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/37/37230.gif

Oklahoma: Will Foster 93 Years For Cannabis
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O35755DD6
Oklahoma: Free James Geddes: 90 years for growing 5 mmj plants.
http://hr95.org/Geddes,J.html
Release Petition
http://hr95.org/geddes.petition.htm
Oklahoma: Istook the Constitution and set it on fire
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2D4222D6
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USDA says infected MAD cow came from Canada
http://www.cnn.com

Mad cow: Japan bans US beef
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q5D6322E6
Canada's Supremes Cower Under US DEAth Threats
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2FB112E6
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Six coalition soldiers have been killed and many others injured
after several blasts in the Iraqi city of Karbala, military officials say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/3350995.stm

Make Love Not War!
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4228.gif
http://www.indymedia.org
Bushit or Sadamn? Flip a Coin ...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L219623E5

We Don't Want Your War
http://www.jynkz.com/yourwar.html
http://www.seizetheday.org/UnitedStates.htm

War Sale
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4231.gif
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Just Say NO To Uncle Bam
http://www.UncleBam.com
http://UncleBam.homestead.com/index.html
http://www.unclebam.com/BamVert51.jpg
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From: David Crockett Williams gear2000@...
Taking immediate control of news media
(Excerpted: Complete email text posted at the Cybrary)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O153227E6

On December 15, 2000 a joint Resolution (S. Con Res 138) was adopted by the
House and
Senate declaring every January 1 as a  day of peace and sharing. This Resolution
was
originally presented to Congress by Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Rep. Paul
Wellstone.
http://www.oneday.net

This can be brought well to public attention by everyone conducting a local
Beloved
Community Walk for Global Harmony around their city hall on New Years Day, a
slow day
for news media looking for news, from the steps of your city hall 11am inviting
the
local media by email in advance telling them you are going to be there, to their
addresses at http://www.capwiz.com/lwv/dbq/media

When President Clinton said he would pardon Peltier the FBI defending its
corrupt
actions in this case took out big full page ads threatening lots of resignations
if
Clinton did it so he caved in and pardoned a rich guy instead.  See info on
Dennis
Banks and American Indian Movement history and teach your children the truth
about
Indians.
http://members.aol.com/Nowacumig/biograph.html

Learn about Leonard Peltier's case, refused even parole after imprisonment twice
as
long as the law allows for parole. The warmongers do not want this truth known
for they
know that when it is known their days of warmongering are over. Learn and tell
this
truth now and end war now. http://www.leonardpeltier.org

To get Dennis into the White House we cannot just extol Dennis we have to "BE"
Dennis
in our local areas and walk our talk as he has started to do.
http://www.kucinich.us

Monday, December 29, 2003, is the 113th anniversary of the Massacre of Chief
Bigfoot
and his people at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, an unrepented American Atrocity
hailed
still for "Ending the Indian Wars" but so egregious an insult and evil to
conscientious
people that this was the reason for the place where the Amerian Indian Movement
was
born into action led by Dennis Banks when they took over the buildings in
Wounded Knee
South Dakota in the early 1970's and forced an armed standoff with US troops in
what is
NOW the last armed conflict between the US Army and the American Indian Peoples.
That
desperate measure was taken because of the manipulation of the Lakota people to
access
Uranium in their sacred Black Hills and the official GOON Squads (the so-called
"Guardians Of the Oglala Nation") of thugs fomented by the US Cointelpro program
that
MURDERED over 70 Indian opponents of this Uranium mining WITH NO AMERICAN
OUTCRY!
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/APM-Lakota.html

If you know folks in The South, please forward them this, link for info on
movement
there,
and link at that site to Dixie for Dennis new lists...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Spirit-of-Dixie

Prayer for Global Peace Now.
http://www.sfgov.org/site/mayor_index.asp
Peace Pole Spiritual Pillar Symbol, Sarva Dharma Stupa Photo
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/peacepole.html
The Modern Peace Pagoda Stupa as Spiritual Pillar Symbol
http://www.peacepagoda.org
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MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THY PEOPLE YOU'RE DYING
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/mycount.html#top
NOW THAT THE BUFFALO'S GONE
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/nowthat.html#top
The Ganjawar Comes to the The Rez
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2FC33BD6

The Elkhorn Manifesto
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html
Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/invpro.html

"Rumsfeld Backed Saddam" After Chemical Agent Use in 1984 byAndrew Buncombe
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=475931
Corporations That Supplied Iraq's Weapons Program
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4229.gif
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J336256E5
Bushit Rumcheney Cocktail: Fascist Nationalism and MKULTRA
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K5CA22DF5
Bushit: Timeline of Treason
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q2C0261B6
Bushladen and the Terrorists Carlyles Groups
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J6A0231B6
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The Encyclopedia of the American Counterculture
From: John McMillian mcmill@... Fri, 26 Dec 2003

PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL FACULTY MEMBERS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS

M.E. Sharpe, a New York-based academic and reference publisher, is seeking
contributing
scholars for a two-volume reference work on the history of the counterculture in
America from colonial times to the present-day. The project is aimed at the
academic
high school and undergraduate levels. The General Editor is Dr. Karen Karbiener
of New
York University.

The encyclopedia will include articles on individuals, organizations, themes,
events,
ideas, works of art and literature, and more. Articles will vary in length from
500-2,000 words for entries on specific topics (depending on significance).
Counterculture will also include a number of ancillary features, including a
chronology, a glossary, and a bibliography.

We are seeking contributors for articles, as well as the chronology, the
glossary, and
the bibliography. All contributors will receive full authorial credit, a modest
cash
honorarium and/or copy of the full encyclopedia set (depending on contribution
length
and contributor preference).

If you are interested in contributing to this exciting and important reference
project--one we hope will be the definitive reference work on the American
counterculture--we would be happy to email you a prospectus with a full
description of
the project--with deadline, compensation, and other pertinent information,
including a
table of contents. Please contact the encyclopedia editorial assistant, Rebecca
Black
at: encyclopediaofcounterculture@...

If you cannot contribute, please feel free to forward this email to any
potentially
interested scholars (either professors or graduate students).

Sincerely, Rebecca Black, Editorial Assistant

Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of the American South
CB #9127, Hamilton Hall University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-9127
email:  tmccarth@...
phone:  919-962-5665
fax:  919-403-6272

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Eliminated by Legislation and Administrated Education Depravation!
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Please help these folks out if you can [if not I figure that's okay too but if
you have some extra money that you can share without taking away from your own
personal necissities and are truly into this cause I believe you should]. They
do more for this cause [the drug policy reform movement] as a whole then a lot
of you probably think, and what you sow you will reap in my honest opinion. They
seem to be very compassionate, caring, and yet frustrated at times due to these
insane and inhumane laws regarding drug use. They deserve any help they can get
in my honest opinion. They seem to be great people.

Note: I am a part of the DPR movement as a whole so when I say "they" I mean the
higher ups [basically the administaration], for lack of better termonoligy, in
the particular group known as M. A. P./DrugSense

The Media Awareness Project:
http://www.mapinc.org

DrugSense:
http://www.drugsense.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Greer [mailto:greer@...]
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003, 11:48 AM
> Subject: Moving toward a compassionate, science-based drug policy
>
> My friend,
>
> I am writing to you today out of both fear and frustration with the
> current state of affairs in America.  Although the new millennium began
> with a burst of optimism for the future of U.S. drug policy, the last
> few years have been marked by a steady erosion of our personal and
> civil liberties.  While polls show a growing majority support for harm
> reduction and a more liberal drug policy, our present government has
> done its best to maintain and reinforce its widely discredited and
> unpopular drug prohibition.
>
> What is particularly frustrating is that we know that there is a better
> way.  Much of the Western world has chosen to embrace a science-based,
> harm-reduction approach towards the use of recreational drugs, treating
> it as a medical rather than a criminal concern.  While we continue to
> fill our prisons with non-violent drug offenders, the U.K will soon
> reclassify recreational cannabis use as a non-arrestable offense.  Even
> our neighbours in Canada will once again consider decriminalizing the
> personal use of marijuana in 2004.
>
> Under the questionable moral leadership of John Ashcroft and John
> Walters, and as a result of poorly construed policies such the Homeland
> Security Act, the HEA and the newly introduced RAVE legislation, our
> nation is quickly devolving from the "land of the free" to the land of
> the carefully monitored and widely oppressed.
>
> DrugSense has been working hard to help America retain its liberty and
> regain its freedoms.  With the upcoming federal elections, information
> is our greatest tool for progressive change.  However, the pending
> election has diverted much of the traditional funding avenues for drug
> policy reform to the wider goal of ousting the present regime, which is
> why I need to ask you today to support our goal of moving toward a
> compassionate, science-based drug policy, rather than one which is
> based on fear and misinformation.
>
> Find our address below or use our quick, easy, and secure donations
> page at http://www.drugsense.org/donate.htm#supportds
>
> DrugSense continues to support, assist and inform the entire online
> drug policy reform movement through important resources such as the
> Media Awareness Project, our weekly e-newsletter, and issue-oriented
> media Focus Alerts.  Our ever-expanding Drug Policy Central web
> services currently host over 100 of drug reforms leading organizations,
> including Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Students for a Sensible
> Drug Policy, and Common Sense for Drug Policy.  If we are to continue
> with this good work, we need to ask for help from people like you who
> believe that compassionate policies and the preservation of personal
> freedoms are what continue to make America great.
>
> Please help us keep Ashcroft/Walters honest; give what you can to
> MAP/DrugSense.
>
> With my sincere gratitude, and a hope for new direction for 2004.
>
> Mark Greer
> Executive Director
> DrugSense
> 14252 Culver Dr #328
> Irvine,
> CA 92604
> (800) 266 5759


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Signature:
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You mock me, laugh at me, and spread lies about me and my cause out loud because
I'm different, I laugh at you silently because you're all the same - like robots
sinking on a ship of fools. Well, as the Grateful Dead once produced: "ship of
fools, sail away from me...".

I have discovered, through my life experiences, that it is inner beauty that
matters most. If you only look at the outer shell of someone and persue any form
of relationship with them then you could be in for some trouble. I believe that
there is and will be wolves in sheeps fur as well as sheep in wolves fur. In
other words, I believe that there is and will be people who appear to be light
and kind hearted on the outside, but really are dark hearted and cruel as well
as people who appear to be dark hearted and cruel on the outside but are really
light hearted and kind people. It all comes down to that age old saying: "never
judge a book by its cover".

"It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the D. E. A. to continue
to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of
the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer
than many of the foods we commonly consume... marijuana in its natural form is
one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." -Francis L.
Young; Former Administrative Law Judge for the D. E. A.

"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana
never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does
not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more
harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." -William F. Buckley, Jr.

Personal Plug/Link:
The AMSL Hangout - A Marijuana Smoker's Lounge Hangout:
http://www.geocities.com/prezz_420/index.html

Note: You don't _have_ to be a toker to get information and education out of the
above web site.

The following message was forwarded to you from the "MAPTalk" e-mailing list
provided by the Media Awareness Project. For those who don't know, you may find
more information about the Media Awareness Project, what they do, and alot of
other information regarding drug policy and drug policy reform all over the
world, on their website at: http://www.mapinc.org . You may also subscribe to
the "MAPTalk" e-mailing list, and many other related e-mailing lists of your
choice from there.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Meehan [mailto:tim@...]
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003, 5:44 PM
> Subject: MAP: Contact Paulah Dauns -- who denied Steve Kubby's refugee claim
> -- and let your opinion be known!
>
> Paulah Dauns - Immigration & Refugee Board
>
> 1600-300 W Georgia St Vancouver BC V6B 6C9
>
> paulah.dauns@...
>
> Tel (604) 666-1761
> Fax (604) 666-0809


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Signature:
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You mock me, laugh at me, and spread lies about me and my cause out loud because
I'm different, I laugh at you silently because you're all the same - like robots
sinking on a ship of fools. Well, as the Grateful Dead once produced: "ship of
fools, sail away from me...".

I have discovered, through my life experiences, that it is inner beauty that
matters most. If you only look at the outer shell of someone and persue any form
of relationship with them then you could be in for some trouble. I believe that
there is and will be wolves in sheeps fur as well as sheep in wolves fur. In
other words, I believe that there is and will be people who appear to be light
and kind hearted on the outside, but really are dark hearted and cruel as well
as people who appear to be dark hearted and cruel on the outside but are really
light hearted and kind people. It all comes down to that age old saying: "never
judge a book by its cover".

"It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the D. E. A. to continue
to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of
the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer
than many of the foods we commonly consume... marijuana in its natural form is
one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." -Francis L.
Young; Former Administrative Law Judge for the D. E. A.

"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana
never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does
not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more
harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." -William F. Buckley, Jr.

Personal Plug/Link:
The AMSL Hangout - A Marijuana Smoker's Lounge Hangout:
http://www.geocities.com/prezz_420/index.html

Note: You don't _have_ to be a toker to get information and education out of the
above web site.

The following message was forwarded to you from the "MAPTalk" e-mailing list
provided by the Media Awareness Project. For those who don't know, you may find
more information about the Media Awareness Project, what they do, and alot of
other information regarding drug policy and drug policy reform all over the
world, on their website at: http://www.mapinc.org . You may also subscribe to
the "MAPTalk" e-mailing list, and many other related e-mailing lists of your
choice from there.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Meehan [mailto:tim@...]
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003, 4:07 PM
> Subject: MAP: Canada: Wire: Health Canada agrees to provide pot long-term;
> patients protest
>
> Source: Canadian Press
> Pubdate: December 8, 2003
> Author: Dennis Bueckert
>
> Health Canada agrees to provide pot long-term; patients protest
>
> OTTAWA (CP) - Health Canada says it will provide medical marijuana to
> authorized
> patients on a long-term basis, but patients aren't cheering.
>
> Instead, they're upset that the government will continue to strictly limit
> local
> growing operations, forcing many patients to obtain government pot which they
> consider inferior and overpriced. "This is not going to help the sick people
> across Canada - it's only going to hurt them even more, because it's only
> going
> to push us to the black market," said Marco Renda, a medical pot user.
>
> The latest version of the medical pot regulations appeared Monday in response
> to
> an Ontario ruling in the fall that said the existing marijuana access rules
> were
> overly restrictive and unconstitutional.
>
> Alan Young, a veteran lawyer and cannabis crusader, said Health Canada has
> ignored much of the Ontario court order and he will sue for contempt of court.
>
> "The court removed four major restrictions to access . . . one restriction
> being
> the ability of a producer to grow for a number of patients," said Young.
>
> "It's crystal clear, there's no way to circumvent this, they're simply
> ignoring
> the court ruling. I will set the wheels in motion to take Health Canada to
> court
> for contempt of court."
>
> In its decision last October, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a lower court
> order that the government provide a legal source of pot for authorized
> patients.
>
> Health Minister Anne McLellan responded to the earlier court ruling by
> introducing an interim plan, under which patients could obtain pot from Health
> Canada.
>
> That contradicted McLellan's previous statements that she would not release
> any
> marijuana until it had been proven in clinical trials to be beneficial.
>
> Now McLellan has effectively made the interim plan permanent, entrenching it
> in
> regulations. Clinical trials will continue, but the provision of pot to
> patients
> won't wait until results are in.
>
> Under the new rules, it will be acceptable for a patient to pay his or her
> supplier, and the price is left for them to negotiate.
>
> But the rules will continue to prevent a grower from supplying more than a
> single patient, and to prevent more than three patients from cultivating
> together.
>
> "This is absolutely unacceptable," said Alison Myrdon [sic], who uses
> marijuana
> to ease pain associated with multiple sclerosis.
>
> "Now I can't grow with my friends. I was hoping to start a collective grow
> here
> in the country. We can not only save money but then safety wouldn't be an
> issue."
>
> Health Canada currently has a pot-supply contract with Prairie Plant Systems
> of
> Saskatoon, but Myrdon said the government pot costs $150 an ounce while she
> can
> obtain it on the black market for $100 an ounce.
>
> The new regulation contains some minor changes in the procedure for obtaining
> approval for marijuana access. One class of patients who had previously needed
> signatures from two medical specialists will now need only one signature.
>
> Currently there is little scientific evidence that marijuana has therapeutic
> benefits, but that could be due to scant funding for marijuana research. Many
> patients say it helps them deal with nausea, pain and lack of appetite.
>
> ---
> WTS Fine Guanos - http://www.salvagingelectrons.com/wts/


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You mock me, laugh at me, and spread lies about me and my cause out loud because
I'm different, I laugh at you silently because you're all the same - like robots
sinking on a ship of fools. Well, as the Grateful Dead once produced: "ship of
fools, sail away from me...".

I have discovered, through my life experiences, that it is inner beauty that
matters most. If you only look at the outer shell of someone and persue any form
of relationship with them then you could be in for some trouble. I believe that
there is and will be wolves in sheeps fur as well as sheep in wolves fur. In
other words, I believe that there is and will be people who appear to be light
and kind hearted on the outside, but really are dark hearted and cruel as well
as people who appear to be dark hearted and cruel on the outside but are really
light hearted and kind people. It all comes down to that age old saying: "never
judge a book by its cover".

"It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the D. E. A. to continue
to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of
the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer
than many of the foods we commonly consume... marijuana in its natural form is
one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." -Francis L.
Young; Former Administrative Law Judge for the D. E. A.

"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana
never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does
not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more
harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." -William F. Buckley, Jr.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Meehan [mailto:tim@...]
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003, 1:11 PM
> Subject: MAP: More from Dr. Defensive (re: dishonest cannabis/tobacco study)
>
> Wow, seems I really got her back up!
>
> -Tim
>
> ---
>
> To: "Tim Meehan" <tim@...>
> Subject: RE:
> From: "Sarah Nuttall" <s.nuttall@...>
> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:12:10 -0000
>
> The study reported observational results for cannabis above that of tobacco
> only. There is no spin & I don't know what 'funding' you are referring to -
> this is straight science with departmental resources. Once again I wish that
> 'individuals' such as yourself would get your facts correct before being
> offensive.
> If you have any further remarks that aim to justify your own existence
> ('funded' by alternative sources I presume) please refer to the university
> press department.
>
> ---
> WTS Fine Guanos - http://www.salvagingelectrons.com/wts/


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You mock me, laugh at me, and spread lies about me and my cause out loud because
I'm different, I laugh at you silently because you're all the same - like robots
sinking on a ship of fools. Well, as the Grateful Dead once produced: "ship of
fools, sail away from me...".

I have discovered, through my life experiences, that it is inner beauty that
matters most. If you only look at the outer shell of someone and persue any form
of relationship with them then you could be in for some trouble. I believe that
there is and will be wolves in sheeps fur as well as sheep in wolves fur. In
other words, I believe that there is and will be people who appear to be light
and kind hearted on the outside, but really are dark hearted and cruel as well
as people who appear to be dark hearted and cruel on the outside but are really
light hearted and kind people. It all comes down to that age old saying: "never
judge a book by its cover".

"It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the D. E. A. to continue
to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of
the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer
than many of the foods we commonly consume... marijuana in its natural form is
one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." -Francis L.
Young; Former Administrative Law Judge for the D. E. A.

"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana
never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does
not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more
harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." -William F. Buckley, Jr.

Personal Plug/Link:
The AMSL Hangout - A Marijuana Smoker's Lounge Hangout:
http://www.geocities.com/prezz_420/index.html

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Meehan [mailto:tim@...]
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003, 11:39 PM\
> Subject: MAP: US NV: Another try at legalizing marijuana
>
> Pubdate: Sun, 07 Dec 2003
> Source: Nevada Appeal (Carson City, NV)
> Copyright: 2003 Nevada Appeal
> Contact: editor@...
> Website: http://www.nevadaappeal.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/896
> Author: Guy W. Farmer
> Note: Guy W. Farmer, a semi-retired journalist and former U.S. diplomat,
> resides in Carson City.
>
> ANOTHER TRY AT LEGALIZING MARIJUANA
>
> Even though Nevada voters handed them a decisive defeat last year, the drug
> legalizers are at it again.  Masquerading as "Nevadans for Responsible Law
> Enforcement," the potheads lost big-time in November 2002, when Nevadans voted
> against Question 9 - a marijuana legalization measure - by a 61 to 39 percent
> margin.
>
> But now, they're back again with a costly television spot advocating drug
> legalization in our state.  The ad is sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based
> Marijuana Policy Project, which spent $2 million on Question 9 last year.
> Using
> a split screen, the ubiquitous new spot shows a group of sad-looking Nevada
> teenagers on one side wearing T-shirts reading 67 percent ( the percentage who
> have allegedly tried marijuana ) and a group of smiling Dutch teenagers on the
> other wearing 28 percent T-shirts.
>
> The message is that we should legalize marijuana in order to keep our
> teenagers
> happy and reduce drug use.  And if you believe that, I have a nice piece of
> waterfront property for you in Washoe Valley.
>
> Let's take a closer look at the MPP statistics.  Although a 2001 study by the
> White House Office on National Drug Control Policy stated that "more than 67
> percent of Nevada high school seniors reported using marijuana at least once
> in
> their lifetime," it added that only 26.6 percent of Nevada high school
> students
> were regular marijuana users ( which is still too high ).  Assuming that the
> 28
> percent figure for Dutch teenagers is correct, the comparison isn't so bad for
> Nevada.
>
> Nevada State Medical Association Director Lawrence Matheis recently told
> Reno's
> alternative weekly, the News & Review, that the MPP was "disingenuous" when it
> chose to portray Question 9 as a medical marijuana measure in an effort to
> mislead Nevada voters.  We weren't fooled, however, and most of us applauded
> Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick, when he urged the drug
> legalizers
> to "pack your baggies and go home.  We don't need this stuff in Nevada." And
> we
> still don't.
>
> When I wrote a column in opposition to Question 9 last year, its supporters
> accused me of not understanding that marijuana is a life-saving drug.  But if
> that's true, why did the Nevada Legislature put the State Agriculture
> Department
> in charge of the medical marijuana program instead of the State Pharmacy
> Board?
> As Pharmacy Board Executive Secretary Keith McDonald told me at the time,
> "Obviously, marijuana isn't medicine.  That's why they ( the Legislature )
> gave
> it to the Agriculture Department."
>
> The drug legalizers were even more upset when I listed the fatalities that
> marijuana-smoking drivers had caused in Nevada.  Convicted drugged drivers
> included the retired California firefighter who crashed head-on into a van on
> I-80 east of Reno in May 2002, killing five members of a Utah family including
> four children; a 24-year-old Douglas County man who killed a 46-year-old
> mother
> of four in a high-speed, head-on collision in Gardnerville Ranchos in July
> 2001,
> and a 22-year-old Las Vegas stripper who ran off the road and killed six
> teenagers on a highway work detail in March 2000.
>
> And to that list of marijuana-related highway fatalities we can now add the
> case
> of 39-year-old Jonathan Hyde, of Reno, who was allegedly high on drugs when
> his
> truck struck and killed 24-year-old newlywed Kelly Berry, of Virginia
> Foothills,
> as she walked with her husband near their home last August.  Police allege
> that
> Hyde had five times the legal limit of marijuana and nearly twice the limit of
> methamphetamine in his blood when he was arrested.  If convicted, he could
> face
> up to 50 years in prison.
>
> I dare the MPP or anyone else to tell the victims of these horrific accidents
> that marijuana isn't a dangerous drug.  Also, no one has yet supplied
> conclusive
> medical evidence that marijuana smoke cures anything.  Nevertheless, those who
> believe they need THC, the main active ingredient in marijuana, for medical
> reasons can easily obtain a prescription for Marinol, which contains higher
> doses of THC than the typical "joint." That's why I believe the whole medical
> marijuana campaign was nothing more than an excuse to smoke dope in public.
> Although Nevadans fell for that scam in the 1990s, we don't have to compound
> the
> error by legalizing marijuana, which is a first step down the slippery slope
> of
> broader drug legalization.
>
> So who pays for these expensive pro-drug TV campaigns? The largest single
> contributor is billionaire financier George Soros, a Hungarian-born socialist
> who was described by former Health and Human Services Secretary Joseph
> Califano
> as "the Daddy Warbucks of drug legalization." Soros, who hates President Bush
> and contributes millions of dollars to Howard Dean and other left-wing causes,
> has identified "capitalism and market values" as the main threats to world
> peace.  Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, he probably thinks that
> legalizing dangerous drugs would help to achieve a more perfect world.
> Frankly,
> I think he's been smoking something.
>
> "These people ( Soros and his MPP allies ) use ignorance and an overwhelming
> amount of money to influence the electorate," said White House drug czar John
> Walters during the 2002 election campaign.  "( But ) you don't hide behind
> money
> and refuse to talk and hire underlings and not stand up and speak for
> yourself."
> Therefore, I cordially invite MPP/Nevada spokesman Bruce Mirken to tell us
> what
> their real agenda is.  I'm sure his answer would be both revealing and
> educational.  How about it, Bruce? I can hardly wait.
>
> ---
> WTS Fine Guanos - http://www.salvagingelectrons.com/wts/


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You mock me, laugh at me, and spread lies about me and my cause out loud because
I'm different, I laugh at you silently because you're all the same - like robots
sinking on a ship of fools. Well, as the Grateful Dead once produced: "ship of
fools, sail away from me...".

I have discovered, through my life experiences, that it is inner beauty that
matters most. If you only look at the outer shell of someone and persue any form
of relationship with them then you could be in for some trouble. I believe that
there is and will be wolves in sheeps fur as well as sheep in wolves fur. In
other words, I believe that there is and will be people who appear to be light
and kind hearted on the outside, but really are dark hearted and cruel as well
as people who appear to be dark hearted and cruel on the outside but are really
light hearted and kind people. It all comes down to that age old saying: "never
judge a book by its cover".

"It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the D. E. A. to continue
to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of
the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer
than many of the foods we commonly consume... marijuana in its natural form is
one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." -Francis L.
Young; Former Administrative Law Judge for the D. E. A.

"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana
never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does
not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more
harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." -William F. Buckley, Jr.

Personal Plug/Link:
The AMSL Hangout - A Marijuana Smoker's Lounge Hangout:
http://www.geocities.com/prezz_420/index.html

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above web site.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: M & M Family [mailto:mmfamily@...]
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003, 7:58 PM
> Subject: MAP: More on the State of Scientific Research in the US
>
> Source:  San Jose Mercury News
>
> webpage: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/7435468.htm
>
> Sun, Dec. 07, 2003
>
> A CASE OF CONFLICT
>
> By David Willman
> Los Angeles Times
>
> BETHESDA, Md. - Subject No. 4 died at 1:44 a.m. on June 14, 1999, in
> the immense federal research clinic of the National Institutes of
> Health.
>
> The cause of death was clear: a complication from an experimental
> treatment for kidney inflammation using a drug made by a German
> company, Schering AG.
>
> Among the first to be notified was Dr. Stephen Katz, the senior NIH
> official whose institute conducted the study.
>
> Unknown to the participants, Katz also was a paid consultant to Schering.
>
> Katz and his institute staff could have responded to the death by
> stopping the study immediately. They also could have moved swiftly to
> warn doctors outside the NIH who were prescribing the drug for
> similar disorders. Either step might have threatened the market
> potential for Schering's drug. They did neither.
>
> Questioned later, Katz said his consulting arrangement with Schering
> did not influence his institute's decisions. His work with the
> company was approved by NIH leaders.
>
> Such dual roles -- federal-research leader and drug-company
> consultant -- are increasingly common at the NIH, an agency once
> known for independent scientific inquiry on behalf of a single
> client: the public.
>
> Distinct from industry
>
> Two decades ago, the NIH was so distinct from industry that Margaret
> Heckler, secretary of health and human services in the Reagan
> administration, could describe it as ``an island of objective and
> pristine research, untainted by the influences of commercialization.''
>
> Today, with its senior scientists collecting paychecks and stock
> options from biomedical companies, the NIH is no longer an island.
>
> Interviews and corporate and federal records obtained by the Los
> Angeles Times document hundreds of consulting payments to ranking NIH
> officials.
>
> Katz, director of the NIH's National Institute of Arthritis and
> Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, collected between $476,369 and
> $616,365 in company fees in the past decade, according to his yearly
> income-disclosure reports. Some of his fees were reported in ranges
> without citing exact figures. Schering paid Katz at least $170,000.
> Another company paid him more than $140,000 in consulting fees. It
> won $1.7 million in grants from his institute before going bankrupt
> last year.
>
> Income confidential
>
> Increasingly, outside payments to NIH scientists are being hidden
> from public view. Relying in part on a 1998 legal opinion, NIH
> officials allow more than 94 percent of the agency's top-paid
> employees to keep their consulting income confidential.
>
> As a result, the NIH is one of the most secretive agencies in the
> federal government when it comes to financial disclosures. A survey
> by the Los Angeles Times of 34 other federal agencies found that all
> had higher percentages of eligible employees filing reports on
> outside income. In several agencies, every top-paid official
> submitted public reports.
>
> Dr. Arnold Relman, former editor of the New England Journal of
> Medicine, said private consulting by government scientists posed
> ``legitimate cause for concern.''
>
> Relman and others said company payments raised questions about
> public-health decisions made throughout the NIH:
>
> * Can study participants trust that experimental treatments are
> chosen on merit and not because of officials' personal financial
> interests?
>
> * Will scientists shade their interpretations of study results to
> favor their clients?
>
> * Will officials favor their clients over other companies that seek
> NIH grants or collaborations?
>
> Patent questions
>
> Conflict-of-interest questions also arise in the potentially
> lucrative awarding of patents.
>
> Thomas J. Kindt, the director of in-house research at the National
> Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, accepted $63,000 in
> consulting fees from a New York biotechnology company, Innovir
> Laboratories, and wound up an inventor on one of its patents.
>
> Kindt said he had contributed to the ``basic idea'' while using
> vacation time, with approval of the NIH.
>
> ``No work was done on it as a government employee,'' said Kindt,
> whose annual salary at the NIH is $191,200.
>
> But other people say the private arrangements undermine the public interest.
>
> ``Science should be for the sake of gaining knowledge and looking for
> the truth,'' said Dr. Curt Furberg, former head of clinical trials at
> the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. ``There should be no
> other factors involved that can introduce bias on decision-making.''
>
> Dr. Ruth Kirschstein, who as the deputy director of the NIH approved
> many of the top officials' consulting arrangements, said she did not
> believe that they had compromised the public interest. ``I think NIH
> scientists, NIH directors and all the staff are highly ethical people
> with enormous integrity,'' she said.
>
> The NIH, founded in 1887, has grown steadily in responsibilities and
> prominence. It consists of 27 research centers and institutes that
> compose today's NIH. Since 1990, the annual budget has nearly
> quadrupled to $27.9 billion.
>
> Connections
>
> With billions of dollars in product sales potentially at stake for
> industry, and untold fortunes riding on biomedical stock prices,
> commercial temptations abound.
>
> Researchers poised to make a breakthrough in their NIH labs can, the
> same day, land paid consulting positions with companies eager to
> exploit their insights and cachet. Many companies cite their
> connections to NIH scientists on Web sites and in news releases,
> despite an agency rule against the practice. Selection of a company's
> products for an NIH study can provide a bankable endorsement --
> attracting investors and boosting stock value.
>
> Agency leaders in the 1990s began weakening restrictions on consulting.
>
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You mock me, laugh at me, and spread lies about me and my cause out loud because
I'm different, I laugh at you silently because you're all the same - like robots
sinking on a ship of fools. Well, as the Grateful Dead once produced: "ship of
fools, sail away from me...".

I have discovered, through my life experiences, that it is inner beauty that
matters most. If you only look at the outer shell of someone and persue any form
of relationship with them then you could be in for some trouble. I believe that
there is and will be wolves in sheeps fur as well as sheep in wolves fur. In
other words, I believe that there is and will be people who appear to be light
and kind hearted on the outside, but really are dark hearted and cruel as well
as people who appear to be dark hearted and cruel on the outside but are really
light hearted and kind people. It all comes down to that age old saying: "never
judge a book by its cover".

"It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the D. E. A. to continue
to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of
the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer
than many of the foods we commonly consume... marijuana in its natural form is
one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." -Francis L.
Young; Former Administrative Law Judge for the D. E. A.

"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana
never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does
not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more
harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." -William F. Buckley, Jr.

Personal Plug/Link:
The AMSL Hangout - A Marijuana Smoker's Lounge Hangout:
http://www.geocities.com/prezz_420/index.html

Note: You don't _have_ to be a toker to get information and education out of the
above web site.

The following message was forwarded to you from the "MAPTalk" e-mailing list
provided by the Media Awareness Project. For those who don't know, you may find
more information about the Media Awareness Project, what they do, and alot of
other information regarding drug policy and drug policy reform all over the
world, on their website at: http://www.mapinc.org . You may also subscribe to
the "MAPTalk" e-mailing list, and many other related e-mailing lists of your
choice from there.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Meehan [mailto:tim@...]
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003, 10:28 PM
> Subject: MAP: UK: Very British approach to the business of cannabis
>
> Source: Independent (UK)
> Contact letters@...
> Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/
> Address: 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5DL
> Copyright: 2003 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd.
> Author: Stephen Foley
> Pubdate: December 8, 2003
>
> Very British approach to the business of cannabis
>
> Business Profile: Geoffrey Guy believes his company is close to success in
> creating a legal drug from an illegal one
>
> Geoffrey Guy has a conviction: possession of cannabis, with intent to supply.
> Not a criminal conviction, of course, since Dr Guy is an upstanding
> businessman
> and pillar of the community in Dorset. Just an evangelical belief that
> cannabis
> has an array of medical benefits and that his own painkiller, developed from
> the
> plant, will be available on the National Health within months.
>
> He is the G in GW Pharmaceuticals, its founder, executive chairman, and
> cheerleader-in-chief. He saw that the Home Office was sympathetic to multiple
> sclerosis sufferers who had long argued cannabis had medical benefits, but
> that
> outright legalisation was a non-starter. So he asked for a license to grow the
> plant and, barely five years later, GW is tantalisingly close to launching its
> under-the-tongue spray, called Sativex.
>
> "We represent the manifestation of government policy," he says. "If we
> disappeared tomorrow the Government would not have a policy. Her Majesty's
> Government has taken a very clear view, which is that in Britain we will do
> this
> in a pragmatic, proper way. If it is a medicine, let's prove it to be a
> medicine
> and let that proof be tested by the regulators. And that's where we stand.
> It's
> delightful to be British under this circumstance."
>
> The regulators in question are what Dr Guy describes as the "12 good
> scientists
> and true" of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
> They will rule on whether GW's dossier of trial results, submitted in March,
> proves the company can manufacture Sativex consistently, proves the product is
> safe, and proves that it really does relieve the muscle stiffness of MS
> patients
> and the pain caused by nerve damage, as Dr Guy claims. It is a critical test
> of
> the quality of GW's science, but Dr Guy sees it as just the next hurdle after
> a
> string of hurdles already jumped.
>
> "The crucial period was five years ago, getting this programme started. That
> was
> the most important time for these patients. Somebody was listening to them and
> finally, at last, the cavalry was on its way. Somebody was taking them
> seriously, and was prepared to try to make a medicine out of this plant. That
> is
> stunning. It's so significant in so many different ways, to actually have a
> medicine made in response to an unmet need for patients. These other issues,
> like cannabis being an entirely illegal substance around the world, those were
> just problems we had to overcome, which we did."
>
> Clearly Dr Guy is never one to sell himself or his company's achievements
> short.
> A doctor by training, his salesman streak developed at medical school, dealing
> in cars and his beloved motorbikes. He has a number of companies behind him
> already, mostly in the medical arena. Wearing sharp pinstripes when The
> Independent dropped in on GW's modest office in Mayfair, London, he is just at
> home in a lab coat at the company's Porton Down science park headquarters in
> Wiltshire, or at its top-secret cannabis greenhouse in the South of England.
> Invitations to that site are few and far between. The place is "like Fort
> Knox".
> Staff are vetted for convictions and routinely dope tested, and all the plants
> are individually labelled. "We have camera systems that can read a badge from
> 300 yards, and it's not fuzzy shopping centre stuff."
>
> Dr Guy certainly wouldn't be tempted to snip off a little for himself. For the
> sake of his health, he has cut out almost all the vices: he is a non-smoker, a
> teetotaller and now coffee is out, too, since cup after cup at business
> meetings
> was making him buzz. And, no, he hasn't indulged in cannabis. Not ever.
>
> "Even up to a few years ago I used to quite naively say there wasn't any
> cannabis around at medical school. With people happier to talk more freely, I
> now understand there probably was in the Seventies, but I didn't see it. I
> don't
> come to this with a connoisseur's understanding of cannabis."
>
> Opinion in the City and in the scientific community is sharply divided over
> the
> prospects for GW and its products. The numbers of patients in the clinical
> studies have been relatively small and some of the trials did not prove what
> they set out to prove, although they do show statistically significant
> benefits,
> and Dr Guy insists the studies are robust.
>
> GW did not raise any money from institutional investors for its float in 2001
> when its broker Collins Stewart instead tapped wealthy individuals. But the
> institutions are coming on board now and GW's progress to date has helped Dr
> Guy
> overcome some of the "reputational damage" he suffered over his last venture,
> Ethical Holdings. Another drug company, it failed to raise vital funds through
> a
> listing in London in 1996 and had to be bailed out by the Irish drugmaker Elan
> and broken up.
>
> Dr Guy is still sore at the memory, but brushes off people's doubts. "I don't
> lose sleep over it. I'm not a person who seeks high praise from people I don't
> know. We had a failed listing in London, which seems to have coloured most
> things in London, which is very typical of London, which looks not very much
> further than London. Having founded GW, from day one we have operated entirely
> to our plan."
>
> If there is a serious setback for Sativex at the MHRA, he won't have done
> himself any favours by selling £5m of shares at the time of GW's £20m
> fundraising in June this year. Then, the company was still predicting the drug
> would be available on prescription this month and the shares were 200p
> compared
> with 177.5p at the end of last week.
>
> None of these niggles will persist if Sativex is okayed, successfully rolled
> out
> overseas, as Dr Guy predicts, and if even a fraction of his optimism over the
> prospects for cannabis-based medicines proves correct.
>
> "I think we are going to see 20 years of sensational medicines coming out of
> this area of research, and we are heavily involved at all stages," he says.
>
> "You and I learnt at school that cannabis kills brain cells. The entire
> opposite
> is the case. We are highly involved in research looking at neuro-protection,
> we're looking at the anti-tumour effects of these materials, the
> anti-psychotic
> effects.
>
> "I still hear people who say GW isn't a serious company. I'd line them up in
> front of a few of our patients, and see what our patients would say. We are
> not
> long for that judgment. Let's see how we get on."
>
> GEOFFREY GUY: VICE-FREE CHAIRMAN
>
> Position: Chairman of GW Pharmaceuticals
>
> Age: 49
>
> Wealth: Salary and benefits from GW in the year to September 2002 were
> £199,000,
> and Dr Guy cashed in £5m of his shareholding in June 2003. His remaining stake
> is valued at £41.5m, putting him at number 801 on the Sunday Times Rich List
>
> Career: Trained as a doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London before
> moving
> into private sector. Set up Ethical Holdings, making morphine and hormone
> replacement therapy drugs, in 1985, leaving a year after it failed to list in
> London in 1996. Set up GW in 1998 and floated it in 2001
>
> Interests: Real tennis, yachts, cars and archery
>
> ---
> WTS Fine Guanos - http://www.salvagingelectrons.com/wts/


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You mock me, laugh at me, and spread lies about me and my cause out loud because
I'm different, I laugh at you silently because you're all the same - like robots
sinking on a ship of fools. Well, as the Grateful Dead once produced: "ship of
fools, sail away from me...".

I have discovered, through my life experiences, that it is inner beauty that
matters most. If you only look at the outer shell of someone and persue any form
of relationship with them then you could be in for some trouble. I believe that
there is and will be wolves in sheeps fur as well as sheep in wolves fur. In
other words, I believe that there is and will be people who appear to be light
and kind hearted on the outside, but really are dark hearted and cruel as well
as people who appear to be dark hearted and cruel on the outside but are really
light hearted and kind people. It all comes down to that age old saying: "never
judge a book by its cover".

"It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the D. E. A. to continue
to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of
the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer
than many of the foods we commonly consume... marijuana in its natural form is
one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." -Francis L.
Young; Former Administrative Law Judge for the D. E. A.

"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana
never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does
not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more
harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." -William F. Buckley, Jr.

Personal Plug/Link:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Meehan [mailto:tim@...]
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003, 2:38 AM
> Subject: MAP: US: Web: The US military: A creeping civilian mission
>
> Source: Asia Times (China Web)
> Contact letters@...
> Website: http://atimes.com/
> Address: Asia Times Online, 6306 The Center, Queen's Road, Central, Hong Kong
> Copyright: 2003 Asia Times Online Co. Limited
> Pubdate: December 5, 2003
> Author: David Isenberg
> Related: http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/1992/dunlap.htm
>
> The US military: A creeping civilian mission
>
> It seems that the United States military coup of 2012 has arrived about 10
> years
> early. Well, okay, not the full-fledged classic coup, led by a general on
> horseback. But, as they say, close enough for government work.
>
> First, more about that coup. In 1992, a then little-known deputy staff judge
> advocate lieutenant-colonel by the name of Charles J Dunlap Jr published an
> article titled "The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012" (1) in the
> US
> Army War College's military journal Parameters. In a plot that was a cross
> between Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon and the movie The Siege, he
> depicted
> an America in which a military coup had taken place in the year 2012, and
> General Thomas E T Brutus, commander-in-chief of the Unified Armed Forces of
> the
> United States, occupies the White House as permanent military plenipotentiary.
> A
> senior retired officer of the military is one of those arrested, having been
> convicted by court-martial for opposing the coup. Prior to his execution, he
> discusses the origins of the coup, arguing that it was the outgrowth of trends
> visible as far back as 1992. These trends were the massive diversion of
> military
> forces to civilian use, the monolithic unification of the armed forces, and
> the
> insularity of the military community.
>
> While Dunlap, now a brigadier-general at the Air Combat Command, has not
> weighed
> in on this recently, the last two trends have been evident for many years. The
> Goldwater-Nichols reforms passed by Congress in the 1980s greatly strengthened
> jointness among the traditionally separate armed forces and the increasingly
> conservative and republican nature of the armed forces, which is well
> documented
> by journalists and academics.
>
> But a report in the November 23 Los Angeles Times by respected military
> affairs
> analyst William Arkin provides the latest evidence that the supposedly
> inviolate
> wall keeping the military out of traditional civilian activities is eroding,
> due
> the diversion of the military to civilian missions.
>
> That wall is embodied in the US by the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, enacted to
> preclude federal troops from doing the bidding of local politicians in the
> occupied South following the Civil War. It prohibits the military from
> conducting domestic law enforcement operations. Congress wanted to make it
> crystal clear, as Richard Nixon might have said, that there is a great
> difference in a democracy between protecting our nation from foreign attack
> and
> policing our neighborhoods. But the law also allows Congress and the president
> to make exceptions, and over the years they have done so.
>
> They did so notably in the 1980s in the Ronald Reagan era when the US military
> was dragged kicking and screaming into counter-drug operations. Ironically,
> then
> defense secretary Caspar Weinberger wrote in 1985, "Reliance on military
> forces
> to accomplish civilian tasks is detrimental to both military readiness and the
> democratic process."
>
> On May 20, 1997, a Marine anti-drug squad stalked, shot and allowed to bleed
> to
> death Ezequiel Hernandez, an 18-year-old high school sophomore, while he was
> herding goats near his home in Redford Texas, near the Rio Grande River, the
> site of heavy military drug interdiction activity. Hernandez's death was the
> first fatal shooting of a US civilian since the military began anti-drug
> missions in the 1980s and is the first American killed by soldiers on US soil
> since the 1970 National Guard killings of four students at Kent State during
> anti-Vietnam War demonstrations.
>
> In fact, Congress already has passed several laws relaxing the strictures of
> the
> act in order to deal with potential attacks on American soil. In 1997,
> Congress
> gave the Pentagon authority to cooperate with the Justice Department in
> responding to biological or chemical attacks. Another law gives the president
> authority in an emergency to use the armed forces to perform work "essential
> for
> the preservation of life and property". Another allows military personnel to
> assist the Justice Department in collecting intelligence or conducting
> searches
> and seizures if "necessary for the immediate protection of human life".
> Section
> 104 of the USA Patriot Act passed last year further authorizes the emergency
> use
> of the military in "case of attack with a weapon of mass destruction".
>
> Taken together, all these measures give the president authority to use the
> military in most conceivable emergency situations. But after the September 11,
> 2001 attacks, the Pentagon picked up extra responsibilities focused on
> preventing future terrorist attacks on US soil. US Air Force pilots were and
> are
> now authorized to shoot down commercial airliners, if necessary. The Air
> National Guard flew thousands of combat air patrols (Operation Noble Eagle)
> over
> major American cities
>
> Some US military officials want to put unmanned aerial vehicles in the skies
> above the continental US to conduct surveillance and intelligence operations.
> The North American Aerospace Defense Command wants to use a high-altitude
> airship to detect cruise missiles and monitor vessels and other potential
> threats approaching the continent.
>
> Initially, the Pentagon expanded the role of the US Joint Forces Command
> (JFCOM), giving it additional authority to coordinate and deploy military
> forces
> to fight terrorism in the continental US. The commander was placed in charge
> of
> the land and maritime defense of the continental US, as well as providing
> military assistance to civil authorities. JFCOM already was responsible for
> providing support to civilian authorities responding to attacks or disasters,
> and for planning the land and maritime defense of the continental US. Now, it
> would also have the power to deploy military forces domestically to fight
> terrorism and defend the homeland, an authority previously left to the defense
> secretary.
>
> But this was deemed unwieldy, and thus led to the creation of the Northern
> Command, an organization that consolidates all existing military homeland
> defense and security operations. Concerns about possible violations of the
> Posse
> Comitatus Act caused Congress, in the 2002 Defense Authorization Act, to
> "conduct a study on the appropriate role of the Department of Defense with
> respect to homeland security".
>
> Last year, however, the Bush administration's Homeland Security strategy
> document said: "The threat of catastrophic terrorism requires a thorough
> review
> of the laws permitting the military to act within the United States in order
> to
> determine whether domestic preparedness and response efforts would benefit
> from
> greater involvement of military personnel and, if so, how."
>
> Since then the Defense Department also has been inserted into two very visible
> new agencies. It transferred about 50 new employees in the new Department of
> Homeland Security to the White House's newly formed Terrorist Threat
> Integration
> Center, which is designed to make sure the Central Intelligence Agency, the
> Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of
> Investigation share information.
>
> At Homeland Security's United States Northern Command (Northcom) headquarters
> at
> the Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, more than 200 people will be
> engaged in gathering domestic intelligence, receiving information from local
> and
> state police as well as US intelligence agencies.
>
> But as Arkin's article makes clear, Northcom is doing more than mere
> coordinating. "Under the banner of 'homeland security', the military and
> intelligence communities are implementing far-reaching changes that blur the
> lines between terrorism and other kinds of crises and will break down
> long-established barriers to military action and surveillance within the US."
>
> According to Arkin, Northcom has defined three levels of operations, each of
> which triggers a larger set of authorized activities. The levels are
> "extraordinary", "emergency" and "temporary". During emergencies, the military
> can provide similar support, mostly in response to specific events such as the
> attacks on the World Trade Center. It is only in the case of extraordinary
> domestic operations that the unique capabilities of the Defense Department are
> deployed. These include not just such things as air patrols to shoot down
> hijacked planes or the defusing of bombs and other explosives, but also
> bringing
> in intelligence collectors, special operators and even full combat troops.
>
> Some say this is nothing new. In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations
> in
> January, former US senator Gary Hart said American founders "created such an
> army and called it the militia: citizen-soldiers under the immediate command
> of
> the various states that can be deployed in times of emergency. Since the late
> 19th century these militias have been known as the National Guard, and they
> were
> created and given constitutional status as the first responders and the first
> line of defense in the case of an attack on our homeland".
>
> Indeed, on December 2 Paul McHale, former Democratic congressman and now the
> Defense Department's assistant secretary for homeland defense, said at the
> Defense Manufacturing Conference in Washington that military studies of
> potential domestic terrorist attacks have determined that the National Guard
> should not only protect the defense industrial base but also critical
> infrastructure that has previously been defended by civilian law enforcement
> agencies.
>
> In the future, the National Guard will be the lead organization that
> coordinates
> military and civilian responses to terrorist threats and attacks against some
> critical infrastructure, such as nuclear power plants, McHale said.
>
> He also said the Pentagon reviewed the Posse Comitatus Act and determined that
> it would not be a violation to deploy the National Guard to protect critical
> infrastructure in some circumstances. He said he expects more presidential
> directives in the future to expand the military's homeland defense role.
>
> But the same basic concerns about military involvement still remain relevant.
> From a civil liberties viewpoint, while members of the armed forces take an
> oath
> to uphold and defend the constitution, they are not trained, like the police,
> to
> uphold Americans' rights to privacy and due process. Civil libertarians' fears
> about due process have been heightened since September 11 by the indefinite
> detention of citizens and immigrants, and by proposals to try them before
> secret
> military tribunals.


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You mock me, laugh at me, and spread lies about me and my cause out loud because
I'm different, I laugh at you silently because you're all the same - like robots
sinking on a ship of fools. Well, as the Grateful Dead once produced: "ship of
fools, sail away from me...".

I have discovered, through my life experiences, that it is inner beauty that
matters most. If you only look at the outer shell of someone and persue any form
of relationship with them then you could be in for some trouble. I believe that
there is and will be wolves in sheeps fur as well as sheep in wolves fur. In
other words, I believe that there is and will be people who appear to be light
and kind hearted on the outside, but really are dark hearted and cruel as well
as people who appear to be dark hearted and cruel on the outside but are really
light hearted and kind people. It all comes down to that age old saying: "never
judge a book by its cover".

"It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the D. E. A. to continue
to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of
the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer
than many of the foods we commonly consume... marijuana in its natural form is
one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." -Francis L.
Young; Former Administrative Law Judge for the D. E. A.

"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana
never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does
not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more
harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." -William F. Buckley, Jr.

Personal Plug/Link:
The AMSL Hangout - A Marijuana Smoker's Lounge Hangout:
http://www.geocities.com/prezz_420/index.html

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Meehan [mailto:tim@...]
> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003, 6:39 PM
> Subject: MAP: US PA: Right wing takes bad aim at science
>
> Note: This is the same guy who used to head NIDA.  Interesting...
>
> Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA)
> Contact Inquirer.Letters@...
> Website: http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/
> Feedback: http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/contact_us/feedback_np1/
> Address: 400 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19101
> Copyright: 2003 Philadelphia Newspapers Inc
> Author: Alan I. Leshner (aleshner@...)
> Pubdate: December 3, 2003
> Webpage:  http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/7399177.htm
>
> Right wing takes bad aim at science
>
> The moralizers are trying to muck with U.S. science again.
>
> A flurry of activity over the last few weeks has followed the effort of the
> Traditional Values Coalition, a right-wing religious group, to call into
> question almost 200 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants focusing on
> behavioral and social aspects of issues such as sexuality, HIV/AIDS
> transmission, and drug abuse.
>
> This incident could have been written off as noise by a fringe group had it
> not
> come almost on the heels of the near-passage in the House of Representatives
> last July of what came to be known as the "Toomey Amendment," after its
> author,
> Rep. Patrick Toomey (R., Pa.). By a vote of 212-210, the House just missed
> defunding four NIH research grants on sexual behavior that had already been
> through rigorous scientific peer review and approval by NIH Institute National
> Advisory Councils.
>
> This is not the first time the scientific enterprise has been threatened by
> political or ideological intervention, nor will it be the last. Many of us
> recall, for example, Sen. William Proxmire's grandstanding "Golden Fleece
> Awards" in the 1970s and 1980s. They were passed out with much media fanfare
> to
> research projects with titles Proxmire considered silly, and which were
> therefore ridiculed as a frivolous waste of the taxpayer's money.
>
> Of course, the Golden Fleece "awardees" often turned out later to be important
> and useful projects. One example is the study of the physical characteristics
> of
> flight attendants. The study ultimately led to the development of life-saving
> safety belt configurations for them.
>
> We are not concerned that Congress wishes to exert oversight over the U.S.
> research agenda and research priorities. That is its job, and we want our
> representatives to do it well. We also believe that the scientific community
> should be fully accountable to the public, because much science is publicly
> funded and the public is the ultimate beneficiary of our work. By nature,
> science is an open enterprise that invites examination and criticism - and
> more
> often than not, it is actually strengthened by public scrutiny. Oversight
> bolsters public confidence in the scientific enterprise and provides
> incentives
> for scientists to interact with the public, explain the importance of their
> research, and spread an ethic of intellectual curiosity and critical thinking
> that helps make our society more innovative and dynamic.
>
> On occasions like the present one, however, healthy scrutiny gives way to
> irresponsible attack. The recent assaults on science were not directed at
> broad
> research questions or national research priorities. Instead, they were aimed
> at
> imposing ideology and religious doctrine on the awarding of individual
> research
> grants, intervening in and thereby subverting the scientific peer review
> system
> that has served both science and national needs so well.
>
> The moral judges who are doing this don't like the fact that HIV is spread
> through sexual contact, and they believe that drug addicts have made bad
> personal choices that have led to addiction. Is their disapproval of these
> behaviors a justification for stifling research on the diseases that result?
> Do
> they suppose that some form of national denial will make these problems go
> away?
> Regardless of personal feelings about the etiology of these illnesses, we need
> to understand their causes and transmission patterns if we are ever to get a
> handle on some of society's most pervasive public health problems.
>
> Whenever science is attacked on ideological grounds, its integrity and
> usefulness are threatened. Society cannot afford for moralistic dogma to
> replace
> scientific judgment when the public's welfare is at stake. We have all been
> heartened in the last few weeks by the responses of many scientific and
> academic
> organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of
> Science, and by the protests of many people who have written in the popular
> press to defend science.
>
> But rising up in protest as a community after the fact can protect us only for
> a
> while. Retaining control of the integrity of our enterprise requires that we
> engage more regularly and broadly with the public. We should make our
> objectives
> and strategies more transparent to our fellow citizens, and we must expand our
> efforts to educate both policymakers and the broader public about how science
> works. Science has served society well in tackling some of the world's
> greatest
> problems - but only as long as it has evaded capture by narrow-minded
> interests.
>
> ---
> WTS Fine Guanos - http://www.salvagingelectrons.com/wts/


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You mock me, laugh at me, and spread lies about me and my cause out loud because
I'm different, I laugh at you silently because you're all the same - like robots
sinking on a ship of fools. Well, as the Grateful Dead once produced: "ship of
fools, sail away from me...".

I have discovered, through my life experiences, that it is inner beauty that
matters most. If you only look at the outer shell of someone and persue any form
of relationship with them then you could be in for some trouble. I believe that
there is and will be wolves in sheeps fur as well as sheep in wolves fur. In
other words, I believe that there is and will be people who appear to be light
and kind hearted on the outside, but really are dark hearted and cruel as well
as people who appear to be dark hearted and cruel on the outside but are really
light hearted and kind people. It all comes down to that age old saying: "never
judge a book by its cover".

"It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the D. E. A. to continue
to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of
the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer
than many of the foods we commonly consume... marijuana in its natural form is
one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." -Francis L.
Young; Former Administrative Law Judge for the D. E. A.

"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana
never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does
not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more
harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." -William F. Buckley, Jr.

Personal Plug/Link:
The AMSL Hangout - A Marijuana Smoker's Lounge Hangout:
http://www.geocities.com/prezz_420/index.html

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above web site.

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list provided by the Media Awareness Project. For those who don't know, you may
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the "MAPTalk" e-mailing list, and many other related e-mailing lists of your
choice from there.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Meehan [mailto:tim@...]
> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003, 6:16 PM
> Subject: MAP: US: Web: The Drugs-and-Terror Ad Campaign
>
> Source: Antiwar.com (US Web)
> Contact: backtalk@...
> Author: Paul Armentano
> Pubdate: December 7, 2003
> Website: http://www.antiwar.com/orig2/armentano1.html
> Note: new source
>
> The Drugs-and-Terror Ad Campaign
>
> "Where do terrorists get their money? If you buy drugs, some of it might come
> from you." Or so claimed a year-long series of U.S. taxpayer-funded public
> service announcements (PSAs) alleging that recreational drug use sponsors
> international terrorism. Nevertheless, despite the Bush administration's
> having
> spent tens of millions of dollars on the much-ballyhooed ad campaign, it's
> painfully apparent that the American public isn't buying their message.
>
> So apparent, in fact, that the White House quietly decided in April to pull
> the
> plug on the controversial campaign theme, effective this past summer. Their
> decision came less than six months after an internal evaluation of the ads –
> which began pushing the specific drugs-fund-terror agenda shortly after
> September 11, 2001 – determined that they had failed to discourage viewers
> from
> trying marijuana or other drugs and in some cases had fostered so-called
> pro-drug beliefs among teens.
>
> Talk about a blowback.
>
> For drug czar John Walters, the White House's decision to drop the
> controversial
> ads has to be particularly embarrassing. Walters inherited the $195
> million-per-year program, dubbed the "National Youth Anti-Drug Media
> Campaign,"
> after assuming office in late 2001. (Congress initially funded the program
> with
> a five-year $1.2 billion appropriation in 1998.) Almost immediately, he
> lobbied
> to shift the content of the campaign's PSAs from drug-abuse-associated health
> risks to the administration's questionable claim that recreational drug use
> aids
> terrorism.
>
> At congressional hearings two summers ago, Walters promised that his abrupt
> change in direction would yield positive results among target audiences within
> six months. "I can show you ... by this fall that if I make the changes I
> want,
> you'll see the results you want," he said, adding that he'd "live by the
> results," whatever they might be.
>
> The results could not have been worse. According to an evaluation of the ads
> completed last November by the firm Westat Inc. and the Annenberg Public
> Policy
> Center of the University of Pennsylvania, there were "no statistically
> significant ... improvements in beliefs and attitudes about marijuana use
> between 2000 and the first half of 2002" attributable to the
> multi-million-dollar ad campaign.
>
> The review was the fifth semiannual evaluation of the campaign since its
> inception and the first since the introduction of Walters's much-hyped
> drugs-and-terror ads.
>
> In addition, reviewers noted that those teens who were more exposed to the
> campaign tended to "move more markedly in a 'pro-drug' direction as they aged
> than those who were exposed to less."
>
> The November evaluation proved not only to be the death knell for the drug
> czar's pet project, but also for Westat and Annenberg's tumultuous
> relationship
> with the White House.
>
> As part of the Bush administration's decision to deep-six the drugs-and-terror
> ads, the feds also announced that they would cease funding the $8 million
> biannual evaluations, which had consistently been critical of the "National
> Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign." Testifying before Congress last June, Robert
> Hornick of the Annenberg School of Communication called the negative results
> among the worst in the history of large-scale public communication campaigns.
>
> Nevertheless, despite the PSA's abysmal performance, the White House continues
> to back its overall anti-drug media campaign and is asking Congress to refund
> the program with a new five-year appropriation, which includes a $90 million
> funding boost. Congress would be wise to scrap the program altogether.
>
> Audiences rejected the White House's drugs-and-terror premise because they saw
> it precisely for what it was: government propaganda. It's likely that any
> future
> federal ad campaign will just be more of the same and elicit a similar
> negative
> reaction from the public.
>
> While a small portion of black-market profits may theoretically fund certain
> terrorist groups around the globe, this fact is not the result of drugs per
> se,
> but the result of federal drug policies that keep them illegal – thus
> inflating
> their prices and relegating their production and trade exclusively to criminal
> entrepreneurs. Therefore, to break any supposed link between illicit drugs and
> terrorism, the solution is simply to decriminalize the drugs, thereby putting
> an
> end to the black-market effects of their criminalization.
>
> Moreover, there exists no evidence that sales from the illicit cultivation and
> use of marijuana – far and away Americans' illegal drug of choice – have ever
> been used to fund international terror campaigns. Much of the pot consumed by
> Americans is grown domestically, and that which is imported comes primarily
> from
> Mexico, Jamaica, and Canada – none of which is a known hotbed for
> international
> terror organizations.
>
> Of course, none of these facts matters to George Bush and his cronies, who
> seem
> content to simply exchange one lie about drugs – marijuana in particular – for
> another. Rather than proceed down this failed course, the U.S. government
> ought
> to use its latest drug-war failure as an opportunity to reassess and end its
> overall "do drugs; do time" mentality and recognize that drug abuse is a
> health
> issue that is best addressed by the private sector and not the criminal
> justice
> system. That's a message the public just might buy.
>
> Paul Armentano is a senior policy analyst for The NORML Foundation in
> Washington, D.C.
>
> ---
> WTS Fine Guanos - http://www.salvagingelectrons.com/wts/


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You mock me, laugh at me, and spread lies about me and my cause out loud because
I'm different, I laugh at you silently because you're all the same - like robots
sinking on a ship of fools. Well, as the Grateful Dead once produced: "ship of
fools, sail away from me...".

I have discovered, through my life experiences, that it is inner beauty that
matters most. If you only look at the outer shell of someone and persue any form
of relationship with them then you could be in for some trouble. I believe that
there is and will be wolves in sheeps fur as well as sheep in wolves fur. In
other words, I believe that there is and will be people who appear to be light
and kind hearted on the outside, but really are dark hearted and cruel as well
as people who appear to be dark hearted and cruel on the outside but are really
light hearted and kind people. It all comes down to that age old saying: "never
judge a book by its cover".

"It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the D. E. A. to continue
to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of
the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer
than many of the foods we commonly consume... marijuana in its natural form is
one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." -Francis L.
Young; Former Administrative Law Judge for the D. E. A.

"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana
never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does
not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more
harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." -William F. Buckley, Jr.

Personal Plug/Link:
The AMSL Hangout - A Marijuana Smoker's Lounge Hangout:
http://www.geocities.com/prezz_420/index.html

Note: You don't _have_ to be a toker to get information and education out of the
above web site.

Here we go...

This is a response from one of the folks involved with the "dishonest science"
after the person who had originally sent out the sugguestion to one of the Media
Awareness Project lists confronted her, to the best of my understanding at
least.
------------------------------
Note: The following message was forwarded to you from the "MAPTalk" e-mailing
list provided by the Media Awareness Project. For those who don't know, you may
find more information about the Media Awareness Project, what they do, and alot
of other information regarding drug policy and drug policy reform all over the
world, on their website at: http://www.mapinc.org . You may also subscribe to
the "MAPTalk" e-mailing list, and many other related e-mailing lists of your
choice from there.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Meehan [mailto:tim@...]
> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003, 3:02 PM
> Subject: MAP: Response from Sarah Nutall on dishonest cannabis study
>
> >Sarah Nuttall (s.nuttall@...) said:
> >
> >>If you had bothered to check your facts & actually read about the study you
> >>would find that there were 2 groups of smokers - those who smoked tobacco
> >>only & those who smoked tobacco + cannabis regularly.
> >
> >And where was the control group which smoked cannabis only?
> >
> >>Next time I suggest you get off your high horse & establish the facts before
> >>labelling anyone or any work "dishonest" - apart from your own thoughts that
> >>is.
> >
> >And next time I suggest stop trying to spin the study to appeal to your
> funders.
> >
> >-Tim
>
> To: "Tim Meehan" <tim@...>
> Subject: RE: Dishonest Science: Smoking cannabis "causes" damage to lungs in
> tobacco smokers <fwd>
> From: "Sarah Nuttall" <s.nuttall@...>
> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 17:11:04 -0000
>
> If you had bothered to check your facts & actually read about the study you
> would find that there were 2 groups of smokers - those who smoked tobacco
> only & those who smoked tobacco + cannabis regularly. We were able therefore
> to report differences between tobacco only & tobacco + cannabis effects on
> the  biochemistry of the lung. This showed differences between the groups
> with the tobacco + cannabis individuals having reduced antioxidant
> protection.
>
> Next time I suggest you get off your high horse & establish the facts before
> labelling anyone or any work "dishonest" - apart from your own thoughts that
> is.
>
> >---
> >WTS Fine Guanos - http://www.salvagingelectrons.com/wts/


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You mock me, laugh at me, and spread lies about me and my cause out loud because
I'm different, I laugh at you silently because you're all the same - like robots
sinking on a ship of fools. Well, as the Grateful Dead once produced: "ship of
fools, sail away from me...".

I have discovered, through my life experiences, that it is inner beauty that
matters most. If you only look at the outer shell of someone and persue any form
of relationship with them then you could be in for some trouble. I believe that
there is and will be wolves in sheeps fur as well as sheep in wolves fur. In
other words, I believe that there is and will be people who appear to be light
and kind hearted on the outside, but really are dark hearted and cruel as well
as people who appear to be dark hearted and cruel on the outside but are really
light hearted and kind people. It all comes down to that age old saying: "never
judge a book by its cover".

"It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the D. E. A. to continue
to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of
the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer
than many of the foods we commonly consume... marijuana in its natural form is
one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." -Francis L.
Young; Former Administrative Law Judge for the D. E. A.

"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana
never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does
not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more
harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." -William F. Buckley, Jr.

Personal Plug/Link:
The AMSL Hangout - A Marijuana Smoker's Lounge Hangout:
http://www.geocities.com/prezz_420/index.html

Note: You don't _have_ to be a toker to get information and education out of the
above web site.

Pot Measure Stuck at Starting Line By Ed Fletcher
Source: Sacramento Bee December 26, 2003
Next Thursday was supposed to be a big day for medical marijuana users. That's
the day
Californians with AIDS, glaucoma, cancer, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, chronic
pain
and other ailments could begin getting state-issued identification cards -- thus
freeing them from jail time as they debate their medical need with cops. That
won't
happen. State officials charged with running the program say they don't have
enough
money to get it going.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18050.shtml

Hempery Owner Will Fight Drug Charges By Michelle Meyers
Source: Oakland Tribune  December 26, 2003
A Hayward medical marijuana dispensary owner plans to defend herself against
felony
drug possession charges in a case that could be one of the first tests of a
related new
state law.  Cheryl Adams, who owns the Hayward Hempery and its Hayward Patient
Group,
was arrested at 12:20 a.m. on Dec. 12 in front of the TownPlace Suites hotel at
39802
Cedar Blvd., in Newark, where she had been living. She allegedly was driving
with 5.32
pounds of marijuana in 29 separate small plastic bags, said Newark police Sgt.
Fred
Zachau.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18049.shtml

A Victory for Medical Marijuana
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18048.shtml
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Restore-Digest
http://thc-foundation.com/restore
Friday, December 26 2003 Volume 2003 : Number 313
001 Canada: Hemp store customers see hopes go up in smoke
002 US: AL Gore Keeps Silent After Son's Marijuana Arrest
003 CA: Home-Grown Victory
004 Canada: Marijuana bill to be revived in original form
005 Canada: To toke or not to toke?
AL GORE KEEPS SILENT AFTER SON'S MARIJUANA ARREST

WASHINGTON -- Former vice president Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, maintained a
public
silence over the weekend about the arrest of their 21-year-old son on a charge
of
possessing marijuana.

Police in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md., arrested Albert Gore III and
two
passengers Friday night after officers said that they noticed someone driving a
car
without headlights about 11:30 p.m.

The Montgomery County police department said in a statement that despite frigid
temperatures, officers found that all of the windows and the sunroof of the
dark-colored Cadillac were open. Police said the officers smelled marijuana and
searched the car. They found a marijuana cigarette under the front console and a
baggie
containing suspected marijuana in a cardboard cigarette box under the front
passenger
seat, police said. Police said officers smelled marijuana coming from inside a
crushed
soft drink can. Continued...
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20031222/5779069s.htm

Cybrary: Al Gore's Son Arrested for Pot Possession
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T525230E6
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CNN cancels union workers’ agreement
Beyond The Headlines, Dec 22 2003

Without the union, workers will lose the right to be paid extra for such things
as
night shifts and short turnarounds.

CNN, a business unit of Time Warner, has terminated its agreement with a
unionized
contractor that provides more than 220 technicians and camera crews for its
Washington
and New York bureaus. CNN said it wants to bring the jobs in-house with nonunion
workers.

The technicians, who are represented by the National Association of Broadcast
Employees
and Technicians (NABET), have been invited to apply for nonunion jobs at CNN.
Some
already have been hired.

“It’s union-busting,” Mark Peach, president of NABET Local 31, said in an
interview
with the Wall Street Journal. Local 31 represents the Washington work force.
Continued...
http://bth.broadcastengineering.com/ar/broadcasting_cnn_cancels_union/index.htm
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(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)

"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"

Phillip S. Smith, Editor, psmith@...
David Borden, Executive Director, borden@...

Drug War Chronicle #317 - December 26, 2003
This issue on the web:  http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/
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PICTURES:  Visit http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317
for this week's Drug War Chronicle with PICTURES.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.  Message from the Executive Director:
Another Year at DRCNet and in Drug Policy Reform
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/anotheryear.shtml

2.  Canadian Supreme Court Upholds Marijuana Law --
Cannabis Battle Heads Back to Parliament
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/canada.shtml

3.  The New Jersey Weedman is Back!  Forchion Announces House Bid
Before Arrest at Liberty Bell Pot-Smoking Religious Demo
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/weedmansback.shtml

4.  Newsbrief:  The Complete List of President Bush's Drug War Prisoner Pardons
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/nopardons.shtml

5.  Newsbrief:  Return of the Undead, Part I -- "B-1 Bob" Dornan
to Challenge Rohrabacher in House Race, Attacks Medical Marijuana
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/dornan.shtml

6.  Newsbrief:  Return of the Undead, Part II --
Arch-Drug Warrior McCollum Seeks Florida GOP Senate Nod
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/mccollum.shtml

7.  Newsbrief:  Prohibition-Terror Link?
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/terror.shtml

8.  Newsbrief:  Cable Giant Censors Medical Marijuana Issue Ads in New Hampshire
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/comcast.shtml

9.  Newsbrief:  Todd McCormick Released from Federal Prison
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/toddmccormick.shtml

10. Newsbrief:  Why Don't People Seek Treatment?
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/whydont.shtml

11. Popular Television News and Drama Programs to Discuss
Mandatory Minimum Sentencing in January
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/minimums.shtml

12. BUSTED:  New and Improved Video Offer from DRCNet
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/busted.shtml

13. DRCNet Temporarily Suspending Our Web-Based Write-to-Congress
Service Due to Funding Shortfalls -- Your Help Can Bring It
Back -- Keep Contacting Congress in the Meantime
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/shortfalls.shtml

14. Perry Fund Accepting Applications for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005
School Years, Providing Scholarships for Students Losing Aid
Because of Drug Convictions
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/perryfund.shtml

15. The Reformer's Calendar
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Hi All,
Please spend a couple of minutes to read this, forward an email,
and then circulate this. With love and many many thanks.
Chilli
----------
Subject: [THUNDERINGDRUMS] support this URGENT letter campaign, please!
PLEASE SUPPORT !!!
From: lubrehm@...
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003

From: Arlene Johnson
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003

Dear friends,
Another way of killing prisoners (inmates) is through medical neglect. This is
not an
isolated case; it is systemic. I know of another case in Arkansas in which they
are
carrying out the same exact action.  Please do what this asks.
Peace, Arlene Johnson
http://truedemocracy.net
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From: Kati kati11000@...
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003

I have made many attempts to help Ronmell Jenkins #515696 at Missouri State
Prison. No
one is listening and he is dying from medical neglect. I now have received his
letter
dated Dec. 15, 2003 and I just received it from my mailbox just an hour ago. If
you can
help this man I will be so grateful as will he. I will copy his letter here for
you to
read. At the bottom of this letter you will find people to contact from the
Dept. of
Corrections. If you can e-mail a message to the governor and director would be
great.
We want to flood their office with e-mails so they WILL HEAR US. I have several
letters
from Ronmell and this one is desperate.

PLEASE pass this on to other groups or anyone you even think will help. For some
of you
who may not know what to write, just make it simple. Tell them  you know that
Ronmell
is dying and that it is their responsibility to take care  of him. He needs to
go to a
hospital and be treated. Ronmell can't get treatment on his own so it is up to
them to
send him to a  hospital who can take care of him. Make sure you tell them you
know he
is dying.
Carolyn Burke
----------
12-15-03
Ms Carolyn Burke,

Ms. Burke, please help me, im in so much pain, don't let them kill me this way.
I'm
dying, i swear to God i am. They're letting me die slow and painful, im hurting
so much
and so bad, please help me, call my mother.  You all have to stop everything and
find a
way to make these peoples let  you all see me for  yourselves. I know you have a
life
out there, but when you get this i need you put everything on hold and come up
here.
Find some peoples at the state capital that can get something done, come with as
many
peoples as you know and and come up and boycott the prison and CMS, bring news
camera,
news crew, this the only  way something will get done. I can't prove these
peoples shot
me with some type of chemical substance thats eating my body away and killing me
and
that they are hiding it. what you all must fight for is i be sent to a hospital
and a
full blood test be giving and M.R.I . That doc (dept of corrections) or medical
staff
here have no part in my blood being taking or tested, but all this be done by an
outside hospital. i promise you Ms. Burke if my blood is tested and a M.R.I. is
giving
by an outside hospital that it will  show what i got and have me very sick. I
need you
to do this for me and don't stop until this is done, please this the only way to
get
something done and prove CMS here is hiding what they shot me with, if not soon
i'm a
die. Please you must come once you get this, please , i swear to God i'm not
playing, i
need some help soon, this pain is to much. Please help me. i don't have much
time left,
so you must come when you get this.  Don't let them kill me this way.

Ronmell Jenkins
#515696
Missouri StatePrison
Jefferson City, MO 65102

CONTACT THESE PEOPLE

Governor Bob Holden
P.O. Box 720
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0720
phone- 573-751-3222
Fax- 573-751-1495
e-mail mogov@...
http://es.f135.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=mogov@mail.state.us

Director of Dept. of Corrections
Gary Kempker
P.O. Box 236
Jefferson City, MO 65102
phone- 573-751-2389
fax- 573-751-4099
e-mail  gkempker@...
http://es.f135.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=gkempker@mail.state.mo.us

David Dormire, Superintendent M.S.P.
P.O. Box 597
Jefferson City, MO 65102
phone 573-751-3224
fax  573-751-0355
email  unknown

CAN YOU FLOOD THESE OFFICES.

THEY MUST LISTEN THAT RONMELL IS DYING. IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOUR SON, HUSBAND,
FATHER,
UNCLE, DAUGHTER.......

Department Of Correction Links
http://www.corrections.com/links/state.html

BOP Home Page
http://www.bop.gov

"To those of us locked away in here, there's nothing more important than being
remembered"
Leonard Peltier September 1998
Leavenworth Prison

"Prison Writings...My Life Is My Sun Dance"
(Quote, used with permission)

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one of those perfectionist type of moods. I want to be as professional as
possible as far as the message archives go while still adding my own personal
flare to it at times.]

Hi my fellow Brothers and Sisters of Mankind,

I just wanted to let you all know that I revised my ID from "Prezz_420" to
"NeoHippiePrezz420". There were quite a few reasons [some which I probably
couldn't explian if I tried due to the highly misunderstood spirtuality of
Mankind], but the main two simplistic reasons were:

For one, I felt it was time for a change because I felt I had changed,
especially spiritually speaking.

And for two, for some odd reason, whenever I would add interests to my profile
[with the "Prezz_420" ID] they would always eventually end up being deleted and
I know it wasn't a hacker attack or anything like that because of the fact that
it eventually wouldn't let me add anymore period. I am fairly skilled with
computers [not to intentionally to brag or boast] and I can usually tell the
difference between what a malicious hackers work has done and what a server
system flaw has done.

Also, I don't want y'all to get paranoid that I am not the original me [in other
words a "troll" or hacker that has stolen my account] because I know that
feeling and being uneasy about a fellow Brother in your cause is not very fun at
all. I assure you, the original "Prezz" is still here. I have just gone through
some great spiritual awakenings this Holyday Season [and frustration due to not
being able to add intrests for people to get more of a "feel" of me and my
personality I might add!].

Note: I upgraded this ID to "Owner" and "Moderater" of the groups in which I
have the power to do so. I will keep my old ID just for sentimental reasons and
also because the "A. M. S. L. Hangout" is located on a web site associated with
it. I might find a better server to suit our needs for it though. With a shorter
address within a reasonable price range [preferrably free without - or at least
not as many - annoying pop-ups/banner ads]. Just don't send any e-mail to my
Prezz_420 addy @ Y@h00 and expect me to answer please [Although I was glad that
I originally created a mail account on this server - Y@... - I spell it like
that to try to trademark infringement, because I was able to switch the old ID
group membership settings to the old e-mail addy at Y@h00 and to the "no e-mail"
setting and then basically switch the membership settings for this *~ revised ~*
ID to my new e-mail addy at ziplip that I have had for over a year I believe].
If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or anything else like that
regarding the A. M. S. L. groups then always send them to me here at:
AleEarth420@... .
-----------------------------
Something else to consider: Last time I personally posted I said that I had some
e-mail messages that I needed to forward to the groups that were somewhat old
but still important to archive. Well, when I stopped, I wasn't finished with
that task believe it or not. I just got real tired after a while and also didn't
want to seem like I was tryin' to hog the archives because I really wasn't.
Anyway, I will try to continue on with that task and also reply to some messages
that I have put off because of not completing that task.

May there Eventually be True Peace, True Love, and True Liberty for All in the
World to Share if they Choose to do so.......

*~ -|- With the Utmost Respect and Truest Sincerity Possible, -|- ~*
Neo Hippie: Prezz - Ale Earth - For Peace N Love - for 420
An Original Co-Founder of the A. M. S. L. Groups and a Current Moderator
My New and Improved Profile: http://profiles.yahoo.com/NeoHippiePrezz420


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You mock me, laugh at me, and spread lies about me and my cause out loud because
I'm different, I laugh at you silently because you're all the same - like robots
sinking on a ship of fools. Well, as the Grateful Dead once produced: "ship of
fools, sail away from me...".

I have discovered, through my life experiences, that it is inner beauty that
matters most. If you only look at the outer shell of someone and persue any form
of relationship with them then you could be in for some trouble. I believe that
there is and will be wolves in sheeps fur as well as sheep in wolves fur. In
other words, I believe that there is and will be people who appear to be light
and kind hearted on the outside, but really are dark hearted and cruel as well
as people who appear to be dark hearted and cruel on the outside but are really
light hearted and kind people. It all comes down to that age old saying: "never
judge a book by its cover".

"It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the D. E. A. to continue
to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of
the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer
than many of the foods we commonly consume... marijuana in its natural form is
one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." -Francis L.
Young; Former Administrative Law Judge for the D. E. A.

"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana
never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does
not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more
harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." -William F. Buckley, Jr.

Personal Plug/Link:
The AMSL Hangout - A Marijuana Smoker's Lounge Hangout:
http://www.geocities.com/prezz_420/index.html

Note: You don't _have_ to be a toker to get information and education out of the
above web site.

http://www.medicalmarijuanaguide.com/

Mad cow: Japan bans US beef
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q5D6322E6

AP: Mad Cow Case Confirmed
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/12/25/national1433EST\
0542.DTL
British lab provides early test results as officials continue probe, and try to
calm
public fears.
CA ranchers say their cattle is safe
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/25/MNGMB3UFV31.DTL
Beef still on Bay Area menus
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/12/25/LOCALBEEF.TMP
Washington state farm quarantined
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/12/25/national1114EST\
0491.DTL

GOP Congress Scuttled Meat Protection Measure
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1224-09.htm

U.S. Beef Banned by 15 Nations
http://washingtontimes.com/business/20031224-090827-7501r.htm

Ganja/Hemp
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S11B23B45

Abbie List: Reefer Madness
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S258322E6
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4535.shtml
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And I will raise up for them a plant of renown,
and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land,
neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. (Ezekiel 34:29)
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Hemp good to eat, too
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread16375.shtml

HEMP SEED: THE MOST NUTRITIONALLY  COMPLETE FOOD SOURCE IN THE WORLD
Part One by Lynn Osburn
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/hempseed1.html
Part II, Hempseed Oils and the Flow of Life Force
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/hempseed2.html
HEMP, THE PREMIER RENEWABLE RESOURCE
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/index.html
Energy Farming in America
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/eFarming.html
House Votes To Let Farmers Grow Industrial Hemp
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4190.shtml

* Hemp extracts can be used to treat a variety of physical and mental ailments
which
include tuberculosis, glaucoma, depression, and the side effects of cancer
therapy.
Prior to this century, cannabis extracts were the most commonly used medicines
throughout the world.

* “The hemp seed is the highest of any plant in essential amino acids and
essential
fatty acids. These essential fatty acids are responsible for our immune
response...and
contribute to…more disease resistance.” (Hempseed Nutrition by Lynn Osburn).

* Hempseed was used to treat nutritional deficiencies brought on by
tuberculosis, a
severe nutrition blocking disease that causes the body to waste away.
(Czechoslovakia
Tubercular Nutritional Study, 1955.)

* Hemp seed protein more closely resembles that of the human body than soy; it
is also
easier to digest. Hemp contains a richer source of essential fatty acid oils
than soy.
These oils prevent heart disease and build the immune system. Hemp also resists
UV-B
light, which is a kind of sunlight that is blocked by the ozone layer. Soy beans
do not
take UV-B light very well. If the ozone layer were to deplete by 16%, which by
some
estimates is very possible, soy production would fall by 25-30%. We may have to
grow
hemp or starve -- and it won't be the first time that this has happened. Hemp
has been
used to "bail out" many populations in time of famine.

* Hemp grain is the most nutritionally complete seed on the planet for human
consumption. Each hemp seed contains 25% protein.  This protein  is more easily
digestible than the protein in soybeans because it contains a perfect ratio of
essential fatty acids (EFA's).  EFA's are important for strengthening your
immune
system and protecting you from disease. Fish oil and flax oil are also high in
EFA's,
but hemp contains the most perfect ratio of EFA's for human consumption. Hemp
grain is
also high in iron and calcium and is an excellent source of dietary fiber

* Ralph Loziers, general counsel of the National Institute of Oilseed Products,
told
the Congressional committee studying marijuana prohibition in 1937 that, “Hemp
seed… is
used in all the Oriental nations and also in a part of Russia as food. It is
grown in
their fields and used as oatmeal.

* Hemp seed oil has been called Nature's perfect blend of Essential Fatty Acids
due to
the large amount of these substances contained in the oil. Specifically Hemp
seed oil
has large amounts of Lineolenic (Omega-3), and Lineoleic (Omega-6) fatty acids.
These
are considered to be essential by nutritionists since humans are unable to
synthesize
them, thus they must consume them from an external source.
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In the later times, some shall  speak lies in hypocrisy commanding to abstain
from
meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which
believe and
know the truth. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it
be
received with thanksgiving. For it is sanctified by the word of God and
prayer.(Paul: 1
Timothy 4:1-6)
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* Many Essential Nutrients Found in Hemp Seed July 27, 2000
By Nancy Ross Ryan - Chicago Tribune
Source: Spokane.net  http://www.spokane.net  http://www.cannabisnews.com
According to the latest research, there are about 45 nutrients that humans can't
live
without and which their bodies can't manufacture: 21 minerals, 13 vitamins,
eight amino
acids and two essential fatty acids. No single food has them all. But when a
food is
discovered that is a rich source of several essential nutrients, such as hemp
seed, it
makes nutrition news.  Its promoters bill hemp seed as the soybean of the new
millennium. In addition to containing vitamins and minerals (calcium, iron,
thiamine,
niacin and riboflavin), hemp seed, like the soybean, is a vegetable source of
complete
protein, having all eight amino acids.  Hemp oil (pressed from the hemp seed)
is,
according to many, the best source of the two essential fatty acids (or EFAs) we
can't
live without: omega 3 alpha-linolenic acid and omega 6 linoleic acid.

In 1992 a consortium of 20 British farmers requested permission to grow
industrial
hemp, a crop that had been banned since 1971. Home Office Minister Michael Jack
saw no
reason to oppose the request since industrial hemp had been grown for years on
the
Continent "without any problems". The farmers received licenses to cultivate
1500
acres.  In 1993 a consortium of 10 Canadian farmers requested permission to grow
hemp,
a crop that had been banned since 1923.  The federal government informed them
the law
would have to be changed before commercial plots could be harvested. However,
seeing
that "farmers in Canada are very interested in it", Health Minister Diane
Marleau
issued a permit for 18 acres of experimental plots. The next year Parliament
enabled
commercial harvests.

Hemp Food Association
http://www.hempfood.com
VOTE HEMP
http://www.votehemp.com
The Hemp Conspiriacy
http://www.jackherer.com

Hemp FAQ's
http://www.thehia.org/faq.htm
FAQ#1: What are the benefits of hemp seeds and hemp oil for food?
For informative answers to this question, see:
Hemp Seed, The Royal Grain, by Chris Bennett
http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq1.htm
Traditional Uses of Culinary Hemp Seed by Dr. Alexander Sumach
http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq2.htm
Centuries of Safe Consumption of Hemp Foods by Cynthia Thielen
http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq3.htm
Essential Fatty Acids Can Affect Your Baby's Intelligence! by Hempola, Inc.
http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq4.htm
Nutritional Analysis of Hempseed and Hempseed Oil by The Ohio Hempery
http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq5.htm
Nutritional Analysis of HempNut Hulled Hempseed by Richard Rose
http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq5.htm

Hemp seed: A cure for the common cold?
http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/coldcure.html

Alive Foods raw hemp foods,
wellness retreat centre based on people who cured themselves from cancer
http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/alivefoods.html

Used since 4000BC, does not require pesticides, unlike cotton, you can make
fibre and
food products from it, and its NOT hemp
http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/nettle.html
GW Pharmaceuticals develop new Cannabinoid Opportunities with Professor Raphael
Mechoulam
http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/gwpharm0103.html
Motherhemp launch the succesful organic dairy free hemp ice-cream alternative to
EU
market at Biofach, visit them at the British Pavillion, Hall 1, Stand 440
http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/icecream.html

Hemp Seed Cookbook, SCRAP, PO Box 510, Cazadero, CA 94521, (707) 847-3642,
$2.25.

Fats and Oils: The Complete Guide to Fats and Oils in Health and Nutrition,
Alive Books, PO Box 80055, Burnaby BC, Canada V5H 3X5, $20.

From: "Hemp Food Industries Association" subscriber@...
http://www.hemp.co.uk
Tune In, Turn on, Eat Up
http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/tunein.html
Dr Dave West of the NAIHC educates us to some 28 pages of hemp myths and facts
in adobe
acrobat format
http://www.hemp.co.uk/images/HEMPmandf.pdf
Australia's bumper harvest
http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/ozharvest.html

Nutiva
http://www.nutiva.com/
Nutiva Recipes
http://www.nutiva.com/recipe.html
Pacific Hemp now safari seeds
http://www.safariseeds.com/about.htmlHemp Rella
http://www.rella.com/hempfood.html
Ohio Hempery
http://www.hempery.com
Hungry Bear Hemp Foods
http://www.efn.org/~eathemp/hbhempfood.html
Galaxy Global Eatery
http://www.galaxyglobaleatery.com
Hemp.co.uk
http://www.hemp.co.uk:80
Hempen Ale Home
http://www.hempenale.com
Humboldt Brewing Company Hemp Beer!
http://www.humbrew.com
A recipe for hemp oil vinaigrette
http://www.hemp.co.uk:80/vin.html
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A wise man will hear, and will increase learning:
and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels. (Proverbs 1:5)
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A HEALTHY BODY IN AND OUT!

* Hemp is a strong, natural medicine: hemp oil is the richest known source  of
"the
good"  polyunsaturated essential fatty acids, proven to be effective treatment
for
patients suffering from  cancer, cardiovascular disease, glandular atrophy,
gallstones,
kidney degeneration, acne, dry skin, menstrual problems, and immune deficiency.

* Cannabis extracts served as the second and third most prescribed medicines in
the
U.S. from 1842 until the 1890's. These medicines ere produced by Eli Lily,
Parke-Davis,
Tilden's, Brothers Smith. Squib, and other British and American companies.
During this
entire period of time, there was not one reported death from cannabis extract
medicines.

* Hemp extracts can be used to treat a variety of physical and mental ailments
which
include tuberculosis, glaucoma, depression, and the side effects of cancer
therapy.
Prior to thiscentury, cannabis extracts were the most commonly used medicines
throughout the world.

* Hemp is nutrient-rich: the seeds of the hemp plant contain approximately 25
percent
protein, almost as much as soybeans, and in fact are far higher in fiber and
certain
vitamins and minerals.

* Hemp is delicious: hemp foodstuffs currently on the market include cooking
oil, salad
dressing,
  cheese, flavored seeds, non-dairy milk, hemp flour for high-quality baked
goods, and
soy-type products such as hemp burgers.

* Hemp is a natural beauty product: hemp seeds are composed of 30 percent oils,
which
are the highest natural source of linoleic and linolenic acids, the compounds
responsible for the luster of skin, hair and eyes; these extracts are now
popular
ingredients in massage oils, lip balms, soaps, shampoos, and lotions.

Mercury poison or hemp oil?
http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/mercury.html
Workshop on the Essentiality of and Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) for Omega-6
and
Omega-3

German company takes advantage of Russian grown wild hemp
http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/truerussian.html
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Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be  rooted up. 14)
Let
them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind, And if the blind  lead the
blind, both
shall fall into the ditch. (Matthew 15:13-14)
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Organic Consumers Association & Biodemocracy
http://www.purefood.org
Genetically Engineered Food Alert
http://www.gefoodalert.org
Keep Nature Natural
http://www.keepnatural.org
The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
http://www.thecampaign.org

Osburn Defense Fund
http://www.osburndefensefund.com

Cannabis News Hemp Links
http://freedomtoexhale.com/hls.htm
CannabisNews Hemp Archives
http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/hemp.shtml

Why Cannabis/Hemp is Illegal
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html

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Canada's Supreme Court upholds anti-pot laws

Canada's Supreme Court has proven that our society is a prison, and that we are
but
prisoners, whose inalienable rights may be suppressed by political whimsy and
ridiculous twists of reasoning more suitable to a genie granting wishes than
judges
appointed to uphold humane standards.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3242.html

Cannabis Culture Breaking News, Events and Recent Media Stories
http://www.cannabisculture.com

Canada's Supremes Cower Under DEAth Threats
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2FB112E6

In Canada's Marijuana Debate Court Backs Penalties By DeNeen L. Brown
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18040.shtml
Pot Still Illegal, Top Court Rules By Kirk Makin
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18044.shtml
Dreams Go Up in Smoke for Marijuana Activists
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18043.shtml
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Democratic presidential candidate opposes war on pot  22 Dec, 2003
Courageous congressman Dennis Kucinich needs grassroots help
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3240.html
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U.S. Drug Czar Praises 'Positive' PM By Sheldon Alberts and Janice Tibbetts
Source: Ottawa Citizen  December 24, 2003
U.S. drug czar John Walters praised Prime Minister Paul Martin yesterday for
vowing to
overhaul federal marijuana legislation and said he hopes for an end to the
"abrasiveness" that marked Canada-U.S. relations under Jean Chretien.  In a sign
of the
Bush administration's eagerness to improve strained relations with the federal
government, Mr. Walters took the rare step of publicly congratulating Mr. Martin
for
announcing plans to crack down on marijuana growers and repeat users when he
reintroduces the government's marijuana bill next year.
Read More...
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18045.shtml

Drug Official Seeks More Funds for Ads By Amy Fagan
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18042.shtml

Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/15/ECH15_03.HTM#brain
Just as G. Gordon Liddy went into high-tech corporate security after his
disgrace, Drug
Czar Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth
industry:
urine-testing.

A War on Sanity By Paul Campos
Source: Naples Daily News  December 23, 2003
December is the season for giving, and no one gives more generous gifts than the
U.S.
Congress. Of course, Congress has the advantage of doing its last-minute holiday
shopping at someone else's expense, namely yours and mine.  For example, on Dec.
8, the
House of Representatives passed a bill that gives the White House drug czar's
office
$145,000,000 of taxpayer money to run anti-marijuana propaganda ads.
Read More...
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18041.shtml
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Court Plants Red Cross in the War on Marijuana By Richard Glen Boire
Source: Los Angeles Daily Journal  December 24, 2003
Last week, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal criminal
laws
against marijuana are unconstitutional when applied to sick people who are using
the
drug with their doctor's approval in accordance with state law. Raich v.
Ashcroft, 2003
U.S.App.LEXIS 25317 (9th Cir. Dec. 16, 2003). Since 1996, California's
Compassionate
Use Act has permitted seriously ill people to use marijuana if their doctors
approve.
Read More...
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18047.shtml

Editorial: A Victory for Medical Marijuana
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18048.shtml

American Medical Marijuana Awards 2003 By Steve Kubby
Source: Sierra Times December 23, 2003
Vancouver -- What strain of marijuana is best for medical use? What fertilizer
grows
the best pot? What's the best way to consume cannabis? These are some of the
questions
that have been researched for the past year by The American Medical Marijuana
Association.  "We've tried every fertilizer around and nearly every strain
available,"
said AMMA National Director Steve Kubby, from his licensed medical cannabis
garden in
British Columbia.
Read More...
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18039.shtml

End Criminalisation of Ganja for Adults By Paul Chang
Source: Jamaica Observer December 23, 2003
As one of three expert witnesses to testify before Parliament last month in
favour of
recommendations by the Jamaican National Commission on Ganja to decriminalise
the
responsible use of cannabis by adults, I am pleased to see that this issue is
finally
receiving the political discourse it deserves. Few health and safety issues have
been
as thoroughly investigated as this one. Over the past four decades, federally
appointed
commissions in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
Switzerland and elsewhere have conducted inquiries on ganja.
Read More...
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18038.shtml
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Calling All Reformers - Dollar for Dollar Match

Dear Reformers
Are you angry?
I am. I'm angry at the waste, the cruelty, the human rights abuses, and the
mean-spiritedness that mark the current drug crusade of Attorney General John
Ashcroft,
drug czar John Walters, and others of their ilk, both Democrat and Republican.
Continued...  http://www.drugpolicy.org/donate/special.cfm
Sincerely, Ethan Nadelmann" ExecDir@...

Please consider joining the Drug Policy Alliance: http://www.drugpolicy.org/join
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Free Clarence Aaron
Washington -- WHEN he was governor of Texas, George W. Bush got burned for
performing
an act of clemency. In 1995, Bush pardoned one Steve Raney, who had been
convicted on a
misdemeanor drug charge in 1988 -- for growing marijuana in his back yard --
after
local law enforcement officials supported Raney. The pardon enabled Raney to
become a
deputy constable. Within four months of his pardon, Raney was arrested for
stealing
cocaine from a suspect during a roadside arrest. It was an embarrassing episode
for the
governor. Continued...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q281424E6
Clarence Aaron
http://www.angryharry.com/tgFreeClarenceAaron.htm
The greatest gift by Debra Saunders
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/debrasaunders/ds20030914.shtml

November Coalition
http://www.november.org
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation (FAMM Foundation)
http://www.famm.org
F.E.A.R.
http://www.fear.org

"Dem Kampf um Menschenrechte gewidmet" Please visit our Event
http://againstdeathrows.deathrow-usa.com
News about Death Penalty: http://disc.server.com/Indices/207906.html

The Joseph McNamara Collection
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcntoc.htm
Joseph McNamara is a former police chief in Kansas City, Mo. and San Jose, Ca..
He
holds a doctorate in public administration and is presently a research fellow at
Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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Restore-Digest
http://thc-foundation.com/restore

Wednesday, December 24 2003     Volume 2003 : Number 312

001 Canada: Pot advocates 'bummed out'
002 Canada: Supreme Court rules pot Parliament's hot potato
003 Canada: Dope Dream Smoked
004 Canada: U.S. drug czar praises 'positive' PM
005 CA: Key Court Victories Boost Medical Marijuana Movement
006 Canada: Marijuana Not A Constitutional Right
007 Canada: Editorial: Pot Reform Belongs In ParliamentSender
008 PA: Marijuana activist uses act of defiance to launch campaign
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Common Cause NET for December 17, 2003
causenet@...
http://www.commoncause.org
Press Releases
http://www.commoncause.org/library

PBS: From Swastika to Jim Crow
http://www.pbs.org/fromswastikatojimcrow

Investigative Reports 12/22/03 Keeping Secrets
The Bush administration is doing the public's business out of the public eye.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/031222/usnews/22secrecy.htm

U.S. Shuts Out France, Germany for Iraq Work
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50466-2003Dec9.html

Key Dates: Secrecy and the Bush Administration

Inauguration Day (1/20/01) Administration freezes Clinton-era regulations,
without
allowing for public comment.

10/12/01 Attorney General John Ashcroft, reversing Clinton policy, encourages
agencies
to deny Freedom of Information Act requests if a "sound legal basis" exists.

10/26/01 President Bush signs U.S.A. Patriot Act, expanding law enforcement
powers and
government surveillance.

2/22/02 Congress's General Accounting Office sues Vice President Dick Cheney for
refusing to disclose records of his energy task force; the GAO eventually loses
its
case. A separate private case is pending.

3/19/02 White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card directs federal agencies to
protect
sensitive security information.

11/25/02 Bush signs Homeland Security Act. Its provisions restrict public access
to
information filed by companies about "critical infrastructure," among other
matters.

01/3/03 Administration asks, in papers filed before the Supreme Court, for
significant
narrowing of the Freedom of Information Act.

3/25/03 Bush issues standards on classified material, favoring secrecy and
reversing
provisions on openness.

In the Name of National Security by Declan McCullagh
http://news.com.com/2010-1028_3-5101121.html?tag=nefd_acpro

Common Cause Alert...

Americans feel less safe today than at any time in recent history.  In an era
where
national security is a serious concern, its invocation is sacred and should not
be used
for purposes that strain credibility or appear politically expedient. However,
the Bush
Administration invokes national security concerns in situations where it has the
effect
of undermining efforts for oversight and accountability, essential elements in a
democratic system.

For Example: In a memo last week, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz
prohibited
any companies from Germany, France or Russia from bidding on reconstruction
contracts
in Iraq. According to Wolfowitz, this is necessary to protect "the essential
security
interests of the United States," even though the White House had already said
that
countries which did not support the war would be left out of the reconstruction
process.

Congress created an Inspector General position in Iraq because of concerns about
secret, no-bid contracts and gross overcharging by U.S. contractors. President
Bush
pre-empted the situation by denying the Inspector General access to the most
relevant
information. Private companies may now have access to information that the
government's
own Inspector General cannot see. The reason? National security.

Past administrations have classified politically damaging information-this isn't
new.
It is the context that has changed.  In the face of terrorism, Americans feel an
intense and legitimate need for national security.  And when the Bush
Administration
uses the phrase "for reasons of national security" simply to avoid
accountability, it
belittles that need.

National security cannot become the excuse for extraordinary secrecy. At a time
when
our nation's credibility is on the line, we need less secrecy - not more. The
Bush
Administration projects an image of fearlessness when it comes to terrorists.
When it
comes to transparency and accountability, however, it seems to be taking cover.

PBS Series on Freedom of Information Act
http://capwiz.com/afr/utr/1/ICJQCOGVAK/GFOUCOGVEM/
Washington Post article on Wolfowitz statement on contracts for opponents to
Iraq war
http://capwiz.com/afr/utr/1/ICJQCOGVAK/BPTKCOGVEN/
Read Wolfowitz's Memo
http://capwiz.com/afr/utr/1/ICJQCOGVAK/ENHZCOGVEO/
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Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M6E5220E6
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"Democracy is a conversation"
Welcome to e.thePeople, the digital town hall for the nation. In cooperation
with over
1,000 sites around the Internet, e.thePeople promotes intelligent and diverse
discussion and political action.
http://e-thepeople.org
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Mad cow: Japan bans US beef vs Nutritional Hempseed Banned by US
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q5D6322E6

AP: Mad Cow Case Confirmed
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/12/25/national1433EST\
0542.DTL
British lab provides early test results as officials continue probe, and try to
calm
public fears.
CA ranchers say their cattle is safe
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/25/MNGMB3UFV31.DTL
Beef still on Bay Area menus
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/12/25/LOCALBEEF.TMP
Washington state farm quarantined
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/12/25/national1114EST\
0491.DTL

GOP Congress Scuttled Meat Protection Measure
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1224-09.htm

U.S. Beef Banned by 15 Nations
http://washingtontimes.com/business/20031224-090827-7501r.htm
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Abbie List: Reefer Madness
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Alternatives
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