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members of congress to introduce historic legistation on june 23

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by old goat, Jun 22, 2011.

  1. old goat

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  2. old goat

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    Medical Marijuana: A Science-Free Zone at the White House

    By Stephen Gutwillig and Bill Piper, The Los Angeles Times - Thursday, July 21 2011 Tags:
    Stephen Gutwillig and Bill Piper respond to The Times' July 9 article "U.S. decrees that marijuana has no accepted medical use." Gutwillig is the Drug Policy Alliance's California state director; Piper is the group's national affairs director.
    [​IMG]President Obama came into office promising to reverse George W. Bush administration practices and elevate science over politics. He explicitly applied that principle to drug policy, an area long driven by ideology and prejudice. He quickly began to make good on the pledge by promoting three evidence-based drug policies: eliminating the ban on states using federal funding for syringe exchange programs to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis; reforming the racially unjust crack-cocaine sentencing disparity that punished crack offenses more harshly than powder offenses; and vowing to end years of federal interference in the implementation of state medical marijuana laws.
    But as The Times' July 9 article makes dismayingly clear, the White House is putting the "science-free zone" sign back up.
    Two weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Justice issued medical marijuana guidelines to U.S. attorneys that are at best confusing and at worst a flip-flop on administration policy. The department’s much-heralded 2009 memo on the subject fulfilled candidate Obama’s campaign promise and established a principle that federal resources would not be wasted prosecuting medical marijuana patients and providers who are in "clear and unambiguous compliance" with state medical marijuana laws. The department's update reiterates that the feds won't target individual medical marijuana patients but might bust large-scale, commercial medical marijuana providers. The memo unequivocally threatens federal prosecution of large-scale medical marijuana providers even if they are in compliance with state law, a significant step away from the principle at the heart of the 2009 policy. Disturbingly, the new "clarification" doesn't explain what the federal government considers to be the line between small and large-scale production -- likely an attempt to slow state-sponsored medical marijuana distribution programs while sowing anxiety and confusion for patients.

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    Most recently, the Drug Enforcement Administration rejected a formal citizen petition filed nine years ago to reschedule marijuana to make it available for medical use. When the DEA considered a similar petition during the Reagan administration, the agency's administrative law judge concluded, "Marijuana has been accepted as capable of relieving the distress of great numbers of very ill people." The Obama administration’s rejection of the petition claims marijuana "has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States … lacks accepted safety for use under medical supervision… [and] has a high potential for abuse." Lest one think the DEA's ruling is just law enforcement run amok, the White House released its 2011 National Drug Control Strategy earlier this week, calling marijuana "addictive and unsafe." That document devotes five pages attacking marijuana legalization and medical marijuana.
    The administration's disconnect from science is shocking. A federally commissioned study by the Institute of Medicine more than a decade ago determined that nausea, appetite loss, pain and anxiety "all can be mitigated by marijuana." The esteemed medical journal the Lancet Neurology reports that marijuana's active components "inhibit pain in virtually every experimental pain paradigm." The National Cancer Institute, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, notes that marijuana may help with nausea, loss of appetite, pain and insomnia. Sixteen states and the District of Columbia, home to 90 million Americans, have adopted laws allowing the medical use of marijuana to treat AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis and other ailments. The federal government itself cultivates and supplies marijuana to a handful of patients through its "compassionate-use investigative new drug program," which was established in 1978 but closed to new patients in 1992.
    Marijuana use, like any drug, certainly carries risks. When it comes to policy, however, these risks should be weighed against the harms associated with current marijuana laws. It is notable that every comprehensive, objective government commission that has examined marijuana throughout the past 100 years has concluded that criminalization of adult marijuana use does more harm than marijuana use itself. Moreover, the risks associated with marijuana use are demonstrably far less than those associated with Oxycontin, methamphetamine, morphine and other drugs currently available for medical use. It defies not just science but common sense for the Obama administration to be so aggressively anti-marijuana, especially for medical use.
    It is not too late to reverse this science-phobic trend. The Department of Justice's recent medical marijuana guidance is vague enough that the administration can clarify it intends to scrutinize only massive, rogue medical marijuana operations and that the DEA won't waste resources going after most providers in most states. The administration should clearly support responsible state and local regulations designed to make marijuana legally available to patients while enhancing public safety and health. If the federal government is unable to provide leadership in this area, then the very least it can do is get out of the way and allow local governments to determine the policies that best serve their interests. The president who promised change rooted in rational reflection shouldn't stand in the way of it.
    - Article originally from The Los Angeles Times.



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  3. ElJay

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    keep the info coming old goat. i'm still readin...
     
  4. old goat

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    Medical Marijuana Group Appeals DEA Rescheduling Decision

    by Phillip Smith, July 25, 2011, 01:29pmPosted in:


    Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the country's leading medical marijuana advocacy group, Thursday filed an appeal challenging the Obama administration's recent decision to keep marijuana classified as a dangerous drug with no medicinal value. The appeal comes just two weeks after the DEA belatedly denied a 2002 petition seeking to have marijuana removed from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.

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    Schedule I is reserved for drugs with "a high potential for abuse," that have "no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States," and "there is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision."

    In refusing to down-schedule marijuana, the DEA ignored the 1988 ruling of its own Administrative Law Judge Francis Young who said that, "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." Since then, medical marijuana has been approved in 16 states and the District of Columbia, and the scientific literature on the medical efficacy of marijuana has become enormous.

    ASA said it will argue in a forthcoming appeal brief that the federal government decision was not supported by the evidence and that it erred in refusing to down-schedule marijuana.

    "By ignoring the wealth of scientific evidence that clearly shows the therapeutic value of marijuana, the Obama Administration is playing politics at the expense of sick and dying Americans," said ASA chief counsel Joe Elford. "For the first time in more than 15 years we will be able to present evidence in court to challenge the government's flawed position on medical marijuana."

    ASA and other medical marijuana advocates viewed the DEA refusal to reschedule marijuana less as a defeat than as an opportunity to get the matter before the courts. The last time, the federal bench dealt with the medical efficacy of marijuana was in 1994, and the case for therapeutic cannabis has only grown stronger since then.



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  5. old goat

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    President Obama: No to Decriminalization, Yes to More War on Some Drugs

    By Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director - Monday, July 25 2011 Tags:

    [​IMG]Ironic kudos to Political Rhetoric graduate student ‘Steve’ from the University of Maryland for asking President Obama last Friday a spot on and searing rhetorical question from the Millennial generation about our country’s need to end the nation’s longest war…the failed war on some drugs.
    Steve gets it. The audience gets it. According to all polling, in excess of 90% of U.S. citizens broadly believe the ‘war on drugs’ is a failure (75% support medical access to cannabis. 73% support decriminalizing adult possession for cannabis; and 46% support cannabis legalization outright).
    When will the two major political parties and presidents—like Obama—get it?
    According to polling last week, President Obama is quickly falling out of favor with the Millennial generation that helped sweep him to power in 2008. Lest President Obama forget who brought him to the dance, he might want to look at the clear discontent—across all party lines—with the way the federal government has been conducting drug warring, notably its full-throat perpetuation of antiquated and tax-draining Cannabis Prohibition policies.
    Instead, he should deliver a clear message for supporting a system of legally controlling cannabis, rather than deny economic reality, waste taxpayers’ money and constantly face embarrassing questions about a failed public policy that has long festered in the public’s mind.
    President Obama should endorse a ‘drug peace’ where cannabis is legally controlled like alcohol products; patients can access a safe and non-toxic naturally occurring medicine; and farmers, entrepreneurs and consumers in America can benefit from industrial hemp production.

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    President Obama, NORML and tens of millions of cannabis consumers and lovers of liberty ask you not to re-commit us to war against ‘weed’, but, instead, to re-think the leaf.


    President Barack Obama said Friday that the U.S. would not be ending its war on drugs under his watch.
    By David Edwards of Raw Story.
    “Much is being asked of our generation,” a doctoral student named Steve told the president at a town hall event in Maryland. “So, when are our economic perspectives going to be addressed? For example, when is the war on drugs in society going to be abandoned and be replaced by a more sophisticated and cost effective program of rehabilitation such as the one in Portugal?”
    “I have stated repeatedly — and it’s actually reflected in our most recent statement by our office of drug policy — that we need to have an approach that emphasizes prevention, treatment, a public health model for reducing drug use in our country,” Obama said. “We’ve got to put more resources into that. We can’t simply focus on interdiction because, frankly, no matter how good of a job we’re doing when it comes to an interdiction approach, if there is high demand in this country for drugs, we are going to continue to see not only drug use but also the violence associated with the drug trade.”
    After several minutes of explaining U.S. efforts to help Mexico fight transnational drug dealers, the president got to the point.
    “Just to make sure that I’m actually answering your question, am I willing to pursue a decriminalization strategy as an approach? No.”
    “But I am willing to make sure that we’re putting more resources on the treatment and prevention side,” Obama added.
    - Watch the video from MSNBC, broadcast July 22, 2011 here.

    - Article originally from NORML.



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  6. old goat

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    MAN READ WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERMENTS NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DRUG ABUSE SAYS . OH HAVE WE BEEN FOOLED TO LONG .

    Marijuana Derivative May Offer Hope in Cocaine Addiction

    By Maia Szalavitz, TIME - Tuesday, July 26 2011 Tags:

    [​IMG]A new study in mice has found that activating a receptor affected by marijuana can dramatically reduce cocaine consumption. The research suggests that new anti-addiction drugs might be developed using synthetic versions of cannabidiol (CBD), the marijuana component that activates the receptor—or even by using the purified natural compound itself.
    Researchers formerly believed that the receptor, known as CB2, was not found in the brain and that therefore CBD had no psychoactive effects. But a growing body of research suggests otherwise. After THC, CBD is the second most prevalent active compound in marijuana.
    The study found that JWH133, a synthetic drug that activates the CB2 receptor, reduced intravenous cocaine administration in mice by 50-60%.
    "It's a very significant reduction,” says Zheng-Xiong Xi, the lead author of the study and a researcher at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
    JWH133 comes with some other features that make it an attractive candidate as a potential anti-addiction treatment. It does not seem to produce either a high or a negative experience, which is critical if it is to become a useful and politically acceptable anti-addiction option. While mice given drugs like cocaine or heroin will spend more time in the place where they got high (apparently hoping for more), mice didn't develop such a “place preference” when given JWH133. Nor did they avoid the spot where they'd been given it, which happens when mice are given drugs they find unpleasant.

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    "It's extremely exciting,” says Antonello Bonci, scientific director for intramural research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
    Ethnographic research by Ric Curtis, chair of anthropology at John Jay College in New York suggests that, as is often the case, addicts may have been ahead of the researchers in discovering this potential property of marijuana. National surveys found that as crack use declined in the early 1990's, marijuana use rose— and Curtis found that many crack users reported deliberately substituting marijuana for crack, seeking a cheaper and less disruptive high.
    Could successful replacement of crack with marijuana be related to CBD and its activation of CB2 receptors? “That's a very tough question,” says Xi, adding that while we don't really know, he suspects that THC may be more involved. “That sounds more like substitution, using a less addictive drug to replace a more addictive drug,” he says.
    The next step to is to figure out what are the side effects of this, to figure out what could limit [development],” says Bonci. Interestingly, other studies suggest that JWH133—and therefore, potentially, CBD—may prevent the development of the brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease. It also seems to have antipsychotic effects.
    All of which merely adds to the increasingly absurd controversy over medical uses of marijuana.
    - Article from TIME.


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  7. cliffdog

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    God Barack Obama oughta be called BO because he sure stinks. It takes a real moron to believe the stuff he says. WOW. Okay let's waste all our money on a harmless flower. A flower that might just save the damn world if it was legal. WOOOOW i hope he doesn't get re-elected. It's funny because Marijuana would probably be legal in some countries in Europe, and also Jamaica if not for our stupid US policy and our gov't urging other countries to keep it illegal. The gov't doesn't even want other countries to legalize to use as a model for us to observe. US shoots itself in the foot again.
     
  8. old goat

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    Conviction, Sentence Upheld In Franklin MS Patient's Marijuana Case

    By Joshua Burd, My Central Jersey - Thursday, July 28 2011 Tags:

    [​IMG]The township man arrested for growing marijuana to relieve his symptoms of multiple sclerosis will return to prison after his conviction was upheld by a state appeals court.
    In a ruling issued Tuesday, the court rejected John Ray Wilson’s appeal that he was entitled to use his medical condition in his defense at trial and that his five-year state prison sentence was excessive.
    His attorney, James Wronko, said Tuesday that they did not plan to appeal to the state Supreme Court. Wilson, who had been free on bail pending the appeal, instead will prepare to go back to prison and reapply for the state’s Intensive Supervision Release program that could allow him to be released within months, Wronko said.
    “I think at this point he would be an ideal candidate, and I would anticipate the program would accept him,” Wronko said.
    Wilson, 38, was arrested in August 2008 after a National Guard helicopter crew spotted a marijuana patch behind his rented home on Skillmans Lane. Police later found 17 plants that were 5 to 6 feet tall.
    As the case went to court, Wronko said his client began growing the marijuana to treat the symptoms of multiple sclerosis because he did not have insurance and could not afford prescriptions.
    But Superior Court Judge Robert Reed, sitting in Somerville, in 2009 barred Wilson from using his medical condition as a defense and from referencing it at trial. A jury that December found him not guilty of maintaining a drug-manufacturing facility, the most serious offense, but guilty of second-degree manufacturing marijuana plants and third-degree possession of psilocybin mushrooms.

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    The following March, Reed sentenced Wilson to five years in prison. He was released a month later on $15,000 bail, pending an appeal of his conviction.
    On Tuesday, the three-judge appellate panel wrote that it found no abuse of discretion or error of judgment by the trial court. The judges rejected Wilson’s argument that the case constituted an exception that is allowed under the state law governing the manufacturing of marijuana.
    The panel also found that the trial court’s sentence was not excessive after weighing factors such as Wilson’s ability to get treatment in prison against considerations such as his criminal record, which include charges of burglary and a restraining order.
    “Although we sympathize with (the) defendant's medical condition, the record is devoid of any evidence that he will not obtain satisfactory medical treatment while incarcerated,” the judges wrote in the 15-page opinion. “As a result, we agree with the trial court's determination that there are no extraordinary mitigating factors in this case.”
    The judges relied in part on cases from other states, noting that no other New Jersey court had previously considered whether there was a “personal use defense” to growing marijuana.
    The ruling drew renewed outcry from medical marijuana advocates and state senators Raymond Lesniak and Nicholas Scutari, who had called for him to be pardoned by then-Gov. Jon S. Corzine and now are seeking his pardon from Gov. Chris Christie.
    Lesniak, D-Union, said the case “cries out for clemency both under of the intent of the law and on just a pure social justice and compassion basis.” He and Scutari both said Tuesday that it was a waste of taxpayer money to send Wilson to jail.
    “It makes no economic sense, it makes no social justice sense,” Lesniak said. “I would reiterate my plea to the attorney general and the governor to do the right thing and just allow him to get into pretrial intervention.”
    The court’s decision comes about a week after Christie announced he would allow the state to begin dispensing marijuana to patients who demonstrate a medical need. He had held off on implementing the law since it was signed in January 2010 by Corzine, citing concerns about potential abuses of the program and prosecution by federal authorities.
    Ken Wolski, executive director of the Coalition for Medical Marijuana New Jersey, called it “devastating” and “unfair” that Wilson would return to jail as a result of the ruling. He pointed to public demonstrations, letters and a Facebook page that was established in support of Wilson.
    “To arrest this guy and send him to prison is just so inappropriate,” Wolski said.
    Wronko, Wilson’s attorney, said the outcome was disappointing after he and his client hoped that his medical condition “would have resulted in something different.”
    “I still think the statute as it’s being interpreted is unduly harsh, that simply because you’re growing marijuana, as opposed to buying or carrying, you’re not allowed to exercise it as a personal defense,” Wronko said. “I think it’s unfair.”
    - Article originally
     
  9. ElJay

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    wow. will this crazed stupidity ever end?
     
  10. bgblok68

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    Not as long as stupid people are allowed to breed.
     
  11. old goat

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    medical marijuana is legal in his state now . he should go home . and people should know how much it hurts to take interferon shot ever other day . then they would let him have his medicine . look up interferon and see it cause brain damage . you guys that have face book should start a page for him . they set him one up . but more people should know what they're doing to him . it's freaking legal there now .
     
  12. bgblok68

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    Marinol is legal here but the ole lady's health care provider wouldn't approve it because it was to expensive.
     
  13. old goat

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    it's legal but it's is not the real thing and does'nt work as good . my mother was dying in the hospital and i told the doctor to give it to her and he said he don't use that medicine .
     
  14. cliffdog

    cliffdog Top Dog

    Marinol, and Sativex patients all say the same thing IT DOESN'T WORK!!!!!! Why would you want to keep putting SYNTHETIC CHEMICALS IN YOUR BODY when you can heal your pain with REAL NATURE...
     
  15. bgblok68

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    I agree. She used the real stuff. Just stating the b.s. they pull here.
     
  16. old goat

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  17. old goat

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    this happen in canada but it tells you how people that live taking opiates feel . and as a country we should have compassion for all .



    Marijuana Dispensary Raid Was Out of Line

    By D. Williams, BC Local News (letter to the editor) - Tuesday, August 2 2011 Tags:

    [​IMG]I am writing in response to the recent shutdown of the Metrotown Medicinal Marijuana Dispensary.
    There has been a new wave of these shutdowns by the RCMP in B.C. since June.
    Unless someone needs to use medical marijuana dispensaries for their medicine, they may not understand the importance of having them available to us, the patients.
    Unless they have been prescribed opiates for long term usage, they cannot understand the anxiety of waking up in the morning and not knowing what day it is or where they are. Sure, these moments are momentary but they cause great anxiety and stress.
    The simple things like writing a letter to a friend become so challenging as you sit in front of the computer and try to figure out what to do next.
    Try making yourself a meal to eat and forgetting it’s in the oven. Some may say they’ve done that before, but I can bet it wasn’t on a daily basis.
    Try going to bed and forgetting to lock the doors—or not—but getting up seven or eight times just to make sure.
    I’m sure you haven’t cried in pain as you try to go about your morning bathroom duties because the opiates are destroying your kidneys. Or spent hours vomiting your dinner because now the opiates have attacked your liver.
    These are all things that happen to you when you have to take prescribed opiates for long term usage.

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    Opiates were designed as a means to make the dying feel comfortable. Now they prescribe them for headaches. Do you not see the “wrong” in this?
    Those of us who have gone through this and who still are know how the so-called “cure” to the effects of our illnesses destroys our lives, and far too much how it feels to die from the inside out.
    We have chosen a safer route to manage our illnesses. I suffer from Fibromyalgia. It is debilitating, much like Multiple Sclerosis without the plaques. I live with excruciating pain on a daily basis.
    The opiates were destroying my kidneys and I did not want to be on dialysis in the future.
    I chose to use medicinal marijuana and I have gotten my life back. I can function again.
    My head is clear—I’m sure to your surprise. I can paint and sketch and garden. I can volunteer in the community. I can walk my dog and play with my grandson. I can run my business.
    I am alive.
    I depend on the dispensaries to make that possible. I know many others who feel just like me. Closing the dispensaries is wrong. It would be like denying pharmaceuticals for those of you who need your heart medicine or insulin.
    It is hard enough to have to choose between your food and your medicine (because you see, our medicine is not covered by any insurance) without also having to deal with the stress of the drama that this drug war has created on a daily basis.
    Look at the research, please. It is not the dispensaries, nor the grow-ops, nor the cannabis plant that have created the situations you fear. It is the war on drugs.
    Taking away our needed dispensaries will not put an end to that war, it will only help fund it.
    While we, the people, take the time to respect and follow legislation, perhaps the police could take the time to study, to research, to find solutions. To understand.
    - Article originally from BC Local News.



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    President Obama advertises on NORML’s YouTube Channel

    August 2nd, 2011 By: Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator
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    [​IMG]Why does music from British rock legends "The Who" keep playing in my head when I see this ad?

    Remember when we were told that “legalization isn’t in the president’s vocabulary?”
    Remember when Mr. Obama laughed off a suggestion that marijuana legalization could help the economy?
    Remember when he emphatically stated he would not pursue a strategy of decriminalization of marijuana?
    Yeah, we do, too.
    So imagine our surprise at NORML to find an ad for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign nestled in the prime ad spot on our YouTube channel: NORMLtv (http://youtube.com/natlnorml).
    What’s the campaign strategy for the marijuana smoker vote, Mr. Obama? Keeping at the head of the DEA one of Mr. Bush’s administrators? Maintaining the Bush-era policy of raiding medical marijuana providers? Escalating numbers of marijuana arrests on your watch?
    Or will it just be, “Look, you think I’m bad, imagine what happens if (fill in GOP nominee) wins! I just want to force pot smokers into costly rehab they don’t need on the threat of prison. (Fill in GOP nominee) wants to (fill in terrible threat we’re already experiencing now)!”
    You want the absolute guaranteed votes of 90% of the 25 million American adults who use cannabis annually in America?
    Convince Congress to pass and then you sign Barney Frank and Ron Paul’s Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act.
    It doesn’t cost you anything. Marijuana is still illegal in all fifty states and 99% of all marijuana arrests take place at the state and local level. It just means marijuana is no longer a federal issue; states are free to set up any marijuana regulations they choose. The people in marijuana friendly states will support you more and the ones who hate pot still think you’re a secret Muslim agent from Kenya anyway.
    Well, I take that back. Your contributors from Big Pharma might not like you endorsing the competition.
    UPDATE: Apparently, based on comments below, I should’ve explained how BlogAds work. NORML didn’t “accept” advertising from the Obama campaign. We offer up a piece of screen real estate to the BlogAds company. They sell advertising packages to third parties, like the Obama campaign, which promise to place their ads on websites matching certain demographics and content keywords. So we don’t even know who or what is going to appear up there as an ad (within limits; obviously there isn’t going to be a phone sex ad or Klan rally promotion going up there… we can limit certain types of ad content.)
    It’s possible that the ad algorithm just saw “within 50,000 on Alexa”, “large youth demo of readers”, and “Congress / House / Senate / Obama” on our website and automatically placed Obama’s ad there because he wants to reach young politically active people on popular websites. In fact, I seem to recall some “Marijuana: The Anti-Drug” ads showing up on our BlogTalkRadio page in the early days of NORML SHOW LIVE. I’ve seen ONDCP ads show up on other pro-marijuana sites.
    We’re not a 20th century newspaper; it’s not as if Obama’s campaign team called and said, “Hey, NORML, how about we support you by advertising and you support us by accepting the ad. The day the ad appeared on NORMLtv was the first time we saw it there and probably just as shocking to the president.

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  19. old goat

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    REMEMEBER THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOUR KID OR YOUR BROTHERS OR SISTERS KID .

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    Florida Pays To Bury Teen After Marijuana Arrest

    By Freedom Is Green - Tuesday, August 2 2011 Tags:
    Supervisors alegedly told prison guards not to call in ambulatory assistance for the dying teen
    [​IMG]State authorities in Florida caused a stir last week when they stopped a check to pay for the funeral services of a teenager who died after jail staff refused him medical attention. The West Palm Beach Post reported that a $5,000 check issued at the request of the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) was destroyed last week by the state’s Chief Financial Officer. Today the same newspaper is reporting that state CFO Jeff Atwater re-issued the check.
    On the night of July 9th Eric Perez as just another young resident in Florida with a small amount of marijuana. He turned 18 just a few weeks earlier. But the next morning Perez was dead. What happened in the time between is the subject of an intense and ongoing investigation. Some disturbing details have already emerged.
    For the seven hours that Perez was in custody he was having severe headaches and was continuously vomiting. He pleaded for help. Guards have come forward to say they were directed by supervisors not to call 911 that night. (Those guards were then fired for following those orders.) Towards the end, Perez was moved to a bare “medical” cell and left without anyone to monitor him inside. At some point the guard assigned outside the door apparently went absent.
    The tragic conclusion is all too clear: Eric Perez died completely alone and in great pain on the floor of that Juvenile Detention Center cell. His mother will receive the video of her son’s last moments.
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    This horrific case showcases that the poor management of local jails quickly becomes inhuman treatment of those incarcerated. Men of color between 18 and 35 bear the brunt of marijuana prohibition laws. Because this is the most-arrested group of Americans means they also have the greatest probability of encountering the worst in jail environments.
    Fourteen US states have decriminalized the possession of a small amount of marijuana by adults. Even more states have the option of issuing a court summons at the time of a police encounter in lieu of a custodial arrest.
    The death of a young person in a Florida correctional institution was common enough that the Department of Juvenile Justice already has a policy in place to pay for the burial expenses.
    The agency has issued the payments twice before, according to DJJ spokesman C.J. Drake.
    Drake would not comment on the finger-pointing but said “we’re pleased that this matter is finally being resolved in favor of the young man’s family.”
    The check was overnighted Monday to Richard Schuler, an attorney representing Perez’ mother Martiza Perez, Atwater spokeswoman Alexis Lambert said.
    “They have done an about-face on the issuance of the check for funeral expenses. I think it’s the right thing to do under the circumstances,” Schuler said
     
  20. old goat

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    Please don't say anything about smoking . We don't want them to close the thread .
     

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