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Strangely, the pseudo-word, "hashism", has popped up here and there, if you search for it on the internet. But still no reference books or other accepted sources acknowledge the existence of this pseudo-word, that never really existed except in obscure documents written by even more obscure bureaucrats. Yet, this strange non-word helped incarcerate and marginalize millions of citizens since the 1920's.
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NOTE: Is it generally known that Americans are smuggling large amounts of marijuana into Mexico? No. Nor do Australians smuggle Australian marijuna into Indonesia.
Whatever your first impressions about this case have been since 2004, the reality is that she was charged with smuggling outdoor grown pot into Indonesia from Australia. Unlikely. The Australian dollar is and was much stronger than the Indonesian currency, and Australian pot could not (and cannot still) be economically sold in Indonesia at prevailing prices. Bear in mind, she has been in jail, I think, since around 2004.
Even if she were "guilty", and it's unlikely that she is guilty, it is just as much a violation of international law and values. This is inhumane treatment of someone (allegedly) doing something basically at least as harmless as importing or exporting coffee, perhaps less harmful.
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After a stroke or two, and almost death, Jack Herer never quits. Promoting 2008 California fully legal pot and all other aspects of the cannabis plant legal also, he speaks at the 2007 Seattle Hempfest; also famous med. mar. grower Eddy Lepp.
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"Nothing's Gonna Change My World, Jai Guru Deva". NASA broadcasts Beatles song, "Across the Universe" on 4 February 2008 for its 50th Anniversary Celebration - not an arbitrary date. But it turns out to be one day before the death of scientist/spiritual leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. This has to be a major coincidence. Note: at his funeral in India, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was given full military honors.
Maharishi brought TM, and the term, "Jai Guru Dev", to the west. "Jai Guru Dev" means, "All gratitude to Guru Dev, and to the Holy Tradition." ("Holy Tradition" means the tradition of Vedic masters who brought us TM from nearly prehistoric times.)
He also brought SCI, or the Science of Creative Intelligence, an intellectual and scientific framework for understanding the growth of human consciousness through meditation and Vedic knowledge, rather than a religious attitude, which greatly helped distinguish his teaching from most others. SCI also has an entire section dealing with the unity of all academic disciplines (SCI and Interdisciplinary Studies). The TM movement has also been a supporter of the idea that meditation for most is practiced to help daily life; not to serve as a retirement from it. The idea that only the reclusive or renunciate sector of society should meditate is not part of this movement. He was also greatly respected by a large number of prominent people such as Buckminister Fuller, Marshall McCluhan, Clint Eastwood, Joe Namath, German author Herman Hesse, and many many others. (The last three named are known to have probably, or still practice TM.)
The Natural Law Party, the world-wide political party formed by the TM movement back in the 1990's, called for the decriminalization of all illicit drugs in their presidential platform for election year 2000 when John Hagelin and Nat Goldhaber were the party's candidates for president and vice-president. The Natural Law party no longer exists except here and there as independent organizations in a few countries.
Maharishi's last big project was called, The Global Country of World Peace.
(For many years, the TM movement has had a 15 day rule regarding illicit drug usage. The rule is that anyone wishing to learn Transcendental Meditation must stop all illicit drug usage 15 days (used to be 2 weeks) prior to beginning the TM course.
TM Proponent, Paul McCartney, Lately Unrepentant about Pot.
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YOUR ANCESTORS WERE POT-HEADS WHETHER THEY KNEW IT OR NOT.
Lack of full scientific knowledge about marijuana chemistry and its active ingredients
was probably a factor in its loosing popularity among doctors around 1900 or so
when opiates and other very strong pain killers became popular. Recreational pot & hashish
usage was becoming popular in New York City around 1900, though, and is mentioned by prominent
feminist anti-alcohol activists as a mostly harmless substitute for addicting liquor and beer.
The general public mostly did not know in 1900 that reefer, marijuana, hashish, hemp, and cannabis sativa, were the same thing.
By the late 1930's, the controversy over "marijuana" or "reefer" (but not "cannabis") prompted N.Y.C.
to appoint The Laguardia Committee which exonerated cannabis, as usual. The media,
intimidated by Harry Anslinger, never properly reported the results of this study.
- (5 January '09 Associated Press) Rotterdam has Moroccan Immigrant Mayor Now - Europe's First.
- (24 December '08 from Dec. 12, 2008www.stopthedrugwar.org)
Moroccan TV Discussing the Marijuana and Hashish Situation There, as well as legalization of it. Morocco has produced marijuana and especially hashish, for centuries, and is very likely the number one supplier of hashish to all of Europe. No one is at war with Morocco at the moment. Morocco was the first, or among the first three, the other two being France and the Netherlands, to recognize the United States.
Morocco recognized the U.S. in 1777, during the Revolutionary War, well before the written U.S. Constitution even existed, but one year after the Declaration of Independence. However, there were at least 13 independent "states", probably more, already functioning as such in a very loose confederation at war with England, but already united in name as "The United States". The Articles of Confederation hadn't even been written or signed yet when Morocco became a defacto "ally" by recognizing the U.S. so early. The first and oldest property owned by the U.S. government outside the U.S., is in Morocco.
Every time I have spoken with Dutch people about full legalization, they have stated that they could not do so until there was international cooperation on the subject. Every quote of Dutch lawmakers on that subject for many years has also reflected that same opinion. This could be a signal that international cooperation on this issue is beginning to happen.
NOTE: Switzerland is not part of the E.U. Neither are Iceland or Turkey, but you can enter Europe in terms of customs and immigration, through those three plus other countries. There are European Union treaties that these three have signed. It's actually very complicated to say "what is Europe". Some have said that the European Parliament is either the most powerful, or least powerful part of the E.U.
Considering that the Netherlands, the U.K., and the U.S., as a part of NATO forces in Afghanistan, are all currently engaged in war with one of their minor suppliers of hashish; seems to indicate an unstable period. I doubt that any discussion has taken place. Current things going on in Holland don't look favorable for legalization of anything. On the other hand, 80% like the cannabis coffee shop concept and reality for various reasons, even if they don't use marijuana.
What is Current OFFICIAL EU Policy on PAN-EUROPE ILLICIT DRUGS?
Some idiots in Europe and/or the U.K. are behaving lately as if the cannabis coffee shop was the idea of TERRORISTS rather than the idea of the Beatles et al, etc.
I think it was the Beatles' idea, myself. Paul McCartney wanted it legal in 1997 also, and I don't think he has changed his mind about that. He just divorced Heather Mills, partly over this issue, I think I heard. (Paul McCartney recently stated in an interview that he did not wish to become a spokesman for legalization of marijuana.)
Now, hasn't the EU expanded due to promises not only of economic help to new member states, but also due to the ideas of freedom, in general?
Now, it could be that the British government is paying Paul as a fake to do and say these things so that more and more victims will be arrested and charged as "drug tourists, criminals, and Is that Paul's idea to help manufacture crime? I doubt it.
What is Current OFFICIAL EU Policy on PAN-EUROPE ILLICIT DRUGS?
(2002-2003 period) Back when I was NORML Canada web maintainer, before Sept. 2004, I had the same question in my mind. So. I paid a friend in Holland who spoke Dutch normally, and some French, to call the government offices in Brussels, and find out the answer to the above question. It took my friend a few hours of telephone calls from bureau to department to secretary to this to that, to ministry, to this, to that, etc., etc., until he found out what it was. What is it?
as of 2001 ot 2002 or whenever. Turns out to be no changes since 1997. If they have changed the PAN EUROPE policy since 1997, then they have NOT announced that to the world. (I will try to find the exact date that I personally checked on this in the early 2000's, and I'll get back with you.)
Remember, the European Parliament is only an advisory body. It has ZERO power to make laws. The E.U. Treaty process stalled, so the previous treaties remain in effect. I have no idea what the current European Parliament has said about Pan-Europe illicit drug policy recommendations. Each country is probably still in total control of their illicit drug policy despite recommendations from the European Parliament.
What is going on in some places in Holland lately seems out of step with official EU policy set in 1997, and as confirmed in the early 2002-2003 period by the NORML Canada web maintainer.
- (4 December '08 www.hightimes.com) Mass. Decrim. In Effect in early January '09. No changes for "dealers", or "those who share theirs", apparently. They still go to jail.
- (11 November '08, made early 2007), A new university student made marijuana coffee shop video from the University of Washington. Note: coffee shops that sell marijuana in the Netherlands, also sell coffee, juices, soft drinks, and other snack items.
Univ. of Washington Student Made Video (About 5 minutes).
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- (1 November '08)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrckW0XB634.
EXPERTS DISCUSS THE ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM, MEDICAL MARIJUANA, INFLAMMATION VS.
NON-INFLAMMATION, NEW MEDICINES, OMEGA-3, OMEGA-6 FATTY ACIDS, POLITICS, ETC.Dr. Robert Melamede, recently head of the Biology Department at the Univ. of Colorado at Colorado Springs, recent National NORML Director Richard Cowan, and recent California Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of California, Steve Kubby, have formed a company named, Dynamic Alert Limited, (OTCBB:DYMC) that aims to make and market various cannabis medicines from the natural plant. This has been publicised at www.marijuananews.com.
The incredible cutting edge medical aspects of cannabis are needed by millions. For those who simply cannot or will not smoke pot, it seems obvious that something else be made available. Marinol, which is expensive, and difficult and dangerous to manufacture, has only pure synthetic THC in it. There are many other things in marijuana that are medically useful, and it would be impossible, probably, to synthesize all of them.
The world needs the concentrated optimized medicines, and medicine combinations, now, that Dynamic Alert Limited can produce now from natural cannabis.
- (23 October '08 www.cannabisculture.com/bloomberg) Famous Hedge Fund Trader Makes $$$$$$, then Quits, Asks that Pot and Hemp be Legalized.
- (19 October '08) A pot user I know once told me that the most important thing to know about pot for the neophyte, is that it doesn't work at all for some people in terms of "getting stoned". I know another person who has used it for pain relief at times, but who still claims he has never felt "stoned" from it, even once. "Stoned" means "intoxicated" in a way similar to how beer might or might not affect a person. Those who use both beer and pot will know the difference in effect between the two, hopefully.
This so-called "variability" was one reason marijuana was less used by doctors in the late 1800's and early 1900's who instead began to prefer the miracle "opiates", like "Heroin" (Bayer trademark), which worked as a pain killer all the time for everyone, no matter what (but the opiate addict no longer receives much pain relief). But some effects of pot may not be "felt" anymore than many other medications produce no feeling of "being stoned".
But we know that beer and many other drugs aren't really like that. Beer may affect you? It always affects a person in some quantity. I've never heard of someone who has never felt the effect of alcohol. One person I met says they smoked pot for the very first time, off and on, for about 2 weeks, and felt absolutely no effect from it. They almost gave up on ever "getting stoned". Then, about 2 or 3 weeks later, they had the opportunity to try it again, and it worked for them for the first time, finally. Since then, it has always worked for that person. In other words, they finally felt some effect, other than having to cough their heads off, from smoking it, and it still works for them 30 years later.
Imagine a beer advertisement with the caption, "This beer may have no effect upon some drinkers, no matter how much they may drink."
Nobody I know has ever come up with a theory of why marijuana works for most, but not for all in terms of feeling "stoned". However, many of the medical effects have nothing to do with the "stoned" effect, apparently. But some legitimate medical effects are related to "being and feeling stoned", I'm sure. For some, marijuana is an "herbal" medication because it makes them feel "stoned".
However, subjectively, the "stoned" effect is not necessarily proportional to how much marijuana a person uses. For some persons, if they smoke too much, soon, they don't feel "stoned" anymore at all.
It appears, also, that some ailments respond to totally different doses of pot, in the legitimate medical sense. Glaucoma, and other ailments, seem to need a lot of pot; more than most people would smoke just to get high.
- (16 October '08)
DOWN WITH PROHIBITIONIST NAZI-ISM.
Based upon DEA and other anti-drug propaganda, the degree of harm caused by marijuana is directly proportional to the amount of THC in it; therefore, the worse thing on planet earth with THC in it, is the legal THC drug called, "marinol" or "dronibinal" according to official government Nazi logic; these are 100% THC. All the "evil" things you have heard about marijuana are most concentrated in these synthetic THC pills.
Evidence that they are lying is that many politicians recommend these legal pills over much less potent marijuana.
If the accusations we often hear about pot are true, then pure-THC pills such as Marinol would be causing huge outbreaks of psychotic behavior in those who use them. If the accusations about pot and thc are true, then police would be reporting massive outbreaks of psychotic behavior at the Seattle Hempfest, for example. (It's also true that marijuana potency is probably the highest in the world in Seattle and on America's west coast, even higher than Dutch or Swiss marijuana potency - therefore, there should logically be massive numbers of "psychotic and deluded" users of marijuana out there. Is this the truth?)
- (16 October '08 www.marijuananews.com) The Truth About Schapelle Corby,, in prison in Indonesia.
- (14 October '08 www.iht.com) Honduran President Calls for Drug Legalization.
- (11 October '08 www.hightimes.com) Mexico Seeks to Legalize Small Amounts of Cannabis, etc.
- (29 Sept. '08 somePCmagazine(blog)) Sri Lanka wants marijuana legalised for medicine.
- (20 Sept. '08)
According to all nations who are supporters of the U.N. and its previous incarnation, the League of Nations, most of these guys, if they have been using pot all these years, have to be incurably insane by now. According to the greatest marijuana expert of all of history (the Egyptian delegate to the League of Nations 2nd Opium Conference - 1925), there is no known antidote for the long term effects of marijuana.
They were not into war. They were into peace, love, and music for everyone, most of the time. Some of them used pot, at times. The Drug War was started to protect society from psychotic people like them. (I hope you don't think that I think they're deluded and psychotic.)
- (15 September '08 www.stopthedrugwar.org) Will the New Commander-In-Chief Lead Us More Into Incarceration? - U.S. Numero Uno Incacerator - Mostly Due to the War on Drugs.
- (2 September '08 blog.norml.org) The oldest sergeant laughed and said, "Patrolling Hempfest-a two day event-is like patrolling a Girl Scout picnic compared to dealing with the drunks at Safeco Field, 80 games plus a year." The whole bunch nodded their heads in agreement.
(www.prorev.com) In Denver, however, the police would not have liked it if the Girl Scouts & Boy Scouts happened to also be vegans.
- Research on Alzheimer's disease and THC/marijuana. Now, consider for a moment, especially after looking over other medical conditions affected positively by cannabis, that the DEA still thinks marijuana is a "narcotic". Too bad for U.S.
From www.jackherer.com, we find out that Carl Olsen is working on some civil law strategy for getting the DEA pot policy to change, perhaps.
- (10th, 11th August '08 www.drugpolicy.org, www.hightimes.com) Simple Explanation: The Drug War is a Crime Against Humanity. The severity and specific nature of it varies, though, from place to place. As extreme as that sounds, upon careful analysis, anyone could not avoid coming to the same conclusion.
Hard Hitting Synopsis of why the Drug War is Insane and counterproductive.
The League of Nation's charter (U.N. is the successor) mentioned "narcotics" and people trafficking as causes for it to come into existence. Without changes in international treaty, how can the "drug war" created from that legal basis change?
(Click Here) How did marijuana get on the list of "narcotics"? The fact that marijuana is not a narcotic means that we should sue anyone for calling it a narcotic. Calling marijuana a narcotic is making a fraudulent statement. Yet, that is the basis of the war upon marijuana - incorrect usage of the word "narcotic".
As far as the actual narcotics and dangerous drugs which were always meant to be "controlled substances"; how did they get out of the control of drug stores, and into unregulated alleyways and side-streets of the world?
Probably, the condemnation of any drug user, no matter what, as an "addict", is the problem due to various treaties, the League of Nations, and the United Nations prohibitionist stance on all drugs and alcohol, forever. Alcohol was intended to be banned permanently, as well, as witness the period 1919-1933 in the U.S. We were just living up to our "anti-drug" tradition from the very late 1900's. There were other prohibitions before that one, and there are still "dry counties" with no alcohol allowed at all. (Actually, you can possess all the alcohol you want in a dry county, but you can't sell it.)
In the U.S., drug addicts have been condemned since around 1905, apparently. Soon afterwards, those who used alcohol were condemned. The U.S., League of Nations, and United Nations have forever banned all drugs and alcohol from planet earth, in theory. As soon as they can grow up from that prohibitionist insanity, progress can be made.
- (4 August '08) California to Ban Transfats in restaurant and bakery foods.
- (2 August '08) President of Argentina Calls for Decriminalization of All Illicit Drugs, but not of trafficking and selling them.
- (31 July '08) QUESTION: HOW DO DUTCH PARENTS FIND OUT WHICH DRUGS, IF ANY, THEIR CHILDREN ARE USING?
ANSWER: THEY JUST ASK THEM. (Honor thy father and thy mother; thou shalt not lie.)
QUESTION: WHY DOESN'T THIS WORK IN THE U.S.?
ANSWER: IN THE U.S., children and parents don't talk openly about such things for many strange legal reasons. The drug war has destroyed the parent-child relationship. In the U.S., many parents feel they must take blood, hair, or urine samples to find out if their children are using drugs. If they just ask, the children are usually afraid to speak openly, if at all. Fear and secrecy rule the U.S. parent-child relationship in terms of drugs. (Don't honor thy father and thy mother. Lie to them.)
- (30 July '08) Major Initiative on Capital Hill in next months for POT LAW IMPROVEMENT, by Representives Ron Paul, Barney Frank, and others. Here's the CNN Article about it.
- (29 July '08) Back when marijuana was still legal, around 1927, we could say that many of the elements of our modern civilization had already been created such as jazz, the AC electricity system, the automobile, the airplane, the radio, the telegraph, the talking movie, the phonograph, the telephone, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, the washing machine, modern psychology, modern universities, electric cars, solar thermal energy, women's right to vote and run for office, social security insurance in most countries, the Haarlemmermeer polder (Holland), the Brooklyn bridge, modern railroads, banning alcohol production and sales for human consumption, (just kidding), and many other progressive things.
The idea that civilization will decay if marijuana were legalized is contradicted by all the incredible progress that had already taken place before the cancer called marijuana-prohibition took hold. It appears that marijuana prohibition was a mistake. It does appear that as the U.S. gulag state and the criminal justice system become ever larger, the dollar falls ever further.
The truth of the matter is that Silicon Valley, and the economy of the western U.S., is populated with many working marijuana users. What would you expect with the Grateful Dead being the "patron saints" of the area? The tech sector of the stock market is, in a sense, often dependent on the brains of pot users. And it's been like that for a long time regardless of stupidity and ignorance about this subject. There does seem to be a rough correlation between high tech industrial areas of the U.S., and liberal pot policies, outside of Silicon Valley as well.
In contrast, stupidity and ignorance are worth nothing. (This doesn't mean that every working person out west smokes pot, but a lot there do).
(Note: a handful of American states had prohibited pot before 1937 when the federal government sneakily made it illegal with little or no publicity ahead of this prohibitionist act. In 1925, the League of Nations also sneakily added it to the list of prohibited items.
Note: members of the Grateful Dead worked directly with digital electronic inventors as early as about 1969 or 1970 in creating new types of guitars, basses, and other musical instruments about 8 or 9 years before the home-computer revolution began. They also had the world's best analog stage sound system for years, mostly built by their own techies.)
- (posted 29 July '08 ENCOD.ORG)
Vienna 2008 - Live Pot Plant Treated Respectfully around Vienna, Austria after Protest in March. In a restaurant, the waiter even brought a glass of water just for the plant.
- (26 July '08 www.NORML.org)
COURT'S ENSLAVED-GIRL SHOT DEAD.
Should your daughter(s) plead guilty, or remain free?
Don't Plead Guilty - Don't loose control of your life to the state.
ENSLAVED GIRL Rachel Hoffman was shot dead due to the institutionalized self-hatred
(being compelled to "plead guilty") that is usually part of marijuana prohibition.
Decriminalization also compels everyone to "plead guilty" and pay small fines - !
DON'T PLEAD GUILTY FOR POT NO MATTER WHAT! Pleading guilty for "illicit drugs" will eventually enslave you.Don't plead guilty; don't go to "drug court". Don't enslave yourself. Plead "Not Guilty".
Don't follow the official police system in Tallahasse that automatically makes criminals out of most young people and FSU students, by design.
Related Item:(7 August '08 www.tallahassee.com) Florida State Attorney for 2nd Judicial District says no prosecution of DEA cases due to Hoffman case. CLICK HERE.
- (23 July '08 www.stopthedrugwar.org) Global Civil Society, a large coalition of drug policy NGO's, preparing to tell United Nations drug control office to shape up to public's new standards. A global shift to civil treatment of non-criminals?
- (23 July '08 The Progressive Review) What Lawyers and Judges Won't Tell You about Juries, i.e., what you will tell them if you happen to sit on a jury yourself.
How to get on a jury: register to vote and keep your address for that current. They will contact you if they need you, and they do often need jurors. On the other hand, you will have no choice in the type of trial that you take part in.
- (19 July '08 www.drugpolicy.org/Ottawa Citizen) It's the "P" Word, Stupid! Some clear thinking from Canadia. Prohibition simply doesn't work, and never has. Check out the 21st Amendment which has been the law of the land in the U.S. since December 1933.
- (30 June '08) What's zany about staying calm during an airline flight? Out of The Calming Blue Yonder, Formerly the Wild Blue Yonder, of FAA Regulated Airspace Comes Safer's Latest Creative Initiative - to Allow Air Passengers to Smoke Pot In Special Lounges Before Flights in the U.S. This project was prompted after a number of in-flight altercations caused by alcohol induced drunkedness. SaferChoice.org.
- (12 June 2008) Major News. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled (or click here.) that those incarcerated at Guantanomo Bay have access to U.S. federal courts.
In this case, why would Americans wish to give greater rights to "the mafia", or Osama bin Laden's group, in denying to themselves that which the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that "the mafia", and Osama's group has? When you plead guilty for marijuana possession, you are placing yourself lower than the detainees at Guantanomo Bay! The drug war is like that.
- (12 June '08) HOW TO PLEAD "NOT GUILTY" IN COURT. (For simple possession of pot.... or of being a pot trader.)
- Making Pleas to the Police? A suspect (person arrested or charged with a crime) does not make such pleas to the police. Pleading "guilty" or pleading "not guilty" always takes place between the suspect and a judge. That's how it has always been. If a suspect has confessed to the police, it doesn't matter; they can still plead "not guilty", as pleading "not guilty" is part of every American's rights, regardless. Pleading "not guilty" is actually a political right held by everyone charged under U.S. law, regardless. A suspect doesn't need anyone's permission to plead "not guilty".
- Decrim. versus Legalization:
Question: should those charged under "decrim." also plead not guilty, even if the fine is only $100 or so?
Answer: under decrim., ironically, I would be much more likely to plead "not guilty". For one thing, do you really think they're going to waste court time carrying through with it, and having a jury trial for just a $100 fine? However, in jurisdictions where cash flow from drug money seizures and drug offender fines are a large part of the cash flow for the local government, it is more likely they would have a trial than in the decrim. areas. Keep all of your American freedoms - plead Not-Guilty no matter what.
- Many clients of so-called "better lawyers"; i.e., those who don't buy large flamboyant advertisements, are just as likely to be led by these more conservative lawyers into the "dump of criminality", as the flamboyant ones. It's a huge historical trend with all lawyers who are generally adverse to defending clients in court.
- When you feel compelled to plead guilty, you are placing yourself lower than the detainees at Guantanomo Bay, according to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of those held at Guantanomo Bay.
FACT: In fact, "feeling compelled to plead guilty" does not take place in the United States. If you feel compelled to plead guilty, you have just been exported outside of the United States. You are also allowing your lawyer to get paid for doing nothing on your behalf. You are paying for a defense, yet you are getting less than nothing in return. You are getting screwed!
Simply be stubborn - return to the United States, and keep all of your American freedoms - plead "not guilty" no matter what.
- In old Europe, if you were not from the upper-class, you were always presumed guilty as charged unless proven otherwise. That was why America came into existence, to establish basic rights for all free citizens, and to establish a classy caste-free society. (At first only some more wealthy white men, depending on which state, were considered free citizens; later it increasingly expanded to include all other races and both sexes.)
- First of all, since you are in an American courtroom, you are already presumed innocent until proven guilty. Therefore, your "not-guilty" plea is already in perfect harmony with the presumptions of the court where you are being tried. The prosecution must now prove to the court that you are guilty of the charges. They have to build a case against you and prove you had criminal intent. There is no requirement on your part to confess, or declare your innocence regarding the charges. You should be able to remain silent with your presumed state of "not guilty". You and your attorney do not have to make specific defenses for you, until challenged by the prosecution to the contrary. (Apparently, some states require you to verbally make a "not guilty" plea, others allow the presumption of innocence to be the default.)
- Simply go to the courthouse on the appropriate date (court date) with or without a lawyer. When your name is called, the judge will ask you what you are going to do at some point. In some places, you may be assigned a court appointed lawyer. At any rate, don't let organized crime elements railroad you into the dump of convictees (guilty pleas). They may actually try to threaten or intimidate you, through fear, into pleading guilty and being tossed into the dump of criminality. (Even if you're not in jail, you are in the dump of criminality if you plead guilty, or are convicted.) Where these anti-American elements come from, who knows? Perhaps they are there for mere comic relief? I have no idea, but they have nothing to do with the American legal system.
- At some point, with or without a lawyer, you can state to the judge, "Not Guilty". At that point, the legal process will unfold. Be very very very very very very careful to not change your plea, no matter what. Don't let your lawyer lead you into the dump. Don't let anyone else lead you into the dump. (Apparently, some states require you to verbally make a "not guilty" plea, others allow the presumption of innocence to be the default.)
- Watch what happens ultimately. In many jurisdictions, it will take an enormously long time to find out what they are going to do with you. There may be a trial as that is automatically the default process if the prosecution has a case against you. You will become very happy in most cases as you are freed from the garbage truck heading to the dump of life. If the prosecution is unable to substantiate the charges against you, you will be found to be in your original presumed status: "NOT GUILTY", or all charges will be dropped without any trial. If this happens, you are helping to reduce the crime rate by this presumption of innocence, unsuccessfully challenged, that you are not a criminal.
If found guilty, you can always keep appealing until the process is terminated by intermediate courts, or ends at the U.S. Supreme Court. This appeals process could take years and years, etc., and lots and lots of money for defense lawyere, though some have made it all the way to the Supreme Court, and won with much less expense - without a lawyer, though this is extremely rare.
Down through history, many U.S. and state laws have been "thrown out" by this appeals process. Any law in the U.S. can be thrown out using this legal process of appeals if the law is repugnant to, or in conflict with, the constitution. Example: the assault rifle ban law passed during Clinton's terms was thrown out by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Note - most of the really good lawyers in the U.S. who defend those charged as drug offenders, spend most of their resources and talent defending trafficking networks; i.e, drug traffickers. They really don't give a damn about your rights as a "simple possession" alleged offender since you aren't paying them tens or hundreds or millions of dollars. Therefore, if you plead "not-guilty" and your're not Osama bin Laden or "the mafia", or one of the Columbian or Mexican drug cartel leaders, many U.S. lawyers are not interested in taking you on as a client in the first place unless you're very very rich.
This country began as a successful "not-your-slave" plea , or a "not-guilty" plea, to the old-royalty of Europe, who were once the owners and controllers of their colonial subjects (the Americans, etc.) in the New World. There were once situations where American citizens ("commoners" or "slaves" to the "lords") were enslaved by European powers controlled by pseudo-royalty, even after we became a new country. The enslavement of American civilian sailors, most presumably white, by the British Royal Navy is one of the things which started the War of 1812.
The tendency to plead "not guilty", though redundant, is in harmony with the presumptions of the court, and is so fundamentally American in nature. Don't forget that. Pleading guilty on the other hand, is pleading to the judge to have your American citizenship rights severely curtailed.
- (12 June '08) Don't Let the Trashmen Take YOU to the Dump! Don't Destroy the United States!
Pleading Guilty is Increasing the
Crime Rate & Screwing Yourself and the U.S.Decrim. versus Legalization:
Question: should those charged under "decrim." also plead not guilty, even if the fine is only $100 or so?
Answer: under decrim., ironically, I would be much more likely to plead "not guilty". For one thing, do you really think they're going to waste court time carrying through with it, and having a jury trial for just a $100 fine? However, in jurisdictions where cash flow from drug money seizures and drug offender fines are a large part of the cash flow for the local government, it is more likely they would have a trial than in the decrim. areas. Keep all of your American freedoms - plead Not-Guilty no matter what.
Many clients of so-called "better lawyers"; i.e., those who don't buy large flamboyant advertisements, are just as likely to be led by these more conservative lawyers into the "dump of criminality", as the flamboyant ones. It's a huge historical trend with all lawyers who are generally adverse to defending clients in court.
Don't plead guilty, NO MATTER WHAT. Pleading guilty actually of the entire legal system, and all of society, in our country. Pleading guilty is an act of self-hatred against yourself and your country. It benefits absolutely no one - it is simply self-destruction, and nation destructive, to some extent. Don't do it. (((I am fully aware that these days, too many people have already plead guilty.)))
Question: do drug traffickers with mega-bucks have greater rights under law than YOU? If you said "no", then why would you wish to join the extremely condemned in society by pleading "GUILTY"? That's what you're doing when you plead guilty. You are saying to the judge that you belong with Charles Manson, "the mafia", Osama bin Laden, and many other actual or accused felonous drug dealers who got caught, etc., and/or are on a list of drug offenders including many murderers, etc., etc. In many jurisdictions, there is no distinction between felonys and misdemeanors - you are categorized with Charles Manson, to some extent, if you plead guilty for pot, or are found guilty. (((It's a clerical thing, but it's not the same as not stopping completely at a stop sign, and getting that sort of a ticket. The reefer madness presumption is in the system.
Of course, the holocaust was also a clerical thing. A simple book-keeping entry by the "polit-bureau".)))
The consequences of pleading guilty are extremely destructive to America:
- You just increased the crime rate, and created a convict by pleading guilty - yourself, and you just created a bad reputation for the United States, and for yourself. If you are found "not guilty", or charges are dismissed, you will be helping to REDUCE the crime rate in the U.S. BRAVO! However, if you have just plead guilty to the judge, you are essentially stating that you ARE A CRIMINAL, NOT A CITIZEN. You are demanding to be enslaved forever in the criminal justice system, not as a positive contributor, but as a destroyer of civilization and reputation. You have just trashed yourself, America, and the legal system, by pleading guilty.
- You have shouted to NORML and all other drug policy reform groups, that you are not part of their reform movement, and that you are, indeed, a threat to all Americans. You will be tracked as a threat for the rest of your life. You can never take part in most of the usual things that Americans take part in. (This varies from place to place.)
- Every government of the world will know about you, and will condemn your life forever, as "criminal". Many countries have not decriminalized marijuana to any extent at all; your "criminal" data will be sent to the most repressive and stupid nations, or U.S. states, in the world who will crave to capture you as a slave or prisoner. If you don't believe this, check to see what Indonesia or some U.S. states do to pot smokers. You may have difficulty believing how harshly you would be treated for marijuana.
- It is so easy to plead "not guilty", why not do it to protect yourself and your future? Pleading "not guilty" will help your lawyer to hone their skills so that they are still able to actually defend clients successfully IN COURT, like real defense lawyers do.
- If you are dedicated, absolutely, to pleading NOT GUILTY, and your lawyer tries to change your mind for suspicious reasons, or puts pressure on you to enslave yourself by pleading guilty without any rational explanation, he's not a real lawyer. He's probably a comic, or fake. He is defrauding you of what you are paying for, a real defense. He is opposed to the presumptions of the American legal system, and is an alien in the court-room!
Most people who plead guilty, or are found guilty, later regret it; most who plead "not-guilty" in court, and who later have had charges dropped, or are found "not-guilty", are very happy people in comparison.
Choose an American solution - plead "not-guilty".
Last Question: do you really think that big-time drug traffickers who have had all criminal charges against them dropped due to technicalities, have more rights under law to get a quality defense, and remain free as non-criminal citizens than yourself? If not, then plead, "Not Guilty" as big time traffickers with good lawyers often do. (((Drug traffickers often can afford the best and most skillful lawyers. Good for them.)))
My apology to the REAL ROYALTY of planet earth, those who clean up the trash after the slobs have left.
- (12 June '08 High Times) Scottish Experts (U.K.) Call for the Legalization of Marijuana.
- (23 April '08 www.expatica.com) Outgoing head of Dutch Police Union states that battle against cannabis is pointless and actually counter productive.
- (Late 2007)High Times BongHitters defeat Business Week, and the Wall Street Journal softball teams, to win the 2007 Media League Softball Championship.
The Tar-Additive Industry
for April 2, 2008
Is TAR being added to various substances like marijuana
and tobacco? According to Dr. Emily Senay, medical correspondent for CBS
Evening News (podcast), this is a well known fact that everyone should know.
- TAR? This is the dictionary definition of "tar" that should be used by everyone:
3. smoke solids or components(2 April '08) Now that tobacco has been banned in Dutch cafes and restaurants, etc., they can no longer equivocate that marijuana smoke and tobacco smoke have the same risks; and tar from marijuana and tar from tobacco, are simply not the same "tar" substance, and have different effects on the human body altogether.
(April 14, 2008) Today, I read somewhere (I'll reference it if I ever find it again) that marijuana smoke is no more dangerous than campfire smoke. Political slogans...
This is a major scientific discovery for some in the world media and scientific community who thought that "tar" was a generic additive for numerous things like marijuana and tobacco products.
(MP3 Audio file.) Dr. Emily Senay, Medical Correspondent for CBS Evening News podcast, appearing to be intellectually challenged by just today referring to "tar" as an "additive" (of tobacco processing); does Dr. Senay also think that some sort of generic "tar" is also being added to marijuana? (If left clicking doesn't work, try right clicking, downloading, then playing file.)
(For all I know, maybe the tobacco companies add something to plain tobacco that manifests as "tar" upon analysis? But I think tobacco tar is also simply the residue from tobacco smoke, precipitated and collected. A person can also buy "natural tobacco" that has simply been smoked/dried with no processing other than that. Does such "natural" tobacco also manifest "tar" when burned?)
By the way, the tar on the roof above is from petroleum.
(CBS News isn't the only intellectual victim of the drug war. There are many other untrue myths which were created by the drug war as well. All such fantasizing makes rational decision making difficult for many people in positions of leadership.
And also, the British media is constantly telling everyone in the U.K. that since marijuana contains 6 times more "tar" than low-tar cigarettes, marijuana is 6 times more dangerous than tobacco. No analysis of the actual effects of tobacco tar versus marijuana tar. Error - I inititally attributed this error to Katie Couric. Sorry about that.)
- (Early 2008)U.N. Anti-Drug Chief Refuses to Answer Question about Dutch Drugs Policy, becomes visibly agitated.
> > Our friends at the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union captures a great > moment from the United Nations Committee on Narcotics Drugs where > UN Drug Czar Antonio Maria Costa refused to answer a question
(((from a psychiatrist and member of ENCOD from the Netherlands, etc.))) about
> why the Netherlands has a lower marijuana usage rate than > surrounding countries. Not only does Costa refuse to answer, but > he is visibly agitated at the question and the questioner. Enjoy... > http://youtube.com/watch?v=fe208nLLEwk > >I think this came from http://www.marijuananews.com.
- (11 December '07 encod.org) Belgium Wants Cannabis Social Clubs, or Coffee Shops: Meeting held in Ghent, Belgium about cannabis policy, non-profit cannabis social clubs, commericial pot coffee shops, home-cultivation, and other related topics. Not even a mention of medical marijuana, though there is a mention about purity and quality, and freedom from discrimination and stigmatization for the users, growers, and traders of "soft-drugs".
Strong point made about current Belgian policy of creating permanent criminal records for those convicted for marijuana possession. Insane.
- Sensible Fayetteville circulating petition to get Marijuana Lowest Law Enforcement Priority ordinance question placed on the ballot in that city for the next general election to be held 4 Nov. 2008.
"Ever the worried wife,
I included a copy of the (doctor's marijuana recommendation) letter in the memory box of his casket in case the feds were waiting for him at the Pearly Gates."
- Various prominent persons give their views on the issue of legalizing, or not legalizing marijuana.
- Governor Schwarzenegger of California: Pot Not a Drug, in some context.
Very Important Potheads from history.
- Sex and Violence getting out of hand?
- U.K. Top Constable wants all drugs legalised.
- Portland, Oregon to vote on legal weed.
- Czech Republic (6 October '07 approx.) Czech Republic may decriminalize the growing of small amounts of pot with no profit motive, as well as simple possession of "soft drugs". It's about time home growing without profit motive be recognized as a good thing with very little rationale for opposition to it. This is not about medical marijuana, but any marijuana usage. (I recall reading a number of times that there was already a decrim. policy for possession of marijuana; now they're considering changing the written law. 2005 article which states that marijuana is considered normal in the Czech Republic. Even Holland seems to be wishy-washy sometimes in terms of home growing. In practice, only a tiny fraction of pot users ever attempt, much less succeed at, growing pot at home.)
- 1997, Ross Rebagliati KEPT his marijujana associated gold medal after the Olympic doping panel decided that marijuana, though illegal, does not improve atheletic performance after it is used on the field. The substances singled out on the doping lists are generally things which increase atheletic performance in some direct or active way.
- Upcoming Events, compiled by the November Coalition, and nonewprisons.org.
- SCIENCE: High and low potency pot NOT a reliable pain-killer. Medium potency pot - yes. Further evidence that marijuana was never a narcotic. Further evidence in support of the Dutch soft/hard drug definitions, and further repetition of what has been stated by medical researchers since at least the 1840's.
- SCIENCE: 1) Swiss Research Finds that Teens Who Use Pot Alone, without tobacco, are better off than teens who use both, or in some behaviorial categories measured, neither. In some categories, the pot using teens were better off than the total abstainers, according to this research. 2) Dutch Researcher Finds that Cannabis Not Harmful for Youth. According to these items, youth who have used, or use pot should not be labeled, "permanently damaged" as is standard policy with many drug warriors. Youth who have used or use more dangerous drugs or alcohol should also not be overly stigmatized.
- TEENS RETURN HOME AGAINST FORCES OF "LAW", GOVERNMENT, AND FORCE: Another Win for Marihuana (the official government term for it) right out of Hollywood. Click Here, or here for Disney Movie Ending. Another family saved from fracture. The border patrol should be congratulated for "screwing up" here.
Since my main daily source of news at the moment is internet news, this is a newspaper clipping for me. I don't save every item that I link to. Luckily I saved this one. Someone stole my clipping, but I had a back-up.
- Note: jail and prison totals together in the U.S. is actually about 2.2 million.
I saw numerous articles over the past couple of years mentioning 2.2 million as the nation's prison totals with no mention of jail totals as a distinct figure. Turns out they've apparently been keeping the figures together, jails and prison totals added as one total with no break down. My manual addition of all U.S. jail capacity of 768,000 added to the often quoted 2.2 million, to get 3 million total was in error. The 768,000 or so is included in the 2.2 million. Sorry about that. The mainstream articles that I am quoting have not been quoting the different jail versus prison categories.
A recent article about the U.S. : prison situation. Another article about the aging U.S. prison population.
Todd McCormick; former editor
High Life magazine, the Netherlands, English language edition.
(Wish I had a copy. It was often on display "for sale"
in many Amsterdam and Dutch coffee shops back in 1996.)
Major Hemp/Medical Marijuana Activist until Prison late 1999.
To many, Todd McCormick was Proposition 215He wrote about his own unusual life, and other topics. He had had a form of cancer, which may or not not be dormant (I don't know). He edited a magazine or two published in Amsterdam and England. He promoted a certain herbal remedy. He wound up in prison for many years. (NOTE: the following article was written probably in Fall 1995; probably just before Todd relocated to Amsterdam. He relocated to California in the U.S., I believe, in early 1997, after prop. 215 passed.) Did Todd McCormick really deserve to spend 5 years or so behind bars? Was there "justice" or benefit from that? Are there hundreds of thousands or millions like him behind bars now? What exactly was his crime compared to all those who have remained generally, out of jail during the same period that Todd was incarcerated? In a more sane world, what advice should Todd have been given, and might have followed to have avoided going to jail? I think we all deserve to know the answers to those questions. I personally do not think that Todd McCormick is a criminal, or was a criminal before, during, or after the period that he was incarcerated. A guy speaking about Todd McCormick and what happened to him from about late 1997 until 2004.
Todd McCormick was an American journalist whose career was more or less terminated by our government. I can think of very few better examples of a government engaged in self-destructive behavior against its own people. He seems to have been permanently silenced, criminalized, and in a sense, is still incarcerated. We are all incarcerated as long as citizens like Todd McCormick are silenced and virtually incarcerated for much longer than even their unjust prison terms. This is anti-American, anti-human, philosphy at its very worse.
Why do they attack a guy like this instead of concentrating on the real problems out there?
The foolish politicians who took this path of greater crime and greater incarceration will probably wind up in prison themselves.
This mechanical calculator could do division and multiplication,
with digital mechanical output (answer). If doing long division, an
answer with a remainder would cause it to run indefinitely - the user
had to manually shut it down in that situation. The top "answer
carriage" went back and forth like a typewriter carriage, but did
so in a seemingly random way when stuck in "long division".
It wasn't random, but rather behaved according to the repeating decimal value.
The shut-off repeating division lever, I think, is the red lever in the upper
left-hand corner.
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- # - "Legal" Marijuana in Holland; YouTube Video 3 (1993/2008)
- # - "Legal" Marijuana in Holland; YouTube Video 2 (1993/2007)
- # - "Legal" Marijuana in Holland; YouTube Video 1 (1993/2008)
- # - "Legal" Marijuana in Holland;We Are Not Criminals!; The Dutch Moral Majority Speak (1993/2007)
(Note: pot is not legal in the Netherlands - only possession of small amounts are decriminalized. For more up to date information, check with encod.org. )
- # - Jack Herer YouTube video, Nov. 1996, taped during Cannabis Cup at Positronics and GPRA.
- # - Jack Herer full interview, Nov. 1996, taped during Cannabis Cup at Positronics and GPRA.
- # - Michael Moran, talks about all sorts of interesting things at the 1996 High Times Cannabis Cup 4:20 Afternoon Council open-mike meeting, such as the idea that marijuana and most other herbs, should not be heavily regulated, or maybe not regulated at all. Mike took one strong stance in this general argument.
- # - Quaker Secretary Hans Weening speaks about Dutch Drugs Policy., late 1993 interview.
- # - James Burton an early American glaucoma research subject, and who first helped educate the Dutch about medical marijuana, tells his story in late 1993.
- e - (5 January '09 www.csdp.org) Interfaith Clergy Speak Out Against the Drug War. YouTube posting of part of this video.
- e - (28 November '08 norml.org/www.nationalgeographic.com) Marijuana Nation - a video series at National Geographic magazine.
- * - (20 August '08 google video) An Evening with Howard Marks. Howard Marks is a scholar, an English teacher, a convicted marijuana trafficker, a candidate for Parliament, and a leading member of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance in Britain. How was Howard Marks kept out of the news in the U.S. until after 9/11 for the most part? This guy could easily have prevented 9/11, there is no doubt at all in my mind, if the U.S. media had brought him to our country. Howard Marks is proof that 9/11 was absolutely preventable. Just the sort that would have helped Clinton through his troubles and round out the wave of reform.
- e - (16 June '08 NORML/YouTube/Huffington Post) Congressman Barney Frank says "Whether or Not to Smoke Marijuana Should be a Personal Choice". Frank is currently sponsoring legislation in Congress to decriminalize the personal use and possession of marijuana at the Federal level.
- e - (16 June '08 www.reason.com/www.pot-tv.net) DREW CAREY moderates a news story about a youthful medical marijuana user in California whose medical marijuana supplier is being raked over the coals of injustice by the feds. OK, so they state wants him to buy it from the drug underground. Maybe he can score some meth., cocaine, LSD, STP, DMT, ecstasy (MDMA), Seconol, heroin, crack, or other more interesting things while he's at it, and distribute them to all of his classmates, rather than going down to the pot dispensary, where only marijuana is available.
- e - (18 March '08 YouTube, other sources) "Our friends at the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union captures a great moment from the United Nations Committee on Narcotics Drugs where UN Drug Czar Antonio Maria Costa refused to answer a question (((from a Mr. Polak, a Psychiatrist and member of ENCOD from the Netherlands, etc.))) about why the Netherlands has a lower marijuana usage rate than surrounding countries. Not only does Costa refuse to answer, but he is visibly agitated at the question and the questioner. Enjoy... http://youtube.com/watch?v=fe208nLLEwk", says the source of my source, I think. Probably came from http://www.marijuananews.com.
- e - (6 March. '08) Colorado Cops Must Learn to Grow and Maintain Confiscated Medical Marijuana Plants from Raids, according to Colorado law. HollyG of Green Girl Media interviews the Masters and gives more details of their situation. GreenGirlMedia.
- e - (19 Feb. '08 added 24 Jan. '08 YouTube/www.pot-tv.net) NEGATIVE CORRELATION statistically between marijuana grow-ops, and the possession of firearms by those maintaining the grow-operations, in British Columbia, Canada. According to Attorney Kirk Tousaw, 24 percent of all Canadians in B.C. possess firearms (!), while only 6 percent of marijuana grow-op operators (raided) possessed firearms. That means that police are much more likely to encounter firearms among the general population than among marijuana growers in B.C., Canada.
- e - (6 Jan. '08 added 12 Jan. '08 YouTube/WMUR) Former U.S. Sen. Gravel Tells the Truth, that Pot is Safer than Alcohol.
- e - (4 Dec. '07) Colorado Cops Must Learn to Grow and Maintain Confiscated Medical Marijuana Plants from Raids, according to Colorado law. Masters' pot plants returned by Ft. Collins police department in poor condition. Fort Collins Police destroy and/or damage severely crop held in trust under Colorado law. (CNN).
- e - (27 Sept. '07 YouTube) Congressman Ron Paul Calls for an End to the Drug War Which Isn't Working Anyway.
- e - (28 Sept. '07 YouTube) Former Alaska Senator Gravel Totally Endorses Legal and Medical Marijuana. No hesitation at all.
- e - (26 August '07 YouTube) Drew Carey (host) Power of 10 Weed Question. (What Percentage of Americans Think Marijuana is Less Harmful than Alcohol?) Link to YouTube, found at http://www.pot-tv.net.
- e - (23 Aug. 2007 YouTube) Jack Herer Aug. 2007 Seattle Hempfest with Eddie Lepp.
- e - (20 April 2007 YouTube) Great Short Hemp History video from Casbah Teahouse.
- e - (15 April 2007 YouTube) California guy speaking about Todd McCormick and what happened to him. Casbah Teahouse. Many presentations about hemp, marijuana, medical marijuana, and other interesting acts, and things.
- e - (16 March 2007 YouTube) Hippie Conservative.
- * - (27 February 2007 YouTube) University of Washington Student Video about Amsterdam Coffee Shops.
- * - (26 October 2006 Youtube) UTT Legal Pot, Tijuana Tech Mexico student video.
- e - Sensible Colorado Media Videos. Sensible Colorado, donate. (YouTube links from local Denver TV stations)
- e - Denver Legalizes Marijuana, November 2005. www.saferdenver.com. Also, www.saferchoice.org. Donate now. Other SaferChoice videos. (YouTube and local Denver TV station)
- * - Hemp for Victory (WWII, 1942) YouTube download/conversion; also high quality archived archived copy.
- e - NORML U.S. has some brand new TV commercial shorts done by volunteers and entered into a contest during early 2007. Go to Youtube and do a search for "norml psa".
- e - Above the Ignorance website videos page. Above the Ignorance website main page. (They erroneously state that marijuana contains carcinogins - not true. When marijuana is burned, like any other plant material, carcinogins are created, but it's not associated with any active ingredients. Latest research still shows pot, even smoked pot, to have anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties. Go NORML.ORG for details.)
- * - Dr. Melanie Dreher of Univ. of Iowa nursing school, etc., talks about marijuana and pregnancy. Same videos downloadable from here (right click): click here for WMV file, or click here for Ipod/MP4 file. (Downloaded from Youtube or Google and converted.)
- e - Green Avalanche Episode 1, a video about the early roots of Dutch marijuana culture, and
- e - Green Avalanche Episode 2. And the rest of the episides are here at Tabacula. "Tabac" means tobacco in Dutch. Someone is making fun of the incredible Dutch love for tobacco, I guess. But this documentary isn't about tobacco.
- Howard Stern on TM, His Mom, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (audio tape). Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
- e - Free Book download: How to Grow Medical Marijuana, by Todd McCormick. You can also get information about how to order the actual book, which is very inexpensive anyway at the website.
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Respect - - Don't Destroy U.S., My blurbs, Sub-blurbs, "next section", U of W Student Pot-Coffee-Shop video, Ninth Article, - external links, Howard-Stern on TM, Sub-menu1 (mostly external links): (IF HAVING DIFFICULTY PLAYING A FILE, RIGHT CLICK, SAVE, THEN PLAY. For best results, use Microsoft Internet Explorer) NORML U.S. has some brand new TV commercial shorts done by volunteers and entered into a contest during early 2007. Go to Youtube and do a search for "norml psa". Green Avalanche Episode 1, and Green Avalanche Episode 2. A new Phillip Morris Gratitude Video. Saturn 5 lift off. Darth Vader on Jerry Springer Show. NORML U.S. search of website for "pregnancy" , which should yield some studies.
Univ. of Mass. study from 1993; Pregnancy and Pot: Copy of an important item from 1993 or so from Jack Herer. Anti Smoking Commercial. Greenhouse seeds website. Possibly the highest THC pot in the world (de wereld). Ask Congressmen why Alaskans, Californians, Arizonians, Denverites, Seattlers, Oaklanders, Santa Cruzians, and many many others, do "get it". Check here: You Tube, http://video.google.com, http://video.yahoo.com, and Marc Emery's Pot-TV, all have tons of marijuana videos. Try different tags or combinations of tags such as "marijuana", "legalization", "holland", "prop. 215", "denver", etc., etc.
MARIJUANA RADIO (Denver). ALSO AVAILABLE AS ITUNES PODCAST. MARIJUANA RADIO TV.(external links.)
- List of all video downloads. Blurbs, my blog, Cannabis Coffee Shop report.
- CHECK OUT EURO-COLLEGES (U.S. system). Live, Work, and Study Abroad in European Freedom.
Marijuana and driving: Here's clearer proof of my Car and Driver article reference which I invite anyone to read thoroughly if you doubt my claims of what scientists and auto-journalists actually stated back in the June 1980 issue. The article mentioned is a bit zany, but the scientific facts are there if you filter out the zaniness.
After a particular ham radio operator gave me my first two free copies of computer magazines (the first two issues of Kilobaud magazine), this began my addiction to computers. Soon, I had my own computer, a KIM-1 (6502 chip) with video interface, expanded memory, and an IBM Selectric typewriter (I was lucky, or extremely unlucky, depending on how you viw totally obsolete and funky devices) to acquire a rare IBM I/O model 735 that was built to be interfaced. This was a IBM device that was basically a solenoid controlled IBM typewriter, with a bult-in feed-back loop. To keep this obsolete typewriter opereating, I purchased a rather cheap "service contract" from IBM who sometimes visited my place of work once or twice a week, to keep it running, under contract. It was totally unreliable and required massive amounts of skilled labor to keep it going - but IBM charged almost nothing for a service contract. There were no cheap letter-quality printers at that time for less than $3500.00, or so.) interfaced to it. I could print out letter-quality pages with this. However, mostly, I was learning BASIC and writing accounting software for the CP/M operating system running the CBASIC language on another early microcomputer - a Z80 Altos computer. This was back when computers had only one font - the one that the printer used, and the one that the CRT terminal used. Due to the interest of a customer, my computer store in 1980 was selling subscriptions eventually to an online service called, The Source, a Compuserve competitor. We were using a Commodore Pet with built-in self-dialing modem, and also with accoustic cup modem. Actually, I didn't have another computer until around 1985 or 1986 - a Radio Shack model 100 laptop with both acoustic cup and direct connection modems, which was used for accessing Compuserve aviation weather and flight planning. Then, in 1991, a Bondwell (Taiwan) 286 laptop with VGA graphics, pre-Windows with GEOS/AOL software, AOL email activated in late 1994 and shortly afterwards, with email connected to the internet, but with no built-in WWW browser yet. Also, about this time, I signed up with Delphi, an internet interface running under DOS, but never used it much. Finally, in 1994, a Tandy 486 laptop running at 25 mhz., my first web computer which ran Windows 3.1/DOS, Netscape, GEOS, Delphi, etc. 1995, an IBM 486 50 mhz. Thinkpad running Windows 3.1./DOS with Netscape, GEOS, Delphi, etc. In 1997, a Toshiba Satellite laptop with a Pentium chip and Windows 95, dialup; in 2000, a used Toshiba Satellite same as the 1997 one more or less; 2001, a used Apple Mac Titantium g4 laptop with dial-up modem, running OS 9, also with Ethernet, running Netscape Navigator, etc., in 2005, another Toshiba Satellite still in use today.
From about Jan. 1992 until the present time, I have had an interest in marijuana and drug law reform, first as a documentary video maker, selling VHS tapes mail order from about 1993 until 1998 or so (1992 and 1993 material, respectively); all the old material plus some 1996 material was edited and released on the web at http://nintharticle.com in early 2005; and then volunteer website maintainer for NORML Canada from early 1996 until Sept. 2004, with some gaps during that period. NORML supporter since 1994; Board member Sensible Colorado since 2007.
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Top of List.(1942)Hemp for Victory. Note: the original draft copies of the original Patriot Act, the U.S. Constitution, were written on hemp paper back in 1789 in Philadelphia. The original Gutenburg bibles, the first printed books in history, were also printed on hemp paper. NOTE: one flaw of this film I noticed is that the announcer erroneously neglects to inform the public that the finest fabrics such as fine linens, were also made from hemp - not just the coarsest fabric and rope.
If this film doesn't make you really patriotic again, then nothing will. Pro-U.S., USDA film made during WWII to teach American farmers how to grow much more hemp which was desperately needed for many different industrial purposes. Discovered in the Library of Congress and publicized by Jack Herer beginning with early editions of The Emperor Wears No Clothes. The title of this book is from a fable by Hans Christian Anderson.
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Video for Pocket PC (218 kbs.)(27 meg.) Downloaded from youtube and converted. High Quality Archived Copy from www.archive.org.
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Top of List."An Evening with Howard Marks." Howard Marks is a scholar, a candidate for parliament, one of England's biggest (to use Ausssie English) former hash dealers, a former resident of a U.S. prison, and a leading member of England's Legalise Cannabis Alliance organization, similar to NORML in the U.S. This is a quick time version of a video I found at POT-TV that is at video.google.com. This video was made before 9/11. I wish I had heard of him and this video before 9/11.
Note that in 1925-1928, although to some extent independent, Egypt was still considered part of the British Empire, and was still occupied and controlled to some extent by the British government and their so-called "lackeys". Around 1900, the British had banned the use and/or selling of hashish from tea cafes in Cairo, and then shut those same cafes when the cafes continued to operate serving only tea.
According to Wikipedia, the Second League of Nations Opium Conference did not fully ban cannabis, but allowed signatory countries of the treaty to allow use of it internally, with regulated export controls. Despite this error by Marks, I still think it's very useful to see what some in society thought about cannabis at that time.
An Evening With Howard Marks - MP4 for Ipod, Itunes, etc. Note: Right-click, then select "Save Target As", if download doesn't work with left-clicking. Then run downloaded file with Quick-Time, or Itunes. (1 hour 41 minutes. 315 meg. May take 45 minutes to download, or longer.)
NOTE: my audio edit only includes the core issue - the League of Nations/U.S. orchestrated partial prohibition of cannabis that occurred in 1925 for the League treaty, 1928 for the U.K.
Short audio excerpt. (17:31, same as background audio track. If this doesn't work, RIGHT-CLICK to download, then play it.)
Here is a text item about Marks at this website about the League's of Nations 1925 (U.K. 1928) initiative, with no rational reason, to wipe out cannbis from planet earth.
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Top of List.(Nov. 1996), Jack Herer in Amsterdam, 9 minute YouTube video edit. This 9 minute video is edited from the same material as the one below which is 52 minutes.
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(1993/1994), Stichting Institute of Medical Marijuana - Holland .....
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was started in 1993 by James Burton, an American glaucoma patient and research subject on medical marijuana. James tells his story. ("Stichting" means "non-profit organization".) James actually did more production and arranging for these videos than I have given him credit for. It was he who arranged to have the Cannabis Cup photo behind him during taping. Whose cup is it? I think it was received by, and may still be owned by Dion Markgraff; or his former partners, Adam and Doug who still run "Hempworks" in Amsterdam, Holland's oldest hemp shop. (From tape 2 of Legal Marijuana in Holland; We Are Not Criminals; The Dutch Moral Majority Speak) videotaped late 1993, first sold late 1994 (12 minute play time - most camera work by Carola.).
In 2005, SIMM lost their contract to supply the department of medical marijuana. He is now trying to fight this decision in court. Dutch government's medical marijuana program website. Link to old NORML Canada medical marijuana page. SIMM link. At one time, before the government Dept. of Med. Marijuana was formed, I think James had about 10,000 regular medical marijuana customers.
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