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(14 Dec. '09 www.hightimes.com)

Oaksterdam University Scores California Ballot Placement

with Marihuana Legalization Voter Initiative 2010.


Another article about this. Other parallel and
similar voter initiatives may also qualify for the 2010 ballot.
Voters should know they can vote for each and every initiative!!!










Att: Four Florida Cities Attempt Decriminalization of Marihuana.


People United (in Florida) for Medical Marihuana









TAX ALERT: according to a prominent attorney involved, no U.S.
med. mar. dispensaries are currently paying for, nor afixing tax
stamps to any weed they sell. This means that "Tax and Regulate" is mostly
a political chant, not a reality except for perhaps sales/income tax.
In CA, you must be a U.S./CA income tax payer to receive a med. mar. card in some places.










FRAUD ALERT!
The Cold War was fought on many fronts. The "drug war" became
institutionalized and accepted as an aspect of The Cold War
(on communism). But terrorism was also part of the Cold War.

(((Certain obsolete relics of WWI and WWII are sometimes found in farm fields, and other
places around the world, where they occasionally explode and kill people, even today in 2010.)))

NOTE: both terrorism, and the drug war, really belong as
obsolete relics in the Museum of the Cold War, if the Cold War
really ended. If it hasn't, this museum should be closed down for
FRAUD, and not re-opened until the Cold War can be really ARCHIVED
along with all of its associated RELICS!











FAILURE in FLORIDA for WAR ON TERROR:

Florida Young Adult Terrorized, Chokes to Death
on Marihuana Baggie During Arrest,
murdered by an obsolete relic of the Cold War.
(Story originally appeared in the PC News-Herald,
but it disappeared.)












Rachel Hoffman, SSDP Member, Plead Guilty under a "Bargain" to Inform
on Targeted Dealers; Was Then Discovered and Killed by the Dealers.
Under "control" of the court, this U.S. citizen in bondage, died for nothing,
murdered by an obsolete relic of the Cold War.










New Book at Amazon By Three Marihuana Law Reformers.
This book is full of the sort of accepted facts that are needed to out-argue opponents.










NEW MOBILE WEBSITE.












Skip to U.S. legalization of weed section.

"My Fellow Americans; VIJAYA, or VICTORY, IS OUR ENEMY",
ordered LBJ. This back-room guy was never
really naturally destined to be president, but it happened anyway, just the same.
NOTE: LBJ is Known for Having Greatly Escalated the U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War.

Gets Credit for 1960's Civil Rights Legislation.
A "War on Marihuana" in the Military in Vietnam was ramped up in 1968, when LBJ
was President. This anti-pot philosophy, in general, was greatly weakened
by Leary's 1969 court win. Once LBJ & Nixon purged the S. Viet. Army of weed,
they lost shortly afterwards. One Sanskrit word that means "cannabis sativa",
"vijaya", also means "invincible", and "victory". Too bad for the U.S.
that LBJ was probably ignorant of this. He was totally against "vijaya", or victory!

Just why the word for "victory" and "marihuana", are the same word in the oldest
root language on our planet, is an ancient mystery that could just be
a meaningless language coincidence, or it could be really important.


(This photo, like most others here, was found using google images.)

Vijaya Hotel & Restaurant. These people do look VICTORIOUS, don't they?

,

Sometime in 1968, the war on marihuana was ramped up by the narcotics police of the U.S. military in Vietnam. This was up to a year before Nixon became president in late Jan. 1969. The result of this was a huge increase in hard drug abuse, including heroin, as hard drugs are so much easier to conceal and use secretly, compared to marihuana usage. Whether or not LBJ personally directed this attack on weed, I don't know. He still gets credit for that, and for the Vietnam loss, to a great extent. There was an epidemic of hard-drug using Vietnam War vets who returned home in this period. Their behavior and problems are one thing that helped propel citizens to start NORML, and other pro-pot groups a few years later.

1968. Although the military softened up this war on pot a little when the apparent hard-drug addiction statistics got so much worse, Nixon didn't seem to get the point. At the very least, this marihuana case with Timothy Leary was an opportunity for Nixon to fine-tune failing drug policies, and switch to a successful and practical harm-reduction system that might even involve legalizing marihuana, an obvious example of "soft-drugs". The country shifted under Nixon's feet. But Nixon, when given the executive choice, came out against marihuana with his responses to the Schafer Commission, and finally, his Controlled Substances Act and the new DEA, etc., etc. Federal prohibtion of pot was back, but at least there was some reduction in the penalties at the state level as marihuana decriminalization began to sprout in a few states, and in a few cities, even when Nixon was president. (There was also a new administrative law system created within the DEA, part of the Executive branch of the U.S. government, that hardly anyone knows that much about, except for Carl Olsen and a few others.)

But he wasn't to last much longer. Nixon was about to exit permaturely. (Not enough vijaya for his presidency to have lasted.)

1972: Watergate - DEA Begins/ Decrim. Era Begins/ Gold Standard Ends Completely..

The Cold War between communism and capitalism had a little to do with all of this as well!

Under Ford and Carter and even Reagan at first, states continued to decriminalize marihuana until Reagan's anti-pot era.

Another aspect of harm-reduction, is taking hard drugs and hard drug users out of the gutter, and into a respectable and clean environment where abuse can be minimized, and lives normalized. Hard drug users and addicts, alcohol users and addicts, should not have to incriminate themselves anymore than soft-drug users. Or visa versa.

Prohibition of hard drugs, such as heroin, in a sense, was a factor in the 9/11 attacks in 2001, as the attackers were known hard-drug traffickers of mainly heroin and opium from Afghanistan. (Yes, small amounts of Afghani hashish are also all over Europe and Holland as well, but Morocco is the main source of hashish there.) However, political, cultural, and religious idealogy seem to be more a cause of the attack, than any commercial selling or marketing of illicit Afghani opiates, according to the media.

The main point of this website is to point out that soft drugs like marihuana and hashish, at least in parts of Denmark, the Netherlands, perhaps parts of Switzerland, and possibly in parts of Great Britain, can be consumed as readily as alcohol.




Total American Government Power = 1/3 Judiciary + 1/3 Executive + 1/3 Legislative.

Nixon was President when Timothy Leary Overthrew the Government Marihuana Tax Act.
Later, Nixon get's credit for being one of the grand-daddies of the DEA,
while Timothy Leary slew the dragon of the Bureau of Narcotics
(or whatever they were calling it then....).




About 2 Months Before Men Walked on the Moon,
some people in Washington, D.C. used marihuana LEGALLY!!!

Dr. Timothy Leary, PhD.
With Help, The Man Who Already Re-Legalized Weed,
at the Fed. level. May 19, 1969 was the date that it began.


There are various and distinct legal systems within which to pursue changes to current drug policy.

  • Legislative branch - have legislators change the laws which all originate from this branch of government.

  • Executive branch - directly influence the President, and all departments of the Executive branch. Directly influence governors of states, and their executive departments. DEA Administrative Law - From www.jackherer.com, we find out that Carl Olsen, is working on some DEA Administrative Law, strategy for getting the DEA pot policy to change, perhaps. This is "law" as administered within the Executive branch of the U.S. government; however, there are also Federal courts and judges involved from the Justice dept. branch who can influence the DEA.

  • Judicial branch:

    • Criminal Law - local, state, and federal courts.

    • Civil Law - state and federal courts.

NOTE: I always found it a little odd how soon LBJ died after leaving office. He could have used a bit more vijaya.












Free Chekib El-Khiari
(also transliterated as, "CHAKIB AL KHAYARI".)
Click Here for item here about this.
(Another drug-war political "victim".)










"Something I Learned as a Teenager."











Hawaii County Councilman To Push for Legalization/Deregulation/De-Criminalization
of Cannabis. Will Also Promote This to Other Hawaiian Counties.


(16 Dec. '09, Cannabis Culture magazine.)









Attention All "RECREATIONAL" Marihuana Users!!!

Can't Get Stoned? Maybe You Should SMOKE LESS!

Heavy Smoking of Weed for Medical Reasons DOES NOT Necessarily Create GREATER INTOXICATION

according to a man who has smoked 115,000 joints sent by the U.S. government!

Proper Medical Usage Means, "Using Commonsense, Whatever Works".

NOTE: this item was placed not to criticize medical usage, but to point out the usual differences between recreational usage, and medical usage. The whole point of recreational usage is to become "high", "stoned", "relaxed", or "intoxicated".

Medical usage, on the other hand, is about reducing symptoms of medical conditions. Therefore, the result of medical usage would be different for every type of ailment being medicated, and might not be related in anyway to the usual experiences of recreational users. On the other hand, there are likely overlapping situations between the two types of marihuana usage.











America's "First" Cannabis-Cafe, Portland, OR, Opens for Medical Marihuana Users?????

Since Nov. 1996, I have seen numerous TV depictions of people smoking or using hashish - marihuana medically at compassion clubs,
or the like, on the west coast of the U.S. or Canada. Why the caption, "America's First" 13 years later in 2009?

Oh, I see. That public smoking was all ILLEGAL since 1996. I didn't know that. Let's hear it for OREGON!!!!











Breckenridge, Colorado Legalizes Marihuana and Paraphanelia for Adults.











Sensible Washington State Initiative Getting Started To Try and Legalize It!

(After Related Bills in the State Legislature Died...)









Czech Gov't Announces OK of Up to 5 Personal Cannabis Plants, Other Changes.
Dec. 5th is Officially Called, "REPEAL DAY" in the U.S.


(((Coincidentally, Dec. 5th is also when Christmas is celebrated in Holland!)))



Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLfHMItnSu0


DEC. 5TH IS OFFICIALLY REPEAL DAY, or 21st Amendment Day!

Could also be called, "ANTI-CRIME & TERRORISM DAY."



Let's Remember the Towers Fully Intact, Before Government and Civilian Victims

Were Caught in the "Crossfire" Between Rival Drug Gangs.

The legal drug and alcohol industry, and governments, are also "gangs" in the drug war.

This day should be a day of MAXIMUM Civil Coherence and Harmony
related to ALCOHOL (and I think also), drug trafficking activities.

That means, we must CELEBRATE the beginning of 40 years, approximately, of
Increasing Civil Orderliness
 created by the BEGINNING and the ENDING of alcohol prohibition
among the inhabitants of the 50 SEPARATE states of the formerly United States?

Uncivil/illegal alcohol trafficking behavior was gradually replaced by civil/legal alcohol trafficking behavior (1933-1987).
In reality, I don't know exactly when this era totally ended? However, the general and slowly moving
trend was toward civility, and away from chaos; at least after 1933. However, the period of state
by state prohibition ending sometime after 1933 was also somewhat chaotic, especially into the 1950's.

If our governments had respected and followed the spirit of this U.S. constitutional amendment,
the terrorist attacks by one gang of opium traffickers, such as the 9/11/2001 attacks, might never have occurred.
Time will tell if Obama is going to create more, or less, alcohol and drug trafficking related criminality and chaos.


These U.S. Constitutional Amendments, nos. XVIII and XXI, refer to government policies that were disastrous for the United States!










    Prohibition Has Been DOOMED by the Spirit of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Since 1933.

    But that didn't prevent the "drug war" from occuring for the past 39 years or so.











    "Soft Drugs" should be legalised; "Hard Drugs" on prescription.

    European Parliament November 1997

    Fact: the European Union expanded after November 1997.



European Parliament Press Release from Nov. 1997 from archived NORML Canada website.

President Bill Clinton's call for marihuana "decriminalization" Dec. 7th, 2000.

Euro-parliament press release Nov. 1997.

This website of incredible chronology of major events, gives the EU Parliament date as Nov. 5, 1997. (This site has very little from the U.S., though.)









Why did the European Parliament use the word "legalisation" instead of "decriminalisation"?

Most any first time visitor to a Dutch hashish - marihuana coffee shop, if asked their impression, would probably say, "Hey, hash & pot are, AS IF, LIKE, , legal in here". I've heard that exact statement probably everytime I have ever visited Amsterdam. No one has ever said initially, "Hey, hash and pot are, AS IF, LIKE, , 'decrimed.' in this place!" No one uses that word in casual conversation. It isn't natural in conversation. It's a twisted word, really.

To officially refer to their hashish/marihuana cafe situation, etc., the Dutch always use the term, "semi-legal". That's also twisted, but the twisting is coming from many points outside of the Netherlands.

The overall impression in Holland, though, is that of legal hash and weed, regardless of these subtle distinctions.











Numerous Resignations in the Top U.K. Drugs Advisory Panel After Resignation of Dr. David Nutt
Over Cannabis, Alcohol, Tobacco, LSD, and Other Relative Drug Dangers











In this Supposed Age of "REFORM", People of Color Main Choice for Narco-Cops (DPA, 5 Nov. '09)









SAFER Responds with a NEW PETITION After

Kerlikowske Says, "DON'T LEGALIZE MARIHUANA!"











Sept. 6, 2009. Jerry Lewis Telethon. About 11:30 PM.

Jerry Lewis, During M.D. Telethon, Announces Receipt of $15,000.00
from Florida Marihuana Growers. Jerry Himself Announces, "We Kept the Money!"

Everybody Applauded.











Grow Organically - Avoid (Slightly)Radioactive Fertilizers!

This article is associated with this one about tobacco.

Even "going organic" might not shield you. More data is needed.
Note: 24 times back-ground radiation isn't very strong
radiation, but it's 24 times more than what you're in right now.
An article by David Malmo-Levine as published by Cannabis Culture.










War on Drugs FAILS According to the European Union.











Milton Friedman: "A healthy black market is a sign of health."
This was back when the only healthy economic thing in the Soviet Union, was the black market,
which some say, saved the day.










Eddy Lepp's Last Moments of Freedom Forever, or For Many Many Many Years.










THIS is a Whistle Blower, or "Cop".











Whistle Blowing Conference.










According to These Stats, Europe Still Best Place to Live.



Eddy Lepp to Die In Prison, Probably, Unless You Act!



Call President Obama at 202-456-1111.
Tell him to commute the sentence of
Charles Lynch or pardon him outright!

While you're at it, ask Obama to Pardon
EDDY LEPP, also!



Sharing Any Legal Prescription Medicine
is Illegal in All 50 States. Prescriptions have expiration dates sometimes.
Prescriptions must be destroyed (flushed) after expiration dates.
Prescriptions can only be used by those whose name is on the container.




1925!!!!


(In New Orleans, it was illegal before that.)


This is an invitation from Morocco.




Rebagliati on Phelps - Gold on Gold.


The Documented True Origin of "4:20"


(There's also a large movement to change it to 5:20, or 3:20, to disassociate it with the OKC bombing, Hitler's b'day, etc.
3:20 is better as it's earlier in the day, and for all the pagans out there, corresponds to springtime.)


Crazy people amusing themselves, according to the U.N., etc. Marks explains. (This "Marks" isn't talking about slapping your boss, or nationalizing Wal-Mart.)










Reminder of DEATH Wish on Large Marijuana Producers from U.S. Congress:





This isn't a Grateful Dead symbol. There is a subtle difference.
This is the real thing itself, not an album cover.

Odd how this doesn't "fit" all of a sudden. Everybody is optimistic. Then I notice this odd death penalty law from another era. The current U.S. law concerning large marijuana producers, seems a bit "out of place", and inappropriate. Especially to the Obama administration. I offer this item up without fully understanding just why we have a death penalty for pot producers. Odd. Strange. Inappropriate. Wierd. Out of place. Insulting. From another era, perhaps.

From the NORML.org website, May 5, 2009:

The sentence of death can be carried out on a defendant who has been found guilty of manufacturing, importing or distributing a controlled substance if the act was committed as part of a continuing criminal enterprise - but only if the defendant is (1) the principal administrator, organizer, or leader of the enterprise or is one of several such principal administrators, organizers, or leaders, and (2) the quantity of the controlled substance is 60,000 kilograms or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of marijuana, or 60,000 or more marijuana plants, or the if the enterprise received more than $20 million in gross receipts during any 12-month period of its existence.

Actually, there was a DEA agent back in 1985 who was murdered in Mexico. Maybe that's it. I googled, "dea agent murdered mexico", and "Enrique Camerana" came up. That was also in the book I keep mentioning, over and over again.


Enrique Camarena was murdered in Mexico.


The fact that cops and BATF agents were killed by the bootleggers during the 1920's, didn't stop F.D.R. from ending alcohol prohibition. Enough is enough for an ineffective system.











Has Jo Biden Gone NUTS like Most Other V.P.'s Did?

Locked away in the Naval Observatory, with NOTHING to do!
John Adams, the first vice president, described it as "the most
insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his
imagination conceived." Thomas R. Marshall, the 28th Vice
President, lamented: "Once there were two brothers. One went away to
sea; the other was elected vice president. And nothing was heard of
either of them again." When the Whig Party was looking for a vice
president on Zachary Taylor's ticket, they approached Daniel
Webster, who said of the offer "I do not intend to be buried until I am
dead." Vice President John C. Calhoun became the first vice
president to resign the office. He believed he would have more power as
a senator. John Nance Garner famously described the office as "not
worth a pitcher of warm piss"
















Pregnancy, Moms, and Pot.


More Research is Needed.

Joep Ommen, Secretariat of encod.org, just told me recently in answer to my question, that in Europe, they simply don't arrest women who just gave birth, and who have tested positive for something like marihuana. So this one thing may be the best way to point out the differences for future parents between the U.S. and Europe at this moment in world history. Sadly to say, in terms of punishment and human rights violations of mothers who may have used pot (or other drugs) during their pregnancies, and then spent time in a U.S. jail, this seems a bit extreme to me. The use of brute force to incarcerate a mother who just gave birth, would be considered criminal in Europe, I am sure. Why has our media not pointed this out?

Most of the following items are from mid to late 2009:

  • National Advocates for Pregnant Women, section about the drug war and families. That organization is not generally grouped with drug policy reform.

  • Babies and Marihuana. There isn't much information out there, but what there is, seems to indicate some people have acted extremely conservatively, even draconian-ally, in regard to this subject. (This item found at www.jackherer.com.)

  • 1998 Article from Cannabis Culture by Susan Boyd about Pregnancy, Pot, and Children. This article is actually a much better starting point about this subject, than this web posting of mine. She confirms my theory that they didn't really go after pot using moms until Reagan became president. It must be true as they would not have reposted it if it had been contradicted. The Nixon era, and previous eras, were generally more "hip" than many would have imagined.

    Ronald Reagan really did ramp up the drug war in some quite bizarre ways, blaming the devil incarnate, marihuana, for a multitude of things, real and imagined, that bothered them.

  • NOTE: Loretta Nall of Alabamians for Compassionate Care has told me recently that her group has successfully lobbied the Alabama legislature to delete any such "blood metabolite of marihuana" violation, from Alabama pot law. Loretta and her group deserve huge congratulations for helping to keep moms out of jail in Alabama who might test positive for pot. Contact Loretta for more accurate information about Alabama.

  • On a simlar note, Dr. Lester Grinspoon of Harvard is unhappy about the new addition to Massachussetts pot laws that most pot reform groups have not told you about.

    NOTE: Dr. Lester Grinspoon does not approve this law as written. There is a FATAL FLAW in it:

    The initiative reduces the penalty for possession of up to 1 ounce of marihuana to a fine of $100, but it actually establishes a new offense. The sponsors should withdraw it and replace it with a more thoughtfully worded version.

    The new offense is internal possession of marihuana metabolites. Anyone discovered to have any of these metabolites in his (or her) body fluids or hair would be prosecutable.

  • Medical Marihuana: A Surprising Solution to Severe Morning Sickness, By Erin Hildebrandt, Mothering, Issue 124 May/June 2004. Mom who had 4 out of 5 of her children, using marihuana for all sorts of things, tells it like it is: click here.

  • NORML U.S. search of website for "pregnancy" , which should yield some studies.
(Just what policy is at hospitals may have little or nothing to do with the state legislaure. Who knows? Ask your doctor or other medical caregivers.)
















































































































































































































































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Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade,
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Dr. Lester Grinspoon's Websites.












Gobs of cool things made from hemp, from www.jackherer.com.











How paper money came about in the United States, since about 1789,

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www.sidestep.com
Multi-site bargain travel search engine.



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The Progressive Review

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Dr. Bob Melamede's Website - Endocannabinoid Knowledge.




Cannabis Science, Inc.




From ultra-cheap to ultra-expensive. Click on English language flag.
For cheapest room sort choice, check box first which states,
"show only available hotels". Then re-search. Then sort by "cheapest room".


Solar Energy Information.



France-24

World news in English 24/7

Latest News - Try the Voice of America at http://www.voanews.com/wm/voa/english/nnow/NNOW_HEADLINES.asx. Home page is http://www.voanews.com. It's amazing how few Americans other than ham radio operators or short wave listeners, have ever heard of, much less heard, The Voice of America. Of course, it's not intended for U.S, actually. It's intended for everybody else. On short wave radio since 1942.

Common Sense for Drug Policy


California Cannabis Research Medical Group (WWW.CCRMG.ORG)

Society of Cannabis Clinicians

publishers of

O'Shaughnessy's

 Journal of the California Cannabis Research Medical Group

Oaksterdam News, from Oakland, California


Related to this site, equalrights4all.

European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies (ENCOD) a Brussels based NGO (Non Government Organization) which seeks to influence European drug policy, generally in a "harm reduction" and pro-cannabis direction.

Forbidden Fruit Publishing, Chris Bennett & Neil McQueen's publishing website. Bennett and McQueen have written a book which postulates that Jesus Christ may very well have used marihuana.


The term "legal" used here in quotes means not legal yet for anyone of any age.
I have always used it out of quotes to mean legal only for adults. In terms of
punishment for teens caught with pot, I would be less strict than for alcohol.
Many countries have also "decriminalized" small amounts of hard drugs also.

Cannabis News Dot Com, U.K. registered cannabis legalisation organization, the LCA or Legalise Cannabis Alliance , education about Cannabis Sativa at The Cannabis College in Amsterdam, Georgians (U.S.) Opposed to Prohibition (goplobby), NORML U.S, world news from Cannabis Culture magazine, Marihuananews.com, the Drug Reform Coordination Network (DRCnet.org), the news section of the Vancouver Compassion Club, High Times magazine, For a collection of relevant articles on harm reduction and drug policy reform (legalization/"decriminalization"/medicalization of illicit drugs), by leading thinkers worldwide, go to Mario Lap's drugtext , for the CFDP (the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy), click here, for medical marihuana in Europe, go to the (SIMM) Institute of Medical Marihuana in Europe (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) , New Zeeland comprehensive reform group at www.mildgreens.com , Carl Olsen's original website (Iowa NORML, etc.), C.A.M.P. : Coalition for the Abolition of Marihuana Prohibition - this org. has deep roots in the yippie/hippie marihuana movement of the 1960's (the pre-NORML era), all sorts of information from Central and South America at Narconews, Cannabis Information in Belgium, www.420times.com , Amsterdam links, Multi disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, marihuana.com, the authors of California's proposition 215 group (www.marihuana.org), Carl Olsen's NORML weekly bulletins from U. S. NORML, Iowa NORML's new  website, Preston Peet's www.drugwar.com, the drug policy alliance, religious leaders for a more just and compassionate drug policy , the Hyperreal Rave Archive and their associated site, "The Vaults of Erowid ", Erowid's great  cannabis archive, Students for a more Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), Forfeiture Endangers American Rights (FEAR), the November Coalition, Just Say Blow, No More Prisons, the Media Awareness Project (MAP), Yahooka Marihuana Links, Christians for Cannabis,  Canadian Cannabis Links at cannabislink.ca, Radio Netherlands page on legalizing marihuana (in Spanish ???), Beyond the Illusion (Major Mirror Site), and daweedking's marihuana website, The Assembly of the Church of the Universe, Federation of Swiss Cannabis Consumers, Dutch Magazine about Cannabis and Coffee Shops : (www.highlife.nl) , Legalize (Holland), Legalize (Israel), a great Dutch cannabis site (Aloha.nl), Parents Against Prohibition, another parents oriented site : www.changetheclimate.org.




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There are many decriminalized places around the U.S., but there are also numerous definitions of what the word means.

The voters of Oakland voted in favor of legalizing marihuana a few years ago.

Maine, or parts of it, has quietly liberalized pot laws. There are medical dispensaries and a general decrim. environment there. I have been told that Maine is much more liberal with pot than is apparent, and that it's nearly legal there, even for persons who are not severely ill medical patients.



In West L.A., Santa Monica, and other California areas, many consider it more or less legal now.

In early November 2005, the voters of Denver, Colorado, voted "YES" to remove the city's marihuana law, i.e., to make marihuana legal in Denver, was their choice. By 2007, the voters of Denver passed a "Lowest Law Enforcement Priority" initiative that gave the 2005 law change some extra teeth after city officials began using the Colorado state law against those arrested in Denver for pot. (In 2006, Colorado voters did not legalize marihuana at the state level.) In 2009, it is expected that Breckenridge, Colorado will legalize marihuana. Summit County, along with other counties in Colorado, voted overwhelmingly in favor of legal marihuana in 2006.

Back in 1975, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that marihuana was legal there under certain conditions, under state law. This has been upheld in recent cases, but it's still up in the air.

Perhaps licit and illicit hard and soft drugs should all be at least decriminalized to help end the terror that surrounds all aspects of this area of life. If people are afraid to talk about them, then "terror" is the essential aspect of that topic.

Is prohibition doomed?

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YOUR ANCESTORS WERE POT-HEADS WHETHER THEY KNEW IT OR NOT.
Lack of full scientific knowledge about marihuana 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, marihuana, hashish,, and cannabis sativa, were the same thing.

By the late 1930's, the controversy over "marihuana" 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.






  • (2 November '09 www.expatica.com/uk) Mass Resignations Possibly to Follow Dr. David Nutt After Top British Drugs Advisor Resigns over cannabis misclassification.

    Dr Les King, a former head of drug intelligence at the Forensic Science Service, was next to act, followed by Marion Walker, the head of the substance misuse service at Berkshire NHS foundation trust.





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  • (25 August '09) Argentine Supreme Court Unanimously Scraps Drug War In Terms of Simple Possession for virtually all illicit drugs; however, this case concerned juvenile marihuana possession.

    Also, Mexico goes ahead with illicit drug decriminalization that had been proposed under Pres. Vicente Fox (and opposed by Bush) a few years ago.

    More info at http://www.stopthedrugwar.org.






  • (10 July '09 NORML NEWS ITEM) GATEWAY THEORY DESTROYED! FRENCH STUDY supports THEORY that pot users are actually strengthened physiologically from becoming addicted to opiates!.

    Historically speaking, this is the MOST SIGNIFICANT pot study I've seen for a LONG TIME. Well, ONE OF the most significant pot studies I've seen in about 15 years. This indicates that the endorphin system is probably strengthened by pot usage.

  • (11 August '09) Cannabis Cultue author Julie Chadwick has even more data about the historical usage of "marihuana substitution" for much worse, much more addicting, hard drugs such as the opiates and tobacco.





  • (19 June - 3 May '09) Suppressed, but not forgotten, World Health Organization report from 1991 condemns drug war. The WHO is part of the United Nations.

    Cafferty Says, "Prosecute Bush/Cheney", Academic Group Calls for Legalizing Weed. U.S. Drug Czar Calls for End of Drug War. Former President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, wants legal weed. B.C. Canada Wants Legal Weed.

    I still want to see a debate about just what "decriminalization" really means, versus "legalization", whatever that means. How does decriminalization impact Morooco, Pakistan, Columbia, and Mexico?






  • (22, 19 April '09) Mexico's Ambassador to the United States Open to Marihuana Legalization while Mexican Congress Debates Legalization of Marihuana with Richard Cowan participating, (www.marihuananews.com).

    Meanwhile, Loretta Nall reports that the U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated the 4th Amendment in terms of traffic violation stops of vehicles by police, followed by general searches. Now, they can only conduct searches in relation to specific prior suspicions followed by related traffic stops. No more fishing trips, in other words.

    (29 March '09 stopthedrugwar.org, the Atlantic) Senator Jim Webb Promotes Prison Reform, and legalization or decriminalization at least, for illicit drugs in general.

    Americans in very large numbers are also going to jail here for misuse of legal prescription drugs as well. How many kids even know that sharing of prescriptions is illegal? It is very illegal to share a prescription with another person, no matter what.

    Thus, making any particular illicit drug legal again as medicine will not prevent the mass incarceration of American citizens.

    All this yakking about the 9th or 10th Amendments, and the state by state approach, seems to leave out the 14th Amendment - equal protection under the law, and various other aspects of the supposed ending of slavery. The "ending of slavery" itself means freedom, supposedly.

    (18 March '09) This Nigerian guy could be put to death in China if there's not a loud cry of protest, etc. It is outrageous that they do that there. I PROTEST THIS!






    (17 March '09) A Cry of Reason in the Dry Parched Desert of American Health Care Reform. I hear some states, to some extent, are going already down this road, apparently. There seem to be a lot of individual health care policies available around the U.S., and also for the self-employed.


    65-70 Years of U.S. Health Care Reform.





  • (6 March '09) HELP OUT AMSTERDAM!


    Al Capone (left), with Caged Protester Kris Krane (right). "If one is caged, we are all caged."



    International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD) (left).

    International Network of People Who Use Drugs. There seems to be no website for inpud.org. Another link, but no current info. Another link, but no current info. Is this about soft drugs, prescription drug users, coca leaf chewers, alcohol users, also? They are all also "drug users". However, this group seems to be mostly about heroin users, apparently. That was not my specific intention. Sorry about that. The sign said "drug users", not "heroin users". "Harm Reduction" was, and still is, about soft drugs, mainly, at the NORML Canada website, and at www.nintharticle.com.

    Dr. Frederik Polak, a prominent Psychiatrist from Amsterdam and a major member of encod.org, talks about his attempt to speak with Mr. Antonio Maria Costa, the head of the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime, in Vienna about Dutch drugs policy. Dare to Question, a YouTube place to post YOUR COMMENTS in support of Dutch drugs policy, in general, and especially in relation to their coffee shop system for marihuana.


    Harm Reduction Device - protects head
    (i.e., "reduces harm to head") from solar radiation.)
    Every Agency of the United Nations Is 100% Opposed to "Harm Reduction"!





  • Send a letter to the King of Morocco to ask him to release Chekib El-Khiari.

    (24 June '09) Dialogue Promoter Jailed BY WHISTLE-BLOWING MOROCCAN COPS: Al Khiari has been jailed for three years. Basically, the Moroccan government has placed superhuman demands upon this mere mortal. They are basically claiming that his analysis of the situation was too limited. And due to his limited financial resources, (about $100 of which came from a foreign entity, illegally), he must now rot in prison. Dialogue and analysis is what is missing, and what El-Khiari wants to initiate.

    Whistle-Blowing is not the right adjective, really. That might be part of the political process, but it is not the main goal. The conferences that he was scheduled to attend this past March were not referred to anywhere in the world media as "whistle blowing" conferences. Now suddenly, they switch the adjectives being used. The article should have stated that Moroccan cops (whistle-blowers) have incarcerated Al-Khyari.


    Whistle Blowing Conference.

    (14 June '09) Latest item from a Moroccan news website. Google translation.

    One good sign from this article is that they mention the area where much hashish obviously comes from - Ketama. Almost every Dutch coffee shop that handles hashish has this type, and the name is always prominent on almost every menu. When the place of origin is missing, that's a bad sign - a sign of shame. If the place of origin is there, it seems to me that this is a sign of pride.

    (8 May '09)Chekib El-Khiari is basically being held hostage by the government.

    He is a Moroccan activist who has been arrested and jailed in Morocco for allegedly insulting the government by basically telling the truth about corruption and violations of human rights, there. The guy isn't a criminal by any measure, but has become stuck in the political cracks of the world drug prohibitionist/bullshit system. This is all about corruption and politics, with prohibition versus anti-prohibition as a sideline. Chekib El-Khiari was simply going to discuss his findings at a couple of European drug policy meetings; however, he was arrested and jailed and did not attend any of the meetings.

    The fact that "decriminalization" (which is also a pseudo-word) somewhere, leads to corruption somewhere else, is the problem here. (A pseudo-word is one that is not in the dictionary, or mentioned as a "non-word". Sometimes, these "things" can become real words, but not always. It might take decades for that to happen, or again, it might just fade away. "Decriminalization" is not in most English language dictionaries around the world, especially the more respected academic type dictionaries where it might be mentioned in passing as an "Americanism".)

    He also discussed legalization and related topics on a Moroccan TV program, early this year.

    Send a letter to the King of Morocco to ask him to release Chekib El-Khiari. America has had unbroken ties with Morocco since George Washington was president. This link is a form letter to do this from www.encod.org. You must print or save this after pasting and copying it into wordpad, etc. Then you must edit it to your situation as NOT being a member of Encod.org (unless you are a member of encod.org), and as being a U.S. citizen living in the U.S. (or wherever you may live), then print it, sign it, then mail it to the various places mentioned at the end of the form letter. Note: if you want "proof of delivery", you will probably have to use FedEx, or some other courier/overnight service which can be very expensive overseas or domestically. Domestic priority mail with proof of delivery and tracking is about $6.00. Wish I had done that. I used regular first class, or international airmail delivery and got no reply from three different addresses.

    (5 March '09 via google search) The latest from a Moroccan group.


    Chekib El-Khiari

    (20 February) Amnesty International calls for the immediate and unconditional release of human rights defender, Chekib El-Khiari, head of the Association for Human Rights in the Rif (Association du Rif des droits de l'homme) who is in custody of the National Bureau of the Judicial Police of Casablanca since 17 February 2009. Amnesty International believes him to be a prisoner of conscience, solely detained for his anti-corruption statements and his human rights activities.

    El Khiari was scheduled to be part of a meeting with the European Parliament and Encod in Brussels, Belgium, beginning this past March 4th, possibly discussing the legalization of cannabis in the relevant areas. There was an item at www.stopthedrugwar.org which stated that he had also been on a TV special in Morocco discussing the same issues publicly there, last year.






  • (11 November '08, made early 2007), A new university student made marihuana coffee shop video from the University of Washington. Note: coffee shops that sell marihuana in the Netherlands, also sell coffee, juices, soft drinks, and other snack items.

    Univ. of Washington Student Made Video (About 5 minutes).

    NOTE!! If you are not using MicroSoft Internet Explorer, right click, or click here for instructions.

    (16 meg. mp4) Ipod / Quick Time version. Downloaded from youtube and converted.

    (11 meg. wmv) Windows Media version. Downloaded from youtube and converted.






  • (6 October '09) NORML Conference Meeting sponsored by Cannabis Science, Inc.

    ...we should also realize that there is a large segment of the population

    who have never smoked anything in their entire lives...

    Cannabis Science CEO, Dr. Robert Melamede, said, "We thought it appropriate to co-sponsor the NORML conference to demonstrate that our business model is not predicated on a continuation of marihuana prohibition, and we believe that there will be a need for FDA approved cannabis-based medicines, available either by prescription or over-the-counter, whether or not marihuana prohibition ends. Also, we wanted to emphasize again that we are a patient oriented company."

  • (26 July '09 Wall Street Journal)

    Cannabis Science: new company seeks new medical uses for the HEMP PLANT: Recent item.

  • (1 November '08) Having acknowledged the medical effects of smoked marihuana, we should also realize that there is a large segment of the population who have never smoked anything in their entire lives, and will unlikely ever consider trying smoking marihuana. That is just how life is. For that reason, it appears that science and technology can come up with various other ways to consume the active ingredients which produce the desired, and optimized, medical effect. Not all medical effects of cannabis are related to the subjective effect of "being stoned", but some are.

    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, Cannabis Science, (OTCBB:cbis) that aims to make and market various cannabis medicines from the natural plant. This has been publicised at www.marihuananews.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 to suffering medical patients. Marinol, which is expensive, and difficult and dangerous to manufacture, has only pure synthetic THC in it. There are many other things in marihuana that are medically useful, and it would be impossible, probably, to synthesize all of them.






  • (23 October '08 www.cannabisculture.com/bloomberg) Famous Hedge Fund Trader Makes $$$Zillions$$$, then Quits, Asks that Pot 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 marihuana 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 marihuana 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, marihuana is an "herbal" medication because it makes them feel "stoned".

    However, subjectively, the "stoned" effect is not necessarily proportional to how much marihuana 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 marihuana 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 marihuana 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 marihuana.

    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 marihuana potency is probably the highest in the world in Seattle and on America's west coast, even higher than Dutch or Swiss marihuana potency - therefore, there should logically be massive numbers of "psychotic and deluded" users of marihuana out there. Is this the truth?)






  • (16 October '08 www.marihuananews.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 marihuana 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, if they have used pot all these years. According to the greatest marihuana expert of all of history (the Egyptian delegate to the League of Nations 2nd Opium Conference - 1925), there is no known antidote for the short term or long term effects of marihuana that he spoke about in 1925 or so.

    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/marihuana. Now, consider for a moment, especially after looking over other medical conditions affected positively by cannabis, that the DEA still thinks marihuana is a "narcotic". Too bad for U.S.

    From www.jackherer.com, we find out that Carl Olsen is working on some DEA Administrative Law, (neither criminal, nor civil law) strategy for getting the DEA pot policy to change, perhaps.

    Olsen told me that internal DEA rules require that Federal pot enforcement be ended nationwide when even one U.S. state enacts medical marihuana law. Carl was suing the DEA to follow its own rule. I don't know the result of that.






  • (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 marihuana get on the list of "narcotics"? The fact that marihuana is not a narcotic means that we should sue anyone for calling it a narcotic. Calling marihuana a narcotic is making a fraudulent statement. Yet, that is the basis of the war upon marihuana - 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.





  • (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 marihuana was still legal, around 1925 or 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 marihuana were legalized is contradicted by all the incredible progress that had already taken place before the cancer called marihuana-prohibition took hold. It appears that marihuana 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 marihuana 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.

    SSDP Member Slain.
    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 marihuana prohibition.
    "Decriminalization" also compels everyone to "plead guilty" and pay small fines - MISTAKE!
    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 media-reported in-flight altercations caused largely 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 fred's group, in denying to themselves that which the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that "the mafia", and fred's group has? When you plead guilty for marihuana 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.)

    1. If this is federal court, or you plan to take your "not-guilty" all the way to the federal system on appeal, make sure you use the same language understood by federal courts. Spell it, "M-A-R-A-H-U-A-N-A", just like the feds do. You wouldn't want to be misunderstood or misinterpreted, would you?

    2. 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".

    3. "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.

    4. 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.

    5. 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.

    6. 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.)

    7. 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.)

    8. 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.

    9. 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.)

    10. 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 fred 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 LOWERS THE QUALITY 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", fred, 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:

    1. 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.

    2. 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.)

    3. Every government of the world will know about you, and will condemn your life forever, as "criminal". Many countries have not "decriminalized" marihuana 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 marihuana.

    4. 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.

    5. 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 Marihuana.

  • (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 Update
    for April 2, 2008!!!!!


    Is TAR being added to various substances like marihuana
    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 marihuana smoke and tobacco smoke have the same risks; and tar from marihuana 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 marihuana 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 marihuana 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 marihuana? (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 marihuana contains 6 times more "tar" than low-tar cigarettes, marihuana is 6 times more dangerous than tobacco. No analysis of the actual effects of tobacco tar versus marihuana 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 marihuana 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.marihuananews.com.











  • (11 December '07 encod.org) Belgium Wants Cannabis 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 marihuana, 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 marihuana possession. Insane.

  • Sensible Fayetteville circulating petition to get Marihuana 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 marihuana 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 marihuana.

  • 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 marihuana, but any marihuana usage. (I recall reading a number of times that there was already a "decrim." policy for possession of marihuana; now they're considering changing the written law. 2005 article which states that marihuana 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 marihuana associated gold medal after the Olympic doping panel decided that marihuana, 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 marihuana 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 Medical Marihuana Activist until Prison late 1999.
    To many, Todd McCormick was Proposition 215

    He 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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((("#" = ninth article video, "*" = other videos downloadable here, usually from youtube, "e" = external video)))
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  1. NORML Canada archived website.

    (Note: pot is not legal in the Netherlands - only possession of small amounts are "semi-legal." For more up to date information, check with encod.org. )

  2. # - IgorMccaslin YouTube page, "Legal" Marihuana in Holland; We Are Not Criminals; The Dutch Moral Majority Speak - Tape 1.
  3. # - Jack Herer YouTube video, Nov. 1996, taped during Cannabis Cup at Positronics and GPRA.
  4. # - Jack Herer full interview, Nov. 1996, taped during Cannabis Cup at Positronics and GPRA.
  5. # - 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 marihuana and most other herbs, should not be heavily regulated, or maybe not regulated at all. Mike took one strong stance in this general argument.

  6. e - (8 Dec. '09 www.youtube.com) SaferChoice director Mason Tvert, with his mom, discuss legalizing cannabis. YouTube site for SaferChoice.
  7. e - (4 Nov. '09 DPA/CBS-News) Sen. James Webb, and others, speak out about world drug policy, etc. (Look for the Breckenridge, CO marihuana item halfway down.) Drug Policy Reform has gone mainstream, that's for sure.
  8. e - (9 March '09 www.hightimes.com, www.youtube.com) High Times' grow editor Jorge Cervantes GUIDE TO AMSTERDAM. But, lot's of good advice to those who've never been there. From this website at YouTube.
  9. * - (27 February 2007 YouTube) University of Washington Student Video about Amsterdam Coffee Shops.
  10. * - (20 August '08 google video) An Evening with Howard Marks. Howard Marks is a scholar, an English teacher, a convicted marihuana trafficker, a candidate for Parliament, and a leading member of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance in Britain.
  11. 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 marihuana 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.marihuananews.com.
  12. e - (22 March '09 www.norml.org) 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Honorable Mention in the 2009 NORML TV Advertisement Contest.
  13. 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".


  14. e - (8 March '09 www.hightimes.com, www.youtube.com) Ethan Nadelman Boosts Pot Legalization in California, etc., along with opposing views.
  15. e - (7 March '09 www.youtube.com) Secretariat Joep Ommen, of encod.org, speaks about his viewpoint to be presented at the upcomoing U.N. Conference on drugs this coming March. From this HCLU YouTube website. Also go to Dare to Act for instructions on how to support Amsterdam and Dutch cannabis coffee shops, etc. Dare to Question, a YouTube place to post YOUR COMMENTS in support of Dutch drugs policy, in general, and especially in relation to their coffee shop system for marihuana.
  16. e - (7 March '09 www.youtube.com) UN Drug Chief, Gets in Argument With Dutchman. Also go to Dare to Act to find out how to support Amsterdam and Dutch cannabis coffee shops, etc. at the U.N., etc. Dare to Question, a YouTube place to post YOUR COMMENTS in support of Dutch drugs policy, in general, and especially in relation to their coffee shop system for marihuana.
  17. e - (7 March '09 from 27 October '08 www.youtube.com) Dr. Robert Melamede, Richard Cowan, and Steve Kubby have started a new company, Cannabis Science, to manufacture natural cannabis sourced pharmaceuticals.
  18. e - (25 February '09 www.youtube.com) (aka, "The Union") THE TRUTH ABOUT MARIHUANA, PART 1, similar information to that which Jack Herer has presented over the years in books, talks, and videos, but this one is actually about the British Columbia indoor marihuana trade, etc., mostly. It's everywhere else, as well. Click on Guerilla News Network.
  19. e - (19 February '09and earlier www.youtube.com) CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, as reported by the Ridley Report.
  20. e - (18 February '09 www.hightimes.com) Rob Van Dam on Geraldo about Marihuana, Michael Phelps, etc., etc.
  21. e - (5 January '09 www.csdp.org) Interfaith Clergy Speak Out Against the Drug War. YouTube posting of part of this video.
  22. e - (28 November '08 norml.org/www.nationalgeographic.com) Marihuana Nation - a video series at National Geographic magazine.
  23. e - (16 June '08 NORML/YouTube/Huffington Post) Congressman Barney Frank says "Whether or Not to Smoke Marihuana Should be a Personal Choice". Frank is currently sponsoring legislation in Congress to "decriminalize" the personal use and possession of marihuana at the Federal level.
  24. e - (16 June '08 www.reason.com/www.pot-tv.net) DREW CAREY moderates a news story about a youthful medical marihuana user in California whose medical marihuana 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 marihuana is available.
  25. e - (6 March. '08) Colorado Cops Must Learn to Grow and Maintain Confiscated Medical Marihuana Plants from Raids, according to Colorado law. HollyG of Green Girl Media interviews the Masters and gives more details of their situation. GreenGirlMedia.
  26. e - (19 Feb. '08 added 24 Jan. '08 YouTube/www.pot-tv.net) NEGATIVE CORRELATION statistically between marihuana 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 marihuana grow-op operators (raided) possessed firearms. That means that police are much more likely to encounter firearms among the general population than among marihuana growers in B.C., Canada.
  27. e - (6 Jan. '08 added 12 Jan. '08 YouTube/WMUR) Former U.S. Sen. Gravel Tells the Truth, that Pot is Safer than Alcohol.
  28. e - (4 Dec. '07) Colorado Cops Must Learn to Grow and Maintain Confiscated Medical Marihuana 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).
  29. e - (27 Sept. '07 YouTube) Congressman Ron Paul Calls for an End to the Drug War Which Isn't Working Anyway.
  30. e - (28 Sept. '07 YouTube) Former Alaska Senator Gravel Totally Endorses Legal and Medical Marihuana. No hesitation at all.
  31. e - (26 August '07 YouTube) Drew Carey (host) Power of 10 Weed Question. (What Percentage of Americans Think Marihuana is Less Harmful than Alcohol?) Link to YouTube, found at http://www.pot-tv.net.
  32. e - (23 Aug. 2007 YouTube) Jack Herer Aug. 2007 Seattle with Eddie Lepp.
  33. e - (20 April 2007 YouTube) Great Short Cannabis History video from Casbah Teahouse.
  34. e - (15 April 2007 YouTube) California guy speaking about Todd McCormick and what happened to him. Casbah Teahouse. Many presentations about cannabis, marihuana, medical marihuana, and other interesting acts, and things.
  35. e - (16 March 2007 YouTube) Hippie Conservative.
  36. * - (26 October 2006 Youtube) UTT Legal Pot, Tijuana Tech Mexico student video.
  37. e - Sensible Colorado Media Videos. Sensible Colorado, donate. (YouTube links from local Denver TV stations)
  38. e - Denver Legalizes Marihuana, November 2005. www.saferdenver.com. Also, www.saferchoice.org. Donate now. Other SaferChoice videos. (YouTube and local Denver TV station)
  39. e - Above the Ignorance website videos page. Above the Ignorance website main page. (They erroneously state that marihuana contains carcinogins - not true. When marihuana is burned, like any other plant material, carcinogins are created, but it's not associated with any active ingredients. Latest research may or may not still show that pot, even smoked pot, to have anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties. Go to NORML.ORG for details.)
  40. * - Dr. Melanie Dreher of Univ. of Iowa nursing school, etc., talks about marihuana 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.)

  41. e - Green Avalanche Episode 1, a video about the early roots of Dutch marihuana culture, and
  42. e - Green Avalanche Episode 2. And the rest of the episides are here at Tabacula. "Tabac" means tobacco in Dutch. But this documentary isn't about tobacco.

  43. e - Free Book download: How to Grow Medical Marihuana, by Todd McCormick. You can also get information about how to order the actual book, which is very inexpensive anyway at the website.
  44. e - CHRONOLOGY : OF POT-REFORM in the U.K. and around the world. From this website. It ignores many important events such as Bill Clinton's call for decrim. on Dec. 7, 2000; and Todd McCormick's successful importation of med. mar. into Denver airport in Dec. 1994, or shortly thereafter.
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Click HERE to see the 1980 Car and Driver magazine article. Click Here to go to the driving and marihuana page from the old NORML Canada website.

Marihuana 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.



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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.

But eighty years later, modern communication will hopefully circumvent more ignorance and bad laws from being imposed upon the world's citizens.

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NOTE: Is it generally known that Americans are smuggling large amounts of marihuana into Mexico? No. Nor do Australians smuggle Australian marihuana 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.


A few years ago, Jack could hardly talk at all.

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  • "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. 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.

    Also located at YouTube: click here (part 1), or here (part 2).

    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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  • (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.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfVCnAgZQK0

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  • (1993/1994), Stichting Institute of Medical Marihuana - Holland .......... was started in 1993 by James Burton, an American glaucoma patient and research subject on medical marihuana. 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 "works" in Amsterdam, Holland's oldest shop. (From tape 2 of Legal Marihuana 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 marihuana. He is now trying to fight this decision in court. Dutch government's medical marihuana program website. Link to old NORML Canada medical marihuana page. SIMM link. At one time, before the government Dept. of Med. Marihuana was formed, I think James had about 10,000 regular medical marihuana customers.

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  • (1992/1993/2007)"Legal" Marihuana in Holland; Youtube video 1 (9:52 minutes)

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    Jack Herer, late November 1996

  • Jack Herer, ..... speaks at Positronics with Pieter D. Nieuwenhuis, a former Amsterdam city councilman. These interviews were arranged and planned by Michael Moran who also operated the camera some of the time. Fresh from overwhelming political victories of the 1996 California and Arizona medical marihuana and drug reform initiatives, in late November, Herer discusses all sorts of factors which contributed to the wins such as help and support from Barry Goldwater, Senator from Arizona and an American presidential candidate (1964 Republican candidate against Lyndon B. Johnson). Kennedy era politics.

    .....Later, at GPRA, (notice the emerald green pot plants in the background, placed there just for this event) he speaks to the group about all sorts of interesting things such as Pot and Richard Nixon.

    Flashback: an actual news report of Jack's visit to Holland was web-published by NORML Canada back in late 1996 and kept online for a few months.

    (I regret that this was not posted sooner. I was present for part of the interviews, operating the camera some of the time. I have other footage he took as well. Another person unnamed unknown to me may also have operated the camera. I stayed in touch with Michael Moran for about 6 or 7 months (into mid-1997) as I recall, then we lost contact. Mike could have emailed after 1997, but I never heard from him ever again. Not once during this time did he ask about any video, so I have no clear idea what his plans were for it. Mike mentions to Jack Herer, about "getting a demo together", in this video. He and Jack never mentioned any "demo" to me, so I don't know what he's referring to.

    Now that I see it, it is painful to think about it, journalistically. Probably unknown to Michael, Ninth Article Productions was no longer running ads or selling tapes by mid-1998, and I had volunteered to become NORML Canada's web maintainer in early '96. The last video editing I had done was in 1994. Now in 2005, I'm able to post this video directly to the web from my own hard-drive.) taped Nov. 1996, web published Jan. 2005 (About 52 minutes - rough edited. Direct tape to digital editing. Bad drop-out on tape.) Link to Jack Herer.

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  • (1993/1994), Quaker Secretary Hans Weening .......... discusses Dutch Drugs Policy and Quaker philosophy (from tape 2; Legal Marihuana in Holland; We Are Not Criminals; The Dutch Moral Majority Speak) video from late 1993; first sold late 1994. Weening is not a "preacher", as most Quaker churches don't have preachers at all, in general. Quakers have "meetings" of friends. (10 minute play time).

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  • Michael Moran, late Novemeber 1996, ..... speaks at the High Times Cannabis Cup 420 afternoon council about legalizing or not legalizing pot, winning in court, the Herbalist Decree of 1542 from English common-law and other things related to marihuana, arguably, or historically, who knows? I just found something Michael himself wrote about himself back in 1993 which I did not know until March 2007: click here. I knew bits and pieces of this, vaguely.

    Notice the hysterical lady at the end (of the following vidoes) who was upset that Michael seems to be arguing against legalizing marihuana since some people (some of those allowed to use it, an elite group) felt it was already legal enough for them. A transcript of Mike's talk was already posted to the NORML Canada website back in 1997 or so.

    Note that Mike explicitely states in this video that all listeners should, "And in your state, go home and do that, whereever that may be", meaning, legalize pot in whatever method works in your area or state. I'm not sure exactly what the argument was between Mike and this lady from N.C. about legalization. Although Mike appears to be arguing against legalization, in the end, he firmly gives support to it in terms of supporting various state law changes.

    8 minutes. Rough edited and posted to the web March 8, 2005.

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  • From Nov. 2005: (Other SaferChoice videos.)

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    Denver votes to legalize marihuana possession (<1 oz.) for adults 21 or older.

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  • (1992/1993/2007)

    • "Legal" Marihuana in Holland;
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    • The Dutch Moral Majority Speak; tape 1, full length (63 minutes)

    Written transcript of full length version.

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Technical specifications for video:

  • (Orig. tapes 1 and 2 of "Legal" Marihuana in Holland...) Two Sony Hi-8 CCD-V801 editing camcorders with digital timecode, both purchased at my local Circuit City store. The first camera cost about $2000.00 in late 1991; the second one about $1000 purchased in early 1993. (There's a cameo video shot of one of the Sony cameras in Amsterdam in December 1996 at 51:02 in the Jack Herer video. At that moment, both cameras were probably almost worn out.), one obscure 1991 era High-8 era Olympus camcorder whose model number I can't recall; One computerized edit controller from a company called Future Video costing about $650.00 from New York City camera shops, capable of controlling the two Sony camcorders was utilized for all video editing of both videos, other than one minor announcer scene on Tape 2 which was done in an editing studio onto S-VHS. All titles were by a consumer priced digital titler by Videonics, which hooked up between one camera and the other camera. A simple battery operated analog sound mixer was used for audio mixing. Music could not be dubbed at the High-8 level. Therefore, the music was dubbed on the final S-VHS master from which VHS tapes were duplicated and sold 1993-1998. Tapes were sold retail mail-order from advertisements placed in High Times, and Relix magazine. (I remember checking on prices of digital editing equipment around 1994, and found that a suitable digital editing setup would have cost about $10,000.00 at that moment. Prices were dropping quickly, but my masters had already been made using computer controlled analog equipment.)

    This website; all orig videos from 1992-1994, and 1996 material, and other material from YouTube, etc., posted beginning in January 2005. For this website 2005-2007, the Hi-8 masters or original Hi-8 camera tapes were captured into MicroSoft Windows Moviemaker, edited, then original music was re-dubbed. Some new dv material added recently.

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  • Some of the production audio editing/dubbing was done on an old Superscope cassette recorder that had a record audio limiter, an early Sony Walkman, and on a small Sony micro-casssette recorder, and onto and off of High-8 video tape - audio use only. The reason some odd and old equipment was used was to experiment with improving listening clarity obtained from some very marginal, highly amplified, but volume limited audio segments of "salvaged audio" which was "processed", then redubbed. You can actually hear the camera operator swallowing (tape one full length version, 28:58) on one segment of audio from her camera which was then highly amplified, and then limited, then redubbed.
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  • Quality was acceptable but not top quality. If all the original camera tapes could have been edited on computer, the video would have been better, especially for title video segments; some of which are 2 non-digital dubs from original. There was a lot of low light shooting without lamps and some big microphone problems were encountered. By taping some subjects with two cameras simultaneously, we got better camera shots, but hardly any of these "camera #2" shots are used at all. Some lost audio was salvaged from camera#2 when microphones failed and footage could not be re-shot. The best shots were outdoors in natural lighting with the external mike. I can't believe I made so many audio mistakes which were not repeated on tape two.
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  • Tape 1: I like the lack of authority figures and professional "experts", the use of many strangers "in the park", people using aliases, and anonymous talking heads; it gives it the power of everyman, or the good use of the "guy or gal on the street", rather than the over-use of propped-up pseudo-expert types. In that sense, the 9th amendment connection, the "people's retained powers amendment", is even more appropriate. Who has the right to dicate what opinions are held naturally by the general population? No one.

    It was a good omen for me when Home Grown Fantasy, one of my favorite coffee shops, won the 1992 Cannabis Cup, about 8 months after we had shot our footage of the chess players there.

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  • Analog editing early 1990's Tape 1: about 15-20 hours of video interviews, etc., were recorded on about 10 or 11 2-hour tapes. These were edited down to about 1 hour of usable video. I made lots of technical and other errors, but was able to salvage the tapes to produce something watchable. All in all, it turned out amazingly well. The editing process took about 3 months of many long days of work. Various editing equipment was tried, and various false starts of versions were produced during the first few weeks. Tape 2 was a lot more cut and dried and easier to edit. It took probably less than 1 month to edit and prepare, and could have been done sooner for those with more spare time.
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Also, the camera work by Julia (tape 1), an English volunteer worker-helper-dead-head, was priceless, as was much other help. However, in many Dutch coffee shops, people are still a bit wary of cameras, and cameras are sometimes not allowed. I find this is a bit severe, and it isn't always the policy.

Holland: Hashish versus Pot, and the High Potency Pot Problem Myth. I never detected any difference of opinion concerning hashish versus marihuana in Holland. Both are totally accepted and treated equally, generally. That's how it should be everywhere. Hashish is really no more strong than good marihuana, anyway, for all practical purposes. All this baloney about high potency pot or hash is just that: SPAM.

The same people who criticize "kind bud" high potency marihuana seem to disregard the fact that extremely high potency hashish has always been readily available over-the-counter in Holland since at least 1965.

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Changes made to or errors found in, the original videos, VHS tapes, as sold mail-order, and also found in some of the internet posted videos (some changes to video may occur due to historical changes in Dutch marihuana policy, but I don't guarantee to keep you informed of any changes):

  1. (not corrected on tape) (Legal M, tape 1, all full length versions) Mis-named the 1972 U.S. government report on legalizing/"decriminalizing" pot, as "Presidents's Commission". Should have been, "Shafer Commission". It came out when Nixon was president. Correct name: The Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse -- Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding. NORML U.S. item. Nixon thought pot would destroy civilization. Did he know about the first printed books in history being made from marihuana paper?

  2. (corrected March 2005) (Legal M..., tape 1, corrected on the internet versions) the "dangling cigarette" shot (tape 1 full length, original verson, 40 minutes, 20 seconds) was replaced with a new tobacco example. I never noticed that error until a few years after the tape had been sold.

  3. (not corrected on tape) (Legal M..., tape 1 full length version, original and internet posted versions) In the section on the June 1980 Car and Driver article about pot and driving, entitled, "Puff the Dangerous Driver", I erroneously refer to the referenced article from Car and Driver quoting a Dr. Alan C. Donelson as working for the "Nat'l Safety Research Institute". Should be, "Highway Safety Research Institute".

  4. (not corrected on tape) (Legal M., tape 1 full length and 30 minute versions) Home Grown Fanstasy coffee shop won the 1992 cannabis cup rather than the 1993 cup. The announcement of the winner for the '92 Cup appeared in an early '93 issue of High Times, just as I was editing this video, so I just used "1993" in my preliminary title; I didn't have any idea when the actual event had occured, not noticing any date in the HT article, and assumed that when I made such an error, I would have time to correct it before production of the video. When I decided to go ahead with the video at some point, this little detail was never checked for accuracy. I actually found out that the Cannabis Cup occurs every November and I attended my first one in 1996.

  5. (corrected May 2007) (Legal M., tape 1 full length and 30 minute versions, original and internet versions) Removed one mention by interview subject that some bars in Holland were also selling pot. As of May 2007, it is widely reported in Holland that now coffee shops can only sell pot, and bars/pubs, etc., can only sell alcohol. The trend of some bars to branch out into selling cannabis, or for some cannabis coffee shops to branch out into selling alcohol; both will no longer be possible. However, some owners have both licensed bars and coffee shops, sometimes right next door, in the same complex, or across the alley from each other. Knowing the legalistic rules of coffee shops and bars might help to understand what, if anything, has really changed in Holland. Also, many bars and restaurants (or any other business) may allow someone to smoke marihuana at the owner's discretion.

  6. (added May 2007) Also, after finding out about it while watching CNN on TV in Belgium in late 2003, probably Holland's oldest known cannabis coffee shop which opened in 1968, I decided to add new footage of it as new and colorful title background. I had already done some interviews in that same area of Utrecht in 1992, and the existant footage meshes perfectly with the 2007 images.

    Some more early history from Amsterdamers: Green Avalanche Episode 1, and Green Avalanche Episode 2, these videos from youtube have Eddy of Flying Dutchman Seed Company who was scoring pot in Amsterdam in 1965. I think there were people doing it from boats, etc. These videos have Wernard Bruining, one of the guys who started Mellow Yellow and Positronics, two places in Amsterdam that are still functioning in some form in 2007. I think Positronics is now called Positive Growth.

    Now someone from Nepal, India, Africa, Mexico, South America or Jamaica will step forward and say that they had some sort of legal pot there in 1875, or 5000 B.C., or something like that. But the Pope, or the British, or the French, or the U.N. and/or U.S. made them suppress it. Then, we in the West will agree with them and acknowledge that they were earlier than us.

    It has also been stated by someone that they found hashish residue in the pipes used in medieval times before tobacco was in use in Europe. The Europeans were growing cannabis, and early versions of Jack Herer's book have a reproduction of some medieval text giving the medicinal uses of cannabis in England. Tobacco seems to have entered Europe and become very popular in the 1580-1640 period.

    Some coffee shops in Amsterdam have pot plants growing in the open these days, for decorative purposes.

  7. (added earlier July 2007)(Legal M1 (tape 1 08:53) original full length video.) During "Carlo" interview intro., removed annoying sound. Sorry about that.

  8. (late July 2007) Replaced auto trip footage with new background video from Holland. Old footage was "too quick". I wanted something more relaxing and attractive, but I kept the old soundtrack.

  9. (2007, 2008, etc.) Re-edited 10 minute sections of (Legal M - tape 1, tape 2), available material for YouTube. Now my original videos are removed "for further editing", and these three optimized videos are on YouTube being seen by the general public. Also have a YouTube edit of Jack Herer, Quaker Hans Weening (from tape 2), and now about 18 minutes of audio only of Howard Marks. Enjoy! (Total views at YouTube site "igormccaslin", is about 455,000 as of Oct. 17, 2008. This total includes views of videos which were removed, and/or with newer edits replacing an earlier edit.)

  10. (March 29, 2009) Considering my original promise of distributing the videos only in the U.S. (which may have been technically impossible to fulfill as journalism is unregulated in the U.S. and the Netherlands), and after thinking about it, decided to reformulate my policy such that I will remove any material of a person if that person wants it removed. Removed most all ninth article and YouTube videos after about 640,000 views (at YouTube) total since first posting them. Then, put them back up. Noticed viral copies appearing on YouTube of YouTube 1.

  11. (7 November '09) Realized that the allegedly illegal substance referred to by the government of the United States, is called "marihuana", not "marijuana". I have to correct this horrible and unconstitutional spelling error.





Copyright: both tapes 1 and 2 of "Legal M..." were originally sold with full "public broadcast approval" included, in writing. This web publishing of all the videos pretty much continues in that vein, but with the words "copyright public domain 2005-2007", which continues with the original policy. The aim of this policy is to allow anyone to download, reproduce, copy, and/or distribute all or parts of the videos, as long as confusion or distortion is not introduced into the content. In 2005, the profit sharing provision included with the original VHS tapes has been removed since the videos are distributed free of charge over the internet, anyway, and no one ever made a profit with the tapes as far as I know.




















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Problems Playing/Downloading These Videos with some Browsers:

If you are NOT using Apple Safari, or MicroSoft Internet Explorer, or other browsers (and I don't know why some work normally here, and some don't), you may experience the following problem: after clicking on a video to watch, a new browser window appears and begins to fill with what looks like random characters. This is not entirely a disaster.

Solution 1: You can actually just let the "random characters" fill the browser window until the data stops. This is actually the video data. It can take a few minutes or longer. Make sure the process is complete. Then, in the upper lefthand corner of your browser, click on "file", the click on "save as". Save the video file in a place you can remember it. After finding the saved file, right click on it, then select "open with". Open it with your favorite video viewing program.

Solution 2: position cursor over video link text for video you wish to watch,

then right click with mouse right button. A pop-down menu should appear with a number of choices. Choose the one called "save target as", "quick download", or "save link as". Save video in a place where you won't forget it. After saving video like this (unlike in Windows Media Player with I.E., under normal conditions, you cannot start watching the video until after it has finished downloading. Downloading can take quite a few minutes for large files), click on the desired video file name in the appropriate directory where the video file is located to automatically bring up your default video player software,

Or manually run an appropriate application like WINAMP or Windows Media Player; under file, select "open", then go to the correct directory where you just put the desired video file; then open and run the video you wish to run.

Solution 3: use Apple Safari, browser, or Microsft Internet Explorer browser, and make sure you have Windows Media Player installed on your computer as the default player for .wmv files.

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Cannabis Coffee Shop report.





  • (7 Feb '10) Canal Root Problem for Reaganites... The only thing this guy left out is the Clinton discovery of "The Village", as an economic/social/physical "life-node". He doesn't get the fact that some small cities ("the village") function almost the same as large ones.









  • (7 February '10) The other day I saw again at my local market that organic produce (this example: vine-ripened tomatoes) priced LESS than regular non-organic tomatoes. Check prices before issuing "facts" that organic is always more expensive than non-organic.









  • (13 January '09) ??????????????????????????????? as the B.C. Appeals Court indicates it isn't going to throw out cases against non-medical pot users.

    (19 Nov. '07 Cannabis Culture) Another Canadian Judge (Oct. 19) also rules pot law unconstitutional. (14 July '07 cbc news) Canadian Judge Rules Pot Law Unconstitutional based upon flaws in current Canadian medical marihuana law and policy. Same lawyer handling the pot defendant as back in 2003 in Ontario province.

    (from 27 June '07 NORML/MAP) U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, appointed by Republican Pres. Gerald Ford, discusses his experience of having grown up in Chicago, home of Al Capone, 1920 to about 1933 or so, the prohibition era. Stevens voted for free speech in the "Bong Hits for Jesus" case in Alaska, in which the majority of justices voted against it.

    Latest Updates from NORML on all legal cases there. (For constitutional challenge, click on the Cusick/Stroup case in Massachusetts. They were convicted, and are now appealing that guilty verdict.)

    (Spring 2008)(7 May '08) (27 March '08 update)click here. Also, Keith Stroup and Rick Cusick (of High Times magazine) have also begun a "constitutional challenge" to marihuana law. Also, click here for info.

    (October 2008) Sec. of State Rice Getting Stoned in Mexico.

    July 18, 07 - U.S. Mayors Say Drug War Over.

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  • (28 May '07)

    Howard Marks, scholar, big time former hash dealer, candidate for
    parliament, says U.N. "war on marihuana" is based on illegible gibberish.

    "For 86,000,000 Years, Marihuana Was Legal" Note: "skinning up" means rolling a joint in British slang. Howard Marks, famous former-hashish importer, English teacher, scholar, and candidate for parliament, originally from Wales. Howard Marks has discovered who, how, when, where, and what, (but not why) exactly started the international prohibition (but not the U.S. version of the pot-ban) of marihuana - it's on a video titled, "An Evening with Howard Marks", at this time point: (48:45:00 - 1:07:40 - 1:36:30). It was a certain delegate to the League of Nations second opium conference in 1925 (U.K. law changed in 1928), probably dominated by Western colonial "over-lords". The only reason partial prohibition of hashish and marihuana occurred, is that 1)the general public was almost totally ignorant about the subject, and 2)the League of Nations delegates were almost totally ignorant about it, and 3)the media, also, had very little information about it. Of course, they could have looked up the 1894 Indian Marihuana Drugs Commission Report, from the English government, if they wanted the known facts about marihuana. But they didn't. (They probably didn't even know that "hashish", "marihuana", "cannabis sativa", and "hemp" were all the same thing, the same plant. There was no NORML then, no Jack Herer, little if any advocacy for a thing that had always been legal.) Instead they listened to some totally unqualified clown with ridiculous theories about "hashism", "acute hashism", and "chronic hashism". This video was made before 9/11. (However, the clown story linked to is possibly about a very qualified clown.)

    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. 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.

    Look up "hashism" in your dictionaries - HASHISM - Now, just where are the sacred U.N. legal documents regarding hashism???????

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  • (April 18, 2007 Rocky Mountain Times) "Make Marihuana Legal", the cop said.




















  • (23 Oct '06, originally posted here on July 30, 2006)


    Probably, almost everybody has had the thought, "Yes, but plenty of drunk people, or people on stimulants, anti-depressants, other prescriptions (legally or illegally) or sedatives, have also done heroic deeds." I don't doubt that people in almost any number of intoxicated circumstances (legally intoxicated or not) have, in fact, done great deeds. On the other hand, there is no causal relationship between getting intoxicated and doing great things when circumstances demand it. I thought a lot about removing this item but decided to leave it just as a counterpoint against "reefer madness", or overly-extreme ant-drug propaganda.


    Click on photo to go to Medal of Honor pages.
    Rare photo of immigrant Peter Lemon actually wearing
    his medal which he likes to pass around to groups of school children.
    He then places his medal back in the shoebox at home where it's kept.




    (Michigan - state where Peter Lemon lived at time of earning medal)


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    (Canada - country where Peter Lemon was born)

    One of the most famous recipients of the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War, who was not a medical marihuana user, was using marihuana just before his courageous defense of his fellow soldiers, and the marihuana usage of this soldier and his comrades was widely reported in the press (.... Lemon could have been using marihuana for an unknown ailment, but I don't have a clue as to what it might be. Other current Vietnam era marihuana movement icons are Dennis Peron (?) and James Burton (glaucoma) ....) :


    The actual citation read by President Nixon is as follows:

    The President of the United States
    in the name of The Congress
    takes pleasure in presenting the
    Medal of Honor
    to

    LEMON, PETER C.

    Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company E, 2d Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division. Place and date: Tay Ninh province, Republic of Vietnam, 1 April 1970. Entered service at: Tawas City, Mich. Born: 5 June 1950, Toronto, Canada.

    Citation:

    For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sgt. Lemon (then Sp4c.), Company E, distinguished himself while serving as an assistant machine gunner during the defense of Fire Support Base Illingworth. When the base came under heavy enemy attack, Sgt. Lemon engaged a numerically superior enemy with machinegun and rifle fire from his defensive position until both weapons malfunctioned. He then used hand grenades to fend off the intensified enemy attack launched in his direction. After eliminating all but 1 of the enemy soldiers in the immediate vicinity, he pursued and disposed of the remaining soldier in hand-to-hand combat. Despite fragment wounds from an exploding grenade, Sgt. Lemon regained his position, carried a more seriously wounded comrade to an aid station, and, as he returned, was wounded a second time by enemy fire. Disregarding his personal injuries, he moved to his position through a hail of small arms and grenade fire. Sgt. Lemon immediately realized that the defensive sector was in danger of being overrun by the enemy and unhesitatingly assaulted the enemy soldiers by throwing hand grenades and engaging in hand-to-hand combat. He was wounded yet a third time, but his determined efforts successfully drove the enemy from the position. Securing an operable machinegun, Sgt. Lemon stood atop an embankment fully exposed to enemy fire, and placed effective fire upon the enemy until he collapsed from his multiple wounds and exhaustion. After regaining consciousness at the aid station, he refused medical evacuation until his more seriously wounded comrades had been evacuated. Sgt. Lemon's gallantry and extraordinary heroism, are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the U.S. Army.

    (End of Citation)

    Newspaper quote:

    Press reported corroborative details from Detroit under a June 22, 1971, dateline:

    A Congressional Medal of Honor winner says he was "stoned" on marihuana the night he fought off two waves of Vietcong soldiers and won America's highest military honor....

    It was April 1, 1970, when Mr. [Peter] Lemon, an Army Specialist 4, used his rifle, machine gun and hand grenades to smash a large attack on his position.

    He fought the enemy single-handed and dragged a wounded comrade to the rear before collapsing from exhaustion and three wounds. At a medical center, he refused treatment until more seriously injured men had been cared for.

    The dispatch quoted the injured hero as explaining: "It was the only time I ever went into combat stoned."

    "You get really alert when you're stoned because you have to be. We were all partying the night before. We weren't expecting any action because we were in a support group."

    Mr. Lemon continued: "All the guys were heads [confirmed marihuana smokers]. We'd sit around smoking grass and getting stoned and talking about when we'd get to go home."
    (from http://www.druglibrary.org/SCHAFFER/Library/studies/cu/CU57.html)




    NOTE: this does not imply that smoking marihuana makes a person brave or "invincible", but it certainly does not impair good qualities as "drug-war" crusaders claim in their delusions.

    Turns out Mr. Peter Lemon was born in Canada and later became a U.S. Citizen (Michigan), and that he eventually settled in Colorado. I only found these details this morning.

    Click here for another account. Click here for another account. Here's Mr. Lemon's own website. I first heard about this guy from Jack Herer's book, The Emperor Wears No Clothes back in the early 1990's, but I didn't know his name or what had happened to him. Do a google search for (marihuana, "medal of honor", vietnam) and you'll also find him.

    Here's a TV history archive which chronicles Mr. Lemon's media event from June 21, 1971. click here. (from Vanderbilt University; Nashville, Tennessee)









































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    "I have never used cannabis in my life, but I am passionate in my belief that the law must be changed and that there must be a separation between soft and hard drugs if we are to cut crime and reduce harm. I made this protest in support of the first cannabis coffee shop in Britain, which operated peacefully in nearby Stockport for more than a year, and in support of its founder, my namesake, Colin Davies. He has now been sentenced to three years' imprisonment, but if he was in Holland he would have been given a license by the local council. The Dutch policy of permitting cannabis coffee shops has ensured that cannabis users need never come across heroin dealers. It has been hugely successful. Holland now has the smallest problem of drugs misuse in Europe, and the lowest rate of heroin addiction. The separation of soft and hard drugs works, and we should follow this example."
    North West Euro-Member of Parliament (European Parliament member) Chris Davies, after being sentenced by Manchester Crown Court, England, after protesting the closing of England's first cannabis coffee shop. (Oct. 31, 2002 Drug Policy Alliance

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    Attributes of The Dutch Cannabis Coffee Shop Model :



    • Pride
    • Quality

    • Medical Marihuana is recognized in the Netherlands, but it isn't necessary to have a doctor's recommendation to use or buy it in a cannabis coffee shop. There may be discounts or subsidies for medical users who have a doctor's prescription. There is a government Department of Medical Marihuana, and at one time, this agency made medical marihuana available to medical users, but it was very expensive without insurance or subsidy help. There are also one or two special medical marihuana coffee shops - one is in Groningen. It is likely that these medical marihuana shops do not allow tobacco at all unlike the regular cannabis coffee shops.

      But who knows, maybe they allow medical tobacco and medical beer as well.

    • Freedom to associate with others using, or not using, cannabis
    • Freedom of choice
    • Freedom from irrational marihuana policies
    • Freedom from bureaucratic oppression in relation to cannabis
    • Freedom from crime, fear, persecution, and oppression
    • Freedom from the threat of hard drugs
    • Freedom from the loss of dignity in relation to cannabis use
    • Freedom from the cold
    • Someday, freedom from contraband, or illegal weed; and freedom to grow, buy, and/or consume legal marihuana.

    (Feb. 2003) Recent news items about cannabis cafe's around the world.


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    Petition the U.N. !

    (28 December '02 DRC Net) Join the Transnational Radical Party (Italy) and the International Antiprohibition League in Petitioning the United Nations to End Drug Prohibition. This Petition rightfully argues that most drug problems on our planet are caused by prohibition.





















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    Axiom 1 :Today's Situation in our Failed Drug War
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    Various news items from the SIMM :
    • (01 September 2003 SIMM/Reuters) SIMM Pot (and other pot) Almost Fully in the System, in Dutch Pharmacies, just like any other prescription. (Radio Netherlands) Same item from Dutch Government Radio Service. But now the SIMM no longer sells pot at low price directly to patients as before.

    • (16 March 2003 MPP/SIMM) Prescription Pot Available March 17 in Dutch Pharmacies, just like any other prescription.

    • (4 January 2003 Haagsche Courant) Dutch article about the SIMM.

    • (23 Sept. '02 NORML Canada web maint.) James and Linda Burton, of the Dutch Stichting Institute of Medical Marihuana (SIMM), Announce 100% Organic, Greenhouse (Glasshouse) Grown, Toxin Tested, Government Licensed Marihuana Production, available by prescription only.

    • Contrary to inaccurate reports elsewhere, the SIMM was Holland's first legal (and Europe's first also) medical marihuana provider/producer (Founded October 1993, received license ("opium permit") October 2001. Note : The SIMM produces only high grade marihuana, and does not produce any opium products.)

    • (21 November '02 fax from James Burton/phone interview by web maint.) Dutch Insurance "Ziekenfonds" to Pay for Prescription Pot from Burton's Stichting within 12 Months. Institute swamped with orders.

    • (23 Sept. '02 NORML Canada web maint.) James and Linda Burton, of the Dutch Stichting Institute of Medical Marihuana (SIMM),  Announce 100% Organic, Greenhouse (Glasshouse) Grown, Toxin Tested, Government Licensed Production.

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    My own sporadic, random chronicle - no claims of omniscience.

    Hashish - Marihuana Coffee Shop Report :

    Click Here to go to Attributes of Cannabis Coffee Shops.
    • (20 Nov. '09 Puffington Post) COOL NAMES for Pot Cafe's.

    • (19 Nov. '09 www.cannabisculture.com) England: Hashish-Cannabis Coffee Shop Concept, legal cannabis, etc., Should be Studied Says Resigned U.K. Drugs Advisor Dr. David Nutt.

    • (14 Nov. '09 www.VisitBulgaria.info) News in Bulgaria: Portland, Oregon Opens Medical Cannabis Cafe, but You Can't Buy Any!

    • (24 Sept. '09) Copenhagen, Denmark Council Discusses Trial Legalization of Cannabis. (19 Sept. '09) For now, Denmark Has (Illicit) Hash Cafes in a Decriminalized Environment, also.

    • (19 Sept. '09) Foreigners Not Banned in Holland. Item from encod.org about hashish/cannabis coffee shops. www.encod.org.

    • (5 July '09) Where and How did the Dutch Hash Cafe Coffeeshop come about? The answer to that question is simple: youth drug rebellion.

      Why should only alcohol users be allowed to have contact with each other around the world in coffee shops or clubs? Should hard and soft drugs be sold side by side? No.

      The Dutch Parliament and other governments had little or nothing to do with it, officially, until much latter despite all the lies and posturing.

      In fact, in Dutch political history, at the cabinet level, there was no official mention of the existence of "hashish - marihuana coffeeshops" until a year or two ago, according to Michael Veling of the Coffeeshop and Cannabis Association, from Amsterdam.

      Fact: at this moment, marihuana is still 100% illegal in Holland.

      Recently, (July 2009) a new study has come out of France that supports the theory that marihuana usage helps PROTECT from opiate dependence!

      Flower power in the land of flowers. In the not-always-chaotic midst of the late 1960's/early 1970's hippie/peace/flower power revolution, some young people in Holland revolted against the drug law norms, and opened some marihuana coffee shops which were against the law. By the late 70's-early 80's period, this revolt had been "semi-confirmed" as having been the right decision by the judicial authorities who finally issued some form of acceptance of the concepts involved. By the late 1990's, municipalities were issuing coffee shop licences, but the basic semi-legal situation was still the basis of the whole shaky arrangement.

    • (24 June '09) Tobacco in coffeeshops? Conflicting reports keep coming in (usually through Expatica.com) that they have banned tobacco usage in Dutch coffee shops due to new protective laws for hospitality workers. The same rule has gone into place for all restaurants, cafe's, snackbars, etc.

      However, I think there's an exemption for outdoor terraces, small cafes, bars, or hashish - marihuana coffeeshops, and an exemption if they construct special well ventilated smoking rooms to protect employees from second-hand smoke.

    • Why did the European Parliament use the word "legalisation" instead of "decriminalisation"?

      Most any first time visitor to a Dutch hashish coffee shop, if asked their impression, would probably say, "Hey, hash & pot're legal in here". I've heard that exact statement probably everytime I have ever visited Amsterdam. No one has ever said initially, "Hey, hash and pot are 'decrimed.' in this place!" No one uses that word in casual conversation. It isn't natural in conversation. It's a twisted word, really.

      To officially refer to their hashish/marihuana cafe situation, etc., the Dutch always use the term, "semi-legal". That's also twisted, but the twisting is coming from many points outside of the Netherlands.

      The overall impression in Holland, though, is that of legal hash and weed, regardless of these subtle distinctions.

    • (Summer 2009) However, in other parts of Europe, they're starting to talk politically about legalizing marihuana. For example, the daughter of the president of Romania, Elena Basescu, ran for and was elected to the European Parliament. She had previously called for legalizing marihuana, but may have recanted under pressure.

    • (11 May '09) 2000 Demonstrate for Cannabis Legality in Prague, Czech Republic.

    • (11 May '09) Protest in Amsterdam in favor of hashish - marihuana coffee-shops and Dutch drugs policy.

    • (6 February '09) Dutch Finance Minister Bos says coffee shop bank accounts should be allowed. There has been some controversy lately after the Postbank announced they would no longer take deposits from hashish - marihuana coffee shop owners. This argument may be over now.

    • (11 January '09) The "Grey Area" Explained: for legal working people in Holland, and students, for all practical purposes, marihuana is defacto legal to buy and use in reasonable quantities. Also, selling it from a coffeeshop seems to also be defacto legal. Cannabis seeds are legal in Europe and other places, and seem to be defacto legal in Canada. The grey area is still the best way to describe the rest of what goes on. You could also see Holland as a large floating "cruise ship". (The Dutch always use the term, "semi-legal" to refer to their marihuana cafe situation, etc. That's also twisted, but the twisting is coming from many points outside of the Netherlands. "Grey Area", decriminalization, & semi-legal, are all equivalent terms to some extent. Don't take any of this personally, please.) ("Decriminalization" and "hashism" are both pseudo-words. A pseudo-word is one that is not in the dictionary, or mentioned as a "non-word". Sometimes, these "things" can become real words, but not always. It might take decades for that to happen, or again, the pseudo-words might just fade away. "Decriminalization" is not in most English language dictionaries around the world, especially the more respected academic type dictionaries where it might be mentioned in passing as an "Americanism".)

      However, if your boss doesn't want you to smoke weed before work, they can probably prevent you from keeping your job. You probably have no legal right, in absolute terms to use it, yet. However, most people have no trouble using pot while not working, studying, and/or having all types of jobs. Some also can smoke it during coffee breaks at work. Tobacco and smoking, in general, are under attack everywhere.

      The thing to remember is that every town and every province have their own pot coffee shop policies. There is national control, but more local control.

      If you visit Holland short-term to smoke weed, you will be a "drug tourist", legally speaking. This is not the same as going there to drink wine. Drug tourists are criminals, under Dutch law. However, most American drug touri...., I mean American citizens, don't have trouble there. You are probably under surveillance, so don't talk about your grow room in the U.S., or your friends', when in Holland.

      The other aspect is that, in terms of trading in foreign produced hashish, Holland is the most famous trading nation on earth in general to begin with. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that they also are big traders in hashish. But the news there is full of items concerning big hashish - marihuana busts, and pot coffee shops closed for infractions, etc., etc.

    • (7 January '09) Why Keep It Secret? A reminder of what the European Parliament last stated publicly about pan-Europe illicit drug policy, as far as I know.

      This statement was reconfirmed in the early 2000's as still being the official message.

    • (3 January '09 www.telegraph.co.uk) The thing to remember is that every town and every province have their own pot coffee shop policies. There is national control, but more local control.

      All Sorts of Currents in Amsterdam and the Netherlands about marihuana and coffee shops and "drug tourists". Very little about alcohol trouble, and so forth.

      They do mention the fact that 80% of the Dutch support the hashish - marihuana coffee shop idea and reality in some form, though it is different slightly all over, and different now than 15 years ago in some respects. The Dutch coffee shop came out of a fairly unregulated environment in the beginning. It could go back in that direction again. I've heard that it already has in some areas where snack bars or art galleries may be taking over the pot trade where coffee shops were shut down.

      If you use alcohol, you're not a drug tourist. If you use pot AND you're not from Holland or don't have a residence permit to live there, you are a drug tourist, not a regular tourist. You have fewer rights than the wine tasters.

      No one is discussing the fact that marihuana is safer than alcohol. Accept reality.

    • (6 November '08 www.highlife.nl) Coffee Shop Update: it appears that the number of towns, cities, and villages with illicit hashish - marihuana coffee shops in the Netherlands has been increasing for over 40 years; however, the total quantity of the illicit shops in the country has decreased since the late 1990's peak, especially in the larger tourist dominated cities and along the borders. People are home-growing the illicit weed in basements all over Europe now, so tourists no longer have to travel to Amsterdam necessarily just to find it. But people still go to Holland to have fun, etc. Imported illicit hashish is also still very popular, though Dutch domestic hash is also available though it's usually expensive. Some activity has shifted from the city centres to the suburbs and outlying villages and towns, a bit.

    • (28 October '08 www.expatica.com) Poll: 60% of Dutch Want Smoky Tobacco Cafes, Pubs, and Restaurants Again, or special areas inside for smoking. (Note: (late 2008) the marihuana coffee shops have not shut down, but now, only pot without tobacco can be used, supposedly.)

    • (11 December '07 encod.org) Belgium Wants Cannabis: Meeting held in Ghent, Belgium about hashish - marihuana policy, home-cultivation, cannabis social clubs, hashish - marihuana coffee shops, and other related topics.

    • (20 July '07 High Times) Ethan Nadelman of DPA to speak at Edinburgh Univeristy about Dutch Coffee Shops. Ethan Nadelman's lecture, The Global War On Drugs, takes place on November 1 at 6.30pm in Edinburgh City Chambers.

    • (5 Novemeber '06) Passionate Defense of Cannabis Cafe movement by European Parliament Member (MEP) Chris Davies of England. (Original event reported Oct. 31, 2002 by Drug Policy Alliance.)

    • (5 November '06) High Times Cannabis Cup really more like a promotional tour for the hashish - marihuana coffee shop concept.

    • Australian page with various items about hashish - marihuana cafe's there.


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    Cannabis & Pregnancy - Great news for heavy users!
    Pediatrics, February 1994, Volume 93, Number 2, pp. 254-260
    American Academy of Pediatrics

    Comparing the heavily exposed and the non-exposed infants, the Brazelton clusters on day 30, showed that the offspring of heavy-marihuana using mothers had significantly higher scores on:

    • - the Orientation cluster
    • - the Autonomic Stability cluster
    • - reflexes
    • - habituation to auditory and tactile stimuli, and to animate auditory stimuli
    • - higher degree of alertness
    • - capacity for consolability
    • - less irritability
    • - had fewer startles and tremors
    • - better physiological stability at one month
    • - required less examiner facilitation to reach an organized state
    • - more socially responsive
    • - the quality of their alertness was higher
    • - their motor and autonomic systems were more robust
    • - they had better self-regulation
    • - they were more rewarding for caregivers than the neonates of non--using mothers at one month of age

    From the Schools of Nursing, Education and Public Health, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Received for publication Sep. 21, 1992; accepted Received for publication Sep. 21, 1992; accepted June 30, 1993





























































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     MEP (Member of European Parliament) Chris Davies Smoking Passionate 'bout Pot Coffee Shops

    "I have never used cannabis in my life, but I am passionate in my belief that the law must be changed and that there must be a separation between soft and hard drugs if we are to cut crime and reduce harm. I made this protest in support of the first cannabis coffee shop in Britain, which operated peacefully in nearby Stockport for more than a year, and in support of its founder, my namesake, Colin Davies. He has now been sentenced to three years' imprisonment, but if he was in Holland he would have been given a license by the local council. The Dutch policy of permitting hashish - marihuana coffee shops has ensured that cannabis users need never come across heroin dealers. It has been hugely successful. Holland now has the smallest problem of drugs misuse in Europe, and the lowest rate of heroin addiction. The separation of soft and hard drugs works, and we should follow this example."

    North West Euro-Member of Parliament (European Parliament member) Chris Davies, after being sentenced by Manchester Crown Court, England, after protesting the closing of England's first cannabis coffee shop. (Oct. 31, 2002 Drug Policy Alliance)







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    U.S. Mayors Declare Drug War a Failure

    July 18, 2007

    by BOB CURLEY

    The mayors of America's large cities have unanimously approved a resolution stating that the drug war "has failed" and calling for a harm-reduction oriented approach to drug policy that focuses on public health.

    The U.S. Conference of Mayors adopted the resolution during its June 21-26 annual meeting in Los Angeles, calling for a "new bottom line" in drug policy that "concentrates more fully on reducing the negative consequences associated with drug abuse, while ensuring that our policies do not exacerbate these problems or create new social problems of their own; establishes quantifiable, short- and long-term objectives for drug policy; saves taxpayers money; and holds state and federal agencies responsible."

    Sponsored by Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, the resolution states that the drug war costs $40 billion annually but has not cut drug use or demand. It slams the Office of National Drug Control Policy's (ONDCP) drug-prevention programs -- specifically, the agency's national anti-drug media campaign -- as "costly and ineffective," but called drug treatment cost-effective and a major contributor to public safety because it prevents criminal behavior.

    "This Conference recognizes that addiction is a chronic medical illness that is treatable, and drug treatment success rates exceed those of many cancer therapies," the document states.

    The resolution condemns mandatory minimum sentences and incarceration of drug offenders, particularly minorities, and called for more control of anti-drug spending and priorities at the local level, where the impact is most acutely felt.

    "U.S. policy should not be measured solely on drug-use levels or number of people imprisoned, but rather on the amount of drug-related harm reduced," according to the resolution. The document calls for more accountability among federal, state and local drug agencies, with funding tied to performance measures, more treatment funding and alternatives to incarceration, and lifting the federal funding ban for needle-exchanges.

    The resolution, which will be used to guide the U.S. Conference of Mayors' Washington lobbying on addiction issues, passed with minimal debate, clearing two committees and the general assembly by unanimous votes.

    "The mayors are clearly signaling the serious need for drug policy reform," said Daniel Abrahamson, director of legal affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), who worked with Anderson's staff to draft the resolution. Daniel Robelo, a DPA legal research assistant, said the resolution could become an "incredibly powerful" advocacy tool for DPA and other drug-reform groups. "While it has no legal effect, it has a powerful symbolic effect," he told Join Together.

    Alexa Eggleston, director of national policy for the Legal Action Center, which advocates for increased investment in addiction treatment and prevention, praised the mayors for acknowledging "that alcohol and drug addiction is a treatable medical illness and is supportive of expanding treatment to the approximately 21,000,000 Americans with alcohol and drug problems who need it, expanding effective prevention initiatives in communities nationwide, and fighting discrimination against people with addiction histories by repealing discriminatory laws and policies that prevent them from accessing employment, insurance, and other necessities of life."

    But Tom Riley, a spokesperson for ONDCP, called the resolution a "grab bag" of DPA positions and a publicity stunt by proponents of drug legalization. "We don't think it's very serious," he said of the resolution, adding that to declare the drug war a failure "is a slogan rather than a policy proposal."

    "Most of the mayors our office talks to consider drugs a huge problem in their communities and are anxious to get more resources for prevention, treatment and law enforcement," said Riley. "I don't know many mayors who are in favor of drug legalization."

    Anderson is no newcomer to the drug issue; he has previously called the drug war "phony, inhumane, and ineffective," and his official biography calls him "an outspoken advocate for drug policy reform." He received the DPA's 2005 Richard J. Dennis Drugpeace Award for outstanding achievements in the field of drug policy reform.

    Nor is Anderson alone in his harsh criticism of the drug war: Newark Mayor Cory Booker, seen as a rising political leader, recently stated that he's prepared to go to jail to protest a war on drugs that he sees as shackling African-Americans into poverty and feeding crime and murder in his city.

    "I'm going to battle on this," Booker recently told the Newark Star-Ledger. "We're going to start this in the gentlemanly way. And then we're going to do the civil disobedience way. Because this is absurd."

    Booker says he wants to see nonviolent drug offenders placed in treatment programs and halfway houses, not prisons, and to stop banning ex-offenders from jobs. "The drug war is causing crime," he said. "It's just chewing up young black men. And it's killing Newark."

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    HITLER FOUND

    ACCORDING TO THE HISTORY CHANNEL!

    Sept. 2009 - History Channel states FALSELY that Adolph Hitler created by Madame Blavatsky!

    But, THIS IS Madame Blavatsky's Aryan World Teacher!!!

    Aryan World Teacher     who RESIGNED from that position.
    Krishnamurti said C. W. Leadbeater "is a very evil man".
    The criticism of Leadbeater had nothing to do with Nazi-ism.
    The Leadbeater Scandals are what really hurt the Theosophists!
    NOTE: Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater were two of Madame Blavatsky's
    successors at the Theosophical Society. Just because Madame
    Blavatsky smoked cigars and told dirty jokes, doesn't mean that she or her
    successors created Hitler! That's so STUPID!!!




    THE SIXTEEN PATHS TO DESTRUCTION by Max Heindel.
    AKA, the SIXTEEN PATHS TO HELL!
    Max Heindel and others, such as Rudulph Steiner, were once Theosophists.

    Max Heindel - Rosicrucian Fellowship; Oceanside, California
    (((Not associated with other groups with a similar name.)))





    NOTE: I just found out about the famous lawsuit between Rulolph Steiner and Max Heindel. Steiner claims that Heindel stole from his lectures without receiving proper literay credit. Heindel dedicated the first edition of his book, The Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception, to Steiner. Heindel then removed the dedication in subsequent editions as he did not wish to appear as a "disciple" of Rudolph Steiner, which he wasn't anyway, and also since he had come into contact with original source material himself. Since material by Steiner was taken from Madame Blavatsky, whom both Steiner and Heindel were influenced by, her heirs are the ones who should be suing both of them.







    Madame Blavatsky, Co-Founder of Theosophy.
    FALSELY accused by History Channel of Creating the NAZIS!
    Reference: "Additionally, Blavatsky smoked cigars, swore like a pirate, and spoke
    her mind bluntly, with little regard for the perceptions of others
    or the mores of the time. In short, Blavatsky's entire personality
    and independence from male control was an offense in Victorian
    Europe and its colonies.






    Annie Besant
    Became Co-Head of Theosophy after death of Blavatsky.
    Influential individual supporting Indian and Irish Independence
    from the British Empire. Helped discover WORLD TEACHER in India.




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    (High Times has repeatedly published this information about Leary, etc.)

    (1933-1970.) In fact, Timothy Leary's 1969 Supreme Court victory, demolishing Federal pot prohibition, at the end of this era that began in 1933, was, for all U.S. citizens, a crowning accomplishment for the 21st Amendment. On the other hand, the 21st Amendment is not mentioned at all, I don't think, in relation to Leary's court win. The effect of "legalizing marihuana" then, by the Supreme Court, on commercial activity related to it, was minimal, anyway.

    In fact, it's the 5th amendment that is the primary aspect to this case involving Timothy Leary. The fact that Leary wins this on the basis of having had to have incriminated himself if he had applied for and received the Federal tax stamps as required then under U.S. law; also implies that Leary was then simply not considered a real criminal, anyway, in the eyes of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices!

    That would change in the next few years for Timothy Leary, although I have no idea if the Court's changing in that same period, had any effect upon Leary's fate in or out of prison.

    It was the Ronald Reagan Republican types, remember, that had huge disdain for almost any college professors, especially left wing professors. Even conservative or "right wing" college professors who supported Reagan were suspicious to Reaganites. NO DEBATE!

    Remember Judge Douglas Ginsburg, the Reagan Supreme Court nominee who openly admitted to having used pot? That was too much for Reagan. It also might remind someone about PROFESSOR Leary's Supreme Court victory from 1969, which terrified Reagan. Reagan considered that victory to have been engineered by Soviet agents, probably, in order to totally destroy the United States.

    Such was his imagination of the horrors of cannabis sativa, the devil incarnate, on earth!

    During the Reagan years, college students no longer received grants as often - they got loans instead. Same situation in England with Margaret Thatcher.

    Leary, I don't think, was a Marxist, but Reagan probably thought he was. Such was his imagination of the horrors of cannabis sativa, the devil incarnate, on earth!

    Harm Reduction case. This case also sends a muted message of how to reduce harm caused by drugs; that although pot, a soft drug, should be legal, other more harmful drugs such as heroin, barbituates, opiates, etc., , may be too much for some people, and perhaps should not be legal. Or perhaps should be heavily regulated by "drug stores", or kept in locked medicine cabinets, etc., etc.

    Marihuana, LSD, and Timothy Leary were associated with PEACE and LOVE, rather than violence, gangs, crime, or war. In other words, the very opposite of violence was the primary association with "counter-culture" drug usage in 1969. Therefore, the 21st Amendment was not associated with Timothy Leary's radical movement(s), as there was no widespread perception of there being many, or one, "Al Capone" of marihuana or LSD trafficking at that time. Illicit drugs were also much less expensive then. Marihuana was usually about $15 to $20 for a "lid", or just under an ounce. (But marihuana prices increased by about 300 percent between about 1974, and 1985.)

    The hippie movement, that Leary was an iconic leader of, was similar in terms of non-violence to Dr. Martin Luther King's non-violent civil rights movement, for which Dr. King received the Nobel Peace Prize.

    Although this was three years before NORML's founding, and five years before High Times was first published, the "National Students Association", and the ACLU were involved with this case.

    Just think, Nixon had been President for only about 4 months when one morning in mid-May 1969, he is informed that marihuana just became legal at the Federal level due to a U.S. Supreme Court decision while he is President! He didn't run on that platform.

    This was reported in the media, but I don't recall any huge publicity about it. It could have encouraged anti-war demonstrators to gather inside the District of Columbia, and might have encouraged more people to try and smuggle marihuana across the borders, for a while.

    It may have given some people the inspiration to try and legalize marihuana at the state level and federal level for good, or at least to decriminalize it for now.

    It definitely sent another pro-pot legalization message around the world, to some extent.