Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Abraham Lincoln
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary
right to dismember or overthrow it.”
Wasting our Tax Money
Approximately 50% of all drug enforcement money, federal and state, during the last 60 years has been directed toward marijuana!
Some 70-80% of all persons now in federal and state prisons in America wouldn't have been there as criminals until just 60 or so years ago. In other words we, in our (Anslinger and Hearst inspired) ignorance and prejudice, have placed approximately 800,000 of the 1.2 million people in American prisons (as of August 4, 1998) for crimes that were, at worst, minor habits, up until the Harrison Act, 1914 (whereby the U.S. Supreme Court in 1924 first ruled that drug addicts weren't sick, they were instead vile criminals).
Eighty percent of these government "War on Drugs" victims were not dealing. They have been incarcerated for simple possession. And this does not include the quarter of a million more in county jails.
Remember, just 20 years ago, in 1978, before the "War on Drugs," there were only 300,000 persons in American prisons for all crimes combined.
-From
The Emperor Wears No Clothes
This book is available online free at jackherer.com.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Sunday, September 2, 2007
MARIJUANA FACTS
Cultivated for medicinal and recreational purpose for thousands of years, marijuana became controversial in the United States in the early 1900s, when Americans began to associate its use with Mexican revolutionaries and black musicians.
Known by the scientific name “Cannibis sativa,” marijuana is one of the oldest psychoactive plants known to man.
Utah passed the first state marijuana ban in 1915; the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act sparked a nationwide crackdown.
There were 786,545 marijuana-related arrests in 2005, more than for all violent crimes combined.
About 43 percent of all drug-related arrests in 2005—about 800,000 individual cases—stem from marijuana violations.
At least 12 states now allow the use of medical marijuana.
Sources: FBI, Marijuana Policy Project
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