My own words. Don't get use to it, nobody reads these things.

" A Chicago mother, watching her daughter die as an indirect result of marijuana addiction, told officers that at least fifty of the girl’s young friends were slaves to the narcotic. This means fifty unpredictables. They may cease its use; that is not so difficult as with some narcotics. They may continue addiction until they deteriorate mentally and become insane. Or they may turn to violent forms of crime, to suicide or to murder. Marijuana gives few warnings of what it intends to do to the human brain."

This is the bullshit our government fed us in the 30's. When they decided to prohibit marijuana use and hemp growing.

Do you own anything made by DuPont? Thank them, the dude(Harry J. Anslinger)who wrote the article that is from(link here), and William Randolf Hearst(a mexican hating, chain of newspapers owner) for having to worry about being locked up for enjoying a little weed, or even using it as medicine.

I do both. It keeps my head right(depression runs in my family big time, so does alcoholism) and I enjoy it. I don't care about getting busted for weed. I've been arrested for it at least 5 times so far.(knock on wood) I lost a few real good jobs. Did it make me stop?? Hell no, I smoked in jail and got another job. I just think it's messed up for our government to screw up our lives for no reason. Our government is supposed to work for us, not against us.

I think with the internet, and everyone who was alive in the 30's getting very old, now is the perfect time to get weed legalized or at least decriminalized. We tried before in the 70's but we gave up, then guess what happened. Crack Babies. It would be so easy now if every smoker gave a shit. About the time I decided to start actually working on my website ideas and everything(still working,don't hold your breath), I was watching Red Eye on Fox, and they were talking about having weed legalized, and some chick that was on there said something like " it will never happen, pot smokers will never unite". It made me realize 2 things. 1) she was right......so far at least. 2) if pot smokers did unite and show law makers we are serious, they would HAVE to change laws.

I seriously think more people smoke weed than don't. I know almost every friend I've had has taken at least a few puffs. Not to mention most of my family, co-workers, neighbors, random people I've run into, and even cops I have known. Shoot, the best thing Clinton did was admit he tried it. Now all kinds of politicians are admitting it(only because they have to). Do you know anyone who smokes? Do you think they should be locked behind bars, away from everything they love? I bet you know more smokers than you think you do.

Calling B.S. on the Idea of 'Marijuana Addiction'

By Paul Armentano, AlterNet. Posted March 22, 2008.

It's laughable that the Feds are pushing the concept of pot addiction when science shows that withdrawal symptoms from caffeine are far worse.

The U.S. government believes that America is going to pot -- literally.

Earlier this month, the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse announced plans to spend $4 million to establish the nation's first-ever "Center on Cannabis Addiction," which will be based in La Jolla, Calif. The goal of the center, according to NIDA's press release, is to "develop novel approaches to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of marijuana addiction."

Not familiar with the notion of "marijuana addiction"? You're not alone. In fact, aside from the handful of researchers who have discovered that there are gobs of federal grant money to be had hunting for the government's latest pot boogeyman, there's little consensus that such a syndrome is clinically relevant -- if it even exists at all.(more)

Industrial Hemp Production and US Marijuana Prohibition

During the years 1916-1937, William Randolph Hearst created a yellow journalism campaign to associate hemp with marijuana. Even though smoking hemp, like most fibres, will just make you sick, Hearst, along with his friend Pierre Dupont, succeeded in outlawing hemp in America. They actually robbed the world of an environmental cash crop.(read more at The Green Selection)

Rep. Frank says he'll file bill to legalize marijuana

March 22, 2008

BOSTON—Rep. Barney Frank said he plans to file a bill to legalize "small amounts" of marijuana.
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Frank announced his plans late Friday on the HBO show "Real Time," hosted by Bill Maher.

"I'm going to file a bill as soon as we go back to remove all federal penalties for the possession or use of small amounts of marijuana," Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, told Maher.

Frank didn't define "small amounts." Efforts to reach Frank on Saturday were not immediately successful.

Frank said he'd filed a similar bill in the Massachusetts Legislature in the 1970s, but hasn't tried since he was elected to Congress.

"I finally got to the point where I think I can get away with it," he said.

Frank said he thinks "its time for the politicians in this one to catch up to the public. The notion that you lock people up for smoking marijuana is pretty silly."

He told Maher he'd call the bill the "Make Room for Serious Criminals" bill.
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Supreme Court declines to review Garden Grove marijuana case

March 19th, 2008 · Post a Comment · posted by rsrisavasdi
ocregister.com

The California Supreme Court today declined to review an appellate court ruling that ordered Garden Grove police to return seized medical marijuana from a patient, lawyers say.

Garden Grove police also had asked the court to unpublish its ruling, which the case would no longer be legally binding regarding other seizures, but the court rejected that appeal, according to Joe Elford, an attorney for the nonprofit group Americans for Safe Access.

In November, Felix Kha won the right to get his medical marijuana back from police when the state’s 4th District Court of Appeal ruled police officer illegally took away the pot from him.

Elford said the Supreme Court’s decisions affirms the rights of medical marijuana patients to possess the drug — and serves as a warning for law enforcement who may engage in such seizures.

– Rachanee Srisavasdi