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Legalizing MMJ is absolutely a step towards full legalization, there is simply no way to get around that.  This fear of the "slippery slope" is absolutely true.  I don't think we should try to pretend otherwise. Reason being, once marijuana is medically accepted and studied properly, the ignorance still surrounding marijuana will be eliminated and the reasons for prohibition will come crashing down. It is the lack of understanding about this plant that gives the prohibitionists power.  70 years of stifled information and false propaganda has taken it's toll, but once one reads the truth about the hemp plant and learn how it was the world's number 1 agricultural resource for 5,000 years, they question why did this suddenly change? Then they explore further and find that all of a sudden marijuana and hemp became evil in the 1930s when the synthetics industry wanted to use oil for energy and to create plastics and other materials. Hemp was a convenient plant to eliminate by demonizing one of its natural medicine products, Marijuana.  By taking away this infinitely renewable natural resource they were able to make money by using the inferior, limited quantity product we all know and love, oil.

Think about that point in time, how much pollution and deforestation did that one decision by the US Government create?  How many landfills of non-biodegradable plastic, how many oil spills, how many lives lost in the wars for oil?  Why?  Because Hemp oil the other energy choice for centuries was made illegal through fear and propaganda against marijuana. (Side Note: Henry Ford had the technology in the 1930's to run a car purely on hemp oil, that would be nice nowadays wouldn't it?)

If the enlightened reader quests further he or she will find out about how the process of prohibition of Marijuana and Hemp came about.  They would read the story of a certain senate hearing which a case against marijuana and hemp was held. A case built behind closed doors and blasted upon an unprepared congress (huh, I've never seen that in government before, like not with this health bill or anything... oh wait...) Worse yet, the AMA, was fully unprepared, and had no notice about the hearing, and so with a little famous lie told by a certain politician:

The committee passed the legislation on. And on the floor of the house, the entire discussion was:

Member from upstate New York: “Mr. Speaker, what is this bill about?”

Speaker Rayburn: “I don’t know. It has something to do with a thing called marijuana. I think it’s a narcotic of some kind.”

“Mr. Speaker, does the American Medical Association support this bill?”

Member on the committee jumps up and says: “Their Doctor Wentworth[sic] came down here. They support this bill 100 percent.”

There was never any approval from the AMA for this bill, and so perjury made this infinitely renewable resource illegal. Hemp and Marijuana were effectively taken off the market providing a monopoly on energy for the oil industry.

It is also a simple truth that if someone wants to smoke marijuana, they're going to smoke marijuana; laws and restrictions no longer hold meaning in this issue, so full legalization is the inevitable outcome. Do you know why? They call this "drug seeking behavior," however, apparently some science was actually performed on THC, and oddly enough it seems humans have specific receptors built for THC.  Well, gee, that explains why it worked as a medicine for 5,000 years.  People still have instincts whether or not we like to admit it, seeking marijuana to help you live your life is one of these instincts.  And here the government is persecuting us for our animal driven need for natural medicine -talk about 1st amendment violations.

Last check by Gallup 44% of Americans approve of full legalization of marijuana.  44% of us at the very least have at some time sought out Marijuana because of an instinct we've had for centuries. This also means that full legalization is more popular than our last 2 Presidents... this eliminates my worry about losing supporters by re-framing the issue. Instead we should focus on finding new supporters by touching on issues that have meaning to them through the use of the full Hemp plant.  Has this been attempted before? 

Yes, I agree that keeping the focus on just the public health issue is more honest, (technically I'd have to just shoot for full legalization if I were to be honest) but honesty and directness have no place in politics.  Not if you want to accomplish something anyway.  Honesty usually means expressing things that benefit you directly, in politics you must express how they benefit everyone. The state senate won't simply approve a drug that has been illegal for 70 years unless you present them with something new, arguments they haven't heard before and new ways of looking at the issue as opposed to simple medicine vs. not. 

With the drug war, as soon as you make it an us vs. them issue, you psychologically place them in a position where they have to defend their beliefs and once they have become defensive, there will be no convincing them of another opinion. You have to throw them off of their defensive posture. You can do this by shattering their basic assumptions about the drug and show them how it can be useful to the state.  This can be done through re-framing legalization in ways that they may not have considered.

The public heath issue worked well in the 90s because everyone was going AIDS crazy, this is no longer the case.  Now the biggest issues are the economy and jobs, so in order to put the most pressure on the state senate, marijuana / hemp should be framed for its economic benefits.  Taking money away from the black market and putting it in the state coffers and in the pockets of the unskilled labor force.

Legalization is coming to a head very quickly.  We need to throw as much weight into this issue now, while it has momentum.  With the AMA finally recognizing the potential benefits of MMJ and the Fed leaving the decision up to the state, never before have we had the opportunity that we do now.  It isn't time to try the same old tired tactics, we need to push hard and with everything we can. 

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." --Albert Einstein

--Keith

 
Gary Evans asked: Often when people give up smoking cannabis, a massive hole (or void) is made within themselves. They are left with a feeling of depression and emptiness. It's like something is missing. Something you love has now disappeared and you feel sadness because you want that feeling back. Truth is you don't actually want marijuana back, but you do want the FEELING that marijuana gave you back. I hear it often that many users are saying they find it difficult to cope with this change their body is going through. My advise for this problem is always the same ... Learn something new. You see, you feel like your missing out on something. Something has gone, its vanished off the face of the earth and you want it back. Well instead of going around in a hopeless loop and .... Giving up then smoking a few days later, Giving up then smoking a few days later, Giving up then smoking a few days later, ... etc Try and fill The Void! As an ex-user myself I know exactly what it is like and today I am going to share with you the exact thing that I used to fill my void with. There's two things actually. 1. Golf. I absolutely love playing Golf and because I used to smoke cannabis I never played as much as I liked to. So when I gave up smoking cannabis I went and played Golf several times per week. I got two great benefits from playing Golf. Firstly, I was outdoors taking some well needed exercise which also helped me to sleep at night, and secondly it was filling The Void. 2. Think and Grow Rich. This is a phenomenal book that gave me added passion to give up smoking but also to better myself in all areas of life. By learning and reading, it gave me purpose to my life and introduced me to a world that I never knew. The author Napoleon Hill was a wonderful sharing person and he shared this brilliant book with us back in the 1930's. It's power and potential is simply mind blowing. Fill your own Void, make sure it is something you love doing. Make sure it is something you are passionate about and stick to it no matter what. Grow Weed Forum
   
Dear SMB: Thank you for contacting me.  I am always glad to hear from you. I appreciate hearing your views concerning the medicinal use of marijuana. As you may know, while marijuana remains an illegal drug at the Federal level, nine states currently allow marijuana to be used by patients suffering from certain medical conditions.  The Bush Administration, however, has made clear that it intends to continue to enforce existing Federal criminal penalties attached to marijuana-related activities, and that it will not recognize any medical-use exception, even in states where such exceptions have been enacted. I generally support the vigorous enforcement of Federal drug laws. But it is my understanding that there is evidence to suggest that marijuana may be effective at delivering medicinal benefits in some circumstances - benefits which may outweigh risks associated with prescribed use in such cases. Certainly we should explore reasonable ways to relieve pain suffered by people with chronic and terminal illnesses, and I support the idea of conducting research into whether medicinal marijuana can serve this or other medical purposes. The Food and Drug Administration has already approved a drug called Marinol, a synthetic form of the active ingredient in marijuana. Again, thanks for sharing your views with me.  Please don't hesitate to let me know how you feel on any issue that concerns you. Sincerely, Tom Harkin United States Senator Well, Senator, you Should be thanking me because I have to drag myself accross your ignorence and the bigoted, hatefull bullshit in your heart as reflected in your poorly composed letter so full of misrepresentation and falsehood. We Iowans pay this drug warrior more in a day than you probably make in a month, especially if we consider his kickbacks and so forth from his pharmaceutical buds we don't hear about so much. What nine states have approved medical marijuana, Senator? Would it help to make up your violent mind if I corrected your figures to current day values? We have twelve states here in America that have legalized medical marijuana in the face of that violent, lying son of a bitch Geo W Bush and all the rest of the war criminals just like him in order to have an effective United States. Just how old is the form letter you paraphrased this weak, ineffective letter to me??? We need to end the hate as soon as possible, Senator. It was never based on the truth and it has no capacity to help us what with slavery being called the fix to smoking reefers. Your violence is the problem here, not cannabis. That is why my user name is SuckMeBush! I just plain don't get you people respecting us because you have substituted "managing us" in place of understanding and representing us. TH/twh
   
Remember how I mentioned that it was illegal for the federal government to interfere with California and Oregon like I said in the previous post about federal invasion of the compassion clubs out there? Seems the big money republicans bitched to the federal buddies in Washington and got something done after all. What they got done was to expose the screaming wound in the Constitutional rape job the dea pukes have been doing to the state's rights of anyone they don't agree with. Let me make a small prediction? This whole thing has the distinct possibility of weakening the entire federal control of all the fifty states just a bit because of the excesses of the constitution haters in the dea. I predict a small to significant loosening because the states are not owned by the federal government! dea pukes, you are playing with real fire and your corporate buddies may be very hurt by some gigantic changes taken by states to protect themselves from shits like you liars and slave masters. European friends, we are not all insane police lovers or thugs, either. We are people just like you are and these conceited pension grabbing scums are reealy hurting everyone. Judge says Feds violated 10th Amendment by subverting state marijuana laws As It Stands by Dave Stancliff/For the Times-StandardArticle Launched: 09/14/2008 01:32:06 AM PDTA landmark decision for all Californian's quietly made history on August 20th in a Santa Cruz courtroom.For the first time since 1996, when the Compassionate Use Act was passed, the federal authorities have been charged with violating the 10th Amendment for harassing medical marijuana patients and state authorities.The case of Santa Cruz vs. Mukasey, was heard by U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel, who said the Bush Administration's request to dismiss a lawsuit by Santa Cruz city and county officials, and the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM), wasn't going to happen.In a recent telephone interview with Alan Hopper, an ACLU counsel familiar with the case, I asked him what came next?"The plaintiff will get a get a court-ordered discovery document that will allow them to get documents, and even depositions, from the federal authorities to support their claims," he explained.So now it's the city, county, and WAMM's turn to prove their case against the federal government. The court has recognized a concerted effort by the federal government to sabotage state medical marijuana laws, which violates the U.S. Constitution. The significance of this ruling, the first of its kind, cannot be overstated.California voters may finally get what they asked for a dozen years ago. When the court said that the federal government had gone out of its way to arrest and prosecute some of the most legitimate doctors, patients, caregivers, and dispensary owners that had been working with state and local officials, it finally drew a line-in-the sand.An example of the federal authorities violations was their pursuit of WAMM. This non-profit group has been around for many years, and has been fully supported by the city and county of Santa Cruz. They have been referred to, by officials, as the model medical marijuana patient's collective.The group was functioning so smoothly that the city even allowed them to hold regular meetings to distribute marijuana to its patients on the steps of city hall! The federal agents still went after them, which brought about this court decision.When the ACLU filed this lawsuit to stop them from targeting medical marijuana providers and patients, they opened a door that may finally lead to no federal interference in California's medical marijuana law.We must not forget that medical marijuana brings in about $100 million each year in tax revenue. Conferring total legitimacy to the law will allow this cash flow to continue, and hopefully, increase over time.When the judge ruled the feds were threatening physicians who recommended marijuana, he set the stage for regaining patient's rights. The ruling clearly pointed out that the feds were also threatening government officials who issue medical marijuana cards, and interfered with municipal zoning plans.In the summation, the court found that, "There was a calculated pattern of selective arrests and prosecutions by the federal government with the intent to render California's medical marijuana laws impossible to implement and therefore forced Californian's and their political subdivisions to re-criminalize medical marijuana."In a recent column, I mentioned California's Attorney General Jerry Brown had passed out an 11-page directive that all law agencies were to go by. I expressed concern that the federal authorities would ignore those guidelines, but upon finding out about this recent ruling I now have some cause for hope.It sure sounded like Hopper was looking forward to the next phase, and he seemed confident that positive change lay ahead. Asked which presidential candidate would be more amenable to upholding medical marijuana laws, he cleverly replied that he thought they both would be willing to work for change. He could be right too. This is a year of change.This on-going battle with the federal authorities ignoring California's laws has been well-documented in the past. Why hasn't there been more coverage for such an epic ruling? Its potential as breakthrough legislation is something all Californian's should know about in my opinion.The war against medical marijuana hasn't been won yet, but this could be the breakthrough everybody's waited for. At the core of the war waged by the federal government against the voter's will, is the failed War on Drugs by the Bush Administration. It's about time someone told them to back off.As It Stands, we can score this as a successful round for state's rights. Yeah! back off feds! you are in clear violation of the law! You are owned by us, now act like it or be dragged into court by about twenty to seventy five million of us reefer grower/tokers and get your dirty asses sued clear off! You are frauds, that is why we are mad at you. Your prohibition is a fraud and your incarcerations are a fraud, too. You had twenty years at Carl and about half that at your humble narrator and all you did to us is Piss Us Off at your lame act. Obey the law, federal agents of the usa! correct the marijuana schedule to adjust for the reality of twelve states with medical use of marijuana and more on the way. Drug warriors! you need viagra! your confidence is waning lol
   
As you may know, I am in support of a local legal expert, Carl Olsen, a regular guy who just happens to have been busted for something to do with twenty tons or so of reefer and got to be a legal sharpie in ye gaol. I am going to do something I totally promise you is extreamly rare: I am going to solicit money for him. It is hard to be more out of cash than your humble narrator is so if I can kick this guy $50 won't you please consider $5 to help bring freedom's champion, Carl Olsen, some money to fight these authority loving creeps with? He did not solicit money. I offered it to him and here is his gentle reply: I don't have a donation page, per se. You will find a donation button at the upper left of every page on each of my two web sites: http://www.ethiopianzioncopticchurch.org/ http://www.iowamedicalmarijuana.org/ My specific request for funding is here: http://www.iowamedicalmarijuana.org/petitions/pdfs/fund_raising_20080810.pdf Thank you! Carl It costs alot of money even if he is doing the Really expensive part, the legal work, all on his own. It is how the lawyers control us out of the legal process and we can not allow that to be so! We need to get cannabis legal and to do that we need to force the dea creeps to re schedule cannabis out of schedule one where they use it to destroy over 800,000 people a year! They do not do this because they love justice! They love controling other people and need tossed off the public retirement roles as unnecessary, outmoded expenses. We do not need to hurt people for possessing pot! These people get paid huge money to hurt people for possessing pot. Therefore, we do not need these federal employees who hurt us for smoking or possessing pot and they need to be fired immediately. Let's help Carl get these federal assholes fired like they need to be.
   

The comprehensive search for seed and what SHE will look like all grown up. - Part 1.1

 

Marijuana seeds are very easy to come by. For the most part, your success of germinating them will be very high. The biggest consideration in what type of cannabis to grow should be the price you will pay if (WHEN) busted. If you are going to ante up the $$$ for a grow room set up and put yourself in jeopardy of lots of jail time, you might as well grow excelsior pot rather than ditchweed. The DEA looks at quantity not quality. There are a lot of disreputable companies ready to suck up your bucks for nothing in return as this is all cash through the mail with no guarantees. There are quite a few reputable seed banks that you can reach through the Cannabis.com site. Their service, diligence and very high product quality are why they are featured here.Prices tend to fluctuate and availability is unpredictable so keep checking back until you find what you want.

Seed prices are high because of many factors. Genetics of a certain type of breed require knowledge and patience, but mostly, it's a sellers market and the end result with these beauties is well worth the initial investment. Remember, it's illegal to order these seeds through the mail in the U.S. so log onto the Web sites provided in back of book and read their legal advice very carefully before taking the plunge.

   

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