The following is sort of like when China started selling Coca Cola on the mainland: I knew they were coming around to our way of life lol As the state governments discover that California is getting money they are not and it's just the cops and close friends who are hogging all the reefer madness pension money then they are going to want that tax money for the streets and schools. Get that cops and pukey politicians like grassley? Your twisted shit of stealing the money from us reefer growers for you pensions is coming to a screeching halt! Suck it up! then we will fire a shit ton of you para military bastards who have no use on the police force other than to hurt us cannabis users. Are all of the police para military bastards? who cares!!? You bust into our homes early in the morning and steal our kids and then the court orders the spiritually bleeding Mom and Dad to total silence about your hellish misdeeds and think you can keep this shit up forever? SuckMeBush!! you and all your wannabe toadies, too! Fellow cannabis growers! here's another article demonstrating the slow slippage of power from the pot nazis to our righteous hands: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124105239168771233.html APRIL 30, 2009 Oakland Council Backs a Tax on Marijuana By STU WOO OAKLAND, Calif. -- Leaders of this economically hard-hit city are proposing to tax medical marijuana as a way to help close a record budget shortfall. Oakland's City Council last week approved a 1.8% tax on medicinal marijuana sold in the city. If voters pass the proposal in a July election, Oakland would become the nation's first city to directly tax the drug, medical-marijuana advocates say. Such an outcome would further legitimize medical marijuana in California and represent the latest victory for advocates. Prospects for such a tax were made brighter in February, when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the federal government would no longer raid state-approved dispensaries. Backers of the Oakland tax on dispensaries said they hope to encourage other cities to follow suit. The tax would prove "that government-regulated dispensaries are good neighbors," said James Anthony, a lawyer who represents the Harborside Health Center, one of Oakland's medical-marijuana dispensaries. California is one of 13 states that have legalized medical marijuana, allowing it to be sold to people with a doctor's recommendation. It is relatively easy for anyone over 18 years old to obtain such a doctor's note. Advocates estimate there are 200,000 or more approved medical-marijuana users in California. Users already pay a sales tax on the drug. A city tax on medical marijuana could generate at least $400,000 and perhaps more than $1 million annually, said Rebecca Kaplan, the Oakland City Council member who pushed the proposal. The city of 400,000 residents is facing an $83 million shortfall in a $455 million budget. The owners and managers of Oakland's four medical-marijuana dispensaries said they approached the city with the idea. "We wanted to further legitimize the medical-marijuana paradigm to show that we are truly willing to assist [Oakland], and to show other cities that there are social benefits to this," said Keith Stephenson, executive director of Purple Heart Patient Center. No formal opposition has formed against the proposal, and Ms. Kaplan and medical-marijuana advocates said they are confident voters will approve it. But Paul Chabot, a Southern California resident who recently founded the Coalition for a Drug Free California, is opposed to the idea because he thinks the "quasi-legalization" of marijuana would add more of the drug into the black market. "It's a front; it also sends the wrong message to children," he said. "What are you doing to do next, allow prostitution and tax that? Allow methamphetamine to be sold and tax that?" Write to Stu Woo at Stu.Woo@wsj.com Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A4 No, Mr Chabot, we are going to feed cannabis to our children just like your kids in the future will be doing. How you like that Pot Nazi? Such an outcome would further legitimize medical marijuana in California and represent the latest victory for advocates... here comes Minnisotta and Illinois to legalize medical cannabis, too. suck it up pot nazis! WHOO HOOO! Smoke pot! ha ha ha ha grassley. remember, you over paid bigot, I told you we would not remember you for bridges and parks and the sort, but we Would remember you for sending in the cops with guns to steal our little kids and give them to the pukes of Child Protective Services and the like. And we will hate you forever for your evil.

He is sure as hell making the noises that come from the mouth of pot nazis. Check this evil drivel from him out:

Obama Declares War on American Drug Users......

Thu, 04/16/2009 - 10:51pm Speaking in Mexico today, President Obama embraced the exact hard-line drug war philosophy he rejected on the campaign trail:

Obama acknowledged that the United States shares responsibility for bloodshed and kidnappings in Mexico that have spilled across the border into the United States. Acknowledging that U.S. drug use fuels the cartels, Obama said, "I will not pretend this is Mexico's responsibility alone." "We have a responsibility as well, we have to do our part," Obama said. He said the U.S. must crack down on drug use and the flow of weapons into Mexico. [AP]

Specifically, he said, "We have to crack down on drug use in our cities and towns," Now, fellow grower/tokers, is it not fair that you and I should do our part in this heroic effort and surrender our freedom for him? Hell No it isn't. He is beginning to sound more and more like stash face puke geowbush, pot nazi before him. To do a crackdown we need assholes to put in prison to look good with. I know! Let's bust the pot heads some more! Fucking nazi! He has surrounded himself with pot nazis like that puke joe biden, you know, the nazi that coined the term "drug czar". And if you think obamamama stinks Now, wait till about July when the bear market bounce that has been amplified by all this federal wallpaper called printed money hits the public market and runs out of steam. We Americans are about to be smashed with a hellish wall of inflation the like of which we have never never never seen in our nation's history... if you even think you are pissed off at lying ass obama now. You are about to hate him like you never imagined. This is exactly what Doctor Ron Paul was talking about when he singlehandedly whipped all nine other republican candidates at the same time back in 2007.  And it is exactly on schedule for this summer in a life near you. omg!! I was foolishly thinking that obama was going to hand out our pot, at least a little bit, as his bribe for eating the death  of the dollar. but even that seems to be fucked. They can all Suck Me bush completely. bastards  

Ledz Git Er On, Obamama! Don't play with it! Do the whole deed. You Know what we want Obama. We want legalized marijuana and we don't want a lotta delay, either. Here's a nice article courtesy of our super great friend, Carl Olsen (see! I do, too, read my comments and I fixed that spelling lol) Obama's marijuana prohibition acid test by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman January 14, 2009 The parallels between the 1933 coming of Franklin Roosevelt and the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama must include the issue of Prohibition: alcohol in 1933, and marijuana today. As FDR did back then, Obama must now help end an utterly failed, socially destructive, reactionary crusade. Marijuana prohibition is a core cause of many of the nation's economic problems. It now costs the U.S. tens of billions per year to track, arrest, try, defend and imprison marijuana consumers who pose little, if any, harm to society. The social toll soars even higher when we account for social violence, lost work, ruined careers and damaged families. In 2007, 775,137 people were arrested in the U.S. for mere possession of this ancient crop, according to the FBI's uniform crime report. Like the Prohibition on alcohol that plagued the nation from 1920 to 1933, marijuana prohibition (which essentially began in 1937) feeds organized crime and a socially useless prison-industrial complex that includes judges, lawyers, police, guards, prison contractors, and more. A dozen states have now passed public referenda confirming medical uses for marijuana based on voluminous research dating back 5,000 years. Confirmed medicinal uses for marijuana include treatment for glaucoma, hypertension, arthritis, pain relief, nausea relief, reducing muscle spasticity from spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis, and diminishing tremors in multiple sclerosis patients. Medical reports also prove smoked marijuana provides relief from migraine headaches, depression, seizures, and insomnia, according to NORML. In recent years its use has become critical to thousands of cancer and AIDS sufferers who need to it to maintain their appetite while undergoing chemotherapy. The U.S. ban on marijuana extends to include hemp, one of the most widely used agricultural products in human history. Unlike many other industrial crops, hemp is powerful and prolific in a natural state, requiring no pesticides, herbicides, extraordinary fertilizing or inappropriate irrigation. Its core products include paper, cloth, sails, rope, cosmetics, fuel, supplements and food. Its seeds are a potentially significant source of bio-diesel fuel, and its leaves and stems an obvious choice for cellulosic ethanol, both critically important for a conversion to a Solartopian renewable energy supply. Hemp was grown in large quantities by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and many more of the nation's founders, most of whom would likely be dumbfounded to hear it is illegal (based on entries in Washington's agricultural diaries, referring to the separation of male and female plants, it's likely he and his cohorts also raised an earlier form of "medicinal" marijuana). Hemp growing was mandatory in some circumstances in early America, and again during World War II, when virtually the entire state of Kansas was planted in it. The current ban on industrial hemp costs the U.S. billiions of dollars in lost production and revenue from a plant that can produce superior paper, clothing, fuel and other critical materials at a fraction the financial cost and environmental damage imposed by less worthy sources. On January 16, 1919, fundamentalist crusaders help pass the 18th Amendment, making the sale of alcohol illegal. The ensuing Prohibition was by all accounts a ludicrous failure epitomized by gang violence and lethal "amateur" product that added to the death toll. Its only real winner was organized crime and the prison-industrial complex. In 1933, FDR helped pass the 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition, which ended a costly era of gratuitous social repression and gave the American economy---and psyche---a tangible boost. Marijuana prohibition was escalated with Richard Nixon's 1970 declaration of the War on Drugs. There was a brief reprieve when Steve Ford, the son of President Gerald Ford appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone barefoot and claiming that the best place to smoke pot was in the White House. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter's last year in office, 338,664 were arrested for marijuana possession. Ronald Reagan renewed the War on Drugs and declared his "Zero Tolerance" policy, despite his daughter Patti Davis' claim the Gipper smoked weed with a major donor. Following Reagan, President George Herbert Walker Bush recorded a low of 260,390 marijuana possession arrests, but the numbers climbed again under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both of whom are reported to have smoked it themselves (though Clinton claims not to have inhaled). On a percentage basis, at least as many American high school students smoke pot than students in Holland, where it is legal. In the midst of the drug war, U.S. students report virtually unlimited access to a wide range of allegedly controlled substances, including pot. Because so many Americans use it, and it is so readily available, the war on marijuana can only be seen as a virtually universal assault on the basic liberties of our citizenry. In a 2005 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services survey, more than 97 million Americans admitted to having tried marijuana at least once. President-elect Obama makes it clear in his book Dreams From My Father that he has smoked---and inhaled---marijuana (he is also apparently addicted to a far more dangerous drug, tobacco). His administration should tax marijuana rather than trying to repress it. Like alcohol and tobacco, a minimum age for legal access should be set at 21. As a whole, the violent, repressive War on Drugs has been forty years of legal, cultural and economic catastrophe. Like FDR, Obama must end our modern-day Prohibition, and with it the health-killing crusade against this ancient, powerful medicinal herb. -- Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman have co-authored four books on election protection, available at http://freepress.org, along with Bob's FITRAKIS FILES. Harvey's SOLARTOPIA! is at http://harveywasserman.com. This article was first published by http://freepress.org.

Love and solidarity to you from the Land of Hoag, California freedom fighters!  Bush Administration Deals Eleventh Hour Blow To Scientific Freedom From California NORML: We received today a final order from DEA in the Lyle Craker case (professor at U. Mass Amherst who sough a DEA license to grow marijuana to provide to FDA-approved medical researchers).  Our press release is below. Allen Hopper Litigation Director ACLU Drug Law Reform Project 1101 Pacific Avenue, Suite 333 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 831-471-9000 831-471-9676 (fax) ahopper@aclu.org www.aclu.org/drugpolicy _____________________________________________ From: Daniel Berger Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 11:25 AM To: Daniel Berger Subject: ACLU RELEASE: Bush Administration Deals Eleventh Hour Blow To Scientific Freedom Bush Administration Deals Eleventh Hour Blow To Scientific Freedom On Eve of Obama Presidency, DEA Blocks Privately-Funded, FDA-Approved Medical Marijuana Research FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2009 CONTACT:  Dan Berger, ACLU, (917) 602-2445 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bush administration struck a parting shot to legitimate science today as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) refused to end the unique government monopoly over the supply of marijuana available for Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved research.  DEA's final ruling rejected the formal recommendation of DEA Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Mary Ellen Bittner, issued nearly two years ago following extensive legal hearings. "With one foot out the door, the Bush administration has once again found time to undermine scientific freedom," said Allen Hopper, litigation director of the American Civil Liberties Union Drug Law Reform Project.  "In stubbornly retaining the unique government monopoly over the supply of research marijuana over the objections of DEA's own administrative law judge, the Bush administration has effectively blocked the proper regulatory channels that would allow the drug to become a wholly legitimate prescription medication." The DEA ruling constitutes a formal rejection of University of Massachusetts at Amherst Professor Lyle Craker's petition, filed initially June 24, 2001, to cultivate research-grade marijuana for use by scientists in FDA-approved studies aimed at developing the drug as a legal, prescription medication. The ACLU and Julie Carpenter of the Washington, D.C. law firm Jenner & Block represent Professor Craker in the proceedings. Professor Craker's petition was rejected despite the opinion of DEA ALJ Bittner that granting Craker a license to grow marijuana "would be in the public interest."  Judge Bittner issued a comprehensive, 88-page nonbinding recommendation to DEA Deputy Administrator Michele Leonhartt on February 12, 2007, following nine days of hearings, testimony and evidence presented by the ACLU and others on both sides of the issue. DEA failed to take action on Judge Bittner's recommendation until now, continuing the strategy of delay and pattern of unresponsiveness that has characterized the process since Professor Craker first filed his initial petition seven-and-a-half years ago. "I am saddened that the DEA is ignoring the best interests of so many seriously ill people who wish for scientific investigations that could lead to development of the marijuana plant as a prescription medicine," said Professor Craker.  "Patients with serious illnesses deserve legitimate research that might establish medical marijuana as a fully legal, FDA-approved treatment. Today, that effort has been dealt a serious blow." Judge Bittner's recommendation was based largely on the fact that marijuana is the only Schedule I drug that the DEA prohibits from being produced by private laboratories for scientific research, which has resulted in a unique government monopoly that fundamentally obstructs appropriate research and regulatory channels. Other controlled substances, including LSD, MDMA, heroin and cocaine, are available to researchers from DEA-licensed private laboratories. In contrast, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) remains scientists' sole source of marijuana, despite the agency's repeated refusal to make marijuana available for privately-funded, FDA-approved studies that seek to develop smoked or vaporized marijuana into a legal, prescription medicine. As Judge Bittner concluded, "NIDA's system for evaluating requests for marijuana has resulted in some researchers who hold DEA registrations and requisite approval from [HHS and FDA] being unable to conduct their research because NIDA has refused to provide them with marijuana. I therefore find that the existing supply is not adequate." Professor Craker's proposed facility to grow high-quality medical marijuana for research purposes would be funded by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a non-profit pharmaceutical company with plans to develop marijuana into a fully legal, prescription medication. "The DEA and NIDA, but not the FDA, are clearly frightened of permitting privately-funded, scientific research into the risks and benefits of the medical uses of marijuana," said Rick Doblin, President of MAPS. "We need the Obama Administration to reverse this egregious suppression of scientific research that the outgoing administration so fears will reveal inconvenient truths." Forty-five members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA), and a broad range of scientific, medical and public health organizations have written in support of Professor Craker, including the Lymphoma Foundation of America, the National Association for Public Health Policy, the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, as well as several state medical and nurses' associations. Despite contradictory federal policy, 13 states have enacted legislation protecting patients who use medical marijuana with a physician's recommendation from prosecution under state law, and national polls consistently find that roughly 75 percent of Americans support the use of medical marijuana. Judge Bittner's final recommendation in support of Professor Craker's petition is available at: www.aclu.org/drugpolicy/medmarijuana/28341lgl20070212.html The DEA's rejection of Professor Craker's petition is available at: www.aclu.org/drugpolicy/medmarijuana/38298lgl20090112.html Complete background on the case, including client profiles, hearing transcripts, a full selection of legal documents, media reports, and letters of support from lawmakers and scientists can be found at: www.aclu.org/drugpolicy/medicalmarijuanafeature/index.html and www.maps.org/mmj/DEAlawsuit.html It is clearly clearly clearly a secret plan to control marijuana by a government within a government. I do not causually draw such a conclusion, it has to be forced on me. DEA scum are refusing the will of the people of the United States of America. There is a separate will held within these out of control government bodies of DEA and NIDA that is becoming more and more visible as in defiance of court judges. You are traitors, DEA. You have been traitors and you are now traitors. Seventy per cent of the citizenry voted "yes" on change.gov and you are voting "no" and because you are actually in total control as some sort of dictators your single no is enough to overwhelm our certainty. I am deeply ashamed of you DEA scums! I firmly believe your heirarchy must stand trial and, I believe, be jailed for crimes against the people of the United States of America. You can just Keep on attacking me through the irs. I resist traitors and I demand the will of the common man to be brought forward and for All the agencies of the government of the United States of America to become compliant with that will. Yeah, I was just ordered, by the irs, to complete forms about my alien citizenship. I have recently been threatened with being forced to pay back money that is a settled issue and that I do not owe... thousands of dollars. Oh, yeah, step up dea. I will expose you and I will not run from you, either. piss off. NOW!

The Prez elect has been doing the soft shoe and skidding off the stage when we ask him about how he is going to help us when it comes to at least medical marijuana being a state's right issue that the federal marshalls should stay out of.  Here's a letter I sent to the Hill, which hicks like my Iowa senators read. Turns out that the Hill switchboard, as it were, lit up on fire once pot was posted as an issue. I posted one for us, too. Yeah, here is a copy of just how: I have current scripts for 15 mg extended release morphene sulfate, 5mg percocet and 50 mcg fentanyl. If "high" was what I wanted I have but to reach out to the dope jar and get stoopid. you know, opium in three exceedingly potent forms by script has to tell you I am either a total liar or telling you the truth, "I am not interested in getting high" WHAT I AM INTERESTED IN TELLING YOU IS THAT I WANT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PUBLICALLY SUSPEND ALL FEDERAL INVASIONS OF STATES OVER THE ISSUE OF CANNABIS FOR ANY REASON REMOTELY MEDICAL. I am in agony. I have been in three traffic wrecks and not one my fault. do you think that makes the migraines and fiery spine feel less agony? well, hell no, it  doesn't! “On Election Day, over 3 million voters decided to legalize the medical use of cannabis in Michigan, making it the 13th state to enact laws allowing the legal medical use of marijuana. While campaigning, you pledged: ‘What I’m not going to be doing is spend Justice Department resources to try and circumvent state laws on this issue.’ As President, will you and your Attorney General uphold this promise not to target and prosecute patients and providers who are in compliance with state medical marijuana laws?" Now, I live in Iowa and just to let you all in on a little secret we have real drug warrior hicks in the senate representing this place. a couple of real morons who are unable to 'surrender' to just any old thing... like truth or freedom from terror by police for the people they are responsible for. I wonder if these two, Grassley and Harkin, think I and my fellow born here in Iowa citizens are their little footie soldiers. If they do then they are as dirty as Richard M Nixon ever was. And just as psychotically deluded from the real world as he was, as well. Do these two idiots think we Iowans are their little toys? We do not want to be part of either one of you two idiots "surrender" to drugs. Your idiotic drug war is already Over. You Lose. What are you going to tell me, Grassley? what? when the entire northern border of Iowa goes legal medical next year, then what blabbering horseshit will you put up to all of the Iowans you disrespect so deeply as you have been doing to us for years to misinform and lie to us over and over about cannabis? And what about our coming presidential hopeful? I strongly doubt you ( Obama ) are worth a hoot when it comes to the economy. this is a ten year major depression with better than sixty years of leg room for betrayal at the top and we it have headed right at us. wars cost lots of money and gw liked to be the 'decider' and the decider had pretty much of an unlimeted amount of public money to do what he wanted to with. But, the Truth is very different, isn't it? Only a fool would think you are going to waltz in here and fix what that homicidal madman broke over the course of his entire prezidency. BUT YOU CAN FIX CANNABIS FOR US. It has been given to you to be able to do so. It won't fix all these sad ills, of course it won't. But we will know a nice gesture when one is made to us out here in the fields, as Roger Daltry might say. Please don't promise us the moon when you discover, probably right along with the rest of us, more crap. I don't like boolshit and my friends don't, either. Let's just be straight with the peeps, ok? It is going to be a different world by the time you get out, Obama. So, how about you get with that much and we will all hunker down as we start to figure it out for ourselves and lose this "I am a rich ass of some sort, and I am a little decider, too" because the whole world is probably about to get served  humble pie and eat till we get the message. Yep, there is no shortage of 'em. The question is: will we learn mercy? We need to learn mercy. Here we are right upon Christmas and we have this wonderful example of how just one of us can make a lasting difference. Now, There was a Real Decider! I would give everything I own or have just to see His face for even a little while. God, bless our homes, all of us, everywhere and help us to learn your gentle lessons about mercy and forgiveness.  Hope is very real. I am going to grow my way out of this recovery from the hospitalizations. I can do this. God Bless Your Families