The evidence just keeps piling up. Cannabis is Good for you. I made a case today to a drug warrior on the net that we need to be taking extract, hash oil to you o' fellow bongerators,  just like we do vitamins. So, here is a new study to prove what we already pretty much knew anyways:  Medicinal Marijuana Effective For Neuropathic Pain In HIV, Study Finds Opps, and I just get in the bag because it helps me quit puking and feeling like crap from the migraines.

(Aug. 7, 2008) — In a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to assess the impact of smoked medical cannabis, or marijuana, on the neuropathic pain associated with HIV, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine found that reported pain relief was greater with cannabis than with a placebo. The study, sponsored by the University of California Center for Medical Cannabis Research (CMCR) based at UC San Diego, will be published on line, August 6 in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology. Led by Ronald J. Ellis, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of neurosciences at UCSD School of Medicine, the study looked at 28 HIV patients with neuropathic pain not adequately controlled by other pain-relievers, including opiates. They took part in the controlled study as outpatients at the UCSD Medical Center. The proportion of subjects achieving pain reduction of 30 percent or more was greater for those smoking cannabis than those smoking the placebo. "Neuropathy is a chronic and significant problem in HIV patients as there are few existing treatments that offer adequate pain management to sufferers," Ellis said. "We found that smoked cannabis was generally well-tolerated and effective when added to the patient's existing pain medication, resulting in increased pain relief." Each trial participant participated in five study phases over seven weeks. During two five-day phases, randomly selected participants smoked either cannabis or placebo cigarettes made from whole plant material with cannabinoids (the psychoactive compound found in marijuana) removed, both provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Outcome was tested by standardized tests measuring analgesia (lessened pain sensation), improvement in function and relief of pain-associated emotional distress. Using verbal descriptors of pain magnitude, cannabis was associated with an average reduction of pain intensity from 'strong' 'to mild-to-moderate' in cannabis smokers, according to Ellis. Also, cannabis was associated with a sizeable (46% versus 18% for placebo) proportion of patients reporting clinically meaningful pain relief. The study's findings are consistent with and extend other recent research supporting the short-term efficacy of cannabis for neuropathic pain, also sponsored by the CMCR. "This study adds to a growing body of evidence that indicates that cannabis is effective, in the short-term at least, in the management of neuropathic pain," commented Igor Grant, M.D., professor of psychiatry and director of the CMCR. Grant noted that this is the fourth CMCR sponsored study to provide convergent evidence that cannabis can help in relieving these types of pain. The previous studies were conducted with CMCR support by Donald I. Abrams, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF, who reported efficacy in short-term treatment of HIV neuropathy (Neurology, 2007, 68:515-521); by Mark Wallace, M.D., Program Director for the UCSD Center for Pain Medicine, who found that normal volunteers subjected to chemically induced pain which mimics neuropathy also responded to medium doses of cannabis (Anesthesiology, 2007, 107(5):785-796); and by Barth Wilsey, M.D., Director of the UC Davis Analgesic Research Center, who also reported benefit from smoked cannabis in a group of patients with neuropathy of multiple origins (Journal of Pain, 2008 Jun;9(6):506-21). Additional contributors to the study, all from the UCSD School of Medicine, include Will Toperoff, RN, FNP, Department of Neurosciences; Florin Vaida, Ph.D., Family and Preventive Medicine; Geoff van den Brande, RN, Medicine; J. Gonzales, Pharm.D., Pharmacy; Ben Gouaux, Heather Bentley, CCRA, and J. Hampton Atkinson, M.D., Psychiatry. Journal reference: Ellis et al. Smoked Medicinal Cannabis for Neuropathic Pain in HIV: A Randomized, Crossover Clinical Trial. Neuropsychopharmacology, 2008; DOI: 10.1038/npp.2008.120 SOURCE: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080806113135.htm

Good Morning fellow grower tokers of medical and recreational Cannabis. Yesterday your humble narrator had the excellent experience of a lengthy conversation with our good friend Carl Olsen who is a major backer of legalized cannabis here in the fortress America. He has been generating some wonderful legal briefs outing the lies and lawbreaking of the DEA, may God judge them for their lies and destructions upon the ill and the dying for monetary gains as well as fame here and now. The following is a legal brief he has forced to be accepted by the DEA in such a manner that they must confront the federal law errors he presents as violations of federal law here in the United States. I, your humble narrator, completely agree with this nice man. Please help this wonderful man with legal costs! It costs thousands of dollars to present a case to the US Supreme Court because of ridiculous publishing costs. The following is one of his filed cases to the DEA, all very legal and, if we win it, it will kick the DEA and its ilk right in the nards. I guarentee they will totally not like this legal move and the quality it is presented in is very high. They must make serious effort in order to defeat it because Carl Olsen is calling them federal lawbreakers to fail to reschedule cannabis when California declaired cannabis as a legal, medical drug and thereby fullfilled the law that triggered the automatic reschedule of our weed. It is not too complex. Read it and enjoy. Carl took great pains to make this document.

Carl Olsen, August 5, 2008 Page 1 of 4

DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION Petition by Carl Olsen ) NOTICE AND DEADLINE TO for the rescheduling of marijuana ) CEASE AND DESIST ILLEGAL pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 811 ) ENFORCEMENT OF and 21 C.F.R. § 1308 ) FRAUDULANT MARIJUANA ) REGULATION August 5, 2008 Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration Department of Justice Washington, DC 20537 Re: Petition for Marijuana Rescheduling Dear Sir/Madam: You are hereby notified that the current scheduling of marijuana in Title 21 Code of Federal Regulations, Section 1308.11 Schedule I, is in violation of federal law, Title 21 United States Code, Section 903, and you must immediately cease and desist enforcement of the illegal regulation of marijuana until marijuana is correctly scheduled or removed from the schedules entirely. Failure of the Drug Enforcement Administration to cease and desist enforcement of the illegal regulation of marijuana within 30 days will result in a federal civil injunction being filed against the Drug Enforcement Carl Olsen, August 5, 2008 Page 2 of 4 Administration in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. MEMORANDUM OF LAW It is established federal law that the states, and not the federal government, determine accepted medical practice. Gonzales v. Oregon, 546 U.S. 243 (2006); 21 U.S.C. § 903. Twelve states have determined that marijuana has accepted medical use. Rescheduling of marijuana should have been automatically triggered in 1996 when California enacted the first state law accepting the medical use of marijuana. In Grinspoon v. DEA, 828 F.2d 881, 886 (1st Cir. 1987), the U.S. Court of Appeals told the DEA that a controlled substance cannot be scheduled in Schedule I if it has accepted medical use anywhere in the United States (". . . Congress did not intend 'accepted medical use in treatment in the United States' to require a finding of recognized medical use in every state . . ."), which proves the states, and not the federal government, determine accepted medical practice. In Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics v. DEA, 930 F.2d 936, 939 (D.C. Cir. 1991), the U.S. Court of Appeals told the DEA that there is no federal definition of "accepted medical use" (". . . neither the statute nor its legislative history precisely defines the term 'currently accepted medical Carl Olsen, August 5, 2008 Page 3 of 4 use' . . ."), which proves the states, and not the federal government, determine accepted medical practice. In United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative, 532 U.S. 483, 492 (2001), the U.S. Supreme Court told the DEA it could not put marijuana in Schedule I if marijuana had any accepted medical use: Schedule I is the most restrictive schedule (footnote omitted). The Attorney General can include a drug in schedule I only if the drug "has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States," "has a high potential for abuse," and has "a lack of accepted safety for use . . . under medical supervision." §§ 812(b)(1)(A)-(C). Under the statute, the Attorney General could not put marijuana into schedule I if marijuana had any accepted medical use. In Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1, the U.S. Supreme Court noted that Congress put marijuana in Schedule I. But Schedule I is only the "initial" schedule for marijuana. Congress never said the initial schedules were permanent. 21 U.S.C. § 811(a) requires the DEA to "add to", "transfer between", or "remove" substances from the schedules as necessary. See 21 U.S.C. § 812(c) (". . . Initial schedules of controlled substances Schedules I, II, III, IV, and V shall, unless and until amended pursuant to section 811 of this title . . ."). Ms. Raich did not tell the DEA it could not put marijuana into schedule I, but the DEA should not have to be told that it must obey a federal law. The DEA should have rescheduled marijuana in 1996 and was legally obligated to do so at that time. Carl Olsen, August 5, 2008 Page 4 of 4 In Gonzales v. Oregon, 546 U.S. 243 (2006), the U.S. Supreme Court told the DEA that a federal interpretive rule cannot conflict with an accepted state medical practice. The DEA cannot create an administrative rule that conflicts with 21 U.S.C. § 903, and it cannot maintain an existing regulation that conflicts with 21 U.S.C. § 903. Marijuana, temporarily scheduled by Congress in 21 U.S.C. § 812, Schedule I(c)(10) in 1970, has been incorrectly classified in 21 C.F.R. § 1308.11(d)(22) since 1996 because it no longer fits the criteria for inclusion in Schedule I as set forth in 21 U.S.C. § 812(b)(1)(A)-(C): Schedule I. - (A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse. (B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. (C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision. Because marijuana has been incorrectly scheduled since 1996, the DEA must immediately cease and desist the enforcement of the illegal regulation of marijuana until the federal scheduling has been corrected. Respectfully yours, __________________________ Carl Olsen 130 E Aurora Ave Des Moines, IA 50313-3654 515-288-5798 Certified Mail Receipt No. 7006 2760 0004 2439 1694 And he lives Right in my neighborhood of several years past. Ah, how nice. You go, Carl. We are pulling for you.

 I recently had it out with an Iowa Registered Nurse who made the foolish mistake of telling one of her relatives in front of your humble narrator that "marijuana causes brain damage".   Marijuana/Cannabis does Not cause brain damage. I immediately put her on the spot to demonstrate reliable studies for her statement. I then put myself on the same spot and crushed her boolshit like a bug hitting the teeth of the motorcyclist at 80 mph. BTW, don't do that. Rain hurts on a bike at 50+ mph and a bug is a thing from hell.   Put these liars on the spot! WE HAVE THE SCIENCE ON OUR SIDE, NOT THE DRUG WARRIORS. Oh, they like that when it rubs in the skin. I especially like that Look they get on the mug when confronted that not everyone loves big brother.   I am going to mail this exact list to every congressional "leader" in the state along with my next begging them in the name of Jesus Christ for relief from pain and vomiting. They Must be forced to realize what nazis they are acting like so they can tell God on Judgement Day that they were scum to the sick and the dying for money and votes.   Organizations Supporting Access to Therapeutic Cannabis As Compiled by Patients Out of Time

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AIDS Action Council - 1996 *Alaska Nurses Association - 1998 Alaska Voters - 1998 Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics – 1981 +American Academy of Family Physicians – 1989, 1995 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) American Medical Students Association – 1993 +*American Nurses Association - 2003 *American Preventive Medical Association – 1997 +*American Public Health Association (APHA) - 1995 Arizona Voters - 1996 & 1998 +Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - 1999 Berkeley, CA - 1979 Breckenridge, CO - 1994 Burlington, VT - 1994 California Academy of Family Physicians - 1996 California Democratic Party - 1993 California Legislative Council for Older Americans - 1993 +California Medical Association - 1994 California Nurses Association - 1995 California-Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church - 1996 California Pharmacists Association - 1997 California Voters - 1996 Cannabis Freedom Fund – 1996 Colorado Voters - 2000 *Colorado Nurses Association – 1995 *+Connecticut Nurses Association - 2004 Contigo-Conmigo - 1997 Consumer Reports Magazine - 1997 Crescent Alliance Self Help for Sickle Cell - 1999 Cure AIDS now - 1991 District of Columbia Voters - 1999 +Episcopal Church of the U.S. - 1982 Farmacy - 1999 Federation of American Scientists - 1994 Florida Governor’s Red Ribbon Panel on AIDS - 1993 Florida Medical Association - 1997 Frisco, CO – 1994 Green Party - 1998 Hawaii Kokua Council of Senior Citizens - 2000 *Hawaii Legislature - 2000 *Hawaii Nurses Association – 1999 *Illinois Nurses Association - 200 Institute of Medicine - 1982 & 1999 International Cannabis Alliance of Researchers and Educators (I-CARE) - 1992 Iowa Civil Liberties Union Iowa Democratic Party - 1994 & 2000 Kaiser Permanente – 1997 Lancet - 1997 Life Extension Foundation - 1997 Libertarian Party – 1999 Los Angeles County AIDS Commission - 1996 Lymphoma Foundation of America - 1997 Madison, WI – 1993, 2004 Maine AIDS Alliance - 1997 Maine Voters - 1999 Marin County, CA – 1993 +Medical Society of the State of New York - 2004 Minnesota Democratic Farm-Labor Party - 1992 *Mississippi Nurses Association - 1995 Mothers Against Misuse and Abuse (MAMA) -1992 Multiple Sclerosis California Action Network (MS-CAN) - 1996 National Association for Public Health Policy - 1998 National Association of Attorneys General - 1983 National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) National Association of People with AIDS - 1992 *National Nurses Society on Addictions (NNSA) - 1995 Nevada Voters - 1998 New England Journal of Medicine – 1997 New Jersey Nurses Association - 2002 New Mexico Medical Society - 2001 *New Mexico Nurses Association – 1997 *New York State Nurses Association - 1995 *North Carolina Nurses Association – 1996 Oak Creek, CO - 2005 Oakland, California - 1998 Oregon Voters – 1998 Oregon Green Party - 2001 Oregon Democratic Party - 1998 Patients Out of Time - 1995 Physicians Association for AIDS Care Physicians for Social Responsibility (Oregon) – 1998 Progressive National Baptist Convention - 2004 Republican Liberty Caucus National Committee - 1999 San Diego, CA - 1994 San Francisco, CA - 1992 San Francisco Medical Society - 1996 Santa Cruz County, CA – 1993 +Texas Democratic Convention – 2004 Texas Nurses Association -2005 Unitarian Universalist Association - 2004 United Methodist Church - 2004 *Virginia Nurses Association – 1994, 2004 *Virginia Nurses Society on Addictions - 1993 *Washington Hemp Education Network - 1999 Washington Democratic Party - 1998 & 2000 Washington Voters - 1998 Wisconsin Democratic Party - 1997 Wisconsin Public Health Association - 1999 Wisconsin Nurses Association - 1999 Supporting Research American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry - 2000 +American Academy of Family Physicians - 1977 American Cancer Society – 1997 +*American Nurses Association - 2003 *American Nurses Association, Congress of Nursing Practice - 1996 American Society of Addiction Medicine – 2000 +Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - 1999 California Medical Association - 1997 California Society of Addiction Medicine – 1997 +*Connecticut Nurses Association - 2004 +Council of Health Organizations - 1971 Federation of American Scientists – 1995 +Medical Society of the State of New York - 2004 National Institute of Health Workshop               on the Medical Utility of Marijuana -1997 +Northern New England Psychiatric Society +Texas Democratic Convention – 2--4 Wisconsin State Medical Society – 1998 Women of Reform Judaism - 2000 No Criminal Penalty Amherst, MA - 2000 Alaska Medical Association - 1972 +American Academy of Family Physicians - 1977 American Bar Association - 1977 American Medical Association – 1977 +*American Nurses Association - 2003 +American Public Health Association - 1971 American Social Health Association – 1974 +Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - 1999 +Berkeley, CA - 1972 B’nai B’rith Women - 1974 Central Conference of American Rabbis – 1973 +*Connecticut Nurses Association - 2004 +Council of Health Organizations - 1971 District of Columbia Medical Society - 1973 +Episcopal Church of the US - 1973 Episcopal Diocese of New York - 1975 Gray Panthers - 1975 Illinois Bar Association - 1974 Lutheran Student Movement - 1975 Massachusetts Bar Association - 1974 National Association for Mental Health - 1972 National Association of Social Workers – 1975 National Council of Churches - 1973 National Education Association - 1978 New York Bar Association - 1974 +Northern New England Psychiatric Society Southern California Psychiatric Society – 1979 +Texas Democratic Convention - 2004 United Methodists - 1976 +Unitarian Universalist Association – 1970, 2002 Vermont Bar Association - 1974 +Washington Democratic Party - 2000 Non-U.S. Organizations Arachnoiditis Trust, UK - 2000 Australian National Task Force on Cannabis – 1994 Australian Medical Association (New South Wales) Limited - 1999 British Medical Association - 1997 Bundesverband Poliomyelitis (Federal Union for Polio), Germany – 1998 Canadian AIDS Society - 2004 Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police - 2001 Canadian Medical Association – 2001 Canadian Medical Association Journal - 2001 Canadian Medical Journal - 2001 Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe                        (German AIDS Support Organization) - 1998 Deutsche Epilepsievereinigung                        (German Association for Epilepsy) -1998 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Algesiologie                       (German Society for Algesiology) -1998 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Drogen-und Suchtmedizin                       (German Society for Drug and Addiction Medicine) -1998 Deutsche Gesellschaft niedergelassener Ärzte zur Versorgung HIV – 1998 French Ministry of Health - 1997 Health Canada - 1997 House of Lords (UK) Select Committee on Science and Technology - 1999 Infizierter             (German Working Group for Therapists of the HIV infected) –1999 International Association for Cannabis as Medicine - 2000 Legalise Cannabis Alliance - 2000 New South Wales (Australia) Parliamentary Working Party on the Use of Cannabis for Medical Purposes - 2000 Lancet (UK) – 1995, 1998 Medical Association of Jamaica - 2001 Medical Cannabis Research Foundation (UK) – 2000 National Commission on Ganja, Jamaica - 2001 National Council on Drug Abuse, Jamaica - 2001 Preventive Medical Center, Netherlands - 1993 Schmerztherapeutisches Kolloquium (Society for Pain Therapists) Germany - 1998 Stichting Institute of Medical Marijuana, Netherlands - 1993 United Church of Jamaica and Cayman Islands – 2000

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Cannabis-Linked Cell Receptor Might Help Prevent Colon Cancer Findings may serve as new path for better treatment of disease, study suggests -- Robert Preidt

FRIDAY, Aug. 1 (HealthDay News) -- A cannabinoid receptor lying on the surface of cells may help suppress colorectal cancer, say U.S. researchers. When the receptor is turned off, tumor growth is switched on. Cannabinoids are compounds related to the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) found in the cannabis plant. It's already known that the receptor, CB1, plays a role in relieving pain and nausea, elevating mood and stimulating appetite by serving as a docking station for the cannabinoid group of signaling molecules. This study suggests that CB1 may offer a new path for cancer prevention or treatment. "We've found that CB1 expression is lost in most colorectal cancers, and when that happens, a cancer-promoting protein is free to inhibit cell death," senior author Dr. Raymond Dubois, provost and executive vice president of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, said in a university news release. In their study of human colorectal tumor specimens, the researchers also found that the drug decitabine can restore CB1 expression. In addition, mice that are prone to developing intestinal tumors and also have functioning CB1 receptors developed fewer and smaller tumors when treated with a drug that mimics a cannabinoid receptor ligand, the researchers found. Ligands are molecules that function by binding to specific receptors. "Potential application of cannabinoids as anti-tumor drugs is an exciting prospect, because cannabinoid agonists (synthetic molecules that mimic the action of natural molecules) are being evaluated now to treat the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy," DuBois said. "Turning CB1 back on and then treating with a cannabinoid agonist could provide a new approach to colorectal cancer treatment or prevention." The study was published in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal Cancer Research. The American Cancer Society has more about colorectal cancer.

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SOURCE: University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, news release, Aug. 1, 2008

Copyright © 2008 ScoutNews, LLC. All rights reserved. Ya know what I like? A great, scientific reason to legalize cannabis. Would that be because I just want to smoke a blunt? No, I fought off cancer and if we can really identify legitimate uses of cannabis it would be unlikely for the drug warrior morons, hicks and jackasses to have looked in this wonderful stash of God-given medicines so this is a whole new series of medicines to help us not have to live and die in agony from preventable cancer. In short, if they don't expect to find anything good and we are looking in that place instead of where schedule one says nothing can be found, then we are performing good science. It is good science to examine cannabis for medicinal effects. How would we know that? Well, we could start by examining the patent office where the good old federal USA has around 100 patents on file for medical marijuana Right Now. YEP, the federal drug warriors are completely lying hypocrits to be arresting sick little old ladies for growing pot in their own yards to stop dying in agony. I am a very serious Christian, but praying is not enough, my friends. We need to get out the vote. We need to read these blogs I am putting up for you and we need to back NORML. God bless your gardens

Marijuana Arrests For Year 2006 – 829,625 Tops Record High...Nearly 6 Percent Increase Over 2005

September 24, 2007 - Washington, DC, USA Washington, DC: Police arrested a record 829,625 persons for marijuana violations in 2006, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual Uniform Crime Report, released today. This is the largest total number of annual arrests for pot ever recorded by the FBI. Marijuana arrests now comprise nearly 44 percent of all drug arrests in the United States. "These numbers belie the myth that police do not target and arrest minor marijuana offenders," said NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre, who noted that at current rates, a marijuana smoker is arrested every 38 seconds in America. "This effort is a tremendous waste of criminal justice resources that diverts law enforcement personnel away from focusing on serious and violent crime, including the war on terrorism." Of those charged with marijuana violations, approximately 89 percent, 738,915 Americans were charged with possession only. The remaining 90,710 individuals were charged with "sale/manufacture," a category that includes all cultivation offenses, even those where the marijuana was being grown for personal or medical use. In past years, roughly 30 percent of those arrested were age 19 or younger. "Present policies have done little if anything to decrease marijuana's availability or dissuade youth from trying it," St. Pierre said, noting young people in the U.S. now frequently report that they have easier access to pot than alcohol or tobacco. “Two other major points standout from today’s record marijuana arrests: Overall, there has been a dramatic 188 percent increase in marijuana arrests in the last 15 years -- yet the public's access to pot remains largely unfettered and the self-reported use of cannabis remains largely unchanged. Second, America’s Midwest is decidedly the hotbed for marijuana-related arrests with 57 percent of all marijuana-related arrests. The region of America with the least amount of marijuana-related arrests is the West with 30 percent. This latter result is arguably a testament to the passage of various state and local decriminalization efforts over the past several years.” The total number of marijuana arrests in the U.S. for 2006 far exceeded the total number of arrests in the U.S. for all violent crimes combined, including murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Annual marijuana arrests have nearly tripled since the early 1990s. "Arresting hundreds of thousands of Americans who smoke marijuana responsibly needlessly destroys the lives of otherwise law abiding citizens," St. Pierre said, adding that over 8 million Americans have been arrested on marijuana charges in the past ten years. During this same time, arrests for cocaine and heroin have declined sharply, implying that increased enforcement of marijuana laws is being achieved at the expense of enforcing laws against the possession and trafficking of more dangerous drugs. St. Pierre concluded: "Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers between $10 billion and $12 billion annually and has led to the arrest of nearly 20 million Americans. Nevertheless, some 94 million Americans acknowledge having used marijuana during their lives. It makes no sense to continue to treat nearly half of all Americans as criminals for their use of a substance that poses no greater - and arguably far fewer - health risks than alcohol or tobacco. A better and more sensible solution would be to tax and regulate cannabis in a manner similar to alcohol and tobacco."

YEAR	MARIJUANA ARRESTS
2006	829,625
2005	786,545
2004	771,608
2003	755,187
2002	697,082
2001	723,627
2000	734,498
1999	704,812
1998	682,885
1997	695,200
1996	641,642
1995	588,963
1994	499,122
1993	380,689
1992	342,314
1991	287,850
1990	326,850

For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director, at (202) 483-5500. For a comprehensive breakdown and analysis of US marijuana arrests, please see NORML's report: "Crimes of Indiscretion: Marijuana Arrests in the United States". So Be Careful. We have not defeated the dumbassed drug warriors out to hurt us for smoking pot yet. Yes, your humble narrator is optimistic, but the cops still are in gear with their hateful, racist lies up as law yet. Free the BC3. And while we are at it: stay out of our garbage cans cops! Happy Trails