You are 75 - now die. ---------------------------- http://blog.seattlepi.com/vivianmcpeak/2012/09/30/happy-birthday-prohibition-now-die/ Happy birthday, marijuana Prohibition. You are now 75 years oldâwell past retirement age. You have accomplished so much, you must be very proud of yourself. You have largely conquered the world. Youâve spread your policies of persecution and subjugation from nation to nation, perpetuating the expansion of a prison industrial complex that would have made Stalin proud. Your righteous crusade against a largely benign, natural plant and all who dare to embrace it has been the status quo for an entire human lifetime or better. Ever since you were conceived by the Rockefellers and promoted by their henchman, Harry Anslinger, you have been relentlessly waging a campaign of hate, terror, and brutality on a populace that is almost totally non-threatening. Using the tactics of yellow journalism, racist bigotry, and outright lies, you have sabotaged and minimized that which makes America great: Constitutional liberty for Americans. You used the United Statesâ military against its own citizens, on American soil. That is unprecedented. You have invaded the homes, the cars, the businesses, and the bloodstreams of millions of otherwise decent, law-abiding Americans in order to advance your campaign of misery and suffering. You have seized homes, cars, boats, bank accounts, and property from tens of thousands American citizens, often with no due process or conviction. You have pitted neighbor against neighbors, parent against child, and teacher against student in an effort to create a nation of simple stool pigeons. You have thrown millions of human lives into the incinerator of injustice while you line the corporate pockets of your benefactors with enough money to purchase the facts straight out of the mouth of the truth. You have co-opted history, bypassed the U.S. Constitution, and favored building prisons over schools. You paved the way for racialized social control resulting in the mass incarceration of Americans, particularly Americans of color. You have effectively created a brilliant tool for voter suppression among minority communities. You have selectively enforced your madness on people of color, the poor, the infirm, and an entire counterculture. You have strong-armed your way into our homes, pulled Americans out of their beds in the dark night, laid them on the floor in their nightclothes, and brutalized them as if they were terrorists. You have stripped Americans of all dignity and stuck them with a stigma formerly reserved for child molesters and communists; you have treated them worse than common criminals, who do not face the routine sanctions, fines, forced drug classes, and âforfeituresâ that people accused of drug âcrimesâ endure. You have lied in court, falsified evidence, framed innocents, entrapped citizens, and used people as informants, sometimes at the cost of their lives. You have ruined futures, broken families, and stolen children from their parents. You have poured enough resources into your campaign of hate to build tens of thousands of schools, daycare centers, hospitals, and food banks. Instead, you have built prisons, privatized them, created incentives to lock up Americans, and then profited greatly from it all. You have enjoyed uncompensated prison labor and a mountain of working peopleâs taxes, which you then used to lock up millions with impunity. You have helped to jail more citizens per capita than any nation in human history. You have cooperated and conspired with tyrants, despots and dictators, all in the name of justice. You have promoted stereotypes while you have spread pure, raw, unadulterated hatred. You have divided Americans, and fractured our society. You have caused murders, suicides, and suffering beyond imagination. You have denied the sick, the elderly, and the terminally ill relief from suffering by denying them access to medical marijuana. Hell, you have even persecuted crippled, broken, and dying men and women and then tossed them into jails and prisons like caged rats. You have denied medical care, treatment, and medicine to prisoners. You have made possible untold prison rapes. You have ignored presidential commissions, scientists, physicians, and journalists, in order to manufacture the consent of the American public. You have lied, distorted, twisted, fabricated, insinuated, and attacked the truth in a vicious crusade that has been part of the most well-funded domestic government policy ever known. You have declared an internal war against citizens of your own country. You have undermined a general respect for the rule of law among many of Americaâs youth, who can clearly see through the hypocrisy of treating cannabis like it is a poison, while allowing poisonous alcohol and tobacco to be legal. You have endangered the lives of law enforcement officers with no just cause and caused animosity between citizens and police that will take years to undo. You have diverted resources from investigating actual crimes, and distracted from them. Yes, happy birthday, Prohibition. You have done well. You must be so proud. You have spread fear, mistrust, paranoia, shame, embarrassment, and hate all over the globe. Now it is time for you to retire, old policy. You are ashen and gray, heartless and cold, soulless and unfeeling. You are evil, and it is time for you to go. You cannot have America, and we are going to take her back. She is just now learning of your lies, your hate, and your destruction of liberty, freedom and justice. It is time to retire, fade into the past, and disappear. Your time is limited, because justice is on the march.
maybe but just how stupid do you have to be to smoke anything with all the scientific knowledge we have about what it does to your lungs?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.htm Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows ScienceDaily (Apr. 17, 2007) â The active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread, say researchers at Harvard University who tested the chemical in both lab and mouse studies.
http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/news/20060523/pot-smoking-not-linked-to-lung-cancer Pot Smoking Not Linked to Lung Cancer Study Shows No Increased Risk for Even the Heaviest Marijuana Smokers By Salynn Boyles WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD May 23, 2006 -- People who smoke marijuana do not appear to be at increased risk for developing lung cancer, new research suggests. While a clear increase in cancer risk was seen among cigarette smokers in the study, no such association was seen for regular cannabis users. Even very heavy, long-term marijuana users who had smoked more than 22,000 joints over a lifetime seemed to have no greater risk than infrequent marijuana users or nonusers. The findings surprised the studyâs researchers, who expected to see an increase in cancer among people who smoked marijuana regularly in their youth. âWe know that there are as many or more carcinogens and co-carcinogens in marijuana smoke as in cigarettes,â researcher Donald Tashkin, MD, of UCLAâs David Geffen School of Medicine tells WebMD. âBut we did not find any evidence for an increase in cancer risk for even heavy marijuana smoking.â Carcinogens are substances that cause cancer. So why isnât smoking marijuana as dangerous as smoking cigarettes in terms of cancer risk? The answer isnât clear, but the experts say it might have something to do with tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, which is a chemical found in marijuana smoke. Cellular studies and even some studies in animal models suggest that THC has antitumor properties, either by encouraging the death of genetically damaged cells that can become cancerous or by restricting the development of the blood supply that feeds tumors, Tashkin tells WebMD. In a review of the research published last fall, University of Colorado molecular biologist Robert Melamede, PhD, concluded that the THC in cannabis seems to lessen the tumor-promoting properties of marijuana smoke.
yea right. its harmless. from the same site: http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20071214/study-shows-toxins-in-marijuana-smoke Levels of Some Toxins Higher in Pot Cigarettes Than in Tobacco Cigarettes, Experts Say ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.webmd.com/news/20000302/pot-impacts-heart Pot Impacts Heart, Study Shows ----------------------------------------------- http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20060313/smoking-marijuana-may-dim-memory Smoking Marijuana May Dim Memory Years of Heavy Use May Affect Some Mental Skills, Study Shows ---------------------------------------------------------
Sorry, I've got to agree with Free Thinker. Yes, it's a first. Move to California if you want to smoke pot and mingle with the pot heads. The rest of us don't want it around.
Brother P, how do you feel about whiskey? (Someone might quote this since he claims to have me on ignore.)