HAPPY
420!!! (ok, 5 days late)
I've
been busy.
Now from the White House...
In Response to a Petition sponsored by President
Obama, the "We The People" public petitions forum he enacted,
President Obama urged citizens to petition the White House on any subject
meaningful to them. It turned out, cannabis legalization was near the top of
the numbers for signatures by people asking to end the madness that cannabis
prohibition has brought about!
By cannabis, I'm referring to the plant called marijuana, or by legal decree, marihuana.
It seems of benefit to a class of people, law-makers,
CEO's, investors and aliens to continue to call cannabis, marijuana. Why, I
don't know. In general we as a society avoid name-calling. We like to call an
onion an onion, not a tear-jerker!
Well the following White House response to We The
People cannabis reform initiative should leave some of you reassured and
feeling better. It's not from the President himself, but one of his trolls.
I felt it was appropriate to share with my readers the
e-mail I received based on the We The People cannabis petitions - there were several; And the following is an e-mail from the White-House I received in regards to those petitions.
I've interjected my opinion, in bright red.
Our Government on the subject of Hemp,
Marijuana and legalization...
What
We (the White House) Have to Say About Marijuana and Hemp Production
By Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
America America
By Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
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The Administration will
continue looking for innovative ways to support farmers across the country...balancing the need to protect public health and safety. To accomplish this goal millions are/have been given misdemeanor sentences for simple possession, millions more are incarcerated, ordered into rehap, lose their children, their jobs, their humanity. And many around the world die and continue to die as a result of these zero tolerance regulations.
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Does the federal government really believe people will be hurt, let alone be tempted to smoke the near-beer equivalent of pot? Hemp is prohibited because of minor traces of THC? Wow... heavy! I'm sure American farmers are breathing a sigh of
relief on that statement.
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Oh, and the human body manufactures it's own scant trace of THC, in the brain, so cut down the human race while you're enforcing your regulations that make zero sense.
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For more about what we have to say about marijuana, please see the President's National Drug Control
Strategy, as well as this earlier petition response below:
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Yeah, I read it. Essentially, there is the worse stuff clogging our
lives than Satan.
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What
We (Gil Kerlikowske*) Have to Say About Legalizing Marijuana
*By Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
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When the President took office, he directed all of his
policymakers to develop policies based on science and research, not ideology or
politics. So our concern about marijuana is based on what the science tells us
about the drug's effects.
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So why still call it marijuana? Why not call it what it is??? Cannabis. As it was known prior to 1937. The term marijuana is based on racial prejudice - towards Mexicans, dating back to the 1920's. It's time to be respectful.
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According to scientists at the National Institutes of Health-
the world's largest source of drug abuse research - marijuana use is associated with addiction,
respiratory disease, andcognitive impairment. We
know from an array of treatment admission information and Federal data that
marijuana use is a significant source for voluntary drug treatment admissions and visits to emergency rooms.
Studies also reveal that marijuana potency has almost tripled over the past 20
years, raising serious concerns about what this means for public health –
especially among young people who use the drug because research shows their
brains continue to develop well into their
20's. Simply put, it is not a benign drug.
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Nice propaganda... but the NIH is a branch of the Federal government.
Isn't your claim a bit unethical? Bias and a conflict of interest? The NIH is literally, with scant exceptions the only lab allowed to conduct research into cannabis, and it has already stated cannabis has zero medical benefits - that dispite tons of opposing research.
The answer. They can't be trusted. That to me is a big problem.
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Also, per Schedule One protocol, "it is forbidden to conduct research..." for beneficial uses of a Schedule One drug. Period. So how will the NIH help? How can they even be trusted? The answer. They can't be trusted. That to me is a big problem.
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Like many, we are interested in the potential marijuana may have
in providing relief to individuals diagnosed with certain serious illnesses.
That is why we ardently support ongoing research into determining what
components of the marijuana plant can be used as medicine. To date, however,
neither the FDA nor the Institute of Medicine have
foundsmoked marijuana to meet the modern standard
for safe or effective medicine for any condition.
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Since when has the federal government "cared about the potential marijuana may have..."? The language here is extremely calculated. "Serious illness". "...ardently support ongoing research." "...smoked marijuana..."
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Seriously, the federal government can't even talk brownies. Unlike tobacco, cannabis can be eaten, and used in unlimited ways. It's a plant, and it's one of the safest plants known to humans.
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Further, the We The People petitions were not about "help from the federal government, but rather, get out of the We The People's faces about cannabis, decriminalize it now. We really were not asking for your help, other than reform federal marihuana laws!!!
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As a former police chief, I recognize we are not going to arrest
our way out of the problem. We also recognize that legalizing marijuana would
not provide the answer to any of the health, social, youth education, criminal
justice, and community quality of life challenges associated with drug use.
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You recognize? How is then that you recognize the opposite of the obvious??? Prohibition and the dangers of cannabis were artificially created, are still unsupported, and an illegal act that has created a humanitarian crisis for decades; the Federal Government simply cannot pass
a laws that outlaws Nature. They cannot. The apple that Eve ate may have sentenced us to eventual death, it did not give a government the right to damn us too, nor prohibit a plant we already paid the ultimate price to possess! It is an inalienable right (of adults) to possess and use and grow all plants given to us by God. We live in a Country that boasts, among Liberty and Freedom, that in God We Trust.
Do we???
Do we???
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Making millions of dollars every minute, from busting otherwise law-abiding adult citizens, for plant possession and/or use, sale or growing, and making these people criminals, just doesn't add up or make any sense. Especially with
the violence associated along with the War on Drugs. So, sorry, but I don't see how the White house is helping! To me they create a lot of hurt.
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That is why the President's National Drug
Control Strategy is
balanced and comprehensive, emphasizing prevention and treatment while at the
same time supporting innovative law enforcement efforts that protect public
safety and disrupt the supply of drugs entering our communities. Preventing
drug use is the most cost-effective way to reduce drug use and its consequences
in America
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Innovative, my ass. Time to outlaw coffee addicts. Big money-maker
there! Just call it "DRUGS", like you do with all substances you really don't understand. I do know myself what a "drug" is - a chemical that has an effect on a living thing. That pretty much includes everything on our planet! Wow. What potential... controlling the planet.
Coca-Cola wouldn't like it either, would it? Remembering 1904... covered in my last post.
Coca-Cola wouldn't like it either, would it? Remembering 1904... covered in my last post.
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Our commitment to a balanced approach to drug control is real.
This last fiscal year alone, the Federal Government spent over $10 billion on
drug education and treatment programs compared to just over $9 billion on drug
related law enforcement in the U.S.
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Anything less than 0 dollars would be my vote! Thank-you!
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Interesting post. I got the same letter from the White house expressing their concern and interest, lol. The letter turns into the typical danger of drugs routine, and ignores completely the purpose of the We The People petition.
ReplyDeleteDrug courts - that is so over the top and scary... to have to go to a drug court for marijuana, cannabis, is so unrealistic and unnecessary. The feds should stand back and seriously look at what they're doing, and causing for harm to society. Serious harm!
Thanks
Mark