kaylee
09-25-2002, 01:36 PM
Here's a shocking fact: In the first 200 years of our nation's history, we incarcerated a million people. In the last 10 or so years of the 60 year "Drug War", we've locked up another million.
That's the reason that every prisoner lives in squalor, doing without basic necessities, and that's the reason families live in fear when their loved one goes to prison. We can't afford rehabilitation anymore... Our mass warehousing of citizens is all about punishment.
65% of our county's prisoners are non-violent, most of them victims of a war on SOME drugs. This post is about the most harmless of the 'drugs', the most peaceful of the users, and bad laws that hurt good people.
I wrote the following after reading a Letter to the Editor called, PRO-POT CROWD'S AGGRESSION SHOWS POTENCY IS ON RISE
I don't know what you do or don't know about "Marijuana", but it we are ever going to get a grip on drugs in general and the never-ending war against them, it's about time we learned the truth...
...AND THE TRUTH NEVER CHANGES
For heaven's sake! I'm a grandma several times over and I've never heard such rubbish as the uneducated LTE by Eric Myrholm! Eric, Let me tell you something about the truth, young man - it never changes.
You may have seen "Reefer Madness", a film made back in the '30s by the industrialists and politicians of the day. It was about the aggressiveness of a little non-toxic plant they named 'marihuana'. They convinced many people that this very old plant with a brand new name would make users
become psychotic and viciously kill loved ones while laughing hysterically.
Of course, at that time they just wanted to make
Cannabis-aka-Hemp-aka-Marijuana illegal. Competition issues and all..
The people bought the story of the evil plant, not knowing it was only Cannabis/Hemp, and allowed those lying industrialists and political bedfellows to create a whole new class of 'criminal'.
But then, along came WWII and suddenly those rascal Politicians and Industrialists remembered they needed hemp for everything from the uniforms, sails, rigging, decks, and even the logbook. Oops! Back up.
So now they have to tell the people that Cannabis/Hemp is so valuable that every child should grow at least an acre and every parent could keep their sons home from the war if they would just grow lots of Cannabis/hemp.
The war finally ends, and they looked around at all those plants and remembered that it was illegal, but how to make people give up growing this profitable natural resource?
"Ahhhhh!" they think. "We'll tell them marijuana makes the user so passive that the commies will just walk into our country and take over."
In the 80s, they were made to acknowledge the medical properties of pot because doctors who needed to treat their patients with it proved the necessity. So, they began giving a handful of sick people a monthly supply of pre-rolled joints, grown on their own 'government' owned plot of land in
Mississippi. (They still give it to seven living patients. Everybody else goes to prison.)
Then that old AIDS virus drove maybe 10,000 sick people's doctors to ask for the right to use Cannabis in medical care. Instead of worrying about being the only supplier for that many people (they certainly weren't going to let anyone else grown it legally), in 1992 the government decided it was not
medicine anymore and they shut down the medical program for the plant.
They made a synthetic imitation for medical use and in 1994, they said, "We don't want to hear anymore about this subject... no more clinical trials unless we say so and we say no!"
Well, the people kept hollering for the right to use the plant, so they mocked the people, calling the plant that had been used as a primary medicine for well over 5000 years, "Cheech and Chong!" "It doesn't make sick people feel better," says the drug czar. "They just think it does!" Darn right!
Despite thousands of peaceful crowds that gather across the world periodically to protest the illegality of God's plants, Eric Myrholm would take us back to the original lie of Reefer Madness. He takes it as fact that the increased irritability of the 'marijuana' advocates is due to increased potency.
Even the cops know better than that. They've had to stand around with nothing to do during the hemp festivals because all the action was at the football rally with the beer drinking crowd.
The writer of the original letter says it is the potency that makes that crowd restless, with not a thought about how long advocates have tried to tell people that the facts are out
there. No matter how patient we've been in waiting for truth and common sense to come out of a politician's mouth about 'marijuana', no matter that thousands of users are losing their property, families, freedom and lives over these lies, Eric blame's that frustration on potency!
The Marijuana story changes to suit the status quo, but the truth never changes.
I'd laugh if the lies weren't so darned painful.
My personal experience with Cannabis
http://www.angelfire.com/la/kaylee/depression.html
That's the reason that every prisoner lives in squalor, doing without basic necessities, and that's the reason families live in fear when their loved one goes to prison. We can't afford rehabilitation anymore... Our mass warehousing of citizens is all about punishment.
65% of our county's prisoners are non-violent, most of them victims of a war on SOME drugs. This post is about the most harmless of the 'drugs', the most peaceful of the users, and bad laws that hurt good people.
I wrote the following after reading a Letter to the Editor called, PRO-POT CROWD'S AGGRESSION SHOWS POTENCY IS ON RISE
I don't know what you do or don't know about "Marijuana", but it we are ever going to get a grip on drugs in general and the never-ending war against them, it's about time we learned the truth...
...AND THE TRUTH NEVER CHANGES
For heaven's sake! I'm a grandma several times over and I've never heard such rubbish as the uneducated LTE by Eric Myrholm! Eric, Let me tell you something about the truth, young man - it never changes.
You may have seen "Reefer Madness", a film made back in the '30s by the industrialists and politicians of the day. It was about the aggressiveness of a little non-toxic plant they named 'marihuana'. They convinced many people that this very old plant with a brand new name would make users
become psychotic and viciously kill loved ones while laughing hysterically.
Of course, at that time they just wanted to make
Cannabis-aka-Hemp-aka-Marijuana illegal. Competition issues and all..
The people bought the story of the evil plant, not knowing it was only Cannabis/Hemp, and allowed those lying industrialists and political bedfellows to create a whole new class of 'criminal'.
But then, along came WWII and suddenly those rascal Politicians and Industrialists remembered they needed hemp for everything from the uniforms, sails, rigging, decks, and even the logbook. Oops! Back up.
So now they have to tell the people that Cannabis/Hemp is so valuable that every child should grow at least an acre and every parent could keep their sons home from the war if they would just grow lots of Cannabis/hemp.
The war finally ends, and they looked around at all those plants and remembered that it was illegal, but how to make people give up growing this profitable natural resource?
"Ahhhhh!" they think. "We'll tell them marijuana makes the user so passive that the commies will just walk into our country and take over."
In the 80s, they were made to acknowledge the medical properties of pot because doctors who needed to treat their patients with it proved the necessity. So, they began giving a handful of sick people a monthly supply of pre-rolled joints, grown on their own 'government' owned plot of land in
Mississippi. (They still give it to seven living patients. Everybody else goes to prison.)
Then that old AIDS virus drove maybe 10,000 sick people's doctors to ask for the right to use Cannabis in medical care. Instead of worrying about being the only supplier for that many people (they certainly weren't going to let anyone else grown it legally), in 1992 the government decided it was not
medicine anymore and they shut down the medical program for the plant.
They made a synthetic imitation for medical use and in 1994, they said, "We don't want to hear anymore about this subject... no more clinical trials unless we say so and we say no!"
Well, the people kept hollering for the right to use the plant, so they mocked the people, calling the plant that had been used as a primary medicine for well over 5000 years, "Cheech and Chong!" "It doesn't make sick people feel better," says the drug czar. "They just think it does!" Darn right!
Despite thousands of peaceful crowds that gather across the world periodically to protest the illegality of God's plants, Eric Myrholm would take us back to the original lie of Reefer Madness. He takes it as fact that the increased irritability of the 'marijuana' advocates is due to increased potency.
Even the cops know better than that. They've had to stand around with nothing to do during the hemp festivals because all the action was at the football rally with the beer drinking crowd.
The writer of the original letter says it is the potency that makes that crowd restless, with not a thought about how long advocates have tried to tell people that the facts are out
there. No matter how patient we've been in waiting for truth and common sense to come out of a politician's mouth about 'marijuana', no matter that thousands of users are losing their property, families, freedom and lives over these lies, Eric blame's that frustration on potency!
The Marijuana story changes to suit the status quo, but the truth never changes.
I'd laugh if the lies weren't so darned painful.
My personal experience with Cannabis
http://www.angelfire.com/la/kaylee/depression.html