is dropping Michael Phelps.
If they can't see past that photograph to all of the effort that Michael put into winning so many Olympic medals, they aren't worthy of my business.
Beginning immediately, I will boycott all of their products.

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Here is an email address for the White House that is not limited for size: comments@whitehouse.gov

Contact your representative in the U.S.Congress
Contact your U.S. Senator

For a permanent solution to the pot and medical cannabis issues consider asking the administration and your members of congress to support Congressman Barney Frank's medical marijuana and/or marijuana decriminalization bills.

H.R.5842 : To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States. (Copy hosted page by Aid & comfort blog H.R. 5842)

H.R.5843 : To eliminate most Federal penalties for possession of marijuana for personal use, and for other purposes. (Copy hosted page by Aid & comfort blog H.R. 5843)

IF THEY DON'T HEAR IT FROM US THEY WON'T HEAR IT!

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How about a campaign to get former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson nominated to the permanent Drug Czar job?

GARY JOHNSON FOR DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY

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Michael Phelps's Notes

Celebrity Stoners: American High Society

NFL Buzzkill

"Insanity [is] ...
Continuing to do the same things and expecting different results."
-- Albert Einstein

We are calling for a World Wide BOYCOTT,
of any and all companies dropping ads
on the grounds of enough hypocrisy!

Should Michael Phelps apologize for being photographed with a bong?
Craig Ferguson thinks not.
CBS Vid The Late Late Show - 02/02/09
The Whole Michael Phelps Controversy

72% want Obama to end DEA raids
DWR: Pete Guither 2.4.9

"Casual drug users should be taken out and shot."
- Daryl DARE Gates - Former LAPD Chief

Michael Phelps, Hypocrisy, & American Drug Policy

In the meantime, I merely note that this broken wreck of a man's failure to win any more than a pathetic fourteen Olympic gold medals (so far) is a terrifying warning of the horrific damage that cannabis can do to someone's health--and a powerful reminder of just how sensible the drug laws really are.

DEA Chief: Winners Occasionally Use Drugs
September 9, 1997 | Issue 32•06 WASHINGTON, DC
In a surprise announcement with wide-ranging implications for U.S. narcotics policy, Drug Enforcement Administration director Thomas Constantine acknowledged Monday that some winners "may occasionally" use drugs.

"Republic . . .
it means people can live free, talk free, go or come,
buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose."
-- John Wayne

Phelps unites pot smokers By David Edwards
CNN’s Jeanne Moos reported that the photo of Michael Phelps smoking a bong has united pot smokers on the internet.

This video is from CNN’s American Morning, broadcast Feb. 4, 2009

"...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana
is its effect on the degenerate races."
- Harry J. Anslinger - America's 1st Drug Czar (FDR - JFK)

What Michael Phelps Should Have Said
Radley Balko | February 2, 2009

Smoking pot shouldn't be a crime.
Or the public's business.

Dear America, I take it back. I don’t apologize.

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Divide and Maintain Dysfunction

Where is A.N.S.W.E.R. against this war? Mothers don't like durable clothing? How about dad's hunting vest, made from Romanian hemp. The old portrait on Hemp canvas. What if it really is medicine? Can you tell your child to die, because a treatment is politically outlawed? Or not wince at Grannies Rhumatiz when some leaf tea might soothe the bones, without tearing a hole in her stomach.

2000 year Old growth forest, filtering 5000 gallons of fresh water each day, Removing CO2 producing oxygen, even Jesus took a hit of. Didn't have to be clear-cut, so McCain's bud Horowitz could make a buck. They were together bilking seniors at El Dorodo Savings,
with Neil Bush, Glenn and Okie Guv Keating. Giving Will Foster a 93 year sentence, Keating 5 zip. for growing some medicine, another Vet victim.

Why is Green Peace saving whales, and not pushing Hemp? Or Ganja as environmentally safer than the infrastructure for pills and booze. Why is Big Al fearing Global Warming, When carbohydrates can replace imported hydrocarbon plastic. 5 million Americans legally hungry, Hemp Omega 3 seed and Oil comes from Canada. Where are the US family bible belt farmers? Selling out to Cliarence's Monsanto. Aborting more babies than Roe V Wade. Making more customers for their subsidiaries selling white powders.

Where are the Vets, literally dying for lies. PTSD remedy could be growing in their living rooms. What about the chickenhawk Hypocrites toking then turning backs. Getting votes and then short term memory loss, unless they're re-elected. Then they completely forget. We the divided bickering over stupid things, Locking up sick people busting their Ganja stores, doesn't even register in the minds set on fear. Hiding from terrorists when their own neighbors are terrorized now still sick and back to the streets. Where kickback and confiscations make up for IOU's.

Investing in Private prisons and Pinkertons. The cowards afraid to voice their opinions. Believe the news chick cause she's cute. The Drug Cartels invest in PDFA lame ass commercials to cast doubt to the masses and keep a going dangling that green carrot. Lawyers on both sides work for the BAR. Judges can't decide what the DEA won't test. Until they do Congress can't change it, and cops have to cage you, its the law... they choose to enforce.

The Black Caucus should be raising hell. The poor are the first to get shafted. Gays should be outraged at the Ganjawar, not blame it on hippies. Women Vengeance Unions, arm chair quarterbacking the future based on lies from the past getting all frizzled to protect the children when CPS are breaking up more families than pot. For advocating harm reduction, claiming its an unfit environment. Then take the kid and give it to Foster care paid with taxes. 10 is the limit. Cloth them in Wallfart child sweatshop garments. Fresh frozen waffles and diet cocaine cola for breakfast. If they don't obey, the religious drug treatment and piss taste center is still open for business.

How many ways does this Ganjawar pay and why give such a versatile thing to the people free? Where is the Teachers rage? Jerk Souder's tackon to the High Education Ax won't hurt Obama children. Lush Rimjob is so afraid the taxes might aid an American citizen, Not a word about corporate subsidies, GOPerverts not paying a dime, bitching about food-stamps and college grants, while our share of their tax is stashed away in the Caymans. Wallstreet and Madison Ave coke heads dissipating the effects of the 3 Martini powder lunches. Same corporate fascists spare changed a $trillion from Bush, selling stocks on the war on some groups of people possessing certain drugs and vegetables. We just need to stop hating each other for 5 minutes. Once Ganja is free, everything else is gonna be alright...

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The DEA is an example - filled with Bush administration leftovers who are committed to NOT letting cannabis reform progress.

There are Bush-appointed/Bush loyalists salted all through the government working against you and me and Obama's administrations' plans.

Obama has to get over the kumbayah bullshit and PURGE these fuckers from OUR government and make his people do what they are told.

THe DEA needs to be defunded and deleted.

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...has been a boon for most states treasuries, it's only a matter of time before marijuana is legalized, controlled a taxed.

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Why do we not allow people to purchase mind-altering and pleasure drugs over the counter at WalMart? First, it is against the law. Second, the Politicians are in no hurry to legalize such a profitable industry as the drug trade. Do you think that the politicians are not into drugs? Why not? They have their hands in every other form of corruption and some politicians even admit to using narcotic drugs. Thirdly, the population of drug-user's in the public is expanding; which is the reason behind the call for legalization and social acceptance. Although I am not a user of narcotics, (I was at one time a chain smoker - who quit cold turkey), never-the-less, I would support legalization, IF; it was controlled by a government agency that supervised and controlled the distribution of free drugs (as a national health program) to addicts that signed up for rehabilitation and cure of their habit. For the time being, the law is the law, and our paid enforcement agents are most likely as corrupt and as the dealers in that a large enough bribe cannot be refused given the current situation. Why should only the drug lords make such an obscene amount of CASH? Do you ever wonder WHY the DEA is so under-manned and under-powered? Why are they not equipped to do their job? Reason: no one wants them to do their jobs! Especially those who prosecute border agents who try to do their job.

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Hemp has 10,000 industrial uses that compete directly with the poisonous petrochemical monopolies.. This is the only reason why its illegal. How can you enslave humanity if he grows a product( without your chemicals) , that provides for his needs and makes him independent of enslavers??? do a search yourself.

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Millions of people carers and livelyhoods depend on believing this big lie known as the war on drugs (citizens).
The police , jailers, courts attorneys/lawyers with their illegaland unconstitutional police powers as well as black market profiteers vehemently oppose legalization. The fact is, their careers and futures depend on attacking this benign ad supremely useful plant and maintaining its illegality.. This is abject fraud.

Thousands of products made by the poisonous petrochemical monopolies could be replaced by cleaner and superior products made from hemp.

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Let's get real here. ALL oppressive governments (Measuring "oppressiveness by the metric of people in jail/ total population, the US is the most oppressive country on the planet- you maybe thought you were free?- so did the Germans in the 1930's ) must begin with some issue justify incarceration that people will tolerate. Pot smoking reduces the brains efficiency, allowing new ways to view raw data. New ways of seeing things are contrary to oppression, making drug incarceration ideal to break the barrier to political incarceration.

Secondly, Pot is a HUGE source of revenue for politicians, as THAT revenue must be laundered.
Politicians abet this process my offering the big producers protection AND the willingness to keep the small producer in check by giving the large producers FREE (aka paid for by the little guy)security, much as oil companies get free security forces.

Why on earth would a rational politician bite the hand that feeds him (keeps him/her in power)?

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The drug war started ages ago, the constitutional abuses started 20 years ago, after Bush I took office - "Damn the fourth amendment, full speed ahead" and it's been like that, the unwritten "drug exclusion" to the 4th amendment. Once the rights of a group of people is compromised, we are all in trouble. And look at where we are now. There are no protections in place for anyone.

When the Grateful Dead and the Deadheads were hounded by police and DEA, it was under a a democrat president. It's not been the past 8 years, but the past 16 years, that pot arrests total more than arrests for other real crime. I've read that from NORML so why act like it's just been 8 years??? Our prisons are now for profit industries.

There is no financial or political incentive for politicians to come clean, they are funded by prison guard unions, police unions, pharamceudical and booze lobbies and folks in power are making money with things just the way they are now. They don't care about the well being of the citizenry, it's all about control and none of them are willing to give up any of that.

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The real problem is that Armentano is part of the "moneyed" drug reform aristocracy finanaced by Soros, Lewis and Sperling. As such NORML, DPA, MPP and other groups are only "allowed" to discuss "tax and regulate solutions. The MERP Model is the only way to go as it will destroy the Drug Cartels and provide a counterbalance to the liberties lost during the Bush administration.

More on my ideas below:

Drug Policy
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Video:
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Marijuana: Past, Present and Future from Bruce Cain on Vimeo.
www.vimeo.com/2056650


Why Lou Dobbs Should Support Marijuana Legalization
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VKf5YfQb7s&

Articles:
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The MERP Project
The Marijuana Re-Legalization Policy (MRP) Project

www.newagecitizen.com/ReLegalization01.htm
www.newagecitizen.com/editorial_on_the_marijuana_re.htm

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Pot raids go on,even though most of us know pot is safer than beer, because of one thing. Raids cost taxpayer money and they want it. Potheads show the least resistance and are easily overwhelmed,so the danger to cops is lower than say, a domestic violence call,where a cop might just get shot.

Potheads are like the Taliban to the dominate culture,the culture of plunder and profit,the culture of Richman Dominance Poorman Dominated.

Potheads tend to be freethinkers,above the bullshit,as it were. So our 'Living the Constitution' is a threat to those who only wipe their ass with it because they want you to have no rights,no liberty and damn little freedom.

I know I'm going to catch some flack from a few alternetter's for my views but I'll bet they've got a dry bar at home or are on some anti-depressant mind fogger and some just might be high on Jesus. But even Jesus knew and used hemp.

Not only is it time for us,as a people, to stand up against useless potbusts, but corrupted governance,thieving corporations,and the trampling of the many by the few. Of course when the poor start demanding their rights,the dominate culture declares a revolt.
Maybe that's why Thomas Jefferson said we needed a revolution every twenty years or so,
just to insure our Liberty,our Freedom and our non-subserviance to the wealthy and the power that wealth creates the illusion of.

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while providing police departments, lawyers, judges, the prison industry, DEA, etc., all sorts of job security, bonuses, overtime pay, ever increasing revenue & powers, their own smuggling/dealing/money-laundering opportunities, etc.!!! (And this is just the tip of the rotten, corrupt iceberg!)

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coem on how could they continue to jack up pricing by 1000's% points if we could grow our own in the back yard. I took one of their mind numbing psychotropics-aka 'antianxiety'- it made me an emotional zombie- I felt nothing. Great when your conspiratiors our comiiting outrageous high crimes. Then I near choked to death when I couldn't swallow. this happened twice, so I stopped taking the poison. it's taken now about 6 months and I am still experiencing an emotional roller coaster ride, My thoughts have been dangerously close to violent and self destructive at times. something I never experienced prior to this medication. I have to keep telling myself it's just the remenents of the mind warping drugs I was prescribed.
From now on I will return to my old Tried and true methods of mental stablity- a piece of chocolate, a drink, a smoke and good cry. Knowing what it has done to my psyche, I fear what it has done to my physiology and vital organs. Never Again!
The phrase 'koolaid drinker' should be revised to address the real culprit to the dumbing down of Americans 'Pharmacutical Zombie'

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I am in favor of the repeal of marijuana prohibition. The whole darned thing is crazy to begin with an uninformed person might say. Well it is not crazy it has a specific logic. That of capital interests and the use of scare tactics that seem to work quite well on American Sheeples.

If you are unfamiliar with the reasons for marijuana prohibition this will inform you. http://www.socyberty.com/Issues/The-War-on-Drugs.182439

So this Phelps guy, a few months ago the darling of everyone, now is known as a 'drug user' and everything that made him that darling has been flushed down the drain with out any corn flakes.

America has to ask itself if it has a soul or just a plastic opinion.

I am in favor of the repeal of marijuana prohibition for recreational and every other use. What nation has the right to restrict access to the planet from its citizens when it removes uranium and oil while in the process of creating the seeds of destroying the planet?


This madness has to end.

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My mom was a true believer in looking up medicines and diseases in the Merck Manual.

Look what I found today, the Merck Manuals online medical library. Hooray! It is a medicine listed in the Merck Manual! We have arrived. Marijuana (Cannabis)

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don't NEED the income from the militarization of the millennially old drug trade?

like society doesn't 'need' to have BigPharma infantilize our perceptions of self-management?

like society doesn't 'need' to maintain those hammerlocks on the alcohol & tobacco & firearms? gee, that would be ... the folks to restrict trade in certain products...

while another government agency, like the military, CIA or the DEA help FUND BLACK OPS against the sovereignty of FOREIGN NATIONALS living their own f*cking lives?

gee, the reason POT IS ILLEGAL, is BECAUSE IT FUELS THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL AMERICAN EMPIRE of CRUELTY.

as long as Americans demand foreign nations 'criminalize' the vices & trade of other nationals...

the World will be suffering the tyranny of American politics & social ills.


Keny Arkana - La Rage Du Peuples [English subtitles]


As long as Americans tolerate domestic human rights violations & cruelties, the World has no hope for Peace.





perspective, people.
Perspective.

We don't live in a bubble.
The Jeff Farias Show: podcast

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Don't you all think that the fact people are losing their jobs, homes and all stability takes a mite more precedence?

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The President has the power to stop the raids right this instant. He has not done so and this PR release about reviewing this policy is Obama putting his head in the sand pretending he cannot stop the raids this instant.

Don't make excuses for him by bringing up the country's economic problems. This order would take him 5-10 minutes to write up and a day or 2 to make it to the DEA chiefs.

The DEA issue is arguably more important than the country's economic problems, it is imminently more solvable. Obama's stimulus plan may or may not work to fix the economy. Sending an order to halt the raids would work immediately in halting the raids.

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There is so much facing the nation, and to think that the major thing being considered is whether raids for use of illicit narcotics, which Marijuana is, will be turned back.

Sorry, nope it wont. From marijuana to heroin and crack cocaine-confront that use, yup, we will. Stop the war on drugs-nope we wont.

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The war on Drugs has spent more than a trillion dollars to free America from drugs yet more people use then today than ever before. Proving that the war on drugs is a failure.

The $320-billion a year global black market economy CREATED by the war on drugs policy subsidizes most of the crime and terrorism in the world today. Including the Taliban and Hamas. The War on drugs gives "aid and comfort" to America's sworn enemies. That is TREASON against the people and constitution of the United States of America and all that you drug warriors can say is, ""give it a rest". America needs to start lining up you drug warriors against a wall and shooting you down for the anti American fascists that you really are.

The War on Drugs has also mass disenfranchised tens of millions of poor and minority Americans. The original intent Richard Nixon and the Dixie-crats, who created the war on drugs, was to undermine and neutralize the electoral empowerment of the Voting Rights Act and the drug war has succeeded at doing that. Succeeded at subverting American democracy.

You give it a rest thug drug warrior. Reducing crime and terrorism, that are funded by YOUR drug war policy, are the most important things that America can do today.

Even the U.S. Congressional Research Service has admitted that the drug war is "creating chaos and instability". See my essay: "Creating chaos and instability" Drug War style

finally. the war on drugs leaves the morals and ethics of drug sales to children in the hands of addict dealers and gangsters. Harm Reduction based regulation, licensing and taxation would put responsible Americans and the values of society in between children and drug sales. Your authoritarian drug war exposes more children to drugs. Harm reduction and the democratic institutions of regulation, licensing and taxation would keep drugs away from children.

Your drug war is a danger to society and democracy so it is about time that you drug warriors 'give it a rest'.

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