[The FRugitive]

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[weikel]

Is he gonna start paying off Canadian movie theatres to start showing Reefer Madness again. This should be entertaining watching all the fits this "Drug Czar" goes through in an effort to avoid getting a real job.

[JediGirl]

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[southern rock]

The drug czar has a $1 billion propaganda budget for the next five years.

That's OUR tax $$$, folks. Is it really that worth it to all you drug warriors?

[Kermit]

""Some people think that if the government didn't create the war against drugs that made such a huge black market, the terrorists and the drug cartels wouldn't be able to make such a tremendous profit," she said."

BINGO!

[Alice in Wonderland]

I hope they make the commercial that starts:

"This is Julie.
This is the diamond tennis bracelet Julie bought.
This is the company that made the bracelet.
This is the supplier who gets his diamonds from Africa.
These are the warlords who kill and maim over control of the mines.
These are the terrorists who profited from the warlord's control over the mines..."

or better yet:

"This is Steve.
This is Steve's SUV.
This is the 25 gallons of gasoline Steve pours into his gas hog each week.
This is the Saudi oil sheik who profits from the sale of that gasoline.
These are the terrorists who directly funded by Saudi oil sheiks..."

[secretagent]

I wonder what the same amount of advertising dollars would do for the pro-freedom side.

I'll guess that tv and radio stations wouldn't run the ads, though, under threat of losing their F.C.C. license.

[PaxMacian]

"CRUSADE"? or UNHOLY WAR
The WoD is an unconstitutional and truly evil war against CITIZENS of this great country!

GOD MADE HERB
GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD
GOD GAVE IT TO MAN

Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:29
And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ..."

Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990) - Court rules that the Free Exercise Clause cannot exempt one from drug laws. The two defendants were members of the Native American Church and had ingested peyote, a hallucinogenic drug. The high court states a new rule: no religious actions may violate general laws, but laws aimed specifically at religions or a particular religious practice will be held unconstitutional.

P.S. I don't want to hear any crap about hemlock(not an herb) or any poisonous herbs because they are all legal to possess or grow and indeed all have medicinal properties.

[Senator Pardek]

"This is Dan. This is the joint that Dan bought. This is the dealer that sold the joint that Dan bought. This is the smuggler that smuggled the pot to the dealer who sold the joint that Dan bought. This is the cartel that uses the smuggler that smuggled the pot to the dealer who sold the joint that Dan bought. And this is the family that was lined up by Dan's cartel and shot for getting in the way."

Er - ya think the WOD is at least partly responsible for this?

Any ways - changing around a few words could prove that people who put gas in their tanks are responsible for taking down thw WTC.

Driver -> gas station -> oil firms -> Saudi Arabia -> Saudi Royal Family -> Osama bin Laden.

Bingo - The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (Terrorist Edition)!

[headsonpikes]

RE: John Walters

"He is a bullshit factory..."

Too, too true. Luckily, no one capable of rational thought believes him.

[Roscoe]

"The claim that marijuana is an efficacious medicine is a lie," he told a Detroit news conference. "It is used by people who want to legalize marijuana, cynically."

Exactly.

[Hard_Pill_To_Swallow]

Terrorists get a lot more oil money than drug money.

[KDD]

76.3 million people over the age of 12 have admitted to smoking pot. That's 34.2% of the adult population according to the NIDA's own survey. Walters needs to be carefull in what propaganda his office puts before the public. Americans have had 50 years to learn about marijuana and know that it is not the demon drug that the ONDCP wants to make it out to be.

As the governments assumption of the ignorance of the people it governs becomes more apparent to those governed, the backlash against Walters and all law enforcement will grow. Disrespect for Federal Law Enforcement is already rampant in this country and on this forum.

This is a foolish waste of one billion dollars. In every state where this marijuana issue has come before the people for a vote, the sentiment of the people has been clear. Legalize or decriminalize the stuff. Washington is ignoring the will of the people in the "Several States". Something more important to the government then the "will of the people" is at stake here. What could it be?

[Beach_Babe]

The following are excerpts from The Benefits of Marijuana:

Marijuana use can have physical, psychological, and spiritual benefits:

The PHYSICAL BENEFITS of marijuana are far-reaching, widespread, and long-term. Because of the way marijuana impacts the Autonomic Nervous System which expands the breath and relaxes the body, its potential for health and healing are enormous, and have been completely unrealized by Western Medicine.

PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS: When we balance the Autonomic Nervous System, there is an effect on the mind that is both energizing and relaxing SIMULTANEOUSLY. In other words, we can think more clearly and more efficiently.

SPIRITUAL BENEFITS: That which enlivens is understood as the SPIRIT. In these times of secular values, when the life force is not recognized as being an expression of the holy, when in fact, the notion of a plane of existence beyond the material is not acknowledged, the search for meaning nevertheless perseveres.

Today, in these darkest of times, hundreds of millions who pursue the journey inward to the universal core values, find that marijuana facilitates the search. As a religious sacrament, intuitively recognized by all for whom the sacred beckons, marijuana has been employed for thousands of years, crossing all geographical and ethnic barriers. Marijuana not only balances the body, and enhances our mental processes, it can also help (some of) us to perceive the abiding reality by raising our consciousness.

[headsonpikes]

John Walters "...is a bullshit factory."

[joeyman]

Look, I'm not an advocate of smoking dope. Frankly, we need more people to get involved in their communities and start holding our constantly growing govt accountable for its action. However....

Let dopers be dopers. It's too expensive and a waste of time to continue drug prohibition in this country.

[Urbane_Guerilla]

The appalling irony of those commercials is their use of innocent murder victims caused by the policy of the WOD. It is the WOD which provides the motive for the deaths of bystanders to the War.

I have yet to see a single drug warrior acknowledge the truth that they must necessarily find the murder, robbery and burglary of tens of thousands of innocent victims an acceptable cost for trying (futilely) to stop people from getting high.

[Renegade]

They showed the commercials on TV Today show this week with a bunch of high school and college kids to judge ..4 of six said kids don't give a crap about the people in Columbia, and if they legalized it, the crime would go away . So much for our tax dollars spent on legislating pleasure again ..
The two that were in agreement were typical lemming that follows the government protection of the people to the max .

[bat-boy]

"This is Dan. This is the joint that Dan bought. This is the dealer that sold the joint that Dan bought. This is the smuggler that smuggled the pot to the dealer who sold the joint that Dan bought. This is the cartel that uses the smuggler that smuggled the pot to the dealer who sold the joint that Dan bought. And this is the family that was lined up by Dan's cartel and shot for getting in the way."And this is the CIA agent who organized and funded Dan's cartel. And these are the CEO's of America's largest finincial institutions who launder the money for Dan's cartel. And these are the local, state and federal politicians who are bought and paid for by both the drug cartels and the finincial institutions to insure that the war is never won and will never end.

[dark_lord]

And the really stupid thing about all this is if they focused the exact same campaign on cocaine or heroin it would actually be fairly accurate. But by focusing on pot all it does is make them look like complete morons.

More of our tax dollars down the toilet. FLUSH!