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Topsy-turvy times for pot advocates (Marijuana/War on Drugs)
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 4/21/03
| Ulysses Torassa
Posted on 04/21/2003 1:35:30 PM PDT by MikalM
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Now, it seems, is the best of times, and the worst of times, for the marijuana movement.
While most Americans say they support medical marijuana, the federal government has won several high-profile criminal cases against cannabis clubs and pot growers in the past year.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: addiction; cannabis; drugs; hemp; marijuana; norml; warondrugs; wod; wodlist
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posted on
04/21/2003 1:35:31 PM PDT
by
MikalM
To: MikalM
Why is April 19/20 such a focus of odd things? It's the day neoNazis celebrate Hitler's birthday, the day militia types commemorate Waco and Oklahoma City, the day those Goths shot up Columbine, the day hippies celebrate as Pot Day, even Earth Day as well, I think?
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posted on
04/21/2003 1:39:48 PM PDT
by
wideawake
(Support our troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
To: MikalM
The date is derived from the phrase "420," a shorthand code coined more than 30 years ago by a group of San Rafael High School students who gathered at 4: 20 p.m. to get high. Too late for me today. darn.
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posted on
04/21/2003 1:46:30 PM PDT
by
RJCogburn
(Yes, I will call it bold talk for a......)
To: MikalM
I saw a "Third Watch" episode on A&E where dealers were giving heroin addicts heroin that was much purer than the norm (70% vs. 5%). Of course the druggies were killing themselves by overdosing. One cop reflected my opinion, who cares if these morons kill themselves. I say make all recreational drugs legal and let the stupid people weed themselves out very rapidly.
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posted on
04/21/2003 1:48:00 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: MikalM; MrLeRoy
"Now NORML talks about how it's easier for kids to get pot than alcohol because they don't need a fake ID -- and how legalizing and regulating marijuana could change that."Now I know where MrLeRoy got his "easier for kids to get pot than alcohol" propaganda!
To: wideawake
The Republican hierarchy is wrong to stick its nose where states should have the final say. If our society can retain its basic Constitutional rights for another 10 or 20 years, Pot will be as easy to purchase as liquor.
If you don't mind crossing state lines that is.
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posted on
04/21/2003 1:52:06 PM PDT
by
okiesap
To: MikalM; jmc813; *Wod_list
WOD bump
7
posted on
04/21/2003 1:53:15 PM PDT
by
bassmaner
(Let's take back the word "liberal" from the commies!!)
To: MikalM
8
posted on
04/21/2003 1:54:47 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it)
To: MikalM
Ya can't legalize drugs!!!
Once recreational drugs are legal, there won't be a rational to keep Doctors monopoly on perscription drugs.
There are just too many people (on both sides of the law) who owe their livelyhood on drug laws.
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posted on
04/21/2003 1:56:07 PM PDT
by
narby
(Fox News = America's News Network)
To: wideawake
even Earth Day as well, I think? April 22. Thanks for reminding me; it's my wedding anniversary, and I have some shopping to do.
10
posted on
04/21/2003 2:01:33 PM PDT
by
newgeezer
(A conservative who conserves -- a true capitalist!)
To: MikalM
Where I think the drug wars are really taking their toll is in the workplace. The drug testing programs are identifying pot users and turning them away from key jobs.
11
posted on
04/21/2003 2:05:55 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
To: robertpaulsen
"Now NORML talks about how it's easier for kids to get pot than alcohol because they don't need a fake ID -- and how legalizing and regulating marijuana could change that."Now I know where MrLeRoy got his "easier for kids to get pot than alcohol" propaganda!
It's no surprise that NORML knows this, but I didn't get it from them; I learned about it over on Newsmax's message board (back when they had one).
12
posted on
04/21/2003 2:11:00 PM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
("That government is best which governs least.")
To: robertpaulsen
Propaganda? In college I could walk upstairs, if I was so inclined, and have 3 varities of weed to purchase, yet I couldn't walk to the corner liquor mart and by a sixer. Weed is easier to conceal than a keg also.
13
posted on
04/21/2003 2:11:44 PM PDT
by
Desecrated
(A nickel of every tax dollar should go toward the defense of America)
To: Desecrated
So even though you were in college, you considered yourself a kid?
To: Desecrated
"a higher percentage of teens find marijuana easier to buy than cigarettes and alcohol." - National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, CASA 2002 Teen Survey
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posted on
04/21/2003 2:19:36 PM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
("That government is best which governs least.")
To: robertpaulsen
A kid in some ways, some ways not. I take "kid" to be younger folks in general. And if you want to be picky, and apparently you do, the same was true in high school as well. Or are those not "kids" either?
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posted on
04/21/2003 2:24:36 PM PDT
by
Desecrated
(A nickel of every tax dollar should go toward the defense of America)
To: wideawake
The date is derived from the phrase "420," a shorthand code coined more than 30 years ago by a group of San Rafael High School students who gathered at 4: 20 p.m. to get high. See? It's in the article.
To: DannyTN
The drug testing programs are identifying pot users and turning them away from key jobs. Drug testing is retarded. Hard drugs like coke and heroin are out of your system within a day or two.
To: BrooklynGOP
Drug testing is retarded. Hard drugs like coke and heroin are out of your system within a day or two. If you can't tell just by looking at him work whether an employee is high on heroin, you should fire him and replace him with a trained monkey.
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posted on
04/21/2003 2:31:36 PM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
("That government is best which governs least.")
To: Wolfie; vin-one; WindMinstrel; philman_36; Beach_Babe; jenny65; AUgrad; Xenalyte; Bill D. Berger; ..
WOD Ping
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posted on
04/21/2003 2:35:26 PM PDT
by
jmc813
(The average citizen in Baghdad,right now, has more firearm rights than anyone in our country.)
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