Weekly: This Week in History
August 2, 1937: The Marijuana Tax Act is passed by Congress, enacting marijuana prohibition at the federal level for the first time. Federal Bureau of Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger tells the Congressmen at the hearings, "Marihuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death."
August 2, 1977: In a speech to Congress, Jimmy Carter addresses the harm done by prohibition, saying, "Penalties against a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana for personal use. The National Commission on Marijuana... concluded years ago that marijuana should be decriminalized, and I believe it is time to implement those basic recommendations."
August 6, 1990: Robert C. Bonner is sworn in as administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Bonner had been a federal judge in Los Angeles. Before he became a judge, Bonner served as a US attorney from 1984 to 1989.
August 4, 1996: In the midst of an election season that included California's medical marijuana initiative, Prop. 215, state narcotics agents, at the direction of California Attorney General Dan Lungren, raid the Cannabis Buyers' Club of San Francisco.
August 7, 1997: The New England Journal of Medicine opines, "Virtually no one thinks it is reasonable to initiate criminal prosecution of patients with cancer or AIDS who use marijuana on the advice of their physicians to help them through conventional medical treatment for their disease."
August 1, 2000: The first Shadow Convention convenes in Philadelphia, PA, with the drug war being one of the gathering's three main themes.
August 7, 2000: The Houston Chronicle runs a front page story about the corruption of paid informants in drug cases.
August 3, 2001: The Miami Herald reports that the CIA paid the Peruvian intelligence organization run by fallen spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos $1 million a year for 10 years to fight drug trafficking, despite evidence that Montesinos was also in business with Colombian narcotraffickers.
August 1, 2004: The Observer (UK) reports that the US blames Britain's "lack of urgency" for its failure to arrest the booming opium trade in Afghanistan, exposing a schism between the allies as the country trembles on the brink of anarchy.
August 3, 2004: Sixty percent of Detroit's residents vote in favor of Proposition M ("The Detroit Medical Marijuana Act") which amends the Detroit city criminal code so that local criminal penalties no longer apply to any individual "possessing or using marijuana under the direction... of a physician or other licensed health professional."
August 5, 2004: In a Seattle Post-Intelligencer op-ed entitled "War on Drugs Escalates to War on Families," Walter Cronkite calls the war on drugs "disastrous" and a "failure," and provides a plethora of reasons why it should end immediately.
August 6, 2004: The Ninth Circuit orders the release, pending appeal, of Bryan Epis, who had been convicted of conspiracy to grow 1,000 marijuana plants in a federal trial in which the jury was not allowed to hear that he was a medical marijuana activist.
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JPWaldo Smoked Schwag...Fry the Liars!
Comment posted by DdC on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 6:13amOh ya... Waldo
The Counterculture Colonel
Government had the superdoooper chronic in the 60's.
Waldo smoked some Mexican dirt weed male plants from some weekend future neoconjob in a fake ponytail, and has sought vengeance on the counter culture ever since. So technically the schwagg he tried then, was probably a lot less potent than today's kynd bud. That also means the good shit smoked then... I remember some two fisted lids out of a gunny sack from a half a school bus with Indiana plates at the 71 May Day Demonstrations... So this myth can be reversed if you get schwagg today and compare it to what was in Nam. The guy wouldn't know the truth if it bite him in the Waldo.
WaldoSmokedSchwagg
He came to fame through someDrug Czar/Education Secretary Billy "Slotz" Bennett. Saving yuppie parents confusion by removing hemp from the school books. And investing his money made supposedly selling books on virtues, into slot machines, losing $8mil. The DEAth budget then was only a few measly billion. Still undocumented for security reasons. Plus comps. Women of the evening, boys, drugs, I hear they aim to please the high rollers. What happens at casino's stays they say. But he's virtuous. Canvas and Burlap may have been essential in building this country but now they lead to crack somehow. My hemp shirts and jeans are softer and stronger and only higher priced because they aren't allowed to help American family farmers, and must be imported.
PissTastersSuck
Outlawed because they don't require the 90 million pounds of imported crude oil based agent orange lites, as the cotton crop does. Same Chemical Corps. adulterating non taxable raw tobacco causing highly taxed cigarettes and tobacco "products". None of which goes into Ganja so no comparisons can be made. Hemp plastic isn't drilled off shore or leaked from tankers. Hempseed omega 3 has no mercury. Or needs tons of grain that needs tons of crude oil based poisons and fresh water to grow, for McBurgler King. Busheney cattle inc. wins, we just pay for it. Wood from hemp has greater tensile strength and yields more cellulose than dead trees from Horowitz Home Despot clear cutting forests. One of the Keating 5, along with John McCain, wonder if it's on his resume' for President. Trees providing oxygen and fresh water removing carbon dioxide - but only if alive. Pollution pays the new weird odor, clean air takes Pharmaceutical profits away. Trillion spent trying to eradicate Ganja and Hemp, went to somebody, and they could care less about wrongs or rights. Enron ethics and fasces adorned politicops hiding behind the robes of religionists and their moronic pseudo morals.
Waldo was Bennett's side kick and with the (then, soon to be head of the Busheney Faith based drug "treatment") Diiulio, wrote Body Count: Moral Poverty... and How to Win America's War Against Crime and Drugs (1996). On E-Bay? Investing in the virtues of slot machines over Ganja? No, Predator kids on super pot rampaging neighborhoods, no one is safe because of the poor. Fiction, but he truly believes it and wants us to buy it so we understand the agenda. I noticed one on E-Bay, cheap, I swear it says only two stains on the back cover. I guess drug worriers lust after things too. Must blame and shame and incarcerate. Bogey bogey bogey boo! Terrorists? Commies? Blacks on crack, Mexican "marihuana" replacing words like cannabis and hemp? Too confusing for the kindergarten congress, heathen devil weed with roots in hell gets legislation passed more efficiently. Hippies free love? Rage free Stoners? Beatnik poems, China's ponytails, Japanese looked similar, Cuba shafted Kennedy and the mafia, and those Irish! Italians, Christians, Atheists, Muslims, Jews and even Buddhists and the Beatles, and about everyone including the Brits, Rednecks and Unions. Shame based BS. Classism for cheap labor. Sweep the dirt under the rugs and display a false impression. MKULTRA or air force bombers on go go meth bombing Canadians. DEAth Used Car salesmen and Pretty little policemen sitting in a row. Coo coo, kachoo.
Nixon lied to schedule Ganja #1
We the People become We the People with connections, or who can afford it. US employees instead of citizens. Blame the poor the rich created with tax cheats, Bushit never ever happen trickle down voodoo economics and blackmail to provide a town jobs in leu of. Or Cayman Banks and NAFTA. Donating to J Pee Waldo's Philanthropy Roundtable, who turns it over to his Madison Ave advertising buds to make kickbacks? and quirky sound bites about kids cooking eggs on heroin, who fly into rages like tweakers. Or the stoner kids on the couch blowing up the WTC all by themselves. Homegrown solves that dilemma except for DEAth squads making it harder. Cheats and Liars and Crooks oh my, real flesh and blood joo-joo eyeballed demons having the audacity to shame groups not selling out to their slave labor markets. People making choices they deem right, in spite of their tax paid gestapo piss tasters perversions and storm-trooper cops power run amuck, cost savings combining badges, courts and prisons, Cardasian Justice. Guilty till proven innocent.
CCJusticePedal4Pot
Desperado's mending fences OiNkDeCePtions, lies are just a way of life, ends justifying means, to neocons and neolib machines. Waldo and Busheney and Klintoon are practicing Fascists. Card carrying members, seriously. Corporatists of Earth Unite. Imagine there's no countries just a thousand points of light serving Gog. Complete control of the planet and it's people. Weeding out the dissidents and making it better for the "public", whatever level you find yourself. Cheap foreign labor cost less than paying a living wage here. Prisons are even less costly. We the People buy the garbage cause it's cheaper, continuing the dysfunction (fill in the blank) cycle. It takes a lot of man-hours of labor to get a few wealthy industrialists football field sized yachts. Homeless made headlines for daddy Bush 1, press went away during Klintoon, then the street people doubled in size as well as the prison population and stoners getting branded by criminalization. All parts of the agenda, to perpetuate the conflicts, by dividing the people. Treating what should be prevented or cured. Nothing new, the Fascists killed Jesus. ... DdC
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