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I've always felt "they" wanted to treat us like worker bees.

People worker bees. Nothing more. Nothing less. Expendable worker bees.

Thanks Hope, I was trying to list them all and forgot that one.

Wow!! What a revelation. This can be said of cannabis and many other drugs, including opiates, cocaine, mescaline, and LSD. This is not anything new. We have known about these types of receptor drug interactions for decades. We have known that THC mimics the brain chemical anandamide for at least a decade. Many psychoactive drugs work by mimicking brain chemicals that normally interact with receptors. The fact that cannabinoids do this is no big surprise.

"I would predict that stronger pot makes the brain less likely to respond to endogenous cannabinoids,"

In my opinion, this kind of speculation requires some evidence to be called a prediction. It may or may not be true, but it is irresponsible to state it as a prediction without any evidence or explaination.

"While the research so far is inconclusive, Volkow believes that cannabinoids affect the developing brain and that stronger pot, combined with earlier use, could make children and teens anxious, unmotivated or perhaps even psychotic."

No good scientist officially believes anything based on inconclusive research. Once again this is irresponsible. Perhaps Dr. Volkow would be more believable if she spent more time in the laboratory and less time speculating to the press from her ivory tower.

If the President and his underlings really wanted to keep MJ away from children they would legalize it and set a legal age to smoke it. This would make it more difficult for children to get. It works for booze and tobacco.

"While Walters stresses that drug abusers are patients and not criminals, he hopes to crack down more on producers."

"For many in enforcement, marijuana is still 'kiddie dope',"

But rather we should be victims in the "Modern" day witch hunt, yes John, you will look under every stone, to root out this horrible evil, you will spend our last dollar to find and prosecute every last soul that does not conform to your world view, or rather a world view that sits high on the blood of the innocent souls that you have enslaved.

Your colors are clear, for the measure of your mercy is as shallow as your lies.

It baffles me how this man, John Walters can continue to go around the country, on our dime, spreading all this nonsense. Does it ever occur to him, how can so many physicians, judges, lawyers and law enforcemnt people be willing to jeopradize their lives and carreers to defy the governments hysterical and dated fear of the herbal plant called Cannabis? Are these doctors and judges fools, have they recieved their educations so that they may be simply dismissed?

If there is a God, than there is a Devil, and some people have sold their souls to the Devil. The pleasure that may be had in the short time we have to live in this world, may be bought, but the price is an eternal corruption that will cover your souls with a blight that will eclipse the Light of God...Forever...

Rick came to Vancouver from the sports side of CBC and asks probing questions about food matters too, but political issues? C'mon CBC, you can do better.

Besides, Rick takes almost as many holidays as George Bush, and this was his first morning back after his most recent R&R, sixteen days in a row without having to report to HQ. Rick might break W's record yet. (Unless W gets a second unelected term.)

CBC did get an opposing point of view though. The main man behind the four pillars approach. He was excellent in his rebuttal of Walters inanities about coca ond opiate treatment policies in Vancouver.

But left untouched was the main thrust of Walters' slick style of propaganda, the continued persecution of cannabis friendly people.

They say truth goes out the window when rumour turns into innuendo. Walters contorted, spun and distorted this process like a snake oil salesman.

Alarmed by reports that marijuana is becoming more potent than ever and that children are trying it at younger and younger ages, U.S. officials are changing their drug policies.

re: "children" - Prohibitionists play on parental fears by exaggerating the dangers to children of drugs. Adults must be jailed (reason prohibitionists), because kids might be corrupted with drugs. (Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )

While drug use overall is falling among children and teens, the officials worry that the children who are trying pot are doing so at ever-younger ages, when their brains and bodies are vulnerable to dangerous side effects.

re: "drug use" - Prohibitionist propagandists repeatedly assert that "use is abuse." Details about "using" as opposed to "abusing" drugs are ignored. (Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) ) re: "children", "teens" - Prohibitionists forever claim that children are corrupted by drugs, and this is why adult users must be punished harshly. (Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )

"(But) marijuana today is a much more serious problem than the vast majority of Americans understand.

re: "Americans" - The survival of society is assured, -- says the propaganda of prohibition -- as long as drug users are punished (jailed). (Survival of Society (propaganda theme 3) )

The number of children and teen-agers in treatment for marijuana dependence and abuse has jumped 142 percent since 1992, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University reported in April.

re: "Addiction" - The rhetoric of prohibition asserts that insanity, crime, and violence are caused by drugs, or are controlled by prohibition. (Madness,Crime,Violence,Illness (propaganda theme 2) ) re: "Substance Abuse" - Prohibition propaganda claims that all use of any "drug" is abuse. (Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) ) re: "children", "teen-agers" - Prohibitionists are champions of "the child", "kids", "children", etc. Only continued or increased punishments of all adults caught using "drugs" will send the correct "message" to children. (Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )

According to the report, children and teens are three times more likely to be in treatment for marijuana abuse than for alcohol, and six times likelier to be in treatment for marijuana than for all other illegal drugs combined.

re: "marijuana abuse" - The rhetoric of prohibition will assume that "use" and "abuse" are identical. (Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) ) re: "children", "teens" - Prohibitionist propaganda continually whips up parental fear, invoking lurid images of children corrupted by drugs. (Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )

And it found the age of youths using marijuana is falling.

re: "youths" - Prohibitionists forever claim that children are corrupted by drugs, and this is why adult users must be punished harshly. (Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )

The teens aged 12 to 17 said on average they started trying marijuana at 13-1/2.

re: "teens" - Prohibitionists are champions of "the child", "kids", "children", etc. Only continued or increased punishments of all adults caught using "drugs" will send the correct "message" to children. (Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )

themes: http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pg/propaganda/index.htm#toc

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asserted: $drugwar_propaganda at 100% ($propaganda_theme2 $propaganda_theme3 $propaganda_theme5 $propaganda_theme4)

asserted: $propaganda_theme2 at 100% ("Addiction" "dangerous" "Cancer" "problems" "problem" "Reefer Madness" "Suicide"), 8 hits

asserted: $propaganda_theme3 at 50% ("Americans" "American"), 2 hits

asserted: $use_is_abuse at 100% ("Substance Abuse" "Drug Abuse" "drug use" "marijuana abuse"), 4 hits

asserted: $propaganda_theme4 at 100% ($use_is_abuse)

Monday, July 19, 2004

The pre-dawn assault, designed to shake apart suspects in a fortified marijuana garden, pulls nearly 10,000 plants Monday worth an estimated value of $20 million.

A UH-60 Black Hawk hovers above the mountainous terrain along the border of Riverside and San Diego counties. It is equipped with Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR), which enables the helicopter crew to become the eyes of the federal officers on the ground. While the copter circles above, the March Air Reserve crew gives agents on the ground direction. The suspects should look like moving white spots from the air.

Groups involving San Bernardino Co. Sheriffs department, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Bureau of Land Management, and the Drug Enforcement Administration, split into two. The agents, wearing camouflage and bulletproof vests, look similar to American soldiers in the Middle East.

“From an aviation standpoint, we can’t do our job effectively without the crew in the Black Hawk,” said BLM agent Mark Thomas. “The people working the garden have been here for months, and they have pre-determined escape routes.”

It would be hard to catch them without the infrared.

“We didn’t see any white spots, any suspects on the ground,” said pilot Chris Thorton.

Agents cleared it in the sky, so agents on the ground could walk in from two different directions.

“Even though it was cleared, we never let our guard down, even while pulling the crops from the ground,” said Mark Thomas.

Contrary to popular belief, the federal numbers show there is more marijuana grown in Riverside, San Diego and Orange counties than in the so-called Emerald Triangle, i.e., Humboldt, Del Norte and Mendocino counties in northern California.

“This is the only product in the country that you can loose nine-tenths of a product in a bust and still make a profit,” said Thomas. Agents said the garden along the border is a Mexican National Grow. “Cartels have found it more cost effective to grow it in the rugged terrain of the southland, it’s easier than risking a bust at a border crossing,” said Thomas.

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Im so sick of these lying, sleazeballs I can hardly take it. If marijuana was a gentle weed in the 60's, why the F*** was it made a schedule 1 drug and why did eliminating its use become the number 1 priority in America? Answer: The same reason they are going after it with a vengeance now, to persecute minorities and marginalize an entire segment of society by branding them as the cause of every evil. Im sick of being a scapegoat for every bureaucrat with an agenda. Leave me the hell alone and quit lying. Also, is it a requirement that you skipped Logic 101 in college to be a federal drug agent, becuase anyone with any sense could make the connection that marijuana is becoming more potent because it makes it easier to smuggle and more valuable.

"We shouldn't be victims of reefer madness,"

Holy cow! Did I read this correctly? Is this from the same SOB who helped to air the commercials with little girls being run over on bikes, friends shooting friends, and marijuana inseminating teenage daughters? Walters is the definition of reefer madness.

"And he says, there is a way to go in getting cooperation from local law enforcement officials. "For many in enforcement, marijuana is still 'kiddie dope'," Walters said."

--- marijuana is now so powerful it's become addictive (the Dutch are now considering reclassifying it as a hard drug)

--- we're not going after kids with a few baggies, but the criminal gangs that are trying to destroy youth

--- 90% of BC bud is smuggled into the states

--- people who pedal addictive drugs like cannabis, are not compassionate

--- The ONDCP, DEA and SWAT teams are only involved because they care for the children

The local PTA chairperson could have asked sharper questions than our interviewer.

This article and his interview suggest that drug war propaganda will feature lots of anecdotal stories about 6 and 7 year olds smoking the highly addictive BC bud.