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Rebagliati Says U.S. Won't Let Him Go To Olympics
Posted by FoM on February 02, 2002 at 18:46:06 PT
The Canadian Press
Source: National Post
Olympic snowboard gold medallist Ross Rebagliati claims U.S. officials do not want him to go to Salt Lake City to watch the Winter Olympics this month. It is believed they don't want Mr. Rebagliati to cross the border for the same reason he briefly lost his medal at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan -- marijuana.But he can apply for a special permit which would allow him to enter the country.
Mr. Rebagliati, 30, told BCTV-Global yesterday that U.S. officials have told him he cannot enter the United States because he admitted using pot in the past.In interviews, Mr. Rebagliati, from Whistler, B.C., says he quit smoking marijuana in the spring of 1997.He won gold in the giant slalom event at the Nagano games, the first time snowboarding was included in the Olympics. But he was stripped of the medal when traces of marijuana were found in his system.His medal -- which he never actually surrendered -- was restored after he successfully argued he had not used marijuana himself but might have inadvertently inhaled some second-hand pot smoke during a party. The snowboard federation also did not list marijuana on its banned list.While Mr. Rebagliati's exploits reportedly led to several endorsement deals and even a guest spot on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, they also clouded the public perception of the sport.Mr. Rebagliati has since retired from competition. In May, 2000, he said he would not perform at the Salt Lake games because he had already won the medal that mattered.Last year, he said in an interview with the Post he was launching a "freeriding" career, meaning he would snowboard for a living.Note: Past use of pot cited for refusal of entry.Complete Title: Rebagliati Says U.S. Officials Won't Let Him Go To OlympicsSource: National Post (Canada)Published: February 02, 2002Copyright: 2002 Southam Inc.Contact: letters nationalpost.comWebsite: http://www.nationalpost.com/Related Articles & Web Site:International Olympic Committeehttp://www.olympic.org/Dude!!!! No Marijuana for The Snowboarders http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11874.shtmlStudy Criticizes IOC in Drug Fighthttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread6982.shtml
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Comment #17 posted by MikeEEEEE on February 03, 2002 at 09:26:03 PT
US prejudices at its best
Ross's problems are only a small part of it.Inside the World Economic Forum, foreign economic leaders criticized the United States on Saturday for protectionist policies they claim hurt developing countries. http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/237287p-2266952c.htmlCompassionate conservatism: Bush probably realized that conservatism would be harmful to the many or non elite, perhaps by using the label compassionate he feels he will ease our pain.
The catch, compassion for you if you happen to pump oil for a living.
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Comment #16 posted by FoM on February 03, 2002 at 08:32:13 PT
Dave in Florida
I didn't realize they were doing anything on SNL about Marijuana. We haven't watched SNL very much. It was great back in the good old days when drug type humor was allowed but then the humor got really weird so we wind up watching National Geographic or one of those channels instead. I think the stereo type of pot smokers is way off base but at least they mentioned it.
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Comment #15 posted by Dave in Florida on February 03, 2002 at 06:09:44 PT
Off Topic Saturday Night Live
Yes I saw that.. There was another skit last week about pot as well. It was typiical stoner sterotypes, but they talked about all the good things pot can do and at the end they said "what if there right" talking about the stoners. It was a good pro-pot skit..
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Comment #14 posted by Lehder on February 03, 2002 at 05:42:11 PT
Ortho-Tricycline
I watched a little TV last night, trying to be sociable, and heard a commercial for Ortho-tricycline, a birth control product. A booming loud male voice advised that the side effects of this pill were BLOOD CLOTS, STROKE and HEART ATTACK.You are encouraged to swallow these things, and the government has no problem with corporate pushing of ortho-tricycline on TV. But only a terrorist would smoke the harmless and beneficial herb marijuana. You can learn that from TV too.
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I wanted to fix my typos - havn't had my coffed yet. There.There is no way to reason with a public that is willing to buy into heart attacks and strokes clots while it condemns cannabis users to prison and impoverishment. Truly, the American public is insane.
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Comment #13 posted by potpal on February 03, 2002 at 05:41:51 PT
It's true...
Marijuana causes paranoia...in those that don't use it.
And those with small minds.Sow every single seed.
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Comment #12 posted by Lehder on February 03, 2002 at 05:38:09 PT
Ortho-Tricycline
I watched a little TV last night, trying to be sociable, and heard a commercial for Ortho-Tricycling, a birth control product. A booming loud male voice advised that the side effects of this pill were BLOOD CLOTS, STROKE and HEART ATTACK.You are encouraged to swallow these things, and the government has no problem with corporate pushing of orthrotricycline on TV. But only a terrorist would smoke the harmless and beneficial herb marijuana. You can learn that from TV too.
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Comment #11 posted by mayan on February 03, 2002 at 04:10:29 PT
Man of Deeds...
So you don't think the Shrub has done anything but fight a phony war on terror? Guess again!Bush's pre 9/11 accomplishments:
http://www.guerrillanews.com/government/doc308.html
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Comment #10 posted by mayan on February 03, 2002 at 02:22:01 PT
Land of the Free or Fear?
Oh, I see, it's ok for the Prez to get on the ski lift - but snowboarders are surely the root of all evil for smoking a little grass? What a ludicrous load of sh*t!!! During the SuperBowl all illicit drug users will be equated with terrorists! Never mind that the government's drug laws support the black market & terrorists feed on it!Who has been spreading the rumor that the U.S.A. is a free country? Oh yeah, I think it was the U.S. Government.
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Comment #9 posted by E_Johnson on February 03, 2002 at 01:49:29 PT
How much is enough?
How much cheesey small-mindedness can a supposedly great nation exude before the whole world gets a good whiff and says, "America -- that's not a great democracy! That smells more like a cheesey small-minded little republic to me!"
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Comment #8 posted by FoM on February 02, 2002 at 23:21:10 PT
p4me
The link didn't work in comment two so here it is. I tried to fix it and did but it still didn't work. We need to work together to change these laws. Freedom to be who we want to be is what it really is all about. Freedom what a wonderful word . It's worth everything.http://www.ibogaine.org/drugmain.html
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Comment #7 posted by p4me on February 02, 2002 at 23:06:57 PT
narcotics
In comment#2 I brought up the issue of MJ as a narcotic. I was reading an excellent article that recorded a speech by a person that is an authority on prohibition and wrote a book using marijuana as an example. It is an excellent article and has information that I have never read before. For example, when the US outlawed polygamy and many people that objected to it in Utah went to Northwest Mexico. When they missed their friends they went back to Utah and took the Mexican MJ back to Utah with them. Utah was the first state to make MJ a criminal offense. Anyway this man says that the use of the word narcotic is that narcotics is a word that applies to substances that put you to sleep. How ironic the government uses the word narcotic to describe speed.This has some good historical information for the intellectual. http://www.pipes.org/Articles/history.htmlLet's work together and end this mess our politicians have created. Vote for a complete new set.
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Comment #6 posted by Jose Melendez on February 02, 2002 at 21:23:21 PT:
more proof drug war is fraud
from:http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n175/a04.html?397
US: Drug Seizures Are Counted Twice, GAO SaysDRUG SEIZURES ARE COUNTED TWICE, GAO SAYS
Reports by the Coast Guard, Customs Service and Pentagon do not add up, the office found.
WASHINGTON - Federal agencies that oversee drug seizures on the high seas are double-counting the same cocaine confiscations, according to an investigation by the auditing arm of Congress.
The Coast Guard, Customs Service and Department of Defense are each taking credit for many of their joint seizures and presenting them to Congress as if they acted alone, the General Accounting Office says in a report to be released Monday. A copy of the GAO report was obtained by the Inquirer Washington Bureau.
GAO investigators reviewed 26 cocaine seizures in fiscal years 1998, 1999 and 2000 in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the northern coast of South America, and the Eastern Pacific. They found that the Coast Guard and Customs each took credit for 16 of them. The exact amount of drugs seized was not disclosed.
The Defense Department also took credit for numerous seizures in the same drug transit area, where about 645 metric tons of cocaine were smuggled into the United States during 2000, the report said.
Federal antidrug agencies confiscated 118,398 kilograms of cocaine in 1998, 118,398 in 1999, and 132,318 in 2000, according to Office of National Drug Control Policy figures. A kilogram is 2.2 pounds.
In news releases, the agencies mentioned when other agencies helped, but some lawmakers have frowned on the practice of double-counting because it skews seizure statistics and gives the impression that each agency played the lead role in the interdictions.
Sen. Jeff Sessions ( R., Ala. ), a former U.S. drug prosecutor, requested the GAO investigation. Sessions said yesterday he also wanted an accounting of how the agencies were using the billions of dollars in drug interdiction funding.
Arrest Prohibition - Drug War is TREASON
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Comment #5 posted by FoM on February 02, 2002 at 21:22:12 PT
Off Topic Saturday Night Live
We are watching SNL and they are doing skits and one was about marijuana. Britney Spears blew smoke out her mouth that was suppose to be Pot. The really funny thing is that they said they were going to have their own Super Bowl. They brought out a Pot Pipe made of a trash can and PVC Pipe. They had stuff in the trash can that was suppose to be Pot too. How did they get away with it? Shocked us. It really was funny. I bet it made the ONDCP not very happy.
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Comment #4 posted by E_Johnson on February 02, 2002 at 21:11:39 PT
I guess Gore better not ever leave the country!
Mr. Rebagliati, 30, told BCTV-Global yesterday that U.S. officials have told him he cannot enter the United States because he admitted using pot in the past.So would this apply to Jack Straw too?And Prince Harry?And George W, whose "people" as much as admitted it on his behalf?If we uniformly enforced this rule, it would be insanity. This is just another marijuana pogrom in progress by the Cossacks.
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Comment #3 posted by E_Johnson on February 02, 2002 at 21:06:43 PT
Forecast: cloudy with showers, then clearing
While Mr. Rebagliati's exploits reportedly led to several endorsement deals and even a guest spot on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, they also clouded the public perception of the sport.Public perception is clouded, alrighty, but not about the sport, and not by Mr. Rebagliati.
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Comment #2 posted by p4me on February 02, 2002 at 19:55:50 PT
How do you spell paranoia?
M a r i j u a n a
I checked in at the Drug Sense forum to see if they had guest for tonite. They did not but Dana Beal that organized the first "smoke-in" in New York City's Thomkins Square Park in 1967 will be on tomorrow, 2/3/02. Her thing now is the use of Ibogaine for the treatment of cocaine and opiate addiction. It is made from a plant in Africa and is illegal in the US, which makes me think right away that it must be too good to actually let it compete with the pill industry products, although there is a trademark called Endabuse made from the Iboga plant.So I went to http:/www.ibogaine.org to read. Anyway at the very bottom of the page there was a history about drugs. This was a short summary taken from PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF PHYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCE USE by Gregory A. Austin. It is filled with words like taxed, prohibited, and monopoly. It covers in little detail alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, opium, coffee, cannabis, and ether. When alcohol prohibition came to the US, ether was added to many beverages.I am going to copy the cannabis information from this link:
http://www.ibogaine.org/drugmain.html1850-1875 Jamaica- Laborers from India arrive bringing with them the multi-purpose use of cannabis or ganja.
US- Despite ready availability and general use in medical practice for a wide range of conditions, cannabis is little used for intoxicating purposes.1875-1900 The report of the Indian Hemp Commission concludes that in regard to physical effects "the moderate use of hemp drugs is practically attended by no evil results at all.1900-1925 US- Marihuana smoking appears among Mexican laborers in towns along the Mexican border, and spreads to the Gulf Coast. Between 1914-1931 29 states, most west of the Mississippi, prohibits its nonmedical use. In 1915, the U. S. prohibits its import for nonmedical purposes. Still there is only limited national concern.1925-1950 US-United States. The Panama Canal Zone Report (1925, reaffirmed 1933) concludes there is no evidence that cannabis is habit forming or that it has any "appreciably deleterious influence" on users and recommends that no action be taken to prohibit its use by American soldiers in the Zone. But reports associating horrible crimes, marihuana, and Mexicans, continue to circulate and are given credence by a 1929 Surgeon General's Report. During the Depression, racial antagonisms and concern over marihuana- related crime increase the calls for federal marihuana legislation in the Southwest. After at first downplaying the menace and resisting this pressure, the FBN begins to emphasize the need for adoption of the Uniform State Narcotic Drug Act to control marihuana, "the worst evil of all," inaugurating a period of focused attention on the marihuana-crime thesis (1933). In 1937, the Marihuana Tax Act is passed establishing a prohibitive tax and regulatory procedures. In 1944, the La Guardia Report stresses the relative triviality of marihuana's effects.In his summary of cocaine for 1900-1925 Austin says:In 1914, the Harrison Act treats cocaine as more dangerous than opium, classifying it incorrectly as a narcotic. If cocaine is not a narcotic, is MJ not a narcotic also? It sure as he** is classified as a Schedule 1 Narcotic, but what does that mean when it comes from the government?
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Comment #1 posted by CorvallisEric on February 02, 2002 at 18:54:07 PT
go Ross
I hope he doesn't try to get the special permit and instead raises a great big stink in every possible venue. He could be a real asset for freedom.
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