cannabisnews.com: The Pot War Boiling The Pot War Boiling Posted by CN Staff on October 29, 2002 at 17:26:58 PT By William F. Buckley Jr. Source: National Review As often as not, democracy sucks. But on the question of marijuana laws, the good sense of the people is doing yeoman work. Time magazine explores the marijuana question in a cover story which ends by saying that in America, "politics has leaped well ahead of the science, meaning voters will decide long before physicians whether medical marijuana is an oxymoron."That of course — does marijuana help some people who are sick? — is a narrow part of the question. Forty-seven percent of the public have tried marijuana at least once (that figure was 31 percent 20 years ago), 80 percent think adults should be able to use marijuana legally for medical purposes, and 72 percent believe that people arrested for possessing small amounts of marijuana should be fined, not jailed. Reflect on the interchange in the last two figures, and on another figure not given. If 80 percent of Americans believe that THC should be legal for sick people, and almost as many (72 percent) think it should be penalized for use by non-sick people only by fine, not prison, or electrocution, how many probably believe, or are about to believe, in legalization? If the public takes so solid a move in the easygoing direction away from prison sentences, is reform far away? The major battleground next week is in Nevada, where people will vote on Question 9. If the vote is affirmative, in 2004 a constitutional ratifying amendment will be on the ballot which would legalize pot, which is to say, permit 3-ounce packets of it to be sold with impunity. How much is three ounces? On that point, as on so many others raised by Question 9, there is disagreement. The pro-pot people claim that the allowance is only enough to make up 80 joints. The antis insist it's enough to make 250 joints. That quarrel is in the nature of a liquor law that would permit 6 pints of booze per purchase or 18. Although Nevada's Question 9 is most prominent, 8 states already allow the use of medical marijuana, 22 are oriented in that direction, and several have ballot initiatives which are relatively permissive. The movement presses against our northern frontier. Canada has relaxed its law on medical marijuana, as also Great Britain — and of course Amsterdam, which permits everything, including killing babies and old people. There are two problems that don't disappear. The first is constitutional. In 1970, Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act, which forbids the possession or sale of marijuana. What then happened was referendums simply proceeding as though the federal act had never been passed. Such referendums authorized medical marijuana. Inevitably, the feds moved in, as in California, and got a ruling to the effect that the federal law outpoints the state law. What came then was a kind of DMZ, the feds affirming the sovereign authority of their own law, California nodding its head and simply declining to arrest transgressors. An unspoken compromise was reached: The feds agreed to subsidize a scientific investigation into the palliative properties of marijuana, and while this goes on, the voters move at their own pace in the direction of de facto legalization. The second problem is moral, the deep conviction by Christian men and women that to take marijuana is to commit sin. Many of those who take that position also vote for liquor prohibition, and give us here and there a dry county, or would vote for prohibition if it were once again offered as a constitutional amendment. What these people need to learn is that eschewing marijuana and forbidding it with the leverage of jail terms are two different things. The probability is that the fundamentalists will temporize in due course, as they run out of allies among the voters, who include the 47 percent who once tried it, mostly in their youth. Taking pot can be risky, and stoned-while-driving should never be permitted. The scientific question — does pot harm? — is simply unsettled. It can be said that its ingestion has negative effects, and that there are positive effects. But experience is overwhelming the discussion, and it is teaching that however ill-advised it may be to take the drug, it is less well-advised to continue to arrest ten thousand people every week for a practice or indulgence of such exiguous social consequence.Note: Is marijuana-law reform far away?Source: National Review (US) Author: William F. Buckley Jr.Published: October 29, 2002Copyright: 2002 National Review Contact: letters nationalreview.com Website: http://www.nationalreview.com/ Related Articles & Web Site:What's New in Drug Policy Newshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/whatsnew.htmThe New Politics of Pothttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14574.shtmlIs Pot Good For You? http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14575.shtmlMedical Marijuana: A History http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14573.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #38 posted by Imprint on October 30, 2002 at 22:44:23 PT L.E.A.P. Interviewed Here is a link to a phone interview with Steve Cubby and Peter Christ (L.E.A.P.). Starts about half way into the video. http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-1583.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #37 posted by Richard Lake on October 30, 2002 at 21:36:23 PT: CANNABIS NEWS POSTING GUIDELINES CANNABIS NEWS POSTING GUIDELINES:Please stay on topic. 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[ Post Comment ] Comment #36 posted by FoM on October 30, 2002 at 13:22:59 PT Tonight on ABCNews World Report I did see the preview for ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. ET is 6:30. I'll watch it and hopefully it will be on.Coming up on WORLD NEWS TONIGHT Canada's plan to eliminate every significant penalty for using marijuana is a change the U.S. cannot ignore — and one the Bush administration is trying to prevent. http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/WNT/# [ Post Comment ] Comment #35 posted by FoM on October 30, 2002 at 10:58:11 PT Thanks DdC I can't edit comments very easily because of it being all in html. I can really only remove the whole thing. I appreciate your understanding. [ Post Comment ] Comment #34 posted by DdC on October 30, 2002 at 10:43:08 PT Oh Bill... I occasionally enjoy Buckley's comments. Most are Goldwater gibberish. Not as fantasy driven as fundamentalist but a huge portion of naivete. Only psychics can learn what isn't taught, so the bias is built in. Removing the common sense for certified illogic.Amsterdam, which permits everything, including killing babies and old people. Promoting Prohibition is Babykilling! Senior Warehousing doping and tied down tortures, pain and botched suicides is worse than dying with dignity. http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionstuff.showMessage?topicID=94.topic6 pints of booze per purchase or 18. Intellectual GOPers? Seems they all have trouble in math and reality. A pint is a measured amount, consistent. Same as an ounce. Only drinking with different sized glasses would make sense. 86.1 grams is 3 oz. Depending on the milligrams per joint, decides the number of joints. 3 oz = 172.2 half gram joints per month, or 5.74 joints per day. If you don't smoke the entire 3 ounces is it illegal? That is if you get nothing but bud. Most lids come with sticks and a container weighing a few grams. On humid days pot will gain weight, dry temps will lower weight. Different strains, different resin amount. Reality is the less the more potent and more likely to overwhelm an someone operating machinery. Strains have differing size plants. Differing amount of bud. Many will hermorphidite lowering the quality, requiring more to remove the pain or pressure. Legalize it. If selling it out of state is the problem. The commerce act will solve it. But limiting personal use when so many variables can happen is childish to Congressional proportions. Prohibition causes lower quality cannabis. Meaning more smoked to try for a buzz that ain't gonna be there the same as higher quality buds. Cheaper do to prohibitions ridiculous inflation of reality pricing. As often as not, democracy sucks. Democracy never sucks, fascism sucks. If we ever have a Democracy I'll prove it. Burying information and scripting unethical means to justify ends and herding groups and cultures for whatever reason is not Democracy. Slavery from color or crime is still slavery. Persecution, scapegoating and stigmatizing is no different depending on ethnic background, gender or orientation. Marijuana using potheads are as wrong and hurtful as any derogatory statement. Blaming users for economic hardships or unemployment or losing business selling something in competition to cannabis is not the fault of cannabis. Nothing fabricated with poisons would remove jobs using cannabis. Only foreign International corporatist. And they would simply convert, early. I'd hate to think this was a population control procedure.yeoman work.average or low rank in the Navy? Grunts?medical marijuana is an oxymoron.a definite misnomer. Marijuana is a heavy buzz word. Its weight economizes stigmatizing for antis.Forty-seven percent of the public have tried marijuana at least once (that figure was 31 percent 20 years ago),Weird that no one ever ask me. These numbers bounce around like a lottery ball.72 percent believe that people arrested for possessing small amounts of marijuana should be fined, not jailed. Why I don't want to legalize marijuana http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionstuff.showMessage?topicID=122.topic(72 percent) think it should be penalized for use by non-sick people only by fine, not prison, or electrocutionWouldn't it be cheaper, easier and better overall to fine, not prison, or electrocution, fundamentalists?is reform far away? Reform is constant. Someone is plotting at this and every minute to reform someone by law, and someone else to reform the last bad law. Now another one is plotting to end Free Will.An unspoken compromise was reachedOh how democratic of them...The only legitimate prohibition is Constitutional Amendment. That only applies to rights of people, not plants. Prohibiting a product like hard drugs or booze is one thing. Plants can not be "illegal". No one fabricated them. They can't hire a lawyer. Making it illegal geographically is politics, not reality. We are all in possession by boarders, or city limits or house walls. Inside but not hanging out the window into the neighbors yard. Or hunting in ditchweed for pheasants. Possession weather you inhale or not doesn't matter, its possession. So the act of using cannabis becomes moot to the distance one is at the time of arrest. Instead of dealing with the reality of the personality committing an act on another, the psychic psycop prevents a crime they predict would or could happen under the influence. How nutty are the Professors teaching Reefer Madness?What came then was a kind of DMZ...One sided, we demilitarized they militarized. When we militarize we get dead. The second problem is moral...Dissolve D.E.A.th...problem solved.the voters move at their own pace in the direction of de facto legalization. That leaves secession. Or more covert legislation.the deep conviction by Christian men and women that to take marijuana is to commit sin. America was NOT founded on Christianity! http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionstuff.showMessage?topicID=83.topic The probability is that the fundamentalists will temporize in due course...Who the hell are they to say or do anything in a free society? Of more non Christians than Christians. And a hell of a lot more than actual followers of Jesus.and give us here and there a dry county...sounds good to me mon, now we have a boxed canyon. That is orchestrated to maintain cannabis war for profit, power and taxes. Obvious simple marketing of the product of dysfunction. Caring more about a millionaire ball warriors each day of worship than the neighbor busted for illegally treating their sickness.as they run out of allies among the voters...A big problem for Jesus if I recall... that was sarcasm btw.Taking pot can be risky, Taking pot (Illegally)can be risky, curing the ignorance removes the rest. Like swimming. Cannabis is a learning experience. Each will find their levels. When they prefer it and the ability to just say no if that is their desire. Not going along or bogusly comparing it to booze intoxication. and stoned-while-driving should never be permitted.This says a lot. But being "stoned" seems more of a bad judgment in the first place, and not knowing one's own saturation point. Speeding or drawing attention to one self is the last thing an indulging person would or should care to do. Any external stress will eat up buzz. Buzz = money or hard work. Why would a rational being do it except for inexperience or ignorance, not pot toking. Coming from D.E.A.th, who either lie or fabricate anything because its a sin or to save the kids by removing their parents for pain relief or an alternative to booze. So bust Christians and leave the rest alone. No that would keep the donations from coming. Another big problem for Jesus. Another sarcasm. In 1996, same year we passed prop 215. 250,000 abortions were from fundamentalist kids not wanting to deal with a fundamentalist parent. A greater amount aborted from chemical pesticides,radiation and fossil fuels and misnomered miscarriages, cause abortion is a sin. Of coarse no one should operate any moving machinery inebriated. But trying to change reality and the laws of physics won't help. It doesn't take a debate. It takes a double blind medical test and a potentiometer to measure tensile strength. A lab to figure protein. A way of measuring yield. And a comparison to other plants and synthetics. Of which all have been done over and over. With the ability to clone sheep and not test if a hemp board is stronger than a tree board. Science has become Fiction. Politics not Physics.The scientific question — does pot harm?Another loaded question. Does water harm? Does air? Does rock climbing? Does pot prohibition do harm? Definitely, so something can profit fixing it. Maintaining it. Insuring it with commercials and censorship and laws based on nothing. Then laws based on those laws. Wake up little munchkins. — is simply unsettled.As it is supposed to remain un dealt with. You gotta sell it to profit. Buyer Beware. You can't profit on Monsanto's agent orange if there's no foliage to kill. No helichoppers to sell to CAMP or Dyncorps. No arrest forms to buy from the printer or trucks to deliver. Using petroleum from Saudi crude or Colombian. Importing resources while exporting jobs and the boarders Swiss Cheese. Rayguns sold the country bit by bit. Now the Vets and Mentally Ill live on the streets or work for D.E.A.th's Dyncorps. Klintoon managed to get them out of the Headlines while Paul Wellstone dies for speaking out. Cheney wasn't invited to his memorial, for slandering and mud slinging, campaigning against him. Unsettled is on purpose. Politics not reality.It can be said that its ingestion has negative effectsAnother fundamentalist term. Says whom, not I. Other than prohibition. I learned how to use cannabis long ago and have enjoyed its company. Who is to tell me how I feel? Is this science or psychic hotline? Those with negative effects probably shouldn't repeat them over and over. Learn or abstain. Damn pot I got busted? Say what? Don't blame the pot. It didn't roll itself. The nice Judge gave me probation... The cop could have bla bla bla. Why should a cop have the power to interpret law? On the spot? Thats not what we pay for. We pay to take care of the crisis, remove the harmful entity. Find something else to do once peace is restored. Not campaigning wearing a badge. Not entering schools to prevent what a parent should be dealing with. Deal with the parents. Bust them. Oh no then we might start preventing pregnancies and cut down on next years vampirism. Yessa I havs a good massa... These are oxymorons. Not medical cannabis or ganja sickness prevention.and that there are positive effects.Its a plant. It has none of the humans hang ups about positive and negative. The ridiculous notion that what goes up might come down meaning positive or won't come down meaning negative. Physics takes care of the debate. It is a plant. If you need a rope, hemp is more positive than polyfiber or made of crude, Environmentally. Ganja is positive if the person enjoys it. If it is negative or neutral medicinally then don't do it. No one should be forced or coerced. Positive negative good evil all politics of religion, not realism.But experience is overwhelming the discussion...As it did LBJ, Nexxon, Cotter, Rayguns, Bush, Klintoon and Shrub. The 50,000 killed in Nam or 50,000 poisoned in the Gulf or 400,000 chemical cigarettes or the hundreds of $billions spent when we never have enough to feed, clothe and shelter let alone give health care or senior care or child care. Who pushes the agenda, Fundamentalist. Who has taken the airwaves, tries every year to censor the internet and succeeds on state levels. Tries to legislate their version of reality on everyone. What other group? Who profits, follow the money. and it is teaching that however ill-advised it may be to take the drug, it is less well-advised to continue to arrest ten thousand people every week for a practice or indulgence of such exiguous social consequence.A firm grasp of the obvious. What any elementary student would grasp if given the truth. People Don't Have To Die From Drugs, prohibition maims and kills the people using drugs. http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionstuff.showMessage?topicID=15.topicMike's (Michael Moore) Militia Mission has also taken up Renee's cause http://www.michaelmoore.com/missions/renee_boje/ Michael Moore [ Post Comment ] Comment #33 posted by DdC on October 30, 2002 at 10:40:11 PT Wasn't my comment FoM...It was spank Bush.com's You got to censor what you got to censor...no problem. [ Post Comment ] Comment #32 posted by FoM on October 30, 2002 at 10:01:15 PT DdC Sorry I removed your comment but I had too. [ Post Comment ] Comment #29 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on October 30, 2002 at 04:30:07 PT Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore is one righteous dude. Bowling for Columbine is an amazing film. There's more substance to that movie than any I've seen in a long, long time. So much to think about. I wish this movie was in wider release - anyone out there who has the chance to see it should do so. [ Post Comment ] Comment #27 posted by Dan B on October 30, 2002 at 00:32:20 PT: Had Enough I sent a request to add the L.E.A.P. site to DRCNet's links page, per your suggestion. Every bit helps. Thanks for suggesting it.If you want to know how to request that they add a site, click on the link to their links page on the lefthand column, then scroll down to the bottom where it gives an email address for requesting new links. Of course, it is best to scroll through the links to make sure your suggested link is not already there. L.E.A.P. is not, but I'm hoping they'll add it.Dan B [ Post Comment ] Comment #26 posted by Had Enough on October 29, 2002 at 23:44:02 PT Every Bit Helps Thank You. Every bit helps. Maybe NORMAL, MPP, DRC and others can add this link. L.E.A.P. can be very powerful allies to help end this madness of unnecessary high costs of diseases, incarceration, deaths and injuries, destruction of families, mistrust, dissention, etc…http://www.leap.cc/ VOTE VOTE VOTEGo Nevada !!! [ Post Comment ] Comment #25 posted by FoM on October 29, 2002 at 23:24:52 PT Had Enough One more thing before I am done for the day. I said I push this page down when I update it but I leave the left column where it is. Hope it will do for you. [ Post Comment ] Comment #24 posted by FoM on October 29, 2002 at 23:00:30 PT Had Enough I can't put any links on CNews because I can't figure out how so I have to get someone to do it for me. This page is off of my Freedom To Exhale page that is on the front page. I change this particular page often and put the newest news at the top and push the rest down each time I update it. I'll try to get this page on the front page. I put LEAP in the left column. http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/whatsnew.htm [ Post Comment ] Comment #23 posted by Had Enough on October 29, 2002 at 22:42:32 PT FoM Can and will you put the L.E.A.P. link somewhere so a lot of people can click on it. Maybe other websites, hint-hint. Read their mission statement, then click on the ABOUT US button, good stuff, these people have got it right. Help these people out if you can.http://www.leap.cc/ [ Post Comment ] Comment #22 posted by FoM on October 29, 2002 at 22:18:16 PT KRON TV Video on Ruling Today http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=991879&nav=5D7lC5Cz [ Post Comment ] Comment #21 posted by FoM on October 29, 2002 at 22:12:30 PT Had Enough First of all it has been nice talking with you about this topic. I appreciate it. It makes me think there is hope and change can come. I watched Michael Moore on Donahue the other night and I was mezermized for the whole show. It wasn't related to Cannabis so I didn't mention it but it was about his movie. They showed some of the movie and it said so much. Michael Moore is a good example of a person who has his values in a good order. I hope it catches on with many people. [ Post Comment ] Comment #20 posted by Had Enough on October 29, 2002 at 22:02:43 PT soapbox-burning When outdated and unjust laws get changed, it will be a happy day for me, as I will have a soapbox-burning event. My legs are about as worn as the box I stand on.Don’t fret none FoM, there is still plenty of stamina left for a long time. And “we have come a long way baby”. Today a big decision came down from our courts. However there is still a long way to go. What a long strange trip it's been.Do not forgetVOTE VOTE VOTE [ Post Comment ] Comment #19 posted by FoM on October 29, 2002 at 21:54:52 PT Had Enough The drug war has made us afraid of the police. When I was young I was taught that I could go to a policman and he would help me. I was never taught to fear them. There wasn't a drug war like now either. Heck drugs were what you got and shared with friends. Adults and teens used amphetamines. Everyone thought they were ggrrreaaattt! We sure have come a long way. Time to turn around and head back and try this one more time and do it right. [ Post Comment ] Comment #18 posted by Had Enough on October 29, 2002 at 21:40:38 PT Mayberry RFD I would also like to add this while standing on this worn out soapbox.When some of these outdated and unjust laws get repealed, I am sure that there will be a renewed respect for Law Enforcement and their efforts. Without cops you probably couldn't walk down the street, more or less try to pursue Life, Liberty and Happiness. I have seen a big wedge driven between cops and otherwise law-abiding citizens. This is tearing this country apart. This has got to stop. People need to trust Law Enforcement again, and Law Enforcement needs to trust people again. Just like Sheriff Taylor in Mayberry. Dreaming……… But at least, I have a dream of hope. [ Post Comment ] Comment #17 posted by FoM on October 29, 2002 at 21:30:31 PT Had Enough I agree that there are good police out there. I remember one time I went to visit her at the jail and she introduced me to a young man that was in jail but was free to help around the jail. I can't think of what they call them when they have more liberty but I could tell he liked my sister and thought she was nice. She treats everyone with respect. She always has. [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by Had Enough on October 29, 2002 at 21:20:16 PT FoM Not all cops are bad. I know and have met several good ones that do their job very well, and I have a lot of respect for them. Some bad cops give all cops a bad name, just like everything else in life; that bad apple in the barrel' it’s too bad that too many things are out of their hands. They are WE THE PEOPLE too. They also vote. [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by FoM on October 29, 2002 at 21:06:33 PT Had Enough Thanks. I'll have to show my sister the link. Her computer doesn't work anymore or only barely. I haven't seen her for a while and it's about time for us to get together for a short visit. She believes in what I do here on CNews even though she never was around any drugs. She is 14 years older then me. She is a retired deputy sheriff. [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by Had Enough on October 29, 2002 at 20:59:09 PT L. E. A. P. Unknown & surprising, people and organizations everywhere:This link below might be of interest to some:Current and former members of law enforcement who support drug regulation rather than prohibition.http://www.leap.cc/ [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by Had Enough on October 29, 2002 at 20:53:53 PT National Review Bill Buckley has always spoken out on this topic for years. Funny thing though, Rush Limbaugh speaks into his golden EIB microphone good things about Mr. Buckley, but I've never heard him talk of this issue and Mr. Buckley at the same time. National Review also advertised on the expired Rush Limbaugh TV showMr. Limbaugh also uses Rock & Roll music to promote his radio show, but has bellowed nasty things about the Rock & Roll and entertainment industry. I’m sure most of you already know this. Just thought I would mention it. [ Post Comment ] Comment #12 posted by FoM on October 29, 2002 at 20:28:51 PT canaman - Exiguous I like the way William Buckley used that word after I went to Dictionary.com and found out what it meant. Check out yeoman.Extremely scanty; meagerhttp://www.dictionary.com/ [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by FoM on October 29, 2002 at 19:29:59 PT Thanks The GCW I'll keep my eyes open for an article tomorrow. [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by The GCW on October 29, 2002 at 19:21:26 PT Also tomorrow... today and every day... TOMORROW: Congressional Candidate Heidi Behrens-Benedict to Appear With Medical Marijuana Patients Will Hold News Conference With Patients Oct. 30 http://www.mpp.org/releases/nr102902.html WHAT: News conference supporting protection for medical marijuana patients WHO: Heidi Behrens-Benedict, Democratic candidate for Congress from District 8 (Seattle), medical marijuana patients and providers WHERE: Offices of Steinborn and Holcomb, PLLC, 1218 - 3rd Ave. (the Seattle Tower), Suite 1800 WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 30, noon PST The GCW The GCW TODAY & EVERY DAY: Marijuana Arrests Near All-Time High in 2001 Marijuana Arrests Near All-Time High in 2001 http://www.mpp.org/releases/nr102802.htmlPLUS: Special Release: Marijuana Arrests For Year 2001 Second Highest Ever Despite Feds' War On Terror, FBI Report Reveals http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5444 [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by The GCW on October 29, 2002 at 19:11:44 PT Type in William Buckley at MAP search... http://www.mapinc.org/find and then go back about 10 years and see Buckley has had 30 stories published...1 US: Column: The Legal Jam Thu, 24 May 2001 106 2 US: Hard Lessons From Traffic? Mon, 16 Apr 2001 96 3 US: Column: Hard Lessons From Traffic? Fri, 16 Mar 2001 94 4 US: High On Drug-Warring Mon, 19 Feb 2001 78 5 US FL: Column: Supply-Side Drug War Futile Wed, 31 Jan 2001 98 6 US NE: Column: Drug War Won't Halt Demand Mon, 29 Jan 2001 Excerpt 7 US: OPED: Drug Warring Is An Exercise In Futility Sat, 27 Jan 2001 Excerpt 8 US CA: Column: High On Drug-Warring Fri, 26 Jan 2001 Excerpt 9 US: High On Drug-Warring Bush's Colombia Problem Fri, 26 Jan 2001 95 10 US: The Pot Wars Go On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 97 11 US CA: Column: The Pot Wars Go On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 Excerpt 12 US CA: Column: The Death Of Peter McWilliams Sat, 24 Jun 2000 Excerpt 13 US: Column: Peter McWilliams, R.I.P. Wed, 21 Jun 2000 Excerpt 14 US: Column: Lost Political Causes Fri, 24 Mar 2000 Excerpt 15 US CA: Column: The Long Arm Of Cocaine Thu, 02 Sep 1999 Excerpt 16 US: OPED: MMJ: Marijuana For AIDS, Up To A Point Fri, 26 Mar 1999 107 17 US NY: Column: The Cost Of Banning Dope Mon, 01 Mar 1999 81 18 US CA: Is Perjury Everywhere In Our Society? Tue, 26 Jan 1999 Excerpt 19 US CA: Column: Narcomania In California Wed, 24 Nov 1999 Excerpt 20 US CA: Column: The Long Reach Of Coke Wed, 01 Sep 1999 Excerpt 21 US IL: Column: Long Reach Of Cocaine Fri, 03 Sep 1999 112 22 US: OPED: We Need Frank Talk On Drug Use Fri, 03 Sep 1999 Excerpt 23 US CA: Column: On The Right (Buckley on Peter McWilliams) Thu, 27 Aug 1998 Excerpt 24 US: CA: Opinion: Prop. 215 On Trial In The McWilliams Case Tue, 18 Aug 1998 Excerpt 25 US: OPED: Buckley - Curious Aspects of the Tobacco Settlement Fri, 20 Mar 1998 Excerpt 26 OPED: Buckley: We need a way to identify those with HIV Mon, 03 Nov 1997 Excerpt 27 OPED: The 'myths' about marijuana are examined Mon, 20 Oct 1997 Excerpt 28 Is marijuana fear a myth? Wed, 15 Oct 1997 93 29 US: Column: Misfire On Drug Policy Mon, 26 Feb 1996 90 30 OPED: Pot Laws Have British In A Tempest Over Tea Wed, 13 Dec 1995 Excerpt [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by DdC on October 29, 2002 at 19:04:56 PT William F.Buckley Jr... http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionantiwodwarriors.showMessage?topicID=37.topicIs marijuana fear a myth? By William Buckley McWilliams at bat By William Buckley ON THE RIGHT: THE DEA STRIKES BACK! by William F. Buckley Jr.Perjury everywhere? By William BuckleyLost political causes By William Buckley [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by FoM on October 29, 2002 at 19:00:06 PT Robbie You're Right It's going to be on tomorrow. I just saw the commercial. Sorry I must have read it wrong. I will watch tomorrow night. [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by FoM on October 29, 2002 at 18:34:27 PT Robbie I don't know. I copied it from the link and it says the 29th. I have the west coast news on now and will check it out. It should be on soon or maybe they made a mistake on the web site.http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/WNT/# [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by Sam Adams on October 29, 2002 at 18:33:37 PT Our Hero Give 'em Hell Bill! From the tone and depth of this article, I would bet he's been following this issue closely. I'd spark one up with William F. Buckley on his yacht anytime! You can ALWAYS count on him to throw in a word or two no one's ever heard of. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by pokesmotter on October 29, 2002 at 18:30:10 PT: 50???!?! 250?!?!?! the number of joints you can get out of three ounces DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH WEED YOU PUT IN EACH ONE. if you roll them as big as cigarrettes, they would probably be about 50. anybody know the exact number? [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by Robbie on October 29, 2002 at 18:26:38 PT You sure FoM? I think that's tomorrow night. I watched ABC and it was in a promo to be on tomorrow.I'm sure they'll put the proper governmental spin on it, either way. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by canaman on October 29, 2002 at 18:15:10 PT After looking up the meaning of exiguous.... ...actually I've usually gotten a kick out of William F. Buckley Jr's writing. I really liked the Christian Fundamentalist connection part. He touched on a lot of good points, 3oz. vs. 200 or 300 j's. California as a sort of DMZ (although it may be more militarized than de-militarized)and the prohibitionists characterization of "Amsterdam, which permits everything, including killing babies and old people." ....OMG....and the numbers... "If 80 percent of Americans believe that THC should be legal for sick people, and almost as many (72 percent) think it should be penalized for use by non-sick people only by fine, not prison, or electrocution, how many probably believe, or are about to believe, in legalization? If the public takes so solid a move in the easygoing direction away from prison sentences, is reform far away?" Ole Bill Buckley was on a roll. [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by FoM on October 29, 2002 at 17:38:24 PT ABC World News Tonight - On Canadian Marijuana I missed it on ET but it still is coming up for PT. Coming up on WORLD NEWS TONIGHT Tuesday, Oct. 29: Canada's plan to eliminate every significant penalty for using marijuana is a change the U.S. cannot ignore — and one the Bush administration is trying to prevent. http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/WNT/# [ Post Comment ] Post Comment