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  Med Marijuana States Could Pick Democratic Nominee

Posted by CN Staff on February 04, 2004 at 17:13:02 PT
For Immediate Release 
Source: Common Dreams  

Washington -- As the presidential campaign moves to a series of caucuses and primaries in states that have adopted medical marijuana laws, voters are learning that the candidates have sharply different positions on the medical marijuana issue, the Marijuana Policy Project noted today. Those positions could resonate not only with primary and caucus voters, but also in November: In four of the medical marijuana states -- Washington, Maine, Nevada, and Oregon -- the November 2000 margin between victorious Republican candidate George W. Bush and Democratic candidate Al Gore was within five percentage points.
Of the leading candidates, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and Gen. Wesley Clark have pledged to end the Bush administration's raids on medical marijuana patients and providers. North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean -- who blocked a Vermont medical marijuana bill in 2002 -- have not. Edwards has said it would be "irresponsible" to stop arresting medical marijuana patients.Two medical marijuana states -- Maine and Washington -- choose most of their delegates in caucuses this weekend, and Dean is pinning his hopes for reviving his campaign on Washington. Nevada and Hawaii hold caucuses February 14 and 24, respectively, and California holds its primary March 2."Every day I risk the threat of arrest and federal prison for the simple act of taking my medicine," said Monte F. Levine of Bremerton, Washington, who uses medical marijuana to treat the symptoms of hepatitis C and compressed disks. "I've been directly threatened with federal prosecution for trying to protect my health and the health of friends living with AIDS. We need a president who will stop this war on the sick.""We saw clearly in New Hampshire that support for protecting medical marijuana patients is a political plus, with no downside at all for the candidates," said Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C. "Our extensive field operation -- literature drops, auto-dial phone calls, television ads, and leafleting at campaign events -- ensured voters knew the candidates' positions. A solid majority in New Hampshire voted for candidates who pledged to stop the raids, and that sentiment will be even stronger in states that have directly felt these attacks on the seriously ill."Complete Title: Medical Marijuana States Could Pick Democratic Nominee Contact: Marijuana Policy ProjectBruce Mirken 415-668-6403 Source: Common Dreams (ME)Published: February 4, 2004Copyright: 2004 Common DreamsContact: editor commondreams.org Website: http://www.commondreams.org/Related Articles & Web Site:Marijuana Policy Projecthttp://www.mpp.org/MMJ Patients Win New Hampshire Primaryhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18241.shtmlKerry: End Medical Marijuana Prosecutionhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18114.shtmlSenators Back UM Medical Marijuanahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17685.shtml

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Comment #23 posted by FoM on February 06, 2004 at 11:29:17 PT
'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Feb. 5
This is a portion of the transcripts that I read someone wanted to read on Kerry's Board.***CAMPBELL BROWN, NBC CORRESPONDENT: You were one of only seven senators who voted to kill an amendment that would require random drug testing, random alcohol testing for airline pilots. Why? KERRY: Often, there‘s a procedural vote. I voted over 6,500 times. I can‘t tell what you the parliamentary situation was on any particular vote. But I‘m in favor of important drug testing. And I‘m in favor of tough drug sentencing. BROWN: You opposed mandatory minimum sentences for drug dealers who sold to children?KERRY: We have problems with some of our mandatory sentencing. We have people who have been sentenced for very long periods of time for offenses that, in my judgment, don‘t always merit that length of time. BROWN: But these were drug dealers who were selling to minors. KERRY: It depends on the definition of dealer. If it is a real dealer, I am for it. It is all in the definition of dealer. And, as everybody knows in prosecution and in the law, the definitions are critical. If it is a real dealer, obviously, I‘m for putting them away for life. But if you‘re talking about some kid or some college kid who is selling in a dorm or something, are you going to put them under the same mandatory as a regular drug dealer? I don‘t think so. And I don‘t think most Americans think so. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4192834/
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Comment #22 posted by FoM on February 06, 2004 at 09:51:10 PT
Press Release from The Marijuana Policy Project 
Please register to vote on-line Dear Friend:The most recent national public opinion poll on marijuana -- conducted by Time magazine and CNN in October 2002 -- indicates that 34% of American adults support the "legalization" of marijuana. And national polling consistently indicates that about half of American voters believe that adults should not be arrested for using marijuana.Why is it, then, that almost all state legislators, governors, and members of Congress are afraid to introduce or vote for marijuana policy reform measures?Because some supporters of marijuana policy reform aren't registered voters, and those who are rarely withhold their votes from politicians who support marijuana prohibition.If you are an American citizen who is at least 18 years of age, please visit http://www.truedemocracy.us to register to vote today.When politicians are confronted with the idea of supporting a marijuana policy reform measure, they usually envision parents groups, the Christian right, and other conservatives uniting to throw them out of office.Alternatively, when politicians consider the ramifications of opposing a marijuana policy reform bill, they usually do not envision throngs of disgusted voters throwing them out of office. Rather, they envision no public outcry at all.This must change.Ideally, members and allies of the Marijuana Policy Project would be single-issue voters on the marijuana issue. If a politician supports reform, he or she would get your vote; if a politician opposes reform, he or she would not get your vote. And, in addition to being a single- issue voter, you would actually tell your elected officials and their challengers that you are a single-issue marijuana voter.Of course, many voters who share MPP's vision aren't willing to become single-issue voters on the marijuana issue. But is it reasonable to ask supporters of marijuana policy reform to withhold their votes from all politicians who support marijuana prohibition? I think so.If you aren't registered to vote, visit http://www.truedemocracy.us to do so today. In addition to making it easy to register to vote, this Web site also provides informative statistics on voter participation in the U.S. (As voter turnout slowly declines, your vote becomes proportionally more and more important.)And please consider making a commitment to yourself to vote only for candidates who express their support for ending the arrest and incarceration of adult marijuana users. I have made this promise.Sincerely,Rob KampiaExecutive DirectorMarijuana Policy ProjectWashington, D.C.
 
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Comment #21 posted by FoM on February 05, 2004 at 18:36:23 PT
kapt
That's true. We haven't arrived at where we are today as a society without adapting to change. Flexibility isn't a weakness but actually a strength. 
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Comment #20 posted by kaptinemo on February 05, 2004 at 18:20:10 PT:
Just an ugly fact of life, FoM
Our opponents have a weakness we do not: They ARE a 'cookie cutter' subculture that demands uniformity of thought. They may have won short term goals such as political power, but that is also fleeting, as to keep it, you must adapt...and they cannot, because adaptation requires flexibility, and flexibility - or 'compromise', as they sneeringly put it - implies moral turpitude and weakness in their eyes, while inflexibility is seen by them as being a strength. That's why the anti culture is doomed. Like a crystal struck along it's cleavage, it will eventually shatter from it's own hardness.The have Websites...but can barely turn on their computers - which were developed largely by stoners and entheogen partakers. They have voices...but say nothing new. They have drive...but so do lemmings.I often wonder how the Neanderthals may have felt when they saw their new neighbors, the Cro-Magnons. Looking at antis, I have my answer. They are hopelessly outclassed; all they have left is brute force.
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Comment #19 posted by FoM on February 05, 2004 at 18:03:25 PT

kapt
I liked what you said here.***Our diversity ensures that no single attack can have the kind of devastating impact that a uniform subculture would sustain if all it's weak points were exploited.
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Comment #18 posted by kaptinemo on February 05, 2004 at 17:16:05 PT:

I don't use cookie cutters when baking
And I never ask for anyone to fit my own ideas of what is the 'proper' way of approaching a political problem like this is, for precisely the same reason: I like variety. I may offer suggestions, and have to admit those suggestions have their origins in my own rather odd background, and I am only too well aware of my own faults. But when I 'speak' here, it's also from sad experience with the twists - the twits - of fate.Being and old f*rt Trekker, I am reminded of the Vulcan symbol of the IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. From our wild diversity - from Rastas and GCW's, tie-wearing businessmen to tie-dyed Deadheads, from ex-grunts and life long peace- and refuse-niks, NONE of us fit any 100% accurate stereotype of the 'typical stoner'. Simply because such a stereotype was foisted upon us long ago, as a means to denigrate us, no less so than the word 'n****r' was upon African Americans, and for the same purpose. Our diversity ensures that no single attack can have the kind of devastating impact that a uniform subculture would sustain if all it's weak points were exploited.I only have mentioned the MPP in my little screeds because they have proven themselves to be effective with the resources they have at their disposal. Of course there are other groups, too numerous to mention. If you wish, support them. By all means.But, PLEASE, people, DO support them. That's the thrust of my rant here today. We have finally walloped the mule between the eyes with the 2X4 and gotten it's attention. WE AS A GROUP ARE HAVING AN EFFECT. Many of he cannabists of my generation didn't follow through in the critical years of 1976-1978, and we have paid for that slacking ever since. But life sometimes resembles a circle; once again, the wheel has turned round, once again the door opens a crack, and light shines out into the darkness we've lived in since then. One again, the chance has come.Our chance. Our time. Here. Now.If we pass this up, there may NEVER be another chance, for the forces behind the fascistic slide into The Pit the US is engaged in nearly have a stranglehold on declaring illegal and ruthlessly suppressing the means of peacefully fighting back. Make no mistake: Bush may not equal Hitler, but he doesn't have to. Hitler never personally pulled a trigger on any Jew or gay or Gypsy or Socialist or Commie or whatnot; but he had lots of willing goons to do it for him. As does Georgie.MMJ is a tiny part of holding back the Long Night that may fall upon us, for it represents more than sick people having their medicine in peace; it means a rollback of Federal tyranny that threatens us ALL. Our opponents know this. Some of the most strident screechers about morality were the Nazis. The only thing their modern day contemporaries lack is thunderbolts on black collars and an accent. Because they screech just as loudly about 'morality' and 'protecting children' while they do unspeakable things to their own countrymen.This is what we face. If you think the last 24 years have been Hell, you ain't seen nuthin' yet. Hitler telegraphed his intentions in Mein Kampf, and nobody took him seriously until it was too late. Go to DEAWatch and read what these so-called public servants would like to do to you and me. They make no bones about it, as if the last 80 years had never happened, as if the history of the last 80 years hadn't been written, letter by letter, line by line, in blood. They want to make those 'knocks at midnight' and cause people to 'disappear'. They haven't learned a thing.
At the risk of seeming overly simplistic, free cannabis means a free people. A free people whose government serves THEM, not the other way around. So much more is at stake here than just the maintenence of a small degree of human decency. Our future as a nation will depend upon our resolve.Support those who support you...or you have no reason to cry when the goons break down your door.
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Comment #17 posted by FoM on February 05, 2004 at 15:51:14 PT

kaptinemo
I read your comment and I have been thinking a lot lately about issues and what we should do and how we should help bring good change. I haven't come up with any answers but as I read the comments and the news it gets me thinking. The news is slow and that drives me a little crazy but it also allows me time to sort things out. All the organizations are doing what they can. I like that. We don't all believe the same way and we all don't have to be the same. Actually individuality is a good thing. Good for everyone and every organization. When you put the collective works together from different organizations you see a big picture and it really is an exciting time to be involved in all this.
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Comment #16 posted by kaptinemo on February 05, 2004 at 14:36:11 PT:

My apologies; I wasn't clear enough, it seems
So, I'll try to pare it down:1) MPP people have made a breakthrough. They've gotten some of the 'front runner' candidates to talk about the MMJ issue, whereas in the past they have ignored it. This is an unqualified success, given the recent past.2) DK, unlike the so-called 'front runners', never needed to be asked about his supporting MMJ, but was anyways, and he answered forthrightly in his support. I was not ragging him. How anyone could construe that I was is inexplicable.3) Since some of the so-called 'front runners' have proven to be ignorant or tacitly hostile to the idea of MMJ, they have been placed on notice now by the MPP folks that: A) This issue exists.B) This issue can be used to whip Republican political backsides raw and bleeding (A bright Dem candidate: "'Compassionate conservatism'? What's so compassionate about locking up sick people? Is this what the Republicans consider to be 'compassionate'?") if they are smart enough to use the ready made weapon that has been handed to them on a silver platter, with roses.C) This issue will dog the candidates all the way through their campaigns. See A above.D) Even if a candidate tries to backpedal once he achieves the nomination and eventual Presidency, he will be made aware that that voting bloc of millions strong could, if necessary, take to the streets to publicly humiliate him into keeping that promise of backing off. Even with Rand Beers whispering his Narcocracy poison in Kerry's ear, it wouldn't take long for public pressure to force a rethinking of policy, lest Kerry be seen as being as bad as what he has replaced.I hope that no one is harboring any ideas that I support Kerry; I don't trust him half the distance I can expectorate. But I am a realist; it's long been an article of faith with me that in American politics, the best man usually only gets the job by default, not design. But with enough political pressure at a sensitive time, we could make a very great contribution towards our own eventual liberation. Hence my 'call to arms' for all good cannabists to come to the aid of the organizations fighting for MMJ...like the MPP.I hope I have been clear enough this time...

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Comment #15 posted by FoM on February 05, 2004 at 11:26:59 PT

Virgil
Thank you. You're a cool dude in my book!
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Comment #14 posted by Virgil on February 05, 2004 at 11:23:55 PT

Free Cannabis will come with a Great Awakening
FoM, I am trying to say that we are near a great awakening. That is what it will take to Free Cannabis. We are winning. I only think how the discussion would have been different if Christmas had brought us GW extracts. With extracts the train would go from steam to deisel. We might not know how long the journey is through Corruption Territory, but the train I am on is not stopping until we reach Freedom, USA.Free Cannabis For Everyone. 
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Comment #13 posted by FoM on February 05, 2004 at 10:56:24 PT

Virgil
Go for it and promote Dennis. That's a good thing. I just will keep my eyes on what this site is about and it's cannabis but not too much about politics. I know politics will have a play in this all but it doesn't have to dominate it. 
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Comment #12 posted by Virgil on February 05, 2004 at 10:47:16 PT

I can agree with that
Your tree stump is better than Bush. Only 10 percent of the delegates are in. Dean was saying today that if he does not win Wisconsin on Feb. 17 th he will be out.Clark could easily call it quits as his heart is really not in it if you ask me. Why go through it all when he can do anything he wants.I think you can count on DK to make it to the convention. I think you can see DK gain credibility in his ideas because of what he says about Iraq. He says the US was wrong in attacking Iraq and now we should admit it and get the UN in. Here we see how having a messenger carry the proper path will influence others. That is why we need to speak of issues so that the best path becomes obvious and must be taken.I have said that I believe the next president will be a Democrat. DK will be the one to draw the PNAC plans and say things in a forthright manner. It is not critical that he win, it is important that he heard and gain credibility.
What happens when he holds up the delivery device that GW will use and says that in the UK they have clinical cannabis and we should reschedule it and have NIDA stop the search for demonization and turn their $28 billion dollars a year to finding out something that will help people instead of the pill people's profits.Free Cannabis would be good for America. It will help the devestations that come from an alcohol culture. It will lead to vaporization to reduce the harms of tobacco. It will illuminate the corruption of the media and government. All it takes is for a man with real credibility with a national focus to say that the Scheduling is wrong and the drug war is wrong.If there were another candidate that said we should bust up the media, I would cite his name. Because no one person is as important as the issue of busting up the media conglomerates. It is DK that says that and that gives him credibility. It gives him an attentive ear.Someone promoting Free Cannabis would elevate the voice of Kucinch on the drug wars. There is going to be a real attack on the corruption of government and the drug wars that show the the corruption best. The herd needs to tune out of the soap opera media coverage and speak of issues to advance the discussion of the greatest common good.That is not BS. The issue is issues.
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Comment #11 posted by FoM on February 05, 2004 at 10:20:01 PT

Virgil
I don't get upset with organizations or issues. It's not my nature. I keep my eyes on changing the laws on Cannabis. I get to retire then! I want to be able to retire and do other things in my life. I have a one track mind. I don't care who becomes president as long as it isn't Bush. All of those running are better then him. 
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Comment #10 posted by Virgil on February 05, 2004 at 10:09:03 PT

MPP lost an opportunity
The central issue of cannabis outside of the overstepping of federal powers to bring complete hedgemony, is the Scheuling classification of cannabis.They did not even mention the core problem. It is just an opinion, but they lost the opportunity to frame the issue in its proper context. I criticized NORML for their giving Kerry an A-. It totally misses the mark in my opinion. NORML has their standards I guess. But in the discussion of my D- grade, I can carry the intellectual discussion of the wrongs that are killing us. I am not being harsh. I am trying to make an intellectual point. I am trying as hard as I can to be intellectually honest.The number one issue before the country is corruption. Yesterday, I put it on them. It took me a few days to stop some of the herd and say let us talk issues. The news is filled of recomendations and the electability issue with Kerry saying We will beat Bush. But the whole idea of discussing issues was being left out because of the soap opera nature being presented by the media that should now call news entertainment.This is at the site where real Democrats meet. Someone had to stop the herd and say talk about the issues. I said nobody has developed a top 10 list of issues for us to discuss and electability is a waste of time. If there were real discussion and informed public as Jefferson always said was required, we would all benefit.But I laid it on them that corruption is the number one issue before us and now we are finally talking about real issues. Today I had the chance to hit a homerun when the subject came up on a police chief in the UK said they should administer heroin to addicts.But even if Kerry is the nominee, he can be bent by the discussion of what is wrong. But if everyone stayed on polls and electability we were missing our prime chance to change things.I am just being honest when I say MPP missed the boat. People are not going to do what I want because I want it or my car would be clean. But someone has to address the issue here so that people might ponder on that idea and carry it with them wherever they may go. The core issue with cannabis is really the corruption of the entire government. But the next step is to speak of the wrong classification of cannabis and this article did not mention it. Others might see it differently, but how in the world could I?
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Comment #9 posted by FoM on February 05, 2004 at 09:22:25 PT

Virgil
I meant why attack organizations for going after the front runners? Bashing Kerry doesn't help but promoting Dennis by getting out there and supporting his campaign so he becomes more visible is a good thing.
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Comment #8 posted by Virgil on February 05, 2004 at 09:18:58 PT

Imagine this
What happens when websites like CommonDreams have a comments section like AlterNet or NarcoNews will have.What if my comments were attatched to raise the real issues. I said the article was superficial and it is highly superficial. If someone would like to say that it is not, I would like to read that comment.DU had a herd mentality too. Would you believe I have steered the herd. All I asked was how was Kerry different. He is not that much different as he actually is the Democratic side of the coin that has Bush on the Republican side.I have not said one thing that is a lie. The only thing I do is add information to make people think. We have issues in this country that are not going away any time soon and I am talking issues. Like I said at DU, Kerry is not the issue. He has a mansion and a spare. The issue is us.There is a new term at DU today called the Kerry distractors which I guess you could say I am the leader. I am talking issues and in particular the cannabis issue as it regards the country and the Democratic candidate being sold on an issue of "electability" that omits discussion of the issues.Somebody tell me why they think John Kerry is not a drug warrior? Is that bashing or is that an issue?
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Comment #7 posted by FoM on February 05, 2004 at 08:35:46 PT

A Comment
I know many of you really like Dennis Kucinich and he seems like a good man. I don't like defending MPP or any organization but I must say this. The article addresses those who are winning so far. Because money and time are a big issue they will follow those who are the front runners. Dennis has already made his beliefs known on Cannabis. They want to get to those who aren't making a stand and I understand that. I have competed almost all of my life. I don't believe in saying bad things about those I competed against. It isn't how a person wins. Would Dennis be happy to know that people are bashing others in the race? I don't think so? He has dignity and that is one reason why he is likeable. 
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Comment #6 posted by Virgil on February 05, 2004 at 07:34:20 PT

Then there is the issue of the Constitution
The issue of federal power by claiming Godliness to rule over all things because of a small handful of words in the commerce clause is a big deal to say the least. That would be the most appropriate question to someone that wants to swear to defend the Constitution. That is a lie in itself as the commerce clause is pretty clear in its intent.If someone in 1803 rode out to Thomas Jefferson's plantation and told him the federal government said he could not grow hemp, he would have thought him mad. We should feet that way now, but all the dumbness in the news keeps the herd from thinking and turning directions.
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Comment #5 posted by Virgil on February 05, 2004 at 07:25:45 PT

Kap, it is not DK that makes it bad
This is all but a puff piece for Kerry. I know Kerry for the drug warrior he is and his insistance that cannabis stay in Schedule 1. It is not that you have to be cannabis friendly to move it to Schedule 2 when it can easily be argued that itis a Schedule 5 in extract clinical cannabis and the plant itself should not even be on the schedule.It is highly superficial article as it does not outline the wrongness of its welding in Schedule 1. There is a complete dumbing down of the article that even Reader's Digest could not pull off if they wrote on the issue.GW extracts will mean that there will be medical cannabis in the US in the term of the next president. Clinical grades of researched cannabis cannot be held off the market as the safety should lead it to be the first thing prescribed instead of the last as desired in Canada. That is why cannabis is so hardly fought. It has safety and is not addictive like the opiates that require strict rotations and monintering.Now, if I wrote 500 words for CommonDreams, I am sure my message would paint a much more intellectual picture. I think the NORML rating and this article all but promote Kerry as some kind of champion for medical Miracle Plant when it is the opposite of the truth. He is standing in the way with his corruption. Cannabis does not meet any of the requirements for Schedule 1 much less all three. The FDA standard for medicine is that something only has to be better than nothing. Well, actually now that the pill industry has taken over the FDA, they changed it to medicine is what we say medicine is.Think of the article you would right for the NYT given the chance. It would very a great deal from this promotion of Kerry in this highly superficial. 
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Comment #4 posted by kaptinemo on February 05, 2004 at 05:19:03 PT:

The sleeping giant is stirring
Many years ago, when Ken Burn's "The Civil War" series was first broadcast, I recall in the first segment a story that had to do with a Black freedman who had bought his manumission and stayed in the South, when he saw his first Union soldier, said to him "If I'd a-known you gun men was a-comin', I'd a saved my money."In other words, he was quite content to remain a slave and let someobody else do the fighting and dying to free him. How many cannabists do you know who act the same way?The time - OUR time - has come.Granted, Common Dreams has forgotten Mr. Kucinich...but others amongst the electorate have not. I suspect that there may be a surprise shift right under the noses of the 'perfumed princes' like Kerry being massaged and into acceptability (while past failures like going after Iran/Contra tooth-and-nail when he had the chance are, like Georgie's desertion, swept under a rug with a huge hump of filth already there) may force the candidates to bend even further on the MMJ issue.But the main point is this: take a look at what JUST A HANDFUL OF US HAVE DONE SO FAR. Compared to the *vast* numbers of cannabists in this country, a dedicated few have made relatively deep inroads into territory that a few years ago would have been impossible. The MMJ Marines have landed, despite heavy fire. The beach-head has been established. The long-awaited breach in the formerly, seemingly impregnable anti political defenses has been made. The Dem candidates have been asked the Third Rail Question about past cannabis use...and all have SURVIVED! Now...time for the Second Wave. Now...just think of what could be done with a few handful more of activists...and few hundred more...a few thousand more...a few MILLION more?I will keep repeating this until someone here gets so tired of it they tell me to shut the f- up. I will comply with their wish, but I'll never stop *thinking* it:The question has never been, "Do you want to be free?"The question has always been, "WHEN do you want to be free?"The Dems know that they have to have more than their Republican-Lite tactics of pandering to rich centrist contributors this time to pull it off; they've neglected the rest of their original power base for too long, and now that power base, those who have suffered so much these past 3 years, are angry and are letting the Dem candidates know how disappointed they are. And those Dem candidates *are* listening. Obviously, Mr. Kucinich has no problem with *his* hearing; he doesn't have to 'get' the message because like many of us, he's LIVED it; his ears haven't been stoppered with that Republican-Lite manure. The others seem like they still haven't discovered that wonderful invention called a Q-Tip. But people like the MPP have been pulling on surgical gloves (manure, remember? nasty!) and gently sticking the MMJ Q-Tip in the ears of the candidates and some are starting to hear something else than the syrupy DLC Muzak. They are starting to realize that the high pitched squeaking those stoppered ears have filtered were actually the screams of the sick and dying being oppressed by the Feds. they know it's happening now. They can't deny it. It is time. Our time. Even if all you can do is to set aside some of what you would spend on your 'date' with the Emerald Princess and give it to the organizations that need our help in this fight, then please do so.Otherwise, ultimately, we are no less undeserving of freedom than that ex-slave was.
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Comment #3 posted by FoM on February 04, 2004 at 21:28:41 PT

EJ, New York Times
I posted an article on the trial from the NYT. As far as the above article goes I really hope they keep pushing for more from those who are running for the democratic nomination for president. I want to have hope again. 
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Comment #2 posted by E_Johnson on February 04, 2004 at 18:29:17 PT

Martha Stewart tries a marijuana defense
Lawyers for Martha Stewart are claiming that the government's prime witness against her should be considered not a credible witness because he smoked weed during a vacation to Jamaica:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,110412,00.htmlHe smoked pot, therefore he is a liar and a shady character and his testimony that he was ordered by his boss to alert her when the stock was about to tank cannot be believed.It's sad to see her try to defend herself on such grounds.
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Comment #1 posted by Virgil on February 04, 2004 at 17:44:13 PT

Is that the best they can do?
How can you leave out DK if you are reporting positions of the candidates? That is totally pitiful. It is beyond superficial. It is floating above reality. Earth to CommonDreams. Earth to CommonDreams.It is a good thing they do not let me be an editor of a paper. I could only get about 10 headlines on a page and I would remove all advertising and count on sales generated by reality. On the last page. The news that needs to reach people in this country would headline without content- America has gone to hell.
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