cannabisnews.com: U.S. Blames Canada for Marijuana Emergencies U.S. Blames Canada for Marijuana Emergencies Posted by CN Staff on April 14, 2004 at 17:50:58 PT By Reuters Source: Reuters Miami, Florida -- Canadian production of high-potency marijuana is partly to blame for a doubling of pot-related emergency room cases in the United States, the head of U.S. drug policy said Wednesday.Reiterating U.S. criticism of a more relaxed Canadian attitude to marijuana, White House drug czar John Walters urged Ottawa to recognize the problem of hydroponically grown pot, which is grown in nutrient-rich solutions rather than soil. It is often grown inside under lights, and Walters said it sold for as much as cocaine."Canada is exporting to us the crack of marijuana and it is a dangerous problem," Walters told reporters in Miami, where he kicked off a campaign to cut marijuana use by Hispanic youths."We need to have political leadership in Canada that recognizes the problem," he said. "Addiction is going to spread in Canada dramatically. It has in many places."A longtime critic of Canadian plans to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, Walters said that while the pot the hippie generation knew contained on average 1 percent of psychoactive Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, Canada's high-potency marijuana contained 20 to 30 percent THC."It is extremely dangerous. It is one of the reasons why we believe ... we have seen a doubling of emergency room cases involving marijuana in the last several years from 60,000 to 120,000," Walters said.Disagreements over drug policy, combined with differences over the Iraq war, are among several issues that have chilled relations between Canada and its powerful southern neighbor.While maintaining that improving ties with Washington was a priority, new Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin said in December he intended to press ahead with plans to end jail terms for people caught with small amounts of marijuana.And Ottawa has said that Washington's own data shows that of all the illegal pot seized by U.S. agents only 1.5 percent came from Canada.The head of the White House Office of National Drug Policy said that Canadian producers had a multibillion dollar marijuana growing business and that 80 to 90 percent of revenues came from the United States.He said Toronto authorities told him there were up to 15,000 indoor growers in that metropolitan area alone.Source: Reuters Published: Thursday, April 15, 2004Copyright: 2004 Reuters Related Articles & Web Site:Cannabis News Canadian Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/can.htmLiberal Laws Worry Drug Czarhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14126.shtmlCzar Rips Canadian Recommendation on Marijuanahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14125.shtmlCanada's Pot Policy Under Fire from U.S.http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14095.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #39 posted by jose melendez on April 16, 2004 at 20:00:18 PT so far, so good Oops, Here's what's up so far:http://pipepeace.com/z/Plus, instead of flying to Syracuse, I Fedexed my camcorder so I can attend the leap.cc conference and still do stuff here in sunny Florida.Whee! [ Post Comment ] Comment #37 posted by FoM on April 15, 2004 at 19:20:04 PT Jose That's great news. Let us know how it goes! [ Post Comment ] Comment #36 posted by ekim on April 15, 2004 at 19:11:25 PT Phats pretty cool jose Good luck in NY --please keep us informed. I hope we can get a Leap speaker here in MI for the kickoff event with Montel for the Med use ballot in Detroit in Aug and the Med Bill Sen Clarke is presenting. http://www.mmdetroit.org [ Post Comment ] Comment #35 posted by jose melendez on April 15, 2004 at 16:27:57 PT Truth Thank you kindly.A quick update: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition wants to fly me to upstate New York and attend a seminar in preparation to help them with speaking.Also, Dr. DuPont kindly and very professionally replied to my carefully worded questions. He's submitted a draft, when he's completed a publishable version, I'll fill you all in.A lawyer friend put me in contact with a citizen that caught his local code enforcement officer trespassing and won in circuit (and again in appeals court) the chance to prosecute the city officer. He is writing a petition I'll be filing next week to obtain documentary evidence from the police.And since I heard they've been calling all over the country trying to find something on me, I've already triggered internal investigations to catch them hiding any evidence through police friends I made over the years, and probably will run for Congress using this incident and issue to win.Gosh I'm learning so much . . .Wage peace, Jose [ Post Comment ] Comment #34 posted by kaptinemo on April 15, 2004 at 13:03:04 PT: "Sleeping problems", well, I've another take We know now that we have those wonderful, evolutionarily dictated cannabinoid receptors in the ol' gray matters. They're there for a bloody good reason. Now, just what if...individuals are born with deficiencies in the ability of those receptors to make use of *in vivo* (in the body) produced anandamides and the other cannabinoids?It's been noted amongst those dealing with 'mental diseases' that many of those unfortunates who do suffer from some God-awful neurochemistry imbalances are often found performing the equivalent of *self-medicating* by their 'abuse' (as in "all use = abuse") of common illicits such as cannabis. ESPECIALLY cannabis.I've witnessed animals instinctively eat flora that they normally wouldn't, when they were sick; everybody has stories of dogs (and I've seen cats do it - mine did) eating grass and other plants. They're hard wired for it. Although this might seem like a huge leap, what if humans did precisely the same? What if they sought out whatever they needed, individually or *as a species*, certain alkaloid bearing plants due to their own neurochemistry imbalances screaming for equilibrium?Hardly original, I know, but still worth consideration. Having suffered from PTSD-induced insomnia regularly, little Ishmael's plight is all too familiar. And I know without reservation that cannabis is THE ticket for that...at least for me. A peaceful night's sleep, with no accompanying nightmares...and no nasty side effects (save of course, possible jail and homosexual rape induced HIV).More reasons for engaging in research into endogenous cannabinoids...if only to make such kid's lives a tad easier. As well as the rest of us; as anyone born with any kind of birth defect will tell you, Mother Nature doesn't always play fair. Shouldn't Science be allowed to even the score, for a change? [ Post Comment ] Comment #33 posted by BGreen on April 15, 2004 at 09:29:28 PT Sleeping problems in kids may lead to PRISON! Why kids' sleep importantWakeful toddlers may develop problems later, study says Researchers point to genetics, stress as possible causesGABE GONDASTAFF REPORTERFor 4-year-old Ishmael Majeed, every bedtime story is an epic. It takes a book, an episode from daddy's spoken word serial, then mommy comes in with the closer. Then, hopefully, the restless Toronto tot will have drifted off. But night time odysseys such as Ishmael's may not all have such innocent endings, according to a new study that suggests toddlers with sleep troubles are likelier to use drugs, cigarettes and alcohol as young teens.Damn, I thought cannabis was the cause of everything bad in the world. Why don't we just deprive the little insomniacs of an education they'll never get to use and just lock them up now to prevent all the crimes they're bound to commit?Sheesh!The Reverend Bud Green toddlers with sleep troubles are likelier to use drugs, cigarettes and alcohol [ Post Comment ] Comment #32 posted by goneposthole on April 15, 2004 at 09:04:02 PT made a spelling error 'i before e except after c'Recieves should be receives.I'll admit to my dumb mistakes.I will hope that the Bush administration will do the same.If George Bush would swallow his foolish pride (made in America) and admit that invading Iraq was as dumb a military blunder as will ever be committed, withdraw American forces on or before June 30, 2004, he may have a chance at being re-selected. It would squash John Kerry's chances at becoming president. He wants to send another 40,000 targets into the war zone in Iraq.The Freedom Fighters in Iraq have all day long into the next century to take pot shots at US troops. They love George Bush, too. Freedom Fighters in Iraq are campaigning for Bush's re-selection.Drug war lies morphed into Iraq war lies. Real Americans don't start wars- bumper sticker at http://www.cloakanddagger.caenjoy life [ Post Comment ] Comment #31 posted by BGreen on April 15, 2004 at 08:32:14 PT Let's do the math 80 to 90% of the *total* Canadian cannabis production supplies *only* 1.5% of the cannabis consumed in the U.S..98.5% of the cannabis consumed in the U.S. comes from someplace *other* than Canada.If every single person out of the 120,000 who mentioned cannabis in the emergency room were the *only* people who got their cannabis from Canada, then there were about 8 million cannabis users who managed to safely consume the sacramental herb grown elsewhere.Cannabis sounds like a pretty safe plant when you do the math.The Reverend Bud Green [ Post Comment ] Comment #30 posted by Druid on April 15, 2004 at 08:30:14 PT LOL Ok here is what makes me laugh...Johnny boy thinks he's so smart and sly using such big terms as "hydroponically" and "Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol". Yet he fails to grasp the very basics of it all. It's not B.C. Grown Hydro that is making the pot strong! It's freakin genetics. It's the result of over 30 years of Dutch and N. Cali breeders improving the strains and building upon them. Crossing and Backcrossing and Stabilizing and increasing the THC with UV-B rays and by using stuff like colchicine which will induce polyploid genetic mutations(plants containing four sets of chromosomes within each cell(4n), displaying increased vigor,and potency, Cannabis is not a natural tetraploid). Hydro smydro. Good genetics are going to grow just as well in soil as in hydro. Personal preference on how you want to grow your weed is how I see it. The increase of good pot in the USA has nothing to do with hydroponically grown cannabis in Canada. It has to do with the ever-rising amount of people who are growing their own and the overwhelming amount of absofreakinlutely excellent genetics that are available for cheap cheap cheap. Med users should be thanking and in full support of the recreational users for developing such a wide variety of strains but that is a topic for another conversation.... [ Post Comment ] Comment #29 posted by kaptinemo on April 15, 2004 at 08:23:23 PT: The more desperate the situation the more brazen the lies...and bolder the liars.The entire top level of he Bush cabinet has been found to be rank incompetents, pointing fingers at each other in a flurry of blame-slinging. In addition, they seek to try to staunch the huge reality gap between their actions and their evident failures. This goes beyond normal behavior when it becomes obvious to all and sundry that they are indeed lying, but the liars become increasingly strident in professing those lies.There's a French expression: *folie a diex*:http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=folie%20a%20deuxfo·lie à deux ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fô-l ä d, fl) n. A condition in which symptoms of a mental disorder, such as the same delusional beliefs or ideas, occur simultaneously in two individuals who share a close relationship or association.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [French : folie, madness + à, between + deux, two.]I'd say Johnny Pee was a classic case...as are his associates. They tell themselves they are in the right when all the mounting evidence proves them wrong. So, of course, evidence be hanged...the antis remind me of the scene in the old movie "The Big Red One" about when US troops wer about to storm a strategic Wehrmact post that also happeend to be a French madhouse. In the fighting, a French madman picks up a German machine pistol, firing indiscriminantly while joyously repeating "I am like you! I am sane!" And has been mentioned earlier, it's the Canux who are getting the short, sharp and s****y end of the deal, when - according to Saint John the Urinator - cocaine and guns flow North, while weed flows South. If I were a Canuck pol, I'd be livid at this particular 'trade imbalance'... [ Post Comment ] Comment #28 posted by Truth on April 15, 2004 at 08:02:53 PT Jose You remind me of that Bob Marley song...Get up, stand up,stand up for your rights.Good luck to you. [ Post Comment ] Comment #27 posted by goneposthole on April 15, 2004 at 07:12:58 PT elaboration What kind of leadership is it that recieves a memo from US intelligence warning them of a potential attack on US soil and act so nonchalant?Answer: Dumb leadershipGo on now, get out there and chase down as many pot smoking deadbeats as you can and forget about any terrorist threat.The blame game is getting old. The Bush administration is good at it. If they need a book of faults, I will give them one that contains their own.Facts don't lie. [ Post Comment ] Comment #26 posted by jose melendez on April 15, 2004 at 06:36:08 PT join leap.cc Notice also Walters is not pointing out that we EXPORT poisons, guns and cocaine to Canada.Check out former drug warrior Joe McNamara, speaking out in print against his former profession:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/15/EDG7R655OD1.DTLI wonder if he also knows that cannabis vapors contain caryophyllene, a precursor to steroids and hormones also found in rose scent.see more below from Joe, I'm guessing he's also with LEAP? http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1946/a02.html Law Enforcement Against Prohibition [ Post Comment ] Comment #25 posted by goneposthole on April 15, 2004 at 06:23:04 PT wait a minute A lot of countries in Central and South America have had cannabis growing within their borders for harvest and distribution for as long as I can remember. Even longer, I'd bet the farm on that one.They don't count."We need to have political leadership in Canada that recognizes the problem" - our friend, John P. WaltersCanadian political leaders are astute and do recognize the problem. The problem is the US government.Canadian political leadership isn't dumb, ours is. [ Post Comment ] Comment #24 posted by dapoopa on April 15, 2004 at 05:49:48 PT Walters' comments are going to backfire I predict Walters' comments are only going to provoke a negative reaction from the Canadian authorities and embolden them in their efforts to decriminalize recreational and medicinal use. He is only going to fan the media flames in Canada -- can't wait to read all the editorial and official rebuttals.What exactly does he intend to accomplish by blaming and singling out Canada? After all, what government responds positively to such public reprimands? The credibility of his employer the Bush administration is already crumbling, and these statements are only going to deepen that impression.I predict the backlash will be swift and uncompromising. [ Post Comment ] Comment #23 posted by afterburner on April 15, 2004 at 05:42:19 PT From Today's Toronto Star Nip reefer in the bud 2004-04-15 01:00:00 [Toronto Star - Whats On] 'The film was innocently titled Tell Your Children when first released in 1938, reportedly funded by a church group with a burning desire to alert parents about an "unspeakable scourge" sweeping America.' http://tinyurl.com/34q8x [ Post Comment ] Comment #22 posted by jose melendez on April 15, 2004 at 04:08:50 PT Break Down I want to bring you all up to speed. The DeLand City Code Enforcement Inspector was VERY surprised to see me take a flash 35mm photo of him when he came out to meet with me in the public lobby. I have an audio recording of him answering no to questions like, "Got any paperwork for me?", "Do you have anything to say?" "How about an apology?" and "An affidavit?" This from the man who had me surrounded by cops the day before, insisting I should come downtown with him and face a "stack" of code I was supposedly violating.He yesterday got VERY quiet when I said "Maybe we need to take some sensitivity training."You should have seen the jaw drop on the secretary. She gave me a brief look that at once seemed to say, "Please don't take my picture!" and "Oh my God, nobody talks to him like that, and he's usually such a jerk and deserves it. You are a god, I'm afraid, yet humbly praise you. "OK, maybe I'm reading into things here. (grin)I've been told that the Sergeant probably has no idea about the Sherman Act, or any antitrust issues, and was likely trying to play "good cop." That said, and in hindsight I find it interesting, ironic and criminal that Sarge recognized that there were jurisdictional issues that precluded him from responding to my report of federal crimes in progress, considering he was out of his own jurisdiction by trespassing on my county property after both verbal and posted requests otherwise. Of course, they insisted they were going to arrest me yesterday, but did not show and the lead officer on the scene is off until Friday.I need a lawyer to write a request for the video tape from the cop car, and the pictures from the illegal search. If anyone here can type out such a legally worded document, please email me at legalize marijuana.com (remove the spaces on either side of the to validate the email address.)Here's the page I posted the background on this, I'll add the audio and any video or transcripts soon:http://pipepeace.com/zI've been thinking about Walter's CSPAN interview and this latest attempt to do political advertising against marijuana. It just emboldens me to pursue the argument that such actions are in conflict with existing law. Also, our friends over at LEAP have kindly been in contact with me, I'm asking them to help me align my rhetoric (on the legality of the drug war waged especially against cannabis users) with legal precedent and case law, to earn standing before a court with equitable jurisdiction over such issues and rights.Finally, Dr. Russo and Mike Smithson, the speaker coordinator for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition ( http://leap.cc ), were kind enough to send me questions I was able to get to Dr. DuPont's assistant via email. She promised to get back to me. (Yawn . . . sure.)Dr. DuPont testified before Congress about marijuana, and carefully omitted from his comments under oath certain relevant facts.I'll post those here and run a D.C. Area classified ad as soon as I am satisfied they are not going to answer.JM"It's all right . . ."Tom Petty [ Post Comment ] Comment #21 posted by Marc Paquette on April 15, 2004 at 03:35:00 PT: IS WALTERS FOR REAL? Walters is running out of ideas. He's been having the same speech and comments about Canada's pot at least 10 times in the past year. What he meant is that he was the first US baby boy to be borned with a "crack(ed)" brain and survived. What I think is that they kept the afterbirth and they threw away the baby! I heard that he had a big fight with his mom last week because she didn't let him watch South Park.Hey, Canada is also to be blamed for it's cold fronts creating tornados down south. This is what one our Members wrote in our Forums:Perhaps we should request that the US govt. through its DEA to stop importing and sending their cocaine and their Crack to Canada? The Largest importers of illegal narcotics in the US is the US government itself. The largest purchasers likewise. They call them stings they buy and sell sometimes catching the bad guy and sometimes not. Ask ex president Bush. The US is well aware that if they did not regulate the importaion or stopped completley the influx of Drugs there would be war on the streets of every major city in the US. They have themselves to blame for their failed Drug policy. They blow up every drug bust out of proportion to justify the vast expenditures and purchases of drugs by Gov't Agencies. What youth sees is what it gets and constantly showing big cars and hundreds of thousands of dollars seized to the poor kid down the street only leads him to wanting the same. Their policy, like Bush has a lot to learn, but with their limitations that is not possible. Drug Czar Walters must be crazy if he expects some kid with a half Kilo of Cocaine or Kil of Hash or Marijuana to give himself up willingly so he can receive a sentence of 15-40 years or 15 yrs. to life. Any normal person can be expected to fight for their freedom, wit the harshness of the laws and the gun happy police in many States it is small wonder that simple and small drug charges end up in gun battles and deaths on both sides. It is not legally or constitutionally justifiable for a 30 man SWAT team armed with the latest in fire power to brek down a persons door to arrest an 18 year old who posesses a lb of pot. Nor is it constitutionally acceptable that a third felony possesion for possession of a minute quantity of cocaine or ounce of has can justify a sentence of 40 years to life . Tell Walters to go to hell and IMPEACH BUSH AND ASHCROFT. http://www.medpot.net [ Post Comment ] Comment #20 posted by billos on April 15, 2004 at 03:20:45 PT: This slimebag of an animal they call ........... Walters is lashing out blindly trying to fend off the evil spirits that have haunted him for so very long. Just like any animal that gets cornered, the mind stops working and the instinct for survival kicks in. The cornered animal can only thrash about wildly in hopes to defeat his enemy and escape. Count your days jonny pee and k.tandy. Bush goes, you'll probably go............good riddance you piece of crap dirtbag [ Post Comment ] Comment #19 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on April 15, 2004 at 02:47:01 PT Who can we blame for booze emergencies? http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2004041413430002804536&dt=20040414134300&w=RTR&coview="Heavy Social Drinkers Show Brain Damage" [ Post Comment ] Comment #18 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on April 15, 2004 at 02:39:14 PT Anxiety attack I know someone, years ago, who smoked up in a car and got freaked out and thought they were dying and asked to go to the hospital. Turns out being in a smoke-filled confined space can cause some people to have a panic attack. The doctors listened briefly, then shook their heads and went on to a real case while the person calmed down... [ Post Comment ] Comment #17 posted by Cannabis Enthusiast on April 14, 2004 at 22:25:32 PT Norway county: Smoking a basic human right http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040414/ap_on_fe_st/norway_smoker_s_rightsWhy is smoking tobacco a "human right", but smoking cannabis is a "human right to get anally raped in prison by 400 pound men"? [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by FoM on April 14, 2004 at 20:57:02 PT Dankhank Thanks it's the one by the Rolling Stones. Looking at the word nervous that many times tends to make me veeerry nerrvoousss! LOL! [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by Dankhank on April 14, 2004 at 20:48:42 PT Breakdowns ... Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown by Rolling Stones ...Teenage Nervous Breakdown by NazarethNervous Guy by Old 97'sNervous Breakdown by Brian AdamsYour Nervous Heart by Rhett MillerNervous starts looking funny after you type it this many times ...The Nervous Breakdown by Brad PaisleyIt's all KaZaaLite can find tonight ...:-) [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by lombar on April 14, 2004 at 20:35:56 PT Yes we do "We need to have political leadership in Canada that recognizes the problem," he said. "Addiction is going to spread in Canada dramatically. It has in many places."Leaders who believe stuff like:"The public policy regime we propose expresses the fundamental premise underlying our report: in a free and democratic society, which recognizes fundamentally but not exclusively the rule of law as the source of normative rules and in which government must promote autonomy as far as possible and therefore make only sparing use of the instruments of constraint, public policy on psychoactive substances must be structured around guiding principles respecting the life, health, security and rights and freedoms of individuals, who, naturally and legitimately, seek their own well-being and development and can recognize the presence, difference and equality of others."and "Where criminal law is involved in these issues, the very standard prescribed by the law turns the perpetrator into the victim and tries to protect him from himself, something it can do only by producing a never-ending stream of knowledge that remains constantly out of his reach. In this context only offences involving significant direct danger to others should be matters of criminal law."Instead of an eternal rights destroying, prison filling, victim making drugwar police state...Addiction has been with us since the dawn of time, it's not just some new phenomenon getting around now. Good ole Johnny spreading the 'crack' of prohibition, total deception. What about these 'leaders'? [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by Petard on April 14, 2004 at 20:32:12 PT What He really means is ... Hi, I'm John P(ee) Waters (as in yellow waters, as in Pee) and I like pouring cooking oil over my head. Yes, that's right I'm a CrackPot, as in my Cracked brain has been doused in a Pot of cooking oil so many times my cerebral arteries are clogged and my brain no longer functions. Just listen to the crap that comes outta my mouth and see for yourself, I'm a CrackPot.Now then, that sounds more accurate than what the article claims he said. He's about the biggest liar of all in Govt., right behind "We know where the WMD's are" Colon Powell, and "my tax cut has strimulactutated dis Ecronomagnanemy" GW Bushy Boy. [ Post Comment ] Comment #12 posted by Virgil on April 14, 2004 at 20:10:20 PT Keeping up on drug importation Here are the first two paragraphs of this article concerning drug importation from Canada- http://www.mlive.com/business/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/business-1/1081956161326640.xmlCanadian Internet pharmacies to sell medicine from Europe Wednesday, April 14, 2004 By Theresa Agovino Associated Press NEW YORK -- Canadian Internet pharmacies are turning to Europe for supplies, as U.S. pharmaceutical companies cut back the flow of prescription drugs to Canada to stop their return to the United States at lower prices. In the last six weeks, several drug makers have cut supplies to Canada, creating shortages for Internet pharmacies. Pfizer Inc., for example, cut off two Canadian wholesalers for supplying drugs to companies that were exporting them. Pfizer later resumed shipments to both companies after they agreed to stop the activity. [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by FoM on April 14, 2004 at 19:28:07 PT Wonder Where To Find Crack of Marijuana? Well I never saw any Crack in my life so maybe it's all over the US and I wouldn't know it! This is enough to drive a person to an emergency room. Wasn't there a song about 19th hundred nervous breakdown or close to that? I think I'm sane but this stuff from John Walters make me feel a little wacky. PS: I'm just kidding. [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by medicinal toker on April 14, 2004 at 19:22:25 PT crack this "Canada is exporting to us the crack of marijuana," he (Walters) said.[snip]Walters' b.s. is the crack of government run amok. 100% per bull! [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by Virgil on April 14, 2004 at 19:09:50 PT Wrong story short. The lies of Walters constitute fraud. Walters needs to be brought to justice and sentenced as Busch expressed in his blundering yesterday. [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by Truth on April 14, 2004 at 18:56:58 PT fuzzy counting When you come into the emergency room they ask you what drugs you have taken. If thc is in your system it is now called a pot related visit, doesn't matter if cannabis has nothing to do with why you are there you are still counted. So many folks have some thc in there system that there are a lot of folks counted, however, virtually none are in for a marijuana only cause, but thousands are counted. Must have something to do with the dishonesty of the current administration. Pot sold for as much as cocaine? Our generation's pot averaged one percent?100 percent unadulterated bullshit or to be even blunter, God damned lies. Walters brings shame to himself and his backers. [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by jose melendez on April 14, 2004 at 18:54:12 PT crack, indeed debunk this, Walters:Poison is legal, just not pot:http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2004041413430002804536&dt=20040414134300&w=RTR&coview=Also: - Hashish has been known for thousands of years, and contains roughly double the THC content of the strongest cannabis strains. - Drug war is an unlawful restraint of trade that violates the Sherman Act, which forbids price fixing and collusions that result in higher prices for inferior products, cheating the customer and interfering with commerce.Got fraud? Report it to the Antitrust Division at the Justice Department. [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by MikeEEEEE on April 14, 2004 at 18:46:51 PT Cannabis Enthusiast The hospital visit could very well be other drugs or alcohol. Conveniently they leave that out. Another reason could be a re-existing health problem or mental disorder.A doctor could help with almost any issue regarding side effects, but they treat it as a criminal problem instead of health. [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by MikeEEEEE on April 14, 2004 at 18:36:41 PT Another stupid mistake While the US has alienated most of the world with their blunders, now they may have just alienated our best friends to the North.Hydro isn't the issue, they're only making it an issue. Or, you don't have stink unless you make one.More anti propaganda from the mill. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by mayan on April 14, 2004 at 18:24:02 PT We Pay Him??? "Canada is exporting to us the crack of marijuana and it is a dangerous problem," Walters told reporters in Miami, where he kicked off a campaign to cut marijuana use by Hispanic youths.The "crack of marijuana"??? Hee-Hee! I can't believe this guy actually gets paid to spew this tripe...by the taxpayers no less! If the weed is stronger you don't need to smoke as much. Common sense."It is extremely dangerous. It is one of the reasons why we believe ... we have seen a doubling of emergency room cases involving marijuana in the last several years from 60,000 to 120,000," Walters said.But then the article states...And Ottawa has said that Washington's own data shows that of all the illegal pot seized by U.S. agents only 1.5 percent came from Canada.How is only 1.5% of the weed in the U.S. causing a 100% increase in emergency room cases involving marijuana?Also, these emergency room cases merely "involved marijuana". Somebody is twisting the truth. I smell Pee.The way out...FBI let 'top targets' leave U.S. after 9/11 - Whistleblower Edmonds alleges 'diplomatic' cover-up: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38017CitizensWatch Analysis: An "Inkling" -- The President, the August 6th warning, and Planes as Weapons and the G-8 Summit: http://www.911citizenswatch.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=226&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by Robbie on April 14, 2004 at 18:21:28 PT Amazing! The article doesn't even show any cases No follow-up...no backup...from 60,000 to 120,000? WOW! Considering there's no evidence of ONE that they can substantiate.Once again, the whore media does what it can to help the liars. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by FoM on April 14, 2004 at 18:17:42 PT Related News Article from Canada - AFP Canada is a Major Exporter of High-Potency Marijuana to the US: Drug CzarApril 14, 2004MIAMI (AFP) - Canada is a major exporter of high-grade marijuana to the United States, US drug czar John Walters said in Miami, suggesting Canadian authorities were too lax in punishing drug traffickers. "We have a growing problem with the expansion of particularly high-potency marijuana coming from Canada," said Walters, who heads the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. "The growth of high-potency marijuana has exploded in Canada," he said at a news conference. He said new cultivation methods mean the marijuana sold in the United States today is on average seven times more potent "than the marijuana baby-boomer parents may remember from their days of use or experimentation." In the past, marijuana contained about one percent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the drug's active ingredient. "The indoor-cultivated hydroponic, specially tended marijuana can go up to 20 to 30 percent THC content," Walters said. "Canada is exporting to us the crack of marijuana," he said. He said high-potency marijuana sold for about the same price per weight as cocaine, and that some motorcycle gangs in California swapped the marijuana they brought from the United States' northern neighbor for the same weight of cocaine. Last year, authorities estimated marijuana trafficking was a nine-billion-dollar business in British Columbia alone, said Walters. "The real problem in Canada has been that ... the judges have refused in a large measure to give people jail time unless they actually commit a violent crime. As a result you can make millions of dollars distributing drugs which cause all kinds of damages to lives and not go to jail," he said. Copyright: AFP 2004 Canadian Links [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by Cannabis Enthusiast on April 14, 2004 at 18:07:56 PT Why would someone go to the emergency room? ...after smoking cannabis.Can someone (unbiased please) please explain to me why anyone on planet Earth has ever gone to an emergency room for the simple act of inhaling cannabis smoke?Is there something I am missing here? [ Post Comment ] Post Comment