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  California City Lightens Up On Marijuana Users 

Posted by CN Staff on June 21, 2006 at 08:43:53 PT
By Zachary Slobig  
Source: Agence France-Presse 

West Hollywood, United States -- Marijuana users in West Hollywood were breathing easier after the city passed a resolution to deprioritize policing of pot infractions. "This is just another nail in the coffin of marijuana prohibition," Bruce Margolin, a pioneer in pro-marijuana legislation, told AFP. "Now the police can go after the guy robbing people on the street, rather than looking for harmless pot smokers."
Late Monday the city council of West Hollywood, which is sandwiched between Hollywood and Beverly Hills in Los Angeles county, voted to instruct police to not target adults "who consume this drug in private and who pose no danger to the community".The council noted its existing endorsement of the medicinal use of marijuana as it advised the Los Angeles county police, who handle West Hollywood law enforcement, to focus their energies on more serious narcotics problems and other crimes like child and elderly abuse, burglary, and identity theft."This sends a message that the City of West Hollywood has an enlightened approach to its law enforcement," Don Duncan, manager of two local medical marijuana dispensaries, told AFP.The move gave a boost to the campaign in California to permit sufferers from cancer and other debilitating afflictions to consume marijuana freely, despite federal laws banning the practice.On Tuesday a steady stream of patients walked through the doors of Alternative Herbal Health Services, a West Hollywood dispensary where the product line runs from marijuana seeds to dwarf plants to harvested ganja bearing names like "Hollywood High" and "Train Wreck," all displayed neatly in glass jars.Patients also can select between varieties of hashish, and "edibles" from chocolate-covered peanut butter cups to cannabis-laced banana bread.Dispensary operators like Nichols feel the ordinance validates their work to provide organic medicine."God bless the city of West Hollywood for this kind of pat on the back," she said. "I've got cancer patients who come through here who simply can't eat without this medicine."Nichols hopes the resolution will end what she believes is police harassment of legitimately needy patients."I've been hassled and given citations a few times by the police just walking from the front door of the dispensary to my car," said Tracy, a patient who asked that only her first name be used."Now I feel like I don't have to be so anxious," she said as she peered through the barred windows to the street.Another patient who asked to be called Brian comes to the dispensary specifically for its high quality "edibles" to alleviate his insomnia and arthritis."The doctor prescribed me Ambien, but I hate the way that makes me feel the next day," he said.With the new city resolution, Brian feels the pressure has lifted. "Now I don't have to wait around in cars and hope the police won't show up," he said.Local physicians also praised the decision. "This is an important step towards sane adult use of marijuana," Dr. Craig Cohen told AFP. "I see patients everyday who greatly benefit from marijuana prescriptions to alleviate their pain and suffering and I know that they will be grateful for this new resolution."California passed legislation in 1996 making small quantities of marijuana legal for medical use, laws that conflict with those of the US federal government. Since then medical pot clinics have operated openly. San Francisco and Oakland both have policies in place similar to West Hollywood's. Because the resolution does not actually effect legislation, it is unclear how it will impact law enforcement practices. "We will continue to comply with proposition 215 (California's medical marijuana law)," Officer Robert McMahon of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told AFP.Source: Agence France-Presse (France Wire)Author: Zachary Slobig Published: June 21, 2006Copyright: 2006 Agence France-PresseRelated Articles:West Hollywood Wants To Legalize Pot Usehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread21925.shtmlLeaders Vote To Leave The Pot Smokers Alonehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread21922.shtml

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Comment #87 posted by ekim on June 23, 2006 at 18:32:27 PT
FoM did you see this site
http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/index.html
http://http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/index.html
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Comment #86 posted by FoM on June 23, 2006 at 17:56:08 PT
museman 
Sorry to bother you but I am getting the Digest from the Rainbow Gathering. Don't they like music? I guess I don't understand what it is they do if not use music and conversation to connect to each other and nature.
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Comment #85 posted by FoM on June 23, 2006 at 09:59:09 PT
museman
I know you are right. I'm sure glad Neil has made enough money that it doesn't matter to him anymore. He is in a position that he can thumb his nose at the powers that be and lose money and it won't hurt him or his family.
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Comment #84 posted by museman on June 23, 2006 at 09:13:39 PT
FoM
"why US rock's reaction to the Iraq war has been dominated by the old guard"#1. Money - no self-respecting mainstream act is going to endanger their paycheck.#2. Money - no up and coming indie act is going to jeopardize their chances of 'making it.'#3. Money - there's no profit in the Truth - even the 'old guard' found that out circa 1975.#4. Money - JUST ABOUT EVERYONE WHO HAS IT HAS GOT THEIR FINGERS IN THE CARPETBAGGING OF IRAQ#5. Money - is the primary cause of the war in the first place, and it's real hard for a 'Rock Star' to protest MONEY!
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Comment #83 posted by FoM on June 22, 2006 at 21:09:14 PT
Two Articles about Protest Music from The UK
Don't mention the war - unless you're over 50 ***Andrew Purcell reports on why US rock's reaction to the Iraq war has been dominated by the old guardhttp://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1803475,00.html***'We had a song at No 1. The next day it was at No 70' ***Caroline Sullivan hears from the Dixie Chicks on what happened when they spoke out against the Iraq warhttp://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1803295,00.html
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Comment #82 posted by museman on June 22, 2006 at 21:06:31 PT
whig
Google is like Star Trek. Computer! Computer? 
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Comment #81 posted by whig on June 22, 2006 at 19:51:08 PT
museman
Opinion: Is Google God?http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/06/29/nyt.friedman/
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Comment #80 posted by Hope on June 22, 2006 at 18:57:05 PT
Google Blues
Made me smile, too.You are so talented, Museman.
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Comment #79 posted by Hope on June 22, 2006 at 18:55:44 PT
Museman Comment 73
The Google Blues! I like it. Makes me feel a bit like breaking out into a little Boogie Woogie. I like it.Thanks, Museman.
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Comment #78 posted by Hope on June 22, 2006 at 17:48:15 PT
Search people?
Search their very BLOOD and URINE with microscopes and chemicals, for a by-product of something they consumed days ago.Sounds very "Unreasonable" to me. Very.
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Comment #77 posted by Hope on June 22, 2006 at 17:45:41 PT
Sermon
I think I just did a resounding, pulpit pounding, shouting sermon over on another thread.It is something to stand up and carry on about. That's for sure.My "sermons" it appears are about rage against the devil that worries us. A too far reaching and invasive government. We're led by nothing more than witch burners! They know people aren't intoxicated on that by-product of cannabis that can linger in fat for a while. They know! Yet they do this. Next step is we all line up for tests regularly so they can arrest us or not or blame us for something. Even if it's just the way we look. It's a wonder we don't have a Federal Dress Code in this country. A lot of people would go for that.Good Lord! Help us!Actually, I think I just did another raging sermonette!It needs saying though or preaching or screaming or reasoning...however it comes out.Besides that...that "By-product" they're all worked up about, "We gotcha! We Gotcha!", is probably nourishing the body of those who might have it. It's a cancer preventer! It's something akin to vitamins that increase the health of the body. It's a valuable thing...not a thing to be hated.If there is a judgment day...some body is going to be in a lot of trouble about this...and it won't be us.Oh yeah...I'm talking about the Michigan Supreme Court decision.
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Comment #76 posted by FoM on June 22, 2006 at 16:03:29 PT
Please Please Please
Don't take my google away! Museman I love it!
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Comment #75 posted by Hope on June 22, 2006 at 14:44:12 PT
"talking from our spirit"
Indeed.
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Comment #74 posted by whig on June 22, 2006 at 14:40:57 PT
Hope
Well, it's not preaching in the conventional sense that we're doing, anyhow. We're certainly not reciting someone else's scripture and teaching catechisms. We're not trying to lead a prayer service. We're talking from our spirit and we're expressing our feelings from connection to the divine. Our own gospels.
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Comment #73 posted by museman on June 22, 2006 at 14:34:54 PT
more music
Just to prove that I have a sense of humor rattling around in my head somewhere, here's one with the usual flaws and rough edges, but dig it;
The Google Blues
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Comment #72 posted by Hope on June 22, 2006 at 14:24:03 PT
What I do...I think...
is "rant" and "rave", as opposed to "preaching". I think.
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Comment #71 posted by Hope on June 22, 2006 at 14:22:01 PT
Preachers.
Lol! My Dad used to call me his "Little Preacher". We used to watch Oral Roberts and Billy Graham together and talk about it. Not Oral Roberts and Billy Graham...together. Dad and I, together.Those are some of my most treasured memories of him.
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Comment #70 posted by Hope on June 22, 2006 at 14:19:26 PT
"I need more music. "
I do, too!But the people around me seem to want more TV. I think I'll head to the back of the house and turn on the radio.It disturbs me ...the stuff I hear out of that TV sometimes.I've got things to do and I need music. Perhaps I could design and construct a soundproof TV room where they could revel in the murder, mahem and tragedies.A "bud" in my ear doesn't sound good either. *sigh*
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Comment #69 posted by whig on June 22, 2006 at 14:14:39 PT
Hope
We were preaching and you are welcome to preach too. Cuz that's what we do here, none of us is higher or better than another. We're all the same and we're all just feeling our way sometimes, but we speak the truth as best we understand it. Preach on sister.
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Comment #68 posted by Hope on June 22, 2006 at 14:14:04 PT
"empowerment"
I think it's within you, Museman. It's yours, betcha. You just have to get the right vision of it and the right grip on it.
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Comment #67 posted by Hope on June 22, 2006 at 14:10:44 PT
:0)  Museman and Whig
I, for one, enjoy your "preachin". You can call it "ranting" and you can call it "sharing" or you can call it "venting" or just plain ole "conversation". It seems pretty good to me.Facts repeated so often as we have to repeat them get to sounding that way.Museman, FoM posted that about that music movement this morning. I just had a feeling you hadn't seen it yet.I think we're sharing an animated conversation and all those other things, too. If it were "preachin" you wouldn't let me say anything. Unless this is like shaking hands with the pastor at the end of the service. "Thank you, Sir. Good Sermon. Really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next one.":0)
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Comment #66 posted by museman on June 22, 2006 at 13:32:20 PT
whig
I concur.
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Comment #65 posted by whig on June 22, 2006 at 13:29:16 PT
Music
I need more music. I'm too much of the newshound lately. Too much in the world and not thinking about how we make the world that is to come. When I went too far the other way, it was not a good time or place for me. I was dying. With my new hip and my wife and my new place to live soon, it will be better.Each of us must do this, I think. Find what it is we need to ensure our safety and beyond that, to pursue a better world and do so by experiencing as much of it as you can here and now. Because this is how we build it, I think. We experience it, one at a time and then together, and we say here we are and we know how to live in harmony with one another, and others will continue to join and understand.The way to make a better world is to be the better world in your own life. To be the change that you want there to be in the world.I cannot choose between the Evil Party and the Useless Party and wait for either of them to make the world. I have to do it myself, but not alone, because you can do it and everyone can do it one at a time and together and here we all are.So that's my moment on the pulpit, I return to the choir. :)
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Comment #64 posted by museman on June 22, 2006 at 12:33:34 PT
Hope #59
Thanks for the link. Lots of potential everywhere. The empowerment is still a little scarce, and I have long envisioned a lot of power for change struggling within that potential. How to create unity and solidarity with that potential is a major quest for me. I am going to promote R.A.W. and encourage anyone else to do the same, but as I stated in an earlier post, all I want is the opportunity to participate- to get up on the stage and play freely, unfettered, and smoke a joint in honor of the fallen- I suggest that anyone that takes the R.A.W. ball and runs with it considers the difference between fear-based organization; 'contracts, fees, and permits,' and faith based "happenings."The WARS that we have to deal with aren't abstract concepts, they have effect on the entire planet. Our responsibility as thinking beings-the thing that supposedly separates us from 'beasts'- is very real. We cannot hope to ever gain true 'peace' as long as we continue to embrace the underlying principles of fear-based systems. We must provide valid solutions with real substance, but if one's belief is bound to such systems as have dominated 'civilization and culture' since the Sumerian 'Gods' established their dominion in mankind's fear, then there is no room in the glass for faith-based beliefs (the fact that RELIGION which is defined as "to hold back or constrain" is confused about what FAITH actually is is beside the point). You cannot put New Wine in old wine skins.In other words, Faith and Fear are contraproductive to each other. There is no way to 'fix' any of the problems we face as a species and the whole earth family of creation, they must be resolved in our collective hearts and minds, not through finance or legislation. To me music is the best example of freedom, mutual respect and cooperation, along with a mystical potential for growth into areas of this realm few have seen, that I have ever experienced. Some of my most enlightening spiritual experiences are intrinsicly connected to this and it is the most active expression of the Living Word in existence.I believe music is a valuable tool to aid us in the transformation of heart and mind that must come about if anything of our life and times is to be saved.but of course me n' y'all share this 'pulpit' and are also the choir, so don't mind my preachin'.
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Comment #63 posted by museman on June 22, 2006 at 11:58:35 PT
ekim
Thanks bro. Good news is what I'd rather hear. 
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Comment #62 posted by Hope on June 22, 2006 at 11:46:52 PT
Treating those people
as though they were somehow loathsome is wrong. It's a sin. A real sin.How dare they, those who are supposed to govern...under the Constitution... have such contempt for citizens and their Constitution!Has it got to be done all over again? Why can't we just straighten out our government and get it back to what that venerable instrument, the Constitution, laid out as perfect guidelines for it?How dare they destroy everything our founding fathers and mothers...grandfathers and grandmothers...fought for, suffered for, and often died for? How dare they? What kind of people are they who would do this? What vile reasons led them to do this to this country?Are they just flat out stupid and ignorant? Or is it something even more insidious?
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Comment #61 posted by Hope on June 22, 2006 at 11:38:10 PT
Hmmmmm. Plastic did something remarkable.
The Pham can go in there and leave with hardly a sign they were there because of plastic toting devices...like garbage sacks, buckets, pails, and portable toilets. Give them their permit! They have a right to it as much as anyone. They love the Earth. They are peaceful people. Let them be! For Heaven's sake!
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Comment #60 posted by Hope on June 22, 2006 at 11:21:56 PT
"the worst thing I've run into"
Mosquitoes have probably killed about as many people as cruel reigns and killer law enforcement.I hope it goes well. Surely they have enough sense to know that if they hurt those people, there will be a huge outcry against them and their misdeeds.
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Comment #59 posted by Hope on June 22, 2006 at 11:16:27 PT
"a dire sign"
Indeed, Museman. It seems so.This sounds like it might be of interest to you, Museman.http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/arts/music/18herm.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=sloginAnd while I'm running around here "clucking" and "mother henning people to death". Let me say it's really, "Mother henning you AWAY from death...and injury." Cluck. Cluck. Museman. You be careful up there!
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Comment #58 posted by ekim on June 22, 2006 at 11:02:05 PT
museman -- news all good -- may peace be with u
rainbowsfbay yahoogroups.com
On Behalf Of stella_bay
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:27 PM
To: rainbowsfbay yahoogroups.com
Subject: [rainbowsfbay] Kid Village Wish ListHi Everyone!After the first few days of seed camp things are
coming together! I am posting from the library in
Steamboat Springs. There are a few kitchens up and
serving already including Kiddie Village. The site
is really beautiful and the worst thing I've run into
so far are the mosquitoes. Felipe wanted this
wish list posted. So here goes:5 gallon water jugs
Buckets
vegetable oil
Coffee 
Bio-degradable dish soap
metal pot scrubbers
Fruit and vegetables
Pancake mix
Pasta
garbage bags
toilet paper-----------------------Directions to the gathering:For more info and directions to the Rainbow Gathering
http://www.welcomehome.org
http://www.rainbowguide.infoIf you go, Please send your reports and network for next year at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rainbow-Colorado2006
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Comment #57 posted by Hope on June 22, 2006 at 10:59:06 PT
Whoo who! Steve Clements!
Excellent!http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n810/a15.html?397
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Comment #56 posted by FoM on June 22, 2006 at 10:37:15 PT
museman
http://www.rainbowsendfarm.info/
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Comment #55 posted by FoM on June 22, 2006 at 10:26:17 PT
museman 
I am so glad you are going. I signed up for their digests and it is great to be reading and following. I am still watching Woodstock on DVD. When we have an opportunity even if it shorts us financially and we don't put it aside we can miss some of the best times of our lives. Remember we from that special time must always go with the flow. Be careful but have a wonderful experience and make lots of great memories.
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Comment #54 posted by museman on June 22, 2006 at 10:22:09 PT
ekim: rainbow
Is this what I think it is? Are you telling me that the fed is finally doing what we thought they would do for oh so many years? If so then I would take it as a dire sign folks.Some of you might not know about the ongoing battle between the Rainbow and the fed, about our constitutional right to gather, that people have gone to prison because they were 'named' by the BLM as the 'leaders' of the Rainbow Family and cited for 'failure to sign permits.'I had a thought in the back of my mind to go to the gathering this year, after not going for over 20 years. The expense is horrendous, what with gas prices as they are, so it was looking mighty slim. I'd just about decided I wasn't going, when of a sudden all my sons, want to go, and me to go with them.Now with this, I feel obligated to go. In the 30+ year history of the rainbow, such confrontations as this have always been there waiting to happen, and this is not the first time the cops and feds have hassled the rainbow, I remember sneaking behind their barricades at the second Vortex. Eventually the cops backed off though. This sounds somehow different. Like the cops feel more empowered- bound to happen under GWB.What with the current monkey dominion, and the gestapo power growing daily, this could be a gathering that shines a light on some other little known activities of our government, namely the stripping of personal liberties and constitutional rights THAT HAVE BEEN GOING ON FOR A LOT LONGER THAN GEORGE BUSH'S BS.If folks here have never been to a gathering, now might be your last chance. Though I have issues with some of the politics and beliefs rampant in the rainbow, they are still my brothers and sisters, and the right to gather is as important as any other. If we cannot come together to discuss and disseminate ideas -eye to eye- then we are left few choices.So FAM is going to Rainbow. R.A.W. will have it's first concert at the gathering, even if it's surrounded by cops. I'm feeling younger just thinking about it.
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Comment #53 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 22:51:45 PT
afterburner
Now you have mail.
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Comment #52 posted by afterburner on June 21, 2006 at 22:41:42 PT
RE #45 FoM
You have mail
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Comment #51 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 21:33:25 PT
ekim
I went ahead and signed up to receive the Colorado Rainbow Family 's Digest. Thank you because I didn't know one existed.
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Comment #50 posted by ekim on June 21, 2006 at 20:18:41 PT
 Kucinich and Leahy please go in Peace
 In ColoradoRainbowFamily yahoogroups.com, marty heartsong 
 wrote:
>
> Hey Pham. It's 2:30 am and I just got back. We won a major battle 
today but the war is far from over. They set up a road block Monday 
night about 7pm. No one allowed in, even if you already had a 
ticket, And anyone coming out was issued one and not allowed back 
in. Gigi was doing main gate and when they came in they confiscated 
his radio. Within an hour we had about 20 cars and rigs backed up so 
some of the people with kitchens in thier rigs started feeding the 
pham. Then we started a bonfire and started drumming. A few kids 
tried to sneak into the woods to go around the roadblock but there 
was leo's hiding in the woods and they were quickly nabbed. the main 
force of leo's left about 9pm after giving everyone in A-camp a 
ticket and anyone else they could find.They had a generator and 
flood lights at the road block but only left 4 leo's behind facing 
about 100 hippies who were all in good spirits when I stepped into 
the woods to answer nature's call and accidently found
> myself back in the gathering. Word quickly spread of family being 
stranded outside the block with no gear ( a lot of us were making 
supply runs when we got blocked out and all of our gear was inside) 
and in the middle of the night about 30 blankets appeared from 
nowhere out side the roadblock (thankyou ninja's). In the morning a 
few of our younger family members put on war paint and decided to 
try to get the supplies in that had been stranded all night. By then 
the morning leo relief crew arrived and there was about 4-6 leo 
vehicles and 6 to 8 giddyups( I was still inside the gathering at 
the time but got to listen to it unfold via radio). By the time the 
youngers got to the block (coming from behind) there was at least 
60 -70 of them. And since people had been coming in all night long 
there was almost 200 people in front of the blockade. As soon as the 
bro's and sisters from inside the gathering arrived the cops started 
to freak and started pulling out their guns,
> shotguns and assault rifles, no lie, no tear gas guns, no pepper 
spray, machine guns pointed at the family. You wanna know how brave 
your family is?? How much this family means to all of us?? 
approaching loaded pointed machine guns and twitchy trigger fingers 
(the leo's were scared) they did the only thing they could do, they 
started to "OM" and quickly joined hands and continued to march 
towards the roadblock. The pham on the other side of the block 
realized what was happening and they started om-ing joined hands and 
approached the blockade from the other side. We are lucky no one got 
shot. I heard later that the om circle was almost complete when the 
giddyups busted through at a gallup and then all the leo vehicles 
sped off with there sirens blazing and lights flashing. We could 
hear the cheering over the radio's, it was awesome, but only 
temporary. All the leo's left for awhile ( I think to lick their 
wounds and regroup) But a 1\2 dozen vehicles came back at dusk and
> harrased and few of our elders (they're still trying to find 
someone to sign thier damn permit). When I left it seemed like they 
set up a smaller roadblock and they were arresting somebody so I got 
out without being hassled. But on the drive down to steamboat I 
passed three leo's with lights and sirens heading back to the site 
(I think I passed a few more that didn't have teir lights on but I 
can't be sure. Anyway the seige is still on till someone signs and 
so far no one will. Will post more tommorow if I can, it's late, 
3:30am got to go to sleep now.........................love & 
peace..........sleepy
> 
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Comment #49 posted by whig on June 21, 2006 at 17:27:46 PT
Hope #48
"It's odd the paralells with how people two thousand years ago treated Jesus and how they are treating cannabis and cannabists now."Not odd. Precisely the same thing.Jesus was a cannabist.
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Comment #48 posted by Hope on June 21, 2006 at 17:11:38 PT
Storm Crow, comment 29
Let's hope you're right. You probably are and your thought about there being people who will resist and overcome such idiotic "science" is somewhat encouraging.There are enough people who respect the value of cannabis that are smart enough to overcome the misled who want to destroy it. I hope.It's odd the paralells with how people two thousand years ago treated Jesus and how they are treating cannabis and cannabists now.
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Comment #47 posted by Hope on June 21, 2006 at 17:01:04 PT
  gw
Czptin? Translation, please.
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Comment #46 posted by Hope on June 21, 2006 at 16:59:36 PT
Pravda?
Surely this Russian piece was written for Pravda...the craziest newspaper you'll ever read! At least that's how it seems to me.It doesn't make any sense at all.
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Comment #45 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 16:55:46 PT
Medicine Man
I really liked a movie called Medicine Man and Sean Connery was the main actor in the movie. In the movie he found the cure for cancer. He was in the deep jungle when he found it but he lost it. I recommend this movie if you haven't ever seen it. We know that cannabis is helpful in so many ways. Why even think of eliminating what might be the key to a cure for cancer? We should never mess with Mother Nature.
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Comment #44 posted by Hope on June 21, 2006 at 16:50:19 PT
"It is genocidal, unjust, evil, immoral."
It truly is, Lombar. It truly is.
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Comment #43 posted by global_warming on June 21, 2006 at 16:49:32 PT
hey Hope
You sre the czptin captain of this world,In the meantimeThere are many lawyers,Barking like dogs, Demanding to be fed,Like common animals,Devoid of any spiritual existence,
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Comment #42 posted by whig on June 21, 2006 at 16:46:31 PT
Hope
It seems to me that Russia is ramping up to have their own parallel war on cannabis, using the same tactics of lying and reefer madness as were used from the beginning here.
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Comment #41 posted by Hope on June 21, 2006 at 16:30:50 PT
Comment 26
"....eventually force it out of existence."The people who want to destroy the cannabis plant are insane...criminally insane. Somehow they have to be stopped. They are trying to destroy one of mankind's greatest natural assets in a plant. They're wickedly and criminally insane, not to mention stupid, and ignorant, and dangerous!And "thujone"? I've never heard of that being in cannabis. Wormwood, yes...but cannabis...no.These freaky scary people...like Souder...are just too crazy and scary. How in the world can the Earth, her fauna, and her people endure these monsters? Can they be stopped? God help us....please.
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Comment #40 posted by global_warming on June 21, 2006 at 16:28:00 PT
that is so nice
so welcome,
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Comment #39 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 16:22:40 PT
global_warming 
You're very welcome.
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Comment #38 posted by global_warming on June 21, 2006 at 16:20:01 PT
understood
and thank you Lady Fomme,
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Comment #37 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 16:15:09 PT
global_warming
What I meant is if this happens people from Mexico and Canada will be even more under America's thumb.
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Comment #36 posted by global_warming on June 21, 2006 at 16:02:21 PT
when you say
Canada and Mexico,You acknowledge so many people,So many living breathing law abiding human beings,Who agree,This American War On Drugs,Has created a new and powerful "underworld"Gang Lords, mere young children empowered,Into a dark and so lost,It is our place, as seniors and aged childrenIn this universe,To end this madness.
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Comment #35 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 15:45:55 PT
Mexico and Canada Welcome to America
North American Union Would Trump U.S. Supreme Court***By Jerome R. CorsiJune 19, 2006The Bush Administration is pushing to create a North American Union out of the work on-going in the Department of Commerce under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America in the NAFTA office headed by Geri Word. A key part of the plan is to expand the NAFTA tribunals into a North American Union court system that would have supremacy over all U.S. law, even over the U.S. Supreme Court, in any matter related to the trilateral political and economic integration of the United States, Canada and Mexico.Complete Article: http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20060620071235810
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Comment #34 posted by global_warming on June 21, 2006 at 15:37:03 PT
since I cannot jump
than here I shall rot,my short worthless life is less than some insect that was fooled by a light bulb,
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Comment #33 posted by global_warming on June 21, 2006 at 15:22:17 PT
Same old bullshit
18:12 6/21/2006You knowThe law is the law,The lawyers and prosecutors shout loudly,I realize that most of these people are devoid of God,They cannot see their spiritual baggage on their souls,Here we all are,Shouting, one louder than the other,It is that reefer madness,That has every good person reaching Into their pocketbook,-MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
words and music by Huddie Ledbetter
collected and adapted by John A Lomax and Alan LomaxOne day, one day, Sir
I was walking along
I heard that special
Singing a lonesome songChorus:
Oh, let the Midnight Special
Shine her light on me
Let the Midnight Special
Shine her ever lovin light on meIf you ever go to Houston
You know you better walk right
You know you better not stagger
You know you better not fight
Because the sheriff will just arrest you
You know he'll carry you down
And you can bet your bottom dollar
Oh Lord, you're penitentiary boundChorusYonder come little Rosie
How in the world do you know?
I can tell her by her apron
And the dress she wore
Umbrella on her shoulder
Piece of paper in her hand
Goes a marchin to the Captain
Says I want my manChorusNow here comes jumpin' Judy
I'll tell you how I know
You know, Judy brought jumpin'
To the whole wide world
She brought it in the morning
Just about the break of day
You know, if I ever get to jumpin'
Oh Lord, I'll up and jump away.Chorus - 2x©1936, 1959,1964 (renewed) TRO-Folkways Music Publishers, Inc. (BMI)Wish I could jump away from all this madnessgw
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Comment #32 posted by whig on June 21, 2006 at 15:09:12 PT
lombar
Of course the highest quality cannabis is sinsemilla, which isn't breeding stock by definition.
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Comment #31 posted by lombar on June 21, 2006 at 14:41:55 PT
Let's turn that around..
..and make a high thc yielding plant to cross breed with wild hemp...That way we can push out the schwag in favor of some good cannabis. Seems to me I remember a story about coca cultivators who bred a coca plant that is resistant to the herbicides they sprayed AND yielded 5 times more cocaine.
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Comment #30 posted by global_warming on June 21, 2006 at 14:31:55 PT
When will it end?
http://tinyurl.com/qjbj6“It’s time to end the policy of reefer madness,” said Duran. “It’s been proven for several generations now that marijuana, whether you inhaled it or didn’t, does not necessarily adversely affect people. To allow morphine to be had by prescription, but for marijuana to remain a federal schedule one narcotic is senseless.” -from the tinyurl article above.
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Comment #29 posted by Storm Crow on June 21, 2006 at 14:11:12 PT
Huh????
"In conjunction with its benefits are the risks it subjects users to, among those being muscular attributes given to schizophrenics, muscular incoordination, dizziness, difficulty concentrating, confusion, difficulty walking, dysarthria, dry mouth, dysphagia, blurred vision, and vomiting most of all, as with opening up the blood vessels can produce the condition of excess blood volume which results in comas and cardiac arrest, leading to death."Where the heck is this guy getting his info? Not even the DEA puts out stuff like this! I'll agree with the confusion, dizziness and dry mouth, but vomitting? Vomitting that results in death??? Last I checked cannabis is an anti-emetic. I have yet to see a single verifiable report of a cannabis overdose death. And what exactly are the physical attributes of schizophrenics??? Schizophrenia is a mental disorder! And as Whig pointed out, thujone is in wormwood (and some other plants), but not in cannabis. About the new THCless hemp, well, many growers(there's got to be growers even there) usually have a number of high THC males that they don't need. They could always dump them by hemp fields! If they can introduce genes, so can we! I wonder which is dominant, THC or no THC? Since they had to work to breed this THCless hemp, I bet having THC would be dominant. lol Lombar, thank you for a very interesting post!
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Comment #28 posted by lombar on June 21, 2006 at 14:02:21 PT
Sure...
.. all the problems they cited are bogus too."among those being muscular attributes given to schizophrenics, muscular incoordination, dizziness, difficulty concentrating, confusion, difficulty walking, dysarthria, dry mouth, dysphagia, blurred vision, and vomiting most of all, as with opening up the blood vessels can produce the condition of excess blood volume which results in comas and cardiac arrest, leading to death."Being hungry causes a lot of that too, I don't see a war on starvation going on.. Perhaps it reads better in Russian. It was a google news alert.
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Comment #27 posted by whig on June 21, 2006 at 13:15:23 PT
lombar
"The active substance in cannabis, thujone, creates Atrial natriuretic peptides which stimulates the consequent reactions in the body."Thujone? That's Wormwood, not cannabis.
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Comment #26 posted by lombar on June 21, 2006 at 13:13:45 PT
More bio-warfare against ... a plant.
Russian Scientists Claim to Invent Drug-Free Cannabis, Suggest it to Replace Wild Cannabis WorldwideCreated: 20.06.2006 18:47 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 18:56 MSKScientists from the Russian city of St. Petersburg have announced they had managed to develop a new, drug-free variant of cannabis which, if grown on industrial level, would cross with wild growing hemp end eventually force it out of existence.Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted Sergei Grigoryev of the Russian Plant Institute as saying that the amount of psychotropic substance in the new variant of cannabis is practically zero. When the new plant is crossed with the wild growing hemp the amount of psychotropic substance in the latter will gradually become less and less. If Russian hemp is grown on industrial level, it could even force the cannabis that is used for making hashish and marijuana out of existence.The active substance in cannabis, thujone, creates Atrial natriuretic peptides which stimulates the consequent reactions in the body.The medical controversy of cannabis lies in the potential harmful versus helpful effects. As a professionally administered drug, cannabis has been used in alleviating pain for cancer patients, helps to stimulate appetites of HIV afflicted persons, relieving inflammation of the gastro-intestinal tract, and is known to open up the blood vessels improving circulation among its various proclaimed benefits. In conjunction with its benefits are the risks it subjects users to, among those being muscular attributes given to schizophrenics, muscular incoordination, dizziness, difficulty concentrating, confusion, difficulty walking, dysarthria, dry mouth, dysphagia, blurred vision, and vomiting most of all, as with opening up the blood vessels can produce the condition of excess blood volume which results in comas and cardiac arrest, leading to death.The scientist went on to say that hemp is one of the oldest agricultural plants with 10 thousand-year history and at present it is “unjustly” associated with drugs like marijuana. Hemp must be used to make traditional fibers and oil, Grigoriyev said.-------------------------------I always thought that activists drawing a paralell between actual genocide and the UN definition of genocide were stretching the point to polemic. However, given the levels of PREDJUDICE cannabis users and the plant itself face, perhaps it is not so far off the mark.Article 2
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:  * (a) Killing members of the group;- evidence: mine these very pages. Peter McWilliams comes to mind immediately however I am certain there are many more, both known and unknown.  * (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;- evidence: above, as well as our own testimony to the frustration and obfuscation that the PREDJUDICE against cannabis users has caused, the exclusion from society, et al has not been studied as a potential cause for people suddenly going 'postal' and shooting up the local McDonalds.  * (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;evidence: ever increasing prohibition, more police, more militaristic tactics, more prisons, more state sanction violence. Exclusion and disenfranchising millions of people on the basis of their preference. Long sentences for victimless crimes.(not really crimes except BY ARBITRARY choice, no clear plaintiff, only the state and they well beyond their mandate with drugs)  * (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;evidence: its tough to reproduce when you are in prison for 50 years. It's also tough to pay for kids if you should every get the 'scarlett letter'.  * (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. evidence: state removal of children because of the presence of cannabis.It is genocidal, unjust, evil, immoral. Drug prohibition is the problem, not the solution. The state, media, and corporate cultivation of FEAR, INTOLERANCE and GREED is the only thing we as a society should have ZERO TOLERANCE for. -------I am the eye,The center.Though passion rages around,I am disconnected,I see it seethe, I see it swirl,Its raging currents to swift to resist,Too strong to hold back.Stand fast, the center spins,A top with no end.To enter is to be swept away,Lost in the rage,Drenched in tears,Hopes shattered pieces on the ground.It is calm in the eye,The current rages, Yet not there.The winds of passion seethe,Yet the eye is still.So many pleasures and pains beckon,As they speed by,The eye is still.Reach out to objects,Pull them into the eye.The eye does not move, I do.Away from the eye.The tigther I grasp an object,The further the eye remains,Lost in the swirl.I am the eye.----------Not a quite a Vogon poem I hope! ;)
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
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Comment #25 posted by whig on June 21, 2006 at 13:09:34 PT
Coulter
She's a paid shill.So is Malkin. So is O'Reilly. So are all of these people.Paid shills.Liars and Hypocrites.FoM, you consider that Coulter's past connections are somehow redeeming. I think the opposite.Cannabis does not make a person nice if they are intent on being evil. It may open the mind to the alternative, but we each still choose the path we walk.Coulter has chosen a different path than ours.
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Comment #24 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 12:12:53 PT

Hope
We just finished painting our soon to be new living room. I am looking for trim today online. I think fixing and putting cast stone on our chimney will be the next thing we tackle this year. It really is never ending work but it's fun too.
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Comment #23 posted by Hope on June 21, 2006 at 12:01:59 PT

I wonder if the Burn Ban is still on....
Maybe I'd feel better if I could do a little "effigy" burning.Nah. Got too much to do as it is.
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Comment #22 posted by Hope on June 21, 2006 at 12:00:40 PT

aaargghhh.....Coulter
She's accomplished her goal if it's to be offensive.
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Comment #21 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 11:51:57 PT

observer
You say goodbye and I say hello.That's what Ann does.That's why I don't like people in politics. They speak out of both sides of their mouth.
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Comment #20 posted by observer on June 21, 2006 at 11:44:27 PT

Coulter Troll
I know. She just likes to make people angry. That's what's made her rich I think.Yes, that's it exactly. She acts like a dressed-up troll.http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+troll

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Comment #19 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 11:37:27 PT

observer 
I know. She just likes to make people angry. That's what's made her rich I think.
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Comment #18 posted by observer on June 21, 2006 at 11:24:22 PT

Coulter 

Don't Do Drug LegalizationPosted by FoM on September 29, 2000 at 06:32:52 PTBy Ann Coulter Source: Jewish World Review http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/7/thread7192.shtml

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Comment #17 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 11:00:42 PT

From The Hill 
What a Long, Strange Fundraiser It’s Been***May 26, 2006“I really don’t like fundraisers, but I like fun parties,” Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) said Tuesday night.He got both at the Renaissance Hotel as he rolled out a caravan of hippie nostalgia for a performance by ex-Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, backed by the Flying Other Brothers and the New Riders of the Purple Sage.Introducing Leahy, Dead historian and publicist Dennis McNally recalled always seeing Leahy in a suit until he finally “came to a Grateful Dead concert wearing the rowdiest tie-dye I have ever seen and a pair of shorts. And when I saw him dancing I knew he was our senator.”The event drew some 500 Leahy/Dead supporters, some unlikelier than others, such as Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police. “It’s a target-rich environment,” he joked.He didn’t know the half of it. As Hart and Weir — who flew in from California specially for the event — worked the crowd at the pre-show reception, McNally came to usher them backstage so the music could begin. To which Hart abruptly cut off his conversation by saying, “OK, I gotta go smoke some pot.” No, he didn’t really say it; it would be too obvious. OK, yes he did.By night’s end, about half of the crowd was in possession of a “Deadheads for Leahy 2006” tie-dye ($20 to Leahy’s PAC) and sipping Vermont’s own Magic Hat beer ($4 to Leahy’s PAC).Aides even passed out glow sticks and ’60s-style concert posters for the crowd.The only thing missing (besides maybe a tapers’ section) was Jammin’ Jim McDermott. But, it turns out, the Seattle Democrat was only delayed by the evening’s votes, and he arrived just in time for Weir and Hart’s set.No bad trips were reported.http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/UndertheDome/052506.html
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Comment #16 posted by Hope on June 21, 2006 at 10:45:33 PT

Hypocritical
Isn't it? They know better, and yet, aren't trying to save the lives of people like Jerry?That's hard.
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Comment #15 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 10:38:42 PT

Deadhead Information
You can see a picture of Ann Coulter at a show here:http://deadnews.blogspot.com/2005/07/ann-coulter-mentions-dead.htmlAnother conservative deadhead is Tucker Carlson:http://deadnews.blogspot.com/2005/10/tucker-carlson-fan-of-dead-lesh.htmlAnd Patrick Leahy is a deadhead politician:http://deadnews.blogspot.com/2005/09/patrick-leahy-outed-as-deadhead.html
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Comment #14 posted by Hope on June 21, 2006 at 10:31:31 PT

Coulter
I can recognize that she's a "performer", just like Rush Limbaugh and Beck and the rest of them. Carlson, too. His bow-tie was his attention getting costume for his performance. It worked. Having Lucianne for a mom didn't hurt, probably.These people have gained the power to have a voice and they could do so much good. Why don't they?I admired Coulter at one time. But her and their performances are getting old and they aren't helping at all, but feeding the polarity so prevalent in this country that it's about to break in half.
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Comment #13 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 10:28:12 PT

Max Flowers
I was watching a tv show about Hippies the other day and Ann Coulter said that people don't know she was a Deadhead.
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Comment #12 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 10:26:49 PT

NYT: Deadhead Article
I Saw a Deadhead Sticker on a Bentleyhttp://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/06/09/business/09hedge600.1.jpghttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/business/09hedge.html?ex=1151035200&en=412381b999a794b7&ei=5070
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Comment #11 posted by Max Flowers on June 21, 2006 at 10:18:59 PT

Carlson/Coulter
Well it was news to me... and I still don't really get how anyone can support cannabis use and at the same time in any way support a corrupt political system. The two things seem mutually exclusive to me. Probably the main thing being that to publicly come out in favor of pot use is to publicly spit in the face of the administration's war-on-drugs policy, and I find it amazing that a shill like Carlson is doing that. Nevertheless, I won't complain; we will take any help we can get, from anywhere it comes.FoM, what you just revealed about Ann Coulter is also mind-blowing... if true, I think it would damage her right-wing reputation, which would be highly desirable. If she is a former deadhead and has turned into whatever it is she has turned into, then she needs to be exposed. She is one of the most disgusting human beings ever. She and that other evil creature Michelle Malkin should do the world a favor and hold hands and jump off a cliff. If there is one thing I can't stand, it's skinny women lecturing the world about why war is good. Why don't they grab a an M-16 and join the fun in Iraq? Why aren't they in combat if they think it's so cool? No one should ever advocate making war if they have not fought and seen friends die in war (because once they have, they rarely advocate war after that).
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Comment #10 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 10:15:13 PT

Ann Coulter
Hope, she is more bluff then real. How can a Deadhead not believe Cannabis should be legal?
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Comment #9 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 10:11:57 PT

Hope
Before CNews I was a regular on MSNBC and CNN news chat. They watched the chat and commented in the chat and we had a private way of talking. I had my comments on the air on CNN TalkBack Live almost everyday. It was really cool. Even John Gibson agreed with me when he was on MSNBC. I loved those early days on the Internet.
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Comment #8 posted by Hope on June 21, 2006 at 10:07:41 PT

Coulter
Hmmm. Maybe she's not just "evil stick woman".Maybe she's got more sense and compassion and reasonable understanding than she appears to sometimes.
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Comment #7 posted by Hope on June 21, 2006 at 10:05:49 PT

Wow, FoM!
Coulter signed the guest book? You've communicated with her?Uh oh. This could be news for the right person who wanted to go after Coulter...and a lot of people despise her. It's a sad fact that agreeing with us could give someone a "reason" to go after her...but we know that's all too true.Sticky wicket, eh?One thing we have all been a part of accomplishing....people can talk about the drug war now...and disagree with it openly. That freedom didn't exist ten years ago when we forced our way on to the internet scene and started writing to newspapers enmasse, and calling call in shows, and just started talking and talking and talking...until it got easier for other people to talk. And finally now...it's ok to talk about it! Conversation is the beginning of the unraveling of the hideous tangle of barbed wire that the WoD is.I think we've changed the atmosphere enough that she would be safe in coming out against the war on cannabis at least.
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Comment #6 posted by Taylor121 on June 21, 2006 at 10:03:45 PT

Tucker
As far as I know, Tucker as always been for legalizing marijuana.
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Comment #5 posted by FoM on June 21, 2006 at 09:56:55 PT

Tucker Carlson 
 Tucker Carlson is a conservative but is changing. He's got rid of that ugly bow tie and loosened his collar the last time I saw him. I watch body language more then what they say most times. I like Joe Scarborough. I judge conservatives by their comments on the news. Joe loves CSNY and Neil Young and wants to be more liberal but is stuck I think with the label republican. I have hope that he will change. He is very disillusioned with the Republican Party.Early on Ann Coulter signed CNews guestbook and it was private. I talked with her privately one time in an MSNBC news chat years ago and she said she agreed with me. She was a Deadhead. Weird but true.
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Comment #4 posted by Hope on June 21, 2006 at 09:41:21 PT

Tucker Carlson waking up?
Cool.
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Comment #3 posted by Max Flowers on June 21, 2006 at 09:36:00 PT

Tucker Carlson says private pot is okay!?
I was watching "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson last night---not because I am a fan (though I may be becoming one), but only because one of his little subject headers said "marijuana" and I wanted to see what he was going to say. I was blown away... being that he is such a conservative, I expected him to say nasty things about pot users, and to my amazement, both he and his columnist guy Max Kellerman stood up for the right to use cannabis, saying that if people want to use it in the privacy of their own homes, that it's none of the government's or the police's business! He went up about five notches in my book! Better yet, Kellerman brought up the very cogent point that Carlson's concept of "private use should be ignored, but sellers of it should still go to jail" doesn't explain where all the people using it privately would get it. Then Carlson signed off Kellerman by saying he was the "unflappable champion of marijuana causes" or something like that! It was great.I am starting to believe things may be changing when I see something like *that* on a very conservative TV station...
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Comment #2 posted by mayan on June 21, 2006 at 09:12:23 PT

Another Nail in the Coffin
Now, if only the San Diego supervisors would get a clue. I imagine they are probably feeling pretty cowardly about right now. Way to go, West Hollywood!THE WAY OUT...Scientific Analysis Proves Towers Brought Down By Incendiaries:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/200606scientificanalysis.htm9/11 Vendetta ( video):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AJ7uFA8RwpQ&search=Vendetta%209119/11 Truth Flyer:
http://www.freewebs.com/alexcarson/911%2Dflyer.gifAmerican Scholars Symposium: 9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda - June 24-25 - Los Angeles:
http://www.americanscholarssymposium.org/media/press_release_061606.htmScholars for 9/11 Truth:
http://www.st911.org/
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Comment #1 posted by dongenero on June 21, 2006 at 08:54:06 PT

who's in charge?
Of the people, by the people and for the people.The state and federal governments should get used to the idea once again.
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