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  NORML's Weekly News Bulletin - November 2, 2006

Posted by CN Staff on November 02, 2006 at 14:15:34 PT
Weekly Press Release  
Source: NORML  

 Several States, Cities To Vote Tuesday On Marijuana DepenalizationNovember 2, 2006 - Washington, DC, USAWashington, DC: Voters in three states and several municipalities will decide Tuesday on proposals to depenalize the possession and use of cannabis by adults. Below is a summary of each of these initiatives.
STATEWIDE MEASURES:COLORADO: Amendment 44, the "Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative," would revise state statutes to eliminate all criminal and civil prohibitions on the private possession and use of up to one ounce of cannabis for anyone age 21 or older. The measure, sponsored by Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER), has been endorsed by numerous Colorado newspapers, including the Aspen Times, the Boulder Weekly, and the Aurora Daily Sentinel. Last year, voters in Denver passed a similar municipal initiative by 54 percent. Listen to SAFER Campaign Director Mason Tvert on the NORML AudioStash at: http://normlaudiostash.com/id156.htmNEVADA: Question 7, the "Regulation of Marijuana Initiative," would remove all criminal and civil penalties for the private possession and use of small quantities of cannabis by those age 21 or older. The measure would also seek to create a statewide system for the taxation, legal cultivation, distribution, and sale of cannabis to adults by licensed vendors. Question 7 has been endorsed by the Las Vegas Review Journal and more than 30 state religious leaders. A similar proposal was rejected by Nevada voters in 2002. Listen to Question 7 Campaign Director Neal Levine on the NORML AudioStash at: http://normlaudiostash.com/id235.htmSOUTH DAKOTA: Initiated Measure 4 would allow state authorized patients to possess up to six plants and/or one ounce of cannabis for medical purposes. Qualified patients must possess a physician's recommendation to use cannabis and must register with the state Department of Health. Non-registered patients, or those who possess greater quantities of cannabis than allowed under state law, would have the option of raising an 'affirmative defense' of medical necessity at trial. Voters in eight states -- Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington -- have approved similar measures since 1996.MUNICIPAL MEASURES:EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS: A proposed citywide ordinance, sponsored by the Fayetteville/University of Arkansas chapter of NORML, would direct local law enforcement to issue a summons in lieu of a criminal arrest for adults found to be in possession of up to one ounce of cannabis and/or marijuana paraphernalia. "The message of this ordinance is that people should not use marijuana, but should also not lose opportunities for education and employment because of such use," says Ryan Denham, who spearheaded the proposal. The measure is the first marijuana depenalization initiative to qualify for the ballot in Arkansas. Under state law, possession of one ounce or less of cannabis is a criminal misdemeanor punishable by a $1,000 fine and up to one year in prison. Listen to Campaign Director Ryan Denham on the NORML AudioStash at: http://normlaudiostash.com/id210.htmSANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA: Measure P, sponsored by Sensible Santa Barbara and the UCSB chapter of NORML, directs municipal police to make all law enforcement activities related to the investigation, citation, and/or arrest of adult cannabis users their lowest priority. It would also appoint a community oversight committee to monitor police activity as it pertains to marijuana law enforcement. The measure has received endorsements from the Santa Barbara Independent, the Santa Barbara News-Press, and City Councilmember Das Williams. Seattle voters passed a similar proposal in 2003, resulting in a 75 percent reduction in citywide marijuana arrests. Listen to Measure P Campaign Director Lara Cassell on the NORML AudioStash at: http://normlaudiostash.com/id230.htmSANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA: Measure K would mandate police to make all law enforcement activities "relating to adult marijuana offenses their lowest law enforcement priority." The measure further directs city officials to refuse "any federal funding that would be used to investigate, cite, arrest, prosecute, or seize property from adults for marijuana offenses." The Democratic Party of Santa Cruz County as well as several local politicians are backing the measure. Listen to Campaign Coordinator Kate Horner on the NORML AudioStash at: http://normlaudiostash.com/id230.htmSANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA: Measure Y directs police to make the enforcement of minor marijuana possession violations their "lowest law enforcement priority," and mandates the City Council to issue semi-annual reports on "the estimated time and money spent by the city on law enforcement and punishment for adult marijuana offenses." The measure has been endorsed by the California Nurses Association and the Santa Monica Democratic Club. City officials in nearby West Hollywood enacted a similar ordinance this summer. Listen to Measure Y Campaign Coordinator Nicki LaRosa on the NORML AudioStash at: http://normlaudiostash.com/id230.htmMISSOULA, MONTANA: Initiative 2 ("An Initiative to Alter Law Enforcement Priorities in Missoula County") directs local police to make the enforcement of minor marijuana violations their lowest priority, and appoints a community oversight committee to ensure that the police are obeying the voters' mandate. According to the initiative's sponsors, Citizens for Responsible Crime Policy, a Missoula citizen is arrested every 33 hours on marijuana-related charges. Under Montanan law, possession of up to approximately two ounces of cannabis is a criminal misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $500 fine. Listen to Initiative 2 spokesperson Angela Goodhope on the NORML AudioStash at: http://normlaudiostash.com/id210.htmDL: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7083Source: NORML Foundation (DC)Published: November 2, 2006Copyright: 2006 NORML Contact: norml norml.org Website: http://www.norml.org/CannabisNews NORML Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/NORML.shtml 

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Comment #28 posted by whig on November 04, 2006 at 00:53:21 PT
Time signature
3 * 4 * 5 * 7Welcome to 420.This is the rhythm of life.
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Comment #27 posted by afterburner on November 03, 2006 at 23:59:44 PT
LTEs Keep Running the Information Blockade
CN AB: PUB LTE: Keep Drug Court Away From Politics, Red Deer Advocate, (02 Nov 2006) Robert Sharpe 
http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v06/n1482/a11.html?176CN BC: PUB LTE: Hemp Could Be Used To Clean Our Air, Nanaimo News Bulletin, (02 Nov 2006) Russell Barth
http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v06/n1482/a07.html?176"The truth will out." --unknown"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." --Edmund Burke quotes (British Statesman and Philosopher, 1729-1797)
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Comment #26 posted by FoM on November 03, 2006 at 19:59:16 PT
BGreen
I agree with you. I have only been in a church with 5,000 people now and then but it was great. They had wonderful Christmas and Easter plays. The AOG Churches I went to only had around 100 people. Pentecostal churches and I assume this was Pentecostal are very connected and the congregation will be crushed emotional over losing their once respected Pastor. 
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Comment #25 posted by BGreen on November 03, 2006 at 19:48:11 PT
Yeah, but a Pastor is different
It's so much more personal of a relationship than being the leader of some huge organization.The Reverend Bud Green
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Comment #24 posted by whig on November 03, 2006 at 19:24:01 PT
BGreen
Did not all thirty million lift him to his lofty perch?
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Comment #23 posted by BGreen on November 03, 2006 at 19:19:43 PT
His church had over 14,000 members
The evangelical association he headed had thirty million.The Reverend Bud Green
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Comment #22 posted by whig on November 03, 2006 at 19:10:53 PT
BGreen
Try thirty million.
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Comment #21 posted by BGreen on November 03, 2006 at 17:11:57 PT
Another phony christian bites the dust
When are we going to stop listening to these phony christians?14,000 members of a church, all being led by a lying meth addict, ALL OF THEM GUILTY of lifting such a lying, bush loving, meth addict to such a high position of power.Prove to me that ALL of the BIG pastors out there of all of the BIG churches AREN'T EXACTLY THE SAME AS THIS LYING SCUMBAG HAGGARD.I don't think you can.The Reverend Bud Green
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Comment #20 posted by whig on November 03, 2006 at 16:32:27 PT
Ted Haggard
I think I should have posted this link about Ted Haggard to this thread.http://cannablog.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/introducing-a-new-category-for-hypocrisy/
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Comment #19 posted by whig on November 03, 2006 at 16:15:44 PT
Toker00
Which church do you want to go visit?
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Comment #18 posted by whig on November 03, 2006 at 16:13:01 PT
Had Enough
The story doesn't make sense. Who would buy drugs and then throw them away?More than once, I bet. Repeatedly, over three years. Right?
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Comment #17 posted by whig on November 03, 2006 at 16:07:56 PT
Toker00
I had to tell a person today who condemned cannabis that he ought to stay away, as he would not like it very much.The truth is that cannabis is unpleasant to the paranoid, it makes them self-conscious. It makes everyone self-conscious. It even makes God self-conscious.And here we all are, becoming self-aware.
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Comment #16 posted by FoM on November 03, 2006 at 15:28:34 PT
Had Enough 
It really is something. I have been following this story with interest all day. I hope that the voters in Colorado show common sense on the Gay Amendment. I think I know why Meth would be used but it's the Gay vote that really is such a double standard. Using Gays as an election issue fires up the self righteous right to vote for Republicans and not Democrats. They did that in Ohio in 04. 
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Comment #15 posted by Had Enough on November 03, 2006 at 15:05:35 PT
Evangelical Leader Says He Bought Meth
Evangelical Leader Says He Bought MethCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - The Rev. Ted Haggard admitted Friday he bought methamphetamine and received a massage from a male prostitute. But the influential Christian evangelist insisted he threw the drugs away and never had sex with the man. Haggard, who as president of the National Association of Evangelicals wielded influence on Capitol Hill and condemned both gay marriage and homosexuality, resigned on Thursday after a Denver man named Mike Jones claimed that he had many drug-fueled trysts with Haggard.On Friday, Haggard said he that received a massage from Jones after being referred to him by a Denver hotel, and that he bought meth for himself from the man.But Haggard said he never had sex with Jones. And as for the drugs, "I was tempted, but I never used it," the 50-year-old Haggard told reporters from his vehicle while leaving his home with his wife and three of his five children.Jones, 49, denied selling meth to Haggard. "Never," he told MSNBC. Haggard "met someone else that I had hooked him up with to buy it."Jones also scoffed at the idea that a hotel would have sent Haggard to him"No concierge in Denver would have referred me," he said. He said he had advertised himself as an escort only in gay publications or on gay Web sites.Jones did not immediately return calls from The Associated Press on Friday.In addition to resigning his post at the NAE, which claims 30 million members, Haggard stepped aside as leader of his 14,000-member New Life Church pending a church investigation. In a TV interview earlier this week, he said: "Never had a gay relationship with anybody, and I'm steady with my wife, I'm faithful to my wife."In Denver, where Jones said his encounters with Haggard took place, police Detective Virginia Quinones said she was checking into whether the alleged drug deal was under investigation.Jones claims Haggard paid him for sex nearly every month for three years until August. He said Haggard identified himself as "Art." Jones said that he learned who Haggard really was when he saw the evangelical leader on television.Jones said he went public with the allegations because Haggard has supported a measure on Tuesday's ballot that would amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage. Jones said he was also angry that Haggard in public condemned gay sex.the rest found here…http://apnews.myway.com//article/20061103/D8L5SA1G0.html
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Comment #14 posted by FoM on November 03, 2006 at 11:19:12 PT
News Article from The Baptist Press
I am not a Republican and never could be because of the religion and government connection. I always felt it was wrong and why ever the marriage of Religion and Republicans happened the results are now going to be catastrophic. Money in politics means power but the corruption makes us all the worse for it. I feel sorry for the people who believe that Christians are the best people in the world because they must be so embarassed today. Personal morality shouldn't be an issue in politics and that includes Gays and Cannabis consumers. NAE Pres. Haggard Resigns Amid AccusationsNov 2, 2006By Staff, Baptist Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (BP)--Ted Haggard, pastor of a prominent Colorado church and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, has resigned his duties amid allegations of a homosexual affair just days before voters in Colorado decide on an amendment he supported to protect natural, traditional marriage.URL: http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=24320
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Comment #13 posted by FoM on November 03, 2006 at 09:31:52 PT

Toker00
Hopefully someday this will happen. It really is the born again christians that have gotten involved in politics that need to understand. Mainstream fundamentalists I mean. Big denominations like the Assembly of God and the Baptists. 
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Comment #12 posted by Toker00 on November 03, 2006 at 09:05:30 PT

FoM Great Idea.
That is exactly what needs to happen. I have fantasized about being in a group of people with enough courage to approach to PulPit and show Reverence to God, and not Man. I would be willing to stand before them all, and educate them about cannabis. It would have to be a spontaneous thing, because most pastors wouldn't go for it. If anyone could right a speech that would be received by the greater good of the congregation, I would be proud to read it in front of ANY Christian flock. We should just walk in and right up to the podium, excuse ourselves for the interruption, and just start laying it on them about Cannabis, and being OBEDIENT CHRISTIANS. Would they run us out of God's house for speaking the truth? Probably.Toke.
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Comment #11 posted by Hope on November 03, 2006 at 08:09:27 PT

 "increased heart rate"
If that makes cannabis use dangerous enough to be prohibited by law...then Duke needs to stop writing polluted stuff like this article. It made my heart rate increas. I think steam may have come out of my ears as well.Duke's writings should be prohibited. They increase my heart rate.His writing depressed me, too. I feel so depressed that Duke is so blind to reality and wants to cage people for doing the same things he did. He survived without jail...didn't he?But he wants other people locked up and persecuted for doing the same thing he did. That's so wrong...and so depressing.
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Comment #10 posted by FoM on November 03, 2006 at 07:04:38 PT

Toker00 An Idea
Some of these people in these churches are so sincere but they don't see the forest for the trees. If only someone or some organization could go to their own church and talk to the pastor and maybe have an opportunity to talk with the people in the church or at least really work with their pastor so he understands maybe the people in the churches will understand and stop trying to put people in jail for marijuana. That's just an idea. Most fundamentalist christians believe if something is against the law it is a sin and jail is the solution. Jail will teach them a lesson they think and then they will run to church and tithe and help the church to grow in numbers and that means more money. That's how I see it. It really is all about the money.
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Comment #9 posted by Had Enough on November 03, 2006 at 05:19:47 PT

Opps I’m doing it again.
My comment is in reply to GCW’s post #2.

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Comment #8 posted by Had Enough on November 03, 2006 at 05:14:52 PT

Well Now!!! Let's Spin
“This is not a substance to take lightly. In addition, I have been skiing at A-Basin a lot since it opened and have had to put up with pot smokers in the chairs in front me and in the parking lot.”According to the latest propaganda machine, at ONDCP, you are supposed to sit on a couch for hours and hours, not ski at a ski resort.And the beat goes on, and on, and on.Vote Yes, take a friend with you, it is time to end this.Loretta Nall, Good Luck girl.

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Comment #7 posted by Toker00 on November 03, 2006 at 03:41:48 PT

FoM #4
Barret Duke. What a loser. Really. Like so many who claim to be a follower of Christ, he blindly follows the Man.Oh Lord, provide me the time and a joint to smoke with this man. All the things he blames on pot, he should be blaming on himself. If all you seek is the High from pot, then you miss the Enlightenment, entirely. That's very obvious with this Duke guy. Truth was presented to him, and it became his stumbling block. Now he is bound by the laws of Man, and will never be free, until he bows his knee to the God of Creation, and not the God of Domination. Thank you Lord God, for Cannabis. Oh yeah. I would like to smoke that joint with Barret, AFTER he finds the Light. Sharing it before, after his terrible criticism of it, would be sacrilegious. God will allow him to suffer and be unworthy of cannabis for a while longer though, it seems. His Enlightenment postponed. Wage Peace on war. END CANNABIS PROHIBITION NOW! 
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Comment #6 posted by FoM on November 02, 2006 at 16:02:26 PT

The GCW
I don't believe in the stock market for me personally as a way to try to invest money. I only see a pyramid scheme. The only thing we will invest in is our home. My sister calls a home a forced savings account. I agree with that. When you need money after many years of living in a home you can sell it and have some money to retire on if that is what a person wants to do. 
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Comment #5 posted by The GCW on November 02, 2006 at 15:54:29 PT

FoM,
Along with being a sucker to believe:* """marijuana is 10 times more harmful than tobacco in tar and other carcinogens.""" (even though cigs leave dead bodies and cannabis hasn't in over 5,000 years)& sucker to believe:* "You would be telling them (children) to go ahead and get high."thinking: * "You would be telling your children that this is OK."When, what the message to children REALLY is, IT IS WRONG TO CAGE RESPONSIBLE ADULTS WHO USE SOMETHING LESS HARMFUL THAN BOOZE...FoM,  I hate to admit it, but sometimes, I have bad gas. I don't mean gas that sits too long in My trucks tank, either. I mean the kind that when I Am riding My bicycle, I have to get off the seat, so My stomache doesn't get a cramp... I think I'm stinking up the highway... adding to the exhaust... real bad...Do You think that guy will want Me arrested?& increased heart rate? That alone is something to cage people over.& problem solving? What's the problem? He doesn't get out much or He would know many people in this area that are great problem solvers who also use cannabis that get along fine.In fact, this area, Summit County, Colorado has a few times been said to have one of the smartest populations in the US. (Due to so many college grads who work cheap jobs just to be able to live in la la land and ski the highest ski areas in North America.) FoM,It also sounds like that guy is not only a sucker for prohibitionists lies, but He was a sucker for Enron stocks, too.
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on November 02, 2006 at 15:52:06 PT

Baptist Press: Don’t Decriminalize Marijuana
Election 06: Don’t Decriminalize Marijuana***By Barrett Duke Thursday, Nov 2, 2006 WASHINGTON (BP) -- We’ve come to voting season again, and as usual we’re being asked to consider many proposals. Some of these proposals are well-meaning, sensible plans to improve the lives of citizens. Others are misguided, irresponsible policy issues that will devastate and even destroy the lives of many millions of our fellow citizens. A perfect example of a misguided ballot issue is the proposal in Colorado and Nevada to decriminalize possession of up to an ounce of marijuana. Nevada is even being asked to authorize government-regulated sales of marijuana.Decriminalizing marijuana possession is a bad idea. I used drugs for the first time when I was 14 years old. I still remember that day. It was a day that changed my life, but it wasn’t a change for the better. After my first introduction to drugs, I spent the next seven years of my life in a drug-induced stupor. By the time I was 21, I had no interests except to find ways to get high. Drugs dominated my life and the decisions I made.The first drug I used was hashish, essentially a concentrated form of marijuana, but marijuana was the mainstay of my drug use because it was relatively inexpensive and readily available. Marijuana is the drug that kept me high between the availability of other drugs. As a longtime user of marijuana, I can attest to its completely destructive force. A person who is high on marijuana has no interest in doing anything. The debilitating effects of marijuana are more severe than those of alcohol.Anyone who believes that decriminalizing marijuana possession will help control our nation’s drug crisis is completely out of touch with the reality of the problem. Decriminalization will make matters worse for a number of reasons. First, decriminalizing marijuana possession will enable users to spend more time being high. When people can walk the streets with it in their pockets without fear of arrest, they will have it more often and use it more often. It is hardly an encouraging prospect to think that marijuana users will be high more often. Such a disastrous outcome will put even more pressure on our families, communities, businesses, health services and law enforcement officials. Second, decriminalizing marijuana possession will increase the likelihood that more people, especially impressionable, curious young people, will try the drug. When government declares that something is no longer illegal, many people drop their guard. They surmise that if the government isn’t worried about it, it must not be very dangerous. Many of these people will begin a downward spiral that will only end when they hit bottom, with their lives and maybe their futures shattered. Equally troubling is the prospect that more young people will start out on the road to a lifetime of drug addiction. It is a scientific fact that the younger a person is when he starts to use illicit drugs, the greater the likelihood that he will develop drug dependency. We have enough young people living that reality already. We certainly do not need to increase their numbers.Third, decriminalizing marijuana possession will not rid us of the illicit drug trade. The only thing decriminalization will do is create more customers for the illicit drug trade. People who use marijuana will be more inclined to want to try other drugs. They will know what it is like to get high, and they will want to experiment with other drugs to see how they affect them. This was certainly true for me. In addition, those who claim that regulating the sale of marijuana will undercut the illicit trade in the drug do not fully understand the issue. While commercialization may reduce the cost of marijuana, the illicit drug trade will still be able to undersell the legal market, though the profit margin might be reduced. It is even possible, maybe probable, that the legal drug will be more expensive than the current price of the illegal drug once the grower, the middleman, the shipper, the retailer and the taxing authorities add their various charges. It is also likely that people will be attracted to the illicit trade in marijuana if the illicit marijuana being offered is of higher potency. Finally, there will always be people who will not want it known that they use marijuana. They are going to buy it illegally in order to hide their use from public knowledge. This will be especially true for teenagers. Not only will they want to hide their use from their parents’ knowledge, they will still not be able to purchase the drug legally, so they will turn to illicit sources.Fourth, decriminalizing marijuana possession will lead to an increase in the availability of other drugs. As the demand for other drugs increases, the supply of those drugs will also increase. In other words, decriminalization will not reduce the current drug problem afflicting our nation; it will increase it. When has demand for something ever not been met? People find a way to get what they want, and as long as there is an easy profit in it, there will always be someone willing to supply them. Fifth, decriminalizing marijuana possession will not empty our prisons of drug offenders. Today, very few people go to prison for possessing small amounts of marijuana. While some people have ended up in prison for possession of marijuana, the majority of people who go to prison these days for drug offenses are there because of other crimes they committed. They may have had marijuana in their possession at the time of their arrest, but their sentencing was related to more serious offenses, like intent to sell drugs or robbery or violent crimes. Rather than reducing the prison population, it is likely that decriminalization of marijuana possession will result in more people going to prison for drug-related crimes. As the drug-abusing population increases due to the relaxed attitude about marijuana, more people will end up with drug addictions, and many of these people will turn to crime to support their habits or engage in other illegal behaviors that mandate prison time. According to a 1997 U.S. Department of Justice survey, 33 percent of state prisoners and 22 percent of federal prisoners said they were high on drugs when they committed their offense. Marijuana is often implicated in these crimes. The U.S. Department of Justice also reports that more inmates in federal and state corrections facilities who were high when they committed their crimes were high on marijuana or cocaine at the time of their offense. It is better to leave it in the hands of prosecutors and judges to determine whether or not a person should go to jail for marijuana possession than to decriminalize marijuana possession and produce more addicted drug-users, many of whom will find themselves facing jail time for their drug-related crimes. Decriminalization of marijuana possession is just a bad idea. No one wins. Our young people will not be helped. Businesses will not be helped. Families will suffer even more. Some things are just wrong, and no amount of justification can make them right. This is one of those things. Some argue that efforts to reduce drug use in this country have failed to make significant progress in recent years. This is true; the statistics have not changed very much. However, I cannot help but wonder if the reason for this is not the ineffectiveness of our drug control policy but rather the fact that 12 states have already decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana. Such counterproductive policies are bound to short-circuit our efforts to reduce the drug problem in this country. They are essentially the equivalent of drilling holes in the bottom of your boat while you are frantically trying to bail water. Instead of making drug use easier, we should redouble our efforts to warn people of the dangers of drug use, develop more effective rehabilitation programs for those who are convicted of drug possession and increase our prosecution of those who supply the drugs. We are in a battle for the lives of millions of people. They deserve our best efforts, not our surrender.
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Barrett Duke is vice president for public policy and research at the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.     
 
 
 
 
Copyright: 2001 - 2006 Southern Baptist Convention, Baptist Press
 
 http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpcolumn.asp?ID=2438
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Comment #3 posted by FoM on November 02, 2006 at 15:15:10 PT

The GCW
Oh my stinky pot. Better not ever fry fish either. Let's see what else is stinky. Being stuck in a traffic jam and smelling all the fumes that cars dump in our clean air. What else is stinky. Oh yes booze on a person's breath. That's a terrrible smell and so is the vomit when they drink too much. 
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Comment #2 posted by The GCW on November 02, 2006 at 15:07:08 PT

This LTE is out of line.
(There might be time to get a reply printed on or before election day...)US CO: LTE: Want pot? How about some Enron stock instead?Pubdate: 2 Nov 2006 (actually prints in Fri. Nov. 3 paper)Source: Summit Daily News (CO)Viewed at: http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20061102/LETTER/111020049 
Want pot? How about some Enron stock instead?The marijuana proposal has caused a lot of discussion lately, but not enough. I was very surprised when Denver voters voted for it a few years ago. I thought that it go down in flames that time. I read that some voters in Denver felt that if alcohol is legal, then so should pot. I suppose that this was some type of a protest. The problem with that type of thinking is that it is not really thinking at all. Alcohol should be dealt with as a separate issue. I would hope that voters in the present election would spend a little more time pondering the outcome of what a vote for 44 would be. You would be telling your children that this is OK. You would be telling them to go ahead and get high. Many of us voted against smoking in public places because it is bad for our health. According to the John Hopkins website, Health Line, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, marijuana is 10 times more harmful than tobacco in tar and other carcinogens. The smoke is more irritating and has greater effect on the airways, and lungs than does tobacco. Other effects include memory problems, thinking, problem solving, and an increase in heart rate. This is very different from the pro-pot websites that say using it is safe and not a problem. I doubt that there is much scientific fact in what they say. John Hopkins and others indicate that using pot can cause brain damage, and that many addicts of hard drugs started with pot. This is not a substance to take lightly. In addition, I have been skiing at A-Basin a lot since it opened and have had to put up with pot smokers in the chairs in front me and in the parking lot. The smell is terrible, much worse than cigarettes. Lets do what is right and get rid of this idea now. Too bad that the ski areas donít care enough to take action themselves. The pro pot group says that it will make a safer Colorado. Let's see how this will work. Everyone will be high and in lala land and the world will be a better place. If you believe that, then maybe you would be interested in buying some Enron stock. How safe is a driver who is smoking pot? Even the ski slopes, already hazardous, would feel this negative effect. Let's face it, smoking pot is a smelly, dirty habit that we should not have to tolerate anywhere.
 
Jim Cowles
BreckenridgeContact: http://apps.summitdaily.com/forms/letter/index.php& rslabaugh summitdaily.com&letters summitdaily.com 
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on November 02, 2006 at 14:55:46 PT

Another California Dispensary Raid
Federal Agents Raid Palm Springs Medical Marijuana DispensaryNovember 2, 2006A search warrant was served around 10:45 a.m. at Palm Springs Caregivers at 2100 N. Palm Canyon Drive, and federal drug agents along with Palm Springs police are searching the business, which is a medical marijuana dispensary.The search was triggered by suspicions that the dispensary has been operating as a storefront business selling marijuana for profit, said Special Agent Sarah Pullen, a spokeswoman for the Drug Enforcement Administration. URL: http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061102/UPDATE/61102010
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