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  Marijuana Now a Low Priority in San Francisco

Posted by CN Staff on December 29, 2006 at 11:11:11 PT
By Heather Cassell 
Source: Bay Area Reporter 

California -- San Francisco joined other cities such as Oakland, Santa Monica, Santa Cruz, and Seattle that have passed similar legislation to make marijuana arrests a low priority in a quite move on December 1, World AIDS Day.The bill was overwhelmingly supported by the Board of Supervisors by an 8-3 vote on November 21 and passed a second vote 7-3 on November 28 before being sent to Mayor Gavin Newsom.
"I feel really good about it. It's a policy that's endorsed by a majority of San Franciscans, reflecting what they feel about the issue," said Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who authored the legislation.According to Newsom's spokesman, Joe Arellano, Newsom was unable to review the legislation within the 10-day review period due to the fact that the bill arrived on his desk as he was leaving for his trip to the Philippines earlier this month. Acting mayor Supervisor Sean Elsbernd received the legislation and returned it unsigned. As a result, the bill became law automatically."I'm very glad it happened," said Dennis Peron, author of the Compassionate Care Act of 1996, better known as Proposition 215. However, Peron wasn't pleased that part of the San Francisco legislation urges taxation of marijuana, "Everyone is addicted to marijuana money," he said, adding that other medications aren't taxed in California and marijuana is medicine. "I'm against taxing medicine."The new ordinance does prohibit marijuana in connection with criminal offenses (including driving while under the influence); any minors' involvement with the herb; and distribution or sales of cannabis on public property or within view of someone on public property, unless a person is in their own home or in a private building.San Francisco also will no longer accept federal funding that focuses on criminalizing cannabis. The new law also urges the district attorney not to aggressively prosecute cases involving marijuana charges and San Francisco police are barred from becoming deputized by federal law enforcement to target adults using marijuana. The new ordinance also supports taxing and regulating the sale of marijuana for people over the age of 18, although that part of the law is not legally binding."The mayor continues to support the use of medical marijuana for people suffering from cancer, HIV and AIDS, and other illnesses," said Arellano, who added that Newsom "wholeheartedly" supports the San Francisco Police Department with its drug investigations and enforcement policies.To enforce the new ordinance the Board of Supervisors will appoint a citizen advisory committee to oversee that the new law is enacted, report on any police and legal matters related to marijuana charges, and advise and recommend policy changes to the board.Source: Bay Area Reporter (CA)Author: Heather Cassell Published: December 28, 2006Copyright: 2006 The Bay Area ReporterContact: barpaper aol.comWebsite: http://www.ebar.com/Related Articles:S.F. Passes Marijuana Tolerance Lawhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread22380.shtmlSupervisors To Vote on Pot Enforcementhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread22376.shtmlS.F. Law Will Neutralize Pot Prosecutionshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread22360.shtml 

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Comment #64 posted by afterburner on January 04, 2007 at 22:08:33 PT
Re #13: How the World Reacts to Saddam's Hanging
Hanging will haunt Bush.
Haroon Siddiqui
http://www.thestar.com/article/167592Saddam Hussein Hanged for the Wrong Reason. Gwynne Dyer
http://tinyurl.com/y5mdlm
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Comment #63 posted by museman on December 31, 2006 at 13:49:29 PT
Roman 'Democracy'
"Absolute, unashamed racist. And we elected him." -partly true- the racist part.History and a majority of Americans disagree with the 'elected' part. mr. Idiot Bush is the second president to not be elected. The conservative courts -supported by Republican regimes for several decades- appointed him to office.Of course there was no real choice for American voters, just like there is going to be no choice in the next election. All the candidates are of the same class; wealthy. All the candidates look real good, and we are fortunate that we can't see the true nature of their beings, or there would be an epidemic of barfing across the country. The choices will be chosen for us. No representatives of anyone below a half mil $ a year are going to be seen or heard.But of course a lot of Americans need nose rings, and appropriate strings attached, so they can be led through their nine-to-five shallow 'reality.' Stand up for rights? Which rights would that be? The right to remain silent- we still got that, and apparently most people think that is just what they should do.Or we could all kiss the asses of our 'betters'- who are all 'running for office,' put a couple of bandaid resolutions on the gaping wound of error which is our entire system, and continue to slave away to provide the actual power and resource of corruption, while they laugh over their wine at the 'ignorant masses' who provide them with the substances of life.Yes that is probably what will happen. Go to the polls! Vote...for what exactly? Some political Prima Donna whose qualification for leadership is the stupidity of the people, and the immaculate apearance?Vote for sanity if you can find it. People-supported initiative is the only validity left in our vote. So people, get up, ignore your politicians-they're ignoring you- and initiate.
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Comment #62 posted by rchandar on December 31, 2006 at 12:25:25 PT:
Dankhank
Hmmm, Bush Sr. Probably the most racist President in contemporary memory.Reagan looks good compared with this guy. Absolute, unashamed racist. And we elected him.
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Comment #61 posted by rchandar on December 31, 2006 at 12:20:54 PT:
Hope
Thanks for writing. From some of the other posts, I think you know how I'm thinking......The Roman Republic was founded on the principles of civic virtue, covenant, and justice.Did Pontus Pilate listen to the Messiah's preaching for peace and justice? No, they killed him.And did the leaders of the Roman Empire accept Christ's message for mankind to help one another? No, they sure didn't.It's a crucial time, and they're not listening. Politically, that is how I see America: Roman. Our message isn't the only one, but the leaders aren't listening. If we don't get it straight, decline it will be. 
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Comment #60 posted by FoM on December 31, 2006 at 11:48:33 PT
Hope
I wish I knew how to change this direction we are on but it is such a big issue that I just don't know how to fix it. If we continue spending money like we are our economy will crash and burn. Maybe they will be happy when we make the same amount of money as other countries instead of bringing them up to our level we will be taken down to their level. The rich will be very very rich then and the poor will be very very poor. Middle America will become a thing of the past. 
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Comment #59 posted by Hope on December 31, 2006 at 11:35:46 PT
$100 billion 
Wasting the chances to make life better for every one of our citizens is a crime against every one of us.It looks to me like we, the American people, are being horribly abused and cheated by our own leaders. There seems to be no way to stop them or even curb their abuses.Who will help? Who can?
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Comment #58 posted by Hope on December 31, 2006 at 11:31:49 PT
$100 billion 
For schools...here?For hospitals...here?For housing for the poor...here?Medical care and proper facilities....here?Right here in Texas there are people who do not have clean water coming from their faucets. There are people who do not receive quality medical care...or any medical care.Our leaders our crazy and apparently, unstoppable.They are robbing us and hurting us, as individuals and as a country.God help us, please.
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Comment #57 posted by FoM on December 31, 2006 at 11:07:01 PT
rchandar 
I agree with you. No matter how you look at the war it's a dead end.
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Comment #56 posted by rchandar on December 31, 2006 at 11:04:10 PT:
FoM
We had better leave Iraq, or we're in serious trouble. That's what I see.Let's put it in perspective. That $100 billion is sorely needed here: to build industries, to spread better education services, to tie up and win over urban youths disaffected with the whole thing. In context: China, India, and the EU are becoming stronger competitors. They have a superior education base and much more cheap labor.If we don't get our head out of the sky and stop preaching War on Terror, the game is over. America will decline.--rchandar
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Comment #55 posted by FoM on December 31, 2006 at 09:09:03 PT
rchandar 
I look at life as a learning experience. We all make mistakes but in time we learn from those mistakes and that's why people that are Grandma's and Grandpa's are asked by their grandchildren what does this or that mean Grandpa? The war in Iraq is a movie I have already seen. It's a re-play and I know how it will end. It's best that we get on with fixing this disaster as fast as we can for the whole world's sake. That's my opinion.
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Comment #54 posted by rchandar on December 31, 2006 at 09:01:49 PT:
FoM
It would mean we could get back to our own country and the economy. I don't know how we can justify $100 billion a year--for Iraq?
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Comment #53 posted by mayan on December 31, 2006 at 05:59:53 PT
Misc.
Guest Column: Marijuana's only problem:
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/opinion/localstatecolumns/article_1401709.phpTHE WAY OUT...Another faux celebrity distraction - Danny Bonaduce badmouths John Conner:
http://tinyurl.com/ycw5e4Kevin Barrett Interviewed by Bill O'Reilly on 'The Factor' (video):
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=189579/11 Posting Army:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/911PostingArmy/Visibility 9/11:
http://visibility911.com/9/11 Accountability - Strategies and Solutions Conference - February 23-25 - Chandler, Arizona:
http://www.911accountability.org/topics_speakers.html
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Comment #52 posted by ekim on December 30, 2006 at 20:45:21 PT
150% over filled---CA prisons
Will Gov Arnold and Jerry Brown grab the bull by the horns and stop it from hurting anyone else.i was watching -a street show on how a large fund holder was bosting of how he had made big buys in the prison industry because of the huge overcrowding in the CA Prisons.the thing that first caught my ear was when the interviewer said i see you got out of ethanol---------so the money grabbers are betting that -- Efforts like the Low Priority above story are not going to catch on-- so who is going to be using those cellswe are allready eating our own -- please Gov. Arnold and Jerry Brown ---work with LEAPmake a living working model to reduce the human suffering.Stop the black market -see the Leap blog for starters.because if someone does not bring sanity back for the good of the people and show it is worth more to invest in renewable energy like Ethanol then to warehouse more humans than anyother country on the face of this earth we will have failed.
http://blog.leap.cc/
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Comment #51 posted by nuevo mexican on December 30, 2006 at 18:22:26 PT
Musemans' sons' treated like the cattle...
that doesn't surprise me, as I don't see the dis-connect between our actions in other countries, versus the actions of our own police forces here, that some may want to see here.As abroad, so it goes here! (It's usually worse for them 'foreigners'...just ask CHILE, Mexico, Cuba and Venezuela, to name a few, though jailing Americans seems to be the favorite, with our record prison population)!Read this article that is the proper perspective for any educated human to take on Saddam sacrificial BUSH death cult performance, which is what it was, and we can be more ashamed than ever to be Americans under the bush regime:(And why is tony blair not the Maverick, this guy Galloway is always right on, in the grand tradition of Jefferson, Lincoln, MLK and JFK, and speaks truth to power like no one in 'Merica dares)! But NOOOO... he's a maverick, and so his words mean nothing. Please ignore the man who speaks truth!The Orwellian Media is just that, and no longer deserves the word Media, a Ministry of Propaganda is what is is, and we should resort to always referring to former 'media' as such, as 'media' is not what AP is, AP is a shill for bush, and the corpocracy, (formerly known as fascism, though Americans are so uneducated, how would they know what fascism is?)Maverick British MP denounces Saddam's hanging as illegal blunderLONDON (AFP) - Maverick British lawmaker George Galloway denounced the circumstances surrounding
Saddam Hussein's hanging as an illegal act and massive political "blunder" that will fuel the fire in
Iraq.
ADVERTISEMENT"It was a squalid little lynching in the end," Galloway, a member of parliament who formed his own Respect Party after being expelled from the governing Labour Party, told the radio station Talksport.Saddam, whom Galloway met before he was ousted in the 2003 US-led invasion, "managed quite predictably, if you knew anything about him, to show rather more dignity in these circumstances than those who were hanging him."The fiery politician claimed that the US government had acted illegally under international law by transferring a prisoner of war to his enemies for execution."The Americans had entirely illegally under the rules of war handed over their prisoner of war to the puppet regime in Baghdad. This was immediately denied by the puppets in Baghdad," Galloway said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061231/wl_uk_afp/iraqjusticesaddam_061231004859Heather Wokusch: Bush and the F-word in 2006: Police State or Progressivism in 2007?
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/669Looks like this was the goal of bush, more chaos, violence and bloodshed, (but he's no maverick that bush, no way)!Arab haj pilgrims outraged at Saddam execution
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061230/wl_nm/iraq_saddam_haj_dcAre we there yet? Now on to some timeless musical wisdom by our Black Musical artists', true greatness here, Coltrane, with Miles Davis and 'So What'.
Americas' greatest legacies seem to be our Black Musical History, from Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis!What a contrast these great jazz musicians are to the Neo Con-Artists, the bush/cheney cabal, currently taking America into unknown and very dark territories, and if anything like our karma filled lynching past, this music came out of the pain of slavery, and being Black in the fifties.Pain turned into beauty, for all time to hear, and never to be forgotten! Enjoy! Imagine the great music that will grace our lives as the bush dynasty chokes and goes into permanent spasms! Someday to be held completely and totally accountable, it WILL happen!Miles Davis & John Coltrane - So What - April 1959
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR87xwtQXeM&mode=related&search=
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Comment #50 posted by Dankhank on December 30, 2006 at 16:26:44 PT
comment 14 and don't miss comment 18
Aloha, Dennis ...Nice to hear from you.I enjoy the occasional search for data, this one involved a phone call to the SF election registrars and allowed me to talk to a very helpful, supporter?, of the ordinance as well as the bill establishing the citizen oversight committee for marijuana violations.see comment 18Mahalo for your comment, and I say that we must all support each other for anything to change.Peace to all who would teach ...
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Comment #49 posted by konagold on December 30, 2006 at 16:10:45 PT:
Comment #14
Aloha Dankhank Mahalo for this pdfI will pass this along to the Hawaii County Council along with a derived example of how such a bill might be tailored to fit our IslandAloha and Hau’oli Makahiki Hou! Rev. Dennis Shields
http://thereligionofjesuschurch.org
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Comment #48 posted by museman on December 30, 2006 at 15:37:08 PT
Hope
Thank you. That experience, along with the following dance with our injustice system, showed me just how naked the emperor truly was /is.By that experience I learned that the truth will indeed, and literally set you free, but only if you have the faith to believe it.I can walk into a court room with no illusions. I can look a cop right in the eye, stoned or not, and know that I am not 'guilty' for anything. I do not hold the professions of law in any esteem whatsoever. The fact that they live in luxury off our labors, does not intimidate me to fear their false authority. Their 'robes of office' and babble they call 'legal terminology' does not, I repeat, DOES NOT impress me one bit. In the end they all got toilets, and wipe their asses before they put on their assuming airs, and when they go none of it will have mattered, because they will not have mattered either. Their time is invested wholly in error, and error is wholly what they shall reap. If I feel anything at all besides disgust for these things posing as human, it is pity.
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Comment #47 posted by Hope on December 30, 2006 at 15:06:53 PT
Museman
I'm trembling with fury because of what's happened to your sons...and you.It's so sickeningly and obviously wrong to treat people that way...and for Heaven's sake...over consuming plant matter! "I once told an entire sheriff posse that "One day we will be standing before the REAL JUDGE, and I will not hesitate to testify to the truth of this crime that is being committed against me, my family, and my friends." Their fearless leader laughed then, but he is dead now (see "Ballad of Virgil Knight")."What an astounding and wonderful thing to say, Museman!
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Comment #46 posted by museman on December 30, 2006 at 14:43:45 PT
Hope
" don't care, in a way, whether it's legalized or not...as long as they stop hurting, robbing, humiliating, jailing, degrading, and persecuting people over it."That is the core reality, the actual 'real world' outside the contrived atmosphere of the courtroom, and inside the small mentality which drives otherwise useless individuals into politics and 'law enforcement.' That is the actual HARM being done, by the ACTUAL CRIMINALS. I once told an entire sheriff posse that "One day we will be standing before the REAL JUDGE, and I will not hesitate to testify to the truth of this crime that is being committed against me, my family, and my friends." Their fearless leader laughed then, but he is dead now (see "Ballad of Virgil Knight"). My blood cries out for vengeance, my anger is deep and reinforced by actual real crimes against myself and those who share similar beliefs. Every day I must purge my mind from all the poison that "...flies around the world each daywith such an appetite for taste and grace."but they just keep piling it on. I try to 'do unto others as I would them do unto me' but those of us who follow that plan are notably wihtout resources. My sons are wrestling with the obvious contradictions of the 'image' of the world versus the actual 'as it is' reality. Even as I taught them to avoid the situations which lead to such things, their very youth has them vulnerable to the predators this country has set up to police us. One was harassed, and prodded 'to be honest' which that one son is extremely so, to the point that that sorry excuse for a human being exploited his humanity, the most positive aspects of his nature, just to get this county some revenue - for more cops.The other is trying real hard to accept the world while hanging tenatively onto the values he was taught. I must thank the cops for their brutality- in one sense- because they really helped that one son get his sense of reality in proper perspective. I am sending these two warriors to that kangaroo court armed with the truth,.. and not money. We'll see which prevails.
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Comment #45 posted by Hope on December 30, 2006 at 13:48:44 PT
Museman
I'm so sorry about what has happened to your sons. It's not right.That's persecution and it's way more wrong than using ANY herb.I don't care, in a way, whether it's legalized or not...as long as they stop hurting, robbing, humiliating, jailing, degrading, and persecuting people over it.But I do think it will take legalization to make the authorities and prohibs stop hurting people over the plant.Keep it illegal if it makes you happy, prohibs...but STOP hurting people over your idiotic beliefs about a plant!Legalization is the only way to make those who would kill, maim, steal, lie, imprison,... whatever to "punish" people over marijuana stop. They must be stopped. Their cruelty and ignorance is obvious, overwhelming, and appalling. Their pogram, New Inquisition, and reign of terror over cannabis users must be stopped.God and every sane human being, help us, please.America means prison and war, today, more than anything else. It's too sad.
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Comment #44 posted by museman on December 30, 2006 at 12:36:29 PT
and then some
There are some victories in this war (on some drugs), but Patrick is right. I have two case scenarios that just happened in my family. Sure pot is 'decriminalized' supposedly, in this state, and the medical is 'legal.' However the cops apparently only answer to a 'higher authority than their own state, because they are amping it up folks. I have two adult children who were given fines of over $1000 for posession of considerably less than one ounce. One of my sons had his head bashed into his car, and spent the night in jail in a supposedly 'liberal' city for less than an eight of an ounce.They got more funding because of the meth epidemic, but I have this sinking feeling that they are going to go all out the next couple of years-on marijuana users while their monkey king is still in office.Marijuana posession has no defence- unless it is medical. Even a murderer is entitled to a defence. In other words; even if you were able to get a jury trial and plead 'not guilty' there is no defence, and every logical argument you can come up with is just met with the Judges wall of 'discretionary powers'. You are labeled, fined, sometimes subject to degrading 'rehab' scenarios, but if you are 'caught' you are guilty, end of sentence.Benjamin Frankiln and Thomas Jefferson quite often compared their notes on the qualities of 'Indian Hemp' and how the animals loved the seeds, and they did that sitting around the table smoking bud.Saddam was just an American puppet, who went 'rogue' and did a few things the CIA didn't want. I would bet that those things that pissed off the real powers that be, had very little to do with humanitarian crimes, but monetary crimes.Gerald Ford was a placeholder, nothing else, which is probably why no one thinks of Ford when they think of all the crimes committed by that office, and our government.The idea of putting his body on display, as if he was any more important than the dead junkie around the corner, offends me greatly. Dead is dead, and hopefully Gerald is getting his eternity in order, but to glorify power like the Kings and Pharoahs is just another sign of the corrupt and bigoted philosophies that declare someone like Ford to be so SPECIAL. He was rich, so I guess that makes him SPECIAL. Well I can take some comfort in the knowledge that all the trappings of gold, silk, and other materialistic renderings, and flaunting of wealth that attends his 'lying in state' is forever beyond his abbility to appreciate.
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Comment #43 posted by FoM on December 30, 2006 at 12:02:08 PT
Hope
He had a twinkle in his eyes. That twinkle makes me think you could be right.
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Comment #42 posted by Hope on December 30, 2006 at 11:32:17 PT
Comment 41
I have memory of seeing a painting of Franklin smoking a pipe.  
He was sitting in a chair I think. But all seems to be "cleaned up" now. I'm not finding any such pictures.Maybe I'm wrong about Franklin and "Hemp".
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Comment #41 posted by Hope on December 30, 2006 at 10:44:24 PT
Benjamin Franklin
It's not something I've read or heard. It's instinctive and a recognition thing. I sincerely believe that Franklin was a frequent, if not constant, cannibis consumer. That smile. Those eyes. That pipe. That understanding. Those thoughts and writings. Those inventions!:0)Yup. I'm sure of it.Oh Ben, if you could see what has happened to us. No. It would just make you furious and very sad.
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Comment #40 posted by FoM on December 30, 2006 at 09:58:59 PT
Hope
I know that really is a high number because no one has commented on it for a few days so maybe it is being circulated thru e-mails or something.
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Comment #39 posted by FoM on December 30, 2006 at 09:53:01 PT
Patrick
 I think of our government like a person who is a jack of all trades and a master of none. To know and understand anything important in life it takes serious dedication to learn why things are the way they are. The Internet is really helping us to be really intelligent about why we are in the mess we are in now.
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Comment #38 posted by Patrick on December 30, 2006 at 09:35:30 PT
FoM
I think it was Ben Franklin who coined that phrase common sense isn't so common.We can certainly see that applied by our government and it's insistence in keeping prohibition of cannabis and hemp alive and breathing. Where is the wisdom in that? Here we are on the eve of the 7th Decade of Prohibition. Scientists say we need to clean our air and acres of hemp would do just that. We need alternate sources of energy and hemp fiber provides such. We need medicines that are safer and less toxic to use and cannabis provides such. It's so blatantly obvious to me that common sense wasn't so common when our government prohibited cannabis long before Nixon declared war on it. Thanks for keeping up the fight for truth, justice, and Cannabis alive online for yet another year! 
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Comment #37 posted by Hope on December 30, 2006 at 09:30:44 PT
"accessed almost 10,000 times"
That's strange in itself.
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Comment #36 posted by Hope on December 30, 2006 at 09:29:13 PT
Cooper
He never says why he left the narcotics or the policing business. He's so young. I find that strange.I know Gladewater and Big Sandy. I've heard rumors, years ago (when he likely was there) of some of the egregious stunts the narcs in Gladewater have pulled. Regardless of what they say about being the "good guys"...they aren't. They aren't "good" guys...BIG TIME.Something good coming out of the hideously corrupt, and thank the Lord and all who helped, mostly defunct, Texas Narcotics Taskforce is VERY, VERY unlikely.I have profound respect for LEAP. I have a bad feeling about Cooper and what he's up to.Patrick's right. It's a "War". Be careful, people. They ARE out to get you.LEAP. Thank you for what you are doing. I love you guys!
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Comment #35 posted by FoM on December 30, 2006 at 08:58:37 PT
Patrick
Common sense comes only from time on this earth and wisdom is the end result. Happy New Year to you too.
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Comment #34 posted by Patrick on December 30, 2006 at 08:52:56 PT
Trust and Fear
As I get older I find that I bite my tongue more n more. Perhaps its that wisdom thing creeping in ever so slowly. Or perhaps not.When I read Hope's comment about the video selling ex-cop being creepy I recalled I had the those exact sediments when I too watched his ad the first and only time.I wasn't moved to say anything at the time because I have learned it only results in being dismissed as paranoid. Two things again that are foremost in my mind at the moment are trust and fear. Would I ever trust surrendering my name in a financial matter to an admitted ex-cop who has an entertaining ad about how to not get busted with drugs? No. I say it because of fear not of the fact that I don't trust he has a video for sale. Ever see the COPS episode with the free baseball tickets? A lot of disappointed children that day when Daddy got re-hauled off to jail.Trust me on this one little tidbit if you will going forward into 2007. I learned as a young adult not to trust my government regarding their insane approach to drugs. Trust me it is a war and you should fear for your well being. You should know to look at anything related to obtaining or using drugs in this way. The war is being fought by your government using the same kind of tricks in the same or similar ways as those cops with the free game tickets or even an ex-cop's “how not to get busted” video. That's free advice. No charge. Until the law of marijuana prohibition changes I will fear those I don't know personally with regard to cannabis and trust those I do know and those who understand it's use whether they partake of it or not. I live in California and I still to this day wouldn't apply for a medical card even if I needed it for that reason. If you read this site you must know how prevalent cannabis is? Largest cash crop? It's kinda sad actually to feel like a criminal and hide like one but until they change the rule of the land I will out of fear remain anonymous to those forces who would desire to put me in a cage again for having a smoke.I watched Anderson Cooper's coverage last night on CNN of the hanging of Saddam. He had a deputy Iraqi ambassador to the U.N. on as a guest. The ambassador recanted a story of when he was 6-7 or years old and how as a kid the cartoons on TV were interrupted one evening to show a public hanging of several men on LIVE TV to the whole population of Iraq. Can you say State run Television was the only choice back then. All of Iraq he said knew at the moment to fear Saddam and to fear their government. While I don't live in fear of being execute for smoking my cannabis, at least in this country anyway, I do see all of the deaths on both sides of this war and prohibition and not only deaths but ruined lives, hopes and aspirations I do see good reasons instead of paranoia to fear for my well being under prohibition here as much as an Iraqi feared there under a Saddam dictatorship. That is all.Happy New Year Everyone!
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Comment #33 posted by FoM on December 30, 2006 at 07:18:19 PT
rchandar 
I agree with you. It's time to bring our young men and women home from Iraq. Yesterday the two contractors that worked on our house this past summer came back to our house and we talked about the war. The one man's son is being sent to Iraq in June. He'll be a sitting duck if we don't end our involvment quickly.
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Comment #32 posted by FoM on December 30, 2006 at 06:11:59 PT
About The Video
When I first saw the article I thought this is interesting because he seemed to be only talking about marijuana not drugs. That's the only reason I paid any attention. I never considered buying the video because I'm not interested in what it was going to be about. I do know that when I checked the hits on that one article it has been accessed almost 10,000 times. That is more then any article ever on CNews I think but I don't know why. 
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Comment #31 posted by mayan on December 30, 2006 at 05:50:45 PT
ekim
That is very fishy about Cooper. He won't take a money order? I won't be buying his video then. Thanks for the heads up!In unrelated news, another ice shelf broke of well over a year ago. Why are we just now hearing about it? Anyway, it's probably indicative of things to come...Giant Ice Shelf Breaks Free in Arctic; Climate Change Cited as Major Factor:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/29/AR2006122901268.htmlTHE WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN...9/11 And The North American Military-Industrial Complex:
http://infowars.com/articles/sept11/9_11_military_industrial_complex.pdfMillions of Greek TV watchers were exposed to 9-11 inside job! 
http://u2r2h.blogspot.com/2006/12/millions-of-greek-tv-watchers-were.htmlActor James Brolin Plugs 911weknow.com on The View (video):
http://911blogger.com/node/5296Dr. David Ray Griffin Answers Your Questions:
http://www.rinf.com/forum/911-truth-forums/david-ray-griffin-answers-your-questions-t63.0.htmlWho Signed Sakher Hammad's WTC Basement Level Pass?
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/SakherHammad_WTC_9-11.html
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Comment #30 posted by rchandar on December 30, 2006 at 02:57:57 PT:
Dankhank
And now we've no excuse. We must leave Iraq.
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Comment #29 posted by laduncon on December 29, 2006 at 23:01:19 PT
that guy sure smells fishy
sure hope it isn't a sting like the article hypothesizes; i'd stay away from him though..............................................................Good to see the West Coast leading the way in US cannabis law reform once again
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Comment #28 posted by Hope on December 29, 2006 at 22:27:17 PT
ekim, comment 22
I agree with Libby in that people should be very leery of this guy. That video of him that I saw at YouTube was strange. Why all the hand motions? People use their hands in talking...but the way he was moving was eerily scripted and not a little strange.Something's wrong with how he's doing this. Something about the website kind of gave me the creeps. This is a very serious issue...and he's jumping out of a pot leaf...that looks more like some sort of yucca leaf than a pot leaf.Something very strange about it all. Maybe it's just because of his 'narc'ism...but there's something not right about how he's going about what he's doing. Why sell the information? Why not just tell everyone...if he wants to help people? Why not come here to C-News and tell us what he says in the video...or post it to NORML. They would probably gladly let him publish his information with them. Why did he lie about being a LEAP speaker? Narc's lie. It's part of the job description. Can he ever stop lying?It was strange anyway...but from the moment I saw him speaking on that video...I was seriously doubtful about him and his motives. It's just all a bit too creepy.
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Comment #27 posted by FoM on December 29, 2006 at 20:23:13 PT
John Tyler 
I agree with you. I worry about the world alot these days but I am hopeful for us in general. Maybe this drug war or at least the war on marijuana will end just because of lack of money to keep up the fight. I see task forces funds being cut and that means the war is becoming less important. It could all end with a whimper and not a bang but that will do just fine for me.
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Comment #26 posted by John Tyler on December 29, 2006 at 20:02:01 PT
minds are a changing 
One city and/or community after another is saying enough of this dreadful and ridiculous war on some drugs. They are changing things the best way they can. More power to them.  This change is being forced on timid politicians who will soon learn that the sky is not going to fall and if they play it right they could get reelected and maybe even find some money in it too. The trickle of change is turning into a stream. 
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Comment #25 posted by FoM on December 29, 2006 at 20:00:18 PT
Dankhank
We have been watching this evolve all day as I'm sure many people have. All I feel is sadness for this world gone mad. 
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Comment #24 posted by Dankhank on December 29, 2006 at 19:55:01 PT
Saddam is Dead
Bush the Elder must be smilin'
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Comment #23 posted by FoM on December 29, 2006 at 19:16:47 PT
ekim
I thought when I first found the article that this man wasn't associated with LEAP only because they are a non profit organization. I was surprised when he mentioned LEAP on TV. Maybe if the proceeds were going to LEAP then I would have thought that was probably legal to do but I'm not a lawyer. 
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Comment #22 posted by ekim on December 29, 2006 at 18:54:27 PT
Libby has 
interesting reading at on the TX ex cop and his dvd.
http://lastonespeaks.blogspot.com/
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Comment #21 posted by FoM on December 29, 2006 at 14:52:57 PT
Dankhank
I know I must be the only person to have trouble with the Adobe Reader. I have had trouble with it and Real Player and Quicktime. I finally uninstalled those programs and I haven't had anymore problems. Sometimes I think that computers work for individuals differently like how a car becomes in sync with a longtime driver.
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Comment #20 posted by Dankhank on December 29, 2006 at 14:30:49 PT
pdf's
Adobe Acrobat reader has worked for me for years, just fine ...3.0 thru 7. whatever I have now ...http://tinyurl.com/yglo5y
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Comment #19 posted by FoM on December 29, 2006 at 14:16:28 PT
Dankhank
I don't have a pdf Reader anymore since mine got buggy but I hope it lays it out for others cities to maybe follow.
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Comment #18 posted by Dankhank on December 29, 2006 at 14:07:30 PT
and this ...
http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/ordinances06/o0296-06.pdf
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Comment #17 posted by Hope on December 29, 2006 at 13:41:55 PT
I'm so impressed, amazed, and pleased.
"San Francisco also will no longer accept federal funding that focuses on criminalizing cannabis." 
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Comment #16 posted by Dankhank on December 29, 2006 at 13:33:38 PT
quite a search ...
for a bill number/name that should have been in EVERY story written .Journalists are stupid sometimes ...why would you write a story about a controversial topic and leave out the most important part ...THE NAME
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Comment #15 posted by FoM on December 29, 2006 at 13:23:36 PT
Paul and Everyone
I sure did notice that.Dankhank, thanks.Happy New Year, Global_Warming
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Comment #14 posted by Dankhank on December 29, 2006 at 13:20:35 PT
this is it ...
http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/ordinances06/o0297-06.pdf
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Comment #13 posted by paulpeterson on December 29, 2006 at 13:19:54 PT
An observation about Ford funeral & Saddam execu.
Anybody notice that once Ford died, and released his "interviews from the grave" where he gave grave digs at Bush for starting this unjust and unjustified war (in Iraq),that it appears that Saddam's execution is being pushed to the limits, to get him bled and buried before Ford's own funeral?It seems the Bushies are trying their darnest to pigeon hole the execution so history will note the confluence of Ford's demise, and Saddam, that cad that Bush cad wanted gone-so Saddam dies and is buried between Ford's death and burial.Just an observation, that Bush won't want people to think about, perchance, oh well. PAUL PETERSON
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Comment #12 posted by global_warming on December 29, 2006 at 13:10:21 PT
ok fomme
I will hold my typing hereHappy New Year
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Comment #11 posted by global_warming on December 29, 2006 at 13:06:12 PT
guess you know by now
I have gone insanethats when I say thingsthat make no senseof course that rhymes with cents$
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Comment #10 posted by FoM on December 29, 2006 at 13:03:29 PT
global_warming 
Please stop preaching at people. It is getting very rude and hard to handle. Your belief isn't everyones belief. Thanks in advance.
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Comment #9 posted by FoM on December 29, 2006 at 13:00:35 PT

Dankhank
I've been looking too and can't figure out where to find it. I think the one you posted for some reason came up as Minnesota when I did a search.
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Comment #8 posted by global_warming on December 29, 2006 at 12:57:48 PT

what would you' have done ?
when you walked into that barn,and saw that baby, called Jesus,oh, I forgot, Christmas Holiday is over,The Best to the people of San Francisco,Guess if you live in a city that is named after a saintSurely only goodness and understanding will Light Our Pathnow here goes

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Comment #7 posted by global_warming on December 29, 2006 at 12:43:26 PT

is someone looking for a bill
I have a shit load of them, but nowhere can I find that bill of justice, and here it is a few days away from the new year,
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Comment #6 posted by Dankhank on December 29, 2006 at 12:38:20 PT

is this it?
S.F. No. 1973
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Comment #5 posted by Dankhank on December 29, 2006 at 12:31:02 PT

bill name?
All bills have a name or number or some such, I looked at all early posts and haven't found one ...Might make it easier to locate ...
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on December 29, 2006 at 12:07:20 PT

konagold 
Aloha, I don't know where to look or I would try to find it for you.
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Comment #3 posted by konagold on December 29, 2006 at 11:53:01 PT:

Text of bill
Alohadoes anyone know where I can get the actual text of this SF bill??AlohaRev. Dennis Shields
http://thereligionofjesuschurch.org
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on December 29, 2006 at 11:47:40 PT

Paul
Happy New Year to you too. I hope that this coming year will be better then 06 but I am not holding my breath on that wish. Stay safe.
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Comment #1 posted by paulpeterson on December 29, 2006 at 11:30:50 PT

Taxation with representation, that's OK for me
I applaud the provision in SF for taxation of cannabis. Think of the positive press that would/will bring. This will make it a trend to follow suit-much better than booze bucks or gambling gambit, eh?True, cannabis should not be singled out from other medicines-but since it is in a class all of its own, this certainly justifies taking a distinct and separate approach to the change in policy about the herb.And once we get all of the rights that are due here, most people will simply become homegrowers and won't be subject to the tax on it. And anyway, at least it is a tax based upon representatives doing what they should do anyway-to vote for change, where change is due, and if it takes a tax due to do it, so be it.Well done, San Francisco, well done. Happy new year. PAUL PETERSON
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