Comments on: Drug Czar Busted — Again! http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/ Working to reform marijuana laws Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:36:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: kevin http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/comment-page-1/#comment-5557 kevin Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:19:04 +0000 http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/#comment-5557 All we can hope for now is that President-elect Barack Obama will fire this son of a bitch and appoint a MUCH more lenient person. Obama said himself that he opposes federal intervention in state marijuana laws so its a start! All we can hope for now is that President-elect Barack Obama will fire this son of a bitch and appoint a MUCH more lenient person. Obama said himself that he opposes federal intervention in state marijuana laws so its a start!

]]> By: En.Ki http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/comment-page-1/#comment-5423 En.Ki Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:43:08 +0000 http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/#comment-5423 Cannabis has been smoked on this planet for thousands if not millions of years.Who is man to come along and say that a naturally provided plant should'nt be used for its therapeutic properites? Cure the sick ,clothe the naked, feed the hungry. this plant can do it all, if we let it. 420 & peace all day. Cannabis has been smoked on this planet for thousands if not millions of years.Who is man to come along and say that a naturally provided plant should’nt be used for its therapeutic properites? Cure the sick ,clothe the naked, feed the hungry. this plant can do it all, if we let it. 420 & peace all day.

]]> By: matthew http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/comment-page-1/#comment-5414 matthew Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:50:37 +0000 http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/#comment-5414 Call me a unicorn. Im a 23 year old,(non-violent) first time offender facing 1-3 years in New York state prison for possesion of 1 lb. of marijuana. i dont think the drug czars comment will keep me warm on those cold nights in elmria ny Call me a unicorn. Im a 23 year old,(non-violent) first time offender facing 1-3 years in New York state prison for possesion of 1 lb. of marijuana. i dont think the drug czars comment will keep me warm on those cold nights in elmria ny

]]> By: mike http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/comment-page-1/#comment-5254 mike Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:17:58 +0000 http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/#comment-5254 Mark, Democrats of the 1914's and 1937's are in no way the same Democrats of the 2008's. No more than the Republicans of the 2000's are the same as the Republicans of the 60's-70's. Had the party not let the evangelical zealots take over the party with the elevation of GWB, they would not be imploding now. As for Biden, I agree he has screwed up royally over the years, but times have changed. The laws he supported were "demanded" by the people at the time and supported by the "law and order" Republicans" going way back to Nixon. We all know how well that worked out. What do you think Sara Palin or Bob Barr would do? I agree, Bill Clinton did us no favors thanks to his political ambitions and personal screw ups. Politics corrupts absolutely. Support term-limits! As for Obama, it's stupid for anyone to say or think he's going to just decriminalize or legalize. It would be total political suicide and he'd never sell it. He'd be eaten alive! Local communities have to take the issue to heart and just stop enforcing the stupid laws like some have done. Obama can gut the agencies that do the stupid busts and use smart, economic logic to convince the public that we need to get smokers out of prison. Obama is not the type to let the big special interests discussed above sway his solid ability to think clearly and without bias. He can direct his administration to focus on what is important and stop caring the water for all of Bush/Chaney's special interest groups. Eventually the laws can be changed but only if the obstructionist Republicans have no way to filibuster. As for who might be opposed to legalization, it runs the gamut. Cops/prison staff, drug companies, booze companies, cigarette companies, uneducated citizens and last but not least, pot growers. Why would someone charging $400/oz. want the system to change, legal or not? Risky, yes. Super-profitable and tax-free, you betcha! This is a complex issue. Neither Democrats or Republicans have all the answers. Libertarians just want to go further back in time that Republicans do. It doesn't move that way. we evolve by progressing FORWARD not backward. I voted libertarian in 1980 when I was young, dumb and uneducated. Then I woke up and realized that throwing your vote away is foolish. My friend who voted for Nader in 2000 now agrees. VOTE SMART VOTE OBAMA Mark,

Democrats of the 1914′s and 1937′s are in no way the same Democrats of the 2008′s. No more than the Republicans of the 2000′s are the same as the Republicans of the 60′s-70′s. Had the party not let the evangelical zealots take over the party with the elevation of GWB, they would not be imploding now.

As for Biden, I agree he has screwed up royally over the years, but times have changed. The laws he supported were “demanded” by the people at the time and supported by the “law and order” Republicans” going way back to Nixon. We all know how well that worked out. What do you think Sara Palin or Bob Barr would do? I agree, Bill Clinton did us no favors thanks to his political ambitions and personal screw ups. Politics corrupts absolutely. Support term-limits!

As for Obama, it’s stupid for anyone to say or think he’s going to just decriminalize or legalize. It would be total political suicide and he’d never sell it. He’d be eaten alive! Local communities have to take the issue to heart and just stop enforcing the stupid laws like some have done. Obama can gut the agencies that do the stupid busts and use smart, economic logic to convince the public that we need to get smokers out of prison. Obama is not the type to let the big special interests discussed above sway his solid ability to think clearly and without bias. He can direct his administration to focus on what is important and stop caring the water for all of Bush/Chaney’s special interest groups. Eventually the laws can be changed but only if the obstructionist Republicans have no way to filibuster.

As for who might be opposed to legalization, it runs the gamut. Cops/prison staff, drug companies, booze companies, cigarette companies, uneducated citizens and last but not least, pot growers. Why would someone charging $400/oz. want the system to change, legal or not? Risky, yes. Super-profitable and tax-free, you betcha! This is a complex issue.

Neither Democrats or Republicans have all the answers. Libertarians just want to go further back in time that Republicans do. It doesn’t move that way. we evolve by progressing FORWARD not backward. I voted libertarian in 1980 when I was young, dumb and uneducated. Then I woke up and realized that throwing your vote away is foolish. My friend who voted for Nader in 2000 now agrees.

VOTE SMART VOTE OBAMA

]]> By: Mark Entry http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/comment-page-1/#comment-5175 Mark Entry Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:27:45 +0000 http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/#comment-5175 I've read many comments from people who say that Obama is going to legalize or decrimalize cannabis. WRONG! He picked one of our nation's most heinous drug prohibitionists as his running mate for VP. Senator Joseph Biden helped create the Asset forfeiture laws that allows law enforcement to seize a person's hard earned private property for even minor drug possession. Biden helped create our federal paraphrenalia laws which often make owning paraphrenalia more of a crime than possession the drug. Just ask Tommy Chong about that one. He helped create so many drug laws which punish people that I can't even remember them all. Biden helped create the ONDCP for President Clinton and coined the term 'Drug Czar'. Clinton went on to arrest and imprison more cannabis users than any other admisnistration before his time. All of which Biden's still very proud of. All of which you probably won't hear about from the media. By the way. Drug prohibition was started in 1914 with the Harrison Act. It was pushed by a Democrat lead congress in order to punish minorities and signed into law by a Democrat President. Then we have the 1937 Marihuana Tax Stamp Act which was pushed by a Democrat lead congress to pinish hispanics and jazz players and signed by our most beloved Democrat President FDR. Excuse me, But it was Democrats who first and repeatedly there after went for votes by scaring people about drugs. They had no problem with invading the privacy of Americans and what they do in their own homes to their own bodies. Biden is just one more Democrat who stomps on the little guy that Democrats want us to believe they're so much for. Democrats are all for telling us how to run our lives using our money to do it. Democrats are for ever bigger government. How does decriminalizing cannabis and shrinking jobs and the power of the DEA/NIDA/ONDCP/SAMSHA Prohibitionist Complex enlarge Government? It doesn't. Judge a tree by the fruit it bears. Come on people. Wake up before you cast your vote. Osama/Biten is not for anything that gives people's rights back to them. Vote by all means. But, don't trust a word you hear out of those two guys. I’ve read many comments from people who say that Obama is going to legalize or decrimalize cannabis. WRONG! He picked one of our nation’s most heinous drug prohibitionists as his running mate for VP. Senator Joseph Biden helped create the Asset forfeiture laws that allows law enforcement to seize a person’s hard earned private property for even minor drug possession. Biden helped create our federal paraphrenalia laws which often make owning paraphrenalia more of a crime than possession the drug. Just ask Tommy Chong about that one. He helped create so many drug laws which punish people that I can’t even remember them all. Biden helped create the ONDCP for President Clinton and coined the term ‘Drug Czar’. Clinton went on to arrest and imprison more cannabis users than any other admisnistration before his time. All of which Biden’s still very proud of. All of which you probably won’t hear about from the media. By the way. Drug prohibition was started in 1914 with the Harrison Act. It was pushed by a Democrat lead congress in order to punish minorities and signed into law by a Democrat President. Then we have the 1937 Marihuana Tax Stamp Act which was pushed by a Democrat lead congress to pinish hispanics and jazz players and signed by our most beloved Democrat President FDR. Excuse me, But it was Democrats who first and repeatedly there after went for votes by scaring people about drugs. They had no problem with invading the privacy of Americans and what they do in their own homes to their own bodies. Biden is just one more Democrat who stomps on the little guy that Democrats want us to believe they’re so much for. Democrats are all for telling us how to run our lives using our money to do it. Democrats are for ever bigger government. How does decriminalizing cannabis and shrinking jobs and the power of the DEA/NIDA/ONDCP/SAMSHA Prohibitionist Complex enlarge Government? It doesn’t. Judge a tree by the fruit it bears. Come on people. Wake up before you cast your vote. Osama/Biten is not for anything that gives people’s rights back to them. Vote by all means. But, don’t trust a word you hear out of those two guys.

]]> By: Mark Entry http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/comment-page-1/#comment-5173 Mark Entry Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:54:01 +0000 http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/#comment-5173 I'm with Steve. If NORML will set up a $1 Billion dollar ad campaign to end the war on cannabis users and install legalization I'll send in my $67.00 Just let us know when and where and it'll be there. Good going Steve. You've got the right idea. I’m with Steve. If NORML will set up a $1 Billion dollar ad campaign to end the war on cannabis users and install legalization I’ll send in my $67.00 Just let us know when and where and it’ll be there. Good going Steve. You’ve got the right idea.

]]> By: mik http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/comment-page-1/#comment-5144 mik Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:52:24 +0000 http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/#comment-5144 As most of you already know, the drug czar is required by law to lie. However he is not required by law to be good at lying. All the official drug info is so stupidly ignorant it just seems so obvious what they're doing and I'm surprised at the amount of parent and middle class taxpayers who fall for it. Personally, I couldn't give a shit either way. Fuck the lot of them as far as I'm concerned. It's not going to stop me smoking. As most of you already know, the drug czar is required by law to lie. However he is not required by law to be good at lying. All the official drug info is so stupidly ignorant it just seems so obvious what they’re doing and I’m surprised at the amount of parent and middle class taxpayers who fall for it.

Personally, I couldn’t give a shit either way. Fuck the lot of them as far as I’m concerned. It’s not going to stop me smoking.

]]> By: Susan H http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/comment-page-1/#comment-5120 Susan H Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:33:39 +0000 http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/#comment-5120 Barack Obama is our best hope to end the insane war on drugs we lost before it was ever started. A percentage of the money saved could be applied to researching medical and agricultural uses of the plant. Bring back hemp! Vote Early and Vote Obama! Barack Obama is our best hope to end the insane war on drugs we lost before it was ever started.
A percentage of the money saved could be applied to researching medical and agricultural uses of the plant.
Bring back hemp!
Vote Early and Vote Obama!

]]> By: Brian http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/comment-page-1/#comment-5056 Brian Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:32:18 +0000 http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/#comment-5056 "Maybe now, while our once free nation is in the financial toilet somebody in Congress will have the cajones to speak up to the absurd waste of taxpayer’s money." Check out: http://tinyurl.com/22yo99 “Maybe now, while our once free nation is in the financial toilet somebody in Congress will have the cajones to speak up to the absurd waste of taxpayer’s money.”

Check out: http://tinyurl.com/22yo99

]]> By: Rich http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/comment-page-1/#comment-5037 Rich Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:14:26 +0000 http://blog.norml.org/2008/10/23/drug-czar-busted-again/#comment-5037 John Walters is a disgrace to the US, a disgrace to politics, and a disgrace to the United States. Knowingly spewing disinformation, and withholding information of a potential cure to hundreds of ailments, makes him and people like him the scariest people I know. I'm sure there is treason in there somewhere... I'm a live and let live kind of person, but he needs to be put to death for his crimes. John Walters is a disgrace to the US, a disgrace to politics, and a disgrace to the United States. Knowingly spewing disinformation, and withholding information of a potential cure to hundreds of ailments, makes him and people like him the scariest people I know.
I’m sure there is treason in there somewhere… I’m a live and let live kind of person, but he needs to be put to death for his crimes.

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