Comments on: Reward Marijuana Sanity! Netherlands For Nobel Peace Prize

By: Southern Oregon NORML : Smart On Drugs Versus Tough On Drugs

Southern Oregon NORML : Smart On Drugs Versus Tough On Drugs — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:22:41 +0000

[...] upon Dr. Steve’s recommendation, NORML is pursuing the nomination of the Netherlands for a Nobel Prize for their success and information [...]

By: Robert Vetter

Robert Vetter — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:15:29 +0000

This is a good thing, no a great thing!!!! God bless the Dutch!!!!!
It could be that the President Obama will see that the nation needs him to be a President of Action and not someone who continues to allow the American public to be savaged by this war that all America is caught in the crosshairs of. Please Mr. President, the people of America are begging , no demanding mercy, and a chance for a new life. A life not lived in the shadow of this insane drug war. Let’s end this and start new again. Then the rest of the world will have to take notice. Let us be the Head for once instead of the tail, Lets take the Dutch Model and improve it. Can I hear Freedom coming to our land? Yes, I CAN!!!!!!

By: smartgov4all

smartgov4all — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:09:09 +0000

“…the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races. Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing. Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its user’s insanity, criminality, and death. Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind. Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.”
- Harry J. Anslinger – America’s 1st Drug Czar (FDR – JFK)

“Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control man’s appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very priciples upon which out government was founded”
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. President.
Speech, 18 Dec. 1840 to Illinois House of Representatives

By: Honestly, NORML

Honestly, NORML — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:36:05 +0000

Props to NORML for publishing that comment. Now if only NORML staff would begin engaging on these boards themselves.

By: Honestly

Honestly — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:45:55 +0000

This is the most farcical thing NORML could be investing tim and energy in. Will this get any media play at all? Not a chance. Does this have a chance of being considered serious for even a moment? No. So why are we wasting our time on this when a whole new administration is coming into town? Let’s see some fresh ideas for a campaign in the halls of Congress and trying to leverage more progressive pols in the new environment, not rehashing a bad campaign that was a stupid idea when George Bush was sitting in the Oval Office.

Obviously we agree with the sentiment but this is a nonstarter.

By: Paul Revere

Paul Revere — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:46:42 +0000

the barbarians are coming, the barbarians are coming….

the prison/judicial/military/mercenary/paramilitary industrial complex
that feeds of Prohibition have destroyed the fabric of societies across not just our inner cities but Latin America (Colombia is a para/narco democracy while Mexico is well on its way as well)… for what? to prevent somebody ingesting a substance that is not harming anybody else???

the height of folly and mercenary madness!!

barbarians at DEA, Customs, Prisons, Private Prisons ( a growth industry… imagine that.. what a failure as a society) Raytheon, Hughes, Monsanto, (maker of glyphosate, the poison being pumped to “kill the coca leaf or poppy” yet it just gets sprayed and sprayed with no positive reduction in supply, Lockheed Martin, Blackwater, Exxon, Conoco Phillips, Chiquita, Drummond etc

get a real job buddy!!

There has been a new response posted to the following discussion on Change.org:
Idea for Change in America: End the war on drugs

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THE WAR ON DRUGS IS WORSE THAN DRUGS.

posted by Timothy J Lamber

A couple of years ago, I overheard something in a restaurant. A man who seemed to be in his twenties or thirties was there with a boy who was probably seven or eight. The kid was a typical happy kid, goofing around between french fries. The man was talking about visiting a friend in jail. Then he says to the kid: “You want to visit your friends when they’re locked up ’cause you gonna want them to visit you when you locked up.”

Some of the people I told about that reacted ‘What an asshole. Talk about low expectations!’ But I keep hearing that a black male child around the age of 5 stands a one in three chance of spending some part of his life locked up.

It was more than 5 years ago, but I’ll never forget that. It’s one of the saddest things I’ve ever heard.

It’s the War On Drugs that’s creating the opportunity for people to get involved in dealing. Ending the War On Drugs WILL SAVE LIVES. Have you heard what’s been going on in Mexico? Do you care? How about America? We cannot afford this madness, we never could.

By: josh

josh — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:22:37 +0000

funny some of the things our government tells us what we can and cant do.whats next asking permision to go to the bathroom?

By: Bradson

Bradson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:59:19 +0000

In “Joe Versus the Volcano”, an old Tom Hanks flick, Joe is convinced that he suffers from a “brain cloud”. I think our political system and the mainstream press suffer from this condition. They have a brain cloud that prevents them from grasping the fundamental facts about cannabis. To bad they can’t all be tossed into a volcano.

By: Maxload

Maxload — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:14:15 +0000

Don’t look now, but CNBC is looking a lot like NORML these days. They have a gallery of medical marijuana (looks nice) AND they have an article advocating legalization or decriminalization. He makes a lot of the same points NORML does. Reformers have momentum. Keep up the good work!

By: L Hightower

L Hightower — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:52:18 +0000

It is time !
We all need to concentrate on our local “leaders” start in your town tell the “officials” to make cannabis a LOW PRIORITY , like somewhere below looking for lost cats. If we can’t get our locals to back off , how will we ever get the FED to?
I’ll do what I can to gather my friends and see what we can do. WILL YOU ?