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Not just a blog, but a resource for Christians — and everyone — to learn about the evils of the Drug War and what can be done about it. Hint: Legalize and Regulate.

Lawyers, Judges, Please Write Amicus Brief for Roger Christie and Religious-Use Friends

Are you a current or former lawyer or judge? Do you know someone who is?

Please write an amicus curiae for Roger Christie — and the other members arrested — of the THC Ministry.

I don't know exactly what he's charged with, selling or dealing marijuana; but I am certain it was only for adults who were religious believers, and perhaps for medical use outreach to non-believers. I will provide some links for you to read; these are from my newsreader, I am sure Google has more.

Not only is it merciless to persecute and prosecute sick people who find relief through marijuana, it is also antithetical to historical record and our own Founding Documents to so wantonly mistreat people who use it for religious purposes!

How Do We End Prohibition?

Cover 'After the War on Drugs, Blueprint for Regulation' Many people wonder, "if you want to legalize all drugs, how are we going to do that?"

Fortunately there is a book you can read which provides more than a few options: After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation.

Please download it and read it.

On this other page, you can find other educational publications to help you. All published by the British Transform Drug Policy Foundation.

U.S. Government Patent 6,630,507, "Cannabinoids as Antioxidants and Neuroprotectants"

In 2003, the United States Patent Office awarded the Department of Health and Human Services patent #6,630,507, “Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants.” (In case you don’t know, cannabis is another name for marijuana. AND in case you don't know, neuroprotection means it can protect your brain, where many neurons are, your spine, where there are also neurons, and other facets of your nervous system.)

Here are some (layman-converted-for-laymen) excerpts from the abstract in the awarded patent:

Cannabinoids have antioxidant properties… [Antioxidants prevent cellular damage: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ]

This property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prevention of a wide variety of oxidation associated diseases: inflammation, age-related diseases, autoimmune diseases, and lack of blood-flow to the brain.

Cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following lack of blood-flow to the brain, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia.

Overlords of the PBS News Hour Finally Allow the Word "Legalization" to be Spoken

Although they still seem to be prohibited from using the word "prohibition." And they STILL are not inviting Walter McKay on the show! A subject-matter expert from the trenches, not just a journalist (sorry, no offense intended journalists). At least they seem to be making some progress against whoever is trying to control them. The cartels? People being paid off by the cartels?

There are two videos to watch.

PBS News Hour: Mexican Media Face Perils Reporting on Drug Prohibition

A bullet-proof-vest-wearing reporter has to duck for cover while standing on a bridge and reporting on Mexico's Drug War.

This video shows the problems of reporting on the Drug War in Mexico. How much blood and guts to show? How to handle the demands of cartels who've kidnapped reporters and demand their custom — and hideous — videos be broadcast.

Video Title: 
Mexican Media Face Perils Reporting on Drug Prohibition

PBS News Hour: Discovery of Bodies in Mexico Linked to Drug Prohibition

Finally, the word "legalization" is mentioned! However, the word "prohibition" is not. :-( Boo.

In this discussion, moderated by Gwen Ifil, Ana Paula Ordorica, a journalist with FOROtv in Mexico City, and Eric Olson, a senior associate at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute talk about the set-up video (Mexican Media Face Perils Reporting on Drug Prohibition) and the recent news of 72 people found dead on a ranch.

Why the keep snubbing Walter McKay is beyond me.

Video Title: 
Discovery of Bodies in Mexico Linked to Drug Prohibition
Summary: 

Here are some quotes from the video, and my commentary. Gwen's got a good question here, "President Calderon, Eric Olson, declared war on these cartels in 2006. It's been four years, by some accounts, 28,000 people dead. Is it working, his war?" Unfortunately Eric Olson gives what sounds like a prohibitionist answer, "Yes, I think it's very hard to say it is working. I'm not saying that he's not trying hard, he's not dedicated to defeating them, but, by all measures, it's pretty difficult to say there's success when we see violence continuing to grow.

"And, more important than violence, the real power of these cartels is growing and expanding into new areas. And, so, this -- it's not a very successful experience thus far."

I mean, what's up with saying he hasn't tried hard enough?! He should have said the truth, "this Drug War violence is the predictable outcome of Drug Prohibition. We saw it in the early 1900's with alcohol prohibition. In fact, the International Center for Science in Drug Policy recently released a study, Effect of Drug Law Enforcement on Drug-Related Violence: Evidence from a Scientific Review, which shows this."

Sorry to say, but he flubs another slam-dunk question from Gwen, "Eric Olson, how much is public corruption a part of this problem and how difficult does it make it for the government to do anything to curb this violence?" Olson replies, "I think it's absolutely fundamental. All the polling suggests that people have very low confidence in their authorities. The latest surveys say, nationally, only 22 percent of crime is actually reported -- 78 percent of people don't report their crime. They don't trust their authorities. And police officers around the world will tell you their job is immensely more difficult if they don't have the trust of their citizens and the constituents.

"So, I think, at some level, that's really at the heart of this. People don't trust the authorities. Organized crime has penetrated the police, the judiciary, every aspect of government. And that's really got to be a part of the solution."

That last bit is a bunch wishy-washy mumbo-jumbo. Why didn't he just come out and say "the huge profits in illegal drugs has corrupted government to the core. We saw this in the take-down of their drug czar, among many other examples. The only way to take control back is to legalize drugs, regulate them intelligently, thus taking them out of the black market and really controlling them; versus kidding ourselves that we control them. Which is what we are doing now with our current policy of Drug Prohibition and the farcical 'Controlled Substances Act.' Ha! Orwell would have loved that one.

"In fact in the U.S. we have seen a dramatic decrease in respect for law enforcement. And why? Because these Drug Prohibition laws have turned them against us all. Just like the illegal warrant-less wiretapping, we now have added warrant-less GPS tracking to the mix. It's cancer that even infects them! No doubt — since these huge sums of money corrupt so many people — they are busying spying on each other."

Ms. Ordorica repeats some prohibitionist lies too, instead of vigorously refuting them. Gwen asks, "Ms. Ordorica, we have also heard reports in recent days of the mayor of Santiago being assassinated by his own bodyguards. We have heard tales of people found being hung by bridges in resort towns. This seems to be spreading, rather than being contained."

Ms. Ordorica replies, "Yes, and what the government has been saying is that this spreading of the violence is a signal of success. They compare it to what has been happening in Colombia, what happened in places in the United States like New York, for example, or Washington, when they fought against organized crime.

"And what they're saying is that it takes at least seven years of continuous and growing violence before you can see some success. Not everybody agrees. And many people think that the strategy is not working. …"

She should have just come out and say "Ha! The U.S. is escalating in Colombia. How long have we been there? How much money have we spent there? We've seen escalating violence in the U.S. for at least 40 years since Nixon declared the beginning of the War on Drugs, are we really in the midst of the most success we've ever been in? Bankrupt. Jails and prisons unconstitutionally overflowing. And on and on…

"The sick minds who think violence is a sign of success, will they be cheering when high school proms in the U.S. are interrupted with grenades and AK-47 shootouts?! Will those sick minds be calling it a success when little Bobby comes home from a soccer game and describes to his mom how someone threw some balls on the field with people's faces sewn on them?! Will these sick minds be excited and enthused over tales of how more and more nude people are being hung from overpasses?"

She should continue, "just the mere fact they consider violence a success shows how much like terrorists they are and completely undeserving of any power or authority. I just don't understand how they passed all the psychological exams I thought were necessary to be in government."

Posted Because: 

Finally someone mentions the word "legalization!" Gwen, again being a good moderator, provided a wide-open court for the guests to stand where they please to take the shot, "So, is there any discussion being held about changing the terms of this drug war or changing the approach on the government's part?"

Ms. Ordorica said, "Yes, as Eric says, the president did open the discussion. He did so through Twitter. He wrote in his Twitter account that he was open to a discussion, although he himself was against legalization of drugs.

"And this has opened a whole big discussion, where most of the citizens, most of the population is against legalization. But, still, the -- the coin is up in the air, and especially so if we saw what's going on in the U.S., where some states are talking about legalization or decriminalization, especially a place like California, which is our neighbor.

"And, on some accounts, it would be impossible to ask soldiers and ask policemen to prosecute something that here is a crime and right next door is legal."

  1. It's really odd to me that throughout this whole discussion no one once mentioned the word "prohibition."
  2. I am not sure where she's getting the notion that the majority of Mexicans are against legalization. I've heard otherwise on interview shows; general interest shows which are not geared towards drug policy reform.
  3. Clearly this shows the need to push hard for California to vote Yes on Proposition 19.

Updates, Including Drug War Tree and Fruit Flyer to 1.2

I was able to crank out some updates today. (My access to the Internet has been dealt a blow.)

Not entirely satisfied with one section of the Drug War Tree & Fruit flyer, I rewrote it again. It's that pesky section "What is the Drug War Tree?" I wish I felt I had nailed it, but as you can tell since I've given it version numbers, it's an evolving work-in-progress. This most recent version takes a better stance, I think, and is less preachy in that section.

Blood is on Whose Hands?!

One of the fallacies the prohibitionists keep on putting out there, as though they actually cared about the tens of thousands dead in Mexico, other countries, and our own, is that drug purchasers are the ones deserving blame for those deaths, as opposed to the prohibitionists themselves.

This is just a bold-faced lie. Sick minds like wife-beaters think this stuff up and con others to accept it.

Thanks to Prohibition, the Black Market, and Exhorbitant Prices, Dealers in Ireland Push Heroin on 10-Year-Olds

Yes, thanks to the fact that drug prices are sky high and entirely in the hands of the black market, dealers who do not card for age are spreading their drugs on children in Ireland.

Ten-year-olds are hooked on heroin - priest

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/tenyearolds-are-hooked-on-heroin-priest...

TEN-year-old children are among a city's heroin addicts, a priest has claimed.

Criminal gangs are threatening the childrens' families over drug debts, Fr Joe Young said.

Fr Young, formerly a parish priest of Southill in Limerick, said many devastated parents across the city and county have contacted him about heroin-addicted children.

A chaplain with the Brothers of Charity in Bawnmore, Fr Young said children were being introduced to heroin by "drug barons, the guys in the Costa del Sol who are using these children as drug mules".

Hm… using them a mules, where have I read that before?

Not that long ago, something similar happened in Texas.

Cheese Heroin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_(recreational_drug)
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/12/cheese.heroin/

None of those kids needed to die. But as long as heroin is entirely in the hands of dealers seeking huge profits and to create addicts, this will continue to happen. As long as heroin is entirely in the hands of people who use kids to entice other kids, as long as heroin is distributed by unlicensed, unregulated, and uncontrolled dealers who do not card for age, this will continue to happen.

We must legalize and regulate to take the power out of their hands!

ACLU Article , The Drug War is the New Jim Crow

Published in July of 2001, this article is worth reading. The statistics are a bit dated, but still appalling.

The Drug War is the New Jim Crow

http://www.aclu.org/drug-law-reform/drug-war-new-jim-crow

… thanks in no small part to harsh sentences for drug crimes, especially for low-level nonviolent offenses, almost two million people fill the prisons and jails of the United States. — U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2000 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, March 2001) http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/pjim00.htm. The report estimates that by late 2001, the inmate population will break the two million barrier.

We are incarcerating African-American men at a rate approximately four times the rate of incarceration of black men in South Africa under apartheid. — C. Haney and P. Zimbardo, "The past and future of U.S. Prison Policy," American Psychologist, Vol. 53, No. 7 (July 1998), p. 714.

AMW, Cops, DEA, Make Perfect Case for Drug Legalization

On Saturday 2010-08-14 there was an episode of America's Most Wanted, and although I missed some of the introductory segment, I didn't miss some of the key reasons they gave for ending the Drug War.

Unfortunately they talked too fast — and I (or you) can't watch it again from their website, and I'm not sure it can be viewed on websites that offer TV viewing — but there were some great quotes. Of which I have glimpses of a few for you.

PBS Wisconsin Affiliate Explains Need to Legalize and Regulate Heroin

Frederica Freyberg of Wisconsin Public Television reports on the need to legalize and regulate heroin. Unfortunately her story doesn't really portray it as accurately as that, but instead yields to the failed prohibitionist mentality that somehow prohibition works, when all the facts SCREAM that it doesn't.

Using the Old Long-Debunked Gateway Theory

Let's get to the point. If marijuana lead to heroin then there would be HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of heroin users. And that's just patently inaccurate. See the link which is the header of this section for more information.

However, there is one great line, from Marv Wopat, Rock County, Wisconsin Supervisor, "We need to get -- put money where it's going to do the best, and locking them up isn't where it's at."

Who Is That One Person

One of the opening lines is, "If it can save one person's life, I guess that's my goal." Yet, due to prohibition TONS OF PEOPLE DIE.

  1. If it was legal and regulated, then NO ONE WOULD DIE. Doctors, clinics, nurses, users, whoever it is, would know what is in one dose and what one dose equals. There would be no more, or remarkably few, overdose deaths!
  2. There is a fallacy among people that prohibition works. So due to the mentality of "if I can stop just one person from using it," prohibitionists have
    • thrown millions in the slammer,
    • spent hundreds of billions in other countries in vain,
    • wasted hundreds of billions of our tax dollars on legal proceedings,
    • trampled ALL CITIZENS' rights, heroin users and non-heroin users,
    • erected a wall of stubbornness that implies when we legalize drugs it's the same as "waving the white flag" or "giving in" to the cartels, an outright lie.

Imagine God thought like this, "I will destroy tens of thousands of decent people if I can just stop one person from sinning." No. God does not think like that. In fact, if you read the stories of Abraham in Genesis you will find it's the opposite. God promises not to destroy a whole city if just a handful of righteous people are inside. You prohibitionists have it completely backwards!

Prohibitionists want the power of God, act like they are god, but they do not do what God does.

Video Title: 
Heroin-Related Crimes Surge in Wisconsin Due to Drug Prohibition
Summary: 

Another piece of Drug War propaganda. Nothing will be solved until we legalize and regulate drugs by putting them in the hands of responsible adults.

Posted Because: 

From the story, it shows how much prohibition is failing, "Heroin use is up nearly 400 percent in the last five years in Wisconsin." As long as heroin is exclusively distributed and sold by profit-seeking cartels and dealers, this will continue to be the case.

Prohibitionists' Blaspheme, "DAMN GOD TO HELL for Making These Plants!"

Phew! Sounds harsh, huh? Well, you know what they say, "actions speak louder than words."

10 Commandments Desecrated by Drug War and Drug Prohibition

Some people have the mistaken belief that Drug Prohibition is God's will. Sorry to say but I've heard some preachers on TV make statements to that effect.

Well, let's do some homework here and see how the Drug War stacks up against the 10 Commandments.

Elijah tested the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. [1 Kings 18:15-39] But let's do an even simpler test. Is this Drug War from God? Or is this Drug War from these others: the False Prophets of Prohibition, the Men (and Women) of Lawlessness, the Holier-Than-Thou-Congregation, the High Priests of Assigning Permanent Shame, and the Thug Addicts.

Here they are, the 10 Commandments in abbreviated form, from Exodus 20:1-17.

LEAP Handouts

Introduction

Thumbnail view of one handout In this section (see links below) are six handouts made from official LEAP sayings. Each handout has its own page describing it. Each handout is one page and there are ten handouts per page. To make it easier to cut them out, there are faint gray lines between each handout.

Useful Tips

I encourage you to always have some on hand. Take them with you when you go on errands. Hand them out as you stand in line at the Post Office, the grocery store, etc… You do not need to engage everyone in conversation, you can just hand it to them and say, "Please visit our website."

Each page has a brief description of the handout, but also includes some tips on who might appreciate that handout more than the other handouts. For example, "Cops Say End the Violence" and "U.S. Drug Laws are the Criminal Employment Act" are good ones to hand to the police since those sayings are more likely to resonate with them.

As far as being able to stand your ground against people who become hostile, this take some practice, but note that many people will not be hostile but intrigued or relieved to have met someone like you. Like you, they've long thought the Drug War is a complete failure, but due to the High Priests of Assigning Permanent Shame, the False Prophets of Prohibition, the Holier-Than-Thou-Congregation, and the Thug Addicts, they've kept their thoughts to themselves. However, due to your boldness and encouragement, they too can be encouraged to affect the necessary change.

In general it's good practice to readily acknowledge you don't know all the answers, but you do know that ending the Drug War is what's needed. In the Objections to Ending Prohibition section I've begun to catalog the objections people have and provide reasons to debunk them. But like I wrote above, I've not analyzed every argument put against us. Over time I hope to add more. In the mean time there are many websites which go into more detail than I, check out the Explore More block in the lower right side of each page for links.

Printing

These handouts are not "full bleed," in other words there is a margin. The margins on these handouts are 0.6 inches. If printing them with the default settings doesn't work, for example if the edges are cut off, then look in your printer settings for something like "shrink to fit," or "scale down."

You may also wish to conserve ink by printing them grayscale, and even reducing the amount of ink used. Just poke around your printer settings to locate those options.


Just so you know, I am just a regular member of LEAP, anyone can join LEAP. I am not a LEAP speaker; I do not speak for LEAP. If you haven't joined LEAP already, I encourage you to, it's free.

Not only do I encourage you to download the handouts here, and pass them out, but I also encourage you to donate some money to them and obtain a nifty pin you can wear, and also get ahold of their t-shirt which states "Cops say legalize drugs. Ask me why."

Sure Drugs Cause Crime, Like Forks Cause Obesity

Handout

Thumbnail view of just one section of the handout Sure drugs cause crime, like forks cause obesity
This handout points out that just as the inanimate fork merely sits on the table, so do drugs. It can also help you point out, to your subject, that in-and-of-themselves drugs do not cause violence, the black market does.

Suggestions

Drug users mostly want to consume their drugs and not hurt other people.

It's the black market that is the root of the violence.

Legalize & Regulate Drugs

Handout

Thumbnail view of just one section of the handout Legalize & Regulate Drugs
This handout just gets to the point. You are free to introduce the concept in whatever way you think your subject could best accept the message.

Suggestions

I prefer this handout for people who seem like they don't need kid-gloves or fancy footwork to introduce the concept. In particular people who seem like they might use drugs.

Perhaps this is a great handout for people who think "legalizing marijuana is OK since it's so benign, but I don't want those dangerous drugs legalized."

Drug Abuse is Bad, but the Drug War is Worse

Handout

Thumbnail view of just one section of the handout Drug Abuse is Bad, but the Drug War is Worse
This handout should help people understand the difference between cops as doctors and doctors as doctors.

Suggestions

Most everyone will be able to understand the logic of this one. You can also use this handout to help people understand that not all use is abuse. Also, that the vast majority of drug users are not abusers or addicts, similar to alcohol drinkers.

If they say something like, "why does society need another drug for people to use or abuse?" Then please point out to them that logic rests on a false assumption, namely that these drugs are not already available.

U.S. Drug Laws are: The Criminal Employment Act

Handout

Thumbnail view of just one section of the handout U.S. Drug Laws are: The Criminal Employment Act
This handout shows one of the best reasons we need to end drug prohibition, it has created an amazingly lucrative black market.

And instead of attracting people who wish to keep accurate records, not put their thumbs on the scale, not pollute, water down, or otherwise adulterate their merchandise, drug prohibition does the opposite.

Due to its nature of being entirely underground it encourages participants to act less than honorable. It must be brought in to the light!

Suggestions

This is a great handout to give to the police you see. This handout can also be effective in areas plagued by gang violence. But most everyone will be able to understand the logic of this one.

Cops Say, "End the Violence. Legalize Drugs."

Handout

Thumbnail view of just one section of the handout Cops Say, "End the Violence. Legalize Drugs."
This handout shows one of the best reasons we need to end drug prohibition, it has created an amazingly lucrative black market.

An underground economy which people defend by killing, which people encroach on by killing. People rip each other off because they know the other party, most likely, will not go to the cops, and can't seek justice through the court system, so those disputes are "solved" by violence too.

Surely more people have died in turf battles than due to shooting up some unknown substance of unknown quality; both problems solved by ending the Drug War.

Suggestions

This is a great handout to give to the police you see. This handout can also be effective in areas plagued by gang violence. But most everyone will be able to understand the logic of this one.

Save Our Children, Legalize Drugs

Handout

Thumbnail view of just one section of the handout Save Our Children, Legalize Drugs
This handout challenges people to realize that due to prohibition, drugs are often carried, dealt, and pushed by kids.

Suggestions

This handout challenges one of the greatest Drug Warrior myths there is. What myth is that? That prohibition keeps drugs out of the hands of kids.

My suggestion for using this handout is to have it ready in your hand, once you get the attention of your subject say something like, "Did you know that because of prohibition, drugs are easier for kids to get?" Then hand them the paper.

Don't hand them the paper first, then speak. Too much information at once. This one can be tough to digest for people who have been brainwashed with the incessant drumbeat lie that prohibition keeps drugs out of the hands of kids.

Read the essay linked to in the first paragraph for more background. Please also consider reading the essays in the section, The Children, as well as knowing the advice Dr. Hochman gives: read it, watch it. For the time being this page is just a holder to the handout, not a full explanation of the reasoning behind the saying.

Guns Illegal in Oklahoma Unless..., Kentucky Says Gun Must Be Loaded

Today's installment from Looney Laws… That You Never Knew You Were Breaking is from page 63.

Oklahoma law declares that the only time a person may legally carry a gun is when he or she is being "chased by an Indian."

There is another gun law attributed to Kentucky.

Kentucky legislators actually passed a law making it a criminal offense to fire a gun that wasn't loaded!

Wicked Men, Setting Traps, Cages Full, Rich and Powerful, Not Defending Our Rights

   

Attributed to: 
God, Jeremiah
Commentary: 

I have provided lots of links within the above quote. Wicked men (and women) do not let God on the throne of their hearts, they sit in the seat of God; and they also demand to sit on the throne of your heart, forcing you to serve them!

Cops and church group confront the war on drugs

Video Title: 
Cops and church group confront the war on drugs
Summary: 

Efficacy and LEAP presentation to a United Church of Christ church.

"We've had almost a hundred years of drug prohibition. We've had almost four decades of the War on Drugs. We've spent a couple of trillion dollars on interdiction alone, yet there are more drugs at cheaper prices on our streets than ever before."

"I know before alcohol prohibition people were saying the same things, and that we would become a nation of alcoholics. It didn't happen. And we're not going to become a nation of drug addicts if we legalize drugs." — Clifford Thornton, Executive Director, Efficacy

Posted Because: 

More churches need to be as intelligent and bold as this.

Their signed petition:

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED
That the Vermont Conference of the United Church of Christ urges our state and federal legislators to reconsider the existing policies of drug prohibition and punishment and the unsustainable practice of incarcerating people who are addicted and who have not committed violent crime, and to consider reallocation of resources to provide more for drug treatment and alternatives to incarceration.
Adopted June 2010

"Ignore the Innocent Poor's Blood on Me! I Have Not Sinned! God is Happy with Me."

   

On your clothes men find the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in.

Yet in spite of all this you say, 'I am innocent; he is not angry with me.' But I will pass judgment on you because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

Attributed to: 
God, Jeremiah
Commentary: 

The Drug War has predominantly been an attack on the poor, but not exclusively. The Drug War is also a robbery on everyone to pay for destroying others.

As ironic and strange as it sounds, there's only one thing which can clean that blood off you. The blood of Jesus. Then you must work in earnest to undo this gross injustice! No more commentary for now, I'll proved a ton of links below for further reading.

Drug Prohibition Laws are "Tools." Tools of the Devil.

Recently I saw a debate and heard it said again, how drug prohibition laws are "tools" for lawyers and law enforcers.

What they keep on hoping you will overlook is that these torture tools of the devil only perpetuate the Evil Religion of Hate (Drug War). These "tools" are used to foment discord and violence, not peace. They are used to create distrust, not trust. They create hate, not love. They often are used by the malevolent in order to reduce their onerous sentences by incriminating the innocent.

Only sick-minded blackmail artists love to always have guilt hanging over others which can be used to twist arms and threaten others. This is the work of evil, fruit of the Drug War Tree. God seeks to set people free, not imprison people.

What are the biggest "tools" of torture, murder, death, disease, addiction, corruption, etc… The U.N. "treaties." They are Weapons of Mass Destruction! Take a look at Mexico. Take a look at Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, etc… Take a look at Afghanistan, and even countries in Africa.

These "tools" are really weapons, instruments of torture! And how many trees were killed in order to print them? Perhaps this is what was prophesied in Ezekiel 39:9-10? Certainly many of the laws we have today are shields for the corrupt, bows and arrows for the hunters, clubs and spears for the violent.

Do Not Be Decieved, "Drug War" is a Spot-On Accurate Characterization

Unfortunately the Drug Warrior liars keep on trying to deceive people by claiming we do not have a Drug War, or that it's been ended. They try to soft-pedal the the notion of Drug War.

But as Neill Franklin replied in a recent interview, the "war" terminology is completely apt.

If [President Obama] had truly changed his policy and ended the “War On Drugs,” the following would be occurring:

  1. When a war has ended, fighting stops and the troops begin to come home. Cops are still fighting criminals, criminals are still fighting criminals and criminals are still fighting cops.
  2. When a war has ended, you stop taking prisoners and you begin the release of those imprisoned.
  3. When a war has ended, you begin to repair the damage caused by the war. You heal the wounded, rebuild communities and neighborhoods and give children hope.

The truth to the matter is, we are fighting more and harder than ever and the harder law enforcement push, the more violent it all becomes. Forty years of this nonsense and we still don’t get it.

I would also add a bit from the Bible, when the war is over, swords are not needed, so they are converted into plowshares for the plows. My interpretation is this, we house far too many people in prison for using or dealing drugs. Those people do not belong in prison. So we free them, and consolidate those who do belong in prisons. Now we have lots of empty prisons. So we convert them to other uses, all the while teaching useful trades: electrical, plumbing, remodeling, interior design, green design, etc… Beating the swords into plowshares. Isaiah 2:4 Micah 4:3

Every Kinda People

   

There's no profit in deceit,
Honest men know that revenge does not taste sweet.
Whether yellow, black, or white,
Each and every man's the same inside.

You know that love's the only goal
That could bring a peace to any soul…

Attributed to: 
Robert Palmer
Commentary: 

This is one of my favorite songs. I also love the similarly titled and themed Everyday People by Sly and the Family Stone. But I'll save praising that song for another day.

Robert Palmer's song has a great melody and, as usual, his voice is great too.

Have a Heart! Valentine's Day, 1929, Chicago, 7 Dead. Mexico, 2006-2010, 28,000+ Dead.

One of the turning points in alcohol prohibition was the horror of the increase in gang violence. On the morning of Thursday, February 14, 1929, seven people were executed by a rival gang.

Saint Valentine's Day massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Valentine%27s_Day_Massacre

In 2006, Mexican president Felipe Calderón (can you believe he's exactly one year younger than Timothy Geithner?) decided, totally on his own, it would be a good thing to do, to declare war on drugs. Wait. That's probably not right.

President Calderón asked the Mexican people if they should fight the war on drugs in earnest, and the Mexican people voted a resounding "sí!" Wait. That's probably not right either.

President Calderón had a vision of the Virgin Mary in a piece of toast on a plate of food that looked like Jesus and it told him to declare war on drugs. Wait. That's probably not right either.

Ok, enough silliness. This is a serious matter!

Save Face While Ending the Drug War

So let's say you really hate the Drug War but are afraid to speak up about it. First, I encourage you to read the series of essays under the heading Despise the Shame, in particular this essay, Despise the Shame: Stand Up and Announce the Need to End Drug Prohibition.

In that second essay it's important to note that once you express an interest in ending the Drug War, you will be attacked sooner or later. Therefore it's important to know lots of reasons why the Drug Prohibition is an intrinsic failure. This page will not attempt to list them all, but this page will try to list all the reasons you can give that show you have a heart, a warm heart. (Versus, um, you know who.)

Perhaps over time this page will break out and be one page per reason, but I don't know yet. Some of these reasons are explained in more detail on other pages. At first this page will just be a list. Sooner or later I'll link up the reasons to specific pages. In the mean time you can use the "Book navigation" section on the left to drill down to specifics. Also note in the forums there are various categories of posts, some of which have not been placed in the "Book navigation" hierarchy.

Warm-Hearted Reasons to End the Drug War

  • We are devastated that pimps get runaways addicted to drugs then use them as prostitutes.
  • We wish to draw the addicts to us for treatment by removing the black market's overpriced and polluted drugs.
  • We are greatly saddened by the spread of blood-borne diseases and wish to stop them.
  • We care about our cops (and citizens) and don't want them endangered over outrageously price-inflated plant products.
  • We wish to put drugs in the hands of responsible adults; adults who can be held accountable.
  • We wish to take drugs out the hands of gangs and teenagers.
  • We wish to end overdose deaths via a prescription model.
  • We wish to take away the terrorists income.
  • We have gone bankrupt and wish to conserve our money for programs that work.
  • We wish to help restore respect for law enforcement.
  • There is now overwhelming proof that marijuana has curative properties and, in fact, has been used that way for thousands of years.
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