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Originally posted by Mr.Fiction
For both of you that still think Bush is a great president, and Republicans are going to save you from the mean scary terrorists, read this article. You may be scared of terrorists, but you might be more scared to find out that Bush wants to take away your weed:
Bush's reefer madness
Terrified that an increasingly pot-tolerant America will spell the end of their moral crusade, the president's anti-drug warriors are making a last stand over marijuana.
Nov. 5, 2002 | The new front in the nation's drug war came into sharp focus at 7 a.m. on Sept. 5, when loud shouts and stomping woke Valerie Corral at her home north of Santa Cruz, Calif. Suspecting that the intruders weren't ordinary burglars, she snuck out a back entrance and walked around to her front door to tell them to leave. When she opened the door, stunned federal agents in flak jackets trained M-16s on the 50-year-old homeowner. When she asked to see a search warrant, the officers screamed at her to get down. They pushed her to her knees, then forced her to lie face down on the floor. With her hands handcuffed behind her back, an officer pressed his rifle muzzle to the back of her head.
Valerie Corral tried explaining to the agents (there were about 30) that she and her husband, Michael, 53, ran Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, a legal cooperative in California that has grown the drug for 250 terminally ill and sick patients, many with cancer or AIDS, for almost nine years. Twenty-two of their clients have died in the past 12 months -- but to the officers from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, that didn't matter. The DEA took Valerie, still in green silk pajamas, and Michael to a federal detention center in San Jose. Under the Federal Controlled Substances Act, marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug -- dangerous and with no possible medicinal value -- right up there with heroin. Not only did they uproot and seize 167 marijuana plants, but they also confiscated the co-op's patient list.
"We do not target drug users," insists Will Glaspy, a DEA spokesman in Washington. "We target drug traffickers. There is no such term as 'medical marijuana,' except as created by the marijuana lobby."
In California and other states -- including three that will feature marijuana initiatives on Tuesday's ballots -- the marijuana lobby happens to be the voters.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/20...war/index.html
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IMHO....This "war on drugs" is a total failure and another example of wasting tax payer money. The time and resources spent to "target drug traffickers" can be much better served elsewhere like education and the war on terrorism. Legalizing Marijuana with distribution methods set in place like Nevada is voting on today would go a long way in getting rid of the "Traffickers" along with the crime and violence which breeds within a black market.
IMHO...This comes down to 2 issues.
1) Marijuana should not be rated as a schedule 1 narcotic when cocaine is a schedule 2 and Marinol(TM) the government produced synthetic form of THC is schedule 3?
2) States rights for those states which vote on the issue to legalize use especially those states in which marijuana use must be prescribed and/or recommended by a health care provider and providers are working with their local and state officials to comply with all state laws.
However you feel about this issue and others important to you and your family...Don't forget to VOTE TODAY!!!