Hundreds rally to legalize marijuana
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- April
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  Fans of the Grateful Dead have been rallying all afternoon in East Capitol Park in Albany. Hundreds of people have gathered to hear speeches in favor of legalizing marijuana use and listen to live bands. The event is sponsored by New York Citizens Against Marijuana Prohibition and Damn Sam Productions.
 The Grateful Dead are performing in Albany tonight.
  The groups are asking people in favor of legalizing marijuana to sign petitions and write letters to Gov. David Paterson and members of the Legislature. A sample letter on Damn Sam’s Web site says New York could raise at least $65.5 million a year in new tax revenues if it legalized marijuana for adult use and hemp, which can be used as an industrial crop for food, paper, fuel and other uses. The state could save millions of dollars on police, court, jail and prisons, it says.
  The state Legislature has considered legalizing marijuana for medical use. A bill to do that passed the Democrat-controlled Assembly in 2007 and 2008 but not the Senate, which was led by Republicans at the time. Democrats now hold a 32-30 majority. The Assembly bill, which has been introduced again this session, would allow patients to have up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana and 12 plants. Senate Health Committee Chairman Thomas Duane, D-Manhattan, is sponsoring the bill in his chamber.Â
  Pot has been found to relieve nausea, increase appetite, reduce muscle spasms and intraocular (within the eye) pressure and alleviate chronic pain in patients. It is often used for people with AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis and glaucoma. Its use is controversial, and people who are against legalizing it believe doing so could increase drug abuse and crime.
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Citizens Against Marijuana prohibition are not actualy trying to legelize marijuana hemp. we consider it a God given human right to cultivate cannabis marijuana hemp and the contrived error of administrative law committed by the United States Treasury Department and local law enforcement officers to evade the Constitution of the United States and war against American citizens is depriving sll citizens of life liberty and the persuit of happiness because the tax payer has to pay the cost of this wrongful incarceration. The 70 year statutes that have prohibited cannabis narijuana hemp cultivation are criminal and have done deadly and costly evil to our society,yetthey have not protected anybody from anything.
One of the main speakers at the rally was Joe Barton who grows marijuana as a principle part of his necessary religious practice and they have been swept away by a police breakin of his house sanctuary and seizing his marijuana money and grow equipment.
Joe Barton acting Sui Juris and ProSe is disputing the authority of the state legislaters and law enforcement to to rob him and punish him without due process of law.
Joe knows that every non violent person in jail or prison is in danger of being killed or raped every day they are locked up.
”[P]eople who are against legalizing [marijuana] believe doing so could increase drug abuse and crime.”
Do they also believe in the tooth fairy?
These are the same people who believe that marijuana is a gateway drug!
marijuana is definitetly a gateway drug…although it
is not physiologically addictive in the way morphine is
it is a natural substance that when smoked creates a high
that is psychologically addictive…kids who experiement
with pot are far more likely to also experiment with
harder drugs than those who do not…so marijuana is
the first step toward further use of hallucinagens
narcotics and prescription meds..Having said that
legalizing marijuana would do a couple of things
which may constitute desireable public policy…
1. it would stop criminals from importing large quantities
and deriving large profits used to subsidize other illegal
activities 2. it would allow medical use of the substance
to those who can benefit from it, 3. it would unclog
some of the backlog in the court system..although
cpcs 7 degree is not a criminal matter, sale still is
4. the government could tax it and the revenue from
it would be enormous. 5. it would standardize the
quality and eliminate pot that has other dangerous
things in it. the bottom line is that right now it
is extrememly easy to find it buy it and smoke it
so to continue to treat possession of large quantites
or sale as necessitating jail time or a criminal conviction
doesn’t make a whole lot of sense
wants to smoke pot can get it
Americans For Safe Access is suing the Dept of HHS using a little known law that requires the Gov. to correct any false or wrong data it uses to make decisions and or publishes. When one looks at the DEA, DOJ, and HHS websites the false data surrounding medical marijuana is blatant. They still claim Marijuana as no medical benefits while at the same time the US Gov. holds US Patents on medical marijuana and is still growing it and providing it to patients under a program started under the 1st. Pres. Bush. Imagine how big a impact this law could have if expanded to cover every US Agency and made them all use the truth in everything they publish.
When everybody is jaywalking, the illuminated blinking sign on the corner, instead of saying WALK, or DON’T WALK, starts blinking “DO WHATEVER YOU WANT; I DON’T CARE ANYMORE.” By the time the government gets finished, they will have legalized this product, taxed it into oblivion, then allow hordes of two-bit, connected attorneys like Hillary’s brother to sue the people they have authorized to produce it to spend billions and billions on reparations and mandatory health commercials, and then the States will take over to tax it even more, year after year, until the resurgent black market is the only place someone other than a Rockefeller can afford a toke. Then, with every fourth driver’s depth-perception impaired, we can enjoy a renewed spate in traffic deaths. By the time the government, in their infinite wisdom gets finished, they will, as per usual, apply so much electricity to the girl as to turn Alice into Frankenstein.
Thanks to everyone who came out in support of ending cannabis prohibition. You can still go to our website and send a letter to the Governor and your state representatives, just click on the rally link and follow the directions.
Cannabis has been decriminalized in NY for over 30 years. Yet NYC is the cannabis arrest capitol of the world, with over an eighth of America’s cannabis arrests. Most of these are for low-level, non-violent possession with no intent to distribute. Decriminalization is a flawed and failed attempt at ignoring the issues of regulation and control. It is time for us to re-examine our current policies and take the brave step forward to end the longest running war in our nation’s short history. We need to stop trying to solve this with an overwhelming law enforcement approach and look at other more sensible means of regulation and control. Under decriminalization, we lack these means all together.
Decriminalization does not allow for the regulation or control of cannabis: either for quality or for limiting sales to minors. School children still have more access to illegal (decriminalized) drugs, than legal (regulated) drugs.
Legalization means regulation and control, which means safer drug use and less health problems and risks, or harm reduction.
Decriminalization sounds good and is easer for politicians to support, but does not solve most of the problems associated with cannabis use and it’s prohibition. Legalization solves most of these issues.
New tax revenue can fund drug education, treatment and other services. Decriminalization will continue to cost us billions upon billions of dollars.
Legalization will free up much needed law enforcement resources. Decriminalization will continue to drown our law enforcement in an un-winnable street war against its own citizens.
Legalization would help heal the ties between the police and the community. Decriminalization will continue to keep a huge portion of our population in constant conflict with our law enforcement community.
Legalization will start to move our nation back to respect for the rule of law. Decriminalization will continue to breed disrespect for rule of law.
“kids who experiement
with pot are far more likely to also experiment with
harder drugs than those who do not…so marijuana is
the first step toward further use of hallucinagens
narcotics and prescription meds..”
Is it the marijuana that causes them to experiment or something else like genetics or family issues pushing this experimentation. If you took science in school you’d realize that correlations do not always hold truths. Just because A went up with C variable doesn’t rule out other reasons for the correlation.
Most young kids rationally feel, despite paid advertising and parental advice to the contrary, that any substance governmentally legally available for sale and use, regardless if the minimum age is 18 or 21, is basically benign. They sense better than their elders when they see manipulation and hypocrisy as self-evident, and in that small way, they are shrewder than we. That the products are addictive, they could care less because individual youth thinks always, until the frontal lobes fuse, that it is immune to what their elders would call inevitability.
Every Thursday at 9PM Randy Credico and his “crew” do a live comedy show from the Yippie Museum/Cafe 9 Bleecker Street Greenwich Village NYC Http://www.yippiemuseum.org The show is broadcasted live over the internet. Check out the Yippe Museum.
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NO MORE PELOSI
NO MORE RANGEL
NO MORE ENGEL AND HIS MILLION DOLLAR HOME IN MARYLAND
Sugar is the most commonly used gateway drug. It’s highly addictive and can kill people in a ariety of ways. It’s deffinitely mind-altering for children especially in large amounts and should realy be used very sparingly. High fructose corn syrup in the soda and Juicy Juice is deadly poison and could very well be causing a lot of the A.D.D. and bi-polar disorder. Saturated fats, white bread and M.S.G
are picked up casually on the store shelves and given to children and still so many people think keeping marijuana illegal is protecting our kids from a potential drug abuse lifestyle. If you want to protect the health and mental abilities of children stop giving them so much corn syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oil and M.S.G., just to name a few of the poisons that we so kindly give our children every day.
Not that kids should smoke marijuana, but it should be noted that noone has ever died from or gotten cancer from marijuana and it in fact kills cancer cells, effectively relieve arthritis and is a better diabetes treatment than insulin. You get the diabetes and depression from refined sugar and you cure it with marijuana, a natural herb. By the way, if you eat hemp seeds you get the most healthy form of protein and omega oils in the world and prevent heart disease. nycamp.org/hip
The gateway mentality is severly flawed in that it doesn’t ever say what gateway led to the next gateway or where the whole process begins. For example, if marijuana is the gateway to cocaine and heroin, what was the gateway to marijuana in the first place? alcohol? And if alcohol was the gateway to marijuana, what was the gateway to alcohol? A bad romance? And what was the gateway to a bad romance. That your childhood wasn’t as good as it was supposed to be? And what was its gateway, that when you were a child you were constipated and you didn’t get treatment? Where does the chain of events start? Definitely, something (according to this flawed mentality) had to lead to the marijuana. Now do you see why this kind of mentality is not valid?
So according to your “marijuana leads to more” mentality those who chose pot are the ones who had bad parents. Therefore, instead of making marijuana illegal bad parents should be illegal and are the real cause of hard-drug addiction. Or should we say, constipation is at blame? Ja ja. Your logic is severly flawed.
Another problem with the argument: “well if you legalize marijuana, why not legalize murder” or like a previous post says: do whatever you want. People who want to legalize pot are not saying that the government should allow anything and everything. A crime is a crime because it has an unwilling victim. Murder is a crime because it has an unwilling victim. The same goes for assault, theft, fraud, etc. That is why they ARE crimes. Using pot does not fit this catagory because it has no unwilling victim and, therefore, is NOT a crime.
yup. just like Craig said. The gateway mentality logic is like saying: last night everyone in our high school ate oranges. That same night, our basketball team lost. A week later we all ate strawberries. That same day our basketball team won. Therefore, eating strawberries causes our team to win. What a bunch of B.S. That logic doesn’t work.
Marijuana, A Benefit to Society
Sunday, May 17, the voice of the New York marijuana legalization movement will be heard in Albany again. One month after the rally on the Capitol steps, Abigail Storm is planning a public “Speak Out” in front of the Capitol where anyone who has something to say will have a chance to voice their opinion. This is part of a rallying effort to encourage people to reach out to Governor Paterson and their state representatives for an end to the prohibition of cannabis hemp. But this time Storm is not just rallying outside.
The day after the “Speak Out”, On Monday, May 18 she is planning on leading a group of concerned citizens into the Capitol building to ask for an audience with Governor Paterson to address what she calls a crime against humanity being commited by our government. “We don’t need a law to give us permission to use this wonderful plant. God already did that. We need a law to protect us from those who want to deprive us of our rights.” She is serious about getting all of the prisoners out of jail who are in for marijuana and getting their children returned their families.
The Cannabis flower is the most effective and versatile medicine known to humankind and the hemp plant can provide non-toxic alternatives to almost every product that people consume, from paper and bath products to building materials. With the legalization of cannabis in all its forms New York State residents will have the opportunity to build a prosperous and healthy life based on locally grown agricultural feedstock, immune to inflation. The issues are the benefits that we are violently prohibited from enjoying and the atrocity that marijuana prohibition has become.
Abigail Storm says, “Its time to plant our seed and give the people a light of hope for a healthy and happy future.”
You can use oil with marijuana in it (from extraction) and rub it on your body for muscle pain relief. I have health issues, and were it not for the seed I eat every day, I would be very unhealthy. I want to be able to smoke it. eat it. wear it, heat my home with it, drive my car/bus/van/truck/golf cart/suv/motorcycle/boat/skooter/whateverelseicanputanengineon with it. This is the most rediculous prohibitionary item that ever was. It is politically motivated and race/creed biased discriminiation. period. They use the drug laws to put blacks and hispanics in prision, and yet it also brings on a general paranoia with the rest of us. Marijuana is part of my religious creed, of which as an Honorable Discharged United States Marine, I do not feel I deserve to be discriminated. A little Marijuana is all I ask. don’t need no chemicals mixed in no flask. don’t need no operator, stick me with pins, cause the marijuana, should not be the sin.
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