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Dec. 26, 2002

  I found the following to be an interesting email I received:

  I don't know how many of you are seriously interested in this topic of the war on drugs - but I would definitely encourage anyone to find out as much as they can about the subject to see how it affects all americans, whether you use illegal substances or not. Read up and speak up, because if you don't speak up you will never be heard -- 

Information is Contagious.

Spread the Word.

  "House Republicans Thursday unveiled a package of bills to combat drug abuse and vowed to make America virtually drug-free by 2002." - Reuters, May 1998 

  The nephew of Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft received probation after a felony conviction in state court for growing 60 marijuana plants with intent to distribute the drug in 1992- a lenient sentence, given that the charges against him often trigger much tougher federal penalties and jail time.

  Let's be clear:
  There is not now, nor has there ever been, a "War on Drugs."
  What there is is a cynical program of political duplicity; the intent of which is not to prevent drug abuse (which it encourages), but to create a climate of distrust, fear, hostility, alienation, divisiveness, and violence within our society. The so called "War on Drugs" is in reality a war of cultural prejudice waged primarily against the young, the poor, the non-white and the socially disaffected to the advantage of the Elected, the Corporate, the Privileged and the Few....

  • ARM YOURSELF AGAINST THE "WAR ON DRUGS"
    (definitely a must read -- read every piece of this site - some of it is lengthy but it is all worth it - very useful, informative and essential for anyone interested in the subject of the war on drugs)

Quotes

 "We support the right to choose. We believe everyone should have the right to choose whether or not they want to smoke pot."  ~ Brad Nowell

  "Medicines often produce side effects. Sometimes they are physically unpleasant. Cannabis too has discomforting side effects, but these are not physical they are political."
 
~ The Economist, March 28th, 1992 

  "And God said,Let the earth bring forth grass,the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth:and it was so: And God saw that it was good." 
~ Genesis 1:11, 12

  "TELL A LIE LOUD ENOUGH AND LONG ENOUGH AND PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE IT."  ~ Adolph Hitler

  "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.~ Benjamin Franklin

  "Government exists in order to protect us from each other. Where government has gone to far is in trying to protect us from ourselves.~ Ronald Reagan

  "You just have to wonder: If the tens of thousands of law enforcement officers, the millions of man-hours, and the billions of dollars that were spent monitoring, investigating, arresting, charging, processing, jailing, and bringing to trial non-violent marijuana users had been used, instead, for anti-terrorist activities -- could the September 11 atrocity have been prevented?"  ~ Libertarian Press (November 2001)

  "Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control mans' appetite through legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not even crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our Government was founded"  ~ Abraham Lincoln (December 1840)

  "One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."  ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

  "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive" 
~ Thomas Jefferson

  "Never doubt that a small group of commited citizens can change the world.
Indeed it's the only thing that ever has."
 
~ Margaret Mead

Books to Check Out

  Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.

  Spread the message.

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