Posted by Mr.Ed on January 6, 2012 at 5:07am in Spirituality In General
The reason cannabis remains illegal to this day is not much of a secret. A select group of people make a ton of money from the prohibition of marijuana and they will go to any lengths to keep it illegal.
But there are some out there new to the cannabis movement, and many of them wonder why a natural plant is so demonized and forbidden. This video – although from 2010 – explains it simply and is the perfect rallying cry for marijuana law reform forces in 2012. Spread this video far and wide.
Information is power for those who are on the right side of history.
High Times Magazine:
Why Is Marijuana Still Illegal?
http://the420times.com/2012/01/why-is-marijuana-still-illegal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+The420Times+%28The+420+Times%29Alex Jones Video: (short clip)
Discovery Channel Documentary - Weed Wars:
Weed Wars: Medical Marijuana Hits Reality TV - YouTube
Marijuana Myth & Facts:
Marijuana - Myths And Facts - YouTube
via Why is Marijuana still illegal? Alex Jones - Joe Rogan - Weed Wars (Videos) - Ashtar Command - Spiritual Community Network.
Everyday We Write the Book
“Everyday I Write the Book” is a true song by Elvis Costello and it’s also our aim —to post news, analysis, and relevant history that people interested in the medical marijuana movement might find useful.
I’ve been covering the movement in earnest since 1996, when California voters passed Proposition 15, which allowed doctors to approve cannabis use by patients. It’s a big story with many facets —science, politics, law, medicine, history, economics— and a cast of thousands, and a supporting case of millions.
My day job as an editor at the University of California San Francisco enabled me to follow advances on the scientific front. And I had good connections on the political and medical fronts, including Dennis Peron —whose San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club had given rise to the Prop 215 campaign— and Tod Mikuriya, MD, the Berkeley-based psychiatrist who had published the suppressed pre-prohibition medical literature on marijuana and helped draft Prop 215.
In 2000 I joined the ranks of law enforcement as public information officer for the District Attorney of San Francisco, Terence Hallinan. Getting an inside view of how the “War on Drugs” is actually prosecuted —even in the city and county of San Francisco under “America’s most progressive DA”— confirmed my outside view. Two-thirds of all criminal cases involve drugs. Enforcing drug prohibition is the excuse for maintaining an outsized police force. Abolition in one county can’t be achieved.
In 2003 I producedO’Shaughnessy’s in support of Dr. Mikuriya, who was being prosecuted by the Medical Board of California. Tod had organized a group of doctors (now called the Society of Cannabis Clinicians) who were monitoring cannabis use by patients. He wanted a journal that would publish the SCC doctors’ findings and observations, and keep them up-to-date on what scientists were learning about the endocannabinoid system, and report on relevant political and legal developments of interest. By design, O’Shaughnessy’s came out as a cross between a medical journal and a defense-committee leaflet. “Hybrid vigor!” Tod proclaimed.
He died in 2006. The SCC abides under the leadership of Jeffrey Hergenrather, MD. O’Shaughnessy’s abides as a tabloid distributed by SCC members to their patients —and now online. Martin A. Lee has been an editor since 2009.
Viewpoints expressed on this site and in O’Shaughnessy’s do not reflect positions taken by the SCC. Signed pieces present the opinions of the authors; unsigned pieces present the opinions of the editors. Contents (c) 2012 by O’Shaughnessy’s. All rights reserved. Please address reprint requests to fred@plebsite.com.
—Fred Gardner
via The O’Shaughnessy’s Reader | Society of Cannabis Clinicians.
The Los Angeles City Council's unanimous vote Tuesday to ban all pot dispensaries was met with a mixture of anger and support.
Medical marijuana activists erupted in jeers after the decision, and police officers were called into the council chambers to quell them. Some activists threatened to sue. Others vowed to draft a ballot initiative to overturn the ban.
"We're not going to make this easy for the city of Los Angeles," said Don Duncan, California director of Americans for Safe Access.
But the ban is supported by some neighborhood activists as well as Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, who criticized most pot shops in the city as "for-profit businesses engaged in the sale of recreational marijuana to healthy young adults."
Under the ban, all of the 762 dispensaries registered in the city will be sent letters ordering them to shut down immediately. Those that don't comply may face legal action from the city.
The new ordinance allows patients and their caregivers to grow and share marijuana in groups of three people or fewer. But activists complain that few patients have the time or skills for that, with one dispensary owner saying it costs at least $5,000 to grow the plant at home.
Councilman Jose Huizar said the ban, which received a last-minute show of support from MayorAntonio Villaraigosa and Beck on Tuesday, will help bring peace to neighborhoods that he says have been tormented by problem dispensaries.
"Relief is on its way," he said, noting that the ban would allow the city to close shops without having to prove that they are violating nuisance or land-use laws, as is the case now.
NRS 453A
Whats Legal
NRS 453A recognizes the medical use of marijuana and removed criminal penalties, which were formerly applicable for use, possession and cultivation of marijuana.
Medical Marijuana has been legal in Nevada since 2001. It is your right to get the correct and safest treatment possible for your medical needs. |
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