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Protest against pot raids at 5pm today!!

by dmh
In response to the medical pot raids, a protest is being put together tonight at 5pm in SF... DEA policywonk Hutchinson will be speak about his vision of Drug Policy- let's blast it!
FEDS RAID 2 MEDICAL CANNABIS SITES IN BAY AREA!!!<BR><BR>

The home long-time cannabis activist Ed Rosenthal in Oakland and the Sixth Street Harm Reduction Center in San Francisco were raided this morning by the D.E.A.<BR><BR>

PROTEST MEDICAL MARIJUANA OPPRESSION TODAY AT 5 pm!<BR><BR>

Where The Commonwealth Club,
2nd and Market Street, San Francisco
<BR><BR>
When ñ 5 p.m. Tuesday February 12
<BR><BR>
D.E.A. Head ASAP Hutchinson is coming to San Francisco to outline his
vision on U.S. Drug Policy and its impact on California. This will
obviously include Medical Marijuana and Cannabis Dispensaries.
<BR><BR>
Recently, the D.E.A. raided a cannabis dispensary in Hollywood, taking all
its resources and denying thousands of patients safe and affordable access
to their much needed medicine.
<BR><BR>
It is not everyday that the head of the D.E.A. comes to San Francisco toshare our federal governmentís distorted vision. This is a golden
opportunity to make our voice heard, to protest the D.E.A.ís draconian drug
policy and how it affects medical marijuana.
<BR><BR>
We call on ALL to STAND UP for what you BELIEVE in. Ease the pain and
suffering of millions of Americans. Come show your support for Medicinal
Marijuana at this peaceful demonstration.
<BR><BR>
Bring signs, banners, drums, noisemakers & loud voices! This is a
peaceful, legal protest. Take responsibility for your own actions. Please
leave your medication behind to avoid hassle.
<BR><BR>
For more information call 415-487-0561
by onlinepot (onlinepot [at] yahoo.com)
How far does this have to go!!!!! How long will the people of this Great Nation just sit & watch our Attorney General John (I Am GOD) Ashcroft & His
CRONY LAP DOG Asa Hutchinson Totally thow away the Entire US Constitution! OH MY GOD!! what next from these two??? Bringing back "The Secret Police" Maybe you ought just wear your Nazi Uniforms!!! Atlest you would be honest about what you are doing to this GREAT COUNTRY!!!! Whats a matter ASA ? AFRAID of a little PUBLIC Embarrasement from a Loyal US Citizen Exspressing his Freedom of Speech Rights!! So you just burst into his house & Detain him IN CUSTODY!! till after your public talk!! YOUR THE NEW POSTER BOY FOR BIRTH CONTROL!!! & Thats ME expressing MY Freedom of Speech RIGHTS!!

FEEL FREE TO COME ARREST ME!!!

Chris Kenoyer
Florida State Direct of AAMC
American Allaince for Medical Cannabis
http://www.geocities.com/onlinepot
561-223-0756

my HOME address is 1601 se 7th street, Stuart Florida!
by mary mackenzie
Come and get me too you fanatic, holy rollers

COMPASSION ?????

THAT WAS THE GREAT BUZZ WORD WHEN DUBYA RAN FOR OFFICE

You Boys with Guns and Badges disgust me but i feel sorry for you.
by mary mackenzie
Come and get me too you fanatic, holy rollers

COMPASSION ?????

THAT WAS THE GREAT BUZZ WORD WHEN DUBYA RAN FOR OFFICE

You Boys with Guns and Badges disgust me but i feel sorry for you.

Mary Mackenzie, BFA
Vice President
AZ4NORML
3400 E Speedway Blvd
Ste 118
Tucson, AZ 85716
520.323.2947
by  
I am pothead!

Arrest me!
by Arab
I am Slobodan Milosevic!

Arrest Me!

I am aslo Arab!

Throw away the Key!
It is time to take the drug War and the prefabricated War on terrorism back to Washington. It is actually a war against Americans.

When peaceful protests do not work, there is the old option...GERONIMO!

It is time for an old-fashioned French Style revolution. Off with the fascists' heads!

http://www.angelfire.com/trek/msfcalca/Government.htm

Homeless people are on the front line of the Drug War. The attack on medical marijuana clubs is an attack on all of us. Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom will be speaking on the Bathrobespierre's Broadsides show on Free Radio Santa Cruz 96.3 FM http://www.microradio.net/frsc from 6 - 8 PM.

I urge activists from across the state and the country to call in. There is only one line (831-427-3772) and you have to pay for the call yourself, however.

We will also be focusing on the Santa Cruz crisis and how it impacts homeless people.

--Robert Norse
by hempity
Ed was busted for cultivation of a 100 plants, thought he only talked growing.....
by OnlinePot (onlinepot [at] yahoo.com)
I just posted a NEW poll on what we really think about Asa Hutchinson! & The DEA/Attorney General Ashcroft & Their Blantant Throwing away of The Entire US Constitution!!!!!

Surf on BY!

Place your Vote Online!

We have Just Begun to use our right to

Freedom Of Speach!


FEEL FREE TO COME ARREST ME!!!

I would love to tell you TO YOUR FACE!!

What I think about you American Terrorist NAZI'S

P.S. I have a lot of Books that you might want to start burning themToo!

They are definately Terrorist Manuals!

One of them is over 2000 years old!

its called the Bible!

Definately an Anti American Terrorist book!

http://www.geocities.com/onlinepot/index2.htm
by joe
i don't understand you guys....drugs are bad. simple as that....how would you guys out there feel about your kids (or kids period) smoking their pipes? 5 years old sound like a good age to start? "yeah, right on little jimmy! hit it! make daddy proud!" is that how it's supposed to be? get a freggin life.
by gail
I don't think children should use cannabis recreationally or otherwise (exceptions might be a very sick, young cancer patient, etc.).

joe six-pack, on the other hand, probably puts beer in the puppies water bowl, and mixes Jack Daniels whisksy with the milk in Juniors baby bottle to 'calm' him when he starts crying in the middle of night, if screaming "SHUT-UP you whiny little brat!" doesn't work-- yeah, I'm talkin to you, you drunk scumbag ...get a life and stop abusing your helpless children.
by pot_not_war
who said anything about age??
or drugs for that matter...?
where are you going with this. stop your kid from smoking pot - what do i care, thats got nothing to do with this issue and is completely off the topic of what is really happening here.
marijuana has been PROVEN over and over again to be of medical merit, to ease pain and side effects from AIDS and cancer treatments.These recent raids are not on 'drug dealers' but on medical facilites working within their legal rights. Its like a hospital getting raided because it holds substances that are thought to be dangerous (and most hospitals do use substances and medicines far more dangerous -even lethal - than the harmless herb that for some reason has such a bad reputation) whoever decided that marijuana was a drug was a strange person. IT is a harmless plant with many more redeeming qualities than harmful ones. maybe its time that people like you (Joe, above) started to learn a little more about drugs and learnt the difference between pot and crack...there is a HUGE one, the word "drugs" is so misunderstood.
Isnt it time that we embraced the natural resources we have for these horrible ailments instead of criminalized them. And dont the feds have more important things to do right now???
by Jack
It really isn't Joes fault that he said what he did. Joe is just vomiting forth the propoganda that he has been indoctrinated with from watching corporate media. Joe really isn't thinking. Also I'm sure Joe doesn't have a painful terminal disease to temper his anger and ingnorance. Joe desereves our compassion and pity, not our scorn.
One day Joe will realize that alcohol and tobacco are gateway drugs, and yet perfectly legal, (can you say corporate campaign contribution) and more readily available to kids than pot ever will be (but I blame the parents and not the kids for that..). One day Joe will have cancer and not be able to afford the high priced drugs of the medical companies because he can't even afford the insurance to begin with. One day Joe may find himself very sick, on the streets, trying to buy pot from a thug who will simply rip him off, beat him, take his money, and laugh at him and his pain.
But I don't really wish this on him or anybody.

Jack, former employee of the 52 6th Street Harm Reduction Center in San Francisco which was raided by the DEA this morning. My tax money being wasted!!
I've seen first hand aids and cancer patients using pot to relieve their pain and regain their appetite, and stay ALIVE a little longer. I have given service to them at this club and watched them take their medication in a SAFE supportive environment. I have also seen what happens to them when the clubs close. Some of them die sooner and and in a lot more pain. In addition to being a medical cannabis dispensary we offered other support services for the sick and homeless. I AM NOT a pot smoker, and I fully support the decriminalization of medical cannabis.
If pot is outlawed, only outlaws will have pot. We will be making criminals of the sick, homeless, and terminally ill. Is THIS America?
I can hardly believe the fascist police state this country is becoming. So much for our "American Principles". Apparently common sense, compassion, and freedom are not on the list.

Oh, and FUCK george bush.....
by joe six-pack
I was gonna put JD in Junior's bottle, but he was so stoned after Gail babysat him that I just couldn't. So I gave it to the puppy. She likes it better than beer! Thanx Gail!
by Jihad
The logic stated by most of you in favor of legalizing drugs makes me wonder if you're stoned right now. Cannabis Clubs get raided because they have been shown time and again to act as fronts for much broader illegal drug distribution. If you really support pot smoking only for those who are ill from AIDS or cancer, then fight to have it distributed only by doctor prescription in a very controlled environment that is open to scrutiny by law enforcement. Most of you won't, because you're really in favor of general legalization and not just medical legalization. Which is sad, because the people who suffer the most because of your stance are the terminally ill patients.

Marijuana was legalized in Alaska for a time back in the 1970's. Guess what happened? Pot usage as well as usage of other illegal drugs increased in children aged 10 - 16 by almost 50% during that time. The state finally outlawed pot again when they determined the detriment it was having on society. If you're going to advocate legalizing drug usage, at least understand what you're really asking for.

Facts trump opinion every time.
§%
by marvin
>Pot usage as well as usage of other illegal drugs increased in children aged 10 - 16 by almost 50% during that time.

This is Pseudo-Scientific Demagoguery .

"Save the children from the evil weed"! "assassin of youth!"


And anyway, how was this determined? Is the study available online?

Why do I ask? Let's take the hypothetical example of a state that was home to 50,000,000 children aged 10-16 *during* a time of legalization, and 4 children age 10-16 used pot *before* "that time" of legalization, and *during* "that time" of legalization the number increased to 6. That would be a 50% increase, no?


Always be suspicious of stats.


I agree with Nessie's bottom-line, BTW.
by Jessica
As a dear friend of the Rosenthal family, I am appalled at the treatment Ed Rosenthal is receiving from DEA administrator Asa Hutchinson. Rosenthal is being treated like a common criminal. It is apparent to me, and hopefully any jury that Rosenthal is a victim of Hutchinson's attempts to censure the states rights to legalize medical marijuana use. The federal government should be concerned with national safety while we are at war against terrorism. Instead we are waging war against the deathly ill and those, like Ed Rosenthal that helped them.

Hutchinson can kiss my ass
by Patriot
When the British introduced opium to China in the late 18th century, the Chinese knew very little about the drug. The effects of using it were found out too late as the majority of the nation was soon under it's influence, and the government corrupted by it's use. The country became crippled, and vulnerable to invasion by many European countries. Similarly, America if heavily under the influence of mentally debilitating and addictive drugs, will not retain the ability to protect itself as the elite military in the world.

Our Great Nation has been invaded. All citizens -- whether in offical or unofficial capacities -- are now required to be on the alert for terrorists like those responsible for the 9-11 atrocities. Citizens would be incapacitated if allowed to pursue the decadent and destructive "highs" that are obtained from the mind-numbing marijuana and other dangerous illegal substances. The invasion of our homelands by terrorists intent on mass destruction is a grim reality. Our Nation is at War. Those who advocate legalization, and those who perpetuate the "medical marijuana" fraud in an insidious attempt to legitimize a dangerous substance, are aiding the terrorists with intent to destroy America.


by FILTHY
go nazis!!! i love the way they support killing god i love their thirst for violence and hatred and war...WAR is the best i love it when nazis come and kill people, cuz if theyre dead they cant hurt themselves with drugs!!! GO NAZIS!!! Its all about making more money for the rich that is so altruistic god i love it i dont know what id do if i didnt live in a nazi state...where would i go to get off on killing stealin and pillaging. thank god for the US government and their hitlerian regime. thank god they have more weapons of mass destruction than the rest of the world combined too and thank god that they use them to kill the evil people that do or make drugs. who know how much these people could hurt themselves if they were alive or not in prison forced to slave labor to make the rich richer PRaise be to god and to gw and dick cheney and asa and ashcroft that beautiful angel of a man...he saves so many people from themselves hes a hero ....god thomas jefferson would have loved him when he came in his nazi uniform to kill or imprison him for growing marijuana! The best is when the nazis subdue u and then beat the shit out of you thats one of my favorites...i so get off on pain!!! and thank god that religious zealots are there to tell me what to do with my personal life because thats what its all about its about control god this gets me off when i have power and beat the hell out of lowly people that dont!!! I LOVE NAZIS I LOVE NAZIS I LOVE GW ILOVE ASA I LOVE PAT ROBERTSON I LOVE DICK CHENEY I LOVE ASHCROFT IF U ARE READING PLEASE COME STEAL MY POSSESSIONS AND EITHER KILL ME OR PUT ME IN PRISON SO I CANT HURT MYSELF I LOVE U GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!
by FILTHY
Oh ya opium was so bad for china that it made the nation less violent and milataristic so that the evil european conquerers could come. hmmmmmm its bad because it makes people less prone to violence?
by phil (blac8723 [at] uidaho.edu)
I am truely disgusted at the freedoms that are being slowly whittled away (as brought forth yesterday when the DEA decided they would raid an institution that was not preforming any illegal activities). Are we going to allow these "SS" inspired groups, backed by our own government, to continue to raid legal businesses? I think if the DEA had decided to raid the local banking buildings or the governmental officials offices, a lot more "fuss" would have been made (not to mention a lot more illegal activity would have been found; I'm sure...). My body - My Laws...
by DEA Stalker
Why do you visit this site pork-eye? Are you stupid enough to believe that these people are going to fall for your lies! Liar, go to the Castro, find Rice Pattie, assume the bottom position, and then go on a one-year drunk with your fascist cop buddies.....in perhaps, Moscow.
by phillip
Joe, you think drugs are bad and that's your choice. Do you really think Ed Rosenthal was giving drugs to 5 year old children?
by goran (obi_gu@ yahoo.com)
don't associate your righteous cause with slobodan milosevic. he is not a nice person, and he was the ideological leader of many massacres that occured in ex- yugoslavia. by the way, what does he has to do with the medical marijuana unjustice by DEA?
by Ric
'Cannabis Clubs get raided because they have been shown time and again to act as fronts for much broader illegal drug distribution.'
Time and time again, eh? Show us your research materials, anything ya got based in FACT and not supposition..

'If you really support pot smoking only for those who are ill from AIDS or cancer, then fight to have it distributed only by doctor prescription in a very controlled environment that is open to scrutiny by law enforcement. '
'...open to scrutiny from law enforcement.'
I'm not interested in exposing our patients to Ashcroft or Bush's brand of 'scrutiny', I'm not interested in waiting for the gov't to decide when or even IF i may seek relief from my suffering, and i'm LESS than interested in your mock concern for AIDS patients.

By the way...
the Alaska Drug stats you cited we're manufactured Adolph, try again when we aint 'stoned'.
by blah
Umm, if pot isn't mind numbing, dude, then like why do I always pass out after getting high?
And believe me, I smoke the phat shazzam shit.

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>Citizens would be incapacitated if allowed to pursue the decadent and destructive "highs" that are obtained from the mind-numbing marijuana and other dangerous illegal substances.

Your ignorance is showing. Marijuana is not mind numbing. It is mind expanding. It doesn’t suppress attentiveness, it increases it. This is a scientifically demonstrable fact. The mind numbing substance that does incapacitate Americans is perfectly legal. It’s alcohol.

by blah
Nessie, if you didn't get the fact that I was joking, you're the one who has been smoking too much of the ganga, mon.
by blah
Nessie, you know what I think is really funny? Fools like you who have absolutely no credibility because they are so "boo-hoo, the world sucks" and "we need change, and the first thing i want to change is everything that I personally don't believe in". That smacks of fascism, you consipracy-theory loving Mr. Magoo. You're way too funny, the way "Waiting for Godot" or "Catch-22" is funny.

"Never trust someone who can't laugh at themselves"

Oh, and by the way, you are the one who should fuck off and die. The world doesn't need more sour grapes. Life is too sweet.
by Freedom Fighter
Organize Today.... Be Free Tomorrow

I love my country and the dream that America holds within it, and our FRAUD of a president GW is taking that away from us all. George W. Bush is a terrorist!!
George Bush is a terrorist!!! Cheney is a terrorist!!!!!
John Ashcroft is a terrorist!!!! Kenneth Lay is a terrorist!!!! Because the run the biggest terrorist agencies in America the CIA, FBI, and DEA. Each group terrorises American citzens and the world causing them to terrorise us THEY ARE THE TERRORIST OF FREEDOM

BIG OIL WILL GO AND THE CANNIBUS REVOLUTION WILL OVERGROW!!!!
okay...here's the deal. I AM in fact, an ex-smoker of MJ. i started smoking buds when i was 13. why? i did it at first cause i though it'd make me "cool" hanging out with all my older buddies. sure, i was cool...in fact, i was freggin RAD cause i smoked buds. i was so kick ass, that all the teachers loved me, all the people at school loved me, my parent's loved me, and all my freinds' parents loved me too. whenever i smoked buds, i'd get 100%'s all the time on my tests, i could function better as a person, and people just liked me more. it helped me to decide right from wrong (hell, we all know better than to break into houses to steal crap so we could sell it at the age of 14 just to buy another QP, right?) and guided me in life. and jesus....if it weren't for buds, drugs, and alchohol, i might not have made it to 15 before i finally got locked up for a year. if it weren't for those helpful guiding tools in my life, i might have landed my straight A ass in jail at the age of 10! (thank goodness i had my handy G bong to keep my head clear.) anyways, i'm fucking tired of typing....i quit smoking buds about 6 years ago.....i wanted to see if i could make it in real life, not in this fucked up little fantasy world that me and my crack head friends used to live in whilst we were fucked up out of our minds on pills and greens. hey, whatta ya know? now i'm still alive. i don't have an incurable life threatening disseases thats gonna make my head explode, and i'm even going to be a member of the SFPD. sweet....had i loaded up the snapper bowl yesterday, i might not have quite qualified. what the fuck am i talking about now anyways? i'm just rambling. if i caught my little sister smoking buds, i would be heartbroken. >end of rambling<
by All of ya!
You're all froot loops. There are laws we live by. You break those laws. You get arrested. You call America a facist state. So we should let people break the law just because it suits their needs? what about cleptos? that's a disease. So should we be understanding of their needs? You all are really fucked up in the head.

I don't think John Ashcroft is doing enough in an attempt to appease you liberal hippies. Hey the 60s are dead join us in 2002 it really is neat.

You fuckin' potheads. Don't give me that bullshit about medicinal purposes. Your lies are as thin as your hair is getting.

You are the joke of America.
by Sam Adams
How dare you try to equate the growing and selling of illegal drugs to the Boston Tea party or the Civil Rights movement. There is no connection and no comparrison. Give up your lame attempts to make excuses for your actions.
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