Mendocino and the Marijuana Wars

Prohibition has never worked and never will. From the place of origin to the point of sale there can be up to a 17000% markup in the illegal drug trade. Do you think kids are going to work for minimum wage when they can get rich dealing drugs on a street corner? We're building 900 new prison beds and hiring 150 more correction officers every two weeks. We arrest someone on a drug charge every 17 seconds. The "land of the free" now incarcerates more people than any other nation on earth, even more than far more populous communist China. More than 1 of every 100 adult Americans is now behind bars. Over 100,000 Americans have lost their lives as a result of the war on drugs, which is reality a war on our own citizens. Enough is enough. Citizens were smart enough to end alcohol prohibition after 13 years, the drug war has been going on almost 4 decades. The only way to control drugs is to regulate them, which will end the profits available to criminals just like ending alcohol prohibition did. There has only been one drug success story in history. The drug was tobacco, which is hands down the most deadly and one of the most addictive of all drugs. Almost half of all users quit because of regulation, accurate information and medical treatment, not a war on tobacco users. No one went to jail and no one got killed. Contact your elected representatives every time there’s legislation on the table regarding illegal drugs and tell them to end the drug war. Write me, I’ll be happy to hear from you even if you don’t agree with me right now. I want to know how many people are as amazed as I was when I learned the truth about prohibition and the drug war. Not one of the prohibitionist arguments justify devastating society with prohibition. There's a lot more information on the website. Be sure you get on the mailing list.. Watch the video on the home page too.
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the chronicle and the sac bee allow people to access state worker employee salaries. as an estimate, but not too far fetched, of the 100 highest paid employeees, roughly 60 of them work for the department of corrections.

hmmm, wonder why the state's corrections department is so messed up. these are 2 to 4 hundred thousand dollar salaries and look at the mess are corrections system is in.

wonder what the doc lobbyists are doing on this measure behind the scenes?

Here's a sum up of this "drug law" problem; big pharmaceutical corporations resent the real competition from medical cannabis.

Lobbyists from big pharma influence harsh drug laws against cannabis and simultaneously rake in billions of taxpayer money for their often dangerous and ineffective synthetic products. Much of pharma's research (includes cruel animal testing) and development is not for life saving medicines, instead is focused on cosmetics, diet and libido enhancing novelty drugs..

There are so many different symptoms and medical conditions that can be alleviated and improved with medical cannabis without the dangerous side effects that come with synthetic pharma products..

Pharma corps have attempted to synthetically reproduce one of the active cannabinoids (delta-9 THC) found in cannabis yet totally ignoring the other 250 some lesser active cannabinoids found in the naturally growing plant. That renders pharma's synthetic byproduct called "Marinol" as far less effective than the original cannabis plant version as grown naturally (including hybridization, not genetic modification) in anybody's greenhouse..

The pharma corporations stand to lose a great deal of income if many people choose the less addictive and safer version of the cannabis plant without any synthetic pharma products needed..

If we really were in a "free market" economy we would not have the federal government 1) shelling out billions in taxpayer handouts to pharma corporations for their novelty drugs (diet, libido enhancing, etc..) 2) enforcing archaic prohibition drug laws against a medical plant called cannabis and 3) allow medical cannabis to compete with pharma corporations on a level playing field..

Unfortunately only Pres. candidates Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich seemed to be aware of this, and it seems that with any one of the "three stooges" left in the running for Pres. we can expect four more years of biased and draconian drug laws coming from out of DC..

We're stuck on lesser evilism, it seems that Obama will be the least harsh on medical cannabis, though we're not expecting any miracles..