Cannabis Law and Politics

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-46...d-cannabis.html Now TEN cabinet ministers admit: 'We smoked cannabis' OK this was some time ago, and I know there are many more of these. So lets build the evidence that shows cannabis does no long term harm, unless they are all admitting mental imparment or brain damage while serving in office. This will be very useful information and will add to the growing evidence of the hypocracy and lies by governments around the world.

Source: http://www.hoboes.com/FireBlade/Editorials/Legalize/ by Tom++, June 27, 1995 From the Talk.Politics.Drugs Usenet newsgroup You support robberies and assaults on innocent people. The high prices of drugs caused by prohibition force many drug addicts to turn to robbery in order to pay for their drugs. Legalization would drop drug prices. Drug users would no longer need to rob/assault innocent people in order to support their drug habit. This violence against innocent people would end if drugs were legalized. You support clogging our prisons and jails with nonviolent people. Nearly 50% of all people in prison and jail are serving time for nonviolent dru…

I suddenly realised tonight in a smoky haze that Thomas Jefferson is to blame for the whole cannabis Prohibition thing. He was a Cannabis grower and user and the silly bugga sat down and wrote the American Bill of Rights, there by pissing off the bigots and would be tyrants who vowed immediately never to allow this sort of thing to happen again EVER. They then set out to ban the plant they blamed for his "Evil" thoughts of rights for all. How dare he!!

<h3 class="r">AM: 7TH LIONEL MURPHY MEMORIAL LECTURE by Professor Paul Wilson</h3> This is a PDF and simply will not play nice and allow cut and paste. However this is perhaps one of the best documents from anyone in a long time and this was 1993. We really could use a lot of what he says in this for our own fight against the governments.

Date: 5 July 2009 Source: ctvcalgary.ca http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTV...hub=CalgaryHome

Author: Kevin Drum Date: July/August 2009 Issue Source: Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/0...de-legalization

I knew that you can't sell bongs in qld but... http://www.health.qld.gov.au/tobaccolaws/report_cannabis.asp is this really necessary, damn, poor shop owners just trying to make a buck

http://www.druginfo.adf.org.au/druginfo/dr...nabis.html#what "Long-term effects Research shows evidence of some long-term effects in some regular cannabis users. Respiratory illness Marijuana cigarettes have more tar than tobacco, placing cannabis users at an increased risk of respiratory illness such as lung cancer and chronic bronchitis. Cigarette smokers who also smoke cannabis have an even greater risk of respiratory disease. Reduced motivation Many regular users have reported that they have less energy and motivation, so that performance at work or school suffers. Brain function Concentration, memory and the ability to learn can all be reduced by regular cann…

Just thought some people might want to see this. Maybe if you have kids. Paul Dillon seems like a reasonable guy as far as I can tell. http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?...k=9781741756807

Author: Mary O'Hara Date: 26 June 2009 Source: guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jun...rds-politicians

Bufo I loved you thread, its brilliant!! So now I'm thinking that poor Sally R who inspired it all needs a little help from us to suggest to her and her super (ill)astute boss the addict-shrink some more useful research topics than the piss-weak one that brought her here (in case you missed it she works for that lovely organisation NCPIC who for only 3 million per year of our beautiful tax dollers get to promote loser vids to make you quit pot and they run research programs into how to get us good folk to part the good ol' green. I'm rambling and I'd rather start rolling, the prize is an amazing drawing of a dope leaf drawn by...oh I don't know maybe an incredibly tal…