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	<title><![CDATA[what the hell was that?]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[spaceball one.<br><br>they've gone to plaid.<br><br>they must have overshot us by two weeks.<br><br>setting a course for druidia.<br><br>what's wrong?<br><br>we are out of gas.<br><br>I told you to put more than 5 bux worth in.<br><br>hold on princess ...<br>
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	<title><![CDATA[polish space program]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[the polish intend to build a spaceship that will<br>travel to the sun.<br><br>Interviewer: Well, don't you know you will burn up when you<br>get this close?<br><br>RFG: bullshit, we will go at night.<br><br>Have a nice day.<br>
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	<title><![CDATA[top of the world]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq5pLi0huhw&feature=related" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq5pLi0huhw&feature=related</a><br>
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	<title><![CDATA[rfg's time travel device]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<br>it is very cold in space.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun</a><br><br>The Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy at a distance of<br>approximately 26 000 or 27 000 light-years from the galactic center,<br>moving generally in the direction of Cygnus and completing one<br>revolution in about 225–250 million years. Its orbital speed was<br>thought to be 220 ± 20 km/s, but a new estimate gives 251 km/s[13].<br>This is equivalent to about one light-year every 1,190 years, and<br>about one AU every 7 days. These measurements of galactic distance and<br>speed are as accurate as we can get given our current knowledge, but<br>may change as we learn more.[14] Since our galaxy is moving with<br>respect to the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) in the<br>direction of Hydra with a speed of 550 km/s, the sun's resultant<br>velocity with respect to the CMB is about 370 km/s in the direction of<br>Crater or Leo.[15]<br><br>Now when you time travel forwards or backwards, if your<br>little escape pod time travel device is here on Earth, you<br>will be transported basically out into outer space.<br><br>Not only is it cold, but you will probably explode from lack<br>of pressure.<br><br>Why does GOD need a starship?<br><br>I think you see why.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKh86kOoiWQ&feature=related" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKh86kOoiWQ&feature=related</a><br>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:58:16 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Dogs]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[She had, apparently, been a "bait dog." She had numerous small scars<br>all over her face and her front legs. I didn't know her then, but she<br>was, apparently, brought into the Associated Humane Societies in a<br>fairly bad state. She had to have several surgeries. Her nose was<br>badly scarred.<br><br>I met her when she was being walked around the property of the A.H.S./<br>Popcorn Park Zoo by her new owner, J_______ H___. It was love at first<br>sight, between Cinnamon and I. J_______ had adopted her prior to my<br>being employed there and, as soon as I saw her, I loved her. She was<br>thick and stocky and yellow and adorable. She was, essentially, a "pit<br>bull," but really, there's no such thing. There's no breed called "pit<br>bull," and generally, to my understanding, at least, the concept of a<br>"pit bull," is in fact a mixed breed. But whatever the case, she was a<br>bright-eyed, enthusiastic, friendly dog and I dug her immediately. She<br>seemed to like me too.<br><br>Last autumn, my dog, Jessie, reached the point of no return. Her<br>health was impossibly bad. She was a shepherd mix and her hips had<br>finally given out. Her liver was failing and it seemed to be cancer or<br>something like it. We kept her going as long as it seemed feasible and<br>reasonable and as long as it seemed like she wanted to be with us. And<br>then it was too much for her and for us and the only decent thing to<br>do was to end her life and so we did and it sucked really, really<br>badly, but it was the right time and it had to be done.<br><br>I had left my job at the zoo by this point. I figured that my dog-days<br>were over for a good long time. It is difficult to say good-bye to<br>your best friend. Especially when you have to make the decision and<br>then stand beside them and watch them die. I have long since had<br>enough of this shit called "life," so watching my dog die is almost<br>absurd at this point. But it was done and I was soon busy enough<br>taking care of the rest of the many critters around here...<br><br>And then I got word that J_______ had basically become a junkie and<br>that she had abandoned Cinnamon for days at a time and that Cinnamon<br>had lost a ridiculous amount of weight and that she had been left to<br>the A.H.S. with specific instructions to be euthanized by J_______<br>H___. Those who knew her (Cinnamon) knew what she'd already been<br>through, and so it was never even considered that she be put down, so<br>she was caged for a spell, in the hope that she would find an "owner."<br>She was just another dog in hell, basically.<br><br>And, of course, when I heard about this, I went and got her<br>immediately. I had only lost Jessie a couple of months prior, but it<br>was a complete no-brainer. I was amazed that this wonderful dog would<br>actually come home with me and be my new best friend. When I went to<br>pick her up, she looked skinny and crappy, but not half as bad as I<br>had feared, and she seemed to know me instantly, despite the fact that<br>I hadn't seen her in a year or so. She walked (slowly) to me as soon<br>as the girl who had brought her out from the kennel let her loose. It<br>was wonderful.<br><br>She was never energetic or particularly enthusiastic about much,<br>except her meals for a while. But she was content and safe and<br>comfortable. She slept a LOT. But she deserved as much rest as she<br>wanted. She was probably the most-patted dog in history, because I<br>couldn't keep my hands off of her fuzzy little dog parts. She was<br>miserable when I wasn't around (I'm told), and I missed her when I was<br>out of the house. She was the sweetest dog on Earth.<br><br>Last week, I was at the zoo volunteering. I got a call from home.<br>Cinnamon had been having some health issues, but suddenly,<br>drastically, it had gotten crazy-bad. I'll spare you the details. It<br>wasn't good.<br><br>It was determined that a brain tumor had developed. It was past the<br>point of no return. She couldn't walk straight. One eye had gone off<br>on its own. The only hope was a massive steroid injection and that<br>actually only made it worse.<br><br>She was euthanized last Thursday evening. Today I got her back in a<br>little box. She was only with me since January and now she's gone.<br><br>I miss you and love you, Cinn.<br><br><br>- Dog<br>
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	<title><![CDATA[Freedom's just another word...]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[After decades of forcibly demanding that "developing nations" conform<br>to a strict, punishing "free market" standard... After radically<br>altering the bankruptcy laws in favor of criminally usurious credit<br>card-issuing corporations... After massively de-regulating every<br>industry within their purvey... After lowering the tax-burden of the<br>ultra-wealthy to laughably miniscule levels and shifting the burden of<br>keeping this nation afloat financially onto the wage-earning class...<br><br>After this and much, much more...<br><br>After all of this, the "government" of the United States of America<br>has decided that government is the answer to the question: "What do we<br>do after the capitalist pigs, in their virtually infinite greed, have<br>finally over-turned their trough?"<br><br>****** ****** ******<br><br>Sir Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion:<br><br>"Every action has an equal and opposite reaction."<br><br>****** ****** ******<br><br>The Declaration of Independence:<br><br>"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created<br>equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable<br>Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of<br>Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted<br>among Men, ******deriving their just powers from the consent of the<br>governed,****** — That whenever any Form of Government becomes<br>destructive of these ends, ******it is the Right of the People to<br>alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government******..."<br><br>****** ****** ******<br><br>The Sex Pistols, "God Save the Queen":<br><br>"No future for you."<br><br>****** ****** ******<br><br>Jim Morrison, The Doors, live on stage in Miami, 1968:<br><br>"What are you gonna do about it? What are you gonna do about it? What<br>are you gonna do about it?"<br><br><br> - Dog<br><br><br>
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	<title><![CDATA[Superpsychedelic game]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[to teach each of us how to be responsible electronic gods<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_</a>(game)<br>
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	<title><![CDATA[Drug War Chronicle, Issue #552 -(urls + editorial)- 9/19/08 MJ arrests up!]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Drug War Chronicle, Issue #552 -- 9/19/08<br>Phillip S. Smith, Editor, <a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/user/psmith" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/user/psmith</a><br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552</a><br><br>A Publication of <a href="http://StoptheDrugWar.org" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">StoptheDrugWar.org</a><br>David Borden, Executive Director,<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/user/borden" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/user/borden</a><br>"News and Activism Supporting Sensible Reform"<br><br>Offer: Unique and Important New Book on Medical Marijuana:<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/dying_to_get_high_membership_offer" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/dying_to_get_high_membership_offer</a><br><br>Table of Contents:<br><br>1. FEATURE: SERIOUS CRIME DOWN, DRUG ARRESTS HOLD STEADY, BUT<br>MARIJUANA ARRESTS INCREASE TO 872,000<br>The FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report is out. Serious crime is<br>down across the board, but drug arrests held roughly steady.<br>Marijuana arrests actually increased by 5%% to more than 872,000<br>-- nearly 90%% of them for simple possession.<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/fbi_uniform_crime_report_marijuana_drug_arrests_2007" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/fbi_uniform_crime_report_marijuana_drug_...</a><br><br>2. FEATURE: US LISTS "MAJOR" DRUG PRODUCING AND TRAFFICKING<br>COUNTRIES, NAMES ONLY BOLIVIA, BURMA, AND VENEZUELA AS NOT<br>COMPLYING<br>In its annual act of diplomatic hubris, the US government this<br>week released its list of "major" drug producing and trafficking<br>countries. Only three of them -- all political foes of<br>Washington -- were found wanting.<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/US_releases_majors_list_bolivia_burma_venezuela_drug_certification" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/US_releases_majors_list_bolivia_burma_ve...</a><br><br>3. OFFER: UNIQUE AND IMPORTANT NEW BOOK ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA<br>"Dying to Get High," by sociologists Wendy Chapkis and Richard<br>Webb, is a groundbreaking work that provides an in-depth<br>portrait of one of the country's most well-known medical<br>marijuana collectives.<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/dying_to_get_high_membership_offer" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/dying_to_get_high_membership_offer</a><br><br>4. LAW ENFORCEMENT: THIS WEEK'S CORRUPT COPS STORIES<br>A Texas constable and probation/parole officers in Massachusetts<br>and North Carolina are in the spotlight this week.<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/police_drug_corruption" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/police_drug_corruption</a><br><br>5. MARIJUANA: MASSACHUSETTS DECRIM INITIATIVE ORGANIZERS TAKE<br>OFF THE GLOVES, FILE CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST PROSECUTORS<br>With less than two months before Massachusetts voters go to the<br>polls to vote on a marijuana decriminalization initiative,<br>initiative supporters have filed criminal complaints against the<br>organized opposition.<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/massachusetts_marijuana_decriminalization_initiative_files_criminal_complaint" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/massachusetts_marijuana_decriminalizatio...</a><br><br>6. SALVIA DIVINORUM: NEBRASKA SHOPKEEPER TO GO ON TRIAL FOR<br>SELLING "INTOXICANTS" IN MAGIC MINT CASE<br>A Nebraska shop-keeper must stand trial for selling salvia<br>divinorum, even though it's not illegal in Nebraska.<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/nebraska_shop_owner_firoz_trial_salvia_divinorum_intoxicant" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/nebraska_shop_owner_firoz_trial_salvia_d...</a><br><br>7. SEARCH AND SEIZURE: FEDS MUST GET WARRANT BEFORE SCOURING<br>CELL PHONE LOCATION RECORDS, FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGE RULES<br>The government must obtain a search warrant based on probable<br>cause before forcing wireless service providers to divulge<br>historical cell phone tower location information, a federal<br>district court hearing a drug trafficking case has ruled.<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/federal_court_ruling_on_cell_phone_search_warrants" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/federal_court_ruling_on_cell_phone_searc...</a><br><br>8. LATIN AMERICA: BRAZILIAN COPS KILL WITH IMPUNITY, MOONLIGHT<br>AS DRUG GANG EXECUTIONERS, UN REPORT SAYS<br>Brazilian police are killers, both on and off the job, according<br>to a new report from the UN's Special Rapporteur on<br>extra-judicial, summary, and arbitrary executions.<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/many_brazilian_police_are_killers_says_UN" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/many_brazilian_police_are_killers_says_U...</a><br><br>9. EUROPE: BRITAIN'S DRUG ADVISORY PANEL PONDERS DOWN-SCHEDULING<br>ECSTASY<br>Britain's advisory panel on drug policy is about to undertake a<br>review of the scheduling of ecstasy as a Class A drug, the most<br>serious classification. The move comes after several reports<br>saying the popular stimulant should be downgraded.<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/british_drug_panel_studying_ecstasy_reclassification" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/british_drug_panel_studying_ecstasy_recl...</a><br><br>10. EUROPE: DUTCH SUPREME COURT SAYS PATIENT CAN GROW MARIJUANA<br>FOR THERAPEUTIC USE<br>Holland may be famous for its marijuana coffee houses, but pot<br>cultivation remains illegal -- unless you are a patient who can<br>demonstrate a medical necessity, the Dutch Supreme Court has<br>ruled.<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/dutch_supreme_court_protects_medical_marijuana_grow" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/dutch_supreme_court_protects_medical_mar...</a><br><br>11. SOUTH ASIA: SRI LANKA IN MEDICAL MARIJUANA QUANDARY<br>Marijuana has been used in ayurvedic medicine in South Asia for<br>thousands of years. Now, authorities in Sri Lanka are seeking to<br>authorize gardens to supply ayurvedic demand.<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/sri_lanka_medical_marijuana_ayurvedic_medicine" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/sri_lanka_medical_marijuana_ayurvedic_me...</a><br><br>12. WEEKLY: THIS WEEK IN HISTORY<br>Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of<br>years past.<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/drug_war_history" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/drug_war_history</a><br><br>13. WEEKLY: BLOGGING @ THE SPEAKEASY<br>"Study: Decriminalizing Marijuana Doesn't Increase Use," "Happy<br>Constitution Day!," "Drug Czar Embarrassed By Marijuana Arrest<br>Rates," "A New Record for US Marijuana Arrests," "Mark Kleiman<br>vs. 'Drug Policy Reform'."<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/blogging_at_the_speakeasy" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/blogging_at_the_speakeasy</a><br><br>14. FEEDBACK: DO YOU READ DRUG WAR CHRONICLE?<br>Do you read Drug War Chronicle? If so, we need your feedback to<br>evaluate our work and make the case for Drug War Chronicle to<br>funders. We need donations too.<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/do_you_read_drug_war_chronicle" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/do_you_read_drug_war_chronicle</a><br><br>15. 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RESOURCE: REFORMER'S CALENDAR ACCESSIBLE THROUGH DRCNET WEB<br>SITE<br>Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to<br>the events coming up the soonest, and more.<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/drug_reform_calendar" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/drug_reform_calendar</a><br><br>(Not subscribed? Visit <a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org</a> to sign up<br>today!)<br><br>================<br><br>1. Feature: Serious Crime Down, Drug Arrests Hold Steady, But<br>Marijuana Arrests Increase to 872,000<br><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/fbi_uniform_crime_report_marijuana_drug_arrests_2007" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/552/fbi_uniform_crime_report_marijuana_drug_...</a><br><br>Nearly 1.9 million people were arrested on drug charges in the<br>United States last year, some 872,000 for marijuana offenses,<br>according to the FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report<br>(<a href="http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/arrests/index.html" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/arrests/index.html</a>), released<br>Monday. While overall drug arrest figures declined marginally<br>(down 84,000), marijuana arrests increased by more than 5%% and<br>are once again at an all-time high. Drug arrests exceed those<br>for any other type of offense, including property crime (1.61<br>million arrests), driving under the influence (1.43 million),<br>misdemeanor assaults (1.31 million), larceny (1.17 million), and<br>violent crime (597,000).<br><br>People arrested for drug offenses face not only the distinct<br>possibility of serving time in jail or prison -- drug offenders<br>account for roughly 20%% of all prisoners, and well more than<br>half of all federal prisoners -- but also face collateral<br>consequences that can haunt them for the rest of their lives. In<br>addition to carrying the burden of a criminal record, drug<br>offenders can lose access to various state and federal benefits,<br>including students loans, food stamps, and public assistance, as<br>well as being barred from obtaining professional licenses, and<br>in some states, other consequences such as having their drivers'<br>licenses suspended.<br><br>The high level of drug arrests comes as overall drug use rates<br>remain roughly at the level they were 30 years ago. In the<br>meantime, state, local, and federal authorities have spent<br>hundreds of billions of dollars and arrested tens of millions of<br>people in the name of drug prohibition.<br><br>The increase in drug arrests comes as the overall crime rate<br>decreased. Violent crime was down 0.7%% over 2006 and property<br>crime was down 1.4%%, marking the fifth consecutive year of<br>declining numbers. All seven categories in the FBI's list of<br>serious criminal offenses -- murder, rape, robbery, aggravated<br>assault, burglary, larceny, and car theft -- saw declines last<br>year. But not drug arrests.<br><br>The rate of drug arrests was highest in the West (677.5 per<br>100,000), followed by the South (664.5), the Midwest (549.6),<br>and the Northeast (508.0). Nationally, the drug arrest rate was<br>614.8 per 100,000.<br><br>Of those arrested on pot charges, 775,000, or 89%%, were charged<br>only with possession, a figure similar to that for drug arrests<br>overall. Another 97,000 pot offenders were charged with<br>"sale/manufacture," a category that includes all cultivation or<br>sales offenses, even those involving small-scale violations.<br>Marijuana arrests last year accounted for 47.5%% of all drug<br>arrests. Almost three-quarters of marijuana arrests involved<br>people under the age of 30.<br><br>The continuing high levels of drug arrests and the increase in<br>marijuana arrests prompted sharp responses from drug reformers.<br>"For more than 30 years, the US has treated drug use and misuse<br>as a criminal justice matter instead of a public health issue,"<br>said Bill Piper, national affairs director for the Drug Policy<br>Alliance (<a href="http://www.drugpolicy.org" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://www.drugpolicy.org</a>). "Yet, despite hundreds of<br>billions of dollars spent and millions of Americans<br>incarcerated, illegal drugs remain cheap, potent and widely<br>available in every community; and the harms associated with them<br>-- addiction, overdose, and the spread of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis<br>-- continue to mount. Meanwhile, the war on drugs has created<br>new problems of its own, including rampant racial disparities in<br>the criminal justice system, broken families, increased poverty,<br>unchecked federal power, and eroded civil liberties. Continuing<br>the failed war on drugs year after year is throwing good money<br>and lives after bad."<br><br>Marijuana reform organizations naturally zeroed in on the pot<br>arrest figures. "Most Americans have no idea of the massive<br>effort going into a war on marijuana users that has completely<br>failed to curb marijuana use," said Rob Kampia, executive<br>director of the Marijuana Policy Project (<a href="http://www.mpp.org" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://www.mpp.org</a>) in<br>Washington, DC. "Just this summer a new World Health<br>Organization study of 17 countries<br>(<a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/542/US_leads_cannabis_cocaine_use_rates_who_study" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/542/US_leads_cannabis_cocaine_use_rates_who_...</a>)<br>found that we have the highest rate of marijuana use, despite<br>some of the strictest marijuana laws and hyper-aggressive<br>enforcement. With government at all levels awash in debt, this<br>is an insane waste of resources. How long will we keep throwing<br>tax dollars at failed policies?"<br><br>"These numbers belie the myth that police do not target and<br>arrest minor cannabis offenders," said NORML<br>(<a href="http://www.norml.org" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://www.norml.org</a>) executive director Allen St. Pierre, who<br>noted that at current rates, a cannabis consumer is arrested<br>every 37 seconds in America. "This effort is a tremendous waste<br>of criminal justice resources that diverts law enforcement<br>personnel away from focusing on serious and violent crime,<br>including the war on terrorism."<br><br>"It's time for a new bottom line for US drug policy -- one that<br>focuses on reducing the cumulative death, disease, crime and<br>suffering associated with both drug misuse and drug<br>prohibition," said Piper. "A good start would be enacting short-<br>and long-term national goals for reducing the problems<br>associated with both drugs and the war on drugs. Such goals<br>should include reducing social problems like drug addiction,<br>overdose deaths, the spread of HIV/AIDS from injection drug use,<br>racial disparities in the criminal justice system, and the<br>enormous number of nonviolent offenders behind bars. Federal<br>drug agencies should be judged -- and funded -- according to<br>their ability to meet these goals."<br><br>Piper agreed with the marijuana reform advocates that the<br>marijuana laws are a good place to start. "Policymakers should<br>especially stop wasting money arresting and incarcerating people<br>for nothing more than possession of marijuana for personal use,"<br>he said. "There's no need to be afraid of what voters might<br>think; the American people are already there. Substantial<br>majorities favor legalizing marijuana for medical use (70%% to<br>80%%) and fining recreational marijuana users instead of<br>arresting and jailing them (61%% to 72%%). Twelve states have<br>legalized marijuana for medical use and 12 states have<br>decriminalized recreational marijuana use (six states have done<br>both)."<br><br>As Piper noted, marijuana law reform is happening, but it's not<br>happening at fast enough a pace to slow the number of pot<br>arrests. Alaska remains the only state to allow for the legal<br>possession of marijuana (in one's home). A federal<br>decriminalization bill was introduced this year for the first<br>time since the Jimmy Carter presidency, but no one thinks it<br>will get anywhere anytime soon. And even decriminalization means<br>that marijuana users are still punished for their choice of<br>substance, as well as having their property stolen by law<br>enforcement.<br><br>The situation is even more bleak when it comes to non-pot drug<br>offenders. There is virtually no impetus to rein back the war on<br>them, and even the reform efforts that could reduce their<br>numbers in prison, such as the Nonviolent Drug Offender<br>Rehabilitation Act on the California ballot this fall, would not<br>do anything to reduce the number of arrests. It would merely<br>funnel those arrested into coerced treatment instead of prison.<br><br>Barring serious radical reform efforts to end the war on drugs<br>-- and not merely ameliorate its most outrageous manifestations<br>-- there is little reason to expect we will have anything<br>different to report when it comes to drug arrests next year or<br>the year after that.<br><br>================<br><br>	The fruit of drug prohibition in the USA and Mexico is bitter and <br>sets the teeth on edge as the practitioners of Anslinger's law move down <br>the path of totalitarianism.<br><br> 	And removing cannabis from the status of illegal drug <br>is something that would save immense amounts of money for the <br>American taxpayer which is good thing in this period of severe <br>inflationary pressures.<br><br><<a href="http://www.briancbennett.com/charts/fed-data/costs/costs05.htm" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://www.briancbennett.com/charts/fed-data/costs/costs05.htm</a>><br>           	  ___________________<br>                    It's time to correct the mistake:<br>                    truth:the Anti-drugwar<br>                    <<a href="http://www.briancbennett.com" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://www.briancbennett.com</a>><br>   <br>                    Cops say legalize drugs--find out why:<br>                    <<a href="http://www.leap.cc" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://www.leap.cc</a>><br>   <br>                    Stoners are people too:<br>                    <<a href="http://www.cannabisconsumers.org" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://www.cannabisconsumers.org</a>><br>            	 ___________________<br><br><br>    later<br>    bliss -- C O C O A  Powered... (at california dot com)<br><br>--<br>bobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco<br><br>     "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.<br>     It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,<br>     the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.<br>     It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."<br>        --from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.<br><br>
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	<description><![CDATA[<br>Morning has broken, like the first morning<br>Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird<br>Praise for the singing, praise for the morning<br>Praise for the springing fresh from the word<br><br>Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven<br>Like the first dewfall, on the first grass<br>Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden<br>Sprung in completeness where his feet pass<br><br>Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning<br>Born of the one light, Eden saw play<br>Praise with elation, praise every morning<br>God's recreation of the new day<br>
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	<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.horizonsnyc.com" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://www.horizonsnyc.com</a><br>September 19-21<br>(Friday through Sunday)<br><br>Judson Memorial Church<br>55 Washington Square South<br>New York, NY 10012<br><br>The Shulgins (they're doing a Q&A), Nichols, and Doblin will all be<br>there, also plenty of art, music, and culture.<br><br>Bringing your copies of books might get them signed.<br><br>$25 in advance (MINIMUM (student, hobo, unemployed price)), $10 at the<br>door for the Friday night food art and music thing, no clue otherwise<br>on at-the-door prices for Saturday and Sunday<br><br>It is possible to defray the cost through volunteering, either for<br>cleanup after closing each day, or during the session through<br>ticketing. I think the tradeoff is 4 hours of volunteering for the 3<br>entire days. email balktick@<a href="http://gmail.com" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">gmail.com</a> (Kevin) for more information.<br>
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