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California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) today introduced a bill to decriminalize, tax and regulate marijuana. Not medical marijuana -- all marijuana.

Robert Pastor, a Latin America national security adviser for President Carter in the late 1970s, calls the problem in Mexico "even worse than Chicago during the Prohibition era."

He said a solution similar to what ended that violence is needed now.

"What worked in the U.S. was not Eliot Ness," he said, referring to the federal agent famous for fighting gangsters in 1920s and '30s. "It was the repeal of Prohibition."

Cigarettes kill over 400,000 people a year in this country alone.

Alcohol kills over 75,000.

150 people die all over the world each year because coconuts fall on their fucking heads.

Marijuana? 0.

That’s 0 EVER.

All drugs should be legal. 100% of them. Pot, crack, heroin, coke, LSD, shrooms. The bad ones and the good ones together. Keeping drugs illegal keeps mafias and drug cartels in power, it keeps politicians corrupt, it keeps bombs and chemical weapons dropping on innocent foreigners, it keeps millions of innocent americans in prison, and it does NOTHING to keep drugs off the streets. There is not one city in this country where drugs of every kind are not easily obtainable. Ending the war on drugs needs to be the number one political priority of every person who wants to make the world a better place. It's the glue that holds the global corruption together.

some of the most elusive answers to the problems of the future are found by examining the past...

why are drugs illegal? They never used to be? In fact, so called hard drugs of today were popular and prevelant in consumer products even...

Drugs became illegal in this country as a result of the controlled substance act, this created different level and classifications of all drugs from cocaine to codeine, becase all drugs, aka controlled substance can be harmful if not used for specific purposes in documented controlled amounts...

basically, if cocaine, acid, weed, etc. had not caused a problem they would never have became illegal

Have you ever seen the advertisements they used when they were first trying to make cocaine illegal? They're some of the most racist things you will ever see, all about why cocaine should be banned because of how crazy and horny it made black people. Pot was made illegal through propaganda films like "Reefer Madness" so that the hemp paper (environmentally friendly, and it's what our constitution is printed on) would no longer be able to compete with the paper-from-wood-pulp industry (which has resulted in mass deforestation all over the world). The guy who owned the paper mills is the guy who owned the newspapers that started all the anti-marijuana hysteria in the first place. LSD and other psychedelics were made illegal because they were fueling the antiwar movement during in the 1960s.

And speaking of looking at history, look at the Italian mafia. The Italian mafia was nothing before alcohol prohibition (alcohol had been outlawed for all the same reasons as all the other drugs that have been banned over the years - "it's evil and it makes people do evil things"), but once alcohol was made illegal, it created a marketplace that ONLY the mafia had access too, and which they profited from incredibly. It made them powerful enough to shove senators and presidents around. Alcohol prohibition gave them their power and their wealth, just like making narcotics illegal has made the drug cartels (not to mention Al Qaeda, who get huge amounts of their money from running heroin) some of the most dangerous forces on the planet.

In the 1960's the CIA started moving crack and heroin into California to destroy the Black Panthers (intentionally creating the gang situation as it is today), fund an illegal war in South America, and of course to line their own pockets. It was all part of the Iran-Contra scandal.

And it's all still happening today. Just a few weeks ago the United Nations admitted that the only thing keeping all the banks in the world from collapsing right now is drug money. And now here we are stepping up the war in Afghanistan, the heroin capitol of the world.

The way the world works makes a lot more sense when you understand money laundering. Obviously drugs like coke, meth, and heroin are insanely bad for you, but making them illegal and trying to put people in jail for it cures NOBODY, and is drowning the entire planet in crime and war. Legalization/decriminalization would end all that. Nobody's going to rob anybody for the expensive drugs they get from violent gangbangers when they can just get a 99cent McNeedle down at the store.

Everybody should check out Drug WarRant, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Narco News, and the excellent and incredibly thorough book Crossing the Rubicon by Michael C. Ruppert. Cheers to Search for keeping the topics interesting!

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Margret Kopala, The Ottawa Citizen, with her article: How to win the drug war

There has been little mention in this election campaign of the most pernicious evil of our time. Yet recent reports from a UN agency leave little doubt that the war against drugs is being won and that, with full engagement, victory is if not possible, then very nearly possible.

...little doubt that the war against drugs is being won? Now that's first-class delusion.

The World Drug Report 2008 launched in June by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reveals how opium and cocoa cultivation, whose heroin and cocaine extractions are the scourge of Canada's inner cities, are now largely confined to rebel-held areas in Aghanistan and Colombia. It also reveals how worldwide deaths from illicit drugs at around 200,000 a year pale in comparison to deaths from legal substances such as cigarettes (five million a year), and alcohol (2.5 million). "The drug problem was dramatically reduced over the past century," says UNODC executive director Antonio Maria Costa, "and has stabilized over the past 10 years."

In other words, prohibition works.

Well actually, the reason that most of the heroin and cocaine comes from Afghanistan and Colombia is that we've made it very profitable for the black market to operate out of those two locations and that they are able to supply most of the demand in the world despite all the drug war efforts. If we actually cut down the supply enough in one of those areas, it would pop up somewhere else.

And it's pretty bizarre to assert that the fact that less people die from illegal drugs than legal ones is a result of prohibition.

However this time around in the election cycle, it appears Wall St. is favoring an Obama administration. While that is an arguable point, it is not arguable how much money has poured into his campaign from financial giants. It is possible that the levers of power on Wall St. – primarily JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs who can largely manipulate the oil markets by the sheer volume of puts and/or calls they purchase – will attempt to bring the oil markets higher as we approach November to help Barrack.

But not so fast…

Also in the mix are allegations from journalist Greg Palast that most of the key swing states have already fixed the election.

In swing state Colorado the Republican governor has recently conducted the biggest purge of voters in American history – dumping 1/5 of registrations. (guess what the race is of most of these people)

In swing state Florida the governor is refusing to accept 80,000 new voter registrants. (guess what the race is of most of these people)

In New Mexico, Ohio and Nevada similar tactics are being implemented by Republican interests to lower voter turn out – targetting Democratic voters.

Here Greg's interview on this topic here.

The result is a fascinating circus to watch; enjoy the circus because Rome is taking away your bread.

The Republicans are throwing the election to the Democrats like it was a flaming bobcat on meth. I shudder to contemplate what might be left of the economy by January. I repeat that this is all good. It is leaving functioning infrastructure intact. But the speed with this is unravelling has made me worry about the possibility of civil unrest before the election. I do not think it likely, but it is remotely possible. Civil unrest before the election -- if serious enough --might give Bush the pretext to go CoG. CoG means continuity of government and the suspension of virtually every right we thought we had. Simple mathematics argues against this likelihood however. There are nowhere near enough troops inside the country to impose martial law. The military is stretched beyond belief and the combat veterans are worn out from multiple deployments and Stop Gap. The soldiers and Marines are not in a good mood. They want to go home to take care of their families. Martial law won't fly; not with 270 million firearms in private hands. Hell, probably two thirds of all law enforcement personnel in the country have just seen their pensions cut in half or worse.

I think about the martial law possibility about the same way that I have always viewed the likelihood of a U.S. attack on Iran. It isn't going to happen. And just as with a U.S. attack on Iran, the consequences could possibly be world-ending. So if civil unrest really does occur, then stand back and get out of the way because it might not be predictable or controllable. Chaos is a great way to escape from a crowded murder scene. Start a ballroom brawl so that the sheriff is too distracted to round up a posse.

What did we see today? Exactly what I anticipated. The global markets are melting down and we need to wait just a short time before the tsunami travels all the way around the world and lands back here again. There is so much great history if one studies the Great Depression. That map seems to be working here, except faster and with harder hitting shocks. Ain't progress grand?

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Now that the crisis has taken a global hold I suspect that we will see George Soros moving in the currency markets. How is anybody's guess. . .

If a bully threatens to beat up a skinny kid if he doesn't give him his lunch money, and the bully doesn't have to follow through because the kid does fork it over, does that mean that the aggressive kid isn't a bully?

Of course not. He's a bully because he threatened to beat up the skinny kid and used coercion to get his way.

Well, Congressman Sherman said that congress was threatened with martial law this week. Specifically, he says that Congress was told martial law would be imposed if they didn't pass the Paulson bailout proposal.

Martial law means that the separation of powers which the Founding Fathers enshrined in the Constitution are destroyed, and an all-powerful executive branch calls the shots.

Is the threat of imposing martial law any different than actually imposing it?

No. Congress is just like the skinny kid.

Just because it forked over $700 billion or more in our lunch money based upon coercion by the thugs in the executive branch doesn't mean that the thugs are still following the separation of powers or anything else in the Constitution.