Just the facts, ma'am

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TELLING THE TRUTH IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT
by Michael Krawitz, (Source:Collegiate Times)
Regional News
25 Mar 2005
Virginia
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Dear Reader,

This article contains some very important internet links so you may want to keep it as a reference.

When I first started writing a recurrent column for the CT I figured on writing a few articles to get my readers caught up on current drug war research and then I would be on to more easy topics like perhaps the deepest possible sociological lessons to be learned from the movie Matrix. I am a computer engineering student after all. J Unfortunately given the feedback I have received there is a greater deficit of understanding than I expected so this column is dedicated to getting a few basic facts straight.

First, marijuana is a Mexican girls name used by William Randolph Hearst and Harry Anslinger to enable them to turn innocent Mexican Hemp into the killer "marihuana". The given Latin name for the plant in question is Cannabis Sativa. The plant grown here is called Cannabis Americana by science and those in the know.

Read more about William Randolph Hearst and Harry Anslinger at the award winning website of the Shaffer Library of drug policy at:

http://www.druglibrary.org/

Cannabis Hemp came here with the first settlers. The founding fathers enacted laws requiring its cultivation. Medical use of Cannabis came to the US from India by way of UK in about 1850 and by 1900 every major pharmaceutical house manufactured Cannabis products for pain etc. Read the original full Pharmacopoeia entry for Cannabis here:

http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/eclectic/usdisp/cannabis.html

Cannabis was still legally prescribable in the United States until 1970 after Timothy Leary won a case in the Supreme Court showing the federal marihuana laws unconstitutional.

When the US drugczar asked the Institute of Medicine if pot had a gateway effect, had medical value or hurt kids they replied in several hundred pages No, Yes and NO!!

Read the full Institute of Medicine report on medical marihuana here: Note: Don't just read the executive summary and think you know what the report says because that didn't work for the drug czar either.

http://books.nap.edu/html/marimed/

Alcohol prohibition and marihuana prohibition aren't the same thing! Marihuana prohibition is worse! Not only is marijuana, for so called recreational use, prohibited thereby earning the name "prohibition" medicinal drinking of alcohol under doctors orders was made possible by a special certificate given out by the US treasury department, the same dep't that outlawed marihuana, by not allowing prescription access to Cannabis since 1970 the US government has been heading out into the snow covered valley of shame.

There are tens of thousands of US citizens using Cannabis under doctor's orders right now and those patients either have to be farmers and grow their own or venture into the DEA's creation, the black market. The DEA recently admitted they created the black market in a medical marijuana case that is in the Supreme Court right now being considered.

Read more about the current Supreme Court medical marihuana case here:

http://angeljustice.org/

Most people support Cannabis medical use. Most people support not arresting marijuana users. Most people are against the so-called recreational use of marihuana. Read the current statistics I am basing this statement on by visiting The Virginia Tech Center For Survey Research here:

http://www.csr.vt.edu/qol/index.html

There is a chapter of The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana laws at Virginia Tech. They have small weekly meetings and big annual gatherings and pass out literally tons of information.

Visit VPI&SU's NORML chapter here:

http://www.norml.org.vt.edu/

This is one of the key documents distributed by NORML, ask at norml@vt.edu and they will give you a hard copy free, I have one and it's pretty cool for winning arguments since it is full of US government facts the US government is spending billions [yes billions] of dollars to cover up.

Drug War Facts Book:

http://www.drugwarfacts.org/

Check out this material well and if you want to talk about it write a letter to the editor and or send me an email at mkrawitz@vt.edu

With love, peace, Liberty and understanding, I remain yours truly,

Michael Krawitz

"...And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black."
Neil Young

[sfzombie13 324]

i've read this before. great article and some of the links in it are extremely eye-opening. there was a show on the discovery channel a while back that involved this topic, i learned a lot from it. as i've stated before, the fed govt is acting extremely childish in this so-called "war on drugs". and where do they get the names for officials?? i mean "drug czar"? implications on this anybody??? and who has ever heard of "posse commitatus"? do some research and then look at the national guard choppers with the erad teams(eradication). kinda sounds illegal to me, but who am i? we need to get the word out. give the power back to the people, send it to a vote, then if it's illegal, i may quit using it.

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