Police lose control and started tacking a gathering of those opposed to prohibition in Washington DC.

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General Barry McCaffrey is best known for being in charge of the failed drug war while Clinton was in office. During his time as the Drug Czar he also offered Tv stations financial incentives (using tax dollar money) to smuggle anti drug messages into their television programming. In 2005, the Government Accountability Office found that the ONDCP had violated domestic propaganda and publicity prohibitions by preparing prepackaged news stories that did not disclose to television viewers that the government had produced them and had illegally spent appropriations to develop, produce and distribute the covert propaganda. Due to a three year statute of limitations the GAO opinion (B-303495) was limited to fiscal years 2002, 2003 and 2004 however its detailed analysis of the core legal issues involved is applicable to the McCaffrey era ONDCP propaganda scandal. During his time in office the use of all drugs increased across the board. In 1996 22.1% of respondents to a poll stated that they had used illegal drugs compared to 28.4% in 2001. Even though drug usage rates increased while he was the Drug Czar he has since found a new source of income by spitting the same tired propaganda on news outlets. Generally he is used as the voice of prohibition and I personally feel he does a great job since he still believes the same propaganda he used in 1997 will work today. He’s a very soft target in any debate and he could probably get cut down by an 8th grade debate captain. Here’s some of his greatest hits.

Crime is among the most urgent concerns facing Mexico, as Mexican drug trafficking rings play a major role in the flow of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana transiting between Latin America and the United States. Drug trafficking has led to corruption, which has had a deleterious effect on Mexico’s Federal Representative Republic. Drug trafficking and organized crime have also been a major source of violent crime in Mexico.

Mexico has experienced increasingly high crime rates, especially in major urban centers. The country’s great economic polarization has stimulated criminal activity in the lower socioeconomic strata, which include the majority of the country’s population. Crime continues at high levels, and is repeatedly marked by violence, especially in Monterrey, Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez, Nuevo Laredo, Michoacan, and the state of Sinaloa. Other metropolitan areas have lower, yet still serious, levels of crime. Low apprehension and conviction rates contribute to the high crime rate.

In this documentary Ross Kemp follows some of the most dangerous drug running routes on the US/Mexico border. A grim reminder of what has happened since Calderon decided to “take on the cartels”. It’s not rocket science. The more enforcement. The more fractured the drug gangs are. This may seem like a good thing to those fighting “The Drug War” however there are some very serious consequences which have come as a result. The escalation of violence from the Mexican government has destabilized what were previously gang turf. This means that as the police take control of one section, the gangs must move into someone elses turf in order to continue their business. The second effect is that by decreasing supply the police are also raising the price of the products so the gangs end up making more money off of a product if there is more stringent enforcement.

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Dr Oz devoted an hour of his show to the medical marijuana debate. Surprisingly, the discussion wasn’t the typical bullshit we generally hear from the mainstream media. Montel Williams as well as other medical marijuana patients discuss their illnesses and how they find relief by using medical marijuana.

Canada’s $20 billion-dollar marijuana industry is now at a violent crossroads between crime and commerce. Impossible to police, yet steadily gaining public acceptance, the cannabis industry is now so vast and vital to Canada’s national economy that it can no longer be ignored.

CannaBiz unfolds in Grand Forks, BC, a small border town nestled in the Kootenay Mountains, where draft dodgers planted the first BC Bud in the 1960s. After the pine beetle chewed through what was left of the forest industry, marijuana became the backbone of the local economy.

In secret forest plots, basements, barns and high-tech underground bunkers, growers nurture some of the world’s most potent bud. Most of the marijuana here, and in the rest of Canada, is destined for the US market, where a pound of premium weed sells for a street price of $4,500.

Across the country, formerly laid-back marijuana growers now live in fear of armed thieves, and smugglers take huge risks to cross the beefed up American border. Conflicted police and RCMP officers like Harland Venema continue to fight a seemingly futile battle.

In Grand Forks, Brian Taylor, once nicknamed the marijuana mayor, is campaigning for medical marijuana as a prescription for economic prosperity. Ex con Sam Mellace dreams of supplying medical marijuana nationally through Shoppers Drug Mart outlets.

As Prop 19 went down in flames it was a sobering moment for many of us in the legalization community. There seemed to be so much momentum and the polls were in our favor. But then when push came to shove it was the Democrats who failed to endorse Prop 19 which pushed largely moderate white suburban Democrats to vote against legalizing it. It wasn’t some disciples of Dick Cheney who swooped into California, the Head of the Anti-Legalization campaign was none other than Diane Feinstein. One of the most powerful Democrats in all of California. Despite being endorsed by the NAACP which stated that “legalizing marijuana is a civil rights issue”, and despite being endorsed by largest workers Unions in California. The democrats still couldn’t grow a backbone and just make some real change. Instead it was the leading democrats who stood up for conservative outdated values. It scared them; meanwhile the Republicans are stealing this issue away from what should be the Democrat base.

Ron Paul is one obvious threat. He supports the legalization of all drugs, but he is also pro-life, and votes against virtually any social program. Some of you might be saying “Great!”, but the thing is that he simply isn’t electable at a Presidential level. I’d love to see him get into the debates, but he’s too smart and too consistent in his Libertarian beliefs that there’s no chance of him becoming President. He doesn’t only support legalizing marijuana, he’s also for legalizing all drugs. An easy sell for most of you reading this blog, but not quite as popular on a national level. So who do the Republicans have the Democrats don’t?

Gary Johnson. Gary Johnson is the former Republican governor of New Mexico who is also known for being an atheist, against the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and he admitted to using marijuana for medicinal purposes long before there was even any medical marijuana laws. In an interview with NORML, Johnson stated “I climbed Everest. I run triathlons. I fell fifty feet while paragliding and lived. Why would my pot use concern you?”. Now Gary Johnson is definitely planning a 2012 presidential run, and his presence will be interesting but he also doesn’t have the Cult of Personality as someone like Palin, or Huckabee. So Democrats you don’t have to be scared yet. But there’s a few factors which you are forgetting.

First off there’s the problem of a legitimate third party candidate in 2012. Someone like Gary Johnson could run as a Libertarian (he’s previously ran as a Libertarian in the past, and obviously the Libertarian party would love to have him). Still don’t think it’s a problem for Democrats since most of the people who vote for Libertarians are to the right? Think again. There’s a wild card in the mix. And that’s that Prop 19 is back in California. That’s right. Although Prop 19 failed the first time around this time it’s back, and now it’s an presidential election year. This ensures a higher turn out which is always good for those who support legalization. But now let’s get back to Gary Johnson (or our equivalent third party candidate) Do you really think that those who come out to vote for legalization are also going to be voting for the Democrats, or Obama? No chance.

Obama said that he “wouldn’t use the Justice Department” to raid marijuana clinics in states which had legalized marijuana. The raids still continue.

Obama said that he favored the Decriminalization of marijuana. Then he did just the opposite.

The top submitted question to Obama’s own Change.Org website is consistently dominated by questions regarding marijuana legalization. But when asked about these questions Obama quickly dismissed them. Even poking fun at the fact that the question most people wanted answered on his own website involved legalization.

Forget the fact that Obama previously stated that he himself was a marijuana user and the he “inhaled frequently, that was the point”. A remark which was intended to poke fun at Bill Clinton’s famous “I smoked but never inhaled”.

And concerning Medical Marijuana Obama was also in favor of it, saying that doctors should be allowed to prescribe proper medicine for their patients. But this was as short lived as his promise not to use the Justice Department to raid medical dispensaries. By using his power to raid medical dispensaries you can bet he’s getting in the way of his previous promise to allow doctors to provide marijuana as a medicine.

But all of these campaign “promises” turned out to be false. Now there are certainly more pressing problems facing the nation besides marijuana law reform. But on these points Obama is already losing a lot of ground with the liberal base. Guantanamo Bay remains open, Obama pushed for an increase of both funding and troop levels in Afghanistan, The US troops are leaving Iraq while over 100,000 private mercernaries move in (imagine if Haliburton basically took over Iraq under Bush what the response would’ve been). Obama extended warrantless wiretaps, is pushing for an Internet Kill Switch, and hasn’t supported the people protesting all throughout the Midwest. It is clear that Obama has abandoned his base, but, I believe the tipping point won’t come with not getting Health Care reform, or Guantanamo; The tipping point is going to be marijuana legalization. As millions of young people vote in California (a state Obama will definitely need in 2012) they will not only be voting on legalization, but also for president. Will Obama, and Diane Feinstein continue to advocate on behalf of prohibition? I’m guessing yes, for whatever reason Democrats have failed to capitalize on the large surge in the Legalization movement. And believe me, someone is going to capitalize on that demographic, and it’s going to be a Republican. If a third party candidate comes in, someone like a Ron Paul, or a Gary Johnson you are going to see a lot of young people who would otherwise vote for democrats switch to the Libertarian candidate. This may only be ten percent, but if you can swing the vote away from Obama, in California, which holds a lot of electoral influence, then marijuana very likely could be the factor which causes Obama to fail throughout the country. And once again, it will all because the Democrats were too spineless to stand up for what they believed in.
Sadly the best we ever hear from the current Democrat leadership is when they misspeak.