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B’Man’s Hypocrite Watch: Steve Katz
Katz represents the Hudson Valley in New York and voted against legalizing medical marijuana
Maybe he’s mellowed out.
According to The New York Post, Steve Katz, a Republican state assemblyman from Yorktown, New York was arrested on pot possession yesterday despite the fact that last year he voted against legalizing medical marijuana.
A former veterinarian, Katz was pulled over Thursday morning for driving fifteen miles over the speed limit near Coeymans, New York.
The state trooper who stopped Katz noticed the smell of marijuana.
According to the New York state police, Katz was not disruptive.
Spokeswoman Darcy Wells told the media that Katz ‘was cooperative and handed the trooper a bag of marijuana.’
The assemblyman was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana and is due in court later this month.
Full Article:
What a POS. Instead of voting for the stuff that heals, he votes against it and then uses it himself. Being a hypocrite does not surprise me though: He’s a Jew.Just look at all the Jews in congress that are trying to take away guns from citizens while surrounded by armed thugs or actually own guns themselves (or get their husbands to buy them) or try to enact laws to take away citizens’ guns and right to purchase, while exempting government officials.
Jesus was correct when he called them all out for the liars and hypocrites they are.
h/t JackHerer.com
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Day One
The people in the park got down:
Hundreds of pot smokers light up Washington in fanfare midnight countdown as state legalizes marijuana
With not an arresting officer in sight crowds of smiling people lit joints under Seattle’s Space Needle on early Thursday morning celebrating marijuana now legal under Washington state law.
Hundreds gathered at Seattle Center for a New Year’s Eve-style countdown to 12am, when the legalization measure passed by voters last month took effect. When the clock struck, they cheered and sparked up in unison.
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Can you imagine what the “Smokey Mountains” will look like on Day One here?
h/t to Snippits and Snappits and JackHerer.com
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Insanity Versus Sanity: Big Money Rules
Insanity
Why are millions of harmless people incarcerated for smoking marijuana? Private corporations, whose lobbyists influence lawmakers, are making a killing from the imprisonment of average citizens. This un-American activity must be ended before more lives are wrecked.
Sanity
Stephen Downing,a retired deputy chief of police for the Los Angeles Police Department and Terry Nelson, retired from Department of Homeland Security on why they support treating addiction as a health problem and are for the total legalization of drugs
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The South’s Gonna Do It Again
Maybe us dumb ole southern rednecks are smarter than you think we are. Mississippi, long ago, decriminalized mara-gee-wana. Many people do not know this. I even pointed out what a tremendous draw it would be for Mississippi tourism, making the state the Number One Tourist destination in America. I also pointed out a Hero in Mississippi who wanted to legalize medical marijuana in Mississippi… State Senator Deborah Dawkins. Which is fitting because Ole Miss actually grows what little marijuana is authorized by the Federal Government for years.
I wrote:
It appears that one redneck Mississippi woman, State Senator Deborah Dawkins, understands what ole Jefferson meant, and wants medical marijuana legalized in Mississippi. She is a hero, since there aren’t many, if any (in Mississippi), ready to address the obvious. Any sane person knows. Any person that has a relative who hurts knows. The only people that don’t know are the ignorant or the ones that profit from its illegality. There are no more in-betweens.
Who Profits From Prohibition?
I recently shared with you just who is truly against the legalization initiatives. They pour money in to fight it… and guess what? They are the very ones that PROFIT the most from its continued illegality. Imagine that.
1.) Police Unions: Police departments across the country have become dependent on federal drug war grants to finance their budget. In March, we published a story revealing that a police union lobbyist in California coordinated the effort to defeat Prop 19, a ballot measure in 2010 to legalize marijuana, while helping his police department clients collect tens of millions in federal marijuana-eradication grants. And it’s not just in California. Federal lobbying disclosures show that other police union lobbyists have pushed for stiffer penalties for marijuana-related crimes nationwide.
2.) Private Prisons Corporations: Private prison corporations make millions by incarcerating people who have been imprisoned for drug crimes, including marijuana. As Republic Report’s Matt Stoller noted last year, Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest for-profit prison companies, revealed in a regulatory filing that continuing the drug war is part in parcel to their business strategy. Prison companies have spent millions bankrolling pro-drug war politicians and have used secretive front groups, like the American Legislative Exchange Council, to pass harsh sentencing requirements for drug crimes.
3.) Alcohol and Beer Companies: Fearing competition for the dollars Americans spend on leisure, alcohol and tobacco interests have lobbied to keep marijuana out of reach. For instance, the California Beer & Beverage Distributors contributed campaign contributions to a committee set up to prevent marijuana from being legalized and taxed.
4.) Pharmaceutical Corporations: Like the sin industries listed above, pharmaceutical interests would like to keep marijuana illegal so American don’t have the option of cheap medical alternatives to their products. Howard Wooldridge, a retired police officer who now lobbies the government to relax marijuana prohibition laws, told Republic Report that next to police unions, the “second biggest opponent on Capitol Hill is big PhRMA” because marijuana can replace “everything from Advil to Vicodin and other expensive pills.”
5.) Prison Guard Unions: Prison guard unions have a vested interest in keeping people behind bars just like for-profit prison companies. In 2008, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association spent a whopping $1 million to defeat a measure that would have “reduced sentences and parole times for nonviolent drug offenders while emphasizing drug treatment over prison.”
I have pointed you to the many law enforcement officials that recognize that the system is rigged AND the Liar-In-Chief that says one thing campaigning, but does another when elected.
But that is nothing new, is it?
A States’ Rights Issue
The Federal Government will force its brutish self over the state’s rights that places like Washington showed recently.
Did you hear the arguments against made in the video, which rely on issues that have nothing to do with the ballot initiatives (no one is suggesting that children will be allowed to partake)? That “sleight-of-hand”, in and of itself, is telling. As a Doctor told me a few years ago, kids have easy access now and suggested that if one wanted to find marijuana for one’s own healing, just ask a teenager.
No matter, when states vote and pass this type of legislation, there is an almost immediate relief that locals feel.
King County (Washington) dropping misdemeanor marijuana cases
The King County Prosecutor’s Office says it’ll immediately dismiss all of its misdemeanor marijuana possession cases because of the passage of I-502, legalizing marijuana possession of one ounce or less.
So, this will likely be a Federal Government versus State’s Rights showdown. GOOD! About time!
And this doesn’t address all the cities that are passing their own laws of decriminalization (as the above video points out), which includes 90+ in Illinois alone.
Who benefits from legalization?
My God! Can you imagine the lives saved, the money saved, the lives unharmed by the Police State, the taxes earned, etc. if they would simply stop feeding their prohibition profiteers? It truly is a no-brainer when one considers all the harm created by prohibition.
I have covered this subject for years now and if you are new to the blog, you might want to take some time reading thru the many posts I have published regarding it. I promise you will learn something.
Other Southern States Initiatives
Arkansas voted on legalizing the Devil Weed for medical purposes and barely lost. In 2007, Eureka Springs took it to the brink of legalization:
In November 2007, Eureka Springs voters passed an ordinance directing police and prosecutors to make possession of less than an ounce of marijuana a low law-enforcement priority. Under Arkansas law, such possession is a Class A misdemeanor, which is punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
In Tennessee this past summer, medical marijuana got a legislative hearing (I pointed this out here), but failed, in spite of some of the most stringently atrocious and antiquated laws against its use in the nation:
Did you know that in Tennessee possession of any amount of marijuana — even as little as a single gram — can land you in prison for up to a year, with a mandatory fine of between $250 and $2,500? Or that there were over 23,000 marijuana-related arrests in Tennessee in 2007, and over 82% of these arrests were for simple possession of small amounts of marijuana? That’s almost 20,000 families impacted by arrest, prosecution, fines, and related effects such as denial of employment or public benefits.
You can read more about the negative consequences of Tennessee’s marijuana laws in this excellent profile by Jon Gettman, Ph.D.
This is particularly offensive when one understands All The Reasons Pot Is Good For You (which include):
- Preventing blindness from glaucoma
- Better for your lungs than tobacco
- Controlling epileptic seizures
- Stops CANCER from spreading
- Decreasing anxiety
- Slows the progression of Alzheimer’s
- Eases the pain of Multiple Sclerosis
- Lessens side-effects from treating hepatitis C
- Treats inflammatory bowel diseases
- Relieves arthritis discomfort
Even the National Cancer Institute recognizes its huge benefits for treating the symptoms of cancer.
The southern cake-taker
Will we hear all the other Mississippi Kids start saying they are Alabami-bound?
h/t norml, jack herer, MPP, Business Insider, National Cancer Institute & Patients for Medical Marijuana
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Ganja Grannies
Speaking of Ganja Grannies, this one was recently featured in MPP’s (Marijuana Policy Project) “2012 Top 50 Most Influential Marijuana Users“.
Click the link to see all of them.
h/t JackHerer.com
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B’Man’s Marijuana Watch: Maybe I Don’t Have To Leave Afterall
I once opined that I would need to move somewhere else. Maybe not.
I can’t believe it will happen, but it seems that someone in my state congress is thinking about the realities of the miracle drug.
Medical Marijuana Bill Advances In State House
They want the strictest governing laws in the country, but it is a start. One Republican law maker (also a physician) is afraid that his fellow doctors are not trained in how to dispense it. Maybe he should read here and learn something.
Quack.
Maybe I could do this for a living when it gets legalized. ARF has his preference.
It appears that Arkansas may beat us to the ballot.
h/t JackHerer.com
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B’Man’s Marijuana Watch: Stroke Out… Better Yet, Eat A Bud
I’ve said this for years:
An apple bud a day keeps the doctor away. Now real doctors (I’m not one, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn once) are now agreeing with me:
“Eat a bud a day will keep the stroke away,” former heart surgeon, Dr Dave Allen said. “No other medicine made by man can help in this manner.”
We could always just pray about it. No, wait. That was just for fun. Sorry.
But, seriously, is there anyone that believes that the US would bother pursuing patents for the constituents of cannabis, if it weren’t useful (and obviously profitable)?
From the abstract:
“Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in thetreatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia. …”
h/t JackHerer.com
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Religion’s War On Drugs
I complain about organized religion here often. B’Man’s Sabbath Watch is generally my own way of addressing one or more forms of organized religion and its damage to the very ones they should try to help and protect. I’ve witnessed firsthand their power grabs and intentional harm induced onto its followers (including the harm done to me and my family). You see it all the time in news clips and have witnessed its influence and support of immoral wars.
But, every now and again, you find a group of religious leaders who see the light and try to make a difference (and yes, even in spite of my recent evaluation and critique of Judaism, I can find sensible Jewish leaders who also fit the bill).
Watch This:
Religion is one of the main culprits that instigated, supported and help continue that stinking mess we call the “War on Drugs” and religion should be the ones to stop it.
h/t JackHerer.com
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Are You Fighting Breast Cancer (Or Any Cancer, For That Matter)?
Then you just wait a few years… or…
Obviously, news clips like this (just a bit dated) are a primer for coming Big Meds profits. Of course, instead of just allowing their profit motives, they should just legalize it and allow whomever wants to grow their own to do so, so they can treat themselves. It has become apparent to any thinking, sane and caring person that keeping it illegal is an assault against sick people. But who says that our government thinks, is sane or gives a rat’s ass about any of us?
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