NOT counting the consequences of market perversion.
http://www.drugwarrant.com/2011/05/national-drug-intelligence-center-fails-intelligence-test/#comments
The U.S. government claims that 'illicit drug use or abuse' costs $189 billion annually, though it's PROHIBITION rather than the drugs' pharmacological effects- e.g. prohibiting and the consequential incarceration is officially spun as 'drug induced incarceration'.
All of this does not even mention the costs of protecting MORE dangerous substances, such as Virginia Bright Leaf Tobacco cigarettes and alcohol, from far safer substances as Coca Leaf and MJ, let alone the perversion of Coca Leaf and Opium into concentrated dosing of cocaine and heroin.
Coca is the safest stimulant, and was banned by the USDA largely over its promotion as a ‘Tobacco habit cure’
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/coca-as-tobacco-habit-cure.html
And such Tobacco’ has killed some 100 million in the last century.
So when we look at the govt report above and see nearly $2 trillion spend per decade on the drug war boondoggle, that does not even include the costs of such market protectionism.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Hillsdale's Omission
"government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem" - Ronald Wilson ReaganSo when will Hillsdale College, with Imprimis, and their Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies & Citizenship ever address that greatest cause of government over-growth- that costly, cigarette-pharma market protection mercantilist scheme called the 'war on drugs'?
Or shall it continually pretend, as the does the 'Heritage' Foundation, and the rest of the cookie-cutter 'new right', that this 'drug war' is somehow 'moral'
Freedom of Medicine and Diet
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2007/07/freedom-of-medicine-and-diet.html"Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. Thus in France the emetic was once forbidden as a medicine, and the potatoe as an article of food. Government is just as infallible too when it fixes systems in physics. Galileo was sent to the inquisition for affirming that the earth was a sphere: the government had declared it to be as flat as a trencher, and Galileo was obliged to abjure his error. This error however at length prevailed, the earth became a globe, and Descartes declared it was whirled round its axis by a vortex. The government in which he lived was wise enough to see that this was no question of civil jurisdiction, or we should all have been involved by authority in vortices. In fact, the vortices have been exploded, and the Newtonian principle of gravitation is now more firmly established, on the basis of reason, than it would be were the government to step in, and to make it an article of necessary faith. Reason and experiment have been indulged, and error has fled before them. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. "
Drug War Tobacco-Pharma Criminal Mercantilism
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/03/drug-war-tobacco-pharma-agricultural.html
Drug Statutes Are Worse Than Most Realize
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/01/drug-statutes-infinitely-worse-than.html
The Drug War Promotes Drug Abuse
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-war-promotes-drug-abuse-over-drug.html
Drug War Perverts Safest Stimulant into Drug of Abuse for Sake of Protecting the Most Dangerous Stimulant
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/coca-as-tobacco-habit-cure.html
Key Points of the unconsitutional and immoral 1906 US Pure Foods and Drugs Act
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/harvey-wileys-1906-us-food-drugs-act.html
Top anti MJ Researcher's 180 degree turnaround
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-anti-researcher-180.html
Criminal Virginia Bright Leaf Cigarette Conspiracy- More Consumption, Taxes, Fires...
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/04/criminal-virginia-bright-leaf.html
Adulterated - Misbranded Virginia Bright Leaf Cigarettes
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/04/adulterated-tobacco-cigarettes.html
Contrary to the rhetoric about 'limiting government', entities within the political-intellectual landscape crafted as "the right", such as the 'Heritage' Foundation, are slavish devotes of the very 'drug war'.
So was the figure of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who was most loyal to these very such costly and socially destructive polices initiated by such "progressive" figures as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Drug Policy Guilt Out- DISTRACTION
Guilt out consumers while distracting from scrutinizing the scam of prohibition violating human rights and pubic health
http://www.ulule.com/the-front-line-behind-your-line-widening-the-view-of-drug-use-in-a-globalized-world/
About
This image has massively circulated in Mexico in the last months. It was a call to stop the war in Mexico. This image has inspired us to pitch this project and contibute in our way to stop it.
You’ve heard the story before. Recreational drug use is a scourge of the Western World. Drug users are jeopardizing their health. Public education campaigns continue to intensify the focus on the cost to individual lives.
But that’s an old story. And is it the whole story? Surely there are other costs?
What if we rewind the story? What if we start the story in Latin America, the source of the drug industry, where it continues to thrive? What are the social costs there?
In Mexico alone, close to 40 000 people have died in the last four years as a result of the drug war.
Perhaps you are surprised? We know, these are facts and numbers that rarely reach people in the West World, including recreational drug users themselves who may be otherwise socially responsible. It is time to change. Raising awareness is a good place to start.
CAMPAIGN AIM
In a globalized world where purchasing choices often drive social change, we must help Western drug users to widen their view. They must see the global and social costs of their choices.
Our social advertisement campaign aims to open a debate about the ethical consequences of using drugs in a globalized world. Drug users need to feel the impact of their choices. They need to experience the daily fear inflicted on innocent civilians as a result of their purchasing choices.
CHANNEL AND TACTICS
A short high quality video, optimized for internet dissemination has the potential to have a huge impact. We will leverage social media to help mobilize and focus the efforts of the many civilians in Latin America and elsewhere who are at the breaking point in this process. The following video will serve as a focal point to underscore the stakes and mobilize people to action.
The video...
The one-minute video is a parallel montage of two actions that happen in two different spaces: a nightclub in a Western country full of Westerners and a nightclub in Mexico full of Latinos. We will combine these two spaces intercutting them using the flashes of the stroboscopic lights to create the feeling that both actions happen at the same place and time. We will only reveal at the end of the video that both actions actually happened in two different nightclubs. These are two different worlds that are divided by the line of a border, but are tightly linked together in the drug world.
The action...
In the North American nightclub, people are dancing. Someone cuts a line of cocaine on a small mirror and sniffs it. We ask the question: “What’s behind your line?” The drug user is experiencing an altered state of mind and suddenly collapses on the dance floor. People stop dancing. Friends help him to stand. He smiles again. They laugh and continue dancing.
Meanwhile in another nightclub in Mexico, people are dancing. Suddenly, masked men break in with machine guns. People freeze. We can see the fear in their eyes. We see feet running, amidst bullets bouncing on the floor. A young man collapses. On the empty dance floor, the corpse is left with blood running from the nose. We answer the original question: “In Mexico only, more than 40 000 innocent civilians have died as a result of the drug war. Behind your line is the front line.”
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This work altogether ignores prohibition which creates the problems of violance and abuse via shifting markets to concentrated forms of drugs and drug taking.
Entities producing such jesuitical nonsense are simply about guilting out the more gullible for the sake of maintaining status quos.
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/07/drug-policy-environmentalism-from-asses.html
http://www.ulule.com/the-front-line-behind-your-line-widening-the-view-of-drug-use-in-a-globalized-world/
About
This image has massively circulated in Mexico in the last months. It was a call to stop the war in Mexico. This image has inspired us to pitch this project and contibute in our way to stop it.
You’ve heard the story before. Recreational drug use is a scourge of the Western World. Drug users are jeopardizing their health. Public education campaigns continue to intensify the focus on the cost to individual lives.
But that’s an old story. And is it the whole story? Surely there are other costs?
What if we rewind the story? What if we start the story in Latin America, the source of the drug industry, where it continues to thrive? What are the social costs there?
In Mexico alone, close to 40 000 people have died in the last four years as a result of the drug war.
Perhaps you are surprised? We know, these are facts and numbers that rarely reach people in the West World, including recreational drug users themselves who may be otherwise socially responsible. It is time to change. Raising awareness is a good place to start.
CAMPAIGN AIM
In a globalized world where purchasing choices often drive social change, we must help Western drug users to widen their view. They must see the global and social costs of their choices.
Our social advertisement campaign aims to open a debate about the ethical consequences of using drugs in a globalized world. Drug users need to feel the impact of their choices. They need to experience the daily fear inflicted on innocent civilians as a result of their purchasing choices.
CHANNEL AND TACTICS
A short high quality video, optimized for internet dissemination has the potential to have a huge impact. We will leverage social media to help mobilize and focus the efforts of the many civilians in Latin America and elsewhere who are at the breaking point in this process. The following video will serve as a focal point to underscore the stakes and mobilize people to action.
The video...
The one-minute video is a parallel montage of two actions that happen in two different spaces: a nightclub in a Western country full of Westerners and a nightclub in Mexico full of Latinos. We will combine these two spaces intercutting them using the flashes of the stroboscopic lights to create the feeling that both actions happen at the same place and time. We will only reveal at the end of the video that both actions actually happened in two different nightclubs. These are two different worlds that are divided by the line of a border, but are tightly linked together in the drug world.
The action...
In the North American nightclub, people are dancing. Someone cuts a line of cocaine on a small mirror and sniffs it. We ask the question: “What’s behind your line?” The drug user is experiencing an altered state of mind and suddenly collapses on the dance floor. People stop dancing. Friends help him to stand. He smiles again. They laugh and continue dancing.
Meanwhile in another nightclub in Mexico, people are dancing. Suddenly, masked men break in with machine guns. People freeze. We can see the fear in their eyes. We see feet running, amidst bullets bouncing on the floor. A young man collapses. On the empty dance floor, the corpse is left with blood running from the nose. We answer the original question: “In Mexico only, more than 40 000 innocent civilians have died as a result of the drug war. Behind your line is the front line.”
---
This work altogether ignores prohibition which creates the problems of violance and abuse via shifting markets to concentrated forms of drugs and drug taking.
Entities producing such jesuitical nonsense are simply about guilting out the more gullible for the sake of maintaining status quos.
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/07/drug-policy-environmentalism-from-asses.html
Monday, May 9, 2011
Freemason T Roosevelt Approved Wiley 1906 'Pure Food and Drugs Act'
establishing USDA authority to steer agricultural-pharma mercantilism, via 1906 U.S. Pure Foods & Drugs Act of Harvey Washington Wiley
Freemasonry responsible for treasonous subversion of freedom of diet and medicine for tobacco-cigarette/pharmaceutical racketeering: 100 million lives and countless years of the waste of the drug war
http://limasons.blogspot.com/2006/07/theodore-roosevelt-president-and-mason.html
By W:.Patrick Bellotti, Past Master Meridian Lodge 691
THEODORE ROOSEVELT (1858-1919)
Twenty-sixth President (1901-1909)
Theodore Roosevelt is known as one of the greatest American Presidents this country has known. He was primarily known as a great conservationist and started the National Park System. He did renovations to the White House and imprinted a “can-do” attitude which helped the population face the challenges of the new 20th Century.
Among all these things, Theodore Roosevelt was also an active Mason who exemplified the spirit and brotherhood of Masonry while serving as President. He believed in Masonry until his death.
I did some research and thought I would share some of these facts with you in this Blog.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT’S MASONIC RECORD
Brother Theodore Roosevelt was initiated: January 2, 1901, Matinecock Lodge No. 806, Oyster Bay, New York. Brother and President Roosevelt visited the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania (in its present home, the Masonic Temple at One North Broad Street) on November 5, 1902, for the Celebration of the Sesqui-Centennial of Brother George Washington's Initiation into Freemasonry. Governor of New York, 1899-1901. Brother and President Roosevelt issued an Executive Order, dated, October 17, 1901 changing the name of the "Executive Mansion" to the "White House".
Theodore Roosevelt, said in 1902, "One of the things that attracted me so greatly to Masonry . . . was that it really did live up to what we, as a government, are pledged to -- of treating each man on his merits as a Man"
The following is an excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt’s obituary which was published upon his death. His obituary further validated his love and commitment to Masonry.
“Colonel Roosevelt was a member of the local lodge of Masons, and never failed to keep up his interest in it. He had made a habit for many years of visiting Masonic lodges wherever he went, as a member of the Oyster Bay lodge, and, returning, to tell his brother Masons here of his visits. He found Masonic lodges when he was in Africa at Nairobi, and in South America he found a lodge on the Asuncion River. The Masons here knew from Colonel Roosevelt of the doings of Masonic lodges in all parts of the world. The members of the local lodge suggested a Masonic funeral yesterday, but this was dropped when the wishes of the family became known.”
While a member of Matinecock Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt resided and raised his family in a beautiful home there which he called Sagamore Hill. I recommend that any Mason take the tour of this beautiful home which is brimming with historical significance. Today this residence is run by the National Park Service which gives public tours.
If I sound biased about Theodore Roosevelt, it is with good cause as I am proud to say that in 2001 I was a recipient of the Theodore Roosevelt Award and I personally was given a tour of his home. It was a fascinating and unforgettable experience for me which I will never forget.
For a more in depth study of Roosevelt’s Lodge service, you can read the web page taken from the web site for Matinecock Lodge which is located in Roosevelt’s hometown of Oyster Bay, New York. I put this web address here for your convenience.
http://www.matinecock.org/portal/desktopdefault.aspx?tabindex=2&tabid=23&item=10
Masonic Justice? LIFE for 2lbs MJ
Continuing Cigarette-Pharma Racketerring Human Rights Violations by Louisiana
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/05/fourth_marijuana_conviction_ge.html#incart_hbx
He didn't fare too well after moving to St. Tammany Parish, however. A single such conviction on the north shore landed the 35-year-old in prison for the rest of his life.
State Judge Raymond S. Childress punished Hood under Louisiana's repeat-offender law in his courtroom in Covington on Thursday. A jury on Feb. 15 found the defendant guilty of attempting to possess and distribute marijuana at his Slidell home, court records show.
Hood moved from eastern New Orleans to the Slidell area after he admitted to separate charges of distribution of marijuana and possession with intent to distribute marijuana on Dec. 18, 2009, in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court. He received a suspended five-year prison sentence and five years' of probation for each -- which was precisely the same penalty he got in that court after pleading guilty to possessing and intending to distribute marijuana on Feb. 22, 2005.
When Hood switched homes, he also requested a new probation officer based in St. Tammany. Authorities granted the wish, and the officer, Dustin Munlin, drove to Hood's place for a routine visit on Sept. 27, 2010.
Munlin found nearly two pounds of pot throughout the house, according to court records. He alerted Sheriff's Office deputies. They arrested Hood, who apparently shared the King's Point house with his mother and young son.
Prosecutors later charged him with one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
At Hood's one-day trial, the evidence presented by the prosecution included a digital scale and about a dozen bags that had contained marijuana before being seized from the house, testimony showed. Deputies also found $1,600 in cash and a student-loan application with Hood's name on it inside of a night stand.
Jurors deliberated for less than two hours and convicted Hood of a reduced charge, which usually carries no more than 15 years' imprisonment. Assistant District Attorney Nick Noriea Jr. then used Hood's past convictions on Thursday to argue that he was a career criminal worthy of a severe punishment.
Drug offenders in the state are subject to life imprisonment after being convicted three or more times of a crime that carries a sentence exceeding 10 years.
Added- :8:49 PM
Childress is Jesuit law educated- continuing the pharmacratic inquisition as a means of collecting paychecks
“All I gotta say is that State Judge State Judge Raymond S. Childress of Covington, LA - the judge who imposed this sentence - should be disbarred for violating the 8th Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. Yep, I said it.”
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/05/fourth_marijuana_conviction_ge.html#incart_hbx
He didn't fare too well after moving to St. Tammany Parish, however. A single such conviction on the north shore landed the 35-year-old in prison for the rest of his life.
State Judge Raymond S. Childress punished Hood under Louisiana's repeat-offender law in his courtroom in Covington on Thursday. A jury on Feb. 15 found the defendant guilty of attempting to possess and distribute marijuana at his Slidell home, court records show.
Hood moved from eastern New Orleans to the Slidell area after he admitted to separate charges of distribution of marijuana and possession with intent to distribute marijuana on Dec. 18, 2009, in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court. He received a suspended five-year prison sentence and five years' of probation for each -- which was precisely the same penalty he got in that court after pleading guilty to possessing and intending to distribute marijuana on Feb. 22, 2005.
When Hood switched homes, he also requested a new probation officer based in St. Tammany. Authorities granted the wish, and the officer, Dustin Munlin, drove to Hood's place for a routine visit on Sept. 27, 2010.
Munlin found nearly two pounds of pot throughout the house, according to court records. He alerted Sheriff's Office deputies. They arrested Hood, who apparently shared the King's Point house with his mother and young son.
Prosecutors later charged him with one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
At Hood's one-day trial, the evidence presented by the prosecution included a digital scale and about a dozen bags that had contained marijuana before being seized from the house, testimony showed. Deputies also found $1,600 in cash and a student-loan application with Hood's name on it inside of a night stand.
Jurors deliberated for less than two hours and convicted Hood of a reduced charge, which usually carries no more than 15 years' imprisonment. Assistant District Attorney Nick Noriea Jr. then used Hood's past convictions on Thursday to argue that he was a career criminal worthy of a severe punishment.
Drug offenders in the state are subject to life imprisonment after being convicted three or more times of a crime that carries a sentence exceeding 10 years.
Added- :8:49 PM
Childress is Jesuit law educated- continuing the pharmacratic inquisition as a means of collecting paychecks
Judge Raymond S. Childress graduated from Bogalusa High School in 1969, attended Southeastern Louisiana University and graduated in December of 1972 with a B.A. in History. He attended Loyola University Law School in New Orleans, graduating in May of 1979. After being admitted to practice law in October 1979, he went into private practice.
Judge Childress' practice was varied, including insurance defense, plaintiff personal injury, domestic relations, real estate, criminal defense and two years as an Assistant District Attorney in St. Tammany Parish.
Judge Childress ran unopposed in 1998 and was sworn in as District Judge, Division "A" in the 22nd Judicial District Court in October 1998. He serves on the Louisiana District Judges Association Executive Committee. He presides over Drug Court in Washington Parish and currently chairs the 22nd JDC Family Court Committee.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Dana Beal STILL Incarcerated
in Wisconsin, Cures Not Wars legalization activist-Ibogaine scholar, being held on $50,000.00 ranson (bail), since the local agents of cigarette-pharma market protection racket mercantilism kidnapped (arrested) him and his driver Lance Ramer (who now has stomach cancer), January 4, 2011
Dana Beal at the May 2010 Cures Not Wars Event
From Aron Kay:
From Aron Kay:
DANA STILL NEEDS FUNDS SO HE CAN CONTINUE TO BE IN TOUCH WITH THE WORLD OUTSIDE THE IOWA COUNTY JAIL....
CHECKS AND MONEY ORDERS CAN BE SENT TO HIS LAWYERBRYON WALKER
POB 10
LA FARGE, WI 54639
YOU CAN SEND LETTERS TO DANA VIAIRVIN DANA BEAL
1205 NORTH BEQUETTE ST
IOWA COUNTY JAIL
DODGEVILLE, WI 53533
ENVELOPE MUST HAVE THE SENDER'S NAME AND A RETURN ADDRESS, OR THE PIGS WILL WITHHOLD THE LETTER
Saturday, May 7, 2011
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