The cops depend on drug war money from seizures and drug war funding… prisons, treatment centers, drug testing companies, federal agencies, politicians, and more all profit from prohibition.
So it should be no surprise…
New Study Finds That State Crime Labs Are Paid Per Conviction
Funding crime labs through court-assessed fees creates another channel for bias to enter crime lab analyses. In jurisdictions with this practice the crime lab receives a sum of money for each conviction of a given type. Ray Wickenheiser says, ‘‘Collection of court costs is the only stable source of funding for the Acadiana Crime Lab. $10 is received for each guilty plea or verdict from each speeding ticket, and $50 from each DWI (Driving While Impaired) and drug offense.’’
In Broward County, Florida, ‘‘Monies deposited in the Trust Fund are principally court costs assessed upon conviction of driving or boating under the influence ($50) or selling, manufacturing, delivery, or possession of a controlled substance ($100).’’
So much potential for corruption. So many people benefitting from drug war money. Lost in that river of cash is any sense of justice or human rights.
How can it be surprising then, when, as has happened so many times before, a Lab’s history of results are shown to be tainted. Of course, the Labs are always very quick to lay the blame on a low level technician, but it happens rather a lot. And as a result, lots of convictions are overturned.
The corruption of the Drug War. It’s as inevitable as night following day.
Pay for truth, not what you want to hear. Sounds just like the way this country has studied marijuana.
O/T but we have a classic propaganda article running rabid that the fires in CA were started by a grow there,,,tracing it back I come up with a San Jose city councilman stated that the rim fire MAY have started from an illegal grow,,1/2 paragraph in the first article to mention it with no verifiable source for the councilman’s report,,,has now grown to about 7 or 8 paragraphs with headline:
Yosemite wildfire likely caused by drug cartel operations
or “Did illegal marijuana growers start the Rim Fire blaze?”
all over the news but very few with comments open,,where I could I put:Solution = legalize and quite driving growers into the forests,,,but it has pure Chabet written all over it.
http://tinyurl.com/ly6qxjv
Todd McNeal, a fire chief in Twain Harte, one of the towns affected by the 219,000-acre inferno, said investigators had not pinpointed the cause of the blaze.
“We don’t know the exact cause,” McNeal was quoted as telling a community meeting.
However, he added it was “highly suspect that there might have been some sort of illicit grove, a marijuana-grow-type thing.”
“We know it’s human caused. There was no lightning in the area,” he said.
US Forest Service officials say the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
That jumped out at me, too, yesterday when I read it, Clay. Typical talk-out-your-ass BS from another Prohib. As the fire grew bigger, I was waiting for it to be said by someone. Blatant statement without a shred of evidence!
Clay, I came across your comment to the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday, about the women with metastatic breast cancer.
The thing that amazed me was the lack of ability of MOST every physician who opposed cannabis to address the point of discussion at hand.
Instead of answering the NEJM question these assholes just went off on their drug-warrior fantasies and gripes.
I liked the comment of Jeoffrey Gordon, M.D. who said,
” Issues about dose, purity, legal restraints and published studies become unimportant when relief is so dramatic. The real question is why there is such a void in the medical literature.”
Also, from Charles Webb, M.D. Kailua Kona, Hi.
He said, “Are we police officers or are we physicians?”
From one cannabinophile to another, thanks for trying to make this world a better place.
NorCalNative
Thanks NorCal… your use of cannabinophile makes me wonder why we (well, me anyway) aren’t using “Cannaphobia” more. It’s accurate and even the vocabularically challenged know what a phobia is. That and it’s gonna pith the Prohibs off even more. Words are fun!
Clay or Norc, I’d love to see the article…is it available online, and if so, have you a link?
Sorry guys, I don’t know how to set up a link.
This search should get you there: New England Journal of Medicine article titled– Medicinal Use of Marijuana (Feb 28, 2013)
NCN, you just take the URL from the browsers address line and cut and paste it after your comment. If the URL is too long, paste it to http://www.tinyurl.com and take the shortened URL from there.
PDF Medicinal Use of Marijuana — NEJM
Medicinal Use of Marijuana — Polling Results — NEJM
not only is the rim fire likely caused by selfish dopers, but illegal aliens may have burned up with their hypothetical “groves”. http://tinyurl.com/n82zyco some how the officials know there was no lightning to ignite the blaze. as everyone knows, if there was no lightning it had to be pot farms grown by chain smoking foreigners. no word yet on any cannabis plantations being found.
Hemplastic
or Fossil Fools Crud
This is from our fire a few years ago.
When will they ever learn…
Fire! fire on the mountain!
Practical, inexpensive fire-resistant construction material, with excellent thermal and sound-insulating qualities, is made by heating and compressing plant fibers to create strong construction paneling, replacing dry wall and plywood. William B. Conde of Conde’s Redwood Lumber, Inc. near Eugene, Oregon, in conjunction with Washington State University (1991-1993), has demonstrated the superior strength, flexibility, and economy of hemp composite building materials compared to wood fiber.
Hemp has been used throughout history for carpet backing. Hemp fiber has potential in the manufacture of strong, rot resistant carpeting –eliminating the poisonous fumes of burning synthetic materials in a house or commercial fire, along with allergic reactions associated with new synthetic carpeting.
“The House That Hemp Built”
Excerpts from the April 1996 High Times article, “Hemp in the Home”.
The advantages of building with hemp hurds are numerous. Not only does the hemp replace the need for wood, bricks, and fiberglass insulation, but the hardened material is mold and insect-resistant and fire-retardant. It’s also many times lighter than cement, sets in a couple of hours and provides both thermal and sound insulation.
Hemp Facts
Hemp Roots: Anchor and Aerate soil. Reduce soil loss because of erosion and mudslides by reducing the velocity of runoff. Detoxify soil by pulling metals and toxins (including radioactive elements) from ground.
Hemp “Eats” Chernobyl Waste, Offers Hope For Hanford
Ganja Eases Traumatic Memories
Scientists have known for years that the brain makes substances almost identical to the active ingredient in marijuana, but the function of these “cannabinoids” remained mysterious. Researchers now say they help to extinguish traumatic memories. “In certain situations, being able to forget is very important for emotional survival,” said George Kunos, a neurobiologist at the National Institutes of Health.
SLEEP AND RELAXATION
Using cannabis allows most people a more complete rest with a higher amount of “alpha time†during sleep as compared with prescription or sleep-inducing patent sedatives.
Lung Cleaner and Expectorant
Cannabis is the best natural expectorant to clear the human lungs of smog, dust, and the phlegm associated with tobacco use. Rim fires
Only The PotHeads Will Survive 11/01/01
‘Mexico’s war on drugs is one big lie’
http://tinyurl.com/lcdxl5x
“the violence and the cartels are not the disease. They’re a symptom of the disease, which is corruption. The cartels cannot operate without the support of officials, bureaucrats, politicians and police officers – and bankers to launder their money. These people let the narcos do what they do and they are the issue, this is the cancer. I met these people, the narcos. They have no scruples, they’re cruel – but in the end, they’re just businessmen, all they can see is money. Life, they cannot see.”
Pete is right. Its all about the money. I am not so sure its only in Mexico.
Wall Street’s Ganjawar is One Big For Profit Lie.
The Free Mexican Air Force
☛ Mexico Decriminalizes Small Amounts of Drugs
☛ Mexico legal-drug bill condemned
☛ U.S. Cautious on Mexico Drug Measure
Ganjawar Puppets Cave… again
☛ Threats From USA Force Mexico to Drop Decrim Plans
☛ MEXICO MOVES TO DECRIMINALIZE DRUG POSSESSION
— NO, WAIT, NEVERMIND
For a few days this week, it looked like Mexico was going to decriminalize drug possession, but that ended Wednesday when President Fox rejected the bill under US pressure.
Weed Beat the Recession in Denver vs 60,000 Dead Mexicans
.. and the US’s 51st state tows the line as well…
Canada’s Supremes Cower Under DEAth Threats
☛ Loosen Pot Laws and Face Tighter Border U.S. Warns!
☛ Drug Czar Talks About Tightening at Border
☛ Relaxed Pot Laws May Affect Border
☛ Canadian Pot Legislation Could Snarl Border
☛ U.S. Warns Pot Plan To Clog Border
☛ A Border War Over Pot
☛ 140 More Agents Will Be Sent To Border
☛ Canada, U.S. Bolster Border Security
☛ Potent Marijuana, Lax Laws Frustrate U.S. Border
“the primary reason to outlaw marijuana
is its effect on the degenerate races.”
~ HARRY J ANSLINGER,
Commissioner of the US Bureau of Narcotics 1930 -1962
What would deter poor Mexicans from crossing dangerous turf for a two bit job doing scab labor? Leave them alone to grow hemp. Bail out family farmers or give Palestinians a crop to build life. World Peace or Whirled Peas?
Got Hemp?
And Iraq and Afghanistan’s War on Drugs and the War on Drugs in Africa with many of our military in Africa. America’s influence on the 1961 U.N. Singles and how Anslinger opened up S. America to Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda before their existence.
We cannot deny much of our world’s genocides don’t have drug money funding death by x percent.
Taking a train is a safe way to travel. Except for those people who taking trains turn them green with purple spots. For this reason we must ban all trains. Then we must ban all research on discovering why people turn green with purple dots. Or why they only turn green when bus drivers are present. Too risky to risk.
http://i39.tinypic.com/b7lv89.jpg
☛Catch 22²
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1876
☛Why Do YOU Think They Call it DOPE?
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1175
* Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed
* The Elkhorn Manifesto
* Marijuana and Hemp: The Untold Story
* The Nation of Apathetic Puppets By John Pilger
* Maintaining Dysfunction
☛Al Capone and Watergate
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/sreply/422
☛Exporting DEAmocracy
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1501
Like I said, the Prohibitionists and their groupies are living in an Airplane movie…
Elaine : The gear is down and we’re ready to land.
Kramer : Alright, he’s on final now, put out all runway lights except 9er.
Towerguy: Captain, maybe we ought to turn on the search lights now.
MCrosky : No, that’s just what they’ll be expecting us to do.
Yes, indeed. It is always about the money.
And the worst part?
It’s our money. At least, it was before we paid our taxes.
Protect & Serve (themselves!)
Quotas in a “justice” system are a blatant demonstration of law abuse, the worst form of abuse due to its mainly broad scope of destruction (far worse than all drug abuse combined, according to common sense).
The public must understand this for healthier living.
Just demonstrate no to law abuse.
The power (and greed) of the drug-testing industry needs to be loudly exposed And if, IF, cannabis was legalized, the industry would not go away. It needs to feed, and it will.
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Glen Greenwald has a piece on the way Bush and Obama have run roughshod over the Constitution in recent times, and is worth a look just for the photo of Joe Biden looking like a hanging judge with piles:
“George Bush, of course, sought Congressional approval for the war in Iraq (though he did so only once it was clear that Congress would grant it: I vividly remember watching then-Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Joe Biden practically begging the Bush White House to “allow” Congress to vote on the attack while promising in advance that they would approve for it).”
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/01/obama-congress-syria-authorization
I meant to add this too. Greenwald is scoring some direct hits. The vote in the British parliament not to repeat Iraq in 2003 has put some noses seriously out of joint in the Obama admin:
“There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve no good outcomes other than safeguarding the “credibility” of those doing the bombing. Relatedly, it’s hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one’s national “credibility” depend upon periodically bombing other countries.”
If you really want to know why the U.S. wants to bomb Syria, it’s about natural gas and gas pipelines.
Just search for “Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline” and you’ll see why we’re likely to get involved.
This isn’t about chemical weapons, it’s about protecting the interests of the Dick Cheneys of the world.
Like Pete said in today’s post. It’s all about the money.
Is there currently a better journalist on this planet than Greenwald? I worry about his safety.
water… it’s all about water… reliance on oil will be a moot point if we don’t have water.
Back in the ’70s I made a prediction that one day bottled water wold be as expensive as gasoline.
Water and climate change are a couple of those not-discussed aspects of the Arab spring that really does need to be known. See Thomas Friedman’s piece in the NYT from a year ago, The Other Arab Spring
In the longer term, i.e. more than 5 years, I’m sure that’s right. Unfortunately the Cheneys of this world rule, and they only think of the short term profits. That means oil and natural gas prices in the next 18 months. If they think so little of their own kids futures where does that leave the ordinary citizens of this world?
Living in the panhandle of TX using an aquifer that has been fracked a million times and cancer rates off the chart,,I buy bottled water to cook with and drink,,it is about 1/2 my monthly gas casts so we are getting there.
Allan, Water is the most discussed thing in military briefings . . . no one believes oil since it requires workers, which takes money, but oil does play a huge part, but as you said, Water is the biggest issue of them all . . . water makes oil look as cheap as the dust bunnies collecting under some furniture. But on the oil part: WMD’s for Iraq was never the issue for sending us to war in Iraq . . . WMD’s was the synthetic reason. As we’ve all read, a huge chunk of oil belongs in Kurd land and we do know Saddam had WMD’s in the 80’s and 90’s and that he used WMD’s to kill tens of thousands of Kurds and if we take out the big bad wolf and give the Kurds back their lands, then we can get a better deal/cooperation on oil. The south is far too divided to be stable when it comes to oil. And possibly oil is a huge reason why our military is being diverted to Africa with all the news of our troops in Africa. But water is thicker than oil and will be the cause of more war than oil since oil is cheaper than water will ever be or ever has been in the Middle East. You never hear about people needing oil to live off, but plenty of us drink water. Oil has zero value when it comes to money when you are dying of thirst and your crops and animals are suffering from drought. Water profits people and not oil. Water is where stability and money and power is -not oil.
Everybody talks about water and you never hear about the oil in the circles of those in the know . . . we always talked about water, but oil is a bonus.
Uruguay Poised to Become First Country to Legalize Marijuana
Bush Family Acreage in South America google
☛Bush Family Paraguay Hideaway Update
☛Bush Buys 100000 Acres on border of Paraguay & Brazil
☛TPM: About that Bush Family Ranch in Paraguay
☛BEAUTIFUL PARAGUAY – THE BUSH’S LIKE IT – WONDER WHY
☛Bush Family Buys Up Vast Vast Land Tracks in Argentina
☛Does anyone know why the Bush’s bought all that land in Uruguay
☛Bush family land purchase in Paraguay
☛Photos: President Bush’s Trip to Uruguay – 2007
☛Pres. Bush buys 100,000acre ranch in Paraguay
☛President’s Trip to Latin America – the White House
Get elected, get rich, buy up countries. No questions, The land they bought is sitting on the largest fresh water aquifer in the world. …old family friend, the Most Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s gang bought a MILLION and a HALF acres around it! The law there protects them–they can’t be extradited to the US for war crimes. How special…
Exporting DEAmocracy
DEAth’s grubby hands in 207 countries last count…
Here on the east coast not only is water still cheap and plentiful, the price has fallen by at least 1/3rd in the last year.
The money, it’s the banksters (Rothschilds, et al) who are behind ALL wars. Oil/natgas and water are secondary causes. Clay, if you go by the cost per gallon (buying it by the bottle), allan’s prediction has already come true.
LSD, “magic mushrooms,” and other psychedelics not linked to mental health woes
Jenny Kush Memorial Fund
Information
The beautiful and courageous, Jenny Kush, was killed by a drunk driver. Her life was spent promoting awareness and spreading the truth about Marijuana, a safer alternative to the “legal” drug that has stolen her life.
The woman who was driving made a decision to consume a dangerous drug and then get behind the wheel of an dangerous machine. Jenny lost her life because of that dangerous decision.
Jenny leaves behind a grieving family who are stricken with sudden the loss of her in their life. To help aid her husband and children through this difficult time, we are raising funds to send to them directly.
Please help however you can!
http://www.momsformarijuana.com/
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I wonder, how many people are aware that it was almost 2 full months before the first civil infraction for cannabis was written up by Vermont LE? Just to make it all the more special the first ticket was issued to a 73 year old man who was totally clueless that he was growing a pot plant. It also appears that Vermont’s jack booted thugs practice a very unique form of police brutality. Is Vermont anywhere near Fiji?
I just realized that Vermont must have decriminalized petty cultivation too?? I’m unaware of any other State which has decriminalized petty cultivation. Alaska doesn’t count, petty cultivation is only de facto legal. Oh heck, but Colorado certainly does qualify. OK people, there’s nothing to see here, move along.
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Wow, it looks like Paul Chabot has tied the knot with Calvina Fay! Or is that Kev-Kev and Linda Taylor? You’ll have to forgive me because all those clowns look alike to me.
http://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/08/a_clown_wedding_takes_place_at.html#incart_m-rpt-2
chabot s published photos suggest an ambivalent sexuality. kevin might be more his type
Duncan,
Taylor couldn’t fit into that dress if her life depended on it!
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It would make sense if Ms. Taylor used a ringer. If she gets busted for aggravated ugly in public one more time she’ll get a felony conviction and a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years wearing a brown paper bag over her head.
No, I can’t pass on any opportunity to gratuitously insult that woman. What’s your point? 🙂
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I just became aware that some people are regurgitating the exact same propaganda about drinking alcohol use as they do about cannabis. This one is from the “hysterical rhetoric is bad, mmm-kay?” category:
But they are true to the motto of the Know Nothing prohibitionist.
ot
news has come out that britain exported the precursers for the gas used by the syrian military. this is becoming more and more of re run of iraq only more info is leaking out. saddam hussain could not be tried for gassing the kurds because donald rumsfeld sold him the shells it was fired in. just goes to show you cant fool all the people all the time.
You couldn’t be more On Topic if you tried Jean. The U.S. wants to aid rebels who rely on Drug Money. If we aid them, then we could cause factions once the war is over (as seen in Iraq, since the war in Iraq was only a few months long, before the next war in Iraq started a few moths after the 2003 invasion). By not aiding them, then we are allowing Al Qaeda to further fund them with drug money, which means recruitment opportunities for the drug trafficking network once headed by Osama . . . while giving Al Qaeda more sway over a new Syrian Government and giving Al Qaeda more drug smuggling territory/allies, which will affect Africa (as you’ve been reading in regards to the subtle U.S. troop draw up in Mali). Al Qaeda’s presence will affect the PLO, Hamas and Hezbollah, whom will unify in the name of attacking Israel and the West . . . therefore Syria could be a hot bed for terrorism recruiting due to the nature that Al Qaeda are often considered angels of grace and protection when it comes to fighting dictators. If we only never invented drug money, much of our Middle East dilemmas and conflicts could have been avoided . . . with no 9/11, we might not have ever went to Iraq. Poor terrorists can’t afford a fight, but drug money rich ones can.
Corporations That Supplied Iraq’s Weapons Program – 02/19/03
The inbedwith dis-infotainment: Gaza to Iraq
Booshammy
BooshameyRumsey Cocktail
I just sent that quote to my State/district’s congressional delegation, requested a response.
Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function
http://bit.ly/17DOwIz
Snip
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“We found that the same farmer shows diminished cognitive performance before harvest, when poor, as compared with after harvest, when rich. This cannot be explained by differences in time available, nutrition, or work effort. Nor can it be explained with stress: Although farmers do show more stress before harvest, that does not account for diminished cognitive performance. Instead, it appears that poverty itself reduces cognitive capacity.
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Cannabis relieves stress, and it should improve your cognitive preformance accordingly.
There was a report of a study that proved living in poverty cause a 13% drop in IQ because of the stress from existing one day till the next,,however marijuana only drops your IQ by 8%,,so all poor people should sell marijuana and lose less IQ,,,that is my take on it Vern.
Or just smoke marijuana and utilize THC/CBD’s neurogenesis to protect the brain from stress.
Selling and using fixes two problems,,they get smarter and get to eat,,I am beginning to believe marijuana can fix just about anything,,we will start calling it duct weed pretty soon.
I saw that comming “Duct Weed” and low and behold you wrote it.
Not sure how Massachusetts pays its drug labs, but citizens spent quite a lot to waste a few hundred million dollars more and persecute the innocent.
Due to the Boston Globe’s prohibitionist slant I can’t recall the name of the lab, but mainly that they paint her as a rogue solo actor, over-achiever, lone wolf. So search for Annie Dookhan drug lab scandal.
Once upon a time Boston was all for Liberty and Freedom. I remember when the Transit Authority tried killing free speech banning pro legalize ads on their buses. Here’s some info on the Piss Taste Queen. Thanks for the heads up…
Drug mishandling may have tainted 40,000 cases
By David Abel and John R. Ellement
The criminal cases of more than 40,000 people in Massachusetts may have been tainted by chemist Annie Dookhan and management failures at the now-closed state Department of Public Health lab where she worked, according to a long-awaited report released Tuesday by a special counsel hired by the Patrick administration.
Annie Dookhan case google
Cover-Ups, Prevarications, Subversions & Sabotage
One In Five High Schools Piss Taste Students
After his resignation, Turner joined with Robert DuPont and former head of NIDA, Peter Bensinger, to corner the market on urine testing. They contracted as advisors to 250 of the largest corporations to develop drug diversion, detection, and urine testing programs.
Soon after Turner left office, Nancy Reagan recommended that no corporation be permitted to do business with the Federal government without having a urine purity policy in place to show their loyalty.
Just as G. Gordon Liddy went into high-tech corporate security after his disgrace, Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry: urine-testing.
Are You Drunk Correa?
CA SB 289 Clueless Legislation
“If I instituted drug testing at Cypress,
I would get a brick through my windshield, and I would deserve it.”
–T.J. Rogers, President, Cypress Semiconductor
OT: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/08/legalizing-marijuana-medicaid-starts-paying.html
Piss Profiteers ecp
Drug mishandling may have tainted 40,000 cases
Melinda Haag: New marijuana guidelines won’t affect local cases http://tinyurl.com/kfsef2q
The DEA apparently does not participate in the same agenda as the Justice Department.
Is this the same idea as one of the fifty states trying to secede?
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Actually, I read her statement as a claim that she’s already in compliance with the new policy. But I’m sure you’re aware that the prohibitionist’s dictionary has some mighty peculiar word definitions, so your guess is as good as mine as to what she thinks the word “compliance” means. Heck, we can go even a bit further and realize that Messrs. Obama and Holder use that same dictionary so we may actually have no clue what the official policy is behind the looking glass. Not only does their dictionary have alternative definitions for words, they have no compunction in totally re-defining words from one day to the next. Like the cake said to that lost little girl, “Eat me!”
But for crying out loud, does that woman have a perfect fit last name or what?