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<p class=MsoTitle><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>Drug War Facts</p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'>Police
and DEA have conducted more than 50,000 American home invasions in search
of illegal substances.</li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'>1.8
million, mostly non-violent individuals face arrest each year - almost 80%
for simple possession.</li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'>The
percentage of Americans addicted to heroin from 1917 through 2008 remains
constant at 1.3%.</li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'>Over
the last hundred years, Americans have surrendered most of their inalienable
rights to the Federal Government. Law enforcement has escalated its role
from a guardian into a guard.</li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
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style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>The Treasury Department's phony marijuana
license and tax scam has clogged our courts and jails with pot smokers for
close to 100 years.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>The new American Gulag � cost 69 billion tax
dollars per year.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Warrantless home invasions are gross violations
of the Constitution and provide exciting, profitable and addicting experiences
for narcotics agents.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Under today�s marijuana laws, our founding
fathers would be found guilty of the manufacture and delivery of a controlled
substance � hemp. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>The drug war is nothing more than a battle over
whose drug is the best. Nixon liked to rail against pot smokers as he puffed on
cigars and drank martinis with his friends. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Drug addiction is often genetically determined.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Tobacco, alcohol, weed, mushrooms, peyote, LSD,
prescription medicines and party pills are all gateway drugs<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>.</b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Prohibitionist policies punish everyone for the
bad choices of a few. It persecutes both the innocent and the guilty and claims
to save society by creating an environment of fear, corruption and violence.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
is no longer the land of freedom and privacy; it belongs to the DEA, which is
immune from prosecution.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>The growing popularity of mind-altering,
pleasure-inducing drugs is a reaction to <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>stress</b>
and <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>boredom</b>. Many youngsters who
experiment with marijuana do so out of curiosity and to gain acceptance within
their peer group.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>Richard
Milhous Nixon was an intolerant fundamentalist Christian who presented himself
as a diplomat in public, but privately exhibited a paranoid, crude, and
narcissistic personality. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>The vindictive racist, Harry J. Anslinger, who
ran the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), used his bogus Marijuana Tax Act to
imprison millions of non-violent Mexicans, African Americans and jazz
musicians. The reason: Harry hated jazz, Mexicans, and
"darkies."<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>The Federal Government <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>is</i> and always will be in the drug business.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Congress should not pass unenforceable laws that
create victimless crimes.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Two million Americans in prison and five million
on probation makes <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
the largest prison nation in the world</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>The marijuana tax act is the most destructive
law ever passed by Congress. The damage done by this non licensed 1% nuisance
tax on the cannabis plant is far greater than that done by alcohol prohibition,
which lasted a mere 13 years and required the approval of 36 out of 48 states
to become a Constitutional Amendment. The prohibition against cannabis has
persisted for 70 years and required nothing more than the coerced vote of a
small group of ignorant lawmakers who thought they had created a<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> tax license</b> for farmers to grow
industrial hemp.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Of all our plants, cannabis has the most to
offer humanity.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Those who support the drug war should not smoke
or drink. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Those who work for the DEA should abstain from <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>all</i> drugs</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
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style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Save our trees - grow hemp</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Reduce crime by fifty percent- end prohibition</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>The Government worries that ending cannabis prohibition
sends a wrong message to children. But liquor and tobacco laws have
successfully discouraged use among children without turning their parents into
criminals.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Throughout <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
history, virtually all of our presidents and lawmakers have forged our nation's
policies under the influence of dangerous, addictive, mind-altering drugs.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>You cannot get rid of human desire to seek
pleasure and reduce stress by passing a law against it.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>A small percentage of people in every generation
will destroy themselves on drugs regardless of the law.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
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style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>For some people, the freedom to make poor
choices is an inalienable right, for others, it is a crime.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>The most
difficult task for a human being is to grant to others the same freedom you
would expect for yourself. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>A drug-free <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
is not possible, even with the surrender of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>all</i>
civil liberties.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Zero tolerance by the government is the end of
personal privacy and choice.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>A speech by a politician that contradicts
privately held belief � is both hypocritical and expected.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>When it comes to pot smokers, Congress and the
Supreme Court do not turn to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; instead,
they look to their own political interests.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Moderate enjoyment of recreational drugs such as
alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis by <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>adults</i>
is not a crime. The crime is in the prohibition of these substances.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>To re-legalize a substance means to allow the
states set up guidelines for its production and distribution - the states being
"the laboratories of democracy."</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>A good law is the will of the people. A bad law
is the will of the Government <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>against</i>
the people. The benefits of a good law must outweigh the damage done by its
enforcement.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Top officials in the Drug Enforcement
Administration have made it clear they will resist every attempt by American
farmers to resume 300 years of hemp production � instead, we must pay to import
it from <st1:country-region><st1:place>Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>56% of Federal prisoners and 80% of State
prisoners are victims of the Nixon/Anslinger drug policy that uses public money
and the resources of law enforcement to arrest people they despise. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Teenagers find it easy to become involved in
illicit drugs because the drugs are untaxed, unlicensed, unregulated, and do
not require an ID to buy or sell.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Persecution by the DEA frightens many doctors
out of pain management, which leaves their desperate patients to fend for
themselves on the illicit market.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>The DEA intercepts one percent of narcotics
diverted from manufacturers and retailers.</p>
<h1 align=left style='margin-left:0in;text-align:left;text-indent:.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-weight:normal'>Based on risk
to the user, heroin, alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, marijuana and caffeine in that
order, are dangerous. Tragically, the DEA equates marijuana with heroin, which
sends a message to teenagers that heroin is no more dangerous than marijuana.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>The DEA's policy of zero tolerance includes sick
and dying patients who have doctor's prescriptions and the support of state
initiatives to use cannabis.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>The raids
prove that Federal Treasury agents, not doctors, control medicine and decide
who gets what drug and how much.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Unless people educate themselves, the next
century of Federal drug policy is � more of the same.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Under present Federal guidelines, my body
doesn't belong to me; it belongs to the DEA.<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>One hundred thousand people die from
"legal" drug overdoses per year; yet no one dies from pure, smoked
cannabis. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Congress spends sixty nine billion per year on
drug interdiction.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Prohibition occurs when a government abandons
control of a substance and then arrests those who manufacture it themselves.
Legalization removes the substance from the unregulated market and returns it
to government control.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Marijuana fits perfectly into the alcohol model
of licensed regulation.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Smoking marijuana in the privacy of one's own
home is not a crime</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:list 0in .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Habitual pot smoking is not a healthy lifestyle.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;
tab-stops:right 0in list .75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:
Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>�<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Politicians have no choice but to lie about marijuana;
telling the truth is political suicide.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:right 0in'>The drug war
is an example of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>manufactured consent</b>.
Campaign slogans such as "A Drug Free America," "Zero
Tolerance," "Soft on Drugs" and "Tough on Crime"
implies that the person you vote for is going to �fix the problem�. Voters
believe each new candidate who promises to �get the job done� will succeed. As
the government continues to run media slogans and escalate arrests, the war
costs more money and ruins more lives with no end in sight.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:right 0in'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:right 0in'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:right 0in'>James Wiley</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:right 0in'>May 2009</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:right 0in'>Updated May
2011</p>
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