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Pope Benedict

Benedict on Saturday turned to the issue of drug trafficking and its damage to society, threatening Latin American drug dealers with divine retribution.

"God will call you to account for your deeds," Benedict warned drug dealers..

Oops... another unintentionally funny line... wait for it...

"Human dignity cannot be trampled upon in this way," the pope declared

The pope should try actually having a chat with God. I have my own relationship with the Divine Presence and, while I would never be stupid enough to claim to speak for Him, I get the distinct impression that if He was actually into the divine retribution shtick, drug dealers would be considerably further down on that list than Benedict himself.

EUROPE: VATICAN REGISTERS FIRST DRUG CONVICTION
For the first time, someone has been convicted of a drug charge in the Vatican.

"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to
liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his
abuses in return for protection to his own."
-- Thomas Jefferson



THE NECTAR OF DELIGHT
The Indian vadas sang of Cannabis as one of the divine nectars, able to give man anything from good health and long life to visions of the gods. The Zend-Avesta of 600 B.C. mentions an intoxicating resin, and the Assyrians used Cannabis as an incense as early as the ninth century B.C..

Virtues' of Ganja
The Ganjawar Fraud
Pot Potency? Boomers' blissfully unfazed by mere facts.

"They say you can't legislate morality.
Well, you certainly can."
-- former US Attorney General John Ashcroft
As quoted in the Chicago Tribune May 25, 1998

Ancient Temple Hashish Incense! Did Jesus Inhale?

Pope Benedict Arnold?
Why do such stupid people get such important positions?

Witness: Drug War Spraying Colombia To D.E.A.th
Jena Matzen has a carousel of slides from her trip to Colombia, and she’s giving slide shows throughout the Triangle. These are not your standard shots of smiling couples standing in front of national landmarks. One image shows a farmer at the center of his 12-acre field, a former corn crop now utterly decimated. Another shows a white flag raised over a black pepper crop, as a signal to airplanes that this is a legal crop. According to Matzen, a Hillsborough resident, the white flag did not have the desired effect; the pepper crop was destroyed nevertheless, by planes dropping enormous quantities of an herbicide called glyphosate -- marketed by Monsanto in this country under the brand name Round-Up -- as part of the U.S. war on drugs.

Colombia Drug War News

Contra-Cocaine Scandal

"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."
--Howard Zinn, historian and author

It's those Jewish Bastards Out for Legalizing!
--Richard M. Nixon


1810 Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903). awarded a gold medal to a fashionable 19th-Century cocaine-laced wine called Vin Mariani, the drink that inspired Coca-Cola. The dangers of cocaine being unknown, Vin Mariani was also praised and used by many doctors and scientists as well as Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, Pope Pius X, and USA presidents Ulysses S Grant and William McKinley. Endorsements for the tonic beverage were given by Thomas Alva Edison, Émile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, père, Henrik Ibsen, Frédéric Bartholdi and Jules Verne, among others.

LATIN AMERICA: COLOMBIA BANS COCA PRODUCTS -- EXCEPT COCA-COLA
For years, the Colombian government has allowed indigenous traditional coca growers to market coca products nationwide, but now it has changed course, and some are pointing the finger at Coca-Cola

Letter From Israel - Keep on the Grass By Sylvana Foa 
Village Voice  January 07, 2003 Jaffa
The country is going to pot. No one seems to mind. It makes us feel like we live in a normal 21st-century nation instead of some backward place where two peoples, neither of whom eats pork, kill each other over a piece of scrubby land.

Christian Extremism and Terrorism In History Mar 31, 2006

The Lord… hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives
and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. (Isaiah 61:1)

Thank God for Hippies May 02, 2006

And I will raise up for them a plant of renown,
and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land,
neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. Ezekiel 34:29

Faith-Based Rehabilitation Nov 01, 2006

'Verily I say unto you,
inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethern,
ye have done it unto me." (Jesus:) (Matt. 25:40)

The Tree of Life

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us,
to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand,
and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. Gen.3 [22]

Ganja May Live Up To Be The Elixir of Life By Ravi Chopra
CN Source: Earthtimes.org October 15, 2005
A study by University of Saskatchewan researchers suggests beneficial aspects of smoking marijuana at least among rats, who appear to have sprouted new brain cells and besides benefiting from reduced depression and anxiety. The study's results appearing in the 'Journal of Clinical Investigation' have actually given a fillip to the traditional and mythological view that associates the addictive weed in some ways with immortality.
Continued...cannabisnews/21194

Hummmmmm?

"I have examined all the known superstitions of the word, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth."
Thomas Jefferson, third President of the USA, letter to William Short


Cocaine Toothache Drops Advertisement, 1885

"if a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked." Prov 29:12

"if a Harkin rules on lies, he is a wicked servant..." DdC 5:13

Clueless
DWR: Sunday, May 13, 2007

Senator Tom Harkin (via)

Marijuana is often the drug singled out for legalization. However, marijuana is not the recreational drug that many believe it to be. In a study completed by the Drug Abuse Warning Network, the number of marijuana related emergencies has nearly reached the level of cocaine related emergencies. As this statistic indicates, marijuana use often has fatal consequences.

Now that's some hall-of-fame logic. You'd think all those health professionals and pharmaceutical companies that gave him over half a million dollars would have been able to teach him something about what emergency room mentions actually mean... Oh. Right

"Medicines often produce side effects.
Sometimes they are physically unpleasant.
Cannabis too has discomforting side effects,
but these are not physical they are political"
The Economist March 28th 1992

Cover-Ups, Prevarications, Subversions & Sabotage Oct 08, 2006

Democrats Fled In The Face Of Danger

We Democrats are at our worst when we try to emulate Republicans as we did in signing onto the "war" on drugs that has ruined so many young lives.