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DWR: Futile by Pete Guither

First reviews are in of DEA,
the unreality drug war violence porn that Al Roker premieres tonight on Spike TV:

The Star: War on drugs a total bust

New York Times: Drug War in Detroit, Macho Style

I'm not watching it. But if anyone does,
feel free to leave your own descriptions in comments.
And don't feed the trolls. Full DWR critique



Legitimizing Ganja

San DEAgo DEAth Raids
Protecting the sick from their medicine...


Investigators said the dispensaries were selling marijuana in many forms,
including candies and baked goods.

Stoner Pops - it’s not just a candy, it’s a lifestyle
candyaddict.com October 6, 2005 - by Brian

hempcandy

maryjanecandyco

chroniccandy



Somebody shoot me
DWR: April 1, 2008 ATLANTA

Sen. Stoner Targets Stoner Pops

A Georgia state senator with the last name "Stoner" has put his name on a bill to ban the sale of so-called "Stoner Pops" to minors. The legal lollipops taste like illegal marijuana and critics say they help hook youngsters on the real thing. [...]

Students from Osborne High School were among those lobbying for passage of the bill. They argued that the chronic candy is sold on the street in a style that resembles the sale of real drugs. The message to children is that marijuana is cool. [...]

"I know several people who's addicted to marijuana and other drugs like heroin and cocaine and I'm just tired of seeing my fellow youths suffering from stuff like this," said Percy Broussard.

Doesn't it sometimes feel like turnips have a higher I.Q. than people?



Sometimes? I think you under estimate them...
Turnip 101 class of 2008,
D.A.R.E.yl Gates School of Regurgitated BS

Sen. Stoner Targets Stoner Pops
By: Tracey Christensen 4/1/2008

"It's an issue I don't think people are aware of so if by having my last name is a way to bring attention to it, by me carrying the bill, I'm more than happy to do that. If a vote is not made before the end of the day, it will move back into committee. I will work to push the bill back on the Senate floor Wednesday, hoping for a vote before the Legislature adjourns on Friday.

Senator Doug Stoner District 6 Democrat

Committee Membership * Ethics
Jurisdiction of the Ethics Committee shall include all legislation addressing the moral & ethical issues relating to governmental individuals and groups.

"Marihuana influences Negroes to to look at white people in the eye,
step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice."
-- William Randolph Hearst - Newspaper Tycoon (1936)

What is Chronic Candy?
Chronic Candy is a hemp based candy...

Is it legal?
Yes, unless you live in the city of Chicago, IL, And Suffolk County, NJ.

If I eat Chronic Candy Will I fail a drug test?
No, there are no traceable amounts of THC.

Hemp seed is one of the plant kingdom's most concentrated, complete and balanced sources of essential amino acids (EAA's) and essential fatty acids (EFA's). www.livingharvest.com

"This kind of thing is reprehensible.
It's nothing but dope candy,
and that's nothing we need to be training our children to do."
- Georgia Senator Vincent Fort D-ATL

"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men....
the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races."
- Harry J. Anslinger - America's 1st Drug Czar (FDR - JFK)

Stop the sale of Marijuana flavored candy!
“Every day we delay, more people are being endangered
by the sale of a candy that markets itself as ‘highly addictive.’
For the sake of our youngest citizens, we cannot wait.
We need to actively protect the safety and health
of our children today, not tomorrow.”
- Mich. State Rep Dudley Spade (D-Tipton)

"[Marijuana] is highly intoxicating and constitutes an ever recurring problem where there are Mexicans or Spanish-Americans of the lower classes."
-- New York Times - Newspaper (1933)

The bill, which will make the sale of pot lollipops punishable by a short prison stay and fine up to $1,000 has failed to gain momentum in the Senate for three years in a row.



Outlawing Common Sense

Raids Net Pounds of Pot-Laced Candy

Maple Sugar Hashish Candy
Starting in the 1860s, the Ganja Wallah Hasheesh Candy Company made maple sugar hashish candy, which soon became one of the most popular treats in America. For 40 years, it was sold over the counter and advertised in newspapers, as well as being listed in the catalogs of Sears-Roebuck, as a totally harmless, delicious, and fun candy.



How Lethally Stupid Can One Country Be? By David Michael Green
AlterNet. Posted March 28, 2008.
Watching George W. Bush in operation these last couple of weeks is like having an out-of-body experience. On acid. During a nightmare. In a different galaxy.



What's In Popeye's Pipe? by Dana Larsen (02 Feb, 2005)
Is the world's most famous sailor-man tooting more than just spinach in his pipe?

We better ban spinach, call ole Stoner down yonder in Newt-land...



Idiot D.E.A.th winds a blowin 'cross the herd mentalities...
It's a wonder that they even feed themselves...

Battle Over Pot Possession in Alaska

I'd say not this shit again, but that's what I said last time...

Hypocrisy is Message We Need To Avoid

Maybe, but it's something we're good at...
practice, practice, practice.

Hash Bash Might Not Be Able To Secure Diag

Oops rented out, sorry, orders, I mean rented out, maybe next year, oh well heathen, I mean, sorry toodles, bye bye adios, closed... No, that days already rented cause I remember, I don't have to look it up. We don't want your kind here!

MMJ Puts Tax Collectors in Tight Spot

Cage em, kill em, confiscate their cars, kids and forfeiture their homes.
Then ask them to pay taxes in the seasons they don't get busted...



Chewing and Injecting Marijuana A Major Health Problem In Uganda?
Or Quackery, and Corruption?
How Reefer Madness Kills the Most Vulnerable.
Selective Indignation, Indeed.
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2008-04-02 16:20:00

If we bombed Uganda and the other countries in Africa we could not do more harm – or kill more people – than we are with our lies. But remember “selective indignation”? If we were dropping bombs, there would be marches in the streets, outrage in the progressive blogosphere. African American preachers and politicians would make Obama’s ex-pastor sound mild. But no, these are the lies we live by, and kill by. Selective indignation, indeed. Read Full Story...

"Thank you Miss Rosa"

[DdC]

"You know you're a redneck...
if your family tree has a rope hanging from it."
- Warren Sapp, roasting the cable guy.

UGA Should Back Off Marijuana Advocates
US GA: Athens Banner-Herald Editorial Fri, 10 Apr 2009

If University of Georgia officials truly believe the campus chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is infringing on a university trademark, why aren't they pursuing the issue in the regular court system, rather than through the university's student judiciary organization?

While it's true the student judiciary can put the group on probation or suspension, or can disband it altogether, the student judiciary is not competent - or shouldn't be considered competent - to determine whether the NORML chapter, an officially recognized UGA student group, has misappropriated a UGA trademark.

There are precedents for zealous defenses of the university's trademarks. In December 2006, the University of Georgia Athletic Association, upon whose board sits UGA President Michael Adams, filed a lawsuit against Atlanta-based Bulldog Movers on the basis of the fact that the company used the word "bulldog," UGA's mascot, and the color red, one of the school's colors, as part of its logo.

In 2005, the University System Board of Regents, which oversees the state's 35 institutions of higher education, had to ask one of its own members to stop selling a wine labeled with a likeness of the University of Georgia Arch and the words "University of Georgia" and "UGA Alumni Association."

So why shouldn't NORML get the same sort of high-pressure treatment from university officials?

Could it be that the university is less interested in any alleged trademark infringement than in threatening, and possibly silencing, a relatively new student group - according to its Web site, Georgia NORML became active just last year - with a controversial message and mission?

According to the Web site, NORML "represent( s ) the interests of ... Americans who smoke marijuana responsibly and believe the recreational and medicinal use of marijuana should no longer be a crime. ... NORML strongly supports the right of patients to use marijuana as a medicine when their physician recommends it to relieve pain and suffering."

The logo in question, which had been emblazoned on T-shirts and used on the Georgia NORML Web site, is best described as a crude drawing of a bulldog sitting in front of an arch - festooned with marijuana leaves and adorned with a banner reading "Legalize, Equalize, Normalize" - holding a joint and reading a book titled "Human Rights." The cartoon bulldog bears absolutely no resemblance to the well-known UGA bulldog logo. At a student judiciary hearing earlier this week, the person who drew the NORML logo said he'd "used a Looney Tunes version" of a bulldog as a model, according to The Red & Black, UGA's independent student newspaper.

In addition, the university initially appeared ambivalent about the logo. Last fall, when the logo first appeared, UGA administrators asked the group to take it off its Web site, and to turn over the T-shirts being sold as a fundraising project. Subsequently, however, the university reversed its position, according to chapter president Wojciech Kaczkowski, who further told this newspaper for a March 26 story that in February, the university once again reversed course and told the group it couldn't use the drawing.

Admittedly, it appears the NORML chapter didn't have what the university says is a required approval to use the school's trademarks. But, again, no one could confuse the NORML logo with any official UGA trademark. And unless the university is willing to engage in a vigorous legal effort to assert its claim that NORML has infringed on a UGA trademark, it is unfortunately easy to conclude the school is doing nothing more than harassing the group for the sake of harassing it.

Originally published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Friday, April 10, 2009.

GA NORML at UGA
Athens, GA 30602
Contact: John Hill
Website: www.uga.edu/norml
Phone: 678-592-7777



NORML State By State Laws > Georgia

Candyman Stoner
A Georgia state senator with the last name "Stoner" has put his name on a bill to ban the sale of so-called "Stoner Pops" to minors. The legal lollipops taste like illegal marijuana and critics say they help hook youngsters on the real thing.