Community | January 31, 2010 | 18 comments

Mexican Cartels Join DEA in Opposition of U.S. State Marijuana Laws

source: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/january312010/pot_nonsense_tk.php

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The DEA and other federal agencies want to incarcerate people and overly regulate this simple herb and you know who is on their team? That's right, the Mexican drug cartels.

This nation is heading for a showdown with the Drug Enforcement Agency, a government arm nearing rogue status. They have been running awry of state laws in order to keep the pharmaceutical and insurance industries intact. The DEA is an enemy of the emerging data that keeps painting marijuana an even richer tone of green, and their interests a sootier shade of black.

They are the last vestiges of the Bush Administration's whacked out interpretation of how things should be. I don't know about you but I'm tired of the feds shoveling sh*t over the vibrant people of America.

The moral compasses of these so-called cops is soaring somewhere over the Bermuda Triangle. The centerpoints of the new campaign are both LA and San Diego Counties, where the will of the people is utterly devalued.

Marijuana never should have been criminalized and only a blind, closed minded society would seek to keep it that way. Clearly, it is not the will of the people that is at stake, but the profits of the above mentioned industries.

The feds want to lock up your sons and daughters, parents and grandparents, because of a plant that grows naturally in the ground. Pot laws are a farce and a case of extremely willful prejudice. Laws against marijuana are rooted in bigotry toward Mexicans and African-Americans.

Jack Herer, author of "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", wrote the book of all books on this subject. He exposed the process used to vilify and then criminalize this herb which helps Americans by the millions.

The DEA and other federal agencies want to incarcerate people and overly regulate this simple herb and you know who is on their team? That's right, the Mexican drug cartels. They are the DEA's friends.

Only a complete simpleton misses the connection.

Keeping marijuana illegal and non-commercial only helps big pharma, insurance, DEA job security, and these cold blooded drug dealing killers south of the border. The United States is economically strapped and the DEA wants to keep it that way.

In my view that makes them a danger to our very existence. The agency should be disbanded, they had their chance and they have miserably failed. In their heyday they added to the problem of "drugs in America" through their complicity with the Ronald Reagan/Ollie North era guns for drugs programs operated by the DEA's sister agency, the CIA.

Our writers Dr. Phil Leveque and Allan Erickson have written about this at length, along with Norm Stamper, former Seattle Police Chief, who is an active proponent and member of the forward thinking group called LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

Americans have been had and now the DEA wants to rub salt in our wounds by proving that they don't have to follow state laws; as if they are somehow above it, as if somehow there is no United States at all.

People of the older generations might as well get it through their heads that practically everyone today either has or does use marijuana. Again, as Dr. Leveque has written hundreds of times over the years on these pages, marijuana has never caused a single death. It is an appropriate alternative to alcohol, which kills a person's liver.

Almost every single negative thing you have ever been taught in school, or told by a police officer about marijuana, is probably not true.
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18 comments // Mexican Cartels Join DEA in Opposition of U.S. State Marijuana Laws

  • ryan8566
  • noxidereus
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      noxidereus  

    • That was a well written. The DEA is fighting a war against the United States citizens. They call it the "war on drugs". I call it fascism - oppressive, dictatorial control, suppression of the opposition through terror. It is worth noting that Prick Dixon (aka Richard Nixon) waged this war against citizens protesting the war (Vietnam). It was used to silence dissidents. How democratic! How American! Getting rid of dissidents isn't something that's supposed to happen in a democratic republic. That's fascism.

      The war, like almost every other American war, was sold to the American people through lies and fear-mongering. How easy it is to control the masses when they're ignorant! Luckily the ignorance is fading, thanks in large part to the vast amount of free information on the Internet. How long do you think it will take before they censor the Internet here like in China? You know American corporations work with China to suppress information. We provide the technology for surveillance there too. It's all too sick to think about for too long.

      Humanity is either going to have another enlightenment or everything will go into the darkness of nuclear winter.

      Those who try to control everything will fail either way.

    • 2 years ago
  • serenden68
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      serenden68  

    • well the two have interests that benefit each other although they are really supposed to be working against each other. the cartels just wanna sell any illegal thing they can to make money, they don't care what happens as long as they get their money. the govt. wants to keep certain things illegal be it for personal or public safety reasons.. to be honest as long as anything is illegal there will always be a black market for it and people will find a way to obtain it.

      now while i don't believe in legalizing all drugs like many of my peers do, i do believe in the legalization of Cannabis/Hemp for the overwhelmingly amount of obvious reasons.

    • 2 years ago
  • FoosMaster
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      FoosMaster  

    • It is a simple, common sense connection that only someone with a vested interest in some way to one of the organizations that profits from prohibition or an idiot that believes propaganda can deny.

    • 2 years ago
  • csmonut
  • gutterhippy
  • jswiz
  • dreamsenvoy
  • jubal
  • hunzedog
  • Kari_Heaberlin
  • hunzedog
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      hunzedog  
    • Kari_Heaberlin:

      let's light one up in the name of freedom indeed ! if you have never been handcuffed and thrown into a cell with a bunch of animals for smoking cannabis you have no right to preach to me about freedom. lots of people think they have rights untill they are taken away. dont tell me you have freedoms. if your so free go to the nearest police station and light up your marijuana joint for freedom. when they toss YOU in a cell and throw away the key and you cannot even decide you would like to take a shit not in front of people or when to eat or drink your water out of the toilet bowl. or smell the smell of piss, or listen to the constant drone of the angry voices THEN TELL ME ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS. I GOT A FUNNY FEELING YOU HAVE NEVER EATEN A GREEN BOLOGNA SANDWICH BEFORE.......GET SOME STRIPES

      get on your soapbox then and preach to me about your freedoms......

    • 2 years ago
  • hunzedog
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      hunzedog  
    • Kari_Heaberlin:

      what about all those people that get killed in no knock drug raids. where they just bust into your house and shoot you dead on your couch...the only thing that happens is your dead. its happened to hundreds of people . do you think they had rights......none of us are FREE, everyone has chains. NONE OF US ARE FREE

    • 2 years ago
  • Kari_Heaberlin
  • hunzedog
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      hunzedog  
    • Kari_Heaberlin:

      im just saying thats there is 850,000 people in jail for cannabis who very differently than you do. and when i was on the hook,on the hood of that cop car this last time, looking at those shiney new LED cop lights that i bought. and all those new yellow tazers and 60 dollar UNDER URMOUR t shirts on with all the bells and whistles. while i was laying prone across the hood i thought to myself "if i ever get free what am i going to help people who dont have a voice????" thats where bongwater bob comes from. our brothers and sisters are being enslaved for profits of rich pharma / jail companies..its modern day slavery..making a living off the misery of others..the only companies making money in this country are pharma and jails......

      i am not fighting you, i am asking for your help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 2 years ago
  • noxidereus
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      noxidereus  
    • Kari_Heaberlin:

      Interesting take Kari, and I know what you're trying to say, but I disagree with you (respectfully).

      The problem, as I see it, with your philosophy as rebuttal to hunzedog's is that you are using different definitions. It is a problem with our language.

      "Hunze, whether or not someone can lock you away, they can't take away your ability to exercise free will"

      This statement is false because free will in a cage is not free will. If you are forced to stay where someone else wants you to stay, you do not have free will to go where you want. The only freedom you have is your own thoughts. That's not how I define free will.

      Here's the definition from answers.com: The power of making free choices that are unconstrained by external circumstances or by an agency such as fate or divine will.

      If the detrimental result of one's free will is to be stripped of one's free will by putting them in a cage, then one does not really have free will at all, even if one is not yet imprisoned.

      "Plus, if you get murdered by DEA or gangsters, that something out of your control and no way is it slavery."

      Wrong. If you are forced to behave a certain way under (explicit or implicit) threat of punishment of death by someone else, then you don't have free will. You are not free do to as you wish, because there is an external force keeping you from exercising your free will. That's slavery.

      "Believing that something can be done to change fate is a painful illusion, and brings only sorrow and regret."

      That's wrong too. What is fate? There is no predetermined course that we are stuck on. Fate is nothing more than what is going to happen in the future. One's actions can and will change the course of the future.

      "slavery is in your mind"

      There would probably be a lot of angry slaves if you said that in America before emancipation. It's an interesting philosophical concept, however, slavery can be forced physically and is not only a construct of your mind. A slave is not free if his thoughts are free while his body is in bondage.

      "Fear is the tool the masters of oppression use to keep the masses weak and scattered"

      Totally agree with that! However, neither you, nor I, nor hunzedog are free to live our lives exactly as we wish, if we will be killed, or jailed for exercising our free will. The most effective way to take away one's free will is to kill them.

      Freedom is the illusion. Peace.

    • 2 years ago
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