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Hell freezes over: White House Drug Czar backs decriminalization

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John Walters Backs a Mexican Proposal Far More Sweeping Than U.S. Measures He Has Opposed

(Washington, D.C.) The Marijuana Policy Project today congratulated White House “drug czar” John Walters for backing a Mexican government proposal that would remove criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana.

“I can’t believe I’m actually saying this, but John Walters is right,” said MPP executive director Rob Kampia. “We heartily second his support for eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana users in Mexico, and look forward to working with him to end such penalties in the U.S. as well.”

On Oct. 22, The New York Times reported Walters’ public support for a drug decriminalization proposal by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, quoting Walters as saying, “I don’t think that’s legalization.” Under Calderon’s proposal, individuals caught with small quantities of marijuana would receive no jail sentence or fine and would not receive a criminal record so long as they complete either drug education or, if addicted, drug treatment. Unlike proposals supported by MPP, the Mexican president’s proposal would also decriminalize possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.

“It’s fantastic that John Walters has recognized the massive destruction the drug war has inflicted on Mexico and is now calling for reforms there, but he’s a rank hypocrite if he continues opposing similar reforms in the U.S.,” Kampia said. “The Mexican proposal is far more sweeping than MPP’s proposals to decriminalize marijuana or make marijuana medically available, both of which John Walters and his henchmen rail against.”

In a March 19, 2008, press release from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, deputy director Scott Burns called a New Hampshire proposal to impose a $200 fine rather than jail time for a small amount of marijuana “a dangerous first step toward complete drug legalization.”
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39 comments // Hell freezes over: White House Drug Czar backs decriminalization

  • onechance
  • partyrager
  • rebot
  • bansheewail
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      bansheewail  
    • How else are they going to open the Amero-Super Highway from Mexico City to Montreal?? They have to loosen-up the laws a bit for that to work.

    • 3 years ago
  • realfran
  • oakside
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      oakside  
    • The bottom-line (for me at least) is that as long as alcohol and tobacco are legal to 18/21+, there's no reason that a few much "safer" drugs such as cannabis shouldn't be.

      You'd have huge co.'s (ex. Philip Morris) selling the high-quality products meanwhile criminals that currently provide it illegally would be out a huge sum of money to fund their activities.

    • 3 years ago
  • Ish05
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      Ish05  
    • I'm going to hit to people with a few news articles. It may get a little long but it will give you an idea as to who and why this push for drug decriminalization is actually an attempt to dope up the world population. Bare with me.

      British Oligarchs Run Soros's Global Dope Legalization Drive

      August 27 2008 (LPAC)--Take a good look inside the heads of the British oligarchs who stand behind George Soros's global drive to legalize the international dope trade again. In the case of drug promoters Lord and Lady Neidpath, that job is easier than you might think. Advocates of the bloody medieval practice of trepanation, the two drilled holes in their skulls decades ago, in search of "higher consciousness." Seriously.

      Lady Neidpath's Beckley Foundation was originally named the "Foundation to Further Consciousness," as Her Ladyship is an avid proponent of mass use of psychoactive drugs, including of LSD, "for improving brain power." Receiving major funding from Soros's Open Society Institute, since 2000 the Beckley Foundation has played a central role in George Soros's international drug legalization lobby.

      In 2004, the Foundation set up the International Drug Policy Consortium, uniting some 25 international "drug policy reform" NGO's, most, if not all financed by Soros, and the so-called "International Society for the Study of Drug Policy," made up of a raft of Soros's drug legalizers.

      The Foundation set them up out of one of its seminars in the House of Lords. The Neidpaths may be kooky, but they are well-connected, operating as a cut-out for the British government and oligarchy. Its co-director, Mike Trace, is the former Deputy drug czar of the Blair government. The Foundation has held its annual Global Drug Policy Seminars in the House of Lords since 2003, attended by top government officials (e.g. Head, Drug Strategy Directorate, Home Office) and diplomats, as well as prominent Lords and Ladies. Its 2003 meeting at the Royal Society was co-sponsored by the UK Cabinet Office Strategy Unit; in 2005, the UK Government "Foresight" program co-sponsored a "Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs Project" with the Beckley Foundation, and assigned the foundation the task of developing "a long term, sustainable policy on the management of recreational drugs."

      When the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration busted one Leonard Pickard, for running one of the largest LSD production and distribution operations in U.S. history (out of a decommissioned Atlas silo in Kansas, no less), with enough raw material to produce 10 million or more LSD doses monthly, Lord and Lady Neidpath wrote the prosecutor on Pickard's behalf, requesting leniency because Pickard had helped them plan conferences on "Drugs and Society" at Queen Elizabeth's Windsor Castle, and arranged conferences on drug policy which featured the British Home Secretary and Drug Czar.

      The goal of these LSD-pushers is that of the entire international NGO strike force financed by Soros in which it plays a crucial role: to crack international cooperation against mass narcotics use globally, now. They are determined to legalize opium in Afghanistan, and cocaine in the Andes, by the upcoming March 2009 U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs meeting in Vienna, Austria.

      Read their websites! When addressing Congresses, they talk about "harm reduction," but when their "experts" get together, they let it all hang out: the movement for which Soros is the front-man and money-bags, seeks mass addiction of the world's populations. Their experts, like the psychopath Lady Neidpath, who filmed herself cutting the hole in her own skull to achieve "an altered state of consciousness, advocate drug use.

    • 3 years ago
  • Ish05
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      Ish05  
    • Ish05:

      Soros Seeks De-Criminalization

      August 29, 2008 (LPAC)--George Soros, who at the age of 14 assisted Adolf Eichmann's program of the mass murder of Jews in Hungary, seeks de-criminalization in Massachusetts.

      Associated Press reported yesterday, that "A measure that would decriminalize minor marijuana-possession cases is on the ballot in Massachusetts largely because of one man: billionaire financier and liberal activist George Soros. Of the $429,000 collected last year by the group advancing the measure, $400,000 came from Soros, who has championed similar efforts in several states and spent $24 million to fight President Bush's 2004 re-election bid. The Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy needed about $315,000 of that just to collect the more than 100,000 signatures that secured a spot on the ballot, according to campaign finance reports reviewed by The Associated Press." LPAC has shown, that Soros recently completed a "hostile takeover" of the Democratic Party, and a forthcoming article in EIR magazine will reportedly show how Soros and company have similarly financially taken over other aspects of the U.S. political process such as petitioning and voter-registration.

    • 3 years ago
  • Ish05
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      Ish05  
    • Ish05:

      Soros Spends $1.4 Million On Drug Decriminalization Ballot Initiative In California

      Los Angeles, September 5, 2008 (LPAC)--Fascist drug-pusher George Soros has put $1.4 million behind the passage of a ballot initiative in California, the misnamed Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act, which will be on the November ballot as Proposition 5. While the initiative claims to be about rehabilitation, it is designed to reward drug users who commit crimes, by keeping them out of jail, if they accept drug treatment.

      However, while promising rehabilitation, it actually favors continuing drug use, as it allows drug users to continue using drugs while in treatment! As actor Martin Sheen elaborates in an op ed in the Sacramento Bee, in which he opposes the initiative, Soros' bill would prohibit funding of ongoing drug testing, so that the offenders may continue using drugs, while avoiding incarceration. The initiative is being pushed as one to reduce prison overcrowding.

      This is the third time Soros has intervened in California to promote drug usage. In 1996, he donated nearly $500,000 to support passage of the state's medical marijuana law; and he gave $1 million in 2000 to back Proposition 36, a "drug treatment" initiative. Soros' backing of Prop. 5 is part of his present global offensive to promote drug usage.

    • 3 years ago
  • Ish05
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      Ish05  
    • Ish05:

      Soros Pushes Drugs On Uribe; Uribe Says "No"

      October 18, 2008 (LPAC)--George Soros's hit-squad yesterday launched an assault against Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, the one Ibero-American President who is insisting that legalized "personal consumption" of drugs must be reversed, because it is a cover for increasing drug mob activities. Soros's Human Rights Watch/Americas (HRW) held a press conference yesterday in New York City to release a new report alleging that Uribe is covering up links between his administration and the paramilitaries. BBC TV, naturally, played up the HRW report for all it is worth.

      Soros' attack on President Uribe occurs in the context of that Nazi-trained British asset's drive to destroy the legitimate governments of Ibero-America and empower the drug trade networks through legalized drug consumption policies. Soros founded the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, headed by former Presidents of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, in April 2008, to lead that drive.

      The Commission held its second meeting in Bogota, Colombia on Sept. 4-5, closeting itself behind closed-doors with Soros's personal drug lobby strategist, Ethan Nadelmann. Within weeks, governments fell in line. On Oct. 1 Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent legislation to Congress, to legalize "personal doses" of every narcotic known, including cocaine, heroin and the synthetic killers. On Oct. 13, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya joined the crowd, telling a regional meeting of top anti-narcotics officials, that consumption of "chemical, synthetic and natural" drugs should be legalized, and abusers "educated" on lowering their use. If Argentina's Justice Minister has his way, Argentina will follow suit quickly.

      Colombia's Uribe, however, refuses to buckle on this one, pointing out loudly, at home and internationally, that the legalization of "personal doses"--the sophist fraud championed by Soros--has increased drug consumption and provided impunity for the traffickers.

    • 3 years ago
  • Ish05
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      Ish05  
    • Ish05:

      Soros' Doping of America

      October 21 2008 (LPAC)-- George Soros is burning money as if he were growing it in his backyard, in order to get dope legalized. There are three states which have some form of marijuana legislation on the ballot next month, and, in total, they have received over $6 million in funding, with Soros himself responsible for almost $2 million of it.

      In California is Proposition 5, NORA, the "Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act," which would provide for mandated treatment, instead of prison, for low-level offenders. This is the third initiative Soros has sponsored in California in 12 years; this one drew a rough total of $3.4 million in funds. In Michigan is Proposal 1, a medical marijuana bill which would also allow "patients" the right to grow 12 plants of their own. In Massachusetts is Question 2, which would decriminalize dope, making it a civil offense, punishable with a $100 fine. The Soros-connected Marijuana Policy Project has put $1.2 million into Michigan, and $200,000 into Massachusetts.

      Since 1996, Soros-led ballot initiatives have managed to legalize "medical marijuana" in 11 states, beginning with California's Proposition 215. The exact wording of each of these varies, but many of these (like Michigan's) include a provision that "patients" can raise their own dope, as well as consume it. Despite their promoters' insistence that these are not "drug legalization" efforts, subsequent "follow-on" amendments and revisions tell otherwise.

      Next month, residents of Oakland, Calif., will have a chance to vote on a local initiative, Proposition JJ, which will "remove the limits" on the amount of "medicine" that one person can cultivate, and establish "collectives" for overview, instead of state regulators. In Oregon, the number of medical marijuana "cardholders" has jumped 23% (to almost 20,000) in the last year, and police seizures of plants from unauthorized "medicine men" have jumped from 248 to 1,507. Paul Stanford, head of the local Hemp & Cannabis Foundation, waxes philosophical, noting, "Of course, the real solution is to legalize it."

    • 3 years ago
  • rainbowryan420
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      rainbowryan420  
    • Ish05:

      how can you expect me to stretch my attention span like that

      it lasts 20 minutes at best

      but my personal beliefs on this issue are that weed mushrooms and DMT should be legal everything else is fine at it's current legal status

      and if you disagree please don't have an extremely long response

      because i wont be able to read it all

    • 3 years ago
  • rockstarmillionaire
  • barbara3d
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      barbara3d  
    • Ish05:

      uh, remember needle park in Switzerland? Everyone and anyone could go there and do anything. Well, it was a disaster...I watched some films where many young people just overdosed and lay dying in the middle of the park. Now weed, I am from the 60s...I think it is far better than the deadly curse of alcohol. You just cannot over do it because it is proven to kill you motivation. But as a w/end cocktail...I would love it. It makes you so mellow...just don't drive because you generally go 2 mph!LOL

    • 3 years ago
  • ReVOfx
  • picKFishStudios
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      picKFishStudios  
    • decriminalizing is a great idea. stop wasting tax money prosecuting someone for "toking up," and stop ruining peoples lives cause they rather smoke than drink. alcohol is a drug too, remember that!

    • 3 years ago
  • rainbowryan420
  • Ish05
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      Ish05  
    • All you dopers are beyond stupid. You're insane. It's the terrorist drug cartels funding this BS, along with ex government officials, proved to have been corrupt in their own nation. Cedillo is the ex president of Mexico who stole hundreds of millions of dollars from the nation and further crippled its economy. He fled the country for fear of people retaliation. Now he has teamed up with Billionaire shark George Soros and are trying to get these policies pushed throughout the world. These are the same people supplying weapons to the drug cartels creating this chaos you see now and you doped up idiots don't know and don't care what hell is going on.

    • 3 years ago
  • rainbowryan420
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      rainbowryan420  
    • Ish05:

      "John Walters for backing a Mexican government proposal that would remove criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana."

      it depends on how much a small amount is

    • 3 years ago
  • simplecj
  • ReVOfx
  • rainbowryan420
  • schobiz
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      schobiz  
    • I'm a bit skeptical about this. Perhaps Walters secretly favors decriminalization but is under too much pressure from the administration to speak out about it, or maybe he thinks it will be a huge failure and would use it as an example to push stricter drug penalties in our country. Either way, I'm glad to see more countries realizing that drug law reform is both necessary and potentially beneficial.

    • 3 years ago
  • realitybytes
  • AdrianBikes
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      AdrianBikes  
    • What's alarming is "the Mexican president’s proposal would also decriminalize possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine. "

      Now what the fuck's up with that! those are WAY more hard core than a little hash

    • 3 years ago
  • rossao
    • 0
      rossao  
    • Wow, its about time! Education about drugs and substance abuse is key, especially with youngsters.
      So is helping people get off of drugs and rehabilitation.

    • 3 years ago
  • PirateSauce
  • keviar
  • simplecj
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      simplecj  
    • I just want to be able to grow my own and enjoy it without fearing for my freedom and my employment... lets hope this translates into future changes for American policy!

    • 3 years ago
  • lifestudentno83
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      lifestudentno83  
    • This doesn't change anything for people in America. This could hardly be called a step, more like a slight shuffle. They still want to throw non-violent drug users into jail as often as possible, and as long as they continue to profit from it you can guarentee they will continue that practice.

    • 3 years ago
  • Dmitri_Molotov
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      Dmitri_Molotov  
    • What the...? We're doing Spec Ops in Iran and Syria, The economy is in shambles, gas is down to three bucks a gallon, and now the white house drug czar backs decriminalization? I haven't seen such a bizarre future America since I read Snow Crash...

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
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  • taintedview
  • sk8r408

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