We are handing one of our biggest industries over to armed, criminal gangs
The proponents of the "war on drugs" are well-intentioned people who believe they are saving people from the nightmare of drug addiction and making the world safer. But this self-image has turned into a faith – and like all faiths, it can only be maintained by cultivating a deliberate blindness to the evidence.
The recent furore about the British government's decision to fire its chief scientific advisor on drugs, Professor David Nutt, missed the point. Yes, it is shocking that he was ditched for pointing out the mathematical truth that taking ecstasy is less dangerous than horse-riding, and that smoking cannabis is less harmful than drinking alcohol. But this is how the war on drugs has to be fought. The unofficial slogan of the prohibitionists for decades has been: The facts will only undermine the war, so invent some that show how successful we are, fast.
Look at the United States, the country that pioneered the drug war, and still uses its military and diplomatic might to demand the rest of the world cracks down. In 1998, the Office of National Drug Control Policy was ordered by Congress to stop funding any scientific research that might give the impression that we should redirect funding from anti-trafficking busts into medical treatment of addicts, or that there is any argument to legalise, regulate or medicalise drug use.
It's Nutt cubed: only tell us what we want to hear. So, to give a small example, the ONDCP spent $14bn on anti-cannabis adverts aimed at teenagers, and $43m to find out if the ads worked. They discovered that kids who saw the ads were more likely afterwards to get stoned, so the evidence was suppressed, and the ad campaign marched on.
What would happen if we started to build our drugs policy around the facts, rather than our desire for a fuzzy feeling inside? Prof Nutt only took baby steps in this direction before he was booted out. He argued that we should rank drugs by the harm they do, rather than by the size of the panicked headlines they trigger. Now the row is fading, it is possible to see how conservative he was. A must-read new report out this week – "After The War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation", by the Transform Drug Policy Foundation – follows the facts as far as they will take us. It shows that the rational solution is to take the drug market back from the unregulated anarchy of criminal gangs, and transfer it to pharmacists, off-licences, and doctors who operate in the legal economy. To see why this is necessary, we have to look at some of the facts our politicians refuse to see:
Fact One The drug war hands one of our biggest industries to armed criminal gangs, who unleash terrible violence across the country. When alcohol was prohibited in the US in the 1920s, it didn't vanish. No: armed gangsters like Al Capone stepped in and sold it – and they shot anybody who got in their way. Yet today, Wine Rack does not shoot up Threshers. Oddbins does not threaten to kill anybody who sees its staff selling wine. Why? Because it wasn't the booze that caused the violence; it was the prohibition. Once alcohol was reclaimed for legal businesses, the dealer-on-dealer violence swiftly stopped.
Where there is a huge profit to be made in a black market – it's 3,000 per cent on drugs today – people will fight and kill to control it. Arrest a dealer, and you simply trigger a new war for his patch, with the rest of us caught in the crossfire. In 1986, the Nobel-prize winning economist, Milton Friedman, calculated that there are 10,000 murders in the US alone every year caused this way. Legalise, and you bankrupt most organised crime overnight. With their profits in freefall, the gangsters don't suddenly become cuddly – but the huge financial incentives >> http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-accept-the-facts-ndash-and-end-this-futile-war-on-drugs-1818167.htmlWe are handing one of our biggest industries over to armed, criminal gangs
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Retired Baltimore cop Peter Moskos debates former Clinton "drug czar" Barry McCaffrey about the Obama administration's new approach to medical marijuana. Peter is a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, which any citizen can join for free at http://www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com. Also featured is Tim Lynch from the Cato Institute.Retired Baltimore cop Peter Moskos debates former Clinton "drug czar" Barry McCaffrey... more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement agencies arrested 303 people in 19 states over the past two days in a strike against the distribution network of a major Mexican drug trafficking cartel, officials said on Thursday.
Attorney General Eric Holder said the sweep against networks of the La Familia Michoacana cartel in the United States was the largest U.S. law enforcement action ever taken against Mexican drugs gangs, involving more than 3,000 federal, state and local lawmen.
"Today we have all taken a step forward to disrupt a group that hides behind a shield of ideology while terrorizing communities in Mexico and peddling drugs in our neighborhoods here in the United States," FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Mueller said the "La Familia" has transformed in recent years "from a drug cartel to a sophisticated criminal organization" based in southwestern Mexico.
Holder said the arrests were part of a 44-month investigation known as "Project Coronado," which has led to the detention of nearly 1,200 people on drug-related charges and the seizure of more than 11.7 tons of illegal narcotics.
Officials described La Familia as a particularly violent drug trafficking cartel based in the state of Michoacan.
"For those of you who aren't familiar with La Familia, it is the newest and most violent of the five Mexican drug cartels," Holder told a news conference.
"The sheer level and depravity of violence that this cartel has exhibited far exceeds what we have, unfortunately, become accustomed to from other cartels," he added.
While based in Mexico, the group's operations stretch far into the United States, Holder said.
"That's why we are hitting them where it hurts the most -- their revenue stream. By seizing their drugs and upending their supply chains, we have disrupted their 'business as usual' state of operations," he said.
In addition to the arrests, authorities have seized more than $32 million in U.S. currency since the start of Coronado and confiscated more than 2,700 pounds of methamphetamine, nearly 2,000 kilograms of cocaine and 29 pounds of heroin.
Over the past two days alone they seized $3.4 million in U.S. currency, 730 pounds of methamphetamine and nearly 400 weapons, including a homemade grenade, Holder said.WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement agencies arrested 303 people in 19 states... more
Demand for medical marijuana in Colorado has grown so fast in the past few months that it has outstripped the production of legal "grow" operations and is now probably being supplied by international drug cartels, say some local sheriffs and agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
And as dispensaries proliferate throughout the state, police and lawyers say they are worried about the peripheral crime rising around the shops intended to function as pharmacies, selling medical marijuana prescribed to people who suffer one of eight conditions, ranging from chronic pain to glaucomaDemand for medical marijuana in Colorado has grown so fast in the past few months that... more
In an excerpt from Miami Babylon, Gerald Posner recalls 1980s South Beach, when it was a Wild West of drug cartels and sex parties that made Scarface look tame.In an excerpt from Miami Babylon, Gerald Posner recalls 1980s South Beach, when it was... more
U.S. Marijuana Growers Cutting Into Profits of Mexican Traffickers
ARCATA, Calif. -- Stiff competition from thousands of mom-and-pop marijuana farmers in the United States threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organizations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have not, according to law enforcement officials and pot growers in the United States and Mexico.
Illicit pot production in the United States has been increasing steadily for decades. But recent changes in state laws that allow the use and cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes are giving U.S. growers a competitive advantage, challenging the traditional dominance of the Mexican traffickers, who once made brands such as Acapulco Gold the standard for quality.
Almost all of the marijuana consumed in the multibillion-dollar U.S. market once came from Mexico or Colombia. Now as much as half is produced domestically, often by small-scale operators who painstakingly tend greenhouses and indoor gardens to produce the more potent, and expensive, product that consumers now demand, according to authorities and marijuana dealers on both sides of the border.
The shifting economics of the marijuana trade have broad implications for Mexico's war against the drug cartels, suggesting that market forces, as much as law enforcement, can extract a heavy price from criminal organizations that have used the spectacular profits generated by pot sales to fuel the violence and corruption that plague the Mexican state.
While the trafficking of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine is the main focus of U.S. law enforcement, it is marijuana that has long provided most of the revenue for Mexican drug cartels. More than 60 percent of the cartels' revenue -- $8.6 billion out of $13.8 billion in 2006 -- came from U.S. marijuana sales, according to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Now, to stay competitive, Mexican traffickers are changing their business model to improve their product and streamline delivery. Well-organized Mexican cartels have also moved to increasingly cultivate marijuana on public lands in the United States, according to the National Drug Intelligence Center and local authorities. This strategy gives the Mexicans direct access to U.S. markets, avoids the risk of seizure at the border and reduces transportation costs.
Unlike cocaine, which the traffickers must buy and transport from South America, driving up costs, marijuana has been especially lucrative for the cartels because they control the business all the way from clandestine fields in the Mexican mountains to the wholesale dealers in U.S. cities such as Washington.
"It's pure profit," said Jorge Chabat, an expert on the drug trade at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics in Mexico City.
The exact dimensions of the U.S. marijuana market are unknown. The 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated that 14.4 million Americans age 12 and over had used marijuana in the past month. More than 10 percent of the U.S. population reported smoking pot once in the past year.
Mexico produced 35 million pounds of marijuana last year, according to government estimates. On a hidden hilltop field in Mexico's Sinaloa state, reachable by donkey, a pound of pot might earn a farmer $25. The wholesale price for the same pound in Phoenix is $550, and so the Mexican cartels could be selling $20 billion worth of marijuana in the U.S. market each year.
"Marijuana created the drug trafficking organizations you see today. The founding families of the cartels got their start with pot. And marijuana remains a highly profitable business they will fight to protect," said Luis Astorga, a leading authority on the drug cartels at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, who grew up in Sinaloa in 1960s and recalls seeing major growers at social functions in the state capital, Culiacan.
Led by California, 13 U.S. states now permit some use of mU.S. Marijuana Growers Cutting Into Profits of Mexican Traffickers
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Far from protecting us and our children, the war on drugs is making the world a much more dangerous place.
SO FAR this year, about 4000 people have died in Mexico's drugs war - a horrifying toll. If only a good fairy could wave a magic wand and make all illegal drugs disappear, the world would be a better place.
Dream on. Recreational drug use is as old as humanity, and has not been stopped by the most draconian laws. Given that drugs are here to stay, how do we limit the harm they do?
The evidence suggests most of the problems stem not from drugs themselves, but from the fact that they are illegal. The obvious answer, then, is to make them legal.Far from protecting us and our children, the war on drugs is making the world a much... more
For years, the ridiculous War On Drugs in Mexico has been creating and feeding an out-of-control monster, but until now I didn't realize just how large that monster really is.
It's huge: Mexican drug cartels now have their own oil company.
U.S. refineries bought millions of dollars worth of oil stolen from Mexican government pipelines and smuggled across the border, the U.S. Justice Department told The Associated Press — illegal operations now led by Mexican drug cartels expanding their reach.
Criminals — mostly drug gangs — tap remote pipelines, sometimes building pipelines of their own, to siphon off hundreds of millions of dollars worth of oil each year, the Mexican oil monopoly said. At least one U.S. oil executive has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in such a deal. ["Mexican cartels smuggle oil to US" - Associated Press]
What's next? The Electric Company and Water Works? How about a few hotels on Boardwalk or Park Place?
In March, Forbes Magazine listed Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as "El Chapo" or "Shorty", in a tie for #701 on their list of world's wealthiest - with a fortune worth a billion dollars.
He may be the first billionaire drug dealer on the list, but he probably won't be the last as long as prohibition continues. El Chapo's competition is expanding fast.
The Gulf cartel has launched a full-scale recruitment program, posting help wanted ads promising good pay, free cars and fine dining to mexican soldiers who are looking for a new career in smuggling, torture, or assassinations.
And business is booming: another Associated Press story from a few days ago says cartels have "have morphed into full-scale mafias, running extortion rackets and trafficking people and merchandise" in a way not seen before in Mexico, even providing jobs and social services in remote areas. "It's almost like Chicago, when Al Capone ruled everything,'' a senior U.S. law enforcement official told AP. "They control everything from the shoeshine boy to the taxi driver.''
Drug prohibition creates the illegal market that allows the cartels to exist, and with a lack of legitimacy and a regulation system, cartels are forced to settle disputes with violence. Violence spreads, and as the cartels continue to murder and intimidate thousands and foster this culture of ultra-violence, we will slowly see the takeover of all other legitimate industries.
Author and journalist Charles Bowden appeared on Democracy Now! on August 11, and said that that Mexico's economy is so linked to drug cartels, there is no virtually no way to separate the two.
But what people have to understand is Mexico would collapse without drug money. Our agencies estimate Mexico earns $30 billion to $50 billion a year in foreign currency from selling drugs. Remittances from Mexican workers here is their number two official source of currency, and that’s about $20-$25 billion. But the drug industry is essential. It’s penetrated the whole culture, and it isn’t going away. And nobody is going to destroy it.
I’ll give you another statistic. The consumption of drugs in Mexico has exploded. Last week, a public health official in Juarez, a city of a million and a half, said there’s at least 150,000 addicts in the city. Think of it this way: trying to eradicate the drug industry in Mexico is like trying to eradicate gambling in Las Vegas. It is the economy. And it’s the unspoken part of the economy.
And there’s one final thing that has to be considered. Forty percent of the federal budget in Mexico comes from oil, from PEMEX. The oil fields are collapsing. The Mexican government, by its own statements, thinks they’ll be functionally gone in nine years. That makes drugs yet more important for the survival of the society.
The monster has broken its restraints and is choking its inventor. Only the repeal of prohibition can stop the violence and death, if it's not already to late.For years, the ridiculous War On Drugs in Mexico has been creating and feeding an... more
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Dry conditions and strong winds in California left much of the state vulnerable to massive fires, with blaze-starters ranging from a cooking fire at a drug trafficking operation to a bird flying into a power line.
"It really goes to show you that it doesn't take much with these dry conditions to start a fire," CalFire spokesman Daniel Berlant told CNN Sunday.
The fire sparked by a bird hitting a power line ignited a series of blazes in Yuba County, forcing some 1,300 firefighters to the scene and officials to declare evacuations in the town of Dobbins, he said. Authorities have battled the Yuba fire since Friday and expect containment by Thursday.
In Southern California's Santa Barbara County, a weeklong blaze has charred more than 84,000 acres, investigators said. The fire originated at an illegal marijuana camp believed to be run by a Mexican drug organization, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Narcotics Unit said in a news release Saturday night.
"I haven't heard of any other fire starting that way," said U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Carol Underhill, referring to the so-called La Brea Fire.
More than 2,000 firefighters are fighting the blaze, which is 35 percent contained, authorities said. Some homes around the Los Padres National Forest have been evacuated.
Narcotics investigators have secured the area after working for the past month to eradicate marijuana operations in the remote and steep terrain, the release said.
"It is also believed that the suspects are still within the San Rafael wilderness trying to leave the area on foot," officials said.
Twenty firefighters sustained minor injuries while trying to contain a complex of smaller fires in Northern California's Shasta County that have burned nearly at least 17,623 acres, authorities said.
CalFire spokesman Brent Saulsbury said 37 of the 40 fires -- known as the Shasta Lightning Complex -- are under control.
The area is dense with timber, giving the fires serious fuel. Rugged terrain, limited access to fire trucks and the length of time it takes to reach wildfires have hindered firefighters in recent days, he saidLOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Dry conditions and strong winds in California left... more
An article that appears on the CNN website that includes a link to a broadcast version of the news report concerning the fires that are plaguing California, threatening massive destruction of property and endangering lives.
Succinctly stated, some of these dangerous fires are apparently being traced to the cultivation of large numbers of marijuana plants by members of the Mexican drug cartels operating inside our country. The news report I watched on CNN today also noted that often these cartel members are known to be heavily armed. The news report went on to talk about how these individuals use propane tanks to cook their food because they fear that a traditional campfire would generate smoke that would be easy for law enforcement to spot. It is theorized that one of these fires got out of control resulting in at least one of the major fires that fire fighters are battling.
The news report makes clear the amount of damage that the fire started by the drug gang members has caused- to quote from the article:
In Southern California's Santa Barbara County, a weeklong blaze has charred more than 84,000 acres, investigators said. The fire originated at an illegal marijuana camp believed to be run by a Mexican drug organization, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Narcotics Unit said in a news release Saturday night.
In addition to damage that these fires have caused, imagine the huge financial costs associated with the valiant efforts of the firefighters to combat the fire that has burned more than 84,000 acres, especially at a time when California is already suffering insolvency.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Sunday that Canada will train Mexican police officers to assist Mexico in its brutal war against rival drug cartels.
The announcement came as the prime minister touched down here for a two-day summit with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and U.S. President Barack Obama.
Security will be one of the issues on the agenda at the so-called Three Amigos Summit, along with the global recession, the swine-flu outbreak and climate change.
Through the Anti-Crime Capacity Building Program, Canada will invest as much as $15 million a year in projects across the Americas that combat the illicit drug trade, corruption, human trafficking and other regional problems.
Slightly more than $430,000 will go to Mexico to help it fight its drug war, which claimed more than 6,000 people last year, almost double the number of deaths in the previous year.
Global drug cartels in Mexico have been feuding over access to the lucrative North American market. The U.S. State Department, for example, estimates that 90 per cent of the cocaine that enters the United States flows through Mexico.
Con't on linkPrime Minister Stephen Harper announced Sunday that Canada will train Mexican police... more
MEXICO CITY – It was the boldest, most widespread coordinated offensive ever mounted by drug traffickers against the Mexican government.
Within minutes of the weekend arrest of the La Familia drug cartel's operations chief, the gang launched deadly attacks in President Felipe Calderon's home state. In the worst, 12 federal agents were killed execution-style, their tortured bodies piled along a roadside as a warning for all to see.
The attacks following the weekend capture of Arnoldo Rueda spread quickly to at least 10 cities, including towns in two neighboring states. Officers' hotels were shot up. Grenades were tossed at police posts.
At least 18 federal agents and two soldiers were killed in the attacks and ambushes. Nearly two dozen officers were wounded.
Near the bloodied bodies of the 12 agents dumped in a heap Monday off a mountain highway near La Huacana was a message: "Let's see if you try to arrest another one."
It was a blatant challenge to Calderon, who has deployed federal police and troops in an attempt to halt the country's escalating drug trade.
"The arrests of dangerous leaders by the federal government in recent months is seriously affecting their operations and generating chaos in their ranks," Calderon said. "Thus the violent and desperate reaction that we've seen these days."
Government critics said the offensive revealed that federal forces are unprepared for the battle against heavily armed crime syndicates with extensive intelligence networks embedded within police forces.
They also said it undermines Calderon's repeated claims that violence shows the thugs are on the run.
A cartoon in the left-leaning La Jornada newspaper Wednesday depicted a bound and blindfolded policeman with a gun to his head. "Don't worry," says a tied-up colleague kneeling beside him. "It's just another desperate action by organized crime because they're cornered."
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Somewhere along the line the players got mixed up. In Mexico the cartels are making war on the government over drugs; and in the US the govt is making war on it's citizens over drugs. Let's send the DEA to Mexico & let them battle it out.MEXICO CITY – It was the boldest, most widespread coordinated offensive ever mounted... more
A lot of people think that the pharmaceutical industry is one of the most powerful opponents to marijuana’s legalization. They don’t realize that these companies stand to make billions of dollars off of the chemical compounds contained in marijuana in a legal regulatory climate. The reality is that the current restrictions on marijuana make scientific research on marijuana-related pharmaceuticals too expensive to pursue, and the restrictive regulatory climate concerning anything related to marijuana creates too much uncertainty about future sales and profits to justify developing marijuana related drugs. Even if marijuana were legal and widely available, there would still be a valuable market for a marijuana-based painkiller that was 50 to 100 times more powerful than the herb itself.
Many others think the alcohol industry is another potential opponent to marijuana’s legalization. However, they realize that the popularity of alcohol has withstood the test of time, not to mention marijuana’s immense popularity over the last several decades. Legal marijuana is not a threat to their profits, and if it were, they would just enter the business themselves.
But if not the pharmaceutical and alcohol industries, what are the greatest obstacles to marijuana’s legalization? Here’s a list of the top ten obstacles. They can all be overcome, but they all represent formidable opponents to marijuana reform.
#10 - Conservative opposition to the Obama Administration. A cautionary note – there are many conservatives in favor of legalizing marijuana, and not just dedicated libertarians. For example, Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review, wrote a superb article in favor of marijuana reform in 2001. But there aren’t many conservatives who support the Obama Administration. For example, also turn to the National Review, particularly their popular blog, The Corner, for a good sampling of conservative criticism of the President, his agenda and his policies.A lot of people think that the pharmaceutical industry is one of the most powerful... more
"Obama administration officials said Friday they will devote more resources to fighting Mexican drug cartels and use new technology to thwart them while trying to quell the U.S. demand for drugs that fuels the violent gangs.
Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced a 2009 counternarcotics strategy at a press conference with White House drug czar Gil Kerlikowske. Holder called it 'an effective way forward that will crack down on cartels and make our country safer.' "
How exactualy is this going to make any country in North America safer?! Where there is demand, people will supply. These ambitious drug cartels will find other ways."Obama administration officials said Friday they will devote more resources to... more
On June 6, the Obama administration unveiled a new antidrug strategy for the Southwestern border, a region plagued by horrendous violence from Mexican drug cartels. Alas, the plan simply rearranges the proverbial deck chairs on the Titanic.
Lovely chairs they may be, but the boat’s still going down.On June 6, the Obama administration unveiled a new antidrug strategy for the... more
If you have not heard of him or seen him you're either to rich to be connected or to lame to be in the know. Lord Hector Diono is the unsung Atlanta rapper turned independent film maker who takes us into the dark world of uncertainty, disappointment, struggle,lust,addiction,and triumph in his feature film soon to be released in November 2009 entitled The DiairesIf you have not heard of him or seen him you're either to rich to be connected or to... more
Now available on itunes,napster and a host of other online music stores be sure to visit http://www.lordhectordiono.com for this joint! The best is yet to come from Lord Hector Diono Check out this brief reintroduction of his underground battle joint "Rain On The Game" Produced by H.U.S.H. productions Andreaus Stosonopolis for Dark Town Music Group and Dead Zone Publishing/BMI. The remix has recently been featured on www.iamhiphop.com. Lord Hector Diono offers no rest for the wery on this one.Now available on itunes,napster and a host of other online music stores be sure to... more
I can see it in mind playing back like a song you just can't get of your head Hector sighed," I first fainted after the phone call I got from my long time confidant Andre "South Kak" Scott. I must have cried for a week or two about the whole incident, I had just shared barbeque with him, D.j Enuff, Lil Cease, and Damion at my Godfathers' house in Stone Mountain Georgia like a weekor two before this shit happened", "man I ain't even seen the movie Notorious yet because I still suffer from memories of the day I found out about the shooting that took BIG'S life you know?" We sat down with Lord Hector Diono and captured a rare intimate discussion about his current position with Hip Hop Muisc, the death of Notorious B.I.G. and his outlook on his future in this business of entertainment.I can see it in mind playing back like a song you just can't get of your head Hector... more
We were in the hood covering Atlanta rapper Lord Hector Diono. He resides In Decatur Georgia's area called "The Belly" short for Belvedere and Columbia drive. We were there to discuss the single he released on itunes called "Scarecrow".We thought we'd gain more insight on where he was coming from with the whole idea and scope of the song as well as the over all music project, Needless to say we were scared shitless at some of the off the record incidents we encountered during filming to which Hector respectfully requested that we not film for fear of later prosecution. This guy is really nice though, dispite the ocassional bitch slap he might give some 6 foot hood punk who fails to recognize their place in the lotto line as he plays his lucky numbers for the day.We were in the hood covering Atlanta rapper Lord Hector Diono. He resides In Decatur... more
Columbia Pictures has had plenty of reason to celebrate over the years. With successful movie releases like Spiderman 3, it's no wonder the motion picture giant is still one of the elite in the world of entertainment.In Atlanta Georgia there is an unsung giant of the music world named Lord Hector Diono. An African American Jewish rapper originally from Washington D.C.who lends his single "I was your man" to the film for further promotion of the film series with Marvel Comics. While this version of the song is available only on the video's soundtrack, it will be available on itunes, puretacks,and Amazon on July 1,2009. The Original version is currently available on Napster.com and is listed on the EP Scarecrow now available online everywhere. Dark Town Music Group, Rosenthorn Films and it's CEO Lord Hector Diono would like to thank Columbia Pictures, Marvel Comics, and it's affiliates for the oppurtunity and look forward to further endevours in the future.Columbia Pictures has had plenty of reason to celebrate over the years. With... more
