TURMEL: Prohibitionist beefs if Cornelssen wins Krieger invalidation
John Turmel
JCT: As we could be about to embark on a period of
legalisation, we must stress that there was no crisis during
the 1993 Summer of Legalisation when Justice Rogin declared
the law had died on Terry Parker Day 2001 (if for the wrong
reasons which we covered in our cases with the right reason,
that the MMAR had failed to work, not Rogin's reason that
the MMAR had failed to be enacted right) we must be ready to
rebut every old canard about the danger of marijuana. Most
people have not heard the truth with all the lies shouting
it down. So I googled for "marijuana" and "lies" and
selected:
http://www.dope-seeds.com/untoldstory/hemp_6.htm
DopeSeeds: cannabis lies and myths
DS: cannabis is surrounded by lies and myths some of which
we try and expose here
Marijuana lies exposed
MARIJUANA MYTHS
Myth: Today's marijuana is more potent and more harmful than
it was many years ago.
Fact: There is no medical evidence that shows high-potency
marijuana is more harmful than low-potency marijuana.
Marijuana is literally one of the least toxic substances
known. High-potency marijuana is actually preferable because
less is of it consumed to obtain the desired effect; thereby
reducing the amount of smoke that enters the lungs and
lowering the risk of any respiratory health hazards.
Claiming that high-potency marijuana is more harmful than
low-potency marijuana is like claiming wine is more harmful
than beer.
Myth: Smoking marijuana can cause cancer and serious lung
damage.
Fact: There chance of contracting cancer from smoking
marijuana is minuscule. Tobacco smokers typically smoke 20+
cigarettes every day for decades, but virtually nobody
smokes marijuana in the quantity and frequency required to
cause cancer. A 1997 UCLA study (see page 9) concluded that
even prolonged and heavy marijuana smoking causes no serious
lung damage. Cancer risks from common foods (meat, salt,
dairy products) far exceed any cancer risk posed by smoking
marijuana. Respiratory health hazards and cancer risks can
be totally eliminated by ingesting marijuana in baked foods.
Myth: Marijuana contains over 400 chemicals, thus proving
that marijuana is dangerous.
Fact: Coffee contains 1,500 chemicals. Rat poison contains
only 30 chemicals. Many vegetables contain cancer-causing
chemicals. There is no correlation between the number of
chemicals a substance contains and its toxicity.
Prohibitionists often cite this misleading statistic to make
marijuana appear dangerous.
Myth: Marijuana is a gateway drug--it leads to harder drugs.
Fact: The U.S. government's own statistics show that over 75
percent of all Americans who use marijuana never use harder
drugs. The gateway-drug theory is derived by using
blatantly-flawed logic. Using such blatantly-flawed logic,
alcohol should be considered the gateway drug because most
cocaine and heroin addicts began their drug use with beer or
wine--not marijuana.
Myth: Marijuana is addicting.
Fact: Marijuana is not physically addicting. Medical studies
rank marijuana as less habit forming than caffeine. The
legal drugs of tobacco (nicotine) and alcohol can be as
addicting as heroin or cocaine, but marijuana is one of the
least habit forming substances known.
Myth: Marijuana use impairs learning ability.
Fact: A 1996 U.S. government study claims that heavy
marijuana use may impair learning ability. The key words are
heavy use and may. This claim is based on studying people
who use marijuana daily--a sample that represents less than
1 percent of all marijuana users. This study concluded: 1)
Learning impairments cited were subtle, minimal, and may be
temporary. In other words, there is little evidence that
such learning impairments even exist. 2) Long-term memory
was not affected by heavy marijuana use. 3) Casual marijuana
users showed no signs of impaired learning. 4) Heavy alcohol
use was cited as being more detrimental to the thought and
learning process than heavy marijuana use.
Myth: Marijuana is a significant cause of emergency room
admissions.
Fact: The U.S. government reports that marijuana-related
emergency room episodes are increasing. The government
counts an emergency room admission as a marijuana-related
episode if the word marijuana appears anywhere in the
medical record. If a patient tests positive for marijuana
because he/she used marijuana several days before the
incident occurred, if a drunk driver admits he/she also
smoked some marijuana, or if anyone involved in the incident
merely possessed marijuana, the government counts the
emergency room admission as a "marijuana-related episode."
Less than 0.2% of all emergency room admissions are
"marijuana related." This so-called marijuana-causes-
emergencies statistic was carefully crafted by the
government to make marijuana appear dangerous.
problems of pot prohibition
Does the prohibition of pot cause more problems than it
solves?
Problems with Marijuana Prohibition
DOES PROHIBITION CAUSE MORE HARM THAN MARIJUANA?
Recently, narcotics officers raided the house of a suspected
marijuana dealer in Wisconsin. The unarmed suspect, who
offered no resistance, was shot to death in front of his 7-
year-old son. His crime? Possession of 1 ounce of marijuana.
In Oklahoma, a wheelchair-bound paraplegic who used
medicinal marijuana to control muscle spasms caused by his
broken back was sentenced to 10 years in prison. His crime?
Possession of 2 ounces of marijuana. Another Oklahoma man is
serving 75 years in prison for growing only 5 marijuana
plants. (These are not misprints.)
Prohibition is the number one cause of America's exploding
prison population. Many non-violent drug offenders are now
serving longer prison sentences than murderers, rapists, and
other violent criminals. It costs taxpayers $30,000 per year
to imprison just one non-violent drug offender. Politicians
are spending billions of tax dollars to build new prisons
and jails so more and more non-violent drug offenders can be
warehoused. Meanwhile, funding for education and other
services are being strained.
JCT: We've been hearing these logical points for years and
with no effect on politicians' brains so there has to be
something at else going on.
DS: Reducing drug abuse is a desirable goal, but law
enforcement methods used to obtain that goal are
counterproductive. Prohibition costs billions to enforce,
creates a black market that generates violence and
corruption, and makes criminals out of millions of
productive and harmless adults. Adult use of alcohol and
tobacco is accepted, but adult use of marijuana is
considered criminal behavior. Why?
JCT: Again, been there, done that.
DS: The main rationalization for Prohibition is to keep
marijuana away from children. That rationalization does not
reflect reality. Several surveys reveal that teenagers can
obtain marijuana easier than they can obtain the legal drugs
of beer or wine. In Holland, where sale of marijuana to
adults is openly accepted, the percentage of teenagers using
marijuana is less than half that of American teenagers.
Because America's marijuana trade is totally unregulated,
marijuana dealers are on the streets selling to anybody--
especially teenagers.
JCT: Again, heard that and it had no effect on the pols.
DS: Regulating marijuana like wine would put street dealers
out of business, would make marijuana dealers pay taxes, and
would restrict sales to adults only. Prohibition does not
make it difficult for teenagers to obtain marijuana. Tougher
marijuana laws have not reduced marijuana use. Marijuana use
has increased every single year since 1991.
JCT: Obviously except to those in power. Why forever not to
them?
DS: In 1937 (the last year that marijuana was legal) only
100,000 Americans used marijuana. Now that marijuana is
illegal, 30 million Americans use marijuana, and marijuana
is easily available to anybody who wants it--including
children and prison inmates. 600,000 Americans are arrested
for marijuana violations every year and thousands of them
are sent to jail or prison, where many of them can still
obtain drugs. The government can't even keep drugs out of
its own prisons, yet the politicians keep telling us they
can rid the entire nation of marijuana by spending more tax
dollars. The government now spends $15 billion every year (a
1,500% increase since 1980) waging a war on marijuana
smokers--a war that has lasted 60 years and is impossible to
win. Another $5 billion per year is lost in tax revenue that
could be generated if marijuana was regulated and taxed like
wine.
JCT: It's insane and yet keeps going on and on on. What's
the hidden agenda?
DS: For all practical purposes, Marijuana Prohibition is a
$15-billion-per-year government subsidy for drug
traffickers, organized crime, and street dealers. Because
the government prohibits well-regulated liquor stores from
selling marijuana, the government ensures that organized
crime and street dealers will flourish.
JCT: Why, why can't the pols and cops follow this logic?
DS: Prohibition escalates violence and corruption as
mobsters, street gangs, and thugs fight for control of the
marijuana trade. Just as Alcohol Prohibition escalated
violence and corruption during the 1920s, Marijuana
Prohibition does the same today. Once all the facts are
known, it becomes clear that America's marijuana laws need
reform. This issue must be openly debated using only the
facts. Groundless claims, meaningless statistics, and
exaggerated scare stories that have been peddled by
politicians and prohibitionists for the last 60 years must
be rejected.
JCT: The analogy is perfect so why do supposedly rational
pols and cops fail to see? Is the great prostitution for a
job so great that they don't care about the hundreds,
millions of victims their error causes. Considering the
Resurrection judges who fooled Canada's 400,000 epileptics
into believing they had done Parliament job of unrepealing
the prohibition cost around 3000 extra lives over these past
2 years, what else? I had told them they would be killing
people in my presentation if they did not admit the law had
died on Terry Parker Day so they admitted it had died then
set about convincing everyone that they had resurrected it.
If Professor Alan Young, Champion of the Medpot movement, is
on TV accepting that courts can resurrect penal statutes
that had been repealed, who can doubt they court can.
Justices Doherty, Goudge and Simmons knew they were
committing genocide on Canada's epileptics so imagine what
kind of invisible force there is which makes judges commit
genocide on Internet TV. Same force lets King George
slaughter 100,000 innocent Iraqis and get re-elected no
doubt. Could all come to an end if The Engineer gets to the
World Social Forum this year.
DS: Did weed ever kill?
Legal drugs kill thousands every year but cannabis has
probably never directly killed anyone
Marijuana does not kill
ANNUAL AMERICAN DEATHS CAUSED BY DRUGS
TOBACCO ........................ 400,000
ALCOHOL ........................ 100,000
ALL LEGAL DRUGS ................ 20,000
ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS .............. 15,000
CAFFEINE ....................... 2,000
ASPIRIN ........................ 500
MARIJUANA ...................... 0
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Source: United States government...
National Institute on Drug Abuse,
Bureau of Mortality Statistics
JCT: So, the schmuck who laughed at my using the West Wing
and Doonesbury statistics when he had none may have found
these US Government statistics before having to back down
from my bet.
DS: Like any substance, marijuana can be abused. The most
common problem attributed to marijuana is frequent overuse,
which can induce lethargic behavior, but does not cause
serious health problems. Marijuana can cause short-term
memory loss, but only while under the influence. Marijuana
does not impair long-term memory. Marijuana does not lead to
harder drugs. Marijuana does not cause brain damage, genetic
damage, or damage the immune system. Unlike alcohol,
marijuana does not kill brain cells or induce violent
behavior. Continuous long-term smoking of marijuana can
cause bronchitis, but the chance of contracting bronchitis
from casual marijuana smoking is minuscule. Respiratory
health hazards can be totally eliminated by consuming
marijuana via non-smoking methods, i.e., ingesting marijuana
via baked foods, tincture, or vaporizer.
JCT: Bingo. 100% perfectly safe and still illegal? I could
live with making eating it legal while they show us why
smoking it is so dangerous as to warrant my choosing not to
go that route.
DS: A 1997 UCLA School of Medicine study (Volume 155 of the
American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine)
conducted on 243 marijuana smokers over an 8-year period
reported the following: "Findings from the long-term study
of heavy, habitual marijuana smokers argue against the
concept that continuing heavy use of marijuana is a
significant risk factor for the development of chronic lung
disease." "Neither the continuing nor the intermittent
marijuana smokers exhibited any significantly different
rates of decline in lung function as compared with those
individuals who never smoked marijuana." The study
concluded: "No differences were noted between even quite
heavy marijuana smoking and nonsmoking of marijuana."
Marijuana does not cause serious health problems like those
caused by tobacco or alcohol (e.g., strong addiction,
cancer, heart problems, birth defects, emphysema, liver
damage, etc.). Death from a marijuana overdose is
impossible. In all of world history, there has never been a
single human death attributed to a health problem caused by
marijuana.
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Although it is perfectly legal to buy and sell cannabis
seeds in the UK this may not be the case in your country.
JCT: So even if Max Cornelssen wins on Thursday Oct 13 2005
and Marc "The Clown" Emery confessed and pleaded guilty and
served 3 months in jail for nothing when the law had been
invalid all the time, he'll still be shipped off to the
States where it is a crime. Har har har har. Let's see Marc
"The Narc" Emery try to get out of a sheep-dipping that's no
longer necessary once Max wins. Imagine, the narc mole doing
some US time when it doesn't reinforce his message to
Canadians that the law he suffers under is still alive.
DS: Please check local laws before placing an order!
Obviously it is totally illegal to germinate and grow
cannabis seeds in the UK and most of the rest of the world
so we sell our marijuana seeds on the understanding that
they are being purchased for collection purposes only.
Please check your local laws before placing an order as we
cannot be responsible for seeds being confiscated when going
though customs.
http://www.dope-seeds.com/untoldstory/hemp_6.htm
JCT: Different strains for different pains so keeping the
good strains alive is a worthwhile endeavor.
Anyway, as Max published:
R.I.P.
CDSA Section 7(1)
Died December 4 2002
Buried October 13 2005
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"The game is won, all that remains is to collect the pot."
-John Turmel
JCT: I'll be there to watch Max rake in the pot won by the
Alberta Krieger Ace-King-Queen of Diamonds in Alberta.
Queen of diamonds: Alberta Madame Justice Acton kills S.7(1)
King: Alberta Court of Appeal Costigan, Wittman LoVecchio
Ace: Canada Supreme Court McLaghlin, Major, Fish.
Of course, Hearts is for Parker
Queen of hearts: Ontario Mr. Justice Sheppard nixes S.4(1)
King: Ontario Court of Appeal Rosenberg, Charron, Catzman
Ace: Crown does not even appeal to Supreme Court
All they have is the Hitzig Ontario Court of Appeal King and
the Supreme Court Clay-Caine-Malmo-Levine losing non-Aces
where we have Parker's and Krieger's real Aces.
If you don't understand poker terminology, learn. Most
really intelligent people are going to get caught up by it.
--
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for UNILETS interest-free time-based currency in U.N. resolution C6
to Governments in the http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration.htm
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