"94% of women are in jail for drug-related crime"- the Pot Dispute is a Cop/"Corrections Officer" Unions' Agenda
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Subject: "94% of women are in jail for drug-related crime"- the Pot
Dispute is a Cop/"Corrections Officer" Unions' Agenda
Date: Apr 23, 2010 7:27 AM
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Consider: If there has been
a 1000% increase in the number
of women in Corrupticut's women's
jail (there were about 150 in 1994
and now there are 1500), and according
to "Corrections Officers" themselves,
"94% of this increase is due to
drug-related crime," then it is
obvious who is benefiting from
marijuana being illegal, especially
since alcohol is more disabling:
The cops and the "COs" union members.
Even more importantly, psychiatrists
don't talk about the mechanisms of
brain damage caused by street drugs
because they happen to be the exact
same mechanisms of brain damage
as Rx brain-disabling substances:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAINDAMAGE.htm
They're all transmitter and receptor blockers
and they all cause the same brain disequilibrium
and brain cell lose due to excitotoxicity
and hypoxia.
Downers cause people to become more
hyper, and uppers cause people to
become depressed (like alcohol) due
to the brain's attempt to normalize.
Eg., Downers like anti-dopaminers, result
in the increase of dopamine transporters
(makes people more spastic and hyper
or, in many cases, especially alcohol,
CRABBY).
And the drug degradants are cytotoxic
(but most of this Cytotoxic-Degradants
data is proprietary, and we're talking
the FDA, here, which, well, no one knows
for whom they "work").
Then, when people become all *STUPID*
(psychosis and a lowered IQ) from pot,
like they do with alcohol, throw them
in a, um, less expensive klink ;)
The Truth Will Set You Free.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0422/widely-publicized-420-pot-poll-showed-majority-support-reforms/
Widely publicized 4/20 poll actually shows majority support for drug
reforms
By Stephen C. Webster
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 -- 9:06 pm
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AT BOTTOM: California survey shows legalization winning out 56-42
percent
As with many instances in politics, actuality can often be obscured
behind the wrong frame: ask a question just the right way and results
can be wildly tilted, one way or another.
Take the case of an Associated Press/CNBC poll released on April 20,
2010, detailing Americans' opinions on legalizing marijuana. The poll
was widely reported as declaring that 55 percent in the U.S. are
opposed to ending prohibition.
Make no mistake, "oppose" is exactly what 55 percent of the people
said when asked: "Do you favor, oppose or neither favor nor oppose the
complete legalization of the use of marijuana for any purpose?"
However, a more nuanced probing of the issue, carried out by the
polling firm but almost entirely unmentioned in the media on April
20th, found that when stacked next to alcohol, often a more
debilitating and addictive substance, statistical support for drug law
reforms skyrocketed.
Story continues below...
Appearing on page four of the 22-page document, poll workers asked
respondents whether or not the U.S. should treat marijuana and alcohol
similarly. While 43 percent wanted rules more strict than those
applied to alcohol, 44 percent wanted the two handled equally. Another
12 percent wanted less strict rules for pot over alcohol.
"... [Meaning] that a full 56 percent support the policy change --
perhaps the highest number ever recorded in favor of legalization,"
Huffington Post's Ryan Grim noted.
The AP's own report completely failed to mention the key data, which
would appear to contradict their lead angle. Instead, the news wire
handed the story's sole alcohol reference to the California Narcotics
Officers Association, which suggested marijuana legalization is
unpopular due to problems caused by alcohol and prescription drugs.
"Given that reality, we don't need to add another mind-altering
substance that compromises people's five senses," a spokesman
reportedly said.
The lobby's spokesman did not explain in the report how taxation and
regulation would "add" a substance, considering marijuana is already
the nation's most valuable cash crop, generating an estimated $35.8
billion annually: more than corn and wheat combined.
Over at CNBC, reporter Trish Regan actually mentioned the figure
showing record support for legalization, but it was buried at the
bottom of her report.
However, Regan did cite another figure the AP did not: the high degree
of degradation in support for the persistent claim that marijuana is a
"gateway drug." She noted that pollsters found 39 percent still
believe the suggestion, "though nearly half the country believes
marijuana has no effect on whether people will use more serious
drugs."
Even RAW STORY carried the AP's angle, calling the 55 percent
"opposed" to legalization in the April 20 poll a likely "buzzkill" on
the counter-culture holiday which saw millions of Americans
participate in public consumption of the plant.
Other recent national polls on marijuana legalization show an
accelerating trend toward ending prohibition, with up to 53 percent in
favor of legalization according to a December Angus Reid poll. Figures
out of Gallup just two months earlier showed their highest recorded
support for legalization as well, at 44 percent in favor.
According to Gallup's data, support for legalization grew eight
percent, from 36 to 44, between 2006 and 2009: the fastest rate since
the U.S. government commissioned the war on drugs.
In California, where activists succeeded in securing a spot for
legalization on the state's 2010 ballot, the national trend appears
even further accelerated. According to an April SurveyUSA sampling, if
the election took place today the measure would pass 56 to 42. Support
for legalization was highest among the 18-34 demographic, with 74
percent in favor.
Majorities of whites, blacks and Asians sampled for the poll also
agreed with legalization, the group found. While 60 percent of the
state's conservatives oppose the move, a shocking 39 percent are in
favor, joined by strong majorities of liberals and moderates. The
figures also fingered the Bay-area as the region with the state's
highest concentration of green-leaning voters.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has expressed her opposition to the
initiative, citing the law enforcement lobby's allegation that taxing
the state's large population of cannabis consumers and enforcing
regulations on their favored product would endanger public safety.
Proponents of the ballot initiative have dismissed the objection as
political posturing.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci
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