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- Robert Platshorn & The Silver Tour in “Getting Grandma to Try Pot” on CNN
- NORML SHOW LIVE #852 – Live in Los Angeles with Tere Joyce
- Rockin’ Friday: Lionize – “Superczar”
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- “Fast and Furious” Program Sparks Lawsuit and House Hearing for the Attorney General
- Firefighters Mistake Butane Hash Oil Extraction Equipment for Pipe Bomb
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- The NORML Network / HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Cup “4:20 Somewhere” Raffles
- February 5, 2012–February 11, 2012
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See The Global Cannabis Commission Report – Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate by The Beckley Foundation, http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/policy/cannabis_commission.html, September 2008:
“This Report would both bring cannabis to the attention of policy makers and also provide them with the relevant facts to inform their decisions in the context of the United Nations Strategic Drug Policy Review of 2009, and beyond.” page 7
“…almost all countries are signatories to the 1961 and 1988 drug control Conventions, and are required under these conventions to criminalize
production, distribution, use or possession of cannabis.” page 87
and
“Primarily under urging from the US (Bruun et al., 1975: 195-203; Edwards, 2005:153), cannabis was included in the strictest prohibition regime category in the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.” page 88
demonstrate that the extent to which the UN has ‘changed its tune’ (To no extent whatsoever as far as I’m aware.) is not sufficient.
“So long as cannabis is in Schedule I of the 1961 Convention, each party to the treaty is obliged to keep as “punishable offences” production, trading in or possession of it (Art. 36), “subject to its constitutional limitations”. This is further backed up by Article 3, Åò1 of the 1988 Convention (UN, 2007b), which requires parties to establish production, distribution, possession or purchase of substances covered under the 1961 and 1971 Conventions “as criminal offenses under its domestic law”.” page 152
There can be no significant change to the status of cannabis in international law until it is removed from the 1961 (and ’88) Convention(s). That is what we need to clarify and work on. Anything less is little more than playing into the hands of those who manipulate and control the status quo.
But thanks for your show of support!
Schedule II my a&$… how about re-legalization!
Amen, brother. My sincere apologies for my country’s insensitivity and incredibly inhumane policies, and for pushing them on the world.
Now that the AMA, and the UN to some extent, have changed their tunes, let’s hope our politicians begin to take the hint…voters will make them pay for their gutlessness, and fence-sitting on this increasingly pressing issue will no longer be tolerated either.
You know, you should look at this as others do sometimes: for you in America, the country that forces this prohibition bullshit down everyone else’s throat with bullying UN/US sanctions, it’s OK, because everyone knows it’s really ‘quasi-legal’ for you and ‘you have to wave a really big red flag to get stopped’. Just think what those of us in nations repressed by the US prohibition stance think of you, knowing that we might be severely punished for the slightest hint of a cannabis infraction. Your politicians are not making you popular. Next time someone there says something like the above, i.e. ‘It’s so little risk that it might as well be legal, so what does it matter whether it’s legal or not?’ spit in their eye, kick them in the balls or punch them in the face for all the hundreds of thousands, probably millions and millions, of people who are not so lucky and suffer as a direct result of your policies.
Did you read about the couple of cannabis dealers in Malaysia who were hung for less than a kilo of grass last week? It happens all the time there and in lots of other places.
God bless and save America for acting in humanity’s interests as the world’s policeman to save us from ourselves and keep us safe from the part of ourselves (our endocannabinoid systems) that needs cannabis. Maybe when we grow up a little and get to be real mature like you, then we’ll be able to call it quasi-legal, too! Until then we’ll just have to suffer like slaves.
As sub-human slaves, maybe our endocannabinoid systems just aren’t as advanced as yours, more like a dog’s or a cow’s or some other lower mammal’s, so we don’t need cannabis as much as you… Yes, that’s probably it.
No sweat man, they did me a favor. I always told my kids that they should look for a job doing something that they would do for free if it were at all practical.
Now, something that I have ALWAYS done for free is about to give me a second life doing something that I love so much that I would do it for free.
Watch for my website bearasscreekfarms.com
JW – I’m so sorry man. What a drag.
I look forward to being a customer of yours one day.
”People who want pot get it anyways…”
Uh….not around here. At least not right now.
Strain!!!!
It would be awfully nice to be able to go down to the local grocer and buy some flavorful
and some 
all in the same trip.
I “lost” my last job almost twelve years ago when, with no other pretext on which to base their action they fired me for”selling weed in the parking lot”.It wasn’t true nor did it have to be. It just needed to be said, to do the trick.
With little to hope for future employment in that particular field and zero respect left for the values that would just throw someone away so easily for so little reason I looked around and lo and behold they were on the verge of legalizing medical marijuana in my state.
Seemed like perfect karma to me and I determined that if I could force them to give me unemployment I would spend every nickle of it on growing equipment and books. A mediator agreed with me and I took my paid vacation (unemployment checks) and set about my enterprise. That and the experience that I gained “puttering around” for thirty years or so prior(over forty now) Has left me with a skill set that will be highly prized soon enough. Aint life funny.
Fucking stupid.
I appreciate C & C’s intentions, and realize they are primarily comedians, but they could’ve countered that vapid ass Coulter better, and could’ve had their facts a bit more in line. Otherwise, just a fluff piece.
Not even Ann Coulter can go off the edge on this? Really?? She is in that same Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh league of extremism. I was utterly stunned as to how little fear-mongering she engaged in (considering her post 9/11 tirades that I remember her by) and really how little she had to say all together. This wasn’t really much of a debate at all. Really they took 5 minutes to sit down and talk about weed. Interesting.
You gotta wonder why these people think the way they do…
Really shows how effective propaganda is at convincing the mentally compromised half of America that “Marijuana is EVIL.”
Some people just refuse to admit thy are wrong.
At least I did. I still have a D.A.R.E. award for a paper I wrote in 5th grade. I’m thinking about burning that stupid award, or giving it to my friend to use as rolling paper.
Although i hope someone tells Cheech & Chong it needs to be Schedual III or no one will be able to get a refill on their perscription!!!
My thoughts exactly. It was overall a very positive segment.
I love it when Prohibitionists argue:”Pople who want pot get it anyways and aren’t being arrested for it.” To ALL of them we should be asking:”Then whats wrong with updating the laws to make that OFFICIAL?