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Where was this hearing at and was it a state committee,federal or otherwise?iven the point home,since all elected officials understand(supposedly)that money to continue the present system is required,billions of dollars. And we need to stress the importance of what it would do for our country if we quit sending 30 billion dollars(estimated profits of cartels)out of this country but instead were spending it right here,taxed and furnishing jobs and incomes for Americans instead of providing them for Mexicans.
His last point about slavery and universal suffrage seem most poignant to me: ever since I first gave it some thought, at about the age of twelve, prohibition seemed little different from slavery to me, e.g. Massa say ‘you do’, nigga, ‘n you do; massa say ‘you don’, and what you do, nigga?! Ain no nigga gonna be tellin yo massa what you cen ‘n caint do, boy! Massa say you don, boy ‘n you don; ain no nasty ass weed gonna be slowin’ yo ass down gettin dat cotton in boy! Yo think massa give a shit yo wanna like yo life??? Sheeit, boy ain no diffrence what y’all wan ‘n what y’all like, y’all got a work to do an y’all gotta jis do it as bes yi cen. Now don yo git all uppity, else yo gonna git yo ass slap down, cuz massa say ‘n dats all yo gotta know… Cuz it’s evil boy – dat ole devil gonna crawl out dat weed into yo lungs and git yo ass, dat’s why!
Likewise, feminine sensibilities seem out of place in the 20th century authority>citizen relationship.
I see prohibition as simply an extension of slavery. What’s a hundred years in historical terms? Not even a tick of the clock – emancipation: 1) from slavery – 1863 in Russia, 1865 in America, 2) for women – 1918 in the Soviet Union and United Kingdom, 1948 by the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1965 in the United States (“The 19th Amendment extended to women the right to vote in 1920, and as African Americans were legally given the right to vote by the 15th Amendment in 1870, the façade of universal suffrage may have seen [sic] to be in effect. However many Southern States pro-actively disenfranchised poor and uneducated black voters through poll taxation, literacy tests and bureaucratic loopholes, immunity from these restrictions was often handed to would-be disqualified white voters through grandfather clauses. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 enforced the 15th Amendment, and in that same year the 24th Amendment put an end to the poll tax; full enfranchisement of all citizens was not secured until after the African-American Civil Rights Movement gained passage by United States Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.” Wikipedia)
So, it would seem, emancipation is a slowly-slowly catchee-monkey business – one step at a time and the one we’re getting ready for now is a big one – the right to use our bodies as we choose. As a previous comment here pointed out, “Ending Prohibitiion will be the start we need to get out of many many messes, until they change these failed policies they will never fix all our other problems!” You’re so right!
Apologies, but that would be the APA (American Psychiatric Association), not the ASA.
Off-topic, but I couldn’t find a place or easy contact to get the early word out:
Initial draft of ASA’s DSM-V is online. Many “dependencies” to be subsumed under “use disorders.” In particular for cannabis, Cannabis Dependence to be subsumed under Cannabis Use-Disorder, and Cannabis Withdrawal to be added as a disorder.
http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevisions/Pages/Substance-RelatedDisorders.aspx
It looks like they’re trying to remove the distinction between abuse and dependence, because of strong correlation of factors between the two. It seems it would be easier to be diagnosed with Cannabis Use-Disorder (DSM-V) than Cannabis Dependence (DSM-IV), but with that said, the ASA seems to be trying to get rid of the confusion and stigma of being labelled an addict. It’s as if they’re trying to normalize the use of physician-administered and -supervised drugs, even if it leads to a physiological dependence.
Anyway, I’m no psychiatrist or doctor, so take a look for yourselves.
Wonderful we need more main stream people to do the same! But it does boggle the mind how with all the evedence and facts that legislators are not seeing eye to eye with us on this issue. i truly believe they know what they are doing and that they know profit, corruption and greed comes with it, and they all like it that way!
We need to vote out every single legislator that wants to keep arresting us and never never vote just by party lines or for some issue that will never matter to our cause. Ending Prohibitiion will be the start we need to get out of many many messes, until they change these failed policies they will never fix all our other problems!
same here “an error occured”
HEY! Thats my city council hall! I’ve been there, its just hard to attend meetings regularly when they happen at 9:00 am Tuesday mornings…
Its about time some heavy hitters came through to get our Mayor and the rest of the council on board with this. Last year O’Rourke’s resolution was overturned by the Mayor’s tiebreak, the mayor was later interviewed as to why and made some off hand remark deriding cannabis consumers as potheads…
Thanks for posting this for all to see! I have always felt that the drug war’s impact is hardest felt in my sister city Juarez Mex. We need a chapter here dangit! I wish I could do it, but my situation frankly doesn’t allow for me to be the one to start it, it really doesn’t.
A shout out on NORML Show live would be nice!
People who have to do public speaking, place take note: this guy was maximally convincing.
I keep getting “an error occured” while trying to play this vid