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	<title>Comments on: Obama declares April 8, 2009 &#8220;National D.A.R.E. Day&#8221;</title>
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		<title>By: Blackhorse 70V</title>
		<link>http://stash.norml.org/obama-declares-april-8-2009-national-dare-day/comment-page-1#comment-18202</link>
		<dc:creator>Blackhorse 70V</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 03:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama was off by a week - it should have been April 1.  
While DARE is a waste of time for our kids and their teachers, it&#039;s $ for cops.  If he canceled DARE he would have to add the $ back to cops, while parents and the anti-drug industry join with the Republicans and complain that Mr. O is soft on drugs.  Politics sucks.  But I&#039;ll hug their elephant, and they can kiss my ass.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama was off by a week &#8211; it should have been April 1.<br />
While DARE is a waste of time for our kids and their teachers, it&#8217;s $ for cops.  If he canceled DARE he would have to add the $ back to cops, while parents and the anti-drug industry join with the Republicans and complain that Mr. O is soft on drugs.  Politics sucks.  But I&#8217;ll hug their elephant, and they can kiss my ass.</p>
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		<title>By: bosco3d</title>
		<link>http://stash.norml.org/obama-declares-april-8-2009-national-dare-day/comment-page-1#comment-15739</link>
		<dc:creator>bosco3d</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Police are not Teachers.I understand we need police. But I HATE the additude they have.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Police are not Teachers.I understand we need police. But I HATE the additude they have.</p>
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		<title>By: bosco3d</title>
		<link>http://stash.norml.org/obama-declares-april-8-2009-national-dare-day/comment-page-1#comment-15737</link>
		<dc:creator>bosco3d</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We can only hope he starts to notice us.I am tring to do my small part to keep the pressure on or at least the word out there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We can only hope he starts to notice us.I am tring to do my small part to keep the pressure on or at least the word out there.</p>
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		<title>By: bosco3d</title>
		<link>http://stash.norml.org/obama-declares-april-8-2009-national-dare-day/comment-page-1#comment-15734</link>
		<dc:creator>bosco3d</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>right on! Betcha aint heard that in awhile. :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>right on! Betcha aint heard that in awhile. <img src='http://stash.norml.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: bosco3d</title>
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		<dc:creator>bosco3d</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I cannot help but think of the other reports.I hope they heed the out come .As it can only come back and say we need to strike these drug laws from the books.These reports sometime find alot of deaf ears.They seem to hear us and the reports .But they dont listen.It can only help thou.Keeping the word out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I cannot help but think of the other reports.I hope they heed the out come .As it can only come back and say we need to strike these drug laws from the books.These reports sometime find alot of deaf ears.They seem to hear us and the reports .But they dont listen.It can only help thou.Keeping the word out.</p>
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		<title>By: Evil Dick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Evil Dick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe he will come to his sins&#039;es.



-ED</description>
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<p>-ED</p>
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		<title>By: Evil Dick</title>
		<link>http://stash.norml.org/obama-declares-april-8-2009-national-dare-day/comment-page-1#comment-15699</link>
		<dc:creator>Evil Dick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>
I wouldn&#039;t mind DARE so much if they focused on helping kids develop assertiveness skills so that they could comfortably decline unwanted offers of recreational drugs.  Many kids probably do at least start using drugs due to peer pressure.  Mental set is important in appropriate use of any psychoactive drug.  It is better to not do them unless you feel comfortable about it.  And, assertiveness skills are transferable to other areas of life.  

DARE, though, is especially sucky.  It is led by police officers.  Police officers are not teachers.  They teach &quot;obey or get tased, a$$hole!&quot;  Police officers should be on the streets enforcing the law and catching criminal offenders, not misleading children.  As a taxpayer, I object to this waste of public funds.

Also, teachers are being paid to teach the children, not to let nice Mr. Officer come and propagandize the minds of little children.  The police officers are not policing, and the teachers are not teaching - a double waste of taxpayer money.  Outrageous!

Further, I doubt that police officers, or even teachers, will tell the children the truth about drugs.  The children will find out the truth about drugs, though.  And when they do, they will know that they have been handed a line of crap, justifiably causing a distrust and disrespect for both school and police.  

If you are a parent, the job is yours to teach your children the truth about drugs.  Teach them how to be assertive, also.  Don&#039;t count on the police to get even that right.  The last thing that the police want is a population of assertive citizens.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wouldn&#8217;t mind DARE so much if they focused on helping kids develop assertiveness skills so that they could comfortably decline unwanted offers of recreational drugs.  Many kids probably do at least start using drugs due to peer pressure.  Mental set is important in appropriate use of any psychoactive drug.  It is better to not do them unless you feel comfortable about it.  And, assertiveness skills are transferable to other areas of life.  </p>
<p>DARE, though, is especially sucky.  It is led by police officers.  Police officers are not teachers.  They teach &#8220;obey or get tased, a$$hole!&#8221;  Police officers should be on the streets enforcing the law and catching criminal offenders, not misleading children.  As a taxpayer, I object to this waste of public funds.</p>
<p>Also, teachers are being paid to teach the children, not to let nice Mr. Officer come and propagandize the minds of little children.  The police officers are not policing, and the teachers are not teaching &#8211; a double waste of taxpayer money.  Outrageous!</p>
<p>Further, I doubt that police officers, or even teachers, will tell the children the truth about drugs.  The children will find out the truth about drugs, though.  And when they do, they will know that they have been handed a line of crap, justifiably causing a distrust and disrespect for both school and police.  </p>
<p>If you are a parent, the job is yours to teach your children the truth about drugs.  Teach them how to be assertive, also.  Don&#8217;t count on the police to get even that right.  The last thing that the police want is a population of assertive citizens.</p>
<p>-ED</p>
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		<title>By: High East</title>
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		<dc:creator>High East</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>April 8th

National &#039;Eighth&#039; day.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>April 8th</p>
<p>National &#8216;Eighth&#8217; day.</p>
<p>-snicker-</p>
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		<title>By: RevRayGreen</title>
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		<dc:creator>RevRayGreen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WEBB 2012

&quot;Senator Jim Webb of Virginia looks at these numbers and in a speech on the Senate floor wondered out loud: “Either we have the most evil people on Earth living in the United States, or we are doing something dramatically wrong.”  He has introduced a bill, which already has 19 co-sponsors including Republicans and Democrats (including the top three Republicans on the Judiciary Committee), that will answer that question.  It sets up a national commission, the National Criminal Justice Commission, which will look at ways to reduce the prison population including rethinking drug policy.  The chairman will be appointed by President Barack Obama who reportedly has called Webb twice to commend this effort.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WEBB 2012</p>
<p>&#8220;Senator Jim Webb of Virginia looks at these numbers and in a speech on the Senate floor wondered out loud: “Either we have the most evil people on Earth living in the United States, or we are doing something dramatically wrong.”  He has introduced a bill, which already has 19 co-sponsors including Republicans and Democrats (including the top three Republicans on the Judiciary Committee), that will answer that question.  It sets up a national commission, the National Criminal Justice Commission, which will look at ways to reduce the prison population including rethinking drug policy.  The chairman will be appointed by President Barack Obama who reportedly has called Webb twice to commend this effort.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: JayWolfx</title>
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		<dc:creator>JayWolfx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Obama, Thats My Constitution you just wiped your feet on! It Vests power in me and ALL Americans to take into OUR hands the destiny of this country. It calls us to power over the Government, to Place, and let us not forger, Re  Place the entire government and procedures as we duely see fit and as outlined by the Constitution.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ____________, Citizen of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 20th 2009 Hemp Freedom Day. We the People of the United States of America, held under oppression and tyrannical law,  Abolish the current drug laws and policy as a whole, and Do from this day forth No longer recognize the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as an authority. I proclaim That any man has the right to therefore choose for himself what is just and what is unjust in terms of what he puts into his own person or body.

 Thats my Challenge of the week! Sign this, get your friends to sign this, Get every damned toker in America to sign this and lets Hand Deliver it to the White House! This is our country, Its time we started acting like it!
Jay Wolf ×</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Obama, Thats My Constitution you just wiped your feet on! It Vests power in me and ALL Americans to take into OUR hands the destiny of this country. It calls us to power over the Government, to Place, and let us not forger, Re  Place the entire government and procedures as we duely see fit and as outlined by the Constitution.</p>
<p>NOW, THEREFORE, I, ____________, Citizen of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 20th 2009 Hemp Freedom Day. We the People of the United States of America, held under oppression and tyrannical law,  Abolish the current drug laws and policy as a whole, and Do from this day forth No longer recognize the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as an authority. I proclaim That any man has the right to therefore choose for himself what is just and what is unjust in terms of what he puts into his own person or body.</p>
<p> Thats my Challenge of the week! Sign this, get your friends to sign this, Get every damned toker in America to sign this and lets Hand Deliver it to the White House! This is our country, Its time we started acting like it!<br />
Jay Wolf ×</p>
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