Drug Czar on Anti-Marijuana Crusade

The Week Online ^ | September 20, 2002 | Phil Smith

[The FRugitive]

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[weikel]

Is he gonna start paying off Canadian movie theatres to start showing Reefer Madness again. This should be entertaining watching all the fits this "Drug Czar" goes through in an effort to avoid getting a real job.

[JediGirl]

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[southern rock]

The drug czar has a $1 billion propaganda budget for the next five years.

That's OUR tax $$$, folks. Is it really that worth it to all you drug warriors?

[weikel]

The whole WOD probably cost something in total like 50 billion dollars a year not counting the incarceration cost which are probably too huge to contemplate.

[Kermit]

""Some people think that if the government didn't create the war against drugs that made such a huge black market, the terrorists and the drug cartels wouldn't be able to make such a tremendous profit," she said."

BINGO!

[southern rock]

$1 billion here, $50 billion there. Pretty soon, you're talking real money.

[Alice in Wonderland]

I hope they make the commercial that starts:

"This is Julie.
This is the diamond tennis bracelet Julie bought.
This is the company that made the bracelet.
This is the supplier who gets his diamonds from Africa.
These are the warlords who kill and maim over control of the mines.
These are the terrorists who profited from the warlord's control over the mines..."

or better yet:

"This is Steve.
This is Steve's SUV.
This is the 25 gallons of gasoline Steve pours into his gas hog each week.
This is the Saudi oil sheik who profits from the sale of that gasoline.
These are the terrorists who directly funded by Saudi oil sheiks..."

[secretagent]

I wonder what the same amount of advertising dollars would do for the pro-freedom side.

I'll guess that tv and radio stations wouldn't run the ads, though, under threat of losing their F.C.C. license.

[PaxMacian]

"CRUSADE"? or UNHOLY WAR
The WoD is an unconstitutional and truly evil war against CITIZENS of this great country!

GOD MADE HERB
GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD
GOD GAVE IT TO MAN

Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:29
And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ..."

Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990) - Court rules that the Free Exercise Clause cannot exempt one from drug laws. The two defendants were members of the Native American Church and had ingested peyote, a hallucinogenic drug. The high court states a new rule: no religious actions may violate general laws, but laws aimed specifically at religions or a particular religious practice will be held unconstitutional.

P.S. I don't want to hear any crap about hemlock(not an herb) or any poisonous herbs because they are all legal to possess or grow and indeed all have medicinal properties.

[Senator Pardek]

"This is Dan. This is the joint that Dan bought. This is the dealer that sold the joint that Dan bought. This is the smuggler that smuggled the pot to the dealer who sold the joint that Dan bought. This is the cartel that uses the smuggler that smuggled the pot to the dealer who sold the joint that Dan bought. And this is the family that was lined up by Dan's cartel and shot for getting in the way."

Er - ya think the WOD is at least partly responsible for this?

Any ways - changing around a few words could prove that people who put gas in their tanks are responsible for taking down thw WTC.

Driver -> gas station -> oil firms -> Saudi Arabia -> Saudi Royal Family -> Osama bin Laden.

Bingo - The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (Terrorist Edition)!

[headsonpikes]

RE: John Walters

"He is a bullshit factory..."

Too, too true. Luckily, no one capable of rational thought believes him.

[Senator Pardek]

Ya beat me to the punch!

[Roscoe]

"The claim that marijuana is an efficacious medicine is a lie," he told a Detroit news conference. "It is used by people who want to legalize marijuana, cynically."

Exactly.

[JediGirl]

And? What's your point?

BTW, I'd like to see what you think about this post

[steve50]

The whole WOD probably cost something in total like 50 billion dollars a year not counting the incarceration cost which are probably too huge to contemplate.

I've seen estimates of $100 billion ayear +, counting incaration. What's another measley billion for brainwashing.
The media ran a couple favorable spots for the legalizers, the ad revenue should help get the media back in line.