tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35179612010-04-09T14:55:45.682-07:00The nations of the world have declared war against anyone who dares to believe they have the right to control their own consciousness. This blog is dedicated to publishing the real facts about the War on Consciousness.Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comBlogger292125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-21584599101238105132010-02-26T15:27:00.001-08:002010-04-09T12:18:43.326-07:00

THIS PAGE IS NOW AN ARCHIVE ONLYAs of March 2010, Google is no longer supporting FTP publishing of it's Blogger blogs. Therefore I will be consolidating all of my blogs into a single front page format that I will be experimenting with and changing from time to time until I find something I like.

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Protestors to Obama: “Stop Rogue DEA Raids”(Christopher N. Osher, The Denver Post, February 18, 2010)An assortment of protest groups have gathered in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant across the street from the venue where President Barack Obama will speak this afternoon. . . . Those holding signs aloft range from medical marijuana advocates to die-hard, law-and-order Republicans. . . .

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Sometimes you've just got to laugh about the WoD

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Medical Marijuana Lab Raided by DEA( Kurt A. Gardinier, MPP, January 29, 2010)On Wednesday, DEA agents raided Full Spectrum Laboratories, a lab in Denver, Colorado, that tests medical marijuana for dispensaries. Bob Winnicki, president of the lab, said the DEA issued a subpoena requesting that it turn over customer and patient records from the past six months. Winnicki said he wasn't charged with

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Study Debunks Marijuana-Suicide Myth(Dr. Mitch Earleywine, MPP, Jan 26, 2010)Yet another myth about marijuana takes a beating thanks to some splendid research out of Scandinavia. Although it's no surprise to MPP's fans, marijuana use has no link to suicide. A thorough study of Swedish military men confirms that those who use marijuana are no more likely to take their own lives than those who

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Pot Smokers' Get Revenge in Massachusetts(Ben Morris, MPP)Last night, Scott Brown (R-Mass.) beat Democrat Martha Coakley in a special election to replace the late Senator Ted Kennedy, becoming the first Republican to hold a Senate seat in Massachusetts since the 1970s. So what happened up there? . . . To state it simply, the Democrats chose a bad candidate. They backed one of the most vocal and

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10 Signs the Failed Drug War Is Finally Ending(Tony Newman, AlterNet, December 4, 2009)1) Three Former Latin American Presidents Call Drug War a Failure (February) ... 2) Michael Phelps and the Bong Hit Heard Around the World (February) ... 3) Obama Justice Department Says No More Raids on Patients and Caregivers in States with Medical Marijuana Laws (March) ... 4) Drop the Rock! NY's Draconian

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The No-hitter Thrown While on LSD

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Prohibition's Pillars Starting to Crumble(Cynthia Tucker, St. Petersburg Times, November 4, 2009)The nation's approach to drugs has turned us into a penal colony. We lock up more of our citizens per capita than brutal dictators like Robert Mugabe and Fidel Castro. . . . Much of the social cost has been borne by black men, who use illegal drugs at rates about equal to whites but are nearly 12

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One Drug Arrest Made Every 18 Seconds(Huffington Post, September 14, 2009)Someone is arrested in the United States for a drug-law violation every 18 seconds, an FBI report released Monday shows. . . . More than four-fifths of those arrests were for possession only and nearly half were for possession of marijuana. Of the 847,863 marijuana arrests -- one every 37 seconds -- 89 percent were for

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More Evidence That Marijuana Prevents CancerA Population-Based Case-Control Study of Marijuana Use and Head and Neck Squamous Cell CarcinomaCannabinoids, constituents of marijuana smoke, have been recognized to have potential antitumor properties. However, the epidemiologic evidence addressing the relationship between marijuana use and the induction of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC

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The Mexican Army is Running Amok(Charles Bowden, Mother Jones, June 17, 2009)The military has again flooded northern Mexico, ever since President Felipe Calderón assumed office in December 2006 with a margin so razor thin that many Mexicans think he is an illegitimate president. One of his first acts was to declare a war on the nation's thriving drug industry, and his favorite tool was to be the

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Medical pot users, growers can sue over raids(Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, July 2, 2009)Officials in Butte County, where the case arose, argued that patients and suppliers can invoke the medical marijuana law only as a defense to criminal charges, not to sue for damages. The court's dissenting justice said no one is entitled to compensation for the destruction of a drug banned under

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NORML Pro-Pot TV ad blankets US

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Marijuana Expo Draws 20,000 in Los Angeles

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Excrescences of the Mexican Drug War"Drug prohibition is the golden goose of terrorism all around the world." -Judge James Grey

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THC initiates brain cancer cells to destroy themselves(WorldHealth.Net, May 20, 2009)THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, causes brain cancer cells to undergo a process called autophagy in which cells feed upon themselves, according to a study conducted by Guillermo Velasco and colleagues at Complutense University in Spain. Using mice designed to carry human brain cancer tumors, the

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Who is the American Connection?

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FBI Admits "No one ever died from marijuanaEmbedded video from CNN Video

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Supreme Court Hands Medical Marijuana Major Victory(Huffington Post, May 18, 2009)The U.S. Supreme Court handed medical marijuana patients and advocates a resounding victory on Monday, refusing to hear a case brought by San Diego County, which has long chafed at implementing statewide medical marijuana laws. . . . The state of California, in an effort to systematize the 1996 voter-approved

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Kids, don't do drugs

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Legalization Finally Making the Mainstream Media

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Pot vs. Booze: A Former Police Chief's Take(Norm Stamper, Huffington Post, April 22, 2009)We at LEAP are current and former cops and other criminal justice practitioners who have witnessed firsthand the futility and manifold injustices of the drug war. Our professional experiences have led us to conclude that the more dangerous an illicit substance -- from crack to krank -- the greater the

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Former drug smuggler interviewed on CNN about legalization

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Legalization: Yes We Can

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