TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Monday, July 14, 2008

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  # Dr Ron Paul on internet gambling
  
  # Rev. Manning prays for Larry Sinclair & preaches vs Michelle Jezebel Obama
  
  # Warren G Harding was a negro -- America First!
  
  # Look out kid, they keep it all hid.
  
  # Tobacco banned in Amsterdam!
  
  # Seymour Hersh report on covert ops in Iran
  
  # UK persecutes Bilderberg researchers
  
  # Future Combat Systems update
  
  # Bob Barr - a real chouce?
  
  # Like a rolling stone

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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Everyone knows that George Washington grew and smoked hemp. Now, an important archaeological discovery is announced by The George Washington Foundation July 2:

"The George Washington Foundation (GWF) announced, on July 2, 2008, that archaeologists working at the site of George Washington’s childhood home have located and excavated the remains of the long-sought house where Washington was raised. The site was the setting of some of the best-known stories related to his youth, including tales of the cherry tree and throwing a stone across the Rappahannock River.

The archaeologists say that evidence unearthed over seven seasons of excavation has positively confirmed the foundation and cellars that remain from the clapboard-covered wood structure that once housed George, his parents and siblings.

Far from being the rustic cottage of common perception, the Washington house was a much larger one-and-a-half-story residence, perched on a bluff overlooking the Rappahannock.

[...] The land was plowed in the 19th century, so some of the objects we’ve found are in small pieces. The archaeologists are particularly interested in a broken-off bowl of a pipe, blackened inside from heavy use, that was typical of the mid-18th century when George lived in the house. Found in one of the cellars, the pipe bears a clear Masonic crest; Washington joined the Fredericksburg Lodge of the Masons in 1753. ...

Called the Washington Farm in George’s day, the place later became known as Ferry Farm, because of a ferry that linked it to Fredericksburg via the Rappahannock, just down the bank from the house. The Washington family moved to the site in 1738 from their previous home 45 miles away when George was 6 ...

Augustine Washington’s death five years after the family moved to the farm would forever alter George’s life. Mary Washington, a formidable personality, chose not to remarry, which left the family in a precarious financial situation. No longer able to afford school for George, Mary arranged for a part-time tutor.

George grew tobacco there before switching to wheat and corn. On these fields, George transitioned from boyhood to manhood.

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Labels: cannabis, George Washington

Sunday, June 08, 2008

Labels: bob barr, cannabis, colbert

Thursday, June 28, 2007

From RawStory.com June 27, 2007:

"In his dissent on a recent free-speech case, Justice John Paul Stevens wades into the war-on-drugs debate, comparing modern-day pot smokers with "otherwise law-abiding patrons of bootleggers and speakeasies," during the prohibition era.

Stevens, who the Washington Post notes turned 87 on April 20, said the current climate surrounding the war on drugs "is reminiscent of the opinion that supported the nationwide ban on alcohol consumption when I was a student."

The Supreme Court this week ruled against an Alaska student who displayed a "BONG HiTS 4 JESUS" sign at an event outside his high school, and Stevens wrote the dissent for the four justices who believed the student's free-speech rights should be protected.

"Today the actions of literally millions of otherwise law-abiding users of marijuana, and of the majority of voters in each of the several States that tolerate medicinal uses of the product, lead me to wonder whether the fear of disapproval by those in the majority in silencing opponents of the war on drugs," Stevens wrote.

Most debate over the efficacy of the war on drugs focuses on government crackdowns on users of medical marijuana, for whom the drug eases chronic pain. But in comparing pot smoking to social drinking, Stevens suggests that the drug could be legalized in all cases.

In his opinion, Stevens insists "no one seriously maintains that drug advocacy ... can be prohibited because of its feared consequences." Later, Stevens observes the shift in Americans' views on alcohol since the 1920s and 30s.

"While alcoholic beverages are now regarded as ordinary articles of commerce, their use was then condemned with the same moral fervor that now supports the war on drugs," Stevens writes.
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Unfortunately, the leftist Stevens does not respect the Ninth or Tenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and has voted to overturn state laws protecting the right to use cannabis medicinally.

Labels: cannabis

Thursday, March 29, 2007

From Politico.com March 28, 2007:

"Bob Barr, who as a Georgia congressman authored a successful amendment that blocked D.C. from implementing a medical marijuana initiative, has switched sides and become a lobbyist for the Marijuana Policy Project...

"I, over the years, have taken a very strong stand on drug issues, but in light of the tremendous growth of government power since 9/11, it has forced me and other conservatives to go back and take a renewed look at how big and powerful we want the government to be in people’s lives,” Barr said.


[...] Ironically, Barr said he will help lead the fight to give District residents a say on whether to allow medical marijuana — the very thing the “Barr Amendment” denied them in 1998. He will lobby for the rights of states to set their own medical marijuana policy without federal interference.

The four-term former Republican congressman will also work to unplug a youth anti-drug campaign which a recent study showed actually increased the likelihood that all teens would smoke pot.

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Labels: cannabis