DrugSense for Florida

“A  reminder  from  Florida  that  the negative consequences of being identified  as  a  cannabis  consumer  reach  far  beyond  the  legal repercussions.” 

Source: DrugSense Weekly, Oct. 23, 2009, #623.

Jail-time for Selling Seeds in U.S. = FIVE YEARS!

And I ask, “Is this America?”

That’s what Marc Emery, the world’s Prince of Pot, is getting for selling marijuana seeds and funding a grassroots movement. .  (Montel Williams!  Why are you yelling about this one?)  Show your support for Marc Emery. 

Emery , the marijuana activist who is going to jail in the United States, is expected to be sentenced in the Seattle Federal Court of Ricardo Martinez on or around Monday, September 21. The plea agreement is for a 5-year sentence in US Federal Prison.

Global rallies in support of Marc will be on Saturday, September 19th.  Go to DEA Tampa District Office. 4950 W. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 400. Tampa, Florida 33609.

False Drug Charges Rising in Central Florida

In Florida, one can lose one’s right to vote, a.k.a., disenfranchisement, and in Kissimmee, Florida, cops are going crazy these days trying to get as many people as possible arrested on drug charges. 

Kissimmee is located in Osceola County, Florida.  Michael Freilinger, is the county manager, a white man who claims he “gets the big bucks” for firing safety personnel.  So how is the county’s remaining staff controlling safety?

They’re putting everyone in jail?   Well, okay, not everyone, but they are putting a record number of people behind bars on drug charges.

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Prohibition Multiplier Effect

I’ve already been told that my voice is not heard in Washington, DC, but how about that of millions of other Americans, those disenfranchised for no other reason than their use of an herb, medicine, drug, plant — or whatever you want to call it — is illegal.  This legislation of morality is nothing short of barbaric. 

Every one marijuana user arrested and jailed, has a multiplier effect on our society.  One arrested for what they consumed is equal to one mother, one father, at least one significant other, and even children. The more you ignore it, the worse it gets.

Please co-sponsor H.R. 2835, the Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act, and help bring this America into the 21st century.  Don’t do this for me, because I already know that America does not watch out for the least of us; do it because you respect humanity.

Stupid Marijuana Myths

Dear President Obama:

I feel safer with you in the White House in part because of your science- rather than ideology-guided decisions.  However, the person you elevated to drug czar doesn’t appear to have the same trust for science and is clearly misinformed as to the level of danger of marijuana.  I know it is hard to correct marijuana myths that have been expanding over decades here in the U.S., but at the very least, I expect the drug czar to get his facts straight.

Transparency is important and valued, but so is the breaking of myths surrounding the American drug problem, which, as you no doubt have probably noticed, includes both legal and illegal drugs.

"The Family of C Street" Gang

133 C St SE, Washington, DC 20003-1807  |  While all nations around the world and throughout the history of mankind have had problems because of religion, none is more sinister than the new American Mafia, a.k.a., “The Family of C Street” Gang.  It is the face of modern racism and sexism, all rolled up into a Jesus that is reminiscent of “the Buddy Christ” in the movie Dogma.

In this movie Alanis Morissette is not god.  God is Rush Limbaugh.

Like Rush, each member of The Family is a chosen one, and each one is encouraged to believe in the sanctity of the good-ole boy network.  In fact, the C Street Center is little more than a modern version of Virginia’s old (and I mean old) network.

Political racketeering “dedicated to ending the traditional American separation between religion and politics.”

Really!  This is not a joke.

Just like Rush, these people are dead serious and have even opened “The Family International” to cater to all their foreign leaders, of which there are apparently many.  It is beyond scary to think just how close the U.S. was to dictatorship by the Bush administration.

George W. Bush’s legacy is quickly sliding into what may be known to historians as darkest decade in United States history.  What this group believes is so medieval, it is frightening to think that C Street may have had an “invisible hand” in our current, worldwide economic crisis, and even the stealing of the 2000 presidential election.   For Floridians, it should be frightening to know that even Bill Nelson, D-Fla., is a member.

 

Theocracy vs. Democracy

Eco-terrorism, the green scare … Whatever it’s called today, it all seems like a sped-up version of two decades of McCarthyism, which seems to never have quite ended.  The Red Scare, with its attempt–and some success–to control people en masse, turned into the War on Drugs.  Today that war has disenfranchised of hundreds of thousands of Americans, everyone of which has lost their so-called right to vote … in a democracy, no less! (Or, a “republic” as neo-cons seem to prefer.)

Extending back in the 1960’s, when Nixon declared his war on today’s aging hippies, who high-tailed free speech in exchange for extraordinary wealth, they left the reality of their economics to the future.   During the eight-Bush-years into our 21st century, George took democracy away from Americans at the first opportunity. 

George W. Bush, and the medieval likes of him, have left Americans in a state too closely resembling our collective worst nightmare in history.  Is there any doubt that if George Bush and Richard Cheney do not get tried in a court of law–or at the least become subjects of an investigation–we will doom our children to the fate of theocracy started by the coward-hippies of the 60’s and the likes of the Bush Family Dynasty, among other medieval consortiums of misogynists, such as the C Street Gang. 

Crist Helping Business Help Who?

Governor Charlie Crist represents what it truly means to lack empathy for fellow Floridians.   According to Aaron Deslatte of the Orlando Sentinel, while touting his Cover Florida plan Crist told reporters, “The real concern here is to make sure the people have access to health care that’s affordable.”  There are three problems with this statement.

First, one must ask what he means by the “real concern.”  Did he mean “real” as opposed to fake?  Or, did he mean “the real concern” to sound more like, “This is the point …” of some public priority that’s about as useful to me as … how I’m going to help my parents with an $11,000 medical bill they incurred to save my brother, uninsured, from dying at ORMC?

While the point for those without health insurance is a way to figure out how to stay out of the hospital, the point Charlie fails to grasp, is not “health care that’s affordable.”  It is “health care,” period.  Osceola County’s Cover Florida plan, for example, can go as cheap as $50.75 a month, which is great!  That truly is health care plan that’s affordable, but is it, as Crist claims, for “the people?”

In looking at Osceola’s health care plan, it appears that is was setup to advertise options offered by private insurance companies.  Crist’s plan does not offer a public option and that appears to be the point where is fails, completely.

Crist’s plan ensures that more and more Floridians every month will lose health care coverage.  It is a process similar to the way credit card companies employ usury, such as jacking one’s card fee from eight to 28 percent.  In a manner of speaking, one could say that Crist is employing health care usury, forcing those who can’t afford it to increase their risk of continuing to sink into the ranks of the poor.

On a personal note to U.S senator Bill Nelson:

It is your duty, as it is of all politicians, not to step “beyond the din of the vox populi.”  We know your family, Mr. Nelson and pray that the C Street Gang, the new American Mafia, will practice empathy in spite of your religion.  Please keep C Street out of our nation’s health care plan.

Please support the Obama plan.

Tanya

Can Pot Light World?

TAMPA, FL — Who says marijuana isn’t good for our economy?  According to John Wilson, vice president of business development for Recycled Energy Development, a Westmont, Illinois-based waste-to-energy company, burning a ton of pot will “light 40,000 100-watt light bulbs for an hour.”  Need we say more?

Townhall Video of Barack Obama                                                  Source

Loss of Voting Rights Increasing Hispanic-Americans

JUNE 13, 2009 — In just one week, over 142 Hispanic Americans, Cubans, and Mexicans have been arrested in one of the most ruthless violations of the federal Voting Rights Act.

Arrests of Hispanics have multiplied in an area just 18 miles south of Disney World in Kissimmee, Florida.  Residents of a Hispanic community known as Poinciana have been subjected to forcible entry of their homes under a federally approved action known as Operation Eagle Claw.  Two Sheriff’s departments, representing both sides of this two-county enclave, are cooperating in sweeps that have been breaking up families, forcing children into the  infamous Florida Department of Child & Families, and depriving Hispanics — in quickly increasing numbers — the right to vote.  

Osceola commissioners were recently forced to change voting practices for violating the federal Voting Rights Act.  They’ve apparently found a new way around that little problem.

Following is the Sheriff’s department’s’ short list, each one of whom will lose their so-called right to vote. 

• Porfirio Boza (64 Years Old)
• Omar Boza (39 Yrs)
• Mabel Padron (34 Yrs)
• Omaida Padron (44 Yrs)
• Marilin Gonzalez (37 Yrs)
• Jorge Gonzalez (40 Yrs)
• Daniel Gonzalez (46 Yrs)
• Orlando Gonzalez (20 Yrs)
• Fernando Guerra-Gonzalez (47 Yrs)
• Juan Rodriguez (40 Yrs)
• Jose Rodriguez-Hernandez (38 Yrs)
• Luis Ramirez (57 Yrs)
• Ubaldo Sacerio (44 Yrs)
• Michel Marquez (18 Yrs)
• Suray Fenandez-Cruz (29 Yrs)
• Miguel Barzaga (35 Yrs)
• Harcey Ravelo Ferro (27 Yrs)