High Witness Report

With a new attitude that was ushered in with a more Liberal government in 2008, Marijuana is rolling, full steam ahead, into the main stream of American culture.
We are enjoying victory after victory against the liars, miscreants, and black-hearted filth of the anti-Marijuana fringe.

…and the train kep’a rollin’ all night long…

Our dear friend, Sharon Cobb reports that America’s first Cannabis Cafe has opened in the great state of Oregon.
Thanx be to God, freedom draws ever so close.

Recently, the American Medical Association (AMA) has endorsed Medical Marijuana research.
Once a major purveyor of gov’t Drug War propaganda, the AMA has done a complete about face and clearly submitted to the scientific facts they once so gracefully avoided.

We have won. We endured and we have defeated the Right Wing ignorance that has caused so many to suffer needlessly in infirmity and in jails and prisons.
This trend will not reverse. With young people of today moving slowly into positions of political power, the future of freedom is bright.

There are few things more unjust than to incarcerate someone for Marijuana, but few of us can get ourselves busted with the style and grace that Steve the Lawnmower Guy does.
So we celebrate the nation’s first Cafe with our pal, the legendary Steve.

Another big step in the right direction. This is more than we’ve ever gotten from any gov’t before Obama’s.

Well done, Mr. President. Very well done.

This is for you, MM users. All these decades of relentless activism. All those who suffered and died to make this day possible. This is the ends we seek, and we will not stop until MJ is legalized across the nation.
Of course, stupid cops and judges will still commit harassment and assaults upon MM users, but the ball is rolling right over them now.

Spark and celebrate!

From Reuters:

By James Vicini and Dan Whitcomb

WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In a sharp policy shift, the Obama administration told federal attorneys not to prosecute patients who use marijuana for medical reasons or dispensaries in states where it has been legalized.

A Justice Department official said the formal guidelines were issued Monday in a policy change reflecting President Barack Obama’s views. The Bush administration had said it could enforce the federal law against marijuana and that it trumped state laws.

The decision was praised by activists in California, the first state to legalize medical marijuana in 1996. But concern remains among some medical and law enforcement authorities about hundreds of clinics thought to be selling pot under the protection of state law and without regard to health.

As a candidate during his presidential bid last year, Obama said he intended to halt raids of medical marijuana facilities operating legally under state laws.

After he took office in January, a Drug Enforcement Administration raid on a medical marijuana dispensary in Lake Tahoe, California, raised questions about whether he would follow that pledge.

A White House spokesman Monday repeated Obama’s view that “federal resources should not be used to circumvent state laws.” And Attorney General Eric Holder said he would follow Obama’s position.

Stephen Gutwillig, California head of the Drug Policy Alliance, called the move a good first step.

“There is a fundamental need of patients to access marijuana as medicine right now,” Gutwillig said. “While it’s great to see the Obama administration radically de-escalate the Bush and Clinton administrations’ war on medical marijuana patients, more needs to be done to protect sick people and their caregivers.”

About a dozen states have followed California in adopting medical marijuana laws.

‘MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE’

Gutwillig called on the Obama administration to support a bill pending in Congress, proposed by Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, that would give states the right to adopt their own medical marijuana laws.

But the head of a California drug rehabilitation clinic criticized Monday’s move as irresponsible.

“The Justice Department is required to enforce all federal laws that are on the books,” said Jerrod Menz, president of A Better Tomorrow Treatment Center, said in a written statement.

“Imagine if the administration took a similar stance on immigration policy. Can you imagine the outrage?”

In a statement, Holder said the Justice Department will continue to prosecute people who claim to comply with state or local law, but really are concealing illegal operations.

This is great! But it is by no means enough. Protecting the innocent from Godless legislation is the first thing that needed to be done. But there are still miles to go before the evil is completely subdued and freedom rings.
We have won the drug war. Now it’s just a matter of removing the squatters.

It’s done.
Oakland California has become the first city in the nation to do the right thing concerning Marijuana. They have made it perfectly, legally legitimate.

Thank God for smart people.

“Measure F” (as in Fuck the anti-MJ crowd) was approved by the people of Oakland in a landslide. Oakland has just become the prototype of American progress.

Since the 1930s, asshats, fucktards, and ordinary scum have assailed Marijuana. Lying through their teeth like the diabolical filth that they are, they succeeded for a long time in casting a cloud of fear around God’s wonderful gift. Their efforts have proven to be, as predicted, very much in vain thanx to the people and gov’t of Oakland, CA.
And, thanx to President Obama who has brought a decidedly intelligent attitude concerning Marijuana to the highest reaches of our leadership.
From Richard Nixon to George Dubya Bush and every president in between we have seen nothing but sheer ignorance and bold faced lies.
This fine piece of writing from Mother Jones by way of the November Coalition explains it all.

From ABC:

“The voters of Oakland have sent a message to the nation that cannabis is better treated as a legitimate, tax-paying business than as a cause of crime and futile law-enforcement expenditures,” says Dale Gieringer, California state coordinator for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

The city estimates that the measure will raise $294,000 in additional tax revenue in 2010 and more in future years. Some say the measure will provide funds to help offset the city’s current $83 million deficit as well as allow police to direct their limited resources to more serious crimes and drug offenses…

The precedent has finally been set. Other communities, states, and hopefully the nation should and will follow suit.

Oh sure, it will take a long time to smooth things out. There will be more innocent people jailed and otherwise brought to harm by the “opponents” of freedom and truth.
But the decisive battle has been won. We are victorious.
And we deserve it.

Many have suffered and died while fighting for truth and justice. Their sacrifice has brought us to this day.
Oakland will prosper and the rest of the nation will see the truth.

Yeah, there are those who don’t and won’t face the truth and will continue to lie and deceive others about Marijuana. But fuck them.
If they don’t like it they can move to the North Pole or some shit like that because we simply don’t care what they think.
The foundation of the Drug War, America’s longest and costliest (in terms of money) war, has been crushed. The greatest battle of this “war” has been fought and we have won.

Rejoice.

;-]_~

It only makes sense that one of the few Democratic Senators with any semblance of courage would have the cohonies to speak the truth and speak it freely.

Yep, speaking strength to cowardice is often futile, but this time the language comes in a clear wrapper and 100% uncensored.

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), famed soldier and feared Senator, has always held justice and corrections reform high on his list of priorities. Sen. Webb has come forth to state, in no uncertain terms, that the legalization of drugs, yes, outright legalization, should not be overlooked as one of the possible cures for our rampant judicial system problems.
Indeed, it’s the foremost aggrivating factor as far as irresponsible incarceration is concerned. People simply don’t deserve to be relieved of precious freedom for getting high. That’s all there is to it.

The simple fact is that good people… hard working, honest Americans are languishing in jails and prisons for merely possessing or selling small amounts of drugs.
Meanwhile, our pedophiles, murderers, thieves and other various and assorted vermin walk free. Why? Because drug offenders are the most politically expedient of “law” violators.
“Drugs” have been blamed for the evil that men do for decades now. So jailing the druggies is always the political stepping stone De Jour. Make the public think that if we’re fighting drugs we’re fighting all crime….

Bullshit.

People do drugs, drugs don’t do people. Control and regulation is wisdom because it takes the crime (money) out of the issue, empties our prisons for more deserving residents, and insures safer druggage and safer environments in which to indulge.

Heroin addicts are safer in a clinical environment than a shooting gallery any day.

The fact is, the US has more people in prison (or systematized) than any other nation on earth. The majority of those incarcerated are in for drug related, non-violent crimes.
The sheer stupidity involved in this nation’s handling of the drug issue is almost beyond comprehension.
Most politicians know these facts. Trouble is, they’re too cowardly to tackle “controversial” issues. Least of all the most controversial issue of our time.

From a fine article by Michael O’Brien at The Hill:

April 23, 2009
Webb: Pot legalization ‘on the table’ in prison reform effort
@ 10:24 am by Michael O’Brien

The leader of a congressional effort to reform the criminal justice system said Thursday that all issues — including drug legalization — need to be on the table.

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), who has made criminal justice and prison reform a signature issue of his this year in Congress, is the most high-profile lawmaker to indicate openness to drug decriminalization or outright legalization.

“Well, I think what we need to do is to put all of the issues on the table,” Webb said this morning on CNN if asked if marijuana legalization would be part of his criminal justice reform efforts.

“If you go back to 1980 as a starting point, I think we had 40,000 people in prison on drug charges, and today, we have about 500,000 of them,” the first-term Virginia lawmaker said. “And the great majority of those are nonviolent crimes — possession crimes or minor sales.”

Webb joins several other lawmakers who have called for the exploration of legalized pot, amidst a drug war in Mexico fueled by revenues from American drug sales.

“I think they should examine every aspect of drugs policy to see what’s working and what’s not working, and where the consistencies are and, quite frankly, where the inconsistencies are in terms of how people end up in the system with similar activities,” Webb explained, reiterating his call for a high-level blue ribbon commission to reform the criminal justice system.

“Nothing should be off the table,” he said.

Thanx, Big Jim. There are good people sitting in cells missing their families and not contributing to society that will appreciate the love.
I know I do.

A strong voice in the wilderness. Imagine that.

Hi, Democrats. Can you say “backbone"? Sure, I knew you could.

Today is our day. Today is the day we reflect on those who have suffered and died because of those who oppose Marijuana.
Those who have died for lack of medication, those who have died while anti-Marijuana laws, and those who support them, make drug cartels richer and more powerful.

We remember this day those who languish in jails and prisons for no reason whatsoever and those who lay in sickness as we speak without access to the medication that relieves their suffering. Those who are persecuted for daring to change things for the better.
Those who are murdered in cold blood in the name of “Drug Intervention” and those who are cannon fodder for merely possessing Marijuana.
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We are tens of millions in America. Hundreds of millions throughout the world. Today is the day we renew our resolve to continue the fight for our rights and our well being.

If you have not yet taken a stand for Marijuana in your life, today’s a damn good day to start.

We at TN420 salute all those of our culture as well as those who do not indulge or need, yet help us anyway just because it’s the right thing to do.

We love you all.
Peace!