High Witness Report

I have a few mins of down time and this was just too good to pass up.

Texas, a state infamous for police tasering old ladies, executions of innocent people and fucktarded Presidents, has finally managed to transcend their own record ignorance in a humorous fashion as opposed to the usual destructive one.

One has to wonder why Marijuana is even illegal in Texas when the cops are too stupid to know it from crabgrass….

ROTFFLMAO

Bong rips of Horsemint, anyone?

From Raw Story:

Like the old song goes, one of these things is not like the other…

However, remind a police officer in Corpus Christi, Texas of those famed Cookie Monster lyrics and they’re likely to give you an annoyed look.

That’s because a recently discovered cache of plants, initially pegged by officials speaking to local news as “one of the largest marijuana plant seizures in the police department’s history,” turned out to be a relatively common prairie flower of little significance.

Texas officers ultimately spent hours laboring to tag and remove up to 400 plants from a city park, discovering only after a battery of tests that they had been sweating over mere Horse Mint, a member of the mint family – effectively turning their ambitious drug bust into mere yard work.

The plants, which bear very few aesthetic similarities to cannabis, were reported by an unnamed youth who came across them while riding a bike in the park around 8 p.m. on Thursday. Upon visual inspection, police apparently agreed that the inoffensive plants had to go.

Fucking idiots.

HAPPY 420

This year it means a lot. Not that it meant less before, just that so many significant victories were won in the last 12 months.
The state of California is introducing legislation to fully legalize this November and THAT LEGISLATION WILL PASS.

Eric Holder, US Attorney General declared the Drug War over and that is victory. We have won this long, miserable war that has claimed and ruined more American lives than any war in our history.
The Obama administration is the first since Nixon to not wage war against the American people.

There is still much to be done, law enforcement in some states and areas are still playing cut-and-run. But we have won.

All ur base are belong to us!

Celebrate, people. Celebrate the conquest of ignorance and the demise of Right Wing efforts to label us as criminals. Light up, celebrate.
You’ve earned it.

Now…
I do have to take this opportunity to express some dismay and a great deal of disappointment in my fellow Tennessee “Liberal” bloggers. Many (not all) of them have failed miserably to support compassion and fiscal responsibility. Though some of us have written in support of the Tennessee Medical Marijuana Act, far too many who fancy themselves “Liberal” or “Progressive” in this state have failed miserably to show support for the measure and the fine members of our General Assembly who introduced it.
There are only four or five legislators in Tennessee who have the brains and guts to stand tall on this defining Progressive issue. We owe them more than our silence.
Sen. Beverly Marrero and Rep. Jeanne Richardson are back again this year with bills that would allow doctors to recommend medical marijuana to seriously ill Tennesseans. In 2009, similar bills stalled in their respective committees, but advocates are hopeful this year will be different.

SB 2511 and HB2562 — the Safe Access to “Medical Cannabis Act” — would allow terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana with their doctor’s permission. Under the bill, approved patients would be issued Safe Access Program ID cards that would allow them to purchase medical marijuana from participating distribution outlets, and would protect them from arrest for the medical use of marijuana.

If you believe in compassion, as a Tennessean you have no choice but to speak out in support of this legislation. If you have the power of Blog, you have no excuse.

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.

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