The 'Virtues' of Pot
Vote Yes on initiative I-100
Reduce family and community violence in Denver
Alcohol use makes domestic violence 8 times more likely. . .
Marijuana use does not.

Safer Choice * Change The Climate



Controversial Pot Billboard Goes Up

Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative
WHEREAS, according to the National Institutes of Health, an average of 317 Americans die annually as the result of alcohol overdoses; and
WHEREAS, there has never been even a single fatal marijuana overdose recorded in the medical literature, as noted by the British Medical Journal in September 2003; and
WHEREAS, according to U.S. Department of Justice, “About 3 million crimes occur each year in which victims perceive the offender to have been drinking at the time of the offense. Among those victims who provided information about the offender’s use of alcohol, about 35% of the victimizations involved an offender who had been drinking”; and
WHEREAS, extensive research, documented in official reports by the British government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and the Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, among others, shows that -- unlike alcohol -- marijuana use is not generally a cause of violence or aggressive behavior and in fact tends to reduce violence and aggression;
WHEREAS, it is the intent of this ordinance to have the private adult use and possession of marijuana treated in the same manner as the private adult use and possession of alcohol;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER



Legalise Cannabis To Cut Heroin Addiction

Pot Less of a Cancer Risk Than Tobacco

TOBACCO USE AND IMPOTENCE

If you smoke, you're playing Russian roulette with your sexual function.
Dr. John Mulhall, Director, Center for Sexual Health, Loyola University Medical Center

There's absolutely no question about it. It causes it very commonly.
Dr. Culley Carson, Urology Department Chairman, University of North Carolina

If you smoke, you're about twice as likely to have erectile dysfunction.
Dr. John McKinlay, New England Research Institute

Smoking is clearly hazardous to your erection.
Dr. Lawrence Levine, Rush Medical Center, Director of Male Sexual Function Program

I feel confident that smoking does and can cause impotence.
Dr. Randolph Smoak, Chair, Board of Trustees, American Medical Association



Marijuana May Live Up To Be The Elixir of Life

'Cannabis' Acts as Antidepressant

The Failed War on Pot Users
USA -- In 2004, law enforcement officials arrested 771,605 people
for marijuana violations, according to federal statistics.

Remember The Failure of Prohibition



"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing"
Federal Bureau of Narcotics Chief Harry J. Anslinger, 1948

Fans Too Relaxed for Fights

Cannabis Helps Keep Fans Calm

Basketball Riots in L.A., Soccer Thugs in Europe

Euro 2000 Soccer Violence Could Vanish in a Puff

California Cops Go To Pot

"Cannabis can be used on an episodic but continual basis without evidence of social or psychic dysfunction. In many users the term dependence with its obvious connotations, probably is mis-applied... The chief opposition to the drug rests on a moral and political, and not toxicologic, foundation"
The USA Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 1987

Think of the message being sent to the kids?

Respectable Reefer By Gary Greenberg
Mother Jones October 18, 2005  
If it weren't for the little photo gallery on the wall, the office where Dr. William Notcutt's research assistants keep track of their patients would be just like any other cubicle at the James Paget Medical Center in England. As phones ring and stretchers wheel by and these three women go about their business, the snapshots--Cheryl Phillips, one of Notcutt's staffers, gently holding an emerald green bud of marijuana; a group of people in lab coats smiling for the camera, sinsemilla towering over their heads; a hangar-sized greenhouse stuffed to the gills with lush pot plants--are about the only evidence that this hospital in East Anglia is at the epicenter of one of the most extensive medical marijuana research projects in the world.

Hypocrisy & Double Standards

Marijuana and Sex



Marijuana has been used in one form or another across many different cultures as an
aphrodisiac for thousands of years. Marijuana has been used in India for at least 3,000 years to increase libido and conquer impotence.

Marijuana and Sex: A Classic Combination
Ancient tantrists and modern researchers agree:
pot and sex are two great things that go together

Ganja and Sex

Marijuana: the ultimate sex drug by Chris Bennett

Metro's pro-pot ads get attention on Hill

Cannabis smokers 'number 163 million worldwide'

"I say we legalize drugs, strip them of their outlaw glamour so kids aren't as attracted to them, regulate their price so they're no longer a viable commodity for the disenfranchised, tax the shit out of them, and give all of us a kick-back that we can then spend on cigarettes, booze and coffee."
- Dennis Miller

Great post! Excellent work, lots of great stuff in here!

Pot Measure Wafts To Victory By Alan Gathright
Rocky Mountain News  November 01, 2005
Denver, Colorado -- A measure that would legalize adult possession of small amounts of marijuana in Denver was approved by voters Tuesday, following a heated campaign that saw pot backers accused of exploiting residents' fear of crime. The measure was leading by more than 7,000 votes with just over 100,000 votes counted when the Rocky Mountain News called the contest. Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21252.shtml



Marijuana Measure Stirs Controversy By Alan Gathright
Rocky Mountain News November 01, 2005
Colorado -- Denver voters went to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to legalize adult possession of small amounts of marijuana after a heated campaign saw pot backers accused of exploiting residents' fear of crime. The central theme of Initiative 100, the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative, is that adults should have the right to legally choose marijuana, because it's a safer alternative to booze, which supporters argue — citing national and local studies — fuels violence, deadly car wrecks, collegiate binge-drinking and alcoholism. Read More...
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21250.shtml



In the Morenos Mountains campesinos are planting their fields
While the ghost of Zapata rides a horse that can still outrun the wind
While free in the sky high above, nearly clear out of sight
It's the Free Mexican Air Force flyin' tonight.
In the City of Angels a cowboy is cooling his heels
Remembering that God gave us herbs and the fruits of the fields
But a criminal law that makes outlaws of those seeking light
Made the Free Mexican Air Force, Mescalito riding his white horse --
Yeah the Free Mexican Air Force is flyin' tonight!
(After every verse:) Flying so high - yi - hiyeeeee! ...

How strange that an innocent herb causes money to burn
They'll jail you or kill you for making those rich fat cats squirm.
They're the fools who make rules with no difference between wrong and right
That's why the Free Mexican Air Force is flyin' tonight.
Uncle Sam in his misery put a Nix on the fields of (Herreros, Guerreros?)
Sayin' shoot down all gringos and wetbacks who dare wear sombreros
Either run for your life, surrender, or stand up and fight --
Or join the Free Mexican Air Force, Mescalito riding his white horse,
Yeah the Free Mexican Air Force is flying tonight!

It is not marijuana destroying the minds of the young
But confusion continued for power and greed in all forms
Well, the borders of evil will fall to the smugglers of light
We're the Free Mexican Air Force and we're flyin' tonight!
In San Antonio they tell me that power and money are one
They can buy us or sell you to keep you afraid, on the run
But no one can stop us! My vision is clearly in sight
And the Free Mexican Air Force, Mescalito riding his white horse,
Yeah the Free Mexican Air Force is flyin' tonight

Some were smoking (falitas, Colitas?) while other were loading their guns
Blowing smoke from their six-shooters, spinning their barrels for fun
Contrabandistas, banditos alike --
We're the Free Mexican Air Force and we're flyin' tonight.
High in the hills we are harvesting sweet sensemilla (?)
Yeah the law wants it all 'cause they know that the wild weed can free ya
And freedom for us is a prison for the rulers of might
That's why the Free Mexican Air Force -- Mescalito riding his white horse --
Yeah, the Free Texican Air Force is flyin' tonight
Flyin' so high- yi- yee...Flyin' tonight! Free Mexican Air Force by Peter Rowan

DENVER LEGALIZES MARIJUANA 53% - 46%!
Denver became the first city in the nation to make the private use of marijuana legal for adults 21 and older as an alternative to alcohol, a far more harmful drug. By 10.45 p.m. Tuesday night, with 100% of the votes tallied, the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative had passed 53.49% YES to 46.51% NO. F U L L S T O R Y
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4570.html

Pot Issue Gives New Meaning To Mile High City

Denver Pot Issue Passes


San Mescalito black light poster by Rick Griffin in 1967

i don't hold with deminishing alcohol to make cannabis look better.

the usefulness and important values of alcohol can't be questioned, if it gets misused, it can be harmful.
same as cannabis, same as everything else.

putting something down to make your thing look better doesn't seem proper.


"your dead inside bert, your dead and you can't live unless you make everything else around you dead". -fast eddie felson.

The totally unnatural fermentation or chemically adulterated substance known as booze diminishes its own credibility long before the user can abuse. I don't hold to holding onto ignorance. Boozes death rate is 10 times the intoxication limit, Ganja is 20,000 times and is impossible to actually consume such a large amount required. Your babbling only serves to maintain the ignorance maintaining the very profitable Ganjawar. Reality states booze should be the schedule#1 narcotic and Ganja shouldn't be classified, period. Abusing Ganja will never give cirrhosis of the liver or dementia. Even the slightest sip of beer contains thousands of ppm fluoridation, chlorinating and all of the chemicals used to grow the hops and barley. The aluminum cans leeching into the neurological system. All the profits selling the booze industry the paraphernalia required for that perversion of nature. All the lack of profits growing Ganja in a non prohibitive arena. No comparison. Ganja is good fer ya booze sucks.

Ya missed the part about impotency didn't ya? Or maybe not... Kindly take your pickled brain sputter off my links from now on. Unless you actually find something of interest. Not memo's from the home office of Hiram Walker Bush.

Tell me again what part of...



Don't you understand?



It is not marijuana destroying the minds of the young. But confusion continued for power and greed in all forms. Well, the borders of evil will fall to the smugglers of light. We're the Free Mexican Air Force and we're flyin' tonight! In San Antonio they tell me that power and money are one. They can buy us or sell you to keep you afraid, on the run. But no one can stop us! My vision is clearly in sight. And the Free Mexican Air Force, Mescalito riding his white horse, Yeah the Free Mexican Air Force is flyin' tonight!!!

So stop the ridiculous hype in some lame attempt to equalize two opposing substances. The tree of life has no comparison, especially mans obedient elixirs. Keeping the sheople grazing on reefer mad fables and gossip. Shame on your blind following of the blind. Wake up and smell the kyndbud!!!



PS: As harmful as booze is to the mental and physical well being of its users, laws prohibiting this dysfunction only hurt the people while profiting chickenhawk geeks, so naturally I'm opposed to outlawing it. But the reality of booze should be given to everyone so they can make an informed choice. As should the chemicals be listed on manmade tobacco adulterations known as cigarettes. Along with providing a safer alternative such as Ganja. Did I mention booze sucks, but I would still defend to the death, your right to destroy your brain cells! As long as its your choice and not fascist cowards taking that choice away by leaving out the knowledge of the harmful effects of booze.

"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

sorry to have ruined your.....links(?), your obviously very knowledgeable.


alcohol is bad for a person that's why cannabis should be legal.

i expect you win converts by the bushel with that.

i wonder what brand of activism got cannabis illegal to begin with?
don't bother answering that, it'd be lost on you anyway.

in any case, i don't understand why you need to be nasty.

is it because i'm a blabbring idiot?
that gives you the excuse to be mean and nasty?

sorry, i didn't know your nastiness was my fault.

Denver Is First City To Legalize Pot By Stephanie Simon 
Los Angeles Times November 03, 2005 
Denver -- Bring on the jokes about the Mile High City.
Denver on Tuesday became the first city in the nation to wipe out all criminal and civil penalties for adults caught possessing a small amount of marijuana. About 54% of voters supported a ballot measure legalizing possession of less than an ounce of pot by individuals 21 and over.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21260.shtml

Eyes on Denver’s Marijuana Laws

High Hopes for Marijuana Debate

To Voters, Issue was Freedom of Choice

Denver Votes To Legalize Marijuana Possession

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does -- Margaret Mead


Colorado Medical Marijuana certificate

bouttime: sorry to have ruined your.....links(?), your obviously very knowledgeable.

Don't loose any sleep over it, not a big deal.

alcohol is bad for a person that's why cannabis should be legal.

No child. Booze isn't good for a person, period. It has nothing to do with Ganja. No comparison between what is of nature and what is of mammon. Humans cannot create, only destroy and kill and then fabricate products out of the death of the resource. Or just rob the graveyards like using fossil fools. Booze distributors produced the flick Reefer Madness as a true documentary. Kennedy's and Bushits have had booze interest for decades, not ones likely to promote Ganja, regardless of its benign nature. Ganja is illegal solely do to the profits of prohibition. Prohibition enforcement profit and by eliminating corporate synthetic competition, period. The "dangers" are all cop gutter science or flat out lies.

i expect you win converts by the bushel with that.

Not interested in "converting" sheople. Wiping the dust from my hemp sandals as we speak. Its simply giving information the mainstream has censored. If sheople can't see that or they are so much in love with their booze they refuse to see, no problem mon. Its your ass. I'm shedding karma simply giving useful info, not if you accept it. Just don't bring unfounded claims to my posts is all I ask.

i wonder what brand of activism got cannabis illegal to begin with?

Asking that says you slept through most of the classes. Geezus man are you serious? Fascism eliminating natural fiber competition, along with the nutritional seed and medicinal flowertops dividing the citizens with racism. Nothing new. How do you think Ganja came to be called Mary Jane? Racism dude. Fear mongers like today pushing ridiculous derogatory reefer madness gossip. Do you even read the post or just tack on propaganda fliers randomly?

"How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured..."
- Harry Anslinger, Commissioner of the US Bureau of Narcotics 1930-1962, speaking about marijuana

don't bother answering that, it'd be lost on you anyway.

No bother, even if it made sense. But its obviously over your head if you think this is a one upmanship, ganja vs booze. Like I said, no comparison. Ganja is good fer ya and booze sucks, period. Ganja replaces dead brain cells, booze makes them. Ganja aids neurological spasms, booze creates them, shaking and twitching those in withdrawal. No one has ever died from kicking Ganja. Booze is a clear and present danger and you think its a form of activism. All made up just to get votes? You must be pretty naive to follow so blindly. You seem to believe the reefer madness and the bud ads. You'll never get those Miller twins sucking down suds dude.

in any case, i don't understand why you need to be nasty.



I could say it's pure pleasure. Basically its painting a clear picture using resources and common sense and when someone arbitrarily post falsehoods, they need to prove it. This ain't fauxnews.

is it because i'm a blabbring idiot?
that gives you the excuse to be mean and nasty?

I'd be pretty tired if I was mean and nasty to a country full of blabbering idiots. Just those spewing ignorance in my presence, if its not out of my way that is. After all its not like I care if you "get it." I don't know you well enough to care.

sorry, i didn't know your nastiness was my fault.

If you think this is nasty, I'd stay off the redneck boards. If you're so sensitive or afraid of losing booze profits. pass em by. I thought boozers were tough? Anyway, I have no urgent desire to be nasty with you. Go in peace and sin no more!
Peace, Love and Liberty or the Merchants of DEAth
DdC

NORML's Weekly News Bulletin -- November 3, 2005
Washington, DC, USA November 3, 2005
Gallup: Public Support Grows For Legalizing Pot
The percentage of Americans favoring the legalization of cannabis has risen more than 33 percent since 1995 and now stands at its all-time highest level of public support, according to polling data published by Gallup this week.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21266.shtml

U.S. Not Ready To Puff The Magic Dragon
Editorial: Collegiate Times November 03, 2005 
Denver, Colorado -- The mayor of Denver was highly disappointed with the passing of a new measure pertaining to marijuana. The measure instills new meaning into Mile High City. The measure passed Tuesday with a 54 percent vote. It allows adults who are over the age of 21 to possess no more than one ounce of marijuana without being penalized in Denver. A few other cities have adopted similar measures. Simultaneously, 12 states have procedures that prevent criminal charges from being issued against someone in possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, but still issue fines.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21265.shtml



I -100 Author Smokes Foes

Which is safer?

Evidence Reveals Health Potential for Cannabis By Brent Battle
Source: Daily O'Collegian November 03, 2005 
USA -- Recent research and public opinion make a strong case for the legalization of medicinal and recreational hemp, or marijuana. Denver residents voted 54 percent in favor of an ordinance decriminalizing city hemp laws, letting citizens possess up to one ounce, according to The Associated Press.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21262.shtml

Marijuana Vote Sends Message



Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate the public about the harmful consequences associated with alcohol, as compared with the much safer--yet illegal--substance: marijuana.

SAFER is looking for students at the colleges in Colorado who share SAFER's core beliefs:

1) marijuana is a safer recreational drug than alcohol, and
2) the penalties for the private use and possession of marijuana should be no greater than those for the private use and possession of alcohol.

Pot Vote Prompts Worldwide Attention By Alan Gathright
Rocky Mountain News November 04, 2005 
Denver, Colorado -- Denver voters may have legalized adult marijuana possession Tuesday, but the political fuming, fighting and "Mile High" fun-poking is just firing up. Passage of Initiative 100 by 53 percent of voters ostensibly changed city law to legalize private adult possession of 1 ounce or less of pot. But city law enforcement and political leaders say the vote was merely symbolic, because state law trumps local ordinances. Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey and police officials warn that pot possession will continue to be prosecuted under state law as a petty offense punishable by a maximum $100 fine.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21268.shtml

Voters Approve Marijuana Law



Vancouver Adopts Plan Calling For An End To Prohibition
Today the Vancouver City Council unanimously adopted “Preventing Harm From Psychoactive Substance Use,” a plan that, among other things, calls for an end to prohibition and the regulated distribution of cannabis.
F U L L S T O R Y http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4573.html

more information and a full text of the Vancouver Plan PDF


Vancouver City Hall