McCain Should Know The Truth About Marijuana By Steve Chapman
CN Source: Chicago Tribune October 06, 2007 USAThrough all his years in politics, despite the endless obligation to shake hands, smile for the cameras and coax money out of contributors, John McCain has somehow avoided becoming a complete phony—something that John Edwards and Mitt Romney managed to achieve within a week of entering politics. Annoy McCain, and you won't have to wait long to find out. Even a sickly, soft-spoken woman in a wheelchair gets no pass from him.
Continued...cannabisnews/23387Treatment Options Are Needed In War On Drugs By John Milne
CN Source: Eagle-TribuneNew October 03, 2007 HampshireLinda Macia of Manchester rolled her wheelchair into Derry's Pinkerton Academy to see if Republican presidential contender John McCain would endorse medical marijuana. Macia said Sunday that she has a neurological disorder, and marijuana is the only drug that can ease her pain.
Continued...cannabisnews/23378McCain and Giuliani Say Terrible Things to a Medical Marijuana PatientBattle lines are being drawn on the campaign trail over medical marijuana. Linda Macia of
Granite Staters for Medical Marijuana suffers from nerve damage, fibromyalgia, reflex sympathetic dystrophy and degenerative arthritis. She's allergic to other medications and has only found relief through medical marijuana.
You'd think that anyone hoping to become president would show some compassion for this unfortunate woman, but alas...
Continued...stopthedrugwarGovernment Shows No Compassion for Medical PotThe Ganjawar Fraud...
McCain’s Forgotten Drug FixAmongst all the media teeth-gnashing over the question of whether McCain did special favors for his blondie lobbyist, his wife's sweetheart deal for massive narcotics theft in the 1990s has been forgotten.
If a poor black woman from Anacostia had committed the crimes that Cindy McCain committed, the black woman might have been sent to prison for the duration of her life.
John McCain has never shown any courage on the drug war. As long as people like his wife don't need to fear jail time for crimes, there is no reason to reform the law toA cease the persecution of other Americans.
Here's an excerpt on the case from an article I did for Playboy in 1997..
(Full text of the piece), which details how many congressmen's kin escaped hard time for drug offenses.
* Cindy McCain, the wife of Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), admitted stealing Percocet and Vicodin from the American Voluntary Medical Team, an organization that aids Third World countries. Percocet and Vicodin are schedule 2 drugs, in the same legal category as opium. Each pill theft carries a penalty of one year in prison and a monetary fine. McCain stole the pills over several years. She became addicted to the drugs after undergoing back surgery.
But rather than face prosecution, McCain was allowed to enter a pretrial diversion program and escaped with no blemish on her record. McCain did suffer from the incident, though: Shortly after the scandal broke, a Variety Club of Arizona ceremony at which she was to receive a humanitarian of the year award for her work with the medical team was canceled because of poor ticket sales.
As one editorial writer in The Arizona Republic noted: “Conservative Republicans seemed to achieve some sort of drug-rehab epiphany when Ms. McCain made her announcement. Politicians who had never uttered a single positive sentence about drug-prevention, -rehabilitation or -diversion programs suddenly thought they were just fine. Newspapers that often used words such as drug addict and thug as describing the same person suddenly had a new sensitivity to the problem. It seems that when Bill Clinton proposes significant drug rehabilitation and diversion, it is called a failed social program of the Sixties. When Cindy McCain needs one of those programs, they suddenly became an essential ingredient in fighting drug use.”
* Dan Burton II, the 18-year-old son of Representative Dan Burton (R-Ind.)
* In 1993 John Murtha, the 35-year-old son of Representative John Murtha (D-Pa.)
* On August 16, 1991 Susan Gallo, the 33-year-old daughter of Representative Dean Gallo (R-N.J.)
* Warren Bachus, the 19-year-old son of Congressman Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.)
* In 1993 Josef Hinchey, the 26-year-old son of Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.)
* Perhaps the most special treatment was granted to the son of Vice President Al Gore.
More Ganjawar Mongers kin cheating "DEAth"Drugwar Lies Linked to SchizophreniaJohn McCain: The Manchurian Candidate By Ted Sampley
U.S. Veteran Dispatch December 1992 Issue
Betrayal, deceit, corruption and John McCain By Ted Sampley
U.S. Veteran Dispatch November 14, 2007In the senate, McCain managed to stay low key until suddenly he found himself on television trying to explain himself as one of the "Keating 5," five senators who became enmeshed in the scandal involving the collapsed Lincoln Savings and Loan and the financial machinations of Charles Keating.
Keating was convicted of federal fraud and racketeering charges and in 1997, McCain's friend Symington was forced out of office after being convicted on seven counts of fraud.
For years McCain has successfully cultivated a false facade as the "straight-talking" politician unsullied by big-money influence of special-interest groups. He has shrewdly manipulated most of the national press corps into ignoring (or forgiving) facts that expose him as a disreputable character and enemy of the truth..
McCain’s FarrakhanFebruary 28th, 2008 | Category: Uncategorized
ViaGreenwaldFundamentalist freakshow endorses John McCain, McCain gladly accepts endorsement from freakshow. John Hagee, you will surely remember, is the guy who said New Orleans was destroyed because God was pissed about a gay pride parade:
jewsonfirst.org/02I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are–were recipients of the judgment of God for that. The newspaper carried the story in our local area that was not carried nationally that there was to be a homosexual parade on the Monday that the Katrina came, and the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing. He also asserts that it’s the duty of the United States to bring about
Armageddon by starting wars in the Middle East.
Vietnam Veterans Against John McCainTry to separate the real John McCain from the mythical John McCainWar Crimes: The Cuban-Vietnam ConnectionFebruary 10, 1997 National Alliance of Families
According to a 1975 secret CIA counterintelligence study, the "'Cuban Program'...was a Hanoi University Psychological Study." Hanoi's Ministry of Public Security's Medical Office (MPSMO) was responsible for "preparing studies and performing research on the most effective Soviet, French, Communist Chinese and other ...techniques..." of extracting information from POWs. The MPSMO "...supervised the use of torture and the use of drugs to induce [American] prisoners to cooperate." Its functions also "...included working with Soviet and Communist Chinese intelligence advisors who were qualified in the use of medical techniques for intelligence purposes."
Herbicide Exposure To Illnesses Among Vietnam Veterans LinkAgent Orange, All Over AgainThe Dogs of War [pesticides; antibiotics TOO DEADLY TO IGNOREThe complexity of Colombia’s drug-fueled war does not erase our responsibility to help stop U.S. military intervention.
Violence in Colombia 1990–2000Homeless Vets Already Overload Safety Net
November CoalitionMany Veterans are the "Enemy" of the Bush D.E.A.th WarSam Stone came home, To his wife and family After serving in the conflict overseas. And the time that he served, Had shattered all his nerves, And left a little shrapnel in his knee. But the morphine eased the pain, And the grass grew round his brain, And gave him all the confidence he lacked, With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back. There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes...
continued...cgcs/7715Will Foster 93 Years For CannabisJames Geddes 90 years for possession of 5 medicinal cannabis plants.Abuse In Prisons: Iraqi and American. Bush says,
“That is not the way we do things in America.”
No, That Is Exactly The Way We Do Things in America!
Especially In Texas and Florida.Posted by Richard Cowan on 2004-05-06 16:20:00
Marijuana NewsAn internal departmental survey of corrections officers in one southern state found that line officers estimated that roughly one-fifth of all prisoners were being coerced into participation in inmate-on-inmate sex. (MarijuanaNews note: I have had to delay by a week my analysis of the new prohibitionist propaganda from CASA: “Casa Report Finds More Teens in Treatment for Marijuana than for Alcohol or All Other Illegal Drugs Combined. Huge Increase in Emergency Room Admissions Among 12 to 17 Year Olds Where Marijuana is Implicated.”
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"The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are convicted of nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens the lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially devastating to the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem accompany the perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure."-- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Farmer v. Brennan* SPR - Stop Prisoner Rape* Human Rights Watch* Male Rape in US Prisons"Human Rights Watch has documented abominable conditions for children in detention in countries around the world. In the United States (Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, and Maryland), Pakistan, Jamaica, among other countries, children are subjected to excessive force, inadequate medical and mental health care, and are provided with little or no education. Often, these children are placed in the facilities along side adults, exposing them to physical and sexual abuse."The Stoners Will SurviveIsrael To Soothe Trauma With MarijuanaIsrael: IDF To Treat Shell Shock With CannabisAugust 05, 2004The IDF will soon begin using cannabis to treat soldiers suffering from combat stress, the military said Wednesday. An army statement said the military medical corps and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem would begin treating victims of post-traumatic stress - commonly known as shell shock - with THC, the active ingredient in the cannabis plant. It said the treatment would begin on an experimental basis. "The use of THC as part of the treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder was approved by military and civilian committees relevant to the subject," the statement said.
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