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Title: Former DEA “Chief Propagandist” Says Agency Knows Cannabis Is Safe, Keeps It Illegal for Profit
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Activist Post
URL Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2017/01 ... safe-keeps-illegal-profit.html
Published: Jan 29, 2017
Author: Justin Gardner
Post Date: 2017-01-30 06:50:31 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 13815
Comments: 50
A former “chief propagandist” for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), now turned cannabis advocate, made startling comments at the recent Marijuana for Medical Professionals Conference in Denver, Colorado. There, Belita Nelson described what many of us suspected – the DEA is corrupt to the bone and full of lies. “Marijuana is safe, we know it is safe. It’s our cash cow and we will never give up,” Nelson said to the audience of doctors and nurses, describing the actual modus operandi of the DEA. Nelson represented the DEA in the international media from 1998 to 2004. She did regular appearances on the talk show circuit, including the Oprah Winfrey show and Nightline, espousing the dangers of cannabis. Today she advocates for its medical use, specifically in the treatment of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in professional football players through an organization she founded: The Gridiron Cannabis Foundation. It didn’t take long for Nelson to realize that cannabis has medical benefits. In 2000, she was watching her close friend suffer from late-stage cancer, losing more than 50% of his weight and no longer being able to eat or sleep. Being aware of cannabis’ ability to treat these symptoms, Nelson procured some for her friend, who, along with a better diet, was able to live nine more years. Nelson even grew the cannabis herself, knowing that black market products were potentially unsafe. In 2004, Nelson was investigating a heroin epidemic in Plano, Texas and discovered that some addicts were kicking their opioid addictions by turning to cannabis. At this point she could no longer continue pushing propaganda for the DEA when it was clear to her cannabis was a life-saving plant. Nelson resigned in 2004, and went out with a bang. “[When they hired me] they forgot to get me to sign a confidentiality agreement—and boy did I know the dirt. They called me in and said ‘name your price, $10,000 a month? $20,000? What do you want Belita?’” She said she left the office screaming, “You know this is safe and you are keeping it from people who are sick! I am not taking your money and you better worry about what I am going to say!” Sure enough, Nelson turned her passion into something positive. She moved to Colorado and began advocating for medical cannabis. In 2014, she focused her energy on using cannabis to help treat CTE, setting up a holistic clinic with former Denver Broncos player Rick Upchurch. CTE, a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated head trauma, kills many former football players. The Gridiron Cannabis Foundation hopes to convince the NFL to allow players to use medical cannabis to counter the onset of CTE. Regarding her time at the DEA, Nelson has a succinct way to describe the agency. "If you think the DEA are the good guys, they are not. They are really not. We are talking corruption on steroids." The DEA refused to reschedule cannabis from a Schedule 1 drug last year when it had the opportunity, somehow concluding that ‘more research is needed’ to show cannabis has medical benefits. The only explanation for maintaining the absurd classification for this miraculous healing plant is to protect Big Pharma, which knows cannabis is a threat to their profits. As we reported recently, DEA continues to tell 25 lies on its website about the purported dangers of cannabis, even though they refuted these very lies in 2016. This willful deception is in violation a federal law called the Information Quality Act. The DEA is the biggest obstacle standing in the way of freedom and health. It is abundantly clear that corruption and lies – not the interest of the American people – is what drives this agency to continue its tyranny. 
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#10. To: Gatlin (#7)
Yeah - I know what you insinuating asshole. She is no longer a whore for the DEA. She is able to speak the truth now - and you don't like it when someone challenges your "Reefer Madness" dogma. You don't know that ... She is a PAID lobbyist! She will say whatever she is paid to say ...
What a tool - you think she's in it for the money. Authoritarian pricks don't understand that someone can do and say something because it's RIGHT! I find it repulsive when someone tries to convince me to believe a PAID lobbyist!
She is saying what she knows to be true. We're done here troll. You bet your sweet ass, she is. She is a PAID lobbyist. What is it about the word "PAID" that you don't understand?
Yet you had no problem believing her when she was preaching the DEA "gospel". WTF is up with that. You were done before you even started....expecting anyone to believe a PAID lobsyist!
It is funny, never any complaints about alcohol consumption which kills people on the road, destroys families, etc. I do not go to church every time the doors are opened, but I love Jesus Christ. I am only human and fail Him daily. I believe Jesus is the Son of God, was born of a virgin, was crucified on a cross, died for my sins and rose from the dead and that He loves us dearly, and is faithful to forgive us of our sins. But He says that if you deny me in front of your friends I will deny you in front of my Father. Can I get an Amen!
I never delieve anything a PAID lobbyist says....regardless for whom they work. You should learn to do the same....and stop promoting lies!
She was PAID by the DEA to spread their lies and you believed her then. Now she's telling the truth, and you don't believe her. stop promoting lies! You mean like the DEA does? I'm not promoting any lies - I am exposing them. Some of these folks here get their views on pot from "Reefer Madness". Gatlin is old enough to have watched the film when it was first shown in theaters. She believes in the legalization of ALL drugs.
The only thing you are exposing….is the idiot that you are. But then, everyone already sees that …
Two words: Starfish Foundation. Yes, Belita Nelson represented the DEA in the international media from 1998 to 2004 ... but as a third-party hired speaker of her own company, The Starfish Foundation. She never worked for the DEA, as the article implied. Belita, con artist that she is, founded the Starfish Foundation in 1998 -- a drug awareness group. She raked in the donations by hiring former Dallas Cowboys players to help raise money. In 2004, it all came crashing down. "But bank records obtained by News 8 reveal a troubling trend of expenditures—apparently not related to solving the drug crisis, but instead focused on Nelson's spending habits, which included ski trips, resort hotels, booze, and Dallas Cowboys season tickets." The DEA cancelled her contract, donations stopped, and the Starfish Foundation went belly up. But hey, not to worry. If you want to donate, she set up a new foundation -- The Gridiron Cannabis Foundation.
What the eff is it with you and drugs? Who is stopping you from smoking pot? Sure you're a grandfather who should be setting a better example for your g'kids & children, but they do, after all, live very far away from you (I wonder why?). Have you no shame, or are you just another tinfoil hat, interweb blowhard who bounces around forums with various screen names?
Pot - meet kettle. You are a troll who offers absolutely NOTHING to every thread you spew your bilge on. Crawl back in your bottle, and while you're at it - sod off you bloody tosser. The former DEA “Chief Propagandist” was a propagandist then, and he's still a propagandist, but for a different group.
Yes, Belita Nelson represented the DEA in the international media from 1998 to 2004 ... but as a third-party hired speaker of her own company, The Starfish Foundation. She never worked for the DEA, as the article implied. Belita, con artist that she is, founded the Starfish Foundation in 1998 -- a drug awareness group. She raked in the donations by hiring former Dallas Cowboys players to help raise money. In 2004, it all came crashing down. "But bank records obtained by News 8 reveal a troubling trend of expenditures—apparently not related to solving the drug crisis, but instead focused on Nelson's spending habits, which included ski trips, resort hotels, booze, and Dallas Cowboys season tickets." The DEA cancelled her contract, donations stopped, and the Starfish Foundation went belly up. But hey, not to worry. If you want to donate, she set up a new foundation -- The Gridiron Cannabis Foundation. OMG, Deckard, all you can pick are LOSERS....and theh you try to defend them. You are such an imbecile ...
Pot is another direction of attack upon rational Western culture. You can live happily in a dung pile if you use enough pot. You can demand that other people live in the same dung pile if you use enough pot, or they use it to adjust to your habit. Between the drug use, the free sex, the out of wedlock kids, the abortions, the immigration of angry incompatables that no sane society would tolerate, and the sheer stupidity and inattentiveness to responsibility or consideration of consequences, this nation is fastly becoming one huge dung pile. That was part of the original strategy designed to collapse this nation more than 80 years ago, and that strategy is working.
In Brave New World they used Soma. Same thing.
The DEA cancelled her contract, Kinda hypocritical of the DEA, wouldn't you agree? DEA agents attended drug cartel sex parties in Colombia, Justice Dept. probe claims Drug Enforcement Administration agents partook in wild sex parties with hookers hired by Colombian drug cartels, a bombshell report released Thursday by the Justice Department claims. The report, published by the department’s Office of the Inspector General, reveals a culture of widespread and extreme sexual misconduct across several federal agencies as well as persistent resistance to the investigations created to unearth it. Among the most shocking of the report’s dozens of allegations is the incidence of “‘sex parties’ with prostitutes funded by the local drug cartels for DEA agents at their government-leased quarters, over a period of several years.” No.
The DEA does not have the legal authority to reschedule cannabis. The DEA is required, by law, to follow the medical and scientific determination of DHHS regarding scheduling. In short, your source is just propaganda.
The WOD is fabulous for drug cartel profits, so you love it. The End. In a nutshell. Like satan you want gods children to be stoned and stupid. That way satan can deceive them and they can go to hell. Why do you want gods children to do drugs and get stupid? Are you a loser?
In Brave New World they used Soma. Same thing. Brave New World was theoretical conjecture. Pot combined with propaganda presenting impulsive self destructive behavior as expression of a new freedom is a reality.
I don't want anyone to do drugs, but it's not my decision. I recommend that they don't unless there's a medical need. Personally I don't drink, smoke, or use drugs except for some prescription heart pills. I don't want to run other people's lives. And I'm not crazy enough to think that I'm qualified, or should try to tell them what to do. Do you feel that Obama has kept you from becoming a heroin addict for the past 8 years. If so thank him. No certainly not. Do you think adults saying heroin should be legal has an influence on kids to do heroin?
Yes the children will see the wisdom in Dr. Paul's position, and decline to buy the D&R party's heroin. They'll have a piece of Moms Apple Pie instead. This is how you make America great again, by not dumping a load of WOD manure on the kids! The End. Your wingnut source criticized the DEA for not taking an action which would have been unlawful for them to take. When the fact is pointed out, you whine and cry like Chuck Schumer. Surely, you will squirt a few when President Trump has the drug laws enforced in all 50 states. Wahhh, wahhh, wahhh!
The WOD has been a loser since day one. They turned a molehill into a mountain of drug use, incarceration, wrecked families and communities. And now they will build a wall and burn the crops. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
bullshit. I am making more money than ever, here in the good old USA.
If they can find and destroy poppy fields in Afghanistan, they can find and destroy your pot farm as well.
I don't want anyone to drive drunk... and it's not my decision. Doesn't mean I espouse no drinking and driving laws or the lack of regulations. Your anything goes hippie paultard idiologies... is pathetic. It would work well on an island full of PAULTARDs... away from the adults of the world. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
So we would have lower police budgets? Name one city that has lowered it's police budget after legalizing marijuana. Don't bother looking. You can't find one. As for the others, ANY illegal activity always enriches certain groups. It's why they do it. Of course, they're risking their lives and freedom in exchange. If it wasn't drugs it would be something else. Did legalizing alcohol get rid of the gangs, the smuggling, the money and the killings? I rest my case.
Of course - that's why you don't see the Seagram's gang in a turf battle with Jack Daniels. ANY illegal activity always enriches certain groups. Including police and drug cartels. Florida Cops Laundered Millions For Drug Cartels, Failed To Make A Single Arrest So you're saying legalizing alcohol got rid of the gangs, the smuggling, the money and the killings? The country is now at peace?
Now that you have established what she is….all that needs to be established is how much she does it for.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#11. To: Deckard (#8)
She is saying what she knows to be true
#12. To: Gatlin (#9)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#13. To: Deckard (#10)
... you don't like it when someone ...
#14. To: Gatlin (#11)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#15. To: Deckard (#12)
.... you think she's in it for the money.
#16. To: Gatlin (#13)
I find it repulsive when someone tries to convince me to believe a PAID lobbyist!
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#17. To: Deckard (#14)
We're done here troll.
#18. To: Deckard (#6)
pothead train.
#19. To: Deckard (#16)
Yet you had no problem believing her when she was preaching the DEA "gospel".
#20. To: Gatlin (#19)
I never delieve anything a PAID lobbyist says....regardless for whom they work.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#21. To: U don't know me (#18)
It is funny, never any complaints about alcohol consumption which kills people on the road, destroys families, etc.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#22. To: Deckard (#0)
"She moved to Colorado and began advocating for medical cannabis."
#23. To: Deckard (#20)
I'm not promoting any lies - I am exposing them.
#24. To: Deckard (#0)
#25. To: Deckard (#21)
#26. To: Vinny (#25)
(Edited)
interweb blowhard
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#27. To: Deckard (#0)
Former DEA “Chief Propagandist” Says Agency Knows Cannabis Is Safe
#28. To: Deckard, misterwhite (#24)
Two words: Starfish Foundation.
#29. To: Deckard (#0)
(Edited)
Former DEA “Chief Propagandist” Says Agency Knows Cannabis Is Safe, Keeps It Illegal for Profit
#30. To: rlk (#29)
"You can live happily in a dung pile if you use enough pot.'
#31. To: Gatlin (#28)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#32. To: Deckard (#31)
Kinda hypocritical of the DEA, wouldn't you agree?
#33. To: Deckard (#0)
The DEA refused to reschedule cannabis from a Schedule 1 drug last year when it had the opportunity....
In accordance with the CSA scheduling provisions, after gathering the necessary data, DEA requested a scientific and medical evaluation and scheduling recommendation from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS concluded that marijuana has a high potential for abuse, has no accepted medical use in the United States, and lacks an acceptable level of safety for use even under medical supervision. Therefore, HHS recommended that marijuana remain in schedule I. The scientific and medical evaluation and scheduling recommendation that HHS submitted to DEA is attached hereto.
#34. To: nolu chan, D 'n R drug cartel profits (#33)
In short,
#35. To: hondo68 (#34)
#36. To: misterwhite (#30)
"You can live happily in a dung pile if you use enough pot.'
#37. To: A K A Stone (#35)
(Edited)
Why do you want gods children to do drugs and get stupid?
#38. To: hondo68 (#37)
Do you feel that Obama has kept you from becoming a heroin addict for the past 8 years. If so thank him.
#39. To: A K A Stone (#38)
Do you think adults saying heroin should be legal has an influence on kids to do heroin?
#40. To: hondo68 (#34)
The WOD is fabulous for drug cartel profits, so you love it.
#41. To: nolu chan (#40)
President Trump has the drug laws enforced in all 50 states
#42. To: hondo68 (#41)
The WOD has been a loser since day one. They turned a molehill into a mountain of drug use, incarceration, wrecked families and communities.
#43. To: nolu chan (#42)
... burn the crops
#44. To: buckeroo (#43)
I am making more money than ever, here in the good old USA.
#45. To: hondo68 (#37)
(Edited)
I don't want anyone to do drugs, but it's not my decision.
#46. To: hondo68, nolu chan, GrandIsland, misterwhite, Gatlin (#41)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#47. To: Deckard (#46)
#48. To: misterwhite (#47)
(Edited)
Did legalizing alcohol get rid of the gangs, the smuggling, the money and the killings?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#49. To: Deckard (#48)
"Of course - that's why you don't see the Seagram's gang in a turf battle with Jack Daniels."
#50. To: Deckard (#46)
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