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Title: Legal Weed is Killing Cartels and Corporate Media Is Trying to Say that’s a Bad Thing
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Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/dr ... marijuana/#S9Avr63JZ9Ayf2hk.99
Published: Jan 4, 2017
Author: Jack Burns
Post Date: 2017-01-05 10:27:10 by Deckard
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The legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado has led to some interesting developments in the war on drugs. According to a video segment on Fox News, seizures of marijuana flowing out of Colorado into neighboring states has risen from 58 in 2008, to 394 in 2015. This indicates Colorado has unwittingly become an exporter of legal weed, found to be illegal in many adjoining states. Sitting in for Fox News’ Shepherd Smith, Gregg Jarrett asked FNC reporter Alicia Acuna if neighboring states were fighting a losing battle. Acuna responded by saying 8 states already have recreational marijuana, and another couple dozen states have some form of medical marijuana at work. Mason Tvert, of the Marijuana Policy Project, told FNC, “If anything, what’s happening is no different than it was before. People are still using marijuana, it’s just that they’re more likely to be using marijuana that didn’t come from a Mexican drug cartel.” According to FNC and University of San Diego professor David Shirk, that fact has now been confirmed. It seems, as marijuana proponents asserted, the Mexican cartels are getting out of the illegal marijuana trade. Shirk says the cartels are turning their backs on marijuana in favor of other “more predatory criminal activities” such as, “kidnapping, extortion, larceny…stealing petroleum from petroleum lines,” Shirk stated. FNC reported what proponents have been saying for years. If you make marijuana legal, the illegal, criminal elements, such as Mexican drug cartels, will find other means to sustain their income. However, it is important to note that the reason these cartels exist in the first place is because of the drug war. Attempting to claim we need the war on drugs to keep the cartels from kidnapping people is like saying we need people to murder each other so police can have a job to do. Had drugs not been illegal in the US, the cartels would have been extremely hard pressed to amass the money and power they now have. Rest assured, however, that kidnapping and larceny are not nearly as sustainable as the drug industry as it is much easier for politicians to look the other way on drug smuggling than it is for them to ignore children being stolen from parents. That’s why, rather than kidnap people, the Mexican cartels are still capitalizing on the American drug war. One such way the Mexican drug cartels have reportedly upped the ante is to produce a drug which is much more addictive than just heroin alone. They mix heroin with Carfentanil, which “is a synthetic opioid so strong that just a few granules the size of grains of table salt can be lethal. Since mid-August, roughly 300 people in at least four states have overdosed on heroin linked to Carfentanil and the less powerful compound fentanyl,” Time reports. If heroin were decriminalized in the US, overdoses would plummet and so would its use. This is not an assertion, it is fact. One positive coming out of Colorado’s legalization of marijuana is the fact that the drug task forces which were previously engaged in going after marijuana, can now turn their attentions to going after the organized criminal element such as the cartels, which have no regard for the patient seeking medicine for whatever ails them. FNC concluded their marijuana segment by saying President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t seem to have a problem with medicinal marijuana but added he does not approve of recreational marijuana. Whether or not Trump will allow the continuation of progress in the legalization of marijuana is yet to be seen. Certainly, Colorado will put up a fight if the newly named Attorney General Jeff Sessions seeks to overturn CO’s legal weed business as it’s now providing millions of dollars to help fund the educational system in that state. The FNC segment confirms what TFTP has been saying for months now, legal weed does more to stop the cartels than the official war on drugs. As we reported to you in March, “in the past seven years (seizures of marijuana at the Mexican-American border have dropped) from 4 million pounds in 2009, to just 1.5 million pounds last year.” Poster Comment: Another ancillary benefit of legalizing marijuana. Who would've thought it?
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#3. To: Deckard (#0)
The cartels in Mexico will just increase production of methamphetamines.
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#7. To: Deckard (#6)
"Last Friday, the state of Kansas charged Banda with five felony counts of possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, manufacturing Tetrahydrocannabinol, an oil extracted from marijuana, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and one count of child endangerment." I hope she gets all 30 of those years.
You not only continually publish yellow journalism articles, you now post a yellow meme of lies….have you no shame? LIE #1: Former Speaker of the House [Dennis Hastert] faces 6 months in jail for the raping little boys. Hastert did not face 6 months for raping little boys, he faced 5 years for sexually molesting, not raping, young adult high school boys. [Look up the definitions of sexually molest and rape]. LIE #2: Single mother [Shona Banda], faces nearly 30 years in prison for treating her disease with cannabis. Banda is not facing 30 years in prison for treating her disease with cannabis. Banda was charged with endangering a child, distribution or possession with intent to distribute [intent to distribute is based the large amount of marijuana] a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of school property, unlawful manufacture of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. She's facing up to 28 years in state prison. She faces five marijuana-related charges, including three felonies. Shona Banda uses marijuana, and makes no bones about it. Her son challenged drug war orthodoxy during an anti-drug class at school and inadvertently said that his mom “smokes a lot.” The Department of Children and Families and the Garden City police raided Banda's home and reported, "approximately 500 grams of suspected marijuana, multiple marijuana smoking pipes, three ‘vaporizers’ that were actively manufacturing cannabis oil and multiple other items related to packaging and ingestion of marijuana were seized from the residence." You against the plea bargain? I am okay with it because I see no reason to spend 15 million dollars and take up to a year trying to get a conviction on decades old evidence [60s and 70s] to spend on an old man who will probably die in prison and the taxpayers are charged much more to pay the expensive medical care for him. Furthermore, Hastert was fined $250,000 and sentenced him to two years of supervised release after leaving prison. Hastert must register as a sex offender. In the case of Shona Banda….she should definitely get the sentence prescribed by law upon being found guilty by a jury of her peers, or a plea bargain deal. Banda is an “in your face” marijuana activist who, against the laws of Kansas, publicly admits violates the laws and uses cannabis and cannabis oil for treatment of her Crohn’s disease. She has even authored a book about it: Live Free or Die: Reclaim Your Life…Reclaim Your Country!
Meet Shona Banda Heroine of Deckard, et al. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Shona Banda found a miracle substance which cured her Crohn's disease in 2013. It's effectiveness is proven by medical science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kHxp0X-RQs WegotaFBpagetoo OnFB Shona Banda, survivor of Crohn's disease and author of 'Live Free or Die', available at http://www.Authorhouse.com, talks about what she has gone through in her life with battling Crohn's disease, and how she has recovered. She used Cannabis oil in a VAP. Watch and she will explain. In Run From The Cure, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeQPqk [...] [...] Now for some evidence-based cannabis-Crohn's research At the Meir Medical Center in Israel, 21 Crohn's patients who were getting little or no results from orthodox medical treatments were separated into two groups for a double-blind control study. One group of 11 were given two marijuana cigarettes daily with 23% THC and 0.5% CBD (cannabidiol), while the control group of 10 were given hemp placebo cigarettes. After eight weeks, five of the treated subjects showed remissions, while another five had significant improvements without steroids. All 11 could eat and sleep better without side effects. Less than half of the placebo group showed only minor improvements. This study was published in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Keep in mind that significant results were obtained using the least potent application of medical marijuana - smoking. Shona ingested makeshift cannabis oil. Sources for this study include: Shona's nine-minute video with the vaporizer and capsule demo: http://www.youtube.com Shona's two-and-a-half-minute, more polished presentation: http://www.youtube.com http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov http://www.ccfa.org http://blog.sfgate.com http://blog.norml.org www.facebook.com - - - - - - - - - - That's right, she cured that Crohn's disease 2013. As proven by medical science. http://www.naturalnews.com/043718_Chrons_disease_cannabis_Shona_Banda.html by: Paul Fassa [...] She managed to see Rick Simpson's Run from the Cure video documentary and was motivated at first but soon became despondent. Although she had been smoking marijuana to ease pain and help her sleep and eat, she had no way of making the oil, which required a pound of marijuana to produce the two ounces of cannabis oil she would need to heal. Shona lives in the medical marijuana-unfriendly state of Kansas with her husband and two young children. [...] Now for some evidence-based cannabis-Crohn's research At the Meir Medical Center in Israel, 21 Crohn's patients who were getting little or no results from orthodox medical treatments were separated into two groups for a double-blind control study. One group of 11 were given two marijuana cigarettes daily with 23% THC and 0.5% CBD (cannabidiol), while the control group of 10 were given hemp placebo cigarettes. After eight weeks, five of the treated subjects showed remissions, while another five had significant improvements without steroids. All 11 could eat and sleep better without side effects. Less than half of the placebo group showed only minor improvements. This study was published in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Keep in mind that significant results were obtained using the least potent application of medical marijuana - smoking. Shona ingested makeshift cannabis oil. Her miracle substance not only cured Crohn's disease, it reversed it. As proven by medical science. http://naturalsociety.com/marijuana-reverse-woman-crohns-disease/ by Paul Fassa [excerpt] She was inhaling small amounts of marijuana from a vaporizer to help reduce her pain and increase her appetite. It’s less irritating to the lungs and throat while producing less tell-tale pot aromas. Her husband pointed out that the marijuana vapor residue inside the glass globe cover looked like cannabis oil. So Shona started scraping it out and putting it into capsules for consumption three times daily. After a very few days, Shona could walk without a cane. Soon she began eating and sleeping better and putting on weight. It wasn’t long before she was completely weened off all her pharmaceuticals. Now she is very healthy and active. Her journal of this journey became her published book Live Free or Die. You can view her YouTube testimonial video and her ‘'how to’ video. [...] The Israeli Study At the Meir Medical Center in Israel, 21 Crohn’s patients who were getting little or no results from orthodox medical treatments were separated into two groups for a double blind control study. One group of 11 were given two marijuana cigarettes daily with 23% THC and .5% CBD (cannabidiol) while the control group of 10 were given placebo cigarettes of marijuana without THC. After eight weeks, five of the treated subjects showed remissions, while another five had significant improvements without steroids. All 11 could eat and sleep better. Forty percent of the placebo group showed only slight improvements. This study was published in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Keep in mind that significant results were obtained using the least potent application of medical marijuana – smoking. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Shona was just a medical patient, taking her prescribed medicne. http://www.alternet.org/drugs/shona-banda-medical-marijuana-legal-nightmare-continues Shona Banda's drug-war nightmare comes from using cannabis oil to treat her Crohn's disease. By Phillip Smith You don't want to be a medical marijuana patient in Kansas. You could face, arrest, prosecution, imprisonment, and the loss of your children. Just ask Shona Banda, who endured the latest chapter of her ordeal Monday. The Garden City mother faces five marijuana-related charges, including three felonies, and had her 11-year-old son taken away by the state after the boy piped up during an anti-drug class at school to say that his mom "smokes a lot." Shona Banda uses marijuana, and makes no bones about it. She has publicly said she uses cannabis oil to treat her Crohn's disease and even authored a book about it: Live Free or Die: Reclaim Your Life…Reclaim Your Country! [...] Those dirty, no good, rotten, bad guys. She was just a medical patient, taking her medicine, and in violation of her constitutional rights, they came along and arrested her, charged her with crimes, and took away her minor child for no reason other than to be evil and mean. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - And Shona sued those evil, no good, rotten bad guys and cited the Constitution and the law as interpreted by the U.S. Federal court. Shona Banda v. Kansas et al, U.S. District Court, District of Kansas, Complaint for Civil Rights Violations (42 U.S.C. § 1983), Declaratory Relief and Injunctive Relief, filed March 24, 2016 [excerpt] 28. Plaintiff’s right to use cannabis medicinally is “deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition,” and “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty,” such that “neither liberty nor justice would exist if they were sacrificed.” Raich, supra, 500 F.3d at 865. Powerful, powerful stuff, that. https://www.scribd.com/doc/280962268/Shona-Banda-v-State-of-Kansas-Civil-Rights-Complaint Powerful, powerful stuff. A heroine for the downtrodden, defending the people from the evil, no good, rotten, government bad guys. To be continued....
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#5. To: redleghunter (#4)
His crew flew two laps of a 1,000 kilometer circuit between Edwards and Yuma, establishing six new Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) speed records at an average of 1,708.82 kilometers per hour (1,061.81 miles per hour).
I was stationed with Major Deutschendorf at Carswell for a year before my crew was transferred to the B-58 Wing at Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana.
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#31. To: Deckard (#6)
Is this justice?
In the case of Dennis Hastert….definitely, YES. He has suffered a stoke, has a spinal problem, and is confined to a wheel chair. When sentenced in the plea bargain to 1 year and 3 months, rather than the 5 year maximum….the judge ordered him to spend the time in the prison hospital. 
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Shona Banda | Crohn's Diease Cured With Use Of Cannabis Oil
Published on Jun 7, 2013 Shona Banda cured her terminal Crohn's disease with cannabis
Natural News
Friday, January 31, 2014 Marijuana Helps Reverse Woman’s Crohn’s Disease, Replaces Pharmaceuticals
Natural Society
Posted on August 20, 2014 Mother Who Used Medical Cannabis to Treat Deadly Disease Had Her Son Taken Away, Faces 28 Years in Prison
AlterNet
November 17, 2015 27. Plaintiff has a liberty interest specially protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that embraces a right to make a life-shaping decision to use medical marijuana to preserve bodily integrity, avoid intolerable pain, alleviate symptoms and ameliorate the extreme and debilitating symptoms of Crohn’s disease from which she suffers. Plaintiff’s due process and liberty rights at issue here are substantive, are not explicitly enumerated in the Constitution and are protected through the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments to it.
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