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OK To understand where we are with respect to the highly profitable illegal drug industry one must understand the meaning and purpose of the christian church. The church was created for the specific purpose of protecting and increasing the wealth of the 'upper classes' and suppressing and enslaving all others, the vast majority, the common man. It is the most successful and profit enhancing mob industry ever created. One of it's more recent creations that vastly increased the wealth of the mob it supports is the alcohol prohibition 'debacle' of the previous century. It was presented as a 'moral' thing, when in effect it was an effort to create ever more wealth for the mob that is supported by christianity, and ever more suppression and repression of the common man. Rather than look at their claims about 'morals' look at what it did. It created a vast. wealthy mob, and put tens of thousands people into slavery, prison. Now, look at what is happening as pertains to the illegal drug industry, The drug prohibition is creating vast wealth for a whole new set of mobsters, and packing more slaves than ever into our prison system while creating a vast police force useful for the eventual enforcement of the represssion of all human rights that christianity clamors for endlessly. There is a new wealth creating/human repression and enslaving scam coming down the pike at us right now and it is related to "sex crimes". This one will really be a doozy when they reveal where they are going with this. Sex is even more popular than booze and drugs, it is the third most important thing that mankind does, right behind breathing and eating. This may very well be their biggest bonanze, their biggest trap that throws us all into slavery (prison). Christianity has tried unsuccessfully for seventeen centuries to control all human sexual practices. Banning anything sexual creates the opportunity for a new mob to get wealthy providing this sexual practice, and will herd masses of us into their slave system,` the prisons. Christians take joy only in punishment, terror, and torture. This one will make them exstatic. Message----- From: Hank Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:08 AM Subject: [pnews-views] The war on marijuana: The transformation of the war on drugs in the1990s >||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| >Progressive News & Views (since 1982) >||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| >From: "skywolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Somewhere in the execution of the War on Some Drugs, common sense was lost. > >Let's see..take a known, provable benign/beneficial substance and spend >billions of dollars unsuccessfully suppressing it while other, seriously >debilitating things happen to our society that we cheerfully ignore. > >Why? So a number of commercial enterprises can make more money at our >expense. > >How many people would the money spent on suppressing Cannabis feed, >clothe, educate and house? How much cleaner would our planet be if we used >Cannabis Hemp instead of petroleum? And how healthier would we be if >Cannabis were available for medicine? > >Skywolf. > >(See below - Let's discuss it) > >http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/pdf/1477-7517-3-6.pdf > > >>The war on marijuana: The transformation of the war on drugs in the 1990s >> >> Harm Reduction Journal - 2006, 3:6 9 February 2006 >> >> The war on marijuana: The transformation of the war on drugs in the >> 1990s >> >> Ryan S King and Marc Mauer >> >> doi:10.1186/1477-7517-3-6 >> >> Abstract >> >> Background As the "war on drugs" enters the latter half of its third >> decade since being forged into the American lexicon by President Ronald >> Reagan, the public has grown more skeptical of the current strategy and >> has proven to be receptive to a broader consideration of alternatives to >> incarceration. This has been the case most notably with marijuana >> offenses, where the policy discussion has shifted in some localities to >> one of decriminalization or de-prioritizing law enforcement resources >> dedicated to pursuing possession offenses. Despite the increased profile >> surrounding marijuana policy in recent years, there remains a >> significant degree of misunderstanding regarding the current strategy, >> both in terms of how resources are being allocated and to what eventual >> gain. >> >> Methods Previous studies have analyzed drug offenses as a general >> category, but there has yet to be a single study that has focused >> specifically on marijuana offenders at all stages of the system. This >> report analyzes multiple sources of data for the period 1990-2002 from >> each of the critical points in the criminal justice system, from arrest >> through court processing and into the correctional system, to create an >> overall portrait of this country's strategy in dealing with marijuana >> use. >> >> Results The study found that since 1990, the primary focus of the war on >> drugs has shifted to low-level marijuana offenses. During the study >> period, 82% of the increase in drug arrests nationally (450,000) was for >> marijuana offenses, and virtually all of that increase was in possession >> offenses. Of the nearly 700,000 arrests in 2002, 88% were for >> possession. Only 1 in 18 of these arrests results in a felony >> conviction, with the rest either being dismissed or adjudicated as a >> misdemeanor, meaning that a substantial amount of resources, roughly $4 >> billion per year for marijuana alone, is being dedicated to minor >> offenses. >> >> Conclusions The results of this study suggest that law enforcement >> resources are not being effectively allocated to offenses which are most >> costly to society. The financial and personnel investment in marijuana >> offenses, at all points in the criminal justice system, diverts funds >> away from other crime types, thereby representing a questionable policy >> choice. >> >> Full article in pdf (345 KB): >> http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/pdf/1477-7517-3-6.pdf >> >> C 2006 King and Mauer, licensee BioMed Central Ltd. > > ----- > / o o \ >====OO=====OO=================================== >Hank Roth's Place - http://pnews.org/ >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (on the InterNUT since 1982) >Current Articles - http://pnews.org/archives/ >================================================ >fightback list - articles/pointers distribution >Subscribe/Unsub at: http://pnews.org/dada/ >Expert Opinion from credentialed authors >================================================ >[email protected] ("progressive NEWS") > NEWS ONLY - subscribe or unsubscribe as Subject >Send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >================================================= >[email protected] ("progressive VIEWS") >OPEN discussion - subscribe or unsubscribe as Subject >Send to:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >================================================== >WEBMASTERS: Link Exchange - improve your link rank >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - or, go to: >http://groups.google.com/group/Links_Only >================================================== > > > ----- / o o \ ====OO=====OO=================================== Hank Roth's Place - http://pnews.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on the InterNUT since 1982) Current Articles - http://pnews.org/archives/ ================================================ fightback list - articles/pointers distribution Subscribe/Unsub at: http://pnews.org/dada/ Expert Opinion from credentialed authors ================================================ [email protected] ("progressive NEWS") NEWS ONLY - subscribe or unsubscribe as Subject Send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================= [email protected] ("progressive VIEWS") OPEN discussion - subscribe or unsubscribe as Subject Send to:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================== WEBMASTERS: Link Exchange - improve your link rank [EMAIL PROTECTED] - or, go to: http://groups.google.com/group/Links_Only ==================================================
