|
Best Of Pot-TV Volume 3: Grower's Special
only at the
CC Store!
|
|
|
|
| |  |
|
Newshawks - Bits & Bytes
Newshawks with Pot-TV
|
|
| Running Time: |
30 min |
| Date Entered: |
19 Jan 2005 |
| Viewer Rating: |
8.54 (6 votes) |
| Number of Views: |
1417 |
|
|
Flash brings us bits and bytes, clips and splices of news, comedy, hollyweed & anti-drug commercials from his lost stash.
Higlights include The Simpsons, Daily Show, Leno, Traffic, Lethal Weapon, Montel, Csi, Judge Judy, Victoria famous for its grow ops, Canuck's owner Brian Burke gives anti-drug speeches at schools, Angel Raich and The Supreme Court debate on medical marijuana.
Francouver brings us news on new high-tech police van is considered a mobile police office in Vancouver. Two guys get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time with pounds of weed during a B&E; investigation. Pot-TV
More shows from Newshawks
|
Beware StraightInc And D.E.A.F. Now WWASP Montel
FlashGordon,
Thu Jan 20 02:51:24 2005
Mon Apr 01 2002 09:42 Pm
This info is meant to provide balance and encourage second thoughts.
In a series of ads placed in Vancouver newspapers, as well as one in the Journal of the Canadian Medical Association, IDEAS claimed that medical pot is pseudoscience that kills, and that Canada should adopt the "zero-tolerance" drug policies of Sweden over the harm-reduction of Holland.
(Since 1989, the number of students in the 9th grade in Stockholm, who tried narcotic drugs, doubled Says Prohibitionist Swedish Queen )
See http://www.marijuananews.com/sweden_should_abolish_the_slogan.htm & http://216.9.192.67/news.php3?sid=334
IDEAS is an organization co-founded by Lynda Bentall and her real-estate mogul husband Robert. They have supplied $200,000 in funding to pay for the symposium and advertising campaign.
The Bentalls are acting in collaboration with the US-based Drug Free America Foundation, which is the reincarnation of Straight, Incorporated, a horrendous youth mind-control program which used emotional and physical abuse, strip searches, food deprivation, forced enemas, and other torturous techniques to keep kids off marijuana and other drugs .
While regional Straight offices were being investigated, closing, and re-opening under different names, the St Petersburg-based national office, formerly called Straight Incorporated, was renamed "Straight Foundation Incorporated" in 1985.
Ten years later, when Straight's reputation was beyond repair, its name was changed to the "Drug Free America Foundation, Incorporated. (DFAF)"
Betty and Mel Sembler, Straight's founders, also founded DFAF, which began receiving government money and assistance soon after it opened.
See Straight Inc by Pete Brady http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2072.html
Here’s what people say about straight incs “tough love” programs:
"I was forced to hold an enema in my hand and stand for about an hour and a half, the attention being focussed on me, and about every ten minutes I was told how I was full of crap, how I needed to be flushed out." Lucy Moore
"I was crying and desperate. I was a prisoner," Leigh Ann Bright
“They should get a life, I am proud of everything we have done. There's nothing to apologize for. The legalizers are the ones who should be apologizing." says Betty Sembler
See Straight Survivors: www.straightinc.homestead.com
• Clockwork Straight, an online book about Straight Inc: www.thestraights.com
• Arnold Trebach: The Trebach Institute, 5505 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 185, Washington, DC 20015-2601; fax 301-986-7815; email info@trebach.org; website www.trebach.org
Groups like the Compassion Club, which make pot available to the sick, have not been invited to the Ideas conference
"Why would we do that?" Lynda Bentall says again. "The Compassion Club-that's not scientific evidence, that's opinion. It's a scam. There's not one bit of evidence that smoking marijuana is good medicine."
Here’s what the Canadian Medical Association Journal says about the compassion club :
http://www.marijuananews.com/canadian_medical_association_jou.htm
"If I were a [practising] doctor, I would say, 'I am writing to confirm that Mr. Smith is HIV positive and that he has indicated that his chronic pain is helped by marijuana and therefore should such a substance be available to him, that on the basis of my knowledge of him, he should be eligible for that type of help.'
Whether the Compassion Club has a way of making this substance available to that person is a decision between the patient and them.”
Dr. Morris Van Andel, deputy registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC
Here’s what Hilary Black says about the compassion club:
"Doctors like the Compassion Club because it offers recovering drug addicts a refuge from street dealers.
"This is a safe place where they are not going to be asked if they want other drugs.".
“It has not been one of our priorities, in terms of our drug investigations. There are some things we won't tolerate, such as when it becomes evident that the drug being sold is not strictly for medicinal purposes, but if the club abides by certain rules and regulations,
they are not a priority for us.
We are very much aware of the organization and what is going on there." Constable Anne Drennan of the Vancouver Police admits.
Here what the chairman of the Canadian senate committee on illegal drugs says :
“The BC Compassion Club is doing very important work in the community. I respected your courage in making your presentation to the committee so articulately” Honourable Mobina SB Jaffer ,Q.C.
Here’s what Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School says : that cannabis would "eventually be used by millions of people around the planet." "Just as penicillin was considered the wonder drug of the 1940s," he said, cannabis "will eventually be seen as the wonder drug of the 21st century." http://www.rxmarihuana.com/
Over 400 legislators, medical professionals, religious leaders, celebrities, and organizations on the local, state, and national levels have signed a letter to President Bush asking him to allow people with AIDS, cancer, and other serious illnesses to use medical marijuana if they have the approval of their physicians …
www.compassionateaccess.org
At a conference last year in Stockholm the World Health Organization released a major international survey of drug use by teenagers.
The results were revealing. The survey found that 41% of American teens had used marijuana or hashish compared with 16% of European teens.
It found that 16% of American teens had used amphetamines and 10% had used LSD compared with 6% of European teens who had used illegal drugs aside from marijuana.
This is the latest evidence which indicates that the United States, which has the highest spending and most punitive drug laws in the world, also has the highest rates of teenage drug use.
The war on drugs is not working. There are a half million people in American jails as a result of the unfair and destructive war on drugs.
I hope we in Canada can join with a number of other jurisdictions in recognizing that this is a health issue.
Here’s what Svend Robinson, then MP said rising in support of Bill C-344 :
“We should recognize that the issue of drug use should be dealt with as a health issue and not a criminal issue.
Our present approach to the issue of marijuana is steeped in hypocrisy.
I cannot tell the House how many times I have spoken with young people who say the most destructive drugs in our society are alcohol and tobacco.
Yet those drugs are entirely legal.
We must recognize that the war on drugs takes a terrible human toll. Drug users are in many cases forced to obtain their supplies from the black market.
What does this mean? It means more crime.
Prices become so high that addicts who finance their habit by committing crimes must commit more crimes to purchase them than if the drugs were legally available.
Drug users, particularly hard drug users, are pulled into a world of filthy needles, poisoned drugs, and pushers bent on selling them more addictive and dangerous fixes.
They have no access to basic information such as the strength of the drug in question, , or the effect of mixing with other drugs such as alcohol.
It is taking the lives of street people in Vancouver East.
It is taking the lives of people across Canada.
It must stop. The destructive and futile war must stop.
That is why I support Bill C-344 as a step in the right direction. However it does not go far enough”.
What Alan Rock ,then Minister of Health , said about the Government of Canada's regulations governing possession and production of marijuana for medical purposes :
"Today's announcement is a landmark in our ongoing effort to give Canadians suffering from grave and debilitating illnesses access to marijuana for medical purposes," ...This compassionate measure will improve the quality of life of sick Canadians, particularly those who are terminally ill."
We had hope.
Canadians need to mount an effective response to the IDEAs conference.
The prohibitionists cannot and will not debate us, but we can easily prove that they are lying.
There is nothing new here, and the Internet is our medium and the reason that we will win!
http://www.marijuananews.com/australia_new_zealand_sweden.htm
www.bcmarijuanaparty.ca
http://www.lindesmith.org/
www.pot-tv.net
www.marijuananews.com
www.mapinc.org
www.thecompassionclub.org
www.emeryseeds.com
www.cannabiscultre.com
http://ideas-canada.ca
STRAIGHT INC AND PARTNERS FOR DRUG FREE AMERIKA NOW MASCARADES AS WWASP PARENTS AND CHILDREN BEWARE! discuss this show in the CC forums >
|
|
