Drug wars

I've stated my disgust at the so called war on drugs by our political leaders before and in short, the government has gone to war on a large majority of Australians, which is unhealthy to say the least.

But here is how ridiculous these polititians are, I won't go into detail other than to say marijuana has never caused a death by overdose and most evidence suggest that no one has ever died from using pot.

However becuase of the political gains the polititians keep going to war on marijuana users but at what expense?

We are seeing the results more young people are seeing marijuana usage as socially unaceptable becuase of the lies they believe about it's use as can be evidenced by the previous artical on the drug.

The reason we are not hearing the attepts to stem the use of far more dangerous drugs such as alcohol and more specifically drugs such as GBH, Ecstacy, Crack ice and the like becuase the Government has put it in the too hard basket and instead attacks an easy target that causes little harm such as pot.

What is sad is the number of people now dying becuase of the missguided/lying polititians wanting to make political millege by going to war on marijuana users, when the issue is why are we pushing the kids on these harder drugs?

Sure in a perfect world there would not be any experimental drug use by our young but reality shows they will take drugs no matter what the laws say.

But when the priority focuss and funding is prodominantly against marijuana then there are some serious questions to ask! For example

• Why is marijuana funding and enforcement exceding something as the drug Alcohol? We know that Alcohol causes more damage and impairment than all the ellicite drugs combined! So we see the alcoholics are making laws to hide their drug abuse of alcohol and attacking something that provides very little risk.
• Why are drugs such as crack ice, ecstacy, GBH now seen as acceptable with our young? Could it be that we playing God have pushed the young onto these dangerous drugs becuase the lies by government making something that is relatively safe into something that is far more dangerous than Alcohol, ICE, GBH and ecstacy! We know these drugs are dangerous and can not only result in death but brain damage and numerous other medical conditions such as brain damage but they are considered safer than marijuana which has none of these effects!
• Could it be that organised crime has been in control of our drug laws all along! The only people a war on marijuana benefits is organised crime! Becuase of the laws the price of marijuana is high and profits are good, while also the laws have created a whole new business for organised crime by making drugs such as GBH, Ecstacy, ICE and the like acceptable over marijuana which has increased the market so much for organised crime to make their profits.
• Alcohol is shown as the most dangerous drug for mental health, physical health and death yet is legal while many suffer from cancer and many other conditions becuase they cannot use a relatively safe drug such as marijuana forcing them to use morphine, and addictive perscription drugs.

So current laws are causing far more damage than not having laws!

But I suppose if people vote for these polititians then it doesn't matter that our young are dying and becoming mentally ill if the political party wins votes. The problem is they are killing people to win votes.

Regards
Daniel


Family seeks 'positive' from ecstasy death

February 20, 2007 11:43am
Article from: AAP

THE family of Annabel Catt, who died from a suspected drug overdose after taking ecstasy at a Sydney concert, say they want people to learn from her death.

Ms Catt, 20, of Elanora Heights, on Sydney's northern beaches, collapsed at a party at nearby Warriewood on Sunday about 5am (AEDT).

Just hours earlier, she had left the Good Vibrations music festival at Centennial Park.

Ambulance officers were told the woman, who was showing signs of respiratory distress, had taken MDMA, usually found in ecstasy.

Brother Antony Catt today said family and friends were devastated by the death of "beautiful Annabel".

"We would like everyone to learn from this tragic mistake," Mr Catt said

When Scientists forget God!

Asteroid warning for 2036

February 19, 2007 12:00am
Article from: Herald-Sun

AN asteroid may be heading our way in 2036.
A group of experts says the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it.

Astronomers are monitoring an asteroid named Apophis, which has a one in 45,000 chance of striking Earth on April 13, 2036.

Although the odds of an impact are low, a recent plan for NASA to upgrade its tracking of asteroids is expected to uncover hundreds, if not thousands, of threatening space rocks in the near future.

"It's not just Apophis we're looking at," former Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart said.

"Every country is at risk. We need a set of general principles to deal with this issue."

These Scientists seem to have forgotten that God protected this planet with larger planets whose gravitational pull will deflect any asteroids into themselves and then he put an asteroid belt in between earth and the larger planets to sort of act like an RCD device in electricity safety!

So to these scientists stop denying God exists and embrass his perfect creation!

Regards
Daniel

Why we send someone using pot to jail!

We send pot users to jail becuase they are indangering no one before we send them there and after they go we turn them into child sex offenders which are dangerous and acceptable to be released from jail! Worse the sex offenders identity and location are protected becuase they are dangerous and the governments want dangerous people that's why they turn people to heroin, crack ice, gbh and the likes over marijuana becuase they want dangerous people in the community to win votes by attacking them in the papers!

Sex-fiends 'viewed naked children in films'

February 19, 2007 02:37am
Article from: AAP

SOME of Victoria's worst sex offenders have viewed sexually explicit films in their cells at Ararat Prison.

Two films in the prison's video library show images of naked children playing and include close-ups of children's genitals, News Ltd reported today.

Sex offenders including pedophile Brian Jones; known as Mr Baldy; child killer Robert Arthur Selby Lowe, convicted of the 1991 murder of Sheree Beasley in 1991; and pedophile former priest Gerard Ridsdale could have had unmonitored access to the films.

News Ltd was advised of the existence of the films through a whistleblower, a prisoner who was in charge of screening movies in the 55-man prison unit.

And the problem is an organisation such as the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne disciplines people who raise concerns about the pornography on their computer network. The managers of this organisation find it acceptable to have pornography on computers in a children's hospital and actually praise that person as being good at health and safety!

Pfffffffffftttttttttttt criminals supporting criminals.

Regards
Daniel

Australia must be in a sick state when this happens!

Industry wants tax cuts for poor

February 19, 2007 04:00am
Article from: AAP

THE Government should give the nation's poorest workers a tax cut in the May budget, Australia's industry body said.

The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) wants the Government to cut income tax for those earning $25,000 to $30,000 in half, from 30 per cent to 15 per cent.

The Government also should also refund the 15 per cent tax on employer superannuation contributions into the accounts of low income people and middle income earners aged over 50, Ai Group said today, and increase the amount it will pay under the Superannuation Co-Contribution Scheme.

Ai Group said the Government can pay for the changes by cutting contributions to the Future Fund.

If industry leaders recognise the poor working class in this country then it is pretty bad!

What about those on Dissability or pensions??? They have to live on not much more than $10,000 a year and when you consider a low rental property of say $250 a week (will get you a dump in Queensland with rats, leaking roofs and the like, sure you can complain but the rent will go up that's a certain), that's $3,000 more than recieved so now you can add rent assistance and yes your pension and rent assistance will cover rent but no food, water, electricity or car expenses you can see we have some of the poorest people in the world, living on our streets with so called Christian leaders not helping one bit!

Regards
Daniel

Howard moves to sell off our water to overseas buyers at what cost.

Well John Howard is moving quick to try and control the countries water supplies, in an attempt to sell them off in his next term in office! As he has sold off anything that makes a profit such as Telstra, he will be left with no revenue comming in other than taxes so it is important for him to gain control of water as soon as possible so that the next term the Liberals percieve they have in power, they will also be able to sell off our water supplies with the rest of the country and show a surplus comming into the 2010 elections!


Howard calls for unity on water

February 19, 2007 08:23am
Article from: AAP

PRIME Minister John Howard said he hopes the looming federal election will not distract state leaders from reaching a solution for Australia's water system.

The premiers will meet with Mr Howard in Canberra again this Friday in an attempt to resolve the Commonwealth's $10 billion takeover plan for the Murray-Darling basin.

The Labor premiers have so failed to reach agreement with the Federal Government over the plan, concerned funding is inadequate and the plans had been rushed.

Mr Howard said today he would listen to the states concerns, but he said state versus federal politics should not get in the way of a genuine solution.

"I do hope that because this is a federal election year politics are not going to get in the way of a sensible resolution," Mr Howard told Channel 9.

Marijuana has become socially unfashionable a new report claims

A new study by theNational Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
has highlighted the missguided funding appropriated to the program of supporting organised crime by governments in this country by increasing the costs of marijuana so organised crime can make more money.

And the lies by the governments have led to unsupported beliefs such as The drug once perceived as harmless is now overwhelming viewed as dangerous, addictive and linked to a range of serious health and social problems.

The spokesman for the research centre did highlight how wrong these perceptions at the end of the interview stating : The report's only bad news, said Mr Dillon, was that many beliefs people had about cannabis - like the fact it leads to harder drug use - were actually incorrect.

Some of the lies that the Governments especially John Howard has made to protect their organised crime buddies and their profits and believed by those that fail to educate themselves include:

• Of the 1500 adult Australians surveyed, three in four felt that smoking dope was dangerous or very dangerous, and half thought it could trigger schizophrenia or anxiety disorders.
  Absolute lies and untruths that belong in the 1800's, the truth is that research especially from south Australia but also from all over the world is that marijuana is showing to be beneficial in the treatment of schizophrenia and anxiety!!!! There is no evidence what so ever that marijuana causes schizophrenia!!!
  
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  About 40 per cent think cannabis is always addictive, and one in five said it is always a gateway to harder drugs. Again more lies, using this sort of argument you could say that Caffiene is definately the gateway drug as more kids drink a can of coke and go onto heavier drugs than those that try pot and move onto harder drugs or alcohol must be the biggest gateway drug (I do believe this to be true that alcohol is the addictive gateway drug)! The real issue is why the need for any drug and remove those issues and people wont need to take drugs to hide their pain.

• The findings also suggest that young people are aligning marijuana with tobacco."Smoking cigarettes is now realistically unacceptable in this country and it might just be that that same attitude has jumped across to cannabis," Mr Dillon said. Well there is substantial proof that tobacco smoking increases dramatically the risks of cancers and other diseases, while marijuana shows the opposite with a slight decrease in lung cancer over the general population. Again the lies of governments to protect organised crimes profits.

• now younger people just see a gang of guys who sit around smoking a bong, eating a pizza and watching television," Mr Dillon said. Funny that how they can make a survey discriminate like females don't use marijuana! (Classic example of the bias and lies) And to think those succesful people that use pot watched t.v. getting fat on pizza's is a classic, and to think unemployed can afford to do the above is just about insane, maybe on occasion they could lash out but to think people do this all the time is just crazy.

What concerns me most is the lies about this drug and put to the niave people who believe a government that spends $billions on advertising to protect their organised crime rates.

And of even more concern is the fact that becuase this drug that has an expotentially less degree of risk of addiction compared to something like alcohol, tobacco and heroin and it is made out to be of a higher risk, leads our young to binge drink, and use the new range of drugs such as ice, gbh and the like because the governments don't focuss as much money on these trully dangerous drugs the brainless and those lacking the research see these dangerous drugs as safe compared to the relatively safe marijuana!

And all those using it for medication of pain might as well go on morphine, methotrexate, valium and the like becuase the government isn't protecting their organised crime buddies these drugs are seen as safe by the government, hence their legalisation for medical purposes.

Yet really the government is also protecting the pharmacutical companies with their lies as morphine, methotrexate and the like are highly addictive drugs that destroy internal organs with long term use. But they are Popular!

We are run by criminals making laws so they can go to the doc's and get morphine and the like while those that have serious illness are left with little choice unless they break the law!

Regards
Daniel

The cost of all the new laws

U.S. : Prison Growth Could Cost Up to $27.5 Billion Over Next 5 Years
Posted by Patriot on 2007/2/15 10:52:13 (66 reads)
U.S.

Washington, DC -- February 14, 2007 -- By 2011 one in every 178 U.S. residents will live in prison, according to a new report released today by the Public Safety Performance Project of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Public Safety, Public Spending: Forecasting America’s Prison Population 2007-2011 projects that by 2011 America will have more than 1.7 million men and women in prison, an increase of more than 192,000 from 2006. That increase could cost taxpayers as much as $27.5 billion over the next five years beyond what they currently spend on prisons.

“As states continue to struggle with tight budgets and competing priorities among health, education and safety, they are beginning to question whether huge additional investments in prisons are the most effective and economical way of combating crime,” said Susan Urahn, Managing Director of State Policy Initiatives at The Pew Charitable Trusts. “The challenge for state policy makers is to ensure that taxpayers are getting a strong return on their investment in corrections: safer communities, efficient use of public dollars, and ex-offenders who become productive, law-abiding members of society.”

Simple solution is to stop putting people in prison for doing nothing other than smoking a bit of pot! They do no harm to anyone else and there is no evidence to suggest they are even harming themselves!

Pretty simple and cost effective solution hey! Not only that it would free up the police forces to actually takle crime instead of arresting kids and those doing no harm to anyone!

But that won't happen becuase the laws are made to protect organised crimes profits and as such the profits from organised crime are far greater than $27 billion so they will build more jails to protect their criminal mates some of whom are in politics making the laws!

Regards
Daniel