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Gary Johnson’s Support for Medical Marijuana Legalization Will Help, Not Hurt His Campaign (w/Video’s)

This is an opinion piece. But an important one for sure, I personally do not believe it will hurt or help.

The only thing to help the Libertarian Party grow is what many of us have said since back in the day, have patience, spread the word, and give it time, lots of time. The Libertarian Party has been the only 3rd Political Party to have been on every Presidential Ballot in every state in the Union over the past 40 years. Other so called third political parties have appeared over the years, but the Lib Party is the only one to have been there year after year.

As things get worst more people will wake up to the Liberty movement and the answers we present.  . . EDITOR

from A Little Rebellion

This article originally appeared at PolicyMic.

8/4/12

While campaigning in Seattle, Washington, last Thursday, Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson predicted that marijuana would be legalized in the U.S. by 2016 and reiterated his support for its legalization.

Dean Chambers, who covers the 2012 elections for the Examiner.comargues that Johnson and libertarians in general are making a mistake by raising the issue of marijuana legalization. “The voters have never shown a willingness to elect a candidate to the presidency who makes legalizing pot the number one issue,” writes Chambers. “Never at any time have the polls on issue priorities ever shown the American people viewing the legalization of marijuana as the highest national priority. The Libertarian Party nominee always goes to pot and marginalizes themselves for doing so.”

I completely disagree. Johnson is absolutely right to make this an important issue for several reasons. . . . Read Complete Report 

GO DEEPER: Gary Johnson’s web site

 

 

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Gov. Gary Johnson Among the Occupy Wall Street Protesters

Uploaded by  on Oct 20, 2011

“The root of all evil,” says GOP presidential candidate and former two-term Gov. Gary Johnson (R-N.M.), “is politicians that are going to save [us] from terrorists, from illegal immigrants, from drugs. ‘Elect me,’ [they say], ‘and I’ll save you.’. . .” Posted with video

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Courts May Overrule New L.A. Medical Marijuana Dispensary Ban

from Opposing Views

Submitted by Marijuana Policy Project on Jul 30, 2012

The Los Angeles City Council voted 14 to 0 last Tuesday in favor of a new ban on medical marijuana dispensaries. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa supports the measure and is expected to sign it. Los Angeles is not only the state’s largest city, it is also a major hub of medical marijuana. There are over 760 registered dispensaries in the city, along with an estimated 200 without proper registration. By comparison, the Bay Area is home to about 12 dispensaries. Under Los Angeles’ new policy, all of the dispensaries, regardless of registration status, will be contacted and ordered to shut down immediately.

The measure is partly a response to public complaints about medical marijuana use around the storefronts, although specifically restricting the smoking of marijuana in public does not appear to have been considered. Others claim that recreational users, not just legitimate patients, obtain their marijuana there. While there is scant evidence to support these claims, it is unclear what harm this would cause in communities. . . Read Complete Report

Marijuana and Medical Marijuana (w/video)

from The New York Times

Updated: Jan. 26, 2012

Marijuana, whose botanical name is cannabis, has been used by humans for thousands of years. It was classified as an illegal drug by many countries in the 20th century. Over the past two decades, there has been a growing movement to legalize marijuana, primarily for medical purposes.

Medical marijuana use has surged in the 16 states and the District of Columbia that allow its use. But states and cities are also wrestling with the question of what medical marijuana is, or should be.

Marijuana’s use has particularly increased among teenagers. According to a December 2011 government report, one out of every 15 high school students smokes marijuana on a near daily basis, a figure that has reached a 30-year peak even as use of alcohol, cigarettes and cocaine among teenagers continued a slow decline. . . . Read Complete Report

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New Marijuana Documentary! (2012)

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TEDxRainier Presentations : beyond the marijuana monster myths

Stoners coming out – beyond the marijuana monster myths | David Schmader | TEDxRainier

Published on Feb 1, 2016

In this funny, informative talk, David Schmader makes the case for thinking more broadly about what a marijuana user is and can be. David Schmader is a multi-talented writer, playwright, newspaper columnist, and performance artist. With wit and intelligence he blends personal experience and biting humor to provide insight on difficult cultural issues. He creates autobiographical solo plays that include, Letter to AXL, (homophobia and the unifying power of anger), Straight (“pray away the gay” conversation therapy), and A Short-Term Solution to a Long-Term Problem (angst, escapism, and forgiveness). His shows have toured the country, with productions at New York City’s Dixon Place, Los Angeles’s Highways Performance Space, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Arts Festival, and the Wexner Center of the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Drug Smuggler Speaks Out About Incarceration and Marijuana | Richard Stratton | TEDxFultonStreet

Published on Nov 12, 2015

Richard Stratton’s education helped him to vacate a coercively harsh sentence, and now he speaks out to help others who are behind bars unjustly. The irony is not lost on Stratton, that recent cannabis legislation has legalized many of the activities for which people are still locked up. He offers a unique glimpse into the mind of an underworld leader, an award-winning writer and filmmaker, and a human rights advocate. Richard Stratton is a former international cannabis smuggler, CEO of a multi-million dollar operation. Arrested in 1982, he was convicted under the “Kingpin Statute” and sentenced to 25 years in federal prison.

Making peace with cannabis | Zachary Walsh | TEDxPenticton

Published on Sep 2, 2014

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Talk explores human beings’ dynamic relationship with the cannabis plant and what recent developments might mean for our health and well-being.

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Viva Las Vegas!! Legal Sales of Recreational Marijuana

 How to “buy” weed on the street in Las Vegas

Published on Feb 17, 2017

Weed is “legal” for recreational use in Nevada, but what do you do when the government hasn’t authorized any shops? To help support this production and see why you can’t trust YouTube to help me challenge the status quo, please check out my Patreon at http://patreon.com/adamkokesh

The 1st guy in Vegas to buy RECREATIONAL CANNABIS!

Published on Jul 4, 2017

I was one of the first dudes in VEGAS to buy LEGAL WEED!! Whaaaaaaat!!!???!?! A HUGE thank you to Euphoria wellness and Summa Cannabis for making this happen!

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Taxpayers Funding Heroin Vaccine as Govt Keeps Cannabis Solution to Opioid Crisis Illegal

Taxpayers Funding Heroin Vaccine as Govt Keeps Cannabis Solution to Opioid Crisis Illegal

Source: The Free Thought Project By Justin Gardnern July 9, 2017

The feds gladly fund development of anti-opioid vaccines for Big Pharma profits, but continue the war on a plant that is already proven to reduce opioid use.

After 20 years of patented opioid painkillers flooding America thanks to the pharmaceutical industry and careless doctors, the United States finds itself in a raging opioid epidemic.

The numbers are telling: 80 percent of the global opioid supply is consumed in the U.S., representing about 300 million prescriptions in 2015 alone or “enough drugs to give every single American 64 Percocets or Vicodin.

As pain pill prescriptions have surged, overdose deaths from these legal drugs now total about 15,000 every year. When people can’t afford patented pills anymore, they turn to heroin, which killed almost 13,000 people in 2015—a 23 percent increase in one year. . . . Read Complete Report

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Confirmed: Opioid Use Plummets in States with Legal Cannabis, and How Govt Ignores this Truth

Source: The Free Thought Project  By Justin Gardner  

Yesterday we reported how Congress’ “opioid bill,” or Comprehensive Addiction & Recovery Act (CARA), was a hollow achievement, as it ignored medical cannabis alternatives and said nothing about the role of Big Pharma in the opioid abuse epidemic

Among the information missing from the conversation was an eye-opening study done last year. A JAMA Internal Medicine study looked at ten years of data in all 50 states, concluding that states with medical cannabis laws had significantly lower rates of opioid overdose mortality. . . . Read Complete Report

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Why Big Pharma is Blocking Marijuana Legalization in Arizona

YouTube ~ RT America Published on Apr 13, 2017

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Mike Papantonio discusses the reasons why the marijuana legalization effort failed in Arizona and speaks with Justin Strekal, Political Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, about what pharmaceutical companies have to gain from keeping marijuana illegal.

Medical marijuana research comes out of the shadows

PBS NewsHour Published on Jul 14, 2016
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It was an unprecedented meeting of the minds and it happened at Harvard Medical School. The subject of April’s confab? Medical cannabis. Researchers suspect cannabis can do so many things, from fighting cancer to easing concussions and Crohn’s disease. There are still tight restrictions but weed is increasingly coming into the scientific mainstream. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports.

Dig a Little Deeper: Border Wars, Drug Wars & Pot Prohibition

Who is behind the anti-legalization of Marijuana Movement? Follow The Money

 

 

 

 

Judge Jim Gray on The Six Groups Who Benefit From Drug Prohibition

YouTube ~ ReasonTV

Uploaded on Mar 8, 2010

In 1992, Jim Gray, a conservative judge in conservative Orange County, California, held a press conference during which he recommended that we rethink our drug laws. Back then, it took a great deal of courage to suggest that the war on drugs was a failed policy.

Today, more and more Americans are coming to the realization that prohibition’s costs—whether measured in lives and liberties lost or dollars wasted—far exceed any possible or claimed benefit

 

 

Americas Now— Private Prisons in the U.S. Make Big Profits 04/04/2016

YouTube ~ CCTV English

Big Alcohol is bankrolling anti-pot efforts

YouTube ~ TYT Nation

Published on Sep 15, 2016

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“THE FIGHT AGAINST legalized pot is being heavily bankrolled by alcohol and pharmaceutical companies, terrified that they might lose market share.

On the heels of a filing last week that revealed that a synthetic cannabis company is financing the opposition to legal marijuana in Arizona comes a new disclosure this week that a beer industry group made one of the largest donations to an organization set up to defeat legalization in Massachusetts.

The Beer Distributors PAC, an affiliate that represents 16 beer-distribution companies in Massachusetts, gave $25,000 to the Campaign for a Safe and Healthy Massachusetts, tying it for third place among the largest contributors to the anti-pot organization.”

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The Lost War on Drugs Vamped Up BIG TIME by Elitist Controlled Trump Administration

 It must be noted that these figures are for 2017 ONLY. . . Your Editor Dennis Crenshaw

The Drug Clock courtesy of DrugSence. Visit site for a lot of educational information.

 

Jeff Sessions’ Authoritarian Drug Crackdown Won’t Work

YouTube ~ RonPaulLibertyReport

Streamed live 2 hours ago

On Friday, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a directive to US Federal Prosecutors to pursue the most severe penalties possible for drug infractions, even if it triggers large mandatory minimum sentences. Like the drug war itself, this new/old approach will prove a dismal failure. We’ll tell you why…

Candidate Donald Trump looking for votes from the 60% of the population who believe cannabis should be legalized . . . Your Editor Dennis Crenshaw

Donald Trump is for the Legalization of Marijuana
YouTube ~ Shila Armida
Published on Jan 27, 2017

Trump answers legalization of marijuana question at Reno, NV rally on 10/29/15. His answer: he supports medical marijuana FULLY, and supports state. (Rights on the issue)

 

U.S. map showing which states have legalized marijuana for medical use and chart showing increasing support in the U.S. for legalizing the drug outright. Three states vote on legalization in November. Chicago Tribune 2012

Continue to Page 2 FOR THE REST OF THE STORY. . . Your Editor Dennis Crenshaw

 

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MIND BLOWING REPORT: LEGAL ACCESS TO CANNABIS IN ALL 50 STATES?

YouTube ~ The Next News Network

Published on Apr 20, 2017

MORE INFO: http://CannaSense.com | Email Jordan jpage@cannasense.com | Is it really happening? Legal access to cannabis in all 50 states? A new organization, CannaSense, has formed to educate potential and existing patients on the benefits of medical cannabis and how to safely and legally access it at an affordable price. Seniors, veterans, disabled people and almost anyone seeking pain relief could potentially benefit from medical cannabis. Jordan Page the Public relations director of CannaSense joins Gary Franchi, to help navigate these issues and provide solutions for those seeking to receive the health benefits of cannabis with CannaSense.

Take action MORE INFO: http://CannaSense.com
Email Jordan jpage@cannasense.com

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THEI Update: BIG PHARMA War on Marijuana/USA/Canada’s Pot Legalization

The fight gets more intense in the USA. Big Pharma is running scared. Canada taking first steps to totally legalize. Full updates below. . Your Editor Dennis Crenshaw

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Big Pharma

America’s Lawyer [18]: Big Pharma’s War on Marijuana & Closing Rikers Island

YouTube ~ RT America

Published on Apr 12, 2017

On this episode of America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio discusses the reasons why the marijuana legalization effort failed in Arizona and speaks with Justin Strekal, Political Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, about what pharmaceutical companies have to gain from keeping marijuana illegal. Mike then talks to attorney, Stephen Sheller, about his new book Pharmageddon, which outlines some of the biggest lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies he has been involved with over the years. Mike is then joined by Mollye Barrows, legal journalist for The Trial Lawyer Magazine, about a rogue scientist at a state laboratory who forged evidence in tens of thousands of criminal drug cases. America’s Lawyer wraps up the show by highlighting a ten-year plan to close New York’s notorious Rikers Island Prison.

BIG PHARMA CORP THAT SPENT BIG BUCKS KEEPING MARIJUANA ILLEGAL – health

YouTube ~ Today’s Alternative News Published on Apr 17, 2017

 

USA Update on the War against Pot

Federal News

Congressman Destroys War on Marijuana in Four Minutes

 

 

YouTube ~ Marijuana Majority

Published on Feb 13, 2015

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) details how marijuana prohibition has been a “spectacular failure” and previews reform legislation he will soon introduce. Check out http://MarijuanaMajority.com to see more politicians who know it’s time for change.


Good News For Stoners!

YouTube ~ TYT Politics

Streamed live on Mar 3, 2017

TYT Politics Producer Emma Vigeland (https://twitter.com/EmmaVigeland) did a YouTube Live report on the news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions may not be cracking down on recreational marijuana as much as he had initially indicated.

States Could Legalize Marijuana in 2017

YouTube ~ Marijuana Majority

Published on Jan 9, 2017

Several states could legalize marijuana this year. Here are some of places most likely to end cannabis prohibition in 2017.

Who do you think will be next? http://MarijuanaMajority.com

Update: Florida

Florida for Care

Reminder: Senate & House Meetings

This coming Tuesday, April 18th, is a big day. The Florida Senate and the Florida House are holding hearings on its medical marijuana implementing proposal.

Can you come?

The House Appropriations subcommittee meets this Tuesday, April 18th from 9-12pm in Webster Hall (212 Knot).

The Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Health and Human Services meets from 4-6pm n the Senate Office Building (James E “Jim” King Jr. Committee Rm 401).

Let us know if you can make it by RSVP’ing. We’ll follow up soon with more details and some talking points for the committee meeting.  Link

 

Illinois

Illinois marijuana legalization press conference

YouTube ~ Reboot Illinois

Published on Apr 13, 2017

Sen. Heather Steans and Rep. Kelly Cassiday hold a press conference to discuss their bills that would legaliza and regulate recreational marijuana in Illinois. 4-12-2017

Minnesota

MN Lawmakers: Legalize Pot For Recreational Use -Full News Conference

YouTube ~ Michael McIntee

Published on Feb 10, 2017

Minnesota has legalized some forms of medical marijuana. But now there’s a move to legalize it for recreational use as well. Several DFL lawmakers are proposing a law to do that. They’re also proposing a state constitutional amendment to make pot legal. Speakers include Bill authors Rep. Jason Metsa (DFL – Virginia) and Rep. Tina Liebling (DFL – Rochester) .

The bill is opposed by at least one key Republican— the GOP controls the legislature — and Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton opposes it.

If the legislature passes the constitutional amendment, it will go directly to the voters with or without Dayton’s signature.

Applebaum says realizes the bill isn’t likely to pass this session, but says it is a conversation starter about something that eventually has to change.

Texas

Verify: Has Texas legalized pot?

YouTube ~ KHOU 11

Published on Apr 13, 2017

Both sides, for and against the legalization of marijuana, defend their viewpoints through Facebook. However, what happens with opinion turns into deception?

Colorado Early Study Results

Lessons on marijuana legalization to learn from Colorado

YouTube ~ CBC News

Published on Apr 13, 2017

Dr. Larry Wolk, the chief medical officer of Colorado, says the state didn’t face significant negative health outcomes from legalizing marijuana.
To read more: http://cbc.ca/1.4069178

Colorado Governor’s Advice to Canada for Legalizing Weed

YouTube ~ Bloomberg Politics

Published on Apr 13, 2017

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper joins Bloomberg TV Canada’s Lily Jamali to discuss the lessons learned from marijuana legalization in his state.


Canada working on total legalization 

Canadian government announces details on legalized pot legislation

YouTube ~ Global News

Published on Apr 13, 2017

Federal government ministers discussed the details around legislation to legalize marijuana in Canada by 2018

Liberals unveil new marijuana legislation

YouTube ~ CTV News

Published on Apr 14, 2017

Parliamentary Sec. Bill Blair says the provinces have the authority and the responsibility to decide where legal marijuana can be sold.

Subscribe to CTV News to watch more videos: https://www.youtube.com/ctvnews

580 CFRA – Evan Soloman with Dana Larsen – Canadian Cannabis Legalization Conflicts of Interest

YouTube ~ Pot TV

Published on Apr 12, 2017

From Ottawa Now with Evan Solomon (580 CFRA News Talk Radio) – April 9 2017

The list of conflicts of interest between politicians, law enforcement, prohibitionists, political insiders and licensed producers is large. Less than 3% of current applicants passed Health Canada’s licensing process, and yet that slim margin contains (but is certainly not limited to):

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