WAR ON AMERICA ITSELF

Hello, please allow me introduce myself my name is Brandon Keating and I am 24 years old. It is probably obvious to most readers this is in fact my very first blog. I have been an American for twenty four years of my life the best of them in Bermuda. I have also seen dark places I have lived in Chicago, Maryland, Florida, and Bermuda the first three were all the same. Dismal and depressing with news of murder, violence, rape, kidnapping all the acts associated with illegal drug sales. Living in Bermuda is as I said HEAVEN !!!!!!> No MURDER<>??? Is it possible parents try to be too cool by giving the children in their home access to such reality diluting garbage??? So about this WAR ON AMERICA. The police are here to serve and protect us yet we so many times become frustrated and even angry with the system we live by. Our habits and violent ways have turned the so called war on drugs to a war on America. There are Border Patrol agents that have very interesting stories about our so called governing body and the drugs flow in at a rate more than ever in these days of economic depression. We have a habit in this country and I believe if something is not changed it is going to die hard, REAL HARD. Tobacco, Oxycontin, Percocets, Xanax, and many other prescription drugs are extremely toxic. Right now the Scheduling of drugs on our illegal system puts some NON-TOXIC Medicinal plants and drugs on a level where if caught with it you could face LIFE IN PRISON. These are substances that arent as near as dangerous for you as the painkillers and drugs most people reading this know very much about. I cant tell you that drugs interest me personally because they really aren't as appealing as most of lifes other gifts all I can tell you is that life is a precious thing to waste !!!!!

WAR ON AMERICA ITSELF

U.S. House Repeals Provision Prohibiting Washington, D.C. from Enacting Medical Marijuana; Nation’s Capital Could Soon Join 13 States That Have Legalized Marijuana for Medical Use

1998 Provision of Federal Law Overturned Voter-Passed Medical Marijuana Law and Banned the City from Ever Lowering Penalties for Marijuana

The Congressional Action on Medical Marijuana is Latest in Rapidly Increasing Momentum to Change U.S. Marijuana Laws

For Immediate Release: Friday, July 17, 2009. Contact: Bill Piper 202-669-6430 or Tony Newman 646-335-5384

"The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation today removing a federal provision that bars the nation’s capital from legalizing marijuana for medical use. The provision, nicknamed the Barr Amendment after its author, former Republican Congressman Bob Barr, who now supports repealing the amendment, was passed in 1998 in response to a medical marijuana initiative approved by 69% of Washington, D.C. voters. The Barr Amendment overturned the medical marijuana law and prohibited the city from ever reducing penalties for marijuana or other Schedule I drugs - even for medical use. The provision is so broad that legal experts believe it even prohibits the city from passing treatment-instead-of-incarceration legislation diverting people arrested for marijuana, heroin or other Schedule I drugs to drug treatment instead of jail.

“D.C. residents voted for medical marijuana, cancer and AIDS patients deserve access to medicine, and it’s a disgrace that Congress ever passed the Barr Amendment,” said Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance. “Congress can bring some sanity to federal marijuana laws and support the will of D.C. voters by overturning this undemocratic law.”

If adopted by both branches of Congress, D.C. will be free to once again enact medical marijuana legislation. Already 13 states have legalized marijuana for medical use. The congressional action on medical marijuana is only the latest in growing momentum in favor of reforming U.S. marijuana laws. Rhode Island legislators expanded their state’s medical marijuana law earlier this year, establishing compassion centers to distribute marijuana directly to patients. The New Jersey Assembly passed medical marijuana legislation earlier this year and the state’s Senate will take up the issue later this year. Minnesota and New Hampshire legislatures recently passed legislation legalizing marijuana for medical use, but the bills were vetoed by each state’s governor."

COURTESY OF DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE NETWORK.