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Editorial, Featured

Michigan Voters Please Don’t Legalize Criminals

Legalizing Criminals

By Joe Tilton

Blacks Law Dictionary includes the meaning of “criminal intent” as “a component of a crime involving a conscious decision on the part of one party to injure or deprive another.” What better definition could there be to the issue of marihuana dealers wanting to operate freely in our society, depriving addicts of their money and children from lifetime success? Must we bless crime and destruction?

A Dale Carnegie course uses a sequence of words to describe a reason to buy something. The phrase is, “fact, bridge, benefit.” Take these three words from an exchange and you have a crime. When the fact is actually a lie and the benefit is destruction of an individual or society, and the dealer knows it, he’s a criminal. The “bridge” is, “what this means to you is…” What does bringing down our society with pot mean to you? Knowing you will injure or deprive the buyer through your product or pseudo service is an act (crime) that should be punishable, yet the pro-recreational marihuana people want you to legalize what they do. Are we so easily duped? Continue reading Michigan Voters Please Don’t Legalize Criminals →

Addiction

New Book Chemical Slavery Addresses the Addiction Crisis

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New book addresses the addiction problem in the U.S.

At a time when the nation is searching for ways to save lives from opioid and other drug overdoses as well as how to reduce the burden of addiction on individuals, families and communities, Robert L. DuPont, MD has written Chemical Slavery: Understanding Addiction and Stopping the Drug Epidemic, for parents, teachers, physicians and for everyone afflicted by addiction. The book also guides leaders in public policy and planning positions, as well as drug abuse treatment. He urges widespread collaboration—the involvement of all persons involved with drug users to confront what they see—“to pull back the disaster-producing veils of denial and enabling.” Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50, surpassing deaths from car crashes, guns, and other diseases. Continue reading New Book Chemical Slavery Addresses the Addiction Crisis →

Featured

Wildfires in West Fueled, Made Worse by Marijuana

By July 13, the Spring Creek Fire had burned 108,045 acres and destroyed at least 145 homes, making it the third-largest wildfire in Colorado history.  Ever since Colorado legalized marijuana in 2012 state officials have shown that they cannot regulate marijuana, harming the freedom, safety and property of non-users. Take Jesper Joergensen, the man responsible for starting this fire which spanned Costilla and Huerfano counties in southern Colorado. Joergensen’s Facebook posts were anarchist and pro-cannabis. We know pot can cause brain damage and mental illness leading to crime and violence. And with the potency of the most active chemical, delta 9 tetrahyracannabinol (THC), now 10-20 times stronger than 30 years ago. Continue reading Wildfires in West Fueled, Made Worse by Marijuana →

Editorial

Opinion: Sadistic Murders and Marijuana

Slaughtered Innocents: Marijuana’s Vicious Legacy

by Deforest Rathbone

The recent stabbing slaughter of the 3-year-old birthday girl at her birthday party in Boise Idaho is the latest horrific example of soaring rates of the murder of innocents by vicious drug-enraged psychopathic maniacs.

News of that blood-soaked tragedy came on the same day as toxicology reports were published documenting marijuana use by the Travis County Texas Church shooter who slaughtered innocent children and other church-goers there last year.

A major contributor to the growing frequency of such massacres of innocents is the failure of most government and health officials to conduct and publish the results of forensic drug testing of all such suspects to disclose the ”Unknown Cause” often cited in most other massacres.

That verification of marijuana use by the mass murderer in the Texas Church massacre adds to the growing evidence that marijuana is a major driving force behind other sadistic mass murder of innocents.

Others follow:

The mass shooter who blew Rep. Gabby Giffords’ brains out was found to be a big pot user.

A teenager ambushed a police station in Fairfax County, Virginia, and shot and killed two police officers before he could taken down.  The teen’s father smoked marijuana with him and his high school friends and allowed access to the guns used in the crime.

Another sadistic child slaughter and the murderer’s connection to marijuana is documented in news accounts of the knife slaughter of an innocent 8-year-old child at play in Alexandria, Virginia.

The involvement of marijuana in senseless violence has been documented in thousands of other mass murders. But in their commitment to deification of pot, nearly all journalists fail to ask for drug test results in reporting these otherwise unexplainable horrific incidents. With many scientific studies now documenting the connection between marijuana use and irrational violent behavior, legislation will be needed to force the truth to be publicized.

But with massive amounts of drug money influencing lawmakers to continue enabling the marijuana traffickers to expand their poison markets throughout this nation, such legislation will not happen without endangered and terrorized citizens rising up and throwing out of office all drug-money-corrupted public officials and hug-a-thug politicians. They are the ultimate driving force behind such tragedies as the huge Las Vegas mass shooting, the Boston Marathon bombing, soaring school shootings, the recent Annapolis newsroom murders and now this horrific defenseless child’s birthday party stabbing death.

Only then will we be able to elect and appoint statesmen and women who will expose the truth about marijuana to free our people from the slavery of drug addiction and its resulting death and destruction.

Growing mass murders, soaring drug-related depression, suicide and overdose deaths all due to an “Unknown Cause?” This trend will spiral upward unless this nation wakes up from its denial.

IT’S MARIJUANA, STUPID!

We need to begin punishing those responsible commensurate with the horror, tragedy and grief currently destroying children, families and communities throughout this nation.

 

DeForest Rathbone is Chairman, National Institute of Citizen Anti-drug Policy (NICAP).  Dee is long term associate of the Nancy Reagan parents drug prevention movement. See his recent letter to the Washington Post urging drug testing of irrational crime perpetrators. He can be reached in Leonardtown, MD, 301-994-2733, DZR@prodigy.net