It's a No-Brainer

(Nederland, Colorado will vote in April re: a municipal law to make
the town into a free cannabis zone.)

This month voters in Nederland will have the opportunity to take part
> in, and to further an important international movement/progression to
> restore our most basic, natural, Human Right.
>
> In 1976 Amsterdam in particular and Holland in general allows for the
> possession of as much as five grams of
> cannabis and the cultivation of as many as five cannabis plants.
> Coffee shops that dispense cannabis are still technically illegal. And
> yet the the commonsensical decision is made by Dutch law enforcement
> authorities to
> not squander law enforcement resources to prosecute those who are
> violating the prohibition on cannabis.
>
> There is less cannabis use, now, in Holland then there is in Italy,
> Germany, the U.K., Spain, and far less cannabis use then in these
> United States. It may be counter-intuitive to many, but it seems when
> cannabis ceases being the outlaw weed it becomes less attractive to
> many, and the profane, non-medicinal use of the plant diminishes.
>
> On July 1, 2001 Portugal decriminalizes cannabis (which is a plant)
> and all drugs (which are not plants). Drugs are said to be
> decriminalized, not legalized. Drug use is still prohibited by law.
> Possession and use are still, technically, offenses under Portuguese
> law. And yet violations are administrative violations. No criminal
> charges are made. Violations are not prosecuted.
>
> While drug use and cannabis use across the European Union has steadily
> increased since 2000, in Portugal prevalence rates, the rates that
> people consume a substance in the course of a lifetime, have
> diminished.
>
> The U.K and Estonia have the harshest most draconian drug laws in the
> European Union. And yet these countries have the highest rates of
> cocaine use in the European Union. These United States has the
> harshest, most draconian drug laws in the world. And yet this country
> has one of the highest rates of drug use - in the world.
>
> It is a no-brainer.
>
> When cannabis prohibition is de facto repealed, when drug abuse is
> treated as a public health issue and not a law enforcement/criminal
> justice issue - then everyone wins - except for pandering, whore
> politicians who manipulate the irrational fears of their conservative,
> Christian constituency's for personal gain and power.
>
> Last April Mexico passed a law that allows for the possession of
> ridiculously small amounts of cannabis and drugs, amounts that are far
> less than the quantities that are usually acquired by Mexican users or tourists.
>
> The intent of the law is said to be to allow Mexican law enforcement
> to be better focused on the bloody, escalating war against the
> drug cartels. The intent of the law is said to be to stop Mexican police
> from extorting money from those caught with small amounts of mota
> (cannabis) and drugs (which the Mexican police will never stop doing
> since it is the major part of their income).
>
> What Mexican politicians have done, is to evade the issue, and evade a
> confrontation with the United States' hated force of international
> oppression the Drug Enforcement Agency (D.E.A.)
>
> The issue is Mexico's grotesque slaughter - the stacked, decapitated,
> tortured, and mutilated bodies. The issue is the assault on,
> brutalization, degrading of the Mexican national psyche.
>
> In this carnage is a clear, not
> pretty picture of the business-as-usual (b-a-u) of
> Mexico and the United States.
>
> The politicians in the United States serve the agendas of the lunatic,
> Christian, fundamentalists, in creating/perpetuating a prohibition
> that does not distinguish between plant medicines and drugs, that
> makes national policy a lunatic thing of sinners and their sins, that
> has the United States, this land of the free, with the highest
> percentage of its population incarcerated (of all countries in the
> world), and a so-called war on drugs which is really a war on the
> constitution, on the most basic natural rights, a war on plants.
>
> This creates a massive multi-billion dollar black market which further
> corrupts an already corrupted Mexican government, police, and
> military, and further corrupts American federal and international law
> enforcement.
>
> Then the world is thrown into the Great World Depression II (GWD II) because of
> the limitless, greed of those masters-of-the-universe who control
> the American banking system and Wall Street.
>
> And now the Mexican cartels are just intensifying their greedy,
> murderous, corrupted, black market capitalism to preserve their
> profits, their markets - like an invisible hand.
>
> We have been here before.
>
> The politicians in the United States serving the agenda of the
> lunatic, Christian fundamentalists made alcohol prohibition happen.
> This led to an intensifying of the corruption of government, of the
> police, of our society - just like in Mexico.
>
> Then the GWD I happened. Then there was the
> gangland violence and slaughter marked by such events as the
> Valentines Day Massacre in Chicago.
>
> And then the problem was so easily solved. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
> repealed alcohol prohibition.The gangsters and criminals no longer
> could do their gangster capitalism - only Wall Street and the Big
> Banks could do gangster capitalism.
>
> And so ended our American Valentine Days of the Dead.
>
> Soon after becoming president President Barak Obama announced that
> federal police
> would not raid medical cannabis dispensaries in compliance with state
> law.
>
> In July, Obama issued a memo to federal prosecutors in states
> with medical cannabis laws telling them not to waste scarce federal
> resources on people in "clear and unambiguous compliance" with state
> laws.
>
> And yet, last November, in Breckenridge, 70.9 per cent of voters
> passed a municipal law, that went into effect on January 1
> to legalize cannabis, that allows for the use of cannabis - without a
> note from a doctor.
>
> Specifically the Breckenridge municipal law allows for the possession
> of up to one ounce of cannabis as well as cannabis paraphernalia for
> people 21 or older.
>
> Preliminary Breckenridge Chamber of Commerce business statistics
> indicate that the municipal law attracted skiers and snowboarders and
> mitigated for the local ski resorts and businesses an El Nino winter
> of modest snow.
>
> In Nederland an effort to establish a summer cannabis festival
> celebrating the many uses of the cannabis/hemp plant was squelched by
> local churches. And yet opposition to the festival was understandable,
> inevitable.
>
> The proponents of the cannabis festival made a confused
> presentation/justification for the use of cannabis and why there
> should be a cannabis festival in Nederland.
>
> Let there be a clear presentation/justification for why there should
> be a municipal law in Nederland that allows for the use, cultivation,
> distribution, transportation of cannabis without a dirty, stinking
> note from a doctor.
>
> When our ancestors were no more, and yet no less than bands of
> primates in the nature of the African savannas, they had the natural
> right to utilize, to cultivate every and any plant they found in their
> natural environment.
>
> Long ago, our ancestors found many uses of hemp/cannabis. The
> archaeological records show that humans have been using/cultivating
> cannabis for at
> least 14,000 years. It is one of the first plants cultivated by
> Humans.
>
> The natural right to use any plant found in nature precedes and
> supersedes the power of the United States and the state of Colorado.

For those of you who shape your observations and opinions on religious
doctrine, please note that the Christian, Islamic, Jewish and Hindu
scriptures all clearly state that God gave the Human the right to
use/cultivate any plant found in nature of which the Human had uses
for, with the possible exception of a couple of trees in the Garden of
Eden.
>
> The United States and the state of Colorado has no right to prohibit,
> to make illegal a plant that is
> found in nature. The nation, the state has no right to tell people which
> seeds they can grow and which seeds they cannot grow.
>
> These are our natural rights as Human Beings.
>
> The law that Nederland residents have the opportunity to vote on will
> allow for people 21 and over to use, cultivate, distribute, transport
> cannabis and its derivatives as well as paraphernalia.
>
> Vote YES for Natural Right/Natural Law.