Medical Marijuana: The Replacement for Very Dangerous Drugs – Salem-News.Com

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may172007/leveque_marijuana_51707.php

The war on drugs is a scam! They’re only in it for the money. The USA has more people in prison PER CAPITA than any other nation in the world. Forget about the stories of Russian gulags and Turkish jails that people are sent to for minor offenses and never return. The USA has superceded them. How can the US be the “land of the free” when we have more people caged up than anyone else. And mostly for bullshit like growing/selling POT of all things. A drug that CAN NOT be linked to causing ANYONE ANY HARM EVER. There is no opposing arguement here. It’s black and white. The so called “war on drugs” is a parasitic establishment that is used as an excuse to bleed taxpayer’s money right back into the system. It is a fraud and they stand for nothing. Good people go to jail daily, and we pay the bill. And why? So instead of smoking a joint to ease our eyes, stomachs, and minds; we can be sold PILLS that contain God knows what, that cost even more that Northern Lights, have a shopping list of side effects, and have completely unknown long term effects. YEAH! Sounds like a good deal in the interests of the common people, if I ever heard one.
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THREAT LEVEL Prediction Comes True: Student Arrested for Creative Writing Essay – Updated | Threat Level | Wired.com

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/threat_level_pr.html

This is extremely disturbing.
From the page: “Chicago high school student Allen Lee, 18, was arrested and charged with “disorderly conduct” for writing an essay in creative writing class that his teacher found disturbing. He’s also been barred from classes at Cary-Grove High School, where he’s reportedly been a straight-A student. The Chicago Tribune reports that the teacher had “encouraged students to express their emotions through writing.””
Personally I don’t see how anything someone can write can be deemed one iota as distressing as this reaction to writing. I’m sorry, but I believe screaming “bloody murder” or yelling “Fire!” in a theater shouldn’t be against the law. And anyone should at least feel able to WRITE anything they please without fear of retribution. I’m sure it was a creepy threatening narrative; but we let this slide, and tomorrow it’ll be an essay criticizing the status quo that lands the author in jail. What the hell is happening to us? As it is, we can’t even threaten each other anymore. Verbal assault. BULLSHIT! Sticks and stones!

the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci

http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/

Leonardo, the original renaissance man. But boy, did he like to cut up corpses. A lot of these “studies” are of dead bodies; not just the ones of obvious dissections in progress, but the ordinary “man smiling” ones too. He used models for EVERYTHING. He must have had bones and cutting instruments all over the place. His studio must have been a freakin’ house of horrors. Can you imagine? Leonardo routinely dissects countless human bodies; Were did they come from? How did he dispose of them? Nobody raises an eyebrow. About 100 years later, Galileo Galilei comes forward with his scientific discoveries concerning celestial bodies…. and they throw his ass in prison.
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