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Posted March 17, 2005
Analysis by Richard Cowan
(MarijuanaNews note: The following article appeared on
the front page of The New York Times, and virtually every major point of “fact”
is either completely wrong or so taken out of context as to be deceiving.
Generally, a reporter will at least call someone who does not work for the
government to get a quote that shows some pretense of balance. There is none of
that here. In fact, the reporter did not even check official Canadian and US
government websites, instead she relies almost entirely on one Canadian nark and a few minor US
officials.

And there is really nothing
new here. Time Magazine ran a similar piece last year.
See

Time Magazine Reports BC Bud 20% Less Potent Than Four Years Ago?? Incompetent
Prohibitionist Propaganda and Even Worse Journalism. As Some Reporters Die to
Find the Truth Others Live to Lie.

Unfortunately, this is typical
of the Times’ coverage of the cannabis issue, especially in reporting on Canada.
See

New York Times Prohibitionist Propaganda On Vancouver Slanders Amsterdam
and

How The New York Times Misleads Americans About the Canadian Marijuana
Situation.
and

How Prohibitionism Corrupts the New York Times: “Educating” the Children with
the Party Line, and Undermining Journalistic Integrity. Analysis by Richard
Cowan.
and

Quacks and Hacks and The New York Times — Reefer Madness 2002 — Atoning for
Printing NORML’s Ad?

I had hoped that The Times might improve when it got a
new managing editor in 2003.
See

Is The New Executive Editor of The New York Times An Anti-Prohibitionist? At
Least He Knows The Meaning of “Reefer Madness.”

But, alas, it was not to be.)

Front in The Drug War Opens on
Canadian Border
March 5, 2005
By Sarah Kershaw
From the Front page of

The New York Times

Seattle — The drugs move across
the Canadian border inside huge tractor-trailer rigs, pounds and pounds stashed
in drums of frozen raspberries, tucked in shipments of crushed glass, wood chips
and sawdust, or crammed into hollowed-out logs, in secret compartments that
agents refer to as “coffins.”

Kayakers paddle them south from
British Columbia across the freezing bays of America’s northwest corner, and
well-paid couriers carry up to 100 pounds at a time in makeshift backpacks,
hiking eight hours over the rugged mountainous terrain that forms part of the
border between the United States and Canada.

Small planes drop them onto
raspberry fields and dairy farms in hockey bags equipped with avalanche beacons
to alert traffickers that the drugs have landed.
(MarijuanaNews note: The
prohibitionist propaganda moves across the Canadian border on news wires, the
Internet, in newspapers and on the airwaves. It is called “journalism” and “drug
education.” It is neither. )

The
contraband is called B.C. bud, a highly potent form of marijuana named for the
Canadian province where it is grown, and it has become the center of what law
enforcement officials say is an increasingly violent $7 billion cultivation and
smuggling industry.

On
Thursday, four officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were shot to death
in Alberta, British Columbia’s neighboring province, as they were searching a
marijuana-growing operation, one of many on the rise there. The killings stunned
a country that has apparently not lost that many officers at once since the
mid-19th century.
(MarijuanaNews note: The false
premise –
First, the Mounties were killed after executing a search warrant that originally
had nothing to do with marijuana. They only found the marijuana plants after
they got there.

This was not at all a typical
“grow-op” bust, and there have been no law enforcement fatalities or even
serious injuries on any of the thousands of grow-op busts that take place all
across the country every year.

Second, this is a story that
is supposed to be about smuggling “BC Bud” into the US, but the raid was in
another province – almost the exact center of Alberta, a long way from BC – and
a very long way from the US border.)

Leigh H.
Winchell, special agent in charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
in Seattle, which investigates border crimes and is part of the
Department of Homeland Security, said the police killings in Alberta were stark
evidence of “how serious the B.C. bud issue is getting, how much money is
involved and the lengths to which these criminals are willing to go to protect
it.”
(MarijuanaNews note: No one
who knew the shooter thinks this was about money. He had a long history of
violence, including child molestation and should not have been out of prison. He
was under a court order not to have a gun, but he had several.)

He added, “It’s getting worse and
worse, and we need to address it at every level. The
funding needs to be there, and the resolve of law enforcement to address
it needs to be there - on both sides of the border. It’s a very dark day for all
of us.”

This new wave of drug trafficking,
with Northwest Washington and Seattle a major transit point, comes as an
enormous challenge to United States law enforcement agents stationed along the
often invisible northern border. They are already dealing with the threat of
terrorism, the flow of immigrants and new human smuggling operations - some run
by some of the Canadian criminal organizations that move the
marijuana south and cash, cocaine and guns north,
American and Canadian law enforcement officials say.

The
situation is also spotlighting sharp differences in the way the two countries
deal with drug crimes, with some officials and experts on both sides of the
border saying Canada’s less stringent drug laws have made it harder to stem the
flow of contraband moving north and south.

In British
Columbia, a once-quiet province in a country that has long enjoyed a low crime
rate, the murder rate has soared in the past two years, Canadian
officials say, because of killings linked to warring drug gangs.

(MarijuanaNews note: According
to Statistics Canada, the latest data on murders in Canada is for 2003. Here it
is. As anyone who does not work for the Times can clearly see, the BC murder
rate has gone up and down over the last few years.)

From

http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/legal12a.htm

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

Homicides

Canada

538

546

553

582

548

Newfoundland and Labrador

Prince Edward Island

Nova Scotia

New Brunswick

Quebec

137

150

140

118

100

Ontario

162

156

170

178

Manitoba

Saskatchewan

Alberta

British Columbia

110

126

Yukon

Northwest Territories including Nunavut

Northwest Territories

Nunavut

Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM, table

253-0001.

Last modified: 2004-11-18.

And here is the per capita breakdown from

http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/legal12b.htm :

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

rate per
100,000 population

Canada

1.77

1.78

1.86

1.73

Newfoundland and Labrador

0.37

1.14

0.19

0.39

0.96

Prince Edward Island

0.73

2.20

1.46

0.73

Nova Scotia

1.39

1.61

0.97

0.96

0.85

New Brunswick

1.20

1.33

1.07

1.20

1.07

Quebec

1.87

2.04

1.89

1.59

1.34

Ontario

1.41

1.34

1.43

1.47

1.45

Manitoba

2.28

2.61

2.95

3.12

3.70

Saskatchewan

1.28

2.58

2.70

2.71

4.12

Alberta

2.07

1.96

2.29

2.25

2.00

British Columbia

2.74

2.10

2.06

3.06

2.24

Yukon

3.25

6.57

3.32

0.00

3.22

Northwest Territories including Nunavut

Northwest Territories

2.46

2.47

9.80

9.65

9.55

Nunavut

7.46

10.91

10.67

6.96

10.21

Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM, table

253-0001.

Last modified: 2004-11-18.

(MarijuanaNews note: As anyone
who does not work for the Times can clearly see, BC’s per capita murder rate is
not the highest in Canada. And the Canadian murder rate is about one third that
of the US, which makes the following sentence even more absurd.)

Now law
enforcement officials here fear the violence will migrate south. Mr.
Winchell likened Seattle, with its currently low crime rate, to
“Miami before the drug wars” because of what he
said was an impending threat of drug-related violence.
(MarijuanaNews note: The violence in
Miami was cocaine related and began after Reagan started his war on cannabis.
See

HOW THE NARCS CREATED CRACK by Richard C. Cowan
From National Review
Magazine, December 5, 1986

Canadians are not Colombians. Seattle is not
Miami. The murder rate in Vancouver is lower than it is in Seattle. In short,
this comparison is ridiculous speculation, but so is most of the article.)

Vast amounts of drugs and money are now flowing through
Seattle and other West Coast cities, he said,
along the heavily traveled Interstate 5 corridor from California to the Canadian
border. In many cases,
law enforcement officials from both countries say,
traffickers are smuggling cocaine north from California to Canada in exchange
for B.C. bud.
(MarijuanaNews note: Yes, they
say that, but what is the evidence?

According to

Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada’s report, United States-Canada
Border Drug Threat Assessment published in
October 2004:

Demand for powdered and crack cocaine remains high in both the United States and
Canada. Most of the cocaine destined for either country is shipped directly
from the source country in South
America. Although cocaine moves in both
directions across our shared border, most smuggling activity is northbound….

CROSS-BORDER DISTRIBUTION AND TRANSSHIPMENT

Cocaine destined for Canada originates mainly in South America. Shipments can
transit one or more countries prior to entering Canada;
Jamaica, Haiti and the United States are the principal
transshipment points. Approximately 25% of the seized cocaine destined for
Canadian markets either transits or is intended to transit the United States.
Cocaine transiting the United States en route to Canada is generally shipped
through the Caribbean and Mexico.

Between 2000 and 2003 inclusive, Canadian authorities seized a total of 4.7
metric tons of cocaine at Canadian ports of entry. Of this quantity, 1.1 metric
tons (23%) transited Jamaica immediately prior to entering Canada, 970 kilograms
(21%) transited Haiti. The United
States ranked third as a transit country, with 600 kilograms (13%) seized during
this period…

CRIMINAL GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS

Colombian drug trafficking organizations and Italian organized crime groups are
the most influential smugglers of cocaine into eastern Canada. OMGs supply their
wholesale and mid-level distribution operations through associations with these
organizations. Moreover, organizations based in Canada are often involved in the
cross-border movement of cocaine purchased from U.S.-based brokers.

In
western Canada, the predominant transporters and distributors of cocaine are
members of OMGs, particularly the Hells Angels. OMG members coordinate with
Mexican and Colombian suppliers in the United States to transport cocaine
shipments along Interstate 5 into British Columbia. They also coordinate cocaine
smuggling into the Port of Vancouver and surrounding areas. Smaller
quantities are sometimes obtained by trading marijuana for cocaine with
distribution groups based in the United
States….)

Inspector
Paul Nadeau of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who runs the Coordinated
Marijuana Enforcement Team in British Columbia, estimated that in his
province alone, 3.7 million pounds of B.C. bud is produced annually, in up
to 20,000 marijuana-growing operations, with as much as 50 percent of it
smuggled into the United States at points as far east as Michigan.
(MarijuanaNews note: “In
Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) estimates that annual Canadian
marijuana production ranges between 960 and 2400 metric tons…” – Also
From the

Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada’s report,

A metric ton is a million
grams, or approximately 2,204 pounds. Thus 960 metric tons would be around 2
million pounds. Now if BC alone produces “3.7 million pounds of B.C. bud”, then
BC produces over 150% of the national total, based on the lower official
estimate. Neat trick.

Or maybe it is just 70% of the
higher estimate. Or maybe the BC nark simply has no idea, because no one really
knows how much is produced or smuggled.

Considering the range of the
official estimates, that would seem to be the best bet. In other words, neither
the Times reporter nor her sources know what they are talking about.)

Efforts to
combat the flow can be seen vividly in places like Blaine, Wash., a tiny border
town along the shore in the northwestern part of the state, where agents patrol
the waters, mountains and airways in brand-new boats and planes. Since the Sept.
11 attacks, agents have seen their manpower and technological resources double
or triple, helping them seize growing amounts of B.C. bud. Along the Washington
border alone, agents seized 20,500 pounds in 2004, worth more than $60 million,
up from 4,000 pounds in 1998.
(MarijuanaNews note: It is
easy to get large percentage increases from a small base. To put this into
perspective, and understand how small a role Canada plays in the US market –
U.S. law enforcement officials seized a total of 701 metric tons (1,547,505
pounds) in FY2003 being smuggled into the US from all sources. Of the total
seized in FY2003, only 15.8 metric tons entered the United States from Canada.
In other words, slightly less than 16 out of 701 metric tons seized came from
Canada. That is just over 2% of the total. No evidence is offered for the next
sentence.)

But
with possibly more than 1.5 million pounds coming south, according to the
Canadian estimates, many acknowledge they are making a mere dent in what is
coming across.
(MarijuanaNews note: Possibly
more than 1.5 million pounds coming south??? By what Canadian estimates?? I can
find nothing to support this claim on any official Canadian websites. Of course,
that would be almost 75% of the lower official estimate of the total Canadian
production. Perhaps, but where is the evidence?

Undoubtedly, only a small
percentage of the smuggled cannabis is being seized, but no one knows what
percentage is being seized at the Mexican border, either.

Moreover, no one really knows
how much cannabis is produced in the US.

From
the

Public Safety Emergency Preparedness Canada
report:

“A
preliminary White House Office of National Drug Control Policy estimate suggests
that annual U.S. marijuana production ranges between 3,100 and 7,100 metric
tons. Several U.S. Government research projects are underway to improve the
accuracy of U.S. production estimates.…

According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Domestic Eradication and
Suppression Program data, the number of indoor and outdoor cultivated marijuana
plants eradicated in the United States increased from 2,814,903 plants in 2000,
3,304,760 plants in 2001, 3,341,840 plants in 2002, and 3,608,341 plants in
2003. More than 90% of the plants eradicated during these years came from
outdoor plots; however, indoor cultivation is of particular concern in
California, Washington and Florida.”

If one takes the lower Canadian estimate and the higher US estimate, then the US
produces about eight times as much cannabis as does Canada. Or perhaps it
produces almost three times as much or perhaps only slightly more. Again, no one
really knows.

In fact, the

2003 report by the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board
says, “According to estimates of the United States
Government, more than 10,000 tons of cannabis herb are produced in that country;
in addition, more than 5,000 tons of cannabis are smuggled into the country.”
That would make the US the world’s leading producer of cannabis.)
See

Fantasy and Reality in UN and US Reports on The Global Drug War. The Real
Numbers Are There. DEAland is The World’s Largest Producer, Importer, and
Consumer of Cannabis.

B.C. bud is grown in
indoor nurseries stocked with sophisticated lighting and ventilation
equipment. Growers use a system known as hydroponic cultivation and
carefully control the temperature, lighting and nutrients in a way that allows a
succession of crops to be grown throughout the year. The process yields a drug
that is far more potent than marijuana coming in from Mexico and other
countries, giving B.C. bud an almost mythic reputation on the street.

(MarijuanaNews note: “On the
street”? “Sophisticated”!! What a cliché cluster! First, most growers do not
“use a system known as hydroponic cultivation”, because growing in soil is much
easier. Second, BC Bud can be grown outdoors as well and is no different from
cannabis grown anywhere else using the same techniques and the same genetics.
And notice that there is absolutely no mention whatsoever of domestic US
cultivation in the Times article.

Now consider this, also from the

Public Safety Emergency Preparedness Canada
report:

THC CONTENT IN CANADIAN- AND U.S.-PRODUCED MARIJUANA

Increasingly, Canadian-produced marijuana is being referred to as ‘high-grade’
or ‘high-potency’ marijuana, with the media reporting
Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, levels averaging 20% or higher. This
perception is based in part on U.S. law enforcement reporting which suggests
that most marijuana seizures at the Canadian border are in bud form. Marijuana
buds generally contain higher levels of THC than the remainder of the plant.

A
comparison of THC levels in Canadian-produced and U.S.-produced marijuana is
problematic because each country collects the data differently:

United States authorities classify seized marijuana samples in three ways: ‘ditchweed’,
which is very low quality marijuana and includes marijuana growing wild and
hemp; ‘commercial-grade’, which includes buds, leaves, stems, and seeds from
male and female plants; and, ‘sinsemilla’, which consists of only the buds and
flowering tops from unpollinated female plants. Commercial-grade marijuana
produced in the United States and Mexico is the most prevalent type of marijuana
available throughout the United States. Sinsemilla, which is much higher in
potency than commercial-grade marijuana given its composition, follows
commercial-grade marijuana in prevalence and commands a higher price. The
average THC content of all submitted samples of U.S.-produced marijuana
(including ditchweed) was 3.57 percent in 2001, 3.24 percent in 2002, and 2.31
percent in 2003. In those same years, the average THC content in submitted
samples of U.S.-produced sinsemilla was 7.9 percent in 2001, 7.3 percent in
2002, and 7.4 percent in 2003.

In
Canada, marijuana exhibits are submitted for THC analysis for court purposes and
are therefore comprised almost exclusively of the flowering heads or buds of the
female cannabis plant, which in the United States would be classified as
sinsemilla. Because Canada tests only sinsemilla, and not commercial-grade
marijuana or ditchweed, it is difficult to compare THC averages between the two
countries. The average THC content of marijuana samples analyzed in Canada in
2001 was 8.7 percent, in 2002 was 8.3 percent, and in 2003 was 9.6 percent. Of
more than 15,000 samples analysed since 1989, only 81 (0.5%) had a THC level of
20% or higher.

Both Canada and the United States have recorded abnormally high levels of THC in
a limited number of samples, demonstrating that both countries have the
capability of producing high-potency marijuana. The highest THC level analyzed
in Canada came from a 2000 sample with
30 percent THC. The highest U.S. sample was 33 percent THC from a 1997 sample… )

Wholesale, B.C. bud sells for
about $3,000 a pound, though the price rises the farther from Seattle it is sold
- $3,500 a pound by the time it reaches California. Marijuana smuggled across
the southern border sells for $400 to $1,000 a pound in the Southwest United
States, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
(MarijuanaNews note: The last paragraph is
the only one that is close to factual. But then she changes the subject. Of
course, cannabis equals all other drugs, except when it doesn’t.)

In the
past year, agents in and around Blaine have also begun to seize an increasing
amount of Ecstasy and chemicals used to make methamphetamine headed for the
United States.
See

Meth and Marijuana. Now: How the Narks Created Crank in Canada. The Iron Law of
Drug Prohibition. The Inescapable Economics Of Contraband.

As the agents in the Blaine area have caught on to the
imaginative ways that smugglers sneak their contraband through, more drugs are
being transported farther east along the border - which, including Alaska,
stretches more than 5,000 miles - to places in Idaho, Montana and North Dakota,
law enforcement agents say. This has prompted lawmakers from many of the
northern border states to complain that the Canadian border is receiving less
attention than the Mexican border.

(MarijuanaNews note: Comparing
the Canadian and Mexican borders is simply bizarre. As noted, Mexico is not only
a major source of cannabis, it is also the transit point for much of the cocaine
and heroin that enter the US. Moreover, there a millions of poor Mexicans who
are risking their lives to get into the US. There is absolutely nothing
comparable about the two border.

And remember that the excuse
for this little prohibitionist propaganda fest was a single killing unrelated to
marijuana that took place far from the US/Canadian border.

According to the Houston
Chronicle, “Since Jan. 1, there have been 20 murders in Nuevo Laredo, a city of
400,000 across the Rio Grande from Laredo. Along the whole of the border,
prosecutors say there have been more than 100 drug-related killings this year.”
Contraband related murders in the Mexican interior are simply too numerous to
count – even if one could find all of the bodies!)

“I think the southern border just
has the attention of the media, and with the northern border, people just assume
it is far more secure than it is,” said Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of
Washington, who, among others, is lobbying the Bush administration for more
agents on the Canadian border.

The drug-trafficking situation is
also one more potential strain on the already tense relationship between the
United States and Canada, its top trading partner, experts say. Canada, which is
debating decriminalizing personal marijuana use but is also considering stiffer
penalties for marijuana growers, tends to mete out much lighter sentences than
the United States courts for drug-related offenses, a situation that has
American law enforcement officials - and even Canada’s own police force -
increasingly frustrated.

Officials on both sides of the
border say that because Canada has tended not to pursue growers aggressively, it
is difficult to move up the chain and crack down on the larger criminal
organizations controlling the large-scale drug trafficking, although Canadian
prosecutors said they have recently been arresting and building more cases
against the higher-level criminals.

“The U.S. takes a sterner attitude
on these things - more of a prohibition mode,” said Christopher Sands, an expert
on Canada at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington,
D.C. “Our philosophies are out of whack, and this increased flow is freaking out
the Americans while the Canadians are more blasé.”

That could well change after
Thursday’s killings, said several officials, including Inspector
Nadeau.

Inspector
Nadeau, who said he was deeply frustrated by his own country’s greater
tolerance of drug crimes, said he thought the deaths on Thursday were already
sending an alarm throughout the country.

“Because of a tragedy we may
actually see people try and address the issue in an effective manner,” Inspector
Nadeau said.

Inspector
Nadeau said he was irked by what he cited as low rates of arrested marijuana
growers serving jail time. He said in 2004, only 8 percent of growers arrested
were ordered to jail, down from 19 percent in 1997. He was citing a statistics
gathered by the Canadian police, he said.
(MarijuanaNews note: In
Washington State only nine percent of first offender cultivation and delivery
convictions in state courts resulted in prison time. Larger growers end up in
Federal court and almost all serve several years, but they make up only a small
percentage of the total.)
See

Would BC Have Less Bud if It Had More Prisoners? Lying to Canadians To Support
the Cannabis Prohibition.

“The courts are lackadaisical,” he said. “I
think we’ve created a generation of homegrown criminal organizations involved in
this activity. They see themselves as untouchable.”

But Robert Prior, director of the
Canadian Department of Justice’s federal prosecution service for the British
Columbia Region, said the courts were taking the marijuana problem seriously and
that prosecutors were aggressively pursuing the larger organizations smuggling
both B.C. bud south and cocaine and guns into Canada. Still, he acknowledged
there were fundamental differences between judicial systems in the United States
and Canada.

“Canada
just has a different philosophical view to the use of jail than the United
States,” Mr. Prior said. “The only offense we are completely agreed on is
murder. Otherwise, it’s very different.”
(MarijuanaNews note: That
point might make an interesting story. Canada follows a more “European” approach
to sentencing, and tries to avoid prison for most non-violent first offenders,
which includes most of the smaller marijuana growers.

Of course, if the Times
reported that, it might have to mention that Canada has less than one fifth the
number of prisoners per capita than does the US, which leads the world in
prisoners. But reporting that fact might undermine support for the Drug War, and
the Times clearly does not want that!)

The major criminal organizations
moving the drugs and guns, law enforcement officials say, are outlaw motorcycle
gangs, particularly the Hells Angels, who have denied involvement but who law
enforcement officials say do everything from growing to smuggling the drugs.
Vietnamese and other Asian groups tend to specialize in growing, and
Indo-Canadians have a niche is transporting the drugs, according to Mr. Winchell,
of the United States Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency, and Inspector
Nadeau.

(MarijuanaNews note: That is
the sixth time she cited Nadeau. Was no one else at home in Canada?)

Canadians caught smuggling drugs
into the United States, many of them mules for the major Canadian criminal
organizations, are prosecuted and serve their sentences here. But typically
after a year they can request a return to Canada, and if the request is granted,
they may end up serving a much lighter sentence because of the differences in
the two countries’ drug penalties, said prosecutors on both sides of the border.
United States agents have complained that they see some of the same Canadian
smugglers soon after they were returned to Canada to face reduced sentences.

Meanwhile, in and around Blaine,
Border Patrol and other law enforcement agents are using every tool they have,
including motion detectors, giant X-ray machines and cameras placed around
easily crossed and unmanned border entries. The 32 cameras in the Blaine area,
beaming into a control room at Border Patrol headquarters in Blaine, alerted
technicians to a kayaker attempting to smuggle 104 pounds of B.C. bud in late
January.

It is, as the agents in Blaine
describe it, a constant game of cat and mouse with the smugglers, who have
lately taken to using BlackBerries and cellphone text messaging to transmit
information about drops and pickups. It is a constant race to stay one step
ahead, said Joseph W. Giuliano, deputy chief patrol agent for the Blaine sector
of the United States Border Patrol.

“Both of our jobs - the good guys
and the bad - is to stay one step ahead of the curve,” Mr. Giuliano said. “Just
as we’re doing our darndest to hold that position, they’re doing their best to
reacquire it.”

(MarijuanaNews note: This
article was cited in the Canadian Parliament as proof that Canada cannot even
decriminalize cannabis because of US opposition, “causing costly cross-border
delays.” Lies have consequences, which is why people lie. The New York Times should either start fact-checking its articles about cannabis, or start billing the Drug Czar’s office for its services. If it is going to cheat its readers, it should at least be honest with its shareholders.)
See

Lies Have Consequences: Police Targeted Anti-Prohibitionist Reporter Because
They Believed Lies Told By Their Superiors – Who Are Shocked, Of Course.

and

Lies Have Consequences. From Prohibitionist Venom to the Harsh Realities of Life
and Death for Patients. Swedish Prohibitionists, Canadian Bureaucracy and
DEAland Medical Murder.
and

Barbarism In New Zealand: Lies Have Consequences. Severely Handicapped Man Faces
Prison for Growing Seven Plants!
and

Marijuana Prohibition, Media Criticism, Copyrights and the 8th and 9th
Commandments.