The House I Live In. Cannot wait to see this movie on the failed drug war.

[Django]

We have'nt seen a good movie on the failed drug war since maybe Traffick or the HBO series The Wire. Im cant wait to see this but cant find it showing anywhere around here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...usaolp00000009

Make sure to watch the trailer at the bottom of the page. Finally a movie that exposes the penal system for what it currently is, a cash machine at the expense of mostly the poor.

[Jimaz]

TheHouseILiveIn.org

[Jimaz]

Amy Goodman interviews the director.

[Jimaz]

Is The War on Drugs "All About the Money"?

Stephen Downing, a retired deputy chief of police for the Los Angeles Police Department and Terry Nelson, retired from Department of Homeland Security on why they support treating addiction as a health problem and are for the total legalization of drugs.

[Jimaz]

Total duration 58 minutes:

Attachment 17639
Breaking The Taboo - Film

Narrated by Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman, "Breaking the Taboo" is produced by Sam Branson's indie Sundog Pictures and Brazilian co-production partner Spray Filmes and was directed by Cosmo Feilding Mellen and Fernando Grostein Andrade. Featuring interviews with several current or former presidents from around the world, such as Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo over the United States led War on Drugs and expose what it calls the biggest failure of global policy in the last 40 years.

• The Trailer
• Supporters
• youtube.com/breakingthetaboofilm
• www.breakingthetaboo.com

[Django]

Just watched that whole piece Jimaz, thank you. That was a must see.

I loved Clintons quote "Dont be drug frr because its illegal, be drug free because its the key to your freedom, the key to your future" How true.

I also noticed the REAL Fran being interviewed from the David Simon HBO series The Corner about Baltimore's drug trade, a precursor to The Wire.

[theklep]

Great film. The cost of this war is way more than most old school conservatives are willing to see. Thanks for sharing.

[Jimaz]

Total duration 44 minutes:

Posted because we're all half-Canadian here anyway.

The Prince Of Pot [[Complete)

On July 29, 2005, Canadian police, acting on a request from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration [[DEA), simultaneously raided the BC Marijuana Party Bookstore and Headquarters in Vancouver and arrested Emery for extradition to the United States outside a local storefront in the community of Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia where he was attending a HempFest.

American authorities charged Emery and co-defendants Gregory Keith Williams, 50, of Vancouver, BC and Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek, 34, of Vancouver, BC with "'Conspiracy to Distribute Marijuana", "Conspiracy to Distribute Marijuana Seeds" and "Conspiracy to Engage in Money Laundering". Even though all the alleged offenses occurred in Canada, Canadian police did not lay any charges.

The day of Emery's arrest, American DEA Administrator Karen Tandy admitted reasons behind the arrest were politically motivated by releasing the following statement, which praised blows dealt to the legalization movement: Today's DEA arrest of Marc Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine, and the founder of a marijuana legalization group -- is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement. His marijuana trade and propagandist marijuana magazine have generated nearly $5 million a year in profits that bolstered his trafficking efforts, but those have gone up in smoke today. Emery and his organization had been designated as one of the Attorney General's most wanted international drug trafficking organizational targets -- one of only 46 in the world and the only one from Canada. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada. Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on.

Emery was freed on a $50,000 bail and prepared to fight extradition in the courts.

Emery and his two associates, all charged in the United States with drug and money laundering offences, each faced a minimum 10-year sentence and the possibility of life imprisonment if convicted there.

On January 14, 2008, Emery had agreed to a tentative plea-bargain with U.S. authorities. The terms of the agreement were a 5-year prison term to be served in both Canadian and U.S. prisons. In return, he demanded the charges against his friends Michelle Rainey and Greg Williams be dropped.

[[An appeal court judge ruled on March 7, 2008 in a similar case that a one-month jail sentence and probation constituted an adequate sentence for the crime of marijuana seed selling in Canada. This could possibly have been used to Emery's advantage in his fight against extradition.

On March 27, 2008 the plea-bargain deal collapsed because of the refusal of the Canadian Conservative government to approve its side of the arrangement.

In late 2008, an extradition hearing was scheduled for June, 2009. However, before those hearings Emery agreed to plead guilty to one charge of drug distribution and accept a five-year sentence in the USA.

On September 21, 2009, Emery entered his guilty plea, and on September 28, he was incarcerated in a British Columbia prison awaiting extradition to a US federal prison to serve the five year sentence. There is a 30 day appeal period before extradition.

Emery was granted bail on November 18, after seven weeks in the pre-trial centre, to await the Justice Minister's decision on the extradition order.

While Emery was imprisoned, his supporters held a permanent vigil outside the prison with tents and banners for 45 days, ending when Emery was released on bail.

On September 10, 2010, Emery was sentenced to 5 years in prison minus time served.

Until April 2011 Emery was held by the Federal Bureau of Prisons at the D. Ray James Correctional Institution in Folkston, Georgia.

On April 20, 2011, Emery was transferred to Yazoo City Prison in Mississippi.

Did Marc Scott Emery successfully seed the entire medical marijuana movement?

But still, how can any person face life for selling marijuana seeds? Well, in The United States, federal sentances for pot are based on the amounts involved. One marijuana seed is considered equal to one plant. 100 plants equals a prison sentence of five to forty years. 1000 plants: ten years to life, all without parole....

[Jimaz]

From today's Free Press: CNN's Sanjay Gupta explains change of heart on medical marijuana

CNN’s top medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, says he was wrong in opposing the medical use of marijuana in the past, and he now believes the drug can have real benefits for people with specific health problems....
... Gupta said Friday that he too easily associated marijuana with “malingerers that just wanted to get high.”...

Most of the marijuana research done in the U.S. is about what harm the drug could do. He said he has found more research overseas that discusses the medical benefits.

“We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that,” he wrote.

Why I changed my mind on weed

Watch Dr. Sanjay Gupta's groundbreaking documentary "WEED" at 8 p.m. ET August 11 on CNN.

I think the momentum of this issue is clear now.

Dr. Gupta doesn't emphasize it but what he wrote illuminates another glaring problem. The continuing concentration of media ownership into ever fewer hands in the U.S. skews what information is available to consumers and even medical professionals.

When even medical professionals are mislead by the media into stances that they must later recant, some correction is clearly in order.

We need to fix that.

[Django]

Marijuana legalization a no brainer and I think that movements momentum reached all it needed some time ago. Im honestly sick of reading about how we should be legalizing weed when we should be talking about ending the entire war on drugs. After 40 years I believe its known that no one will ever eradicate drugs and that more prisons are not the answer.

[Honky Tonk]

Marijuana legalization a no brainer and I think that movements momentum reached all it needed some time ago. Im honestly sick of reading about how we should be legalizing weed when we should be talking about ending the entire war on drugs. After 40 years I believe its known that no one will ever eradicate drugs and that more prisons are not the answer.

They are if you're one of the "prison privatization firms"......

[JBMcB]

They are if you're one of the "prison privatization firms"......

Or corrections officer unions.

[Django]

Or the hundreds of companies that use the cheap prison labor they provide such as Victorias Secret to name just one. Its odd because the US refuses to buy goods from China thats made from their prison labor.

[Django]

Heres a list of companies that use or invest in prison labor.

BANKS: American General Financial Group, American Express Company, Bank of America, Community Financial Services Corporation, Credit Card Coalition, Credit Union National Association, Inc., Fidelity Inestments, Harris Trust & Savings Bank, Household International, LaSalle National Bank, J.P. Morgan & Company, Non-Bank Funds Transmitters Group
ENERGY PRODUCERS/OIL: American Petroleum Institute, Amoco Corporation, ARCO, BP America, Inc., Caltex Petroleum, Chevron Corporation, ExxonMobil Corporation, Mobil Oil Corporation, Phillips Petroleum Company.
ENERGY PRODUCERS/UTILITIES: American Electric Power Association, American Gas Association, Center for Energy and Economic Development, Commonwealth Edison Company, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Edison Electric Institute, Independent Power Producers of New York, Koch Industries, Inc., Mid-American Energy Company, Natural Gas Supply Association, PG&E Corporation/PG&E National Energy Group, U.S. Generating Company.
INSURANCE: Alliance of American Insurers, Allstate Insurance Company, American Council of Life Insurance, American Insurance Association, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Corporation, Coalition for Asbestos Justice, [[This organization was formed in October 2000 to explore new judicial approaches to asbestos litigation." Its members include ACE-USA, Chubb & Son, CNA service mark companies, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., Kemper Insurance Companies, Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, and St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company. Counsel to the coalition is Victor E. Schwartz of the law firm of Crowell & Moring in Washington, D.C., a longtime ALEC ally.)
Fortis Health, GEICO, Golden Rule Insurance Company, Guarantee Trust Life Insurance, MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company, National Association of Independent Insurers, Nationwide Insurance/National Financial, State Farm Insurance Companies, Wausau Insurance Companies, Zurich Insurance.
PHARMACEUTICALS: Abbott Laboratories, Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Bayer Corporation, Eli Lilly & Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Glaxo Wellcome, Inc., Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc., Merck & Company, Inc., Pfizer, Inc., Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of
America [[PhRMA), Pharmacia Corporation, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Inc., Schering-Plough Corporation, Smith, Kline & French, WYETH, a division of American Home Products Corporation.
MANUFACTURING:American Plastics Council, Archer Daniels Midland Corporation, AutoZone, Inc. [[aftermarket automotive parts), Cargill, Inc., Caterpillar, Inc., Chlorine Chemistry Council, Deere & Company, Fruit of the Loom, Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inland Steel Industries, Inc., International Game Technology, International Paper, Johnson & Johnson, Keystone Automotive Industries, Motorola, Inc., Procter & Gamble, Sara Lee Corporation.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS: AT&T, Ameritech, BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc., GTE Corporation, MCI, National Cable and Telecommunications Association, SBC Communications, Inc., Sprint, UST Public Affairs, Inc., Verizon Communications, Inc.
TRANSPORTATION: Air Transport Association of America, American Trucking Association, The Boeing Company, United Airlines, United Parcel Service [[UPS).
OTHER U.S. COMPANIES: Amway Corporation, Cabot Sedgewick, Cendant Corporation, Corrections Corporation of America, Dresser Industries, Federated Department Stores, International Gold Corporation, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Microsoft Corporation, Newmont Mining Corporation, Quaker Oats, Sears, Roebuck & Company, Service Corporation International, Taxpayers Network, Inc., Turner Construction, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
ORGANIZATIONS/ASSOCIATIONS: Adolph Coors Foundation, Ameritech Foundation, Bell & Howell Foundation, Carthage Foundation, Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, ELW Foundation, Grocery Manufacturers of America, Heartland Institute of Chicago, The Heritage Foundation, Iowans for Tax Relief, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee, National Pork Producers Association, National Rifle Association, Olin Foundation, Roe Foundation, Scaiffe Foundation, Shell Oil Company Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, Steel Recycling Institute, Tax Education Support Organization, Texas Educational Foundation, UPS Foundation.

[Jimaz]

Watch Dr. Sanjay Gupta's groundbreaking documentary "WEED" at 8 p.m. ET August 11 on CNN.

This documentary is starting now on CNN [[channel 40 on our Comcast).

[Django]

Why did it take Gupta so long to realize marijuana is a legit medicine? He stinks of being told what to do. Im glad he's finally standing up for what is obviously right but I cannot help but think he had some big pharma ppl telling him what to say.

[tponetom]

I just ran across this post this morning. I smiled a little, thinking, “everything that goes around, comes around.” Briefly, “The House I Live In,” was a ten minute movie starring Frank Sinatra, in 1945. The movie was a showcase for the title song. The song was a patriotic blast at racism that left many of us with blurry eyes, if not tears. Sinatra would never stand for racism or drugs. The Movie:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hou...[[1945_film)The lyrics:http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.n...25691F0008BF7C