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Jordainio
Jazz Drummer



Registered: 05/19/10
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DOJ OFFICIAL DRUG IMPRISONMENT and my RANT ON THEM! (neater edited)
#14730950 - 07/07/11 12:23 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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This was posted in response to another thread not directly related to politics, but more towards drug legalization. I edited my response a bit and wanted to re-post it here on the Shroomery just to spread the news. However I'd very much like to hear your thoughts, or if need be, I'm always up for debate! Continued from original post... SO friends for now, I'll just say thanks for posting, and maybe share some of my thoughts if more people REPLY. For the time being, consider this.......i was looking at the handy DOJ.gov (United States of America Department of Justice website) section on the agency of Federal Bureau of Prisons, so forgive me for posting this directly from that site (http://www.bop.gov/about/facts.jsp) as it may be slightly messy to read. Types of Offenses: Drug Offenses: 102,391 (50.8 %) Weapons, Explosives, Arson: 30,509 (15.1 %) Immigration: 23,918 (11.9 %) Robbery: 8,464 (4.2 %) Burglary, Larceny, Property Offenses: 7,017 (3.5 %) Extortion, Fraud, Bribery: 10,231 (5.1 %) Homicide, Aggravated Assault, and Kidnapping Offenses: 5,473 (2.7 %) Miscellaneous: 1,827 (0.9 %) Sex Offenses: 9,446 (4.7 %) Banking and Insurance, Counterfeit, Embezzlement: 898 (0.4 %) Courts or Corrections: 609 (0.3 %) Continuing Criminal Enterprise: 518 (0.3 %) National Security: 96 (0.0 %)
51 PERCENT OF CRIMES OUR TAXPAYER MONEY GOES TO ARE RELATED TO DRUGS, WHICH IF LEGALIZED NOT ONLY WOULD CREATE A MASSIVE REVENUE STREAM FROM THE TAXES IMPOSED ON THE SUBSTANCES, BUT WOULD LEAD TO DISINCORPORATION OF THE BLACK MARKET FOR THESE SUBSTANCES, MAKING THE PURITY OF THESE SUBSTANCES MUCH HIGHER. If a kid walks up to a MMJ pharmacist he can't get marijuana, but if he walks to a corner dealer, or even his big sister's high school, he could get it and it might laced with PCP! TALK ABOUT HARM REDUCTION, IF THE KIDS HAVE ACCESS TO MULTIPLE SOURCES OF INFORMATION and ACCESS TO DRUGS THEY KNOW THE DANGERS OF, they are less likely to do them just out of not hearing about them and being INTRODUCED BY PEERS WHO HAVE ALSO HAD THIS INFORMATION RESTRICTED FROM THEIR GRASP, as well INCOMPETENT DEALERS who continue to PROLIFERATE, as well as KEEP OLD TRADITIONS ALIVE regarding the extent and dissemination of disinformation into the general public. thank you FUCK! ... So much more i could say, and have already written in essay format too, but I'll just leave it at this for now unless any of you so desire to hear more of my thoughts. Also, to admin, please accept my apologies if you believe I have posted this in a wrong section of the forums. I am still getting the hang of things around here, but I can already tell it's such a great website and such a great way to share information I feel I want to share with my friends, and such a good resource to gain new insights from new friends! I have much knowledge of global politics as well as drugs and only want to learn more in hopes of someday changing the direction the international neoconservative shadow governments are taking the world, changing drug laws, anything else I have interest and knowledge about and so naively feel I could have a 1% chance at being a part of changing! These forums are the discussion that is needed between peers in order to dispel disinformation, or at least showcase all available opinions and get people to actually take any real action to change the things we discuss of having a need for change! I am very grateful (and lucky) to have access to this type of worldwide communication and I feel everyone else should be thankful too and really look in to utilizing it by whatever means, whether internally to challenge your own possibly false pretenses, or externally to challenge SOCIETY'S FALSE PRETENSES!!! thank ya'll very much for your interest.
Edited by Jordainio (07/07/11 10:10 PM)
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Re: LOOK DOJ OFFICIAL DRUG IMPRISONMENT and my RANT ON THEM! [Re: Jordainio]
#14731641 - 07/07/11 02:55 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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You're pretty much preaching to the choir. Go check out the news section. There's a constant flow of articles and information criticizing the continuation of the drug war and the prohibition of certain psychoactive substances.
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mianfei
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Re: DOJ OFFICIAL DRUG IMPRISONMENT and my RANT ON THEM! (neater edited) [Re: Jordainio]
#14735185 - 07/08/11 07:54 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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You are certainly preaching to the choir about the issue of psychedelic drugs, which my mother is very critical of even though she also believes that making drugs like LSD legal could easily help with the problem of crime.
The thing to do is to publicise your statistics, which really do surprise me. Half of all prisoners being in jail because of breaching laws relating to illegal drugs is most definitely not what I would have expected, and if anything people who go to jail for high-profile murder or manslaughter charges seem to be of a higher profile at least in my Australian homeland. Even smuggling of LSD and psilocybin mushrooms is never in the news here, and only very recently have I seen anything relating to the latter on the web.
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Jordainio
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Re: DOJ OFFICIAL DRUG IMPRISONMENT and my RANT ON THEM! (neater edited) [Re: mianfei]
#14735997 - 07/08/11 12:05 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanks for the replies so far!!! And DUDE!!!! @mianfei, Like I said, I am starting to utilize the power of people like you who also want to discuss these things, and be surprised by these things. But only starting. I feel I have to be cautious, as I read more and more about DEA monitoring drug websites (Microgram magazine thread somewhere on this site talks about DEA spying on ip addresses). U.S. only talks about things when they want to scare people, I believe, and WOW do they have people scared. Fear is everywhere here. American flags are every-fucking-where here. Large sections of the 9-11 commission report are blank, thermite bomb traces were found all over the World Trade Center wreckage...yet everyone is held in contempt of terrorist threats by some third world countries that we could easily nuke off the face of the planet. And i say that NOT in a racist sense, but rather in a "USA has spent literally trillions of dollars each YEAR on the war on terror, and yet the middle east is basically still the Ottoman Empire" sense. We're building the most permanent military bases over there, and our president DID lie to us saying he will remove troops. After he was elected he SENT IN MORE?! Just to fight these (what I full-heartedly believe are) make-believe Al-Qaeda forces or other "terrorist threats" that, as you can see, as anyone else that looks at my thread here can see, aren't even what the internal operations of this government are concerned with! We are fighting a war against imaginary forces with BLOOD, that is a quest for resource control of OIL. AND , we are waging a war on PERSONAL LIBERTY and killin our own WHILE dehumanizing, mass-media demonizing them for just using a substance. Giving people boy scouts and church and taking away freedom of spirituality, "spectrum" of spirituality as I'd call it. These young men and women shouldn't be killing other spiritual beings somewhere far from the sight of American citizens. I see no war, no terrorists except our own leaders, but I do step out my house and see crack dealers, people DO die in the streets in my hood with needles still in their arms. And the war on drugs obviously ain't workin it's intended purpose either, now is it?! GEEZ I'm Australian too! and have wanted to go there my whole life. Recently, a bunch of my friends and family moved back there, mostly around Queensland / South Wales area. Everyone in my family always says "Oh yeah, come down and visit!" I want to so bad, but can't pay for the airfare. Everyone says healthcare is awesome, the beer is awesome, the golf is awesome which sounds, well, awesome. I really would like to live there and work on a farm or something. How are you doing in the drought? Is it still bad there? You painted a picture of not much talk about drugs though? (I want to farm some weed down there haha...) I'd be interested to hear more about what you perceive there in comparison to what I've ranted on here. If I offend anyone, then I am sorry. My favorite cousin is currently serving in the Marines and I DO support them, but not in these kinds of situations. He didn't make the choice to go fight over there, he was sent there after our "leaders" chose for him. He should be defending ME from our own neoconservative leaders' TYRANNY!
-------------------- Also, if anyone is selling cymbals or drum equipment, email me right now! <span class="spoiler" onmouseover="this.className='nospoiler'" onmouseout="this.className='spoiler'">Distant and unimagined realms lie hidden all around us. Not only do we deny things that we CAN see, but many many more that we do not. We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively hahahaha, P4N3D!!!!!1!
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