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Alan Rockefeller
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Nebraska may criminalize Salvia divinorum
#7866106 - 01/11/08 05:29 PM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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Source: http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/518/nebraska_attorney_general_seeks_to_ban_salvia_divinorum
If state Attorney General Jon Bruning has his way, Nebraska will soon join the short list of states that have criminalized the sale and possession of salvia divinorum. In a Monday press release setting his key legislative priorities, Bruning announced that banning salvia was one of his top three. (The other two were eliminating intoxication as a defense in considering the mental state of a defendant and moving against certain types of scam artists.)
The DEA has had the drug under consideration for several years, but has yet to announce any plans to move it under the rubric of the Controlled Substances Act. Several states, most recently Illinois, and a handful of local municipalities, have banned it.
It is time that Nebraska joined that group, Bruning said. "Salvia is a powerful hallucinogen that can be purchased legally. This legislation will make it illegal and put it on par with other powerful drugs like peyote, psychedelic mushrooms and LSD," said Attorney General Bruning. "Several other states have already made salvia illegal. It's time to add Nebraska to the list."
In the measure he describes as "protecting Nebraska kids," Bruning would submit them -- and Nebraska adults -- to up to five years in prison for possessing the plant, and to 20 years for selling it.
"Videos of teens using this common plant to get high have become an internet sensation," said Sen. Vickie McDonald of St. Paul, who will sponsor the legislation. "Nebraska needs to classify salvia divinorum and its active ingredient, salvinorin A, as a controlled substance in order to protect our children from a drug being portrayed as harmless when it's not."
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Yet another brilliant plan to protect our kids by locking them up.
Nebraska residents, I recommend that you call Sen. Vickie McDonald and let her know that its a bad idea.
Her office phone number is (402) 471-2631
If you are in the Lincoln area you could schedule a 15 minute meeting with her and see if she will listen to reason.
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PoisonedV
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Re: Nebraska may criminalize Salvia divinorum [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#7866181 - 01/11/08 05:44 PM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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fuck da cops
Seriously though, it illinois its already illegal and I don't have any 'shady shroomery connections' to get some salvia, which would be suspicious anyway. The main problem with getting it or spreading it is the fact that there are no seeds.
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Nebraska may criminalize Salvia divinorum [Re: PoisonedV]
#7866688 - 01/11/08 08:25 PM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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> fuck da cops
from Drug War Chronicle, Issue #518, 1/11/08
Thanks to funding provided in the 2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act, passed last month by Congress, the DEA will be able to lift a hiring freeze in place since August 2006, the agency announced late last month. The new funds will allow the agency to hire 200 new agents, as well as a similar number of support staff.
"This is an important and most welcome development," Leonhart said. "With this much-needed funding, DEA will be able to fill 200 Special Agent positions, as well as many vacant Intelligence Analyst and critical support positions. This legislation sends a strong and encouraging message to all of us at DEA as we continue our worldwide drug law enforcement mission."
According to the most recent DEA staffing figures, the agency employee 5,230 agents and 5,571 support staff, an all-time high. In 1972, the agency's first year, it had 1,470 agents and a budget of $65 million. The current annual budget is more than $2 billion.
--- This was a surprise to me and certainly an unwelcome turn of events. I wonder who wrote the 2008 consolidated appropriations act, and why they decided to waste our money in this most unfortunate way.
It might make you feel better to call your senators and ask them to de-fund the dea, but that may not always be effective.
I guess we need to watch the appropriations more carefully so shroomery members can help improve it before it becomes law.
> Seriously though, it illinois its already illegal and I don't have any 'shady shroomery connections' to get some salvia, which would be suspicious anyway.
You don't really need any salvia, it just makes you feel weird.
> The main problem with getting it or spreading it is the fact that there are no seeds.
My salvia plant fell down the stairs in 2001 and broke into 13 peices.
A few weeks after that, I had 13 salvia plants. They grow really well from cuttings. That year my salvia plant even flowered, it was the most unexpected and beautiful thing.
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