Breaking News: Rep. Barney Frank and NORML Team Up on Federal Decriminalization Legislation
Posted by Ron Fisher to Legalize It - The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws March 24 10:39pm
US Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) has announced that he will shortly
introduce legislation in Congress to strip the federal government of
its authority to arrest responsible cannabis consumers. Representative
Frank made the announcement Friday on the nationally syndicated
television show, "Real Time With Bill Maher."
heres a link:
http://blog.norml.org/2008/03/24/norml-partners-with-rep-barney-frank-d-ma-to-introduce-federal-decriminalization-legislation/
“It's time for the politicians to catch up with the public on this
[issue],” Frank said. "The notion that you lock people up for smoking
marijuana is pretty silly."
Frank's pending bill seeks to eliminate all federal penalties
prohibiting the personal use and possession of up to 100 grams (3 1/2
ounces) of marijuana. Under this measure, adults who consume cannabis
would no longer face arrest, prison, or even the threat of a civil
fine. The bill also eliminates all penalties prohibiting the
not-for-profit transfers of up to one ounce of pot.
NORML Legal Counsel Keith Stroup, who worked closely with Frank's staff
to draft this legislation, said, "If passed by Congress, this
legislation would legalize the possession, use, and non-profit transfer
of marijuana by adults for the first time since 1937." The bill
incorporates the basic recommendation of the National Commission on
Marijuana and Drug Abuse (also known as the Shafer Commission).
Currently, 12 states have enacted various versions of marijuana
decriminalization, eliminating criminal penalties for minor pot
violations. Passage of these laws has not led to increased marijuana
use.
In fact, the only U.S. government study ever commissioned to assess
whether the enforcement of strict legal penalties positively impacts
marijuana use found, "Overall, the preponderance of the evidence which
we have gathered and examined points to the conclusion that
decriminalization has had virtually no effect either on the marijuana
use or on related attitudes and beliefs about marijuana use among
American young people."
Similar statewide legislation is pending in New Hampshire and Vermont.
Additionally, Massachusetts voters will decide on a statewide
decriminalization measure this November.
According to a nationwide CNN/Time Magazine poll, more than three-quarters of American adults favor decriminalizing marijuana.
Alerts will be posted to this page and www.norml.org once this bill is
assigned a bill # and committee so that folks can contact their
representative urging support of this bill.
For more information, please contact Keith Stroup, NORML Legal Counsel, at (202) 483-5500.
http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7561
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Yeah ill admit it like the rest of you, i miss the fun we had on this site. chat definately needs to be brought back, i think theres a conspiracy by the admins to keep chat closed so we didnt raise so many issues with them, i bet theyre much happier without us haha. Anyways, unless someone else starts up a chat site for all of us(cough nick cough) i plan on just poppin onto stickam every so often. for those of you who are dumb and/or out of the loop, the website for stickam is:
http://www.stickam.com
Amazing i know, i never wouldve guessed that was the URL. Go figure. Leave comment love bitches!
so i was listening to the radio a couple day ago and they wee talking about some wierd statistics released by some study group at some college for way more money then they deserve. anyways the statistics they found were that a woman is more like to die in an auto accident than she is to contract HIV or AIDs after 5000 orgies, assuming of course your not from a third world country or whatever. five thousand orgies. the odds of dying in car crash is 1 in 10, vs the odds of contracting hiv is 1 in 5000.
so.... orgy anyone?
this is why snowboarders are the best boyfriends and girlfriends to have.
1. We know how to take pain.
2. We know lots of diffeent tricks.
3. We love to be on top.
4. We have great balance.
5. We dont mind getting sweaty.
6. We can keep doing it for hours.
7. We prefer to stay standing.
8. We ride what's under us.
9. We dont "play" anything.
10. We can go all day and night.
11. We just straight up love to f*ck.
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
TIME FOR RESULTS!!!!!!!
IN 5TH PLACE: Mel with 35 points!!
IN 4TH PLACE: Lisa with 37 points!!
IN 3RD PLACE: Lexy with 40 points!!
IN 2ND PLACE: Whit with 43 points!!
AND THE WINNER IS.....
*drumroll*
BECKA!!!!!!! with a bone crushing 73 points!!!!
good job ladies, but we all know youre all hot (except the person who got negatives. haha jk)
Saturday, January 20, 2007
I think a question that comes to everyones mind is... Who is THE hottest girl on snowboard.com? So, we're going to have a poll! We've picked the most obvious contenders to throw into this little revenge. Should the off chance happen that we missed someone, feel free to nominate them. You have TWO weeks to vote. At the end,the votes will be tallied and the winner will be announced! There may or may not be a prize... funds permitting. ENJOY!!!And the Nominees Are: (in no particular order)
To vote, comment on this blog and pick your top 5 choices and order them!
Click the link to see their profiles, and then post a comment here to vote. Girls... whose the bitch now??
The title says it all. And here you all thought i wrote a blog... pfft who do i look like, kara?
Monday, December 11, 2006
women have all the power, you know why? because women have all the vaginas. and the vaginas like its own little person isnt it? it has a time of the month like it works for the government and everything effects it like the moon, the tide, kittens, balloon rides and dave mathews in concert. What really effects the penis? Whiskey and pepper spray. thats about it.
10 ways to maintain a Healthy level of Insanity!
#1 At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
#2 Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
#3 Everytime someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
#4 When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling "Run for your lives, they're loose!!!
#5 Specify that your driver-through order is "To Go."
#6 Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
#7 Put mosquito netting around your work area and play tropical sounds all day.
#8 When the money comes out the ATM, scream "I Won! I Won!!!"
#9 As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
#10 Order diet water with a serious face, whenever you go out to eat
Saturday, September 23, 2006
BushyV1: when asked if hed f*ck boadrer chick, ron jeremy replied "im not into beastiality"
sleepingsouls: lol
sleepingsouls: HAHAHAHAHA
sleepingsouls: kyle that is a why i am your groupie
carter686: wow hostile tonite
carter686: sheesh
BushyV1: i rock at life
Saturday, September 09, 2006
so today i see the following things said and chat and the disgust it caused in my was unmeasureable.
shredder_chika: hey pc i have a pretty big bump on my head from wen i fell off my chair
shredder_chika: lol
PCSNOW: i am sooo bored right now that i am typing really fast and cannot stop
Does the stupidity of these 2 people, who i assume are from either canada or america, where you can get some of the best educations in the world FOR FREE(minus tax bullshi*t), really show the loss of sense society is going through? Do people feel that because they are on a computer connected to the internet that they think nobody can touch them as long as they hide behind their screen name and privacy laws? How f*cking retarded are we going to get but someone steps up and say "Duurrr somethings wrong here" well no f*cking shi*t sherlock, maybe we should have thought that when we put a second bush in office. Or maybe when the oil companies aremaking obscene amounts of profit on gasoline by charging 3 bucks a gallon. So many of the people across the internet today are the future of the world, and this is what they sound like when hiding behind a computer screen? If im running a buisness one day and every email i get is written "w!Th w0Rd$ L!k3 tHI$", heads are going to roll, and then i get sued for poor buisness practice because politics say oh well your discriminating them because they do soemthing different. NO f*ck heads im discriminating them because theyre DUR MORONS. Jesus christ people, pull your heads out of your asses already so i can stick my foot up there.
Nothing illustrates americas hypocritical drug policy more then las vegas. A cop there once told me If you get caught with any amount of illegal drug in las vegas you could either be heavily fined or do up to four years in prison. And i was like but isnt this vegas where gambling is legal? Yeah lose your car your house your life savings, go for it. And you can drink here too right all night long? Yeah its free drink till you puke we dont care. What if i get horny? GET A HOOKER. Just whatever you do dont go to your room by yourself, smoke a joint, eat a snickers and go to bed without bothering anyone.
You see son we're trying to clean up las vegas. We're trying to make it safe for the drunks who wanna gamble and f*ck whores all night.
Man, those drunken whore f*ckers got some nerve.....
Ok so tonight i was going to see pirates of the carribean with sean and rob. On our way there we were smoking some weed out of a bowl, and we were following this boat in fron of us getting towed by some car for like 3 miles. so we come up to this intersection and as we start to stop we go around a slight curve, and we realize the car in front of us is a sherrif and hes the one thats been pulling the boat!! Sean and i are like oh f*ck rob put the bowl down..... the cop turns right, we crank it left and haul ass away from him.
So we head down to fulton, one of the more major roads in the area, and were smoking again and about a quarter mile ahead of us we spot another sherrif turning around in some business driveway, were like oh he must be after someone for speeding, and he crosses the merridian, and as we go by he pulls out behind us and starts to follow us. The three of us are like shi*t and we turn off on some road to let the cop go by. We take some back roads and we come back out to fulton, smoking again, and as we come around the corner the sherrif is there waiting for us, right as sean is hitting the bowl. We take off down fulton and he starts tailing us again, and we get up towards the firestation, and take off down another side road again to see if he follows.
He does, so we head down that road a little ways and he eventually turns his lights on and pulls sean over. Sean and i quick hide everything out of plain sight, because in michigan law says if its not in plain sight the cops cant search the car, so we hide everything and sean gets out all his info before we get puled over so we dont have to open anything up. The cop comes over and takes seans info, telling us that seans window tint is illegal. Sean plays dumb and the cop walks back to his cruiser. He comes back a minute later and takes my ID and robs ID too, and asks if we have any dope in the car. Seans like no we have nothing..... on second thought i do have a few un opened beers in here, so the cop takes a look at that stuff, but theres nothing illegal about it, so he lets it go, and asks about us having weed again. sean denies, and the cop says im lenient but i ont like being lied to.... so sean gave ina nd said he had maybe an eighth, when really we had maybe a half ounce.
So the cop takes sean out of the car and takes him back to the cruiser, and starts patting him down, puts him in the back of the cruiser, and starts interrogating him. Comes back about 10 minutes later, by this time robs crying in the backseat thinking his career is over and were going to get arrested. I'm like fack this sucks, and tells us to get out of the car. rob and i get out and the cop starts searching seans car.
Now seans car is a goldmine for any cop looking to get some punks into trouble. he had a fully packed bowl hiddenin there, a 5 inch illegal boot knife in the glove box, a bat, metal edged knunchucks, knives, lighters, rolling papers, etc, and the cop only found a few things, like a bat, lighters, rolling papers, and a couple other things. Nothing serious.
So the cop takes sean out of the cruiser, lines us all up, and asks us why he should think were all good guys. we start explaining our records and whatnot, so he gives the bag of weed back to sean, which sean and i thought he was like seriously giving the weed back to us, but then he says what are you guys going to do with this stuff? so we dump it out and he tells us to spread it out so he cant see anything, so we start kicking the grass all around and he tells us we all looked like a bunch of dancing indians.
The cop then lines us up again and tells us if were going to smoke, at least dont drive with it and smoke i while driving. do what we want at egypt valley(where sean and i work) or whatever, but not in the car, and then he let us go with warnings and we went to our movie.
Afterwards we drove home and smoked again once we got on backroads. Total morons, i know.
lets see.... beer, weed, beer pong, beer pong, beer pong, beer, weed, beer, screwdrivers, beer, beer pong with screwdriver, beer bong, beer, beer, drive sean home, drive back to another bonfire, beer, weed, weed, weed, beer, weed, go inside to crash, weed, weed, weed, make out, sex, weed, weed, sex, weed weed weed till about 3:30 in the afternoon, drive home, shower, go to work at 5, not sober again till about 9 pm, 24 hours later.
first a little backstory: my friend kyle and i smoked weed monday
ngiht, at kyles encouragement, ebfore he went home, his mom smelt it on
him, and his parents now know he smokes weed, and that he smokes weed
with me. Kyles dad is a loose cannon who can down 40+ beers in a day to
himself.
and now for the days events. I went to kyles graduation party today at
2 oclock, and when i got there i know his parents saw me, but they
didnt pay attention to my presence at first sight. fine with me. but on
my way back to sitting down with my second plate of pig roast and
potatoes, kyles dad stops me and says only loud enough so him and i can
hear, he says "i want you to know that if you ever get my kid high
again, im going to break both your legs. are we clear about that?" i
mad eit clear that we were perfectly clear, and i went to finish my
pork.
later on, i found myself standing in a group of maybe 8 or 9 people,
all gawking at the harleys lined up in the yard, when kyle sdad comes
up saying hes got a bunch of biker friends, about a dozen, coming to
the party. relevence? kyles dad tells me that hes got biker buddies,
and they kick peoples asses for fun(true story), and that theyre all
unhappy with me for getting his kid stoned, and that he could have them
all kick my ass if needed, all for getting his kid stoned.
add to that kyles sisters fiance, john, who is has currently spent 2
years in iraq jumping out of planes for the army, and is currently
signed up to go abck for 2 mor eyears, also wants to kick my ass for
"getting kyle high"(once again, he also doesnt know it was kyle that
wanted to smoke). so thats 1 pisse doff drunken dad, 12 pissed off
members of a biker gang, and 1 army soldier. life so far, is grand.
later on, i find myself once agian in a group of maybe 15-20 people,
kyles dad the center of drunken attention, talking about the hunting
knife hes going to take with him to sturgis for their harley trip in
the summer. so kyles dad tells kieth, kyles little brother, half
drunkenly joking to go get his hunting knife. now, this is no simple
swiss army knife. this is a machine sharpened 12 inch hunting knife
thatll cut your bones in half if needed. kieth actually goes and gets
the knife, being the f*cktard that he is, gives it to kyles dad, who
turns and starts waving it in my direction.
at this point everyone around me backs away about 5 feet, while i stand
my ground and have kyles dad threaten my nutsack and general well
being, asking how much i want to have children. at this point, bill,
one of our incredibly genius friends, decides to say to kyles dad that
i was talking shi*t about him when his abck was turned. thanks a f*cking
lot cock boy. kyles dad gets about 5 inches from my face, knife in
hand, asking if i am talking shi*t. i never flinched, instead convincing
him bill was the one talking shi*t. knife gets put away, party goes on.
at this point the sun has gone down, the beer count has gone above 40
for kyles dad, and were all standing around the fire as shooting guns
comes up as the topic. kyle asks his dad if theres anything he wants to
shoot, besides the stupid neighbors, at which he responds, "yeah id
like to shoot bush but he left a while ago". then we all bring it to
his attention that im still there, well within earshot, and i smile and
wave to his dad, and the conversation ends there.
10:30 pm, i finally leave the party, all limbs in check, with a 100
dollar bet against kyles uncle that i can go a whole year without
smoking anything, and a 50 dollar bonus if i catch kyle smoking weed
and punch him the face and/or nuts. drinking is okay, but until june
3rd 2007, i am to be clean.
So i was at wendys monday after Kyle and i went golfing, and as i drove up to the building, i thought to myself, i think ill go through the drive through, because it is convenient, and speedy. And i was high as shi*t so i wanted a little human contact as possible. All i wanted were my chicken nuggets, jr bacon chee, my hot tasty french fries, and a mountain dew. As i ordered my mountain dew, the person that was running the drive through failed to say "would you like thta biggie sized?" now you may ask so what? just ask for it. well heres the thing. people are so used to having the question asked to them, i believe the human brain has been accustomed to the question "would you like it biggie sized?" so much that when they are not asked for the opportunity, they dont know to ask for it. they dont know..... they just dont know. now i ask myself what if i wanted my drink biggie sized? i was suddenly lost in perilous thoughts of what if? what if i wanted a biggie sized mountain dew? i was now forever lost for this one moment of wendys deliscious food with a biggie sized drink. I wouldnt want a small flacid large drink. i couldnt take that at all. that amount of liquid could not possibly satisfy the amount of food i had to the personal food/drink combo. you always need a certain amount to drink when you eat a certain amount of food. its like common unwirtten law. sometimes when your eating you short self some liquid refreshment, and then you have to go get more. sometimes you give yourself too much, and then your left at the dinner table with a clean plate and a drink still half full and you think to yourself f*ck now i cant get up because i didnt drink my MILK. why did i give myself so much?this isnt a social table, where we sit around and have drinks and talk. this is the dinner table with food... and other things. so then your stuck there and your looking at your overfull drink and your like "i dont want to chug that... thats too much.... and what if i drink it too fast? will everyone think i want to get away form them all? look at mom... shes only halfway done with her meatloaf.... and here i am completely finished. look at my little brother.... hes almost done... btu he has less milk... hes going to finish before me, and then he can excuse himself first. maybe i can get up with him and leave the table at the same time.
so i realized that the guy at the window at wendys made a grave error of not asking if i wanted it biggie sized, even though i didnt, a |
