As someone who’s watched the long drama of the drug war for over 27 years, I can’t help but feel the time is getting near… the end of this fiasco is in sight.
The last push to end this unjust, immoral and racist prohibition of marijuana is upon us, and I hear the voice of freedom saying “How Long? Not Long!” I hope I’m not too optimistic in saying, “This is the year we legalize it…”
This sound collage is dedicated to three medical marijuana activists – Charles “Chuck” Witt, Jack Herer and Josh Howard (the heart and soul of our medical marijuana collective – AAC, Apothecary’s Assistant’s Collective in Long Beach, California)
Who’s In This Mix?
In this mix you’ll hear expert advice on the meaning of 420, how to smoke a joint, get a lesson in marijuana etiquette, listen to some great marijuana stories along with various other entertaining sound clips…
Click below to download a Zip file containing all separate 11 Tracks from this sound collage.
Unzip the files on your hard drive and add the tracks to your iPod or other portable audio device. You can also burn your own CD if you like – all tracks are high quality 320 kbs MP3s.
Enjoy, reflect and pass it on – do not Bogart this mix…
The MMJ Theater presents one of the classic moments in marijuana film history… The “how to smoke a joint” scene from Milos Forman’s 1971 film Taking Off.
This clip is about 9 minutes and 45 seconds long, so kick back and enjoy!
Long Beach City Council Meeting – November 10, 2009
Ninth District Councilman and Vice Mayor Val Lerch takes his turn at the microphone during proceedings that discuss a draft ordinance for Long Beach concerning Medical Marijuana collectives:
Watch Video Below – it’s 3 minutes and 55 seconds of medical marijuana activist joy!
You can find the complete council video (which I made this streaming video capture from) at the Long Beach City website: http://longbeach.granicus.com/MediaPl…
This capture starts around the 3 hour, 33 minute mark and a few moments into Mr. Lerch’s comments…
Enjoy this stunning moment in the history of the end of the dug war…
Moved list to it’s own site – now calling it The Medical Marijuana Lists- All further updates to the MMJ Strains list will be done there…
Jan 4, 2009: Started working on the MMJ Strains List today…
Added the main page for The Medical Marijuana Lists.
Typed in the list so far, almost 80 different strains…
Worked out the wording for the individual strain pages with tabbed info sub-pages…
Added first 3 strain : Afghani Hash Plant, Afghani Kush and AK-47 – I’m working alphabetical down my list, but I’m backdating the posts to the date of the photographs.
Started uploading various galleries of photos.
Played around with a bunch of templates, trying out different looks… trying to find something I like to build on and modify.
Lot’s of work to do on this project, but it’s started.
I’m sorry if you have already seen this photo from Monday’s rally in Los Angeles where over 350 patients, providers, volunteers and supporters peacefully protested the DEA’s persecution of Moro Bay clinic owner Charles C. Lynch, but I had to post it today.
[To find out more about our DEA's misguided prosecution of a person providing medicine to sick and dieing patients - legal patients in the State of California - visit Friends of Charles C. Lynch.]
Today two medical marijuana dispensaries were raided by the DEA here in Long Beach, California. Long Beach Holistic and HHA, both on 4th Street, had patients report on the DEA raid on WeedTracker.com – an online service for medical marijuana patients.
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to gather any more information about these raids, or to find out if these raids were connected to the raid in Laguna Beach. I do know that neither of these dispensaries were among the ones that attended the rally on Monday, so any thought of payback would seem to be unfounded at this point.
What I do know is that it is time for the DEA to step back and respect the will of the voters here in California. I can not think of another issue that has drawn this kind of jackboot response from the Feds, and such blatant disrespect of states rights.
Federal courts have ruled recently in California’s favor concerning the feds need to respect our laws and sovereignty. Members of Congress have sent strong letters to the DEA concerning this trampling of medical marijuana patients and their providers. Why doesn’t the DEA listen? Are they a rouge agency that thinks it’s beyond the law? I hope not, but all evidence points that way.
For all I know we’ll find out about some shady business practice or lack of proper business license as the reason for the raid, but it’s the DEA actions that have impeded the ability of people to be as thorough as businesses should be… Just look at Charles C. Lynch’s case. He did everything by the book – as legal as a legal business can be in California. He was a recognized business person in his Moro Bay community. Yet now he’s looking at 100 years in prison if the Feds have their way.
This is not the way to run a law-abiding nation. If the leaders won’t follow the laws, or seek to circumvent them because of their personal dislike of a law, do you think the citizens will keep respecting the law?
The silver lining – Obama has said he would stop this kind of trampling of states right – and he’s up in the polls with 27 days to go…
