Sex and Drugs -- Are You Interested?

AlterNet. Posted June 7, 2008.

Want to know why enforcement of pot laws is finally easing up, and learn about the war on our sexual freedoms? Check out AlterNet's coverage.

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the business of business [Report this comment] Posted by: Zuma on Jun 7, 2008 4:56 AM Current rating: 4 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] i'm glad you guys are doing good business. i'm glad you guys cover what you do. but you're seriously beginning to sound like a big business, with such topical interests increasingly seeming more commodified. patently so, to this very degree of lure here. and so on. but it's okay. the thing is, that which isn't written about. 'go where the silence is.' ask amy goodman. the 'tin foil hat' branding has silenced discussion on too many topics. such branding is a marketing concern. it should be dispensed with in my view or at the very least itself written about. and so on. how much longer do we have before net neutrality is a thing of the past? will commercial success of any site be different then and change relations? will marketing matter ever more then? and so on. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] A Little Busy Right Now - interesting But Not an Imperative [Report this comment] Posted by: Purple Girl on Jun 7, 2008 5:01 AM Current rating: 2 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Once we lop the head of the Beast that has highjacked our country for the last 40 yrs (and some areas nearly a Century- BS Banking Pirates of the 'Federal Reserve' and their head busting Side kick the IRS).We'll be glad to focus Our attention on these Topics. but for Now they are rather Irrelevant. I would rather discuss Pharmacutical Inhumanities and Profiteering over when Pot will be legalized. I'd rather discuss the still ignored AIDS epidmeic or the Threat of shoving Woman into the Back alleys for Reproductive services then if Bob & Dave have the Chance to be as Miserable as the rest of US married Folks (LOL). Only by handling the lack of Rights and Freedoms caused by the Tip of this Democracy will we ever make any gains on these smaller issues. By exposing and prosecuting those Policy makers, Their Co conspirators in Industry and their heretical 'Moral' Fibers will we defeat these minor problems - by taking on the 'Big Picture' the points that make up the canvass will fall into place. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » first things first Posted by: Zuma » From the sibling of a Cancer-Death-Soon-To-Be Posted by: Prairie Waif » RE: From the sibling of a Cancer-Death-Soon-To-Be Posted by: Prairie Waif Yeah man [Report this comment] Posted by: RedFoxOne on Jun 7, 2008 6:41 AM Current rating: 4 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] LOL, there is nothing like good sex after smoking a big fat one! Pass the doob man! JT Ultimate Anonymity [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Yeah man Posted by: Anon12 Easing up? [Report this comment] Posted by: aonghus36 on Jun 7, 2008 8:56 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] >Want to know why enforcement of pot laws is finally easing up, and learn about the war on our sexual freedoms? I think it would be because the repubs don't want Obama elected, so they are banking on the forgetfulness of the general public. So, they would be easing up on cannabis, going after meth labs, and say they aren't REALLY trying to keep cannabis requiring patients from obtaining their medicine. One of the Senators, from my state, says he thinks that people shouldn't be kept from obtaining medical marijuana, but thinks it should remain a schedule one drug. Now what kind of sense does that make? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: asing up? Posted by: Lauren Some where over the Rainbow maybe things are better huh? [Report this comment] Posted by: Nightstallion on Jun 7, 2008 2:37 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Marijuana laws are easing up? Where? In Kukulkans lavatory, it is going great guns? Oh, I know, in Lebanon it is getting better! This is the only country where police come in after you with drawn guns for anything, and super firing weapons if you are using drugs. Fuck this country in its repressive ass. George Bush should get a visit from hippies carrying stainless steel dildos! And Michael Chertoff and his gang of murderous goons should be subject to a bath in whipped cream followed by a tongue lashing from six hundred hungry mutts. War on drugs! War on terror! Are you kidding me? Let an armed American John Q. Public loose and WE’LL take care of any wars on this or that imagined or manufactured horse manure. I am so fucking tired of this political systems lies, obfuscations, and bullying of the public I could defecate on the white house lawn. If my ancestors or yours could see what these cops have been pulling on the citizenry there would have been another revolution by now. Are my fellows so blind that they can’t see the Gestapo everywhere they look? What do you think these bastards are your guardians? They are here to subject you to laws that may or may not even be on any books! They are here to keep you DOWN only because that raises them up! In many cases, people who are not involved with the trafficking of drugs or terror tactics are being injured or killed on our streets by so called over zealous police. These individuals are not over zealous, they are performing a job that we have hired them to do. Injure or kill anyone they damn well please if those individuals are between them and their appointed target, “collateral damage” it is called for Christ fucking sake! Mean while I and you and our elders and children pay the price for their indiscrimination. Again Fuck this country and it’s militant police force I did not go to “War” so these ass holes could become better NAZI PRICKS people! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Check out AlterNet's coverage? [Report this comment] Posted by: Richard House on Jun 8, 2008 11:19 AM Current rating: 3 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] No thanks, I can find my own links. And I don’t need more crap to fill my mail box every week. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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» From the sibling of a Cancer-Death-Soon-To-Be Posted by: Prairie Waif

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» RE: asing up? Posted by: Lauren

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