Drug Nazis

I was having a little discussion with a friend who objected to my phrase “Medical Marijuana prohibition is a crime against humanity and a violation of the religious precept – heal the sick” because he said it trivializes mass murder. But does it? I believe we should examine the evidence.

Heart Surgeon Dr David Allen thinks that marijuana could save the lives of a lot of stroke victims. And not only stroke victims but people who have had heart attacks and spinal injuries. Cannabidiol is the cannabinoid that helps. US Patent #6630507 for cannabidiol was issued in 2003. About 150,000 stroke victims die every year out of a over 800,000 stroke victims a year. Let us say that marijuana can only save about 1/4 of those who currently die. That would be about 40,000 people a year. This has been known for 10 years. Are you going to tell me that the premature deaths of 400,000 people in ten years from stroke alone is not mass murder? Dr Allen says keeping sick and dying patients from receiving life saving medicine in order to prosecute the war on Drugs is a War Crime.

Lets take a look at US Patent #6630507 issued to The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention.

Well isn’t that interesting.

But that is not all. Look at all the conditions treatable by cannabis (with references to the medical literature). Now you add in all the other diseases where it extends life or cures and you are easily up to a half a million people a year. Five million in ten years. Are we up to mass murder yet? Suppose I have way overestimated and it is only a million in ten years. Do we have Mass murder yet?

It is actually worse than that. Marijuana cures cancer – the US government has known since 1974. How many premature deaths from cancer have there been since 1974? In the US there are about 600,000 cancer deaths a year. Let us say that it would have taken 8 years to develop anti-cancer drugs from the initial knowledge. That assumes a crash program. That is 18 million cancer deaths in that 30 year time period. Assume cannabis could only help 10%. That adds almost 2 million to the death toll. I think we are definitely in the mass murder range.

Anyone who still supports medical marijuana prohibition supports mass murder.

And then we have the actual Drug War Nazis:
 

The picture is from Drug Raids Are Getting Worse Under Obama.

…people are getting sick of swat teams busting down doors of family homes. There’s another story in the news today about a 7-year old that was shot dead in one of these raids.

Those Drug Nazis are hard at work protecting the children from drugs. There is one child who has been permanently protected. I wonder if that isn’t what they have in mind for all of us?

Bill Quick at Daily Pundit did a post recently – Conservatives Not Receptive to Being Called “Drug Nazis” – Even If They Are.

And finally the ACLU has decided to take on the Drug Nazis.

Kraska estimates that total number of SWAT raids in America jumped from just a few hundred per year in the 1970s, to a few thousand by the early 1980s, to around 50,000 by the mid-2000s.

The vast majority of those raids are to serve warrants on people suspected of nonviolent drug crimes. Police forces were no longer reserving SWAT teams and paramilitary tactics for events that presented an immediate threat to the public. They were now using them mostly as an investigative tool in drug cases, creating violent confrontations with people suspected of nonviolent, consensual crimes.

It was during the Reagan administration that the SWAT-ification of America really began to accelerate. Reagan (and a compliant Congress) passed policies encouraging cooperation and mutual training between the military and police agencies. The president set up joint task forces in which domestic cops and soldiers worked together on anti-drug operations. And, with some help from Congress, he nudged the Pentagon to start loaning or even giving surplus military gear to law enforcement agencies. Subsequent administrations continued all of these policies — and a number of new ones.

After Reagan, new federal policies provided yet more incentive for militarization. In 1988, Congress created the Byrne grant program, which gives money to local police departments and prosecutors for a number of different criminal justice purposes. But a large portion of Byrne grant money over the years has been earmarked for anti-drug policing. Competition among police agencies for the pool of cash has made anti-drug policing a high priority. And once there was federal cash available for drug busts, drug raids became more common.

Byrne grants also created and funded anti-narcotics multi-jurisdictional task forces. These roving teams of drug cops are often entirely funded with grants and through asset forfeiture, and usually don’t report to any single police agency. The poor incentives and lack of real accountability have produced some catastrophic results, like the mass drug raid debacles in Tulia and Hearne, Texas, in the late 1990s.

So the police are doing these raids for money. The more money they can collect the more raids they can perform. The more raids they can perform the more money they can collect. It is perpetual motion as long as we allow it to continue.

There is only one way to stop this whole process. And that is social pressure. And the social pressure I intend to apply? Stigmatize every person who supports this crap as a Drug Nazi. I intend to put a stop to the rule of the Drug Nazis. And don’t forget just in case you want to be kinder and gentler about it:

Medical Marijuana prohibition is a crime against humanity and a violation of the religious precept – heal the sick.

Pass it on.