Up in Smoke: Steve Bullock for Governor
What Steve Bullock didn't know is that his bid for Governor in 2012 went up in smoke by going along with the federal power grab over our laws and rights in Montana.
Five weeks later, the DEA, FBI, state and local law enforcement agencies raided upwards of 28 sites throughout Montana.
As a state is politically more favorable to
independent/Libertarian mindset: read RALPH NADER & RON PAUL, and the
Democrats outright attacked Independents more than medical
marijuana. Steve Bullock does not have a chance with Montana voters as he seeks
election for Governor.
As the state voters will overturn the Montana Legislature in 2011, 2012 will be a strong year for the large voting block FOR medical marijuana in the United States. Montana is no different. As Steve Bullock knew of the raids in the spring of 2011 he did not count on the tide of voters who are upset with Steve Bullock not upholding Montana law. Steve Bullock saw the power in going along, instead of his sworn duty to uphold the law, no matter what the law said.
This is why Steve Bullock's desire for Governor
will not be fulfilled in 2012. This blog network
called Steve Bullock's Kettle Black (and Green) as he investigated Greg
Mortenson from Bozeman MT as Bullock's own fraud is ten times the fraud of CAI's
mismanagement under Mortenson.
Here is a national Democratic operative begging
the Obama campaign in an open letter TO NOT MESS with the medical marijuana laws
in the United States, saying it will bring out voters against Barack Obama in
2012. Bullock's stance in Montana will not convert for Governor either.
As Democrats, and Steve Bullock in Montana take
the hatchet to the Citizen Initiatives they do so to their own political peril.
The Republicans are also not so aware of the power of the medical
marijuana voting block in Montana and in the USA. Here is a snippet of
Mitt Romney telling a patient that he does not support medical marijuana. Ron
Paul just might win that floor fight in Tampa at the GOP convention.
As a Nader operative
in 2004 and issuing press releases with the campaign in 2004 to get medical
marijuana passed in the State of Montana, the Democrats and Steve Bullock
currently running for Governor have been left on the dock and the election boat
has sailed. To criminalize marijuana after the
people have accepted it as a medical savior for several painful conditions is
political suicide. Steve Bullock, by not upholding our Montana law [he
also did not respect election law, or unlawful practice, or other Montana
victims: the elderly] he has committed political suicide in Montana and has no
chance for Governor of Montana in 2012.
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I will end this
post on what Ralph Nader called Civil Liberties. This is a press release from
Nader's 2008 Presidential Campaign, and can be found by searching www.VoteNader.org. For those
readers who don't believe in Medical Marijuana, freedom to choose, and civil
liberties, please read this press release.
War
on Drugs: [Ralph Nader 2008]
The Nader campaign calls for the decriminalization of marijuana, the legalization of industrial hemp, and an end to the war on drugs.
Medical
marijuana: The
criminal prosecution of patients for medical marijuana must end immediately, and
marijuana must be treated as a medicine for the seriously ill.
The current cruel, unjust policy perpetuated and enforced by the Bush Administration prevents Americans who suffer from debilitating illnesses from experiencing the relief of medicinal cannabis.
While substantial scientific and anecdotal evidence exists to validate marijuana’s usefulness in treating disease, a deluge of rhetoric from Washington claims that marijuana has no medicinal value.
The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 defines marijuana as a Schedule One narcotic, making it very difficult for American researchers to perform rigorous double-blind scientific studies on marijuana. Even without these difficulties, research has shown marijuana to be a safe and effective medicine for controlling nausea associated with cancer therapy, reducing the eye pressure for patients with glaucoma, and reducing muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis, para- and quadriplegia.
Internationally, scientists are undertaking massive studies to determine the healing powers of cannabis. In August 2003 the esteemed British medical journal The Lancet reported that the world’s largest study into the medical effects of cannabis have confirmed that the drug can reduce pain and improve the lives of people with multiple sclerosis. The three-year study was the first proper clinical appraisal of whether cannabis-derived drugs can help treat MS.
Harvard medical doctor Lester Grinspoon has said he would have loved to do a similar study, but has been held back by the law. On his website, www.rxmarijuana.com, and in his book The Forbidden Medicine, Grinspoon documents how marijuana relieves the pain of people enduring more than 110 different medical conditions like AIDS, Crohn’s Disease, glaucoma, cancer, and many more. Marijuana helps increase appetite, reduce blood pressure and intraocular pressure.
Whenever given the chance, the American public has voted to allow seriously ill people to relieve their pain with marijuana. Despite well-funded opposition from the federal government, citizens in nine states have cast ballots to legalize the use of medicinal marijuana. No state has ever rejected such a voter initiative.
Medical marijuana community health centers have opened up in the states, like California, only to be aggressively attacked and closed by federal law enforcement agents.
Physicians must have the right to prescribe this drug to their patients without the fear of the federal government revoking their licenses, and doctor-patient privacy must be protected. The Drug Enforcement Administration should not be practicing medicine.
The current cruel, unjust policy perpetuated and enforced by the Bush Administration prevents Americans who suffer from debilitating illnesses from experiencing the relief of medicinal cannabis.
While substantial scientific and anecdotal evidence exists to validate marijuana’s usefulness in treating disease, a deluge of rhetoric from Washington claims that marijuana has no medicinal value.
The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 defines marijuana as a Schedule One narcotic, making it very difficult for American researchers to perform rigorous double-blind scientific studies on marijuana. Even without these difficulties, research has shown marijuana to be a safe and effective medicine for controlling nausea associated with cancer therapy, reducing the eye pressure for patients with glaucoma, and reducing muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis, para- and quadriplegia.
Internationally, scientists are undertaking massive studies to determine the healing powers of cannabis. In August 2003 the esteemed British medical journal The Lancet reported that the world’s largest study into the medical effects of cannabis have confirmed that the drug can reduce pain and improve the lives of people with multiple sclerosis. The three-year study was the first proper clinical appraisal of whether cannabis-derived drugs can help treat MS.
Harvard medical doctor Lester Grinspoon has said he would have loved to do a similar study, but has been held back by the law. On his website, www.rxmarijuana.com, and in his book The Forbidden Medicine, Grinspoon documents how marijuana relieves the pain of people enduring more than 110 different medical conditions like AIDS, Crohn’s Disease, glaucoma, cancer, and many more. Marijuana helps increase appetite, reduce blood pressure and intraocular pressure.
Whenever given the chance, the American public has voted to allow seriously ill people to relieve their pain with marijuana. Despite well-funded opposition from the federal government, citizens in nine states have cast ballots to legalize the use of medicinal marijuana. No state has ever rejected such a voter initiative.
Medical marijuana community health centers have opened up in the states, like California, only to be aggressively attacked and closed by federal law enforcement agents.
Physicians must have the right to prescribe this drug to their patients without the fear of the federal government revoking their licenses, and doctor-patient privacy must be protected. The Drug Enforcement Administration should not be practicing medicine.
Industrial
hemp:
The Nader campaign supports industrial hemp as a renewable resource with many
important fuel, fiber, food, paper, energy and other uses. Industrial hemp is a
commercial crop grown for its seed and fiber and the products made from them
such as oil, seed cake, and hurds (stalk cores). Industrial hemp is one of the
longest and strongest fibers in the plant kingdom, and it has had thousands of
uses over the centuries. In need of alternative crops and aware of the growing
market for industrial hemp—particularly for bio-composite products such as
automobile parts, farmers in the United States are forced to watch from the
sidelines while Canadian, French and Chinese farmers grow the crop and American
manufacturers import it from them. Federal legislators, meanwhile, continue to
ignore the issue of removing it from the DEA list. It is time to allow hemp
agriculture, production and manufacturing in the United
States.
Clemency for Non-Violent Drug Offenders: In 2004, Ralph Nader wrote President Bush urging that he grant clemency to 30,000 non-violent drug offenders. Nader’s letter highlighted the three decade long failed, and unjust, drug war. His call for clemency highlighted a similar request made by 400 clergy members to President Bill Clinton in 2000.!—end summary—>
Clemency for Non-Violent Drug Offenders: In 2004, Ralph Nader wrote President Bush urging that he grant clemency to 30,000 non-violent drug offenders. Nader’s letter highlighted the three decade long failed, and unjust, drug war. His call for clemency highlighted a similar request made by 400 clergy members to President Bill Clinton in 2000.!—end summary—>
Nader’s
letter recalled President Bush’s substance abuse problems and noted that if he
had been incarcerated for cocaine use he "probably would not have gone on to
have the career you have had.” The letter also highlighted the rapid expansion
of the prison system in the United States which now houses more than 2.1 million
people – one-quarter of the world’s prison population. Clemency for non-violent
drug offenders would save more than $1 billion annually.
"It
is urgent that the U.S. reverse the incarceration binge. The U.S.Department of
Justice estimates that if incarceration rates remain unchanged an estimated 1 of
every 20 Americans and greater than 1 in 4 African Americans can be expected to
serve time in prison during their lifetime,” said Nader. "It is time to make the
failed war on drugs a central issue in the American political dialogue. For too
long we have let this injustice continue to grow unhindered. Taking action on
clemency at the federal level will set an example for the states and begin the
process of reversing this failed policy.”
