Challenging the Moneyed
Drug Reform Organizations on "Taxing and Regulating" Marijuana
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(1) Introduction
Today, July 30th, 2009, is D-Day: or
Drug Reform Day. This is the date that I have decided to really
start challenging this "tax and regulate" model for Re-Legalizing
Marijuana. Bad idea. Just let us grow it without any
"taxation or regulation." Please.
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George Soros
Primary Financier of "bogus" Marijuana Reform |
Ethan
Nadleman
Drug Policy Alliance
(DPA) |
Rob Kampia
Marijuana Policy Project
(MPP) |
I've decided that today was a good
day to begin a debate with Rob Kampia and Ethan Nadleman who are the
heads of the largest moneyed drug reform organizations: Marijuana Policy
Project and the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA). They are both funded
by a scumbag known as George Soros who apparently wants to impose a "tax
and regulate" model for Marijuana Re-Legalization that will most likely
restrict you from growing your own Marijuana. Why, I have no idea,
given the fact that this is one of the safest plants on the planet, from
a medicinal standpoint.
But you can bet Soros see's money in
this "tax and regulate" model because that has always been his primary
motivation. And of course, allowing us to grow our own, means
there is no money for Soros: Accept of course if you consider the money
average working class people might save if they can grow an ounce for a
mere $25 rather than pay $300 to $500 dollars an ounce for it.
And this is also why a lot of the
"Medical Marijuana" dispensaries also don't want you to be able to grow
your own. Their profits will crash like a Led Zeppelin as soon as
a "no tax, no regulate" model is implemented.
For years I have attempted to have a
dialogue on the "tax and regulate" issue, with these to "betrayers," but
they seem to feel it is "beneath them" to debate this issue with me.
After all I'm just an unpaid activist like most of you out there.
But I am not the only one that you
are ignoring. You are also ignoring people like Dennis Peron, the
author of the first Medical Marijuana Initiative: Proposition 215, which
became law in California in 1996. He also doesn't think is it
right to "tax and regulate" Marijuana. I guess it really begs the
question as to how you two think you are right in "pushing" this stupid
"tax and regulate" model.
The following link contains Peron's
opinion on taxing and regulating Marijuana in both text and via audio
file:
http://www.newagecitizen.com/MERP/RelegalizeNowObama12.htm
The issues are fairly complex so if
you want to understand what I am talking about please read every article
and view every video at the following link.
"MERP" Headquarters
The Marijuana Re-Legalization Policy Project (MRPP) = "MERP"
http://www.newagecitizen.com/MERP.htm
After doing this you will understand
the issues brought up in the "letter" that follows. I sent this
letter to both Rob and Ethan on 07/30/2009. You can send them your
own letters by cutting and pasting their email addresses below:
Ethan: webmaster@drugpolicy.org
Rob: rob@mpp.org
(1) The Letter
Ethan Nadleman and Rob Kampia:
Whether you realize it or not a debate is beginning to crystallize
throughout the planet. The debate is between whether we want Marijuana
"taxed and regulated" or whether we should just forget about that stupid
idea and just let adults (over 18) simply grow it. As people begin to
thoroughly understand the issue I'm confident that they will elect to
just be able to simply grow it. After all that is really what we have
been working for since the Beatles circulated the first "Legalize
Marijuana" petition back in 1967.
And many of us our concerned that you and Rob Kampia, with the
assistance of Soros's funding, are trying to pull a "bait and switch" on
us. It appears that you want a "tax and regulate" model that will only
allow purchases through "Government Marijuana Dispensaries (GMD). The
GMD term is my invention, but I think it pretty much defines the
direction that you two are going at the moment. Goodness, I hope you can
be persuaded against continuing with this stupid idea. I would prefer
you endorse MERP or some other model that prohibits the "tax and
regulation" of ANY amount of personally cultivated Cannabis.
I've long admired your understanding of drug policy issues in general.
But you really need to stop this "tax and regulate" nonsense. The
solution is just allowing adults to grow Marijuana without ANY taxes or
regulation. If a profitable niche can be achieved by allowing commercial
licensing and taxation MERP would allow that. But I wouldn't hold my
breath that there would really be much money in that. And I would, of
course, insist that personal cultivation will never be subject to any
tax, regulation or other government interference. I maintain that it is
a sacred, inalienable right. How about you?
Of course that might crimp the profits of Soros who most likely benefits
from the huge amounts of laundered drug money that flows into the many
banks where he holds significant investment. Do you share my opinion,
that Soros is a bit of a scum bag for the way he has screwed millions of
people, throughout the globe, over the past couple of decades? And, no,
I'm not just talking about drug policy here. I'm talking about his
support for Monsanto, GM foods, criminal currency speculation and much,
much more. Yet he is the one keeping you financed now isn't he? So it is
unlikely that we share the same opinion on Soros. You can't afford THAT.
And let's face it. Soros is not interested in allowing adults to grow
their Marijuana unless he gets into the action by taxing and regulating
the hell out of it. But how is that going to provide free medicine to
the sick. I mean right now a medical patient in California is paying out
$300 to $500 and ounce for their "medicine." Angel Raich uses 7 grams a
day which means she would have to pay at least $35,000 a year for her
"medicine." So how is a "tax and regulate" model going to allow her to
afford her medicine, once you stomp out all personal cultivation?
So how do you feel about American adults having the right to grow all
the Marijuana they want without any taxes or regulation?
What would be the problem with that?
After all once everyone can grow it there would be absolutely no more
than "normal" profit to be had. There would be little incentive for
anyone to grow much more than they needed: not just for smoking but for
food, clothing and many other applications.
Wouldn't such a model (e.g., the MERP Model) be a better solution than
your "tax and regulate" Government Marijuana Dispensary system you are
trying to promote?
Please contrast your "tax and regulate" Model with the MERP Model as it
applies to 3 issues:
* Destroying the Drug Cartels
* Providing FREE medicine to the sick
* Stopping police from busting into our homes looking for Marijuana and
Marijuana plants.
I contend that MERP is a better solution for achieving each of these
goals. If you even had a first semester course in economics you would
understand that I'm right on this one.
Why is it that you give absolutely no voice to our right to self
cultivate? If you do -- and I haven't read about it -- please send me
some MPP links that verify that position.
And isn't the initiative in Arizona proof that you -- and your backer
Soros -- want to foster a system that will not allow personal
cultivation? (e.g., The AZ initiative will not allow self-cultivation,
even for the sick) unless they are more than 25 miles from a dispensary?
Obviously this will eventually mean that no one in AZ will be able to
grow their own, doesn't it. I mean how stupid do you really think
the activist community is? I think most activist will feel
insulted when they understand what you are really up to with this AZ
initiative that is fully financed with Soros's money.
Can't wait for your reply.
Yours in Peace and Freedom,
Bruce W. Cain
PS:
Before writing your "comparative analysis" please read through the
various articles outlining the MERP Model:
I am recommending that all Marijuana Legalization groups, throughout the
planet, endorse: The Marijuana Legalization Policy Project (MERP) Model.
I have provided texts to my series of videos on MERP which can be read
in over 30 different languages. My name is Bruce Cain and I began the
Global Movement to Re-Legalize Marijuana in 1990 with the "International
Drug Policy Day" events. I will now be helping to better organize future
Global Marijuana March events in order to establish Marijuana
Legalization world wide. Please go to the following internet link and
read my articles on MERP in your own language.
MERP Headquarters
The Marijuana Re-Legalization Policy Project (MRPP)= "MERP"
http://www.newagecitizen.com/MERP.htm
Related Media:
Majority Of Americans Want Pot Legalized: Zogby Poll
[Click here for more articles on Zogy Pot Poll]
A majority of Americans, in a poll released Wednesday, say it "makes
sense to tax and regulate" marijuana. The Zogby poll, commissioned by
the conservative-leaning O'Leary Report, surveyed 3,937 voters and found
52 percent in favor of legalization. Only 37 percent opposed.
A previous ABC News/Washington Post poll found 46 percent in support. In
California, a Field Poll found 56 percent backing legalization.
Responding to the poll at a press conference Tuesday, California Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger called for an open debate on legalization.
Voters were asked: "Scarce law enforcement and prison resources, a
desire to neutralize drug cartels and the need for new sources of
revenue have resurrected the topic of legalizing marijuana. Proponents
say it makes sense to tax and regulate the drug while opponents say that
legalization would lead marijuana users to use other illegal drugs.
Would you favor or oppose the government's effort to legalize
marijuana?"
