Marijuana Legalization Favored in US, Canada
by Phillip Smith
StoptheDrugWar.org
November 29, 2012
A new Angus-Reid Public Opinion poll has majorities favoring marijuana legalization in both Canada and the US. According to the poll, 57% of Canadians and 54% of Americans are ready to free the weed.
In Canada, support for legalization was strongest in the Atlantic provinces (64%) and British Columbia (60%), while in something of a surprise, in the US, support was strongest in the Northeast (61%), followed by the West (56%). The US West has traditionally had the highest levels of support for legalization.
In both countries there was majority support for marijuana legalization in every region. The provinces or regions with the lowest level of support for legalization were Alberta (50%) in Canada, and the US Midwest (50%) and South (51%).
In Canada, men (64%) are more likely than women (50%) to call for the legalization of cannabis, while there was no wide gender gap in the United States (55% male, 53% female). The bulk of support for legal marijuana comes from respondents aged 18-to-34 in the United States (65%) and those aged 35-to-54 in Canada (61%).
Two-thirds (66%) of both Canadians and Americans believe marijuana will be legal within 10 years.
While two-thirds (65%) of Americans say their country has a serious drug abuse problem, only 43% of Canadians agree. Still, in both countries, two-thirds (68% in Canada and 66% in the US) describe the war on drugs as a failure.
While both Canadians and Americans agree that the drug war is a failure, they remain unwilling to contemplate the legalization of drugs other than marijuana. Support for legalizing cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, or methamphetamine didn’t rise above 11% for any of those drugs in either country.
The poll was an online survey of 1,005 Canadians and 1,002 Americans conducted November 19 and 20. The results were weighted to ensure a representative sample of the two country’s adult populations. The margin of error is +/- 3.1%.
Two US states, Colorado and Washington, voted to legalize marijuana in November. Legislators in at least four more plan to offer up legalization bills next year, while activists in Montana are working toward putting a legalization initiative on the 2014 ballot.
Chemical Warfare, Hacking McAfee, Frankenfish – New World Next Week [video]
New World Next Week
December 6, 2012
Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
Story #1: Halabja Chemical Weapons And A Chance To Find The Men Who Armed Saddam
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Hillary Clinton Says Syria Could Use Chemical Weapons
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Flashback: From the Houla Hoax to Chemical Weapons — Deceptions in Syria
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Story #2: Hacker Finds McAfee Through Phone Trail
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McAfee Founder Tracked Using Cell Phone Data
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Story #3: Biotech Company Behind ‘Frankenfish’ Faces Uncertain Future Amid Ongoing Review
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NWNW Flashback: GM Salmon Set to Move Closer to Your Table
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Previous Episode: Pharaoh Morsi, African Blackwater, Droning On
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We Are Change Victoria Confronts Thomas Mulcair/NDP
by Terry Wilson
Canadian Awareness Network
December 4, 2012
Thomas Mulcair shows his true colours when he is confronted by We Are Change Victoria about his foreign policy and regressive beliefs.
Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails Conference – Deborah Whitman Preview [video]
Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails Conference
September 9, 2012
August 17th – 19th, 2012 marked the largest stand ever against Chemtrails! Over the course of 3 days in Los Angeles, and live online around the world, 16 leaders in Geoengineering research met to show the Unity and Collective efforts we are now taking against these “Aerosol Crimes!”
It was a historic turning point for the movement – now you can catch anything you missed at: http://www.consciousnessbeyondchemtrails.com/
**If you get a DVD or digital download we encourage you to burn it and hand them out in your local communities. You can share in the DVD format far and wide!**
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An Honest Antidepressant Drug Commercial [video]
Mark Dice
November 27, 2012
This is the only honest antidepressant commercial you’ll ever find.
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[In memoriam – from the Archives] Prof. Marlene Dobkin de Rios interview – “Ayahuasca, Panacea or Epidemic?” – #027 – Gnostic Media [audio]
by Jan Irvin
Gnostic Media
November 11, 2012
I had emailed with Prof. de Rios a few months ago and she had informed me of her cancer and ongoing chemotherapy. Today I’ve been informed by Prof. John Hoopes that she has succumbed to her cancer. Originally released April 19, 2009. RIP, Marlene. Her last email to me read:
From: MARLENE DERIOS
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 10:35 AM
To: Jan Irvin
Subject: Re: hello again from MarleneDear Jan: Many thanks for your good wishes and information. I’m in the midst of a fierce chemo and very week so I’ve slowed down on social events. I’ll get inn touch when I’m feeling stronger. Good luck with your project. Best, Marlene de Rios
Today’s guest is Prof. Em. Marlene Dobkin de Rios author of (amongst many books and articles) A Hallucinogenic Tea, Laced in Controversy, Ayahuasca in the Amazon and the United States. We discuss ayahuasca tourism, neo-shamanism, and the future of entheogenic studies.
What impact do the tourists to South America in seek of ayahausca have on the cultures there? Are “drug tourists” hurting themselves and the indigenous cultures? What dangers do ayahuasca tourists place themselves in?
Dr. Marlene Dobkin de Rios is a medical anthropologist and licensed psychotherapist. She has a B.A. in Psychology from Queens College of the City Universe of New York, a M. A. in Anthropology from New York University and a Ph.D. in medical anthropology from the University of California Riverside. She is Professor Emeritus of the Anthropology department at Cal State Fullerton. Her area of specialization as a researcher has been hallucinogens and culture. She is the author of several hundred scholarly articles and book chapters, including two recent works: “A Hallucinogenic Tea Laced with Controversy” (Praeger 2008) and a forthcoming autobiography, “The Hallucinogenic Journey of Dr. Marlene Dobkin de Rios. 45 Years with Shamans, Ayahuasqueros and Ethnobotanists,” Inner Traditions (to be published October 2009).
Dr. de Rios conducted fieldwork in the Peruvian Amazon and Coast and with the Uniao do Vegetal church in Brazil. She has worked with ayahuasca healers in urban Peru and intensively with one healer, don Hilde who lived in Pucallpa, Peru. Her recent work has been focused on what we can learn from shamanic healing and she has applied that knowledge to work with Latino clients in psychotherapy.
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Rense & Jeffrey Smith – GM Food Report & Prop 37 Loss [video]
Rense
December 3, 2012
More GM Bad News and Proposition 37 in California to label GM foods was suspiciously voted down.
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