Black men assualt white family courts say it's OK ????
What would you do if this happened to your life?
Seeking legal assistance,Civil and Criminal law In regards to Wrongfull imprisonment and Violent assault on my life
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Just a thought my friends,what would you do if this happened to your life and I mean life, see the events in the words writen in the following event, and take a minute to think of all the consequences, finiancal,social,instabillity in liveing condition all are economic.what about the mental effects to the victims?
and the injustice is unbelieveable,and would there have been a differance if the individuals in this Event who were subject to these crimes had money ????
IS THERE JUSTICE IN AMERICA FOR THOSE WITHOUT MONEY With Peace Officers. Negligent in their duties to protect the poorest of citizens. A black man or racist if you will who seems to be out side the laws of justice who has attacked a white family, He has caused a family to lose all their worldly possessions and economic resources and has left them homeless for no other reason than He could or is protected by the white law inforcement system as to not bring up such things as the black community may protest against any thing pointed toward blacks as racist.When the truth be known it is the black community who have and are projecting violant actions against whites world wide and more so in our own nation. Is there anybody out there who will listen or even care,As whites are less protected in America than any other race? .AND WHEN ANY RACE IS SEPERATED BY PROTECTION OF THE LAWS SET FORTH FOR ALL AMERICANS WELL THAT IS DISCRIMINATION ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT AND A LEGAL FORM OF OPPRESSION
You may be shocked at what you read and feel in the words at these links and be advised this could happen to you? What if it did ? And not even law inforcement would assist you?
RACISM IS ON THE INCREASE,against whites THE PRESS ARE SILENT
any one who seeks to assist in any way shape or form to set right this travisty of justice gone wrong please contact me @ jfbarber@ymail.com or button3377@yahoo.com
Ph#(760) 948-8469
or you can mail us any information to 11123 Valincia,st Oak Hills,Ca,92344 c/o Joseph F Barber
On April 16th 2010, my son was walking his dog he broke away from is leash and possibly might have bitten a small child Which it did not we fouund out later,there were no injurys reported by the Mr Arnold.The Victim???
My son his girlfriend my husband and I went looking for the dog on our complex where we lived. The dog was found and put back into the house in a matter of a few minutes. In the mean time my husband and I still looking for the dog had run into the father, (a black man) of the child who had allegedly been bit. Understanding anyone would be upset, we tried to talk to the man calmly asking him if the child was alright and if we could see the child, but before we could get it all out of our mouths, the man yelled at us saying, "YOUR F---KING DOG BIT MY KID" in doing so, bending my husband back over the bushes in his face, my husband then took both hands wide open and pushed the man back telling him to get back out of his face, with that the man punched my husband to the right side of the face,
I immediately jumped in the middle when he pushed me out of the way to punch my husband again in the face before he even got a chance to stand up on his feet. The police of course was called by both parties. Animal control was also called, and took the dog away. The paramedics also came. The man refused any help from the paramedics for his child who was supposed to be severely injured, later found out he took the child to the hospital where he is a nurse. The San Bernardino police who was dispatched to the scene immediately arrested my husband whose face had been crushed in and severely fractured by this man. The first punch had fractured his right eye socket, cheek bone, jaw. The second punch knocked out his front teeth.
The paramedics looked at Joe, (my husband) in the back seat of our personnel car, there remarks were, "OH HE MIGHT HAVE A SLIGHT CONCUSHION AND HIS BLOOD PRESSURE WAS ALITTLE HIGH,” And they left it as that. They didn't even give him a cloth to cover his mouth from all the blood that was gushing out of his mouth. Joe was cooperative with everyone involved. When they went to leave to take him to jail, the cruiser stopped and the next thing you know there was several cop's in the back seat with Joe grabbing his already smashed in face slamming his face and head into the seat belts or door of the cruiser.
They tied his feet to a hook of some kind to keep his feet from moving and tied a spit mask on his face. Come to find out the officer said he spit on him, yet it is not in any reports, only resistance and violence is on a one page report telling me what the charges are. The officer, Officer Clough, said on the stand that he spit on him thru one solid plexy glass, a metal criss cross gate and another solid plexy glass hitting him on the right side of the face and neck. Then he said, “The door hit his leg while masking Joe, then he changed his testimony to, "well his foot I think brushed up against my thigh." I'm still trying to figure out how he's able to spit thru all those windows especially when he had no teeth, a broken jaw, and fractured cheek bone and eye socket?
(Unfortunately the guy who did all the damage never got arrested or even sited.)
They are treating him, as if he is the victim. Even though there is a tape showing that Joe is not the aggressor but the victim. (In which I have attached to this e-mail. I hope you will view it.) The public defender was told about the video that was taken by the apartment’s cameras where we lived at the time. My sister and I took her camera phone and recorded the incident. Later just one day before the camera loops, and all is gone, a security officer came to record the same incident. We asked him to make sure it was recorded in real time, he said he would. Come to find out he recorded it in very fast time, so now the public defender says we can't use it. Our video, although not professional or very clear, has audio. The apt. manager, who is unbiased in every way, identifies three of the individuals in the video. Then we asked for full police reports, all call logs etc., we are not allowed any police reports, and neither is my husband for that matter. They will not provide any reports of any kind to him. How are you to build your case if you are not allowed to have the police reports? Then I asked the public defender to make sure he got the cloths the officer was wearing the night it all happened, he says it's not important???
I asked for all video and audio of all police cruisers and police officer's within a 25 foot radius. The public defender is adamant that no police cruiser in California has any video or audio.
My husband is waiting to go to surgery for the fourth time since his arrest.
The officer and the jail he is in, wvbc Rancho Cucamunga waited a very long time to get him in to see a doctor. Basically took his right’s and thru it out the window. He’s had to have reconstruction to the right side of his face with a prosthetic cheek bone, correct his jaw bone and pallet of his mouth which somehow separated in half. They have had to do eye surgery on his iris and retina because the punch tore his eye, they had to remove two more teeth because the punch not only took out the front teeth but pushed his teeth back to where it cracked other teeth bad enough to remove. He is waiting now for another surgery on his neck because when the guy punched him his head went back like whiplash and pushed together the bones in between the vertebrae imbedded in the spinal cord. The man who hit Joe on the stand said,” Joe had started it all by using racist slurs and that he chest bumped him, that’s why he hit him in the first place.
We are waiting for the pre-trial now. We hope to win this case even though we seem to be surrounded with incompetent fools who supposedly are there to help you, officers, medics and public defenders alike.
I am writing this to you in hopes you might see the injustice here. Ever since Rodney King got beat up, there was a big issue about it. Everybody was on it like white on rice, seems now the police are afraid to deal with anything that involves the black and the white.
Police officer’s,
(some of them, just don’t give a crap) they can do to you what ever they like and not be held accountable for it. Same goes for the public defender. They will do only the minimum for their client then want you to lie about the truth by trying to get you to plea to a lesser crime. So to impress the DA or anybody else that might have to do with promotion for themselves . If you don’t have money…Your pretty much dead in the water…Because,
“THERE IS NO JUSTICE FOR THOSE WITH OUT MONEY”
Right to Personal Security
A. Importance of the right to personal security
174. Poor people usually suffer from various forms of insecurity. As well as experiencing financial, economic and social insecurity, they are often homeless, marginalized, discriminated against and subject to physical violence by State and non-State actors. Accordingly, efforts to strengthen the right of poor people to personal security shall have a crucial place in poverty reduction strategies.
B. The scope of the right to personal security
175. The right to personal security is a human right independent of the right to personal liberty. If individuals or groups are subject to death threats, violent attacks, harassment, intimidation or severe discriminatory treatment, States have a positive obligation to provide a minimum standard of protection for their life, integrity and personal security.
1. Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention. No one shall be deprived of his liberty except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedure as are established by law."
My husband is living proof…
Thank you for your time,
Suzanne Barber
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
May god have mercy on our souls
May god have mercy on our souls
by Joseph F Barber
A nationally known advertising man wrote me the other day ... to suggest that we tell the truth, i.e., that we are not concerned with the affairs of the British Empire but are concerned with our own safety ... the integrity of our own continent, and the lives of our own children in the next generation. That, I think, is a pretty good line to take because it happens to be true, and it is on that line itself that we must, for ... purely selfish reasons, prevent at almost any hazard the Axis domination of the world.
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights—that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.
What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for the Atlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.
Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.
There is no question but that you and I think alike in the great objectives of the peace when it comes. The real problem lies in the methods to be used to attain peace without hate.... [I]t is my thought that time is an essential in disseminating the ideals of peace among the very diverse nationalities and national egos of a vast number of separate peoples who, for one reason or another over a thousand years, have divided themselves into a hundred different forms of hate.... Therefore, I have been visualizing a superimposed—or if you like it, a superassumed—obligation by Russia, China, Britain and ourselves that we will act as sheriffs for the maintenance of order during the transition period. So it has come to pass a new world order or what ever it is you choose to call it.
our world has changed and is changeing and it will be our children left with the Issue that will haunt them for a generation and then some.
May god have mercy on our souls
by Joseph F Barber
A nationally known advertising man wrote me the other day ... to suggest that we tell the truth, i.e., that we are not concerned with the affairs of the British Empire but are concerned with our own safety ... the integrity of our own continent, and the lives of our own children in the next generation. That, I think, is a pretty good line to take because it happens to be true, and it is on that line itself that we must, for ... purely selfish reasons, prevent at almost any hazard the Axis domination of the world.
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights—that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.
What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for the Atlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.
Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.
There is no question but that you and I think alike in the great objectives of the peace when it comes. The real problem lies in the methods to be used to attain peace without hate.... [I]t is my thought that time is an essential in disseminating the ideals of peace among the very diverse nationalities and national egos of a vast number of separate peoples who, for one reason or another over a thousand years, have divided themselves into a hundred different forms of hate.... Therefore, I have been visualizing a superimposed—or if you like it, a superassumed—obligation by Russia, China, Britain and ourselves that we will act as sheriffs for the maintenance of order during the transition period. So it has come to pass a new world order or what ever it is you choose to call it.
our world has changed and is changeing and it will be our children left with the Issue that will haunt them for a generation and then some.
May god have mercy on our souls
The "cult" of Islam.
The "cult" of Islam.
by Joseph F Barber on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 10:47pm
Joseph/FREEDOM OR ANARCHY,Campaign of Conscience has given you numerous examples on this website as to the true nature of the sickening BRUTALITY and VIOLENT nature of the "cult" of Islam. Hopefully, you will have noticed that none of these examples are ISOLATED INSTANCES nor are they CONFINED to a particular Muslim controlled country.
Everywhere you find the "Religion" of the "False Prophet" Muhammad you will find some form of Muslim DEPRAVITY or other. For example, recently In the US, Muslim Muzzammil Hassan a TV executive BEHEADED his wife Aasiya in his N.Y, TV Studio. There have also been a number of honour killings of young girls in the US and Canada over the last year.
Likewise in Europe, we regularly hear of the GANG RAPE of Muslim women as HONOR- PUNISHMENTS, BRUTAL BEATINGS, MUTILATION AND HONOR KILLINGS. There have even been reports of BEHEADINGS in Ireland which has a national population of less than 5 million people with a tiny minority of Muslims,
All over Europe there are young Muslims rioting in the streets and calling for the BEHEADING OF ANYONE WHO DARES OPPOSE ISLAM, Murdered movie maker THEO VAN GOGH in the Netherlands is but one example. And yet even MORE horrifying was the SLAUGHTER Of 100 INNOCENT CHILDREN , WOMEN AND MEN AROUND THE WORLD OVER A FEW TOTALLY INOFFENSIVE CARTOONS OF MUHAMMAD BY A DANISH CARTOON ARTIST.
We have Muslim no-go areas, where Sharia Law is practiced and the law of the land ignored and the list goes on-and-on. AND THIS TREND IS SET TO CONTINUE AND GROW as more and more younger Muslim thugs turn to Radical Islamic groups whose sole INTENT is to cause as much civil unrest as possible in their host countries.
In conclusion, all the examples we have given you are both factual and verifiable and not scare-mongering on our part. Thus, we pose this question to [YOU]. NOW THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF THE FACTS, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO HALT THE INSIDIOUS GROWTH OF ISLAM IN YOUR COUNTRY????The world is Watching
by Joseph F Barber on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 10:47pm
Joseph/FREEDOM OR ANARCHY,Campaign of Conscience has given you numerous examples on this website as to the true nature of the sickening BRUTALITY and VIOLENT nature of the "cult" of Islam. Hopefully, you will have noticed that none of these examples are ISOLATED INSTANCES nor are they CONFINED to a particular Muslim controlled country.
Everywhere you find the "Religion" of the "False Prophet" Muhammad you will find some form of Muslim DEPRAVITY or other. For example, recently In the US, Muslim Muzzammil Hassan a TV executive BEHEADED his wife Aasiya in his N.Y, TV Studio. There have also been a number of honour killings of young girls in the US and Canada over the last year.
Likewise in Europe, we regularly hear of the GANG RAPE of Muslim women as HONOR- PUNISHMENTS, BRUTAL BEATINGS, MUTILATION AND HONOR KILLINGS. There have even been reports of BEHEADINGS in Ireland which has a national population of less than 5 million people with a tiny minority of Muslims,
All over Europe there are young Muslims rioting in the streets and calling for the BEHEADING OF ANYONE WHO DARES OPPOSE ISLAM, Murdered movie maker THEO VAN GOGH in the Netherlands is but one example. And yet even MORE horrifying was the SLAUGHTER Of 100 INNOCENT CHILDREN , WOMEN AND MEN AROUND THE WORLD OVER A FEW TOTALLY INOFFENSIVE CARTOONS OF MUHAMMAD BY A DANISH CARTOON ARTIST.
We have Muslim no-go areas, where Sharia Law is practiced and the law of the land ignored and the list goes on-and-on. AND THIS TREND IS SET TO CONTINUE AND GROW as more and more younger Muslim thugs turn to Radical Islamic groups whose sole INTENT is to cause as much civil unrest as possible in their host countries.
In conclusion, all the examples we have given you are both factual and verifiable and not scare-mongering on our part. Thus, we pose this question to [YOU]. NOW THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF THE FACTS, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO HALT THE INSIDIOUS GROWTH OF ISLAM IN YOUR COUNTRY????The world is Watching
US and the War on Medical Marijuana
US and the War on Medical Marijuana
Eleven years ago, California voters passed Prop 215, the Compassionate Use Act, permitting the use of marijuana to treat medical conditions. But state and local officials are still collaborating with federal law enforcement in a war on medical marijuana. And yet the feds will not give the weak or ill the right to choose the form of treatment that they find as and alternative to Pharmacuticles or lower cost.the federal Goverment by all rights is a Dictator in every sense of the word ,it will alow the leaders of comunities to set in place laws to govern .protect,and assist it peoples and then use it power to say no you do not have a right to choose you have a right to do as you are told or face prosecution this is opression and is a violation of all peoples rights
This is a good example of your right to choose being denied because of the Hipocracy of a goverment with out compassion for it,s own people or hearing there words and exepting what the citisens voted for in to law for there state,alternative medicines is everyones right.
http://www.medicalmarihuana.ca/health.html
Natural Health and Medicinal Uses for Marijuana
Do You Want to Sell Marijuana Legally?
Sell Marijuana Legally tells you everything you need to know. Written by government licenced certified organic marijuana growers, Sell Marijuana Legally gives you the inside scoop on how to get your marijuana growing licence to grow, distribute and sell medical marijuana.
Click here to find out more...
Marijuana or Cannabis an Excellent Alternative Medicine
Cannabis indica, cannabis sativa, cannabis americanus, Indian hemp and marijuana (or marihuana) all refer to the same plant. Cannabis is used throughout the world for diverse purposes and has a long history characterized by usefulness, euphoria or evil depending on one’s point of view. Medical professionals in the western world have forgotten almost all they once knew about the therapeutic properties of marijuana, or cannabis.
Analgesia, anti-convulsant action, appetite stimulation, ataraxia, antibiotic properties and low toxicity have been described throughout medical literature. For the most part the therapeutic aspects of cannabis remain to be re-explored under modern clinical conditions. In fact, from 1839 to its removal from availability to physicians in 1937 at least 12 separate therapeutic uses for cannabis were described:
analgesic-hypnotic
appetite stimulant
gastrointestinal sedative
anti-epileptic
anti-spasmodic
prophylactic and treatment of the neuralgias, including migraine and tic douloreuz
anti-depressant
tranquilizer
anti-asthmatic
oxytocic
anti-tussive
topical anesthetic
withdrawal agent for opiate and alcohol addiction
childbirth analgesic
antibiotic
Meanwhile, cannabis continues to be denied to sufferers by the government, despite efficacious preliminary results and entreaties of numerous patients to unresponsive government agencies rationalizing their intransigence by a "we can’t be too careful" stance.
Physicians and patients in increasing numbers continue to relearn through personal experience the lessons of the 19th century. Many people know that marihuana is now being used illegally for the nausea and vomiting induced by chemotherapy, and many other medical ailments.
Some know that it lowers intraocular pressure in glaucoma. Patients have found it useful as an anticonvulsant, as a muscle relaxant in spastic disorders, and as an appetite stimulant in the wasting syndrome of human immunodeficiency virus infection. It is also being used to relieve phantom limb pain, menstrual cramps, and other types of chronic pain, including migraines.
One of marihuana's greatest advantages as a medicine is its remarkable safety. It has little effect on major physiological functions. There is no known case of a lethal overdose.
On the basis of animal models, the ratio of lethal to effective dose is estimated as 40,000 to 1! By comparison, the ratio is between 3 and 50 to 1 for secobarbital, and between 4 and 10 to 1 for ethanol.
Marihuana is also far less addictive and far less subject to abuse than many drugs now used as muscle relaxants, hypnotics, and analgesics. The chief legitimate concern is the effect of smoking on the lungs. Cannabis smoke carries more tars and other particulate matter than tobacco smoke. But the amount smoked is much less, especially in medical use, and once marihuana is an openly recognized medicine, solutions may be found such as vaporization, tinctures, extracts and oils.
At present, the greatest danger in medical use of marihuana is its illegality, which imposes much anxiety and expense on suffering people, forces them to bargain with illicit drug dealers, and exposes them to the threat of criminal prosecution.
Further, polls and voter referenda have repeatedly indicated that the vast majority of North-Americans think marihuana should be medically available to the public and even decriminalized or legalized for simple possession.
Most physicians seem to take little active interest in the subject of marijuana as medicine, and their silence is often cited by those who are determined that marihuana shall remain a forbidden medicine.
Meanwhile, many physicians pretend to ignore the fact that their patients with cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, asthma or migraines are smoking marihuana for relief; some quietly encourage their patients yet fearing retribution from medical associations or their peers.
In a 1990 survey, 44% of oncologists said they had suggested that a patient smoke marihuana for relief of the nausea induced by chemotherapy. If marihuana were actually unsafe for use even under medical supervision, as its Schedule I status explicitly affirms, this recommendation would be unthinkable. It is time for physicians to acknowledge more openly that the present classification is scientifically, legally, and morally wrong.
Marijuana or cannabis will continue to be used effectively as medicine for a wide range of medical problems. The government and medical community need to recognize that all patients have a right to use a completely natural medicinal plant that helps their specific medical condition, and make it readily available for public medical use.
More reasonable laws and regulations controlling drug research are required to permit significant medical inquiry to begin so that we can fill the large gaps in our knowledge of cannabis.
Medicine, being an empirical art, has not hesitated in the past to utilize a substance first used for recreational purposes for the pursuit of the more noble purposes of healing, relieving pain and teaching us more of the workings of the human mind and body
Eleven years ago, California voters passed Prop 215, the Compassionate Use Act, permitting the use of marijuana to treat medical conditions. But state and local officials are still collaborating with federal law enforcement in a war on medical marijuana. And yet the feds will not give the weak or ill the right to choose the form of treatment that they find as and alternative to Pharmacuticles or lower cost.the federal Goverment by all rights is a Dictator in every sense of the word ,it will alow the leaders of comunities to set in place laws to govern .protect,and assist it peoples and then use it power to say no you do not have a right to choose you have a right to do as you are told or face prosecution this is opression and is a violation of all peoples rights
This is a good example of your right to choose being denied because of the Hipocracy of a goverment with out compassion for it,s own people or hearing there words and exepting what the citisens voted for in to law for there state,alternative medicines is everyones right.
http://www.medicalmarihuana.ca/health.html
Natural Health and Medicinal Uses for Marijuana
Do You Want to Sell Marijuana Legally?
Sell Marijuana Legally tells you everything you need to know. Written by government licenced certified organic marijuana growers, Sell Marijuana Legally gives you the inside scoop on how to get your marijuana growing licence to grow, distribute and sell medical marijuana.
Click here to find out more...
Marijuana or Cannabis an Excellent Alternative Medicine
Cannabis indica, cannabis sativa, cannabis americanus, Indian hemp and marijuana (or marihuana) all refer to the same plant. Cannabis is used throughout the world for diverse purposes and has a long history characterized by usefulness, euphoria or evil depending on one’s point of view. Medical professionals in the western world have forgotten almost all they once knew about the therapeutic properties of marijuana, or cannabis.
Analgesia, anti-convulsant action, appetite stimulation, ataraxia, antibiotic properties and low toxicity have been described throughout medical literature. For the most part the therapeutic aspects of cannabis remain to be re-explored under modern clinical conditions. In fact, from 1839 to its removal from availability to physicians in 1937 at least 12 separate therapeutic uses for cannabis were described:
analgesic-hypnotic
appetite stimulant
gastrointestinal sedative
anti-epileptic
anti-spasmodic
prophylactic and treatment of the neuralgias, including migraine and tic douloreuz
anti-depressant
tranquilizer
anti-asthmatic
oxytocic
anti-tussive
topical anesthetic
withdrawal agent for opiate and alcohol addiction
childbirth analgesic
antibiotic
Meanwhile, cannabis continues to be denied to sufferers by the government, despite efficacious preliminary results and entreaties of numerous patients to unresponsive government agencies rationalizing their intransigence by a "we can’t be too careful" stance.
Physicians and patients in increasing numbers continue to relearn through personal experience the lessons of the 19th century. Many people know that marihuana is now being used illegally for the nausea and vomiting induced by chemotherapy, and many other medical ailments.
Some know that it lowers intraocular pressure in glaucoma. Patients have found it useful as an anticonvulsant, as a muscle relaxant in spastic disorders, and as an appetite stimulant in the wasting syndrome of human immunodeficiency virus infection. It is also being used to relieve phantom limb pain, menstrual cramps, and other types of chronic pain, including migraines.
One of marihuana's greatest advantages as a medicine is its remarkable safety. It has little effect on major physiological functions. There is no known case of a lethal overdose.
On the basis of animal models, the ratio of lethal to effective dose is estimated as 40,000 to 1! By comparison, the ratio is between 3 and 50 to 1 for secobarbital, and between 4 and 10 to 1 for ethanol.
Marihuana is also far less addictive and far less subject to abuse than many drugs now used as muscle relaxants, hypnotics, and analgesics. The chief legitimate concern is the effect of smoking on the lungs. Cannabis smoke carries more tars and other particulate matter than tobacco smoke. But the amount smoked is much less, especially in medical use, and once marihuana is an openly recognized medicine, solutions may be found such as vaporization, tinctures, extracts and oils.
At present, the greatest danger in medical use of marihuana is its illegality, which imposes much anxiety and expense on suffering people, forces them to bargain with illicit drug dealers, and exposes them to the threat of criminal prosecution.
Further, polls and voter referenda have repeatedly indicated that the vast majority of North-Americans think marihuana should be medically available to the public and even decriminalized or legalized for simple possession.
Most physicians seem to take little active interest in the subject of marijuana as medicine, and their silence is often cited by those who are determined that marihuana shall remain a forbidden medicine.
Meanwhile, many physicians pretend to ignore the fact that their patients with cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, asthma or migraines are smoking marihuana for relief; some quietly encourage their patients yet fearing retribution from medical associations or their peers.
In a 1990 survey, 44% of oncologists said they had suggested that a patient smoke marihuana for relief of the nausea induced by chemotherapy. If marihuana were actually unsafe for use even under medical supervision, as its Schedule I status explicitly affirms, this recommendation would be unthinkable. It is time for physicians to acknowledge more openly that the present classification is scientifically, legally, and morally wrong.
Marijuana or cannabis will continue to be used effectively as medicine for a wide range of medical problems. The government and medical community need to recognize that all patients have a right to use a completely natural medicinal plant that helps their specific medical condition, and make it readily available for public medical use.
More reasonable laws and regulations controlling drug research are required to permit significant medical inquiry to begin so that we can fill the large gaps in our knowledge of cannabis.
Medicine, being an empirical art, has not hesitated in the past to utilize a substance first used for recreational purposes for the pursuit of the more noble purposes of healing, relieving pain and teaching us more of the workings of the human mind and body
Full Constitutional Protection for Some, but No Privacy for the Poor
Full Constitutional Protection for Some, but No Privacy for the Poor
In San Diego, poor people who want public benefits must give up their privacy. Investigators from the district attorney's office there make unannounced visits to the homes of people applying for welfare, poking around in garbage cans, medicine chests and laundry baskets.
Applicants are not required to let the investigators in. But they get no money if they refuse.
Lawyers who have sued on behalf of the applicants say that being poor should not mean having to give up the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable government searches. So far, the courts have disagreed, saying that rooting out welfare fraud justifies the searches, but not without drawing some fierce dissents.
"This situation is shameful," seven dissenting judges wrote when the full federal appeals court in San Francisco refused to rehear the case a few months ago. "This case is nothing less than an attack on the poor."
Luis Aragon, a deputy district attorney in San Diego, said the county had struck a sensible balance.
"Whenever one goes into a home," Mr. Aragon said, "of course you have to be concerned. The dilemma San Diego faced was, either you say yes to everybody or you have some verification.
"As for intrusiveness," he continued, "you probably went to college. You probably said you were a pretty good student. And they said, 'Yeah, but we want to see a transcript.' Doesn't the government have the right to some level of verification?"
I don't recall any admissions officers going through my sock drawer, but it was a long time ago and I was a distracted teenager.
The main problem, Mr. Aragon said, is the "alleged absent parent." Applicants sometimes claim to be single mothers when there is a man around the house, and investigators are on the lookout for that man.
"They're looking for boxer shorts in a drawer," said Jordan C. Budd, a law professor who represented the plaintiffs when he was legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union in San Diego. "They're looking for medicine in a man's name."
But the investigators do not limit their inquiries to potential welfare fraud. If they come across evidence of other crimes, like drug use or child abuse, they pass it along to the police and prosecutors.
The program apparently did reduce welfare fraud, or at least save money. According to the county's statistics, the denial rate for welfare applications rose to 48 percent from 41 percent over five years, and there was 4 to 5 percent increase in withdrawn applications.
The San Diego program is the most aggressive one in California and perhaps in the nation, but the recent decisions have probably given governments around the country all kinds of ideas. An earlier home-visit program, instituted in New York in 1995 by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, was largely dismantled as part of the settlement of a lawsuit in 1997.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs in San Diego said the money the county saved was not worth the price in privacy and dignity.
"The poor are presumed guilty, presumed lazy and presumed to be trying to gain something they don't deserve," said Professor Budd, who now teaches at the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, N.H. "It's a general poverty exception to the Fourth Amendment."
The majority in a divided three-judge panel decision last year upholding the program made two basic points. The first was that people are free to opt out - by giving up their welfare benefits.
The dissenting judge called that a false choice for an applicant desperate to feed her children.
The majority also relied on a 1971 Supreme Court decision, Wyman v. James, which upheld a New York program involving scheduled visits from social workers, not surprise searches by investigators from a prosecutor's office. The Supreme Court said the main purpose of the New York visits was "rehabilitation."
At his deposition in the case, Mr. Aragon said his office's investigators were not in the rehabilitation business.
"I'm trying to imagine what rehabilitation would be," he testified. "Get off the couch. Get a job. I don't know."
The plaintiffs have until next month to decide whether to ask the Supreme Court to hear their case. They say they have not made a final decision, which is a little surprising given the importance of the issue and the volume and vehemence of the dissents. But they may have reason to fear what the current Supreme Court would say.
One of the dissenting judges, Harry Pregerson, writing for himself and six colleagues in April, suggested one sort of argument that might be promising. He said there was a double standard at work.
"The government does not search through the closets and medicine cabinets of farmers receiving subsidies," Judge Pregerson wrote. "They do not dig through the laundry baskets and garbage pails of real estate developers or radio broadcasters."
Only the poor, he said, must "give up their rights of privacy in exchange for essential public assistance."
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In San Diego, poor people who want public benefits must give up their privacy. Investigators from the district attorney's office there make unannounced visits to the homes of people applying for welfare, poking around in garbage cans, medicine chests and laundry baskets.
Applicants are not required to let the investigators in. But they get no money if they refuse.
Lawyers who have sued on behalf of the applicants say that being poor should not mean having to give up the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable government searches. So far, the courts have disagreed, saying that rooting out welfare fraud justifies the searches, but not without drawing some fierce dissents.
"This situation is shameful," seven dissenting judges wrote when the full federal appeals court in San Francisco refused to rehear the case a few months ago. "This case is nothing less than an attack on the poor."
Luis Aragon, a deputy district attorney in San Diego, said the county had struck a sensible balance.
"Whenever one goes into a home," Mr. Aragon said, "of course you have to be concerned. The dilemma San Diego faced was, either you say yes to everybody or you have some verification.
"As for intrusiveness," he continued, "you probably went to college. You probably said you were a pretty good student. And they said, 'Yeah, but we want to see a transcript.' Doesn't the government have the right to some level of verification?"
I don't recall any admissions officers going through my sock drawer, but it was a long time ago and I was a distracted teenager.
The main problem, Mr. Aragon said, is the "alleged absent parent." Applicants sometimes claim to be single mothers when there is a man around the house, and investigators are on the lookout for that man.
"They're looking for boxer shorts in a drawer," said Jordan C. Budd, a law professor who represented the plaintiffs when he was legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union in San Diego. "They're looking for medicine in a man's name."
But the investigators do not limit their inquiries to potential welfare fraud. If they come across evidence of other crimes, like drug use or child abuse, they pass it along to the police and prosecutors.
The program apparently did reduce welfare fraud, or at least save money. According to the county's statistics, the denial rate for welfare applications rose to 48 percent from 41 percent over five years, and there was 4 to 5 percent increase in withdrawn applications.
The San Diego program is the most aggressive one in California and perhaps in the nation, but the recent decisions have probably given governments around the country all kinds of ideas. An earlier home-visit program, instituted in New York in 1995 by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, was largely dismantled as part of the settlement of a lawsuit in 1997.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs in San Diego said the money the county saved was not worth the price in privacy and dignity.
"The poor are presumed guilty, presumed lazy and presumed to be trying to gain something they don't deserve," said Professor Budd, who now teaches at the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, N.H. "It's a general poverty exception to the Fourth Amendment."
The majority in a divided three-judge panel decision last year upholding the program made two basic points. The first was that people are free to opt out - by giving up their welfare benefits.
The dissenting judge called that a false choice for an applicant desperate to feed her children.
The majority also relied on a 1971 Supreme Court decision, Wyman v. James, which upheld a New York program involving scheduled visits from social workers, not surprise searches by investigators from a prosecutor's office. The Supreme Court said the main purpose of the New York visits was "rehabilitation."
At his deposition in the case, Mr. Aragon said his office's investigators were not in the rehabilitation business.
"I'm trying to imagine what rehabilitation would be," he testified. "Get off the couch. Get a job. I don't know."
The plaintiffs have until next month to decide whether to ask the Supreme Court to hear their case. They say they have not made a final decision, which is a little surprising given the importance of the issue and the volume and vehemence of the dissents. But they may have reason to fear what the current Supreme Court would say.
One of the dissenting judges, Harry Pregerson, writing for himself and six colleagues in April, suggested one sort of argument that might be promising. He said there was a double standard at work.
"The government does not search through the closets and medicine cabinets of farmers receiving subsidies," Judge Pregerson wrote. "They do not dig through the laundry baskets and garbage pails of real estate developers or radio broadcasters."
Only the poor, he said, must "give up their rights of privacy in exchange for essential public assistance."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071607I.shtml