Sentencing in E. Oregon pot plantation case

PORTLAND— A Roosevelt, Wash., man who was charged with helping operate a marijuana plantation in Oregon’s Grant County is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in federal court in Portland.

The Oregonian reports Sergio Hernandez-Escalera will probably be deported to Mexico after his prison term.
He pleaded guilty to manufacturing more than 1,000 marijuana plants.
Two other men pleaded guilty in June and are awaiting sentencing.
A drug team raided the plantation in northeast Oregon in August 2009 and seized about 23,000 plants.


Read more: http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20101129/UPDATE/101129015/Sentencing-in-E-Oregon-pot-plantation-case#ixzz16h7uoVDO

How far will the T.S.A. go in violating our freedoms.

Science V. Religon

Science is not based on faith,like religion is.It is based on the FACTS at hand.No science isn’t always correct. Many times theories have to be changed because of new evidence.No science is not based on faith. It is built on knowledge.It is based on what is real. Not the primitive mythologies and superstitions of religion. Ya I believe in freedom of religion. If people want to remain ignorant of reality that’s their right.

The skinny on the Fatty.

The
govt says that marijuana (cannabis) has no medicinal value yet they
hold a patent! US Patent 6630507 titled "Cannabinoids as antioxidants
and neuroprotectants" which is assigned to The United States of
America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services.

WHY DOES THE MEDIA IGNORE THIS?

BECAUSE THEY ARE TOLD TO.

REMEMBER THIS THE NEXT TIME AN OFFICIAL TELLS YOU THAT WEED HASN'T BEEN STUDIED ENOUGH!

The
patent claims that "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."
The patent was obtained in October of 2003.

Cannabinoids,
for those who were wondering, are a group of chemical compounds found
in marijuana that are also referred to as terpenophenolic compounds.
One specific cannabinoid compound found in cannabis is
tetrahydrocannabinol, more commonly known as THC. This substance gives
marijuana its psychoactive effects.

Cannabis stops cancer - Harvard
Cannabis stops breast cancer - UCSF
Cannabis grows brain cells - Princeton
US Govt Patented Medicinal Marijuana, US patent #6630507

Are we together on legalizing pot ,or what?

Cant we get along together enough to get the law passed?
What is this stuff about "stoners against prop 19 ?
What stoners are listening to the wrong side? Get your head out of your ass and vote right.

Supreme Court Ruling: Indefinite Detention For Sex Offenders

In a 7-2 decision, the justices declared that a federal law allowing federal prisoners deemed "sexually dangerous" to be held even after they have served out their original sentences is constitutional.

The Court said Congress does have the power to keep such dangerous offenders out of society indefinitely.

Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, arguing that Congress went too far, and nothing in the Constitution permits this kind of extended confinement.

Did the Supreme Court get it right? Or is this just another expansion of federal power?

Since September 2001, I can't believe the actions of our government. This is not the land of the FREE anymore, it's the land of the locked up. What are we doing people? Look who we are becoming! If we allow the government to lock up American Citizens and throw away the key even after they have completed their sentence we are in trouble. More and more laws on written every day. Not affected yet? You will be. Big Brother is growing stronger. Before 1980, the prison population in the United States basically stayed at around only 250,000 people a year. Since that time, the number of incarcerated Americans has risen to over 2.5 MILLION people. That is 1 out of every 33 Citizens!! Revolution is coming. I hear Paul Revere!!


I know Ill get a lot of flack for this post,but this is a civil rights issue.
Im not saying that sex offenders shouldn't have to pay for crimes committed.Im saying that sex offenders should have the right not to be mistreated and abused
at the hands of the state.
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They start with the Sex offenders and soon were all on a list..That how the holocaust started. With the List.

Pot Could Tilt Races In Oregon

While Democrats are watching turnout levels in California to gauge the ability of marijuana ballot initiatives to turn out young voters, organizers to the north point to a second case study, which concludes that such a referendum would dramatically bolster interest in voting.

Backers of an Oregon measure to regulate the buying and selling of medical marijuana commissioned a poll to determine the effect of the question on young, progressive voters inclined to sit out the election. Pollsters quizzed 400 Oregonians who described themselves as Democrats or independents and rated their interest in the midterm election between one and five on a scale to ten. Half of the voters were given information about Measure 74 and the other half were told about the race for governor, currently a dead heat between Democrat John Kitzhaber and Republican Chris Dudley.

Voters told about the pot initiative were more than twice as likely to increase their interest voting -- which, in Oregon, is done by mail.

President Obama will visit Oregon on Wednesday to try to rally young voters. At least two Oregon House races remain competitive, with freshman Democrat Kurt Schrader and long-serving progressive Peter DeFazio fending off challengers.

Unlikely voters who were told about the pot initiative increased their interest in vote by an average of 3.5 points on the ten-point scale. By a margin of 62 to 21, they overwhelmingly support the measure and at a rate of 50 to 23, they prefer the Democratic candidate for governor. Both candidates, however, have spoken against the pot measure.

Medical marijuana is currently legal in Oregon, but voters rejected a 2004 measure that would have expanded the program to legalize dispensaries. The Yes on 74 campaign's war chest is filled with little more than seeds and stems, but the organization hopes that Democrats and organized labor will recognize the political wisdom of touting Measure 74 and offer the campaign some in-kind assistance.

Motivating young people to engage in politics, especially in an off-year, midterm election, is no simple matter. But the Oregon survey reflects what political operatives have found in California, Colorado and Washington state.



While Democrats are watching turnout levels in California to gauge the ability of marijuana ballot initiatives to turn out young voters, organizers to the north point to a second case study, which concludes that such a referendum would dramatically bolster interest in voting.

Backers of an Oregon measure to regulate the buying and selling of medical marijuana commissioned a poll to determine the effect of the question on young, progressive voters inclined to sit out the election. Pollsters quizzed 400 Oregonians who described themselves as Democrats or independents and rated their interest in the midterm election between one and five on a scale to ten. Half of the voters were given information about Measure 74 and the other half were told about the race for governor, currently a dead heat between Democrat John Kitzhaber and Republican Chris Dudley.

Voters told about the pot initiative were more than twice as likely to increase their interest voting -- which, in Oregon, is done by mail.

President Obama will visit Oregon on Wednesday to try to rally young voters. At least two Oregon House races remain competitive, with freshman Democrat Kurt Schrader and long-serving progressive Peter DeFazio fending off challengers.

Unlikely voters who were told about the pot initiative increased their interest in vote by an average of 3.5 points on the ten-point scale. By a margin of 62 to 21, they overwhelmingly support the measure and at a rate of 50 to 23, they prefer the Democratic candidate for governor. Both candidates, however, have spoken against the pot measure.

Medical marijuana is currently legal in Oregon, but voters rejected a 2004 measure that would have expanded the program to legalize dispensaries. The Yes on 74 campaign's war chest is filled with little more than seeds and stems, but the organization hopes that Democrats and organized labor will recognize the political wisdom of touting Measure 74 and offer the campaign some in-kind assistance.

Motivating young people to engage in politics, especially in an off-year, midterm election, is no simple matter. But the Oregon survey reflects what political operatives have found in California, Colorado and Washington state.
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Young, inspired voters were a key constituency that elected Obama in 2008, and their turnout in 2012 -- when a number of swing states are considering marijuana initiatives -- could determine control of the White House and Congress.

Voters fired up by pot are already working to drive California turnout for November.

Activists from Just Say Now have made nearly 6,000 calls in the last week, organizers say, using an online tool to turn out voters supportive of Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana. Just Say Now is coordinating with the Women's Marijuana Movement, which is also phone-banking on behalf of Prop 19, targeting women, who tend to vote Democratic.

Hundreds of mothers have signed a letter endorsing Prop 19, arguing controlling and taxing marijuana usage will make their communities safer for children. A small group of moms released the letter Tuesday and discussed their support for the measure.

"What we're doing with the policies that are in place now is hampering the kind of conversations we need to be able to have with our children," said Hanna Dershowitz, a lawyer and mother of two. "A reasonable conversation," she said, can only take place "in the context of controlled regulated marijuana."

Gretchen Burns-Bergman, a mother of two and Executive Director of Parents for Addiction Treatment and Healing, said she's all too familiar with the problems of pot prohibition and wonders how many other lives have been devastated by the policy.

"I know the damage of marijuana prohibition firsthand," Burns-Bergman said in a conference call with reporters Tuesday. "My son was arrested in 1990 for marijuana possession, which began a decade-long saga, a tremendous emotional saga for our family, a wasting of potential, and a tremendous tax burden to the state to incarcerate him."

Burns-Bergman said after his first arrest at age 20, her son was in an out of prison for 11 years, learning to inject heroin while behind bars. "Taking somebody who is a nonviolent pot smoker and introducing him to this kind of a system is terribly damaging," she said.