as important as this prop 19 is it seems like a much greater battle for success than it seemed at first the racist issue and the NAACP are important steps which goes beyond the hysterical retoric of safer roads many studies show that cannabis only drivers are safer [drive slower and greater following distances] and less at fault for accidents than teetotalers our side seems to fail to hammer our strongest points here is a letter I have recently written to an attorney to express the strongest defense at law Aloha **** just got off of the phone with ***** discussing the more complete and out of the religious box defense as religious rights do not free the most number of folks, such religious freedom does not for instance give medicinal freedom or recreational freedom I understand there is a legal axiom that you don’t get to use the poison fruit from the poison tree cannabis laws are inherently Jim Crow laws which violate the 13th amendment and the civil rights act. the M word used to legally describe Cannabis is from Mexican military slang which implies it takes two women Mary and Jane to satisfy the supposed lust generated by cannabis consumption, thereby, in one word, both racist [aimed at Mexicans ] and sexist [by objectifying women] further the NAACP just endorsed the prop 19 initiative in CA to legalize pot because arrest statistics demonstrate that folks of color [most particularly blacks and Hispanics] are arrested for so-called cannabis crimes at a rate which exceeds their respective percentages of the population this demonstrates that pot laws are still used in a Jim Crow fashion, the poison fruit from the poison tree [arrest statistics on the big island obtained by the peaceful sky ordinance show that haoles are arrested disproportionately to their percentage of the population] further: cannabis prohibition violates the following bill of rights amendments 1st 4th 5th 9th 10th 13th and 14th one by one 1st amendment rights to freedom of religion; Rastafarian, Hindus, Tantric Buddhist, Jews, Dagga, Zoroastrians and Christians all have historical sacramental use of cannabis in their belief systems RFRA calls for compelling state interest to prohibit Cannabis religiously; the sweeping prohibition of pot violates the rights of all religions which use or have used cannabis religiously 4th amendment which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. The amendment specifically also requires search and arrest warrants be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause; when police use helicopters to invade the privacy of citizens searching for cannabis such are unreasonable searches creating a poison fruit type of probable cause if any hither to unobservable plants are found 5th “….nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,” the use of hair or urine analysis constitutes ones own body to be a witness against oneself 9th addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” since the right to use cannabis or prohibit it is not mentioned in the constitution the govt can not deny or disparage its use [first President George Washington in his farming diaries at Mt. Vernon directed " make the most of the India Hemp seed, sow it EVERYWHERE] 10th “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” the PEOPLE retain the POWER to use pot it is a right of personal sovereignty the 9th and 10th amendments are the reason it took an amendment to the constitution to prohibit alcohol [more on this below] the 13th officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude. the prohibition of cannabis is a form of involuntary servitude and slavery to the government which implies that a persons body is controlled by the government 14th “…nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” because precedent was set for the prohibition of alcohol via the amendment process and since no amendment has ever been passed to prohibit cannabis both due process and equal protection are violated by cannabis prohibition the best way I believe to defeat the unconstitutional cannabis prohibition is to use all of the above to regain the rights of ALL the PEOPLE to use cannabis regarding the 1st amendment Jesus taught that we know a tree by its fruits cannabis seed is the worlds most perfect food nutritionally having all three essential fatty acids [the omega's] unique from any other food source it is said the Buddha existed on one hemp seed a day for an extended period of time Aloha Rev. Dennis Shields http://www.thereligionofjesuschurch.org



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