Look who's funding the war on drugs....

The California Beer & Beverage Distributors disclosed it donated $10,000 to defeat Prop 19 — which would regulate and tax marijuana like alcohol.
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The move echoes the tobacco and alcohol industry's help creating leading drug war group Partnership For a Drug-Free America.

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And Obama appointed an anti-marijuana crusader to head the agency that actually enforces laws against medical marijuana.

Personal info: A friend of mine got a Medical Marijuana license -- which let him stop taking 70 pain pills per day. What cost to the pain pill industry.

"I live two blocks from ground zero."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cristina-page/post_830_b_712565.html

I live two blocks from ground zero. .... We've had to explain far too early to our children, born in the years after 9/11, the jarring images sold by local street merchants to tourists, because no matter how old you are planes, soaring buildings and fire all together create an image that causes questions. In these years the neighborhood as healed, incorporating past tragedy, and changing it, making it part of everyday life, and now, finally, hope for restoration.
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One block south of my apartment, on Park Place, which is one block north of Ground Zero .... Park51, the proposed Muslim Community Center, has police stationed in front today. It's an empty shell of a building now on a block that was abandoned well before the devastation that happened one block below it nine years ago. The white noise about Park 51 masks important truths: the Muslim community that wishes to build there has been apart of our neighborhood for years and well before the attacks of September 11. .... That they wish to invest 200 million dollars back into the neighborhood, revive a deserted block, and join with the community that they have always been apart of gets little push back from those of us who live here. What better way to thumb our noses at terrorists than to show that Muslims stand united with us against terrorism committed in their name and will even help in our rebuilding?