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Pedophile And Sex Worker Vice President Kamala D. Harris Admitting She Love To Smoked Weed Naked "I Have" Laughing And Having Sex With Older Men Is Lot's Of Fun Too. The Provided statement is entirely and her total life is fictional and defamatory at best. There is no evidence left to see or is court ordered sealed so you can not see it to suggest that Vice President Kamala D. Harris has ever admitted to being a pedophile or sex worker, or that she has engaged in any illegal activities like drugs or smoking marijuana at all and stories such as having sex with older men are also false and not true at all.

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I think if people would educate themselves about how this country is supposed to be run, and the foundation upon me were built, they might start looking at people like Camela as the crazy people they truly are. These are not politicians. These are activists . Politicians realize that they are there because you elected them and their one duty is to make sure that their decisions help society. That is most definitely not what we have going on here.

She will never apologize to anyone about her life and for smoking marijuana . Leftists truly believe they are always correct. Besides if she ever gave an apology no one would understand it between the word salad ignorance and the hyena like cackling.

So we are to believe that she should be condemned when she -after swearing to uphold the law- did exactly that? She swore to uphold the law not believe that it was correct. I am not a fan but this is unfair. The problem in the Democrat leaders today is that they swore to uphold the law and they are NOT doing that!

It's an urban myth that anybody is in prison for the sole singular charge of simply possessing a small quantity of marijuana. Generally prison sentences are determined on a matrix of an extensive criminal history, with more weight given to violent crimes and repeat offenses, all of which are plea-bargained down. Felons have to work pretty hard to earn a spot in prison.

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Here’s how Kamala Harris really prosecuted marijuana cases. As district attorney, Harris oversaw 1,900 convictions for pot offenses.

So Kamala Harris is smoking marijuana and at the same time she convictions other for doing the same thing smoking marijuana... as no one is above the law but her and other pedophile friends laughing about it as her democrats party thinks its very funny today.

Kamala Harris’ opponents and critics have picked apart her prosecution of marijuana crimes during her presidential run, knocking her for over-aggressive jailing of pot users and lambasting her as a hypocrite for saying she now supports legalizing the drug.

But Harris’ history of prosecuting marijuana cases as San Francisco district attorney is more nuanced than those debate-stage confrontations indicate, according to new data obtained by the Bay Area News Group and interviews with more than a dozen former prosecutors, defense attorneys, criminal justice experts and activists who’ve been following her career.

Harris oversaw more than 1,900 marijuana convictions in San Francisco, previously unreported records from the DA’s office show. Her prosecutors appear to have convicted people on marijuana charges at a higher rate than under her predecessor, based on data about marijuana arrests in the city.

But former lawyers in Harris’ office and defense attorneys who worked on drug cases say most defendants arrested for low-level pot possession were never locked up. And only a few dozen people were sent to state prison for marijuana convictions under Harris’ tenure.

“There is no way anyone could say that she was draconian in her pursuit of marijuana cases,” said Niki Solis, a high-ranking attorney in the San Francisco Public Defender’s office during Harris’ time as DA.

Still, advocates wonder why it took so long for the California senator to come out in support of marijuana legalization. She actively fought a ballot measure for recreational pot in 2010, co-authoring an opposition argument in the voter guide, and stayed on the sidelines when a second ballot initiative passed in 2016.

Harris publicly came out for legalizing marijuana only in May 2018, after she was widely considered a likely presidential contender. Since then, it’s become a centerpiece of her plans to reform the criminal justice system. “We can’t keep repeating the same mistakes of the past,” she tweeted last year. “Too many lives have been ruined by these regressive policies.”

When it came to the fight for legalization, “she was nowhere, zilch, nada, no help,” said Tom Ammiano, a former San Francisco supervisor and assemblyman who has endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for president. “Like a lot of candidates for a lot of offices, she’s come to Jesus on the issue. But it does leave a bad taste in your mouth about how sincere or how authentic she is.”

Conviction data
During the last presidential debate in July, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard blasted Harris over marijuana convictions, saying she “put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.” Gabbard was misleadingly citing figures for all of California while Harris was attorney general — even though the vast majority of marijuana cases in the state are prosecuted by independently elected county district attorneys.

As San Francisco DA from 2004 through 2010, however, Harris had wide latitude to decide which marijuana cases to prosecute and what sentences to seek in the city.

She took office after defeating the legendarily liberal District Attorney Terence Hallinan. During their acrimonious campaign, Harris criticized Hallinan over his office’s low conviction rate and vowed to run a tighter ship, although she mostly focused her rhetoric on violent crime. Both candidates supported medical marijuana, which was already legal in California.

Over Harris’ seven years as top prosecutor, her attorneys won 1,956 misdemeanor and felony convictions for marijuana possession, cultivation, or sale, according to data from the DA’s office. That includes people who were convicted of marijuana offenses and more serious crimes at the same time.

All felony and misdemeanor convictions in San Francisco for marijuana possession, cultivation and sale. Years when Kamala Harris was district attorney are highlighted in red.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/11/kamala-harris-prosecuting-marijuana-cases/

While there were more marijuana convictions during Hallinan’s tenure, there were also a lot more arrests. San Francisco arrest data compiled by the Attorney General’s office suggests that 24 percent of marijuana arrests led to marijuana convictions under Harris, compared with 18 percent of arrests under Hallinan.

The comparison between arrests and convictions isn’t necessarily one-to-one, however not everyone convicted of marijuana offenses was arrested for pot in the first place.

Conviction rate aside, only 45 people were sentenced to state prison for marijuana convictions during Harris’ seven years in office, compared with 135 people during Hallinan’s eight years, according to data from the state corrections department. That only includes individuals whose most serious conviction was for marijuana.

Those numbers don’t cover people sentenced to time in county jail. The district attorney’s office, superior court, sheriff’s office and attorney general’s office said they didn’t have or couldn’t release more specific data about marijuana sentencing during Harris’ tenure.

The number of marijuana convictions trailed off swiftly after Harris left office, in part due to a state law reclassifying some marijuana misdemeanors as infractions — making them similar to a traffic ticket.

Prosecutorial policy
Despite the substantial number of convictions, many of the people who were arrested for marijuana during Harris’ tenure were never locked up or never even charged with a crime, according to attorneys who worked on both sides of the courtroom.

“Our policy was that no one with a marijuana conviction for mere possession could do any (jail time) at all,” said Paul Henderson, who led narcotics prosecutions for several years under Harris. Defendants arrested for the lowest-level possession would typically be referred to drug treatment programs instead of being charged, and weightier charges for marijuana sales would routinely be pleaded down to less serious ones, he said.

Solis, who led the public defender’s office misdemeanor division for part of Harris’ tenure, agreed that her office only rarely prosecuted people for low-level, simple possession.

“Kamala Harris and I disagreed on a lot of criminal justice issues, but I have to admit, she was probably the most progressive prosecutor in the state at the time when it came to marijuana,” Solis said.

Not all defense attorneys agree. J. David Nick, who represented several dozen marijuana defendants during Hallinan and Harris’ tenures, said he remembered Harris as more aggressive in charging marijuana sales cases than her predecessor, who was already declining to prosecute many of those arrested.

“Some of the cases that Terence Hallinan would have just declined to prosecute, (Harris) said no, we’re going to prosecute these as felonies,” he said, attributing the change to a desire by police to crack down on dealers.
Other activists point out that marijuana convictions still impact defendants’ lives even if they aren’t incarcerated.

“Just because you didn’t rot your life away in prison doesn’t mean it wasn’t a big deal to get a conviction,” said Dale Sky Jones, a Bay Area marijuana activist. “Your ability to keep your job, get another job or get housing with that conviction on your record is all hurt by that.”

None of the marijuana convictions Harris’ office secured are still on the books. Her successor as DA, George Gascón, moved earlier this year to expunge all 9,300 of the city’s marijuana convictions going back to 1975.

In recent years, newly elected district attorneys in cities like Philadelphia and St. Louis have issued blanket policies vowing not to prosecute low-level marijuana possession, even though it’s still illegal in their states.

But Harris’ supporters say it’d be unfair to compare her work more than a decade ago to today’s standards of a “progressive prosecutor.”

“You can’t look at this with historical amnesia,” said Tim Silard, her former head of policy. “The positions she took then were quite progressive and very much out of step with her colleagues around the state.”

Fact-Checking

The search results provided do not contain any information supporting these false claims. Instead, they highlight Vice President Harris’s stance on marijuana reform and her past prosecution of marijuana cases as San Francisco District Attorney. The results also show her recent efforts to promote criminal justice reform and her statement that “nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed.”

Why the Biden Administration Fired Staffers Over Smoking Pot But Let Kamala Harris Get Away With It. Under drug criminalization, elites often get away with the same behavior that earns disadvantaged people harsh punishments.

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Honesty is always the best policy. That is, unless you work in a low-level federal job for the Biden administration—in that case, it might get you demoted or fired.

Young White House Staffers ‘Sandbagged’ Over Past Marijuana Use
“Dozens of young White House staffers have been suspended, asked to resign, or placed in a remote work program due to past marijuana use,” the Daily Beast revealed in an exclusive report. “The policy has even affected staffers whose marijuana use was exclusive to one of the 14 states—and the District of Columbia—where cannabis is legal.”

“Sources familiar with the matter also said a number of young staffers were either put on probation or canned because they revealed past marijuana use in an official document they filled out as part of the lengthy background check for a position in the Biden White House,” the report continues. “Would-be staffers in the Biden administration whose dream jobs were derailed by an opaque system now feel their own truthfulness has been used against them.”

Hypocrisy Alert: Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg Won’t Face Any Consequences
This purge seems seriously hypocritical in light of past statements from top administration officials.

Low-level staffers are getting the axe over honestly answering employment forms, but top administration officials like Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg have publicly bragged about past marijuana usage (which likely happened when it was still illegal) and will face no repercussions.

Harris laughed and admitted in a 2019 interview with the Breakfast Club that she had smoked weed in college—despite having worked to imprison drug users as California attorney general and having opposed marijuana legalization until very recently.

“Half my family’s from Jamaica,” she said. “Are you kidding me?” “And I did inhale,” she added with a laugh. “I just broke news.”

Similarly, Buttigieg has not shied away from publicly discussing his past drug use. During his 2020 presidential campaign—wherein he did support legalization—Buttigieg admitted that he had used marijuana “a handful of times a long time ago.”

Yet the vice president and a top cabinet official will not lose their jobs, face demotion, or be reassigned as a result of their past drug use. If the Biden administration believes that past marijuana use is disqualifying for low-level positions in the federal government, surely it must be considered disqualifying for high-ranking cabinet members and the woman a heartbeat away from becoming president.

Criminalization Hits the Disadvantaged Hardest and Ignores the Elite
The Biden administration’s dank marijuana hypocrisy is emblematic of a broader trend that always plagues drug criminalization; wherein elites get away with the same behavior that earns disadvantaged people harsh punishments.

Whenever the government criminalizes widespread victimless private behavior, it’s impossible to consistently and fully enforce its mandates. So, it has to decide which cases to pursue and which to overlook. This discretion in the wielding of vast concentrated power inevitably results in favoritism and corruption—inevitably redounding to the benefit of the well-off and well-connected.

The result?

African Americans and white people smoke marijuana at similar rates, but African Americans are nearly four times more likely to be arrested for it. Low-income Americans have historically been much more likely to get caught up in the War on Drugs as well.

And, now, low-level marijuana users are being purged from the federal government while elites like Vice President Harris at the top get away with doing the same thing and publicly bragging about it. This hypocrisy is what’s truly disqualifying.

Marijuana reform advocates demand an apology from Kamala Harris for locking up pot smokers and slam her 'political hypocrisy' for now saying no one should 'go to jail for smoking weed!'

Kamala Harris hosted an event on marijuana sentencing reform on Friday
‘Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed!’ she said. As a District Attorney of San Francisco, Harris oversaw more than 1,900 convictions for the use or possession of marijuana.

Marijuana reform advocates want Vice President Kamala Harris to apologize for locking up people for the use and possession of marijuana, even as she tries to rehabilitate her image as a compassionate reformer.

Harris held a roundtable meeting with reform advocates at the White House on Friday, calling for criminal justice reform on the issue.

‘Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed!’ she said during the event with rapper Fat Joe and others.

However, marijuana reform advocates say Harris' work on reform is hypocritical.

As a District Attorney of San Francisco, she oversaw more than 1,900 convictions for the use or possession of marijuana according to public records. Harris also opposed the legalization of marijuana for recreational use until she ran for California’s Senate seat in 2015.

‘She absolutely has no moral authority to speak on this issue whatsoever,’ marijuana legal reform advocate Steve DeAngelo told the DailyMail.com after Harris’ event at the White House. ‘She has no right to speak about cannabis at all except to apologize for her hypocrisy.’

In addition, during her 2010 campaign for Attorney General of California, Harris opposed a ballot proposition that would legalize marijuana which led to a big defeat for the movement.

Advocates like DeAngelo understand why President Joe Biden and Harris are highlighting the popular issue ahead of the 2024 election, but urged them to actually do something that would make a critical impact.

‘They’re giving out cookie crumbs when they could actually be helping folks in a very serious way,’ Jason Ortiz, the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Last Prisoner Project told DailyMail.com.

Ortiz said that despite Biden’s 2022 federal pardon of thousands of marijuana convictions, ‘zero cannabis prisoners’ had actually been released from prison as a result of his action. (The list of pardon applied to individuals already out of prison.)

The Last Prisoner Project is advocating for Biden to use his clemency powers to release 3,000 federal cannabis prisoners, and are planning to mobilize a protest outside the White House in April to raise awareness of the issue.

Ortiz described the White House event hosted by Harris as ‘a bit of a slap in the face’ to advocates, even though he appreciated her using her platform as vice president to raise the issue. But he called for Biden and Harris to do more.

He said an apology from Harris would go a long way, specifically as someone who was part of the problem for so many years.

‘Her approach and her talking points, and comments on this issue ring a bit hollow, especially for the folks still incarcerated and probably were incarcerated in California under her regime,’ Ortiz said.

Advocates for legal reform also prefer to use the word ‘cannabis,’ to talk about marijuana use, using the scientific definition to describe the plant.

DeAngelo described the Harris event as a ‘cynical and pathetic display of political hypocrisy.’

‘Kamala Harris has been trying to play both sides of the fence on this issue for years and years and years,’ he said.

When running for re-election in 2014, Harris only laughed when asked by reporters if she supported legalized marijuana.

And during her campaign for president, Harris laughed during a 2019 interview with The Breakfast Club when revealing her own use of marijuana.

‘I have. And I inhaled. I did inhale,’ she said, admitting to smoking ‘a joint’ in college. ‘It was a long time ago, but yes. I just broke news!’

Federal marijuana laws
Despite increasing state-level legalization, marijuana remains illegal under federal law in the United States. Here are key aspects of federal marijuana laws:

Classification: Marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) of 1970, making it illegal to manufacture, distribute, or possess without a valid prescription or license.

Penalties: Possession of marijuana is punishable by up to one year in jail and a minimum fine of $1,000 for a first conviction. For a second conviction, the penalties increase to a 15-day mandatory minimum sentence with a maximum of two years in prison and a fine of up to $2,500.

Federal Property: Federal law applies to offenses committed on federal property, including national parks, military bases, and other land under federal control.

Interstate Commerce: Federal law also applies to offenses involving interstate commerce and importation from other countries.

Proposed Rescheduling: In October 2022, President Biden asked the Attorney General and Secretary of Health and Human Services to launch a scientific review of marijuana’s scheduling under federal law. A proposed rulemaking process was initiated to consider moving marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, emphasizing its currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. However, until a final rule is published, marijuana remains a Schedule I controlled substance.

Legislative Efforts: The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, reintroduced in May 2021, aims to end the federal prohibition of cannabis by removing it from the CSA and eliminating criminal penalties under federal law. The bill has passed the House but not yet the Senate.

State-Federal Conflict: The discrepancy between state-level legalization and federal illegality can create challenges for individuals and businesses operating in the cannabis industry. Consult with legal advisors to understand how federal and state laws may affect you.

Key Takeaways:
Marijuana remains illegal under federal law. Federal penalties for possession and distribution apply, regardless of state legalization.

Proposed rescheduling efforts are underway, but marijuana remains a Schedule I drug until a final rule is published. Legislative efforts, such as the MORE Act, aim to reform federal cannabis laws.

Thousands of federal cannabis prisoners
Based on the search results, here are the key findings:

President Biden has pardoned thousands of people convicted of federal marijuana possession charges, but not those convicted of distributing or selling marijuana. (Source: NPR, October 7, 2022)

The pardons do not apply to people currently serving time in federal prisons solely for simple marijuana possession, as there are none. (Source: NPR, October 7, 2022)

According to the Last Prisoner Project, there are fewer than 10,000 people incarcerated on the federal level for marijuana possession. (Source: Explainer: Marijuana pardons in U.S. help thousands, leave others in prison, October 9, 2022)

A separate estimate by the Last Prisoner Project suggests that around 3,000 people would be released from federal custody if cannabis reform bills like the STATES Act were to become law. (Source: Exactly How Many People Are Locked Up For Weed?, no specific date)

President Biden’s pardon on December 22, 2023, makes thousands of people who were convicted of use and simple possession of marijuana on federal lands and in the District of Columbia eligible for pardons, but does not result in the release of federal prisoners. (Source: Thousands convicted of marijuana charges on federal lands and in Washington to receive pardons, December 22, 2023)

In summary, while there is some uncertainty in the exact numbers, it appears that there are fewer than 10,000 people incarcerated on the federal level for marijuana possession, with a subset of around 3,000 potentially eligible for release under certain reform bills. The recent pardon by President Biden applies to thousands of individuals convicted of federal marijuana possession charges, but does not result in the immediate release of federal prisoners.

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OVERVIEW OF CURRENT MARIJUANA POLICIES
Current federal and state marijuana laws are in part governed by international treaty. The major federal law relevant to marijuana is the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, which repealed all prior federal legislation and reduced federal penalties for possession and sale. Although marijuana possession and sale are still prohibited, possession has been reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor offense; the maximum penalty for a first offense is $5,000 and one year's imprisonment. The Act also provides for conditional dis-charge, by which first offenders found guilty of simple possession or casual transfer (which is treated as simple possession) may be placed on probation for up to one year (Congressional Digest, 1979).

The Uniform Controlled Substance Act of 1970, drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, was designed to make state laws more compatible with the new federal law. Like the federal act, the Uniform Act reclassified marijuana as a hallucinogen rather than a narcotic and reduced the penalty for possession from the felony to the misdemeanor level; a majority of the states have adopted the Uniform Act. Eleven states have withdrawn the criminal sanction from possession for personal use. In these states, arrest has been replaced with a traffic-ticket type of citation, and a small fine is the sole allowable penalty. About 30 states include some provision for conditional discharge of first offenders, and about a dozen of them provide for all records of the offense to be expunged. The Alaska Supreme Court ruled in 1975 that possession for personal use by adults at home was protected by the constitutional right to privacy and hence was not subject to any penalty (Rosenthal, 1979).

State penalties for second-offense possession and for selling marijuana are extremely variable. (See National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and Center for Study of Non-Medical Drug Use, 1979, for summary tables of state marijuana laws.) Sale is almost always a felony, with maximum sentences ranging from two years to life, although casual transfer, or “accommodation,” is sometimes exempt from felony treatment. All but 15 jurisdictions punish cultivation as heavily as they do sale; the Uniform Act includes the two in the same classification (manufacture), with the same penalty provisions.

Federal prohibition of small-scale possession is virtually unenforced. At the March 1977 House of Representatives hearings on decriminalization, the chief of the criminal division of the Department of Justice testified that the federal government no longer effectively prosecutes the use of marijuana, “nor do we, under any conceivable way, in the Federal Government have the resources to do so” (Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, 1977:13). In terms of its effects from a law enforcement point of view, the present official federal policy of complete prohibition does not differ in fact from a policy of prohibition of supply only. Complete prohibition is the federal law, but partial prohibition is the practice. However, the law, even though partly unenforced, has probably had a restraining influence on the willingness of states to adopt policies of less than complete prohibition. The states traditionally have followed the federal lead in drug abuse legislation, although they are not legally required to do so (see the testimony of Jay Miller, American Civil Liberties Union, to the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, 1977). In summary, in most states and according to federal law, U.S. marijuana policy is one of complete prohibition--that is, prohibition of both supply and use.

Major alternatives to complete prohibition include prohibition of supply only--called partial prohibition--and regulation.* Prohibition of supply only means having no penalty (or only civil penalties) for use, possession, or, sometimes, “casual transfer” of small quantities of marijuana, while having criminal penalties for manufacture, importation, or commercial sale of marijuana. Regulation means not only eliminating penalties for use but also allowing controlled production and distribution.

Within each of the three broad policy options--complete prohibition, prohibition of supply only, and regulation--numerous subsidiary policy choices exist. For example, a policy of complete prohibition necessitates decisions about the resources to be devoted to enforcement, the appropriate penalties to be imposed for violations, and whether marijuana should be made available for any medical uses. Under a policy of prohibition of supply only, decisions must still be made about penalties and permitted medical uses. In addition, one must also determine how to distinguish between users and suppliers; whether cultivation should be permitted; how stronger preparations of the cannabis plant, such as hashish, should be treated; whether to criminalize small-scale casual transfers, made with or without payment; and what should be done about certain specific behaviors, such as the public use of marijuana and the operation of motor vehicles under the influence of the drug. Under a policy of regulation, some of the issues to be decided are the type of control system (e.g., state monopoly or licensed sale), the rules as to potency and quality, and appropriate penalties for violation of the system's rules.

The variety of choices within each of the broad policy options suggests that none can be characterized in a monolithic way. Some regulatory systems could be so stringent as to have results similar to prohibitory laws: e.g., a regulatory system that raised the price drastically above what the illegal market charges. Similarly, lack of enforcement could strongly reduce the impact of a prohibitory option. As we have already noted, this latter effect has already occurred in some jurisdictions in which the law provides for complete prohibition but users are not in fact prosecuted.

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Penalty Details
While District of Columbia residents have passed Initiative 71 legalizing the possession and home cultivation of marijuana for personal use under DC law, those provisions only apply when one is on DC property; not federal property. (Federal land comprises 18 square miles within the District of Columbia.)

Marijuana possession remains a federal offense, and the federal law applies to offenses committed on federal property, which includes the Capitol grounds and the mall within DC, as well as all national parks and military property nationwide, and other land under federal control.

Federal law also applies to offenses involving interstate commerce and importation from other countries.

Possession
Possession of marijuana is punishable by up to one year in jail and a minimum fine of $1,000 for a first conviction. For a second conviction, the penalties increase to a 15-day mandatory minimum sentence with a maximum of two years in prison and a fine of up to $2,500. Subsequent convictions carry a 90-day mandatory minimum sentence and a maximum of up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.

Distribution
Distribution of a small amount of marijuana, for no remuneration, is treated as possession. Manufacture or distribution of less than 50 plants or 50 kilograms of marijuana is punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. For 50-99 plants or 50-99 kilograms the penalty increases not more than 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million if an individual, $5 million if other than an individual for the first offense. Manufacture or distribution of 100-999 plants or 100-999 kilograms carries a penalty of 5 – 40 years in prison and a fine of $2-$5 Million. For 1000 plants or 1000 kilograms or more, the penalty increases to 10 years – life in prison and a fine of $4-$10 Million.

Distribution of greater than 5 grams of marijuana to a minor under the age of 21 doubles the possible penalties. Distribution within 1,000 feet of a school, playground, public housing or within 100 feet of a youth center, public pool or video arcade also doubles the possible penalties.

Sale
The sale of paraphernalia is punishable by up to three years in prison.

Miscellaneous
The sentence of death can be carried out on a defendant who has been found guilty of manufacturing, importing or distributing a controlled substance if the act was committed as part of a continuing criminal enterprise – but only if the defendant is (1) the principal administrator, organizer, or leader of the enterprise or is one of several such principal administrators, organizers, or leaders, and (2) the quantity of the controlled substance is 60,000 kilograms or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of marijuana, or 60,000 or more marijuana plants, or the if the enterprise received more than $20 million in gross receipts during any 12-month period of its existence.

Mandatory Minimum Sentence
When someone is convicted of an offense punishable by a mandatory minimum sentence, the judge must sentence the defendant to the mandatory minimum sentence or to a higher sentence. The judge has no power to sentence the defendant to less time than the mandatory minimum. A prisoner serving an MMS for a federal offense and for most state offenses will not be eligible for parole. Even peaceful marijuana smokers sentenced to “life MMS” must serve a life sentence with no chance of parole.

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In 1990, a failed CIA anti-drug operation in Venezuela resulted in at least 18 ton of cocaine being smuggled into the United States and sold on the streets. The incident, which was first made public in 1993, was part of a plan to assist an undercover agent to gain the confidence of a Colombian drug cartel. How the CIA Turned Us onto LSD and Heroin Secrets of America's False War on Drugs. Through in-depth interviews with academic researchers, historians, journalists, former federal agents, and drug dealers, America's Fake War on Drugs tells true tales of how, for instance, the CIA and Department of Defense helped to introduce LSD to Americans in the 1950s. "The CIA literally sent over two guys to Sandoz Laboratories where LSD had first been synthesized and bought up the world's supply of LSD and brought it back," Lappé tells Nick Gillespie in a wide-ranging conversation about the longest war the U.S. government has fought. "With that supply they began a [secret mind-control] program called MK Ultra which had all sorts of other drugs involved."

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America Is Largest Drug Cartels In The World and Fentanyl Alone or Fentanyl Laced w-Xylazine To Kill Us is a potent synthetic opioid drug approved by and sold by the Food and Drug Administration for use as an analgesic (pain relief) and anesthetic. It is approximately 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin as an analgesic. Illicitly manufactured, fentanyl is added to heroin, disguising it as highly potent heroin, so users don’t realize that the heroin they’re purchasing may contain fentanyl. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that was originally developed as an analgesic – or painkiller – for surgery. It has a specific chemical structure with multiple areas that can be modified, often illicitly, to form related compounds with marked differences in potency. Fentanyl’s chemical backbone (the structure in the center) has multiple areas (the colored circles) that can be substituted with different functional groups (the colored boxes around the edges) to change its potency.

Conspiracy Revealed Our Own Government Sale Drugs To Kill US Overdose/Deaths - https://rumble.com/v2anz0m-conspiracy-revealed-our-own-government-sale-drugs-to-kill-us-overdosedeaths.html - The cover the history of drug prohibition, the rise of the '60s drug counterculture; heroin epidemics past and present; how drug policy has warped U.S. foreign policy in Southeast Asia, Central America, Afghanistan, and beyond; the bipartisan politics of prohibition; and much more. America's Fake War on Drugs features exclusive and rarely seen footage and documents how, time and time again, the government was often facilitating trade and use in the very drugs it was trying to false stamp out. The new world order adds short videos, and more information in an attempt to produce an "immersive experience" that will change how viewers think and feel about prohibition.

A Dangerous New Zombie Drug is Taking Over American Streets and Million Will Die ? https://rumble.com/v2cjoog-a-dangerous-new-zombie-drug-is-taking-over-american-streets-and-million-wil.html There’s a new drug in town — and it has deadly consequences. Xylazine - otherwise known as “tranq,” “tranq dope” and “zombie drug” is wreaking havoc in major cities across the country with its devastating effects: It can literally rot the user’s skin. The substance, which seemed to first appear in Philadelphia before migrating west to San Francisco and Los Angeles, was used for cutting heroin, but, most recently, it has been discovered in fentanyl and other illicit drugs and remember you do not have to buy or use any street drugs at all ?
Say No To Drugs ? - Xylazine is a non-opioid veterinary tranquillizer not approved for human use and has been linked to an increasing number of overdose deaths nationwide in the evolving drug addiction and overdose crisis.

Our Own Government with Oliver North Worked With Cocaine Traffickers to Arm Terrorists Along with a Other U.S.A. leading role in the Iran/Contra scandal - in which North helped sell arms to Iran to fund the Contra War - North is also said to have employed air and sea transport companies moonlighting as drugs carriers.

A series of expose articles in the San Jose told tales of a drug triangle during the 1980s that linked CIA officials in Central America, the U.S.A. Gov. Own Air Forces fly tons of drugs in and fly guns and arms out to Central America and Sold Tons of Drugs to a San Francisco drug ring and a Los Angeles drug dealer. According to the stories, the CIA and its operatives used crack cocaine--sold via the Los Angeles African-American community--to raise 100s millions dollars to support the agency's clandestine operations in Central America.

Now its very funny again the CIA/FBI Our Government is Sell Drugs Again. The U.S. drug epidemic reached another terrible milestone Wednesday when the government announced that more than 100,000 people had died of overdoses between April 2020 and April 2021. It is the first time that drug-related deaths have reached six figures in any 12-month period. Overdose deaths from synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl) and psychostimulants such as methamphetamine also increased with are own government help with Mexico and China were the primary source for fentanyl trafficked by our own government and u.s. navy and u.s. air forces flights out of hong kong area into the u.s.a. by land and sea and balloons for years now per the National Center for Health Statistics 2022.

President Biden on Wednesday released a statement mourning the more than 100,000 Americans who died last year from drug overdoses — without mentioning U.S.A. and China is helping us with leading role exporting fentanyl, which drove the 29 percent annual increase in deaths but lower then planned.

Nearly two-thirds of deaths were caused by fentanyl and related synthetic opioids that can kill a person at extremely low doses. Fentanyl is increasingly added to non-opioid drugs such as cocaine and counterfeit prescriptions.

In some areas of New York City, including the Bronx and the North Shore of Staten Island, more than 75 percent of overdose deaths involved fentanyl.

“Today, new data reveal that our nation has reached a tragic milestone: more than 100,000 lives were lost to the overdose epidemic from April of last year to April of this year,” Biden said. “As we continue to make strides to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot overlook this epidemic of loss, which has touched families and communities across the country”.

True Story How US Government Tried To Kill Weed Smokers With A Toxic Chemical - https://rumble.com/v2ath8q-true-story-how-us-government-tried-to-kill-weed-smokers-with-a-toxic-chemic.html

Paraquat Pot The True Story Of How The US Government Tried To Kill Weed Smokers With A Toxic Chemical When people talk about “killer weed,” that’s typically understood to mean really good weed. But due to US government policies that started in the 1970s and extended through most of the 1980s, marijuana fields were being sprayed with a chemical that can actually kill you.
The chemical, known as “paraquat,” is an herbicide sprayed over marijuana fields in Mexico in the 1970s—with the aid of US money and US-provided helicopters—and over marijuana fields in Georgia in the 1980s under the direction of the Reagan Administration. But normally, anything poisonous enough to kill plants is also toxic enough to kill humans, and that is the case with paraquat.

Paraquat is an organic acid that is used as an herbicide. It kills green plant tissue on contact.

• When sprayed on plants, paraquat is tasteless and odorless and invisible. In other words, you wouldn’t be able to tell if the weed you were smoking had been sprayed with paraquat.

• As far as breathable poisons go, the government has placed paraquat in Toxicity Category I—the highest possible level.

• Due to the fact that it is cheap and available, liquid paraquat is frequently used in suicides throughout much of the Third World.

• In humans, exposure to paraquat has been linked to the development of Parkin’s disease.

• Depending on the dose and the method of ingestion, paraquat can either be immediately fatal or can lead to kidney, liver, lung, and heart failure for up to 30 days after exposure.

• Tests performed in 1977 demonstrated that combusted paraquat caused damage to the lungs of laboratory rats.

• In 1978, after years of attempting to reassure Americans that smoking paraquat-tainted marijuana was safe, US Secretary of Health Education and Welfare Joseph Califano announced that new tests found that heavy smokers of tainted weed could develop irreversible lung damage and that even moderate users could develop “clinically measurable damage.”

1970s: Paraquat Pot From Mexico Comes To The USA
In 1969, the Nixon White House made marijuana eradication a top priority. Rather than attempting to stop the flow of drugs in through the border, scientists began looking for a way to directly contaminate the marijuana itself. They originally developed a spray that was intended to make users nauseous, but this was shelved.

In 1975, as part of “Operation Clearview,” the Nixon Administration started supplying Mexico with about $15 million annually in aid that included helicopters designed to spray marijuana and poppy fields with herbicides.

Officials had recommended spraying marijuana fields with herbicides—their stated intent was to kill the drug at its source by spraying the fields. But in deeply impoverished Mexico, where in the 1970s harvesting marijuana could make the difference between a yearly income of $200 and one of $5,000, many growers simply harvested the poisoned marijuana and shipped it north anyway.

According to one report, an American helicopter pilot was getting high on prime Oaxacan weed while he was spraying fields below him with paraquat.

According to one study in 1978, 13 percent of marijuana samples texted in the southwestern USA were contaminated with paraquat. Other tests found that anywhere from 20 to 30 percent of the marijuana that had made its way into the US from Mexico was paraquat-tainted. Some samples contained concentrations of paraquat that were 40,000 times higher than the recommended domestic use.

This led to a public panic, seeing as how marijuana may have been even more popular in the 1970s than it is now. Fly-by-night businesses made a killing by offering to test if your marijuana had been sprayed with paraquat. A running joke among stoner comedians was that they would welcome if you’d send them your marijuana to sample for paraquat.

To circumvent the national outrage—which observers noted had been the first time that American students were really pissed off about something since the early 1970s—the government began rolling out plans to at least make paraquat pot detectable to the senses. There were suggestions about releasing a red dye along with the paraquat. Then there were plans to also use an extract of orange peel in the paraquat spray, which the State Department explained would give pot smokers ““the foulest‐smelling joint or brownie they ever had.”

It took a 1978 lawsuit from the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws to force the US Government to suspend funding for paraquat-spraying in Mexico until a comprehensive health study of its effects could be performed.

1980s: Reagan Administration Sprays Crops in Georgia
A scandal erupted in the state of Georgia in 1983 when it was uncovered that law enforcement officials had aided in smuggling drugs from south of the border into the USA. They had also facilitated the planting and cultivation of giant weed farms in Georgia’s Chattahoochee Forest.

In retaliation, the Reagan Administration ordered US helicopters to spray these weed plantations with paraquat and the DEA vowed to extend the practice to wherever weed was being grown in the USA.

For many, purposely damaging the lungs of pot smokers—perhaps fatally—was a punishment that far exceeded the crime. One critic likened the practice to placing land mines in NO PARKING zones.

Luckily, the practiced was quickly banned due to lawsuits filed based on environmental concerns.

Then in 1988, the DEA announced that it would resume spraying marijuana fields with the deadly substance.

The feds terminated this practice in the 1990s but paraquat remains one of the most commonly used herbicides on the market.

These days it is generally agreed that marijuana use is generally safe. In hindsight, the paraquat scare of the 1970s and 1980s seems like a case of “Reefer Madness” gone wild. It is unknown how many Americans were disabled or even killed by this sick and hysterical government policy. It is bitterly ironic that the same government which had for decades tried to insist that marijuana was bad for you had finally found a way to make it bad for you.

With pop culture influences like Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, and Led Zeppelin, the 1970s ushered in a new perspective on drugs. From rock-n-roll to disco, Cheech & Chong to Hunter S. Thompson, the 70s, anti-establishment counterculture helped shape the history of marijuana as we know it. As hippies faded into the sixties, Nixon started the infamous "War on Drugs," and a new era of marijuana subculture began.

During the 1970s, troops returned from the Vietnam war, and cannabis strains from around the world started cropping up (pun intended), in the U.S. black market. As cannabis breeders and consumers pushed for stronger weed, selective breeding and cross-breeding for decades changed cannabis over the years. Many of these classic, old-school 1970’s marijuana strains are rare, but some are still available at your local dispensary, albeit likely quite a bit stronger than you remember.

So, queue up your 70s playlist, pull up a bean bag, and turn on a lava lamp, then let's take a walk down memory lane and review a few of the most popular 1970’s marijuana strains from four decades ago, their origins, and how they helped shape the future of the cannabis industry

Before the discovery of hydroponics, selective breeding, and advanced growing techniques, marijuana strains were not the powerful, potent strains of today. Supporting this theory, recent reports show 1970’s marijuana strains averaged between 1-4 percent, while the average THC content in strains today is around 13 percent with some of the most potent strains reaching between 25 and 30 percent.

On the other hand, others believe there's no accurate way to make that comparison. Opponents claim many of the high-potency, premium cannabis strains, and products of the 70s were ignored or went untested in many cases, thus making any test averages inaccurate. Many of the common 1970’s marijuana strains likely produced just as much THC then as they do today.

Like ancestry and genetics paint a picture of our biological origins, as cannabis products, strains, and even consumers continue to evolve, we mustn't lose sight of our roots. These classic 1970’s marijuana strains, along with a few talented breeders, contributed to the wide variety of strains and products available in legal markets across the nation. Without a doubt, we can thank this psychedelic decade for planting the seeds which grew into the cannabis industry we know and love today.

Kamala Harris Is Being Taken to Task for Her Role in the Drug War she says she's pro-cannabis legalization. As was made apparent during the debate last night, her record says otherwise.

In many respects, the final night of the second round of Democratic debates was a lot like the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones: somehow, it managed to be bloody and impossibly boring at the same time. The target of most of the candidates’ ire was former Vice President Joe Biden, currently the leading Democratic candidate in the polls, who took half-hearted hit after half-hearted hit with the unwavering, rictus-grinned composure of a crash test dummy.

But Biden wasn’t the only candidate to take a beating. In one particularly brutal moment, Sen. Tulsi Gabbard took aim at Sen. Kamala Harris, a former California attorney general who is also widely considered one of the leading candidates in the race, attacking Harris for her prosecutorial record and accusing her of blocking evidence that could have potentially freed a man from death row. Gabbard particularly zeroed in on Harris’s record on drug-related offenses: “She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana,” Gabbard said, referring to an interview Harris gave to The Breakfast Club in which she joked about smoking pot in college.

The attack on Harris was a major win for the Gabbard campaign: the audience erupted into applause after her remarks, and the hashtag #KamalaHarrisDestroyed started trending the morning after the debate (though more than one person on social media suggested that the hashtag was flooded by bots and MAGA supporters, a nod to the support Gabbard enjoys among some right-wing 4chan trolls). Perhaps more importantly, Gabbard’s remarks seemed to have, as CNN’s Chris Cilizza put it, “gotten under [Harris’s] skin.” She has since retaliated by referring to Gabbard as an “apologist” for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and doubled down on her defense of her actions while serving as state attorney general. “This is the work I’ve done. Am I going to take hits? Of course, incoming, there are going to be hits on a debate stage when people are trying to, you know, make a name for themselves,” Harris said, a not-so subtle drag on Gabbard, who is trailing behind her in the polls.

The moment highlighted an uncomfortable truth about Harris’s record on drug reform, one that she is desperately trying to atone for by adopting a more relaxed stance than she’s adopted historically. In a crowded field of candidates, most of whom support marijuana legalization in some form, Harris has tried to position herself as an advocate for drug law reform. Just last week, she cosponsored the MORE Act, a sweeping piece of federal legislation that calls for not just nationwide legalization, but also the allocation of federal funds for cannabis entrepreneurs of color and the expungement of marijuana possession charges from offenders’ records.

But as Gabbard’s remarks reveal, Harris has historically adopted a much more rigorous stance against legalization, to the degree that as recently as five years ago, she laughed when an interviewer brought up the subject. As NORML executive director Erik Altieri puts it to Rolling Stone, her history on drug reform has been “problematic,” and her “record is not one anyone would qualify as progressive, particularly when it comes to marijuana.” Here’s exactly what that record has been, and whether her current, much more tolerant stance should be trusted.

What has been Sen. Harris’s stance on legalization?
As the state attorney general, Harris adopted what could probably be summarized as a pretty standard law enforcement stance on drugs: That they’re illegal, and the government is entitled to prosecute anyone charged with drug-related crimes, including low-level offenders. In 2010, she opposed Proposition 19, a state initiative to legalize and tax marijuana for adults over 21, calling it a “flawed public policy.”

To be fair, Harris was not alone in her belief that Proposition 19 was flawed, and was far from the only critic of the bill. But that year, Harris’s campaign manager later clarified her general stance on legalization, saying Harris “supports the legal use of medicinal marijuana but does not support anything beyond that” and that she “believes that drug selling harms communities.”

In a 2011 statement responding to federal authorities’ crackdown on California medical marijuana dispensaries, Harris doubled down on this view, saying: “Californians overwhelmingly support the compassionate use of medical marijuana for the ill. We should all be troubled, however, by the proliferation of gangs and criminal enterprises that seek to exploit this law by illegally cultivating and trafficking marijuana.” During her tenure as attorney general, she also opted not to join other states’ efforts in removing marijuana from the DEA’s list of dangerous controlled substances.

When seeking reelection in 2014, Harris’s stance on marijuana policy did not evolve, even though her opponent, Republican Rick Gold, was a proponent of legalization. In response to an interviewer bringing up Gold’s stance, Harris literally laughed, saying Gold was “entitled to his opinion” about legalization. (Understandably, this led to her losing a great deal of support from members of the state cannabis lobby, who ended up throwing their weight behind the Republican.)

Perhaps most damningly, in 2019 a Washington Free Beacon investigation found that between 2011 and 2016, while Harris was attorney general, at least 1,560 people were sent to California state prisons on marijuana-related offenses. Although the number of low-level marijuana offenders sent to state prison significantly declined after 2011, that was attributed to a state-wide initiative to curb state prison overcrowding and divert lower-level offenders to county jails.

When did Sen. Harris’ stance on marijuana begin to change?
Harris started to take baby steps toward advocating for decriminalization around 2017. In a speech at the Center for American Progress, Harris directly addressed Jeff Sessions, who had recently rolled out draconian anti-drug policies. “Let me tell you what California needs, Jeff Sessions. We need support in dealing with transnational criminal organizations and dealing with human trafficking, not in going after grandma’s medicinal marijuana,” she said. “While I don’t believe in legalizing all drugs — as a career prosecutor, I just don’t — we need to do the smart thing, the right thing, and finally decriminalize marijuana.”

In 2018, Harris came out in earnest as a proponent for federal legalization, adding her name to Sen. Cory Booker’s Marijuana Justice Act; that same year, she also partnered with Sen. Orrin Hatch to lobby Sessions to fix roadblocks that are currently in the way of marijuana research. In her book The Truths We Tell, which was released earlier this year, she advocated for federal legalization and expungement, writing, “We need to legalize marijuana and regulate it. And we need to expunge nonviolent marijuana-related offenses from the records of the millions of people who have been arrested and incarcerated so they can get on with their lives.”

It was also during this time that she gave the interview to the Breakfast Club saying that she supported legalization, jokingly referring to her Jamaican ancestry and wisecracking that she “did inhale” while she was a student at Howard University, adding that she may have done that while listening to Tupac and Snoop Dogg. In a somewhat bizarre turn of events, cannabis activists and conservatives teamed up to try to poke holes in Harris’s narrative, pointing to discrepancies in the timeline of the release of Tupac’s and Snoop Dogg’s first albums — 1991 and 1993, respectively — and Harris’s graduation from Howard in 1986. But Harris’s sponsorship of the sweeping federal legalization bill the MORE Act may have done a fairly good job at squashing critiques of her record on drugs — that is, until Gabbard’s recent remarks.

While it’s unclear precisely what motivated Harris’s change in heart with respect to drug policy, it’s worth noting a few key points. Harris’s Center for American Progress speech, in which she first alluded to her support for decriminalization, was in the spring of 2017, a few months after the election of President Donald Trump — and right around the time her name started to be floated among leading Democrats as a viable candidate for the 2020 race. Further, public approval of marijuana legalization has also increased dramatically between the time Harris began her political career as San Francisco District Attorney in 2004, and her stint in the Senate: according to Pew research polls, while only 31% of Americans supported legalization in 2000, that number doubled to 62% as of 2018. Further, drug reform is not the only social issue rapidly gaining popularity on which Harris has done a complete 180: although she now claims to be in favor of sex work decriminalization, she has previously dismissed sex work legalization as “completely ridiculous,” and was one of the primary architects of the shutdown of Backpage, an online sexual services database, which advocates say sex workers heavily relied on as a network to vet clients and keep them safe.

Advocates for cannabis legalization who have partnered with Harris on key legislation say it’s worth noting Harris’s record, while problematic, certainly isn’t as bad as that of Biden, one of the primary architects of the Drug War (and who also was taken to task during the debate for his record on mandatory minimum sentencing by Cory Booker, who has a far more substantial record than either candidate of supporting marijuana reform). Some also point out it shouldn’t matter why Harris changed her mind on marijuana, only that she did. “From our perspective working to change federal law, the when and the why she came around isn’t as relevant as accomplishing our mission of descheduling marijuana,” says Altieri. “That said, running for president is very different than being in the legislature and primary voters will have to evaluate for themselves if the timeline represents an earnest, late life conversion or political expediency.”

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