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We are seeking endorsements from Oklahoma doctors, patients, and prominent organizations.
We need Oklahomans who could benefit from medical marijuana to tell their stories and/or even testify to legislators about those who are either sick or in pain and who want or need medical marijuana.
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TO QUOTE:
"By now you almost don't have to talk about how bad the drug war is. I can't find anybody who will defend it any more, except for the people whose jobs depend on it like those in the White House or those in the drug office. It is a disaster by any standard. It's a budget item that is never debated because to debate this, to question this is to die politically. You can't find anybody to say that war on drugs has ended drug abuse, or that it's a good use of money. Everybody even the hawks will say, 'well, we know we can't imprison our way out of this problem.' Although, no body will defend it, we're not changing course either. And that is probably the most alarming and sickening aspect of the drug war that I've uncovered in working on this."
Dan Baum, investigative journalist and author of the book,Smoke and Mirrors, the War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure.
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"The biggest legislative flub-up of the century
was the criminalization of drugs such as marijuana, heroin, and cocaine. On a federal level, the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 and the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 made it illegal to possess or sell such drugs. Numerous federal and state statutes have further codified anti-drug laws. The result has been the creation of a criminal drug subculture, increased drug use and drug-related crimes, and poor allocation of law enforcement resources."
Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School professor
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"The current environment is so polluted with hysteria that nothing rational can happen to solve the drug problem. Until we're able to get the facts into perspective and debunk the myths, we're just not going to make progress and effectively deal with these issues."
Georgette Bennett
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“The Commission is of the unanimous opinion that marihuana use is not such a grave problem that individuals who smoke marihuana, or possess it for that purpose, should be subject to criminal procedures”
March 1972, U.S. National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse
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"If we discovered three drugs today and they were alcohol, tobacco and marijuana, there isn't an expert in the country who would recommend that marijuana be the one that is banned based on individual and societal harm."
Dr. Patrick Smith of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
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"I honestly feel like I have been kidnapped by the state of Oklahoma. I have never murdered anyone, raped anyone, or hurt any children. People feel they have the right to choose their sexual preference. If they want to end a life by abortion, if they want to inject nicotine into their lungs, if they want to drug themselves with alcohol, but because I choose to smoke a little marijuana, I have to go to prison for years, maybe the rest of my life....How can it be that the President, his wife, the Vice President and his wife, the mayor of Washington DC, even the Speaker of the House can do these things, but I must pay dearly?"
(From the James Geddes page. While his story is old, nothing since then has happened under Oklahoma law to keep another Geddes story from happening again.) Also see videos to the right.
LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES ON THE WAR ON DRUGS:
"Take it from a businessman: The War on Drugs is just money down the drain."
Gary E. Johnson, Governor of New Mexico (1995-2003)
"Penalties for the possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individial than the use of the drug itself."
Jimmy Carter, 39th U. S. President
"We need at least to consider and examine forms of controlled legalization of drugs."
George Shultz, Former U. S. Secretary of State
"Can any policy, however high minded, be moral if it leads to widespread corruption, imprisons so many, has so racist an effect, destroys our inner cities, wreaks havoc on misguided and vulnerable individuals and brings death and destruction to foreign countries?"
Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize Winner, Economics
"Eighty-five million Americans have experimented with illegal drugs. Since the object of criminal law is to detect and punish the wrongdoer, should we reason that 85 million of us should have spend time in jail?"
William F. Buckley, Jr., Founder, National Review
Coming from a state
where a family man, Will Foster, was initially sentenced to prison for 93 years and fined $65,000 after growing marijuana to treat his arthritic pain, the Drug Policy Reform Network of Oklahoma (DPRNOK) is a group of concerned citizens seeking to open up for discussion alternatives to current drug policy. We believe that the attempt to use the criminal justice system to discourage drug abuse or the so called "war on drugs" has backfired. It simply does not work, and the unintended consequences are now causing more damage to society than the drugs themselves could ever have caused. For too long this critical issue has been obscured by myth, misinformation and an absence of intelligent debate. Our intent is that the information made available will increase the level and quality of the debate so that citizens may be in better positions to affect change toward a sane drug policy.
Changes in drug policy that the DPRNOK believes to be desirable can be found at the DPRNOK Mission page. Also DPRNOK calls for a Drug War Truce with Peace Negotiations. Public meetings are occasionally held.
See Denise Stahl's Blog here:
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