The Media Freedom Foundation » smoking marijuana http://www.mediafreedominternational.org Media Democracy in Action Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:30:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New York City Wasting $75 Million a Year on Marijuana Arrests http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2011/04/04/new-york-city-wasting-75-million-a-year-on-marijuana-arrests/ http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2011/04/04/new-york-city-wasting-75-million-a-year-on-marijuana-arrests/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:29:54 +0000 admin http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/?p=1854 New York city waste $75 million arresting people for having a minimal amount of marijuana, less than an ounce.  It costs approximately $1,000 to $2,000 to arrest each person in possession of marijuana.  The NYPD arrests more than 1,000 people a week mainly with their “stop and frisk” practices, which people have claimed are racially-biased due to the overwhelming number of NYC Latinos and blacks arrested compared to whites.  The NYPD also use dishonest tactics, such as coercing people to reveal their marijuana by offering a lenient punishment for their cooperation or searching individual’s pockets without reason or permission.

Mayor Bloomberg of New York City has confessed to enjoying smoking marijuana, he has overseen more than 350,000 people arrested for possessing marijuana since he was elected in 2002, which has cost between $500 million to $1 billion to taxpayers.  Marijuana possession is considered a minor offense with respect to penalty by the courts, but it can dramatically affect the individual’s life because their offense is permanently entered into criminal databases.

 

Title: New York City Wasting $75 Million a Year on Marijuana Arrests

Author: Jesse Levine

Source: Alternet, 3/15/11

URL: http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/150263

 

Student Researcher: Ashley Wood, Sonoma State University

Faculty Evaluator: Professor Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University

 

 

 

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]]> http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2011/04/04/new-york-city-wasting-75-million-a-year-on-marijuana-arrests/feed/ 1 The Criminalization of Marijuana has a Heavy Toll http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2010/11/27/the-criminalization-of-marijuana-has-a-heavy-toll/ http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2010/11/27/the-criminalization-of-marijuana-has-a-heavy-toll/#comments Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:27:03 +0000 admin http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/?p=1139 The criminalization of marijuana in the United States has resulted in 15 million people have become prisoners in our jails. According to the California Legislative Analysts and the Director of Finance an estimate of at least several tens of millions of dollars can be saved on the costs of incarceration of marijuana offenders. In addition to this extra revenue, there can potentially be major taxes and fees which the state of California could have access to, in regards to the production and sale of marijuana products, if proposition 19 would have passed.

During the 2010 November elections in California, Proposition 19, which would have legalized recreational marijuana use by a person over the age of 21, did not pass. Proposition 19 gave California Voters a chance to remedy the evils of the war on drugs, a war without foundation or cause, which has haunted American’s citizens who have been incarcerated for simply possessing or smoking marijuana. Undoubtedly, the criminalization of marijuana has been a fraud on the American people from the very beginning of the war on drugs.

This is true even if the United States government knew that marijuana posed less of a risk to American Society than alcohol, making it far easier to arrest those people who use and possess marijuana. As a result, the criminalization of marijuana has only benefited those who profit from the illegal cultivation and sale of marijuana.

Title: The Fraudulent Criminalization of Marijuana

Author: William John Cox

Publication Truthout, October 4, 2010

URL: http://www.truth-out.org/the-fraudulent-criminalization-marijuana63664

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]]> http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2010/11/27/the-criminalization-of-marijuana-has-a-heavy-toll/feed/ 2 Smoking Marijuana Does Not Cause Lung Cancer http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2009/12/02/smoking-marijuana-does-not-cause-lung-cancer/ http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2009/12/02/smoking-marijuana-does-not-cause-lung-cancer/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:58:27 +0000 admin http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2009/12/02/smoking-marijuana-does-not-cause-lung-cancer/ Research at UCLA shows that while smoking marijuana damages cells in respiratory tissue but somehow it prevents the cells from becoming malignant. Something in Marijuana exerts an anti-cancer effect, reports UCLA Medical School professor Donald Tashkin. Tashkin’s team interviewed 1,210 cancer patients and found that increased marijuana use did not increase cancer, where as smoking tabacco clearly was related to cancer. Tashkin found that even the very heavy marijuana smokers showed no increased incidence of the three cancers studied.  Although no association between marijuana and cancer was found, the study findings, presented to the American Thoracic Society International Conference this week, did find 20-fold increase in lung cancer among people who smoked two or more packs of cigarettes a day. Other important findings from this study are that THC has been shown to promote apoptosis and to counter angiogenesis.

Title: Smoking Marijuana Does Not Cause Lung Cancer

Author: Fred Gardner

Source: Alternet.org, Date; August 28, 2009

URL:  www.alternet.org/story/142271

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