Dr. Ron Paul

Throughout history, big government has caused more harm than good; often hiding tyranny under the guise of good intentions. Our founders knew big government would always mean a gang of evildoers.

Ooooops! Who spilled the beans? Doctors and patients all over the world that's who! The truth is out and spreading like wildfire! Cannabis cures cancer! This truth will not be suppressed, until every household knows the clamor, the swelling protest, exposing dark, dirty secrets of heinous crimes against humanity!

Cannabis medicines were once the “drugs of choice” in the United States. Until they were declared illegal, they had been used in about 30 prescription medicines for a 100 specific medical problems.

Our heroes, who have given their lives for this country, died for freedom and for making this world a better place will have died in vain; if the American dream of self-government free of tyranny and big government oppression dies.

Many of today's leaders seem to have minds like concrete; thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. Blinded by the light of billions in tax and lobby money; bleeding leaders, thus corrupted, are blithely unconscious of the societal harm their policies cause. Jiminey Cricket, where is their conscience?

We, the people, have little say in the running of this country. We have turned over the reins to a few cold-hearted, power-mad evildoers with little or no ethics, who in a careless bloodletting, feeding frenzy worship nothing more than the almighty dollar.

War creates a booming economy for some on the suffering of many. War is a recipe for disaster. The Iraq war and drug war are smokescreens for corruption but the people see the truth and smell the sleaze.

Our foreign policy is senseless. Instead of being a shining example of liberty to the world, we try to dictate democracy! We have abandoned our Constitution and the founder's ideal of nonintervention.

The US holds the dubious top honor on the world's prison population list again at 738 poor souls imprisoned per 100,000 people.

We are punishing people because servants of tyranny ignore science in naming their choice unwise when in fact it is a scientifically proven safer, wiser health choice, compared to legal alternatives. Taking children from the homes of parents who made a safer health choice in a medicinal or recreational drug is insane policy.

Scandals about big-bully police policies abound! Reminds you of alcohol prohibition; again official lawlessness rules us!

Save the children, just say NO to prohibition! Trigger less violence, racism, tyranny and ruined lives!

Stories of violent attacks, hate crimes and murder fill the media. Two young women were found killed execution style in Granbury and three Dallas children were shot in the back seat of their mom's Mercedes recently.

Atlanta police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston in a botched drug raid not long ago and the carnage continues. An Ohio SWAT team killed Tarika Wilson and shot her one-year-old son.

Prohibition's legacy is legend in the waste of our precious lives and resources. Deaths and needless injuries happen too often in botched paramilitary drug raids. Overzealous, unconscionable to the extreme, situations are occurring!

Ashley Villarreal: in San Antonio DEA agents shoot innocent 14-year-old girl in the head, but deny any wrongdoing.

Rachel Hoffman: a young college grad, coerced by police to act as an informant after she was arrested for marijuana possession and then killed by drug dealers following a botched drug sting.

Send a note to the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a national organization that unites mayors around policies and goals, and ask them to Stop SWAT style drug raids!

We all want, "Resilient Teens, Empowered Parents, Strong Communities!" This is Joy Strickland's Mothers Against Teen Violence organization's motto, following the tragedy of losing her son Charles Christopher Lewis (Chris), 19, and his friend, Kendrick Demond Lott, 18, who were robbed and brutally murdered in Dallas. Joy believes the war on drugs undermines the safety of our children.

Prisons propagate violence, sexual abuse and crime. Placing non-violent drug users in this "breeding ground" is policy bordering on insanity or reefer madness! The tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceutical gangs deal drugs that kill many more annually than all illicit drugs. We tolerate their salesmen!

Harassing the sick and dying over their medicinal use is the most un-American activity I can think of!

Big government plays on our fears to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources. Flushing $50 billion per year down the drug war drain failed to staunch the flow of black market drugs and made out teens more aware and curious about them!

Leaders responsible for current quagmire will one-day answer to a higher power for their crimes against humanity. It's time to end the terror by changing our intrusive, big-bully policies, both foreign and domestic. The monetary and environmental costs are staggering and the human suffering unconscionable.

Stop war, save the American dream! Restore justice in America; construct science based drug policies about saving and rehabilitating instead of ruining lives. Warriors can get their adrenalin rush increasing public safety; chasing murderers and violent sexual predators.