Hopes are sky high right now to restore justice. Two hundred and 37 years ago on July 4th our forefathers were the detonators for the American dream. Dreams are often spectacularly difficult to achieve and we are still far from there. However, we finally have the tools to actualize our dream. It's positively an exciting time to be alive folks!

Don't just watch the fireworks help create an explosion of freedom and peace! “Creativity Is Contagious. Pass It On.” – Albert Einstein

Hold on to your hats; we the people are taking control (one more time)! Through the wonders of electronic media we are united! Liberty demands eternal vigilance and more of us than ever before have time and a camera handy to be watchdogs and whistleblowers to end a lot more of the current tyranny and injustice.

Our Declaration of Independence is the most important of all our documents. Along with the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights, it is one of the three greatest documents of the English-speaking world. The fifty-six Signers mutually pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor in the cause of liberty. The Declaration was inspired by a higher purpose for humanity. No other patriotic document has ever produced such successful, beneficial and far-reaching results.

Let's celebrate the birth of our nation by committing ourselves, "to bring into being a real order of justice." Almost always, through out history, the creative dedicated, nonviolent minority with closely held principles have made the world a better place. Those who care about principles, not parties or personalities are America's true patriots, defenders of the American dream of self government, free of big government tyranny and oppression.

"When evil men (and women) plot, good men (and women) plan. When evil men (and women) burn and bomb, good men (and women) must build and bind. When evil men (and women) shout ugly words of hatred, good men (and women) commit themselves to the glories of love. Where evil men (and women) would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men (and women) must seek to bring into being a real order of justice."
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

War on marijuana racially biased, new report suggests! "There is an arrest for marijuan possession every 37 seconds... at a cost of $36 billion dollars a year and ...That is a crime against sanity!" - Lawrence O'Donnell. Obama's Justice Department Is Sending More People of Color to Prison on Drug Charges - Eric E. Sterling, President, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation.

"To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." - Nelson Mandela

"What's the Cost?" confirms how much the U.S. Justice Department has spent over three presidential administrations to investigate, raid, arrest, prosecute, and imprison hundreds of medical cannabis patients and their providers -- nearly half a billion dollars. Far outspending all of his predecessors, the report reveals that President Barack Obama has dedicated nearly $300 million to such enforcement efforts, despite his repeated pledges to not use Justice Department funds in this way??!!

Read the full report & sign the petition to end the war on Patients! Veterans and all of us deserve the free use of all herbal medicine! Many herbs and other naturally occurring compounds don't need their tweaking to be good medicine and are indeed synthesized in many patent medicine formulas.

"Comparing the harm to science to that done by the Catholic Church in banning the works of Gallileo and Copernicus, Nutt says, 'People have not even realized how much research and how many possible new treatments have been blocked by drug laws.'"

Study: Cannabis may prevent brain damage! Another new Study Shows Cannabinoids Improve Efficiency Of Mitochondria And Remove Damaged Brain Cells. Medicinal Cannabis Provides Dramatic Relief for Sufferers of Chronic Ailments!

Watch this incredible video about two pediatric cannabis patients. It will revolutionize the way that the world views the cannabis plant.

"Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state." -Mark Twain to the New York General Assembly in 1901 as reported by the New York Times.

It is your civic duty to see THE HOUSE I LIVE IN, as Ty Burr of The Boston Globe suggests.

Horror story! It is morally bankrupt to punish nonviolent adults for making a safer health choice, cannabis or marijuana, compared to other medicinal/social drugs. Treatment is seven times cheaper than prison.

Show fiscal responsibility, demand morally correct policy! Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty!

The wasted resources and the destruction of lives and families will continue as usual unless we change to a regulated, community-based policy using science-based education and treatment for abusers, a safer drug policy for the user and society.

Morally bankrupt policy is a violence-triggering nightmare! I am afraid! Aren't you? Really violent predators roam free and rape kits go unprocessed while our precious resources are depleted chasing nonviolent drug users. Real warriors get their adrenaline rush making us all safer, catching violent rapist and killers! Save lives instead of ruining them. Get tough on violent crime!

The tobacco, alcohol and prescription drug gangs cause more death annually than all illicit drugs! The Truth About Heroin Documentary from England.. "Drug prohibition causes more pain, suffering and death than the drugs themselves." Cries Howard Wooldridge of COPs.

Unjust laws lead to a prevalent disrespect for all law. Unjust laws make folks feel justified in breaking them and other laws.

Martin Luther King, Jr. in his famous letter from Birmingham Jail made this comment: "One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."

End the drug war in the Americas! President Pérez Molina said "We thank Avaaz for this petition because it gives us as leaders of the continent the strength to debate the issue without it being seen as taboo." If you want the US to alter it's anti-drug approach please sign this petition! The documentary “Breaking the Taboo,” lays out powerful statistics as to why the so-called war on drugs has failed.

Help us pick a name for the 2014 Cannabis Legalization Act! I selected other and suggested the, "Restore Justice Act!" and I am bursting with hope we CAN Restore Justice across America!!

One Neuroscientist Rethinks Addiction, “Drugs are not as dangerous as we have made them out to be,” Hart says. “I'm trying to get people to use the data, the empirical evidence, and when you do that, you realize that we have been lied to, the public has been lied to.”

Kablooey! Cannabis rockets toward mainstream bursting the feds bubble of lies! They don't want us to grow our own medicine or recreational drug.....but that is tough and the tyrannical predatory capitalists can just suck it up! WASHINGTON (AP) — "Now, in just a few short years, public opinion has moved so dramatically toward general acceptance that even those who champion legalization are surprised at how quickly attitudes are changing and states are moving to approve the drug — for medical use and just for fun."

Moral politicians and governments learn from their mistakes. We all accept that alcohol prohibition was a mistake but did we learn anything? Drug prohibition has triggered violence, corruption and led to a prevalent disrespect for all law just as the "noble experiment" did.. What was " gentle, highborn, imperial, kingly, patrician, queenly, titled, wellborn," about it? I know, it made kings and queens of monetary kingdoms for those willing to profit by breaking the law. As well as allowing morally bankrupt tyrants, bullies and violent individuals in law enforcement free reign.

Colorado and Washington have become the first of US and the first political jurisdictions anywhere in the world to approve regulating, taxing and controlling marijuana similar to alcohol.

"The adoption of these bills is a truly historic milestone and brings Colorado one step closer to establishing the world's first legal, regulated, and taxed marijuana market for adults," said Mason Tvert, director of communications for the Marijuana Policy Project, who sparked the campaign! He was co-director for the ballot measure approved by Colorado.

"Facilitating the shift from the failed policy of prohibition to a more sensible system of regulation has been a huge undertaking, and we applaud the many task force members, legislators, and others who have helped effect this change," Tvert shared the efforts success with co-rebels with just cause or propellants to let freedom ring!.

Alison Holcomb, the drug policy director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, set off the campaign to legalize marijuana under state law. Alison said she was pleased to see the board balancing public safety and public health with the creation of a workable legal market for marijuana.

Mason and Alison will share one of the 2014 Rebel with Just Cause portraits for this blast for self-government! “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” - Thomas Jefferson

I am naming Edward Snowden as the other 2014 Rebel with Just Cause! Sign this petition: You have the power to make a big difference! We have 124,355 signatures so far...thanks for all you do for reform!

Just in case someone reading this is not aware, since 2006 I have awarded two "Rebel with Just Cause" portraits yearly, each dedicated to the freedom philosophy or the American dream. True American patriotism is a willingness to shoulder our duty, to challenge the government when it’s wrong, to be a Rebel with Just Cause! Please Hit "like" in the American's for Safe Access portrait at the top of my Rebels With Just Cause FaceBook page.

I appreciate your encouragement more than words can say! "The meaning of life is to find your gift. the purpose of life is to give it away."- Pablo Picasso

Canadian marijuana crusader Marc Emery, currently serving a five year sentence in US prison for his political activism, has been released from solitary confinement after being cleared of false charges by prison officials. Marc Emery is our hero and wins one of the 2011 Rebel with Just Cause portraits for taking a stand for justice against a morally bankrupt, violence triggering, nightmare policy.

You can vote daily for Jack. Please do! Jack A. Cole co-founder of Law enforcement Against Prohibition has been nominated for the Rare Life Honor Award and Contest. "Honoring those who lead rare lives. Some nominees are heroic. Some inspirational. Some just make an impact in their corner of the world."

"The race to be the next state to legalize marijuana at the ballot box is on. Activists in three states -- Alaska, Arizona, and Oregon -- have taken initial steps to get the issue before the voters during the 2014 general election."

I hope you saw "Gideon's Army" on HBO! Director Dawn Porter explains why Americans should care about the plight of public defenders and those they represent in our Conviction Mills on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Every reformer of the justice system will want to watch "Gideon's Army"!

Beverly Hills 'Pot Moms' Tell Piers Morgan Why Marijuana Makes Them Better Parents. Cheryl Shuman, Simmi Dhillon ( L.A. Mom and Cheryl Shuman’s Brand Ambassador in Canada) and Lindsey Rinehart (A Founding Member of Moms for Marijuana and The Director of Compassionate Idaho) were also on ABC’s The View to educate the masses as to how and why smoking marijuana, instead of taking pharmaceuticals, made them better moms.

Join the fastest growing marijuana social network made for people across the world that share the common passion of marijuana, 420friendsonline

StoptheDrugWar.org is delighted to announce that authors of three important new works have each agreed to sign at least 25 copies for our newest membership offer!

*Dr. Carl Hart of Columbia University is signing his provocative new work, High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.
*Marc Mauer of The Sentencing Project is signing the "graphic novel" he coauthored with artist Sabrina Jones, Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling.
*New York Times bestselling author Doug Fine is signing copies of the brand new paperback edition of Too High To Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution, which includes a postscript updating the work.

Truth and transparency from our leaders is imperative! We will be derelict in our duties to maintain an in fact, free republic if we don't insist on it. The people believe in self-government and self-medication.

Educate the powerful, be brave and 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.

Calling all patriots, all rebels with just cause! Whether you know yourself to be libertarian, liberal, conservative, democrat, republican, please refuse to be boxed in by the differences in these philosophies or any party. The issues we agree on unite us across these lines. We all want a safer, kinder, more secure world for future generations and our loved ones today. To achieve this transformation we must streamline the system. Uncle Sam has become a bloated evil doer, under the guise of good intentions, just as our Founders warned.

The real cause of this huge quagmire of failed policy is the beast, big government, that money hungry beast, Uncle Sam! Ma Freedom tells it like it is! The beauty of it is when we focus on down-sizing our government we regain our roots of self-government and secure the blessings of liberty for future generations and ourselves.

Together we will ...Restore Justice, the Guardian of Liberty! and Save the American Dream!!

Compiled and written by (my maiden name was Henry) Colleen McCool

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