Why Isn't Weed Legalized Nationwide?

"Why isn't weed legalized nation wide?" is a question I ask myself a lot. Is it because it is dangerous? Is it because it transforms otherwise nice people into criminals and the monsters they say are always  lurking in the dark? Is it because addiction is a serious problem? Or that it kills brain cells making us pot smokers apparently turn into bumbling imbeciles who can't think for shit? No. The reason is control. If people can smoke weed than they can make choices about their own bodies.
When looking further into it they were trying to control chicanos and blacks. Big business had everything to gain by the criminalization of weed. Hemp was bad for business for the cotton and paper industries. Control of people and resources was the goal.
To deny a person autonomy over their own body denies their individuality. This is the goal of the corporate power structure. They want power they keep it.
They can line their pockets with these private contracts for prisons. So each person sentenced over possession of a plant that is most common in communities of color and economically underprivileged. Control. Countless products that would cut into business interest. Control. Telling you that you can't put that substance in your body. Control.
That is why weed isn't legalized. Control. Period.

#JusticeForJason - Police, Power And Privilege [video commentary]

Police, Power And Privilege

#JusticeForJason

#ACAB

#InvestigateDentonPD

#FuckPoliceBrutality

#DentonTX

Recently, Jason Wayne Bishop (aka Pooh) was detained by the Denton City Police for public intoxication. He was beaten while in the DentonPD's custody. He had two swollen black eyes and had to have 17 stitches on his forehead (amongst other injuries). These are not injuries that could possibly be inflicted as a result of just being "taken down and restrained" but signs of force far beyond the use of force continuum. Moreover, the behavior of Denton's finest is also a manifestation and a symptom of a greater systemic and structural problem. It is part of a power structure that enforces privilege, social control, economic disparity and inequality. It is an overall system of injustice and behavior that is beyond sick.

Police Brutality in Denton, TX (Whooda Thunk It!?!?!) ACAB!

This is Jason chillin' in the squat with a tall can.

It was Denton, TX. In the early hours of the morning, July 18th, 2014 @ approximately 2:20am, a guy I know was tataken into custody for possession of alcohol and Public Intox. The arresting officer was Clint Webb Badge # 132. Now this officer seemed to be acting within the confines of his job and other than my ideological argument that the state enforced by all officers is the very power structure I would love to tear down as an anarchist, I have no beef with him. He did however witness at least some of what followed. Two city jail guards  described as black, stocky, approximately '5"9 started beating him ruthlessly.

This is Jason after what the pigs did to him.

Through out this whole thing Jason, the one beaten, was compliant. He did not fight back only tried to cover his vital areas as any reasonable person would do. I know Jason is know angel, he is my drunken ex fiancé who I am not to happy with as of late. But he doesn't have many people sticking up for him. And if this is what it takes to get his voice heard, well I got his back. There should be an investigation. This is clearly a case of bullies picking on one street person, but is part of a bigger problem. Lets set an example and fight for these pigs to be dealt with. For Jason, for Pooh Bear, for whatever you know him as...

ACAB!!!

ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS!!!

Edit: 17 stitches and a concussion.

Edit: "Fractured wrist,broken nose,contusions to face,17 stitches,concussion!" ~from his sister

Shame On Connecticut: A Sixteen Year Old Grrrl In A Male Correctional Facility

I have read from certain LGBT news sources lately, a lot of things about this Jane Doe. She is a sixteen year old transgrrrl in a male correctional facility in Connecticut. Now, I'm not sure how many of you realize the terrifying and traumatic problems that could arise when you throw a mere grrrl into a male facility that likely contains violent offenders possibly including rapists. This case is very blatantly heart breaking because she is only sixteen years old, but this reflects a bigger problem in this country. This problem is that this is not uncommon. Transpeople who haven't had the sexual reconstruction surgery are routinely misgendered by the legal system and thrown into male prisons. Most people with common sense would think that forcing a person into a place where there is an extreme risk of physical or sexual violence inflicted upon them based on the fact that they are a sexual minority is clearly cruel and unusual punishment. The fact is that they put a child in harms way, it sounds to me like child abuse. It has been 70+ days and they still haven't brought charges on her and they are still detaining her. I'm pretty sure that even if the first part wasn't unconstitutional, that shit is. Of course there is the factor of the prison industrial complex. Maybe it does come down to money. Maybe race plays a factor, after all, it isn't like we have enough latin@s in correctional facilities in this country, right??? I would encourage everyone to write to Governor Dan Malloy and politely yet really sternly request that he do something about it. Also write the Connecticut Department Of Children And Families to encourage them to do all they can to take this grrrl out of the male facility. Please be polite but express your outrage. Flood them with calls, emails, faxes and postal letters. Let your fire out folks and let it out well directed and well thought out. For updates you can follow Justice For Jane on twitter. They also have a Facebook page. So please get involved  and also sign the petition. I know I will. Unless this grrrl is released, the state of Connecticut can go fuck itself.

Poem: The Sign

I felt tears coming forth telling me that I'm trash

Bringing my emotion to hit the floor in a splash

I felt it at the hands of too many men

Trust broken, I crawl to a light at the very end

I have felt my heart smash upon my memories

But it forever burns to ashes in my dad's stories

"No dogs, no Mexicans" a sign

A window to a different place and another time

I hear mi abuelita tell me with pride about me

Words on who I am stories of this proud family

I almost forgot the stories of a sign

Stories that torched my heart and burnt my mind

The dignity in my blood flowing through time

The disgrace of this dark eyed face of mine

A shame that I bury myself in

A shame becomes betrayal, the biggest sin

But I am not just mi abuelita but I am me

I am more than my dad's daughter yet never free

Until I finally smash that sign

I won't be free until I burn the border I'm behind

But I will never be able to be my totality

While my definition is just my family

When modesty is on the sign

The fight is still about me, it is still mine

Because I'm not mi familia or mi raza

I'm not my pain nor am I my trauma

I sure ain't that sign

I am all my love and I am my mind