Bruce Cain Announces "Write-in" Presidential Candidacy at 2008 Global Marijuana March

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[edit] Bruce Cain: Re-Legalization "Write In" Candidate for 2008 Presidency

I am asking the "grass roots" Re-Legalization Movement, including all 2008 Global Marijuana March organizers, to support my candidacy in order to put an immediate end to Marijuana Prohibition in the United States and throughout the world.

If elected I would grant clemency to all non-violent Marijuana offenders and pressure Congress to completely remove Marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act (1970). That would effectively end Marijuan Prohibiton in the United States. I would follow this up by cutting off all UN funding unless and until they also endorse the Re-Legalization of Marijuana throughout the planet by revising all charters and agreements concerning Cannabis. It is high time we got beyond the "incrementalism" (e.g., Medical Marijuana for some) that will never allow us to reach our goal of Legal Marijuana for all Adults throughout Planet Earth.

70 years of Marijuana Prohibition is 70 years too long! Please help me make a difference in 2008.

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Marijuana Prohibition has gone on 70 years too long. I, Bruce Cain, have been active in the Drug Reform movement for over 20 years now and I have had enough.

I have seen first hand how the "monied" organizations (MPP, DPA etc.) have largely ignored what the "grass root" activists have always wanted: Legal Marijuana for adults. I have also witnessed the incredible, but diffuse, efforts of the "grass root" movement which has been significantly compromised by lack of operating revenue.

Nothing exemplifies the different agendas of the "monied" Vs "grass roots" activists than the murder of Tom Crosslin at Rainbow Farm (Jones, Michigan) one week before "911" (09/11/2001). Around that time we had collected over 270,000, of a needed 450,000 signatures, to put a true "legalization" initiative on the Michigan ballot. I contacted Ethan Nadleman, of the Drug Policy Alliance, in order to secure money for professional canvassers in order to collect the remaining signatures before the deadline. Nadleman refused to put me in contact with any of the major financiers of the "monied" organizations and the initiative never made the ballot. Beyond Nadleman's refusal I am convinced that Bush had Tom Crosslin murdered because his "Rainbow Farm" had become a major organizing center for the Re-Legalization effort. It had succeeded in attracting the luminaries of the movement -- Jack Herer, Gatewood Galbraith etc. -- and was instrumental in the organizational efforts for the 2001 initiative.

The sad truth is that all 3 Presidential candidates will continue to villify Marijuana. At best they will continue the path of "unnecessary incrementalism" that will get us nowhere. But more than likely they will continue to support Marijuana Prohibition. This is because they are being funded by trial lawyers, pharmeceutical interests and other groups that contine to profit at the expence of Americans whose crime is merely to prefer Marijuana over legal but much more dangerous drugs: alcohol, nicotene, anti-depressants etc. Unfortuntely money doesn't just talk: it screams for the compliance of its puppets: Clinton, Obama and McCain.

On May 3rd, 2008, I intend to announce my write-in Presidential run at the Detroit "Global Marijuana March." During my brief speech I intend to discuss my model for Marijuana Re-Legalization, (known as "Merp") which is part of a much larger agenda that is known as the "New Agenda for America." For more information on the Detroit "Global Marijuana March" please check out the following link:

http://www.detroitliberation.org/essentialinfo.html

For over 200 other "Global Marijuana March" events, for those outside of Michigan:

http://www.worldwidemarijuanamarch.org/

To better understand who I am and what I stand for I invite you to explore the archives (to the right) and the following links:

Video Biography of Bruce W. Cain This covers various television appearances, debates with federal representatives, speeches at the Hash Bash and my run for US Congress in 1996. http://www.newagecitizen.com/Videos.htm

The MERP Project The Marijuana Re-Legalization Policy (MRP) Project

http://www.newagecitizen.com/ReLegalization01.htm

http://www.newagecitizen.com/editorial_on_the_marijuana_re.htm

http://senseandsensi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=270029 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VKf5YfQb7s&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Enewagecitizen%2Ecom%2F

Support the "New Agenda for America (NAA)" www.newagecitizen.com/naa.htm

If you like what you read I encourage you to copy/paste the graphic onto your webpage, face book page etc. and attach the following link (www.newagecitizen.com) in order to direct your friends to the "New Age Citizen" website.

Now, just so you don't think I'm completely nuts, let me make it clear that I don't really think I have a "snow-balls chance in hell" of becoming President. On the other hand I am quite certain that my agenda -- the "New Agenda for America" -- shows that I am better suited to represent the dreams of the American people than the 3 unfortunately "likely" candidates: McCain, Obama and Clinton. But, with a little bit of luck, I do think we -- meaning us collectively -- could actually precipitate discussion about the real issues and the fact that none of the "likely candidates" represent the will of the average American citizen.

The "New Agenda for America" begs for answers to the following questions and much more:

• Why does Congress allow more Legal/Illegal Immigration when Americans continue to loose their jobs, their homes and their place in the "American Dream?"
• Since we are already experiencing water shortages, throughout the United States, how is it that we are going to accommodate the 200 million additional Legal/Illegal immigrants that are expected to migrate into the US over the next 100 years?
• Why did it only take 13 years to realize Alcohol Prohibition didn't make sense, yet Congress won't allow American Adult Citizens access to Marijuana after 70 years of Marijuana Prohibition?

At any rate we have 6 months, before the November Presidential Election. Let us take this time to show our Corporate Traitors (e.g., Congressmen) that we are not merely "bitter" but extremely angry at their consistent disregard for the people they are supposed to represent. We've had more than enough!

Bruce W. Cain (BC)