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The Top Five Special Interest Groups Lobbying To Keep Marijuana Illegal

1.) Police Unions: Police departments across the country have become dependent on federal drug war grants to finance their budget. In March, we published a story revealing that a police union lobbyist in California coordinated the effort to defeat Prop 19, a ballot measure in 2010 to legalize marijuana, while helping his police department clients collect tens of millions in federal marijuana-eradication grants. And it’s not just in California. Federal lobbying disclosures show that other police union lobbyists have pushed for stiffer penalties for marijuana-related crimes nationwide. 2.) Private Prisons Corporations: Private prison corporations make millions by incarcerating people who have been imprisoned for drug crimes, including marijuana. As Republic Report’s Matt Stoller noted last year, Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest for-profit prison companies, revealed in a regulatory filing that continuing the drug war is part in parcel to their business strategy. Prison companies have spent millions bankrolling pro-drug war politicians and have used secretive front groups, like the American Legislative Exchange Council, to pass harsh sentencing requirements for drug crimes. 3.) Alcohol and Beer Companies: Fearing competition for the dollars Americans spend on leisure, alcohol and tobacco interests have lobbied to keep marijuana out of reach. For instance, the California Beer & Beverage Distributors contributed campaign contributions to a committee set up to prevent marijuana from being legalized and taxed. 4.) Pharmaceutical Corporations: Like the sin industries listed above, pharmaceutical interests would like to keep marijuana illegal so American don’t have the option of cheap medical alternatives to their products. Howard Wooldridge, a retired police officer who now lobbies the government to relax marijuana prohibition laws, told Republic Report that next to police unions, the “second biggest opponent on Capitol Hill is big PhRMA” because marijuana can replace “everything from Advil to Vicodin and other expensive pills.” 5.) Prison Guard Unions: Prison guard unions have a vested interest in keeping people behind bars just like for-profit prison companies. In 2008, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association spent a whopping $1 million to defeat a measure that would have “reduced sentences and parole times for nonviolent drug offenders while emphasizing drug treatment over prison.” http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuana-lobby-illegal/

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Golden Age of The Moors

The name Maurice is derived from Latin and means “like a Moor.” The Black St.Maurice (the Knight of the Holy Lance) is regarded as the greatest patron saint of the Holy Roman Empire. The earliest version of St.Maurice story and account upon which all later versions are based, is found in the writings of Eucherius, Bishop of Lyons (ca. 450). According to Eucherius, Maurice was a high official in the Thebaid region of Egypt—an early center of Christianity. Specifically, Maurice as the commander of a Roman legion of Christian soldiers stationed in Africa. By the decree of Roman emperor Maximan, his contingent of 6,000 men was dispatched to Gaul and ordered to suppress a Christian uprising there. Maurice disobeyed the order. Subsequently, he and almost all of his troops were martyred when they choose to die rather than persecute Christians, renounce their faith, and sacrifice to the gods of the Romans. The execution of the Theban legion occurred in Switzerland near Aganaum (which later became Saint Maurice-en-valaus) on September 22, either in the year of 280 or 300. In the second half of the fourth century the worship of St.Maurice spread over a broad area in Switzerland, northern Italy, Burgundy, and along the Rhine. Tours, Angers, Lyons, Chalon-sur-Saone, and Dijon had churches dedicated to St.Maurice. By the epoch of Islamic Spain, the stature of St.Maurice had reached immense proportions. Charlemagne, the grandson of Charles Martel and the most distinguished representative of the Carolingian dynasty, attributed to St.Maurice the virtues of the perfect Christian warrior. In token victory, Charlemagne had the lance of St.Maurice (a replica of the holy lance eputed to have pierced the side of Christ) carried before the Frankish army. Like the general populace, which strongly relied on St.Maurice for intercession, the Carolongian dynasty prayed to this military saint for the strength to resist and overcome attacks by enemy forces. In 962, Otto I chose Maurice as the title patron of the archbishopric of Magdeburg, Germany. By 1000 C.E. the worship of Maurice was only rivaled by St.George and St.Micheal. After the second half of the twelfth century, the emperors were appointed by the pope in front of the altar of St.Maurice, in St.Peter’s Cathedral in Rome. In Halle, Germany a monastery with a school attached to it was founded and dedicated to St.Maurice in 1184. In 1240, a splendid Africoid statue of St.Maurice was placed in the majestic cathedral of Magdeburg. A center of extreme devotion to St.Maurice was developed in the Baltic states, where merchants in Tallin and Riga adopted in iconography. The House of Black Heads of Riga, for instance, possessed a polychromed wooden statuette of St.Maurice. Their seal bore the distinct image of a Moor’s head. In 1479, Ernest built several castles, one of which he named after St.Maurice-the Moritzburg. Under a banner emblazoned with the image of a Black St.Maurice, the political and religious leaders of the Holy Roman Empire battled the Slavs. The cult of St.Maurice reached its most lavish heights under Cardinal Albert of Brandenburg (1490-1545), who established a pilgrimage at Halle in honor of the Black saint. Between 1523 and 1540, people from throughout the empire journeyed to Halle to worship the relics of St.Maurice. The existence of nearly three hundred major images of the Black St.Maurice have been catalogued, and even today the veneration of St.Maurice remains alive in numerous cathedrals in eastern Germany