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Operation: Intercept

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
July
Year
1971
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OPERATION INTERCEPT

It's really hard writing the WHAT'SIN-TOWN column every week, especially the smokin' dope part, cause by the time the paper is published whatever was in town is smoked up or gone out of town. This marijuana famine has set us all back a ways cause it's such a drag not sharing a decent toke, and this famine is setting some of us even farther back, we can see I our brothers and sisters turning on to bogus drugs.

I've been thinking alot about the effects of this famine on the hip community of Ann Arbor and also the hip culture of Amerika, With no righteous tokes around lots of sisters and brothers have been turning on to the ever abundant "jones" that is in the streets (and veins) of every big city across the country.

The government's new "Mission Impossible" is OPERATION INTERCEPT, an attempt to wipe out the marijuana imported and grown in the United States, This operation has stolen over 140,000 pounds of our sacrament, from April 1970 to January 1971, and has sprayed alot more with toxic herbicides that make our people violently ill. Farmers in the United States are paid by the government to destroy all the marijuana plants found on their property (...don't let 'em have that pot, they'll get out of hand, make you let 'em gat that needle real easy 'cause then we ain't gonna have no trouble with them rowdy youngin's, , . ).

With the lack of reefers in the community the demand for Chemicals goes up., Now, as we know most of the Chemicals on the street are impure, that is to say that they have been cut with any of numerous bogue drugs, speed, strychnine, PCP, etc. All of these don't expand your mind or take you to another, higher level, but make people sick, and combined with a little LSD can make someone really freak-out. This makes for the same kind of bummer all the time so that after a while there really isn't anything to get high on.

I don't think too many people would call OPERATION INTERCEPT "A means in which we can control and curb the illicit narcotic s traffic in this country," but would label it "psychedelic genocide." Take away all the mind expanding drugs and replace them with down drugs and speed and watch the people get burnt out and addicted to MR. JONES. Take away their energy from the community and turn it into a detriment, ripping off the people, our brothers and sisters so the death powder can flow into their arms and the people's money can flow into the pockets of the capitalists, the blood thirsty vampires.

We must all realize that to get the bogus dope out of our communities we must educate our brothers and sisters about the "death drugs" and get the righteous and much wanted marijuana back into the community. In order to do this, we must unite our efforts and our energy to help build self-determination amongst our people and demand that the oppressive marijuana laws be changed, the law that keeps our people "down". Write to the governor, or your congressman/woman and voice your views on the laws against our culture.

Life to the life sacrament/Death to the death drugs. FREE JOHN SINCLAIR AND ALL MARIJUANA PRISONERS! ! !