Remember when Bill Clinton admitted to having tried marijuana, but had to modify it by claiming he hadn’t inhaled? And even then, he had to be a big drug warrior in order to counter the “druggie” image.
In contrast, the 2020 candidates seem to be (finally) proudly admitting how much they enjoyed it.
on Anti-marijuana quack Dave Weldon to take over CDC: “I strongly disagree with Servetus’ statement about Dave Weldon. His views on marijuana are not only outdated but also harmful…” Dec 17, 07:40
on Anti-marijuana quack Dave Weldon to take over CDC: “Brain volume changes seen in opioid users: 10-Dec-2024 — OAK BROOK, Ill. – Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine…” Dec 12, 22:14 on Catholic bishops fear marijuana and freethinking: “Doctors and medical professionals working on the frontlines of the COVID pandemic found significant relief from psilocybin while participating in…” Dec 7, 14:24 on Catholic bishops fear marijuana and freethinking: “Ayahuasca (DMT) effects on the brain in reducing fear and anxiety are modulated by cross-talk between two serotonin receptor sites:…” Dec 7, 13:38
on Anti-marijuana quack Dave Weldon to take over CDC: “If you thought Bondi and Weldon are bad, I know plenty of Louisiana politicians in both parties who are even…” Dec 6, 11:26 on Catholic bishops fear marijuana and freethinking: “An evaluation prepared in Germany demonstrates that severe tobacco addiction can be medically treated using nicotine or the drug varenicline:…” Dec 1, 09:19 on Catholic bishops fear marijuana and freethinking: “Cannabidiol (CBD) is investigated as a treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): 25-Nov-2024 – Current medical guidelines for ADHD…” Nov 26, 18:55
happy valentines day everyone. it’s raining hard in san diego, hope my three little plants can handle it.
I’ve noted Kamala Harris is trying to reshape her cannabis vibe and image, and I’m not buying it.
Better that she is now able to make such a statement, rather than hiding behind the Obama defence of “Ha Ha! It’s a joke,” as she has done in the past….give her credit for “evolving” as they say in the Dems… even big dog Biden evolved on gay marriage after all, so there is hope that these ahem, liberals may eventually wake up and smell the coffee.
Neither are Tupac and Snoop Dogg…
Kamala Harris’s Blackness Isn’t Up for Debate
https://t.co/kaGtjtrKtn
Unfortunately for Harris, her stances on these matters were drowned out by a dumb headline. Call it #AllEyezOnMeGate. Charlamagne asked Harris whether she’d ever smoked marijuana. She admitted that she’d smoked in college—and did indeed inhale. At some point, Envy asked Harris about her favorite music. But before she could respond, Charlamagne jokingly asked Harris about what she liked to listen to when she imbibed. Harris laughed off Charlamagne’s question and instead told Envy that some of her favorite artists were Snoop and ’Pac. She also mentioned her affinity for Cardi B
Change occurs quickly, sometimes with no time left over for the development of a better social well-being. Drug laws and attitudes toward drug consumption are undergoing rapid change, and in most cases do get followed by better social conditions and justice. Advances occur despite the chemophobes and authoritarians who wield their willful ignorance about science, drugs and pharmacology as part of a repressive and unjust social strategy to thwart positive individual and social outcomes.
As James Baldwin noted: “Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.â€
Modern changes in attitudes toward drug consumption owe their existence to less ignorance. Scientific discoveries, and applications of logic and reason to morality, continue to dispel many drug war myths that allowed prohibition to be used as a tool to promote racism or religious hegemonies.
Instant communications and access to information makes it possible to quickly expose and fumigate unseemly and unhealthy mythologies about drugs before the propaganda infects the body politic and causes further damage. Alex Berenson’s recent book, Tell Your Children, is a good example. Mr. Berenson came under intense criticism by scientists, medical professionals, and an informed public within days of his book’s release.
Thirty years ago authors of similar drivel were given a wide berth by the US media to disseminate their nonsense. Critical analyses of the anti-drug authors or their work was considered media heresy. People were accused of being “pro-drugâ€, or taking drugs, if they spoke in opposition to drug enforcement lies. It was a time when the drug war was considered by most to be a solution rather than a cause of social distress and disaster. Despite these efforts, today, 48-percent of all Canadians would like to decriminalize all drugs, and 66-percent would approve of supervised injection sites for people using opioids. Cannabis legalization is happening all over the globe. 81-percent of Americans think the drug war is a failure. The Big Lie always has a time limit.
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https://buffalonews.com/2019/02/16/another-voice-big-money-is-behind-the-rush-to-marijuana-legalization/
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I’m not going to pay any attention to him anymore. Nobody except the people that can be fooled all of the time care so it isn’t worth my time. If by some miracle someone figures out how to fool them into believing the truth I’ll nominate them for the Nobel Prize. In the meantime I’ll amuse myself remembering when Kev-Kev wouldn’t publish over an open comments column.
The MSM reports that the powers that be in New Jersey have reached agreement…House…Senate…Governor and NJ will be State #11 shortly.
The Wisconsin Governor proposes decrim and legalizing medical for cancer, PTSD and chronic pain. Nice short list that basically covers everyone that really needs it.
We’ve got a bunch of wussies in Annapolis. They’re not going to override our Governor’s promised veto despite having the votes going in so we’re going to get to vote next year.
Kev-Kev has been marginalized to irrelevance. I encourage everyone to treat him appropriately.
It’s never been about giving him (or any other dumb prohibitionist) attention. There’a always an audience, and some participants could maybe do with the extra education. To those who answered the call, a big thank you!
It’s a case-in-point illustration of Francis’ Law (thanks for that gift, Francis, hope you’re doing well if you’re lurking about). Harvard researchers have found that male cannabis consumers have HIGHER sperm counts than non-users. For how many years have we been assailed with claims that pot use lowers sperm counts? Absolutely classic. Get a load of this, will you? https://academic.oup.com/humrep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/humrep/dez002/5307080
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It’s got to be a very confusing time to be a prohibitionist. Are you sure that by happenstance they didn’t test a bunch of very manly men who would have had super thick spunk instead of just extra thick if they hadn’t been tricked into smoking pot by big merrywanna?
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Well here’s another shocking first: Innovative Industrial Properties (NYSE:IIPR) has been included in the S&P Small Cap 600. IIPR is a Real Estate Investment Trust which does build to suit and purchase/lease backs of commercial medicinal cannabis facilities. I don’t own it because all of their properties qualify for civil seizure and could be easily stolen by the federal government. Those properties would also come with detailed information about its lessees giving the Feds a significant windfall for the slush fund. Anyway, my point is that Standard & Poor included it in the S&P 600 in spite of the fact that IIPR is not in compliance with Federal law. The S&P 600 also is a discretionary index meaning the company could have been excluded.
I think the sector is getting ready to go parabolic. If it does please don’t get tempted. Parabola is a time to sell which is what I’ll be doing. Nowadays Blue Horseshoe loves American CBD…Canuckistani THC is so last year.
More reefer madness looms on the horizon, despite recent changes in certain areas. A University of Michigan national survey has explored the parents’ issue of exposing children to the image of the cannabis dispensary:
Several objections concerning marijuana dispensaries are left out. One is the snob objection.
Some neighborhoods and zoned business areas in rural central California, such as Fresno County, object to locating marijuana dispensaries in or near upscale business enterprises, such as real estate offices, mortgage companies, etc. The belief is that the sight of dirty filthy hippies lining up to score their pot will cause far more respectable white traditionalists to avoid the area and the local businesses. And this is for medicinal dispensaries; dispensaries for recreational weed are prohibited entirely.
Adding to the suspense, the medicinal dispensaries are not technically legal. At any moment the county or city has the authority to raid and confiscate all the cannabis products and revenue. For this reason, dispensaries maintain low inventories and reduced cash storage on the premises in case a raid happens. Couriers transport products and cash to-and-from safe-houses or small warehouses to dispensaries to keep the shelves and cash registers at near-empty status.
A criminal justice professor at the University of Kent, Dr. Alex Stevens, has demonstrated that a favorite anti-marijuana claim made by cannabis prohibitionists is in error due to a problem with an analysis on numerical data in 2015. The article is published in the International Journal of Drug Policy :
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The President of the American Bankers’ Association has requested an end to cannabis related banking stupidity. It’s good news but gave me a severe case of cognitive dissonance. That’s because my wife had worked there since 4/20/1981 until she retired on 4/20/2017 (no doubt that’s kismet.) Let’s just say that ABA was not 420 friendly when she worked there and leave it there.
It really does give me a warm fuzzy when I see outsiders call it cannabis. Smile people, it won’t be long before they say uncle.
Just as hearing and seeing in print the coupling of the word ‘prohibition’ to the word ‘cannabis’ gives me one, as well. Doing so has markedly changed the playing field…in reform’s favor.
Nowadays you rarely hear the word ‘cannabis’ without hearing the p-word attached to it, immediately afterward. Once the connection was made, there was no turning back. And all of it was thanks to reformer’s efforts.
How times have changed?
The Oscars gift bags are full of THC, CBD,
and therapy to calm stressed-out celebs
https://t.co/TReVnTn6sB
Social Cannabis Consumption Taking Off
in California and Colorado
https://t.co/gOgWJV74Tm
Barneys New York To Launch “The High End”
Luxury Cannabis Lifestyle Shop in
Beverly Hills Flagship and Barney’s.com
https://t.co/rh5F8sFLOA
Gov. Newsom to Deploy the National Guard
Against Marijuana Grows in California
https://t.co/PCo4XRSyvg
Humboldt County sheriff William Honsal told NBC news, “We’re seeing a reduced amount of trespass grows on public land in the last few years. We’ve had to actually turn away help because we don’t see the trespass grows the way we used to.†The sheriff said cartels are “pulling out” of the business to focus on methamphetamine and heroin trafficking.
So Newsence takes the pot tax to fund CAMP to bust those who can’t afford the over taxed and regulated dispensaries. Or those in situations where association would bring hardship, keeping their names off of government lists. While they admit eradicating millions of plants and not one went to those who couldn’t afford the dispensaries. Ganjawar still being waged from Nixon’s poppycock.
FDA on CBD Edible Crackdown:
We Will Continue to “Closely Scrutinize”
https://t.co/yQMlPq5Nxv
Since its inception the FDA refused to test Cannabis. After IOM medical studies they never started research. Now they want to hinder the industry with more stalling and drug worrier nitpicking. Its just another plant.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Spoke Out On
Weed Legalization and Racial Justice
in Congressional Hearings
https://t.co/2R7zvshOBl
’73% of cannabis executives in Colorado and Washington are male, 81% are white.’ — The legal cannabis industry is not righting the wrongs of the war on drugs and @AOC is on it.
Who’d a thunk it?
Researchers Prove Munchies are Real,
Then Reveal Most Popular Stoner Snacks
https://t.co/04CFMyqaqk
Cachexia (Wasting Syndrome) and Medical Cannabis
https://t.co/iw6jDkg4qW
Recent studies point to medicinal cannabis as helpful in treating cachexia (wasting syndrome).
Cachexia/Wasting Syndrome
https://t.co/5O5d4d38uB
Medical cannabis contains cannabinoids that are proven to be effective in increasing appetite by interacting with the body’s endocannabinoid system.
Wasting Obesity on Ganja
https://t.co/kPlH0CGwyh
☛ Oh but remember the daze of Klintoon & McCzarbarry?
☛ Thalidomide studied as weight therapy
Thalidomide for treating HIV/AIDS-related weight loss
is now being offered by Celgene Corporation.
☛ Thalidomide v Cannabis
“Celgene has also represented to physicians that Thalomid can be used to treat various cancers, for cancer patient ‘weight loss,’ and to promote a feeling of’general well-being’ in these same patients.”
☛ THE THALIDOMIDE TRAGEDY
Anything But Cannabis!
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A unanimous US Supreme Court decision in a drug case is intended to limit abuses inherent in civil asset forfeitures on a national scale, however it will be up to local law enforcement and legislators to clean up their act to meet constitutional standards. The authoritarians are not expected to relinquish their authority or power voluntarily:
It’s not police or prosecutors who are evil, but the lawmakers who instigated asset forfeitures knowing such policies would be abused and to what effect. Such determinations have been available for decades, or even centuries if asset forfeitures are considered that were employed by the European inquisitions resulting in similar abuses and corruption.
The use of illicit drugs by certain people with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is shown to be associated with an attempt to self-medicate. Darkcycle’s previous postings that discussed the use of psychoactive substances by people with mental disorders to self-medicate continues to be supported by new scientific evidence:
If people self-medicate using cannabis compounds to treat observed or non-observed symptoms of psychosis or schizophrenia in the same way they do for ADHD, then prohibitionists’ theories that cannabis causes psychoses do not explain what is observed. Psychosis can emerge without the use of drugs.
We’ve suspected this for decades, at least as far as the development of psychoses are concerned. These disorders don’t start with the first identification and treatment of the illness. These people have in almost every case been experiencing symptoms, sometimes for decades before their “first break”. Drugs are often an attempt to control the symptoms that may have been undetected by others. Now, it may hold true for ADHD. Again, not surprising. If ADHD folks seem to be more prone to abusing stimulant drugs, it would fully fit the hypothesis. Going to have to read the full study.
Researchers at the University of New Mexico (UNM) measured the real-time effects of cannabis used in therapy employing ReleafApp:
When drug money still exists and is used to fund bad people, then all who support not legalizing Crystal Meth, heroin, etc, are Anti-The Me Too Movement in regards to sexual assault. So, when an adult doesn’t support the legalization of drugs, and the existence of drug laws creates drug money and that drug money is used to harm via sexual assault, then all who don’t support legalizing drugs or donating a bulk of their income to ‘negate’ drug money’s harms are “Pro-Rape”. And they have the lifestyle to prove it. If I think keeping heroin illegal is rational, while the drug laws create violent drug money, then the personal choice to not donate 2/3 of my income is the choice to condone and support harm. To support the law is to take ownership and full pride in its outcome . . . the outcome of the law is a reflection of the person who supports it.
Why 2/3 of their income? Simple: Drug money for less than $3000 U.S. dollars is well more than enough to buy a mini-heat seeking rocket that were fairly common and used against us in Iraq. Said rocket ($3000) could destroy a Blackhawk helicopter costing well over $1 million. Likewise the amount of rape would increase if said rapist was well funded.
When a child is in the process of being brutalized by the consequences of the law, they are in no way concerned with ‘your’ bills, therefore the person who supports keeping drugs illegal has no bills to pay and they have no excuse to not donate the bulk of their income to at least negating some of that damage.
If giving a man money for the purpose of killing another makes me guilty of murder myself, then someone who supports the drug laws and pays taxes are guilty of rape. That is how most cops have conducted some form of sexual assault on minors and adults.
Simply being a drooling junkie on my couch will create less harm to children than said cop enforcing the law to keep heroin illegal. It is morally superior to be a junkie than to be a financial backer of child molesting terrorists. Cops equal the end results of the drug laws: terrorism, corruption, gangs, rape, murder, theft, recession, pollution, torture, etc. And the bad things of the laws are what is in their hearts, unless said cop donates 2/3 of their entire income as a way to say “I don’t condone junkies or rape/violence” To arrest a drug users and nothing more is to simply condone rape and violence.
The structure of the CB2 cannabinoid receptor has been identified by an international research team funded by the Russian Science Foundation:
Forget Growing Weed—Make Yeast Spit Out CBD and THC Instead
https://t.co/dYZDBYX3fa
Complete biosynthesis of cannabinoids and their unnatural analogues in yeast
https://t.co/SC7uGfQZ6T
DMT microdose studies in rats produce unusual results compared to humans. Research at University California Davis conducted by David Olson, assistant professor in the departments of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, concludes that:
Research funded by the Aarhus University Research Foundation, the Danish Ministry for Social Affairs and the Interior and the UK Medical Research Council, and supported by NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, has discovered a new biomarker for people prone to addictions: