I’ve been away from the couch for a bit, as I somehow managed to significantly pulverize the bones in my left leg just from falling off a bicycle. I’m home now, trying to figure out how to do everything in a wheelchair with an extended leg brace (the only other option is standing on one leg).
For those interested in the details of my little adventure, I have written a story in the form of a letter to my Aunt Betty:
on Catholic bishops fear marijuana and freethinking: “An ancient Egyptian mug was found by a USF professor to have once contained hallucinogens: 15-Nov-2024–A University of South Florida…” Nov 17, 20:11
on Catholic bishops fear marijuana and freethinking: “Let us not forget that Joe Biden, the Landrieu Family, the late Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Connick, Sr.*, Leon…” Nov 17, 18:01 on Catholic bishops fear marijuana and freethinking: “Endocannabinoid receptors on interneurons limit stress-induced bad memory generalization to the specific, appropriate memory: 15-Nov-2024 — Researchers at The Hospital…” Nov 16, 10:55
on Marijuana potencies and transitioning to Schedule III: ““smoke rope instead of dope,” Is this a hemp revival?” Nov 15, 05:13
on Catholic bishops fear marijuana and freethinking: ““Falsehoods are dangerous. People who believe absurdities can go on to commit atrocities. Catholicism and other sects and cults that…” Nov 15, 05:00
on Marijuana potencies and transitioning to Schedule III: “https://www.cornbreadhemp.com/pages/how-are-thc-gummies-legal sire behoove a go-to owing me, offering a within easy reach, tasty manner to charge out of CBD’s benefits.…” Nov 13, 13:44
on Marijuana potencies and transitioning to Schedule III: “Worrisome same day cannabis delivery has been somewhat the journey. As someone fervent on spontaneous remedies, delving into the in…” Nov 11, 14:58 on Marijuana potencies and transitioning to Schedule III: “NIDA Director Dr Nora Volkow charts the future of addiction research: 7-Nov-2024″ — I was struck early on by how…” Nov 10, 09:50
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The setting: An indistinct room somewhere in size between an office and a stadium. Walls, partitions, and a sense of… distance. And emptiness. Everything is dark and grey, as if film noir. POV shot. Next to me is a woman who plays the role of a random person selected to stay with a patient while they recover post-op. Poised, soft-spoken, undemanding.
I appear in my own consciousness mid-scene…
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This sounds like something out of an Alain Robbe-Grillet novel. If you’ve never read anything by him, it looks like you now might have some time (consider Snapshots, a book of short story vignettes, some of which sound eerily similar to what you wrote above).
Sorry to hear about your accident Pete. All the cliches come into play, “Take one day at a time”, “Get well soon”, etc. Cliches are cliches for a reason. All the best to you (I’m going to refrain from wishing you a happy Bicycle Day :D). Excellent story by the way…
CBD and Bone Fracture Healing
https://www.biotrack.com/cbd-and-bone-fracture-healing-the-best-data-published-for-medical-marijuana-in-fifty-years/
Scientists in Israel continue to establish their work as the leading source of data on medical cannabis. In a combined study conducted primarily by researchers from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University, Cannabidiol (CBD) was found to enhance fracture healing and stimulate Lysyl Hydroxylase (a highly abundant enzyme involved in bone healing) activity in osteoblasts (bone building cells).
Can Marijuana Help Heal Broken Bones?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/can-marijuana-help-heal-broken-bones/
A 2008 paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggested that CBD acted on a previously undescribed endocannabinoid receptor, GPR55, and that this receptor likely plays a role in the regulation of bone mass by inhibiting the growth of cells — osteoclasts — that promote the resorption of bone minerals:
Osteoporosis – Medical Marijuana Research Overview – Medical Marijuana, Inc.
http://sumo.ly/FSFq
https://www.medicalmarijuanainc.com/osteoporosis-medical-marijuana-research-overview/
The cannabinoids found in cannabis have therapeutic potential against osteoporosis because of their interaction with the CB1 and CB2 cannabinoid receptors. They are involved in modulating the bone building and bone resorption functions. Research has found that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the major active cannabinoid found in marijuana, activates the CB1 and CB2 cannabinoid receptors.
Testimonial – CBD for Surgical Scars on Skin
https://cbdoil.life/blogs/news/testimonial-cbd-for-surgical-scars-on-skin
“My doctor was AMAZED by how quickly my surgical scars healed using your healing cream. At 2 months he said “Wow you’re way above the curve”! I just had my 6 month checkup yesterday, and he thought it had been a YEAR! Outstanding product!” – Jo Schrubbe
The Medicine Makers: Choosing Cannabis to Heal Post-Op
https://cannabisnow.com/using-cannabis-heal-surgery/
I began my research months ago, asking advice from every person I know who makes their own tinctures and magic potions out of cannabis. The result is a collection of bottles and cans and jars full of pain relieving and anti-inflammatory concoctions which should ease me into a relaxed and healing body.
Benefits of CBD Oil After Knee Surgery
https://hempgenix.us/benefits-of-cbd-oil-after-knee-surgery/
One element that a lot of people are finding a lot of success with reducing inflammation, allowing the body to heal faster and reducing pain is the use of CBD oil after surgery. Research scientists have found that this type of oil is a natural anti-inflammatory and also has antibiotic properties to it as well.
Cannabis and Hempseed Oil for Post Op Surgical Care
https://cannabis.net/blog/medical/cannabis-and-hempseed-oil-for-post-op-surgical-care
Medical Marijuana For Post Surgery Nerve Pain
https://cannabis.net/blog/medical/cannabis-and-hempseed-oil-for-post-op-surgical-care
Cannabis is a proven natural remedy for pain caused by almost anything. Its analgesic properties are virtually unmatched in the natural world; no other plant-based medicine works as well as cannabis in alleviating mild to chronic pain.
But many people still don’t realize that cannabis can also come in handy for nerve damage and pain that occurs after major surgery. Cannabis has been used since ancient times to treat burns and wounds, but it’s still greatly underutilized for its ability to aid in post-operative pain and would healing.
Using CBD Oil For Healing From Your ACL Surgery
https://hempgenix.us/using-cbd-oil-for-healing-from-your-acl-surgery/
Patients using them have a tendency to have faster recoveries and better surgical outcomes compared to patients who do not.
Bad Luck eh. Cops impounded my car in Sept. Been on Bicycle all winter. Kindred Spirits eh, sigggh. Prayer Arrrs for you, Pete. Arr. Arr. Amen.
Pete, best wishes on your recovery and rehab. I’m a fan of pro bicycle racing and the pro’s dread the slow crashes more than high-speed ones.
I’d put cannabis oil on those scars as frequently as possible. It will help healing and minimize itching. A base of edibles to compliment the opiates, along with toking or vaping as needed would be my recommendation.
If you read this comment, I’d like more info on the kind of pedals you were using and whether they may have contributed to your fall off the bike.
Speaking of CBD for bone healing, the US FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee (PCNS) has unanimously recommended that cannabidiol receive full FDA approval. An FDA vote is due in June:
https://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/Drugs/PeripheralandCentralNervousSystemDrugsAdvisoryCommittee/UCM604730.pdf
A commentary on the committee decision at CNN contains a short but excellent video overview of THC biochemistry. It even mentions the entourage effect:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/19/health/fda-committee-marijuana-drug-epilepsy-bn/index.html
The problem with Epidiolex is that it’s more of a political animal than a medical one.
With cannabis therapeutics, there’s no one-size-fits-all, medication. Varying ratios of CBD to THC are required to fine-tune seizure reduction. CBD, if it’s going to be on pharmacy shelves should come with several CBD:THC options.
This will help a small group of patients and leave many potential beneficiaries out. The #1 Rule of Cannabis therapeutics is that there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all.
4/20 will be a whole month in 2020.
Happy 4/20, everybody!
…and a happy 4/20 to all my couchmates.
…P.S. Someone had to:
That’s not what we mean when we say “Happy bicycle day”, Pete. Get better, man. You need those legs for walking around New York.
Happy 420
https://twitter.com/DendeCannabist/status/987386688165957634
Get well, Pete!
My lady friend is a ginger, she tells me that you require more anaesthetic and analgesics than non-gingers. All the best, and happy healing. Maybe now you will have more time for this blog?
Relax and heal, Pete. I wish you well. Save the energy for rehab. With a bit of help from the doctors the body is an amazing healing machine and you’ll be none the worse for wear.
Cannabinoids can really be helpful in keeping the use of opioids to a minimum.
gee wiz just read your 8 page account,bummer
would just like to say thank you for all you have
done to help so many.
Pete, for a long time your blog gave me a reason to get up in the morning.
I hope you recover in full!
you are making me appreciate my good luck, pete. i say, next is another story. you can still write when confined to a chair. i hope IL allows medical herb, for your sake.
Happy 420!!
Green rush hitting (R) party on four fronts. Maher nailed it on his 420 show and told the Democrats how to take Congress back in Nov.
I hear that train acoming!!!
Broke my hip in Aug last year and still walk with hitch in my step but doing fine,,riding scooter again but not planning any trips further than 50 miles. (distance to closest biker bar w/pizza)
Get well bud,,it’s getting excitng again.
Glad you are doing well Mr. Claygooding. I’ll wish you the luck of coming across a pound of gorillaglue on the side of the road.
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Raccoons are one of the most intelligent animals on the planet. But I had no clue that they’ve figured out how to smoke cannabis.
They shouldn’t feel badly. They followed the correct treatment protocol to the letter. Also they probably saved the poor woman from getting gouged by a 24 hour veterinarian.
A raccoon smoking pot, instead of just using it as an edible? I’ll believe it when I see the vid. A Youtube clip of that would be worth a small fortune.
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I was being facetious. I’m all but 100% positive that it was an edible. Do you have any clue of the number of outsiders who believe that combustion is required to gain the benefits of cannabis? Well neither do I but without doubt it’s a huge supermajority of them! So my educated guess is that the firemen in the article were among them.
I’m not particularly fond of raccoons. The little fuckers were living in the chimney when my wife and I first moved in. It hadn’t rained in about 6 weeks so our newly purchased roof was covered with raccoon turds. They don’t defecate where they sleep you know. We had to shell out almost $500 to get the flues capped or suffer the knowledge that raccoons considered our roof a rest room. How the heck does an animal live in a chimney? Doesn’t the force of gravity make it a pain in the ass to get a good day’s sleep?
WordPlay went wierd again, this time we ended up in Budapest.
Aww man, Beautiful.
https://traveldigg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Budapest-At-Night-Aerial-View.jpg
Uh Ohh, be careful.
http://webehigh.org/budapest-hungary/
Johann Hari on psychedelics as cure for addiction and depression:
https://www.alternet.org/are-psychedelics-answer-addiction-and-depression
Pete, I hope you’re improving and doing well with your choice of pain meds.
When I broke my clavicle, I had the opportunity to compare fentanyl and morphine drips at the ER with the gram of aspirin and cannabinoids I consumed prior to my arrival. I wasn’t that impressed with the opiates. For long term pain relief I chose cannabinoids due to the opiate’s chief side effect: constipation. There’s a drug available for opioid constipation, but that was going too far.
Another good reason to avoid opiates for long term pain relief has just been revealed by Canadian researchers:
On a more optimistic note, researchers at the University of Connecticut:
Cannabinoids and spider silk; you can’t go wrong.
Cannabinoids vs Opioids, weed wins again:
AAAS Public Release, 1-MAY-2018: Survey: Medical marijuana could reduce opioid use in older adults: Study shows up to 65 percent of older adults who use medical marijuana significantly reduced their chronic pain and dependence on opioid painkillers
Hey Pete;
So sorry to hear about your mishap (especially since I love to ride my bike).
Get well soon, and all us folk out here on the inter webs are pulling for you.
Oh my gosh! I’m so sorry, Pete. Prayers and good vibes. Rest. Study. Heal. Heal well and quickly.
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Legal Marijuana’s Big Moment
https://tinyurl.com/y9xwocpt
It’s interesting that it’s possible that deal making, one-upmanship, jockeying for position to stay relevant, etc. — instead of a fundamental understanding of the egregious nature of cannabis prohibition in and of itself — might be why laws end up changing at the federal level.
The natural wonder otherwise known as the cocoa bean was treated as a controlled substance by the Spanish Inquisition during its 16th century role in the colonialization of Central and South America. By stripping the indigenous population of its traditional natural herbs and medicines, among them cocoa, the Inquisition sought to transform the natives’ social identity and replace it with an identity subservient to the Spanish Christians, thereby enslaving the population to mine gold and silver for their conquistadores.
Even in its later use by the Spanish, chocolate was suspected of having “moral effectsâ€.
Today, the veil of superstition lifted a bit as researchers at Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center announced some of dark chocolate’s (cacao’s) health benefits:
Moral effects indeed.
Healing furtherance energy to favor your complete recovery, Guither. You’re a national treasure, and one of the reasons we’ve been winning lately.
Since it sounds as if you’ll have some downtime on your hands, I’d like to recommend a couple of good books:
Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000, by Martin Torgoff https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15677197-can-t-find-my-way-home
and the memoirs of Ulysees S. Grant, which I’m presently reading right now myself. Every bit the classic I’ve been told that it was.
by the way, I think “mythic insignificance” is a splendid turn of phrase.
The First Casualty — Ben Elton
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8827.The_First_Casualty
Pete, sorry this is coming late, as I haven’t been ‘here’ in almost two weeks, but I hope you heal up soon. Has electro-stimulation been suggested? You might want to research that.
Given all that has been said here about drug testing, this will be especially infuriating: This is Why You Can’t Trust “Experts†and Lab Results at Trial by The Daily Bell Staff – April 24, 2018
from the article:
All predictable and predicted, decades ago, when the abominable practice began. For it forgot something ol’ Tom Jefferson warned us about, when he said:
“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution”. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch8s41.html
Although Jefferson was addressing the mindset behind the ‘Alien and Sedition Laws’, what he had to say is no less applicable to the the DrugWar, because it confers power based upon that ‘confidence in man’ that is so untrustworthy, and this was a perfect example.
Drug testing has always been an affront to the 4th Amendment; releasing the chains of the Constitution that protected the once inviolable person. Outrages like this, such as the Drugwar has allowed, has caused enormously destructive ‘mischief’ for over 4 decades. ‘Mischief’ such as this perversion of justice.
Geneticists have more bad news for prohibs. The prohibitionist assumption that peer influence and/or religious beliefs are exclusive critical factors determining a young person’s drug taking behavior is incorrect. Genes also play a role.
Prohibitionist groups such as those represented by the LDS or Mormon church hierarchy refuse to believe in applied genetics. This is because genetics studies counter Mormon beliefs that Native Americans are descended from the lost tribes of Israel. The true believers will never conclude that changing or restricting people’s drug habits is about as easy as changing the color of people’s eyes. For most Mormons, and many others, the situation will continue to be onward prohibitionist soldiers, marching as to drug war.
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Bipartisan Marijuana Speechathon On House Floor
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/bipartisan-marijuana-speechathon-on-house-floor/
OUCH! Oh, Jeffy, that really must hurt! Hey Mr. Law & Order, you really are with the criminals. I’d lay low for while, then resign, then slink back to Alabammie…
Anti-cannabis propaganda claiming marijuana consumption is an active precursor to psychosis in teenagers received an injection of sanity from researchers in Basel, Switzerland.
Whereas the mere use of marijuana predicts nothing about future psychoses, using MRI, project leader André Schmidt has uncovered a biomarker that predicts a person’s later development of psychosis with 80 percent accuracy:
It’s not just a problem in the US. Canada is also feeling the effects of opioids:
AAAS Public Release: One in every six deaths in young adults is opioid-related … opioid-related deaths in Ontario have tripled in past fifteen years, with most significant increase in young adults
At the Oregon Health & Science University, a new ray of hope for addiction is emerging in hospitals that employ harm reduction techniques and medical science:
Putting hospitals in charge of addiction treatment will completely undermine certain bogus rehab industries.
Michigan approves marijuana legalization vote for November
https://tinyurl.com/JiveMoTownJive
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We are nothing if not persistent.
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For a while I’ve favored the theory that the powers that be prefer that there be “no way to prove” that a cannabis consumer is “impaired” behind the wheel. The absence of a device to test and establishment of a per se “standard” so that law enforcement can get conviction without the added stress and inconvenience of actually having to prove a driver’s “impairment” is very valuable propaganda. It’s very low maintenance…all they have to do to maintain the status quo is absolutely nothing.
I can’t for the life of me figure out why the Feds would pull any funding because they’re trying to invent a device that all of the foaming at the mouth prohibitionists swear is desperately needed in the name of highway safety. Perhaps they’re not using ElSohley bunkweed? Also let’s not forget the part where the Feds have never pulled even a penny of funding over this controversy in the more than two DECADES+ since California implemented the Compassionate Use Act in December of 1996.
The feds can’t do everything, so they rely on the commercial sector or universities to do things for them.
When the commercial sector examines the economics of cannabis sensors to target motorists in their tracks, much of the technology isn’t there yet, and even if it were there, the ongoing trend toward the acceptance of medical and recreational consumption of cannabis is likely to make a corporation or venture capitalist pause.
Every year businesses that don’t keep up with science and technology, or in this case politics, succumb to obsolescence. It’s called creative destruction. Companies that fail to prepare themselves for the future end up shutting down. It’s likely from the perspective of many business people cognizant of marijuana politics that investing in prohibition industries is like chaining oneself to the Titanic.
Former DEA director Karen Tandy (Tandy Co. — Radio Shack) pursued a deal with Motorola to produce pot sensors to test motor vehicle operators. Starting in 2007, Karen Tandy was senior vice president of Public Affairs and Communications for Motorola. Like Radio Shack, the pot sensor project is dead. Motorola lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, and then restructured its company. In 2016, Karen Tandy joined the Homeland Security Advisory Council where she may be expected to fail once again — this time placing us all in jeopardy.
I blogged too soon. A new sensor technology developed in China could prove useful for creating a highway breathalyzer for marijuana and other drugs:
A bit late, but as everyone else has said, get well, Pete.
Be sure to do your therapy, work through the pain. My mother-in-law has two artificial knees, but she didn’t do enough therapy, properly. Because of that, she still has a waddling gait and uses a cane, even though she should be able to walk normally. She is without pain, though. Lesson is, do the therapy–when they tell you, how to, how much, etc. Best wishes.
Ding Dong!
Personnel note: Calvina Fay to retire from Drug Free America Foundation
http://floridapolitics.com/archives/262234-personnel-note-calvina-fay
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Crap, that means that now she’ll be able to spend that much more time practicing her witchcraft. That’s bad news because she is a bad witch. Bad witch!
No sooner doth one bad witch melt away than another emerges from the depths of darkness and despair to plague our villages and fields with misery and ill fortune. I dare speak of none other than the wicked whacko of Fort Washington, and the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use overseeing the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Elinore McCance-Katz, MD, PhD.
Where are all the good witches when you need them?
I have a curiosity maybe the couch mates can give me some feedback on. I’ve never concerned myself with numbers at tweeter. Most who follow I’ll probably follow at least a while. Basically I post info and not much cat picture socializing. The past few months or so I seem to be garnishing a crowd of Turkish tweeters. All with hundreds of thousands of followers and a few with multi millions. As a realist I find it hard to believe my post are that popular in Turkey. Even with its extensive use of Ganja and draconian punishment. I don’t know enough about hacking or foreign spy crap or so called terrorism. I haven’t seen many post addressing tweets, maybe I’ll just ask them. Just curious. ?
https://sensiseeds.com/en/blog/cannabis-turkey/
tonight on CNN at 8pm est.
Dr Gupta Weed #4 pot or pills
5pt Caught it.
More affirmation Naughty NIDA igNORAnce is wasting tax dollars stalling and blocking research already done.
Weed Dr Sanjay Gupta Reports (Full)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Bc7LbjmWM
Weed 2 “Cannabis Madness” Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZngmYn41Vwk
WEED 3: The Marijuana Revolution
CNN Special Report by Dr. Sanjay Gupta
(2015 CNN Documentary HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idujb84MwPE
CNN Special Report Weed 4 via @YouTube
https://youtu.be/351hOBaopW4
Cannabis: A Lost History (FULL DOCUMENTARY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2p6qFT_Zjg
Anyone have the exact wording Dr Gupta used when
he was talking about cannabis being able to remove
something from the brain.
http://www.medicalcannabis.com/twelfth-national-clinical-conference-on-cannabis-therapeutics-may-10-12-2018/
If I had to guess on what the doc was referring to, it would be removal of tau proteins and/or amyloid beta plaque caused by Alzheimer’s.
I watched the program but don’t recall him making the point you’re referring to.
what kind of kind cleans the mind
https://www.thecannabist.co/2018/05/02/cannabis-extracts-remain-classified-as-dangerous-drugs-after-federal-court-ruling-siding-with-dea/104436/
Patrick “Wet Brain” Kennedy trying to position himself as the mythical third way on prohibition. Sleazy.
Dr Gupta showed pics of the brain saying
that cannabis had removed something – showing
before and after –where are the reports
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Well it hasn’t even been a week since the Michigan SoS certified regulated re-legalization for the Election Day 2018 ballot and we’ve already got an opposition group threatening a Federal lawsuit to argue Federal preemption to block the vote from happening argued. It appears that they didn’t bother hiring an attorney because had they done so he would have told them how many times that argument was a loser in the last 2 decades. Nebraska and Oklahoma have been rebuffed twice in Federal Court. Ironically enough, there were at least two attempts in Michigan which got all the way to the SCOTUS. The Roberts Court has simply never had any interest in listening to the incessant whining of the sycophants of prohibition.
http://healthyandproductivemi.org/
Justice is what we deserve;
Mercy is in not getting it.
Meaning very simply that those presently in power honestly believe themselves to be amongst The Righteous in their Just Crusade against illicit drugs. But like most such crusaders, they tend to forget that what they dismiss as ‘collateral damage’ are not grist for their mills. They are not faceless masses. They are people who live and love, laugh, (and largely due to the efforts of the self-proclaimed moral proctors) cry and suffer.
But of course, the zealots are doing this out of their sense of tacit moral superiority; only the Just can wield the power of the State to save it…from itself. More correctly, from the perceived barbarians within its’ gates.
What such people rarely tumble to, until it’s too late for them, is that what they set into motion is very like mounting and riding a tiger. If you get off of it, it will eat you. The actions that the DrugWarriors have set into motion – home invasions, forfeiture, trampling of civil liberties, rending families asunder, and murder(!) of innocents – cannot neatly and quietly be put back into Pandora’s Box without some richly-deserved repercussions.
They cannot be dismissed without review like the statements of a fantasy prone child. Because, instead of simply case of feelings being hurt, lives have been ruined. Instead of a sand castle being stepped on, people’s homes have been violated. Their careers trashed. And in the case of David Scott, Ismael Mena, Esequiel Hernandez, and God knows how many others, lives have been taken, without even the slightest whiff of due process.
The more intelligent of them know what’s coming; that is why they are pushing so hard for a de facto police state. You see, they believe that if all of their actions can be sanctioned as legal under the aegis of a police state, they will be safe from the inevitable backlash.
Yes, they do, indeed, deserve justice. They hunger for it, not realizing it is a two edged sword. The brightest of them know that they will not always be holding it by the haft. Because times *do* change, the circle *does* come round, and the worm *does* turn… sometimes slowly, sometimes in a flash. On the day they learn they are holding it by the edge, they will learn what real pain is. Because after what they have done to me and others, I am not so inclined to be merciful.
~ kaptinemo June 02, 2000
✦ Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74 alternet
~ DEA shut down cannabis/tumor research
~ Ford ended all public research
✦ Brain Tumor Patients Dying of Gossip
Until then… Got Ganja?
✦ Should it be legalized?
“soon we will know”
Life magazine Oct 31, 1969. 25-35
Cannabis versus Cancer
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/cannabis-versus-cancer/
“We know weed can mitigate the side effects of the disease and its treatments, but it might also fight malignancies directly”
“We’re not there yet, but while the available data are limited, research that has been conducted around antitumor effects of cannabinoids so far shows great promise. The International Journal of Oncology published a study last year, for example, indicating that cannabinoids successfully kill cancer cells, and the benefits increase when combined with chemotherapy. An early preclinical study we recently conducted also found that cancer cells derived from patient blood samples were differentially sensitive to the two main active compounds in cannabis—tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA).”
“A number of other laboratory and animal studies have been conducted in recent years on colon, breast and brain cancers. They indicate that cannabinoids may inhibit tumor growth by blocking cell growth, causing cell death and blocking the development of blood vessels that tumors require to grow.
– “We have yet to make the leap to study these promising effects on humans.”
44 years since this data has been known. 44 years of unaddressed cancer deaths since then. Neglect?
More like Murder.
The use of cannabis and its compounds to treat cancer, including any other disease or its symptoms, has historically been thwarted by a therapeutic state that views cannabinoids as personal and social problems — demonic in their origins:
And let’s not forget the state of the therapeutic state in Nazi Germany:
Cannabis consumption is still considered socially deviant by public figures such as Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions. Prohibition of cannabis consumption has resulted in phony or ineffective drug rehab programs such as Straight, Narconon, Synanon, and other programs needing to be shut down, just as gay therapy was banned in California. Dismantling the therapeutic state is a key to ending the drug war.
Damn, DdC, you’re making me feel positively ancient.
And what I said so long ago still stands. The political support for cannabis prohibition is moribund, almost as dead as those who supported it.
Those replacing them in the electorate are of the generations savaged by the DrugWar and demand its retirement, with only those monetarily benefiting from it fighting a hopeless rearguard. Their tired, shopworn and intellectually insulting protestations against re-legalization are not only falling on deaf ears, but increasingly irritated ones.
We have the numbers; they have the bureaucracy. But the bureaucracy is changing; it used to be that, in Federal job applications, all (currently) illicit drug use was proscribed.
Now, you will find on many Federal job applications requiring clearances that if (currently) illicit drugs are being consumed by the applicant, such consumption must not be seen by the public. Obviously they mean primarily cannabis, due to its popularity and increasing re-legalization. Our numbers are causing the once inflexible bureaucracy to bend, slowly, grudgingly, but irresistibly, to our will.
We reached the tipping point about 9 years ago; it’s all downhill from now on. ‘Social gravity’ will cause the fall to increase in speed, despite the prohib’s efforts to slow it. Their efforts place them directly in the path of the fall, and if they don’t move aside, it will crush them.
They’ve accumulated a century’s worth of blood karma. They are now grasping the blade of the sword that I mentioned. The haft is sliding into position between our fingers. What we do with it is not up to them, anymore, but up to us.
And so I end with one observation: as it was said in one of my favorite plays from The Bard, ‘the quality of mercy is not strained’. That is perhaps so, but the amount of mercy dispensed can be measured. And it those who have been harmed the most by the DrugWar who will inevitably do the measuring.
Me too Kapt. I try to remember the earth is spinning faster, we’re not actually getting older. Usually works until my body tells my mind its full of shit. Found it in my net travels and I agree it still applies. Those were the days of searching for stories and dispensaries were unthinkable. Glad we’re still here and able to look back and reminisce. I still remember when Martha (FoM) started Cannabis News. When we would hang out at Cannabis.com and share news and experiences. I do think we’ve come a long way baby. Then we still have a ways to go, so we continue to do what we do to bring truth, justice and the American way. Glad to have known ya Kaptinemo, even gladder we’re on the same side. You’re a powerful weapon I wouldn’t want to face in battle. Proves Prohibitionists are dumb as rocks for trying. Be well.
In a Newcastle University study, vapers versus smokers of tobacco have a healthier microbiome. The study’s results may be relevant to various marijuana smokers, as according to another study cigarette smokers are 10 times more likely to be daily marijuana users…[and] among 12 to 17 year olds…are 50 times more likely to be daily cannabis users than non-smokers.
Vaping of cannabinoids preceded tobacco vapes, ushering in a technology that now reveals itself as beneficial for tobacco consumers. It’s one more example of marijuana and its legalization working indirectly to point the way to harm reduction and better health.
Bait and Switch since Vapes are mostly tobacco free and chemical adulterant free. Comparing them to cigarettes with at least 599 chemicals added for pleasure. Same comparison or rather assumption, they tried with cigarettes and Ganja without the chemicals. Ganja is an expectorant producing phlegm to filter the pollutants in the air and in cigarettes. So if someone smokes cigarettes and Ganja they would have cleaner lungs than a cigarette smoker not using. I’m not sure if Vapes produce the same results as Ganja smoke. Without the chemicals they should be cleaner than cigarettes. It would also be logical a non tobacco Vape would be similar to a non smoker bacteria wise. I found using Hemp Oil to help prevent UTI infections and antibiotics for almost 11 years was probably due to getting a fast digesting nutrition to the immune system that gave it fuel to fight off bacteria for the 28 days until a catheter change. More time than that the bacteria would out reproduce the cells fighting it and the growing colony would cause an UTI. So with Ganja supplementing the Endocannabinoid System to balance the gland excretions and other systems. It would likely stimulate the salivary glands if a particulate in the smoke landed on the throat, to trap it from entering the lungs. Whereas cigarettes dry the throat and carcinogens can build on the throat and travel with the air over the dry throat to the lungs. Once again Ganja rules and should be mandatory for cigarette consumption. Which is still used as a mild stress reducer, without the inebriation of drugs or the high with Ganja. I take a couple hits from a Camel straight to relieve coughing from harsh Ganja. It gives me the nicotine fix with less pollutants. I can use one cig for several applications. Thats my story and I’m sticking with it.
Located at the hash museum in Amsterdam is a little display that explains why it’s so common in Holland to mix marijuana and tobacco if one buys a pre-rolled spliff at the coffeeshops.
Dutch sailors have been using that particular smoking mix for 500+ years. Based on cancer studies, the marijuana components would have countered tobacco’s carcinogenic tendencies while adding to the overall benefits afforded by smoking weed while being tossed around in a sleeping cubicle by inclement stormy seas. Sea sickness, anyone?
Plants. We know them by their names. But how many people actually appreciate the fact that human destiny is inexorably linked to plants?
Hemp can be used to produce biofuels, a renewable energy that adds nothing to the current levels of C02 in the atmosphere—biobutanols specifically—the technology is available today. And now it’s possible that GMO hemp having bulkier side-walls (more carbon), including other plants genetically modified as such, can be used to produce larger amounts of biofuels at lowered cost, according to Mingyue Gou and CJ Liu at the DoE’s Brookhaven labs. That would make hemp an exit drug for petroleum addiction.
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When caving in has nothing to do with doing the right thing, but only a desperate attempt to retain your ‘powerful’ position. I hope she’s voted out anyway;
Feinstein, facing primary, backs legal weed in California
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/385759-feinstein-facing-primary-backs-legal-weed-in-california
And this bullshit explanation is offered;
You mean it took 22 years of positive experiences to be described to you Dianne?!
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Now, now, it’s easy to miss current events when your head is stuck up your ass.
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I wonder how things are going with Corey Gardener’s ‘deal’ with Trump. Meanwhile…;
The Trump administration has found a new way to crack down on legal weed
https://tinyurl.com/yavoqaak
-New rules from the SBA will make it hard for companies that do business with the marijuana industry to gain access to loans.
-Far from just weed companies, the new rule could extend to web designers, gardening suppliers and others who may derive just a small portion of their revenues from marijuana firms.
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At this time pretty much a total non-issue. The financial institutions won’t even give those businesses a friggin’ checking account. Fortunately there’s plenty of private money stepping up to plug the hole.
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“The financial institutions won’t even give those businesses a friggin’ checking account.”
You’re missing the point of the article. Previously the only real restrictions were aimed at business that directly ‘touch the plant’. The new SBA rule can now possibly expand beyond direct ‘plant touching’ businesses to so-called ‘indirect’ businesses;
I read an article a while back about a small company that made extraction equipment for companies that manufacture essential oils from plants like rosemary, lavender, oregano, etc. The extraction equipment company significantly expanded once cannabis businesses began buying their equipment for the same reasons the essential oils companies did. If they relied on SBA financing to fund their expansion then, they might not be able to do so now — even if they still sell to entirely legal essential oils companies along with state legal/federally illegal cannabis companies.
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I didn’t miss anything. The verbiage may have changed but the practical application remains static.
The NIDA spent $3 million on a USC study involving “teen tanning addictionâ€. The NIDA justifies its megabuck funding and its purview by stating that “tanning stimulates the production of endorphins, a natural opioid that improves moodâ€.
Cowering to the omnipresent fear Americans might find themselves in a good mood, the NIDA study takes great pains to correlate tanning addiction with marijuana consumption by employing the old scam of guilt-by-association:
As much as the NIDA wants to spread its net, the hazards of tanning booths are already known. Assuming an actual biological addiction takes place in lieu of something else, such as acculturation, is a bit of a reach—especially when it involves $3-million in funding that would have been better spent had the money been used to justify FDA rescheduling of cannabis and its compounds.
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Well here’s a headline I’d never even imagined imagining:
Ontario awards $300,000 research grant to help develop the world’s first beer brewed from cannabis
went to thehia site hoping to find some props
to Dr Gupta for showing parts of Hemp For Victory
did find out about NY having a 10 million grant program.
https://www.easternushemp.com/
A new drug development called JVW-1034 that blocks alcohol withdrawal symptoms and cravings in lab animals may revolutionize treatments for those with alcohol disorders:
news on med conditions being oked in MI MMJ program
https://www.michiganmedicalmarijuana.org/blogs/entry/1263-medical-marijuana-review-panel-approves-10-conditions/
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Nutty Nora, nuttier than ever;
Director of drug abuse institute offers words of caution on marijuana
https://tinyurl.com/y8d3qaof
Nora on the dangers of legal cannabis:
“When you legalize, you create an industry whose purpose is to make money selling those drugs.”
As if that industry didn’t already exist. The harms of prohibition are never addressed by NIDA.
looks like Dr Guptas Weeds #4 is on at 11pm
or now
More frigging Blue Dogs…. (that and Obama endorsing Feinstein). Why don’t these “Democrats” just piss off and join the party of Trump….
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-mcelwee-supreme-court_us_5aeb317ae4b041fd2d23f8db
Yup, it’s true. The D’s real job is to KILL the hopes and dreams of the political Left.
Blue, red, purple, it doesn’t matter. Think of drug enforcement as a massive political inquisitor infestation that, like termites, undermines the foundations of governments and people’s lives everywhere.
Inquisitorial governments are always dysfunctional and corrupt. The instigators do damage to themselves and to others. They create a political system that prevents itself from being found out. The decline and fall of the Spanish Empire was a consequence of its inquisitorial laws and restrictions. Spain lost an 80-year war directed against Dutch heretics–people who smoked hash and smuggled lower-cost Dutch tea into British colonies.
Direct action (anarchy) enters as one of the few viable remedies against such tyrannies:
thought it was for manure or guano
S ship H high I in T transit
maybe tea was tagged as well
—Go Tampa
https://www.michiganmedicalmarijuana.org/topic/52679-tampa-doctor-uses-medical-marijuana-to-treat-patients-with-autism/?tab=comments#comment-582209
60 min had good story on how the cost of med is rising
last Fri night when Dr Gupta was to be on he got premted