New York Daily News editorial today: End the war on pot: We welcome the push to legalize and regulate marijuana
After many decades of treating as a crime the personal possession and use of a drug that is a negligible threat to public safety, New York is awakening to the folly of — and racial disparities widened by — its approach.
We are part of this awakening, which is why we welcome the push to legalize and regulate marijuana. By every honest measure, the substance has more in common with alcohol and tobacco than it does harder drugs that are rightly illegal.
He’s baaack!
Whoops, “rightly illegal?”
Yeah, they’re not fully there yet.
We also welcome nude dancers in gold stilettos, randomly awarded Austin Martins, bags of cocaine, and even more naked women simulating fellatio.
https://tinyurl.com/ItWasAllThere
speaking of awakening
Dr Gupta weeds #4 27 min mark
“Rightly illegal”.. such ignorance. That quote sums up the biggest disappointment of this whole thing. Nobody has realized prohibition is a failed policy. They don’t want pot legal because of coming to recognize that prohibition increases the harms a substances causes. No, it’s all just because pot is less dangerous than alcohol.
The opiate crisis puts things into sharp perspective as people once again call on more laws, more police crackdowns, longer sentences for stronger forms, and now a brand new one, torturing innocent people who need pain meds with a course of action largely responsible for the OD spike (which continues to rise as prescriptions fall, a fact entirely ignored by the media).
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The sycophants of prohibition are frantic to the point of panic and appear to be losing their grip on reality. Here’s an example from Michigan: The Committee to Keep Pot out of Neighborhoods and Schools has endorsed regulated re-legalization. No, not the ballot initiative kind but Legislative type.
A plan to give amnesty to drug criminals in Mexico is being developed and floated by a leading presidential candidate, López Obrador:
This comment is disrespectful to U.S. arms manufacturers and their families.
And Eric is dead.
Arms manufacturers can always find a new war to provoke if their precious Mexican drug war vaporizes.
Which reminds me why I hate the fact that “Religion feeds a willingness to war.”
There’s always a warmonger itch to scratch somewhere with God on Our Side. Boeing stock has doubled since the Orange one has been farting on White House cushions.
Religion also feeds a willingness to prejudge:
http://www.thejournal.ie/medicinal-cannabis-2-4028573-May2018/
Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly news magazine of the American Chemical Society, devoted its May 21st cover to marijuana and includes in Volume 96, Issue 21, a detailed and useful article on the ways cannabis growers can benefit from increased communication and scientific research about the plant and its cultivation:
Nurturing cannabis: Business is booming, but the industry is handicapped by shifting rules and major research gaps, by Melody M. Bomgardner
Servetus, your link to Chemical and Engineering News is an awesome read for cultivation fans. This part caught my eye.
Perhaps if plant “torture” is key we could hit up the new CIA director for some tips. But seriously, the world needs cultivators who can produce the kind. THC is a tricky and often boring Diva without an entourage of odiferous terps.
Not torture, more like plant tickling, or making them itch a little so they have to scratch. This doesn’t mean harming them , it just means makin’ ’em work. One way this is already being done is by spraying with proteins or enzymes that trigger a systemic response (like an immune response, but plants don’t have an “immune system” comparable to ours). One such protein is Harpin protein. It causes a plant to react as if it was being attacked by a pest, it causes more growth as the plant tries to “out run” the pest, and favors early maturation and flowering. Used properly, it’s REEEELY good stuff.
Good to know. Not familiar with Harpin protein. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for the tip.
Another compound that causes a systemic response is Chitinase. It is the nasty smelling stuff that happens when you have five day old crab or shrimp remains in the garbage. It’s the stuff that breaks down Chitin…that’s the stuff insect and other invertebrate shells are made of. Chitinase can make the plant more resistant to insect and mite damage. That’s the stuff they put into Dark Energy, a hydro product that smells awful. It works, but only as long as it stinks! (I don’t use it! lol)
As the great Richard Cowan once put it so succinctly, a major reason for the continuance of cannabis prohibition can be summed up in 2 words: “bad journalism”. And the legacy media once more proves him right.
This part is especially irksome:
The legacy media has consistently, throughout the entirety of cannabis prohibition, carried the water for prohibitionists. I am reminded of the unctuously slavish and deferential behavior of the late Abe Rosenthal of the New York Times toward then head of the ONDCP, Barry McCaffrey. Rosenthal apparently did not know until much later that McCaffrey surreptitiously recorded all phone calls.
http://cannabisnews.com/news/7/thread7417.shtml
The New York Daily News, like nearly all legacy media, still thinks it can play at being tepidly progressive in support of re-legalization while still paying lip service to prohibitionists. Unfortunately for that legacy media, it is demographically demonstrable that sitting on a fence on this issue is no longer tenable, as prohibition is giving way to re-legalization. It’s time to either climb down from the fence on the right side of history, or face receiving a (much deserved) roundhouse kick to hasten the process.
I much prefer to use a jaw-breaking REVERSE roundhouse. One where the offender has to suck humble pie soup through a straw for two months.
https://youtu.be/txUDLtrzRDM
Great analysis as usual.
Would legacy, so-called journalism be allowed to peddle fantasy if more physicians and medical schools spoke out on the benefits of cannabis? I don’t think so.
I noticed one of my favorite cannabis scientists, Dr. Ethan Russo, commented on your linked article from 2000. Ethan Rocks!
Doctors should be the ones delivering roundhouse kicks to media. Apparently, the first-do-no-harm crowd could give a shit if it affects their possible bottomline. If most docs weren’t political tools and zombies we wouldn’t need to worry about the paid-off scribes.
The politicization of the medical profession was a classic textbook case of Trojan Horse tactics. The early allopathic physicians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries did – and today’s allopaths still do – everything they could to squeeze out any competition (naturopaths, chiropractics, etc) , and used the legal system and political machinery to accomplish that early last century. In direct opposition to that were such men as the great ‘Mark Twain’, arguing for ‘freedom of medicine’ and against the curtailment of that freedom: http://www.twainquotes.com/19010228.html
The allopaths won out, but the allopath’s triumph over their competition was short-lived. The regulatory system which excluded and eventually destroyed their competition was soon applied to them.
Anyone who examines the history of drug prohibition in America soon finds that every few years the media becomes rife with reports of one drug ‘epidemic’ or another, with concomitant demands for legislative bodies to ‘do something’ about the latest ‘menace’. (Never mind that the latest ‘menace’ is usually a reincarnation of the exact same one experienced decades before.)
Such was the case in the early years of the last century. The country was in a state of religious, social and political ferment, and anything that smacked of decadence was to be rooted out mercilessly. Drug addiction was considered symptomatic of that decadence, and was treated accordingly.
Since most addictions back then were caused by doctor-prescribed opiates, the Harrison Narcotics Act to control the prescription of such medicines was proposed and passed.
Needless to say, the first victims of this legislation were doctors who had previously enjoyed a great deal of latitude in dealing with their patient’s addictions. No more humane treatment of addicts as a medical matter; instead, enforcement of the HNA was applied via the legal version of fire and sword. And woe betide the doctor who tried to buck the system, as they were handy scapegoats useful as ‘examples’.
This explanation is but a crude encapsulation of what happened so long ago that only crusty old ersatz historians like me bothered to research, and this early, seminal phase of the DrugWar alone deserves a volume or two. The medical profession has been hag-ridden by law enforcement ever since; it is why you have DEA agents effectively practicing medicine without a license by telling doctors what medicines they may prescribe.
The doctors back then who tried to use government to remove their competition wound up being controlled by that same government. As the old saying goes, ‘the worm will turn’. The unspoken implication is that it will also bite. As doctors today are still finding out from being bitten by the laws their predecessors helped craft and support.
The founding document for what you describe was 1910’s Flexner Report. It reduced competition by eliminating any medical practice of the day (e.g. herbal medicine) that was unable to produce evidence to support their claims.
It was also a racist document as the Harvard Medical School class went from 40 black students to 3 following implementation of the Report. White doctors could treat black patients but black doctors were not allowed to treat whites.
One of the key words you use is “allopathic.” That means “evidence-based.” That’s my bitch with the current crop of doctors. You simply can’t be evidence-based without knowing about the endocannabinoid system.
Thousands of doctors went to jail for trying to do the right thing for addicts as you describe. That didn’t sit well with future docs and most were rightfully intimidated into considerations of politics rather than practicing good medicine.
I’d recommend people read the Flexner Report. The oozing racism will make you want to puke. It’s also how we ended up with congress gifting Big Pharma with the keys to the public treasury.
One of the primary goals of the Flexner Report was to modernize medicine and get rid of the quacks and quackery. Noble intentions. UCSF was considered the best U.S. medical school in 1910 and Stanford’s medical school was considered a “backwater.”
I’m kind of a junkie for medical history and most people are probably aware of the oath that physician’s take when they become licensed docs. Take a look at the oath that osteopath’s take and you’ll see elements of them just barely making the “evidence-based” cut imposed by the Flexner Report. It’s like “thank you, thank you, thank you, we promise we’ll be good.”
In 1910, herbal medicine was also called “Injun Medicine.” Not a chance in hell that Injun medicine was going to pass the evidence-based test of the day.
Western medicine aka allopathic medicine is about single-molecules (e.g, THC, CBD, etc.,) a silver bullet. Herbal medicine is dirty and complex but it mitigates side effects of different components and it can create synergies that don’t exist in the Big Pharma world. Congress has made pharmaceutical synergy a sin to the medical industrial complex.
Single molecules put money in the bank. Herbal synergy takes that money and leaves it in peoples pockets. Grow you own medicine at home on the cheap, or get the single molecules and go broke.
Quit paying RENT to Big Pharma by replacing your meds with cannabis. It’s not only political, it’s an evidence-based risk-vs-benefit analysis. And, Cannabis wins that game. Defund the people paying off congress to keep us sick. Or, join with the assholes and invest in their schemes. A lot of wealth is extracted through our for-profit (how high can we stack the bodies) health care. It’s a scam and too many of us are victims.
I get it why physicians wouldn’t be willing to risk careers in order to speak out. But calling things by their names is important. What we now have is a country full of DATED doctors who are failing at “evidence-based” practices and calling themselves “evidence-based.” It’s total bullshit and “Fighting Words,” for me.
You can write good info about the benefits of cannabis but it must include a qualifier for harming children
Even though children worked the fields,ate the harvest,wore the fibers and drank teas and ate the flowers as medicine for over 9000 years(EST) and only been denied it for 80 years.
I have been atempting to get all cannabis advocates to quit arguing about safety,utility,efficacy or dangers on social media. It just gives prohibitches more fodder to try and divided us with.
One of my latest is “Hemp is marijuana! It’s just lousy marijuana.
Somehow we must quit throwing each other under the bus.
Is this the Beginning of the End of Dispensaries?
NASDAQ: GWPH
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GW Pharma wins unanimous recommendation from FDA advisory committee for cannabis-derived drug. … FDA advisory committee votes unanimously in support of GW Pharma’s epidiolex. … GW Pharma shares surge on FDA briefing document that hints at approval of cannabis-derived drug.
Is The DEA Legalizing THC?
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1680
The FDA Prepares to Approve a Marijuana-Based Epilepsy Medication http://fortune.com/2018/04/17/marijuana-and-epilepsy-fda/
Interesting question.
It’s likely there will be noises from the usual idiots that once we have FDA-approved merrywanna we won’t need dispensaries.
Anyone who has shopped at a well-stocked dispensary or looked at their online menu knows that there are hundreds of cannabis choices for consumers. Flowers, oils, edibles, topicals, patches, gel caps and more.
What I suspect may be in store is GWP asking gubmint to have dispensaries remove products that mimic their product line. Care By Design of Santa Rosa, CA makes several different ratios of whole-plant hash oil, two of which mimic GWP products (20:1, and 1:1 ratio sublingual oils).
I’ve developed a fondness for the 1:1 ratio and have incorporated it into my cannabis use. It helped my father during his last couple years of life, and it’s really good medicine. I will be pissed if I can’t access this in the future without a prescription.
Once an outlaw, always an outlaw? This industry and many of the players started as black-market players. We’ve come to far and gained too much to accept the loss of the status quo.
Unless you track down every seed and clone, this shite ain’t going away any time soon regardless of what may happen with any FDA-approved cannabinoid-based drugs.
What are your thoughts on this DdC?
States with medical and legal cannabis have lowered death rates and use of prescription opiates. Why? Access to Dispensaries. Access to dispensaries is much different than access to the pharmacy for one or two FDA-approved cannabinoid-based meds.
There is no such thing as One-Size-Fits-All in cannabis therapeutics so it seems unlikely that GWP will end of the dispensary model.
Hey NCN,
I know I’ll never buy it. I’ve been concerned with the idiology of prohibitionists on this since the 09 article. They haven’t given a rats ass about patients care for 48 years. So the efficiency and quality of dispensaries doesn’t seem to be something they would concern themselves with.
I kept a patient from torture with CBD when they DC’d his seizures meds as a hospice patient. No noticeable withdrawal after 50 years of Phenobarbital. Not a seizure either. This was from what I previously considered the most compassionate of the medical professionals. Following orders.
So to limit the strains and potency doesn’t seem like something they would worry about. I’m not trying to sabotage or speak out of turn or do I prefer big pharma over Ganja. Just all this is happening and millions can attest to Dispensaries being beyond the imagination. Yet the powers that be don’t care, and competition eliminated is more profits.
As I’ve harped on more than most want to hear. States do not have the 10th amendment protection since Raich. That’s just a fact and regardless of how well things are going. Now there will be a legal alternative.
Its past time to remove Ganja from the CSA and Fed control. Let big pharma do what it will but make Ganja a bonafide alternative to those choosing a “imo”, better less expensive method as nature gave us.
The Justice Act seems to be addressing the issue more than more incrementalism state by state and I hope it gets more sponsors and a vote. 48 years of bipartisan Denialism has caused more Harm to Americans than anything that comes to mind and its time to get real and let the Dispensaries continue with a standard set of regulations not designed to thwart growers or patients needs and wants or get politicians a tax base to squander.
I’ve been sending CBD info to clinics for 5 years or so since the 5 brothers came out with Charlottes Web. I’ve had a recommendation by an Orthopedic Specialist for inflammation used externally. So I’m already sold and will continue having it delivered. Problem with Prop 64 is it taxes medicinal use where they paid it previously. I was stoked with Prop 215 and it could have been adapted to so called recreational users.
I’ve also had peculiar thoughts that Cannabis saturates the ECS and the “high” is a residual effect to assure saturation when measuring is impossible like some drugs or filling a barrel full of water and the overflow would be the residual. So we should probably stop toking when it occurs. While society has only booze and drugs to compare it and to most the “high” is the starting point of inebriation they can understand. I don’t think the ECS can be saturated quickly so newbies will get high but it doesn’t mean the body is good to go. That takes time, and steady usage. mho
This is the part I just can’t shrug off…
Although I understand they let GW import their own stash to test with. The rest seems at least probable. The DEA continues to list CBD as sched#1 because all whole plant extracts contain THC. Be Well NCN.
Dr Gupta has said nothing else has been identified
has been identified”’ what is that
if in fact nothing else will do and its natural
id say that one was felt
If the FDA approves Epidiolex, what’s to stop the DEA from interfering? As long as THC and CBD are schedule 1 controlled substances, it’s the DEA’s job to keep them off the streets. There’s nothing in the Controlled Substances Act about exceptions for FDA-approved drugs. If it’s schedule 1, it’s totally illegal.
That means, not only does the FDA have to approve of a cannabis-based drug, but that drug also has to be removed from schedule 1 in order for it to be legally sold. So how exactly are they going to change Epidiolex’s schedule without changing the schedule of any and all other cannabis-based drugs? Even if they only reschedule the purified CBD oil made by GW Pharmaceuticals, something virtually identical can still be produced by just about anybody. So how are the DEA going to make pharmaceutical cannabis-based drugs available without opening the floodgates?
By allowing the patenting of GW’s extraction methods and compounding rubric, and then changing the schedule to allow only medicines extracted with those methods and in those ratios. That was the plan, I believe.
The wrenches in the plan were the medical States and now those with legalization. In nineteen and eighty-five, that plan would have worked. Just roll those in the Federal “investigational drug” program right over to big pharma. But they were too slow, and we demanded and got the medical acts in the States. This is greatly simplified, but that was the basic outline of their plan.
They had no problem doing it for GHB.
https://tinyurl.com/stonedAsGoats
No greater indication of marijuana’s status as an ongoing to-be-legalized commodity exists than that of the Sharks in Suits lining up to sue the cannabis industry.
A telephonic seminar is being hosted Thursday, June 21, 2018, from high noon to 1:30 PM (Eastern Time), by arch prohibitionist lawyer David Evans. Evans is also the go-to lawyer for the drug testing industry, likely making him Robert J. DuPont’s BFF. The seminar is being made available at the new discounted cost of $129, a savings of $50, according to Evans, et al.
Suing the cannabis industry is one means of driving out small-scale grow operations and distributors, the very heart of the industry at the moment. It’s thus become necessary to understand the oppositions’ legal tactics to counter what some states, counties, or municipalities might employ as a type of SLAPP, a lawsuit against public participation normally intended to censor, intimidate, or silence people by burdening them with legal costs they can ill afford.
A good counter offensive against the David Evans’s of the world is to sue government entities first to deregulate the use of elixirs, for example, or deregulate something else if necessary, thus preventing the prohibitionists from muddling up the rules or making regulations in ways that cause the cannabis industry to be vulnerable to prohibitionist legal attacks.
Webinar: http://www.mcssl.com/store/legalresourcesinc/catalog/product/60b35bbfb10d43fa9a1802885a9bd4d1
Complete impunity. Why Malta? Who’s next?
https://youtu.be/IHFuOFdZ790
As of this date, few citizens in any country in the world are happy with their government.
The present situation is similar to the French government’s political base in the lead-up to WWII, except now it’s worldwide.
Prior to 1941, the French government was overtaken by politicians who were there only for themselves, and not necessarily for their country. These were the same French politicians who stood down while Hitler reoccupied the Rhineland, their ineptitude blowing Winston Churchill’s mind, and making WWII inevitable. Granted, the French were suffering from WWI fatigue, but it’s still not an excuse for enabling a stupid war that killed 55 million people.
Much of this political rot is destined to be self-annihilating. That which isn’t, is likely to be annihilated.
By speeding up photorespiration, scientists at the University of Essex in partnership with the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, are able to boost growth in crops by 27 to 47 percent.
The demo was a tobacco plant, considered the “lab rat of plant biology because it is easy to genetically engineer and can be quickly grown and tested in outdoor field trialsâ€. The technique can be extended to soybeans and other food crops, and cannabis:
A Canadian plant genomics company called Epimeron has developed a way to make opioids from sugar rather than opium poppies.
On May 30 Epimeron Inc. announced it has identified…
Geneticists and biological psychiatrists are moving closer to the day when cocaine addiction can be treated with a pill—minus the persecution of jails, rehab facilities, or the therapeutic state:
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In the meantime Insys Therapeutics is doing clinical studies of synthetic cannabidiol as a treatment for cocaine addiction.
I looked at a Phase II study out of Canada. The dose used is 800 mg of single-molecule CBD, or 400 mg if the larger dose isn’t tolerated.
That’s a shitload of CBD. It costs around $40 to $45, depending on where you buy it, for a 15 ml bottle of CBD oil from a dispensary. A 15 ml bottle equals 16 mg/ml which is 480 mg of CBD.
If you don’t have good insurance? You probably won’t be treating your cocaine addiction with lab-produced CBD.
Hate to sound like a broken record but whole-plant is cheaper and superior to single molecule CBD. Whole-plant mitigates side effects, increases the therapeutic window and is cheaper.
Here’s an example of whole-plant versus single molecule CBD for epilepsy. Doses of 50 mg/kg are used in single molecule CBD studies. Bonnie Goldstein, a physician who recommends cannabis, finds a dose range of CBD whole-plant extract at 2.5 mg/kg up to 5 mg/kg works for her patients. Significant difference between a single molecule and whole plant preparations.
MS patients using a 1:1 THC/CBD ratio oil (Sativex) average a dose of approximately 15 mg each of THC and CBD.
I’d love to run into some cocaine again. Target practice for pissing contests. A drug that never satisfies is a trap. More, more, more, is never enough. My bladder is ready.
MormonLeaks leaked a doc showing the LDS church owns nearly a billion in big pharma stocks. (the church actually owns a total of 32 billion worth of stocks) Is this why they came out HARD against Utah’s medical marijuana initiative?
https://tinyurl.com/BillionHypocrisy
“The Church is not a financial institution or a commercial corporation. It has no other objective than preaching the gospel and inviting all to come unto Christ.”
Once again the LDS Church, or its spokesperson, lies about their faith.
Some Mormons willingly admit their institution is both a church and a business. A 1985 book by Heinerman and Shupe called the Mormon Corporate Empire exposes how the church has other objectives besides gospel slinging:
Individual Mormons, such as the Cathy family who own the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain, illustrate the use of Mormon corporatism to further their church’s political agenda:
Likely of more importance than Big Pharma stock—which the church can always dump if there appears to be an oncoming drop in its value—is the social power the LDS Church maintains by villainizing, persecuting and prosecuting non-Mormons who consume cannabis and other illicit drugs. Authoritarian Mormons who abstain from sinful marijuana, et al., go on to portray themselves as morally superior, and thus more qualified to fill jobs in the government and in business. Besides the FBI and CIA, Mormons are rumored to have a strong presence in the DEA, NSA, and the prison industrial complex.
The best defense against Mormon schemes is a good BDS offense (Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions), a means of protest currently being used against Israel for its human rights crimes committed against Palestinians in Gaza.
The Cathy’s are Southern Baptist.
You’re correct. There seems to be some confusion on the net about the Cathy’s religious base, with some claiming they’re Mormon, others claiming Baptist. It appears the Baptist label is the correct one. Many Southern Baptists don’t like marijuana, either.
I should have used Metaleuca as the example, a company owned by Frank VanderSloot:
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/mother-jones-vandersloot-melaleuca-lawsuit/
I live in Alabama. I know all about how the Baptists want to control everything. Fortunately, their influence is weakening.
The California Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Initiative didn’t make it onto the ballot this year. Despite this setback, the psychedelic experience is proving increasingly beneficial to individuals with every study that examines it:
Continuing reactionary opposition to legalizing magic mushrooms or psilocybin can be expected from the populist radical right.
Authoritarians will be confronting a new type of drug warfare, a warfare aimed at authoritarianism. An ability more potent than the stake through the heart of the vampire, more devastating than the silver bullet for werewolves, psilocybin may possess the power to decrease authoritarianism.
Abstract:
12,000 years of using Cannabis and then cold turkey abstinence since 1937. Has created an Authoritarian dream of willing sheep and willfully ignorant guiding them. While their only hope is also their worst enemy and fear.
☛ Prohibidiots Have Larger ‘Fear Centers’ in Their Brains
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1690
☛ Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=95659
☛ Using Pot To Save Brains!
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/sreply/601
Hallucinogens: Empathy up, abuse of others down. What’s not to like?
Marijuana Use Is More Moral Than Porn, Death Penalty and Cloning, Americans Say –
https://t.co/w6jYyMQShn
Psychedelic drug use associated with reduced partner violence in men
https://t.co/PGvOXIlm3w
Tomorrow’s California Primaries and Ballot Measures: How Will They Impact Cannabis?
https://t.co/HamyH1kHGo
The politics of pot : marijuana use and the potential for collective action.
https://baylor-ir.tdl.org/baylor-ir/handle/2104/10357
I find marijuana users are more likely to publicly protest as well as attend political rallies than those who abstain from using.
How the Government is Making the Opioid Crisis Worse
https://youtu.be/jdINgFoVmfc
Canada’s largest cannabis co. donates $2.5M to create UBC professorship to research pot’s potential to treat opioid addiction
https://t.co/apoWagSKLW
John Oliver adds his nail to the coffin @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdPrQFjo2o
Clearly, the new drug of pain relief lies in the plant chemistry of a much maligned botanic angel. The facts make it simpler. Just remember the words “no constipationâ€.
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The Canadian Senate has approved C-45 with amendments by a vote of 56-30. Now it goes back to the House of Commons to work out the differences but it appears that the most controversial is allowing the Provinces/Territories to ban home cultivation.
Cannabidiol reduces attentional bias to cigarette cues in nicotine addicts, study finds
https://www.google.com/search?q=CBD+May+Help+Smokers+Quit+Cigarettes%2C+Finds+New+Study
Não adianta brigarmos por liberação ou proibição.Todos os esforços e todas decisões tomadas , são para favorecer o sistema.
Não importa se faz bem ou mal, importa se o sistema vai ser favorecido. O resto é balela.
O papel da igreja na sociedade não é mais o mesmo. Ela deixou de se preocupar com as questões espirituais para se preocupar com questões naturais. ( a nossa luta não é contra carne e sangue) ou seja, não são questões naturais e sim espirituais. Será porque as questões naturais rendem dividendos?
Liberação ou não liberação não deve nos importar, mas sim o espÃrito que opera por trás de tudo isto, isto sim nos importa e deve ser a nossa luta.
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Well that’s easy for you to say.
Não está convencido da resposta?
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Not at all. I didn’t understand a word of it.
O resto is a Middle Eastern-style bean salad or balloon?
O sistema não parou ninguém por 50 anos. Ganja não sabe melhor se é legal. Foda-se o sistema!
Os fabricantes de armas americanos estão sempre procurando uma nova guerra para escoarem suas armas. seja no México ou fora do México.
As a New York resident, I guess I appreciate the endorsement, but what a gut punch of an opening paragraph when they say, “By every honest measure, the substance [marijuana] has more in common with alcohol and tobacco than it does harder drugs that are rightly illegal.â€
This is very wrong. Of course marijuana does not kill anyone. It is safe and essentially non-addictive. In this way, it’s impct on society and the individual is more akin to LSD or psilocybin (which are completely safe, completely non-addictive, and outrageously illegal). Alcohol and tobacco are the biggest killers that should have the comparisons to the “hard drugsâ€, a category in which psychedelics clearly do not belong.
And whereas alcohol can be used safely in moderate doses, it is dangerous and deadly at high doses, unlike marijuana, LSD, and psilocybin, which have only theoretical LD50s because amidst hundreds of millions and billions of doses, they have collectively never killed anyone.
Cynthia Nixon shaking up the Dem establishment in NY. Cuomo dragged kicking and screaming towards drug reform:
‘A discernible pattern has emerged – dubbed the “Cynthia effect†by pundits – whereby she proposes a new leftist policy one day and Cuomo responds with his own version of it the next.
‘You see that with marijuana, where the sitting governor resolutely opposed legalisation until Nixon launched her campaign and then within weeks switched to supporting it. He passively accommodated the bizarre situation whereby seven Democratic state senators side with the Republicans, maintaining a conservative grip on state government, until Nixon declared her run – and then he moved swiftly to reunite the party. He opposed giving the right to vote to 40,000 people with criminal convictions, then did a U-turn once Nixon was in the race.”‘
False flag, right wing “Democrats” like Cuomo are the problem.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/08/cynthia-nixon-new-york-governor
Kinda weird having a Nixon call for cannabis legalization….
Notice they say the Cynthia effect, not the Nixon effect. That would just be too weird.
Dogs continue to prove themselves people’s best friends, but not if prohibs can stop this insidious blessing upon humankind.
It appears some douchebilly Illinois county official’s only solution to retiring police dogs trained to sniff out marijuana is euthanasia.
Chad Larner’s antipathy toward canines has been observed before among prohibs who kick down doors and shoot the poor creatures. Achtung prohibidiots!—they never get out of the habit—there’s an alternative. Dogs can be trained or retrained to sniff out agricultural diseases:
The avocado or pot industry a dog saves may be your own.
Reminds me of dog-killer in chief at the DEA Michele Leonhart’s desperate plea that legalizing cannabis will “kill puppies…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR250HvgLHQ
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What about the bunnies? Doesn’t anyone care about those poor wascally wabbits?
DEA: Rabbits can get dangerously high if Utah legalizes medical weed
Just look at the picture of that poor little rabbit. He’s so high that he can’t even keep his ears erect!
Canada is poised to legalize marijuana before the end of the year. One particular bank in Canada is taking the lead on being on the right side of history:
Marijuana producers and distributors in the U.S. might want to avail themselves of Canadian banking services while waiting for Washington, DC, to get its act together on U.S. banking reforms.
“It’s another sign of the coming left-right convergence on marijuana legalization. Let states decide for themselves (and don’t stop with pot)! ” https://t.co/fgGVXZZTH1
I have never been a big John Boehner fan, but I like his new attitude: “Boehner says government should ‘get out of the way’ of marijuana” https://t.co/EOJr5IV1Ts
Scientists are currently in the midst of exploring uncharted territory: The cannabis genome.
https://t.co/th79JiSjuv
Unlike with other plants, researchers don’t have a long history of closely analyzing the genetic makeup of the plant. But for the past seven years – as more and more states legalize medical and recreational pot – researchers have been working on producing a high-quality marijuana genome. Everyone from low-level researchers to larger companies are part of this effort, and they say mapping the cannabis genome could be highly beneficial to people who grow or use cannabis.
“No one has any idea what they’re smoking. Everything is name draw, so consumers and patients don’t know what they’re getting,” says Mowgli Holmes, co-founder and CEO of Phylos Bioscience, which has been working on its cannabis genome for over two years. “DNA sequencing uniquely identifies a plant, which allows growers to really tell their customers what plant they’re actually getting.”
Then Monsanto’s Frankenganja coming to a dispensary near you.
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Based on the research by Robert C. Clarke and Mark D. Merlin (authors, Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany), cannabis plants have been described incorrectly for so long that it’s likely cannabis culture vernacular will persist long after science has made corrections. For example, according to Clarke and Merlin, Cannabis sativa is strictly a fiber plant with a very narrow distribution. Cannabis indica comprises the ‘drug’ plants and is divided into broad leaf drug (BLD) and narrow leaf drug (NLD) plants. (There are also broad leaf hemp (BLH) and narrow leaf hemp (NLH) plants.) The entire sativa versus indica debate is really meaningless. This comports with analysis done by researchers from the University of British Columbia and Dalhousie University when they looked into the genetic makeup of Lamb’s Bread, a well known, highly regarded supposed 100% sativa hailing from Jamaica. The researchers found more genetic similarities with Lamb’s Bread and indicas from Afghanistan than with other so-called sativas.
Another misnaming that will likely persist well into the future is the use of the word ‘strain’ to describe different cannabis plants. Technically the word ‘strain’ is more appropriately used to describe various forms of viruses, bacteria, and fungi (and in some cases rodents) — not plants. Cultivar is the more proper term for plants of the same genus and species but with varying characteristics. Just like when you buy tomato plants that produce different fruit characteristics, you’re buying tomato cultivars, not tomato strains.
Anyway, once terms are applied for many years they are ingrained and are sometimes difficult to dislodge. No doubt we’ll be talking about salivas versus indicas and cannabis strains for a long time to come.
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Hasn’t everyone heard that Monsanto has ceased to exist? Twitter took its place in the S&P 500 just last week.
The 22nd Century Group (NYSE:XXII) is working on genetically engineering the THC out of hemp and the nicotine out of smoking tobacco.
There may not be a Monsanto anymore, but there is a Bayer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#History
Great new stewards of an industry that has made its fortune by poisoning the worlds food supply.
I think they just morphed into something else that is not necessarily an improvement.
Monsanto name will disappear, not its products | MNN – Mother Nature Network https://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/blogs/monsanto-name-disappear-products-still-around-bayer
Monsanto’s Dirty Dozen: The 12 Most Awful Products Made By Monsanto – https://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/10/07/monsantos-dirty-dozen-the-12-most-awful-products-made-by-monsanto/
The Complete History of Monsanto, “The World’s Most Evil Corporation†https://shar.es/anlOf3 via @grtvnews
Justice Clarence Thomas and Monsanto https://theprogressivecynic.com/2013/07/15/justice-clarence-thomas-and-monsanto/ via @wordpressdotcom
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On May 31 2016, who said:
Did you know that Bayer said that it was retiring the Monsanto brand because it’s irreparably damaged?
Oh good lord…here’s a screed: https://thetablet.org/marijuana-is-very-dangerous/
Another religionist scumbucket
Poetic injustice: Bishop shielded by a statute of limitations http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/poetic-injustice-bishop-shielded-statute-limitations-article-1.2663530
Regardless, this fan of restrictive sex-offense statutes of limitations has nothing to worry about in terms of a law enforcement investigation.
Bishop Dimazio doth bear false witness. Claiming scientific backing minus any references to distant or recent scientific research, his dire warnings about cannabis look as if the alleged arch sinner DiMazio sourced them from some psychopathic Catholic agent at the DEA who provided the material to the Bishop for dissemination. Otherwise an internet search would mandate cherry picking research studies to the extreme, thereby making Bishop DiMazio a SINNER.
There’s something missing from the list, and that’s marijuana suicides. No kidding. I had no idea the daft claim about cannabis and suicide existed until this news release today from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, which refuted it, using real science:
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Most of those horrible effects he mentioned were for teenagers and adolescents using marijuana. Sounds like he’s making a pretty good argument for legalization and regulation.
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans warns bone fracture patients of potentially serious complications should they use opioids for their pain. Although it’s not mentioned, cannabinoids for pain relief are looking better all the time:
After knee surgery a friend of mine, (not a smoker) was told (aside) by the surgeon to basically smoke it if he had it, because it would help him heal better. The doctor had to tell him if he told people what he said he would have to deny it. (Still illegal in my state) My friend secretly secured and smoked… and told me, (no denials necessary)… and healed beautifully and quickly.
One more example of progress. If the physicians lead, the douchebillies will follow. My left clavicle healed beautifully as well.
One step Progress
2 steps Congress
If you thought Jeff Sessions had too much power already, you should see the new drug war bill Congress is about to pass.
The SITSA Act would turn the attorney general into the chief arbiter of what substances Americans can buy, sell, and put in their bodies.
https://t.co/8mfEz2H896
The House of Representatives voted on Friday to create a new schedule of banned drugs under the Controlled Substances Act, called “Schedule A,” and to give Attorney General Jeff Sessions broad new powers to criminalize the manufacturing, importation, and sale of substances that are currently unregulated, but not illegal. The bill is now headed to the Senate, where co-sponsors Dianne Feinstein (D–Calif.) and Chuck Grassley (R–Iowa) will likely have little problem whipping votes.
What next after cannabis oil?
Banned substances that have medicinal uses
https://t.co/h0bQaGG2Z1
Don’t Bet On Federal Marijuana Legalization Just Yet
https://t.co/1P4LPOR2La
FDA-approved epilepsy drug
has medical marijuana patients concerned
https://t.co/pZ1NrdbM3e
Canadian Military Will Be Allowed to Smoke Marijuana
Cannabis will be treated like alcohol when it comes to military use
https://t.co/LpbnlgS14e
Suicides in the U.S. are spiking. The numbers have been on the rise for years, especially in states or counties that lack easy access to cannabinoids for medical or recreational purposes.
Monica H. Swan, professor of epidemiology and public health at Georgia State University, speaks to an unspeakable subject for many people, as well as for totalitarian governments:
Reactionary marijuana opponents continue to work against implementation of California’s legalization of cannabis. For some in the backward locales of the Golden State, the weed war isn’t over yet.
Others expect to undo the legal knots currently tying up those struggling to get medicine and joy to the people:
Hello everyone. Old friends. Pete. This is CJ. I am still alive though after yesterday I honestly wish I wasn’t. I just had a conversation with someone though and there’s a complicated situation going on and after this conversation I had I knew there was no better place and no better group of people to reach out to than my friends here. I need you guys help. Unfortunately I’m writing this on my phone which is not compatible here for some reason so that I can’t actually see what I’m writing now only the first paragraph was visible. I’m hoping this will not be riddled with spelling errors at this point. When I get home I will come right here to write in full this nightmare situation. But many of you know me and my story so let me dispel one thing right now. This is NOT ABOUT MONEY I would never ever ever go there. I have been off every day heroin use for 3 months now. It’s mostly because of my health and I will explain that too. Mostly I use 1x a week I swear on my grandfather’s soul it’s true. I would never do that. If anything is money related it’s me who will spend every single penny I have for help. And I have quite a few pennies now because I won my 3 year court case vs NYC. So friends please don’t think that. I will explain my financial good fortune when I write later too. But this is about life. A life I value far more than my own. Id give every cent and more so I’d give my life I swear id give my very life for this person and for help with this nightmare. I had no hope after yesterday but I read some things and someone just told me a nearly unbelievable story and I fully believe it and I believe my friends here will be able to tell me more. I am so sorry for the dramatics truly but I feel like an empty vessel right now I hope u can pardon my dramatics and understand. I promise to elaborate as soon as I get home. Thank you all
Glad to hear you are doing so well CJ.
CJ please give Howard of COPS a read.
Howards last ON The Hill he was calling
for someone to step forward and go do HAT.
All the best to everybody.
http://www.citizensopposingprohibition.org/category/oth/
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Canada is a done deal. C-45 now moves into the implementation phase. Now remember that we’re going to be forced to endure the incessant whining of the sycophants of prohibition. But there’s nothing to be done about that except to let the cry babies cry themselves to sleep and the situation will resolve itself. Wouldn’t you agree that it’s small price to pay?
“Canada is a done deal.”
Is it really? Does this mean they’ve stopped arresting people for simple possession? Or will arrests continue until all the details are worked out and commercial sales begin? Seems like they really would like to continue making arrests as long as possible.
We always knew the DEA was crazy, but how crazy is it?
Justin Rohrlich’s exclusive at Daily Beast reveals a new drug money hysteria gripping the agency:
Now that the DEA is implementing its tax-funded money laundering operation, any remaining questions of DEA vacuousness about drugs, their chemistry, or the significance of trace chemical analyses, have been answered. According to the prohibidiots, single molecules can kill.
Corrected website address: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-dea-is-worried-sick-about-touching-contaminated-drug-money
This condition used to be called hypochondria. Now it is called somatic symptom disorder. Washing all the bills should be done at the expense of the whiners, or they need to apply for a different job that they can handle.
When it comes to seizing the cash through asset forfeiture you can rest assured that the DEA agents won’t be such snow-flakes. No, this is just more propaganda about the “threat to the public,” along the same lines as being photographed in a hazmat suit while uprooting cannabis plants.
Definition: Chemophobia, the unreasonable fear of chemicals, is a common public reaction to scientific or media reports suggesting that exposure to various environmental contaminants may pose a threat to health. — Stephen H. Safe, The New England Journal of Medicine, 30 Oct. 1997
https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/chemophobia
Kirstjen Nielsen. Whoring for Trump:
“It is a policy being enforced by a white woman and justified by a chorus of white women, all of whom provide a soft cover, like a velvet glove on the iron fist of fascism.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-daniels-kirstjen-neilsen-family-separation_us_5b2a5774e4b05d6c16c983a4
One step forward, two back:
“If you thought Jeff Sessions had too much power already, you should see the new drug war bill Congress is about to pass” https://t.co/k5VTsX9juq
Drug war redux. This is sickening.