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Marijuana Won the Midterm Elections by Tom Angell
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Results from the latest mouse and rat research has produced more outcomes demonstrating a further need to do THC research on humans. New findings show that:
Also at Brainfacts.org see: When Mice Can’t Answer Questions, Neuroscience Turns to Primates
BULLSHIT ON TROLL COMMENT ABOVE
The point I was trying to make is that rat or mice studies don’t necessarily mean researchers will get the same results when they test humans. 85% of the time they don’t. So far, humans and maybe primates are the only valid test subjects for getting realistic human results. Volunteers shouldn’t be hard to find.
Servetus is no troll. And that research cited above is legit (as far as that goes). Remember, not only does this research have to be shown to be applicable in a human brain, but it also needs to be replicatable. Particularly in cannabis research that seems to be an issue.
I am reminded of the words of J.W.D. Henderson, Cannabis researcher: “The drug is really quite a remarkably safe one for humans, although it is really quite a dangerous one for mice and they should not use it.”
More dangerous because they refuse to make mice size bongs and the lil rodents keep falling in and drowning.
Engineering results is Prohibitionism in a nut shell. If Ganja supplements the Endocannabinoid System into balance. Then a duel result is simply switched. If it curtails appetite in obesity, then that would be “bad” for wasting syndrome. While actual Ganja has both properties. It can dilute memory in PTSD and remove the cobwebs with brain trauma and ALZ.
Active Ingredient In Marijuana Reduced Alzheimer’s-Like Effects In Mice
Prohibitionists babble has prevented treatment and caused terror in citizens, and its paid by the victims taxes. Its hard to protest Trumps lying, diverting irrational acts when so many never noticed growers doing mandatory minimums or 50 million Americans having arrest records tagging them through life.
‘After two puffs, I was turned into a bat’
Government sponsored trips while I’m still waiting for the flashback Nixon promised.
The New York Times obtained hundreds of pages of documents this week relating to the Central Intelligence Agency’s mind-control experiments involving LSD.
The Yuppies are starting to see what Cannabist’s have lived, for damn near a century. Cheating, Lying, Diversion, Stalling and killing legislature before anyone can read it. Research banned, media censored and propagandized. We’ve lived under Bi-Partisan Trumpism’s going on 5 decades. How many more Americans suffered from Ron & Nancy’s billion dollar piss tasting business spreading gossip about Ganja?
The Hype: Brain Damage in Dead Monkeys
The Facts: Suffocation of Research Animals … In 1974, California Governor Ronald Reagan was asked about decriminalizing marijuana. After producing the Heath/Tulane University study, he proclaimed brain damage.
Now instead of removing Cannabis as a Controlled Substance. To let the American citizrey do what a few states have been doing underground or by states with no power. To let people relieve pain without sneaking around dealing in cash. How many things this plant could do and the scum of the earth Prohibitionists continue to sabet-age and lie to maintain a sick perverted life-style of the very backassward profiteers on misery.
How Cannabis Can Help Ease Arthritis Pain & Inflammation
It gets better all the time.
Kevin Sabet’s source of funding, Ms. Schauer, is accused of consorting with a known anti-Semite named Roger Morgan who says George Soros “collaborated with Nazis in wartime Hungary to steal and send Jewish families to the gas chambers.†Morgan is also an ardent marijuana prohibitionist who blames Soros for the “failures†of marijuana legalization.
Diana Goldstein writes at Alternet:
Will Kevin be taking fascist cash in the future? Funding could get harder to find now that Ms. Schauer’s life is apparently ruined by her donation to Sabet’s SAM, and by Ms. Goldstein’s latest article.
President Trump considers Kris Kobach, Lindsey Graham, Chris Christie, Rudy Giuliani for attorney general http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-trump-kobach-christie-bondi-ag-20181108-story.html
Cannabis and the Anxiety of Fragmentation—A Systems Approach for Finding an Anxiolytic Cannabis Chemotype
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2018.00730/full
What Does Jeff Sessions’ Exit Mean for Federal Pot Policy? https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jeff-sessions-fired-marijuana-pot-weed-policy-753456/ via @RollingStone
Mark A. R. Kleiman won’t admit he’s beaten. He continues his gratuitous persecution of cannabis consumers by publishing on the dangers of driving under the influence of THC. A frustrated Prof. Kleiman notes several problems associated with policing stoned drivers:
Too bad for Mark. If only those pesky THC blood levels didn’t drop sharply within minutes it might be possible to nail more drivers. Better luck next time.
Remember how the prohibs always said that if they fought the drug war like a real war, they’d win?
Well, they got their wish, last year…and failed utterly: The Drug Catastrophe in Afghanistan
We told them. We told them for not years, but decades, that their efforts would only be like fighting the mythical Hydra; cut one head off, two more grow back. But, noooo, we were just stupid closet druggies, they were the ‘adults in the room’, the Very Serious People.
They were like McNamara’s ‘The Best and the Brightest’ who were going to win the war in Viet Nam. They were like Bush II’s NeoCon’Vulcans’ who said the Iraqis would line the streets and throw flowers at the feet of US soldiers marching in a victory parade in Baghdad. History proved otherwise, as the realists said it would.
I hate the smell of such blind, arrogant hubris in the morning; it smells like charred corpses.
“I hate the smell of such blind, arrogant hubris in the morning; it smells like charred corpses.”
Me, too.
I’m glad to have stood beside you through most of this resistance to idiocy, Kap. I would have been a lot more scared and doubtful without you.
Hope, all I am and have ever been was a mouth. Maybe sometimes a big one, but just a mouth. One that said what needed saying. There are others here who have done much more…and paid higher prices than I have. They have my respect.
As someone told me long ago, “The truth will always come out.” Servetus finding that article on AlterNet about the prohibs’ unsavory associations and what happened when they were discovered was an example of that truth coming out.
The modern-day prohibs are the fruit of the poison tree, and cannot fall far from its branches. Every reformer knows the catechism about how drug prohibition was steeped in racism and bigotry, and it would seem that its modern-day proponents are ‘chips off the old block’, engaging in crypto (and now, as has been discovered, not-so crypto-) racial bigotry.
And now this discovery is happening at a time in our nation’s history when such subjects, once taboo, are being resurrected and public discourse about them is heated to incandescence. If this revelation about the prohib’s crypto-racist associations gets more traction, the prohibs will be facing not only rancorous discussion, but given the highly charged political environment, it may become very personal for them in a physical way never experienced by them before.
They’re stately academicians (or pretend to be, anyway) not (as Kipling put it) ‘gutter-devil’ street fighters. They’ve never actually had to face the legions of people the policies they supported have savaged. Their own hands seem clean but what they have supported has left broken lives and dead bodies in its wake. That safe cocoon they enjoyed, allowing lever-pulling and button-pushing from high up their ivory towers could change, and swiftly.
Telling the truth in the face of a storm of lies from very powerful people with a nasty agenda is not something done lightly. You have answered the calling to publicly say something for justice and respect for the persecuted and you’ve said it faultlessly. Absolutely faultlessly and for a very long time. I really was scared to speak up and make public statements online and in newspapers. I was really scared. You, Richard Lake, and that old lumber salesman we love from the backwoods of Oregon, made me feel brave enough to join you and you encouraged me to add my voice to yours. Thank you for that. It’s taken so long…too long, but I wouldn’t take anything for having participated in this long, drawn out struggle for truth and sanity. Thank you.
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Whitaker said he supports state’s rights
to nullify federal law @CNNPolitics https://cnn.it/2qCzqAT
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The imposition of the death penalty for selling medicinal cannabis in Malaysia appears to have ended the death penalty in Malaysia.
Medical cannabis: Death sentence prompts Malaysia to re-think harsh laws
A Loma Linda University Health study okays the use of donor kidneys from marijuana consumers for transplants:
That marijuana use should be considered a factor in transplants is as bizarre as some religions whose members refuse blood transfusions or organ transplants because it’s believed to be a type of cannibalism.
At least kidney transplant recipients can now feel assured they won’t be failing their donor kidneys’ urine tests for weed.
Organ Transplant Denied
The Heartlessness of Dying for Prohibition
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/sreply/585
Park City man denied lung transplant in Utah because of traces of marijuana, dies.
On Marijuana won the midterms.
Does Utah count? Since governmental authority flows through the Mormon cult, is Utah a State or a Theocracy?
Really hurtful to me, is the idea that any State’s medical association would fight against the primary reason people use medicinal cannabis, i.e., chronic pain. The Mormon cult is heavily invested in Big Pharma and hates the fact weed exists.
The drug war body count is meaningless to Theocractic crazies. Fuck Utah and Mormons until they get it right.
Attorney and former Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson plans to sue the Mormon Church’s leaders for violating Utah’s Constitution in their actions opposing Prop 2:
Mormon Church Faces Potential Lawsuit Over Medical Marijuana Opposition
Hey Fuck, have you seen all the “mormon” porn on the internet? Have at em baby!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_pornography
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Why the heck does everybody keep putting an extra m in the word moron?
This is becoming a yearly post…
Fire! fire on the mountain!
Hemp: Inexpensive fire-resistant construction material. The perfect material to replace trees. Eliminates poisonous fumes of burning synthetic materials in a house or commercial fire. Detoxify & Reduce soil loss and mudslides.
Just give me one sign that this dork has a clue about anything.
Trump tours Paradise area, calls wildfire a ‘really bad one’
Drumpfy thinks its forest management and since most of the forests are Federally managed, he might be right. Except the “Camp Fire” isn’t in the forest. More need to be raking leaves to prevent such fires. Raking leaves in a forest. Maybe we should start giving fish baths too. Maybe when the EPA director gets indited the air will clean itself. Air quality has been “poor” around SCruz, my expectorant effect doobies have been working well. The “city” (SF) is hazed over 3 times higher. Just don’t mention climate change.
Drumpfy only knows about golf course maintenance… he’d just tell his paeons to get raking… unfortunately from his pov he’ll need to import millions of them to rake California properly, and guess what: they’re Mexicans!
SAM and Kevin Sabet formed an alliance with an alleged think tank calling itself the Centennial Institute and affiliated with the Colorado Christian University (CCU) located ten miles west of Denver.
CCU was established in 2009. The director of the Centennial Institute is “Jeff Hunt, a leading conservative voice in our state and nation, and the Chairman … is Dr. Donald Sweeting, President of [CCU].†The two men like to boast of CCU’s conservative credentials:
CCU aka Centennial Institute appears to be little more than a fascist front organization using religion as a propaganda vehicle. CCU’s leadership has made the fatal mistake fascists often make of attacking marijuana consumers and cannabis consumption.
Teaming up with SAM, the Centennial Institute think tank (actually a belief tank) produced pseudo research that outsourced its data gathering to a “family†organization called QREM in order to produce conclusions favoring prohibition. The conclusions are bolstered by lies, innuendo, scapegoating, discriminatory stereotyping, and false or pointless associations. Below is a list of the Institute’s findings and recommendations on marijuana:
Separation of church and state is obviously not the motto of CCU, nor its Centennial Institute.
Eye-balling a list of Sabet’s “Greatest Hits,” is always good for a laugh.
• Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.​
• Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.​
• Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men’s shadows and look at a white woman twice.
• There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.​​
• You smoke a joint and you’re likely to kill your brother.​
• Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.
• The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.​
• No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer.
• If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with marijuana, he would drop dead of fright.
• Some people will fly into a delirious rage, and they are temporarily irresponsible and may commit violent crimes. Other people will laugh uncontrollably. It is impossible to say what the effect will be on any individual.
• Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.​
• It is dangerous to the mind and body, and particularly dangerous to the criminal type, because it releases all of the inhibitions.
• The use of cannabis, whether smoked or ingested in its various form, undoubtedly gives rise to a form of addiction, which has serious social consequences (abandonment of work, propensity to theft and crime, disappearance of reproductive power).
• I do not think there is such a thing as not being able to cure an addict. Marihuana addicts must go to a Federal narcotic farm.
• The addict pays anywhere from 10 to 25 cents per cigarette. It will be sold by the cigarette. In illicit traffic the bulk price would be around $20 per pound. Legitimately, the bulk is around $2 per pound.
• Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I’m not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type.
• Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy.
• I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That’s why our problem is so great; the greatest percentage of our population is composed of Spanish-speaking persons, most of who are low mentally, because of social and racial conditions.
• By the tons it is coming into this country – the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms. Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him.
• In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity, and murder, and for good reason: the members were confirmed users of hashish, or marihuana, and it is from the Arabs’ ‘hashashin’ that we have the English word ‘assassin.’
• How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured…
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It truly is amazing (now) that anyone could look at any of these assertions and accept them at face value.
But then I guess it’s like repeating any lie; if it’s repeated often enough and loudly enough, some folks give the benefit of the doubt when there really is none to be had.
Certain pharmacy drugs may benefit from an extra helping of cannabinoids. CBD added to an NMDA antagonist shows promise as a drug cocktail in treating concussions, according to Gillian A. Hotz, Ph.D., professor of neurological surgery, and director of the KiDZ Neuroscience Center:
Why are cannabis ingredients so effective when used as medicines?
The answer comes from a “three-part collaboration between Tim Hughes’ team and those of Jonathan Page, of Aurora Cannabis and the University of British Columbia , and Harm van Bakel, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai in New Yorkâ€:
Why do dispensary cannabis packs have cancer warnings
when it is not carcinogenic?
☛ Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection
“We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use,” he said. “What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect.” ~ Dr. Donald Tashkin
University of California at Los Angeles,
a pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years.
☛ Dr. Donald Tashkin
Marijuana Lung Cancer Study
Pt 1 of 2 via @YouTube
☛ An epidemiologic review of marijuana and cancer: an update
A large cohort study of 64,855 individuals in California, marijuana use was not associated with cancer risk nor with tobacco-related cancers, after adjustment for age, race, education, alcohol use and cigarette smoking.
☛ Packaging and Labeling FAQs
Proposition 65, officially known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, requires businesses to provide a clear and reasonable warning before knowingly and intentionally exposing anyone to chemicals that are known to state to cause cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm. Businesses should be aware of the levels of harmful chemicals in their products and of applicable Proposition 65 requirements. For more information on Proposition 65 and how to comply with its requirements, please visit the Prop. 65 website.
☛ What’s On Your Label, Part 3:
California Cannabis Packaging and Labeling, and Prop. 65
DdC, good question.
I’m still reading the evidence CA used for it’s weed-smoke cancer warning. The human studies were done in Africa and Europe and tobacco smoking was a confounding factor.
But what really caught my attention were the animal studies on rats and mice. Most of the animal studies didn’t use cannabis smoke through inhalation, but instead used cannabis smoke “condensate” injected under the skin.
Yup, injecting smoke condensate into rats and mice causes cancer. And of course since all MMJ patients are using the pot-needle injection method, this makes perfect sense and that you can assume it causes cancer in humans.
A friend who runs Santa Rosa’s oldest cannabis dispensary got busted ($40,000 fine) for not displaying properly the prop 65 cancer warning on his dispensary products.
Also, I think Nora Volkov and NIDA have intentionally lost Donald Tashkin’s phone number and they’re doing their best to ignore his significant and important work on this subject.
Looking at the CA list of nasty chemicals in cannabis smoke revealed a couple of surprises. Caffeine and Vitamin E are apparently part of cannabis smoke. They also listed a couple of terpenes as well like beta caryophylene.
Hey NCN,
I don’t like the entire packaging scam. From more pollution with glass jars holding an eighth to the plastic envelopes they stash the other plastic in. Over taxed and illogical regulations are driving it back to the streets. It is convenient and they take debit cards and some deliver. But I preferred it before Prop 64 and the polcats getting hold of it. I guess overall its still beats Alabama…
I’m contemplating moonlighting.
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’
Cannabis jobs in Santa Cruz County, CA
SCC Sampler/Technician (Courier)
Deibel Laboratories Santa Cruz, CA
$15 – $16 an hour
The classic dilemma of which came first, the chicken or the egg, has been resolved in an application involving teen marijuana use. Research at the University of Pennsylvania dispels common scapegoating of cannabis as criminogenic, up-ending claims by prohibs such as Rudolph Giuliani:
Broken Windows mythology keeps getting broken by its critics. Soon the myth may appear so shabby everyone will attack it.
A British study tested certain opioids effects on driving. The effects are noted, but unlike the US, there isn’t an underlying threat to treat the drivers as criminals, or to develop new technologies to detect drugged driving. After all, it’s opioids, not cannabinoids. Instead, a bit of friendly advice given to the driver is all the researchers recommend:
” Taking opioids for the treatment of pain has been associated with increased risks of crashing among drivers, but it is unknown whether this applies to all opioids or pertains to specific opioids only. ”
Prescribed opioids good (no crashes), “illegal” opioids baaaaaad! (DUI)
The magic of “writing” doctors bribed by Perdue Pharma… free golf holiday anyone? Boondoggles for dentists too! (“The secret is to start taking these BEFORE the pain starts, look it says so right here in the Oxycontin brochure…)
Don’t worry, just wave your magic piece of paper at the cop…
A piece at Counter Punch, adapted from Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press, by Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn, is titled “Air Cocaine: Poppy Bush, the Contras and a Secret Airbase in the Backwoods of Arkansasâ€.
Many details are revealed that don’t appear in the Tom Cruise comedy American Made depicting pilot and smuggler Barriman Alder Seal. The info implicates Bill Clinton in the plot. The CIA owed Bill some favors afterwards, so Bill appears to have used the CIA favors as a springboard to the presidency. Commenting on the cover-up by the American press:
And speaking of another dark backwater of rightwing conspiracies, David Gee at the Friendly Atheist reveals the language that was behind the Mormon Church’s attempt to stop Utah’s implementation of medical marijuana, in a piece titled: “Mormon Lobbyist to Members: Follow the Prophet ‘Like Sheep’ on Cannabis Voteâ€:
Prop 2 passed with 53% of the votes. Perhaps Utah Mormons who voted for medical marijuana in their state were offended their church considers them to be as dumb as sheep. Baaah!
Asa Isa Assa – 07/11/01
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1292
Bush Crime Family – 02/11/01
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1293
Drugs and intelligence agencies – 11/10/00
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1295
Iran Contra Anniversary
The Lost Opportunities of Iran-Contra 25 Years Later
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1785
Asa and Me
http://cannabisnews.com/news/9/thread9898.shtml
“If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.”
— George H. W. Bush, cited in the June, 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter
The Activities at Mena – MENA is no myth!
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/mena.php#axzz5YwBQn8yz
Ether Zone
http://etherzone.com/
The real news you were supposed to see
MIKE RUPPERT IN CANADA – RECOVERING – LEGAL NOTICE – by Michael C. Ruppert
http://www.copvcia.com/
Asa Isa Assa – 07/11/01
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1292
Bush Crime Family – 02/11/01
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1293
Drugs and intelligence agencies – 11/10/00
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1295
Iran Contra Anniversary
The Lost Opportunities of Iran-Contra 25 Years Later
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1785
Asa and Me
http://cannabisnews.com/news/9/thread9898.shtml
“If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.”
— George H. W. Bush, cited in the June, 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter
The Activities at Mena – MENA is no myth!
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/mena.php#axzz5YwBQn8yz
Ether Zone
http://etherzone.com/
The real news you were supposed to see
MIKE RUPPERT IN CANADA – RECOVERING – LEGAL NOTICE – by Michael C. Ruppert
http://www.copvcia.com/
Those interested in what was going on in Arkansas back in the 1980’s might want to look for an old gem: COMPROMISED: Clinton, Bush and the CIA Published at the very beginning of the Clinton Presidency, it was a clear warning about the true nature of the Clinton family. A warning that was ignored, to this country’s continued detriment.
One of the players in this story alleges that a Clinton backed Arkansas state financial program invested its first money into a company that made parking meters.
This company was given the task of producing prototype chemical and biological weapons that were to be made available to the Contra’s for use against Nicaragua.
While there’s no indication they were produced and/or delivered to the U.S.-backed Contra’s that’s some fucked up shit.
William Pelham Barr is Trump’s latest pick for Attorney General, or Grand Inquisitor, depending on one’s politics.
A former US attorney general under prohib George H. W. Bush, the 68-year-old lawyer maintains a staunch prohibidiot posture likely due to sadomoralist penchants favoring punishment beneath the wheel of Catholic Canon Law 1369.
Besides prosecuting drug cases, AG Little Willy advocated that the government intervene in other matters of immorality. Jay Michealson has the story at The Daily Beast :
Despite receiving a J.D. degree with highest honors from the George Washington University Law School in 1977, Little Willy was apparently absent the day his law professor explained that the First Amendment specifically bars an establishment of religious dogma within the law and that it does so by excluding any government funding for pursuing such enterprises. The US government has defined itself as secular since 1789, not 1960.
William Pelham Barr is another moral poverty maven, much like William J. Bennett, or John P. Walters. All are enemies of the Open Society:
Where Trump’s Pick For Attorney General Stands On Drug Policy
https://t.co/GWCAEHy3vB
Rand Paul Calls Trump’s Nomination Of William Barr For Attorney General ‘Very Troubling’
https://t.co/1EwGM2SJJk
What Trump’s New AG Pick Could Mean for Cannabis
https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/what-trumps-new-ag-pick-could-mean-for-cannabis
Barr has already served once as US attorney general, from 1991 to 1993, during which he earned a reputation as a harsh anti-drug advocate under then-President George H.W. Bush. Bush had made the drug war a centerpiece of his administration, going so far as to call drugs “the greatest domestic threat facing our nation today.â€
Dermatologists were surveyed and proved open to the use of cannabis compounds as treatments. Should it work out, the new medical uses will be a huge boost for an already booming marijuana industry.
All that’s needed for the cannabis industries to leave earth orbit is for the cosmetics industry to introduce additional cannabinoids into their products, and not just hemp oil.
A split battle is raging in commercial sector research on cannabinoids, with some promoting natural extracts, while some chemical engineers work on synthetics:
The worst thing that could happen to public perception, would be to believe the synthetic cannabinoid pipeline is superior to gardening.
Big Advertising, the people who do drugs on the side, would love nothing more than to keep lab-produced drugs as the status quo.
The science is showing that cannabis extracts are the better option for patients than single-molecules like THC or CBD. This means smaller doses, less side-effects, and also less expensive medicine than synthetic forms.
The combination of all the chemicals in the cannabis plant are key to better health outcomes. Hey assholes, stop trying to peddle your reductionist junk as a solution. Gardeners Rule, lab-cretins drool!
The problem is one that’s plagued job expansion in the agricultural sector versus the chemical industry for years. The boundary was crossed when genetically modified yeast was programmed to produce THC.
The problem is cannabis cultivation benefits the whole economy, the whole environment, and people’s lives, versus a centralized synthetic operation that benefits the few who own and operate a chemical factory.
On a more optimistic note, economically, it’s now wine versus white lightning. Single malt scotch verses cornpone. Craft ales verses 3.2 beer. Cannabis versus synthetics, alcohol, opioids, anti-democracy pills, fascism, totalitarianism, Big Pharma, Big Brother, Big Religion, and Kevin Sabet.
Cannabis will win.
When it does, will it be a pill for democracy or socialism?
Neither. It will be a pill for anarchism.
Not to mention the agricultural production of hemp verses Big Plastic, Big Paper, Big Oil etc etc. The environment verses greed. (but don’t worry Little Kevvie… you’ll always find someone who’ll pay you to tell lies for them.)
Profits over People…
Isn’t it time to get rid of the selfish prohibitionist liars and bigots?
Cannabis’s Entourage Effect: Why Whole Plant Medicine Matters
https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/cannabis-entourage-effect-why-thc-and-cbd-only-medicines-arent-g
Welcome to The Medical Cannabis Synergy Project
https://medicalcannabissynergyproject.com/
The Synergy Of Our Endocannabinoid System
Madelines Whole Plant Journey
https://t.co/Qy0bmZCNks
Maddie’s Fight
https://www.facebook.com/maddiesfight/posts/982292725243025
Maddie is diagnosed with Zellweger syndrome and was not expected to live past her first year of life. Doctors prescribed cannabis oil to make her “comfortable until the end.†Maddie’s Mom reluctantly agreed to try the medicine in hopes of easing her daughter’s suffering.
Maddie is now 4 years old and is learning to communicate through sign language. As I held her, unsure of what to expect, she reassured me with a kiss on the cheek before grinning ear to ear.
A University of Michigan researcher, Brooke Arterberry, is one of many marijuana researchers desperately looking for something to pin on marijuana or its consumers. So she bases her latest data on people already exhibiting a substance use disorder:
Correlating the potency of cannabis with its overall quality, it’s easy to see why people prefer it over ditch weed.
If someone has the genetic makeup to become an alcoholic, it’s much easier to accomplish the task with a fine, fortified port wine, than with some cheap, low-alcohol, jug wine. Craft ales exhibiting higher contents of alcohol taste better than lesser-alcohol brews because the extra alcohol brings out more flavors from the hops—a plant cousin of marijuana.
All Dr Arterberry has demonstrated is that cannabis consumers who consistently go for greater amounts of THC in their cannabis have class, regardless of their personal appetites or mental health.
A survey found that Americans seem to think smoking marijuana is safer than vaping it.
https://t.co/cd5j9A5F3W
Deschedule Marijuana, Says Coalition Involving AARP, Labor Unions And NAACP
https://t.co/d3eUDYARsH
Brad Heath @bradheath
https://twitter.com/DendeCannabist/status/1074740213669289984
4th Cir.: Finding three marijuana stems in somebody’s trash doesn’t permit the police to search the house for evidence of drug trafficking and money laundering, search everybody inside the house, or seize all the computers and toiletries they come across inside.
PUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 17-4787
http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/174787.P.pdf
A study found that “administration of oral CBD in addition to routine psychiatric care was associated with PTSD symptom reduction in adults” and that “CBD also appeared to offer relief in a subset of patients who reported frequent nightmares as a symptom of their PTSD.”
https://t.co/ahv0Yxlw66
NIDA funded researchers have discovered enhanced inflammatory responses in the brains of male mice possessing a rare genetic mutation while being exposed to THC. A deceptive press release title meets the unwritten NIDA criteria that all such reports must mislead journalists into writing about the evils of cannabis in general:
All male adolescents not born with a DISC1 gene mutation leading to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression, as originally discovered in some obscure Scottish family, may feel free disregard the Johns Hopkins research.