That’s the title of Nicholas Kristof’s investigative article in the New York Times (it’s this Sunday’s Times, but they’ve put it online early)
Decades ago, the United States and Portugal both struggled with illicit drugs and took decisive action — in diametrically opposite directions. The U.S. cracked down vigorously, spending billions of dollars incarcerating drug users. In contrast, Portugal undertook a monumental experiment: It decriminalized the use of all drugs in 2001, even heroin and cocaine, and unleashed a major public health campaign to tackle addiction. Ever since in Portugal, drug addiction has been treated more as a medical challenge than as a criminal justice issue.
After more than 15 years, it’s clear which approach worked better. The United States drug policy failed spectacularly, with about as many Americans dying last year of overdoses — around 64,000 — as were killed in the Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq Wars combined.
In contrast, Portugal may be winning the war on drugs — by ending it. Today, the Health Ministry estimates that only about 25,000 Portuguese use heroin, down from 100,000 when the policy began.
The number of Portuguese dying from overdoses plunged more than 85 percent before rising a bit in the aftermath of the European economic crisis of recent years. Even so, Portugal’s drug mortality rate is the lowest in Western Europe — one-tenth the rate of Britain or Denmark — and about one-fiftieth the latest number for the U.S.
Some of the commenters at the end of the article were clueless. They seem to think that ‘harm reduction’ is a new idea, that it is only now that we are discussing decriminalisation and legalisation, whereas those have been topics of discussion among the anti-prohibitionists for decades. I guess these morons only now opened their eyes.
Yeah, that’s the way it goes. As these concepts gain mainstream traction, lots of people will be “discovering” bold “new” approaches that we’ve been screaming about for decades.
Think of it as an expression of the spectrum of intelligence being exhibited. The feasibility of prohibition has always been called into question by the more knowledgeable members of any given population. Unfortunately, such are always a minority in their societies. A minority that all too often has been derided and their motives impugned by those whose own motives are suspiciously mercenary in outlook and practice…who, unfortunately are seen by the majority as being ‘experts and thus receive the lion’s share of the media’s focus.
As Tom Paine so eloquently put it: “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.†Far too many in this society have ‘renounced the use and authority of use of reason’ when it comes to the subject of illicit drugs, preferring to have their ignorance praised and their prejudices stroked by the latter mentioned group.
But that is slowly changing by sheer attrition: those in the electorate who swallowed the Gub’mint lies about cannabis hook, like and sinker are literally dying out and can’t vote (or as someone put it, prohibition’s voting supporters are ‘lame, loony, dying or dead’), to be replaced by those who know they were lied to and who the mendicants were. This in turn reflects a greater knowledge base on the part of this growing electorate, which spells the doom of prohibition.
So, yeah, it’s been lonely and not a little dangerous to be on point on this issue, but now the opposition, despite the current Administration’s picks for top LE positions, are in retreat. Their current retrenchment is nothing more than a furious defense of the last ditch; behind them is a precipice.
And as to intelligence – or, in this case, the demonstrated lack thereof – I offer the following:
Cops Delete FB Post of Massive ‘Weed’ Bust After the Internet Corrects Them
3 Times Cops Posted About Weed Busts on FB This Week and Instantly Regretted It
As I said, the more educated and knowledgeable are schooling those demonstrably less so, and by doing so publicly are showing just how ignorant and foolish (not to mention stupid) the latter group is.
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Francis’ Law is still kicking ass and taking names. The State of Washington just released “I-502 Evaluation and Benefit Cost Analysis” and it says the sycophants of prohibition are still wrong, wrong, wrong.”
http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/ReportFile/1670/Wsipp_I-502-Evaluation-and-Benefit-Cost-Analysis-Second-Required-Report_Report.pdf
Pro-Pot Doc Fighting Big Pharma Stabbed to Death at Home
http://hightimes.com/news/world/pro-pot-doctor-fighting-big-pharma-stabbed-death/
By Tim Kohut September 22, 2017
Many Mourn the Death of Pro-Pot Doctor Sonya-Kay Forbes
Unfortunately, the world lost another voice in the cannabis revolution. While it’s unclear if Forbes was murdered due to her potentially controversial views on medical marijuana, it’s obvious her work won’t go unnoticed. As cannabis continues to become legal on a much larger scale, expect Forbes and her life’s work to serve as a template for the medical community for years to come.
The only way to win a war on drugs is to not start one.
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☛ Court Rules Field Sobriety Tests Unreliable for Marijuana Detection
☛ Growing North American Cannabis and Hemp Operations
Fueling Billion Dollar Industry Revenue Growth
☛ Cannabis Activist and HIGH TIMES Freedom Fighter Gideon Israel Dies
☛ Athletics’ Bruce Maxwell first MLB player to kneel during national anthem
☛ NFL owners speak out in support of players, against Trump
☛ Kosher Weed Arrives Just in Time for Rosh Hashanah
☛ Israel Officially Recognizes MMJ as Agricultural Branch
Trump’s for sure an idiot in a position of power. But I think its more than coincidence he’s poking sticks at two of the 3 axis of evil Bush Cheney started. His Alabama pep rally rant is working backwards. I’ve never seen so many players kneel down during the anthem. Or discussion, with most agreeing with the players. His cronies can’t finish a sentence without eyebrows raised. Same with trashing Steph Curry who it would be hard to find someone as easy going. What pisses me off the most is these wimp drumpf groupies live in a place that protects citizens free speech that seems to offend these fake Americans into silence.
Trump’s an ignorant bully with a childish dysfunctional motive to be a star. Its sad that Americans who go to these pep rallies are so out of the loop of normalcy its obvious. No spines left. They laugh at his jokes and even his conceited bloated head spewing how wonderful he is and how Alabama loves him. He started to sound appreciative of the crowd who came out to hear him. He said he owns a very large apartment in New York City and he comes to Huntsville and feels… At this point I thought he would sound grateful for their support. Instead he sounded as if they should be grateful he came to Alabama.
He actually said it was the crowd who loves him so much he had to come. He thinks they see him as a savior of their dysfunctional wingnuttiness. These are the poorest demographics in the US. They vote for right to work for less laws and condemn a Co-opting of factories so every worker gets a living wage. As I said, he is a plastic fake bully putting more value in the flag than the citizen who’s rights it symbolizes.
The drug war is not about drugs. Or pot. Its about sucking up tax dollars to fill pockets. A trillion and a half spent trying to eradicate cannabis while pharma drugs are out of control killing people. Ganja is replacing addiction of opiods and the people we pay to deal with it, lie. Sessions is a fool and thinks its pre-internet days where the TV repeats memo’s the DEA writes and the people stay dumbed down and afraid.
There have always been drugs and pot has always been the easiest to get. But now legal states are cutting off blackmarket supplies or rather diverting money from cartels to communities. Now in legal states kids have less avenues to get pot and synthetic garbage that doesn’t show up in piss tests are increasing. Instead of dealing with this. Sessions and the media try to lump it together as synthetic marijuana. Bath salts have NO relationship with Cannabis. He could be moving resources to fight the actual problem and find and destroy the labs. Except he is so reefer-phobic he spends time and money terrorizing sick people, around their own doctors finding something that helps them.
That is worth burning flags over. Not plastic flags, they melt and pollute. Cotton has a couple pounds of chemicals in each flag or tee shirt. So don’t burn cotton flags. Hemp flags are the only flags worth burning except its still illegal to grow them and if you’re going to burn hemp, it might as well be in a doobie.
So kneeling down is the least problematic. Unfortunately there are still a large segment who have no respect for life, only money and what they can get out of it. Same weirdo’s afraid of pot, skin color and now that they live here, anything foreign. They are taught unions are bad for giving people larger paychecks and benefits, causing the factory to move to India.
They support the troops regardless why they’re drone bombing villages. They were the ones holding fire-hoses on Vietnam war protesters and never questioned why we were sending kids to die. Or did they have a problem with agent orange debilitating Vietnamese people and the very troops they go ape-shit over when someone kneels down during the anthem. Vets were called liars for seeking medical attention. Complete denial from the Vet Admin. Same as today with PTSD and pot. They will strip a Vets benefits, including medical. If they are caught with a MMJ medical card or substance itself.
No concern over sending troops anywhere a corporation needs protection. That’s why we went to Colombia in the name of eradicating coca and coincidentally protecting Al Gore’s Occidental Oil Company oil that happens to be under Native burial grounds. Or the Dakota pipeline through sovereign and holy lands. Where the citizens have lower life expectancy than Iraq. Same who put guns rights over human rights or nepotism over fair work practices. These dumb ass mfers are watching as Trump deregulates OSHA and the EPA. Against the workers and their own families health. How do you reason with suicidal lapdogs? Kneel down during the nationalists anthem. Then fire up a joint.
Maybe Ken Burns can get Dr Oz and Dr Gupta to do a doc.
on what is being taught in the Med schools in the USA on
cannabis.
http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/09/20/dr-oz-fox-friends-marijuana/88371/
Dr. Mehmet Oz is petitioning the federal government to expand marijuana research and is devoting an episode of his TV show to the topic.
https://www.change.org/p/national-institutes-of-health-fund-more-research-for-medical-marijuana-as-a-solution-to-the-opioid-crisis
On ‘Fox & Friends,’ Dr. Oz Appears to Talk Ivanka Trump-
But His Rant on Medical Marijuana ‘Hypocrisy’ Steals Show
imagine if Ken Burns did a doc on the drug war. Everything from 9/11 to Air America. Iraq and Afghanistan. The real possibility that drug money was used in the Iranian Coup during the 1950s, based on probability from our knowledge of the CIA and drug money being used in the South of France and Italy during the cold war. The drug war’s involvement during the big Indonesian war of the 1950s-60s with the help of the CIA. Iran-Contra. The Soviet War in Afghanistan. The fueling of terrorism in Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, etc. Plus how the drug war fueled riots and protests across America from the 1960’s to the L.A. Riots and what’s happening now, including the NFL’s ‘Take a Knee’. How the war on drugs affected the Boston Marathon or shot up people at a Christmas Party in San Bernardino, CA. How the War on Drugs killed children at an Arriana Grande concert in England not too long ago, or how an American on his honeymoon was killed by drugs in Barcelona, along with others. How the war on drugs has made people afraid of Muslims or take pity on Muslims–creating another form of division in Europe and America (at a financial cost too). How the War on Drugs has made people afraid to vacation in Paris or Barcelona and even in London. How it has made the Philippines and Mexico a violent place. How America has spent $3 plus Trillion dollars on the Drug War since 2001, not to include the domestic cost of the War on Drugs equaling another $1 trillion since Nixon. How drugs are fueling North Korean weapons and her dictatorship. How the War on Drugs is creating civil unrest in America culminating from racism to a long costly war negatively affecting our long term economic health. How the drug war in the hands of our enemies during war and in the hands of police going after minorities and in the hands of criminals is responsible for the engineering of much of rap music and heavy metal. How the War on Drugs is causing people to demand for a Wall along Mexico or demand for no wall. How the War on Drugs has made American troops stay stationed in a country for well over a decade and a half in a combat role–increasing the financial cost that can further add problems in the long run for America, simply because drugs can finance because of the War on Drugs’ black market.
Bottom line on prohibition:
It empowers and enriches the police and politicians. They are the only humans, other than drug barons, who benefit from prohibition and the war on drugs.
You can never convince a government employee to derail his own gravy train. Never. We The People must take it away from them by cutting budgets to the bone for cops and politicians. We need to vote for people who will do this, or run for office and do it ourselves. We have to get inside the political machine in order to manipulate the levers of power.
That is why it never ends – what decent, honest person would lower themselves into the filth to seek such a job?
Profits over People. Prohibition is also a means to curtail competition with Cannabis being a viable alternative to many Wall St companies and products. Until fascism is dealt with. The politicians will continue to fund police to protect corporate interests over the needs of the people. Corporate interest now includes private profit max cap prisons and re-education rehabilitation asylums.
☛ How many “crimes” do Corporations Buy?
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/sreply/1165
* WikiLeaks: Alcohol Industry Bribed Congress To Demonize Marijuana
* A Pharma Company That Spent $500,000 Trying to Keep Pot Illegal
* Private Prisons Could Flourish Under Trump Administration
* Big Pharma Buys the DEA – Duration: 10 minutes
* Who’s Really Fighting Legal Weed
* Is The DEA Legalizing THC Just For Big Pharma?
* “Professionals” are or can be more of a problem, than solution
* CXW – Corecivic Inc (NYSE)
* Pentagon Cannot Account For $6.5 Trillion Dollars In Taxpayer Money
* Where are all of the Taxbaggers and Norquest?
☛ Why Do YOU Think They Call it DOPE?
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1175
Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed
* The Elkhorn Manifesto
* Marijuana and Hemp: The Untold Story
* The Nation of Apathetic Puppets By John Pilger
☛ Al Capone and Watergate
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/sreply/422
Al Capone and Watergate were red herrings to divert the countries attention from the Fascist acts of eliminating competition.Booze/Ethanol or Ganja//Hemp. Most people are not aware that Henry Ford’s Model T came in a variation that allowed the driver to switch the carburetor to run the engine on farm-made ethyl alcohol. According to Ford Motor Company, the Model T engine was capable of running on gasoline, kerosene, or ethanol, although the decreasing cost of gasoline and the later introduction of Prohibition made ethanol an impractical fuel for most users.
☛ Policing for Profit
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1743
* Forfeiture $quads
* Got SqWAT?
* Ganjawar Puppycide
* DEAth Merchants
* Who’s going to stop the thieves?
* Why Police Officers Lie Under Oath
* Drug mishandling may have tainted 40,000 cases
* Rackets Driven by this Drug War
* AÊ‚Ê‚hole police
* Second Probe Raises Stink
* How to Prosecute Abusive Prosecutors
* Money, Not Morals, Drives Marijuana Prohibition Movement
* NeoConflicts of Interest
* MJ Research Cut as Support Grows
* When Police Learn
* New York’s Vote to Curb Stop-And-Frisk
* DPA Report Finds ‘Policing for Profit’ Gone Wild
* Old, White Drug Warriors Are Suing to Protect Pot Prohibition
☛ Money Grubbing Dung Worriers
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/sreply/380
☛ Shame on the Drug Worrier Profiteers
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1817
* Nonsensical Harbingers of Idiocracy
* Misinformation S.A.M.
* If the Roots are Poison, So be the Fruit
* Mooching Off Medicaid
* More DEA and UN Overreaching Arguments Against Legalization
* Lobbyists Are Getting * Rich Off of WoD
* Religious drug treatment in Texas
* Kochroach & Aleech
* Drug Detention Centers
* NRA Slavery: Another Fine Product Still Made in the USA
It is far better to be a student of The lord than a smelly druggie. My auntie never let me go to Grateful Dead concerts. “There are too many ungodly, sex crazed lunatics high on pot, hashish, and Peruvian flake.†she’d scream.
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“There are too many ungodly, sex crazed lunatics high on pot, hashish, and Peruvian flake.†she’d scream.
Those are the reasons I went. Good times.
“Peruvian flake?” Your auntie sounds like a bit of a connoisseur. How does she know what goes on at a Dead concert?
Holy shit, THAT’s a shitpile of drugs, man.
All I ever did at Dead shows was acid. Lots and lots of lovely acid…
“Jesus seed never failed me yet” .. she said that a lot.
Jon Adler is the DoJ’s new director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Mr. Adler is also a Scientology cult affiliate (AKA prohibitionist) who espouses Scientology’s medical quackery with its thinly veiled endorsements of Scientology using Narconon and other corporate entities as conveyances:
☛ Scientologists Hate Weed
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/sreply/1097
Totally off topic Pete, but I’m surprised there has been so little discussion on the couch about the Federal take-down of the Silk Road website and the government lynching of Ross Ulbricht (Dread Pirate Roberts). There are many couchniks who profess strong Libertarian views like the Dread Pirate so I am baffled that “Silk Road” only shows up twice on the Drugwarrant archive (actually, only once in substance). Those who support Liberty should not forget what the government has done in its vindictive persecution of Ulbricht in order to perpetuation the drug war.
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Oh boy…
DEA Head Chuck Rosenberg Resigns. Now Who Takes Over?
http://tinyurl.com/yd6swdh2
Here we go. This should mean an end to cannabis prohibition:
Cannabis Legalization Boosts Property Values, Study Says
https://tinyurl.com/y7etowqb
Some good news for those of us wishing to fly North with our medicine:
https://tinyurl.com/FlyHighBringLoads
Rudi Giuliani’s ‘broken windows’ style of law enforcement resulting in stop-and-frisks of young people and minorities for marijuana and other alleged improprieties has been counterproductive. Researchers in the political science department at Louisiana State University suggest that treating innocent people like criminals appears to cause some individuals to emulate society’s expectations:
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What’s described in the article below will probably come across as glaringly obvious and maybe even a little simplistic. But it’s refreshing to read a simple, honest description of the problem instead of overwrought 1000 page government reports or self serving PR deflection attempts from addiction ‘experts’, drug companies, hospitals, insurance companies, etc.;
Here’s How The Opioid Epidemic Got Started, According To The Top Painkiller Prescriber In America
http://tinyurl.com/y9kcth4k
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Snopes debunks the fentanyl laced cannabis myth:
Is Fentanyl-Laced Marijuana Use on the Rise?
Nearly all reports of fentanyl-laced marijuana use are based on faulty reporting, and no evidence suggests that its occurrence is in any way rooted in reality.
You Can Bring Marijuana With You On Airplanes In Canada
https://tinyurl.com/FlyHighBringLoads
Cannabis Legalization Boosts Property Values, Study Says
https://tinyurl.com/y7etowqb
Students Can Now Major in Weed at Michigan College
http://hightimes.com/news/students-can-now-major-in-weed/
Here’s a look at the how U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has remained one of the staunchest opponents of marijuana law reform in Congress over decades.
https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/the-dianne-feinstein-mystery-why-is-she-californias-last-prohibitionist
U.S. House of Representatives approved a measure, as part of a voice vote on a group of amendments, to take $4 million from the Drug Enforcement Administration and put it towards testing rape kits.
https://www.congress.gov/amendment/115th-congress/house-amendment/373
☛ Jeff Sessions Banned Protestors From Attending His Speech
on 1st Amendment Freedoms
Donald Trump, is currently attacking NFL and NBA players who are exercising their First Amendment freedoms. Probably not the best time for Jeff Sessions to go out there and talk about the freedoms of the First Amendments when his boss is out there attacking people for using those exact freedoms.
But, Jeff Sessions is clearly immune to that kind of irony. Because during his speech … Or, I guess before his speech even began, protesters were banned from attending a speech about the First Amendment from the Attorney General. Photographs of the speech itself showed many, many empty seats through the auditorium because a lot of people who were not necessarily Jeff Sessions’s fans, had been dis-invited from attending the speech in addition to the protesters.
☛ MM A study found that medical cannabis “appears to serve as both a complementary method for symptom management and treatment of medication side-effects associated with certain chronic conditions, and as an alternative method for treatment of pain, seizures, and inflammation.”
☛ Spinal cord patients in a study of THC spray Sativex
showed “significant improvement.”
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☛ A study of mice demonstrated “potential therapeutic use of phytocannabinoids in alcohol-related problems.”
☛ Drug arrests in the U.S. rose in 2016 to a rate of one every 20 seconds, according to new FBI data. Unlike in years past, the Department of Justice didn’t publicly make available numbers breaking down drug arrests for individual substances like marijuana. However, I was able to obtain the data anyway and extrapolate that arrests for cannabis are rising even as more states legalize it.
☛ Acting Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator
Chuck Rosenberg plans to resign this week. New Jersey State Police Col. Joseph R. Fuentes is reportedly a top candidate to fill the vacancy.
KISS My Ass
I always thought they were fake rockers.
In the same league as Teddy Nuget
☛ This is musician Gene Simmons’s strategy for convincing kids not to do drugs:
* “You’re not allowed to get high or get drunk or smoke cigarettes – can’t do that. If you want to, I want to have a discussion. And tell me before, don’t tell me after. If you transgress, if you go against my commandments, you will find yourself in a desert camp digging holes, written out of the estate and the will.”
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Zogenix Stock Rises On Seizure Trial,
Toppling Cannabis-Drugmaker GW
http://www.investors.com/news/technology/zogenix-rockets-on-seizure-drug-tripping-rival-gw-pharma/
Zogenix (ZGNX) rocketed to its highest point in nearly four years Friday, after reporting Phase 3 data on a drug that targets forms of epilepsy seen primarily in children and young adults — and widely topping earlier results from rival GW Pharmaceuticals (GWPH).
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So, a 70s drug (an amphetamine derivative) pulled off the market by the FDA in 97, is the NEW wonder drug for Dravet Syndrome?
That would be quite the Big Pharma Fairy Tale if true.
I looked at PogoFrog.com (a medical search engine), Google, and Wikipedia. Zogenix a low-dose version of flenfuramine has a lot of baggage, i.e., side effects due to cardiovascular issues.
If a 70s amphetamine derivative was useful for epilepsy, you’d think we would have known about it by now.
Go to PogoFrog.com and look up flenfuramine.
Here’s the thing. ONE STUDY with a patient population of TWELVE don’t mean shit. If they can continue to replicate these results in larger trials, we might have something.
Based on what I’m seeing? I don’t trust the hype.
Thanks ATSM I’ve played around buying and selling GWPH when they jump and drop for a few years now. Pays for my pot. I didn’t check this ZGNX out enough. The articles I read made me think it was a synthetic cannabidiol taking off. GW had a similar leap in August that I cashed in on, had enough in the account to buy this ZGNX. When GW shot up again the other day i thought it might be a repeat of the past from the $30s to $130s, twice. So either way this probably isn’t something I hold onto now. Speed Sucks. Thanks again.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner died. He provided NORML with some of its earliest funding.
http://blog.norml.org/2011/03/18/norml40-playboy-and-the-5000-decision/
The Hype: Brain Damage in Dead Monkeys
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/15/ECH15_03.HTM
The Therapeutic Potential of Marijuana 1976
Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
“The Therapeutic Potential of Marijuana” (1976) and you will see exactly what the methodology of each medical study was.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4613-4286-1
Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974.
https://vimeo.com/20772616
Myths About Marijuana
http://www.mit.edu/~thistle/v13/2/myths.html
The Colorado DEA is claiming that some of the illegal marijuana grows on public land originate or are somehow tied to certain foreign governments:
The news item fails to explain why Cuban and Russian conspirators would involve themselves with illegal cannabis farming in the U.S. when they could just as easily invest in legitimate marijuana grows and related businesses. The allegations fit a current government trend that blames the Russians for any political disasters currently being incurred by either Republicans or Democrats.
Robert Parry, writing for Consortium.news, takes note of “The New McCarthyismâ€:
I believe my auntie may have been suffering from the exact same condition:
https://tinyurl.com/PoundedToOblivion
The next time the DEA wants money for counternarcotics equipment in Afghanistan, just say no:
hopefully, something like the Pentagon Papers will come out of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, showing how the Feds knew about drug money and even helped to promote the smuggling. And proving that HSBC and their like, controlled the way the American military could operate.
What is past is prologue. Perhaps Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn can shed light on parallels between Afghanistan and Viet Nam by exposing yet more of the CIA’s operations in Southeast Asia.
In Armies, Addicts and Spooks: the CIA in Vietnam and Laos the authors rattle the prohibitches’ cage yet again by linking heroin use among American soldiers to the events surrounding the My Lai Massacre, a far greater and far reaching stench than the public could have imagined at the time. The subsequent cover-up linking My Lai to the top echelons of the U.S. government was:
To gage the effect of CIA interventions and abuses of the current drug trade in Afghanistan, simply multiply by 10 the number of drug running screw-ups occurring in the Viet Nam War to get a fair estimate.
In 30 or 40 years, we’ll have an Iraq/Afghan War film about the 21st Century version of Barry Seals and his involvement with the CIA (though hopefully more accurate than the Tom Cruise film that just showed up). I wonder how many defense companies are made up and just CIA fronts, like Air America.
OT What are we to make of the film American Made.
Is it fact or fiction.
Time will tell if this flick is true according to government records, true with artistic license applied by the producers or true according to reality of Iran Contra and Bush, Clinton and Hutchinson involvement as President, Governor and U.S. Attorney during Seals run. I still think Clinton is Bush’s illegitimate favorite son and was how he got elected when Perot almost over took Bush’s votes and then all of a sudden dropped out for Slickster to win. Maybe just another in a long line of coincidences. Clinton Asks Supreme Court To Overturn MMJ Ruling – 07/30/00. In the WP article Clinton Quiet About Own Radical Ties – 02/01/11.
Now to me it seems no one would have better access to radical groups than Hilzy. It also seems plausible she told Bill stories or pillow talk while they lived in Berkley in 71. The same year I hitchhiked out from PA, but I don’t remember them. So how does a po boy from a single parent family in Arkansas get to Oxford? Maybe trading secrets to Bush CIA? idk? I do know that I and friends didn’t waste the summer sober and it would be odd for any young non conservative to miss out on the gatherings and free concerts passing doobies. The BS answer of not inhaling doesn’t matter since sublingually, under the tongue he would have got off. so again idk?
Clinton acted more goper than krat from arresting more for pot than Nixon, Reagan and Bush combined. To enacting the bastardization of the Higher Education Act banning all arrested for drugs to be banned for LIFE from college tuition assistance, Pell Grants and some states have tried banning food-stamps and housing assistance. He also enacted NAFTA. With McCaffrey as drug czar already in the radar as the engineer of Op Pipe Dream if memory serves, smuggling heroin out of Vietnam in body bags. idk, all I ever wanted to do was smoke a joint in peace.
Or his DA in Arkansas was to become his nemesis in Monikagate. While Drumpf is a low grade crook the Bush Empire spans decades since Ike’s speech directed toward GHW and Nixon over not letting the Military Industrial Complex get out of control. Which they did. Oil and drugs and spy gadgets and for profit police actions called wars seem to be a reoccurring theme in the Bush Crime Family including Cheney and Rumsfeld. So I believe Iran Contra is true but have no faith in Tom Scientologist Cruise and I’ve not heard of the writer or producer so I’d say probably not accurate in real time but maybe a little more than the Congressional hearings exposed.
☛ Critics Consensus: American Made’s fast-and-loose attitude with its real-life story mirrors the cavalier — and delightfully watchable — energy Tom Cruise gives off in the leading role.
☛ ‘American Made’ Trailer
Universal has released the first trailer to the Doug Liman-directed film American Made, starring Tom Cruise in the real-life story of pilot Barry Seal, a hustler who is tapped by the CIA to to run one of the biggest covert operations in U.S. history. The pic, which was written by Gary Spinelli, is slated to bow in theater September 29.
☛ Asa Isa Assa
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1292
Now President George W. Bush has nominated Hutchinson to head the DEA, the biggest drug-fighting squad in the world. But before Hutchinson assumes that post, there are some questions about high-level cocaine trafficking in Arkansas while he was a U.S. attorney here that he should be required to answer. The questions have hung about for years, but so far he has managed to dodge them.
But some strange things happened in Hutchinson’s district while he was federal prosecutor that he doesn’t mention in his speeches. Specifically, a man identified by federal agents as “a documented, major narcotics trafficker” was using facilities at an airport in Hutchinson’s district for “storage, maintenance, and modification” of his drug-running aircraft, throughout most of Hutchinson’s tenure.
The man was Adler Berriman “Barry” Seal. For the last four years of his life and throughout Hutchinson’s term as U.S. attorney his base of operations was Mena, Arkansas.
Fifteen years have now passed since Barry Seal’s murder, and the still unanswered questions remain as haunting as ever. Bill Clinton, who was governor of Arkansas during Seal’s tenure here, dismissed the questions during his campaign for the presidency as entirely a federal matter.
☛ Bush Crime Family
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1293
You have to look at the entire Bush Family in this contextas if the family ran a corporation called ‘Frauds-R-Us,'” writes Al Martin in his column “Behind the Scenes in the Beltway.”
“Each member of the familyGeorge Sr., George Jr., Neil, Jeb, Prescott, Wallyhas his own specialty of fraud.
☛ Iran Contra Anniversary
The Lost Opportunities of Iran-Contra 25 Years Later
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1785
~ Iran Contra Drug Smuggling, 2 CIA Contract Pilots Confes
~ Iran Contra CIA Drug Running Mena Arkansas Barry Seal
~ Iran Contra Drug Smuggling, Detailed Report
~ The Mena Connection
~ Exposing the CIA, Bush, Clinton, Iran Contra, And Drug
~ 9/11 Iran-Contra Commissioner Lee Hamilton
~ George HW Bush Criminal Conspiracy Coverup (1992)
~ Iran-Contra
John Travolta’s ‘From Paris with Love’ flick highlighted how the War on Drugs enables terrorist networks to be funded. In December 2008, the Afghans rigged Printemps with TNT, but with no dets as a warning for France to get her troops out of Afghanistan. In my prison over in Baghdad, we not only held the usual Sunni, Al Qaeda and Shi’a suspects, but Latin American drug traffickers, Russian Mafia, Asian Triad, Nigerian gangsters, Italian Mafia etc. A lot of money can be made when Hollywood uses Art to imitate life.
I’m still waiting for a movie about North Korea, showing Kim selling an 8-ball of speed or coke to pay for some uranium and computers. How many years ago was it when a North Korean diplomat was ousted from Australia for selling a whole lot of crystal meth?
They say “American Made” isn’t real and just made up or better yet, two or three pages from his life. They didn’t have time to show how he got fired from TWA because he was bringing in bombs to Mexico for an anti-Castro group or how he possibly worked for the CIA during the Bay of Pigs (and his possible meeting with Lee Harvey Oswald). They also didn’t show the time he was Special Forces in Vietnam which explains his Air America relations.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2017/10/02/american-made-photos-prove-barry-seal-cia-1950s-1960s
CC has some good articles on him
Narcos is good at showing how America knew the Colombian President was in the pockets of the Cali Cartel, but allowed it any way. And they also state how Pablo was an American asset until he started to sell coke to the communists as well.
☛ American Made-Up:
photos that prove that Barry Seal
was with the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s
☛ State Using Pot Revenue
to Fund ‘Sims’-Style Drug Conversations
☛ Fentanyl-Laced Weed Is Fake News,
But Who’s to Blame for This Hoax?
One place you will absolutely not find fentanyl, and where it has not been detected, is in marijuana—despite claims made by top health officials in Ohio, in the presence of a U.S. senator.
After the smallest bit of scrutiny—some may call it “the most basic and absolutely standard due diligenceâ€â€”it turned out that the individuals in question did in fact OD on opiates. In a grudging half-apology, the fire department defended its alarmism on warning about “possible tainted marijuana based on the best interest of our community.â€
Even then, it might have been contained were it not for Rob Portman. No single person is more responsible for fueling this unnecessary wildfire of specious nonsense than Portman, the Republican who represents Ohio in the U.S. Senate.
The “logic†applied here is simply appalling.
Assume, solely because a drug is sold on the street, that it’s laced with fentanyl—and go bleating to the media about it, who so dutifully repeat whatever authorities tell them as infallible gospel. And while you’re at it, suck what limited air there is in the room away from the real news, backed by research, that cannabis availability has shown to reduce reliance on opiates and cut down on fatal overdoses.
☛ Study: Vegetarians Are More Likely to Give Birth to Drug Addicts
It is not uncommon for vegetarians to experience a B12 deficiency during pregnancy. This is mostly because the only true source for this all-important vitamin is through the consumption of meats and shellfish.
☛ HEMP SEED: THE MOST NUTRITIONALLY
COMPLETE FOOD SOURCE IN THE WORLD
Part One by Lynn Osburn
Seeds of the plant cannabis sativa, hemp seed, contain all the essential amino acids and essential fatty acids necessary to maintain healthy human life. No other single plant source has the essential amino acids in such an easily digestible form, nor has the essential fatty acids in as perfect a ratio to meet human nutritional needs. continued
☛ Part II, Hempseed Oils and the Flow of Life Force
Hemp seed oil comprises 35% of the total seed weight. This oil has the lowest amount of saturated fatty acids at 8%, and the highest amount of the polyunsaturated essential fatty acids at 80%, total oil volume. Flax seed oil comes in second at 72% combined total essential fatty acids. continued
Thank you double d will go and see.
Hope so do the academy.
Did anyone ever do any investigating over this in the USA?
Mitch McConnell’s Freighted Ties to a Shadowy Shipping Company
https://tinyurl.com/zsnsxll
His wife, the drumpf trans sec,’s parents own/ed a shipping company or maybe now turtle owns it. That was busted for hiding a large stash of cocaine. The owners were never prosecuted and the blame went to the workers last I heard. Long before she was selected by drumpf. To have a hold on turtle mcconnel I guess. Or to supply GOPers with coke. Maybe that’s what turned him into a Turtle?
Sometimes people have to speak out, especially for themselves. Turtle mcconnel has run down and pilfered funds from Kentuckians to the point their life expectancy is lower than Iraq. He paved the way for blowing up mountain tops leaving the people with mudslides and trashed forests and no jobs while the coal companies make record profits and salaries for the upper management.
He fought legalizing hemp until it went behind his back and I think he is behind it now, or still considered as an experiment they usually sabotage if history repeats itself. Another starting with little and marrying into millions. His net worth went up more than any others in Congress since he entered. Now they have perverted themselves so far right the wingnuts are taking over. Now the real republicans are coming out of the woodwork. With their pointy white hoods and and guns assuring they have free speech while they trample the rights of everyone else. Truly a Bullies Pulpit.
☛ 90 Pounds of Cocaine discovered on a boat owned by the family of Mitch McConnell, the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate
☛ Trump transportation secretary’s family caught in drugs traffickin
☛ Drug Warrior Mitch McConnell Tied To Millions In Cocaine – YouTube
☛ Trump Fills the Swamp with Elaine Chao (Mitch McConnell’s Wife
http://www.google.com/search?q=mcconnel+ties+to+shipping+cicaine
A University of Hong Kong research team led by Lam Woo, Prof. of Biomedical Engineering, has revealed new functions of the brain’s hippocampus:
If marijuana creates the changes in brain structure indicated by the inconclusive research noted in the thesis, then knowing the chemistry of the brain with regard to how cannabinoids affect its development or function is critical to understanding brain function itself.
Cannabis needs to be viewed as an essential tool for future brain research. Billions need to be spent on its R&D. Typical ROI in this type of situation is 10 to 1.
Couldn’t agree more. Interesting links.
Court case about whether it’s ok to lock people up if they relapse: https://twitter.com/segalmr/status/914828028303347712
New study shows aggressive policing link to major crime
By Louisiana State University
https://yubanet.com/scitech/new-study-shows-aggressive-policing-link-to-major-crime/
… “The researchers conclude that certain policing tactics may result in serious criminal activity. They also speculate that proactive policing reform may decrease rates of major crime and increase well-being in heavily policed communities.” …
Proactive policing increases major crimes (rape, murder).
Policing to bust people for pot not only is unwarranted, it is in and of itself a source for increasing violent crime rates – by increasing police presence in a proactive stance towards the public.
I doubt anyone in Washington will ever read this.
(Jeff Sessions, Congress, POTUS). Or they are hoping we won’t.
Abstract:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0211-5
No mention though of perhaps the key driver of violent crime, prohibition and the money-making opportunities it gifts exclusively to criminals.
It Should. Using cannabis as an excuse to shakedown or search is ingrained in police thinking as the lowest lying forbidden fruit.
Ganja for Anyone with PTSD
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1632
Military Veterans Say Pot Eases PTSD. Ganja could help many trauma victims from future debilitating side effects.
Info on the ECS.
http://www.medicalcannabis.com/nashville-oct-2017-the-endocannabinoid-system-and-medical-cannabis/
A drug rehab program in Oklahoma is little more than a Christian-hyped slave labor camp for naïve, non-violent offenders:
Now that Brad McGahey has been taught that the work ethic sucks, he can go back to being a criminal again.
Sicko’s or Psycho’s?
Trump Faith Based.jpg
http://oi64.tinypic.com/2hxncx1.jpg
Religious drug treatment in Texas
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1306
40152 S. 700 Road Jay OK 74346 US
https://www.caair.org/home.html
It’s out in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by chicken farms. Just another reason to boycott Tyson.
Has anyone ever been to Oklahoma? It’s probably better for small children to watch Rob Zombie horror flicks than for anyone to come to that state. They like to change the ‘ballot’ rules when it comes to proposing MMJ. Once the requirements have been met, they change the rules and they’ve done this more than once . . . but MMJ is the only one they change for. Brad Pit and Garth Brooks were the only good things to come from this state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Shortey
Here is another Monster from Oklahoma: Ralph Shortey. He tried to override a bill for drug law reform, therefore increasing penalties for possession and not lessening it like the original bill. He worked for oil and Nat Gas. He submitted a bill that prohibits “the manufacture or sale of food or products which use aborted human fetuses.” And he got caught in a motel with a 17 year old boy (while this man was no fan of the LGBT community) he solicited for sex, providing him with reefer and booze.
Late 2016-early 2017 showed a lot of Oklahoma Politicians getting booted from office for sex violations–Republicans all of them.
Okie Just Us
James Geddes-47
90 YEARS-5 PLANTS! from 150 years. Had it brought down to 20 on cruel and unusual punishment grounds. Then released after serving 11 or so.
http://hr95.org/Geddes,J.html
Will Foster 93 Years For Cannabis – 11/17/00
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/387
Veteran, growing for his arthritis, no sales.
Some of these judges have been convicted for taking bribes from youth treatment centers and privatized jails for providing client/slaves. It’s a racket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4AgZST_TG8
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The sycophants of prohibition are confused. I almost feel sorry for them.
The Latest: Alaska voters reject local bans on legalized pot
Wait, did I say I feel sorry for them? I meant to say that I pity the fools.
Turns out that smoking cannabis in adolescence makes you a whopping 1 IQ point stupider (maybe) in later life: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28609722
In other news, smoking a joint a day makes you less miserable and tired if you work night shifts:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28728115
They say depression and stress can literally create enzymes that will eat away the brain, which in theory would make people stupider. And if an adolescent smoked a decent amount of cannabis, while doing hard drugs like speed, alcohol, inhalants, etc for depression, then it is logical to assume that the cannabis helped to protect and repair the brain from the damage–not excluding repairing the brain for those moments one wanted to head bang to Death Metal. On top of that, if cannabis is good for stress, then it would reduce or delete the enzyme, while repairing. Again, if cannabis can push people to be more open minded and increase people’s awareness of travel, philosophy, physics, art, and literature, then we are expanding the brain. So maybe in reality, we are 1 IQ point dumber than those who don’t partake cannabis. I can live with being one IQ point dumber than Wittgenstein, but it’s by far more probable that I’m smarter than a professor with a Ph.D who doesn’t partake. I’ve discovered that non-cannabis enthusiast don’t like to take real vacations when they travel to other countries . . . they won’t or will do the minimum when viewing art museums or visiting the graves of their favorite authors, philosophers, ballerinas etc.
Look at all the work this couch does in trying to sort out and collect facts on the War on Drugs and health benefits for cannabis . . . one of us can do the work of a faculty.
And isn’t the definition of an IQ (which is tested) arbitrary? Thomas Kuhn said that scientists from the orient explore and take in science differently than those from America or Europe, though both the Japanese and the Brits are just as smart. Derrida said that different cultures process symbols differently i.e. the physical form of a table, Symbol 1–the spoken word of the table, symbol 2–the written word of a symbol and then you have the symbol of a symbol’s symbol: that damn dirty small table or that brand new table in the corner of your kitchen.
What if it’s not really possible to measure an IQ and those that claim so are trapped inside a cycle of arbitrary allusions which would make them in all reality, stupid and closed minded.
You just need to use your head.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fa8_1507322287
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It’s 8 IQ points according to “research” using the 1973-1998 Dunedin cohort. Of course this makes the typical sycophant of prohibition nervous. You’d be just as nervous if losing 8 IQ points made your IQ go negative!
Reputedly the most intelligent man alive in recent times was Nobel Laurate Richard Feynman at Cal Tech who pioneered quantum electrodynamics (QED) and other physics discoveries. He once scored a meager 115 on an IQ test. Feynman said the test didn’t say much about him, but it did say a lot about IQ tests.
The concept of intelligence is difficult enough that intelligent people have difficulty assessing it. Intellectual achievement is something needing to be factored into the tests, but the tests are typically run on people too young to have achieved anything yet.
Feynman’s brain was different from most. He experienced synesthesia–he saw letters of the alphabet in different colors. I know a very smart woman (IQ=142) who visualizes music in different colors. Brain differences are likely to skew anything such that standard tests don’t necessarily work to provide relevant information.
For instance, some smart people think slowly and methodically, while others may be much quicker at certain tasks, again, something that doesn’t get factored in using timed tests. And there are too many variables to consider when probing for IQ pathologies related to marijuana. Here are some examples from EurekAlert!:
Higher manganese levels in children correlate with lower IQ scores, UC study finds
UM study finds air pollution affects short-term memory, IQ and brain metabolic ratios
Children’s healthy diets lead to healthier IQ
Prenatal pesticide exposure tied to lower IQ in children
Processed food diet in early childhood may lower subsequent IQ
Toxic combination of air pollution and poverty lowers child IQ
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In a similar vein;
THE BIG PROBLEM WITH ALL STUDIES ABOUT MARIJUANA AND LEARNING
http://tinyurl.com/yco2dgcw
RIP Tom Petty.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/tom-petty-part-of-his-genius-was-to-be-understated-and-unassuming-a7984346.html
For those who haven’t had the chance to see it yet:
https://fmovies.is/film/the-vietnam-war.4j27j/0y1n19
Georgia sheriff, deputies indicted after body searches of 900 high school students
https://tinyurl.com/FeelMeUpFeelMeDown
Top Ten alternative preferences countdown for the title of the Washington Post news item on the Georgia high school drug search:
(10) Hackneyed holy honchos have a holiday heaving hemp heretics into hell
(9) Tits-tweaking team a testimony to totalitarianism and tyranny
(8) Nubile nipples narcotics inquiry
(7) Sex, drugs and pedophilia
(6) Fascist freaks forage for fur-pies
(5) Douche-deputies display despicable drug dogmas
(4) Predatory pussy prohibidiots
(3) War on warlocks and women with witchmarks wreaks a wellspring of wretched witlessness
(2) Bare baby-breasts betray bra bandits
(1) Righteous right-wing rabble repudiates rights of the reviled and wronged
The new coalition have just legalized the back door.
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/nieuwe-kabinet-wil-een-overheidswietje~aaa0288c/
The Netherlands has actually legalized cannabis without anybody noticing.
https://tinyurl.com/SneakyDutch
Organic and sun-grown. The future of cannabis cultivation:
https://www.alternet.org/drugs/omg-huge-honking-marijuana-plants-check-size
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Shutter:
Fumes:
Brazilian researchers Stevens Rehen, Vanja Dakic, Juliana Minardi Nascimento, Sidarta Ribeiro, and Draulio Araujo have just revealed the significant role played by certain psychedelic compounds in the brain by showing that at the molecular level psychedelics are a “powerful inducer of brain plasticityâ€:
It’s a good thing science recognizes no international boundaries. Otherwise countries such as Brazil would lose the strategic advantage that currently allows them to scoop all discoveries about illicit drugs and related compounds while US scientists remain blocked by federal research regulations stemming from the Middle Ages.
Corrected Link for Psychedelic Study:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/difr-hmr100417.php
This stuff is like nectar to me.
I’m a homeless Wine Country fire refuge. Family home of 50 years burned down on my 63rd birthday. My hometown of Santa Rosa is in rough shape.
Last act was harvesting a Sour Diesel plant which is curing in my car trunk. Fuck it’s weird seeing a pile of ash where your home used to be.
Dude I just flashed on you being in that area and came here to post a lookout. Glad you’re okay. That sucks. I heard we were getting some smoke and ash in the SC Mts.Its hazy. We had a local one last year. Still haven’t heard of a cause for this one. Always suspicious of “things” happening around harvest time. Take care. I love the trees and beach here, but now I’m thinking houseboat in Tahiti.
wtf is the inept one doing?
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
Northern California wildfires destroyed at least seven marijuana growing operations.
Hummm
Richart Sowa’s Island Made of Plastic Bottles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El6AU3riRI8
People were calling PG&E about exploding transformers at same time the fires started. I heard several myself.
I read about all the hits to Cannabis industry, really bad news. I got about 1/2 lb. off my two girls. I’m set for awhile.
The dispensary I had been using, SPARC, was wiped out. Lot of locals getting ready for the legal market lost everything.
I think these fires may be END of PG&E cuz it’s looking like they’re liable. Weird to have everything I own fit into my car.
House had good insurance and I’m fortunate to have a modest trust fund, I’ll be fine as soon as I can find a furnished rental.
Sorry to hear of your loss NorCal. When you didn’t post immediately after the fires commenced I thought something evil might have occurred. At least you’re alive.
Here is some more nectar that may help your current situation. Researchers at Imperial College London show that psilocybin acts as a powerful anti-depressant with long-lasting effects after one or two doses:
It’s time to free the magic mushroom.
Yeah, I saw both of the articles you mentioned, both this one and the one about brain plasticity. It’s making me think its about time for a personal reset. I’ve been spinning my wheels for too long and could use a head re-alignment, get it all nice and straight again.
Poppy seed tea is killing people. Does this mean the end of the poppy seed bun?
From the University of Washington Health Sciences department, CBD research in epilepsy from Dravet syndrome benefits from mice genetically engineered to exhibit the disease:
@DdC, or anyone else interested, this study used GW Pharma’s pure isolated CBD, product, Epidiolex.
Hey Now NCN,
GW’s hovering $110-115. I sold the ZGNX speed crap at 39. ITs hovering 38.25 -1.60 I think GW opened 11 markets in Europe. Canada too. Its still in FDA trials for US as far as I know. I read they brought their own samples and are stashing them in Indiana. INSY the Prohibidiot has tanked.7.55 -0.28 (3.58%) Scruz is tweeking rules about deliveries. Mostly behind closed doors. Rec is being nabbed by greedy prohibitches wanting to tax it back to the Cartels. Job security.
I was in Ft Bragg x-mas 89, freezing on the beach with a 58 GMC broke down palace school bus near Ukiah on 101. About 100 escaped hippies run out of a Rainbow Gathering by the FBI, re-gathered there. Before the Dead New Years shows. Then the central coast ever since. Went to a Jerry Band and what was left of the Airplane near Mendocino at the Russian River. Stayed at a State Park behind it. Pretty country, a gazillion stars.
I missed saying Happy B-Day b4 so Happy Birth Day To You.. I stopped recognizing them when I realized they only make me older.
Since Ganja and then Hemp Oil happened, I don’t get sick. I imagine I’m supplementing the ECS I prefer preventing stressful situations if possible and Ganja works for normal shit happens stuff. So I don’t have to treat it with booze or big pharma. Stress being the foundation of any illness or hassling healing.
Sessions stressing out sick or wounded Americans using Ganja makes him nothing less than a cowardly weak kneed yellow bellied lilly livered traitor.
Well take care NCN. ikyk but I’ve been passing info on, and I suggest anyone going through any traumatic experience, to use Ganja to dull the memories that will fester into PTSD. PR, FL TX, Vegas or N Cal or just Allergic to Drumpf. Still not a peep from the asshole in chief. Be Well
Found this… “45”
http://oi64.tinypic.com/m7qtfk.jpg
Ganja 4 PTSD & Depression
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1632
How a 12-Year-Old Girl Could Help End Weed Prohibition in America
https://tinyurl.com/kidpowerQbakes
For 2017 Chapman University released its 4th annual Survey of American Fears. “1,207 randomly selected adult participants from across the nation and all walks of life†gave their views on “personal fears, natural disasters, paranormal fears, and fears of extremism.â€
What is notably lacking in the Chapman Survey is any mention of drugs, marijuana, opioids or THC-laced gummy bears. The hysteria once generated by the drug war is totally absent from a list that includes 16-perent of respondents who fear Bigfoot.
Here are the top ten fears for Americans in 2017:
Fear number (1) would encompass corruption in the DEA, CIA or the three branches of government with respect to how the drug war is implemented—a demonstrably greater fear for many citizens than mere drugs alone.
Paranormal fears, such as those involving ghosts or Sasquatch, were found to fit a particular type of individual whom we often see taking an active role in drug enforcement agendas:
Fears of extremist groups include those domestic and foreign:
Chart of the Top Ten List of American fears:
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/152944.php
AAAS Public Release: What do Americans fear most?
Happy Birth Day NCN glad you made it —
blessed with a plant
much peace and good thoughts.
i second that: happy birthday NCN. You may want to look into rammed earth construction if you are going to rebuild. i haven’t been around here lately, because i was growing this summer. enough to last a year. i hope everyone that warms the couch is doing well.
Thanks, I got a laugh out of your 6 ft. 4 in. comment. Ruled out getting ready for NBA tryouts.
I’ve been relocated to Fort Bragg on the coast. Part of the Emerald Triangle. Most def my sister and I will be rebuilding, but I’m not sure I’m going back. Looking for a cannabis-friendly community. I like the vibe of college towns. A safe place to cultivate would be nice.
I was surprised that the two 3-gallon potted plants I grew in the sun would be about a half-years supply.
@Mike, Blessed with a plant indeed.
It’s quite the nice air freshener in my car. Girls aren’t as pretty as they could have been. It was a couple days before I could trim, and stacking buds on layers of newspaper is all I can manage right now in my car.
Before the fire I was getting ready to get rid of my old Windows 7 laptop. Sis introduced me to Apple with a new Mac Book. Sure beats trying to comment on a phone.
Good luck and vibes to you, NCN. It’s sad to hear about your situation and the devastation in your area. May you and sis get back on your feet and rebuild your lives quickly.
https://blog.mpp.org/prohibition/n-j-gubernatorial-candidates-views-marijuana-policy/
Info on upcoming NJ election Nov 7
It’s the Shawshank Redemption all over again. Louisiana sheriff complains that his free oil changes may end because he has to release non-violent drug prisoners, inadvertently revealing that slavery is alive and well in the the Louisiana private jail system, often run as a for profit business by local sheriffs like Prator.
“Steve Prator, a Louisiana sheriff, unintentionally admitted that prison is the new slavery during a press conference earlier this week. The Caddo Parish official lamented that nonviolent offenders are being released from jails because the prison “can work†those inmates for free or next to nothing, saving money and profiting off their labor. In a video clip tweeted by writer Shaun King, Prator lays out his despicable defense”
https://www.alternet.org/human-rights/louisiana-sheriff-horrifyingly-explains-why-good-prisoners-should-stay-jail
Needless to say Prator is a big supporter of DARE and a member of Cops for Christ. The hypocrisy and corruption on display here beggars belief.
God I fucking hate Louisiana. I had to grow up there and eventually come to terms that one of my best friends growing up is racist. The place oozes ignorance and provincialism and ugliness like swamp gas–it’s in the water and air, damn near about everywhere there.
Might as well throw in Alabama, too, since I spent a couple of years as a kid there. To be fair, I mostly have good memories of Alabama, but it’s fucking Alabama. In the South. With Sessions. And Moore. Fuck ’em.
Duterte has admitted defeat.
https://tinyurl.com/DutardSurrenders
Action actor Steven Seagal has joined with Rodrigo Duterte as a lethal drug war advocate and human rights criminal:
Ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio fan Steven Seagal has also been denied entry into Ukraine for five years due to his friendship with Vlad “The Impaler†Putin. Ukraine is calling Seagal a threat to its national security:
http://nypost.com/2017/05/07/steven-seagal-is-a-threat-to-national-security-ukraine/
More on Steven Seagal:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/off-dress-men-hollywood-steven-202021745.html
A noted civil rights lawyer and advocate of marijuana decriminalization was arrested on a bogus assault charge two months before events escalated in Charlottesville, Virginia. Jeff Fogel was running for the DA’s office while advocating for decriminalization of marijuana. Previously, his work included opposition to stop-and-frisks in New York:
Relocating to Charlottesville, Fogel experienced opposition to his work that often targeted the local police force. Later, running as a candidate for commonwealth attorney:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/12/health/nuedexta-nursing-homes-invs/index.html