In Scientific American: People Are Dying Because of Ignorance, not Because of Opioids by Carl L. Hart
I am concerned that declaring the opioid crisis a national emergency will serve primarily to increase law-enforcement budgets, precipitating an escalation of this same sort of routine racial discrimination. […]
It is certainly possible to die from an overdose of an opioid alone, but this accounts for a minority of the thousands of opioid-related deaths. Many are caused when people combine an opioid with another sedative (such as alcohol), an antihistamine (such as promethazine) or a benzodiazepine (such as Xanax or Klonopin). People are not dying because of opioids; they are dying because of ignorance.
Marcy Wheeler at The Intercept says George Papadopoulos’ plea agreement implicates Attorney General Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions. AG Sessions was photographed at a March 31, 2016 discussion in which Papadopoulos said he was soliciting Putin for a meeting with Trump for reasons that could only be related to the upcoming election:
Sessions has boasted that “good people don’t smoke marijuanaâ€. Yet this is a man who betrays his country by keeping mum on a conspiracy involving Russian racketeering and influence peddling in a US federal election while later taking every opportunity as AG to rekindle a failed and socially injurious drug war.
Tsar Trump’s most loyal base consists of factions of the religious right, specifically dominionists, who wish for nothing less than to eliminate democracy in favor of a theocracy. Vice-Tsar Michael Richard Pence, an Indiana lawyer and former radio and TV talk show host, is at the vanguard of dominionist politicians, with allies such as Jeff Sessions and every popular Republican congress-person who said God told them to run for public office in 2016.
Dominionist political agendas require a drug war in order to succeed or dominate. The imposition of drug heretication, which has been ongoing since the Middle Ages under the Roman Catholic Church, is one of a number of critical religious strategies designed to eliminate objections and those who object to theocracies by arbitrarily defining virtue, or “good peopleâ€, as being only those who refuse to consume illicit drugs. Think of Bill Bennett’s “Book of Virtues†series, a man whose drug war advocacy made him one of America’s most notorious human rights criminals for employing prohibition policies that ultimately decimated inner city neighborhoods.
Unfortunately for Attorney General Jeff Sessions, it now appears his infatuation with dominionist politics and loyalty to Tsar Trump is likely to make him the next John Mitchell.
When Robert Mercer entered Trump’s campaign. It put Trump into the lead and then the office. The Mercers father and daughter act. brought in Bannon, Kelly Ann and Breitbart and suggested Sessions for AG. Now that I’ve seen Trump in action. I find it hard to believe he was their actual choice and not just the stooge in the front of the line. Now letting him run free he has shown he is a stooge and Pence is waiting in the wings. The alt reich could never have won on their own ticket. Pat Robertson is as Dominionated as anyone in the deep dark south. Now he says Trump should pardon everyone and fire Meuller.
Bringing in Ted Cruz with his Dominion’s billions gives them an incentive to attack Palestine for a homeland for jesus. Cruz is the lone survivor of the GOP incumbents they call RINO’s Bannon wants out of Congress for stalling the agenda. They call it Trump’s agenda, but I suspect he’s a useful patsy and not long for the office.
Many of the teabagger lemmings think its a wonderful idea. Mercer also wanted John Bolton as SoS over Tilton. Bolton’s PAC has been advocating war since Cheney Bush. Right when you think its safe to go into the water. Now his Opiodiots Christie and SAM Kennedy claiming Ganja would kill more, being an alternative to opiods that are killing thousands. I thought all this crap was over when the Beatles hit town. While America celebrated with Festivals, Doobies and Rock and Roll. Sessions and the Klan were celebrating the good ole boy days smashing records.
☛ Burn Your Beatles Records!
Early August 1966, Christian groups, primarily in the Southern United States took to the streets to burn the sin out of their beloved Beatles records in response to John Lennon’s remark that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus.â€
☛ Birmingham disc jockeys.jpg
Tommy Charles, left, and Doug Layton of Radio Station WAQY, rip and break materials representing the British pop group The Beatles, in Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 8, 1966. The broadcasters started a “Ban The Beatles†campaign. AP
No wonder Sessions is such a freak.
Ignorant Jeff Orders Moral thing to do. Profit Prisons
Pat Robertson Urges Trump To Pardon Everyone,
Then Stop Mueller Probe
Given the current problems with overprescribed opioids, owners of drug rehab businesses such as Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson might be expected to be gleefully anticipating a windfall of new income. Instead, Sheldon will likely need to continue his reliance on casino businesses to suck money out of peoples’ pockets. Recent studies and scandals show rehab isn’t for everyone.
And fewer Coloradans seek rehab for legal marijuana despite heavier use:
Instead, cannabis is preferred over opioids for pain:
And finally, drug rehab centers that hype Christian credentials while offering up their patients as slave laborers for businesses are being sued into oblivion. Republican Arkansas state senator Jim Hendren is in trouble for operating a plastics company that exploits Christian drug rehab slave labor:
get them on the Stand and will have to raise there hand.
http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/11/02/medical-marijuana-opioids-christie-gaetz/91570/
Look whose on Crispy-Cream’s Commission:
Stupid Patrick, Pam Bondi and Bertha Madrass. Garbage in…
⦠Trump Opiod Idiots.jpg
http://oi65.tinypic.com/fnbcdx.jpg
⦠Florida congressman slams Gov. Chris Christie
for “outrageous” medical marijuana position
Trump cheated, Hilary cheated, Bernie Wins!
⦠Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC
⦠Given the choice, patients will reach for cannabis over prescribed opioids
⦠Legalization activists held a protest outside the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Affairs over its policy of kicking people out of public housing for marijuana.
⦠New Mexico regulators will consider adding opioid use disorder as a medical cannabis qualifying condition this week.
Spanking young people is being blamed for adverse drug use later in life:
It seems unlikely that adverse childhood experiences would be the only reason people smoke marijuana, as those lacking ACEs also consume it. Cannabis has its own social and biological dynamics that make it unique among medicinal and/or recreational substances. Magic mushrooms are also unique in many of the same ways. The authors are using a sweeping generalization when they depict drug taking behavior as the exclusive product of a bad childhood. They might have better luck if they focused only on certain drugs, such as opioids.
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In more science news, Australian scientists have found a drug that reduces binge drinking in mice. If your mice have a drinking problem, you may want to give them (+)-Naltrexone, “which is known to block the immune receptor Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)â€:
Companies Claim Cannabis Products Make Cancer ‘Commit Suicide’—and the FDA Is Not Having It
https://tinyurl.com/y867rh9t
This is going to impact a lot of people adversely. The government has been aware of these possibilities since 1974.
That’s what we thought when the info was released in 2000. Its not only the government, its the corporate media not informing the public as a free press should. We need a separation of corporations and state along with a separation of religion and state. First we need to take back the media. Or maybe first we need to elect an American instead of corporate shills on both sides of the aisle.
⦠Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/588
⦠The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters to manufacturers of CBD medical cannabis products.
⦠Pot Doesn’t Cure Cancer and Stop Saying It Does, FDA Says
It actually seems like we have given them authority to suspend the 1st Amendment when speaking about “drugs” or cannabis’ abilities. I’ve heard of people getting 40 year sentences for making false or unproven claims. There target also includes supplements. Of which I believe they will discover is the true nature of Ganja to supplement the ECS endocannabinoid system.
and they wonder why we kneel down
during the racist nationalist anthem?
The future color of the marijuana green revolution is bright magenta.
UC Santa Cruz physicists Sue Carter and Glenn Alers have developed a smart greenhouse, a plus for marijuana cultivation, although cannabis isn’t mentioned:
Okay…that’s cool.
Cannabis prohibition may finally be put in the docket, and its chief legal supporters may finally be forced to defend the indefensible, under oath: Marvin Washington et. al. versus Jeff Sessions et. al.
I’ve been waiting decades for this. I’ve long held that so long as prohibition’s supporters remain free of legal punishment for disseminating lies about cannabis, the prohibition will continue. Those lies will finally be exposed in a venue where disseminating such lies have severe consequences. And given that the US Gub’mint holds a patent on the medicinal qualities of cannabis (#6630507) Uncle Sam’s prohib minions may have finally been painted into the corner.
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You haven’t actually read that bogus patent, have you kaptin? Perhaps I’m wrong and we have different opinions of crap synthetic cannabinoids like HU-210 and HU-211? Because 6630507 says if you can’t get the real thing at least one of those two is a perfectly fine substitute.
6630507 is worthless old man. You did know that a patent is just a glorified time stamp, not some kind of government certification that the patented item actually works or has any commercial value, right?
That the patent exists at all, and stands in refutation of so much of Gub’mint propaganda, is the most salient point. A government admission regarding the medical efficacy of cannabinoids was itself a game-changer. And given the context in which is happened, doubly so.
The patent was issued in 2003. Recall that this was around the time that the Number Two at the ONDCP, ‘Dr.’ Andrea Barthwell, was in the process of changing her propaganda tune from ‘marijuana has no medicinal value’ and was a ‘cruel hoax’, to ‘only smoked marijuana had no medicinal value’ and was a ‘cruel hoax’.
This was just prior to her jumping from the Gub’mint ship and landing in GW Pharma’s arms, the same GW Pharma that had made Sativex and was seeking several national governments legal sanctions against those government’s citizens from growing their own medicine and thus forced to buy their products. From Corporate Cannabis:
Interesting, no?
The timing of both the patent being granted and Barthwell’s change of policy tack and then leaving ‘public service’ for a more lucrative position in the private industry that needed that patent to exist was hardly coincidental. The ‘government certification’ implied by the patent was all the schemers needed to justify their proceedings; medical efficacy had been proven practically in such matters as anti-emesis for chemo patients as far back as the 1970’s. The rest has fallen into place via science finding more and more medicinal uses for cannabis.
Because of that patent, Sessions et. al. are walking into a minefield. Despite what you imply, it is hardly a small matter.
Kapt
I’m not questioning the medicinal potential of cannabinoids, individually or whole plant which I prefer. Of coarse to anyone with a toddlers brain its obvious Ganja has medicinal value. But its moot since nothing is recognized to sell as a treatment until the FDA gives its seal of approval. Which it hasn’t even tested so until it does the cops can disregard the cries of the patients and legally state it has no medicinal value and the laws based on that, stand. As well as Reich case killing the 10th Amendment.
The only purpose of patents were to keep Spain and Israel from developing products to sell in the US, off the market here. GW is still not selling here. Thats why all DEA lawsuits have ended with it remaining a schedule#1. The last the judge determined the plaintiffs were correct in assessing the DEA was arbitrary and capricious. So what, its their job to be. Never changed a damn thing as well as all of the states changing a damn thing federally.
Perpetuating the trillion dollar Ganjawar is the end goal. The only thing keeping Ganja as the cornerstone of the $trillion drug war is censorship and lies. No matter how many patents, that definitely tells me or you it has medicinal value. Its moot to prove it has unless the laws change on what determines anything to be a medicine. Under CODEX any supplement or drug has to be approved by the FDA who has never in 45 years tested Ganja, until GW and then some others testing cannabinoids or GWs Sativex whole plant that isn’t smoked.
Same shuck and jive as comparing Ganja smoke to cigarettes. The IOM never tested users or Ganja, just a re-evaluation of previous studies from La Guardia to the Indian Hemp Commission. Only comparing Ganja smoke to what came out on cigs even though Ganja is without the added chemicals. The dictionary in 1952 said it was good for spasms. It was listed in the US Pharmacopia until 1941. Thousands of years of medicinal use for anyone to see. Just not use without FDAs okay. Until it is approved it is just a weed.
That is what I’ve been harping on about lowering it to a schedule#2 will only free up Big Pharma to cannibalize the plant into sellable parts. Or an application that isn’t smoke. This is what makes it corporatism or fascism, and not free enterprise or logic or even reality.
Yes we have always been right and that and $5 will get you a fancy coffee at Starbucks I’m told. I’ve never personally set foot in the place. Its so weird its like the DEA says planes can’t fly because they are too heavy. We know they fly, we’ve probably flown in them but until they give it a seal of approval. Planes can’t fly. Anyone caught flying in a plane will be busted.
The Mother of Invention changed with the Neocons. Its no longer necessity, or even the needs of the people, its the profits. Profits pay Science to discover more profits not cures or prevention taking profits. Not affordable housing or health care. Common sense is the enemy of the Ganjawar.
Is The DEA Legalizing THC?
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1680/
@Duncan, can you show the patent text you’re referring to?
This might speed things up: Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectantsUS 6630507 B1
Not ‘might be’
Not ‘could be’
But ‘are found to have’. About as clear an admission as you can hope for in acknowledging medical efficacy.
As to the referred compounds:
The further you read, the more obvious it is that this patent is a grudging, querulous admission that cannabis has medicinal properties. The submission date of this patent is 1999. Recall the Institute of Medicine’s report on cannabis was also that year. So, government officials (who were, it is safe to assume, knew of the filed patent) were lying through their teeth while insisting on repeating the ‘party line’ of cannabis having no medicinal uses. When Sessions gets to the docket and must swear under oath that all he says is true, he will have, as the old saying goes, ‘some ‘slpainin’ to do’.
imo The patents were taken to remove it from the market after Spain came up with the brain tumor shrinkage research the DEA banned in 74. I suppose you could say in this case the patent isn’t for the DEA making money. Its for keeping the schedule#1 in place. The timeline was 17 years for patents if memory serves. Maybe that’s before generic brands can sell.
Same illogical fascist bullshit that keeps the DEA and all other cops legally busting people in spite of millions finding relief from Ganja and nothing from merdinol or the other isolated synthetic cannabinoids/diols. In spite of 20,000 research papers filed and not one with the FDA.
Fascism, fascism, fascism. Maybe Americans will wake up, but after 45 years of not questioning authority it seems like most politicians have taken a heavy dose of Ambian, along with the media. The drug of choice by NIDA if you are having trouble withdrawing from Ganja.
This lawsuit with Marvin Washington has two more joining him. A child with Epilepsy and a Vet told he couldn’t use Ganja for PTSD. Its a 1st but again, the drug war is a fascist act and the Constitution is an old parchment collecting dust in their eyes. I’m optimistic, what else is there? 45 years of government guano. I think the truth would turn them all to stoners like looking at Medusa. Med USA?.
The Ganjawar Goes to Court
Since we seem to never get any useful information out of the United States FDA, NIDA or DEA concerning cannabinoids cancer treatments, researchers Bogdanović Višnja, Mrdjanović Jasminka, and Borišev Ivana at the University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia, have come to our partial rescue by kindly providing us with A Review of the Therapeutic Antitumor Potential of Cannabinoids from which cannabis’ anti-cancer potential is summarized and explained in the following excerpt:
IF, a big if at that. If Sessions bothers to show up he has the law on his side. It doesn’t matter if the original law was based on politics. Its the law on the books or the law of the land.
I would ask what proof the DEA has in maintaining the #1 scheduling. That is where it started. On a temporary base until the Shafer Commission report was complete. Then it was blackballed off the media and market shelves.
As I said, no proof airplanes can’t fly, other than speculation that they are too heavy. If we didn’t or still don’t question laws without the burden of proof as to why they are laws. Then fascism will continue to rule in the name of protecting the kids they circumvent the Constitution for, logic and common sense.
So imo Sessions doesn’t have to appear as long as the laws are there for all to see. As bogus as the laws are, we are supposedly a country of laws. Its really not that hard to believe, Men could legally rape their spouses until the late 1980s. Now the alt reich wants to ban contraceptives as well as all abortions. It was and could potentially go back to banning women from voting. Or segregation. As the Ganjawar permits in many cases. Especially disenfranchising voters. Or piss tests and 3 strikes and mandatory minimums.
All legal laws and as Unconstitutional as the drug war. Laws say 14 year old girls can marry in Ohio and WV, Laws said blacks couldn’t eat at the counter or vote without paying a Poll Tax. Laws are only as good as the policy makers write them. Now with the Christian Coalition writing laws it will probably get more fascist than less. Profits over people and sinners never prosper or profit in their eyes. Slavery was the law of the land until the Industrial Revolution made them more expensive than a tractor. Take a Knee!
Catch 22²
The FDA. Now known as a subsidiary of Big Pharma.
https://t.co/qYf2Mbm48V
With Cigarettes Out of Favor, Many U.S. Teens Also Shun Pot
https://tinyurl.com/ycle7xyg
The idea that smoking cigarettes has anything to with smoking pot is the #1 ridiculous story of the year. Now Cigarettes are the gateway to pot.
“Kids who think marijuana is “safe” are more likely than their peers to use the drug. That’s a concern because more and more, teenagers do believe pot is fairly harmless — and experts say it’s not.”
Teens are more aware of the truth concerning marijuana than ever before. For experts to worry that marijuana might be perceived as the harmless drug that it really is shows how twisted government thinking has become. Truth no longer matters.
“There’s good evidence, he explained, that when teens believe pot is safe, they’re more likely to use it in the next year.”
The unspoken fact here is that these people are suggesting that to lie about marijuana to the kids is somehow acceptable, the truth being the thing to be feared. Since kids know more truth these days about marijuana than ever before, it must be the cigarettes that are to blame.
There is no logic here.
Reefer Madness is alive and well under the Trump Administration.
Some say smoking anything is bad for you. If this is true, then it might be true that drinking a glass or two of water will kill you because it is a liquid just like bleach, therefore logic proves water is dangerous like bleach because it is a liquid. Just like everyone who eats mushrooms or berries die from eating them, simply because mushrooms and berries are known to kill.
Worth re reading
http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/irvin-rosenfeld-and-the-compassionate-ind/
Grass is getting high.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WEED.TO?p=WEED.TO
Listed on NYSEARCA, ticker symbol: STZ Market cap at around US$40 billion.
Why would you care about STZ? Last week the company bought a 9.9% slice of Canopy Growth Corporation (TSE:WEED) for just under US$200 million. STZ also received an option to increase the stake to 20% on demand. The event pushed CGC to a market cap of US$2.3 billion which moves it decisively into nosebleed territory.
No, I’m not bragging. CGC left my portfolio when its market cap passed US$1.5 billion. Neither do these events make me regret that decision. I will have to re-evaluate how much weight I give to a company which changes it’s ticker symbol to a buzzword. It’s a magnificent indicator of a company which is actually engaged in the business of selling shares of company stock to the gullible for inflated prices.
Founder and CEO of Medical Marijuana Inc. was killed when he crashed his Lamborghini in Los Angeles today. Makers of RSHO, (“Real Scientific Hemp Oil”) they are also a publicly traded company if I recall correctly. http://www.thecwsandiego.com/story/36778607/lamborghini-driver-killed-in-crash-was-medical-marijuana-millionaire
This came out yesterday or the day before from Tom Angell
Medical Marijuana, Inc.
Subsidiary Kannaway®
Announces New Pure Gold Zero-THC Hemp CBD Oil
https://t.co/drDgL9ZGUA
CBD is shown to be an effective treatment for dementia: