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Legislators aim to snuff out penalties for pot use - CNN.com
Marijuana laws should mirror alcohol laws.
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TAX DOLLARS BEING USED TO DEFY LAW
My health and my ability to lead a normal life are in danger - from my local police. Worse, they've disregarded state law in order to do it.
Allow me to explain:
Living in constant pain has become a way of life for me. I was born with a rare genetic blood disorder called Factor V Leiden thrombophilia. The condition is life-threatening and causes spontaneous blood clotting throughout every blood vessel in my body. The clots lead to acute and severe pain in my extremities.
The agony is so unbearable that at times I can't walk.
In order to manage this disease, I take 245 prescription pills each week - including morphine to ease the pain. The side effects of my pain-management regimen made living a semi-normal life impossible. Besides the mental haze the high-dose morphine had me in, it caused constant nausea - until one of my physicians suggested I try medical marijuana.
The medical marijuana eased my pain without any adverse side effects and allowed me to significantly reduce my morphine dosage. Fortunately, California voters approved Proposition 215 in 1996, and 10 years later, Kern County enacted an ordinance allowing regulated medical-marijuana facilities just outside my hometown of Bakersfield.
I came to rely on Nature's Medicinal - one of the local medical-marijuana collectives - as a clean, legitimate source for my medicine. Most importantly, I felt safe there. After all, these facilities were legal under state law, regulated by the county and licensed by the Sheriff's Department.
I have always been aware that federal law treats medical-marijuana patients like common criminals, but assumed that local law enforcement officials would respect the state laws that allow me to treat my pain in accordance with my doctor's advice. Sadly, I was mistaken.
Last May, Bakersfield police officers and Kern County sheriff's deputies participated in a federal Drug Enforcement Administration raid on Nature's Medicinal. They arrested my caregivers for violations of federal drug laws, disregarding the fact that they were operating in compliance with state and local law. My health and my ability to lead a normal life are in danger - from my local police. Worse, they've disregarded state law in ord... more -
Jack Herer explains why hemp is the #1 Natural resource
The godfather of the hemp movement, talks within the picture window on the pages of his book The Emperor Wears No Clothes.
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JACK HERER ON HEMP
A clip from the 2000 documentary THESE ARE NOT SEPARATE ISSUES, Jack Herer speaks out on the #1 renewable resource... Canabis Hemp. Produced for Very Strange Productions by EEEE and Lindsey East.
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Pot is burning issue on Mendocino ballot
Marijuana is so ubiquitous here that everyone, from schoolteachers to kids, can tell you when a sinsemilla bud is ripe. From late summer to fall, the county reeks with the skunk-like stench of ready-to-harvest weed. The annual $1.5 billion pot crop constitutes two-thirds of Mendocino County's entire economy.
"You tell people from other parts of the country that folks grow pot all over town, and they think this is just a freak show here," said Ross Liberty, who owns a welding shop in Ukiah. "They're not far off."
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Drug possession for personal use is not a crime, Argentine court rules
In a decision that could bring the question of whether drug possession is legal or not in Argentina to that country's Supreme Court, a judge in the in the province of Buenos Aires has ruled that a tough provincial law penalizing drug possession violates the South American republic's constitution. Penalizing drug possession for personal use is barred under the constitution's privacy provisions, Court of Guarantees Judge Luis Estaban Nitti ruled in the last week of January. A second provincial judge has since followed in Nitti's footsteps.
While drug laws have traditionally been the bailiwick of the federal justice system in Argentina, a move last year toward "defederalization" allowed provincial governments (and their police forces) to get involved in the drug war. In Buenos Aires province, which surrounds the capital city, hard-line provincial Gov. Felipe Sola engineered a tough provincial drug law that went into effect in December. That law was passed in the context of an anti-rave campaign conducted by provincial Health Minister and sub-secretary for the Prevention of Addiction Claudio Mate. It was also apparently aimed at the hordes of young people who visit the province's Atlantic Coast beaches in the Argentine equivalent of spring break. Since December, police in one provincial town alone, Pinamar, have arrested at least 180 young people on drug possession charges, according to the Buenos Aires newspaper Pagina 12. According to figures released this week by the provincial Supreme Court, more than 1,700 people have been arrested province-wide on the new drug law.
"Up until last year, drug crimes were punished only under federal law," said Silvia Inchaurraga of the Argentine Harm Reduction Network (ARDA), which has been a leading force pushing for drug law reform in the country. "But in Buenos Aires province, they decided to create their own provincial drug law. ARDA demonstrated against this law last year, saying it would only increase the repressive power of the state and lead to corruption in the police force, which is already known to be corrupt. We also said that this law would only broaden the persecution of drug users."
The provincial Supreme Court statistics suggest that Inchaurraga and ARDA were correct. In its review of Buenos Aires province drug arrests, the court found that 84% were for simple drug possession and 86% were busted for marijuana. "This evidence shows that it's not true that the law is helping police catch the big drug dealers, just punishing more drug users," she said.
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Marijuana Orgasms and the Oregonian Newspaper
Dr. Phil Leveque Salem-News.com
When I chose this title I thought I was being a smart aleck. I checked Google I found over 50 articles on the same subject.
Scene from the propaganda movie "Reefer Madness" from 1938
(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Response to February 4th 2008 editorial in The Oregonian.
This is not what you may think but it could be because marijuana acts like a comforting tranquilizer. But that is not exactly what I am writing about.
The Oregonian seems to be getting some perverse superpleasure writing about how bad it is with the pejorative words "abuse", "workplace hazard" and "out of control medical marijuana program" and that the Oregon Marijuana law is a "bad law".
They decry that Oregon has the highest rate of marijuana use and the highest rate of marijuana abuse. Both of these allegations are perversely false and they should know it. It reminds me of the "Reefer Madness" movie. Perhaps they saw it and believed it.
Oregon has possibly the toughest marijuana law. They do not mention that about 2,700 doctors have signed the applications for patients they certify are eligible for the about 20,000 patients who have permits. If the Oregonian thinks these patients are bamboozling the doctors they are totally mistaken.
The U.S. government estimated that there are 300 thousand Oregon marijuana users. It is a cheap, safe, quick-acting tranquilizer. These patients are getting to doctors as soon and fast as possibly and the number of permit card holders is increasing by about 100 per week.
The Oregonian's allegation that medical users use it to "get high" is ridiculous. It costs too much to be used so frivolously. I must admit some high schoolers do get high. How would they like to be in high school these days?
For the Oregonian to infer and publish that it was for "terminal cancer patients" shows their ignorance. However if it is good for a dying patient in pain, why should it not be good for a chronic pain patient with many years ahead? There is some strange perverse sophistry going on here.
The Oregonian fails to address the "on the job hazards" of Oxycontin use, alcoholic hangovers, heavy anti-depressant or tranquilizer use, all of which are far more dangerous than marijuana use which even with heavy use ceases its brain effects in about four hours.
The DEA's administrative judge, Francis J. Young, after hearing two weeks of testimony, wrote: "nearly all medicines have toxins, potentially lethal affects, but marijuana is not such a substance...Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within a supervised routine of medical care" (DEA Docket No. 86-22, 57)
By the way, marinol, the pure substance in marijuana, is an FDA approved prescription drug. If one is bad and dangerous, both are! In fact, marinol is worse than marijuana.
I hope the Oregonian writers can get over this obsessive-compulsive activity and get themselves educated. At one time cannabis medications were the most prescribed in the U.S. Furthermore, cannabis has been used as medicine for about 4,000 years and NEVER caused a death. Even aspirin is far more dangerous. Dr. Phil Leveque Salem-News.com ... more -
This Bud's For You--And I Don't Mean Beer
It's generally believed that the number one product from California's number one industry isn't legal. Agriculture remains the Golden State's biggest business, and some believe marijuana is worth $14 billion. No one really knows for sure.
The LEGAL medical marijuana business is estimated by advocates to be worth up to $2 billion. Legal, that is, in the state's eyes. It's still illegal under federal law.
Today I'm reporting on the business of selling pot legally, the costs and challenges that go with it. Twelve years after California was the first state to make medical marijuana legal, many clinics are still raided as criminal enterprises (and some are--even under state law), and many others remain paranoid, having come from an underground culture that has pervaded the industry for so long.
Then there are those pushing for openness, transparency, ethics, and standardized practices. In the face of almost no regulatory standards, they're developing their own, and making money doing so.
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STUDY SHOWS MARIHUANA USE NOT A THREAT
Augustana sociology professor Geraint B. Osborne is of the opinion that people who use marihuana are no more a criminal threat to society than are alcohol and cigarette users.
"Some people argue that drug use leads to crime, and that somehow those who use drugs are in such an altered state they don't know what they are doing and have to go out and hurt someone or get involved in acts of vandalism," said Osborne, whose study, Understanding the Motivations for Recreational Marihuana Use Among Adult Canadians, was published in the spring edition of the journal Substance Use and Misuse. "What I found in the research, with the people we talked to, was that doesn't happen. It doesn't make you want to go out and do those types of things."
The study surveyed 41 employed Canadians ranging in age from 21 to 61, including 25 men and 16 women, whose use of the drug ranged from daily to once or twice a year. They were predominantly middle class and worked in the retail and service industries, in communications, as white-collar employees, or as health-care and social workers. Sixty-eight per cent of the users held post-secondary degrees, while another 11 survey participants had earned their high school diploma.
Osborne was assisted with the study by former Augustana student Curtis Fogel, who went on to do his MA work at Memorial University in Newfoundland, and is currently completing a PhD at the University of Calgary.
"The reason for doing it was largely influenced by my reading of the report on the Senate special committee on illegal drugs, which had looked into the decriminalization and legislation of cannabis back in 2001 and 2002," said Osborne. "A lot of their research focused on people who abused the drug: people from socially marginalized backgrounds who used the drug in almost an addictive manner. Not a lot of ethnographic or qualitative research had been done on recreational marihuana use, or how the rest of the population might be using it."
In conducting the interviews, Osborne found that most adult marihuana users regulate use to their recreational time and do not use compulsively. Rather, as he stated in the study, their use is purposively intended to enhance their leisure activities and manage the challenges and demands of living in contemporary modern society.
"Generally, participants reported using marihuana because it enhanced relaxation and concentration, making a broad range of leisure activities more enjoyable and pleasurable. That most participants made rational decisions to enhance recreation through moderate use, and reported no dependency or addictive problems, is probably related to their middle class status: they are well educated, gainfully employed, can afford to be engaged in a host of hobbies and interest, and as one participant put it, 'have more important things to do than just sit around stone all day.' In other words, there was nothing in their immediate social environment to suggest that they were using marihuana as a way of escaping or retreating from any significant social or psychological ills."
The majority of users also indicated they employed certain rules that many of us employ when it comes to the use of alcohol. Most said they wouldn't drive while intoxicated from alcohol or marihuana, that they wouldn't use it around children, and that they would only use it in the privacy of their own home.
"Some said they would use it in public but only in a concert situation, where others were using it as well," said Osborne.
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Jack Herer TV
An informative Show about Hemp on the world wide web, you must register to view the show.
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Emperor of Hemp
Whether you're already a true believer, or you're still not quite convinced, or you just plain haven't been paying attention, “Emperor of Hemp” will open your eyes and mind to the true history of the incredibly beneficial hemp plant and to the dark secrets of marijuana prohibition. Film contains startling information from Jack Herer’s best-selling cult classic book "The Emperor Wears No Clothes.” Includes powerful narration by Emmy-winner Peter Coyote and outstanding music. 59 minutes. Whether you're already a true believer, or you're still not quite convinced, or you just plain haven't been paying atte... more
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Welcome to Jack Herer's home on the web
I read the book in the early 90's from cover to cover. It was full of facts I had not heard before. The complete book is available to read on the internet. Facts hidden from sight, but facts none the less. If the facts contained in the book, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" are correct, we are doing a terrible disservice to the world by not discussing it.
I read this challenge roughly 17 years ago and have yet to hear anyone accepting the challenge. If the challenge cannot be proven wrong, it appears to be fact. It's time we stop letting corporate America and pharmaceutical companies dictate our conversations.
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$100,000 Challenge to Prove Us Wrong!
If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees for paper and construction, were banned in order to save the planet, reverse the Greenhouse Effect and stop deforestation;
then there is only one known annually renewable natural resource that is capable of providing the overall majority of the world's paper and textiles; meet all of the world's transportation, industrial and home energy needs, while simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil and cleaning the atmosphere all at the same time...
and that substance is the same one that has done it before . . .
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Cannabis Myth's Debunked
We hear a lot in press regarding cannabis and its effects on the human body.
"In the red corner" we have the hardened cannabis users who won't be told anything different. They've used cannabis for many years, with seemingly little or no ill-effect. They smoke pot, and they like it a lot, and nothing the government is going to say is going to change that.
Meanwhile in "the blue corner", we have the anti-cannabis brigade, with their tales of cannabis woe. Stories as published by the popular press, such as the Daily Mail for instance, who's editor Paul Dacre has made cannabis his own personal mission-in-life.
If this group is to be believed, cannabis is the root cause of a multitude of ailments including international terrorism. Regardless of the fact cannabis is now a prescribed drug in many global regions, politicians (and news editors) in Europe are still loath to even reference the fact this practice takes place. But it does!
They prefer instead, to concentrate on the 'party line', whichever party they are loyal too. And not giving cannabis a shred of credibility for being a truly beneficial plant which has never killed a single person.
We're not hear to sway you one way or another, but here are some interesting facts which you may enjoy reading. Rest assured there are no lies here. No spin doctoring. Just facts, whether you like them or not.
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