Political Cannabis

Debate about sniffers uncovers the spliffers
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/13/1023864302665.html

Quote: "The marijuana plant is anything but a new drug. Uncontroverted evidence in this record indicates that marijuana was being used therapeutically by mankind 2000 years before the Birth of Christ." - Francis L. Young, DEA, Nov. 6, 1988.

Enter "DEA Judge Francis Young's ruling that Marijuana Must be reclassified, Part 2" in Google or Yahoo!

A friend / mentor said, "Who are the people in the pictures in your clip? Why don't you label them [for ease of reference]?"

OK. First cab off the rank:

1) Stephen Jay Gould, renowned scientist and Harvard Professor;

2) Carl Sagan, astronomer and visionary scientist;

3) Richard Feynman, an extraordinary intellect who revolutionised modern physics;

4) Kary Mullis, scientific luminary who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry;

5) Andrew Weil, possibly the world's best-known naturopath;

6) Sigmund Freud, medical doctor, psychologist and father of psychoanalysis;

7) Ralph Abraham (no pic available), a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, since 1968;

8) Timothy Leary, highly respected researcher and psychology professor;

9) Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Harvard Professor Emeritus and author of "Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine" (1997), and "Marihuana Reconsidered" (1971) among quite a few others.

For more reading type "Stoned scientists" into your Google or Yahoo! search engines.

In a recent Sky News story, US scientists believe, "A compound found in cannabis may stop breast cancer spreading throughout the body," (type "Cannabis compound 'halts cancer'" into Google or Yahoo!), but in Dubai "0.003g" of "cannabis" detected "in the tread of his shoe [43-year-old man -- Keith Andrew Brown -- from Middlesex]" was imprisoned earlier this week for four years. Go to TIMES ONLINE and enter "Travellers who 'smuggle' poppy seeds face Dubai jail", February 8, 2008. -- Thanks to Jim Ball (always got an ear out -- even in my sleep!) at:

http://www.mytalk.com.au/Stations/Talk/2UE/Pages//profile-jim-ball.aspx

Checkout also: Elvy Musikka and Robert Randall, two glaucoma patients who receive / received medicinal cannabis from the US government.

And also my hero Richard S.L. Jones's maiden speech to the NSW Parliament (bottom of page) at:

http://tinyurl.com/37mxqy

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[undatoka]

i have discovered the gateway drug !! it has been found that 100% of drug addicts had breast milk or breast milk substitute. sure this must be the cause !! well it makes as much sense as what the prohibitionists say

[manfreadstraw]

Breast milk or substitute, there was an article in Time mag, Aug. 21, 1989 "Do Humans Need to Get High?" and quote from pioneer drug researcher Dr. Andrew Weil of the University of Arizona College of Medicine said that: "There is not a shred of hope from history or from cross-cultural studies to suggest that human beings can live without psychoactive substances." So the prohibitionists seem to be engaged in an unwinnable war, not that that will deter them.

[Trevahhh]

i love how they always say marijuana is a gateway drug. The fact is if you're willing to try a drug you're willing to try more than one. I have never tried anything else in 2 years. I've thrown up from alcohol and passed out to, i've seen friends drive home recklessly after drinking and i've lost friends in highschool to drunk driving accidents. Yet pot causes hunger, tiredness, and a joyful time. Which one should be illegal?

[manfreadstraw]

Pt.1 - I agree with you 110% and can recommend a good book: 'Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine' by Lester Grinspoon, M.D. & James B. Bakalar (available on Amazon). Some of cannabis's common medical uses for people suffering from: cancer chemotherapy, glaucoma, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, paraplegia and quadriplegia, AIDS, chronic pain, migraine, rheumatic diseases (osteoarthritis and ankylosing spondylitis), pruritus, premenstrual syndrome, menstrual cramps and labour pains, . . .

[manfreadstraw]

Pt.2 . . . depression and other mood disorders. And then there are the less common medical uses starting with asthma, insomnia, dystonias, AADD, schizophrenia, systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), crohn's disease, diabetic gastroparesis, pseudotumor cerebri, tinnitus, post-traumatic stress disorder, phantom limb pain, aging and terminal illness. Chapter 6 (beginning page 253) is headed: 'The Once and Future Medicine'.

[miserkocho]

i shudder to think of myself never discovering pot.one of my favorite things

[manfreadstraw]

Pt.1 - It's the "law reform" angle that interests me. Too many people have had their lives ruined by the current marijuana laws in place. Did you know that in South Australia from 1986-87 till just a few years ago, users were permitted to grow up to 10 plants for their own use and only faced an on-the-spot fine of $150? (It was called South Australia's "Cannabis Expiation Notice (CEN) scheme", introduced in 1987 by the then John Bannon Labor Government.

[cannabisisgood420]

i completely agree. they say its a gateway drug only because people smoked marijuana first before they tried anything "hard." im pretty sure those people also drank alcohol, and smoked a cigarette. with that logic- people drank water before they ever tried heroine. sooooo drinking water led to heroine? people went to church before trying heroine- church led to heroine. i say legalize it. peace

[rizlas2]

every single human shoud go on the street at the same time and demand, DEMAND!!! Demand all plants to become legal...its your human right to smoke or eat any plant you like....they are here for us to use them

[manfreadstraw]

Pt.2 - Some suspected (rumours) that Premier Bannon may've been a user during his uni days, and so had an enlightened view on cannabis use by the general public.) The problem became however that organised crime soon began muscling in and stealing / hijacking users' plants by force. This was highlighted on the ABC's "7.30 REPORT" on Wednesday, 16/05/2001 (check the program's website archives for article. It's called: "Debate over marijuana for medicinal use continues".)