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POPSPot Advocates Fired Up by Hill Salute to Legal Booze This item, penned by Roll Call's Emily Heil and Elizabeth Brotherton, has a lighthearted tone, but it underscores that alcohol distributors, as we noted here http://www.forbes.com/businessinthebeltway/2006/05/08/beer-tradegroup-lobby-cx_atg_0509beer.html a few years back, are a serious force inside the Beltway. The legislation passed last week lauds legal liquor's generation of "billions of dollars in Federal and Sales tax revenues" annually. With the red ink flood in Washington, maybe legal pot will get a harder look from Congress.
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POPSWill Government Ever Learn From The Past? I doubt it. Today's Delancey's Place Tidbit, gives a brief encounter of what happened when the US Government "forced" a whole nation to go dry. What followed was a horrific scene of "forced" drunkenness, "forced" crime and "forced" misery... Today's Government "forced" War on Drugs has produced similar anguish especially for those who seek marijuana to relieve pain and suffering. Not to mention, if this so-called Governmental War on Drugs would lax some of its absurdities, the revenue collected from such sales would help the sinking economy. But it is not about a failing policy, it's all about politics and getting elected. Common sense, must take a back seat once again. Stupidity continues to rule, as time marches on! thinkingblue
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POPSI Want My Freedom The jury was FORCED to rule against this man. This is because the jury was led out several times during the trial, as well as being told that they were prohibited from reading any articles about the trial itself. Juries have the right to declare a defendant not guilty if they all agree that the law itself is unjust. Prosecutors made sure to choose jurors that didn't know they had a choice.
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POPSJim Hightower on Pot -- Sharing His Thoughts on Pot, That Is
Myth: Allowing the medical use of marijuana will send the wrong message to children and lead to more youths using the drug. Reality: In the 10 medical marijuana states that have before-and-after data, studies have unanimously shown that not only has youth use of marijuana not gone up overall, it actually has declined since medical marijuana became legal. Myth: Marijuana is a gateway drug to harder substances, and therefore medical marijuana use will lead to dangerous drug use. Reality: In science, the distinction between cause and correlation is a crucial one. A White House-commissioned study by the Institute of Medicine found that marijuana "does not appear to be a gateway drug to the extent that it is the cause or even that it is the most significant predictor of serious drug abuse; that is, care must be taken not to attribute cause to association." Moreover, claims about marijuana being a gateway make no sense in the context of medical marijuana: Patients often use marijuan
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POPSWant to get stoned? Main consequence of drugs is their addiction, when people become a slave not only of the substance itself, but of that drug dealers. For the sake of the dope they are abandoning family and social ties and responsibilities. When it make no big significance for terminally ill, young and relatively healthy person gradually getting out of reality.
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POPSBefore The War On Drugs
Many medical authorities regarded opiate addiction as far less destructive than alcoholism (some doctors even prescribed the former as treatment for the latter). Many opiate addicts, perhaps most, managed to lead relatively normal lives and kept their addictions secret even from close friends and relatives. That they were able to do so was largely a function of the legal status of their drug use. But even more reassuring is the fact that the major causes of opiate addiction then simply do not exist now. Late nineteenth-century Americans became addicts principally at the hands of physicians who lacked modern medicines and were unaware of the addictive potential of the drugs they prescribed. Doctors in the 1860s and 1870s saw morphine injections as a virtual panacea, and many Americans turned to opiates to alleviate their aches and pains without going through doctors at all. But as medicine advanced, the levels of both doctor- and self-induced addiction declined markedly.
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POPSGrass brains The debate has been Shankhai'd by addicts, whilst no real research has ever been undertaken into use and abuse. Is Jackie Smith (Sliff Jackee) now showing all the paranoia that is know to result in usage? Me thinks she is!!!
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POPSLegitimizing Medical Marijuana What is wrong with a country that will not regulate Big Pharma, who spits out harmful drugs and does everything short of chaining you to a chair, to get their drugs down your throat. But, instead will do everything in its power to break an industry (one that has mostly helped people live a better life) they deem unlawful. Between 1978 and 1997, 35 states and the District of Columbia passed legislation recognizing marijuana's medicinal value. Still the goofballs in the Whitehouse and Congress demand that these states have no autonomy when it comes to this natural drug from a plant. I don't know, it just seems preposterous to me. More facts at this site: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/medicalm.htm People have got to start thinking and start realizing, our government is mostly full of BS. A change is coming, I hope.
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POPSMARIJUANA VICTORY More of us need to stand up to the man and demand our right to this wonderful medicinal herb.
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POPS Medical marijuana patients face transplant hurdles
"Marijuana, unlike alcohol, has no direct effect on the liver. It is however a concern ... in that it's a potential indicator of an addictive personality," said Dr. Robert Sade, director of the Institute of Human Values Dr. Brad Roter, the Seattle physician who authorized Garon's pot use for nausea, abdominal pain and to stimulate his appetite, said he did not know it would be such a hurdle if Garon were to need a transplant. That's typically the case, said Peggy Stewart, a clinical social worker on the liver transplant team at UCLA who has researched the issue. "There needs to be some kind of national eligibility criteria," she said. The patients "are trusting their physician to do the right thing. The physician prescribes marijuana, they take the marijuana, and they are shocked that this is now the end result," she said. Many doctors agree that using marijuana — smoking it, especially — is out of the question post-transplant. The drugs patients take to help their bodies a
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POPSUNBEARABLE PAIN and still it's illegal I have stated before that I like youtube but sometimes the comments are so ludicrous that I can't believe I share a world with so many dunderheads. This video is a very short story of a woman in so much pain she probably would die if she could. Her only relief comes from medical marijuana and she is made to feel guilty about her relief because our idiotic lawmakers pander to the ignorant and keep archaic laws on the book that punish the innocent. I swear what should be outlawed is stupidly!
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