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Interviews PBS: Religion & Ethics: Medical Marijuana
CN Source: PBS November 19, 2004

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: This past Election Day, voters in Montana approved the use of marijuana if a doctor recommends it to relieve pain. That brings to 10 the number of states --almost all in the West -- that now permit so-called medical marijuana.

But that permission at the state level remains in contradiction to federal law, which forbids marijuana use for any reason. Lucky Severson reports.

LUCKY SEVERSON: This is a privately operated, legally protected pot garden in the U.S. -- at least for now. The garden is located near Santa Cruz in California. The garden belongs to a nonprofit group called Women's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, known as WAMM. Valerie Corral founded WAMM after a car accident years ago left her with severe epilepsy and unbearable migraines. Her doctor prescribed medicine, but she says it didn't help. Her husband agrees.

MIKE CORRAL (Women's Alliance for Medical Marijuana): I don't think I can really describe the difficulty and the sadness that we both went through during those years, until we discovered marijuana.

SEVERSON: But they won't get a sympathetic hearing from the White House office of national drug control policy.

DAVID MURRAY (White House Office of National Drug Control Policy): Unfortunately, the information that we have to date about smoked marijuana is that it is an illusion -- it does not address therapeutic needs of patients. In fact, the likelihood is high that they are actually doing more damage to themselves by taking in this substance.

VALERIE CORRAL (Women's Alliance for Medical Marijuana):
What can I say to somebody who believes they know more about my suffering than I do?
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Remaining patients in the shutdown federal medical marijuana program. Sending rolled joints? Well heavens to betsy didn't this ethical DAVID MURRAY (White House Office of National Drug Control Policy): say "Unfortunately, the information that we have to date about smoked marijuana is that it is an illusion" More like the war on sick people and Drugczars ethics are the illusion.

Montel Williams medical marijuana show online
http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/2004/09/21.html#a572
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Women's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
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Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible
"The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are convicted of nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens the lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially devastating to the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem accompany the perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Farmer v. Brennan
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Fanatics, fanatics who need fanatics, are the luckiest fanatics in the world...
I wonder what Ossama did with all that loot 112 days before 911?

Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban
Published May 22, 2001in the Los Angeles Times
Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously.

That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention.

Never mind that Osama bin Laden still operates the leading anti-American terror operation from his base in Afghanistan, from which, among other crimes, he launched two bloody attacks on American embassies in Africa in 1998.

Sadly, the Bush administration is cozying up to the Taliban regime at a time when the United Nations, at U.S. insistence, imposes sanctions on Afghanistan because the Kabul government will not turn over Bin Laden.

The war on drugs has become our own fanatics' obsession and easily trumps all other concerns. How else could we come to reward the Taliban, who has subjected the female half of the Afghan population to a continual reign of terror in a country once considered enlightened in its treatment of women? continued...
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Bigger Numbers???
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Astonishingly, Walters claims that the 1999 Institute of Medicine report didn't urge the government to allow seriously ill people legal access to medical marijuana on a case-by-case basis. What the institute did say about medical use of marijuana by AIDS and cancer patients was "nausea, appetite loss, pain and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and all can be mitigated by marijuana." Maybe these experts were duped. Maybe John Walters, unbeknown to us, has medical expertise beyond that of the world's leading physicians and researchers. Or maybe he's lying in a desperate attempt to save a collapsing policy.
BRUCE MIRKEN M P P

Pot Use in America Marijuana is Medicine
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13945.shtml

12-03-2004, 04:25 AM	#3 (permalink)
DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,088 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 47 Thanked 570 Times in 378 Posts	Sacramental Cannabis Interviews PBS: Religion & Ethics: Medical Marijuana CN Source: PBS November 19, 2004 BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: This past Election Day, voters in Montana approved the use of marijuana if a doctor recommends it to relieve pain. That brings to 10 the number of states --almost all in the West -- that now permit so-called medical marijuana. But that permission at the state level remains in contradiction to federal law, which forbids marijuana use for any reason. Lucky Severson reports. LUCKY SEVERSON: This is a privately operated, legally protected pot garden in the U.S. -- at least for now. The garden is located near Santa Cruz in California. The garden belongs to a nonprofit group called Women's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, known as WAMM. Valerie Corral founded WAMM after a car accident years ago left her with severe epilepsy and unbearable migraines. Her doctor prescribed medicine, but she says it didn't help. Her husband agrees. MIKE CORRAL (Women's Alliance for Medical Marijuana): I don't think I can really describe the difficulty and the sadness that we both went through during those years, until we discovered marijuana. SEVERSON: But they won't get a sympathetic hearing from the White House office of national drug control policy. DAVID MURRAY (White House Office of National Drug Control Policy): Unfortunately, the information that we have to date about smoked marijuana is that it is an illusion -- it does not address therapeutic needs of patients. In fact, the likelihood is high that they are actually doing more damage to themselves by taking in this substance. VALERIE CORRAL (Women's Alliance for Medical Marijuana): What can I say to somebody who believes they know more about my suffering than I do? Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19847.shtml CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archives http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml Cannabis Culture Archives: Sacrament http://www.cannabisculture.com/libra...head=SACRAMENT Sacramental Cannabis http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc/Sacramental.html Patients Out of Time http://www.trvnet.net/~mmcmahon Remaining patients in the shutdown federal medical marijuana program. Sending rolled joints? Well heavens to betsy didn't this ethical DAVID MURRAY (White House Office of National Drug Control Policy): say "Unfortunately, the information that we have to date about smoked marijuana is that it is an illusion" More like the war on sick people and Drugczars ethics are the illusion. Montel Williams medical marijuana show online http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/2004/09/21.html#a572 Ganja treatment of Multiple Sclerosis/Spasms, Pain http://makeashorterlink.com/?H38813217 The Drug War Gravy TrainBy Daniel Forbes http://tinyurl.com/2yt7x Feds Need One Million Joints??? http://tinyurl.com/2cr9l Women's Alliance for Medical Marijuana http://www.wamm.org Interfaith DPI http://www.idpi.us Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible "The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are convicted of nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens the lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially devastating to the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem accompany the perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Farmer v. Brennan http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1CC63B28 U.S. prison population largest in world http://makeashorterlink.com/?P31523E28 Fanatics, fanatics who need fanatics, are the luckiest fanatics in the world... I wonder what Ossama did with all that loot 112 days before 911? Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban Published May 22, 2001in the Los Angeles Times Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously. That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention. Never mind that Osama bin Laden still operates the leading anti-American terror operation from his base in Afghanistan, from which, among other crimes, he launched two bloody attacks on American embassies in Africa in 1998. Sadly, the Bush administration is cozying up to the Taliban regime at a time when the United Nations, at U.S. insistence, imposes sanctions on Afghanistan because the Kabul government will not turn over Bin Laden. The war on drugs has become our own fanatics' obsession and easily trumps all other concerns. How else could we come to reward the Taliban, who has subjected the female half of the Afghan population to a continual reign of terror in a country once considered enlightened in its treatment of women? continued... http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcol...mns/052201.htm Bush. Religious drug treatment in Texas http://makeashorterlink.com/?J17E13B28 Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations At the same time, the United States blasts China for the the use of prison slave labor, engaging in the same practice itself. Prison labor is a pot of gold. No strikes, union organizing, health benefits, unemployment insurance or workers' compensation to pay. As if exploiting the labor of prison inmates was not bad enough, it is legal in the United States to use slave labor. The 13th Amendment of the Constitution states that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States." http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2A023806 Addiction: A Brain Ailment, Not a Moral Lapse http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread17430.shtml Marijuana Could Help Cocaine Addicts Kick Habit http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11031.shtml Stepping Off Hard Drugs With Cannabis http://www.potpride.com/steppingstone.htm LEGALISE CANNABIS TO HELP DEAL WITH (meth) http://makeashorterlink.com/?F20646916 NORML: 99 Percent Of All Marijuana Plants Eradicated In US Is Feral Hemp Federal Data Reveals (non psychoactive rope saving our kids from fiber?) http://www.norml.com/index.cfm?Group_ID=6220 Spraying Misery http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9468.shtml Monsanto and the drug war http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=669 http://www.guerrillanews.com/war_on_drugs/doc53.html The Toxic Alternative to Natural Fiber http://fornits.com/curiosity/hemp/fibre.htm Genetic fungus http://tinyurl.com/2wt8w EU Sceintist Legalize Paraquat! http://makeashorterlink.com/?K2E1611B6 War on some Drugs on the Environment http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9115.shtml Bigger Numbers??? http://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/...s/29/29540.gif Astonishingly, Walters claims that the 1999 Institute of Medicine report didn't urge the government to allow seriously ill people legal access to medical marijuana on a case-by-case basis. What the institute did say about medical use of marijuana by AIDS and cancer patients was "nausea, appetite loss, pain and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and all can be mitigated by marijuana." Maybe these experts were duped. Maybe John Walters, unbeknown to us, has medical expertise beyond that of the world's leading physicians and researchers. Or maybe he's lying in a desperate attempt to save a collapsing policy. BRUCE MIRKEN M P P Pot Use in America Marijuana is Medicine http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13945.shtml __________________ Al Capone and Watergate were red herrings to divert the countries attention from the Fascist acts of eliminating competition. Booze/Ethanol then Ganja//Hemp.