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PHYSICIAN'S GUIDE TO PESTICIDE POISONING
Martyrs of Pesticide Poisoning
May they (and we) find justice
Further evidence of Human disregard:
Testing Pesticides on Children
EPA Wants Pesticide Manufacturers To Test On Humans
Under a newly-proposed rule (that will most likely be formally adopted), the EPA would allow pesticide manufacturers to test their products on human "volunteers." The volunteers would include pregnant women and prisoners, as well as newborns and children.
Pesticide Health Effects
Fighting and repelling pests: a long term occupation of Man
Some early research on health effects of pesticides was conducted by the Public Health Service Lead, Arsenic and Human Health Lead Levels among applicators in Wenatchee, Washington
Cancer and Pesticides
* Multiple case control studies have linked various cancers to exposures to pesticides Cohort studies have been less convincing but some are positive Studies continue to find several cancers that appear to be associated with pesticide exposure Key Cancers Are Still Being Looked At
Fear in the Fields
If the war on drugs were really about reducing supply, drug controllers would be promoting hemp. But the war has taken on a life of its own, become an industry unto itself. For example, Congress gives the DEA half a billion dollars a year to eradicate marijuana. But according to the DEA's own figures, 98 percent of the "marijuana" eradicated by its agents or the police departments and National Guard units it hires is hemp-the harmless, feral stuff that escaped during Hemp for Victory days.
"Ditchweed," it's called. That's the "marijuana" you see getting burned in all the photos. If you're caught with ditchweed, you're in big trouble, as Vernon McElroy, 50, discovered in 1991 when he got convicted for possessing 10.9 pounds that he says a friend had picked and given him as a joke. Now he's doing life without parole at the overcrowded maximum-security penitentiary in Springville, Alabama. In Oklahoma, ditchweed is even sprayed with herbicides from helicopters. And last year Congress authorized $23 million for research into a soil-borne fungus that attacks and kills marijuana, poppy, and coca plants.
Mike DeWine (R-OH) calls it a "silver bullet" in the war on drugs, but David Struhs, secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, calls it a threat to the "natural environment.".
Mon$anto'$ WoD on Ditchweed
Monsanto - StLouis Asskrapt-Cliarence & Ditchweed
"As far as the War on Drugs is concerned, they would be better off pulling up goldenrod," said Maslack, who sponsored a successful hemp research bill in 1996. "It is no wonder the DEA is fighting hemp tooth and nail, because that is what their whole campaign is against, in the form of ditchweed. [This] is a great fraud being perpetrated on the American people ... [and] it is high time to reallocate this law enforcement money."
Marijuana Eradication 1982 - 2002
The Ganjawar Comes To The Rez
DEA destruction of the Oglala Sioux project a few months ago was actually feral hemp cultivated on native land from wild seed collected the year before.
S.D. Family Seeks The Right To Grow Hemp
John P Walters (is) America’s New Drug Pusher
Franken Shrub--Bush's Ties to Monsanto
"Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food," said Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications. "Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA's job."
Cannabis Eradications 99.28% Ditchweed
Annual Ditchweed Eradication Boondoggle Underway Again
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