Ganja and Suicide... prevention

[DdC]

Marijuana and Suicide

Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia

To think these propagandists are doing this following orders of a few making profits on prohibition. I recall one Quack shrink on MTV making this bogus claim. An alternative to the Ritilan and other "ziner" drugs they're pushing. Others climbed on, passing on the lies, spewing gossip and not even having the sense to see the many "coincidences".

The "victims" supposedly die 6 months or so after quitting Ganja. By force or stigmatized abstinence. Thinking they could solve the problems Ganja lessened, by stopping them. The problems were not addressed to begin with, therefore the reason for escaping. Ganja is known to relieve some of the stress the catastrophic situation (in a teens mind) caused. Booze would have done the same escape, but maybe that wasn't an option or maybe Ganja didn't just make them forget while drunk, but helped them deal with it. As Ganja aids Israeli soldiers with PTSD and other trauma. Ganja aids the brain in not retaining to memory everything you see. More than likely those good intenders forcing the victims to stop, killed them. Then the buzzards pick up the DEAth and sell it as another statistic of using Ganja. Nazi's could learn a lot from the Fascists today...
DdC

One well known effect of THC is to lift the spirit, or make you "high."
Jack Herer

Israel To Soothe Trauma With Marijuana
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/19/thread19585.shtml



Cannabis and Depression Jay R. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.
http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/cmu/de...d_cannabis.htm
Patients who use cannabis to "relax" may be treating
the anxiousness sometimes associated with depression.

Ganja Acts as an Antidepressant
Ganja Acts as an Antidepressant

Study Turns Pot Wisdom on Head
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21191.shtml

Therapeutic Use of Cannabis
Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer
http://www.jackherer.com/chapter07.html
Medical evidence indicates, that cannabis is the best overall treatment for dementia, senility, and maybe Alzheimer's disease, for long-term memory "gain" and hundreds of other benefits.

Only The PotHeads Will Survive
http://tinyurl.com/5bk5v

Virtues' of Ganja
http://tinyurl.com/c5d56

Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S11B23B45
Thousands of products to harvest into jobs,
housing and crude oil free clothing and food...



Study: Marijuana Eases Traumatic Memories
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13601.shtml
Thread

Scientists have known for years that the brain makes substances almost identical to the active ingredient in marijuana, but the function of these cannabinoids remained mysterious. Researchers now say they help to extinguish traumatic memories. In certain situations, being able to forget is very important for emotional survival, said George Kunos, a neurobiologist at the National Institutes of Health.

Pot Blocks Painful Memories, Study Says
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13600.shtml

Dr. Lutz's study will only add to the argument in favour of decriminalization. But it is also a landmark in medical terms because it deals with one of the central survival mechanisms of the vertebrate brain: the ability to spot danger and flee from it. Scientists have long understood that the brain can reprogram itself not to flee if the danger goes away. That is called extinction of a memory. But scientists have not understood how it happens. Dr. Lutz's research shows that the answer lies in the body's store of cannabinoids, or cannabis-like natural chemicals, produced whenever the body needs them. The brain has a receptor for these cannabis-like chemicals and can use them to help reprogram the response to a fear. A problem is that the fear reaction can stick around when no longer needed. That can lead to panic attacks or paralyzing irrational fear. Dr. Lutz said his finding could mean that a person in the grip of trauma might be able to summon up the terrible memory, with the help of a psychotherapist, then smoke marijuana to enhance the ability of the brain to extinguish the memory. He said that smoking is by far the most efficient way of getting the substance to the brain, although researchers are looking at an aerosol to administer it straight to the lungs.

Nature
http://www.nature.com
Pot-Like Chemical Helps Beat Fear
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13596.shtml
'Natural' Cannabis Manages Memory
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13598.shtml
Natural High Extinguishes Bad Memories in Brain
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13593.shtml
Innate Cannabis Chemical Erases Fears
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020729/020729-6.html
Cannabis, the Importance of Forgetting by Michael Pollan
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MASHAction/message/400

He said that smoking is by far the most efficient way of getting the substance to the brain,
although researchers are looking at an aerosol to administer it straight to the lungs.

GW Pharmaceuticals
http://www.gwpharm.com
GW Hits High as Bayer Snaps Up Cannabis Drug Sativex
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread16348.shtml
Cannabis Medicine 'On Sale This Year '
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15773.shtml
Trials Show Cannabis Spray Helps MS Patients
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14667.shtml

Cannabis-Hemp / Dr Andrew Weil Links

GW Bush Gang: IG Farben 2001
http://www.Baltech.org/lederman/bush-farben-1-5-01.html

Seeking Rest From the Terrors, New York Pops Pills
Friday September 28 2001 By Jonathan Landreth (Excerpted)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers are increasingly turning to sedation to help them escape the nightmares created by the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

According to doctors and pharmacists in the city, New York's denizens--many grieving for lost friends and family--are looking to medicine more than ever before to help fall asleep.

``The week of the 11th, there were very few calls because patients assumed we were tied up taking care of the disaster and probably thought their problems seemed small,'' said Charles Bardes, associate professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and a New York Hospital doctor.

``Now, in the third week since the attack, the floodgates have opened and I'm getting dozens and dozens of calls for sleeping pills and other drugs,'' Bardes said.

The two most commonly prescribed sleeping pills, those for which Bardes said he has seen a ``huge swell'' of requests, are Ambien from Pharmacia Corp., and Sonata from American Home Products Corp.

Some pharmacists said the spike in demand for these drugs was immediate.

``Right after the incident, sale of Ambien went up about 50%,'' said Rajan Kohli of independent Falk Drug & Surgical Supply near New York Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

A great number of elderly patients who are prescribed the drugs on an ``as needed'' basis were getting prescriptions filled for the first time, Kohli added. ``With all the added stress, they needed their sleep.''



VICIOUS CIRCLE

Consumption of sleeping pills and antidepressants is common in dealing with stress and anxiety resulting from trauma, but need not be continued after patients restabilize, experts say.

``People take the drugs to make them feel as if this had not happened at all. Many people are reporting sleep disturbance and anxiety, which is normal, but they may want to allow themselves to get to the feelings that the drugs are suppressing,'' said psychotherapist Susan Lukas, a New York Certified Social Worker.

Therapeutic Use of Cannabis jackherer.com
http://www.jackherer.com/chapter07.html
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[DdC]

CANNABIS LUNG CLEANER AND EXPECTORANT
http://www.jackherer.com/chapter07.html

SLEEP AND RELAXATION
http://www.jackherer.com/chapter07.html

Cannabis lowers blood pressure, dilates the arteries and reduces body temperature an average of one-half degree, thereby relieving stress. Evening cannabis smokers in general report more restful sleep. Using cannabis allows most people a more complete rest with a higher amount of alpha time during sleep as compared with prescription or sleep-inducing patent sedatives. Prescription sleeping pills (the so called legal, safe and effective drugs) are often just synthesized analogs of truly dangerous plants like mandrake, henbane and belladonna. As late as 1991, doctors, pharmacists and drug companies were fighting off new legislation to restrict these often abused compounds. (L.A. Times, April 2, 1991). Unlike Valium, cannabis does not potentiate the effects of alcohol. It is estimated that cannabis could replace more than 50% of Valium, Librium, Thorazine, Stelazine, other -zine drugs and most sleeping pills.

It is unconscionable that, over the past two decades, tens of thousands of parents have committed their own children, aged 11 to 17, to be treated by massive doses of so-called -zine drugs in order to get them off pot, at the urging of parent groups, the PDFA, the feds and administrators and doctors from federally approved, private and high-profit drug rehabilitation centers. Often, -zine drugs do work to stop these youths from using pot. They also stop a kid from loving his or her dog, too - and children stand a one-in-four chance of suffering from uncontrollable shaking for the rest of their lives. But at least they're not high.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said that 20-40% of -zine drug users have or will develop permanent lifetime pasies (shakes), November 1983. These prescription neurotoxins are chemically related to the pesticide and warfare nerve gas Sarin. Hundreds of private drug-rehabilitation centers and their leaders keep this policy alive and in front of the media, often quoting discredited reports from NIDA or DEA (see Chapter 16, debunking) because they earn fat profits selling their useless or destructive marijuana treatment for children. After all, a relapse just means using marijuana against after a number of bouts with an authority. This is mind control and an attempt to destroy individual free will.

DEPRESSION & HUNDREDS OF OTHER PRIMARY MEDICAL USES
http://www.jackherer.com/chapter07.html

One well known effect of THC is to life the spirit, or make you high. Cannabis users in Jamaica praise ganja's benefits for meditation, concentration, consciousness-raising and promoting a state of well being and self assertiveness.5 This kind of attitude adjustment, along with a healthier appetite and better rest, often represents the difference between feeling like you are dying of AIDS or cancer and feeling like you are living with AIDS or cancer. Cannabis also eases small pains and some big ones and helps senior citizens live with aches and pains like arthritis, insomnia and debilitating infirmities, and enjoy life in greater dignity and comfort. Legend has it, and medical evidence indicates, that cannabis is the best overall treatment for dementia, senility, and maybe Alzheimer's disease, for long-term memory gain and hundreds of other benefits. U.S. statistics of the 1970s indicated that you will live eight to 24 years longer if you substitute daily cannabis use for daily tobacco and alcohol use. New research is outlawed, of course.

ACCEPTABLE RISKS
http://www.jackherer.com/chapter07.html

Every U.S. commission or federal judge who has studied the evidence has agreed that cannabis is one of the safest drugs known. With all its therapeutic uses, it has only one side effect that has been exaggerated as a concern: the high. The DEA says this is not acceptable, so cannbis continues to be totally illegal in utter disregard for both doctor and patient. Every day we trust physicians to determine whether the risks associated with therapeutic, yet potentially dangerous drugs are acceptable for their patients. Yet, doctors are not allowed to prescribe the herb that Federal Judge Francis Young in 1988 called one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. We don't put out doctors in charge of stopping violent crimes. The police, prosecutors and prison guards should not be in charge of which herbal therapies people may use to treat their personal health problems.



Missing Nixon tapes
excerpts begin with the Nixon doctrine on why marijuana is much worse than alcohol: It is because people drink to have fun but they smoke marijuana to get high. This distinction was evidently enormously significant to Nixon, because he repeats it...

You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob?

Richard Nixon missing tapes
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread12302.shtml

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the London Sunday Express, December 8, 1935

You're enough of a pro, Nixon tells Shafer, to know that for you to come out with something that would run counter to what the Congress feels and what the country feels, and what we're planning to do, would make your commission just look bad as hell.

The Shafer Commission of 1970
Marijuana does not lead to physical dependency, although some evidence indicates that the heavy, long-term users may develop a psychological dependence on the drug

Clinical experience suggests that it is helpful for patients with severe nausea and vomiting, arthritis, glaucoma, muscle spasms, premenstrual syndrome, seizure disorders, the AIDS weight loss syndrome, asthma, fibromyalgia, Tourette's syndrome, and depression, to name a few.
Many thousands of patients are using cannabis to treat these and other disorders. Given the legal risks, they would not be doing this if they did not believe it was helpful to them. These patients are in urgent need of a legal accommodation that allow them to use a medicine which they know is important to their well-being.

Testimony of Lester Grinspoon, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School

RX Marijuana Uses
http://marijuana-uses.com
Shared Stories of Medical Cannabis
http://rxmarijuana.com/shared.htm
Shared comments and observations
http://rxmarijuana.com/comments_and_observations.htm
Cannabis New Medical related articles
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml



Prohibition causes trauma, depression and D.E.A.th...

Peter McWilliams: 1950 – 2000
http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/Peterm.htm
As a result, his AIDS viral load, which had been undetectable, soared to dangerous levels. Peter was also very fragile psychologically. Aggravated by his health and legal problems, he often suffered from debilitating bouts of depression. Certainly, he was badly damaged by being in federal detention, and he knew from that experience that he could not survive very long if he were sent to prison.



NEW JAILHOUSE BLOG FROM STEVE!

Updates About Steve Kubby
Michele Kubby emailed me earlier this week and reported that Steve has lost 25 pounds since his arrest. See Kubby.com for updates. Jail food is naturally a big part of the problem. (It is reportedly even worse than hospital food.) He also has to cope with the pain of an unusually persistent outbreak of shingles, which could be caused by stress, or immuno-suppression from the adrenal cancer.

Rainbow Farm Massacre
http://www.mapinc.org/find?200
PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS
http://www.jackherer.com/book/ch13.html

MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THY PEOPLE YOU'RE DYING

The Elkhorn Manifesto
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html

In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the US. Of those, 46.5 percent
-- 734,497 arrests -- were for marijuana.
There were 646,042 arrests for simple possession of marijuana in 2000.
Drug War Facts http://www.drugwarfacts.org

November Coalition
http://www.novembercoalition.org
FRCn Idiots
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/po...a/35/35117.gif

U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana laws.
According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2001.
Keith Stroup, (NORML) http://www.norml.org

[vanilla]

it's too bad they always get closed

[jamf]

When I moved I couldnt find a connection and couldnt smoke weed. I succumbed to a suicidal type depression when I quit herb. It went away after 6months. I used alcohol to get through it. It wasnt the weed that caused the depression. It was my depression situation that seemed to have no way out of.

[Guest]

I just scanned the message and saw you linked to Dr. J.

He was good to me. It looks like you have a lot of good information there, but maybe too much for one post?

[Guest]

And then I started clicking links and see you're a fan of Emery & Co....

...never mind.

If that first link is your site, you have a nice looking site.

[vanilla]

emery haters are so 2004...

[Guest]

I just really resent seeing fine people like J. Cavanaugh and Lester Grinspoon mentioned on the same page as Emery. That's all.

Here's as much of why as I feel like going into at the moment: http://www.yahooka.com/forum/showpos...9&postcount=66

[vanilla]

whatever
we're all smokers here, and we all want it available legally for medicinal/recreational purposes, let's not try and knock someone that's fighting the good fight
it's counter productive you see

[Guest]

Vanilla, you are one brain-washed piece of work. If you really cared about 'the good fight' you would be preaching your sermons at Emery. He's the one that threatened to snitch people off and it's his henchmen that called Scott Imler a NARC when Scott was in as bad or worse a position as he is now. So screw him and screw you.

[vanilla]

*yawns*

[vanilla]

the man doesn't even have a car, how can you say he's in it for money ?? he gives it all away

[PsyOpKing]

the man doesn't even have a car, how can you say he's in it for money ?? he gives it all away

really if you saw me you would say the same thing. it's called off shore bank accounts and foreign realestate. i own 2 houses and 2 apartments houses in 3 different countries.

you have a lot to learn about black market profits and canadian law. he looks poor cuz if he looked rich he would be in jail. his cash is off shore.

[K10]

really if you saw me you would say the same thing. it's called off shore bank accounts and foreign realestate. i own 2 houses and 2 apartments houses in 3 different countries.

you have a lot to learn about black market profits and canadian law. he looks poor cuz if he looked rich he would be in jail. his cash is off shore.

[Parallax]

just more propaganda.

its pro-weed, but propaganda nonetheless

[hazeD]

As reported in Playboy, the Heath "Voodoo" Research methodology involved strapping Rhesus monkeys into a chair and pumping them with equivalent of 63 Colombian strength joints in "five minutes, through gas masks," losing no smoke.

The monkeys were suffocating! Three to five minutes of oxygen deprivation causes brain damage "dead brain cells." (Red Cross Lifesaving and Water Safety Manual) With the concentration of smoke used, the monkeys were a bit like a person running the engine of a car in a locked garage for 5, 10, 15 minutes at a time every day! The Heath Monkey study was actually a study in animal asphyxiation and carbon monoxide poisoning.


horrible.

[DdC]

As reported in Playboy, the Heath "Voodoo" Research methodology involved strapping Rhesus monkeys into a chair and pumping them with equivalent of 63 Colombian strength joints in "five minutes, through gas masks," losing no smoke.

The monkeys were suffocating! Three to five minutes of oxygen deprivation causes brain damage "dead brain cells." (Red Cross Lifesaving and Water Safety Manual) With the concentration of smoke used, the monkeys were a bit like a person running the engine of a car in a locked garage for 5, 10, 15 minutes at a time every day! The Heath Monkey study was actually a study in animal asphyxiation and carbon monoxide poisoning.

horrible.

Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys (Jack Herer)

One of them escaped...

[DdC]

Deliver the reformer politician's speech

DdC, please take it as given that a major politician has decided to finally follow his conscience and speak out against the drug war. What will he say?

The Art of War - Sun Tzu

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands.
But the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
If you know the enemy, and know yourself, you need not fear the outcome of a hundred battles.
If you know yourself, but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Until we realize, and act on why the Ganjawar is fought,
we will continue fighting the enemy
by hurling great sums of money, dignity and blood at them.



* The Ganjawar profits corporations, tax collectors, prisons, media and police budgets.
* Corporations shelter taxes in drugczar non profit collection agencies to fund antipot commercials and groups.
* Ganja and hemp could replace many of the products these corporations sell.
* So these corporations pay no taxes and get free advertising keeping Ganja medicine and Hemp Food, Fuel and Fiber competition off the free trade market.

They lie. Not isolated lies. Lies. Justified to obtain a goal they believe will either be best for all or more than likely be best for the corporations they have invested in, held positions in or receive campaign funding from.

* The Ganjawar has nothing to do with keeping kids off drugs.
* 99% of the "marijuana" eradicated is non psychoactive ditchweed hemp.
* One trillion tax dollars have been given to a handful of corporations and DEAth agencies since the 1937 marihuana tax ax. * About the same amount given by the Ganja users under the table from taxes, do to prohibition.

When we have homeless, predominately veterans and mentally ill. Hungry kids and uneducated adults. Poor health care and solely treatment based at that, and then forced FDA synthetic corporate based "drugs" while busting alternative and preventive medicines..

Same as the meat and bread pyramid the government pushed. Same meat and grain industries that donated funds to add hempseed to the schedule #1 narcotics list.

Or the so called doing no harm politidocs shrugging off science, backing up Ganja being scheduled a dangerous narcotic, let alone nutritional hempseed.

Nixon rejected the Schafer Commission report requesting decriminalization. Reagans included their investments in urine testing, while mandating it to anyone getting government contracts. The test is illogical for Ganja but it does profit these unregulated testing facilities. Same ones putting innocents in cages for violent crimes to be overturned later at great expense to the government and still having the criminal walking the streets just to win the case. Shalala sat on the IOM report and Bush Ashcroft Souder Walters Bennett and $20 billion a year have literally tried to make their fiction book Body Count come to life.

Anslinger-Bush-Hearst-Nixon-Hitler- Jüs Déjå vü!!!

* $20 billion/yr undocumented funding for security reasons.

When this government permits certain industries leeway's at the risk and health of the citizens. They have perverted their authority. When checks and balances are considered acts of terrorism, that is a sign of covering something up. Closed door energy policy? Closed door wars, hot or cold. Closed door laws permitting torture and peeping in windows and snooping in your home, bank, medical and workplace. The Ganjawar is illegal. To "compromise" in it means you participate in it. Expose it for what it is and the money it takes from necessary programs and the Americans it oppresses and maybe, just maybe the great opiated dumbshit masses will understand and remove this abomination prohibition.
Peace, Love and Liberty or the Merchants of DEAth
DdC

Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
-- C.S. Lewis, in "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment,"
an essay from "God In The Dock

The Ganjawar Fraud

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
-- Ronald Reagan, The New York Times, April 13, 1980

Witch hunts and the war on weed 20 Jun, 2002
The persecution of "witches" was really a war on sacred plants that continues today.

Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of
marijuana....We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are
a menace to society.
-- U.S. Representative Dan Quayle, March 1977

Bush's War on Pot

Whenever the offense inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigor of
penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.
-- Edward Gibbon,
"The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," 1776

Tricky Dick's guide to drinking and toking
In newly released transcripts,
Richard Nixon and Art Linkletter struggle to fathom the differences between demon rum and dope.

Abusus non tollit usum. [Abuse is no argument against proper use.
-- Latin proverb

Outside View: Nixon Tapes Pot Shocker
One can imagine Nixon's surprise when rumors began circulating in early '71 that the "L-word" was on the table. He responded curtly at his next press conference: "Even if the Commission does recommend that it be legalized, I will not follow that recommendation.

Once-Secret Nixon Tapes Show Why US Outlawed Pot

The passing of an unjust law is the suicide of authority.
-- Pastoral Letter of the American Roman Catholic Hierarchy, February 1920

Nixon Launched The 30 Years' War as Election Issue

If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees, "Would there were no steel," because of the murderers, "Would there were no night," because of the thieves, "Would there were no light," because of the informers, and "Would there were no women," because of adultery.
-- St. John Chrysostom, "Homilies," circa 388