Ganjawarnews Archive: 8-26-4
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Modern Maturity Magazine to have Medical Marijuana Feature in October Issue!
Dear ASA Friends- Did you know that the AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), with 30 million members, is the most powerful special interest group lobbying Congress? Are you a member? Or a self-identified elder? Do you use marijuana as medicine? If so, we need your help with the Elders' Patients Union (EPU).
Modern Maturity, the AARP magazine, is coming out with a special article on medical marijuana use by retirees in October!
This dovetails very well with ASA's action in Washington DC asking Health & Human Services (DHHS) to Reschedule Marijuana Oct 5. The day before, patients will be doing citizen lobbying with both elected officials AND advocacy organizations such as AARP.
I can imagine no more powerful picture than our elders out in droves....those who have watched marijuana prohibition increase over the last 30 years despite working towards sensible policies, as well as those who have surprised themselves by using marijuana for the first time as age-related conditions developed.
If you use marijuana to treat Parkinson's, Stroke, Alzheimer's, Chronic Pain, etc (or are a caregiver to those that do) please join the Elder's Patients Union today.
And if you don't want to join the EPU, but you would still like to join us in DC, please let us know that as well.
We will send every member of the EPU a copy of our new swank-looking 25 page booklet, " Medical Marijuana & Aging".
For all of you non-elders, or who don't particularly identify that way, we have a number of other condition-based patients' unions up and running. For more info on any, please contact Stacey Swimme,
stacey@safeaccessnow .org, or by calling 510-486-8083.
To join the lists directly, see the following:
To join the Elders Patients' Union, send a blank email to
seniors4mmj@lists.ri seup.net
To join the HIV/AIDS Survivors Union, send a blank email to
hapu-subscribe@lists.rise up.net
To join the Multiple Sclerosis Patients' Union, write to
gstorck@immly.org
To join the Cancer Patients' Union, send a blank email to
mmj4cancer@lists.ris eup.net
To join the Chronic Pain Patients' Union, send a blank email to
mmj4cp@lists.riseup. net
To start one based on any other condition, contact Stacey Swimme,
info@safeaccessnow.o rg, or calling 510-486-8083.
To see more about the HHS action, click on
http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=1295
Hope to see y'all in Washington DC!
Hilary McQuie Effective Action Consulting
http://www.Effective-Action.net
Rodney.com
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Gone to Pot: Rodney Dangerfield, 81 finally gets a little respect
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/sto...6054693&pageid http://www.mapinc.org/ccnews/v04/n759/a10.html
Back at the table, Rodney lifts his big head and says, "You want to smoke a little shit? I don't know how good this is. I just got it. Decent shit costs you a minimum of $500 an ounce. As a kid I bought pot for $25 an ounce. An ounce! Oh, everything's insane. Oh, everything's wild!"
Ganjawarnews: R.I.P. Rodney 10-5-4
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Comic Rodney Dangerfield Dies at Age 82
LOS ANGELES -- October 5, 2004
Rodney Dangerfield, the bug-eyed comic whose self-deprecating one-liners brought him stardom in clubs, television and movies and made his lament "I don't get no respect" a catchphrase, died Tuesday. He was 82.
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Elderly Brothers Busted for Pot
PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (AP) - Two brothers, ages 74 and 80, have been charged with running a large marijuana operation after agents confiscated more than half a million dollars in pot from their property. Agents found nearly 500 marijuana plants on David Burmesch's farm and seized almost 100 pounds of processed marijuana from sheds on the property. Attorney General James Doyle's office estimated the street value of the marijuana at $598,000.
``This is certainly the largest pot bust in Wisconsin this year,'' said Wisconsin Department of Justice spokesman Randy Romanski. David W. Burmesch, 74, and his brother, Eugene A. Burmesch, 80, were charged Friday in Ozaukee County Circuit Court. If convicted, they each face up to 30 years in prison.
David Burmesch told officers he had been growing marijuana for 20 to 25 years because he needed money to support a developmentally disabled son, according to a criminal complaint. David Burmesch's wife said neither she nor her husband wanted to talk to a reporter. Eugene Burmesch could not be reached for comment. They were ordered to appear Oct. 16 in court.
Man's Statements Will Be Allowed at Pot Trial
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread8408.shtml
Brothers To Be Tried in Marijuana Case
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread7671.shtml
Pot Grower, 75, Given Year in Jail
A 75-year-old marijuana farmer was sentenced to a year in the Ozaukee County Jail Tuesday by a judge who said he was trying to balance the needs of society against the fact that the man had never before been in trouble with the law.
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/10/thread10163.shtml
Grandmother Escapes Jail
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Grandma Says She Used Pot To Ease Pain
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4637.shtml
UK Grandmother Gets 18 Months Probation
A GRANDMOTHER who narrowly escaped jail for drinking cannabis tea
to ease her constant pain today insisted: "It should be legalised"
http://tinyurl.com/5lowf
Granpa's Ganja Pad
Evan Keliher, author of Grandpa's Marijuana Handbook and a glaucoma patient since the early 60s, has used marijuana for thirty-five years to prevent further loss of sight and suffered no ill effects. Evan is convinced that marijuana is essentially harmless when used by responsible adults and he recommends its use for his fellow citizens as a preventative against the hazards of growing old. "They'll still grow old," he says, "but they won't care."
http://www.grandpaspotbook.com
HOW SENIORS CAN AVOID DETECTION
(Excerpted from Grandpa's Marijuana Handbook)
Your greatest risk of discovery is that you may react one way, a "normal" way, when straight and somewhat differently when stoned and sharp-eyed busybodies may spot it. Not to worry, though, this isn't a problem for anyone who reads this book.
The thing is, be high all the time. There. Isn't that an elegant solution? If you're high every time people see you, there'll never be any differences to note. A laid back, half-amused, half-bemused attitude will become your new persona, the only one the preacher, et al., will ever see.
People will remark about it.
"Oh, that Helen," they'll say, "she's always so laid back."
"Yes, and she wears that bemused look all the time, like she's got a secret but doesn't know what it is."
"You don't suppose she's on something?"
"Helen? Oh, my, no. She sings in the choir, you know."
Also, don't take a quick hit in a closed car while waiting for your friend to return with the pizza you're picking up.
The smoke hanging in clouds in the car will be a dead giveaway. Always frown and shake your head whenever marijuana is mentioned and say such things as, "I wonder where it will all end?" and "I'll tell you one thing, kids didn't muck about with this pot stuff when I was young!" to deceive people into thinking you're staunchly anti-marijuana.
If you score some pot from a Crip and you see the guy on the street, don't wave to him. Your friends will be suspicious if they see you high-fiving with guys wearing colors and jagged knife scars across their cheeks and will be sure to remark on it.
"Friend of yours?" Rhonda will say.
"What? Oh, no. That's just Jose. He's the gardener at my condo."
"Why isn't he at work?"
"Who? Jose? He must be on his break."
"Jose is a Crip, Tina."
"No!"
"Yes, he is. See the colors? Why do you know Crips? Are you smoking pot?"
See? Rhonda will tell the whole world you're a pothead and you'll become such a social pariah you'll make the Elephant Man look like a dashing man-about-town. Et cetera.
I just called them....
Grandmother has cannabis by No 10
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