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Old 08-18-2011, 02:51 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Kerliowske's Legal Drug Hypocrisy

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And now, more than ever, it’s important to recognize that drug use harms every sector of this country. From keeping individual families together, creating a healthy and strong workforce, reducing the economic strain on the criminal justice system, and fostering a safe environment in local communities, tackling America’s substance abuse issues is vital for winning the future.
~ Dung Tzar Gil Kerliowske


Prescription Drugs More Likely to Kill You than Recreational Drugs
By Dr. Joseph Mercola on 12/15/2008

As has been repeatedly demonstrated, and as this latest report so clearly illustrates, prescription drugs can, and frequently do, pose SERIOUS risks to your health.

More than 700,000 people visit U.S. emergency rooms each year as a result of adverse drug reactions. And, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), adverse drug reactions from drugs that are properly prescribed and properly administered cause about 106,000 deaths per year, making prescription drugs the fourth-leading cause of death in the U.S.

Compare this to the death toll from illegal drugs -- which is about 10,000 per year -- and you begin to see the magnitude of the problem that the pharmaceutical industry is propagating.

Reported Side Effects of Pharmaceutical Drugs Now Include a 1 in 4 Shot at Premature Death

This latest analysis of federal data by the nonprofit Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) offers up some truly shocking information.

Fatalities from adverse drug reactions – more than 4,800 of them -- accounted for 23 percent of all adverse reaction reports in the first quarter of 2008! (This is a 3 percent increase in prescription drug deaths from the last calendar quarter of 2007.)



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“... there are good reasons for saying that [cannabis] would be unlikely to seriously compare to the public health risks of alcohol and tobacco even if as many people used cannabis as now drink alcohol or smoke tobacco.”
- Hall, W., Room, R. & Bondy, S, August 28, 1995,
WHO Project on Health Implications of Cannabis Use: Geneva, Switzerland:
A Comparative Appraisal of the Health and Psychological Consequences of Alcohol, Cannabis, Nicotine and Opiate Use,
What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis

3 million children taking stimulant drugs for ADHD

The Side Effects Include Death:
The Real Truth About Pharmaceuticals

For several decades now, the US government has been fighting a “war on drugs.” Drug abuse results in 40,000 deaths each year in this country, a number that has not changed noticeably despite the billions that have been spent in this “war.” But there is another type of drug use that is killing Americans in much larger numbers – and about this, the government has raised nary a peep. In fact, each of the drugs in this category has been manufactured and sold with the express approval of the US Food and Drug Administration. So while one branch of the government is fighting tooth and nail to try and halt the use of drugs that kill 40,000 annually, another arm of the very same government is aiding and abetting an industry whose products are killing over 100,000 people each year.



Monsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution
Now they know. They also know that for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste into a west Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills. And thousands of pages of Monsanto documents -- many emblazoned with warnings such as "CONFIDENTIAL: Read and Destroy" -- show that for decades, the corporate giant concealed what it did and what it knew.

Mon$anto'$ WoD on Ditchweed

Hemp vs Dioxins

Chemical Cotton vs Organic Hemp



The Deal on Substances

A drug may be helpful or harmful. The effects of drugs can vary depending upon the kind of drug taken, how much is taken, how often it is used, how quickly it gets to the brain, and what other drugs, food, or substances are taken at the same time. Effects can also vary based on the differences in body size, shape, and chemistry.

Prozac and other anti-depressants can KILL by Vickie Barker

Can it be the world is in a moral crisis? After reading the following Prozac horror story this will no longer be a question. Can it be we have become comfortably numb to the world around us? Do we no longer have the power to analyze information that is brought to us? Do we no longer hope to change the dishonesty and deceit or should we only sit back and hope that somehow the deceit will pass us by?



Prescription Drug Deaths Soar
Sometimes it takes "celebrity" to bring to light a national issue, in this case a chronic condition for many everyday Americans.

10 Worst Prescription Drug Side Effects

Amnesia
Mirapex has several side effects, one of them is amnesia

Enlarged Breasts (in men, sorry girls)
Propecia, a hair loss cure on the market has a unique side effect, in that it can cause "gynecomastia". What does this mean? It means the ability to grow lactating breasts.

Death
Celebrex may increase the chance of a heart attack or stroke that can lead to death.
Serious skin reactions or stomach and intestine problems, such as bleeding and ulcers, can occur without warning and may cause death.

Shrinkage
Testosterone replacement therapy possible effect, such as a decrease in their testicles size.

Cancer, Stroke, Dementia and Much More
EvaMist, a treatment for menopause symptoms such as hot flashes -- has possible side effects that include cancer, stroke, heart attack, blood clots, and dementia!

Suicide
Are you trying to quit smoking? There is a drug that can help you do that. Chantix:The only problem is that it can also make you want to kill yourself.

Hallucinations
Some of the most unlikely prescription drugs "may cause visual and auditory hallucinations" as one of their side effects.
Lariam, used to treat Malaria, carries some serious side effects -- one of them being hallucinations. Both soldiers and tourists have reported experiencing frightening hallucinations as well as violent psychotic behavior soon after taking the drug.

Loss of Sense of Taste (and other senses)
Vasotec can affect almost all of your five senses. Vasotec can cause you to lose your sense of smell (a condition known as anosmia) and taste, as well as have ringing in your ears (tinnitus) and eye problems like blurred vision and dry eyes. All of these are referred to as minor side effects, but if you were experiencing them all at once, you might consider them major.

Coughing up blood or vomit that looks like coffee grounds
Plavix keep platelets in the blood from sticking together. Because of its drug action, clopidogrel can make it easier for you to bleed, even from a minor injury. You may also have bleeding in the inside of your body, such as in your stomach or intestines.

Pregnancy
If you are diabetic and are taking Avandia to control your blood sugar, don't forget to play safe sex. Besides the fact that this medication can cause or worsen heart failure, women taking Avandia should know that this medicine may increase the risk of pregnancy.

Alcohol & Drug Use
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Alcohol is one of the most widely used drug substances in the world. Alcohol use and binge drinking among our nation’s youth is a major public health problem



2011 World Hunger and Poverty Facts and Statistics
No one really knows how many people are malnourished. The statistic most frequently cited is that of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, which measures 'undernutrition'. The most recent estimate, released in October 2010 by FAO, says that 925 million people are undernourished.

Starving Babies and Illegal Food
Of the 3 million plus edible plants that grow on earth, no other single plant source can compare with the nutritional value of hempseeds. Both the complete protein and the essential oil contained in hempseeds are in ideal ratios for human nutrition.

Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States
To better quantify the impact of foodborne diseases on health in the United States, we compiled and analyzed information from multiple surveillance systems and other sources. We estimate that foodborne diseases cause approximately 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths in the United States each year. Known pathogens account for an estimated 14 million illnesses, 60,000 hospitalizations, and 1,800 deaths. Three pathogens, Salmonella, Listeria, and Toxoplasma, are responsible for 1,500 deaths each year, more than 75% of those caused by known pathogens, while unknown agents account for the remaining 62 million illnesses, 265,000 hospitalizations, and 3,200 deaths. Overall, foodborne diseases appear to cause more illnesses but fewer deaths than previously estimated.

40,000 deaths a year due to junk food, says health watchdog Nice
More than 40,000 Britons are dying unnecessarily every year because of high levels of salt and fat in their diets, the Government’s public health watchdog Nice has warned.



Drugs A to Z
Drugs.com is the most popular, comprehensive and up-to-date source of drug information online. Providing free, peer-reviewed, accurate and independent data on more than 24,000 prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines & natural products. Find helpful tools, wallet size personal medication records, mobile applications and more.

Is Death An Acceptable Drug Side Effect?
Would you take a medicine that listed death as a possible side effect? Lots of people do. If you read drug ads in popular magazines, you might end up wondering who would ever beg a doctor for a prescription.

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Reported Side Effects of Pharmaceutical Drugs Now Include a 1 in 4 Shot at Premature Death

Fatalities from adverse drug reactions – more than 4,800 of them -- accounted for 23 percent of all adverse reaction reports in the first quarter of 2008! (This is a 3 percent increase in prescription drug deaths from the last calendar quarter of 2007.)

Whoever wrote that is an idiot.

A 1 in 4 chance of death implies that a quarter of all people that take it will die. Which is far from the case.

WHEN adverse side effects occur, 23% of the time they are lethal, but that does not mean there is a 1 in 4 chance of death from taking prescription drugs.

That also doesn't factor in that people are generally stupid and don't know how to take their medication. I bet none of you guys actually read the info sheet that comes with a new script. The average person doesn't.




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Plavix keep platelets in the blood from sticking together. Because of its drug action, clopidogrel can make it easier for you to bleed, even from a minor injury. You may also have bleeding in the inside of your body, such as in your stomach or intestines.

lol, that's what the drug is for. those are minor risks compared to a severe myocardial infarction or an ischemic stroke. They don't give that one to healthy people.



You anti pharmaceutical people are just as bad as the anti drug people.


Apparently the phrase "per capita" doesn't exist? You can't directly compare the numbers like that.

Way more people get prescriptions than do recreational drugs. Lots of those people are old to begin with.
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I bet none of you guys actually read the info sheet that comes with a new script.
I do.

But unlike many, I can actually comprehend them.

The anti pharma folks are just juggling the numbers, the same way the WOD people do to reinforce their position on the issue.

There is no doubt in my mind, that many perscription drugs are more dangerous than cannabis. And that many more people die either directly, or from side effects of those legal perscription drugs than cannabis.

I do agree that many expensive perscription drugs (some of which have dangerous side effects) are "pushed" on older more vulnerable people, in an effort to abuse the current elderly health care systems for profit.
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There is no doubt in my mind, that many perscription drugs are more dangerous than cannabis. And that many more people die either directly, or from side effects of those legal perscription drugs than cannabis.
How is that relevant?


Its a well known fact that cannabis is safe, but if we all just smoked weed when we got sick, the average life expectancy would be like 40.
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This site is and always has been a marijuana discussion board.




As has been repeatedly demonstrated, and as this latest report so clearly illustrates, prescription drugs can, and frequently do, pose SERIOUS risks to your health.

More than 700,000 people visit U.S. emergency rooms each year as a result of adverse drug reactions. And, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), adverse drug reactions from drugs that are properly prescribed and properly administered cause about 106,000 deaths per year, making prescription drugs the fourth-leading cause of death in the U.S.

Compare this to the death toll from illegal drugs -- which is about 10,000 per year -- and you begin to see the magnitude of the problem that the pharmaceutical industry is propagating.

The problem has reached such proportions that you now see public service announcements warning you about the dangers of pharmaceutical drug use and addiction, just like the ones you used to see against street drugs.

And when you consider the fact that the average American, aged 19 to 64, is now on close to 11 prescription drugs, it’s not difficult to see how serious health problems from side effects and misuse might ensue.
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That fact is, those medications make us live longer. If a few people have to die because of it, I'm fine with that price.


You can't directly compare the numbers. It has to be per capita or the information is completely relevant.


Once you look at it properly, its probably close to even.

Unless you think the number of prescriptions is equal to the number of people using recreational drugs.


Alcohol and tobacco are recreational too. The fact that they are legal is also irrelevant. We use them for the same reasons we use the others. So, add 1/2 a million to your drugs column.

Also, why do people that don't normally consider cannabis a drug throw it in the pot when they need to try and prove a point?
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probably because of the lack of deadly side effects to the illegal cannabis, compared to many legal perscription/non perscription drugs ?

that's my guess.


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probably because of the lack of deadly side effects to the illegal cannabis, compared to many legal perscription/non perscription drugs ?

that's my guess.




I don't think many of those types frequent YaHooka.
OK, say you have a problem with chronic deep vein thrombosis. Weed isn't going to help you. What are you going to do? Die of any number of problems freely moving blood clots can cause? That is just one example out of the thousands that cannabis is entirely useless for.

We need pharmaceuticals.


and that's strange, this place used to be full of "weed is just a herb, not a drug, zomg!" crowd. where did they all go?
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they also were wrong.

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We need a better way of regulating how and when they are dispensed/perscribed.

As the doctors seem to be incapable of resisting the kickbacks from the major drug pushers...

I mean drug companies.
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We need a better way of regulating how and when they are dispensed/perscribed.

As the doctors seem to be incapable of resisting the kickbacks from the major drug pushers...

I mean drug companies.
Maybe for antidepressants and other feel good/functional medications. Things that have a subjective diagnosis and require specialists to do so. These days, GP's take the place or psychiatrists way too often.

And antibiotics, but for an entirely different reason.

Nobody here is going to complain that they give opioids and amphetamines out too freely.


But for the most part what is prescribed is needed. Then it is just a case of one company's product over another.

They don't give out blood thinners or steroids (ie: prednisone) or hormone therapy or any number of things that this whole anti pharm thing is based on for no reason.
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I thought deadhead meant he followed Jerry.

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Reported Side Effects of Pharmaceutical Drugs Now Include a 1 in 4 Shot at Premature Death
Fatalities from adverse drug reactions – more than 4,800 of them -- accounted for 23 percent of all adverse reaction reports in the first quarter of 2008! (This is a 3 percent increase in prescription drug deaths from the last calendar quarter of 2007.)


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Whoever wrote that is an idiot.

Dr. Joseph Mercola on 12/15/2008, tell him after you prove it. Not your whiny attempts at a rant to kiss Big Pharma's ass. Comprehension is a big part of reading. You seem to have a basic understanding of the letters, but the words are giving you fits. The dung tzar say's illicit drugs, including Ganja are why we needed to spend a trillion dollars protecting people when the Nazi I G Farben Pharmaceutical Industry we inherited, that advertises greater side effects than Ganja. Not just overdoses, the side effect are potentially death goober. Just a visual display of the DEAth Merchants hypocrisy. But it also flushes out the trolls.

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A 1 in 4 chance of death implies that a quarter of all people that take it will die. Which is far from the case.

So 3 out of 4 living is not good enough so they should abstain until its perfect? Let all 4 die instead? You white powder people are weird.



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WHEN adverse side effects occur, 23% of the time they are lethal, but that does not mean there is a 1 in 4 chance of death from taking prescription drugs.

Fatalities from adverse drug reactions – more than 4,800 of them -- accounted for 23 percent of all adverse reaction reports in the first quarter of 2008!
~ Dr. Joseph Mercola


Talk to him. The point that is getting boring that fatalities happen and the dung czar disregards it. If the concern as he stated was for the well being of the American using then the subject would not be separated with legalities.

Reported Side Effects of Pharmaceutical Drugs
Now Include a 1 in 4 Shot at Premature Death
~ This latest analysis of federal data by the nonprofit Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) offers up some truly shocking information.


Why are you bothering me with the nonprofit Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) data? Or that it happens, it doesn't have to happen with illicit drugs done in a legal setting either. It doesn't with Ganja and it can't happen with schedule#1 narcotic Hemp. Point is, it happens, along with the other legal substances that do more harm than Ganja. and the dung czar doesn't mention it.

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That also doesn't factor in that people are generally stupid and don't know how to take their medication.

That's a big part of it, as well as patients saving money taking half doses. Or taxing caregivers that come out of the patients pocket so obombo can bomb somebody. But no one has ever been stupid enough to overdose on Ganja because you can't and yet the dung fucking czar, on tax dollars spews horseshit to millions of idiot appeasers for the drug companies. In competition with herbs, the same reasons the Christians witch burnings.

But it doesn't negate the fact that the stupid people are dead from a legally prescribed Pharmaceutical. It's synthetic verses natural. Before "drugs" we all used plants and minerals and animals. Cannabis is one of the oldest and most used medicines in History. White Powders are relatively progressive as with the other human moneyslut industries also causing pollution side effects. I'm a realist dude. I know what it is and in most cases drug stores are a necessity. I also see that thousands of years people have been smoking tobacco without problems until the chemicals were added to make cigarettes. The Neurological diseases and cancer rise parallel to the induction of Hydrocarbons, nukes and the bastardization of the human body and food sources with human crap.

Obesity sells more than a healthy person the same as treating the sick verses curing or preventing. Or wars or drug wars or cold wars, whatever they can sell. Band aids have become ways of life instead of temporary remedies. teabags want to let the people hemorrhage while the status quo pill pushers want it as a staple. Same with mandatory minimum sentences and gag rules deterring jury trials for 95% of the people. Leading to please bargains with mandatory rehabilitation and pisstaste costs. The AMAFDA\HHS are part of a racket that many doctors can't afford to opt out of, and that means follow their rules of being pro drug war.

We should make it as hard on people to get Pharmaceuticals at Corporate Drug Stores as the Feds make it for sick seniors trying to get consistent Ganja from Apothecaries just to prove a point and see how they like it. Picket the Drug Stores!


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I bet none of you guys actually read the info sheet that comes with a new script. The average person doesn't.

Not that it has anything to do with the thread, but its my job to make sure the patients know what the white powders do and if needed the Pharmacist will gladly explain anything. That is the point of the thread and the drug tzars hypocrisy. The point that went over your head when you were looking down pouting and kicking up dust. Your diversion is typical, boring and silly thinking anyone is going to wager online.

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lol, that's what the drug is for.

Exactly, on purpose it can kill so why doesn't the "drug" czar warn us after the first victim instead of Ganja that no ones concerned over. 70+% of the drug drug cases are from snitches. Without pisstastes they don't even know most are using. Blood thinners including cows blood for hemophiliacs are what we got to work with dude. Don't ever settle. It ain't the best. We may not even know its not what the best is but we won't find out banning research. This or any "drug" are "treatments" of the symptoms. Coughed up blood does look like coffee grounds.

The only thing drug companies exists for. To sell drugs. Although I think some have fetishes for killing lab Rats, Rabbits and Guinea Pigs, especially in another more deadly than Ganja profession, cosmetics and fashion. Plastic tits are legal and require anesthesia and surgery and yet they outlaw Ganja? Side effects sell more side effect treatments. Prohibition keeps alternatives off the market. Ganja and organic living could prevent obesity and organic farming could prevent the neurological epidemics from pesticides sold by the same conglomerates selling the medicinal treatments. Hemp could replace many of the synthetic fossil fools plastic, wood and paper. It also is the most nutritionally complete food source on the planet preventing the need for white powders "treatments". Cures and Prevention are the enemy of Big Pharma. Your school books are censored so you pass the test and get the sheepskin and now your an authority of ignorance.


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those are minor risks compared to a severe myocardial infarction or an ischemic stroke.

But they are minor risks none the less. Not with Ganja. Tell the dung tzar dude. Most myocardial infarctions are preventible with simple early education of proper eating. But then you couldn't sell your Plavix or the other thousands of politically fast tracked drugs. Science works for industry profits, or Military weapons, not necessity. Last cure was Polio and it pissed off the leather and steel brace corporations.

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They don't give that one to healthy people.

Where did anyone say they did? I know I didn't because i didn't leave an opinion. But I'll say it now. You're full of shit. That is pretty clear mistakes happen and healthy people get the wrong meds. Your c.y.a. is clear too. Feeling guilty? Actually your acting pompous and I don't see the ass to back it. Diverting like a troll and reading things into what isn't there doesn't change anything concerning the hypocrisy of the dung tzars statement.

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You anti pharmaceutical people are just as bad as the anti drug people.

"You people". like "you synthetic assholes" are still assholes. I work with many different patients the past 20 some years and their monopoly Pharmaceuticals. You are an asshole thinking anyone is so idealistic they would let a patient suffer because the assholes remedies are the only legal alternatives. Thats what asshole drug worriers do about Ganja patients btw. But I repeat myself. I'm not anti anyone doing anything since its none of my business what they do. I prefer honest remedies over 2 minute Madison Ave sound bite gossip and pleasant visual aids in the background while 3/4ths of the commercial is listing side effects. So hold your judgments fake deadhead.

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Apparently the phrase "per capita" doesn't exist?

You just used it.

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You can't directly compare the numbers like that.

I didn't, the author did. But since you provide no numbers I have to assume you have none to show. Again boredom, tell it too the author. Any number over one is more than Ganja has murdered in the name of Medicine. Pharmaids are good at that...

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Way more people get prescriptions than do recreational drugs. Lots of those people are old to begin with.

Whoosh... so what? It doesn't matter. They wound us. Many times when they are treating something else, especially seniors dumbass. Believing the chicks in the short skirt taking up seats in doctors waiting rooms. Pharmaceutical sellers giving free samples. Try this. 6 exam rooms a GP has to visit every 15 minutes just to keep up with the overhead and AMA dues. Not saying what has happened to Quality Assurance. Between Koch's gutting regulation and Politicians revolving door with the Pharmaceuticals, fast tracking or giving welfare for experiments to shelve the product if it takes profits from several others is common. As Ganja would. As they shelved solar panels and who knows what. Neocons have no sovereignty with the US. Americans are as good as third world Guinni Pigs. In real time I always advise... take your meds properly because its all we got in most cases.



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There is no doubt in my mind, that many perscription drugs are more dangerous than cannabis. And that many more people die either directly, or from side effects of those legal perscription drugs than cannabis.

Seems like a no brainer. My mistake,
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How is that relevant?
Its a well known fact that cannabis is safe, but if we all just smoked weed when we got sick.

It's pretty much the gist of the post ace. lol Nothing complicated, except when you divert and squiggle. Oh I see you bring your own troll donny boy thanking you for your complete misrepresentation of the post in some crusade for the pill poppers. Your white powders didn't exist before Bayer except as whole plants from Apothecaries extracted into the same Ganja potions, elixirs and extractums we make in our homes today. Now the AMA insurance racket and the poison pushers behind prohibition are making us sick and selling us treatment. Looks like they learned from past mistakes that killing 6 million really doesn't pay. Bad Press and just makes people feel uneasy. This way nukes can give cancer and chemo chemicals can make wall street happy. Not growing Ganja on your back porch for free. Ganja has been outlawed for medicinal research. That is enough to show anyone this ain't kosher. Outlawing research dude, and you now claim Ganja can't do this or that. How the fuck do you know anything, research is outlawed dipshit. The media is owned and controlled messages won't let the world come in.

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1936: DuPont obtains a patent license to manufacture synthetic "plastic fibers" from German industrial giant I.G. Farben Corporation. The patent license is obtained as part Germany's reparation payments to the United States after World War I. A few years later, I.G. Farben manufactures deadly Zyklon-B gas, used in Nazi death camps to murder millions of Jews (along with many homosexuals and drug users). DuPont owned and financed approximately 30% of Hitler's I.G. Corps, the military-industrial backbone of the fascist Third Reich.
~ Jack Herer

Only to Americans using Grant money is research banned. But the DEA has authority over research and has kept it stalled and red taped out of most attempts. Those financing private studies are still forced to use the governments schwagg they send to 4 IND (patients out of time). But that doesn't mean we haven't been categorizing strains and matching them to specific illness symptoms on a consistent basis. With patient feedback the same as a drug store and AMA employee with a stethoscope. As far as life expectancy, people lived passed 40 before Pharmaceuticals. Preservatives in the food and meat have a lot to do with longitivity today. People are bored shitless living in shells but their bodies keep going and the church thinks pain is from sin and a better shot of getting through the pearly gates with less baggage. Heroin reaches pain 80 times faster than morphine but its euphoric and the church thinks it would send the wrong message to the kidlets if granny was supposed to be dying and she didn't feel bad. If she smoked Ganja she might laugh, thats no way for a dying person to act.

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the average life expectancy would be like 40

RIP, Fulla Nayak 125 years young

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“And out of the ground
made the LORD God to grow
every tree that is pleasant to the sight,
and good for food; the tree of life
also in the midst of the garden,
and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”
~ Gen.2 [9]

Blasphemy

Cannabis and Longevity

Fulla Nayak – believed to be the world’s oldest woman –
puffs “ganja” cigars and drinks strong palm wine in her cow-dung hut in India.

In the article Beliefs about Aging and Longevity in Ancient China, Alain Corcos notes: “The sacred intoxicating drink, named haoma by the Iranians and Soma by the Aryans in India was believed to cure disease and to confer immortality. Hemp was an active ingredient of both drinks” (Corcos, 1981). Interestingly, the Anandakanda (Root of Bliss) a considerable text of 6900 verses on tantric alchemy and yoga, which is thought to have originated around the 12th or 13th century AD, has similar references to cannabis and these are believed to have been based on the descriptions of Soma.

[T]he Anandakanda describes rejuvenation treatment based on cannabis. This involves treatment over a long period in a specially constructed hut (kut.i). This procedure is strongly reminiscent of a similar rejuvenation procedure described in the earliest Sanskrit medical literature, one that requires not cannabis but the unknown plant Soma. And that procedure itself echoes a rite of ritual rebirth that dates from the mid-first millennium BC. (Wujastyk, 2001)


The Tree of Life…
A study by University of Saskatchewan researchers suggests beneficial aspects of smoking marijuana at least among rats, who appear to have sprouted new brain cells and besides benefiting from reduced depression and anxiety. The study’s results appearing in the ‘Journal of Clinical Investigation’ have actually given a fillip to the traditional and mythological view that associates the addictive weed in some ways with immortality.



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How is that relevant?

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This site is and always has been a marijuana discussion board....

Ganja discussion board.
Lipstick on a Pig...




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That fact is, those medications make us live longer.

In a free society? Sounds pretty oppressive to me. They make us live longer? No sappy they treat symptoms pretty much like drug reformers. Don't come close to the disease itself. White powders are even uglier. They addict people with diabetes on insulin and Old timers with Parkinson who can't get brain drilled, to take leva dopa/sinimet the rest of their lives like junkies. OK fine without the SWAT and DEAth or sharing needles or adulterated dope it usually works well. Drugs trick the body into doing what it used to do naturally. Ganja works directly with the cannabinoid system to open or close cells switches to their own dna recipe. If its a cancer cell it kills it or breaks the circuit energizing it. Returning it to its normal dormant state. Drugs can only fake out the body. Yes it works for some symptoms. On diseases that wouldn't be so widespread if we stopped poisoning the air, water and dirt. Especially the food supplies. So your dysfunctional "drug" remedy makes a heap of bucks for international corporations and works relieving symptoms but the cost is side effects. Tylenol dilates arteries, so does Ganja for Glaucoma and strokes. Increasing the blood flow without liver and kidney damage. Again your answer is typical of a protectionist disregarding what you don't want to see or want anyone else to see.

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If a few people have to die because of it, I'm fine with that price.

I think that is called human sacrifice. If a few have to die so others may live gung ho propaganda crap the military and cops use. But its not for this thread. Your continuous boring whining about the obvious no one has claimed differently. The difference is, it's your destination and my journey to something with even less murdered for profit you call people who have to die that you're fine with.

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You can't directly compare the numbers. It has to be per capita or the information is completely relevant.

Tell them, it works as a reference that side effect and overdose death and many horrible traumas, exists. If you're worried about the numbers then provide a ref and numbers you like. Or tell it to the author.

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Once you look at it properly, its probably close to even.

Even what? Equal amounts die as get relief? I visit hospitals more than occasionally and they make me sick. All about efficiency while alarms continually go off and nurses are frizzled. The younger aids are obedient non questioning and just as efficient while the patient is almost unnecessary. At least that is how they are treated. Without advocates many patients get screwed. 1/3rd go in and out with no problem. Like driving accidents are 20% drunks. That means 80% are sober and maybe that is who we should direct urine tests at. That leaves 2/3rds not leaving the hospital or leaving with anothers illness. Efficiency.

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Unless you think the number of prescriptions is equal to the number of people using recreational drugs.

Percentage wise or add them all up and still no one has ever overdosed on Ganja. Illicit drugs except for the low income garbage like pcp and crack are all done safely under proper conditions. Prohibition kills drug users, forcing them underground into an improper setting. Adulterations, non-sterile equipment and titration's and the violence are the killers not the drugs themselves. Legal Pharmaceuticals done in all the right conditions can still kill people allergic or wrongly administered. No one has said anything about the reality of it or if it has helped as you claim. I call it a manipulated lesser evil. The point is it happens. You add the religious connotation of good or bad. The shit happens dude, you admit it and now try to excuse it when no ones asking for an excuse. Pharm Drugs taken properly kill people, get over it.

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Alcohol and tobacco are recreational too.
The fact that they are legal is also irrelevant.

No schmuck, you're irrelevant. The entire point of the drug czar was to condemn illicit drugs as a danger and harm when I've shown legal substances like cigarettes, not tobacco. Pharmaceuticals and legal booze kill people. Ganja doesn't and yet the drug czar spends zilch on kids binge drinking or stealing parents Pharmaceuticals or on the pesticides aborting more than RvW the anti choice never bring up. Hypocrisy and their appeasers like the DEAdheads.


Rare Vietnam Brisk Tea
("Acapulco Gold and Vietnam blend";)


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We use them for the same reasons we use the others.
So, add 1/2 a million to your drugs column.

Learn to read or get someone to help you comprehend the first quote by Lester. This has nothing to do with the reality of a fascist system having one way to treat illness that works some of the time. Its about the hyocrisy of the dung tzar and nothing else. I prefer natural remedies and eating organic and Ganja has kept me from a cold since 1969. Fuck your white powders, but feel free to choke on them your own self, I care less what you do. To each their own.



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Also, why do people that don't normally consider cannabis a drug throw it in the pot when they need to try and prove a point?

The dung tzar threw it into the mix. Nixon rejected his own Commission and threw it into the mix. As a schedule#1 narcotic along with non psychoactive Hemp. Lay off the brown acid.

Granny Storm Crow's MMJ List - 08/17/08

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Deep vein thrombosis is quite rare and is most likely to occur after an operation or after long periods of inactivity. Hence the recent publicity about DVT and long haul flights.
homehealth-uk

Information concerning acute myocardial infarction after cannabis usage is limited and the actual mechanism of cannabis-induced myocardial infarction is not well known.
mendeley.com/research

Medical Marijuana and DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis)
Sure, I smoke it because I love it's effect, but I also have DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis). I've had two events in the last three years, the first of which involved a 5-day stay in the hospitcal.

Traditional treatment for DVT involves taking coumadin/warfarin which is a blood thinner, the same stuff they use in rat poison. Since this drug is potentially deadly, you have to go back every 1-2 weeks for something called a PT/INR which basically measures the weight of your blood and your prescription is adjusted based on this test.

I've noticed that the swelling goes down considerably for the next few days after smoking cannabis. So I'm kind of worried here. I mean, if I switch to weed, then where will all these doctors get the money to pay for their beemers?

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OK, say you have a problem with chronic deep vein thrombosis. Weed isn't going to help you. What are you going to do? Die of any number of problems freely moving blood clots can cause? That is just one example out of the thousands that cannabis is entirely useless for.

Boring Yawn. That has nothing to do with the thread and again you draw a conclusion when research is outlawed. There is no definitive study that says Ganja doesn't help thrombosis. But its not what the post is about. If someone has thrombosis and finds relief with white powders and they have the money or insurance to cover it then to each their own. You should do more reading and less reading things in to a post. Your last sentence is retarded or maybe you know what the future holds?

Feds can patent cannabinoids. Bayer and Barthwell can patent sublingual sprays. Now surprise, the DEAth is lowering the narcotic classification of THC. Legalizing Big Pharma to sell sublingual whole plant extracts but not homegrown whole plant extracts to smoke or vape from the privacy of your own garden. Top priority is met, Hemp and Ganja will remain prohibited.

As stated they just started mapping out the cannabinoid system most in the medical profession haven't a clue about. They have also been recently doing studies on the protein side of the cells, not the DNA side that is potential profits. The protein side they censored and tossed in the trash for 50 years is a binary switch. NO or NC with 17 receptors of various frequencies that activate the cells or shut down according to the original position of the switch. The cannabinoid system balances the body back into the parameters of the dna. No appetite, it stimulates it (munchies) as it turns off the cravings for obesity patients. Treats Gout and aids the immune. The scores of cannabinoids working in conjunction as a whole plant remedy. THC and CBD's and several other types in conjunction. Totally different than isolating patented synthetics like merdinol. So do no harm dude.

In The Drug Companies We Trust?
To hear the drug companies tell it, in this time of national crisis, they've been as patriotic as Patrick Henry, as generous as Andrew Carnegie, and as selfless as Mother Teresa.

Which would be true if Patrick Henry had proclaimed, "Give me liberty or give me profits!," Mother Teresa had enlisted Calcutta's lepers as lobbyists, and Andrew Carnegie had spent millions on self-aggrandizing full-page ads.

During a slew of recent high-level meetings with the likes of homeland security czar Tom Ridge, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, and even the president himself, the pharmaceutical industry's chief executives have been eagerly exploiting the current crisis to make their lifelong legislative dreams come true: lower drug approval standards, less oversight, less regulation and immunity from lawsuits.

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We need pharmaceuticals.

That's arguable since most of the world can't afford them. But a boring one, no one made any claims any different. I showed the hypocrisy of the dung czar and that many legal things have side effects and do damage including drugs the political fda approves while neglecting to approve or even test Ganja and other illicit substances. The entire Pharmacopeia has nothing to cure or prevent, it doesn't pay. If they can and have been trying. They will add herbs and supplements to the CSA, The DEA already interferes between a doctor and patient with pain meds. Ganja is totally political. All of it perpetuated by Big Pharma, Big Ag, Fossil fools, timber, cotton, meat, dairy and fish etc. Neocons selling their poisons we are forced to use or risk prison. For sickness they cause spraying poisons on the food and water supplies. Ganja prevents it and thats better than treating a symptom of it. White powder drugs have side effects more harmful than Ganja done improperly. Cheaper too.

Seeking Rest From the Terrors, New York Pops Pills 01/05/02

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and that's strange, this place used to be full of "weed is just a herb, not a drug, zomg!" crowd. where did they all go?

No dude, you're strange for pushing artificial products with a moniker representing the counter to the plastic culture. Weed is just an herb. Drugs are man made. Cannabinoids can be isolated into artificial drugs but like the drug that kills, aspirin is not the natural willow tree bark. Your shuck and jive diversion won't get you a troll job. I'd stick to spinning in circles as dark star plays.

Only The PotHeads Will Survive 11/01/01
Counter Reefer Maniac accusations that marijuana users support terrorism with the plain fact that these dizzy morons are preventing the use of the “best available protection against nerve gas attack” with their marijuana madness.

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Banned Nerve Gas Used on Yemeni Protesters
Marijuana Substitute Combats Nerve Gas
Marijuana protects your brain
Cannabis Prevents Brain Damage
Cannabis Blocks Irreversible Brain Damage
Ganjawar Prevents Brain Tumor Treatment
Ganjawar in Everything
Can Cannabis the Antibiotic Treat Anthrax?
Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
Benefits of Marijuana: Acute radiation syndrome
Endocannabinoids




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Maybe for antidepressants and other feel good/functional medications. Things that have a subjective diagnosis and require specialists to do so. These days, GP's take the place or psychiatrists way too often.

The following text is taken directly from The US Government’s National Cancer Institute website: Laboratory/Animal/Preclinical Studies

* ANTI-TUMOR EFFECTS

One study in mice and rats suggested that cannabinoids may have a protective effect against the development of certain types of tumors. During this 2-year study, groups of mice and rats were given various doses of THC by gavage. A dose-related decrease in the incidence of hepatic adenoma tumors and hepatocellular carcinoma was observed in the mice. Decreased incidences of benign tumors (polyps and adenomas) in other organs (mammary gland, uterus, pituitary, testis, and pancreas) were also noted in the rats. In another study, delta-9-THC, delta-8-THC, and cannabinol were found to inhibit the growth of Lewis lung adenocarcinoma cells in vitro and in vivo. In addition, other tumors have been shown to be sensitive to cannabinoid-induced growth inhibition.

Cannabinoids may cause antitumor effects by various mechanisms, including induction of cell death, inhibition of cell growth, and inhibition of tumor angiogenesis and metastasis. Cannabinoids appear to kill tumor cells but do not affect their nontransformed counterparts and may even protect them from cell death. These compounds have been shown to induce apoptosis in glioma cells in culture and induce regression of glioma tumors in mice and rats. Cannabinoids protect normal glial cells of astroglial and oligodendroglial lineages from apoptosis mediated by the CB1 receptor.

In an in vivo model using severe combined immunodeficient mice, subcutaneous tumors were generated by inoculating the animals with cells from human non-small cell lung carcinoma cell lines. Tumor growth was inhibited by 60% in THC-treated mice compared with vehicle-treated control mice. Tumor specimens revealed that THC had antiangiogenic and antiproliferative effects.

* ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECTS

In addition, both plant-derived and endogenous cannabinoids have been studied for anti- inflammatory effects. A mouse study demonstrated that endogenous cannabinoid system signaling is likely to provide intrinsic protection against colonic inflammation. As a result, a hypothesis that phytocannabinoids and endocannabinoids may be useful in the prevention and treatment of colorectal cancer has been developed.

* ANTIVIRAL PROPERTIES

Another study has shown delta-9-THC is a potent and selective antiviral agent against Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), also known as human herpesvirus 8. The researchers concluded that additional studies on cannabinoids and herpesviruses are warranted, as they may lead to the development of drugs that inhibit the reactivation of these oncogenic viruses. Subsequently, another group of investigators reported increased efficiency of KSHV infection of human dermal microvascular epithelial cells in the presence of low doses of delta-9-THC.
Appetite Stimulation

* APPETITE STIMULATOR

Many animal studies have previously demonstrated that delta-9-THC and other cannabinoids have a stimulatory effect on appetite and increase food intake. It is believed that the endogenous cannabinoid system may serve as a regulator of feeding behavior. The endogenous cannabinoid anandamide potently enhances appetite in mice. Moreover, CB1 receptors in the hypothalamus may be involved in the motivational or reward aspects of eating.
Analgesia

* AS A PAIN KILLER

Understanding the mechanism of cannabinoid-induced analgesia has been increased through the study of cannabinoid receptors, endocannabinoids, and synthetic agonists and antagonists. The CB1 receptor is found in both the central nervous system (CNS) and in peripheral nerve terminals. Similar to opioid receptors, increased levels of the CB1 receptor are found in sections of the brain that regulate nociceptive processing. CB2 receptors, located predominantly in peripheral tissue, exist at very low levels in the CNS. With the development of receptor-specific antagonists, additional information about the roles of the receptors and endogenous cannabinoids in the modulation of pain has been obtained.

Cannabinoids may also contribute to pain modulation through an anti-inflammatory mechanism; a CB2 effect with cannabinoids acting on mast cell receptors to attenuate the release of inflammatory agents, such as histamine and serotonin, and on keratinocytes to enhance the release of analgesic opioids has been described.


National Cancer Institute on Cannabis and Cannabinoids
The National Cancer Institute website (a .gov site that’s part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health) has a new Information Summary on the use of Cannabis and its components for people with cancer-related symptoms caused by the disease itself or its treatment.

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"From time to time, I say that the suppression of medical marijuana is murder. This is not quite correct. It is actually mass murder. It has caused the deaths of countless thousands of people."
~ the Financial Times Limited, 1998
(Ed. note: The FT is the London equivalent of the Wall Street Journal. This drug could be patented, so it is of interest to the financial community.)

Patients Out of Time

Mom keeps son on marijuana regimen



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And antibiotics, but for an entirely different reason.

I've kept patients using catheters from bladder infections giving them Hemp Oil.

Can Cannabis the Antibiotic Treat Anthrax? 11/01/01
Young un-budded hemp plants provide extractions of CBDs (cannabidiolic acids). There are many antibiotic uses of the cannabidiols, including treatment for gonorrhea. A 1990 Florida study indicated its use in treating herpes. The acid side of tetrahydrocannabinol , cannabidiols occur inversely to the amount of the plant's THC and is therefore more acceptable to prohibitionists because "it won't get you high." For virtually any disease or infection that can be treated with terramycin, cannabis derivatives did better in Czechoslovakian studies, 1952-1955. The Czechs in 1997 still published farm crop reports on strategies to grow cannabidiol rich hemp.
(Also see Cohen & Stillman, Therapeutic Potential of Marijuana; Mikuriya, Tod H., M.D., Marijuana Medical Papers; Roffman, Marijuana as Medicine, 1982; International Farm Crop abstracts.)


Ganjawar in Everything

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Nobody here is going to complain that they give opioids and amphetamines out too freely.

To each their own. That's just a bigot statement. Most who would choose illicit white powders would choose legal white powders. Hippies are the ones who said speed kills. The Military gives go go pills to fly boys dropping carpet bombs. College twits in nark school popping white crosses cramming for mid terms. Mothers lil pick me up or Models diet pills, truckers getting produce to market on time and now giving it to kids with ADHA so I think you can take that bigoted statement and shove it up your ass.

Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74

Benefits of Marijuana: Acute radiation syndrome

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But for the most part what is prescribed is needed.
Then it is just a case of one company's product over another.

Oh thank you Nanny for clearing that up on what I should or should not take. No thanks, keep your co dependency for the $4500/mo Califony rehabilitation's. Again, yawn. No one made any different claims dude. You obviously have an agenda or work for drugs with a vested ignorance. This has nothing to do with a personal choice to use synthetics or what Nature provides. Personally I'd say, for the first time on this thread btw. In spite of your jumping to false conclusions that the present road map makes it impossible for the majority to rely on Ganja and natural herbs as our great grand parents did. We don't have the infrastructure as of yet, in most places. Although in several places in Cali we're ahead of the government. If we eliminate the for profit pollution causing the illness who knows? Like I said Science has been kidnapped by Business and the Military. Profit is the present Mother of Invention. Not necessity. Appeasers like you stall the truth and deter making changes. Diversions only muddy the waters. Remove the cause and treat the problem with Ganja and who knows? Banning research is the antithesis of Science, get a grip.

Endocannabinoids

Ganja 4 Banned Nerve Gas Used on Yemeni Protesters



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They don't give out blood thinners or steroids (ie: prednisone) or hormone therapy or any number of things that this whole anti pharm thing is based on for no reason.

Blood thinners can kill, that is the only point. Not if its good or bad or the only thing available. No one is saying anything different. Again get a grip.

Mad cow: Japan bans US beef

Pro Life? Not even anti abortionists

Hemp 'Eats' Chernobyl Waste

Mon$anto'$ WoD on Ditchweed


This 6-inch diameter canister held 254.89 grams of federal medical marijuana for an IND patient, a typical monthly supply mailed from the federal cannabis research garden in Mississippi.
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International Overdose Awareness Day

Overdose Awareness

Today is International Overdose Awareness Day. It’s not something that the government appears to be talking about much today. No, this is something that is being discussed around the world in health and drug policy reform circles (and in the music industry).

Accidental overdoses have quadrupled since 1990, and more than 26,000 Americans die every year.

Prohibition has done absolutely nothing to address this problem, and, in fact, has been a significant contributor to these deaths. Almost all accidental overdoses for heroin, for example, are directly attributable to the lack of certainty of purity/dosage of the drug, which stems from the government letting criminals supervise heroin’s manufacture and distribution.

Other accidental overdoses are a result of lack of fact-based education. Just say no doesn’t help people know. Knowledge saves lives. Propaganda kills.

Even without stopping the destruction of prohibition outright, there are things that can be done now. As Jason Flom (president of Lava Records and former CEO of Atlantic Records, Virgin Records and the Capitol Music Group) writes in the New York Post:

The solutions are no mystery, and two stand out as no-brainers.

The first is expanding access to naloxone — a cheap, non-narcotic, generic drug proven to reverse the effects of opiate overdose and restore breathing. If we can make it easier to get, we’ll prevent thousands of deaths each year.

The other is passing “911 Good Samaritan” laws. New York last month became the fourth state to allow people to call 911 when witnessing an overdose without fear of prosecution.

We can’t forget the lives that have been lost, nor allow this catastrophe to continue. I’m calling on radio stations to help spread the word on International Overdose Awareness Day by playing music by bands that have lost a member to an overdose, like Sublime, Blind Melon, Hole, Alice in Chains, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Ramones. Music by legends like Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. I hope radio stations will mention Overdose Awareness Day and give out the Web site drugpolicy.org/overdose so listeners can learn more about how to reduce overdose deaths.



Pharmaceuticals are Weapons of Mass Prescription

POISON EXPORTS: By David R. Work
The U.S. has cast a blind eye to poison drug tragedies

“It’s an international scandal that, over fifty years later, dealers in these poisonous pharmaceuticals elude justice. These dealers can expect a reserved seat in hell, but we need a secular way to deter others from such conduct in the future.”


Fluorine Poison Is Rampant in Pharmaceuticals
Fluorine is a poison with no place in any living metabolism. Yet, it's commonplace in pharmaceuticals. (Includes a list of drugs with fluorine.)

Pro Life? Not even anti abortionists

COMMON ARSENICAL PESTICIDE UNDER SCRUTINY
According to the U.S. EPA, MSMA "can reasonably be anticipated to cause cancer in humans" and is converted in the environment to inorganic arsenic, a known human carcinogen. About 4 million pounds of MSMA is applied every year to golf courses and cotton fields in the United States to control weeds. The pesticide has been banned in India and Indonesia.




Marijuana" Can prevent Cancer

Cannabis cancer trmt

Soma and the Wootton Report

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Wall Street's Ganjawar

Occupy Wall Street Protest Enters Second Week; 80 Arrested at Peaceful March
It is day 10 of the "Occupy Wall Street" campaign. On Saturday, more than 80 protesters were arrested as hundreds took part in yet another march to Wall Street. Many of them were committing civil disobedience by walking in the street, but some say they were on the sidewalk when officers with the New York City Police Department used nets and physical force to break up the crowd. Videos uploaded to YouTube show officers pepper-spraying protesters in the face from close range, punching demonstrators and dragging people through the street. Since Sept. 17, thousands have gathered near in New York City’s financial district near Wall Street to decry corporate greed. Many have said they have been inspired by other popular uprisings from Spain to the Arab Spring. On Sunday, protesters issued a communiqué calling for the resignation of the NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly and for a dialogue with Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Thanks to Democracy Now!’s Ryan Devereaux and Jon Gerberg for this report. [includes rush transcript]

Occupy Wall Street yahooka

"Occupy Wall Street":
Thousands March in NYC Financial District, Set Up Protest Encampment



Cannabis Drug Use in 19th Century America
Jack Herer, Ch.12
The Emperor Wears No Clothes


Medical Literature on Cannabis Medicine
Jack Herer, Ch.6
The Emperor Wears No Clothes


In addition, various marijuana and hashish extracts were the first, second, or third most prescribed medicines in the United States from 1842 until the 1890s. Its medicinal use continued legally through the 1930s for humans and figured even more prominently in veterinary medicines during this time.

Cannabis extract medicines were produced by Eli Lilly, Parke-Davis, Tildens, Brothers Smith (Smith Brothers), Squibb, and many other American and European companies and apothecaries. During all this time there was not one reported death from cannabis extract medicines, and virtually no abuse or mental disorders reported, except for first-time or novice-users occasionally becoming disoriented or overly introverted.
(Mikuriya, Tod, M.D.,
Marijuana Medical Papers, Medi-Comp Press, CA, 1973;
Cohen, Sidney & Stillman, Richard,
Therapeutic Potential of Marijuana, Plenum Press, NY, 1976.)


19th Century
Jack Herer, Ch.6.2
The Emperor Wears No Clothes


Marijuana was America’s number one analgesic for 60 years before the re-discovery of aspirin around 1900. From 1842 to 1900 cannabis made up half of all medicine sold, with virtually no fear of its high.

The 1839 report on the uses of cannabis by Dr. W.B. O’Shaugnessy, one of the most respected members of the Royal Academy of Science, was just as important to mid-19th Century Western medicine as the discoveries of antibiotics (like penicillin and Terramycin) were to mid-20th Century medicine.

In fact, the Committee on Cannabis Indica for the Ohio State Medical Society concluded that “High Biblical commentators [scholars]” believe “that the gall and vinegar, or myrrhed wine, offered to our Saviour immediately before his crucifixion was, in all probability, a preparation of Indian hemp.”
(Transcripts, Ohio State Medical Society 15th annual meeting, June 12-14, 1860, pg. 75-100.)



Cannabis less harmful than aspirin
He also found "stoned" drivers were less dangerous and able to co-ordinate
than people who were drunk. "By any standards, THC must be considered a
very safe drug both acutely and on long-term exposure," he writes. "The
available animal data are more than adequate to justify its approval as a
human medicine, and indeed it has been approved by the FDA [American drug
authority] for certain limited therapeutic indications."

From 1850 to 1937, the U.S. Pharmacopoeia listed cannabis as the primary medicine for more than 100 separate illnesses or diseases.

During all this time (pre-1000 B.C.E. to 1940s C.E.), researchers, doctors, and drug manufacturers (Eli Lilly, Parke-Davis, Squibb, etc.) had no idea what the active ingredients were in cannabis until Dr. Mechoulam discovered THC in 1964.

Ely Lilly
In 1982, Lilly introduced humulin, a synthetic form of insulin that is the first healthcare product that was created using recombinant dna technology. However, Lillys most notable product is Prozac, the worlds most widely prescribed antidepressant. Felicia Willis
~ Bayer, Hoechst AG, IG Farben and Nazi Germany

Bush Quayle Lilly Pharmaceutical Sellout
Jack Herer, Ch.5
The Emperor Wears No Clothes


Bush Family History with Nazism

The Nazi Comparison

Princess Eugene & Nazi Eugenics program

"Italian fascism and German Nazism had their admirers within the U.S. business community and the corporate owned press. Bankers, publishers, and industrialists, including the likes of Henry Ford, traveled to Rome and Berlin to pay homage, receive medals, and strike profitable deals. Many did their utmost to advance the Nazi war effort, sharing military industrial secrets and engaging in secret transactions with the Nazi government, even after the United States entered the war. During the 1920s and early 1930s, major publications like Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Saturday Evening Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Christian Science Monitor hailed Mussolini as the man who rescued Italy from anarchy and radicalism."
~ Michael Parenti, Blackshirts & Reds
From Whom Did the Fascists Get Support?




American High Society

Reefer Madness, Anslinger, Hearst, Bayer, Farben II, Demonization

I.G.Farben, Dupont, Ford,Hearst, Frankenfoods & Cannabis Prohibition

Corporate Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Concerning the history of Bayer AG and other companies
Some of the great pharmaceutical companies of today owe their existence to profits from the trade of heroin and morphine in an era which laid the foundations for the self-perpetuating cycles of addiction to these drugs inmodern society.

At the turn of the century Bayer were applying the same mass-marketing tactics to heroin as it had used so successfully with aspirin. Bayer's international advertising campaign promoted heroin as a panacea for infant respiratory ailments. (page 207)

The following passage in a letter from the company to the camp in Auschwitz demonstrates the attitude of I.G. Farben to the subjects of it drug testing program:

In contemplation of experiments with the new soporific drug, we would appreciate your procuring for us a number of women. . . . We received your answer but consider the price of 200 marks a woman excessive. We propose to pay not more than 170 marks a head. If agreeable, we will take possession of the women. We need approximately150. . . Received the order of 150 women. Despite their emaciated condition, they were found satisfactory. We shall keep you posted on developments concerning this experiment. . . The tests were made. All subjects died. We shall contact you shortly on the subject of a new load (Glover, 1977)

Con Flicts of Interest Bush Barthwell & Drugs



Bayer Research, innovation, and perseverance
Just before the turn of the century, Bayer began marketing two notable drugs. In 1898, the company sold diacetylmorphine under the trade name Heroin; in 1899, it sold acetylsalicylic acid under the trade name Aspirin. Other chemists had already synthesized both drugs, but Bayer was the first company to recognize the commercial potential of these compounds.

Within months of the 1914 declaration of war, however, Bayer bowed to government pressure and began manufacturing trinitrotoluene (TNT). Other military chemicals soon followed, including chlorine, phosgene, and mustard gases for use in chemical weapons. By the end of the war, Bayer was Germanys foremost explosives manufacturer, but that focus cost Bayer its position as a dominant chemical company. To make matters worse, the Treaty of Versailles ordered the confiscation of German foreign assets. Sterling Drug of New York acquired American rights to Bayers patents, the Bayer name, and other trademarks, including Aspirin.

In Light of IBM, Will GW Bush Admit His Own Nazi
The Bush family and IBM are in good company. Among the many corporations and famous American individuals with their own direct link to Nazi Germany were Henry Ford, JP Morgan, Du Pont, Mellon, Allen Dulles (America's first CIA director), John Foster Dulles (President Eisenhowers' Secretary of State), Charles Lindbergh, William Randolph Hearst, Alcoa Aluminum, Rockefellers' Standard Oil (now Exxon), General Motors, ITT and Chase Manhattan Bank.

The year 1935 marked the height of the Hearst Red baiting campaign in the universities.

Nylon The Miracle Fiber
In September 1931, American chemist Wallace Carothers reported on research carried out in the laboratories of the DuPont Company on giant molecules called polymers. He focused his work on a fiber referred to simply as 66, a number derived from its molecular structure. Nylon, the miracle fiber, was born. The Chemical Heritage Foundation is currently featuring an exhibit on the history of nylon.

By 1938, Paul Schlack of the I.G. Farben Company in Germany, polymerized caprolactam and created a different form of the polymer, identified simply as nylon 6.
A Short History of Manufactured Fibers

In 1932 IG gave Adolf Hitler its full support during the election and so Hitler was presented with the Chancellorship of Germany. Without the support of the IG and the rest of the German monopolies and cartels, Hitler could not have won his political fight. And the German industrialists could see that without Hitler their empires would crumble.
Bayer, Hoechst AG, IG Farben and Nazi Germany



Quote:
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
~ Abraham Lincoln (att)

Lincoln was against prohibition, as were the Woman's Christian Temperance Movement. They were for temperance and stopping abuse, public drunkenness and for the welfare of the children. Rockefeller brought us Booze Prohibition and succeeded in removing ethanol distilled by farmers for their own tractors, and for Ford's biomass engines and veggie oil diesels. With the same Hearst Yellow Journalism condemning drinking in order to enact the 19th amendment, and then reversing himself after the crude oil infrastructure was in place bringing us the 21st amendment. While continuing to prohibit farmers from distilling their own tractor fuel from last years crop remnants. Same tactics to remove recreational Ganja and curtail Rx and Hemp production with red tape and tax stamps. Then Nixon lumped it all together as a schedule#1 narcotic. To this day eliminating competition via legislation. ~ DdC

Quote:
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... Corporations have bee enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
-- Abraham Lincoln, November 12, 1864 (att)

Al Capone and Watergate were red herrings to divert the countries attention from the Fascist acts of eliminating competition. Booze/Ethanol or Ganja//Hemp.

Quote:
"I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children."
~ William Randolph Hearst,
initially a supporter of Prohibition,
explaining his change of mind in 1929.
From "Drink: A Social History of America" by Andrew Barr (1999), p.239.

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