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GW SIGNS CANNABIS DEAL

GW Pharmaceuticals, the UK research and development group, has teamed up with German company Bayer to market the former's cannabis-based drug, Sativex, in the UK. The deal, worth up to UKP 25m, marks the first significant income earned by the UK group, which commands a market capitalisation of some UKP 230m.

Sativex, which is sprayed into the mouth, is used to provide pain relief for multiple sclerosis sufferers and may be developed to alleviate cancer-related pain.

The deal announced yesterday only covers the UK, where the government has already indicated it is ready to change the rules governing the use of cannabis to allow doctors to prescribe Sativex. However, Bayer also has an option to market the drug in the rest of Europe as well as Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

"Bayer is a very good pharmaceutical company which is highly respected around the world.

"That's what we want from a partner," said GW Pharmaceuticals' executive chairman, Geoffrey Guy.

The US is not included in the deal. Mr Guy indicated his company would take a cautious approach, which could mean several years before it attempts a foray into America.

The US may be the biggest market, but it is also one of the most difficult for a small company to enter, he argues.

"It may be an enticing market but we will be very careful. You can lose your shirt trying to get into the US."

Bayer, which is wrestling with lawsuits following the recall of its cholesterol-lowering drug, Baycol, in August 2001, said it regarded the market for Sativex as a significant one.

"For a special kind of patient it is a very, very useful drug -for example for patients with severe pain," said a spokeswoman.

She said the two companies hoped to have final approval for the drug by the end of the year. Once that was achieved, she expected that the drug would become available very quickly, she added.

Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 22:15:28 -0700
From: "D. Paul Stanford" stanford@crrh.org
Source: Guardian, The (UK)
Author: Mark Milner, The Guardian

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<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread16377.shtml" target="_blank">The Straight Dope on Marijuana Pharmaceuticals</a>
May 24, 2003
By Mari Kane, AlterNet
Source: AlterNet

For eons, cannabis has been ingested for the treatment of common and chronic ailments, but now, the march of technology is propelling wacky tobaccy into a brave new century of pharmaceutical development.

Scientists around the world are studying not only whole, smoked marijuana, but also pure extracts that would make Louis Armstrong blush. The fruits of their labors could hit European pharmacies as soon as next year.



<a href="http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4366.shtml" target="_blank">Baye r and Aids-NY Times</a>
(Until this is archived I've posted it here to read the complete article.)
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<a href="http://Baltech.org/estep/index.html" target="_blank">In depth studies of George Bush and other dangers to America</a>

To really understand the implications you need to know that before the end of WWII Bayer was IG Farben. See <a href="http://baltech.org/lederman" target="_blank">http ://baltech.org/lederman</a>

<a href="http://www.Baltech.org/lederman/bush-farben-1-5-01.html" target="_blank">GW Bush Gang: IG Farben 2001 (Excerpted paragraphs)</a>
by Robert Lederman

"What my cabinet shows is that I am not afraid to surround myself with strong and competent people...a good executive is one that understands how to recruit people and how to delegate authority and responsibility."-GW Bush 1/2/2001

As promised GW Bush has recruited competent and experienced advisors. Despite their seeming diversity however they have a common denominator. The America they reflect is the oil, pharmaceutical, armament, Wall Street and eugenics interests long associated with the Bush family.

Seventy years ago a similar configuration of oil, pharmaceutical, chemical, military supply and eugenics interests were organized by Wall Street into IG Farben/Standard Oil-Hitler's industrial powerhouse. To grasp the real significance of what GW Bush's cabinet has been brought together to accomplish it is essential to understand the history of IG Farben, its relationship with American corporations and how together they applied modern technology to the task of eugenics or scientific racism.

According to former US Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes prosecutor John Loftus-who is today the director of the Florida Holocaust Museum-"The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich,"-Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000 (Click Here)

Along with the Rockefellers (Standard Oil, Chase Manhattan Bank), Mellons (Gulf Oil, Alcoa Aluminum), DuPonts (DuPont Chemicals), General Motors and Henry Ford, banks and shipping companies operated by the Bush family were crucial players in setting up the industrial power behind the Third Reich. These companies poured hundreds of millions of dollars into IG Farben and provided it with technology for tactically-essential synthetic materials-while withholding the same materials and patents from the US government.

The Rockefeller family, long aligned with the Bushes, owned Standard Oil. Through a stock transfer they became half owners of Germany's IG Farben with Farben likewise owning almost half of Standard Oil. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, IG Farben built and operated more than 40 concentration camps in Nazi-occupied Europe, including Auschwitz.

Some of the men and women who do the thinking for GW Bush:

-Vice President, Dick Cheney, arguably the real President-elect, was one of papa Bush's top advisors. His company, Haliburton, is one of the nation's largest recipients of government contracts, supplying military equipment, oil services and infrastructure. Cheney epitomizes corporate-welfare and like most of Bush's appointees is a multi-millionaire who will receive huge financial benefits from the administrations' policies and any wars it manages to get the US into.

-Secretary of Labor Linda Chavez-who is outspokenly anti-union-was a research fellow at the CIA's Manhattan Institute during 1993 and 1994 and has received almost $200,000 in grants from the John M. Olin Foundation, a notorious right-wing fund derived from a family business in munitions and chemicals with roots in white supremacy. Despite her Hispanic surname she is an outspoken advocate for the English First Movement. Chavez is president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, based in Washington, D.C. an organization dedicated to eliminating affirmative action. On their website Chavez quotes Charles Murray, author of The Bell Curve, a classic of modern racial eugenics which has become the "bible" for the anti-welfare anti-affirmative action movement.

-Secretary of Health and Human Services, Wisconsin Gov. Tommy G. Thompson, is known for his controversial welfare reforms-based in large part on two books by Charles Murray, Losing Ground and The Bell Curve. Murray was a consultant for the Wisconsin welfare reform program. Thompson's protege, Jason Turner, was later brought to NYC where he has run Mayor Giuliani's characteristically brutal welfare elimination program. Turner became notorious for quoting the motto on the gates over Auschwitz- "Arbeit Macht Frei-work shall make you free". He is frequently a guest with Charles Murray in panel discussions at the CIA's Manhattan Institute and other Bush-connected think tanks. Murray wrote the Bell Curve while a fellow at the Manhattan Institute where his pseudo-scientific research on the genetic inferiority of African Americans was primarily financed by the Pioneer Fund. Since 1937 the Pioneer Fund has promoted eugenics and the ideology of white racial superiority.

-Secretary of Energy, Spencer Abraham, who served as Vice President Dan Quayle's chief of staff, spent years trying to abolish the very agency he will now head. His legislative positions include being against higher fuel efficiency standards for cars, being against government regulations for industry and support for opening up national parklands to oil drilling. He is a recipient of oil company contributions totaling more than $221,000 according to the NY Times. The American Petroleum Institute has said it looks forward to working with Abraham. Abraham helped found the conservative law group the Federalist Society which specializes in eliminating social programs, affirmative action, welfare and bilingual education. The society is funded by the John M. Olin Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Bradley Foundation, and the Lilly Endowment-America's leading far right think tanks. Among its most prominent members are Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Thomas whose questionable election ruling gave Bush his illegitimate Presidency. Spokespersons for the Federalist Society include Bell Curve author Charles Murray, Manhattan Institute fellow Abigail Thernstrom, and Dinesh d'Souza of the American Enterprise Institute.

-Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, the latest African American Bush appointee, is a conservative public schools administrator in Texas and decades-long crony of the Bush family who supports vouchers, tying teacher pay directly to test scores and school privatization-all of which will negatively impact African American students by destroying public education.

-Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense under President Ford. Rumsfeld like Powell, Cheney, Rice and numerous other Bush administration officials is a salesman for the Star Wars Missile Defense Shield. He served four terms in the US Congress where he voted against Medicare, anti-poverty programs like Headstart, food stamps and various healthcare proposals. Rumsfeld, who formerly headed Searle Pharmaceuticals, is part of the drug company axis within the Bush administration. Former President Bush was director of Eli Lilly, OMB head Mitchell E. Daniels was also senior executive of Eli Lilly and AG John Ashcroft is known as a lobbyist for pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Gail R. Wilensky-one of numerous John M. Olin grant recipients attached to Bush-is the principal author of GW's Medicare plan. Wilensky serves on the boards of eight health care companies in which she owns more than $12 million in stock.

-Secretary of State, Colin Powell is a lifelong operative of the CIA/military-industrial complex. While working for the Pentagon he earned his present stature by helping cover up the Mai Lai massacre, the contra/arms-cocaine deal and Gulf War Syndrome. Powell's reputation as a hero derives from presiding over a war in which US troops were used as guinea pigs for drug companies' experimental vaccines so that they could "safely" fight George Bush's friend Saddam Hussein-who had been supplied with chemical and biological weapons by the Bush administration. Unlike most of GW's appointees of color, Powell proudly admits he owes his career to affirmative action yet willingly joins an administration that considers ending affirmative action a top priority.

-Secretary of the Treasury, Paul H. O'Neill is the chairman of Alcoa Aluminum, one of the world's worst polluters and a leading corporate supporter of Nazi Germany and eugenics. O'Neill owns 1.6 million shares of Alcoa, worth more than $50 million. During WWII Alcoa negotiated a deal with the Nazis and IG Farben to supply Germany's war machine rather than the US military with aluminum. "If America loses this war," said then Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes on June 26, 1941, "it can thank the Aluminum Corporation of America [ALCOA]." Alcoa produces hundreds of millions of tons of fluoride. This highly toxic waste byproduct of aluminum has been linked in thousands of medical studies to cancer and other degenerative diseases. In the 1950's Alcoa arranged to have it added to our nation's drinking water rather than disposed of as toxic waste. During WWII in IG Farben's slave labor camps Nazis scientists discovered that by adding fluoride to the drinking water they could make prisoners more submissive to authority. .O'Neill is a fellow at the RAND Corporation and American Enterprise Institute, two more extreme right-wing think tanks.

-Attorney General John Ashcroft is a self-styled moral crusader as strongly anti-abortion as he is enthusiastic about the death penalty. Last year, Ashcroft received an honorary degree from Bob Jones University. He is closely aligned with the Christian Coalition, Pat Robertson and Southern heritage groups which admire the Confederacy and defend the institution of slavery as practiced in the South. He is known among lobbyists as an advocate for drug companies and the automotive industry and for preventing consumers from suing HMO's. The furor over Ashcroft's anti-abortion views is being played out exactly as planned by Team Bush. Not only will the Bush administration never make abortions illegal, if anything the eugenics agenda that underlies the Bush family history guarantees that abortion, sterilization and other technologies intended to limit population-including war, chemical exposure, pesticide use in urban areas, genetically-altered foods and vaccines-will proceed at an unprecedented level. The Bush gang are delighted to see Democrats, women's rights advocates and the left focusing on Ashcroft while virtually ignoring the other Bush appointees.

-Secretary of Commerce Donald L. Evans is an insider in the Texas "oil mafia" and is GW's closest friend and confidant. He's also friend, confidant and contributor to one of America's biggest recipients of government contacts, Halliburton's Dick Cheney.

-Office of Management and Budget Director Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., was senior executive of the Eli Lilly drug company and was previously the president of the arch-conservative Hudson Institute. Daniels, who advocates strict enforcement of laws against casual drug users, was busted for drugs in 1970.

Bush and Eugenics links
<a href="http://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK_INDEX.html" target="_blank">http ://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK_INDEX.html</A>
<a href="http://www.geocities.com/alanjpakula/triplecrown.html" target="_blank">http ://www.geocities.com/alanjpakula/triplecrown.html</A>
<a href="http://www.shorejournal.com/elkhorn" target="_blank">http ://www.shorejournal.com/elkhorn</A>
<a href="http://www.bartcop.com/nazigop.htm" target="_blank">http ://www.bartcop.com/nazigop.htm</A>



<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread16375.shtml" target="_blank">Hemp good to eat, too</a>
Pubdate: Saturday, May 24, 2003
Source: Toronto Star (CN ON)
Author: Cameron Smith
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<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread16372.shtml" target="_blank">Pair Face New Pot Charges</a>
May 24, 2003
By Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Source: San Bernardino County Sun

Victorville - A couple with two High Desert homes are at the center of state and federal authorities' battle over medical marijuana use.

Gary Barrett, 34, and his wife, Anna Barrett, 32, were arrested Wednesday by Drug Enforcement Administration agents on suspicion of marijuana cultivation after a federal indictment alleged they cultivated more than 700 plants at their homes in San Bernardino and San Luis Obispo counties.
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<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread16373.shtml" target="_blank">Reef er Madness</a>
May 24, 2003
By John Jurgensen, Courant Staff Writer
Source: Hartford Courant

Mark Braunstein smokes pot, and everybody knows it. Friends. Co-workers. Even the local police. He'll tell anyone who asks that he gets high every few days. It used to be daily, but now he says he needs fewer tokes to quell the painful muscle spasms he's weathered since a 1990 spinal cord injury.

Armed with a prescription from a Dutch physician, Braunstein, a vegan who has long shunned pharmaceuticals, "came out" as a medicinal user of marijuana seven years ago. As a paraplegic, he felt completely free to talk about the drug that, before his car accident, he had used more for its mind-altering effects.
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<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread16381.shtml" target="_blank">Cops Say Feds' Focus 'Misplaced'</a>
May 25, 2003
By Josh Richman, Staff Writer
Source: Oakland Tribune

House Republicans want to drain drug enforcement money from state and local police in states -- including California -- with medical marijuana laws, giving it instead to federal agents.

The proposed money shift within the nation's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTAs) has Bay Area police worried their efforts to combat methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and other drugs will be short-changed.
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<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread16379.shtml" target="_blank">The Canadabis Catch</a>
May 24, 2003
By Matt Mernagh
Source: View Magazine

Marijuana activists have been using the courts for close to a decade in an effort to have the laws against grass changed.

Instead of lobbying the Canadian government in the traditional manner, a small group of lawyers and marijuana users have successfully argued the medicinal qualities of marijuana and have challenged the constitutionality of the marijuana laws.
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<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread16376.shtml" target="_blank">Mari juana Bill To Be Introduced Tuesday</a>
May 24, 2003
By Janice Tibbetts, CanWest News Service
Source: Ottawa Citizen

The Justice Department will finally introduce its marijuana bill on Tuesday, after it was suddenly pulled earlier this month amid last-minute haggling within the Liberal ranks.

The bill, which would decriminalize possession of less that 15 grams of marijuana, will dovetail with a new national drug strategy that will provide millions of dollars for drug education, prevention and treatment.
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May 25, 2003
THE HISTORY OF CANNABIS LAWS
The Report From Iron Mountain, authored by Henry Kissinger, are the written plans to depopulate the earth by the Council On Foreign Relations, written some time around 1963. Report From Iron Mountain did include the use of BOGUS SCIENTIFIC STUDIES AND CONCLUSIONS. Considering this and the other history of the marihuana laws, as you may glean from the Web article entitled <a href="http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html" target="_blank">The Shadow Of Swastika</a> , and partly from the movie entitled GRASS, narrated by Woody Harrelson, which is now available on DVD, it is NO SURPRISE that the government is using lies to support their laws. "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power."-Benito Mussolini,
<a href="http://www.fromthewildernes s.com" target="_blank">http ://www.fromthewildernes s.com</A>

The marihuana laws are unconstitutional or invalid for the reasons stated in State v. Mallan, 950 P.2d 178, 208-209, 218-219 (Hawaii 1998)(Dissenting opinion by Justice Levinson). The American courts of law may not recognize such unconstitutionality, but perhaps a well informed jury may, <a href="http://www.fija.org" target="_blank">http ://www.fija.org</A> !!! We need people to contact Congress for support of The Truth In Trials Act, H.R. 1717!!!!

May 24, 2003 at 11:55:17 PT
Doing the devils work.
More kids are in treatment for using cannabis, and We know that is court induced and chosen to keep out of the cage...
But if everytime they cought a kid using booze, they invoked the cage or treatment, things would be so out of hand to the urine suckers, they would not accept it.
And yes, she is a prohibitionists so she is doing the work of the devil.

May 24, 2003
Insane
"Smoking marijuana clouds judgment, Barthwell said. This is scientifically proven."
The article goes on to say...
"Barthwell does not see Rosenthal's prosecution as excessive."
Now, who's judgement is clouded? A man who is licesed by the city of Oakland to produce medicine for the sick and dying now faces possible life in prison. Barthwell doesn't consider that excessive prosecution? That is why she is in the Bush White House!

May 24, 2003
We disagree and she supports the SOL
Barthwell does not see Rosenthal's prosecution as excessive.

It is this simple. If the plutocracy and their agents were guided by truth, then there would be no stonewall surrounding their sacred Schedule One Lie. Cannabis would be a Schedule 3 or 4 substance and states would be allowed to implement their MMJ programs without interference from the federal government. Ed Rosenthall did not violate the spirit of the law or what anyone with any knowledge would recognize as the proper law, even if you kept your reasoning that did not call into account that the WOD is on shaky ground Constitutionally at best and that the DEA should be dismantled and the CSA should be repealed as recommended in recently by the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank- <a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb108/hb108-17.pdf" target="_blank">http ://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb108/hb108-17.pdf</A>

This article is pretty slick but it is still prohibitionist propaganda. It is from American media isn't it? There is a clue already.

May 24, 2003 at 10:30:16 PT
Still a prohibitionist
So what, she is just another prohibitionist in the Bush Administration. This is just Prohibition with a "human face". Meaning she will smile, and wish people well as they go to jail. This is such a meaningless article.

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