DdC

AARP Survey Says December 22, 2004 - Washington, DC, USA

Washington, DC: Nearly 75 percent of those age 45 and older support the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes, according to a national poll of 1,706 Americans conducted for the AARP.

Overall, 72 percent of respondents agreed with the statement, "Adults should be allowed to legally use marijuana for medical purposes if a physician recommends it." Support was highest among respondents who resided in the West (82 percent) and the Northeast (79 percent), regions where several statewide medical marijuana laws have previously been enacted.

The AARP survey results are similar to previous findings, including a CNN/Time Magazine survey which reported that 80 percent of Americans backed the legal use of medical cannabis.

The AARP is the largest US advocacy group for seniors. The organization has not taken a political position regarding the medicinal use of marijuana.

For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre or Paul Armentano of the NORML Foundation at (202) 483-5500. A complete summary of national and statewide medical marijuana polling data is available on NORML's website.

DL: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6381

CN: NORML's Weekly News Bulletin -- December 22, 2004
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20060.shtml

Poll Shows Seniors Back Medical Marijuana
By ELIZABETH WOLFE, AP

WASHINGTON (Dec. 18) - Nearly three-fourths of older Americans support legalizing marijuana for medical use, according to a poll done for the nation's largest advocacy group for seniors.
More than half of those questioned said they believe marijuana has medical benefits, while a larger majority agreed the drug is addictive.

AARP, with 35 million members, says it has no political position on medical marijuana and that its local branches have not chosen sides in the scores of state ballot initiatives on the issue in recent elections.

But with medical marijuana at the center of a Supreme Court case to be decided next year, and nearly a dozen states with medical marijuana laws on their books, AARP decided to study the issue. "The use of medical marijuana applies to many older Americans who may benefit from cannabis," said Ed Dwyer, an editor at AARP The Magazine, which will discuss medical marijuana in its March/April issue appearing in late January.

Among the 1,706 adults polled in AARP's random telephone survey in November, opinions varied along regional and generational lines and among the 30 percent of respondents who said they have smoked pot. AARP members represented 37 percent of respondents. Overall, 72 percent of respondents agreed "adults should be allowed to legally use marijuana for medical purposes if a physician recommends it." Those in the Northeast (79 percent) and West (82 percent) were more receptive to the idea than in the Midwest (67 percent) and Southwest (65 percent). In Southern states, 70 percent agreed with the statement.

Though 69 percent of those age 70 and older said they support legal medical marijuana use, less than half agreed it has medical benefits. Seventy percent of respondents age 45-49 said they believe in the medical benefits of pot, as did 59 percent of those in the 50-69 age group. And while 74 percent of all people surveyed said potis addictive, older respondents were more likely to think so: 83 percent of those 70 and older, compared with 61 percent of those aged 45-49. Generational lines also divided those who havesmoked pot: Just 8 percent of those 70 and older admitted having lit up, compared with 58 percent of the 45-49 group, 37 percent of those between 50 and 59 and 15 percent of the 60-69 set.

National polls in recent years have found majority support for allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Last month, the Supreme Court heard arguments over whether federal agents can pursue sick people who use homegrown marijuana with their doctors' permission and their states' approval. The Bush administration has argued that allowing medical marijuana in California would undermine federal drug control programs, and that pot grown for medical use could end up on the illegal market and cross state lines. The AARP poll of adults age 45 and older was conducted Nov. 10-21 by International Communications Research of Media, Pa. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.

Poll Examines Medical Marijuana Support
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20041.shtml

Canada Set To Authorize Prescription Use Of First-Ever Medical Cannabis Spray
December 22, 2004 - Ottawa, ON, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario: Health Canada has issued a "Qualifying Notice" for the approval of Sativex, an oral spray consisting of natural cannabis extracts, for the treatment of neuropathic pain associated with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Health Canada is expected to finalize marketing authorization for Sativex by early 2005. continued...
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6379



Canada Approves Cannabis Drug
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20055.shtml
GW Cannabis Drug on Path To Approval
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20051.shtml
CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archives
http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml

Illinois Nursing Association Unanimously Backs Patient Access To Medicinal Cannabis
December 22, 2004 - Chicago, IL, USA
Chicago, IL: The Illinois Nursing Association (INA) supports the use of medical marijuana by qualified patients, and is calling upon Congress to reclassify cannabis so that doctors may prescribe it, according to a resolution passed unanimously by the organization earlier this month.

"It is the position of the Illinois Nurses Association to: Support the right of patients to have safe access to therapeutic cannabis under appropriate prescriber supervision; ... [to] support legislation to remove criminal penalties including arrest and imprisonment for bonafide patients and prescribers of therapeutic cannabis; [and to] support federal and state legislation to include cannabis classification as a Schedule III [non-prohibited] drug," the INA resolution states.

The INA is the thirteenth statewide nursing organization to endorse the legalization of medicinal cannabis for authorized patients. The American Nursing Association (ANA), which represents some 2.7 million Registered Nurses nationwide, overwhelmingly approved a similar resolution in favor of the therapeutic use of cannabis in 2003.
DL: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6382

For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre or Paul Armentano
of the NORML Foundation at (202) 483-5500.
Full text of the INA's position paper:

"Providing Patients Access to Therapeutic Marijuana/Cannabis" is available online at http://www.illinoisnurses.org



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Illustrated: http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg1x73293.shtml

Modern Maturity Magazine to have Medical Marijuana Feature in October Issue!
Dear ASA Friends- Did you know that the AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), with 30 million members, is the most powerful special interest group lobbying Congress? Are you a member? Or a self-identified elder? Do you use marijuana as medicine? If so, we need your help with the Elders' Patients Union (EPU).

Modern Maturity, the AARP magazine, is coming out with a special article on medical marijuana use by retirees in October!

This dovetails very well with ASA's action in Washington DC asking Health & Human Services (DHHS) to Reschedule Marijuana Oct 5. The day before, patients will be doing citizen lobbying with both elected officials AND advocacy organizations such as AARP.

I can imagine no more powerful picture than our elders out in droves....those who have watched marijuana prohibition increase over the last 30 years despite working towards sensible policies, as well as those who have surprised themselves by using marijuana for the first time as age-related conditions developed.

If you use marijuana to treat Parkinson's, Stroke, Alzheimer's, Chronic Pain, etc (or are a caregiver to those that do) please join the Elder's Patients Union today.

And if you don't want to join the EPU, but you would still like to join us in DC, please let us know that as well.

We will send every member of the EPU a copy of our new swank-looking 25 page booklet, " Medical Marijuana & Aging".

For all of you non-elders, or who don't particularly identify that way, we have a number of other condition-based patients' unions up and running. For more info on any, please contact Stacey Swimme, stacey@safeaccessnow .org, or by calling 510-486-8083.

To join the lists directly, see the following:
To join the Elders Patients' Union, send a blank email to
seniors4mmj@lists.ri seup.net

To join the HIV/AIDS Survivors Union, send a blank email to
hapu-subscribe@lists.rise up.net

To join the Multiple Sclerosis Patients' Union, write to
gstorck@immly.org

To join the Cancer Patients' Union, send a blank email to
mmj4cancer@lists.ris eup.net

To join the Chronic Pain Patients' Union, send a blank email to
mmj4cp@lists.riseup. net

To start one based on any other condition, contact Stacey Swimme, info@safeaccessnow.o rg, or calling 510-486-8083.

To see more about the HHS action, click on
http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=1295

Hope to see y'all in Washington DC!
Hilary McQuie Effective Action Consulting
http://www.Effective-Action.net

Rodney.com http://www.rodney.com

Gone to Pot: Rodney Dangerfield, 81 finally gets a little respect
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/sto...6054693&pageid http://www.mapinc.org/ccnews/v04/n759/a10.html
Back at the table, Rodney lifts his big head and says, "You want to smoke a little shit? I don't know how good this is. I just got it. Decent shit costs you a minimum of $500 an ounce. As a kid I bought pot for $25 an ounce. An ounce! Oh, everything's insane. Oh, everything's wild!"

Ganjawarnews: R.I.P. Rodney 10-5-4
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg1x74468.shtml

Comic Rodney Dangerfield Dies at Age 82
LOS ANGELES -- October 5, 2004
Rodney Dangerfield, the bug-eyed comic whose self-deprecating one-liners brought him stardom in clubs, television and movies and made his lament "I don't get no respect" a catchphrase, died Tuesday. He was 82.
http://tinyurl.com/65wsl



Elderly Brothers Busted for Pot
PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (AP) - Two brothers, ages 74 and 80, have been charged with running a large marijuana operation after agents confiscated more than half a million dollars in pot from their property. Agents found nearly 500 marijuana plants on David Burmesch's farm and seized almost 100 pounds of processed marijuana from sheds on the property. Attorney General James Doyle's office estimated the street value of the marijuana at $598,000.

``This is certainly the largest pot bust in Wisconsin this year,'' said Wisconsin Department of Justice spokesman Randy Romanski. David W. Burmesch, 74, and his brother, Eugene A. Burmesch, 80, were charged Friday in Ozaukee County Circuit Court. If convicted, they each face up to 30 years in prison.

David Burmesch told officers he had been growing marijuana for 20 to 25 years because he needed money to support a developmentally disabled son, according to a criminal complaint. David Burmesch's wife said neither she nor her husband wanted to talk to a reporter. Eugene Burmesch could not be reached for comment. They were ordered to appear Oct. 16 in court.

Man's Statements Will Be Allowed at Pot Trial
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread8408.shtml

Brothers To Be Tried in Marijuana Case
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread7671.shtml

Pot Grower, 75, Given Year in Jail
A 75-year-old marijuana farmer was sentenced to a year in the Ozaukee County Jail Tuesday by a judge who said he was trying to balance the needs of society against the fact that the man had never before been in trouble with the law.
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/10/thread10163.shtml

Grandmother Escapes Jail
http://tinyurl.com/2nz8k

Grandma Says She Used Pot To Ease Pain
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4637.shtml

UK Grandmother Gets 18 Months Probation
A GRANDMOTHER who narrowly escaped jail for drinking cannabis tea
to ease her constant pain today insisted: "It should be legalised"
http://tinyurl.com/5lowf

Granpa's Ganja Pad
Evan Keliher, author of Grandpa's Marijuana Handbook and a glaucoma patient since the early 60s, has used marijuana for thirty-five years to prevent further loss of sight and suffered no ill effects. Evan is convinced that marijuana is essentially harmless when used by responsible adults and he recommends its use for his fellow citizens as a preventative against the hazards of growing old. "They'll still grow old," he says, "but they won't care."
http://www.grandpaspotbook.com



HOW SENIORS CAN AVOID DETECTION
(Excerpted from Grandpa's Marijuana Handbook)

Your greatest risk of discovery is that you may react one way, a "normal" way, when straight and somewhat differently when stoned and sharp-eyed busybodies may spot it. Not to worry, though, this isn't a problem for anyone who reads this book.

The thing is, be high all the time. There. Isn't that an elegant solution? If you're high every time people see you, there'll never be any differences to note. A laid back, half-amused, half-bemused attitude will become your new persona, the only one the preacher, et al., will ever see.

People will remark about it.

"Oh, that Helen," they'll say, "she's always so laid back."

"Yes, and she wears that bemused look all the time, like she's got a secret but doesn't know what it is."

"You don't suppose she's on something?"

"Helen? Oh, my, no. She sings in the choir, you know."

Also, don't take a quick hit in a closed car while waiting for your friend to return with the pizza you're picking up.

The smoke hanging in clouds in the car will be a dead giveaway. Always frown and shake your head whenever marijuana is mentioned and say such things as, "I wonder where it will all end?" and "I'll tell you one thing, kids didn't muck about with this pot stuff when I was young!" to deceive people into thinking you're staunchly anti-marijuana.

If you score some pot from a Crip and you see the guy on the street, don't wave to him. Your friends will be suspicious if they see you high-fiving with guys wearing colors and jagged knife scars across their cheeks and will be sure to remark on it.

"Friend of yours?" Rhonda will say.

"What? Oh, no. That's just Jose. He's the gardener at my condo."

"Why isn't he at work?"

"Who? Jose? He must be on his break."

"Jose is a Crip, Tina."

"No!"

"Yes, he is. See the colors? Why do you know Crips? Are you smoking pot?"

See? Rhonda will tell the whole world you're a pothead and you'll become such a social pariah you'll make the Elephant Man look like a dashing man-about-town. Et cetera.

__________________

DdC

Elderly Inmates Swell Prisons, Driving Up Health Care Costs.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...-inmates_x.htm

The War on Drugs Is a War on Doctors
Ron Paul on the federal assault on people in pain and their physicians.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul179.html

The State vs. Doctors
Dr. Ron Paul's address to the graduating class at the University of Texas Medical School-Houston.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/paul3.html

THE POLICE STATE COMETH by Rep.Ron Paul
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/co.../cr062597b.htm

Congressman Ron Paul: Archives
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html

If people let the government decide which foods they eat
and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state
as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. Thomas Jefferson



Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.
http://www.mikuriya.com

Safe Use of Cannabis" by Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/safeuse.htm

Drug Wars: Menace to America by Tod Mikuriya, M.D
http://www.mikuriya.com/drugwars.html

Dr. Grinspoon: To Smoke Or Not To Smoke
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9431.shtml

Testimony of Lester Grinspoon MD
before the Crime Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee
U.S. House of Representatives October 1, 1997

Summary of the Statement by Lester Grinspoon, M.D.

Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you this morning to share my views on the use of marihuana as a medicine.

It has been well known for thousand of years that cannabis has medical uses. It is far safer than most medicines prescribed by doctors daily and often works for patients who cannot tolerate the side effects of other drugs. In many cases no other drug will do the job as safely or as well. Cannabis has never been demonstrated to have caused an overdose death. It does not disturb any physiological functions or damage any body organ when used in therapeutic doses. It produces little or no physical dependence or tolerance, and there is no evidence that medical use of cannabis has ever led to habitual use as an intoxicant. There are many ways in which marihuana can be used to reduce human suffering at small cost. Clinical experience suggests that it is helpful for patients with severe nausea and vomiting, arthritis, glaucoma, muscle spasms, premenstrual syndrome, seizure disorders, the AIDS weight loss syndrome, asthma, fibromyalgia, Tourette’s syndrome, and depression, to name a few. continued...
http://www.rxmarihuana.com/testimony.htm

Rx Marijuana
http://www.rxmarihuana.com

Free Leonard Peltier
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Willie Nelson
"I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?"
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4793.shtml

Coalition for Hemp Awareness: Willie Nelson Hemp
http://members.aol.com/chaxh/prd.html



Marijuana: Good for The Brain
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread10904.shtml

cannabinoids and Parkinson
http://www.cannabis.net/misc/parkinsons.html

cannabis/dopamine
http://biopsychiatry.com/canher.htm

neuroprotection
http://www.cannabis.net/neuroprotectant/index.html

Education NOT Incarceration!
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4925.shtml

Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Neonatal Outcomes in Jamaica: An Ethnographic Study
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/...can-babies.htm

Cannabis Blocks Irreversible Brain Damage
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J3A913555

Cannabis prevents brain damage
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M2B913555

Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n572/a11.html?1979



Sci/Tech | Dope hope for stroke victims
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...000/126181.stm

Cannabis and Endocannabinoids*
http://www.cannabis.net/cannabinoids/index.html

Medical Cannabis Resource Center
http://mercycenters.org/links/seizures.html

Cannabis Prevents Seizures
A personal website dedicated to raising public awareness regarding the latest cannabis science. New findings suggest that the age-old botanical remedy cannabis is truly the best medicine available for sufferers of epilepsy and other seizure disorders. Several media accounts are reprinted here reporting the work of Dr. Aiden Hampson, Dr. Geoffrey Guy and UCSF researchers Ian Meng and Dr. Howard Fields.
http://neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu/for...sSeizures.html
Mirror several articles: http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/msg6x2162.shtml



Ganja treatment of Multiple Sclerosis/Spasms, Pain
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H38813217

Schaffer Library Hemp/Marijuana Medical Information
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/...al/medical.htm

Cannabidiol: The Wonder Drug of the 21st Century?
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/...l/cannabid.htm

Brain Releases Marijuana-Like Substance In Response To Pain, Study Finds
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread3267.shtml

Cannabis Less Harmful Than Aspirin, Says Scientist
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/7/thread7389.shtml

Marijuana Ingredient Helps Mice Overcome Arthritis
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/6/thread6579.shtml

73 groups for medical cannabis.
http://tinyurl.com/3ygb8

Feds Need One Million Joints
http://tinyurl.com/2cr9l
Patients Out of Time
http://www.trvnet.net/~mmcmahon

Natural Help For Depression by Dr. Andrew Weil
http://www.naturalhealthweb.com/articles/weil2.html
The Master Key to Self Healing: Another option is to snack on toasted hemp seeds
(which, by the way, aren't psychoactive). You can order hemp seeds from The Ohio Hempery, (800) BUY-HEMP. http://www.hempery.com

Nutritious hemp oil is emerging as alternative to toxin-tainted fish. http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/mercury.html
New study finds mercury pollution is a serious health risk for those that eat fish. http://www.hempfood.com

Therapeutic Hemp Oil by Andrew Weil, M.D.
http://www.ratical.com/renewables/TherapHoil.html

Why I Support Medical Marijuana, by Dr. Andrew Weil
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n676.a02.html

Feds wage war on cancer patients, Dr. Andrew Weil Commentary
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020608/55035.html



Hemp grain is the most nutritionally complete seed on the planet for human consumption. Each hemp seed contains 25% protein. This protein is more easily digestible than the protein in soybeans because it contains a perfect ratio of essential fatty acids (EFA's). EFA's are important for strengthening your immune system and protecting you from disease. Fish oil and flax oil are also high in EFA's, but hemp contains the most perfect ratio of EFA's for human consumption. Hemp grain is also high in iron and calcium and is an excellent source of dietary fiber

Hemp Food Association
http://www.hempfood.com

Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed
http://www.shorejournal.com/9902/rwd0228a.html

The Elkhorn Manifesto
http://www.shorejournal.com/elkhorn/

MARIJUANA AND HEMP The Untold Story
http://www.cannabis.com/untoldstory/#INDEX

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer
http://www.jackherer.com

Why they call it dope!
http://www.cannabis.com/ezine/just_say_know/2.shtml

THE TOXIC ALTERNATIVE TO NATURAL FIBERS.
http://fornits.com/curiosity/hemp/fibre.htm

Hemp links
http://www.hempseed.com/linkability.html

The Dairy Industry Gambit
http://www.friendsoffreedom.com/Writ...iryGambit.html

Production of Heart Disease By Consumption of Meat and Dairy Products
The Meatrix http://www.themeatrix.com

Food Stamps Become a Weapon in the War on Drugs
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9965.shtml
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/po...a/36/36958.gif

Doctors Organization Scales Back Proposal
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread10107.shtml
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patriot

I fit into the 45 plus years catagory that would like to see cannabis legal. It should be available at a special store like alcohol. ID's would be checked and people underage would have a much harder time getting it. That attitude would change and the problems of the prohibition would go away, just like it did with alcohol.

I like the pictures of Rodney Dangerfield and Willie Nelson. Most people don't know that Willie Nelson does commercials for NORML.

Gee, do you think that people who are 45 plus years old would have a problem knowing how to be responsible?? The Amerikkan Government does.

The Governor is about ten years my senior. We really need a change in this country. You are right about the fact that we will never be able to fix the corrupt system from within itself.

__________________
A true patriot is always ready to stand up against his own government.

We can't be using plants that come from the Lord for beneficial purposes. Now hurry up, or we'll be late for church.

The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.-Adolf Hitler

Legalizing marijuana won't grow our economy-Barack Hussein Obama 2009

kamikazi89

they have a higher percentage of those who believe it should be legal for medical use, then that believed it actually had medical use...

now that is open minded

Peace seeker

well done

great thread

kamikazi89

http://www.medpot.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=16005

patriot

And told them that they are absolutely right, we need crime and drug dealers in our society and that is why I strongly support their stance on the prohibition. After all, why should we support plants that come from the Lord??

We should believe in the government more than the Lord. Just because the government lies to us everyday and the Lord never does doesn't mean we shouldn't believe in the Lord more than the government. Our good honest Amerikkan Government. Protecting us from the evils of that dangerous marijuana, whether we want to be or not. Wonderful.

__________________
A true patriot is always ready to stand up against his own government.

We can't be using plants that come from the Lord for beneficial purposes. Now hurry up, or we'll be late for church.

The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.-Adolf Hitler

Legalizing marijuana won't grow our economy-Barack Hussein Obama 2009

DdC

Grandmother has cannabis by No 10
02/10/2005
Source BBC News 9 February 2005

A grandmother, who is facing drug dealing charges, sampled a pudding laced with cannabis outside the gates of Downing Street on Wednesday.

Patricia Tabram, from Northumberland, also delivered a letter to the prime minister, asking for the drug to be legalised on medical grounds.

Mrs Tabram, 66, of Humshaugh near Hexham, admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply in January.

She says she uses the drug to ease health problems.

The widow, who cooks up cannabis-laced treats for neighbours and friends in her village, was also meeting a literary agent to discuss publishing a book she has written, and the possibility of making a film about her life. continued...
http://www.drbongs.com/news/archives/00000406.html

Mrs Tabram says the drug is more effective than NHS medication.

__________________

DdC

Those funny senior citizens and their wacky tobacky
DWR: Sunday, March 8, 2009

Man Killed by Deputies
Serving Marijuana-Related Warrant Identified
Tim King Salem-News.com Mar-07-2009

A warrant for pot charges served at 10:30 p.m. on the rural Mulino home of two senior citizens led to the police shooting of one.

(CANBY, Ore.) - Three days have passed since a man was shot to death by deputies in Canby over marijuana related arrest warrants. He has been identified as 68-year old Hubert Henkel.

80-year old Marjorie Frances Crawford was arrested on a warrant for charges she and Mr. Henkel were both wanted for, relating to growing, possessing and providing cannabis to another person.

If Lies are Laws then War is Peace

Ooo - eeeee - hoo! Yooo - ho!

The 2nd Amendment was Drafted on Hemp, Not Kevlar.

"Execution" of a search warrant.

"What marijuana can do is help you enjoy life through better health by providing relief for a wide variety of ailments that very often afflict people over fifty."
- Evan Keliher
The Case for Seniors using Marijuana pg3

"A lot of people grow their pot on federal or state land... to avoid the forfeiture crap... Most rig booby traps around their fields to thwart interlopers, cleverly designed pits with sharpened stakes to impale unwanted visitors or shotguns aimed low to blow off legs and other nethermost parts when a trip wire is triggered. If you need help in designing efficient booby traps, give me a call and I'll send you a pamphlet outlining several UL Approved traps that have sucessfully ensnared and routed thousands of marauding narcs and do-gooders."
- Evan Keliher
Growing Marijuana pg 50


Grandpa's Marijuana Handbook by Evan Keliher

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

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

"Even if the Commission does recommend that it be legalized,
I will not follow that recommendation."
- Outside View: Nixon Tapes Pot Shocker

While Nixon Campaigned, FBI Watched John Lennon

Once-Secret Nixon Tapes Show Why US Outlawed Pot

Thirty years ago the United States came to a critical juncture in the drug war. A Nixon-appointed presidential commission had recommended that marijuana use not be a criminal offense under state or federal law. But Nixon himself, based on his zealous personal preferences, overruled the commission's research and doomed marijuana to its current illegal status. This newly revealed information comes from declassified tapes of Oval Office conversations from 1971 and 1972, which show Nixon's aggressive anti-drug stance putting him directly at odds against many of his close advisors.

Declassified Oval Office tapes from 1971-1972
Nixon Tapes Show Roots of Marijuana Prohibition:
Misinformation, Culture Wars and Prejudice

Nixon's private comments about marijuana showed he was the epitome of misinformation and prejudice. He believed marijuana led to hard drugs, despite the evidence to the contrary. He saw marijuana as tied to "radical demonstrators." He believed that "the Jews," especially "Jewish psychiatrists" were behind advocacy for legalization, asking advisor Bob Haldeman, "What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob?" He made a bizarre distinction between marijuana and alcohol, saying people use marijuana "to get high" while "a person drinks to have fun."

Nixon Launched The 30 Years' War as Election Issue

Just What Was He Smoking?

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats
have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
- Richard Milhouse Nixon



Nixon Lie Keeps on Killing



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National Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics!
Organizations Supporting Access to Therapeutic Cannabis
As Compiled by Patients Out of Time.



AIDS Action Council 1996 <> Alaska Nurses Association 1998 <> Alaska voters 1998 <> Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics 1981 <> American Academy of Family Physicians 1977 <> American Bar Association (ABA) - 1977 <> American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) <> American Medical Students Association 1993 <> American Preventive Medical Association 1997 <> American Public Health Association (APHA) 1995 <> American Society of Addiction Medicine 1997 <> Arizona voters 1996 & 1998 <> Berkeley, CA - 1979 <> Breckenridge, CO 1994 <> Burlington, VT 1994 <> California Legislative Council for Older Americans 1993 <> California Democratic Party 1993 <> California Medical Association 1994 <> California Nurses Association 1995 <> California-Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church 1996 <> California Pharmacists Association 1997 <> California Society of Addiction Medicine 1997 <> California voters 1996 <> Cannabis Freedom Fund - 1996 <> Colorado Nurses Association 1995 <> Contigo-Conmigo 1997 <> Cure AIDS now 1991 <> Democratic Party of Oregon - 1998 <> Democratic Party Platform of Wisconsin - 1997 <> Episcopal Church of the U.S. 1982 <> Farmacy 1999 <> Federation of American Scientists 1994 <> Florida Governors Red Ribbon Panel on AIDS 1993 <> Florida Medical Association 1997 <> Frisco, CO 1994 <> Hawaii Nurses Association - 1999 <> Institute of Medicine 1982, 1999 <> International Cannabis Alliance of Researchers and Educators (I-CARE) 1992 <> Iowa Civil Liberties Union <> Iowa Democratic Party 1994 <> Life Extension Foundation 1997 <> Libertarian Party - 1999 <> Lymphoma Foundation of America <> Madison, WI - 1993 <> Maine voters - 1999 <> Marin County Council, CA 1993 <> Minnesota Democratic Farm-Labor Party 1992 <> Mississippi Nurses Association 1995 <> Mothers Against Misuse and Abuse (MAMA) 1992 <> Multiple Sclerosis California Action Network (MS-CAN)1996 <> National Association for Public Health Policy - 1998 <> National Association of Attorneys General 1983 <> National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) <> National Association of People with AIDS - 1992 <> National Nurses Society on Addictions (NNSA) 1995 <> Nevada voters 1998 <> New England Journal of Medicine 1997 <> New Mexico Nurses Association 1997 <> New York State Nurses Association 1995 <> North Carolina Nurses Association 1996 <> Northern New England Psychiatric Society <> Oakland City Council, California 1998 <> Oregon voters 1998 <> Patients Out of Time 1995 <> Physicians Association for AIDS Care <> Physicians for Social Responsibility (Oregon) - 1998 <> Republican Liberty Caucus National Committee - 1999 <> San Diego, CA - 1994 <> San Francisco City Council, CA 1992 <> Santa Cruz County Council, CA 1993 <> Virginia Nurses Association 1994 <> Virginia Nurses Society on Addictions 1993 <> Washington Hemp Education Network 1999 <> Washington State Democratic Party 1998 <> Washington voters 1998 <> Wisconsin Public Health Association - 1999

Non-U.S. Organizations

<> British Medical Association 1997
<> Bundesverband Poliomyelitis , Germany 1998
(Federal Union for Polio)
<> Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe
(German AIDS Support Organization) 1998
<> Deutsche Epilepsievereinigung
(German Association for Epilepsy)-1998
<> Deutsche Gesellschaft f|r Algesiologie
(German Society for Algesiology)1998
<> Deutsche Gesellschaft f|r Drogen-und Suchtmedizin
(German Society for Drug and Addiction Medicine)1998
<> Deutsche Gesellschaft niedergelassener Drzte zur Versorgung HIV
<> Infizierter
(German Working Group for Therapists of the HIV infected)1999
<> Preventive Medical Center, Netherlands 1993
<> Schmerztherapeutisch es Kolloquium
(Society for Pain Therapists) Germany 1998
<> Stichting Institute of Medical Marijuana, The Netherlands 1993



*Therapeutic cannabis consultation and information provided by:

Patients Out of Time
Fish Pond Plantation, 1472 Fish Pond Road
Howardsville, Virginia 24562
(804) 263-4484, FAX (804) 263-6753
e-mail: Patients@MedicalCann abis.com

Members of organizations who wish to introduce medical cannabis resolutions to their organizations please contact Patients Out of Time for assistance.

National Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics April 7&8, 2000.
Subject: HT: From: Lifevine9 Tuesday, March 14, 2000.

Patients Out of Time has added to the list of organizations that support the reclassification of Cannabis as a viable medicine a category of groups that are operating outside of the United States. The knowledge that Cannabis has been a safe and valuable herbal medicine for 5,000 years is spreading quickly worldwide.

Germany is in the forefront of Europe and the world in reacknowledging the importance of Cannabis in that country's formulary as is indicated by the 7 health orientated organizations that signed the "Frankfurt Resolution" and are identified on our present and attached list.

The addition of non US groups to our growing roster of supporters is done to both acknowledge this broad support for the rights of patients to have access to this safe medicine and to further inform the media industry that the efforts of Patients Out of Time and numerous other reform organizations in the US are not simply a diversionary tactic in the "war on drugs."

These organizations and future additions are a confirmation that the zealous theorists who have foisted the false premise that the Cannabis plant is "an evil weed" and solidified this sham in a policy called the "war on drugs" are not supported by millions of health care professionals in the US or abroad.

A co-founder of the national non-profit, Patients Out of Time, M.L. Mathre wrote in Cannabis in Medical Practice, "the paradigm for the war on drugs is based on a belief that there are bad drugs and that the solution to our drug problem is to prohibit the use of these drugs. This basic premise is faulty and must be challenged."

This challenge is in the open and expanding. Our first list of groups supporting the return of Cannabis into the realm of heath care control, instead of law enforcement, was printed in mid 1995 and contained under three dozen groups.

The list was prepared to directly counter the false statements made by the drug czar and others in the federal government's employ that NO health organization supported Cannabis as medicine. Since the publication of that list all such statements by our government has ceased. The list, less than four years later, now totals 73 foreign and domestic groups that represent tens of millions of health care professionals, voters and citizens.

Patients Out of Time believes that all the world's citizens have the personal right to determine what is proper in the care and maintenance of their bodies. These decisions must be based on accurate and replicated science, informed health care counseling and the personal experience of each individual with their own unique life support system.

To insure that informed therapeutic Cannabis information is disseminated to patients and their caregivers Patients Out of Time is again emphasizing that The First National Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics will be held at the University of Iowa on April 7&8, 2000.

This breakthrough conference is jointly sponsored by the College of Medicine and the College of Nursing of the University of Iowa, with the assistance of Patients Out of Time. All professional health care participants will earn continuing education credits as well as be provided current state-of-the-art clinical information about Cannabis as medicine. A complete outline and speaker identification will follow in a future press release.

Contact Patients@MedicalCann abis.com or call (804) 263 4484 for information about therapeutic Cannabis, the April 2000 conference or what you can do to help.

For a form to apply for your school or facility to carry the conference.

For a current list of organizations supporting access to therapeutic cannabis.

Patients Out of Time
Cannabis as Medicine
Fish Pond Plantation,
1472 Fish Pond Road,
Howardsville, VA 24562
TEL (804) 263-4484 FAX (804) 263-6753
email: Patients@MedicalCann abis.com

George McMahon, one of eight patients in the federal medical marijuana program and a
founding member
of Patients Out of Time

The LaGardia sub-committee of New York 1944
"The use of marijuana does not lead to morphine or heroin or cocaine addiction and no effort is made to create a market for these narcotics by stimulating the practice of marijuana smoking"

Panama Canal Zone Report, 1925
"There is no evidence...
that any deleterious influence on the individual using cannabis"



Politics of Pot

<>Dr J. H. Jaffe,
The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics.
L.Goodman and A Gillman, 3rd edn. 1965
<>Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894
<>1968 UK ROYAL COMMISSION, THE WOOTTON REPORT
<>Jamaican Study 1970
<>The Coptic Study (1981)
<>The USA Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 1987
<>The Economist March 28th 1992
<>The Lancet, vol 352, number 9140, November 14 1998
<>IOM Report
<>U.S. GOVT. COVERS UP MARIJUANA CANCER CURE!
<>Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
<>Cannabis: Legally grown and provided in daily smoked dosages.
<>Deaths in the United States in a typical year are as follows:

* Tobacco kills about 400,000
* Alcohol kills about 80,000
* Workplace accidents kill 60,000
* Automobiles kill 40,000
* Cocaine kills about 2,500
* Heroin kills about 2,000
* Aspirin kills about 2,000
* Marijuana kills 0



Professor Lester Grinspoon, Harvard Medical School, USA
"Marijuana is one of the least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia"

Ganja/Hemp

The Kaiser Permanente study
"Marijuana Use and Mortality"
April 1997 American Journal of Public Health"
"Relatively few adverse clinical effects from the chronic use of marijuana have been documented in humans. However, the criminalization of marijuana use may itself be a health hazard, since it may expose the users to violence and criminal activity."

American High Society
<>Stiletto Stoners
<>Comix and Cannabis
<>Family Guy "420" - "X"
<>Celebrity Stoners
<>Pot Stirring
<>Pitcher Dock Ellis' Legendary LSD No-Hitter

"Hempseed was used to treat nutritional deficiencies brought on by tuberculosis, a severe nutrition blocking disease that causes the body to waste away."
~ Czechoslovakia Tubercular Nutritional Study, 1955

Al Capone and lWatergate were red herrings to divert the countries attention from the Fascist acts of eliminating competition. Booze or Ganja/Hemp. While GOPerverts and Demonkrats bicker over nonsense. Half the population can not vote. Half who can, do not register. Have registered don’t vote. The voters are split equally between the same WTO Neocon fascists. Meaning twice as many not registering and not voting could decide the outcome, but choose to be apathetic and keep the status weird in power.

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Marijuana Use By Seniors Goes Up as Boomers Age By Matt Sedensky
CN Source: Journal Gazette February 22, 2010 Miami

In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana.

Long a fixture among young people, use of the country's most popular illicit drug is now growing among the AARP set, as the massive generation of baby boomers who came of age in the 1960s and '70s grows older.

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Conventional wisdom dictates that as younger generations slowly replace the old, conservative social traditions are jettisoned. This may be true for issues such as gay marriage, where there are clear divisions among younger and older voters, but when it comes to marijuana reform, the evidence indicates that simplistic divisions of opinion along age lines don't apply for pot.

Earlier this week, an AP wire article picked up a lot of buzz in the news-cycle, with a title and premise meant to shock the mainstream: "Marijuana Use by Seniors Goes up as Boomers Age."

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Proponents of medical marijuana touted its benefits for aging baby boomers at a weekend conference in California. The Medical Cannabis Conference in Laguna Woods was the first of its kind in Orange County, where authorities have fought pot dispensaries, The Orange County Register reported. Despite a 1996 California law legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes, the county bans dispensaries in unincorporated areas, as do San Clemente, Huntington Beach and some other cities.

Older Americans Overwhelmingly Support Legalizing Medical Pot