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Bad research makes headlines by Reverend Damuzi (21 Mar, 2005)

A misleading study claims that marijuana doesn't help epilepsy.

An August 2004 press release may have alarmed those who use pot to ward off seizures and spasms. The release, titled Marijuana Compound May Intensify Epileptic Seizures, was given extensive media coverage in Canada. It summarized the results of a study by Dr Michael Corcoran of the University of Saskatchewan.

Corcoran claimed that his study showed marijuana could increase the frequency and severity of certain kinds of seizures that originate in the prefrontal cortex, while admitting that it reduces the grand mal type. He reached his conclusion by dosing rats and then artificially inducing brain seizures by frying their brains with electrical currents.

What Corcoran didn't reveal in his press release was that he wasn't actually studying marijuana, he was using synthetic, injectable compounds designed to act on the same cellular receptors as THC.

Credible cannabinoid researchers would never confuse synthetic THC substitutes with marijuana, which contains THC, cannabidiol (CBD) and a host of other medically active and therapeutically intertwined biochemicals. Credible researchers would also be familiar with the work of Dr Paul Consroe of the University of Arizona, whose battery of tests throughout the 70's and 80's showed that extremely high doses of THC can indeed trigger convulsions, while CBD does the opposite, and when combined with THC has a net anticonvulsant effect for all seizure types.

Corcoran should have known that the world's largest producer of synthetic THC, known by the brand name Marinol, warns that their product can cause seizures in "patients with existing seizure disorders." Further, a variety of studies in peer-reviewed journals have shown that it is CBD which has anti-spasmodic and anti-convulsive effects.

Given the circumstances, can it be any coincidence that Corcoran's cannabinoid research partner is Dr Xia Zhang, an associate professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan, whose focus is the highly dubious field of "marijuana withdrawal?"

To raise suspicions further, Corcoran's study was funded by the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, whose provincial strategy includes filling all 12 of the province's regional health authorities with an army of addiction workers over the next 10 years.

Rather than tarnishing the reputation of whole marijuana with misleading studies using synthetic THC analogues, at Cannabis Culture we'd like to see more research into whole-plant cannabis extracts, and medicines that maximize the synergistic effects of cannabinoids working together.

Bad research makes headlines by Reverend Damuzi (21 Mar, 2005)
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4186.html

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

Anti-pot propaganda 14 Mar, 2005
US feds are addicted to making up fake anti-pot news.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4185.html



How The Canadian Media Import Counterfeit News From The States.
The Drug Czar Lies and Even The Best Papers Don’t Check the Facts.
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2005-03-17 16:20:00
Source: “But it is time to acknowledge that the nation's news organizations have played a large and unappetizing role in deceiving the public….”— The New York Times
Read Full Story... http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=797

Front Page Fantasy: The New York Times Pushes Fact Free Journalism
Supposedly About “BC Bud”
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2005-03-17 16:20:00
Source: This article was cited in the Canadian Parliament as proof that Canada cannot even decriminalize cannabis because of US opposition, “causing costly cross-border delays.” Lies have consequences, which is why people lie.
Read Full Story.. http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=796

Pot Issue Brought To Senate by State By Sean Cockerham
CN Source: Anchorage Daily News March 22, 2005
Juneau, Alaska -- State officials, desperate to overturn Alaska court rulings that at-home pot is legal here, took their case to the Legislature on Monday. Assistant attorney general Dean Guaneli told the Senate Health and Social Services Committee that the state has hit a dead end in the courts. The Alaska Supreme Court has refused to hear arguments for criminalizing small amounts of pot, and the governor has made the issue a priority, he said.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20391.shtml

Two Groups Speak Out Against Marijuana Bill
The Alaska Civil Liberties Union and Alaskans for Marijuana Regulation and Control say the intent of Senate Bill 74 and House Bill 96 will be to reduce the right to privacy guaranteed under the Alaska Constitution.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20388.shtml



UN Condemns UK Cannabis Laws

Drug War Zealots Pressure AARP To Kill MMJ Story

Morality is always the product of terror;
its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those
who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves,
to walk in liberty. -- Aldous Huxley

Americans Funding Fascist'

Police officials lied to toughen laws...

Psychosis, Hype And Baloney

Hypocrisy & Double Standards



To Be Or Not To Be Bias
LTE to local press

One might draw the conclusion from the countries press that Santa Cruz was informed and based in reality on the cannabis issue. Especially on the dangers. Yet once again the news sources seem to just parrot the administrations reefer madness and "warn" its citizens of the "risk of heart attacks" using cannabis, or cannabis linked to heart attacks or any of the many colorful titles describing this usually insignificant initial raising of the bp. Of which if legal any physician would be aware and "prevent, Oooo! A nasty word in the health "care" business".

Coincidentally this same story surfaced in 2000 at the very same day as the stories of cannabis tumor treatment, known in 1974 and suppressed, and cannabis treatment of MS. As I'm sure this was the same coincidence that led your paper to warn us again, though not of a connection actually. A study. One of many bogus studies keeping cannabis from the citizens. Why weren't you so inclined to inform your readers of the study reported the same day concluding that cannabis does not cause lung cancer or do prenatal damage?

It is simple business. No medicinal value homegrown in your kitchen. No taxes or profits. Racism and Fascism started cannabis prohibition and it continues today. You are the citizens chance for a check and balance. Please act non bias and responsibly when reporting cannabis information.
Don't smoke schwag!
Get Informed!
Peace, Love and Liberty
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Marijuana Heart Risk Unlikely to be Significant, Says Expert
http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/chroni...uanarisk.shtml
http://www.ukcia.org/news/2000/news/st2869.htm

Study: Pollutants Can Trigger Heart Attack
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread10032.shtml

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Bush Quayle and Lilly
When ever a discovery is made of cannabis, the liars emerge. 60,000 government test with paid WoD profiteers in competition conducting the bogus test. Using hemp and forcing smoke through mask until it killed chimps from asphyixiation, not cannabis. Bush I was VP not only to Rayguns but to Ely Lilly Pharmaceuticals, under Dan Quayles father. CIA, Nebutism and payback isn't hidden in either Bush administration.

Rayguns/BushMonkey Test

Living Under Bushes
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99.28% of the marijuana is rope not re-creational.
Bird habitat not pot.
Wild without chemical additives that store in the seed like tobacco or cotton.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good.
-- Mohandas Gandhi

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

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

The Real Reason for US Aid to Colombia

Copter Stoppers
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9096.shtml
Sikorsky Helisculptures
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Starving Babies & Illegal Food (graphic)
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Hempseed or Meat
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Hempseed is the most nutritionally complete food on the planet.

Food Stamps Become a Weapon in the War on Drugs
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9965.shtml
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Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n572/a11.html?1979

Tobacco radioactive, cannabis safer...

Cannabis safer than aspirin. (That kills 1100 a year)

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

"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts -
not to overthrow the Constitution,
but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
Abraham Lincoln



Sen. Joseph McCarthy: Unrepentant Junkie
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E3DC41D28

Source: DRCNet, US
Date: 19 Mar, 2000

EDITOR'S NOTE: Last week, The Week Online ran a short overview of three new marijuana studies. Two of the studies, one from the UK that confirmed the benefits of marijuana in treating symptoms of multiple sclerosis and one from Spain indicating that THC might play a significant role in actually shrinking certain brain tumors, received little attention from the US media. The third, a report out of Harvard University that claimed an increased risk of heart attack within an hour of smoking, was front-page news across the country. Due to time constraints, we were unable to delve deeper into this report.

In the past week, we have received numerous e-mails from concerned readers asking about the validity of the report. This week, The Week Online spoke with Dr. Lester Grinspoon, also of Harvard. Dr. Grinspoon is one of the world's foremost marijuana researchers and is author of several books including the seminal "Marihuana Reconsidered."

Below is the overview that appeared in last week's issue, followed by our interview with Dr. Grinspoon, conducted March 15.

from The Week Online, Issue #128:

A study presented this week by Dr. Murray A. Middleman at the American Heart Association's annual conference on cardiovascular disease in San Diego, showed that smoking marijuana significantly raises the risk of heart attack in people already at risk through heart disease.

Dr. Middleman noted that marijuana's tendency to increase heart rates in reclining smokers, and for those rates to drop precipitously when the individual stands up, may pose significant risks for people with coronary disease. The group studied 3,882 heart attack sufferers, of which 124 were marijuana users. Of those, 37 claimed to have used marijuana within 24 hours of their heart attack, and 9 had used it within the previous hour. The risk, said the researchers, was 4.8 times higher than normal within an hour of smoking, but dropped precipitously to 1.7 times normal risk by the second hour.

Interview with Lester Grinspoon:

WOL: Dr. Grinspoon, what is your assessment of the Middleman report?

Dr. Grinspoon: (Laughs). I've been getting phone calls all week about it. I even spoke with Dr. Middleman this week to ask him for his report. It has not yet been written. In fact, he does have an abstract. Now, let me say that since 1967 there have been numerous reports and studies, each of which the American media has blown out of all proportion, stating one or another supposed ill effect of marijuana use. I can list them, if you'd like. 'Increase in the size of the ventricles, decrease in testosterone, destruction of chromosomes.' All were front-page stories, none of them have ever been replicated. In other words, they didn't pan out scientifically. Of course, the studies that contradicted them ended up on page 31 or thereabouts, if they got mentioned at all.

WOL: So you don't give much weight to Dr. Middleman's findings?

Dr. Grinspoon: Well, I would point out that out of 3,882 patients, we're talking about 9 who used marijuana within an hour of the onset of a heart attack. That's around 0.2%. By sheer mathematics, given that people sleep eight hours per day or so, we can deduce that 6.7% of those patients emptied their bowels within an hour of onset. It's incredible to me that the numbers here could be said to constitute a significant risk factor.

WOL: Dr. Middleman said in an interview that he believes that it is the increased heart rate from smoking marijuana that is responsible.

Dr. Grinspoon: Yes, and he put that increase at 40 beats per minute. In truth, that number is closer to 20 beats per minute, which is probably consistent with running up the stairs in one's house.

WOL: So you disagree with Dr. Middleman's characterization of the risk as 'significant'?

Dr. Grinspoon: First, let me say that I blame the media far more than I do Dr. Middleman. I read his abstract, and in its conclusion he cautioned against making too much of the data. Conceivably, there is some risk, although if there is, it is barely measurable. Even assuming that the data presented is right, one must still wait to see if it can be replicated.

WOL: You seem to be pretty skeptical about the chances of that happening.

Dr. Grinspoon: Well, in 1997, Kaiser Permanente did a large- scale study which included more than 65,000 admitted marijuana users, and they could not demonstrate any impact of marijuana use on mortality. If marijuana use really was a significant risk factor for heart attack, it is hard to believe that it didn't turn up there. Again, I'm not saying that there is absolutely no risk demonstrated here. But given the history of the research since 1967, I'd be surprised if these findings don't go down the same chute as all of the other front-page scare stories.

NOTE: In the April, 1997 edition of The American Journal of Public Health, Dr. Stephen Sidney writes about a long-term (12-year) study undertaken by Kaiser Permanente -- a medical insurer/provider, therefore an entity with a fiduciary interest in the integrity of the results -- into the mortality rates of marijuana smokers. The study population comprised 65,171 subjects aged 15 through 49 years. Conclusion: Marijuana use had little effect on non-AIDS mortality in men and on total mortality in women (Am J Public Health. 1997;87:585-590).

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Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it.
Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and
gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim --
when he defends himself -- as a criminal.
-- Frederic Bastiat, "The Law"

THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE

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

Asthma excerpted from Emperor

Cannabis Blocks Irreversible Brain Damage

Cannabis prevents brain damage

Marijuana-Like Chemical May Control Coughing
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread7522.shtml

Marijuana-Like Chemical Helps Relieve Coughs
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread7521.shtml

CannabisNews Articles - Canada
http://cannabisnews.com/thcgi/search.pl?K=canada

Marijuana Doesn't Cause Lung Cancer
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread10025.shtml

Assassins of Youth DARE FRCn PDFA!
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Stossel: Drug Program Doesn't Work
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9870.shtml

"A violently active, intrepid, brutal youth that is what I am after...
I will have no intellectual training.
Knowledge is ruin for my young men."
Adolf Hitler quoted by John Gunther "The Nation"



Monsanto's Cliarence to determine Angel's case?
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With the billions of tax dollars given to Monsanto over the years perpetuating the elimination of cannabis and hemp, and the destruction of environmental laws on behalf of Monsanto's lawyer Clairance. How do they spell conflict of interest?

Monsanto Lawyer Cliarence Thomas
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4375.shtml
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Monsanto - StLouis Ashkrist-Cliarence & Ditchweed
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4371.shtml
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends on his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair, "The Jungle"

Cannabis is Medicine: Get Over It!
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George McMahon, one of the remaining patients in the federal medical marijuana program and a founding member of Patients Out of Time
http://www.trvnet.net/~mmcmahon

"I realize now that I was never blinded by glaucoma, I was blinded by ignorance"
Elvy Musikka Interviewed by Dana Larsen
http://cannabisculture.com/backissue...6/elvybod.html

Long-Term Pot-Use Study: No Ill Health Effects
The Missoula Chronic Clinical Cannabis Use Study-headed by Montana neurologist Dr. Ethan Russo and Virginia nurse Mary Lynn Mathre, cofounder of Patients Out of Time-investigated "the therapeutic benefits and adverse effects" among patients receiving cannabis through the department of Health and Human Services' Compassionate Investigational New Drug program.
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread10533.shtml

Patients Out of Time
http://www.medicalcannabis.com

Missoula Chronic Cannabis Use Research Study
http://www.maps.org/mmj/russo.4-2001.html

Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread8466.shtml

HEMP MEDICAL & HEALTH ROOM
http://hempmuseum.org/SUBROOMS/HEMP%20MED%20MISCEL.htm



Proposition 215: Text of Proposed Law

This initiative measure is submitted to the people in accordance with the provisions of Article II, Section 8 of the Constitution.

This initiative measure adds a section to the Health and Safety Code; therefore, new provisions proposed to be added are printed in italic type to indicate that they are new.

PROPOSED LAW

SECTION 1. Section 11362.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

11362.5. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Compassionate Use Act of 1996.

(b)(1) The people of the State of California hereby find and declare that the purposes of the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 are as follows:

(A) To ensure that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes where that medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person's health would benefit from the use of marijuana in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.

(B) To ensure that patients and their primary caregivers who obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes upon the recommendation of a physician are not subject to criminal prosecution or sanction.

(C) To encourage the federal and state governments to implement a plan to provide for the safe and affordable distribution of marijuana to all patients in medical need of marijuana. continued...
http://vote96.ss.ca.gov/Vote96/html/BP/215text.htm

NORML Ranks California First in Marijuana Arrests
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20386.shtml



Cannabis Club Raided By Rosanna Mah March 23, 2005
The United Medical Caregivers Clinic on Tuesday, March 15, at around 3 p.m. after receiving a resident’s complaint about people smoking marijuana joints along Wilshire Boulevard and Muirfield Avenue, not far from the location of the clinic.
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20396.shtml

Comprehensive Analysis Of US Marijuana Arrest Data
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg1x79547.shtml

U.S. prison population largest in world
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P31523E28

Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1CC63B28

Human Rights and the Drug War
http://www.hr95.org

2 Million, Too Many Prisoners!

In the year 2000, the US prison population for the first time in history hit 2,000,000 inmates, largely due to the Drug War. This is mostly due to drug penalties. You will learn about this issue on our website, and we also recomend visiting november.org to become more actively involved locally in the reform effort.


http://www.hr95.org/Shattered.htm

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
O! Had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear,
I would today, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach,
withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.
For it is not light that is needed, but fire;
it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.
We need the storm, the whirlwind, the earthquake.
The feeling of the nation must be quickened;
the conscience of the nation must be roused;
the propriety of the nation must be startled;
the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed;
its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
-- Frederick Douglass

The Police State Cometh by Ron Paul
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/co.../cr062597b.htm



DEAth implements US police state (Thread)
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x5028.shtml

* The Police State Cometh by Ron Paul
* DEA implements US police state
* Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417
* Bush Crimes Against Humanity
* Bush: Timeline of Treason
* Bushladen and the Terrorists Carlyles Groups
* SENTENCING IS PERVERSE IN WAR ON DRUGS
* DRUG PROHIBITION: A PERVERTED INSTINCT?
* In pursuit of truth and justice in California
* Out of control
* Women in Prison
* THE DRUG WAR IS A FRAUD
* The Drug War: Suppression Tactics Will Never Work
* The Duplicity of the War on Drugs
* The Cold War of the '90's
* Cannabis Report Challenges `Zero Tolerance'
* JUST SAY NO TO AMERICA
* HOW THE NARCS CREATED CRACK
* Do Guilt and Innocence Still Count in America?
* DEFYING 70 YEARS OF PROHIBITION
* Corporations That Own Our Media