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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
-- C.S. Lewis, in "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment,"
an essay from "God In The Dock

The Case for Legal Pot Use By David Lazarus
Source: San Francisco Chronicle November 20, 2005*USA
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week approved new rules to allow most of the city's 33 pot clubs to continue dispensing medical marijuana. Earlier this month, Denver became the first major city nationwide to legalize small amounts of cannabis.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21323.shtml

The Miron Report
Time for a Marijuana Sales Tax
The High Cost of Prohibition

"I don't do drugs anymore. I'll tell you something about drugs, honestly, and I know it's not a very popular idea - you don't hear it very often anymore - but, it is the truth: I had a great time doing drugs. Sorry. Never murdered anyone, never robbed anyone, never raped anyone, never beat anyone, never lost a job, a car, a house, a wife or kids. Laughed my ass off and went about my day. Sorry."
- Bill Hicks



Medical Pot Bill Will Get Hearing By Phil Brinkman
Source: Wisconsin State Journal November 21, 2005
Every day for the past 23 years, Irv Rosenfeld has smoked up to a dozen marijuana cigarettes. On probably every one of those days, someone, somewhere, was arrested for doing the same thing. But the government not only doesn't care about Rosenfeld's drug use; it's been his supplier.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21328.shtml


K.C. ALFRED / Union-Tribune
A patient who said he has chronic pain in his hands looked at marijuana clones at Tripple Holistic Chronic in North Park yesterday. The dispensary's owner said he would proceed with expansion plans despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Wisconsin NORML
Is My Medicine Legal Yet?
State Bill Could Legalize Medical Marijuana
Medical Marijuana To Be Proposed in Assembly
Coffee With... Gary Storck

If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you
must say, going on by degrees, "Would there were no steel," because of the murderers,
"Would there were no night," because of the thieves, "Would there were no light,"
because of the informers, and "Would there were no women," because of adultery.
-- St. John Chrysostom, "Homilies," circa 388



Marijuana: A Pointless But Ending War By Erik Copeli
Source: Knight News November 21, 2005 New York *
Back in my supermarket days as a stock boy, a coworker gave me an anecdote about how he was getting high with his friends at a deserted rail yard. Two police officers appeared suddenly, so the kids languidly tried to hide their joints behind their backs. After some half-baked attempts to lose the police, they gave up their joints. Instead of arresting them, however, the policemen stomped on their joints and simply shooed the kids away, where they would perhaps find another place to loiter and smoke up.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21326.shtml

Have an Open Mind on Failing Drug Laws
Marijuana Laws Need To Go Up in Smoke
Speakout: Time Has Come To Legalize Marijuana

The passing of an unjust law is the suicide of authority.
-- Pastoral Letter of the American Roman Catholic Hierarchy, February 1920



Is Pot a Real Bummer? Study Doesn't Think So By Kenneth Aaron
Source: Times Union November 18, 2005 Albany *
Why the long face? Not smoking pot, perhaps?
University at Albany psychology professor Mitchell Earleywine and Thomas F. Denson, of the University of Southern California, recently completed a study finding that people who smoke marijuana are less depressed than those who never smoke.
Read More... http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/nobummer.htm

CannabisNews -- Cannabis Archives

Marijuana a Safer Alternative Than Alcohol By Scott Hagen
Source: Rebel Yell*November 17, 2005
Denver, Colo. has proclaimed itself the nation's forerunner for dealing with domestic violence. Billboards previously pasted up in the city showed the image of an abused woman, promoting support of Initiative 100 to "Reduce family & community violence in Denver," and, earlier this month, voters successfully willed it into action. Marijuana possession for recreational purposes is now legal for the first time in an American city.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21318.shtml

Safer Choice



Drug Policy and Prison Reform Become Major Issues in Alabama Election
If you listen hard, you can hear a rumbling undercurrent of discontent from the Southern United States about the controversial issues of the failed drug war and the massive negative societal damage it has wrought in one of the poorest and most remote corners of the nation.

NORML's Weekly News Bulletin
November 17, 2005 Sebastopol, CA, USA

Crohn's Patients Report Symptomatic Relief From Cannabis
Patients with Crohn's disease report subjective benefits from cannabis, including pain relief and increased appetite, according to survey data published in the autumn issue of O'Shaughnessy's: The Journal of Cannabis in Clinical Practice.

O'Shaughnessy's Journal of the California Cannabis Research Medical Group

The William B. O'Shaughnessy Archive
a repository of information by and about this much under appreciated medical, chemical, and electrical pioneer

Society of Cannabis Clinicians

For more information, please contact Paul Armentano, NORML Senior Policy Analyst, at (202) 483-5500. A summary of the study, "Cannabis alleviates symptoms of Crohn's disease," is available online at http://www.ccrmg.org/journal/05aut/chrons.html
DL: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6725

CannabisNews NORML Archives



Whither Medical Marijuana? by Lester Grinspoon, MD
From Contemporary Drug Problems, Volume 27, Spring, 2000
Cannabis was first admitted to Western pharmacopoeias one and a half centuries ago. In 1839 W. B. O'Shaughnessy at the Medical College of Calcutta observed its use in the indigenous treatment of various disorders and found that tincture of hemp was an effective analgesic, anticonvulsant, and muscle relaxant.

W. B. O'Shaughnessy
On the Preparations of the Indian Hemp, or Gunjah (Cannabis indica): The Effects on the Animal System in Health, and Their Utility in the Treatment of Tetanus and Other Convulsive Diseases. Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bengal (1838-1840), p. 460.



Cannabis Extracts Relieve Arthritis Pain, Study Says

Study: Smoking Marijuana Does Not Cause Lung Cancer By FRED GARDNER

The Cannabis Consultants By Fred Gardner

Government exists to protect us from each other.
Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
-- Ronald Reagan, The New York Times, April 13, 1980

San Francisco Okays Guidelines For Medical Cannabis Distribution

Medical Cannabis Picture Gallery - Fluid Extracts

Whenever the offense inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigor of
penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.
-- Edward Gibbon,
"The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," 1776

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US Sailing Bans Sailor for Medical Marijuana By Jessica Ricci
Source: Providence Phoenix Rhode Island November 23, 2005
Competitive sailor Irvin Rosenfeld has been using medical grade marijuana for 20 years to treat multiple congenital cartilaginous exostosis, a disease that causes bone tumors to grow on most of the long bones of his body. The 52-year-old Florida stockbroker, who joined a federal program called Compassionate Care Investigational New Drug in 1982, says the 10 to 12 marijuana cigarettes he gets each day from Uncle Sam offer the only relief for his excruciating chronic pain. He is one of six current participants in the program.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21333.shtml

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But medical cannabis is a hippie myth, the same as hemp, no one ever really used it did they? Maybe no one will see the pictures, otherwise they might start thinking these hippies were right about war, frankenfoods and pollution... There goes the profits on bandaids!
So don't tell anybody. Let the Sheep Graze in Peace til the Holiday Exploitations are over.
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