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- jamh, on 03/28/2009, -1/+141Such hypocrisy in our nation
- FLMarijuana, on 03/29/2009, -1/+132I've met this guy. He lives in my town and he sometimes smokes right in front of the cops and they can't do ANYTHING about it. The local police even circulated memos amongst each other saying that they can't arrest him. Go Irv Rosenfeld!
- p420, on 03/29/2009, -1/+101It's so wrong that some people are allowed marijuana under federal law but everyone else isn't. The federal government provides marijuana to some people but then a guy like charles lynch who provides marijuana to cancer patients is facing up to a 100 yrs of prison.
Numerous states have taken matters into their own hands because they see that laws against medical marijuana are broken. The federal government gives it out to a select few and we are getting close to half the states in the country legalizing medical marijuana.
It's time we stop with the games and just legalize it as a medicine. There are numerous legal medications out there that have side effects including death, blindness, vomiting, diarrheam, and severe depression. There is no reason marijuana shouldn't be a legal medicine as well even though it has negative effects on the lungs if smoked. - Frankyfan3, on 03/29/2009, -1/+874 patients are still receiving medicinal marijuana from the federal government.
Here's a great vid of an interview with one of those patients:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7r8NeKuzt8 - eflux, on 03/29/2009, -1/+72I've known for years that the federal government supplies marijuana to patients. It's about time that someone brought this to the attention of their state reps in states where medical marijuana is still illegal. Hell, how can the DEA state there is "no medicinal value" when the federal government is growing it themselves?
What about the thousands of different medicines that were made using marijuana and extracts before the 1937 prohibition started? Yup, marijuana was one of the most widely used medicines in the world back when it was commonly called cannabis. That's right, before they started calling it reefer and marijuana to imply it's usage by poor Mexicans and African-Americans in an attempt to frighten the public into the reefer-madness that still shows it's face today.
The prohibition of marijuana was created for nothing else but to keep the alcohol prohibition forces employed. Henry J. Anslinger didn't want his prohibition force to go away when alcohol prohibition was ended, so he created a war on marijuana to save the jobs of a few men. A cowardly move that has brought over 70 years of heartache and disaster for millions of law abiding Americans. - iceman0113, on 03/29/2009, -2/+54The law applies to only some people.
- AnonthePyro, on 03/29/2009, -1/+40I hope that guy brings enough attention to himself so the public will be looking at the government and asking "Explain."
- D1Foley, on 03/29/2009, -0/+32Yeah he is the man, I know this isn't the first time I've seen him at a medical marijuana hearing showing off his tin or federally issues marijuana.
- sugarazor, on 03/29/2009, -2/+26It applies to no one anymore, these people were just grandfathered in. I believe it was George H.W. Bush that put an end to the program. Penn & Teller did a show about the exact guy in this article about five years ago.
- objektiv1, on 03/29/2009, -2/+26Why would we license mexian growers? All the best strains have been cultivated and developed in the US and Canada not to mention we send farming to Mexico? Why? Keep it US. Not to mention most growing methods were developed in the US.
- fury420, on 03/29/2009, -0/+24why must he hide it?
what he is doing is completely within the law, he has all the valid documentation, and the joints came directly from a Pharmacy.
i see no reason why he shouldn't be touring the country pointing out the hypocrisy of providing him with medicine for 22 years, yet arresting & jailing other patients diagnosed with the same disease who are prescribed and using the same medicine. - mrsteveman1, on 03/29/2009, -1/+24I find it absurd that they think its important to keep it in a safe. I can go buy it without a problem on the street, or if i lived in california, from a ***** vending machine.
They seem to have this sense of self importance, in protecting and restricting access to it, as if it matters, as if it is so dangerous or valuable as to require protection to keep it out of the hands of others.
They don't even protect vicodin that securely in a pharmacy, and there are more dangerous drugs available over the counter that can be abused. - Frankyfan3, on 03/29/2009, -0/+21I concur that keeping Anslinger and his thugs with lucrative jobs was one of the main reasons the reefer madness craze came into being.
It is but one layer to the onion of marijuana prohibition conspiracy, and there are many other players including Dupont chemical companies and William Randolph Hearst.
This article, never published, by popular mechanics magazine is a clue as to why a plastics company & a land baron newspaper mogul would work with Anslinger to convince the public that the devil's weed is a threat to our children and our country:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/history/n ...
Later on, Nixon & Rockefeller ignored the recommendations of their own advisers and scientifically based studies to demonize marijuana as a communist tool to dull the capabilities of the American youth. Nixon was recorded on tape explicitly stating he was in favor of harsher penalties for marijuana regardless of the results of the Shafer Commission because it was a way to keep control of the hippies, the jews and the blacks.
There is ample evidence that President George Washington smoked or used cannabis medicinally. He had instructed his slaves to separate the male and female hemp plants before pollination, which is apparently a tactic utilized by growers to increase the cannabinoid compounds of the plant, and does not impact the level of fiber output... although it must be said that the fiber and energy capabilities of cannabis hemp is one of the main reasons it remains illegal.
The marijuana reefer madness fiasco that painted it as something which "would make white women go to bed with negro jazz musicians" was not the driving force, but more of a tool used to sway the masses. Once federal prohibition went into effect, the primary targets of Anslinger and his mob were the large industrial hemp farms, not small grow ops for wacky tobacky.
The more I learn about this history, the more disgusted I get, but like you... I feel the need to pass this information on to anyone that is interested. :) - GovernmentsGun, on 03/29/2009, -0/+19The day I see the government care about right and wrong is the day the world will end.
- Unreal030, on 03/29/2009, -0/+17In recent news....Britney Spears shaves her head and Lindsay Lohan crashes into someone while drunk again. We will be covering this for the next 5 weeks. I think we heard something about the administration claiming Iran has nukes again and that we may seek military action, but we will tell you about that in 5 weeks, this is more important right now.
- noumuon, on 03/29/2009, -2/+17so he's smoked 10 to 12 joints a day for 22 years from the government. if the government is to be believed, 1 joints is as bad for you as 5 cigarettes. that's 50 to 60 cigarettes a day or 2.5 to 3 packs of cigarettes per day for 22 years. would anyone have 108% lung capacity after smoking 2.5 to 3 packs of cigarettes a day for 22 years? somehow i think we're being lied to by the government. big surprise. -_-
- mrsteveman1, on 03/29/2009, -1/+16Hypocrisy, and stupidity:
"They continue to get their marijuana on a fairly regular basis. They have to work with a pharmacy that's been approved by NIDA and that has a secure safe."
A secure safe? Are you ***** kidding? - fuzzybeard, on 03/29/2009, -2/+16We all know what'll happen after that: Either a conveniently timed natural disaster, a new war cropping up somewhere, or the MSM getting their collective panties in a wad about something that'll distract most of the population until it's a non-story again.
- diggdowner, on 03/29/2009, -2/+15That guy was on the Penn & Teller: *****! episode on the War on Drugs. I was hoping he'd show up on TV again!
- Spandia, on 03/29/2009, -1/+14That's Irv, the guy from the article.
- fury420, on 03/29/2009, -2/+15impeach? lawl, what for?
i've yet to hear anyone mention legitimate grounds for impeachment proceedings against obama, and no, "because they wanted to impeach Bush!" is not a good enough reason - Unreal030, on 03/29/2009, -3/+14Please stop saying your a Ron Paul supporter. There is no reason to impeach him as of yet and you nutjobs that cling to him are making the rest of us in the Ron Paul movement look bad. Just stfu and put your tinfoil hat on and sit in your basement like a good little conspiracy theorist.
- ohreilly, on 03/29/2009, -2/+13wrong on so many levels.
Impeaching Obama because he won't let you spark up every night? hahahahaha. - inactive, on 03/29/2009, -1/+11The farce is strong in this one (nation).
- MtheoryX, on 03/29/2009, -2/+11I think she was way too young for you to be thinking of doing that to her, especially in Wonderland.
- wafflesomd, on 03/30/2009, -0/+8This is a little off topic, sort of. But still interesting and furthers the hypocrisy that is the current war on drugs.
I'm very well educated when it comes to drugs. I've only smoked marijuana but up until recently I decided to try some opiates.
I started reading up on different types of opiates (about an hour after taking 20mg of Hydrocodone). There is a substance called Ibogaine. The most documented and well known use of this drug is it's ability to completely nullify all withdrawal symptoms that opioid abusers may experience. It can also help treat dependencies of alcohol, amphetamines, and nicotine.
This substance is however, illegal in the U.S.
This makes no sense to me. - mrsteveman1, on 03/29/2009, -1/+9Ok then, forget the vending machine. Everyone in high school knows someone that can get them pot. I would bet that a significant portion of the population could find it in 30 minutes or less.
- hydrodev, on 03/29/2009, -1/+9and?
- Alias1431, on 03/30/2009, -0/+8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1NggzEkltM&fea ...
WHY IS THIS ILLEGAL???? - sugarazor, on 03/29/2009, -5/+13I'm somewhat familiar with the story, so I didn't feel the need to read the entire thing, no need to get all pissy about it.
- darkintheglow, on 03/29/2009, -1/+9No, "supplies." The IND is still providing medicine to the grandfathered patients.
- torvik, on 03/29/2009, -3/+10I don't understand anything anymore. It's like ***** Alice in Wonderland.
- Liability, on 03/29/2009, -1/+8
Hey wut r u guys talkin' about? The next American Idol? - Wittyfish, on 03/29/2009, -2/+9I believe study you are referring to recently had its methods released (after much delay), it was found that the monkeys in question were actually being fed pure smoke from marijuana to such an extent that they were being oxygen deprived to the point of suffocation. According to this study, marijuana shrinks your brain as well (but suffocation causes the same results so further testing should be done).
- wo0dy, on 03/29/2009, -3/+10***** mexico man let the canadians or americans grow it, keep the money local.
- onelikeseabass, on 03/29/2009, -6/+13sugarazor: Yes, as it was clearly stated in the article, George H.W. Bush's administration did end the program.
"More patients joined the Compassionate IND program, but in the 1980s, it looked like it would grow significantly because of AIDS. So The George H.W. Bush administration shut it down in 1991."
It's truly astounding the number of people that post comments on stories that they haven't even read! - fuzzybeard, on 03/29/2009, -2/+9Funny thing is that a long time ago, (not in a galaxy far, far away either...) the Feds *ENCOURAGED* the growth of hemp (Cannabis sativa sativa, not Cannabis Sativa indica; aka Marijuana). Wanna call ***** on me? Here's the film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCFR9MJJyOE
IMO, all it would take is a bit of genetic engineering to combine the favorable traits of both species. - PhairOh, on 03/29/2009, -2/+8It's hard to find, but this article is from 2005.
- onelikeseabass, on 03/29/2009, -0/+6Yea, and if you had RTFA you would have seen that it is in fact grown at a University in Mississippi.
"They continue to get their marijuana on a fairly regular basis. They have to work with a pharmacy that's been approved by NIDA and that has a secure safe. Then usually a five month supply is shipped at once, and the patient is informed so they can pick it up. The marijuana is grown on a farm at the University of Mississippi, mostly from seeds of Mexican origin, rolled and packaged at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina under the supervision of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)." - noumuon, on 03/29/2009, -1/+7no, and thank you to whomever for digging me down. in the study you're talking about with the rhesus monkeys, the methodology has been known for quite some time as that particular study is rather old. i'm referring to another study: http://news.healingwell.com/index.php?p=news1& ...
"For the study, Beasley's group collected data on 339 people. The group consisted of people who smoked at least one marijuana cigarette a day for five years; people who smoked a pack of tobacco cigarettes a day for at least a year; and people who smoked both. There were also people who didn't smoke either tobacco or marijuana."
government sources such as NIDA have used the claims of the study. the study above is far from conclusive however, and is still rather problematic with its picking of groups. it also seems to imply that smoking 10 to 12 joints a day for 22 years would be very detrimental to the lungs, which isn't found in the case above. - ZinjaShike, on 03/30/2009, -0/+6I believe this guy was on Pen and Teller's BS! Awesome guy . . . he's been going on for years telling the government to get their damn facts straight, but alas they rather legislate chimps . . .
- CleoQKazoo, on 03/30/2009, -0/+5If you use a vaporizer it greatly reduces the harm done to your lungs
- fuzzybeard, on 03/29/2009, -0/+5Humanity's been performing genetic engineering for centuries. Selective breeding, grafting, hybridization, etcetera. Just because a phrase might have a negative connotation doesn't necessarily make it so
- snafflepaffle, on 03/29/2009, -1/+6You probably could. What he gets is ***** weed with almost no THC.
- hotpuck6, on 03/29/2009, -0/+5Guess the government grows crap.
- inactive, on 03/29/2009, -0/+5Makes sense.
- katie212, on 03/29/2009, -0/+5Know why the government doesn't want the so called loser "War on Drugs" to ever end? The U.S. government hates competition.
- Chimone, on 03/29/2009, -2/+6game, set, match
- Rain12913, on 03/29/2009, -2/+6Fun Fact: Canada is physically closer to the United States than Mexico is!
/s - Ajajadude, on 03/29/2009, -1/+5That vending machine isn't exactly your garden variety vending machine. Most vending machines don't require access cards and security guards. So, it might as well be , excuse me while a paraphrase, in a ***** safe.
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