My van is made entirely out of marijuana.

Pot will only be partially decriminalized so that its sale and distribution can be controlled by Big Pharma.

Let’s see now. Marijuana is bad (According to most of our pols) so companies are right to fire people using it, even if a doctor prescribes it. Alcohol, caffein and tobacco are okay, even their more addictive.

40 per cent of the violent crimes are committed by people using alcohol. THis is more than any other substance. But that isn’t outlawed and neither should marijuana.

A variety of grapes has also been through testing and found to kill and or prevent growth of cancer cells. Very reputable universities did that testing. There is so much money in cancer that it may be more profitable to some to allow the disease to continue to ravage lives rather than lose profits.

Let us not forget that there is a presidential candidate that just introduced legislation to decriminalize marijuana.  His name is Ron Paul.

Obama still laughs out loud when medical marijuana is brought up to him.

Are you a Ron Paul fan?

I think Kurt was just stating the obvious; I don’t think he was promoting it.

So is most of my past.

and in a pill, after they remove the part that gets you high.

Bottom line: Alcohol KILLS. Marijuana HEALS. Politicians are owned. Nothing sensible changes or happens.

I think he’s sincere and has integrity, which separates him from most politicians, but I don’t share too much of his domestic political philosophy.

Would have to say, no, not a fan.

I think he’s sincere and has integrity, which separates him from most politicians, but I don’t share too much of his domestic political philosophy.

Would have to say, no, not a fan.

Obama stammers on Medical MJ:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=592LpOQXoCw

Same is true for diabetes, aids, and many other chronic diseases.  You don’t hear about a cure any more, but about managing the disease.

Huh??  FDA regulations (which Ron Paul fights against) are what drive us into the arms of Big Pharma.  They work hand in hand. 

Seems like you would be.  I guess you’re not as informed as I suspected…..

And huge parts of my present.

cancer is the not the only disease perpetuated by big pharma.  alzheimer’s disease also appears to have an inexpensive and much more effective treatment in the drug Clioquinol, which has been taken off the market.  its said that Clioquinol caused neuropathy in patients, which is true, but with supplemental B12 there is no problem.  you can wait for Prana Pharmaceuticals to come out with PBT2, in a few more years, or you can get you Clioquinol now from a compounding chemist.  AD is a 168 billion dollar industry.  cancer is even more.  pharmaceutical companies want to cure disease the same way Lockheed wants a peaceful world…

Could it be this van by chance? You’re not smoking Labrador, are you?

http://images.mylot.com/userImages/images/postphotos/2166237.jpg

Where do we sign up for trials, maaaaaaan?

yeah but he also believes scientists are liars and that evolution has no evidence… 
he also believes that women should be forced to carry unwanted children even if that pregnancy is life threatening, or due to rape.
he also believes social security should be abolished, but has never put up a better idea to take care of the hundreds of thousands of fully paralized, autistic, or other such helpless people.

They learned their lesson with polio. Actually cured that sucker. And they never made a penny off of it (other than vaccines) again. LOTS more money in keeping people sick and taking pills for the rest of their lives.

I consider big pharma to be one of the most immoral industries on the planet. Their goal is to make money off of your suffering for the rest of your life. Meanwhile, they kill 200,000 of us in the average year. Cannabis kills no one, and even cures cancers.

Ask the gentleman in Montana who just helped his 2 year old son beat stage 4 brain cancer with it. The kid is now 3 and healthy and happy. The chemo was killing him. Or the man who was recently cured of leukemia within weeks of starting THC oil therapy. The medical community had written him off as dead, and now he is cancer free. Or read the Spanish studies that show that it does indeed kill cancerous tumors. In one man’s case, it killed off a tumor of over two POUNDS.

We don’t need to screw with it, just use it as nature gave it to us. It doesn’t need massive chemical alteration, it works the way it is. So someone gets a buzz off of it. If they are alive and their life is worth living again, isn’t that a small price for society to pay?

We need to get off this hypocritical nonsense about how Prozac, Valium, and the lot of THOSE are okay, but cannabis isn’t. GOD made cannabis, MAN makes those pills. Those pills KILL. Cannabis cures. Make your choice. Just don’t be doing any prescription drugs when you make it. Those things make people crazy.

and some additives to give you negative side-effects:
1) to teach you a lesson!; and
2) to fill out half of their commercials with a fast voice.

and some additives to give you negative side-effects:
1) to teach you a lesson!; and
2) to fill out half of their commercials with a fast voice.

That’s right, and he also wants to kill YOU!!!  He he….  No really, Ron Paul is correct in that there has to be major changes to SS and Medicare, or those programs will not last long into the future.  He says you should be able to opt out, and plan for your own retirement.  Is this what you’re talking about?  I know the idea that someone can be self-reliant is baffling to many of you, but it’s really an attractive option.  And pete’s sake, how dare someone defend a defenseless life??  He wants abortion to be handled at the state level, but he has said that he is personally appalled by abortion.  I am too!!  Sue me!!! 

MJ can be used to treat cancer well I’m sure that in light of this news Obama will be sure to do what ever his corporate masters tell him to do.

It’s high time to end anti-narco terrorism. The government is addicted to repression and control-maybe they all ought to light(en) up and chill out.

WARNING: The Surgeon General has determined marijuana may be beneficial to your life.

WARNING: The Federal Government has determined that marijuana usage may cause individuals to support left wing causes.

WARNING: The general populace has determined that the Federal Government is composed of uptight control freaks who are under the direct control and pay of corporate interests.

You know that Big Pharma has known about these herbal qualities since Day 1.
Making people sick and dying for profit is their mission.
Hemp is without peer, not only as medical gold, which should be enough, but also for its 20,000 other non-medical uses. A $1,000,000,000,000 industry that can help the US and the WORLD out of the current slump of insanity.
Gov Brown said he would sign the legalization bill for industrial hemp when it crosses his desk.
The world is waiting. It will be a remarkable revolution.

Prohibition will go down in history as one of the biggest injustices and failings of all time.

Voth is obviously one of the most selfish and unethical pharmaceutical shills on the planet.  Marijuana is one of the most “tested” substances in the history of mankind.  At the same time, most pharmaceutical medications have hideous and deadly side affects that kill people by the thousands yearly. Marijuana has never killed anyone. Yet this guy tries to affect disapproval of a number of different cannabinoids (with zero evidence for concerns) while pharmaceutical meds are filled with known toxins that kill and debilitate.   Pharmaceutical Painkillers destroy liver and kidneys and are addictive while marijuana does none of that.  Still Voth , the pharmaceuticals shill, completely neglects to mention it. 

It is people like Voth protecting their income and shilling for big oppressive Big Pharma that are willing to do and say things that keep people suffering and dying and have set medicine back hundreds of years.  If this guy was my doctor, I would never ever return.  No way. What a complete and total piece of shit.  I’d bet the farm if he was suffering and he tried marijuana he would take it over that toxic garbage they want to force on people in a heartbeat.  People like Voth should be shunned and despised. 

Like Alcohol and Pharmaceuticals,  as soon as someone actually dies from it will become legal.

the purpose of government in my opinion is to take care of the things that are not profitable enough for the free market to deal with… such as taking care of the infirm.

opt out of SS? thats nice, except the people who need it truly, never put anything in to it usually, they are being paid for by the people who can.

and again, hes put forward no solution to take care of those folks… frequently they are abandoned, no family, no friends, no one to pay for them, and no ability to pay for themselves.. so yes, he wants to kill them, and thats sick.

but the real problem is the first statement, which you didn’t address. He denies evidence, he lies to himself, and to others, pretending the world is one way when its not. Any politician who refuses to face facts, and runs on a platform of ignorance is bliss… should be kept out of office. I want the people running the country SMARTER than me, not dumber than a box of rocks.

Go figure… a wonder drug is withheald because it heals is fun and cheap. Thank you politicians and corporations of america

Why did a Republican presidential candidate introduce legislation to decriminalize it then?  Why is it a left/right issue?  The only difference in the two is what special interest they’re catering to.  Open your eyes!!! 

Ahem, I believe they’re called Paultards.

Now that straights and gays can marry, it’s time to marry juana. #dadhumor

seems you are the average ron paul fan, less informed than the average ape.

Something free and can grow almost anywhere that has literally a multitude of uses is illegal. All for the profit of small minded, arrogant fools.

Hey Montana, want to stick it in the eye of the Feds? Legalize hemp.

I would bet my life on the fact that Dr. Paul is much smarter than you.  Is evolution really the biggest problem in politics?  Give me a effing break.  Our economy is collapsing (which he predicted).  The Federal Reserve is getting ready to print off a couple trillion more dollars for a stimulus (which will inevitably cause the recession/depression to continue indefinitely).  We’re about to put ground troops in Libya (Ron Paul opposed this war from the very beginning, as well as every other war we’re in that’s bankrupting us).  If you want to pretend evolution is our biggest issue, then you go right ahead and do that.  You will get the economic collapse you’re not anticipating.  I hope you enjoy it.   

If this Dr Voth is not a shill for Big Pharma, I’ll eat my keyboard. Call me cynical, but wouldn’t a real doctor (one not in the pocket of the Pharma Industry) want to try anything that is safe, by modern standards, in an attempt to alleviate a patient’s symptoms?  Yes, testing is a necessary thing, but Marijuana has been used, medicinally, for thousands of years and there is enough data to show it basically harmless to our internal organs and quickly metabolized.  To scoff at the usefulness and effectiveness of cannabinoids is just a stupid and uneducated posture.

Ohhhhh……I knew it wouldn’t take long for the name calling.  You can insult me all you’d like, but that’s not going to change the facts.  Hopefully anyone reading this will go research the issues themselves. 

That’s me!!!!! 

Only reason alcohol became legal once again was that alcohol was fueling the rise of new wealth for dirty immigrants. A stroke of the pen and BAM the alcohol profits were once again in the hands of “good, upstanding citizens”.

Okay which Pharma company is behind the scenes and three times removed via association pushing on this Bull Shit, and backing what Anti American corporate OWNED Bought and Paid For republican to push this PHONY report.

Please read the Pharma documentation from the 20′s-30′s-40′s and 50′s yup same song different singer. This is when they started their demonization and they have’t changed anything since, hell they OWN the republican Terrorist Anti American party.

Then you would probably have wasted your life. But that is aside the point, creationism vs evolution isnt the problem, its the result of a much bigger problem; Denying facts. Until there is a candidate that actually addresses the world as it is, not as some magical fantasy land where there is some benevolent big daddy in the sky who is going to make everything okay if we take a shit in our sandbox. Reality is not forgiving, we’ve had failure after failure in office on every level for the last century ruining our country, our world, and our culture. Ignorance is poison, and willful ignorance is malicious.

And honestly, most of these wars would not have happened if there was no ideological sky daddy we claim is telling us we should attack our neighbor. Whether were muslim, christian, jewish, mormon, or whatever other religion or socio-ideological stance of the month is on tap. All these people live in a fantasy land, and use that fantasy to exact horrible pain upon others of our tiny world. Ron paul is no different, he may not be for war, but his sadism will be self inflicted upon the american people, not the countries belonging to muslims or jews.

I’m personally appalled by Ron Paul and I can’t believe that people are falling for the old ghoul’s bullshit.  Obama seemed to be what the country needed to turn itself around but it didn’t take him long to prove he was just another corporate assmunch.  Ron Paul will be exactly the same and if you don’t see it, especially after the recent lesson of Obama, then you’re being willfully ignorant. 

I call them paulturds. 

“he tested synthetic cannabis drugs on cancer cells…”  NO NO NO…test the REAL CANNABIS! I had heard about Big Pharma’s attempt ruin another of God’s creations…

See “Run From The Cure” for some evidence of a REAL cure for cancer (there are many natural cures)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0psJhQHk_GI  if you have not yet seen it…

There we go……DISTRACT from the real issues!!!  You know I’ve never understood why people’s belief in God makes nonbelievers so angry.  I don’t hate people who don’t believe in God.  It’s kind of close-minded in my humble opinion.  Anyway, I agree, we have had lots of failure, and that all caused by disrespecting the Constitution.  I don’t see how Ron Paul is no different since he’s often the lone voice in Congress arguing for you and me…..he’s the only person who will tell us the TRUTH despite making enemies. 

It will be legal once they can have strict control over making profits on it.  

When they create a patent and make it  a prescription drug , sold exclusively by the Drug Empires at a price Most people can not afford , it  will be available.

You dont understand why? Here is why.
Billions of deaths over the centuries in the name of “God”.
Needless, wasted lives suffered for piety.
Willfull ignorance keeping the rest of the world from advancing in science and culture.
Peace destroyed because a tiny faction in a country decides their “god” is the only “god” that should be respected.
Ego and the loudest voice replacing reason.

Believe what you want, but when that belief impacts me, my friends, my family, my country… then that belief needs to go away. Every single war comes down to belief without a shred of evidence.

And since Ron Paul is just another one of these fools who believes and doesn’t think, he can stay the hell out of office.

You say he says the truth? he doesn’t know the truth, he only knows his religious fantasy and ignores the evidence before his very eyes.

That is dangerous.

No matter what the proof is scientifically the DEA (Michelle Leonhart) continues to refuse to remove cannabis from schedule one and the drug schedule completely.  And I was beginning to think I’d see it happen in my lifetime.  And Barry the former toker could do it all by himself with the stroke of the pen yet won’t.

I feel fit as a fiddle!

Ron Paul is a republican, and he just introduced legislation to decrimilize marijuana.  He constantly preaches on the terrible results of prohibition.  There’s an entire chapter devoted to it in his book, Liberty Defined. 

WARNING: Marijuana might very well cure your cancer and cheat you out of financially devastating rounds of  chemotherapy and fun surgeries for organ and other removals.

Yep, you can bet the farm and grandma’s diamond ring on that one.

Yet you argue against the only candidate, republican or democrat, that has opposed every war we’re in?  That seems extremely hypocritical.  Who’s your killing in the name of? 

You are right about major changes to Medicare but not to SS.  Minor changes to SS will make it solvent for millennia.

Medicare & Medicaid however need to refocus on patient outcomes rather than treatments.  Ask yourself why there are 8 states delivering medicare for half the cost perperson of NY & FL with as good or better health outcomes?   

The answer is that Hospitals are hooked on Medicare money and have ZERO incentive to save the Medicare system money.

Yes the ultimate answer is a single payer system or baring that regulation of insurance companies like utilities.  either way the profit motive needs to removed and or capped.

Let’s see, They come out with this new wonder drug call Potzac, and sell it for $200. I can grow it on my back yard for pennies. mmmmmmm

yep, the Ron Paul fantasy has merit in a perfect world. 

I don’t have a candidate, I only sit here sadly watching the fools. Of all those running right now, Obama is the least dangerous, hes almost as bad as some appear, but at least he is a known quantity. 

However, simply because we have only fools running doesn’t make the least foolish of the fools good. Nor the second least foolish, nor the third. Call it like it is, don’t pretend they are anything else. I’ll be voting for the least, but shouting all the flaws i see and hoping some one qualified steps up to the plate. 

LOL!!!  Ok, except Ron Paul’s been in politics for almost 40 years, and has never lied.  He’s never flip-flopped on an issue.  He’s never voted against the Constitution.  He’s never catered to a special interest.  Obama came out of nowhere, and no history other than being a Jr. Senator in Illinois.  We had no idea that he was lying about everything.  You can call me ignorant all you’d like, but you wanna go check out Ron Paul’s voting record and get back to me?  Thanks!

People pay in to these programs . They **are** self reliant you asshole.  It’s a fucking insurance program. Your version of self reliance has no other definition but to be part of a highly for profit business arrangement. Which by the way has nothing to do with the definition of self reliance, more in line with the definition of **stupidity**.  

These programs pay for themselves. Quit spreading this bull shit lie. If the money is gone, it is because it has been stolen from the same elite that want these people in their for profit medical insurance scams designed to lift all properties off of people before they can pass them on making everyone more vulnerable to them.  You are an idiot and a bastard.

Look, I don’t need a fucking Ron Paul commercial. I was just stating that I didn’t think Kurt was promoting control by Big Pharma. Congrats, though. You DID get your R.P. “sound bite” in to change the posts to off-topic….

Ron Paul is a libertarian running as a republican. He is a worshipper of Ayn Rand of Atlas Shrugged fame. He’s all for social liberalism unless you are a woman or minority. I don’t like him or his idiot son.

On a serious note what level of your disappointment with the O man could be attributed to the solidarity of the GOP resistance?

Don’t get me wrong I too am pissed off that he is not more of a fighter but they say wisdom is knowing which fights you can win!

Indeed. Personally I think hes fairly smart and has some good ideas, but as you said, perfect world.

RIP

“he tested synthetic cannabis drugs on cancer cells…”    NO NO NO. Test the REAL CANNABIS!!!

Apparently, Big Pharma is hellbent on ruining another of God’s creations. There are many natural cures for cancer THAT WORK.  Don’t let your loved one die because you didn’t do your homework. (this generally depends on the stage the cancer is at when you discover it, but not always!)

See “Run From The Cure: The Rick Simpson Story” (www.youtube.com/watch?v=0psJhQHk_GI ) if you have not already done so; this is a very interesting story that discusses the “hemp oil” (natural) cure.

RP is right about a few issues but in toto his view is unrealistic and unimplementable. 

You say flip-flop, I say learned new evidence and realized the previously held point of view was flawed. I had enough with “holding the line against all opposition” with bush. If you aren’t willing to learn from your mistakes, or change your mind, you certainly don’t belong in office.

Also, I havn’t seen many of these obama lies, I’ve seem broken unrealistic promises, and I’ve seen an incompetent high idealed fool find reality quite sobering. He ran on hope and his hope was crushed. He wasn’t able to come through on his promises, because his promises were unrealistic in the face of the political landscape. 

Also he didn’t come out of nowhere, he had quite a history in illinois, but if you didn’t live in the midwest you probably never heard of him. I know I hadn’t heard of palin until the 2008 election.

I guess science is saying that I should be getting high and drunk on red wine every night….sounds good that way I won’t notice the miserable state of the country…..shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……………….ahhhhhhhhhh………glug glug glug………..eeeehhhhhhh!

I call BS on this government representitve from the FDA who says that drugs go thru heavy screening prior to going to market. What about tylenol for examply, or viox, or so many others that have side effects as bad or worse than the illness itself. The Bush administration reduced funding and repl. many in the FDA with shills for the Pharma. industry who make billions selling us these drugs , like Tylenol, that have killed thousands countrywide by destroying their livers. My own sister-in-law dies from this. Its as everything else in this out of control capitist country where making a profit trumps common sense. We aren’t in charge. The industry thru their lobbyists are.

Why do you lie Kimberly J??  He wants freedom for everyone, and he actually cares about the people of this country.  Let’s take for example the war on drugs which Ron Paul would love to end.  Who do you think is usually the victims of this war on drugs?  That’s right, minorities.  Let’s see if he didn’t want freedom for minorities, why on earth would he be trying to end war on drugs?  That’s baffling. 

Or the states like alcohol.

I assume you’re referring to the bill sponsored by Barney Frank which is being co-sponsored by Ron Paul, the difference being perhaps a minor quibble. Paul is a Republican but ideologically he is a libertarian acting pretty much the way one would expect a libertarian to act, and in total consistency with how Paul has dealt with similar matters in the past. This bill would not legalize marijuana, it would decriminalize it on the federal level. Furthermore, it would leave it up to the states to determine its legality. While such a bill would be a definite improvement on current legislation it still isn’t what is needed for what is a rather innocuous substance.

If one were to do an analysis of attitudes toward legalizing marijuana mapped to political ideology there would be a high correlation between the two, with the farther left one identified oneself correlating to a higher likelihood of positive attitudes toward legalization. I refer you to a Gallup Poll that addresses this particular point. I believe that if the poll had been less simplistic, if it had allowed for a greater range of ideological identification, the results would have been even more supportive of my thesis, with many who had identified themselves as conservatives  supporting legalization reidentifying themselves as libertarians, thereby reducing the number of conservatives who support legalization.

In all fairness, it’s hard to map out specifically where libertarianism resides on the left-right political spectrum. Many of us who post here, lefties though we are, find much of libertarianism that resonates with our core beliefs-Noam Chomsky is thought of as a left-libertarian-but we are opposed to much of the economic agenda of what is perceived by the masses as the only flavor of libertarianism; that we can not adhere to it. Therefore, although we agree with and enthusiastically support much of Paul’s agenda he can’t be a viable candidate.

Not everybody on the right nor on the left caters to special interests. You imperatively tell me to open my eyes but trust me, they’re not closed. They just see the world differently than you. I will afford you the right to perceive things the way you do, hopefully you will do the same for me. There is room for dialogue but only if we see each other as equals. Game?

Okie dokie….I’m stupid…..I’m an idiot and a bastard.  You are clearly very educated about SS and Medicare, since you think they pay for themselves. How about welfare and Medicaid…..do those pay for themselves as well.  How about our foreign policy….is that funding itself?  Since you are oh so enlightened, could you tell me why we’re almost 15 trillion dollars in debt, and inflation is rampant? 

There is that too…but I forgot. (-:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu7q_-R5NX0&feature=relmfu

Time to spark one up for science ;).

Thanks!!  I try!!!

“NO NO NO. Test the REAL CANNABIS!!!”

I hope they have better luck than this guy:

http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/08/dea_rejects_professors_bid_to_grow_pot_for_medical.php

Forgot what?

This is just so BigPharma can start selling new drugs. The people will never be allowed to medicate ourselves   I get scripts for all sorta opiates which cost some money, but if I make tea out of the poppies growing in my yard I’m a criminal. 

END THE WAR ON PLANTS!!

Look at all the various government entities trying to push medical marijuana back underground in the name of big pharma profits.

honestly the guy should just go to another country and do his research.. there are plenty of countries in the world that its legal to grow and a few where its even legal to sell… go there, do your research, come back with your findings.

Freedom for everyone except when it comes to reproduction.

To answer your question, none.  My disgust (disappointment is too tame a word) for Obama is based entirely on him, his actions and his inactions.  His first piece of legislation, the credit card “reform” bill, failed to cap interest rates at 30 per cent.  Fail is an appropriate word for his pathetic corporate pandering.  I tried to warn people but no one listened in their haste to annoint a bi-racial saviour.  Michelle gave up a $350,000 a year job at U of C to move to Washington.  When you’re already raking in that kind of money, skin color is irrelevant, the only color that matters is green. 

I never even heard of UFOTV until just now, thanks Democratic socialist!

paulites are so silly

Okay, I’ve sat by here and not said anything but I’m done with that for at least one post.

What you are talking about is NOT freedom, it’s abandonment. It’s being left to flap in the wind like a flag or a sail with no mast. You are espousing a system where anyone with more money than you can push you around however they want and unless you can cough up enough money for a lawyer, you have NO recourse. Yes, I know how it’s SUPPOSED to work, but it’s NOT that kind of a world. The world we live in has people that can and will take advantage of you at every opportunity.What you want is to let them, and to give yourself no one to stand up and even TRY to protect your rights. What good are rights when there is NO power behind them to make sure that someone bigger doesn’t screw you out of them?

This is NOT freedom. It’s like in my state, Colorado, a so called “Right to work” state. That doesn’t mean that you will GET a job, just that you have a right to work. For less than others in nearby states without such idiocy for policy. The right to work for NO benefits. The right to work with NO contracts or protections at all. SOME right. And the businesses have the right to screw you and pocket what they USED to share with you before these stupid laws were passed.

You look, if that IS your current picture, to be rather young. You have NO idea what you are asking for . You seem to believe in the “everyone can be trusted” nonsense that is supposed to be so prevalent on MY side of the aisle. What you need to learn is that there are people in this world who have more money than you will ever dream of. For the last 40 years, they have been on a concerted effort to rob you of your money, wages, power, and stability. They have been very successful, to the point where people like you don’t even see the nonsense of further dividing ourselves for the benefit of those very rich people . You are buying right into their divide and conquer game like it’s something that will EVER give you a fair chance at a life you would be happy to live. You are doing THEIR job.

Libertarianism works just fine if you already have more than you will ever need. Otherwise, it’s just a way to screw you out of even more than you can imagine. You’re slitting your own throat even thinking of being on the right in this country. If you aren’t in the top 2%, you are a complete fool for voting for ANY republican. Unless, of course, you LIKE being abandoned by those you pay to make sure you’re not just gamed as a cog in a wheel.

actually, he is much more informed than someone that would support ron paul

Um, while Ron Paul’s ideas on regulations bother me and I am sure we don’t see eye to eye on economic models, I have yet to see how he is anti-minority and anti-women.

Give us a link, Kimberly J.

you started the insults with the backwards idea that he was uninformed because he knew better than to support ron paul

I’m sure many say you are VERY TRYING!

I’m in.

Glad to help a fellow “Red Commie Bastard”. (-:)

agreed, except that NATURE made cannabis

god is fiction

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HUH??? WTF am I laughing at again….?

wrong again

ONE simple change to SS and it is solvent forever: eliminate the cap

BTW, I know I’m hopelessly unhip and out of it, but what the hell am I supposed to do with the twitter crap at the end of the comments? All I see on any of them is the topic they seem to be responding to. What the hell good is that? Am I supposed to be impressed that all these people commented, even if there is nothing I can see about any of it? Sounds like a WONDERFUL technology to me. Please educate me, someone.

ground troops in Libya?

wow, you don’t read much do you?

he doesn’t argue for ME

I’m not a multinational corporation

Poppy growing for opium has only been practiced since 3,400 BC.
http://opioids.com/timeline/

It is still habit forming (like hamburgers and soda). 
Why is poppy growing illegal but Oxycontin not?
My VA doctor had no qualms trying to prescribe that evil pharmaceutical to me but bring up medical marijuana and you would have thought I asked him if I could have sex with his wife.

God gave us these plants for a reason (or Nature did, for my non-believer friends). 

I don’t know, but it was good!

so you were proven wrong and now you want to change the subject

hero-worship is lame

BTW, I don’t remember who it was that said it, but there is a line I’ve always liked. Stoned people are the same as anyone else, it’s just that they forget to say “I’m going to change the subject, now”.

and that is one of the very few things he is correct about

his belief that multinational corporations will ‘do the right thing’ if the govt just stops preventing them from ripping off their customers still makes him wrong for America

Once Big Pharma can figure out a way to make it painful and expensive to administer, it will be on the market.

wrong, he wants freedom for global corporations

he still wants state govts to be allowed to control a woman’s uterus

Why then is he a card carrying member of the Amerikan Tealiban Party?

Exactly!  Since when has a monopoly been considered a free market?

Call it what you want, it’s not made by us. It’s made by whoever made us, be that God or nature, or Shiva or who, what, which ever that may be. Rock on!

Yeah but, Ron and his halfwit son think that monopolies are part of a free market.

Those BIG( Pharma)Dealers Are BAD NEWS(Those Pills Kill People)
Dude Down The Block Is MUCH Safer……

I thought I smelled a Tealibani. 

this is quite real, pretty much… proven.

http://cannabismedicalresearch.blogspot.com/

No you are probably not stupid, although that may be an option, your mind has been programmed by the Christ Cult to ignore obvious fallacies, and to believe in the ridiculous.

Don’t forget unpleasant side effects, it has to have those so they can have an excuse to prescribe another drug or two along side the anti-cancer drug.

Hey like we don’t now this.  But you see what will happen here. Instead of just given cancer patients marijuana along with other cancer therapies, big pharma will spent a gazillion dollars creating a chemical marijuana that is less effective and cost $20,000 per pill.
In the meantime DEA will be telling people marijuana is a gateway drug to cocaine, crack etc.
When you lie about everything, it’s really hard to keep things straight isn’t it?

If that were true, why would all corporate contributions be going to Obama, Perry and Romney? 

Your programming is showing again.  So what lies has Obama been caught telling, Tealibani.

Goodness, people disgust me.  What if your mom would’ve had an abortion?  Do you know that they will perform abortions on full-term infants?  Do you really think that’s ok?  What about that baby’s freedom and liberty?  He wants freedom for everyone, but you all are to close-minded to accept that, and it appears all the explanation I give isn’t helping. 

Exactly, The scariest thing about the Times Square bombing attempt, wasn’t that some nutball wanted to kill hundreds of anonymous people, but rather, that a engineering graduate from a US university, working for a US corporation, couldn’t figure out how to ignite gasolene.

That’s right we don’t someone supporting smaller government and less intervention into our lives. 

Don’t you have a bridge to guard? children to scare?…Get back under your bridge you ugly old troll.

Marijuan is already a 12,000 yr old ‘wonder drug.’  Anyone whose drug education came from the library instead of PSA’s is already well aware of marijuana history. The word got out in 1972 with Consumer Union’s “Licit and Illicit Drugs”. 

I guess it’s about time then, eh?

Cancer is the second most profitable enterprise to the Ruling class.  Second only to war.

See WJM51, I don’t need anything from the government.  I know that’s hard to understand.  People will always be more successful when they take responsibility for their own lives….when they do not rely on the government to survive.  All your words will never change that.  The idea of a free market is obviously beyond your comprehension, but if one existed (it hasn’t for a very long time) then the businesses that caused harm or that consumers found offensive would go out of business.  Do you think that the government regulating the market does anything but favor their players and force small businesses out of the market?  If so you are very naive.  The government in controlling a marketplace is controlling your life, and making decisions for you.  I would not like for them to make my decisions. 

What are you even talking about?  Anti-trust laws encourage competition while regulations discourage it.

Nature kicks ass!  (heads up, NYC)

Anti-trust laws encourage competition, and regulations discourage competition.

Wrong.  Not that many people earn over $106,800…..even if they did that would never come close to funding that liability, especially with the baby boomers retiring.  Try again.

Bull.fucking.shit.  

Marijuana contains the same carcinogens as tobacco.  

This is pure propaganda bullshit. 

I’ve not been proven wrong sir. 

Unfortunately it’s coming….you’ll see.  War with Iran is coming as well.  See when you research issues, you are predict things that others do not see.  You expect me to believe what our media tells me? 

If they can make a way to make this work without giving the
sick people hallucinations then this herb will really be great breakout to our
medical history.

I’m not gonna wait for Pfizer to work it out.  In fact, I’m not gonna wait another minute! Fire it up!

And I’m sure you’ll never be one.  You have absolutely no understanding of Ron Paul, and all you’re doing is illustrating that fact.

Doubt it!!!!!

No I said he was less informed than I suspected. 

Probably!!!!

CM, what still kills me is when people say “but, it’s a gateway drug”. WTF? Drugs don’t introduce you to other drugs, FRIENDS DO! Friends are gateways, not drugs. Don’t get it twisted people.

Won’t happen unless the DEA goes defunct.

How do you know our moms didn’t have abortions before or after they had us?  My mom is pro-choice and so am i.
I am against abortions, but I am even more strongly against legislating about abortions.  Allowing states to make abortion illegal is, in effect, murdering young women.
I feel horrible for the babies who suffer and die this way, but I also feel horrible for the animals who know nothing but misery so humans can turn a fat profit & have a convenient fast food.  Does Ron want freedom for them, or only human life counts?

faith again, try fact, try evidence… you have none?

The curative properties of cannabis and its extracts have been well known by the elite for a long time. That is just one of the reasons it remains illegal. The common man can only treat his illnesses, not cure them.

Wait, wait, the pharmaceutical companies have to patent and pill it… 

understanding? We aren’t talking feelings and premonitions here, There are things he believes, things he stands for, and things he stands against. These are apparent, and anyone who cares is going to pay attention to those. We don’t need to ‘understand’ him, we only need to know what he stands for, and we do.

uhhhhh Doctor? you don’t have to light it to get the benefits…

[...] PBS documentary sheds light on marijuana’s cancer-killing properties [...]

>> “ I don’t need anything from the government. ”
You have no idea what benefits you’ve inherited being born under the US flag.  Ask any Iraqi living in Iraq how successful they’ve been “taking responsibility for their own lives”.

>> The idea of a free market is obviously beyond your comprehension, but if one existed (it hasn’t for a very long time) then the businesses that caused harm or that consumers found offensive would go out of business.

OK now you are getting offensive here.  Reality is apparently beyond your comprehension.  A company that destroys an eco-system (see for example, BP, Gulf of mexico) putting them out of business is not going to restore that ecosystem, or cure the cancer that thousands of people will contract as a result of their efforts.  This is the lie of the “free market” – irreversible damage can, will, and has been done by unregulated profiteers, and we and all future generations bear that cost. 

You do have a point about government regulators favoring the wrong guys, but scrapping regulation completely is NOT THE SOLUTION.

http://youtu.be/-IEqpRmlKSE
Watch that and tell me what you think…..

Wow, I really learned a lot from that post!  You’re knowledge is truly eye-opening!!

Roads, bridges, waterways, water systems, schools, hospitals, libraries, fire departments, police are things YOU DON’T NEED? GET YOUR GODDAMNED HEAD OUT OF YOUR FUCKING ASS, YOU IGNORANT MORON. Don’t you even TRY to feed me that HORSE SHIT. YOU ARE A MORON. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. You sit there enjoying the work of previous generations, whose work you aren’t even willing to pay to keep in working condition, and you want to tell me that you don’t NEED anything from the government?

Some people are NOT worth talking to, and you have just proved yourself to me as being 1,000% in that category. I PITY any man who tries to get involved with your selfish, pig headed, IGNORANT ass. And any community that has YOU in it.

I wash, my hands of you. You are way too ignorant to BE educated, no matter HOW hard one might try. Free market? Don’t make me spit in your face. You are one of the most absolutely naive idiots I’ve seen here in the whole time I’ve been here. Either you’re paid, or worse, you’re an actual zealot. That doesn’t make you anything but a STUPID fool. If you were smart at least you’d be drawing a paycheck for lying about things you don’t now a thing about, history you know NOTHING about, and a world that you CLEARLY know nothing baout. Get back to me after you go get your first job, sweetie. THEN we will see how you like being cut off at the knees every time you try to get ahead, and there being NOTHING you can do about it. And that is where we are NOW, you TWIT.

Get out of school FIRST, THEN talk to me about how life is. Before then, I will NOT waste my time on you again. There is NO point. Idiot CHILD.

No, you really don’t.  Go check his voting record, and see if he’s ever voted against the Constitution. 

Wow you are ill informed. It’s been known for quite some time that marijuna smoke does NOT cause cancer. Geez you’d think in this day and age information would travel a little faster.

http://boards.cannabis.com/medicinal-cannabis-health/161539-granny-storm-crows-list.html

Scolll through that list of articles and medical reports to see the benefits of marijuana.

You just got informed ! You’re welcome.

Well, he said the first thing he do would be to bring the troops home if that hadn’t been done by the time he was in office.  Instead he increased the number of troops.  I didn’t even bring up Obama, someone else did.  He’s no worse than any other of our candidates, with the exception of Ron Paul, democrat of republican. 

when self reliance fails for some and old people are starving in the streets, what does the free market say they should do then?

Next we’ll be hearing about the wonders of sliced bread, geez. Hemp oil already CURES cancer !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0psJhQHk_GI

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjhT9282-Tw

math fail

Say what? You’re joking, right? Then that would mean every herb known to man would have carcinogens as well. You need to study up on this before making ignorant remarks like that.

gotta agree with flila on this one.  The American adventure in Libya has only just begun.

wow you have a “HUMBLE” opinion?  I NEVER would have guessed.  I think you’re lying actually. 

I don’t hate people who believe in ghost daddy, I just feel bad for them that their missing out on the joys of pastafarianism

Yes, this!   The situation is much the same in so many other realms as well, if there’s little or no profit in it, it must be kept quiet. 

Yup, unless there’s a way the rich can get richer… NO DICE!!

It won’t be decriminalized even then. It’ll probably be even worse. If Big Pharma gets hold of it, then they won’t let anyone else in on it.  

That’s why the Fed is so determined to kill medical pot in the states.

Are you really Depak Chopra?

You started the name calling with the implication that Dani A isn’t informed, and when he responded in kind, you actually accused him of name calling!  That’s almost good enough to be a new definition of chutpah.

I’m next….

PHARMA, just like the republicans are the enemy of the state and they have the FDA in their back pockets.

Same goes for psilocybin mushrooms…Not only did they create they basis of major religions, they also heal our bodies and minds by connecting  us to self and initiating us through ego death.

Does all that name calling make you feel better?  I have a job actually.  What have the police done for you recently?  All I hear about is how they repeatedly trample on people’s rights, arrest members of organizations that want to feed the homeless, shut down the lemonade stands of 8 year old girls, etc. etc.  I could definitely do without them.  They’ve never once protected me from anything.  My dad actually builds roads and bridges for a living and he’s not employeed by the government.  It is funded by taxpayers (not the government), but the actual service is performed by private industry.  Every government function if privitized would vastly improve.  It’s a fact.  When private industry struggles, they find a way to improve.  When public industry struggles, they throw more taxpayer money at the problem, and nothing improves.    

I agree.  I feel like the regulations in place to protect the defenseless (animals, mentally disabled, children, etc.) are necessary.  Other than that, I don’t see a need for the government to try and manipulate the market.  It’s not really working out so well.  See the oil spill happened despite the regulations imposed on the oil industry (which I don’t really know a whole lot about, but accidents are always going to happen).  If our government respected property rights, then that land would’ve been protected by its owner.  Please do not think that I’m condoning the oil spill because I cried everytime I saw a picture of the oil soaked marine life.  I’m just saying our government has never been and will never be a good teacher of morality. 

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I take issue with any discussion of cannabis that does not include information on using an inhaler instead of “smoking dope” as that prig put it. Possession of an inhaler by itself constitutes a violation of criminal law because it’s paraphernalia, and yet it undermines the argument that using cannabis is unhealthy due to the tar and phenol, etc., that is emitted when the fiber is burnt.

PBS=FAIL

Anytime you allow an enemy an opportunity to excuse their position you’ve failed your cause.

And anyone who opposes the legalization of cannabis is the Enemy of World.

Please see my post above….I think regulations in place to protect the defenseless (animals, children, mentally handicapped, etc.) are warranted.  You can’t acutally believe that our government is the best way to deliver welfare to citizens.  About $.25 of every dollar reaches its intended recepient.  If you’re not aware, we have homeless people on the streets currently.  You will also notice a lot of private charitable organizations caring for them.  Do you think there’s any bureaucracy in delivering cans of food that have been donated to a food bank?  No, there isn’t.  Do you think there’s bureaucracy in delivering welfare through the government.  Very much!!!

How’s that?  The limit on SS withholding is $106,800/year/person.  There isn’t even any math involved.

Lying about what?  Please don’t feel bad for me.  I don’t need your pity.

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“All marijuana used for any federal studies is currently grown at the University of Mississippi by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). NIDA isn’t into approving research on the medical *benefits* of marijuana; it seems they will only approve studies which try to find the supposed * dangers* of cannabis. (After all, they *are* the National Institute on Drug *Abuse*.)”

Gotta love that, no? At what point do the people just say collectively, “Yeah..yeah, DEA. Get out of the way of The People.” Obviously, this is quite a perversion of the “scientific method.”

Hallucinations?

I’ve smoked a LOT of herb in my days.  Never so much to where I hallucinated though.

Hallucinations? Really? I don’t know what you’ve been smoking but you obviously are unfamiliar with the effects of cannabis. Maybe you’ve been taking LSD? Or maybe yours was laced with something.

And four makes a circle. Woo Hoo!

your statement “even if they did that would never come close to funding that liability” implies you’ve done some math.  But I guess you’re just winging it, shooting from the hip, making authoritative statements without any idea of their veracity?

>>This is pure propaganda bullshit.   -> Marijuana contains the same carcinogens as tobacco.   

I couldn’t agree more.  That is pure propaganda bullshit, backed up by not one iota of evidence.

Now why you posting pure propaganda, doc?

Forgive me.  The small amount of money that might be gained from eliminating the cap on SS wages is not nearly enough to cover the nearly $100 trillion unfunded liability that exists between SS and Medicare.  We good now?

I don’t know about most of the claims being made for marijuana one way or the other.  If it’s good it gets you high and if it’s very good it gets you damn high!   And if it’s excellent, you probably won’t be able to talk!  But no matter what else it might or might not do, the more you smoke,  the worse it is for your lungs.  I smoked pot–and hashish and opium whenever I could get them as well–for about 35 years all told and during that time, I did it like I do everything in my life, straight on!  And for most of that 35 years I woke up every damn day and spit up some of the ugliest shit that has come out of my mouth before or since–I mean big black globs of shit straight out of my lungs.  I never in my life smoked cigarettes so all that shit was from the pot!  I didn’t care too much at the time because I was getting high.  But when I stopped smoking pot I stopped spitting up all that black shit. 

Now I am not doing to speculate about whether smoking pot might cause cancer or doesn’t cause cancer or cures cancer or even might cure cancer, I don’t know. And it doesn’t much matter, but not knowing too much about medicine I am still going to suggest that that black shit wasn’t good for me based on the fact that every damn morning my body rejected a whole lot of it.  And if it had been good for my lungs I don’t think they would have felt the need to cleanse themselves of it!  But that is just me.  The rest of you can go ahead and believe what ever you want about it.  But stop pretending that smoking marijuana doesn’t harm your lungs, at least while you are smoking it, my experience is that it must!

See, I didn’t call anyone an ape or a chutpah.  All I said is that he may be less informed than I suspected.  That implies that he was somewhat informed to begin with. 

>>> Do you think there’s any bureaucracy in delivering cans of food that have been donated to a food bank?  No, there isn’t.
How many food banks you been involved in?
Donations don’t always go where they should.  Does that mean the government is better at it?  Not necessarily – but oversight is at least feasible.

Let me just say: Bro you haven’t died from it…Thus how many people have perished from alcohol just for example….Also everyones metabolism is different but over 25 yrs no black stuff at all even cigarettes during that time as well…However Man made Beer / God made Pot now who do you trust? Too boot Big Pharma isn’t trying to knock down the door of Anheuser Busch for their formula of “medicine”…

lying about being humble.  and by this here response it seems i am correct.

yes – math fail

Don’t bogart that, friend!

I’m glad Paul isn’t a typical politician like Obama who just stopped deporting some immigrants too.   He’s been in the House for 30 years and just when he claims he is getting serious about running for president he finally after 30 years proposes “legislation to decriminalize marijuana.”  Like I said I am sure glad he isn’t like other opportunistic politicians.  He seems like the real deal alright, mister straight shooter.

For all the rest of your silly statements see my earlier post on Ron Paul’s many contradictory and incoherent  positions and why he simultaneously appeals to and alienates almost every constituency, here.

Your comment demonstrates four things: lack of vocabulary, willingness to imply something stated that wasn’t (the word ape), utter lack of integrity in not admitting that you started the name-calling, and stupidity for thinking your comment makes any sense at all.

There is no sense in even TRYING to talk to you. You are an arrogant know it all who knows NOTHING. What’s the point? Forget it, I’m done trying to talk sense to idiots who make up their own “facts”.

You can guarantee that this research will disappear into obscurity. 

The Pharmaceutical companies, the alcohol companies and the right wing religious fanatics will make sure of it.

And I use hemp as an example. Look up the benefits of hemp to see how powerful companies and useless opponents are capable of squashing what would actually be a beneficial industry.

Sorry, I started already.

Peanut butter. I’m convinced that if you did a study, you would find that virtually 100% of your prison population had peanut butter as children, clearly establishing a direct causation, just like they have with cannabis and everything else.

Or maybe it’s ketchup. Mustard? Maybe it’s just condiments of all kinds. Maybe we should outlaw pickle relish just to be sure.

I love how the head of the DEA says we can’t legalize cannabis even for medical use, because people abuse prescription drugs. How’s THAT for a reason to ruin the lives of over 3/4 of a million Americans every year? When we’re being run by  THIS kind of intelligence, it’s no wonder the country’s gone to hell.

blah blah blah, legalize it.Make it as customary as a wedding toast but your employer’s insurance company policy will ALWAYS prevent you from keeping your job while using. Yeah yeah yeah, even medical.

Broccoli has more cancer causing chemicals in it naturally than cannabis does. You need to do some research, Dr. There is PLENTY of legitimate research out there that shows just the opposite of what you have said here.

First, look at the structures of the plants themselves. Tobacco is a soil leeching plant. It is well known that it pulls heavy metals out of the dirt it’s planted in, things like mercury, chromium, cadmium, the list goes on. Many of these things are radioactive. Cannabis, OTOH, does not do this. It will not grow properly in such soil, and there are no additional pesticides needed in it’s production.

When you burn tobacco, those radioactive substances turn into polonium24, which has a half life of 27 years. Cannabis contains no such heavy metals or radioactive substances. All smoke is NOT the same, nor is cannabis smoke inhaled in NEARLY the quantities tobacco smoke is.

There has never been a legitimate study that has shown cannabis shortens one’s life at all, and in fact, US senate studies in 1970 and 1972 showed that those who smoke LARGE quantities still live longer than their next door neighbors who don’t.

And you might want to talk to the gentleman in Montana whose 2 year old son had stage 4 brain cancer, to have it cured by THC oil therapy. The chemo nearly killed him, and his doctors gave him the chance of either dying or being a vegetable for the rest of his life. his father started putting THC oil in the kid’s feeding tube and now that kid is a happy, healthy, cancer free kid of 3 1/2.

Or talk to the Spanish medical community who did a study and found that it indeed DOES cure brain tumors. You need to learn what the truth is, and stop letting them lie to you.

Sounds like Dr. Nagarkatti is looking to try to cash in on behalf of the pharmaceutical companies by doing tests with ‘synthetic’ drugs.  I personally will continue to cut out the middle man.

Someone has been feeding you BULLSHIT. Hallucinations? Get real. There is NO such thing going on, no matter HOW much you do. You CAN have hallucinations with alcohol, but NOT with cannabis. Sorry, you’re just showing off your lack of knowledge, here.

Besides, what difference does it make if you feel GOOD for a change? Most people who are chronically ill are also very depressed, and could USE something that makes them feel good. NONE of your prescriptions are supposed to do that, are they? Cannabis can help when you feel like shit, trust me. And that is JUST what the doctor ordered, until 1937 when the feds started putting them in jail for it.

Get over your fear of anyone feeling GOOD. It might even improve YOUR life.

Well dumbass, allow me to introduce you to a new term: VAPORIZE. or better yet, cook with it. BOOM adverse health risks GONE.. Now back to your stupor..

Yeah, now Big Pharma is beginning to try to cash in.  Synthetics are never as good or better then the natural ingredient from the naturally grown plant.  coca leaves have curative powers yet the man made cocaine is more highly addictive then the natural plant itself.  Its all about money and forcing people to buckle under to unjust and inhuman laws just so some corporation can profit.  We cannot trust our government to respect our First Amendment rights or any of our rights given by our founding fathers.

You almost got it, they WANT people abusing prescription drugs, it directly benefits the people who put them in power via profits, thus benefiting them. They know they can’t make money when you grow your own. See what they did there?

Trust me, I live in Florida, pill capitol of he world. Our idiot governor is a pill pushing jerk.

I’m no expert Twitterati, WJM, so fact check what I’m going to say as I try to ‘splain the best I can since it’s been a couple hours and no one else has honored your request.

Along with the topic in those tweets at the end of the article there is a (usually  shortened) link to this article, so “followers” of a certain tweeter can find their way to this page.  Sort of like a mailing list on a micro scale, a tweeter tweets something and everyone who subscribes to that tweeter’s feed gets it. Some re-tweet so their followers can have a chance to check it out as well, just as some folks forward emails to other people who were not the original recipient in order to share the content. Since it is limited to 140 characters, a tweet is like a miniscule blog post, hence the appellation “micro-blogging”.

If you had an account at Twitter and tweeted about this article, your tweet would be added to your page at Twitter, and also show up on the pages of folks who were your followers, and your tweet would be in that list at the end of the article as well (in this case, for this site – not all sites have THAT feature). So it’s a nice, easy way to share links, pix and info without having to log-in to an email account or add a post to a full blown blog engine.  

besides, by making it illegal they get a never ending supply of cheap prison labor from which to enrich themselves and their cronies even more. 

Unlike tobacco, marijuana is not physically addictive.  Nice try, though.

I would agree to both you and WJM51but what I say may or not be used against me in a court of law.  How does one prove entrapment when a DA refuses to give up a rat or protects people who invade another person’s privacy?  We have become a nation of rat bastards on one side and people who respect individual rights on the other.  Our system is failing the people miserably.

You are STILL expecting good stuff from the O-Liar??? Gyp, My Friend, light up and fuggidabawbitt!

I never said anything about addition, I spoke specifically to its effects on my lungs and those of my friends who also used to hack up back balls of shit out of their lungs.  Perhaps you should learn to read!

I didn’t mention alcohol, and I don’t believe in god an Keith Richard hasn’t died from alcohol, tobacco, cocaine or heroin so what, all of that is equally irrelevant.  Since I didn’t mention beer, I don’t know what it has to do with anything.  I was speaking directly to smoking pot about 6-10 hours a day and what effect it had on my lungs.  Like others here evidently you can’t read.

Prepare yourselves for Monsanto FrankenWeed.

The high you get from eating pot is not the same as smoking it, and anyone who has done both and isn’t brain dead with verify that!

Morality?  This is why the government needs to keep a tight lid on these businesses.  Most are led by immoral assholes who are beholden to shareholders and their bonuses, not to your basic US Citizen. Morality does not creep into the boardroom in most multinational corporations.  Greed is the way of the CEO, CFO, CIO, COO, hey, any C-level exec.  Money is the thing.  Morals are for losers.

If you are a marine, I sincerely thank you for your service. Your branch was born near me in Philly. With all due respect, what the fuck do founding fathers have to do with anything? That was then.Now is wow. No one can trust our present system to be certain but what once was has no bearing. Our founding fathers owned slaves, burned witches were afraid to bathe. I’m damn sure we evolved from that rat nest and its our duty to evolve even further.

Don’t knock it, CROCK it!

:)

Well, you don’t have to smoke pot to enjoy its benefits.  Many patients actually EAT it.  No need to destroy your lungs if you can’t afford a decent vaporizer, you can just make some “Jah butter” by soaking your weed in butter in a crock pot over night on low.  This is how a friend who survived cancer got through her ordeal with pain and discomfort.  She used pot to help her get through it.  She is alive to this day.

Wow, I get to join the discussion, 98% of the time the comment box is unavailable.
We need to inform the public that with the hemp plant we can pretty much supply the planet with everything  necessary except concrete and glass to build homes, provide clothing, fuel and food.
Gods gift to umanity.

If it wasn’t for those very same men you in a way malign, we would be who we are today. The wrote the Constitution after seeing the Federalist Papers weren’t getting the job done. No one says they themselves were perfect but they did, at that time attempt to create a more perfect union. And my family on one side, who supported the founding Fathers, are from the Philadelphia area ever since William Penn. As a matter of fact on well know square in the city is named after one, albeit a cousin. An I still have family there though I’m no longer in the area.

Where can I get Some Of That?(Hallucinations)
I Must Be Smoking Some Bullshit Been Smoking Over 25 years
Only Time I get Hallucinations is when I drop some acid or alot of shrooms

1. DEA reclassified cannabis for big pharmacy
2. Scientists isolate individual cannbinoids soon to receive getting fda approval
3. patents make companies potential profits

can you imagine that cannabis cures cancer…and the government knew it… and covered it up……..

LGG do you have any appreciation for the legislative process? I too think anything more than 12% over treasuries is userous BUT the O man is not a king and has to work through Congress. The legislation that you menetion had both Democratic & Repugnant resistance. To get ANYTHING was a F’n miracle. Seriously to bash the O man for watered down legislative accomplishments would be like bashing Boner for the invasion of Libya.

Well your wrong, I have smoked both for 38 years. My doctor is always amazed at how many patients he sees besides me that have smoked both for decades and have little to zero problems. How do you explain that? Maybe you had inferior product to smoke. Do I cough up a little black shit every so often, yes but so what. I can’t go run a marathon and depending on where you work you will spit up crap. Everyone’s body deals with things in different ways and your seemed to reject what it didn’t like which is probably a good thing. There is no proof that Cannabis is harmful and I have seen a study that says smoking it may help keep cancer from affecting the upper body. For you it was probably the opium, that is nasty shit, there’s your black shit problem. Lot’s of research everywhere but here, even our Government found out that cannabis has great cancer killing abilities along with dealing with tumors, they found out in 1974 but swept it under the drug and asked the Medical College in Virginia to lose the results. If you look you can find copies of the report, and the US Government has a patent on chemical’s and compounds in cannabis with descriptions of uses and benefits. If it’s so dangerous and it’s poison then why did they patent anything do do with cannabis or sweep very positive results under the table.

Pharma companies have no desire to help this situation since they won’t make any money off of a plant that anyone can grow and besides you can’t patent a plant.

We can rest assured, that most cannabis growers will NOT buy seeds from Monsanto.

When and if this becomes cancer therapy….I would like certain people excluded: Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Relly, Rush Limbaugh, everyone who draws a paycheck from Fox or CNBC, especially Larry Kudlow.

I did have a perfect score of 100 in my high school civics class but things have changed so much since then, I doubt I’d recognize today’s legislative process. You can make excuses for Obama all you like, but he was able to strongarm Kucinich and Franken into voting for the bush tax cut extensions. Why couldn’t he do the same thing when he had a majority in both bodies of Congress to reduce interest rates to acceptable and humane levels?

To put things in perspective, here’s a bit of dialogue from the 1976 movie Fun With Dick And Jane:

loanshark: I can offer you one year at 18 percent

janefonda: Isn’t that illegal?

First of all, I don’t buy your story, unless you are using roofing tile to roll your cannabis.

Secondly, get a damn vaporizer.

The medical industry is all about Managing not curing….Curing is a bad business plan.

 Wrong, wrong, and wrong.  Flila stated, ” I guess you’re not as informed as I suspected…..”

Why are you getting so butt hurt over her statement?  All she said was, you aren’t as informed as she suspected.  She didn’t elaborate on what you were informed about or not.  YOU GOT SAND IN YOUR VAGINA and jumped to conclusions that she meant you were stupid.  I got Cs in Engrish my whole life, and even I could DEDUCE that!  Geesh.

Who the hell hallucinates from smoking pot?? Never ever heard of anyone even close to hallucinating from smoking pot. It’s already has broken out, just need to get the damn Government out of the way.

At the same time DEA goes under, Condo’s will be built in the mountains above Miami.

If you smoked tobacco that long and were spitting up black “sh!t,” you’d be dead by now b/c tobacco has more, and worse, carcinogens.

While pot has carcinogens, as I understand some of the new research, the cannabinoids are simultaneously inhibiting cancerous growth.

In fact, there was a recent write up on the National Cancer Institute’s website, cancer.gov, that said the following until it was scrubbed, and replaced with watered down gov-speak, by the powers that be:

“The potential benefits of medicinal Cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, and improved sleep. In the practice of integrative oncology, the health care provider may recommend medicinal Cannabis not only for symptom management but also for its possible direct antitumor effect.”

Cool stuff.

Hopefully we can expect some good stuff re: industrial hemp from the Gov here in Calif. Once it passes the Cal senate, it will wash to the east coast. It will be a huge moment when it comes. Pray it comes soon. We could use the hope.

A load of crap.  I’ve known many daily users, who never reported any ill effect to their lungs.  I don’t use daily at this point, but for 11 years I did, and before I ever purchased a vaporizer.  I never once woke up hacking ANYTHING.  It must be something in your environment causing that, not the cannabis.

Right…light up one of those Winston’s and go out to the beach in New Jersey tonight.

Who smokes pot 6 to 10 hours a day?   I think you were literally smoking grass, not cannabis, if you need to smoke that much. That would explain the problems with your lungs, and argument.

 You know what you should look into Dem. Soc?  Check out the alcohol lobby, check out the Partnership for a Drug Free America and then check out these two guys.    Marvin Sembler and Miller Newton aka Father Cassian.  Check out their ties with the Bush Crime Family, and what they did at Straights.com and Kids of Bergen County.

You will soon see what goes down in this Country, and why drugs are and will remain illegal.  $$$Treatment Centers, Prisons, and Probation$$$

I met a man that went through their programs and they are almost just like MKULTRA.  Sick people I tell you.

Ya but much lower levels and you don’t normally smoke as much cannabis as tobacco. Plus there is info that says smoking pot may help keep cancer away and keep cancer from affecting the upper body. Dr Mat you sound like you work for the Government like that Doc Voth on the video. Jesus the proof is out there, if the damn Government would get the hell out of the way and either remove it from the schedule or move it to a schedule II like it should be then it can be studied and tested. The US is behind, other countries have came to the same thought for the most part, why aren’t we taking advantage of this wonderful plant. Canada, Spain, UK and Portugal has results from a major change in drug policy ten years ago, it has been a better then expected result. As usual the US is lagging behind. You want to talk about propaganda? All the bs and lies we have heard for decades have been proven to be just that, bs and lie’s. Do some research.

Ya Dr Matt are you paying attention?? Are you even a real Doctor?

I stay away from all that social crap, gets to many people in trouble.

Me too.

Agreed – unless said paycheck-drawer has 1. ever publicly endorsed medical marijuana on Fox News, and 2. Never publicly denounced MMJ anywhere.

I think we could probably make an exemption in such a case, yes?

The Cure is a good one too. Google the words cannabis, cancer and you will find tons of stuff to check out. It still amazes me that with all the tons of info that this is still an issue, damn Government.

Who gives a fuck?  I want to smoke weed for pleasure!

I guess if they were supposed to find the dangers of cannabis, they are either really, really bored or don’t have a job anymore.

Ya I don’t remember seeing anyone admit to liking that Rand broad, she’s a nut. Paul Ryan is the only one I have seen that said on tape that he follows this broad, go figure.

ROTFLMFAO pretty much describes my response. 

You actually got C’s? Just shows that grade inflation is a serious problem.

I am very familiar with what the alcohol lobby can do and HAS DONE to keep the scales tilted.

I know that drug “cure” places mean big bucks–if that’s what you meant.

I also know that a whole industry has arisen out of people’s drug abuse and addiction. (Been there, done that twenty years ago.)

As you know, as industries are “born”, they are hard to reverse once the money starts rolling. (Just look back at the income tax of 1913 that was to be TEMPORARY until WWI ended.) Hard to say no to an easy cash flow in Capitalistic Amerika

However, I don’t think I’m familiar with the guys you mentioned; I will look into it/them….

I heard on Okra that Monsanto seeds produce that shit that turns you into a lizard.

If my mom had aborted me, I would not have known the difference and so it doesn’t matter. I do think that people in general should make their own choices and live with the results. Women should be able to make decisions about their own body, I don’t think abortions should be allowed just “because” but I think it should at least be an option. Drug addicted or babies that will be born with significant problems and will never lead a normal life, shouldn’t the parents decide to bring a child into the world with no chance of any kind of normal life, is that fair to the child?

I thought we were talking about medical cannabis?

bfd

I think road building money comes from road tax that is in gas prices. Sounds like the Government to me. Most all big projects are funded by the Government, no private business is going to build a dam on a river, there is not profit in that. So anyone who really believes they want the Government out is delusional at best. Who do you think pays the “private industry”?

Ya and self regulation was supposed to be the answer and we see how well that has worked out.

I totally agree, Voth and those like him are part of the problem.

Don’t have to imagine, it’s true.

Ya no shit.

Well the Founders did grow hemp and recommended all do the same, they also drank ale and smoked cannabis everyday and including while they put together those all important documents we cherish today. Ya they did some bad shit but so what, this country is by no means a virgin to doing nasty things to people. Maybe you should do a little history brush up on the not so nice things we have done in the past.

Then support your local cancer therapist and get it legalized. :-)

Only government approved growers who can afford the $1 000 000+  license fee will be allowed to grow it. Do you think government and big business will not want to divide this up between themselves? And who is going to compensate the arms manufacturers who depend on the war on drugs, not to mention the bureaucrats like the FBI? 

Om nama Shiva.

Jesus this info’s been known for decades. Why is this Backwater Planet so $#@!ing slow to wake up?!

These representatives of the Insect Trust knew that LSD could cure cancer 40 years ago.

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Bill Burroughs called it a “whistle stop planet.”

During Kumba Mela in India large groups of sadhus can be seen with their chilum pipes, smoking and chanting….Aum Hari Hari Ganga.

Absolutely.

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Thanks. I know a little Sanskrit, but I haven’t been to India.
Good chant. :-)

Therefore…One always can always say: F’em if they can’t take a joke…

I agree that smoking pot or cigarettes is a very individual and unique experience for each person.

My girlfriend speeds on some pain killers (downers). Even though MM works for insomnia for most, including me, my grandson smokes daily and can’t sleep.

I smoked cigarettes for 45 years and have smoked pot for 50 years. While smoking cigs I would cough up brown sputum. When I stopped the cigs but continued smoking pot I did not. My lungs are clear, no spots or tumors and my breathing is good.

Why is it that, in relatively similar environments, some cigarette smokers get lung cancer and some don’t? Because a Sick said, ” Everyone’s body deals with things in different ways…”

So if the DEA reclassifies pot because Big Pharma, god help us, are getting their claws into it, does that mean Hemp will be allowed to be grown again?  As many great thing pot does for the sick, hemp clothing, oil, soap, etc. have been known to blow away the competition since hemp is such amazing stuff.  Hmmmm. 

Was this  Doc  “Owsl”   Stanley?

And in other news, the sky is blue.

As soon as they are able to patent it (I know about Marinol, I’m thinking BIGGER) is when we’ll be able to use it. They do not want us to make our own medicines. That is how the witch hunts started

Exactly, if they actually cured the disease they wouldn’t be able to make any money any more.

But for me that is the Pharmaceutical companies and the insurance companies. Call me naive but I actually believe that most doctors and medical professionals really do want to cure people. 

No where in the article did it say that it required smoking pot to get the benefits.

You may have smoked pot for 35 years, but you obviously never used the other ways that you can enjoy pot.

Marijuana will be legalized the day Big Pharma (or Monsanto) figure out how to market it cheaply (probably grown in China).

” Everyone’s body deals with things in different ways…”

Exactly, but the people that want to control you life keep pushing everybody is affected the same way.

Whether it is anti smoking, anti drugs, anti meat, anti whatever, it affects everybody the same so therefore it is a bad thing.

Give me a f’king break. I smoked for 38 years and then quit. Am I better off? Yes! Am I glad, no! I actually enjoyed smoking. I know you anti smoking people can’t understand that, but I did.

You don’t have to imagine… it’s true.  See Run From The Cure by Rick Simpson at phoenixtears.ca for all the info.  Cannabis oil is THE cure for cancer.

No what’s going to happen is that Big Pharma will patent a process by which they can extract cannabinoids.  Then they will eradicate all medical marijuana fields so they can grow their own, extract the THC, then sell it to you for 10x the price. 

Can you count the number of times you told your parents that you knew they were the easter bunny, tooth fairy, what have you?  Only to be looked at and told time and time again that we were mistaken, and that the bunny and fairy were real and that they had nothing to do with those baskets or the money under your pillow?

Remember revisiting that later as you grew and as they could no longer hide the fact that they were full of shizzle all along, though with good intent, stood there and had nothing to say as you called them out?

Things become apparent, when you become a parent!

I feel like TPTB know all about the good things in the world and keep them from us, but with bad intent.

I can see that the Paul family isn’t the only one breeding halfwits.  Who told you that an anti trust law wasn’t a regulation,  Jeebus?   Regulations level the playing field allowing competition.

No surprise, the Ruling Class wants to drastically depopulate Amerika and make it their playground. They need just enough people to run the ski lifts and wash the dishes.

Yeah right, I’m sure they have already cooked up McPot.  Wait till they discover the munchies, and you thought supersizing was bad.

Coughing up black shit?  What the hell were you smoking, tires? Maybe with some nasty, heroin base, black tar opium, but I have never seen it.

Did you pay attention during the extension debate? Can you list the five things the O man received in return?

You act like he had a choice of just saying no and letting the cuts expire. TOTAL Bovine Excrement. If he had said no the poorest Americans would have seen a MASSIVE tax increase. Not only would this increase have devastated the weakest among us it would have also stalled the recovery. Instead he plugged his nose and got an unemployment extension, Tax cuts for low AND middle income taxpayers plus tax credits for small business and additional funding for the SBA.

Did ya know those things or are you so pissed off at the rich that ya can’t see what the rest of us got?

Sorry he is a noise maker and tolerated, their will be NO support and the reason is as you stated he is a Anti American corporate OWNED republican that goes through the necessary motions.

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It isn’t the cancer-killing properties of marijuana. It IS the cancer-killing properties of cannabis.

If the SCOTUS delivered an honest service, then ‘marihuana’ would be declared a racist,
unconstitutional 104 word tautology. As long as they don’t, then marijuana is ‘precious’.

When the precious 41 year old tautology is unwound, it becomes clear that term ‘marijuana’
means cannabis smoke.

Here is the ‘precise’ definition of marijuana which actually shows respect for our Constitution:

16. The term ‘marijuana’ means all parts
of the smoke produced by the combustion
of the plant Cannabis sativa L.

Demand it to the judge at Voir Dire. We can do this. Yes we can.

For more information, google Talking Points for the Peloton.

They’re still chasing Rick Simpson around the world for that one!

The Emperor Wears No Clothes, by Jack Herer, or even The Nixon Shafer Report also make a fine read to get the real jist as to just how the heck we’ve gotten to this point in backwards world.

The zombies need to know that it was a wildly used plant that was legal for all human history outside of the last 70 + years and in that 70 years we’ve done nothing but fall apart, but hey, let’s all drink to that since it’s about all we can do with the nanny’s permission, lol.

Seems they just refuse to put two and two together.

Apologize for him all you want, he won’t do jackshit for you. Save your rants for somebody who believes them, Obama has his tongue up corporate america’s ass. And by the way, I don’t like you one little bit so please do not respond to any comments from me in future because you won’t get a reply. You are NOT on the same side as me.

CIA != troops.
CIA are not even part of the military, they are something else entirely. So, faith stands.

 Informed?  How’s this for informed?  Libertarianism would reduce the political power to the local level where any corporation could take command of a region by bribing officials or, even better, simply by being the largest employer in the area.  The smaller the political entity, the more easily it is to corrupt.  Hard to get the local sheriff to do anything about the company spewing crap into the local stream if he’s on their payroll.  Though he might well shoot anyone who complains.  Doubt it?  Research the Gilded Age and the behavior of the railroads during the latter part of the 19th Century.  I, for one, don’t want to go back to those days and you don’t either.  You just THINK you do because you’ve been listening to those who’d love to increase their profit margin at your expense, millionaires who want to deny your kids an education and put them to work instead.

The federal government certainly isn’t perfect, and can certainly be corrupted.  But it’s a heck of a lot easier to determine where the corruption comes from on the federal level.  Corporate lobbyists.  The very kind of people who’d simply sneak through the back door and spread their poison in utter silence if not for the bureaucracy of the federal government.

Besides, let’s not pretend Mr. Paul has ANY interest in freedom, when he’s just another would-be theocrat wrapping himself in the flag and pretending to give a damn about the Constitution so he can strip protections away from women, minorities, disabled people, and a whole host of others who aren’t white Christian men.  Ron Paul is full of noxious feces and so is anyone who’d buy into his tiny government snake oil.

Republicans and Libertarians are simply to sides of the same blindfolded coin–the ones who’d hand us over to the fat cats and walk away smiling with their 30 pieces of silver jingling in their pockets.  You may be able to sucker the ignorant, but not anyone with two clues to rub together.

But thanks for playing.

Started off that way. But once the Paulists show up, you wont be talking about anything but who they worship. And not one of them knows a damned BIT of history. Babes in the woods waiting to be fleeced. Begging for it, in fact.

Thanks very much. That tells me a lot. I haven’t gone anywhere near this, so I have NO idea what it’s all about. 

And so I gather that what we get to look at is a list of people who have pointed out the article to other people. Why would I want to see that? It’s not terribly useful info, is it?  I don’t get it. Never will.

Thanks again.

Totally agreed. I’ve stayed as far away from all that stuff as possible, don’t do twitter, facebook, buttbook, or any other body part book. Seems like every time I hear about someone doing something incredibly stupid it’s on one of those.

That’s why I don’t know what I’m looking at on the “reactions” thing below the comments. Now that I know what it is I’m looking at, it’s even LESS interesting.

Have you seen Super High Me? There is a scene where Benson is talking about the anti cannabis commercial where the girl is melting into the couch and how he’d really like to get ahold of some of that stuff. “All I can find is the “can’t find my car keys type”.”

I’ve never done enough acid at one time or under the right circumstances to hallucinate. Only ever did enough shrooms to make myself fairly aggressive. It was fun, but I prefer good old weed.

big pharma wants to profit–save your seed citizens and tell big pharma to blow smoke.

big pharma will steal the patent and claim all rights to the peoples real medicine. pound sand big pharma u poison selling scum

Just legalize the shit for gods sake, I’m so sick of the stoners crying about it..But don’t tax it to much because they’ll be growing bootleg weed and then getting busted for not paying taxes on that and then you’re back to prisons getting filled up with stoners all over again. I think we need major reform on many levels starting with the core of our mind sets all the way to how legislation is developed. Yeah, like that’s about to happen.

I don’t need no red for a good night in bed
I don’t need no Prozac to grin through the day.
Don’t need no Viagra for a trip to Niagara.
Just let me step out and spark up a jay!

And therein lies the rub.

Everyone should watch this documentary along with Medicinal Cannabis And It’s Impact on Human Health.  

Property is theft! To patent an existing weed is going to be very difficult – impossible, a theft in all reality. Plus smoking it may not be the most efficacious means – chances are a high grade oil made from the resin is the way. That process of extraction might be patented – and there maybe control of the quantity required to accumulate a significant amount for resin extraction – my understanding 1lb of top grade indica yields about 2 oz of resin – quite how much is needed for treatment is unknown. This sad tale is full of insight - 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0psJhQHk_GI    

He is a noise maker, and that’s why every facet of our Federal government and media hates him.  He has tremendous support actually, and his message is growing in popularity by the day….it’s spreading like wildfire.  Why do you think I sit and argue with everyone here?  I am passionate about Ron Paul, his message, and believe it or not….YOUR future.  I feel I have a personal responsibility (I know you libs don’t like that term) to inform others. 

I never stated that he is anti-american or corporate owned…..quite the contrary.  Again, why don’t you go check out campaign contributions, and let me know who’s corporate owned.  Um yeah, that’d be everyone EXCEPT Ron Paul.  He will not get a dime from any corporation because they know he would never give them a dime of corporate welfare.   

I can imagine what the prices will be when Big Pharma gets their patent.  We better all be collecting seeds until then.

Maybe the push to decriminalize marijuana just came about, because our economy is worse than it’s ever been.  Maybe he’s aware that the war on drugs is nothing but a leech on society.  Ironically enough, two extremes of the population support the war on drugs.  They are extreme right-wing Christians and drug dealers.  Which do you represent?   The boost to our economy that would result from abandoning the war on drugs is huge.  Over half of this country’s prison population is made up of nonviolent, low level drug offenders.  The cost to inprison these people who have caused no harm to anyone else is estimated at $60,000/person/year.  Also, most of the budget for police forces is wasted on what?  That’s right….the war on drugs. 

You know nothing of my life.  My father is a high school drop out, who through hard work and a belief in personal responsiblity, has made a success of himself.  When my father, brother and I were abandoned by my mother, it would’ve been very easy for him to accept some form of government assistance, and I’m sure people like you would have supported him in that decision.  But my father would never have done that.  See if anything, I should hate the concept of personal responsiblity, because in effect, it made me an orphan…..I never saw my father because he worked constantly.  I do not hate it though.  I understand that without it, there would a further burden on society, and less taxpaying citizens. 

We were, and all I wanted to say is that Ron Paul introduced legislation to decrimalize marijuana, then I was attacked. 

Do you understand that government does not have one penny?  They take that money from someone or even worse print it out of thin air (please see the actions of our Federal Reserve). 

You are naive, like a child.  What makes you think that our government has more morals than any business?  Also, businesses are subject to laws if they commit a crime, so even if they wanted to be immoral (which they don’t because they’d like to keep customers) at least they are kept in check.  Can we say this about our Federal Reserve?  No, they are never even questioned when they dispense trillions of dollars (that they print out of thin air) to foreign banks or Wall Street.  They steal for you and I every single day when they increase our monetary supply.  When will these people be brought to justice?  That’s right…they won’t…and instead our currency will be worthless after a couple more bailouts or stimuli.  Who needs some morals?  Get outta here……

Oh, I’d love to get into a debate about the economy.  This is my expertise.  Regulations are enacted by our government to limit competition, and prop up its players.  Regulations are barriers to enter the market, and burdens (especially to smaller companies) to stay in the market.  Anti trust laws prohibit monopolistic situations, and therefore encourage competition.  You can try to manipulate the words here, but you’re not fooling anyone with an understanding of economic principles. 

That’s just ridiculous, and I believe you are smart enough to understand that.  You think our government provides oversight.  Give me a break.  Oversight by taking 75% of what is intended for the “less fortunate.”  Why do you presume I’ve not been involved in food banks.  You know nothing about me.  I have donated many times to food banks.  I also volunteer at my local animal shelter, and I walk dogs who may or may not be put to sleep the next day.  I do this even though I leave depressed and on the verge of tears everytime I go. 

Cannabis has been killing cancers for centuries, it’s oe of the reasons they banned it (research Endocannabinoids)

Watch a ppot doc on youtube.

Ok, our government doesn’t even try to hide the fact that there are tremendous unfunded liabilities here.  Our current employees (the very few that remain) are paying for the current retirees’ benefits.  They are not getting the money they put into these funds.  That money was spent a LONG time ago.  Please tell me how my math has failed. 

Wow…..you actually watched it!?  Yes the CIA is not a part of our military, just like our foreign policy is not a part of our economy.  Keep those blinders on!!!!

You idiot; Marijuana works.

You’re doing it wrong then. Yeah, they are different, but properly done it is longer lasting, and in my opinion a better overall feeling. No coughing, no damage to lungs. You didn’t even touch on the vaporizer which is MUCH better than smoking health and intensity wise.

I get the slimes too but never black shit!? Wow, must of been some of that Cleatus Weed of the 60′s. The point is even if it turned your lungs into mashed peas nobody should ever be arrested for it as I’m sure you would agree.

Perhaps you have an “Addictive” personality. I do not know anyone who smokes trees for 6 to 10 hours a day. Sounds like a self control issue to me. What kind of garbage were you consuming? Cartel brick trash? No wonder your lungs are fucked. Just because you lack common sense and can’t control yourself, you think thats the norm? 

Alcohol is a very relevant thing to bring up, it is state sanctioned, kills hundreds of thousands of people a year, is pervasive in our culture. Cannabis meanwhile is vilified with lies and propaganda. Pot is safer, has real therapeutic and environmental benefits yet it remains illegal. The hypocrisy is staggering, reasonable, intelligent people understand this.  Don’t even get me started on tobacco..

Lol, you don’t smoke much then. SWIM has been doing it 2 years straight, every day from a one hitter and SWIM has been coughing up black stuff after at least a year. If you haven’t seen it, then you’re probably still in the little leagues.

No I Have Not Seen That one(cant find my car keys type)LOL
2 Friends and I Dropped 3 Hits each at the state fair one year,Spent about 2 hours in the house of mirrors(That Was Not A Good Idea)LMAO)The Fair Was Really Packed But NOBODY Was In Our Way…….Of course my friend was yelling LOOKOUT Drunks On Acid Coming Through.LOL     AHHHHHHH The Good Ol Days

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 ’Our system is failing the people miserably’.

But it is serving the insanely rich very well.
I would say the system is working just how those in power want it to work.
Otherwise they would change it.

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Ok, our government doesn’t even try to hide the fact that there are tremendous unfunded liabilities here.  Our current employees (the very few that remain) are paying for the current retirees’ benefits.  They are not getting the money they put into these funds.  That money was spent a LONG time ago.  Please tell me how my math has failed.

considering the fact the our intelligence agency has been repeatedly caught shipping in the drugs, the last thing they would want to do is cut off an off the books source of income. our soldiers are protecting the poppy fields of the source (Afghanistan) of 90% of the worlds opium, right now, as i type, and our borders have been wide open for how long? not to mention the other issues, like the entire ‘police state’ apparatus that has been built around us was paid for by the prohibitive nature of the unconstitutional laws that we are forced to live under. all prohibition does is create a lucrative black market as it drives the prices way up, provides a new class of ‘criminal’, the user,  with which a cop must be needed to catch them and a prison must be built to house them (government jobs/growth). It forces people into more dangerous pharmaceuticals enriching the drug companies, protects cotton farmers from hemp competition, protects the logging industry somewhat, as hemp makes better paper and reduces the rate of deforestation, the tobacco farmers don’t want legal cannabis because less people will smoke cigarettes.  But to get down to BRASS TACKS…….. Our bodies are our own, and if I choose to drink raw milk, or smoke a bowl…. I WILL. It is my right.

A new breed of evangelicalism has been spawned.  It’s called ronpaulism.

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I don’t need no whiskey to get feeling frisky.
I don’t need no cocaine to go out and play.
Don’t need no health warning first thing every morning.
Just let me step out and spark up a jay!

If he is all about independance from government, small government, and freedom for people, then why is he trying to dictate terms to a woman’s body? Sorry, hes a hypocrit. He only wants freedom for his ideals, fuck everyone else who believes something different.

I feel even worse for all the unwanted children who will never have a real chance at life because they for one reason or another, were forced in to this world without some one to love them. :| 
Abortion isnt pretty, but its frequently better than the alternative.

Of course it will be GM, and once their evil bastard cross pollinates everyone elses crops they will demand payment for all that is grown because they have the patent. They already do it with EVERYTHING else they make. 

Propaganda is a powerful tool, Greed a powerful motivator thats how. Everything has been co-opted, the sheep are being led to the slaughter. 

Connect the dots, think critically, try to educate others and be labeled a KOOK, a stoner, a miscreant, etc, etc.. 

We no longer teach critical thinking, we dumb down, teach to tests, group and celebrate sameness. Maintain the status quo.

Welcome to the American nightmare. People are more interested in TMZ and what vapid celebrities are doing than understanding how the robber barons are fleecing us all, let alone standing up to tyranny.

Steve Jobs needs to vaporize or eat some brownies.

The National Institutes of Health and President Ford knew that marijuana was an incredible anti-tumor drug in 1974, and Ford killed it. Reagan followed up. Dr. Manuel Guzman in Spain has had it in human trials for a few years now, and has eradicated, as in completely removed not just in remission, virulent brain tumors (gliomas) in three weeks. It’s in the medical literature.

Maybe all three

We have been told all our lives that this and that is bad for you and don’t eat it or drink it. If you do this you will die early and so on. I’m in my early 50′s and I don’t ever remember a high school or college athlete just up and dying on the court or on the field, now this happens a lot. George Burns smoked and drank and chased women and he was what 90 or a 100 before he passed. There are groups of people around the country in clubs that celebrate being over a 100 years old and still going. You talk to these old dudes and they will tell you they ate a pound a bacon, fried potatoes, 6 eggs everyday, plus smoked straights and drank whiskey all their life. Pretty much everything we were told to stay away from, besides that extra ten-twenty years they tell you that you will gain, think about what that will be like. Doctors, stuff don’t work right, etc. So is it worth the extra time, don’t know.

Ya I have to agree with you. Presidents are selected not elected.

I am here only talking about what I did–my personal experience and that of those who I knew closely enough to know they had a similar experience–an experience I might add that has been verified by several others here.  Using my methodology how in the hell could I “touch on the vaporizer” if I never used one?

Or any other body part book, that’s friggen hilarious. Look how many people get in trouble because of putting their life out there for everyone to see, then bitch because something happens because of it. Lawyers looking for dirt on soon to be ex-spouse, employers snooping on present and future new hires and on and on. It is pretty funny to see so many people end their careers because of something so retarded as using social media to pass info around and then oops everybody see’s it now. Stupid morons. Look at Rep. Weiner, he didn’t even break the law and ended his career. Of course it depends on who you know or who you are. David Vitter got busted buying sex which is illegal and he still has a job, what a system we have.

Funny how that works. I like RP but he does have some issue’s that would keep me from voting for him, one of the main one’s is he want’s everything deregulated and self policing. That does not work and it floors me that he suggested it. Gary Johnson want’s it legal too but his views are a little more in line with what’s needed now. But for the most part the GOP has nothing on their side, thank god.

What “addictive personality”?  I did it because I wanted to do it, when I didn’t want to do it anymore I stopped doing it.  I don’t even know what addiction is! 

Well ya it’s tax dollars. I agree the less Government involvement the better, but the Government does serve a purpose in helping keep the nation going, it makes me nut’s to hear people saying we need the Government out totally. That’s retarded and just plain stupid. Yes the Government has money, but not for long. Just like the rest of us our money comes in and turns right around and goes out to pay bills. The problem is we need more revenue, several million jobs would help, and stopping the breaks to the rich. And right now the Government could play a huge roll in getting the economy going again, but thanks to the useless a-holes on the right including the GOP/Tea Party it will be tough. Going to have to spend money like it or not until things improve then we can start serious deficit reduction, nothing will work until the GOP decides to help the people and nation instead of themselves and their rich buddies, and hey maybe just do their damn job.

could it be…..that we are actually starting to realize how valuable this plant can be?
Let it serve humanity as the treasure that it is, and lets leave the nay sayers behind us once and for all!

I haven’t been in a church in over 45 years, unlike your Texas Republican hero Ronnie.  And my stand on the Prison Industrial Complex is so far to the left of anything you have said that the two can’t even be remotely compared.  I personally think that prisons are obsolete.  You, my friend have been duped by a right wing Reconstructionist idiot and are as far as I can tell are either really dumb or so confused you have become a wiling tool of an idiot!  Here’s something from a <a href="recent story about Ron Paul at the progressive web site Alternet, I will post this excerpt in its entirety it sort of destroys you main talking point here:

Try this story
at Alternet if your heart can stand it!  He’s one ugly piece of shit!  Here’s a quick excerpt:

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anti-reproductive-rights Republican. He’s a gay-demonizing Republican. He’s an
anti-public education Republican and an anti-Social Security Republican. He’s
the John Birch Society’s favorite congressman. And he’s a booster of the
Constitution Party, which has a Christian Reconstructionist platform. So, if
you’re a member of the anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen,
anti-equality, anti-education, pro-communist-witch-hunt wing of the progressive
movement, I can see how he’d be your guy.”

But we already know he is your guy.  Good luck with that!

That’s right because Rousas John Rushdooney and his right win Christian Reconstuctionists and the John Birch Society are all about less intervention in our lives!   Get a clue lady!

You’ve been brainwashed to the point that you may need to have the infected parts of your brain surgically removed!!

If you think my replies are actually for YOU your narcissism is out of control.

My posts on an open forum are for EVERYBODY so I’ll still reply to your BS and rare cogent arguments!

Name that free market that existed a “very long time” ago.

There is no such thing as a free market and there never has been one, Adam Smith, the author of The Wealth of Nations (1776) remarked in the 1780s that slavery could more easily be abolished under a despotic government than a free representational government controlled by white slave owners since under those conditions “every law is made by their masters.”

Your naivete is a direct reflection of the myths you believe in!

I feel your extreme frustration!

I really wish I could but I live in a world of shit and its hard trying to stay above it. Honest people are few and far between anymore. Especially those with badges who have not one iota of respect for the oath they took. Kinda like Bush saying the Constitution is just a piece of paper, then proving that’s how he regards it.

So I guess that you were completely unaware of the things the O man got and would have been fine and dandy with a massive tax increase on the poor and no extension for unemployment benefits. You’re right we are not on the same side. You are on the nutty side of REALITY!

“Cleatus Weed of the 60′s.”

LOL. Love it. Here in AZ we call it reggies or mersh. It’s pretty sad looking, brown/grayish bud.

To begin with, well written post.A little off-topic however if anyone wants totally free printable coupon codes for food check out http://bit (DoT) ly/pcr2al ..Bye

Why did “Intelligent Design” create cannabinoid receptors in the human brain but not in lower primates?

DEA didn’t reclassify Jack!  It is still a Schedule 1 drug along with Heroin. Cocaine and Opiates are Schedule 2 which means they can be prescribed by a doctor. You would think they would have changed it given the scientific evidence but just a couple weeks ago our Federal Gov repeated that Cannabis has “No Medical Uses”.  Just a little frustrating you might say.

Who’s paying you to say this shit?  How on earth does all that babbling destroy my “talking point.”  I listed facts.  Do you not understand that it costs money to imprison people?  I do not belive that people should be sitting in prison for smoking marijuana and I definitely don’t want to be paying for it.  I would never read anything you suggested.  You will never change my mind on Ron Paul.  He’s the only person in Washington DC that’s not afraid to tell the truth.

Really, I’d like to know who’s paying you. 

Freedom for the baby??  Are you not even able to grasp that idea?  It’s very simple. 

Yeah, because it’s all about party affiliation.  I’m glad we’re all open-minded here. 

You think that’s a good thing?  Goodness, our country is doomed. 

If you think spending money that we print out of thin air is doing anything except intentionally devaluing our currency, you are completely mislead.  I hear every single network media anchor in your comment.  It’s digusting.  It’s not a revenue issue….it’s a spending issue.  We’re NEVER gonna raise enough tax revenue to support this government’s agenda. 

Translation: “I’m willfully ignorant and I choose to remain so, no matter what anyone tells me!”

Dagga is going to cure all cancer – all the different types of cancer too? Wow.
Damn. And to think the stuff makes me sleepy and dries out my eyes.
Then if I get cancer and they legalise dagga I can choose…
Live half asleep with itchy eyes or … die.

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LOL!!!  I’m very grateful for my upbringing.  It taught me to be a decent, hard-working, taxpaying individual, which I’m sure you’re not.  The fact that you try to exploit something like that speaks to what kind of person you are.  I’m not angry at anyone.  I’m not trying to take anything out on anyone.  I would like to help wake the citizens of this country up.  You would like for them to remain asleep.

Let me guess, you are an unemployeed, hopeless member of society who realizes that you will never be able to attain success on your own, therefore you’d like to leech off of people who can be successful in life despite whatever obstacles they had to overcome (me).  So noone ever told you that you could be a sucess, well I believe you can.  I hope that you’ll have the chance to do that despite our economy becoming more socialistic every single day.   

How the hell do you suppose we’d do away with prisons?  People do committ murders, rapes, child molestation, etc.  I think these people should be in prison…not people who smoke marijuana. The fact that you can’t see the link between our collapsing economy and the drain the war on drugs represent proves that you are blind to reality. 

Ever thought about adoption??  There are tons of families who are not fortunate enough to have children on their own that would love to have a baby.  I know someone like you could never fathom such an idea because you would be admitting that someone else is better equipped to raise a child than yourself.  So when the abortion is performed on a full-term infant, when it could’ve been delivered and given to a family that would love and cherish it, how do you justify that?  You should not pretend to care about chilren or anyone but yourself, because everything that you right proves that you are nothing but a selfish, disgusting excuse for a human being. 

You’re right.  Government has always intervened to an extent, but the result of a free market is prosperity, innovation, and excellence.  The more government intervenes, the worse things get. 

Well, I don’t care to read your full post, because I know from the first two sentences that you are delusional.  If you actually think that a larger, more centralized government leads to anything other than stifling creative thought and an increase in corruption, then you should go do some research.  When the ideas of one group are allowed to dominate through granting power to one large decision making body, i.e., the federal goverment, and they decide what’s right and wrong, it leads to disaster.    I’d prefer that power be given to states, so at least we could have “50 laboratories of innovation.”  We could learn which practices are best, and which should be done away with.  I’m sure you experience everyday that people around you are performing tasks on a level far superior to you.  Then you are able to learn from these people.  But if you alone were in power, then we’d all suffer from the consequences of that tragedy.  You get it??   

I can’t believe you actually watched it!!  That’s right, the CIA isn’t a part of our military, just like foreign policy isn’t a part of our economy.  Keep those blinders on!!!!!!

That’s just ridiculous, and I believe you are smart enough to understand that.  You think our government provides oversight.  Give me a break.  Oversight by taking 75% of what is intended for the “less fortunate.”  Why do you presume I’ve not been involved in food banks.  You know nothing about me.  I have donated many times to food banks.  I also volunteer at my local animal shelter, and I walk dogs who may or may not be put to sleep the next day.  I do this even though I leave depressed and on the verge of tears everytime I go.

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Don’t believe this shit Pagasae is posting.  He’s clearly being paid by the global elite to ensure that freedom is not allowed to have a place in American society again.  If you do the research on your own, you’ll discover the truth. 

Haha mersh! Never heard of it but I don’t get out much. Yeah, it may have been some crap that was sprayed because whoever smoked the shit got a lung desease and coughed for weeks. God bless prohibition.

ok you have convinced me with your emotional appeal.  i will now vote for whomever you tell me to.

I don’t care what Party it is, I want someone that will do the job. Unfortunately the Pres only has so much individual power and has to have cooperation to get anything done.

Did I say that?? No it’s a sad fact. Our country is already in trouble and if the nut’s in the Tea Party and the GOP have their way we are doomed.

You need to do some research of your own and stop watching Fox noise. I can’t believe your so naive. It’s not a spending issue, your listening to the idiots that are the cause of this mess. Jesus why don’t people do their own fact checking and research, it just makes you look stupid and uninformed. Every top economist says the same thing, we CAN NOT cut our way out, we have to spend some money to get things going. Spending always goes up in a recession it has to. Our revenue is lower now then since the 50′s, all the very wealthy have gotten that way because of all the breaks their lobbyist have gotten for them, good god you don’t already know this?? No one has said raising tax revenue alone would do it, but it has to be part of the plan you can’t balance the budget on the backs of the middle and lower class. Everybody in this nation is having to go without and cut back, so why can’t the richest people and corporations who have had nothing but record profits pay their fair share and stop getting all the priviledges they have gotten that made them as wealthy as they are now. It’s time to give back to the nation that helped them get where they are today. These ass-holes have gotten very rich off of us, these top 1 or 2% while the rest of the country has slid backwards. You sound like that jackass Paul Ryan or even the other jackass Cantor. It’s funny, all of you right wings stupid asses keep saying it’s Obama’s fault, but of course if you idiots would do a little homework you would see that your buddy Bush was at about 5 trillion and the Pres now is at about 1.5 trillion, I’m pretty sure 1.5 is a lot less then 5. You all have short term memory loss or ignorance one of the two or both. I can’t even believe I wasted this much time explaining any of this since it’s out there look it up. This is what happens when someone gets thrown into a complete clusterfuck started by someone else and is expected to clean it up in a year or two even though it took the jackass who caused all this about eight years, jeez pull your head out.

20 hours ago you claimed twice that I was being paid to post here.  Now you claim I am unemployed.  Which is it?  I only wish our economy was becoming socialistic, unfortunately it is not.  But I don’t think you know what the word socialistic means.  We already have the technology to do away with prisons.  It really would be quite simple if we decided to do that instead of keep thinking that prisons are necessary for the bad guys, as you do.  End the use of prisons and you won’t be putting people in prison for smoking marijuana will you?

Here is why the whole Ron Paul wants to end the war on drugs meme is meaningless.  In the first place the DEA doesn’t get involved with drug busts unless the drugs are carried across state lines, that is transported.  All states have their own drug laws, and since Ron Paul is a state’s rights person he won’t be doing anything on that account.  Since all people in jail for smoking marijuana are in state prisons not federal prisons, the states will still be arresting people for marijuana use all over the country and they will still be going to state prisons for breaking state laws just as they are now.  But Ron Paul is probably counting on most people not really understanding how his states rights position actually is in direct conflict with his claim that he will end the war on drugs and people won’t be going to jail anymore for smoking marijuana.

That’s what I am talking about, you need to think more and stop accepting everything the fool says, he is playing you and all the rest of the people who fall for his liberty and freedom crap!  Think about it for awhile.

I thought it wasn’t about party.  I never claimed that George Bush was a good president….he was absolutely horrible as a matter of fact.  Our single system of “republicrats” both offer the exact same thing.  You seem to have some understanding of how things work because you mention lobbyists.  You’re correct about that, and there are businesses that get rich that way, and it’s absolutely disgusting.  But you have to see that not all businesses lobby the government for handouts or special treatment.  We should not punish all for the actions of a few.  You also have to realize the mischeif of the Federal Reserve.  They print money and hand it out to Wall Street, and they bail out struggling “too big to fail” companies, and the taxpayers get the bill.  It’s a horrible criminal system, that only one politician will tell us about….Ron Paul.  We’re in trouble, and at the very least, people who care enough to educate themselves (you), need to get their hands on the right information.   

SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think you are unemployed, but that you have sold your soul to the global elite, and are being paid a small amount to ensure freedom does not find its way back into American society.  OK!?  How the hell would privitization of prisons lead to an increase in the prison population.  Your agruments, while well thought out, do not make sense.  Are they arresting people for the way they operate the prison??  You’re not going to fool me if that’s what you’re trying to do.  I guess there’s a chance that you might influence someone else, but I doubt it…..

I guess you missed this story:  It was pretty big, I’m giving you part of the Reuters story available here.   You can find any number of other stories available here if you believe that this story is something I made up in my attempts to fool you!

Former judge sentenced to prison for “kids for cash” scheme

By Dave Warner

PHILADELPHIA |
Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:26pm EDT

PHILADELPHIA
(Reuters) – A former Pennsylvania juvenile court judge was sentenced on
Thursday to 28 years in prison for accepting payment to send juveniles
to a for-profit detention facility in a scandal dubbed “kids for cash,”.

Former Luzerne County Juvenile
Court Judge Mark Ciavarella, 61, accepted nearly $1 million from a
developer who built the detention facility, prosecutors said.
Under
the “kids for cash” scheme, thousands of juveniles were shipped to the
private center on minor or questionable charges by Ciavarella and
another former judge, Michael Conahan, according to juvenile advocates.
“Mr.
Ciavarella abused his position of trust and inflicted a deep and
lasting wound on the community he vowed to service,” U.S. Attorney Peter
Smith said following the sentencing.
“The
scheme involved a corrupt agreement with the operators of the
for-profit juvenile facilities,” Smith said. “It was a wholesale
arrangement in which the judges concealed their interest and thereby did
great damage to the public.”
The U.S. Attorney’s office called the case the “largest and most sustained political corruption inquiry” in the area.
Ciavarella was convicted in February of 12 charges, including racketeering conspiracy and money laundering.
During
the trial, Ciavarella testified that the money he received from Robert
Mericle, the facility’s developer, amounted to “finder fees” and had no
connection to the fact that he was a sentencing judge.

I really don’t have time to research all this crap, but can you tell me how it’s possible to make a profit off of prison?  I’m definitely not gonna take your word for it, but I’m waiting for you to tell me something that makes sense.  Supporting prisoners costs money, and it’s not like they are doing anything productive in prison to earn their keep.  Therefore, the only way to pay for them is with tax dollars.  So unless these “privately-owned” prisons you speak of have somehow found a way to make money by supporting unproductive prisoners, I’m not buying it.  What makes the most sense if these prisons are indeed “privately-owned” is that they are corrupt people working hand in hand with the government, or defrauding the government in some way.  But if/when that’s the case, then we all know who’s fault it ultimately is…..the goverment.  Why are we going in circles here?  I’m the one who said that Paul wanted to end the war on drugs, thus eliminating over half the prison population and the minorities you claim he hates.  I know it must be exhausting trying to attack a man with such pure intentions. FYI, you’re not going to sway one single person away from Dr. Paul.  I guarantee you that anyone who has an understanding of this man, will never cease to support him. 

I really don’t have time to research all this crap, but can you tell me how it’s possible to make a profit off of prison?  I’m definitely not gonna take your word for it, but I’m waiting for you to tell me something that makes sense.  Supporting prisoners costs money, and it’s not like they are doing anything productive in prison to earn their keep.  Therefore, the only way to pay for them is with tax dollars.  So unless these “privately-owned” prisons you speak of have somehow found a way to make money by supporting unproductive prisoners, I’m not buying it.  What makes the most sense if these prisons are indeed “privately-owned” is that they are corrupt people working hand in hand with the government, or defrauding the government in some way.  But if/when that’s the case, then we all know who’s fault it ultimately is…..the goverment.  Why are we going in circles here?  I’m the one who said that Paul wanted to end the war on drugs, thus eliminating over half the prison population and the minorities you claim he hates.  I know it must be exhausting trying to attack a man with such pure intentions. FYI, you’re not going to sway one single person away from Dr. Paul.  I guarantee you that anyone who has an understanding of this man, will never cease to support him. 

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Dr Eric Voth is an Ass-Hat

Oops!  I hit “like” instead of “reply.”  D’oh! 

Are you for real?!  You think any corporation would get into the prison business if they couldn’t turn a profit?  What would be their motive for doing so?

Corporations are pretty much required to at least TRY to make a profit, so there’s no reason any corporation would get into this field if it were impossible to make a profit.  The GEO Group, for example, had a net income of $58.9 million in 2008, and their CEO made $7 million in 2009 (more than 19 times the salary of the TDCJ director).  Granted, it’s not as profitable as an oil company, but it’s certainly a lot of money and they can afford to pay their execs obscenely high salaries! 

And how do you think private prisons maximize their profits while still being able to pay exorbitant salaries to their execs?  By having fewer lower-level staff members, by paying them less, by providing crappier benefits, by employing less-qualified staff, by refusing to accept high-cost inmates (those with medical and/or mental health issues), by spending less on their inmates’ food, medical care, etc. 

And, yes, it is a conspiracy between elected officials and their buddies in the private sector.  How do people get elected in this country?  By promising to enact business-friendly legislation and award lucrative contracts to huge corporations, who then give them now-unlimited (thanks to the Citizens United decision) amounts of money, which funds their campaigns.  You must either be seven years old or from another country.

Marijuana is not only a magnificent medicine, it can also be used to enhance various cognitive functions durning a high, such as our ability to perceive patterns, to remember past events, to better empathically understand others or to produce insights, as Carl Sagan once stated. See Sebastian Marincolo’s “High. Insights on Marijuana” (dogearpublishing 2010) 

Marijuana is not only a magnificent medicine, it can also be used to enhance various cognitive functions durning a high, such as our ability to perceive patterns, to remember past events, to better empathically understand others or to produce insights, as Carl Sagan once stated. See Sebastian Marincolo’s “High. Insights on Marijuana” (dogearpublishing 2010) 

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