The Feds’ Position On Medical Pot: Organic = Bad, Organix = Good; Any Questions?
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June 2, 2009
Marijuana chemical may slow multiple sclerosis
via insciences.orgArmed with a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health grant, Temple researchers are studying more effective ways to treat multiple sclerosis. And their research utilizes synthetic cannabinoids based on chemicals derived from the marijuana plant.
… Using a compound (O-1996) synthesized by scientists at the Medical College of Virginia and the company Organix, Tuma and Ganea performed animal studies and found that the synthesized chemical affected cannabinoid receptors present primarily on immune cells.
… “This is a totally new approach to treating this disease, “says Adler, director emeritus and senior advisor for CSAR and Laura H. Carnell professor of pharmacology research. “These cannabinoids hold enormous potential, and that’s encouraging since we’re limited in options when it comes to preventing or reversing MS.”
Okay, follow along with me if you can.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health appropriates over one million dollars to fund medical research — not to investigate the therapeutic effects of natural cannabinoids (bad!), but rather to investigate the therapeutic effects of synthetic chemicals (good!) that are designed to mimic the effects of natural cannabinoids.
Equally ironically, the research is taking place at Temple University in Pennsylvania — where any use of natural cannabis (bad!) as a medicine is criminally illegal, but where research into the use faux cannabis (good!) is embraced.
Makes sense, right? Well about as much sense as the federal government claiming that pot (bad!) has no medical utility while simultaneously patenting certain natural occurring chemicals in the plant — those that the Feds hope to one day profit from (good!) — as, you guessed it, a medicine.
Any questions?
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I’m so sick of the hypocrisy of this fucking government with all its lies, propaganda, racism and bullshit, and the cherry on top: the lie that is their “War on Drugs”.
I think I’d rather put a fucking bullet through my brain than witness this crap any longer. Can’t someone with a fucking sense of compassion and humanity get in office before they ruin the world completely? For fuck’s sake.
Bastards!
FREE THE PLANT FOR ALL TO USE IN ALL ASPECTS!
JUST SAY NO TO GOVERNMENTAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL MONOPOLIES!
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just type the word Marijuana in the search box and then click the search botton, and all kinds of questions come up for ya to vote on
The Government disgusts me more everyday when it comes to this issue. You are all right, it is time for action. Check out what this 17 year old kid did below. He has balls of steel, although most of us adults couldn’t do something like this due to our responsibilities (kids, wife, etc…) we can get active, write, call, donate, rally, boycott, whatever is necessary for legalization. Now here’s the story.
Well, this one certainly takes some guts. A 17 year old at Peninsula High School in Gig Harbor, WA, was giving a presentation during a monthly class called “Rhetoric Revels.” His topic? Legalizing marijuana. At the end of the presentation, in order to make a point, he pulled out a joint and smoked it in front of the class! He ate what remained of the joint (getting rid of the evidence?) and was immediately sent to the principal’s office. From there it was off to juvenile hall.
According to the Tacoma News Tribune, some of his classmates supported his actions, but school officials certainly didn’t. “We believe in freedom of speech and encourage it, but illegal activities are absolutely not going to be tolerated in our district,” schools Superintendent Terry Bouck told the Tribune.
About 120 students were in attendance when the pro-pot presentation was given. All the students were in 11th grade. No one was expecting the final flourish from the boy, who has a 3.7 GPA, but many other students thought the presentation was well presented and may have changed some minds in the audience.
When this inevitably gets picked up by national media, it will be interesting to see the reaction. If nothing else, he gets an A for creativity!
wow,our government is really showing their true colors now. re- creating the very thing they continue to fight against.they have truly contradicted themselves this time.
we need to give more to the likes of norml. they can do much to get important and real information out to everyone.we just have to have more support from the public.come on folks. our strength is in numbers.this is incredibly discouraging.
To “pissed”
take it easy my friend,everything’s for a reason…
Read Michael Newton’s book “Journey of Souls”
this is just a complete insult to our intelligence. this ie a perfect example of some one taking something beautiful and pure, and making an unnatural synthetic out of it. then prodeed to tell us that it will be better for us. tell that to the tibetan monks. tell that shit to my granddad.
but i guess if they are someone like obama, theyd believe that shit.
ladies and gents remeber when this great president had that online open for questions, got what he asked for and then laughed. at every single one of us? well i do.
and i hope every one of you do too.
this is simply put obammunism.
how was he elected? this country needs weed. remember oh, about 250 years ago, when weed was THE cash crop? and it was legal then.
“some of my finest hours have been spent on by back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye could see.”- Thomas jefferson, 1791
What the hell happened beytween then and now?
this is the wolfman,
too pissed off to continue.
so till next time
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Not really a surprise. The government tells us cannabis is so bad (Schedule I substance), yet when it finds that cannabis actually has medical benefits (in this case, treating MS), they still refuse to reschedule/legalize it.
How much moral perversion and bankruptcies must we the people endure?-Diane from family guy.
#108 wolf Says:
June 4th, 2009 at 6:47 am
…Remember oh, about 250 years ago,
when weed was THE cash crop?
and it was legal then…
RE:
Wolf,
- Not only was it LEGAL then,
it was also MANDATORY to GROW it…
OR ELSE!!!
Whoa Wolf where did u come across that thomas jeferson quote? that was freakin beautiful. Ive never heard that before. But by the end of the day il have it wrote down on posterboard for all to see wen my friends rol over to my house.
To the President, Congress, Senate, Governors, and all other elected officials and law enforcement agencies of the United States of America:
We are the people of the United States. It is by the labor of our hands and the sweat of our brows that this great nation continues to live and thrive. From the captains of industry to the civil servants – we are male and female – we are every color, race, creed and religion. We are even agnostic and atheist. As Americans that is our constitutional right. We pay the taxes that fund every program and agency that keeps our country alive. We raise our families, build our communities, and are the very lifeblood of the civilization that we call the Western Culture. And millions of us use Marijuana.
Some use it for medicine, some for recreation, and some for both. But what you have turned a blind eye to is that the role of government is to protect us from our enemies, not from ourselves! If an adult chooses to drink, or smoke, or toke – it is none of your business. In comparison to the use of alcohol and tobacco, an individual that uses Marijuana violates no ones civil rights – harms no one – and brings no burden to bear upon society. The burden upon American citizens is the prohibition of Marijuana itself. We have declared for over 70 years that the war on drugs is a war on the people of this nation.
And yet our government – elected by we the people to act as our representatives, to ensure our rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, have consistently turned a deaf ear to us for over 70 years. You have been purchased by the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Pharmaceutical lobbyists.
You have consistently ignored the scientific and medical facts concerning the immense benefits of quite possible the greatest plant that exists on our planet. You have systematically put forth lies, propaganda, and misinformation concerning Marijuana to the American public for the dual purpose of continuing your endless supply of wealth received from the masters who own you – and to exert control over the very people you are supposed to be serving.
Our founding fathers believed that people should not fear their government – that instead government should fear the people. For when a government begins to ignore the will and rights and voice of its citizens, then Liberty and Freedom become nothing more than hollow words. And the greatest document written since the Magna Carta, our very own Declaration of Independence, tells us that, “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them (the people) under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
All Liberty begins with an act of defiance. Our defiance towards all who insist on treating us as criminals has begun. It will not cease. We will not and are not going away. Our new revolution will and has begun in every hamlet, town, and city in this nation. You can silence us and ignore us and mock us no more. We are not the dregs of society, as you seem to think. We are educated, informed, and we VOTE. Your records will be viewed closely. We will take note and remember those of you in office who continues to subjugate the American citizen and seek to further your campaign of moral control – and we will vote you out of office. No despot or tyrant can stand before the cannons of true liberty and freedom. Not when aimed by the hand of truth.
Lance A. White – citizen and patriot.
It’s all about the Alcohol and drug companies .
we need to reschedule cannabis now!no more lies, we are sick of the lies!
The feds wont allow HEMP because we will make HEMP neckties for them
Please search “marijuana” and “controlled substance” on this website and vote!
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Hey check this out!
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19634608/detail.html
A 17 year old high school student with a 3.7 gpa wrote a pro-marijuana paper for class and lit a join while reading it to prove his point!
He smoked the joint and ate the butt, but they said they found ‘residual marijuana’ on his person and arrested him.
The kid definitely has balls though and we need more people like him. Check the story out. There is also a link to the actual video of it in the comments.
That happened in Purdy, Washington by the way.
LET’S TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK!!!
Ironic how they only legalize what they can profit from…
People need to start reaching out to others who partake but not get active in the fight to decriminalize. We all know the facts, we know it’s harmless and beneficial but not everyone else does. Do the work yourself, talk about it openly, give away seeds, encourage people to grow, one day it will be so prevalent they can’t jail the whole country. THATS how u make a change. Take a stand and not bitching on the net or publishing facts we already knew of. NORML is dropping the ball imo.
Oh and I’m moving to MI to be a caregiver. Maybe some of these old shriveled fearmongers in the STATE legislation see their meal tickets leaving to give revenue to other states with real foresight then things will change. Problem is people say they want change but won’t change for it. Funny that way aren’t we?
Wolf & Lance both hit the nail on the head, and I think Pissed shares the sentiments of all of us:
The system has become too much of a mess; nobody has any integrity anymore.
There is a part of me that really wants to believe that there are people out there that want to serve their country and make things better.
Unfortunately, probably 90+ percent (or more) of all elected officials in our Federal government are the result of abortions that never happened and are too stupid to do anything useful with their lives that will actually help their fellow man. . .all they care about is power & re-election. . .they have no principles and don’t give a fuck about anyone but themselves. Period.
These people have forgotten that THEY work for US (not the other way around)!! Fortunately, there is a congressional election next year and all of us that are on the verge of unleashing our frustration and fury will get a chance at the ballot box.
Frankly, I love the lawsuit idea!! If nothing else, it should be a CLASS ACTION suit. Just think of the exposure and publicity. I”m sure a lot of the “sheeple” out there would probably write it off like they did with the TEA Parties back in April, but it’s a perfectly justifiable lawsuit; our government has repeatedly lied to us, stolen from us and taken advantage of us so much that it has become the norm.
This is OUR country. And it’s time to take OUR country back!
LEGALIZE CANNABIS and OUTLAW SLAVERY!!!
This is the same as making cocaine a schedule II drug while making coca leaves a schedule I drug. This makes no sense whatsoever.
I’m also starting to lose hope, especially when even logic can’t convince people.
I think we’re overdue for another revolution or rebellion.
It’s funny how striking the parallels are between our government and the government described in 1984. Rational irrationality is all around us and few people even seem to notice
It’s a damn shame that more people aren’t as in to this stuff as they are into sports and celebrity gossip or what i like to call the real opiate of the masses.
When we get this ball rolling down hill, We The People dont stop there,we keep rollin right over these fuckers and stop ALL the bullshit they are doing! Time to take back what they have hijacked from us.
Why is it so hard to believe that the government is against you for THEIR benefit and not yours? This is exactly what I expected in the last days that would see us all subjected to the devil, anti-christ and their legion of doom. Their here!
I have a question… Here goes. What the F*$@?
Response to comment 71,
“This website went from being cool to being a whiny soap box forum.”
Well if you consider that every thousands of people
are put in jail for cannabis, and realizing that peoples lives are on the line because they cant use
cannabis to cure or help with MS, or cancer, or HIV, and when those people are labeled as criminals, And WHEN Your OWN government dismisses you and
call you a criminal because of this one issue. I
think we all have a lot to whine about.
It is an injustice, imhumane thing to do
to mix non-violent drug offenders in with
a prison system in this country that
merely looks on the human being as a cow or something
to rott in a god damn cell. THere is no
justice it is inhumane and if you dont seee
that and complain about it then i dont know…..
…
Does anyone know about
U.S. Pat. No. 5,434,295 discloses that the 1,1 dimethylheptyl (DMH) homolog of [3R,4R]-7-hydroxy-?6 THC (known as HU-210) is a superpotent cannabinoid receptor agonist with cannabinomimetic activity two orders of magnitude greater than the natural ?9 THC. The HU-210 dimethylheptyl cannabinoid, has severe side effects, including fatigue, thirst, headache, and hypotension.
I found this at http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6630507/fulltext.html
It states that THC 6(HU-210) is more potent than the commonly known THC 9. Is this true ? I also find it odd that it lists thirst, fatigue as “severe” side effects.
Does anyone know about
U.S. Pat. No. 5,434,295 discloses that the 1,1 dimethylheptyl (DMH) homolog of [3R,4R]-7-hydroxy-?6 THC (known as HU-210) is a superpotent cannabinoid receptor agonist with cannabinomimetic activity two orders of magnitude greater than the natural ?9 THC. The HU-210 dimethylheptyl cannabinoid, has severe side effects, including fatigue, thirst, headache, and hypotension.
I found this at http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6630507/fulltext.html
It states that THC 6(HU-210) is more potent than the commonly known THC 9. Is this true ? I also find it odd that it lists thirst, fatigue as “severe” side effects. That sounds like some serious cotton mouth if its listed as “severe”.
Pretty ridiculous, but a majority of the comments here makes me feel even worse than reading about the government’s plans. A pretty bad example of the types of people who visit this website.
But personally, the government has planned to stop piracy for a long time coming, and that still hasn’t happened and isn’t going to happen anytime soon… Don’t pack your shit up yet guys, it’s not over.
Ron Paul people.. The man ran for president and I didnt hear a thing about him.. If you dont know who that is, then it proves my point. Check him out. A straight up honest Senator from Texas that basis all decisions on the constitution.
If you like what you read, buy a book of his. Trust me. It will really make you a supporter of his.
Td
lol what else would u expect from this great country of ours lol.
It’s all about control. The ruling-class are control freaks. They don’t like the idea that any common lower-class citizen has the ability to grow a plant and reap huge benefits from it without paying lots of money for it, so they create a bullshit pretext for maintaining laws which give them absolute control over such plants and everything that is dervied from them.
I have studied the war on drugs for years ever since a drug task force raided my home on an anonymous tip. They found nothing but I felt violated having eight armed men in my house looking for cannabis plants. Being 60 and retired this amazed me and I started reading about the war on US (drugs). It is all there to see if you read you know it it a scam.
Today I realize that it is all for greed. The major pharmaceutical companies yearly take in about 681 billion dollars selling their foul chemical drugs. Many that do more harm than good. But the FDA seems to be in their pocket. They fight and spend millions every year to insure cannabis is kept illegal. Doctors in California, were cannabis has been legal since 1996, say it could replace up to 80% of the chemicals the legal drug pushers sell. That would mean a loss of 544 billion to the legal pharmaceutical guys. This is why they pay our representatives millions every year. Our representatives vote and fight to continue sacrificing our lives to insure the millions keep coming.
Because the war affects mainly the poor people of color and does not affect them or their family (they are above the law) they continue to destroy almost one million lives a year just to insure their PAC check clears. If you doubt what I say go and do you own research its all there to see….
I do not fear the cartels in Mexico I fear our own representatives. They have sacrifice the lives of 20 million Americans so far to keep this herb from being used. Why? you can grow it yourself its a weed and how are they going to make their billions off a weed? They have bribed our lawmakers to allow them to produce Marinol a synthetic THC but will still advocate jailing Americans to protect their profits.
Check it out the Drug Free America Foundation Inc. is backed by the legal drug guys to insure they demonize a weed. You can also go to sites that will show you your elected lawmaker and how much money they take from the legal drug guys. They also take money under the table. I have heard of lawmakers selling houses to the ones that need help for many times what the house is worth. Like Mcsame he thinks he owns seven houses not sure that is why they can do many things to launder money. The cartels could learn from them…
Cherokee Fred Jesus
Oh the wisdom of mankind! Cannabinoids in their natural state are bad for our individual and collective health and well being. BUT, let us remanufacture them with a hundred different chemicals that are known to be toxic and we will create a perfectly safe from of medicine. BULL****! With that in mind, what kinds of addictive and toxic substances will the fed manufacture from marijuana? How can they believe that any substance in a highly concentrated form is going to be less harmfull than its natural form when even salt, the spice of life, becomes toxic when taken in concentration? To my knowledge, no one has ever overdosed on THC no matter how they consume it. So, go ahead congress, concentrate it and mix it with man-made toxic chemicals and put it in a form that can be easily consumed in huge doses; [i.e. a fistfull of pills], that will become harmfull even as salt does.
P. S. When are they going to outlaw poppies because they have natural opiates which are known to be addictive and fatal in large doses?
This is one American who is sick of a bunch of tobacco addicts in congress telling me, a non-smoker, what I can and cannot do with my body. I’m not the one here using an addictive drug!
Go read check out
The for profit jail industry…
The legal drug folks liquor beer chemical drugs ect…
The legal community lawyers judges courts ect…
The growing probation industry..
The growing drug testing industry.
The corrections industry..
Income from drug arrests and fines support many towns..
Your lawmaker senate house..
The DEA FEDS local Drug task forces…
100 billion wasted every year and one million enslaved.
These are some of the growth industries that fight and pay our lawmakers to continue the war on US and continue to enslave us to protect the billions spend ever year to keep a herb illegal..
But drug use has stayed the same all this pain and money wasted every year. Americans know better they will do what they will do they want their right to free choice returned. What I do in my home is not business of anyone as long as I harm no one…
Americans will never obey or respect a law born of racism perpetuated by lies and supported by greed…
Cherokee Fred Jesus
Please help me in drawing a line in the sand to our FEDS…
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Send anything you can afford to defend this elder man sentenced to what will be life to this man..How stupid.
They have paypal its easy send what you can..
Cherokee Fred Jesus
The USA Government is never going to ban cannabis totally otherwise they would raid every state with the existing power that cannabis is as a global illegal in the USA.
So the fact they will greatly benefit from this themselves is as much a shock as Bob Marley smoked weed.
In the original Hebrew text of the old testament scriptures, the word that we have translated into english as “Sorcerer” was (in hebrew) “pharmacia” (my spelling on that may be off) but it’s the root word that we get “Pharmacy” and “Pharmacist” from.
Now you know why God said, “Thou shall not suffer a sorcerer to live”
#126 zachary skinner Says:
June 4th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
It’s funny how striking the parallels are between our government and the government described in 1984. Rational irrationality is all around us and few people even seem to notice
RE:
zachary,
’1984′ was an EXTRAPOLATION of the political-world
which the author knew of in 1948…
It’s a damn shame that more people aren’t as in to this stuff as they are into sports and celebrity gossip or what i like to call the real opiate of the masses.
RE:
‘sports and celebrity gossip’ (2009) = PROLE-FEED (G.O.’s 1984)
#132 Da Vinci Says:
June 4th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Does anyone know about
U.S. Pat. No. 5,434,295 discloses that the 1,1 dimethylheptyl (DMH) homolog of [3R,4R]-7-hydroxy-?6 THC (known as HU-210)…
(Cannabinoids as
antioxidants and neuroprotectants)
HU-210
RE:
Yes.
JCI Article:
Cannabinoids Promote Neurogenesis
HU-210
and
the reason
stoners are so smart…
Wikipedia Article:
HU-210
“HU-210 is a synthetic cannabinoid that was first synthesized in 1988 by the group led by Professor Raphael Mechoulam at the Hebrew University.[1][2][3] HU-210 is 100 to 800 times more potent than natural THC from cannabis and has an extended duration of action.[4] HU-210 is the (-)-1,1-dimethylheptyl analog of 11-hydroxy-?8-tetrahydrocannabinol, in some references it is called 1,1-dimethylheptyl-11-hydroxytetrahydrocannabinol. The abbreviation HU stands for Hebrew University.”
#71 John Says:
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:15 pm
This website went from being cool
to being a whiny soap box forum.
- We know the benefits of Cannabis,
hence why we r writing our reps and such.
Publicly complaining to people who already know
is pretty stupid for a major organization.
- Focus that energy on really doing something other
than interviews and writing articles and maybe
this issue will be taken seriously
instead of being swept under the rug because
all we do is whine about it afterwards.
RE:
John,
- This site is still MORE THAN just a whiney soap-box forum.
It’s also a place to practice, hone and refine our writing and fact-finding skills
regarding the truth about Cannabis.
- Contacting our reps and public officials is essential,
however we MUST ALSO be able to do so in the most
LITERATE, CONCISE, PROFESSIONAL and IRREFUTABLE manner possible;
- Respectfully addressing genuine concerns and objections,
as well as neutralizing oft-repeated ‘drug-war’ fallacies / false-analogies
BEFORE they’re even mentioned in the recipient’s potentially-skeptical
and / or dismissive reply / response.
- Even though WE know the many benefits of Cannabis…
these facts must be presented in a way that is perceived as
incontrovertibly-credible to those whom we share this information with…
This will never end, unless we get rid of ALL the people that started this prohibition! All their lies, OVER 70 years and all these people that still believe the goverment. How sad is that, these people can’t even think for themselves anymore, they need the goverment to tell them what to do and what no to do. Well I am sick of this goverment telling me what I can and can not do. I have parents, that means, for goverment to get out of my life!!!!!!!!
#142 inkelf Says:
June 5th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
In the original Hebrew text…
RE:
Inkelf,
- The the actual word-origin for
“Pharmacy”
is Greek…
Pharmakeia
is a Greek word that appears several times in the New Testament, including the Epistle to the Galatians and the Book of Revelation. It is frequently translated as “witchcraft” or “sorcery.” The English word “pharmaceutical” is derived from the same root as this word. The admonitions against it in the Bible are often used as the basis of claims that mind-altering drug use is sinful, as the ancient pagans used hallucinogens in their sorcery.
Further, and earlier schools of thought have understood the warning against Pharmakeia to be a ban on oral contraceptives that were in use at the time.
Categories: Greek words and phrases
#142 inkelf Says:
June 5th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
…Now you know why God said, “Thou shall not suffer a sorcerer to live”
RE:
- To add…
A certain Natural Medicine M.D.,
whom I used to watch on t.v.
would often mention,
“It’s a SIN to use SYNTHETICS…”
To: Cherokee fred, these ignorant bastards are’nt going to listen to words, never have, they dont care about people, they already have your tax dollars. There is only one thing that will make them listen, and advocating that would make me a terrorist in their eyes.
What right does another person have
to claim dominion over my body?
Marijuana is illegal by statute only.
These laws are a social contract
based on fallacies.
It is time to renegotiate.