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- ~ LETS STOP LYING ABOUT MARIJUANA. IT'S 2012 for crying our loud! ~
The "new marijuana reform" hand-out circulating throughout my fellow Republican party incumbents is the, "marijuana only to the terminally ill" boilerplate, and only available through DEA chosen pharmacies, with prescriptions filled out in (narcotic) triplicate copy recordings.
San Diego city attorney Jan Goldsmith penned a Union Tribune article, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2012 that suggested so, taking credit for being one of three who originally fought for prop. 215, only to now side with this ridiculous republican solution to ending MMJ dispensaries. Grandstanding, Jan used "fake" MMJ i.d. cards" in the past as part of the problem. Hardly. He's grasping at any hand-hold he can, to remain in the political spotlight. His narrow focus on MMJ now is to keep his job and stay aligned with the new Romney righteous.
I wrote the Union Tribune editor yesterday asking him/her what about the other 5,000 people in San Diego that use marijuana daily? What about those people? Do you think they will just stop medicating with marijuana? Or, do you think that they will return to the underground market and reverse all the progress we've made towards regulation?
I'll get no answer from the editor at the UT. All of the news media is locked. All the republicans are in lock-step with the MJ for the terminally ill only. What will happen?
How many DEA agents are there in the USA devoting their time to eradicating Marijuana?
What is the base salary for a DEA agent?
I think there's one agent too many, and the DEA needs to have their projected "drug focus" brought out into the daylight. How about you?
Let's open up the closed doors at OUR DEA.
Who are these guys and what are they doing about Bath Salts and precursor chemicals TODAY.... and TOMORROW?
The DEA needs GUIDANCE from the public, or they'll be in the news for fraud by next year. There's a 20 million dollar lawsuit pending against the DEA in San Diego for locking a Chinese student in a DEA building holding cell for (5) without food or water. Think I'm lying.
Not. But the DEA is - and it's now sourced back to the San Diego DEA Director. Under investigation.
Where's Congressman/Mayor candidate (D) Bob Filner in all of this? :) Trying to win an San Diego election for Bob that's where.
Haven't heard an MMJ word from BoB to date. Just another Medical Marijuana hanger-on.
Poor old Marijuana...... NEVER proven to be harmful, just a load of DEA crap crammed down people throats. Boo! It's a swoop. Fight back ! - Reply to this comment
- Hi steve,
With all the news with Lance Armstrong and that around the world there people that believe Lance is telling the truth and there people that believe he is lieing. With the recent report that USADA have made public on thier investigation on Lance. I feel that the only way to bring real closure to this is to get the 26 riders or the 11 riders mention in the report and do a public interview with them and use the USADA report as a basis. People will only then believe what the truth is if they hear directly from those riders Lance has been close too. thoughts is this possible? - Reply to this comment
- ~ If change comes to America, the voters have to make some changes in America with the re-introduction of hemp and a reduction of USA cotton along with the chemicals required to eliminate boll weevil's, etc.
Does hemp-farming require pesticides? Will hemp-farming employ? Will hemp farming make everyone in America a potential "get-high", and later lead to heroin? No. Of course not. Who have you been listening to? Google, and find out about hemp. Don't let someone else do your thinking for you.
The public needs educating first, and next, to drop their blind-conviction fear of this 5-leafed plant that has no intoxicating resin, and imagine how a 45% reduction in cotton production will benefit America. THEN, all of America will experience how fast change can take place nationally. It's been 75 years since that happened.
Today, imported hemp/cotton fabric's most common blend is 55% industrial HEMP and 45% raw cotton. Public Service announcement: The 8 yards I own (pre-shrunk) are from http://enviroTextile.com/ and on their way to becoming 17" inseam shorts. My plan is to return here, with follow-up comments from the seamstress about the "pliability" of 8 oz. hemp/cot broadcloth when turning (double-folded) French seams, compared to 100% cotton.
Everyone born in 1937 is 75-yrs. old today. Someone who was 20-yrs. in 1937 when hemp was abolished, is 95 yrs. old today.
So then, ask an American 95-yr. old today, if hemp production and manufacturing was a bad idea from 1800 to 1936, before deciding that growing hemp will hurt America. Start asking yourself questions and Google a few facts before making a peer-pressured decision.
If not hemp, then America will not change very much at all. We'll have the same FINITE amount of raw materials to work with, so why would there be any change? - just more legislative shuffling and ultimately higher taxes. Hemp farming can change America. Now's the time. ~
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postscript: Many people are unaware that the textile industry in America was decimated during the depression and never returned. All of the spinning, ginning and weaving looms were sold-off. The USA cotton textile industry, save for a bit of South Carolina, is non-existent.
The only 100% USA cotton that can be bought by the bolt is raw, un-dyed, and shrinks 12% on first-wash. American consumers won't stand for that.
The only dyed 100% cotton available to the USA consumer is in "remnant" bolts. Don't think so? Try and buy 8 oz. 100% khaki cloth at your local fabric shop. See?
Give USA hemp a second look. - Reply to this comment
- Last night's debate was the "hand-off" from Obama to Romney.
Obama is through, unless the United States goes to conflict overseas.
NORML's report of 15,000 letters of petition to A.G. Holder are puny, compared to actual marijuana users in California. Is is back to the streets for illegal marijuana again? Really?
Petition Eric Holder absolutely, but he'll leave as A.G. after November.
SDDC dispensary on Midway has been opened and closed (4) times since
2010 and now closed permanently. "Delivery" is the only "tested-meds menu" option in North County San Diego. A lot of people will be left without medical marijuana, because a dispute between fed over state.
L.A. dispensaries were all sent DEA notices last week. They're creeping.
What happens when Mitt gets his mitts on marijuana? - Reply to this comment
- Schwarzenegger's nuts, who chose Maria Kennedy as his Catholic support
for a repressed lopsided Austrian King Ferdinand complex of
megalomania, who always seek repentance from those they've hurt.
It's a double-dip on a power-humiliation thing. - Reply to this comment
- ~ H.R. 1831, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act ~ At House Energy & Commerce
9-24-12 Thank you for taking the time to contact me about H.R. 1831, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act.
As you know, HEMP is a variation of cannabis sativa with low-grade tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) strains. Today, hemp is used for industrial purposes such as paper, clothing and bio-fuel. Earlier this Congress, Representative RON PAUL (Texas-R) introduced H.R. 1831, the INDUSTRIAL HEMP FARMING ACT.
This piece of legislation AMENDS the (75 yr. old) CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE ACT to EXCLUDE industrial hemp from the DEFINITION of "MARIJUANA".
H.R. 1831 also defines "industrial hemp" as any part of the Cannabis plant that meets the THC concentration limit of NO MORE than 0.3 PERCENT.
If a person grows or processes it for purposes of making industrial hemp THIS WOULD BE in accordance with state law.
H.R. 1831 has been referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Please rest assured, should this or similar legislation comes to the House floor for a vote, I will keep your thoughts in mind. Thank you for contacting me. If you have any further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me or my office at (202) 225-0508. - Congressman Brian Bilbray (R), 50th district, California
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Please Americans!(and the world)..Hemp for Fuel/Clothing..Corn for Cattle. - Reply to this comment
- ~ Evangelist Romney & Marijuana ~
Mitt's made several attempts at being president of the mother country, of the "America" franchise.
He's repeatedly failed, because:
1. Mitt looks scary. Maybe it's the dark, inset eyes, or his jerky style of delivery, but Mitt's never made the cut.
2. There's the "Mormon" thing. Don't EVEN think, that with phrases like "I'll bring God BACK into the White House", that he won't.
3. There's been a noticeable decline this summer of 2012, in the black & white-attired youths that crusade door-to-door for the Mormon religion - trained predators that play the "people numbers" until that happen upon the front door of a soul with a weak spiritual moment. Expect that to increase after November.
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4. "Carl DeMaio (R) & Bob Filner (D) Congress, are on the Same Page in Push for Medical Marijuana Dispensaries" - Union Tribune Monday, 9-24-12
While the republican opponent favors stricter access for those using marijuana, and the democrat, a supporter in D.C. of "states rights to choose", both candidates are acutely aware that I am the only person to broadcast the cannabis issue nationwide, and.....
"For now, the two candidates are asked about medical marijuana at nearly EVERY debate." - Union Tribune, Monday, September 24, 2012 - Reply to this comment
- ~ Classics for Convicts ~
Any person who spends more than (1) year in prison will be released as a mentally-slow, low self-esteem, out-of-touch-with-the-life-pace dullard, who doesn't stand a chance in relating to society other than the peer group that got him/her in there. Trees and coins are foreign objects.
There's plenty of Bible's in prison, but nobody reads them.
There's plenty of Louis L'Amour literature. One can ride the range with the Sackett's for a long time in prison and go home a Sackett historian.
If the Classic's were available in paperback, convicts will read them and learn something most citizens don't about early literature and THAT knowledge will give them an "IN" in a social situation.
Just make sure that plenty of the Classic's get donated...we don't want anyone fighting over the only copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Any person that can master the in's and out's of Shakespeare, can do all right around a dinner table filled with strangers. - Reply to this comment
- ~ Alcohol "High" vs. Cannabis "High"
Alcohol is processed by the LIVER, and a predator's tool.
Cannabis is only processed by the BRAIN and predator's no body.
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Jim Xxxblood, a NYC Manhattan Building(s) owner, Yale-man and Rancho Sante Fe resident, friend of Neil Regan (Ron's brother), Yale-man - Art Laffer (economist "curve"), and neighbor of the Inn @ RSF, was also a repair-plumbing customer of mine, who like to talk about life as I worked around the property.
Jim lost his only son to alcohol and substance use. His son was previously a chapter leader for a local AA group.
Jim told me that his NYC physicians caring for his son said this about alcohol (not verbatim, I'm re-telling the story to be brief):
"Alcohol affects people differently.
~ One group's liver turns alcohol to SUGAR. We'll call those people the "Sugar" group.
~ The other group are the preyed-upon "Anhydrous" (a crystalline compound containing no water)...group.
The "sugars" are "happy drunks". They can have one or two drinks and not really want any more. Usually the life of the party and leader of a party Their "hangovers' are not too severe. They can usually rally the next morning to the task of a full day.
The "anhydrous" people suffer under the effects of alcohol. The alcohol is processed by their liver as a poison, just as the "sugars", but after the initial "happy stage", they are more likely to have trouble turning off the "want another beer" switch like their counterparts. The "anhydrous" have terrible hangovers and usually require 72 hrs. to feel normal again."
Generally speaking, no one in the world can over-power someone else with their mind. We'd all like to, at some point, maybe be able to bend a spoon using only the focused power of our mind. Maybe even conjure up a load of banana peels from mid-air and drop them on a bully's head.
Probably only Uri Geller can bed spoons with his mind, which leaves everybody else out of the action... period.
However, if power over people is what you need, the next, very best, power tool is being a "sugar" person. Because "sugar's" are less affected by the effects of alcohol, then alcohol can become a "peer manipulation tool" - and a VERY effective way for one or more "sugar"s" to control a social scene.
I want the DEA to understand how we are NOW going to categorize alcohol and other "stepping stone" drugs which lead to harder drugs.
~ Alcohol, not cannabis (marijuana) leads to cocaine use. And once you've used Alcohol, Cocaine or Methamphetamine, yes...we all agree, the next step may be heroin.
~ Have you EVER known of a hard drug user that didn't also smoke cigarettes? Of course not! Alcohol use BEGS for a cigarette.
Why is cannabis (marijuana) left out of the Class-1 Narcotic group? Because, cocaine, and methamphetamine ABSOLUTELY REQUIRE consumption of alcohol in order to maintain a "level of calmness" control over a DRUG that's making your blood pressure skyrocket and to help keep paranoia from creeping-in and spoiling the "high".
If you ask anyone on either of these drugs, cocaine or meth, if they would like to inhale cannabis they would scream at the thought of forced-introspection. "Whadaya...nuts? Get out of here with that crappy pot. Pot's the LAST thing I want right now!!"
The ONLY people that could possibly use cocaine or methamphetamine without alcohol consumption are the "Sugar" people for some reason. Some "Sugars" can sniff cocaine all day without alcohol as a crutch.
95% of the remaining population would absolutely be mentally forced to "equalize their high" with alcohol. And everybody reading this...know's this to be true.
No my friends... put cannabis in a class all by itself. Do Not Lump Cannabis in with cocaine, meth, and heroin.
The game's over. We all know better. Marijuana is Nothing. Leads to nothing harmful. If so, prove it and they can't or the DEA would have.
Boo! For spreading lies. See ya' in November. - Reply to this comment
- ~ Most people in the U.S.A. have never been to a Muslim country _
What the untraveled in America know about Muslims are what they see on T.V. or the lifestyles of their "landed gentry" Muslim neighbors. There's sand in most Muslim countries. We know that. Many of the population heed daily loudspeaker song from a central tower (wails to those that don't understand it's meaning) of prayer reminder. So, if you're in the middle of the French section of Tangier, Morocco (having French & Spanish districts from former Moroccan rulers) mulling over an espresso on Rue Victor Hugo, you'll hear the prayer-song several times a day from the dominate Muslim district. It would be similar to a clock tower chiming in Gestaad or Kitzbuhel. God is serious business in the Muslim regions.
So, perhaps the United Nations could actually do something tangible, and produced a film of the real Muslim world and what the people are really like and their values, then maybe an American tourist wouldn't walk down the street in the Muslim section of Tangier eating an apple during the daytime observance of fasting which begins in November. Have you ever fasted? Don't you hate it unless it's part of a spiritual routine that's built-in?
No local resident in Tangiers, of any nationality, Muslim, Spanish, French or Gibraltar-English would every do something so rude, consciously or unconsciously. And, almost to a person, everyone of them would greet a Muslim (even your best friend) with "La Vas?" (how are you) and a reply from one of the parties of "Ahm Do La" (Great, so's God), and one or both would immediately, but briefly touch his heart with his right hand, even and especially after they may have shaken hands - just as easily as every retailer in America will ask "How are you?" and the recipient would reply "Fine" (but oddly will rarely reply, "Fine, how are you?"). [pssst...that's because we Americans really have no cultural traits, genetic or otherwise. Emily Post's book on manners was/is not required reading in grade schools. That's why.]
So, there's certain basic Muslim customs to adhere to, and brief as the exchanges are, they mean a lot in the Muslim relations-related world.
How that extends itself in that effort of courtesy, becomes an inner expectation of the same respect from other people back home in America. Ask someone who's traveled.
Americans are a bit lazy in learning anything new, but they watch TV and surely the United Nations could call on Hollywood to infuse some new culture into our obese population. The effort would be a logical federal subsidy and should be provided free to citizens in several medias.
Let everyone know WHY you don't use your left hand for much of anything, showing someone the bottom of your shoe and every other insult that the unknowing could fall into. At least you can say, we had the opportunity to learn.
We've eaten a lot of junk food in the USA for many, many years. It shows.
Sell us a "new attitude", so we can start getting use to the effort of
CHANGE and make room for Muslims, because it's really a small world today. - Reply to this comment
