DEA Approves UC San Diego Medical Marijuana Study...Again? While Bill Bennett collects from the Pharmaids once again, still trying to keep the drug war profits going...sickening display for a public speaker.
www.cannabisnews.com/news...1450.shtml
I believe that the DEA's approval of this study has hidden motivations.
The D.E.A.th approved the IOM (Institute of Medicine) report and they gave it to Shalalagans at the HHS (Health and Human Services) and she hid it under her big fat ass until Tommyguns took it and hid it behind the left file cabinet in the old storage warehouse. File #13 I believe. So they authorize it since even they have to be feeling the pressure, that doesn't mean the results will be disclosed or implemented anymore than the IOM report stating what the Whooten report stated, which was what the La Guardia report stated and not much different than the Indian Hemp Commission report. Rayguns tried elimnating all of the UCLA medicinal studies for our own good. When Spain recently discovered the tumor treatment with cannabis they also discovered it was already discovered in 74. On the other hand if they can find a way to Pharmaid and package it without the raw free vegitable being legal they would.
The DEA can not be trusted. I hope for the best but the DEA can not be trusted. Besides Congress still hasn't lifted the ban on research grants leaving the research in the hands of those who can afford to do it and only if they can get something in return. 95% of the cannabis cases are plea bargained away from the 5th amendment seeing the risk of losing to a jury and facing manditory sentencing. The jury getting more corporate and government employeed with less chances of questioning the judge's instructions going with their conscious. Money in perks small business or self employeed can't afford leaving the incentive to be dismissed. The incentive of forfeiture not done in England. MS research has been conducted and recorded so this is welcomed but as always taken with a grain of salt. The red herrings to avoid the real debate of prohibition. Profits on war and eliminating the competition. Abolish the D.E.A.th and O.N.D.C.P. America elects representatives not czars!
DdC
What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...=261.topic
Shalalagans
www.cannabinoid.com/wwwbo.../28670.gif
Prohibitionist Deceptions...Please take plenty of water and rest often when reading this...
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...D=43.topic
The Real Reason for US Aid to Colombia
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...=274.topic
Cannabis a Medical Miracle - It's Official
www.cannabisnews.com/news...1254.shtml
Cannabis Trials Early Success
www.cannabisnews.com/news...1257.shtml
Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74 then hid the info to protect the kids from drugs. Not the kids with tumors but the rest.
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...=116.topic
why support prohibition...Its the American Dream
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...=122.topic
Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed, somewhat. Not on mainstream media yet...
www.sumeria.net/politics/invpro.html
The Elkhorn Manifesto sums it up for me.
www.wealth4freedom.com/Elkhorn6.html
The PotHeads Will Survive but will Bush tell anyone how?
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...D=45.topic
Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Neonatal Outcomes in Jamaica: An Ethnographic Study kept from us for our own good...
www.druglibrary.org/schaf...babies.htm
Bush Quayle Lilly Pharmaceutical Sellout explains the origin of Dan Quayle...
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...D=23.topic
Rayguns Monkey Test, Revenge on Bonzo!
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...D=50.topic
The Whooton report stating cannabis is safe, given to Nixon who tossed it to CIA Bush who handed it to the Watergate crew who destroyed it so cannabis could become a schedule#1 drug. Then Klintoon saved us by
adding hemp.
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...D=26.topic
Cannabis is safe says 3 previous studies
www.cannabinoid.com/wwwbo.../27623.gif
Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894:
"The commission has come to the conclusion that the moderate use of hemp drugs is practically attended by no evil results at all. ...
...moderate use of hemp... appears to cause no appreciable physical injury of any kind,... no injurious effects on the mind... [and] no
moral injury whatever."
********************
LaGuardia Commission Report, 1944
"Cannabis smoking] does not lead directly to mental or physical deterioration... Those who have consumed marijuana for a period of years showed no mental or physical deterioration which may be attributed to the drug."
********************
1968 UK ROYAL COMMISSION, THE WOOTTON REPORT:
"Having reviewed all the material available to us we find ourselves in agreement with the conclusion reached by the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission appointed by the Government of India (1893-94) and the New York Mayor's Committee (1944 - LaGuardia)that the long-term consumption of cannabis in moderate doses has no harmful effects" "the long-asserted dangers of cannabis are exaggerated and that the related law is socially damaging, if not unworkable"
********************
The Report of the Australian Government 1996 says: "The ... major possible adverse effects of chronic, heavy cannabis use ... remain to be confirmed" "The major health and psychological effects of chronic cannabis use, especially daily use over many years, remain uncertain" "As has been stressed ... there is uncertainty. ......To varying degrees....inferences from animal research, laboratory studies, and clinical observations about probable ill effects. In some cases inferences depend upon arguments from what is known about the adverse effects of other drugs, such as tobacco and alcohol" "... "flashback experiences" ...have been rarely reported by cannabis users... have typically used other hallucinogenic drugs" "The probable and possible adverse health and psychological effects of cannabis need to be placed in comparative perspective to be fully appreciated".
********************
Researchers at the University of California (UCLA) School of Medicine have announced the results of an 8 - year study into the effects of long-term cannabis smoking on the lungs. In Volume 155 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Dr. D.P. Tashkin reported: "Findings from the present long term, follow-up study of heavy, habitual marijuana smokers argue against the concept that continuing heavy use of marijuana is a significant risk factor for the development of [chronic lung disease. ..Neither the continuing nor the intermittent marijuana smokers exhibited any significantly different rates of decline in [lung function] as compared with those individuals who never smoked marijuana. Researchers added: "No differences were noted between even quite heavy marijuana smoking and non-smoking of marijuana."
********************
See Also: Proven : Cannabis is a safe medicine by Ian Williams Goddard CANNABIS DOES NOT CAUSE CANCER BOSTON, Jan. 30, 1997 (UPI) -
The U.S. federal government has failed to make public its own 1994 study that undercuts its position that marijuana is carcinogenic - a $2 million study by the National Toxicology Program. The program's deputy director, John Bucher, says the study "found absolutely no evidence of cancer." In fact, animals that received THC had fewer cancers. Bucher denies his agency had been pressured to shelve the report, saying the delay in making it public was due to a personnel shortage.
********************
The Boston Globe reported Thursday (1-30-97) that the study indicates not only that the main ingredient in marijuana, THC, does not cause cancer, but also that it may even protect against malignancies, laboratory tests on animals show. The report comes on the heels of an editorial in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine that favors the controlled medical use of marijuana, and calls current federal policy "misguided, heavy-handed and inhumane." The Clinton administration has said that doctors prescribing marijuana could be prosecuted for a federal crime. Marijuana has been reported to ease the pain, nausea and vomiting in advanced stages of cancer, AIDS and other serious illnesses, but the federal government claims other treatments have been deemed safer than what it calls "a psychoactive, burning carcinogen." However, The Boston Globe says the government's claim appears to be undercut by its own $2 million study.
********************
The USA Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 1987 "Cannabis can be used on an episodic but continual basis without evidence of social or psychic dysfunction. In many users the term dependence with its obvious connotations, probably is mis-applied... The chief opposition to the drug rests on a moral and political, and not toxicologic, foundation".
********************
A-MOTIVATION
Dr. Andrew Weil (Rubin & Comitas Ganja in Jamaica, 1975)
"a-motivation [is] a cause of heavy marijuana smoking rather than the reverse"
********************
ADDICTION /DEPENDENCY
The Shafer Commission of 1970
Marijuana does not lead to physical dependency, although some evidence indicates that the heavy, long term users may develop a psychological dependence on the drug"
********************
GATEWAY THEORY
The LaGardia sub-committee of New York 1944
"The use of marijuana does not lead to morphine or heroin or cocaine addiction and no effort is made to create a market for these narcotics by stimulating the practice of marijuana smoking"
********************
"Marijuana: Facts for Teens." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Washington, D.C. 1995, p.10.
"Most marijuana users do not go on to use other drugs."
********************
DRIVING
Crancer Study, Washington Department of Motor Vehicles
"Simulated driving scores for subjects experiencing a normal social "high" and the same subjects under control conditions are not significantly different. However, there are significantly more errors for alcohol intoxicated than for control subjects"
Cannabis and driving
mojo.calyx.net/~olsen/HEM...01206.html
Researcher Studies Effects of Pot on Driving
www.cannabisnews.com/news...9860.shtml
********************
U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (DOT HS 808 07
, Final Report, November 1993:
"THC's adverse effects on driving performance appear relatively small"
********************
Professor Olaf Drummer, a forensic scientist the Royal College of Surgeons in Melbourne in 1996
":Compared to alcohol, which makers people take more risks on the road, marijuana made drivers slow down and drive more carefully.... Cannabis is good for driving skills, as people tend to overcompensate for a perceived impairment.":
********************
MEDICINE
Dr. Anthony Henman:
"One of the best effects Marijuana can have in any terminal illness is to produce a degree of euphoria which boosts morale in a depressing situation"
********************
The Economist March 28th 1992:
"Medicines often produce side effects. Sometimes they are physically unpleasant. Cannabis too has discomforting side effects, but these are not physical they are political"
********************
Professor Lester Grinspoon, Harvard Medical School, USA:
"Marijuana is one of the least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia"
********************
Dr. James Malone-Lee, consultant St. Pancras Hospital, London:
"I'm quite impressed by what's happened to (MS) patients who have used it".
********************
PROHIBITION AND LAW
Albert Eistein:
"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this." :My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921
********************
President Jimmy Carter:
"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself"
********************
Judge James Pickles, UK:
"Cannabis never killed anybody and it's use is widespread. You can"t stop it. The law defeats itself because all the efforts to stop drugs coming in only drives up the prices and then gangsters move in to push the drugs. If they legalised there wouldn't be gangsters and huge profits...The police are gradually decriminalising the possession of cannabis because they realise there's not much point prosecuting"
********************
President Abraham Lincoln (December 1840):
"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control mans' appetite through legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not even crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our Government was founded"
********************
Volney Brown Jr., Federal Magistrate-Judge,(retired)., Los Angeles. At the DPF Conference, November 1996:
"There is only one thing wrong with drug law enforcement, just one - it doesn't work. And when I tell you this I want you to believe me because I have done it"
********************
Judge James Grey, Orange County Superior Court, Santa Ana, CA, at the DPF Conference, November 1996:
"If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one"
********************
Judge Pamela Alexander at the DPF Conference, November 1996:
"I am here because I am the first judge in this country to say, in 1990, that the war on drugs was racist. It still is and that hasn't changed"
********************
Alexander Shulgin, PhD, Chemist and author, at the DPF Conference, November 1996:
"I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable"
********************
Ann Shulgin, PhD, Therapist and Author, Lafayette, CA, at the DPF Conference, November 1996:
"Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true."
********************
U.S. Representative Dan Quayle, March 1977:
"Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society."
********************
LEGALISATION / DECRIMINALISATION
Sir Paul McCartney, Independent on Sunday, 28th September 1997:
"I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal."
********************
Richard Branson, Independent on Sunday, 28th September 1997:
"I'd like to see the government back a programme of research into the medical properties of cannabis and I do not object to its responsible use as a recreational relaxant."
********************
Detective Chief Inspector Ron Clarke, former member of Greater Manchester Police Drugs Squad:
"I got tired of seeing otherwise innocent young kids from all walks of life getting criminal records for, in effect, doing nothing more than millions of other people in society were doing with alcohol"
********************
Sergeant Gordon Payne, Southampton Police
"The only solution to the drugs problem is the legalisation of all drugs"
********************
CRIME
Jamaican Study 1970:
"This study indicates that there is little correlation between the use of ganga and crime, except insofar as the possession and cultivation of ganga technically crimes"
********************
The LaGuardia sub-committee of New York 1944:
"Marijuana is not the determining factor in the commission of major crime....The publicity concerning the catastrophic effect of marijuana smoking in New York City, is unfounded"
********************
TRIAL AND JURIES
President Thomas Jefferson (1789):
"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man, by which government can be held to the principles of its constitution"
********************
Chief Justice John Jay USA:
"The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy"
********************
John Adams (Second USA President):
"It is not only his Right but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court"
********************
Samuel Chase, US Supreme Court Chief Justice 1796:
"The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts"
********************
Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes:
"The Jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact"
********************
Judge Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1941-1946:
"The law itself is on trial quite as much as the case which is to be decided"
********************
Plaque Outside Old Bailey, London
"Near this site William Penn and William Mead were tried in 1670 for preaching to an unlawful assembly in Gracechurch Street. This tablet commemorates the courage and endurance of the jury, Thomas Vere, Edward Bushell and ten others, who refused to give a verdict against them although they were locked up without food for two nights and were fined for their final verdict of Not Guilty. The case of these jury men was reviewed on a writ of Habeas Corpus and Chief Justice Vaughan delivered the opinion of the court which established the Rights of Juries to give their Verdict according to their conviction. "
********************
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, 1972:"unreviewable and irreversible power [of the jury] to acquit in disregard of the instruction of the law given by the trial judge. The pages of history shine upon instances of the jury's exercise of its prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge"
********************
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone:
"If a juror feels that the statute [law] in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural God-given unalienable or Constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all - for no one is bound to obey an unjust law"
********************
CANNABIS LIFESTYLE
The Misuse of Drugs, Office of Health Economics
"It is certainly no longer true to say if it ever was, that smoking cannabis is a sign of affiliation to an "alternative" lifestyle. Clearly, in the light of its popularity and to a degree its apparent social acceptability questions are raised about the legalisation of cannabis"
********************
"Id always done a lot of (sniffing) glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, dont smoke marijuana, it will kill you ..."
IRVINE WELSH, author of the best-selling novel about heroin addiction, "Trainspotting," recalling his own experience with drug abuse.
********************
I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me."
Hunter S. Thompson
********************
The Anti-Pat Robertson/Christian Coalition Site
www.geocities.com/Capitol...rtson.html
www.cannabisnews.com/news...1450.shtml
I believe that the DEA's approval of this study has hidden motivations.
The D.E.A.th approved the IOM (Institute of Medicine) report and they gave it to Shalalagans at the HHS (Health and Human Services) and she hid it under her big fat ass until Tommyguns took it and hid it behind the left file cabinet in the old storage warehouse. File #13 I believe. So they authorize it since even they have to be feeling the pressure, that doesn't mean the results will be disclosed or implemented anymore than the IOM report stating what the Whooten report stated, which was what the La Guardia report stated and not much different than the Indian Hemp Commission report. Rayguns tried elimnating all of the UCLA medicinal studies for our own good. When Spain recently discovered the tumor treatment with cannabis they also discovered it was already discovered in 74. On the other hand if they can find a way to Pharmaid and package it without the raw free vegitable being legal they would.
The DEA can not be trusted. I hope for the best but the DEA can not be trusted. Besides Congress still hasn't lifted the ban on research grants leaving the research in the hands of those who can afford to do it and only if they can get something in return. 95% of the cannabis cases are plea bargained away from the 5th amendment seeing the risk of losing to a jury and facing manditory sentencing. The jury getting more corporate and government employeed with less chances of questioning the judge's instructions going with their conscious. Money in perks small business or self employeed can't afford leaving the incentive to be dismissed. The incentive of forfeiture not done in England. MS research has been conducted and recorded so this is welcomed but as always taken with a grain of salt. The red herrings to avoid the real debate of prohibition. Profits on war and eliminating the competition. Abolish the D.E.A.th and O.N.D.C.P. America elects representatives not czars!
DdC
What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...=261.topic
Shalalagans
www.cannabinoid.com/wwwbo.../28670.gif
Prohibitionist Deceptions...Please take plenty of water and rest often when reading this...
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...D=43.topic
The Real Reason for US Aid to Colombia
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...=274.topic
Cannabis a Medical Miracle - It's Official
www.cannabisnews.com/news...1254.shtml
Cannabis Trials Early Success
www.cannabisnews.com/news...1257.shtml
Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74 then hid the info to protect the kids from drugs. Not the kids with tumors but the rest.
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...=116.topic
why support prohibition...Its the American Dream
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...=122.topic
Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed, somewhat. Not on mainstream media yet...
www.sumeria.net/politics/invpro.html
The Elkhorn Manifesto sums it up for me.
www.wealth4freedom.com/Elkhorn6.html
The PotHeads Will Survive but will Bush tell anyone how?
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...D=45.topic
Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Neonatal Outcomes in Jamaica: An Ethnographic Study kept from us for our own good...
www.druglibrary.org/schaf...babies.htm
Bush Quayle Lilly Pharmaceutical Sellout explains the origin of Dan Quayle...
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...D=23.topic
Rayguns Monkey Test, Revenge on Bonzo!
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...D=50.topic
The Whooton report stating cannabis is safe, given to Nixon who tossed it to CIA Bush who handed it to the Watergate crew who destroyed it so cannabis could become a schedule#1 drug. Then Klintoon saved us by
adding hemp.
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...D=26.topic
Cannabis is safe says 3 previous studies
www.cannabinoid.com/wwwbo.../27623.gif
Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894:
"The commission has come to the conclusion that the moderate use of hemp drugs is practically attended by no evil results at all. ...
...moderate use of hemp... appears to cause no appreciable physical injury of any kind,... no injurious effects on the mind... [and] no
moral injury whatever."
********************
LaGuardia Commission Report, 1944
"Cannabis smoking] does not lead directly to mental or physical deterioration... Those who have consumed marijuana for a period of years showed no mental or physical deterioration which may be attributed to the drug."
********************
1968 UK ROYAL COMMISSION, THE WOOTTON REPORT:
"Having reviewed all the material available to us we find ourselves in agreement with the conclusion reached by the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission appointed by the Government of India (1893-94) and the New York Mayor's Committee (1944 - LaGuardia)that the long-term consumption of cannabis in moderate doses has no harmful effects" "the long-asserted dangers of cannabis are exaggerated and that the related law is socially damaging, if not unworkable"
********************
The Report of the Australian Government 1996 says: "The ... major possible adverse effects of chronic, heavy cannabis use ... remain to be confirmed" "The major health and psychological effects of chronic cannabis use, especially daily use over many years, remain uncertain" "As has been stressed ... there is uncertainty. ......To varying degrees....inferences from animal research, laboratory studies, and clinical observations about probable ill effects. In some cases inferences depend upon arguments from what is known about the adverse effects of other drugs, such as tobacco and alcohol" "... "flashback experiences" ...have been rarely reported by cannabis users... have typically used other hallucinogenic drugs" "The probable and possible adverse health and psychological effects of cannabis need to be placed in comparative perspective to be fully appreciated".
********************
Researchers at the University of California (UCLA) School of Medicine have announced the results of an 8 - year study into the effects of long-term cannabis smoking on the lungs. In Volume 155 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Dr. D.P. Tashkin reported: "Findings from the present long term, follow-up study of heavy, habitual marijuana smokers argue against the concept that continuing heavy use of marijuana is a significant risk factor for the development of [chronic lung disease. ..Neither the continuing nor the intermittent marijuana smokers exhibited any significantly different rates of decline in [lung function] as compared with those individuals who never smoked marijuana. Researchers added: "No differences were noted between even quite heavy marijuana smoking and non-smoking of marijuana."
********************
See Also: Proven : Cannabis is a safe medicine by Ian Williams Goddard CANNABIS DOES NOT CAUSE CANCER BOSTON, Jan. 30, 1997 (UPI) -
The U.S. federal government has failed to make public its own 1994 study that undercuts its position that marijuana is carcinogenic - a $2 million study by the National Toxicology Program. The program's deputy director, John Bucher, says the study "found absolutely no evidence of cancer." In fact, animals that received THC had fewer cancers. Bucher denies his agency had been pressured to shelve the report, saying the delay in making it public was due to a personnel shortage.
********************
The Boston Globe reported Thursday (1-30-97) that the study indicates not only that the main ingredient in marijuana, THC, does not cause cancer, but also that it may even protect against malignancies, laboratory tests on animals show. The report comes on the heels of an editorial in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine that favors the controlled medical use of marijuana, and calls current federal policy "misguided, heavy-handed and inhumane." The Clinton administration has said that doctors prescribing marijuana could be prosecuted for a federal crime. Marijuana has been reported to ease the pain, nausea and vomiting in advanced stages of cancer, AIDS and other serious illnesses, but the federal government claims other treatments have been deemed safer than what it calls "a psychoactive, burning carcinogen." However, The Boston Globe says the government's claim appears to be undercut by its own $2 million study.
********************
The USA Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 1987 "Cannabis can be used on an episodic but continual basis without evidence of social or psychic dysfunction. In many users the term dependence with its obvious connotations, probably is mis-applied... The chief opposition to the drug rests on a moral and political, and not toxicologic, foundation".
********************
A-MOTIVATION
Dr. Andrew Weil (Rubin & Comitas Ganja in Jamaica, 1975)
"a-motivation [is] a cause of heavy marijuana smoking rather than the reverse"
********************
ADDICTION /DEPENDENCY
The Shafer Commission of 1970
Marijuana does not lead to physical dependency, although some evidence indicates that the heavy, long term users may develop a psychological dependence on the drug"
********************
GATEWAY THEORY
The LaGardia sub-committee of New York 1944
"The use of marijuana does not lead to morphine or heroin or cocaine addiction and no effort is made to create a market for these narcotics by stimulating the practice of marijuana smoking"
********************
"Marijuana: Facts for Teens." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Washington, D.C. 1995, p.10.
"Most marijuana users do not go on to use other drugs."
********************
DRIVING
Crancer Study, Washington Department of Motor Vehicles
"Simulated driving scores for subjects experiencing a normal social "high" and the same subjects under control conditions are not significantly different. However, there are significantly more errors for alcohol intoxicated than for control subjects"
Cannabis and driving
mojo.calyx.net/~olsen/HEM...01206.html
Researcher Studies Effects of Pot on Driving
www.cannabisnews.com/news...9860.shtml
********************
U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (DOT HS 808 07
, Final Report, November 1993: "THC's adverse effects on driving performance appear relatively small"
********************
Professor Olaf Drummer, a forensic scientist the Royal College of Surgeons in Melbourne in 1996
":Compared to alcohol, which makers people take more risks on the road, marijuana made drivers slow down and drive more carefully.... Cannabis is good for driving skills, as people tend to overcompensate for a perceived impairment.":
********************
MEDICINE
Dr. Anthony Henman:
"One of the best effects Marijuana can have in any terminal illness is to produce a degree of euphoria which boosts morale in a depressing situation"
********************
The Economist March 28th 1992:
"Medicines often produce side effects. Sometimes they are physically unpleasant. Cannabis too has discomforting side effects, but these are not physical they are political"
********************
Professor Lester Grinspoon, Harvard Medical School, USA:
"Marijuana is one of the least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia"
********************
Dr. James Malone-Lee, consultant St. Pancras Hospital, London:
"I'm quite impressed by what's happened to (MS) patients who have used it".
********************
PROHIBITION AND LAW
Albert Eistein:
"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this." :My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921
********************
President Jimmy Carter:
"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself"
********************
Judge James Pickles, UK:
"Cannabis never killed anybody and it's use is widespread. You can"t stop it. The law defeats itself because all the efforts to stop drugs coming in only drives up the prices and then gangsters move in to push the drugs. If they legalised there wouldn't be gangsters and huge profits...The police are gradually decriminalising the possession of cannabis because they realise there's not much point prosecuting"
********************
President Abraham Lincoln (December 1840):
"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control mans' appetite through legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not even crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our Government was founded"
********************
Volney Brown Jr., Federal Magistrate-Judge,(retired)., Los Angeles. At the DPF Conference, November 1996:
"There is only one thing wrong with drug law enforcement, just one - it doesn't work. And when I tell you this I want you to believe me because I have done it"
********************
Judge James Grey, Orange County Superior Court, Santa Ana, CA, at the DPF Conference, November 1996:
"If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one"
********************
Judge Pamela Alexander at the DPF Conference, November 1996:
"I am here because I am the first judge in this country to say, in 1990, that the war on drugs was racist. It still is and that hasn't changed"
********************
Alexander Shulgin, PhD, Chemist and author, at the DPF Conference, November 1996:
"I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable"
********************
Ann Shulgin, PhD, Therapist and Author, Lafayette, CA, at the DPF Conference, November 1996:
"Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true."
********************
U.S. Representative Dan Quayle, March 1977:
"Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society."
********************
LEGALISATION / DECRIMINALISATION
Sir Paul McCartney, Independent on Sunday, 28th September 1997:
"I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal."
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Richard Branson, Independent on Sunday, 28th September 1997:
"I'd like to see the government back a programme of research into the medical properties of cannabis and I do not object to its responsible use as a recreational relaxant."
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Detective Chief Inspector Ron Clarke, former member of Greater Manchester Police Drugs Squad:
"I got tired of seeing otherwise innocent young kids from all walks of life getting criminal records for, in effect, doing nothing more than millions of other people in society were doing with alcohol"
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Sergeant Gordon Payne, Southampton Police
"The only solution to the drugs problem is the legalisation of all drugs"
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CRIME
Jamaican Study 1970:
"This study indicates that there is little correlation between the use of ganga and crime, except insofar as the possession and cultivation of ganga technically crimes"
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The LaGuardia sub-committee of New York 1944:
"Marijuana is not the determining factor in the commission of major crime....The publicity concerning the catastrophic effect of marijuana smoking in New York City, is unfounded"
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TRIAL AND JURIES
President Thomas Jefferson (1789):
"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man, by which government can be held to the principles of its constitution"
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Chief Justice John Jay USA:
"The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy"
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John Adams (Second USA President):
"It is not only his Right but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court"
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Samuel Chase, US Supreme Court Chief Justice 1796:
"The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts"
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Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes:
"The Jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact"
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Judge Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1941-1946:
"The law itself is on trial quite as much as the case which is to be decided"
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Plaque Outside Old Bailey, London
"Near this site William Penn and William Mead were tried in 1670 for preaching to an unlawful assembly in Gracechurch Street. This tablet commemorates the courage and endurance of the jury, Thomas Vere, Edward Bushell and ten others, who refused to give a verdict against them although they were locked up without food for two nights and were fined for their final verdict of Not Guilty. The case of these jury men was reviewed on a writ of Habeas Corpus and Chief Justice Vaughan delivered the opinion of the court which established the Rights of Juries to give their Verdict according to their conviction. "
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D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, 1972:"unreviewable and irreversible power [of the jury] to acquit in disregard of the instruction of the law given by the trial judge. The pages of history shine upon instances of the jury's exercise of its prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge"
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Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone:
"If a juror feels that the statute [law] in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural God-given unalienable or Constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all - for no one is bound to obey an unjust law"
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CANNABIS LIFESTYLE
The Misuse of Drugs, Office of Health Economics
"It is certainly no longer true to say if it ever was, that smoking cannabis is a sign of affiliation to an "alternative" lifestyle. Clearly, in the light of its popularity and to a degree its apparent social acceptability questions are raised about the legalisation of cannabis"
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"Id always done a lot of (sniffing) glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, dont smoke marijuana, it will kill you ..."
IRVINE WELSH, author of the best-selling novel about heroin addiction, "Trainspotting," recalling his own experience with drug abuse.
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I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me."
Hunter S. Thompson
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The Anti-Pat Robertson/Christian Coalition Site
www.geocities.com/Capitol...rtson.html
