I'll be happy to pass the info onto some of the locals, but I haven't really found too many resisting in Santa Cruz. Nuthin as happily frustrating as being girded for battle and have them surrender before the first spear is hurled. I think everybody wants it legal but the media fabricates these stupid polls and the wind up talking heads just repeat the "program" to the viewing audience. And the DC Lobbylackies in Congress and the Courthouse don't sass back. Subliminal retardation and administrated education depravation. It can't be from lack of data or info. Oh well... We always have the 100th monkey over riding the ruling class' media repression.
thanx again.
dendecannabist@yahoo.com
DdC

The Hundredth Monkey
http://www.spiritual-endeavors.org/free/100monk-all.htm

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html

and you can get the Adobe Acrobat Reader for either PC or Mac, will open PDF files. Get up to speed there my friend - we can't win this war with bearskins & knives! (just kidding)

Dr. Russo sent it to me and he only sent it in pdf format. Can't you get the reader with a Mac? Sorry I can't help you. It is like a book.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/library/pdf_files/Chronic_Cannabis.pdf

Here's the dead monkey test and how Dan Quayle came to be VP bush quayle lilly pharmaceutical sellout by Jack Herer
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionwhyitstimetolegalize.showMessa ge?topicID=23.topic

Hey, look on the bright side....thanks to this guy, we all know where to hook up if we're ever in Fayetteville!

Why is that amazing?

"The vast majority said that they currently were not using other drugs, or did so only occasionally -- or didn't remember what the question was."

What a cornhole.

"America isn't the only country that spends its tax dollars on stupid studies."

See. America isnt the only country that spends money on propaganda.

This guy has a serious stick up his ass.

Or forgot what they said 10 seconds ago?

Or forgot the name of the person just introduced to them?

Or the billboard on the highway warning them not to drink and drive?

Pot has nothing to do with short term memory loss.

It is just a plain old natural phenomena of the mind.

Alcohol's effects on one's memory is too well known.

I have 'smoked dope' for thirty-two years; I am required and quite able to remember plenty of information. No one can possibly know and remember everything, thank God.

Two questions:

Be well all, esp. you dddd.

And the real science gets, like, zero major media attention and no mention at all of JAMA's "cautionary" prefaratory editorial?

Be well all.

Prenatal Marijuana Exposure and Neonatal Outcomes in Jamaica: An Ethnographic Study (excerpted)
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/medical/can-babies.htm

At 1 month, however, comparisons between exposed and nonexposed neonates revealed that the neonates of using mothers had significantly higher scores on the Autonomic and Reflex clusters of the NBAS (see Table 3). On the supplementary items, these neonates scored higher (were less irritable) on the General Irritability item.

Comparing the heavily exposed and the nonexposed infants, the Brazelton clusters on day 30, showed that the offspring of heavy-marijuana using mothers had significantly higher scores on the Orientation cluster, on the Autonomic Stability cluster, and on Reflexes (see Table 4). Due to the intercorrelation among the variables comprising each cluster, no t scores or P values are reported for individual items. Nevertheless, a comparison of individual item scores showed that neonates of heavy users had higher scores on habituation to auditory and tactile stimuli, and to animate auditory stimuli, the degree of alertness, capacity for consolability, irritability (ie, less irritable), and had fewer startles and tremors. The comparisons on the supplementary items revealed significant differences on all seven variables, with the neonates of mothers who were heavy-marijuana users performing more optimally on these items.

Long-Term Pot-Use Study: No Ill Health Effects
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread10533.shtml In the first study of its kind, four recipients of federally provided medical marijuana were examined for the health effects of their long-term cannabis use-and none showed any serious adverse effects.

"One of marijuana's greatest advantages as a medicine is its remarkable safety"
"Marijuana is one of the least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia"
Dr. Grinspoon: To Smoke Or Not To Smoke
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9431.shtm

Cannabis Blocks Irreversible Brain Damage
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionffffhyperlinked.showMessage?topicID=3.topic

Schaeffer: A Neuropsychological Evaluation; A Case History
"...I.Q.'s of Zion Coptics increased after they began to use ganga"

Cannabis in Costa Rica: A Study of Chronic Marijuana Use; Institute of Human Issues.
"No significant health consequences to chronic cannabis smokers"

Cannabis prevents brain damage
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionwhyitstimetolegalize.showMessage?topicID=24.topic

US Jamaican Study 1974
"... as a multipurpose plant, ganga is used medicinally, even by non-smokers. ....There were no indications of organic brain damage or chromosome damage among smokers and no significant clinical psychiatric, psychological or medical) differences between smokers and controls."

"No impairment of physiological, sensory and perceptual performance, tests of concept formation, abstracting ability, and cognitive style, and tests of memory"

"[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."

Dr. Andrew Weil (Rubin & Comitas Ganja in Jamaica, 1975)
"a-motivation [is] a cause of heavy marijuana smoking rather than the reverse"

Today's Marijuana Naysayers May Be Blowing Smoke
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9245.shtml

Alcohol Dementia
Excessive drinking over a period of years may lead to problems which affect memory, learning and other functions. When patients are having cognitive difficulties, such as impaired memory or reasoning ability, alcohol use may be the cause. At least four distinct cerebral diseases ˆ Wernicke-Korsakoff, Marchiafava-Bignami, pellagrous encephalopathy, and acquired hepatocerebral degeneration ˆ have a close association with chronic alcoholism.
http://www.canjneurolsci.org/21maytoc/alcoholi.htm

But there's a big difference between my usage pattern and that of someone who has spent the past ten years high continuously. I know a number of people who fall into that category, and the stereotypes we all know hold true. There is such a thing as abuse of marijuana, just like any other addictive substance (alcohol, food, TV, internet use, etc.)

And someone who uses marijuana for medical reasons is bound to have entirely different reasons for doing so and any negative effects are probably outweighed by the positives. If you're alive and happy that surely beats being anything else.

So, these people who have been "using for 24 years" -- what category do they fall in? Are they perpetually stoned, do they get high once a weekend or so, or do they have medical conditions for which there is no other relief?

The article doesn't say anything about that, so any conclusions this study may draw about the general population are bound to be incorrect. Any article worth its salt would describe different usage patterns. It would at least separate marijuana users into the three categories I've described, at least. There may well be more categories than that, even.

Because noone ever studies whether there are beneficial effects to cannabis, it's never, "Is this substance good for people?" Its always "How bad is this for people?"

Until they stop asking questions that are already biased to show negative effects, we'll be hard pressed to find positive effects in 'studies' like the pile of steaming intellectual fecal matter that this thing (i refuse to call it an article) is based on.

Amazingly enough, even some studies that are determine to show negative effects end up showing there are positive effects. Imagine what they would find if they tried as hard to find good stuff as much as they do bad stuff. We may have the cure or at least a substance that gives relief for some of the most horrible afflictions known to man, but it's a plant, and it's evil, so we have to keep people from using it...fear the evil plant..OOoOOOooOoo..it's scary..and it's evil..bad bad plant..One nation under god, unless it's a god that created evil plants, then we'll just find a new god..like the blood money that flows through the halls of our government...how many people died all over the world today because the U$A decided that the silly little commandment that says "Thou shalt not kill" doesnt apply to them? Judgement day is coming, and it wont be pretty.

Also, just gotta love all the derogatory statements. What next, calling blacks lazy welfare ridden basketball junkies? Or jewish people money hungry people with big noses? Why is it people can be blatantly prejudiced toward people that enjoy cannabis and noone says ANYTHING? If any of the above comments were made about any other minority or social group, a firestorm would surround that person and they most likely would never write another article again.

This anti propoganda crap is getting more and more desperate. They see the writing on the wall and they thing by adding more spray paint they can stop the cracks..maybe one day soon we'll get lucky and a big chunk of that wall will fall on this racist pig.