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Posted by FoM on April 29, 2002 at 07:27:54 PT By Chris McGann, Seattle P-I Reporter Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer 
In the 1960s, Americans dodging the draft settled in along the remote and rocky shores of Canada's Sunshine Coast. It was here where they began cultivating marijuana that would eventually become known as some of the most potent in the world.Nearly four decades later, Americans are once again migrating to the handful of small communities along the Sunshine Coast, drawn here not only by the ocean air and the stunning views of the snowcapped mountains, but by the very thing that lured the draft dodgers here: their frustration and disillusionment with the United States government. Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #7 posted by Lehder on April 29, 2002 at 13:21:52 PT |
| Cascadia is a great idea. It would offer the choice of two kinds of places to live. We're supposed to have fifty choices, but all fifty states are uniformly regulated by one overbearing bureaucracy. States rights vanished when state bureaucrats rolled over at the threat of federal witholding of highway funds. There's no competition for people's tax dollars and no incentive for state governments to improve peoples' opportunities; when there's no competition services and living conditions deteriorate. I wonder how many tens of millions would migrate if Cascadia became a reality. The very stupid could remain within the remaining forty-eight states and enjoy their drug war, alcohol, cigarettes and wasted taxes as they please. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #6 posted by goneposthole on April 29, 2002 at 12:20:05 PT |
| Medical marijuana is legal in Canada. When you are there, you start to think if it is maybe better to stay. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #5 posted by kaptinemo on April 29, 2002 at 11:22:58 PT:
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| This got mentioned last year, I think: The Republic of Cascadia Homepage. http://zapatopi.net/cascadia.html Like I said before, a nice dream, but it will never happen with the present 'government by shareholder' that we presently suffer from... [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #4 posted by Dark Star on April 29, 2002 at 10:13:59 PT |
| More than that, Kap. There are a lot of folks from Monterey to BC that would like to secede and call it Ecotopia. I'd move there! [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #3 posted by kaptinemo on April 29, 2002 at 10:08:32 PT:
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| Polish Corridor
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0839527.html The way things keep going here in the US, the Pacific NorthWest up through BC may eventually become what the 'Danzig Corridor' became for many people fleeing Nazi aggression...or a new 'Underground Railroad' for those fleeing American DrugWarrior fomented terror and death. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #2 posted by Jose Melendez on April 29, 2002 at 09:09:42 PT:
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| from: http://www.liverfoundation.org/html_filz/livheal.dir/lh_ldd_dox.dir/_lin001os.htm Dr. Lee and his colleagues conducted their study at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas by reviewing the records ol patients who were treated lor acetaminophen overdose from 1992 to 1995. There were 71 cases, including those ol 50 people who had attempted suicide, taking 3 grams to 125 grams ol the drug, and 21 people who had taken accidental overdoses, taking 2 grams to 30 grams, to relieve pains like toothaches, headaches and stomach aches. Five patients died and 66 recovered, after hospital stays from 1 to 51 days. All the patients sustained liver damage, but 10 developed a serious condition known as acute liver failure, indicating extensive injury to the organ. They accounted for all 5 deaths in the study, and 40 percent of the cases of acute liver failure treated at Parkland in the study period, making acetaminophen the leading single cause of acute liver failure at the hospital in that time. Those with accidental overdoses accounted for 7 of the 10 with acute liver failure and 4 died compared with only 1 death in the attempted suicide group. Their overdoses came about becaues they took too many pills at once or repeated doses too often in an effort to relieve pain. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #1 posted by Jose Melendez on April 29, 2002 at 09:03:35 PT:
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| From: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n814/a08.html?397 Before starting to use marijuana - she usually eats two 'pot cookies' a day, and have a couple of tokes - she says she was taking 11 Tylenol 3s with codeine a day, as well as anti-inflammatory drugs. She doesn't take any now. [ Post Comment ] |
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