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  Pot Supply Isn't Bad -- It's Too Good
Posted by CN Staff on May 16, 2002 at 09:09:54 PT
By Janice Tibbetts  
Source: Ottawa Citizen  

medical The company that's growing Canada's official marijuana supply says the weed has turned out to be too potent. The marijuana is not bad -- the problem is it's too good, Prairie Plant Systems said yesterday in a letter to Health Minister Anne McLellan.

Company president Brent Zettl is angry about the company's "damaged reputation" arising from Ms. McLellan's revelations that the project to give marijuana to sick Canadians has been delayed because the supply is impure. That sparked news reports of bad weed.

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Comment #17 posted by Jose Melendez on May 17, 2002 at 05:09:27 PT:

PAUL PETERSON
...The really wierd thing is that no major advocacy group even wants to talk with me, let alone help me financially or even emotionally in this major fight of my life.

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...Somebody please explain this to me, and help me with some money if you will-So I can keep fighting these goons in the LAND OF LINCOLN-OK? (I am planning to run for state representative, but I need some help here, people. PAUL PETERSON

I'll help you if you promise to refocus that angry energy into productive areas.

I can make broadcast quality commercials or infomercials about you and the cannabis pellet project, but you need to get that message out to your constituents and get them to help you by helping them. They will likely turn a deaf ear if you complain to them, especially if your complaints are about them.

Email me and I'll explain further, basically my plan is to have you send me xerox copies of documentation of your beaurocratic experience, with pictures of the participants, and any video of you or them that applies. I can assemble a short video that will show clearly that you have been wronged, and you start sharing dozens or hundreds of copies of those tapes with friends, neighbors, newspapers, TV stations, and also put a clip on your website. You might be able to raise funds by selling the tapes for a reasonable cost like $5.00 or $10.00, there is more...

The inexperienced political consultant in me feels you need to carefully avoid alienating potential supporters. Try to avoid assumptions, instead stick to demonstrable facts. When your web site is down don't announce that it is being sabotaged unless and until you have hard evidence of how, when and by whom.

Peace,

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Comment #16 posted by Lehder on May 16, 2002 at 19:28:30 PT
How are you today, EJ?
When she finally finished telling me how I was feeling, I told her if she's going to tell me how I feel after surgery then maybe next time she could have the surgery for me too.

Don't get me started on modern practical medicine! I bet you know the term 'practical worker.' It's one I became acquainted with in Gulag and will always remember.

I now have two books by N. Mandelstam, an author recommended by you, that tell the story of the poet Osip Mandelstam of that same era of the gulags. You are quite accurate in your likening of the Soviet system to our present oppression; the issues of course are different, but they are served by kindred mentalities and rules of engagement. I mean to copy some quotes into cnews maybe in a few days. A more recent account of the collapse or impending collapse might be of more interest to me today, and there are probably several of them.

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Here are a few lines from a report "Amish DARE program renewed" appearing in the May 16 issue of a small rural paper, The Leaf. I copy them without, for now, editorial remark:

Sheriff's Deputy Joseph Keough, who goes into 19 of the 49 district [Amish] schools said the program...was well accepted by the Amish community. The $58,827 grant is funded with $45,000 from the office of the Ohio Department of Alcohol, Drug Abuse.... The students participating are in the sixth, seventh and eight grades and receive 17 core group lessons. The 12,13 and 14 year old Amish youth are what Keough calls the core group of youth who need to learn about the dangers of drinking alcohol, using inhalants and drugs...."Inhalants are the most dangerous drug for the youth," Keough said. "But the Amish kids need to understand that drinking alcohol has serious consequences, too...."

Since Amish boys and girls leave school after they finish the eighth grade, it is important.... He said tours ahve been taken...where students learned about what happens when you have to face the judgment of the court for their actions. They see that many of the offenses addressed in the court are drug related.



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Comment #15 posted by goneposthole on May 16, 2002 at 17:57:23 PT
zero obfuscation
No bullshit.

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Comment #14 posted by PAUL PETERSON on May 16, 2002 at 15:48:26 PT:

TAKE YOUR POT AND PILL IT
I'm telling you again, take all that 185 strain shit and grind it all up and mix it together and pellitize it just like you were making rabbit feed pellets. Then you would have 1) a standardized product, 2) dose manageable (each pellet would have consistent size, consistency, effect), 3) all the different strains would give a "super" combination of every possible cannabinoid (god meant pot to be used in an amalgum, not one mere "isolated" chemical-that is where they went loco with cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, etc. (and that single agent got so addictive, etc. each time!), 4) and you could easily quantify research findings since the whole batch would be standardized, 5) you could render the "pellets" nonsmokeable if you wanted, by dipping in sesame seed oil, like that marinol stuff (which doesn't work since it is only a pale "ghost" of the real mccoy, with that single one neurotransmitter and all), 6) by pelletizing, you can also ensure potenty will be consistent over time, by thusly locking in the chemicals by densely packing the product through compression (and cold storage of the bagged product), 7) since the product would be so consistent, costs of production and handling would be standardized, the "pills" would be easily packaged in pill bottles, also losing the "stereotype" as the "cigarettable" stuff sold on the corner, and more easily distinguished from the vernacular, etc., 8) one comprehensive test for the whole batch would suffice.

This is what I submitted to the State of Illinois last year, and as a result, I WAS DEBARRED ON FALSE PRETENSES BY THE LAWYER POLICE (they committed fraud, perjury & mail fraud all the way to the ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT, and I am not ashamed to say it right here again, and now. The DEA & NIDA were even interested in the process, assuming that I got my state boys on my side. Of course, that was before our governor (a pharmacist, boy was I naive) talked with his druggy buddies (Abbott Labs, I believe). The guy's secretary told me "let the drug companies do it". Now they are probably oggling a patent application based on my submission. Anybody have a good patent lawyer that could help me protect my "invention"? Remember, since I tried to get something good started about this something good plant/medicine, I HAVE LOST MY PRACTICE, MY INCOME, MY FAMILY, MY HOME, AND ANY HOPE OF NORMALCY IN MY LIFE. Now I expect to be evicted from my office in a week or two, and my phone shut off soon, and my WEB SITE will probably be offed soon as well (they offed it twice in the last two months already-I had to complain to the FBI to stop this heinous interference). I am waiting for charges to be brought against the lawyer police for their proveable crimes.

I am also waiting for the decision from my trial in the ARDC 4/22-23/02. Since the DEA is so good at threatening doctors with a similar loss of their lives, no doctor in his right mind wanted to come forward to help me, by testifying that pot might not be so bad for ADD, depression, anxiety, mood disorder (or what have you). It was, of course, refreshing to see that 5/6/02 article quoting Dr. Leveque that pot treats ADD & anxiety, so I just did a "Motion to Supplement the Record" to get this stuff stuck in front of the 3 judges' faces. (Technically, the "rules" don't allow for post trial motions-but hey, since I have a duty to work to "advance the system" especially where there is a "rapidly developing society", I figured they GOTTA let me forge ahead with this new poop here, right?).

The really wierd thing is that no major advocacy group even wants to talk with me, let alone help me financially or even emotionally in this major fight of my life. Here I am running point, headlong into the abyss, to try to invoke the best darned medical marijuana law in the nation & in history, and nobody ever even calls me back-what gives? I can understand the lack of press coverage-Robin Prosser now knows just how alone this can be (and please get her eating again, OK-She has a daughter that needs a mom, not a martyr). I can also understand the lack of political persons willing to take a gander at this one in a political season-but these big bucks groups-What gives-are they pissed off at me because I came up with these ideas first or something? Is is just another ego trip? Or is is just another example of greed? Somebody please explain this to me, and help me with some money if you will-So I can keep fighting these goons in the LAND OF LINCOLN-OK? (I am planning to run for state representative, but I need some help here, people. PAUL PETERSON 312-558-9999

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Comment #13 posted by E_Johnson on May 16, 2002 at 13:39:53 PT
Lehder this is not how they think any more
Asking the patients how they feel? This is not modern medicine.

After my surgery in December a doctor came in to check me and in some twisted attempt at empathy, without letting me break into the conversation, told me all of the pain I must be feeling now, according to her understanding of what I'd been through.

When she finally finished telling me how I was feeling, I told her if she's going to tell me how I feel after surgery then maybe next time she could have the surgery for me too.

She was not happy with that reply and left the room with an angry glare as if she were some kind of victim of my bad attitude.

She never did find out how I was feeling. She forgot all about that in her attempt to manage me as her patient.



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Comment #12 posted by goneposthole on May 16, 2002 at 13:35:29 PT
Obfuscation
I'll insert my own definition of obfuscation.

Obfuscation- to baffle with bullshit

How did Henry Anslinger obfuscate Congress? He baffled them with bullshit.

MMj crop from Health Canada and Prairie Plants Systems if first no good, then it is super dope.

This is another typical example of continuing obfuscation.

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Comment #11 posted by kaptinemo on May 16, 2002 at 12:49:00 PT:

This is like a cartoon I saw many years ago
4 year old girl to her father: "I can't go to kindergarten!"

Father: "Why not?"

Little girl: "I don't know how to read and write!"

So lame.

Health Canada's latest bit of unintentional slapstick farce is going to blow up in the Liberal's faces; they are already trying to deflect criticism. But it's too late; the cat is not only out of the bag, it's run down the street, skidded on it's paws at the corner in doing a 90, and is on the Interstate, now.

I can only imagine that the Canadian Allinace people, no friends of the Grits, are sharpening their version of the turkey knives. A huge amount has just been dropped on their plates; do they have the will to start slicing?

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Comment #10 posted by FoM on May 16, 2002 at 12:48:54 PT
Too Good or Too Bad
They think that marijuana causes confusion and short term memory loss. They should read what they are saying and maybe they would see who isn't making sense. If it's too good a person doesn't need to smoke as much. What's the issue? It's spin spin and spin somemore.

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Comment #9 posted by Lehder on May 16, 2002 at 12:42:51 PT
maybe I wasn't clear
Without a standardized crop, she said, researchers monitoring the sick patients would have no way of knowing if the marijuana is having the desired effects.

For the explicit instruction of all the researchers and 'practical workers,' I mean that they should ask the patients if the effects have been desirable. After all, the program is for their benefit, right? Or are the administrators primarily concerned with the program's effects on themselves, government officials? You never know.

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Comment #8 posted by Lehder on May 16, 2002 at 12:35:32 PT
smile
Without a standardized crop, she said, researchers monitoring the sick patients would have no way of knowing if the marijuana is having the desired effects.

Try asking them: "How are you today?"

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Comment #7 posted by Robbie on May 16, 2002 at 12:05:29 PT
It can never be "too good"
Thats like saying that a beautiful day is too beautiful.

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Comment #6 posted by p4me on May 16, 2002 at 11:57:36 PT
an old adage
When life throws you a lemon make lemonade. Make the marijuana into tea and you can have any strength you like. Just add water.

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Comment #5 posted by MassCrusader on May 16, 2002 at 11:34:02 PT
Do what Walt Disney did
He had seperate buyers of all that wasteland down in Florida. Then he bought them all up. Buy up property then consolidate. Open up one one, then two, then four, then 7. Throw the MuthaF's off guard, then hit em in their nighborhood.

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Comment #4 posted by MassCrusader on May 16, 2002 at 11:31:59 PT
I think
All we have to do is open up coffeshops at a rate higher than the police can take them down. Simple

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Comment #3 posted by E_Johnson on May 16, 2002 at 11:30:24 PT
How dare they
How dare anyone suggest that the government can't grow good weed!

Off with their heads! Off with their heads I say!



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Comment #2 posted by scott on May 16, 2002 at 10:56:51 PT
Why don't they ask the experts?
The problem is that the wrong people are trying to decide these things. Experienced smokers can tell quality without actually smoking, and then can adjust intake accordingly. Maybe experienced chaparones would be helpful for the novice patients in these trials.

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Comment #1 posted by masscrusader on May 16, 2002 at 10:02:51 PT
I.....
What? Oh man, this is rich...

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