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Into someone?

who believes,

that 'pharmacist,

had her grandchildren's best interest,

when that modern day and legal drug pusher,

steered her away from simple and natural treatment,

our argument was centered,

on my question,

did this person, a pharmacist,

have your best interest,

or his 'best interest?

The fact that there has been an influx of more liberal-minded people since the sixties (many many 'back-to-the-landers') is the only reason we are a 'blue' state. Those die-hard ignorants have really gotten a shot in the arm with the current power regime. They all actually believe that GWB is a 'good 'ol boy' from Texas.

In this state, local rural politics is pretty much run by these. Local logger families that have held public power and property since the 1800s. It's only in the larger cities like Portland, and Eugene, and surrounding areas that there is a higher concentration of 'liberals' per population.

Families and friends of families run almost all aspects of this state except in the senate and governor. The combining of the war on thinking people, with NSA, Patriot Act, and the 'war on terror' is just the ticket that all those ignorant inbred embeciles have been waiting for. They suffered greatly under the common sense that the liberals brought with them, and are out for blood.

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By Bennett Hall, Gazette-Times Business Editor

May 16, 2006

A longtime Samaritan Health Services nurse is contesting his dismissal, claiming he was fired not because of his job performance but because he has been an outspoken advocate of medical marijuana.

An executive of the health care network disputes that claim.

Ed Glick was terminated April 18 from his job as a nurse at Samaritan Regional Mental Health Center in Corvallis after he refused to take a drug test.

According to Glick, the demand that he submit to urinalysis came during a meeting to discuss omissions in the paperwork he did on several patients. He said the gaps were minor and occurred when he was working an exceptionally busy weekend shift that required him to rush through the numerous admission forms to attend to the patients’ immediate needs.

When a supervisor insisted he take a drug test, Glick said, he refused and walked out of the meeting. He was then fired.

“I was ambushed in a meeting with the supervisors,” Glick said. “The real reason I was fired is I’ve been doing medical cannabis nursing for 10 years.”

Oregon is one of about a dozen states that allow marijuana use for medicinal purposes, but the practice remains highly controversial.

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FoM mentioned Nabilone in a previous comment. At a NORML Conference around 3 years ago, somebody told me Nabilone is not effective.

I telephoned State Legislators this morning to oppose the Anti-Gang Bills and the Bill which would give law enforcement photo laser radar against motor vehicle speeders, to instead include a proviso with the money allocated for law enforcement to prioritize their resources against the most serious offenses, to deprioritize Marijuana charges, that for the most part speeding tickets are for tax revenue instead of public safety.

I also called U.S. Senators Lautenberg and Menendez for more homeless shelters and jobs in light of the increased number of immigrants, including Mexicans, and to make available alternative fuels, such as Hemp, www.HempCar.org, told them I do not like those Nazis in EXXON, www.John-Loftus.com.

Of course they do! And so, it is the job of government, accordingly, to use the very best science and the latest techniques, to change this fact, or barring that, to obscure that fact as much as possible.

So, the "action" that government will be tempted to take and will, in fact, take, will be to step up the propaganda-lies.

If Americans want Y and not X, then don't give the ignorant sheep the Y they want. No. Instead, demonise Y, all the more. Ridicule Y, call people who still want Y horrible names. Link the Y-likers with other groups that most people accept as hated. Government-approved X-supporters dress nicely, have jobs and spouses and healthy babies. But those Y-lovers, they may endanger the children. Good, upstanding citizens support the Righteous and Holy (Government-Approved) X. Who then, could tolerate Y or Y-lovers? Are we not at "war"? Does not government disprove of Y? Are not those who choose Y over X treasonous traitors?

This is pure Trash. Show me the protection from 100 years of the FDA. How many people have died due to pharmapoisons in the last 100 years? How many people have died using Natural Medicine in the last 100 years? If these questions were answerable, the FDA would have a very sad record next to Nature. Then there are those who escape the poisons only to have to live with the damage. Can anyone tell me the death rate and damage analysis on Smoking Cannabis? If there was one, it would be plastered all over DEA land. There is no proof of death or irreparable damage due to Cannabis consumption, whether it be eaten, inhaled, or used as an anointing oil. People have breathed smoke as medicine before, why not now?

Dis-ban the DEA and the FDA, and create a NDEA. Natural Drug Enforcement Agency. Force pharmaceutical co.'s to develop medicine using only whole plant extracts or combinations. No more Frankenmeds.

Free yourselves from PHARMA-PRISON! Demand Natural Medicines over Chemical Wizardry! The more research done on natural plants and minerals, the less we will depend on the Liars for Profit.

"Our medical system relies on proven scientific research."

"What does science have to say?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not approve of smoked marijuana as a medicine."

Science, Ha! The FDA announced their political opinion, based on no new science, contradicting the 1999 IOM Study.

And they did not just decry "smoked marijuana." They issued a blanket condemnation of medical cannabis, no matter the method of delivery. They effectively denounced baked cannabis edibles, cannabis tinctures and salves, and vaporized cannabis.

"However, many of these potions were useless or were harmful to unsuspecting ill people. Thus evolved our current FDA drug approval process. It has protected us for 100 years. It is dangerous to undermine it."

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By David G. Evans

May 17, 2006

New Jersey -- The April 27 commentary from the Coalition for Medical Marijuana-New Jersey made an argument for medical marijuana, including smoking marijuana. They want marijuana approved as medicine by getting a state law passed. They use emotional arguments instead of science. What does science have to say?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not approve of smoked marijuana as a medicine. Neither does the New Jersey Department of Health. Commissioner of Health Fred Jacobs, in a letter to me, noted that smoking marijuana poses a risk to users because it delivers harmful substances and it cannot provide a consistent drug effect. This would apply to eating marijuana also.

Questions of medicine are for the FDA to answer — not special-interest groups, not individuals, not public opinion. Our medical system relies on proven scientific research.

Before the development of modern pharmaceutical science, the field of medicine was fraught with potions. There were as many anecdotal stories about these potions as there are today about smoked marijuana. Many people were convinced these potions helped them. However, many of these potions were useless or were harmful to unsuspecting ill people. Thus evolved our current FDA drug approval process. It has protected us for 100 years. It is dangerous to undermine it.

Smoked marijuana as medicine has also been rejected by the American Medical Association, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the American Glaucoma Society, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Cancer Society. Recently, the federal Institute of Medicine also conducted research on this issue and they see "little future in smoked marijuana as a medicine."

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