I thought I was babbling loudly.

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Some things I liked more than others ...

"The Fisher King,"

"Jack"

"Artificial Intelligence," but that was really Haley Joel Osment's movie ...

and "The Final Cut", a truly hard-hitting character

"Bicentennial Man" was good, more in my mind since the original story was written by Issac Asimov.

"RV" was funny in spots, not so much his, but, others.

I have seen more animated movies than normal for me as I have attended them with children. Too many use his voice.

I want new animated movies that have different voices.

Too much Robin, I fear ....

Reefer refugee Renee Boje is finally free. In 1998, Boje faced a 10 year mandatory minimum to life sentence in a US Federal Prison for her minor involvement in a well known medical marijuana and research garden owned by cancer patient and marijuana activist Todd McCormick and best selling author and Aids patient Peter McWilliams.

In 1998, fearing persecution over medical marijuana charges, Boje fled from the US to Canada on the advice of her lawyer. In 2001 Boje Married Canadian marijuana activist and author Chris Bennett and in 2002 she gave birth to their Canadian son, Shiva Sun Bennett.

Many had hoped that Boje's marriage to a Canadian and the birth of her Canadian son would be enough for her to be allowed to stay in Canada and avoid the ten year sentencing she was facing in the US. But sadly through the decision of the same Justice Minister who allowed US authorities to raid Emery Seeds, this was not to be the case.

Boje lost her fight against US extradition when the Liberal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler decided against her in 2005. Boje and her family were devastated by the decision because they were told by her lawyers that the Minister’s appeal was her best chance for winning her freedom in Canada and that there was a 99% chance she would lose her appeal in the higher courts with the current Conservative government in power.

Boje appealed Cotler's decision and in that intervening period she received an offer from the US for a plea bargain and negotiations then were initiated between Boje's Canadian lawyer John Conroy and Federal US Prosecutors in LA.

On August 10th Boje traveled to Los Angeles for an August 14th court date in which she pled guilty to possession of half of a gram of marijuana. Judge George H. King, who was the judge throughout the McCormick and McWilliams hearings, sentenced Boje to one year’s probation, giving her permission to reside in Canada with her family.

Boje returned to Canada on August 15th and Canadian officials almost denied her entry into Canada, but relented and let her stay for one week while a decision about her status was in the works at Immigration Canada.

In the end after a week of worrying she might be deported Canadian Immigration officials granted Boje a 6 month visitors permit, which will likely give her time to secure Canadian citizenship so she can remain in Canada permanently with her family.

thanx

I've seriously considered all this as some sort of insanity. Finally, I decided..."Yup...maybe." and jumped in anyway with both feet!

Lot's going on before we rot in that box! Go out swinging! Crazy or not!

Part of my craziness though requires justice and getting rid of us as much pain and misery as possible here on Earth while we're still breathing...or dreaming we're breathing...I've thought about that, too. Maybe it's all a dream...somebody's or something's wild dream. Got a lot to do before they wake up.

I hate pain, and misery, and sickness and suffering. I do hate it.

"Drug War Victims"...before Pete ever made the page...is what brought me to this point. Stop the cruelty. Stop the idiocy.

That's worried me until I got back here.

Rot in a box? We'll be lucky if we don't all blow away in a mushroom cloud the way things are looking.

Nothing wrong with big ideas, while we can have them, I say...unless they come after you with Marsh's "White coats" and "Nets".

My standard for a good movie ... will I watch it again? ... fails me for "What Dreams May Come," but I think it was OK. At this time of my life, I think I have seen enough of Robin Williams and heard enough of his voice. As proof of that I saw his latest movie in the theatre. Enough, I fear ...

Heavenly Kid was great, we all liked that one 'round here. I just watched a piece of it last week ...

FoM, I didn't get you email the other day, don't know why ...

I'm sorry to say that my schedule precludes attendance at CSNY ... thanks for you kind offer .......

Peace to all ....

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I toke, therefore I am.

I addressed those of you like gloovins in post #191, so relax and remember this ... you better hope when it's all said and done that WE'RE the nutty ones or you'll feel really silly. LOL

That's what I liked about the sixties/seventies so much. As long as your heart was in the right place, nothing else mattered.

when we die

all of us

Now, on planet earth, as we destroy her slowly

We babble about religion lowly

Embrace the truth

You are "god" of your own world

Universal Life

Believe in the force or god that exsisted before the Earth was created

BIBLE = Books Involving Bogus Literature Entirely, see

Just wake up & join either The ULC or the LP.org (& vote!)

& make a difference

Jesus was a good man, but just a man, see?

It's a hard pill to swallow but so is that big multi-vitamin you take at the start of the day.

First, there were some radical Jewish people who came to our Sunday school and told us all about how the Moshiach was coming. (They were right, by the way. But let's leave that alone for the moment.) They got us all inspired about this or at least I was, and I was told to go home and start kosherizing or something ridiculous. I was all of, I don't know, ten years old maybe.

My parents had a fit, of course. Condemned the temple for letting those radicals in, and me for believing them. Condemned me for believing in God.

So I stopped believing.

Then I was expected, anyhow, to get a Bar Mitzvah. I didn't want to get a Bar Mitzvah, it didn't mean anything at all to me. I didn't even believe in God. It was stupid. But my grandfather became angry, he was furious, he threatened to rip a shirt at me... to cast me out of the family...if I did not have a Bar Mitzvah. So I had a Bar Mitzvah and I congratulated my grandfather on it.

And I hated God, who my grandfather believed in, and for whom I'd had to do this thing.

And then there was the confirmation. The temple my parents belonged to was a Reform congregation. They had a confirmation from the sunday school at age 16. It was important to my father that I be confirmed. He said he'd never cared about the Bar Mitzvah, that was all my grandfather (maternal)'s idea and all he wanted to make sure of is that I had "completed my Jewish education" by having the confirmation.

So I said I would not. And the Rabbi spoke with my father, and my father told the Rabbi he had offered to let me have his old chevy when I turned 16 and got my license, and the Rabbi told him that he should make it conditional on my getting confirmed. Now I don't actually know what the Rabbi and my father said to one another, but this is what my father told me, and because the Rabbi had told him he should break that promise, I would not be allowed to have the car if I did not get confirmed.

So I had my confirmation. And congratulated my father.

And I hated the Rabbi, and I hated my father.

And I did not drive that car for two years.

He never understood how harmful his deceptions were. He never understood that honesty is best with children. Perhaps he never had anyone that was honest with him.

I'm saying that really hatred and evil are the same thing. If you hate you have evil thoughts, even if you don't act on them. If you act on your evil thoughts then you are hating someone with force.

There's scripture to back up every word you said.

You wouldn't be surprised, I'm sure, at how many people I've shown that have rejected it. All those preachers couldn't have been lying...Ole Joe is bound to be going to hell...They just don't like it.

Why a death? Why a sacrifice?

This whole saved/non-saved nonsense does cause lots of suffering, though. I have a sister who says she agonizes all the time because she thinks my father wasn't "saved."

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He preached on "No man comes to the Father except through me." and he talked about how some people believed that that meant that you had to be a Christian to be saved and what about the people that didn't accept Christ? and he admitted...right there on tv that he didn't know the answers and it worried him, too.

I studied that scripture carefully. I studied what came before it and what came after it and what it's context and setting was. I prayed for understanding. The Gospel of John Chapter 14. Then I knew! He was comforting the disciples...he was saying in his mysterious way...you know the Father you know me...We are one.

John 14 Jesus Comforts His Disciples 1"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God[a]; trust also in me. 2In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I am going." Jesus the Way to the Father 5Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"

6Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."

8Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."

9Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. 12I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. 14You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit 15"If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— 17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be[c] in you. 18I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."

22Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?"

23Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

25"All this I have spoken while still with you. 26But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

28"You heard me say, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 30I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me, 31but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. "Come now; let us leave.

I kept praying and then I was listening to my Bible tapes and something caught my attention...and I ran the tape back and I looked in the Bible...I'd heard it maybe fifty or a hundred times, maybe more, and then one day it just jumped out at me...and there it was. My answer!

First Timothy chapter 4: 9This is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance 10(and for this we labor and strive), that we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe.

11Command and teach these things.

ESPECIALLY! Not EXCLUSIVELY...but ESPECIALLY!

ESPECIALLY! ESPECIALLY! ESPECIALLY!

For me, I've landed in just the right spot for me. "Jesus Christ came to save all men. Especially those who believe."

So I've landed on my feet, finally, and after much searching...with a smile on my face. I'm ok and you're ok.

Actually, I landed there as a small child. Then as I got older I looked around to see if there might be a better place and after much study and prayer and all that good stuff...I landed right back where I was...only a lot happier about it all.

"Especially" doesn't mean "exclusively"...as much as some ego bound folk would like to think.

Hey, it's "Good News" isn't it? "Good News for all mankind!" "Goodwill toward men".

I like good will...it's good.

I like that.

Actually, I'd hate thinking I was the only one "saved". That would make me sad and I believe that it's His will that we have joy. Joy. I can't have joy and think I and only a few others are all that are "saved".

Yes. I like that "Good will towards men" business. I like it alot.

Imagine that we're all light. The part that keeps the flesh alive being more than blood...much more...a light...a part of a really Great Light...and One.

And we'll all shine on!

"But he thinks we're in some sort of denial and we don't know what we are saying. He said so. It's a travesty against humanity. The New Inquisition. The "good" (in their own eyes) people are doing it again."

I hope it's not growing to the point of "Oh...why do we even bother to talk to people like this?"

:0)

It's still a beautiful testimony even if Bro. Marsh doesn't appreciate it.

Marsh must be wondering how he brought such a thorn in his side upon himself. Maybe he'll grow from our conversations...but I'm not counting on it.

You never know though. Maybe he needed to develop a little bit more Godly stance in his dealings with the people he wants to help and that's why we all wound up there.

The whole thing is really pretty amazing to my eyes. But then of course...I do try to find the light in things.

I hate it when all I can see is darkness...and that darkness wants to creep up on me and fill me sometimes. I've had to deal with it alot...as we all have here.

But I so prefer the light and being filled with the light.

And as you know...I'm trying to practice that by looking for something wonderful. Looking for something good...and counting on it.

Does that mean the wayward prodigal son can come home again?

"Oh, Lord!" (-Hope) As soon as I read those lines I thought of another Texan, Janis Joplin: "Oh, Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz. My friends all have Porches. I must make amends." LQI.

Somehow, Bob Seger's song, Against the Wind seems to fit the occasion even though Pastor Marsh might object to some of the self-confessed sins in the song.

Hardee Plank?

They've perverted the simplicity...and sweetness and beauty...of the Gospel.

You don't have to think it's the right thing to do to consume cannabis...but to make it a crime is going way too far.

I don't think he hears that.

Celaya, I noticed his comments about "being controled by" and being "warped and twisted" and other stuff.

Wild superstition and assumption. It's crazy, I know...but you can't expect him to understand. He's only repeating what he's been told.

I suppose Mormon's think that coffee warps and twists and controls you, too. It's sad.

If he could only understand that we aren't saying that everyone should use it. We aren't trying to convince him to use it or those in his treatment groups. That's not what we've been trying to say at all. What we are saying is "Stop punishing and hurting people who want or need to use it! Stop it now! Stop it because it's wrong...it's a terrible injustice!"

Oh, Lord!

But he thinks we're in some sort of denial and we don't know what we are saying. He said so.

It's a travesty against humanity. The New Inquisition.

The "good" (in their own eyes) people are doing it again.

Seriously FoM, if you haven't given any money to the Assemblies of God in awhile then you are NOT a member anymore. That's the only way they knew we stopped going to their Church. They sent us a letter warning us that our membership was in jeopardy because we had stopped giving them money.

For a denomination that preaches that God doesn't need our money, they sure worship the almighty dollar and do everything they can to guilt us into giving all of the money we have to them.

Good job, Ddc. Very good job. A lot of time and effort went into your comment.

I'm sure he didn't take a word of it seriously...but whew! He got pelted with a whole load of "pearls" there!

Without the support and willingness of others to speak, I could not say the things I do. It is important to encourage one another all the time to give testimony and not to repeat what is expected of you but of your own inner knowledge and experience. It's a scary road to walk alone.

I'm thinking about this now because up to now I've mostly kept my religious thoughts very private except for here on Cannabis News. In person, and in the presence of some fine herb, communion can be held. We do the same thing here virtually. But out on my own blog, I'm basically speaking to the whole world or anyone who stops by. It's more public and it makes me a little nervous about saying the wrong thing and having nobody correct me or tell me to rethink it.

Here's the last exchange I sent to Pastor Marsh and I'm really exposing my beliefs quite openly so I really want some comments to tell me if I'm speaking for anyone but myself:

Jesus is my Savior 'cause he died for me.

Took upon himself my sins so that I might be free.

Believe in me is all he asks of us.

So put into him all you Faith, your Love and all your Trust.

That's it. Bilieve in the Truth. That is all I felt the song needed to say. I hope he liked it.

Toke.

I will end my observation of the Marsh position with a quote from his link to where he previously discussed cannabis, where he denotes his essential position.

Mark 7 ?

(they honor me with their lips but their hearts are far from me.)

Or do they just believe it only applies to eating pork? There are no provisos, no specifics.

I've battled the close-minded "religious" types for too many years to remain patient with them. There's really no excuse for their embracing the proven lies of the government over the Truth that is God, especially when it means the continued torture of innocent, non-violent human beings like my friend runruff, his wife, family and friends, and the millions of others exactly like them.

I have no doubts that I'm right. I know in my heart that all of the studying and testing of God's Word in pursuit of the Heart of God has led me to this Truth.

When I'm going against the mainstream and risking their threats of "burning in Hell" for rejecting their hateful brand of "christianity," you'd better bet that I've carefully thought this through.

For those of you who are offended by our talk of God, just try and remember that the God we talk about is synonymous with Truth, and ultimately that's what we're all searching for.

I feel it's necessary to talk about MY Spiritual relationship when MY God is being used as a weapon against me.

Explain how creating war, victims, hatred and crime, is doing 'Gods work' via prohibition??? The laws are the problem...

He hears "Pot is the answer"....when we are saying "Stop punishing people so cruelly and unusually for using or having a cannabis plant." "Stop the cruelty!" "Stop the injustice!" "Stop the waste!"

We're not saying "Spinach is the answer." "Antibiotics are the answer." or "Pot is the answer."

Yet he hears something else. That's so strange.

I won't post on his website because it's a Spiritual battle and he is obviously on the opposing side. If God wants to speak to him and get him to change his evil ways then so be it.

I’m very concerned for those people, as a Pastor I’ve probably visited more people in the hospital, counseled them and their families, done funerals, etc. than all who claim pot is the answer.

It shows how out of touch with reality you are. There are literally millions of us that look at cannabis as a positive answer to some of the modern pharmacuticles. Have you made millions of visits to the hospital? Can you speak the truth?

God gave us all herb bearing seeds for our benefit.

But sometimes in the heat of the moment, I think, you can get downright joyfully mean!

Men seem to revel in that sometimes. It must be the testosterone.

It's a thought that does occur to one...but it's harsh. I think it's too harsh and very unkind.

The man's trying.

I'm glad that didn't get lost in cyberspace!

When I lose a comment...I just tell myself it was probably best for reasons I might not have uderstood at that time. I'm counting on guidance...and when a comment gets swatted into cyber-space...I think...ok...maybe I'll try that again...or maybe I won't.

He rejects the creations of the Lord God while embracing the laws of man. He rejects the Divine for the earthly. He should be removed from his position as a spiritual leader and be replaced by a Spiritual leader who accepts the gifts of the Father with thanksgiving.

Maybe that means we've said enough for now to Mr. Marsh.

You know...the dead horse and the pearl trampling swine.

Of course, I'm not calling Mr. Marsh a "swine". Not at all. It's a parable of how little something of value can mean to a creature that sees no value in it...and that's how it is with sharing your beliefs and facts with someone who doesn't see or is incapable of seeing any value in them.

We've done the right thing. We've spoken for the generally defenseless and voiceless.

Maybe losing those comments in cyberspace is just an indication that God will take it from here. I perceive that Mr. Marsh loves God and wants to help people and do the right thing, as he sees it. Maybe God has used us to help Pastor Marsh do an even better job of what he feels led to do. If Mr. Marsh doesn't succumb to hatred and self-righteousness or a sense of over-all superiority, that could happen.

Collosians 2: 16Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you for the prize. Such a person goes into great detail about what he has seen, and his unspiritual mind puffs him up with idle notions. 19He has lost connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.

"That was amazing. Made me cry. I have seen my husband for 23 years laugh, sing , whistle and CRY, sweat, bleed and CRY more for that land. Thank you for sharing that. I will always keep it. We are going through rough times right now and need any ray of hope we can find"

I had a post ready to post there, and somehow I hit a wrong key and caused a fatal error, so it didn't get posted and you guys did such a great job anyway, I didn't re-try. He has another place to post where he has made still another ridiculous attack on God's gift. He also believes that Cannabis is Heroin. I feel grief and sorrow for him, because he has obviously dedicated his life to the Lord, but he needs to understand the consequences of obeying the laws of Man, and disobeying the Laws of God, and the teachings of Christ. It was Man's laws that Jesus broke and it was God's laws which he commanded us to obey. I'm done.

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When we use the p-word with affection, humor or mild scolding each other, we own the word and it is not offensive. When prohibitionists use the term disparagingly, it is offensive and hurtful.

In the same way black people use the n-word among their friends, but take offense if it is used against them by non-blacks.

The gay community has also claimed the q-word for their own use, but take offense when straight people use it as an insult.

It's not always what a person says, but sometimes more *how* sHe says it.

Love love love. LOve is my savior. God is love.

It's early, think I'm gonna catch a couple of hours more sleep.

Anyways, it was all about cans, pots, heads, and marshes.

The creative minds here will probably imagine a better post than I originally wrote, anyhow.

It's wonderful going to bed with a smile on my face and in my heart.

Thank you.

Having pearls thrown at you would be no easier than having rocks thrown at you. That's how I kind of see that kind of do-gooder.

I'm sorry to not have thought about that. But I was quite sincere when I said what I said about you and he having a different thing going on than he and I...and of course you would...and it's far more serious than I had recalled at the moment. Every relationship with him is serious...but ...you know what I'm trying to say.

That's a fact for me.

I was not religious before I used cannabis. God gave cannabis to me. God taught me with cannabis. I learned from God with cannabis. I became a Christian though I was born a Jew, because I took cannabis.

I know what you mean about repsecting others beliefs...even if they are way out there as far as I'm concerned.

I respect Marsh's right to believe what he wants to believe. If I thought he was a weaker Christian...I wouldn't have talked to him as much about it as I did.

I don't want to shake people up who might have problems with their faith. They might not grow...they might just fall...and get all freaked out and miserable...and I don't want to do that to anyone...especially someone who is doing their best as far as their understanding will let them to love God. That too...is between them and God.

We're supposed to encourage and build up those who are weak...and everyone else, too, for that matter.

I don't believe you can talk with some people about the finer points of your faith and relationship. They can't or won't understand. If they're afraid or weaker...or just babies in the faith...I might make them more fearful or doubtful by talking about something they might not understand or get shook up about. If they are stubborn, willful, self righteous or believe that God wouldn't have any relationship with me or my kind...it would just be wasting "pearls".

Whether he did use cannabis in any way or form, I can't say...but there could come a day when he might say, "You put me in jail for being a pothead."...and they'll say, "When, Lord?"

It makes me uncomfortable...but...I still love you, anyway and I don't think God is as easily offended as people are, anyway. If it's ok between you and He...it's what matters, and it's not really any of my business.

I don't have many "hang-ups"...and where I would come to your defense...God doesn't need me to come to his defense.

I love you and good night.

I wish you wouldn't put it that way.

It offends me when someone calls you a "pothead". "Pothead" is a slur and an insult.

I know many people who used cannabis in Pennsylvania, very few of them were potheads. A pothead to me is someone who uses cannabis religiously or every day. I don't want to give the impression I think that cannabis is something that Y'shua used once or twice. What word would you have me use? I could say "cannabist" but most people won't understand that word except other cannabists.

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gonna get fun ... and crazy ...

------on another note ....

I'm not sure if Chris Bennet is correct, but looking at how this world is, I want to believe there is another way. I no longer suffer religious fools ... lightly or otherwise ....

I'll joust with the rev until I get tired ...

Peace, out ... gonna watch the William Shat hit the fan ...

more intense than Cannabis Cup ...

amazing ........

for it is being revealed slowly but surely that one reason for much of the hurt felt by man is man made the embargo and sanction of the cannabis plant. as the pain felt will lessen with the lifting of such prohibition for the good will and good health of all. http://cannabisnews.com/news/21/thread21920.shtml Lowering of Blood Pressure Through Use of Hashish Posted by CN Staff on June 19, 2006 at 09:41:08 PT By The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Source: eMaxHealth.com

Jerusalem -- A new method for lowering blood pressure (hypertension) through use of a compound that synthesizes a cannabis (hashish) plant component has been developed by a pharmacology Ph.D. student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Pharmacy. For his work on the cardiovascular activity of cannabinoids (chemical compounds derived from cannabis), Yehoshua Maor was one of the winners of this year's Kaye Innovation Awards, presented on June 13 during the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's 69th meeting of the Board of Governors.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) accounts for about one-third of all deaths in industrialized countries, and is the leading reason for visits there to physicians as well as for drug prescriptions. However, not all patients respond well to the drugs available. There is no "ideal' hypotensive (blood pressure lowering) drug.

The cannabis plant - also known as hashish or marijuana – through its chemical compounds - cannabinoids - has been shown to have a beneficial, hypotensive effect. However, a drawback in the therapeutic use of cannabinoids has been its undesirable psychotropic properties - production of hallucinatory effects. Attempts to separate the hypotensive action from the psychotropic properties of cannabinoids have achieved only partial success until now.

Working under the supervision of Prof. Raphael Mechoulam at the Hebrew University School of Pharmacy, Maor, who was born in Brazil and immigrated to Israel in 1998, has created a synthetic version of a minor cannabis constituent named cannabigerol, which is devoid of psychotropic activity.

In laboratory experiments with rats in collaboration with Prof. Michal Horowitz of the Department of Environmental Physiology, it was found that this novel compound reduced blood pressure when administered to the rats in relatively low doses. Additional testing also showed that the compound also brought about another beneficial effect - relaxation of the blood vessels. A further beneficial property observed in work carried out with Prof. Ruth Gallily of the Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, was that the compounds produced an anti-inflammatory response.

Maor believes that these qualities have the potential for development of a valuable new clinical drug with a major market potential, especially for patients suffering from inflammation of the blood vessels as the result of hypertension, and others with metabolic irregularities.

Maor already has won international recognition for his work with cannabanoids, resulting from his collaborative work with Garry Milman, another Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Prof. Mechoulam, for the discovery of an endogenous compound found in the brain which causes vaso-relaxation.

Maor begin a post-doctoral fellowship in the fall at the Harvard University Medical School, where he plans to continue his research.

Quote: "A new method for lowering blood pressure (hypertension) through use of a compound that synthesizes a cannabis (hashish) plant component has been developed."

Complete Title: Lowering of Blood Pressure Achieved Through Use of Hashish-Like Drug

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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- AB 1147, The California Industrial Hemp Farming Act, passed its final vote in the Assembly today by a bipartisan vote of 43-28. The bill now heads to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk for his signature. Since passing out of the Assembly in January of this year, AB 1147 has gained momentum as legislators learned that California businesses spend millions of dollars each year importing hemp from Canada, China and Europe. Demand for hemp products such as clothing, food, body care, paper and even auto parts has been growing rapidly in recent years, with the U.S. hemp market now exceeding an estimated $270 million in annual retail sales. The new law would give farmers the ability to legally supply U.S. manufacturers with hemp seed, oil and fiber and would not weaken anti-drug laws.

"We thank legislators from both parties that listened to the facts about industrial hemp and made an historic decision to bring back the crop," says Vote Hemp President Eric Steenstra. "Passage in the California Legislature is a major accomplishment for the authors and sponsors of the bill, as well as for thousands of environmentally-conscious voters, farmers and businesses who wrote California legislators," says Steenstra.

The California Industrial Hemp Farming Act was introduced in February of 2005 by Democratic Assemblyman Mark Leno. This year, the bill was amended, and Republican Assemblyman Chuck Devore joined as co-author. In the bipartisan spirit of the legislation, the bill was managed on the floor of the Senate by Republican Tom McClintock and received support from Senator Abel Maldonado, a farmer and Republican member of the Senate Agriculture Committee. Another influential Republican Senator who supported the bill was Sam Aanestad, Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. The support of Democratic Assemblymember Barbara Matthews, Chair of the Assembly Agriculture Committee, also was key to the bill's passage.

AB 1147 has been carefully crafted to comply with federal law and minimize impact to law enforcement. It includes tough regulations without placing an undue burden on farmers. The bill permits cultivation of only ultra-low-THC industrial hemp grown as an agricultural field crop or in a research setting. Backyard or horticultural cultivation is prohibited. Any clandestine grove of Cannabis will be considered a controlled substance regardless of its THC content.

Vote Hemp believes the new law would withstand federal scrutiny in the form of legal challenges and ultimately will result in commercial hemp farming in California. No industrial hemp is grown in the United States today, even though seven states have passed hemp farming and research bills in recent years. More details on industrial hemp legislation can be found at http://www.VoteHemp.com.

Final passage of AB 1147 could revitalize commercial industrial hemp farming, which occurred in California until shortly after World War II. "It appears the hemp seed and oil we currently import soon will be grown and produced right here in California," says David Bronner, Chair of the Hemp Industries Association's (HIA) Food and Oil Committee and President of ALPSNACK/Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps. "The HIA's member companies are urging Governor Schwarzenegger to support California's farmers and natural products industry by signing the industrial hemp bill. Double-digit sales growth over the last few years in the hemp food and body care sectors indicates strong consumer demand for hemp products that will sustain high prices for farmers for years to come," he adds.

More information about hemp legislation and the crop's many uses can be found at http://www.VoteHemp.com. BETA SP and DVD Video News Release featuring footage of hemp farming in other countries is available upon request by contacting Adam Eidinger at 202-744-2671.

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Former WTC janitor William Rodriguez migh make a movie with Charlie Sheen and Esai Morales!

New Movie Focused on William Rodriguez in the Works? http://www.911blogger.com/v2/node/2199

FACT: Osama bin Laden has NOT been indicted for his involvement in 9/11: http://www.teamliberty.net/id290.html

you can take another breath

you can look around

see all the hungry

see around this world

dO YOU HAVE Power?

Do you have a spiritual revelation?

Come Home..

You can trade all your baseball cards bg, tell me again, have you a handfull of this misery, drug wars, men and women who are caged for this useless disgrace called the war on drugs, how many good human beings are caught up in this craziness, how many good people cannot absolve their allegiance with the corporate disgrace, how many more good people, must be subjected to this immoral disgrace, how long can this disgrace continue?

It's a well-known fact that hit squads are already at work here and abroad. That's a chance I just have to take to save the Country I love.

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/15326830.htm

Rise to Your Glory and Ride The Tempest, for it was always You who could see, and stand up for that man on that awful cross.

When I see the hatred that some people are feeling about this war and Bush and his strageties, I can't help but fear that we may may one day see Bush Werewolves prowling the night.

Lord knows, I hope not. But there are so many of them and so few of us and what is happening now parallels way too many things that were happening in Germany in those days.

Werewolves. Real ones. I'd never heard of them before last night.

I'm sorry you have to deal with this so personally.

I'm scared of bulls when I'm not on horseback...and I have that feeling around here of "being surrounded by the bulls of Bashan".

Families

When you try to bring our spirit home

Won't you celebrate our lives

In a way that's right for our children

and families

When you write your songs about us

Won't you try to do us justice

Because we want to be just like you

and your families

I see a light ahead

There's a chill wind blowin' in my head

I wish that I was home instead

with my family

There's a universe between us now

But I want to reach out and tell you how

much you mean to me

and my family

I'm goin' back to the USA

I just got my ticket today

I can't wait to see you again

in the USA.

:0(

In fact...I'm going to have to wait till I go to the farm to play it. I'm that worried about it. :0(

It's political and I'm afraid someone will hear me play it...and I don't feel up to the fight.

It's sad. I know...but them's the facts, ma'm.

Cooking With Jesus

Written by: Jenji Kohan

Directed by: Craig Zisk

Nancy breaks it off with Peter and gets on with her grow house. Nancy, Andy, and Doug attend a marijuana convention to shop for a start-up plant for the new business. Megan's acceptance to Princeton causes Silas to make a rash decision.

Hope #71

sorry TokerOO won't be able to make it ...

hate to sound like a vulture or something ... but ...

Whatcha gonna do with the extra tickets ...?

what day is the show?

I lost your email address ...

Whew! I attended an Assembly of God service once. When they started speaking in tongues, it seemed like a form of self-induced madness! We got out of there as quickly as possible. Scary!

We should never give up, of course. As long as we keep the light burning, there's hope the mesmerized populace will see it and snap out of their war hysteria.

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Golden, Colo. - Two technologies developed by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory are among this year's most significant innovations, as judged by Research & Development (R&D) Magazine.

The Laboratory's two R&D 100 Awards for 2004 are for an innovative, lower-cost method for transforming plant material into the sugars that can be used to make fuels and chemicals, and a thin-film solar cell that produces electricity directly from sunlight, which has greater efficiency, and is lighter weight and more flexible than previous devices.

This year's announcement brings to 37 the number of R&D 100 Awards garnered by NREL.

"Once again, the technologies developed by our Laboratory's researchers are being acknowledged for their importance to the nation," said Stan Bull, NREL associate director for science and technology. "It's particularly gratifying that the R&D 100 Awards this year include two NREL technologies that can enhance our nation's energy security and reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil."

The Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Biomass Cellulose to Sugars technology is expected to allow a wide range of biomass resources to be used to produce energy and chemicals. It is an important step toward realizing the potential of bio-refineries-in which plant and waste materials are used to produce an array of fuels and chemicals, analogous to an oil refinery today.

Through this technology, the cost of converting cellulosic biomass into usable sugars can be reduced by more than 20 times per gallon of ethanol produced.

The award is shared by NREL, Genencor International and Novozymes Biotech, Inc. NREL researchers who worked on this project included Michael Himmel, Jim McMillan, Dan Schell, Jody Farmer, Nancy Dowe and Rafael Nieves.

Also recognized for 2004 are light and flexible thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) photovoltaic modules, which can be manufactured in various sizes and have a compact, foldable design that allows for easy deployment, transport and storage.

As a result, the modules have twice the power-to-weight ratio, and three times the power-to-size ratio as competing products. Because of this, they are especially suited for military applications, portable power for consumer and public use, boating and other marine applications and building-related uses, such as for bus shelters and in PV-integrated roofing.

The award is shared by NREL, Global Solar Energy and ITN Energy Systems. NREL researchers who worked on this project included Harin Ullal, Ken Zweibel and Bolko von Roedern.

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In the midst of all this horror and fear...I'm still looking to Him and I'm still going to stay on the path that His teachings laid out for us.

I'm sure I haven't got the faith of Daniel in the lions' den or of Shaddrach, Meschach, and Abedneggo in the fire...but I've got a measure of faith and trust. I believe He's real and cares. Where there's love and mercy...He's there. My part is to love and trust and have mercy.

It's not easy...but that's what I'm bound to. I hope and pray that I don't deny Him and His Power. I saw it done just a few days ago. It was awful. I hope I'm able to stand my ground...even to the death, if I have to...if the time comes.

I have to trust God and His power. I'm scared. I won't lie. But I'm clinging to the Lord and counting on Him.

It's really sad.

For many people the terrorists did win completely that awful day in September.

I think God made the plant and it isn't a sin to use it. I do believe it's a sin to persecute, imprison, and kill people over it...or even judge them over it, as in judging that they need to be "re-educated" about it.

People are so touchy and full of hatred now, I'm scared to say anything to anybody about anything. I certainly won't argue about what Kaneh Bosm was or wasn't. I suspect it could be cannabis...but I don't think Jesus rolled a "fatty". Where'd he get the Zig Zags? I believe sincerely that He created it as a gift for mankind. He wouldn't condemn anyone for using it. I don't believe there's a fourteenth commandment that says "Don't use cannabis!"

The only time it would be wrong...in my eyes...is when use of it in the presence of someone who did believe it was a sin, might cause that weaker brother or sister to stumble...and that would be wrong. I believe it's a very good and amazing plant...but I know that there are those who are weaker and are scared to death of it. I wouldn't dream of "scaring" them with it.

Last week, because I thought the Judge who ruled against the warrantless wiretaps did the right thing in protecting the Constitution, I got all kinds of hell brought down on my head. It was absolutely apocalyptic!

I believe that all our veterans since the Revolution fought, and suffered, and many died, to protect our rights. I feel so strongly that such a high price was paid to protect those rights that's it's a huge insult to those who paid that price to even think about giving even one of them up easily. I treasure them and I treasure the Constitution and I'm very grateful to all those who fought to defend and preserve it.

Apparently the one man that got so crazy about the ruling was looking for someone to pounce on about it. I didnt' see it coming. They walked up to me and brought it up. "What do you think about that ruling?" All I said was that I thought it was a good ruling and I didn't want to give my blood bought rights up for a false sense of security.

In less than five minutes, that person told me that they'd LIKE to see some "towel heads" get a hold of me! One minute they're saying it was all to protect me...the next they would LIKE to see me fall into the hands of terrorists?

But it didn't end there. There was screaming about "towel heads" could blow up my grandchildren's school! They asked "Would I like that?" Of course, by this time, I knew there was something going on besides a conversation...so I didn't say anything other than "Of course not!" But I thought to myself, neither do I want them blown up in Iraq...which is really happening.

I had mentioned to this person before how I thought a real Christian based government would be an amazing thing...but I'd never known of a real one and they immediately jumped back into that older conversation we'd had, without prompting.

"You know why you haven't seen a real Christian based government? Because it's stupid! That Love stuff is stupid! Loving your enemies and turning the other cheek is stupid! It wouldn't work. It's never worked and it never will work!"

They may have called me an "idot" or a "moron" about that time. They did say that I and all my friends that I talked to on the internet (I think he meant you guys) were stupid and idiots for believing that stupid Love stuff.

It was bad. It was really bad. He had his fists clenched and I thought he was going to hit me, since there were no "towel heads" around to do it for him.

The man was supposed to be a Christian...but he denied every aspect of it and spat on it.

I used to hear preachers say that a day was coming when people would deny being Christians. People that had claimed they were when things were easy would deny it when confronted with the Beast. I imagined it happening differently back then. I didn't foresee it going down like this. I knew they would do it out of fear...but I didn't see it happening exactly like it did. It was fear of not following the Beast...but in a different way than I thought it would be. Denying Christ completely and putting a man or men and their power to make war above God.

But I've seen a man do it now and proclaim his faith in the flesh...the Beast...a man, over God. It was an awful thing to see and hear.

So, now I have a new "enemy" to pray for, and naturally, I'm upset about that.

You know I believe in all our rights... including the right to bear arms and protect ourselves. I don't believe we should leave our homes and take vengence on innocent until proven guilty, men, women, and children in another country because we have suddenly seen that we should be wary of some of their faith.

Yes, obviously some of them do hate and want to kill us. Their god is a god of hate and death and exclusion. Mine's not. My God is different. He's about Love. (There's that scary word again.)

There's blood thirst, hatred, and anger everywhere I turn. It's the world. I'm in it...but not of it. I want to follow the teachings of Christ, even when it's difficult...but it's so hard.

We were warned the world would hate us because of our Christianity. I was so niave when I first heard that. I just didn't see how it could be that people could hate people for being gentle, kind, and loving...but...wow...was I wrong.

Three Years After the Dixie Chicks Got Pounded for Criticizing President Bush, Diverse Musicians Join the Chorus.

Neil Young is an old hand at protest music, and he's at it again with his album, "Living With War." (ABC News)

Aug. 20, 2006 — Anti-war songs are often thought of as a relic of the Vietnam era, but today's stars are now increasingly criticizing the government over the war in Iraq.

Just a few years ago, this was considered a risky career move, but now rocking against the war is, quite literally, all the rage.

Video: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2335906

Louie Marsh obviously has not read the original source material by Sula Bennet (circa 1936). At least he's bringing the curious Christians to cannabisnews. Watch out for trolls, but maybe some visitors will see the light of wisdom on the cannabis issue by reading here. Welcome, open-minded Christian visitors.

So, Pastor Marsh thinks our friends here at cnews need "therapy"! Here's my own little rant about therapy:

Advocates for Legalizing Marijuana Tout The Benefits at Hempfest

***

By Mike Lewis, P-I Reporter

August 21, 2006

Former Seattle police Chief Norm Stamper doesn't have dreadlocks, a Zig-Zag T-shirt or a single Phish album. He just sounds like it.

Snipped:

Odd that he didn't link to the Guardian Unlimited. Nobody to ridicule there, I guess.

Since exactly zero folks have commented on that page of his since January, I will just let the big goose egg remain there! What an ignorant loser.

THE WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN...

Austin Pastor Fights to Spread 9/11 Truth: http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/170806_austin_pastor.html

Truth seekers, not Bush bashers - by Jim Fetzer: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51579

Norway's Dagbladet Strikes Again! http://www.911blogger.com/v2/files/Translated.pdf

9/11 Neo-Con Hit Piece Explodes Into Controversy: http://prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/180806hitpiece.htm

World Net Daily Forced To Issue 9/11 Hit Piece Retraction: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/180806issueretraction.htm Neo-Fascists Declare War On Truth Movement: http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/neo_facists_declare_war_on_truth_movement.htm

911podcasts.com presents Mia Hamel Arrest Leafleting Oliver Stones WTC: http://www.911podcasts.com/display.php?vid=156

Loose Change Crew Releases Flyer and New Info on NYC 5th Anniversary Events: http://www.911blogger.com/v2/node/2162

I watched "What the west needs to know about Islam" on C-span last night. Mohamed sounds like the complete opposite of Christ. Jesus says listen to NO man, but listen to me. (Truth) Mohamed says listen to me, and no one else. Christ says heal , Mohamed says kill. Christianity is based on Love, Islam is based on Hate. You have to really hate someone to kill them, in my opinion. So if Allah is the Deity of Hate, and Jehovah is a God of Love, why would you consciously choose to Hate? Is Islam the Anti-Christ? What are the Christians who kill in the name of Christ? It's chilling to know that over a Billion Muslims want us to convert to Islam, or die. Sounds a lot like "democracy" and "fascism", doesn't it?

I believe ALL religions should be required to present evidence of their beliefs. Faith is re-enforced when the results of a situation end favorably after prayers are said, and if it doesn't, it's just God's will. Really? How many of the victims of war and religious oppression have been saved by prayer of faith? Not too many. Any? The odds are, actions were taken to cause the favorable outcome, and is not the outcome of faith. I'm not saying you shouldn't have faith, for faith allows us strength to get through tough times. But believing the creator of the Universe wants us to be so narrow minded about his creation and wants us to kill to enforce this narrow mindedness, is illogical. Where's the evidence to support this?

Maybe I'm just losing my Faith. Or my Religion.

FoM, I'm truly sorry I can't make the CSNY concert. Your understanding e-mail was appreciated. Sorry it took me this long to publicly admit my failure. Like I told FoM, it breaks my heart. Hopefully there will be other opportunities to meet. Hey, that's Faith, isn't it? Maybe I haven't lost it all.

http://marshianchronicles.com/?p=476

You can bet there are.

I do...but sometimes I have to wonder how long it's gonna hold out.

And this really is the same Milla:

I see a shining.... A sweeping from the clouds A glimmer of hope is coming to feel our light Oh look it's flashing This life among the stars Reaching out to know us to feel our might Oh... this restless hope in you Please... try and help us Stand on our own As we STEPPED on this pavement and saw your dying minds Paper, for which you're killing a brother's life Help you, we cannot TOUCH you we cannot understand Your people's proud destruction Of their own land Oh... we're flying On from you We... will not stay to See your fate Watch them fly away Watch them fly away See the lines across the sky Watch them fly away

Love you all.

I love them both...the horses and the cattle.

That video of the guys working...just tears me up.

And the "rows and rows of houses" ARE coming after us. I see them from those pastures...when just a few years ago there was just us.

It makes me sick.

Right now...I'd like to listen to Willie and Neil sing to me, and get drunk and just hug and slobber all over em.

:0(

Thanks, it's beautiful.

I have a pretty good copy of the album on Vinyl, myself ...

Neil has always rocked, he must share .... please, Neil?

can we have a CD copy ... from the record company ...?

It's hard being a working cowboy. It ain't much fun. It's hard, dirty, sweaty, dangerous work and there isn't much...if any reward. Your old horse may love you...but he may kill you. And then you're tired, broke down...and it's all gone. It's no wonder so many of them wind up depressed and hitting the bottle too hard.

I'm pretty down. Not down with it...just down.

Hey...I may be on to a country song here.

Saw Neil with Linda Rondstadt, sp?, wife and I, in OKC about 1972, a song from that show is on the album "Time Fades Away."

http://www.thrasherswheat.org/tnfy/tfa-petition.php

I've dabbled a bit around the edges of CW as can bee seen, but I have always disliked CW in general and in principle ...

so, sue me ...

:-)

peace ...

ps, liked the video, FoM

I didn't forsee the power of the war mongers.

Nor did I forsee our own government and others happy to see us poisoned by Parquat. I couldn't imagine how many Americans would sell out other Americans so easily.

Mothers and babies shot out of the sky by our own government's orders and funds. Children shot in the back at close range by law enforcement.

The ghillie suited snipers. Bombs thrown in people's windows. Armed, black masked, robo-cops breaking into people's homes.

People demonized, killed, and inmprisoned. I didn't forsee people getting so rich off drug prohibition. I didn't forsee the depth of the hatred and intolerance. I thought we were better people. A greater percentage of our population in prison than any country in the world. The Constitution being "just a piece of paper".

It's almost funny that we were just worried about the tobacco companies buying up the names Acapulco Gold and Panama Red.

Todd Snider's got a great line in one of his songs, I forget which one, it goes something like: "They don't care what drugs you're strung out on so much as WHOSE."

But you're right, cannabis and probably LSD were a big part of the conciousness movement. But once you done them a few times, you don't need to keep doing them to keep expanding one's conciousness.

Many of us moved on to other things, mostly eastern meditation and yoga, and found that these were more effective without the addition of other conciousness agents. Basically, we were learning to do it from within, under our control, rather than use outside agents.

Later on when my condition got severe, I didn't even remember that. I hadn't used cannabis for decades. When a doctor suggested I try cannabis, I actually laughed. There was no way gentle marijuana was going to help a condition as severe as mine. It wasn't until much later that I got desperate and gave it a try. After I discovered it really worked, I remembered my experience from the early 70s.

In the early 80s, I met several people who used pot medicinally. One was a cancer patient who said it helped him deal with his chemo. Another was a man who was nearly quadraplegic from a vehicle accident. He said it helped with the spasms and "phantom pain". The third was a guy with an untreatable parasitic infection that gave him ulcers that were destroying his stomach. He claimed that the pot was the only thing keeping him alive.

I was so ignorant then that I thought they were just using pot because the "high" made them feel a little better psychologically. "Not that there is anything wrong with that". LOLs. Now I know it is really good for all those things.

Have Fallen

Away from Justice and Truth

Where do you stand?

Well, at least that uncool outcome didn't occur.

However, as a medical user, I don't care if it gets made uncool and mainstream. I just don't want to get arrested and thrown in jail for being ill and trying to live as productive a life as I am capable of.

He no longers sings "stoned in the morning"

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/daniels-charlie/long-haired-country-boy-10933.html

He was a rebel in his younger days ... now my 76 year old mom likes him for his annual Christmas show on CMT.

I know there are some good songs in that genre, but collectively, the genre generally supports all of the bullsh*t the government would have you believe.

I hope our local country station will pass, too.

As our kids were growing up I told them MY radios didn't even tune country, so don't even try ...

Ignorance and greed only lessens the the eye of the needle

As you pass to the frontier of justice and goodness

You and your soul must pass through this portal,

Be prepared, the hole is small,

Can you smell your place?

Can you see?

but those millions of people who are living a life under the hand of the Ansingers and Nixons, exist in a world of such cruelity and ignorance.

As if the arrest of 800,000 people arrested each year were an insignficant price to pay for the little notch they've carved out for themselves. I guess there are some people who are nostaligic about alcohol prohibition and moonshine too.

I wish these folks would wake up and realize they are a dragging anchor on the ship of marijuana reform.

Aug 18, 7:17 PM (ET)

By GILLIAN FLACCUS

LOS ANGELES (AP) - There is a tear in the beer of country music fans here. After more than 20 years on the air, the city's only country music station, KZLA-FM, abruptly left the air Thursday and was seamlessly replaced with the rhythmic pop of "Movin' 93.9," which plays artists such as Beyonce, Janet Jackson and Jennifer Lopez.

KZLA's sudden and unannounced demise leaves America's two most populous cities, Los Angeles and New York, without country music stations.

and…