November 30, 2006 - New York, NY, USA

The thing is, we need to find more metaphors, and cover for speaking about these very things so more and more "mainstream" people, that know nothing about these things, will hear more about this stuff. And when "US" guys are speaking on the subject, it appears we need to keep some "cover" overhead to avoid our words being used against us in a court of law or otherwise-like where some judge issues a warrant because our words have equated to some sort of guilt.

That is where OJ comes in. Although I just know that guy did a heinous crime, and I don't really like to see his picture or hear his words or think about him at all, I still have to thank him for his "effort" to invoke and in fact invent a genre in Americanna-the "if I did it, here is how it was done" device. This is also what is known in the legal system as a "fiction", whereby some sort of fictional setting is invented, herein, where the conditional sort of statement is granted some defensibility to allow for the statement to be given some value without equating to a distinct admission against guilt. Another such "fiction" is what the courts allow lawyers to do every day-so OJ doesn't get any real creative bonus for this invention-because lawyers have been doing it since the Garden of Edens (whether the garden was actually real or not has not been proven-but we do know that there already were lawyers in the garden for real). For lawyers this is the "pleading in the alternative" device. It goes like this: My client either pleads guilty, but claims necessity, or, in the alternative, if you don't buy that, he pleads innocent because he is insane, or, in the alternative, if you don't buy that, he pleads innocent and asks for a jury trial, da, da, da.

So people, if you ever need to discuss some details about usage or observations, please think of old OJ and put it like this: I never broke any law, but if I DID TRY to do something, this is how I might have used the stuff.

I think everybody has been close enough to a lawyer to where everybody would know what you mean, get it?

In fact, the invention of the syringe was a damning blow against cannabis oils and such, specifically because it wasn't water-soluble-they wouldn't work with needles. All usable drug therapy research was geared towards needle delivery therapy.

In the 20th Century, in fact, the only areas that remained in use & practice were for emphesemia, asthma, epilepsy (and perhaps a few others) where standard therapies & deliveries that had not already been found that were water soluble.

Opiate addiction persisted at least until cocaine addiction came along-through some soft drinks and such.

Then trans fatty acids were invented-in 1905-the first product being "Crisco" in 1911. It made the world "safe" for margarine, by adding hydrogen to vegetable oils, they will harden at room temperature. In 1982, food companies switched to TFA's to get the lard out-but 2006 saw the FDA wisely start to mandate strict disclosure of TFA's on packages-Now New York City has also banned the stuff!

The thing is, the natural "endocannabinoids" were only found and studied in the 90's-since TFA's have been mucking up the works-people have almost universally lost the ability to absorb EFA's and to convert those into the end-stage products-the endocannabinoids-and to absorb them across their now clogged "blood-brain" barrier-meaning that we are all walking about without a "full deck of cards"-the endocannabinoids, which is why we all have "ECDS" (endocannabinoid deficiency syndrome) as postulated by Ethan Russo.

That is why people typically "screened" for response to marijuana at a party, in school age bonding rituals right out of Animal House, etc., will then find such an affinity to same-because THC-9 is a strong enough "analog" of the EC's that it CAN cross the blood-brain barrier if clogged by TFA's, where the more subtle brain chemistry is blocked-the EC's as well as leptin, the stomach shutoff chemical switch messenger. People find cannabis fills an important gap, they feel better, what's the problem in that?

Other groups, in fact, such as people that are prone to beome obese, because of a blocked blood-brain barrier, which blocks the leptin, recall, go on to further disease states such as diabetes, arthritis & Alzheimer's.

Other groups find they are "addicted" to psychiatrists who prescribe drugs to mask depression or anxiety to fix the effects of ECDS.

Perhaps another group becomes affixed to a bar stool for constant dosing of another water soluble drug known as ETOH or another efficient "narcotic" drug addiction chemical delivery system-nicotine, with that 20 fold increase in cancer risk (both which have given cannabis a bad name wrongfully).

So now we have come full circle-because I have reproduced the endocannabinoids in TFA free meat products. And nobody else would have noticed (other than a chosen few that have already cleaned their blood-brain barriers of all TFA's for some time), even if someone other than me had reproduced this effect by livestock diet changes.

Now, this is pivotal in that the endocannabinoids are supposed to be produced on demand to protect brain cells from dopamine surges or other toxins-but if a person cannot produce them because of TFA poisoning it is stroke time, or worse. Unless you have cannabis on hand and on deck at battle stations in time to do the same thing.

The load of 4 million on probation has it's fallout. Each morning I too must check in for random urinalysis to a private company. Outfits often use the names of the 50 states as an identifer. Now they need more and they come from an obvious source.

People talk about the immorality of the government not funding experimental embryonic stem cell research to cure or treat certain diseases. And yet we already have a drug that requires no elaborate production, has no bad side-effects, that actually cures serious illness and helps the sick - and the federal government doesn't just not fund this; it bans anyone from using it, and throws sick people in jail for it.

This policy is despicable; it's immoral; and it's a scandal that marijuana is not available for any sick person it could help. Here's riveting, intelligent first-person testimony from a medical marijuana user for 35 years. It saved his life. He testified in Michigan yesterday. How dare the government ban this substance?

YouTube Video: http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/11/the_feds_vs_the.html

for those that missed it we had a Med Cannabis bill HB55470 Hearing in Lansing MI on Tues the 28.

the jr deputy of ondcp Scott Burns was there. he kept sayen that smoked marijuana is not an approved medicine, and that the FDA has sole regulatory control over investigating, avaluating and approving medicines. Not State Legislatures and definitely not balot initiatives.

the jr Burns gave a short reason for fed oversight of meds. He cited snake oil salesmen of old and told the committee that marijuana wa no different. Like users of 1880's patent nostrums, people smoking marijuana only think they feel better. But aside from their anecdotal reports there is no evidence that they really do. They just think they do. But they really don't.

Deputy Burns continued his testimony by condemning at length smoking as a drug delivery system. He also induced the biggest laugh of the morning when he reminded the committee that marijuana was the most commonly abused drug by teenagers and in fact accounted for the lions share of rehabilitation center admissions. His concluding comment was to mention that the FDA had not approved smoked marijuana as medicine and FDA regulatory processed are there to protect the public.

Rep Lemmons the sponsor of HB5470 first stated that the ONDCP was on record as saying Prohibition was apolitical in nature. Rep Lemmons challenged that assumption and opined that indeed it was all about politics, not souind public policy. He noted that alcohol continues to be a common ingredient in various OTC medications. He then took up the questions. The Rep wanted to know that if smoking was not an optimal drug delivery system, what about vaporization-- what was the Deputys take on that delivery system.

Deputy Burns responded to the Reps first comment . He insisted that alcohol use had brought down apon society a wide range of ills and that Prohibition, be it alcohol or other drugs, is not about politics, its about reducing that damage. He noted that there are an estimated 123 milion alcohol users in the US and less that 1.5 users of illegal drugs. With all the havoc alcohol had wroguth on our culture, "Do we really need pot"?

Rep Lemmons noted that cocaine wa a Schedule II drug doctors could prescribe --why not marijuana-- Deputy Burns demurred, citing his lack of medical training or expertise to comment on that particular nuance of the law.The only med knowledge that he couild claim was that the FDA has not approved smoked marijuana.

Chirmak Drolet asked what experience other states with med marijuana laws had regarding rising of falling rates of teen use. Deputy Burns replied that teen use was down 20% nationwide. Unfortunately the marijuana teens smoke today is not the marijuana their parents smoked in the 60s and 70s. That marijuana was 1%to 2%THC marijuana today is 8%to 190% BC bud can go a high as 30% Chairman Drolet again asked ho do rates of teen use compair in states that have legalized med use. Deputy Burns reported that simply in no data, any reports on the matter are strictly anecdotal. According to Deputy Burns there have been no studies nor did ne giv the impression tha he was particularly interested in doing any either.

Prp Hoogindyk asked has the FDA done any testing on marijuana. Deputy Burns stated yes research had been done, and the Iowa Study concluded that the risks of smoked marijuana clearly outweigh any benefit. The FDA has a system for approving new drugs and smsoked marijuana simply does not beet the criteria.

Again Rep Lemmons returned to the question about vaporization as a delivery system. He also said that by legalizing marijuana it would be possible to regulate THC content. Deputy Burns no longer able to dodge the question stated he had no knowledge of vaporization, had never heard of it ansd the bill didn't mention it anyway.

after that Irvin Rosenfeld took the stand-- on youtube.com

many thanks goes out to MID MI Norml Greg and Tim

in this place

in this filthy place

some unknown addict

no names, I Am Addicted To Freedom

Yes, I Danced. Yes, I Inhaled. We are not at War, War is at Us.

Invites you to a gentle picnic

Free food and booze

as I walk through the valley of death,

may i look into the eyes of freedom

what is behind that door?

this is a game,

that has a winner.

Global Warming

Sin and the so many filled prisons,

are lined up, so' ready to press that button of Freedom

The One Sun in the sky, rises over all of heads,

Twinkle, you saw your eye in some mirror,

It was your hand,

Always, Here and Forever

Truth, Justice and Honor

If these ideas do not fill your eternal belly

There is NO seconds, no re-fills

careful where you take a dump

Ah yes, tomorrow, it will get better...

the blood at the foot of that one cross

was my foolish button

that i pressed when

today

did you inhale?

Where it will be crime, against the state'

If you smell a flower

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