Imagine if a chemical company, like Dow or Monsanto, could "engineer" a plant that could actually treat and cure some illness, ease pain and inflammation, and make a person feel better. Talk about money growing on trees...or bushes or grasses! Would that not be the discovery of the age? A plant that prevents, eases, and cures some of the misery of human kind! That is so exciting!

Mankind has already been given this plant and others. This amazing plant has already been discovered, although somewhat barely. Yet....and this is the big question....Why won't the authorities and the powers that be let you have it?

Why?

Why this great insult and injustice to humanity? Why is it kept from us, the people, and even scientists are hard pressed to even consider studying it?

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Marijuana and probably LSD. Must have been really something.

Finally, in 1895 T. B. Wood, W. T. N. Spivey and T. H. Easterfield, research chemists at the University of Cambridge, made a breakthrough. Working with what they termed 'a red oil' extracted by a method of vacuum distillation from Indian hashish, they isolated a relatively impure extract which they named cannabinol. A viscous resin, it turned into an oily liquid on gently heating and induced delirium if eaten. For the next forty years, this was considered to be the psycho-active element in cannabis. In 1897, further research by an analytical chemist called C. R. Marshall proved that cannabis lost it's potency over time due to oxidation. With these discoveries, the stage was set for the pharmaceutical industry to assay accurately any drug but, for cannabis, this all came too late.

What finally put paid to cannabis as a viable medical product was the emergence of synthetic drugs created from the massive advances in chemistry made especially during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century. That these synthetics were often far more harmful than natural cannabis was considered by the way. It was the age of science, optimism and faith in scientific potential and infallibility overruling sensible judgement. When, in the mid-1880's, antipyrine and acetanilide appeared, the writing was on the wall. Five years later, a new drug developed from the research into these was put on sale for the first time. Its chemical name was acetylsalicylic acid but its trade name was aspirin.

Ah well. No can do. Got to be miserable for the prohibitionists' sakes.

Yes...I'm pretty damned miserable. And yes...I'm going to bitch and bitch and bitch and gripe until something is done. I can't stand watching you prohibitionists make people's lives hell.

I'm awake. I'm miserable. I know the cause. I'm not going to let you rest, prohibitionists...oh you hateful sect.

Not all the researchers, however, were necessarily as keen to discover a strictly medical relevance. The foremost English pharmacologist and author of the immensely influential "A manual of Pharmacology", Walter Ernest Dixon, wrote in the British Medical Journal that "Hemp taken as an inhalation may be placed in the same category as coffee, tea and kola. It is not dangerous and its effects are never alarming, and I have come to regard it in this form as a useful and refreshing stimulant and food accessory, and one whose use does not lead to a habit which grows upon its votary."

Come on. No research? Cannabis Medicine is just a competition for the present day Opiate Medicine based monopoly on pain. They are forcing a Physically Addicting medicine on us when they could be using Cannabis Medicine without the addiction risks. Cause No Harm?

Yet, as the years passed, the research became more exacting and specific, meeting higher scientific criteria. In 1889, an article by Dr. E.A. Birch in The Lancet, then as now one of the world's leading medical journals, outlines the application of cannabis for the treatment of opium and chloral hydrate withdrawal symptoms: the mixture reduced the opium craving and acted as an anti-emetic. The following year, an article appeared in the same publication by Queen Victoria's doctor, Reynolds. He declared cannabis "One of the most valuable medicines we posses and ideal for treating uterine bleeding, migraine, neuralgia and epileptoid and choroid spasms."

Too bad all medical research prior to the DEA/FDA is just "anecdotal".

Surviving it can make you stronger...tougher, as we know. But, hell and misery can kill and can make a life not worth the living.

Why cultivate, purposely, hell and misery?

The cannabis plant provides merciful relief to many. Why come down on the man who uses the plant so hard...so wrathfully...so savagely? Why come down on him at all? Much less with "Hell and misery".

Prohibitionists say, "Life is not supposed to be easy and smooth!!!!"

According to prohibitionists, "You and everyone else, including me, should have as much hell and misery everyday of our lives as we can possibly endure. It makes us strong. Misery is good for you! It's what's life is about. You're supposed to be miserable! I'm miserable! Why shouldn't you be?"

That's one thing Prohibitionists hate.

They hate the music, too.

I'm so glad he's using it for good...for righting a wrong...for us.

I'm impressed and wish you well ... and thanx for the lesson on Sparf v US ...

Article: This is so cool that some are actually realizing Cannabis Medicine helps the uncool, too. Will Johnny Six-pack ever get the message? Not if Budweiser gets their way. How can the alcohol industry get away with all the STUPID beer commercials about a very DANGEROUS drug, then in the next segment, Demonize Cheech and Chong over a much SAFER drug? No one(!), who has ever toked with me, has ever been as stupid as the CandC characters, or for that matter, the Bud-goons. Still, they use these movies where two actors, DECADES ago, innocently tried to portrait cannabis as FUN, to continue the oppression of Cannabis Truth? Then promote Alcohol Stupidity as reality? They made cannabis the scapegoat of Stupidity, when Alcohol abuse, to be honest, riegns Supremely Stupid! They ban the truth, yet promote the lies. The sad part of that is, the actors were really LIEING about the REAL effects of cannabis, and the REAL cannabis culture.

Maybe we should erect a Billboard with photos of Drunk Driver wrecks, Beaten Spouses, Abused Children, Homeless Bums who gave it all to ADDICTION, when cannabis could rehabilitate ALL these people. The other half of the Board could just have S.A.F.E.R.'s Website Logo and addresses, as well as L.E.A.P., A.S.A's, D.P.A.'s, and N.O.R.M.L.'s. Just a Tokin' thought.

Now you Democrats and Republicans are planning to overpopulate this country with Mexicans, who have no interest in this country, literally FOREIGN INVADERS, for the cheeeeep labor. Overpopulation, economic depression, and a lack of national security are the result of your misplaced empathy of the plight of Mexicans. I hope those of you people who vote Democrat, Republican, or who don't vote at all, suffer for your bad voting practices!!! It is your bad voting practices which is dragging this once great nation down the tubes!!! Donald Trump wrote on page 3 of his book WHY WE WANT YOU TO BE RICH, c. 2006, that the American education system is the greatest in the world UP TO THE THIRD GRADE, BUT AFTER 3RD GRADE THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE OF POOR QUALITY. I ONLY vote for Libertarian Party and Green Party candidates! You people vote for U.S. Supreme Court Justices whom refuse to grant certiorari on jury nullification, whether the Second Amendment Right to keep and bear arms has been incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to apply to "any person", with expansive "interstate commerce" clause interpretion which gives federal jurisdiction to prosecute us for growing pot plants on our own property, to give judges, prosecutors, police, and those who lie under oath, too much immunity from lawsuit, leaving unaccountable much government misconduct, just enough to keep Big Brother alive and well in the "just for us" United States government!!

If you people do not believe "undocumented workers" pose no threat to our national security, then why do so many illegal alien gang members in Los Angeles, California, and Phoenix, Arizona, comprise a bulk of arrest warrants for murder? The laws against "Marijuana" are a petty inconvenience we face compared to the problems of legalizing these illegal aliens!!

While Chief Justice William Rehnquist was exclaiming that the federal government has a rational basis for "Marijuana" being in Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act, he concealed his addiction to the pain reliever prescription drug Placidil (phonetic)!!!

I am appalled that Americans are so IGNORANT and COWARDLY that they would rather go along to get along by voting for the big Corporations and people with money instead of for freedom from taxation, pollution, and a police state.

I look forward to the N.J. State Appellate Division panel decision on whether a private citizen has had a Right to be free from retaliatory prosecution by police under the State Constitutional freedom of speech [NOT the federal constitutional freedom of speech, the STATE Constitutional freedom of speech]!!! The U.S. Supreme Court in Hope v. Pelzer (2002) held that the proper standard for determining whether a Right is clearly established is NOT whether a prior court decision addressed a materially similar fact scenario, but rather merely whether the police are put on notice that what they are doing is unlawful!! A recently published 2nd Circuit decision used the Hope v. Pelzer standard and wrote that there is a "clear and present danger" standard for determining whether the police may break up a protest, that there MUST be a "clear and present danger" of a SERIOUS disturbance during the protest for the police to stop the protest, not minor disturbances. [Police have been known to infiltrate large groups with provocateurs to create disturbances as an excuse to break up the protest and keep the message from being brought out to the public.].

I look forward to hearing what the U.S. Supreme Court will say in the case of the "Bong Hits for Jesus" case. I have wanted to send a copy of last month's issue of Cannabis Culture Magazine about the historical use of Cannabis in religious ceremonies, to the lawyers on the appeal. The published Federal Supplement case of Forchion v. ISP (D.N.J. circa 2003) makes the distinction between encouraging the illegal use of Cannabis and encouraging the legalization of Cannabis. In addition, if the student was on school time when he walked across the street onto the sidewalk to display the banner, you need to consider whether there was a rule prohibiting the student from leaving school property, in light of their parens patriae authority [Though you may disagree; Again, YOU vote for compulsory school attendance laws and the massive taxation for it when you vote for the two major parties!!!]!

I guess the New Jersey Legislature considers me a lone nut when I am the only person mailing them letters calling for REAL reform of the tax system by eliminating compulsory school attendance laws, improving the curriculum of public schools by teaching the dark side of government, the law, RELEVANT history, and, as Donald Trump complains is insufficient in his recently published book entitled WHY WE WANT YOU TO BE RICH, c. 2006: "financial education," and for the legalization, regulation, and taxation of Cannabis for adults, www.prohibitioncosts.org. This past Friday, the other day, while I was speaking to the Secretary of the Mayor of North Brunswick, N.J., in the Mayor's Office, a tall policeman walked into the Mayor's Office with an affect of a legalistic law enforcement officer and asked the Secretary if she is O.K. with me being there. The Secretary said it was allright. I visited the police department afterwards, noticed the policeman sitting behind the thick glass window, perhaps as a watch commander. He introduced himself as Lieutenant "Kosowski" (phonetic) and told me he received a call that I was wondering around on the floor. I have a lawsuit pending against the N.J. State Police for denying me entrance into the State House Annex to watch Montel Williams and Dr. John P. Morgan, M.D., CUNY, testify for the medical "marijuana" Bill, Senate Bill 88, though I do not expect much money from this lawsuit. I am suing Highland Park policeman, www.hpboro.com, for fabricating a "disorderly conduct" charge, the subject of the aforementioned retaliatory prosecution appeal. I am quite willing to make a third lawsuit, one against the North Brunswick police department, if the case arises. If nobody complains, the problems will go on forever!

Richard Paul Zuckerman, Post Office Box 159, Metuchen, New Jersey, 08840-0159, (Cell phone)(848) 250-8879.

January 7, 2007

Excerpt: It didn't take long for ``San Francisco values'' to sweep into Washington, D.C.

In a tidbit so delicious, so horrifying to Rush Limbaugh fans, so straight out of central casting that it couldn't go unmentioned, it turns out the new House speaker is a Deadhead.

Nancy Pelosi, the person second in line for the presidency, is a fan of the late Jerry Garcia. That's ``Captain Trips'' to those of us in the Bay Area, and ``Captain Hide the Women and Children'' to most of the Midwest (and Texas).

Conjuring up images of chugging Volkswagen buses, puppies on ropes and glassy-eyed twirlers, Pelosi invited several former members of the Dead to her gala, $1,000-a-plate fundraising party Thursday night in D.C., along with more mainstream choices like Tony Bennett and Carole King.

``Ms. Pelosi is a huge Dead fan,'' her spokeswoman said.

Our Deadhead spies tell us that band stalwarts Mickey Hart, Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann, along with sometime members Bruce Hornsby and Warren Haynes, opened with ``Shakedown Street'' (a tribute to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff?) and played ``Truckin','' ``Touch of Grey'' and other chestnuts.

And proving that the old Deadhead bumper sticker ``We Are Everywhere'' is still true despite Garcia's 1995 death, consider this from the Associated Press:

``Outside there was even a genuine Grateful Dead fan trying to get in, holding a hand-painted sign with the classic Deadhead plea: `I need a miracle.' The fan, dreadlocked 30-year-old Scott Orellana, said he didn't have $1,000. A Democratic aide eventually sneaked him in the door.''

We're sure Dick Cheney would have done the same thing.