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Posted by CN Staff on July 12, 2006 at 07:02:07 PT
By Marjorie Preston
Source: Atlantic City Weekly
New Jersey -- By the time they discovered the cancer, it had spread through his [gastrointestinal] system; he got a major operation to rearrange his internal plumbing, and a weekly regimen of chemotherapy ... The combination of the cancer, the surgery, and the chemo — he had a fun time, oh yeah.” Don McGrath speaks wearily of his son, Sean, diagnosed in 2002 with a rare bile duct cancer. When Sean died two years later, McGrath says, “I was a basket case. For about the first month. Then I got tired of being a basket case. So I guess I became an activist.”
Today McGrath is a tireless proponent of legalized medical marijuana. The businessman and his wife Gerry are convinced marijuana helped Sean live longer, and stave off the wasting syndrome that ravages so many cancer patients, as well as people with AIDS. They are not alone. A survey by the Drug Policy Alliance indicates that 86 percent of New Jerseyans support the use of medical marijuana. Support also comes from the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Nurses Association, the AIDS Action Council, and not-for-profit healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente. The New Jersey State Nurses Association supports “the legal access to marijuana for patients under the care of a licensed healthcare professional.” Bigger guns — among them the American Medical Association and the National Institutes of Health — maintain a wait-and-see approach, and encourage more research. Then there is Governor Jon Corzine. Corzine says if the proposed New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical marijuana Act passes the Senate Health Committee, perhaps as early as this fall, he will sign it, making New Jersey the 12th state in the country to enact such a measure. Until then, use of the drug is still a crime, and the White House wants to keep it that way. At an informational hearing in Trenton on June 8, a spokesman for the Office of National Drug Policy insisted marijuana is a gateway drug with negligible medical value. According to marijuana Myths & Facts, the campaign to allow pot for cancer patients and others is “a veiled effort to legalize the drug.” The federal government believes “the adverse effects of marijuana smoke on the respiratory system would almost certainly offset any possible benefit.” Untrue, says McGrath. After five months of grueling treatment, and enough toxic drugs to stock a small pharmacy, Sean McGrath dropped from 148 to 97 pounds. “We thought we were going to lose him right there, then a doctor said, ‘Try marijuana.’” At first, says McGrath, his musician son was reluctant. “He was a vegan, he was big on health food — no smoking, no drinking, no drugs.” But Sean relented. “And it worked,” says McGrath. “It worked immediately.” Smoking marijuana restored Sean’s appetite, offset persistent nausea, and helped him tolerate his medication. “He got back up to about 128 pounds,” says McGrath. “It enabled him to slowly get stronger, and then came the ability to fight the thing.” Sean fought for two years. On a Sunday afternoon in June 2004, he was preparing for yet another nine-hour course of chemotherapy when his body simply failed him. At three in the afternoon, Sean McGrath died. But Jason Carroll, who also smoked marijuana during his cancer treatment, survived. In October 1998, the 14-year-old from Burlington, N.J. was diagnosed with pineablastoma, an aggressive brain cancer. For months, Jason was bombarded by heavy-duty radiation and chemotherapy. His mother and father watched in horror as the six-foot athlete shrunk to a skeletal 101 pounds. Says his father, Dan, “He was watching himself disappear, every day in front of the mirror.” Attempts to feed Jason intravenously were futile, and maddening. “They put feeding tubes up my nose, and I would throw it right back up, then they would shove it down again,” says Jason, now 21. “I couldn’t digest anything.” He was prescribed Marinol, with synthetic THC, among other appetite stimulants. It was ineffective. Doctors warned if Jason continued to lose weight, his treatment would be suspended. His mother, Deidre, a licensed practical nurse, was frantic. “All his life, we told him, don’t do drugs, don’t do drugs,” she says. “But I came home and said, ‘Jason, you’ve got to do this.’” The teenager was reluctant. “My whole life, I never even smoked a cigarette,” says Jason. “I [had been] at the top of my game, a star baseball player. I wasn’t into all that.” But when he continued to sicken, Jason gave in. “At first it was kind of weird,” he says. “Usually the first time you do it it’s with a friend hiding in the woods. Mine was with my parents.” A week later, he had gained two pounds, and gained steadily for a year. “He stopped looking like somebody out of Schindler’s List,” says Dan. By acquiring pot for their son, the Carrolls knew they were breaking the law. They say they were driven by desperation. “I tried every other option first,” says Deidre. “I went through every other pill, and nothing worked. I would have done whatever I had to do. I would have gone to the moon.” The Carrolls also asked Jason’s grandparents to supply the drug if they were arrested or lost custody of their son. Not everyone was behind them. “I’ve have arguments with family members,” says Dan. “Well, I don’t care how anti-this and anti-that you are. All I know is what I saw with my own two eyes. It helped my son.” Within a year, Jason was cancer-free. He has been in remission for five years. Don McGrath believes the biggest obstacle to medical marijuana in New Jersey and across the country is not the federal government but the pharmaceutical industry. “If you legalize marijuana, then maybe you don’t need all these heavyweight drugs,” he says. “You can grow marijuana yourself. It’s a weed!” “The biggest thing lobbying against this is the drug companies,” agrees Dan Carroll. “And why? They don’t want drug sales to go down.” Carroll says one of Jason’s anti-nausea drugs — just three pills a day — cost $2,800 a month. One of Sean’s medications, “a Martha Stewart-type” drug manufactured by Imclone, was “$10,000 a pop,” says his father. A registered nurse at Shore Memorial Hospital in Somers Point says, “Anything that helps the patient is OK in our book. The problem is, marijuana is only available on the street, so there’s a quality issue, and obviously we cannot [recommend] it. But if it works for you, use it, that’s great.” Despite powerful opposition, Don McGrath thinks momentum in New Jersey is on his side. “That’s why the White House is bringing all the troops out on this one. If New Jersey goes, then New York will go over the edge, and that will put a lot of pressure on Pennsylvania, California, Oregon ... How much longer can the government hold out?” Ken Wolski, RN, chief executive of the Coalition for Medical marijuana New Jersey, shares that optimism. “We have too many things in our favor. We have the polling numbers. We have compassion, which says no patient should suffer needlessly. The real question is, why isn’t it legal already?” Legal or not, Deidre Carroll says she would not hesitate to get marijuana for Jason if his cancer recurred. “I would do it again. I’m not embarrassed or ashamed. Hell, no. My son is standing right in front of me.” Marjorie Preston is a freelance writer who has been published in Ladies Home Journal, Fitness, and New Woman magazines. Note: With support statewide, New Jersey could pass a pro-medical marijuana bill this year.Source: Atlantic City Weekly (NJ)Author: Marjorie PrestonPublished: July 12, 2006Copyright: 2006 Atlantic City WeeklyContact: editorial acweekly.comWebsite: http://www.atlanticcityweekly.comRelated Articles & Web Sites:CMMNJ http://www.cmmnj.orgThe Cherylheart Foundationhttp://www.cherylheart.org/ Medical Marijuana Debated in N.J.http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread21902.shtmlMMJ Hearing Pits Talk Show Host, Drug Officialshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread21899.shtmlWhite House Official Opposes NJ's MMJ Lawhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread21898.shtml
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Comment #38 posted by Had Enough on July 13, 2006 at 20:20:16 PT
After all
They don’t need that, Kind of Education!!!After all
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Comment #37 posted by Had Enough on July 13, 2006 at 20:13:49 PT
Rick Dees should
Leave them kids alone!!!
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Comment #36 posted by afterburner on July 13, 2006 at 18:39:47 PT
Had Enough #29 
Did you know, Rick Dees now hosts a teeny pop radio show. No wonder hearing it gets on my nerves.
 
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Comment #35 posted by FoM on July 13, 2006 at 17:53:13 PT
Had Enough
I agree it really was the beginning of the end for good music. The age of parties and coke and work and parties and work and coke wasn't what I was interested in. 
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Comment #34 posted by Had Enough on July 13, 2006 at 17:47:38 PT
Thanks FoM
No I didn’t see that, but I have heard about it. I will check it out later in further detail, thanks. The second link looks like it will load too, but it might take awhile.*******and…That whole Disco Scene sucked. The plastic (polyester knit) clothes, the hairstyles, the music, the plastic people. It all sucked.
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Comment #33 posted by FoM on July 13, 2006 at 17:33:56 PT
Had Enough
Did you see this?New Movie: The U.S. Versus John Lennon http://www.theusversusjohnlennon.com/Trailer: http://www.theusversusjohnlennon.com/site/trailer.html
 
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Comment #32 posted by Had Enough on July 13, 2006 at 17:29:21 PT
At best
That scene was repulsive.
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Comment #31 posted by FoM on July 13, 2006 at 17:14:25 PT
Had Enough
When I first saw John Travolta and disco dancing I went oh no what's that. I thought this will become a me me me generation and it did.
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Comment #30 posted by Had Enough on July 13, 2006 at 17:08:37 PT
Last Shot at the Duck
for now...“I’ll have the roast duck, with the mango salsa”.Couldn’t resist. That’s it. For now...
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Comment #29 posted by Had Enough on July 13, 2006 at 16:18:25 PT
More Duck
Top 20 WORST Disco Songs 
In the same time "Stayin' Alive" is a classic, "Disco Duck" is a classic of bad disco stuff. In this page, I show the songs that I always run away from. ...www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/9855/Worst.html - 5k - Cached - Similar pages*******Disco Profiles - Rick Dees 
He wrote and recorded "Disco Duck," which became an unexpected runaway hit ... Disco Duck by Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots. Music and Lyrics by Rick Dees ...www.comicgenius.com/DiscoFever/ disco_profiles/rick_dees/rick_dees_profile.htm - 9k - Cached - Similar pages*****I like the really name of his band, Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots.  Rather fitting I would say.
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Comment #28 posted by Had Enough on July 13, 2006 at 15:44:31 PT
The Disco Duck
Disco DuckNot!!!That Disco Duck was running around flapping its wings, shoving a spoon under every ones nose, and yelling, Rock N Roll is dead.Well after all these years, look what is alive and well, and look at that Disco Duck, looks like it was on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney.
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Comment #27 posted by Had Enough on July 13, 2006 at 15:37:06 PT
If the musician is a “musician”
To me, a musician is not a “musician”, unless he can deliver a message.Even some instrumental tunes have a message in the emotions, that is, if the musician is a “musician”.
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Comment #26 posted by Had Enough on July 13, 2006 at 15:26:04 PT
"Messages"
“Give me a musician with a message and I'll take them any day over those who make the direction we must go.”You sure got that right.The interview will go fine, I just know it. They will be in touch. 
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Comment #25 posted by FoM on July 13, 2006 at 15:18:28 PT
Had Enough
I mind the comments about the age of musicians. We have politicians making decisions for us every single day that are almost as old as Methuselah. Give me a musician with a message and I'll take them any day over those who make the direction we must go.PS: I have contacted the lady who asked me about the interview. I am waiting for her to get back with me but I know she is very busy right now with the tour going on. I still am thinking about it.
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Comment #24 posted by Had Enough on July 13, 2006 at 14:47:07 PT
“Ageing Rockers”, 
comment #8 & 9Note to Brad Wheeler Take the stage and let’s see what you can do. I DARE Yha.Ageing rockers? Everyone will age, and yes they are rockers. I’m glad they are still with us. Cool by me. “Ageing Rockers”, cool title for Neil’s next record? Maybe Willie?Chances are, you will end up an aged, washed up writer, “Dime a Dozen”. I don’t think anyone would pay 250 American Dollars for a ticket to hear the stuff you write.Get off your ass & jam!!!Lots of people talking,But few of them know.
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Comment #23 posted by Had Enough on July 13, 2006 at 14:45:26 PT
“Thunder Dome”
Comment #19& 22.I remember a flick called “Thunder Dome”.  Tina Turner was in it I think. They had a dome where if people had a disagreement that could lead to violence, they were put in to the dome. Two men enter, One-man exit. They entered voluntarily. It would be an event for all to see, such as the Gladiators of the Roman Empire. People from all around would come to see and chant, “Two men enter, One man exit.”It was explained that when the leaders had a problem they always sent others off to war. The deciders of war always sat safe, while others died for the leaders wants, and the last time it happened, it led to nuclear weapons being launched, and destruction of almost the entire civilization.
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Comment #22 posted by FoM on July 12, 2006 at 16:40:35 PT
kaptinemo
I always thought that the leaders who want war should be on the front lines leading the charge. I never could figure out how they got out of doing it that way when I was very young. I call it being honorable. 
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Comment #21 posted by global_warming on July 12, 2006 at 16:30:04 PT
in that meen time
we can continue to tear the flesh off the Christ,for there is no God,
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Comment #20 posted by global_warming on July 12, 2006 at 16:10:29 PT
hey capt
good to see your old bones
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Comment #19 posted by kaptinemo on July 12, 2006 at 15:53:27 PT
An old dream of mine
Being an ex- soldier, and later finding out that while soldiers of different countries fought and killed each other, the corporate elite of the belligerant nations laughed and made deals amongst themselves (look up connections between Standard Oil and IG Farben during WWII for an example) I've long felt that the top leaders should be sent into a colliseum of sorts to duke it out instead of massed armies causing mass destruction. (I would have paid real money to see a 'Celebrity Cage Match' between Saddam and Lil' Georgie.)That extends down to issues like this one. I'd dearly love to put Mr. McGrath and Karen Tandy together in a room and lock the door. I'd happily clean up whatever mess ensued afterwards, so long as I could watch the proceedings...
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Comment #18 posted by global_warming on July 12, 2006 at 15:23:36 PT
some headlines
Police :PSU prof, wife grew marijuana at homeMan pleads guilty to growing $6M worth of potGreensville County Deputy Sheriff Indicted On Drug ChargesYou want cannabis news, you got it..
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Comment #17 posted by global_warming on July 12, 2006 at 14:52:10 PT
re: article
Excellent, first NJ, then NY and PA, large blocks of "voters", and the ondcpepee is upset, maybe it is like that article said, big time "drug" companies are worried about their profits, well too effing bad,.As a subscriber to this current American social contract, is not my neighbors survival why I follow the rule of law and not the interests of big time drug corporations.Maybe in the fall months, a change can be born, I for one hope that politics and decent human beings prevail.
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Comment #16 posted by Toker00 on July 12, 2006 at 14:28:40 PT
Wayne
Haven't you heard of Cheech-n-Chong's new movie, Up in Vapor?Wonder if they would still hate hippies if we vaped pot instead of smoked it? Those pot vaping Hippies! You pot vaping slacker!I would have to become Vaper00.The pope vapes dope.I scored a really good bag of vape last night. Ok. I'll quit. :)Wage peace on war. END CANNABIS PROHIBITION NOW! 
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Comment #15 posted by lombar on July 12, 2006 at 13:14:00 PT
Wayne - because they know this...
Study Shows Vaporizer Can Drastically Reduce Toxins in Marijuana SmokeCalifornia NORML/MAPS Press ReleaseMay 2, 2003Harmful toxins in marijuana smoke can be effectively avoided by a vaporization device, according to a new study by California NORML and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) with support from a grant from the MPP (Marijuana Policy Project).The study, conducted by Chemic Labs in Canton, Mass., tested vapors from cannabis heated in an herbal vaporizer known as the Volcano® (manufactured by Storz & Bickel GmbH&Co. KG, Tuttlingen, Germany; http://www.storz-bickel.com) and compared them to smoke produced by combusted marijuana. The Volcano® is designed to heat material to temperatures of 130° to 230° C (266° to 446° F) where medically active vapors are produced, but below the threshold of combustion where smoke is formed.The vapors from the Volcano® were found to consist overwhelmingly of THC, the major active component in marijuana, whereas the combusted smoke contained over 100 other chemicals, including several polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), carcinogenic toxins that are common in tobacco smoke. The respiratory hazards of marijuana and tobacco smoke are due to toxic byproducts of combustion, not the active ingredients in the plant, known as cannabinoids.The study suggests that medical marijuana patients can avoid the respiratory hazards of smoking by using a vaporizer. In its 1999 report on medical marijuana, the Institute of Medicine recommended against long-term use of smoked marijuana because of the health risks of smoking. However, the IOM failed to take account of vaporizers.Previous studies have found that vaporizers can reduce harmful toxins in cannabis smoke. However, this is the first study to analyze the gas phase of the vapor for a wide range of toxins. A previous NORML/MAPS study conducted by Chemic Labs found that a vaporizer known as the M-1 Volatizer® (http:// www.volatizer.com) completely eliminated three specific toxins (naphthalene, benzene and toluene) in the solid phase of the vapor (D. Gieringer, "Cannabis Vaporization: A Promising Strategy for Smoke Harm Reduction," Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics Vol. 1#3-4: 153-70 (2001); http://www.canorml.org/healthfacts/vaporizerstudy1.html).clipped from source, for the rest:http://www.maps.org/mmj/pr5.02.03.htmlCannabisCannabis is leading the way for a more holistic type of medical care, a general revolt against corporate rationed care and traditional pharmaceutical company approaches to medicine. Patients use marijuana to get off toxic drugs. They find fellowship in compassion clubs. They find empowerment in fighting against prohibition, standing up to police and demagogues. Our opponents can threaten our freedom, but they can't kill our spirit.
Tod Mikuriya, 2001 --as quoted by Pete Brady
Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.
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Comment #14 posted by afterburner on July 12, 2006 at 13:13:10 PT
Wayne
Actually researchers have had difficulty getting approval for vaporizer studies, and LEOs often confiscate them as paraphernalia at great expense to the patient or vendor.Peace. 
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Comment #13 posted by Wayne on July 12, 2006 at 13:03:53 PT
this is it!
Kozmo, you were right. That one paragraph says it all:--Not everyone was behind them. “I’ve have arguments with family members,” says Dan. “Well, I don’t care how anti-this and anti-that you are. All I know is what I saw with my own two eyes. It helped my son.” Within a year, Jason was cancer-free. He has been in remission for five years.Imagine that...anti-drug parents with a teenage kid, saying that marijuana cured their son. THIS is the card we need to be playing. This, and stories just like it.Another note I would like to add. The big argument from the Drug Warriors is that there is no future in 'smoked' marijuana. It seems to me, from what I've read, is that the main reason they keep fighting it is because of the smoke itself. Why not encourage some sort of research using a vaporizer? I've been looking around, and there are a TON of them available for sale. Granted the Volcano is a bit expensive, but some of them aren't that bad. And even $500 beats the hell out of a $10,000 cancer pill. Doesn't it seem odd that, with all the fuss they make about the harmful smoke, that no one has even suggested doing research on vaporized MJ?Thanks to this article, we now have something concrete to pass on to the public. We also need to be arguing in favor of vaporizers. That way, the argument over the harmfulness of the smoke will be a moot point. They will have no choice but to consider legalizing, or at least start allowing some research anyway.Please think it through, everyone, and let me know what y'all think...
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Comment #12 posted by FoM on July 12, 2006 at 12:38:23 PT
afterburner
I'm glad it was mostly favorable. I don't know what made Canada turn to the right like they did but we've lived it down here and it isn't good. I do understand since the war and the politics of LWW are american that some canadians wouldn't be interested in that part of the concert.
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Comment #11 posted by afterburner on July 12, 2006 at 12:19:39 PT
The Q107 Audience Feedback Was Mostly Favorable
but one lady was upset that Neil dominated. She wanted to hear more CSN oldies. She even wanted her money back.Then-Prime Minister Trudeau once said, "Being the neighbor of the US is like sleeping with an elephant. Every time it moves, you feel it." Canadians ignore the US at their own peril, especially with PM "GWB-lite" Harper in power.
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Comment #10 posted by FoM on July 12, 2006 at 11:56:42 PT
CSNY Tour
I read that article earlier and I thought how americanized the writer sounds. That is so sad. The LWW part of the concert really is for us down here and I didn't think Canadians would care too much for it. I think Neil sounds more american in LWW then ever and that also would bum out some canadians. I believe when the tour gets back in the states it will break loose. Red Rocks is sold out and another concert in CA is sold out already.
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Comment #9 posted by Sam Adams on July 12, 2006 at 11:28:17 PT
The CSNY review
If you haven't read the below article yet, I can save you the time.  Condensed, it says "Brad Wheeler has a small penis"
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Comment #8 posted by lombar on July 12, 2006 at 11:05:09 PT
The Globe and Mail did not like the concert
AGING ROCKERS PROTEST TOO MUCHBRAD WHEELEROn Monday at the Air Canada Centre, greying soapboxers Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young preached to a crowd that was roused more by familiar music than bold politics. A tour, arriving in Neil Young's Winnipeg hometown on Friday and provocatively dubbed Freedom of Speech '06, reunites the folk-rockers in support of Young's politically charged Living With War album. Starting with Flags of Freedom, and later the unflinchingly titled Let's Impeach the President, the new disc was emphasized, as were similarly insubordinate tunes from David Crosby, Graham Nash and Stephen Stills, whose For What's It's Worth did not suffer from over-rehearsal.Generally, the audience seemed more moved by nice songs than rebel shouts, although Ohio and Rockin' in the Free World were well received. Stage backdrops of peace signs and various flags were just scenery. As for freedom of speech, we heard a zinger from the spunky lady in section 109 who cheerfully appraised: "For geezers with boobs, they still got it."
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Comment #7 posted by Gary Storck on July 12, 2006 at 08:44:40 PT
Cheryl Who?
Did they forget who laid the groundwork for the 86%?
Cherylheart Project
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Comment #6 posted by Kozmo on July 12, 2006 at 08:43:56 PT:
This quote says it all
It is stunning that anyone can stand there and say that MJ should remain illegal in the face of first hand witness like this mother, even her own family. Just simply stunning."Not everyone was behind them. “I’ve have arguments with family members,” says Dan. “Well, I don’t care how anti-this and anti-that you are. All I know is what I saw with my own two eyes. It helped my son.” Within a year, Jason was cancer-free. He has been in remission for five years."
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Comment #5 posted by ekim on July 12, 2006 at 08:22:31 PT
-- hope -- like you many are helping in many ways
Future Energy eNews    IntegrityResearchInstitute.org    July 10, 2006 
 1) Second Conference on Future Energy - Breakthoughs Sept. 22-24 in DC area2) COFE II Speaker Pages - Historic conference features gifted energy scientists  Ed. Note: This is special issue of Future Energy eNews devoted to COFE II. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------1) One Clean Energy Innovation Will Be a Global TransformationThomas Valone, Integrity Research Institute, http://users.erols.com/iri/cofe.html Washington DC (July 7, 2006) One of the only two conferences this year on emerging energy will be the Second International Conference on Future Energy (COFE) to be held at the Sheraton College Park in the Washington DC area, September 22-24, 2006. It follows in the footsteps of the controversial First International COFE in 1999, which was too far ahead of its time for Washington DC government agencies. The theme this time is a global transformation that can be anticipated from just one new clean energy innovation that does not use fossil fuel and the transformation of the third world from energy medicine. The future energy areas representing high payback and perhaps high risk investments in emerging energy are field propulsion, fission & fusion, space technologies, energy medicine, tidal, hydrogen, solar power, magnetic motor, zero-point energy.
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on July 12, 2006 at 08:17:31 PT
Hope
If your connection is good enough to watch this slide show it might help your headache go away if you still have it.http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread21956.shtml#26
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Comment #3 posted by Hope on July 12, 2006 at 08:05:23 PT
We need help.
Our government is so sick and debased and so perverted and so far from what it was created to be. Free the Weed and free the people. Unlock the shackles and do away with the many chains we are forced to bear and see what good we really can do.
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Comment #2 posted by Hope on July 12, 2006 at 07:58:21 PT
This article
is so powerful. Everyone in the world should read it, read it well...then read it again.
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Comment #1 posted by Hope on July 12, 2006 at 07:57:13 PT
It's stunning
that so many of our best reform activists were born out of this tragedy of losing children.That bloody blood red "medal" I feel that Joyce Nalepka, the Semblars, Mark Souder, Calvina Faye and the rest of them earned is also dripping with tears. They apparently wear it with pride.Their arrogant, ignorance has been so costly in blood, lives, tears, sorrow, as well as financially draining for everyone.
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