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AP Story Proves Value of Hemp Farming
Posted by CN Staff on January 21, 2007 at 14:12:46 PT
By Stan White
Source: Summit Daily News 
USA -- It was encouraging to read "Man Aims To Become Licensed Hemp Farmer" (Jan. 15) on the Summit Daily News website's AP section about David Monson in North Dakota who may be allowed to grow hemp (though he has to be fingerprinted and pay the Drug Enforcement Administration's annual registration fee of $2,293, which is non-refundable even if the application is denied).Encouraging, because U.S. farmers have been prohibited from growing hemp since World War II, when the U.S. government needed American farmers to produce hemp to help save America due to its value for human survival.
Since the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco effectively ended the Federal Government's attack on hemp food products in 2004, Americans may now purchase hemp products, yet American farmers are excluded from cultivating the plant. Locally, citizens may purchase hemp food products available at Alpine Market in Frisco, although the hemp in those products must be imported.American farmers are unable to compete in the free world market due to unfair DEA laws prohibiting hemp cultivation. The U.S. is almost the only developed nation that doesn't allow its farmers to grow hemp. In fact, communist Chinese farmers grow hemp (nearly 2 million acres), and neighboring Canada's hemp industry doubled last year where hemp had a better profit outlook than any other Canadian crop in 2006.Although hemp seeds and oil contains Gamma Linolenic Acid, which contributes to a strong immune system and is only available from five obscure places including mother's milk, hemp cultivation isn't limited to food products. Hemp should and could get more attention as an alternative fuel especially considering the original diesel engine was designed to run on hemp seed oil.Currently American hemp cultivation is gaining support from all political parties and since hemp can grow almost anywhere including harsh climates like Canada and North Dakota; it can grow in Colorado.It is time to re-introduce hemp as a component of American agriculture and to help achieve that goal, citizens can request congressmen support American farmers and hemp cultivation. Urge Congress to refuse funding the DEA's enforcement actions against law-abiding, state-licensed industrial hemp growers as these bills may arise this summer. Eastern Colorado farmers may even consider supporting Amendment 44 type election ballot questions in the future, which legalize cannabis (marijuana / kaneh bosm) since it stands to reason, if citizens may use cannabis with THC then farmers may cultivate hemp with practically no THC. Further, farmers might consider how the Federal government has unfairly treated them and support hemp farming.To allow ignorant politicians to continue prohibiting hemp farming isn't leading, it's draining; vote for politicians who get it and do what is right for America, Earth and our solar system.Source: Summit Daily News (CO)Author: Stan WhitePublished: January 21, 2007Copyright: 2007 Summit Daily NewsContact: news summitdaily.comWebsite: http://www.summitdaily.com/Related Article: Man Aims To Become Licensed Hemp Farmerhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread22516.shtmlCannabisNews Hemp Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/hemp.shtml
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Comment #62 posted by museman on January 25, 2007 at 10:32:31 PT
Hope
Yes she survived. At the time it happened there were a few cops and rangers present who did not interfere, until after she was run over. I don't know whether the red-neck ass was prosecuted or not. When it comes to the Rainbow, justice has been rather slow.
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Comment #61 posted by Hope on January 25, 2007 at 09:34:22 PT
Oh my gosh!
That's awful about her being run over. She did survive, didn't she? Was anybody prosecuted? Police now, would call that assault with a deadly weapon or attempted murder and shoot the guy through the windows.1988 was a very busy year for me. That was the year I didn't know about Ron Paul, either. 
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Comment #60 posted by museman on January 25, 2007 at 09:10:14 PT
Hope
There was a national in Texas in 1988 - during a time that I was putting some distance between me and the rainbow (as if that could happen).It was also the gathering that No Guns laid down in front of vehicles trying to drive into the site, and one of them ran over her! 
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Comment #59 posted by Hope on January 24, 2007 at 19:03:06 PT
Thanks, Museman
You'll had one here in Texas years ago, it seems to me like. Maybe just a small gathering instead of the main one, but it seems like I can remember hearing or reading about it. Or did you?
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Comment #58 posted by museman on January 24, 2007 at 17:05:36 PT
Hope -toke, other folks interested
I don't know where exactly it might be in Texas. There is a possibility that it could be in Arkansas or Tennessee, depending on scouting reports. It's going to be;A: on national forest or blm land.
B: the highest, cleanest, secluded mountain they can find with water.There's going to be a 'spring council' probably in the area to send out scouting parties, and/or review reports already available.The actual site is not declared publicly until April or May, depending on the snowpack of possible sites.Am I going? I'm thinking strongly about it, but can't commit at this point.information can be accessed from the link
rainbow
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Comment #57 posted by Hope on January 24, 2007 at 15:45:39 PT
Museman
There are some messages for you back in this thread.
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Comment #56 posted by FoM on January 24, 2007 at 15:31:17 PT
Related Article from The Summit Daily News
Ask Eartha: A Grown-Up Conversation About Hemp***By Eartha StewardJanuary 24, 2007USA -- Hemp is an environmentally friendly, sturdy and durable plant with an interesting history. But before getting into the history, I'd like to clear things up because when people hear hemp, they automatically think marijuana. Comparing hemp to marijuana is like telling Grandma Steward that the beautiful ornamental poppies in her yard could be used for recreational purposes, too. I think she would be quite appalled at the comparison.One way hemp and marijuana differ is in the levels of molecular compounds each contains. Hemp has a high percentage of an anti-psychoactive compound - meaning can't get you stoned - which counteracts the very low level of the psychoactive compound; whereas marijuana is the other way around. Basically, if someone tried to smoke hemp, it would show a great lack of intelligence on his or her part. Furthermore, if someone tried to eat hemp, that person should make sure to be close to a toilet because hemp is so fibrous that eating it is like the equivalent of taking three, or more, strong laxatives - and you still don't get a buzz. Since that discussion is out of the way, we can move on to more grown-up information - like the environmental benefits, uses and history of hemp. The environmental benefits from growing hemp include: less water use, shorter growing season, no pesticide or herbicide use, no need for chlorine bleaching when being processed, and it purges the soil of weeds for future crops to be planted in the same field. Traditional uses of hemp include: using it for canvas, rope and clothing. Through technological advances, it can also be made into building products, like medium-density fiber board, beams or studs, or used for cars - the largest use for hemp fiber in Germany is for automotive panels. Hemp can also be consumed internally for its nutrient-rich properties.Hemp oil and seeds contain unsaturated essential fatty acids and amino acids. The amino acids in hemp oil are similar to "complete" proteins like milk, eggs or meat. In recent years hemp oil and seeds in food have come under legal attack in the U.S. due to a trace level of the psychoactive compound found in hemp; the plant is regulated to contain 0.3 percent or less of the compound. In 2004, after years of court appeals, a Ninth Circuit judge ruled that the sale and import of industrial hemp remain legal. Meaning we can buy it from other countries, but it is still illegal for farmers to grow industrial hemp in the U.S. However, it was not always illegal to grow hemp in the U.S. In fact, during World War II the U.S. Department of Agriculture started a campaign with the slogan "Hemp for Victory" to encourage farmers to grow hemp for rope, canvas and uniforms for soldiers. Farmers started growing hemp and it became a large crop - second to cotton in some southeastern states. So, what happened?What changed was a definition. A law called the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act taxed people who were growing marijuana and hemp. Except our predecessors understood the difference between hemp and marijuana, so growing hemp was also taxed, yet legal. The definition changed in 1970 when a governmental department, along with help from chemical industry lobbying, changed the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act definition to include industrial hemp in the same category as the narcotic marijuana, therefore making it illegal to grow hemp in the U.S. Unfortunately, not many noticed the change in law at that time because the hemp industry has lost steam, and there wasn't really anyone to argue the case.Nowadays, industrial hemp is gaining back its value and importance. In 1998, Canada started growing hemp and profits by selling it to consumers in the U.S. Recently, North Dakota state law legalized industrial hemp production because of the potential of the crop to help farmers. Even though the law passed there, farmers still have to get federal permission to grow hemp. So for now we'll just have to continue purchasing hemp from other countries and hope economic and scientific evidence will be considered, eventually allowing industrial hemp to be grown in the U.S.Eartha Steward is written by Carly Wier, Holly Loff, and Beth Orstad, consultants on all things eco and chic at the High Country Conservation Center, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to waste reduction and resource conservation in our mountain community. Eartha believes that you can walk gently on our planet, even if you're wearing stylie shoes.Ask Eartha!Submit questions to Eartha at recycle colorado.net with Ask Eartha as the subject, or to High Country Conservation Center, PO Box 4506, Frisco, CO 80443.- Loren Schepers, FriscoCopyright: 2007 Summit Daily Newshttp://www.summitdaily.com/article/20070124/NEWS/101240044
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Comment #55 posted by Had Enough on January 24, 2007 at 05:01:21 PT
Hope re: #52
“Isn't it weird that some people don't have time to pay attention to those ten, because they are so busy trying to add to them?”It’s seems more like exemptions to the rules…Exemptions they grant themselves...Higher Authority???The term 'rude awakening’ comes to mind…
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Comment #54 posted by Toker00 on January 24, 2007 at 03:38:54 PT
Lufkin, Nacogdoches
These areas would LOVE the theatre of Peace. No shortage of barbequers and Motherly women. I think they would love a crowd. That's it. I'm not going to get excited over it untill I get a definate high-five. Very exciting to think that our state finally deserves some enlightenment.Toke.
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Comment #53 posted by Dankhank on January 23, 2007 at 17:15:13 PT
gathering
I would be very interested in that, last one I attended was in Oregon a number of years ago. They had a very basic techno area, then, it could be better, now. A LOT of Kitchens running all night ...And a wave out to the "Hello Death Squad Kitties" ...:-)Definitely has to be in East TX, need some trees and some water ...won't know 'till mid June or later ... probably.
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Comment #52 posted by Hope on January 23, 2007 at 16:33:52 PT
Had Enough....10 basic rules
Isn't it weird that some people don't have time to pay attention to those ten, because they are so busy trying to add to them?People are strange.
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Comment #51 posted by Hope on January 23, 2007 at 16:28:54 PT
to it if it is in
That is a good one, Toker00.I'll certainly try to go if Museman and you are going to be there.Is anything final...or just still speculating?If it's here...I'd think it was a signifigant gift out of the Universe and you know who...I'd have to check it out if I possibly could.
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Comment #50 posted by Had Enough on January 23, 2007 at 04:53:31 PT
re:
George Bailey – We need get them to point that Bazooka in the other direction, or better yet they can put it away altogether. It’s not the Government; it’s the people with saddened intents that are in the government. I guess they just can't help themselves to fight off the temptations. Problem is, when they get replaced, before long, it’s back to business as usual. But I will persist to do my part, and help to vote these people away. It might be fruitless in the eyes of some, but that is all I have, and will go for it. Caesar thinks too much of himself, so I agree with another posted comment, to Hell with Caesar, inHale cannabis…It’s interesting you posted a link to John Lennon’s tune. The murderer of John was a creep; he took a pistol and willfully decided to take his life. Hired gun or kook, regardless, this man decided in his mind that it was ok to steal his life for whatever reason, within seconds he did take his life, that is the wrong thought pattern if you ask me. People like that belong in a place where they can’t harm others. That’s what we pay Caesar for. Caesar is our employee; he just keeps forgetting whom he really works for, and who he really is.And let’s not forget that man also ‘robbed’ mankind of a great artist of prophetic proportions.Hope – Thank You for the compliment on ‘Stealing Heaven’, but I can’t take credit for it. It is a cut & paste job from the link included. It is cool. And I do subscribe to that, and have for a while. If mankind could just follow those 10 basic rules, the world would be a better place.museman – Cool, I thought you would see what I meant without a correction post, I just wanted to make sure I was clear on that point, for others as well.and… “Somehow we're gonna pull it off, us 'n our kids. I really do believe that.”Yes we will, it is our turn in this minute space in time, and a tip of the 'helmet' to you.
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Comment #49 posted by Toker00 on January 23, 2007 at 03:35:03 PT
#44 museman
Got specifics? Are you going to it if it is in Texas? (That's the most two letter words I ever put together in one sentence!) That would be in East Texas, I presume. Dankhank and Hope, are you thinking about it?Toke.
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Comment #48 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 20:52:44 PT
  :0)
Museman.
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Comment #47 posted by museman on January 22, 2007 at 20:51:00 PT
#44
Oh, it's there. Where some things can only be seen with eyes closed. 
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Comment #46 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 20:42:36 PT
Comment 44
Wow! That's so exciting! Comment 43I think I saw, for a minute there, a cyber-victory grip of your hand and my hand!Indeed and amen.
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Comment #45 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 20:38:18 PT
Had Enough Comment 20
That "stealing heaven" bit. Thank you. I really like that."...no man will steal Heaven..."Cool.
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Comment #44 posted by museman on January 22, 2007 at 20:37:43 PT
Hope OT:
I've been meaning to mention it, but it has slipped my mind. Even though I said I thought it unlikely that there would be a Rainbow Gathering in Texas, the unlikely truth is that this years National Rainbow Gathering is going to be somewhere in Texas.
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Comment #43 posted by museman on January 22, 2007 at 20:33:03 PT
Hope
"And on that rock, I shall build my 'temple."Faith and belief- the "stone that the builders rejected."(I am aware of other interpretations..:)
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Comment #42 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 20:17:41 PT
comment 40
I think so, too, Museman. Against all odds, I think so, too.
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Comment #41 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 20:16:44 PT
Comment 37
Well said, Museman. Well said.
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Comment #40 posted by museman on January 22, 2007 at 20:14:51 PT
Hope
Somehow we're gonna pull it off, us 'n our kids. I really do believe that.
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Comment #39 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 20:12:50 PT
 I DON'T NEED THIS STINKING GOVERNMENT!!
They, the government, have most certainly turned into a large and heavy burden for every man, woman, and child in this country. It's not supposed to be that way. Nobody needs the stinking kind of stinking government we have now, that's breathing down every citizens neck and burdening them with a truly ridiculous and heinous amount of rules, laws, licenses, permits, registrations, restrictions, regulations, intrusions, interminable red tape, and fees...for heaven's sake.But alas...she's what we've got...and surely, even if we go down trying, we've got to clean her up, and straighten her out. It's ours. Our kids are here. We can't leave this mess like this.
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Comment #38 posted by museman on January 22, 2007 at 19:55:16 PT
#35
to HELL with Caesar, and inHale Cannabis
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Comment #37 posted by museman on January 22, 2007 at 19:42:55 PT
Had Enough...Hope...FoM
No offence taken bro, or thought inferred. When I let everyone know that I 'was' a thief what I didn't say was that it was in my youth, when I made almost all of my mistakes. The fact that any person can make a decision that changes their life is one that too many don't easily embrace.I have no tolerance for liars or thieves, even as I have understanding and some experience -in my youth -. In fact my tolerance is probably less than a lot of people, especially considering so many are talking about the biggest liars and thieves on the planet as if they were something special. Having 'kicked' the 'habit' I can accept no excuses from the lying thieving status quo, no matter how they conceal their criminality under the trappings of wealth and power. Even as I trod lightly down that karmicly bad road, I wasn't very good at it for the reason that Hope mentioned earlier - liars and thieves go hand in hand. I have always had a most high esteem for the truth, and I guess that's why the truth about the actual karma of it got through to me. I did a lot of things that weren't exactly 'socially acceptable' in my more rebellious days, but truth is my muse, and I am predisposed to surrender to it, even when I'd like to hold on to whatever pet fantasy or attitude I might construct to the contrary.Hope; You are right, and I wouldn't really opt for a thief out of a prison to replace a thief in the government - but more because I DON'T NEED THIS STINKING GOVERNMENT!! than because of trust -though I concede that the stigma of our 'justice system', and those who have 'criminal record' -at least in terms of real crimes, kind of makes it hard for one to want to trust them.However, in my life I've known more 'reformed criminals' who gained my respect and esteem by their overcoming of the odds, than I have 'reformed "public servants."'Bottom line is personal responsibility. I know we do not live in the ideal world, and that certain compromises have just had to be made, but it's time that humanity as a whole,-and I think America is a grand example of both those who sleep and those who are awakening- grows up and takes responsibility for themselves and learn to stay out of everyone elses lives, unless it is through agreement, and willing cooperation with those other lives and realms of life. As far as I can tell, there existed only one man, once, whom I would have followed, to whose allegiance I would have sworn my life, who had the qualities worthy of his station, and substance to contribute. My one and only King;
Y'SHWH.No one else have I witnessed in my life can look over my head at their own reflection -though many have tried, they must look in my eyes and see it there, or not. I am neither 'superior', nor 'inferior' nor do I acknowledge any human beings claims to such. I am as skilled as any human being in taking care of my own business, and have absolutely no use for any group of 'superior-minded' individuals to assume control over My life! Even though they are dug in, and have convinced a substantial number of their citizenry that their authority is both real and justified, doesn't qualify or validate them in my esteem.The balance and distribution of wealth, earth access, priviledge, and basic human needs, is all contained within the false authority personified in the personnel of our legal system, who profit immensely by their associations.
The human motivations which drives a man to steal a loaf of bread, or an election are base and in error, yet the world will uphold and dismiss one while prosecuting the other with vigor and much showmanship.
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Comment #36 posted by George Baily on January 22, 2007 at 16:27:37 PT
relinking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUkGive Peace A Chance
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Comment #35 posted by George Baily on January 22, 2007 at 15:35:48 PT
Had Enough
Your opinion of some seventeen year old man, who put a gun in your face, then you run back to to the government, who puts a bazooka to your face, Hail Ceaser and Hale Cannabis.
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Comment #34 posted by Had Enough on January 22, 2007 at 14:51:56 PT
museman, Talkin about screwin up
“Liars and thieves walk hand in hand. If you are one, chances are you are the other. That’s been my experience. ”In this line with my last post I think I used the wrong words. (Imagine That)When I used the words “you”, I was not referring to you personally, I was referring to mankind in general.I hope my feeble attempts to communicate did not offend you, I wasn’t meant to.I have always had a hard time putting my thoughts in to words with eloquence, and many times I have been misunderstood. Should have put more effort in English Class, years ago.And life’s lessons continue…And thanks for hanging out with us.*******Hope, that Judge got off easy, he should be put in his own jail for the way he conducted himself. I’ll bet taxpayers still pay his pension and other benefits. He should lose those too, besides an election.
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Comment #33 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 13:37:20 PT
"And that Judge needs to be disbarred"
He got dis-elected, thankfully, this last voting day.
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Comment #32 posted by Had Enough on January 22, 2007 at 13:20:09 PT
museman
“I'd trust a reformed thief any day over a politician who by their very existence is an act of great theft, and crimnality.”I don’t trust either one. Maybe a ‘truly reformed’ thief and liar I will. But how many of these do we really see?Liars and thieves walk hand in hand. If you are one, chances are you are the other. That’s been my experience.Tolerance. Yes I believe people can find the errors in their ways, and reform themselves, but they must decide that. No one can do that for them. I believe in forgiving people for screwing up, as long as they are real about it.None of us are perfect and we all screw up, some more than others.I’m no Puritan, I have my share of screwups too, just like the rest of us, but I know what I know, and I know what I have experienced.Still, I have no sympathy for current liars and thieves, especially violent ones.
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Comment #31 posted by FoM on January 22, 2007 at 13:11:38 PT
museman
I'm glad that you saw the light. I always believed thou shall not covet our neighbors goods. I never saw any exception to that commandment. No one is entitled to anything in life. We make our own way and we should not be jealous of those who have more then us. Being jealous of others can create behavior that isn't good for society. Our business was robbed two different times and I know how it financially put us under so I speak from experience.I taught the one boy in church when he was young and took him with us to horse shows and had him out to our place. It crushed me.
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Comment #30 posted by Had Enough on January 22, 2007 at 13:01:53 PT
About the Dallas Article
They both should have been sentenced to prison from the get go.And that Judge needs to be disbarred and put in jail right next to them.*********The article said Tyrone didn’t hurt anyone.This is not correct.He did harm the victims. Can you just imagine the fear and thoughts that went through their minds when they saw the business end of that pistol barrel, and probably still does every time they go out in the public? Will someone try to kill me again at the convenience store, grocery store, etc? Should I park here or not? Is this person approaching me going to rob and maybe try to kill me again? Paranoia runs deep. That person and other people that have experienced this have to live with that fear stamped in their mind for life. I call that a life sentence for the victim…
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Comment #29 posted by museman on January 22, 2007 at 12:56:14 PT
Had Enough
First of all I appreaciated your spiritual reference, particularly about 'stealing heaven' and all that it implies.As far as human crime - crimes against the Will of God as exemplified as an INSTRUCTION and GUIDE in the Ten Commandments - there is one part that always gets left out of the mix of crime and punishment -the Greater Law of Love and Forgiveness, as taught and lived by Y'shua.Once I was a thief, and I have to agree that the time I spent in jail -not for theft, but just for posession of something that someone else had stolen - pretty much made me convict myself in the uderstanding that ANY FORM of theft is criminal -or destructive and non-progressive-, including the condoning of it.I was a 'revolutionary' in that I justified my thefts from various institutions (I 'prided myself' in my anti-establishment behavior) as part of the revolution.Here is what I have to say about it;Stealing was not ever in my 'nature' but the unbalanced distribution of wealth and property in this nation (and others) provided me with a logical reason -even if it was never right. I was able to come to a higher logic and understanding, but many poor folks only see that they are suffering under a hypocritical system that flagrantly supports murder and destruction on a global scale, and that the class of people who are upholding it are the wealthy. Because the doors and access to wealth are exclusive, most poor people see no hope in ever achieving that kind of 'success' (which the media pounds into us as "The Way To Be").It's easy for the politicians and judges to play God with peoples lives, because they know that without significant money, there is no defence against any accusation by the government and it's minions- which is why poor black men make up the majority of our prison population.Even as Tyrone was imprisoned for his personal crime against another person, the contrast between him and the nature of the ones who judged him, is not even considered. His crime though bad for his karma, does not even compare to the crimes committed by the state that condemned him. Because one criminal encarcerates a lesser criminal, does that somehow vindicate their own complicity in the larger deliberate error of "Trying to steal Heaven" and destroying anything that gets in their way. As far as I am concerned, Tyrone for president. At least we know his humanity. I'd trust a reformed thief any day over a poitician who by their very existence is an act of great theft, and crimnality.
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Comment #28 posted by FoM on January 22, 2007 at 12:47:19 PT
Here's a Good Article I Think
Why Do Good? Brain Study Offers Clues***MONDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDay News) -- People may not perform selfless acts just for an emotional reward, a new brain study suggests.Instead, they may do good because they're acutely tuned into the needs and actions of others.Scientists say a piece of the brain linked to perceiving others' intentions shows more activity in unselfish vs. selfish types.Complete Article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/22/AR2007012200374.html
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Comment #27 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 12:39:14 PT
Don't particulary like the looks of either of them
http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/042306dnmettwomen.2e5ca5a.html
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Comment #26 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 12:36:26 PT
Had Enough
You're right. He might have done much more harm even than he did. He might have graduated to murder, easily. He may turn out to be a monster when he is released. I hope not. But I can see from listening to you, and I respect your opinion and you, that I might have judged the nay voters on the board a little to harshly. I see your point very well.It still strikes me as unreasonable. Especially considering that a young white man seen by the judge on the same day, but was son to a respected pastor in the community...of a big, big ole church...did a lot worse...even killed...and got preferential treatment...and no jail...much less a life sentence. I kind of think he cast the sentence on this poor black man that he should have or would like to have cast on the rich kid...but he didn't. He did it to this kid. The same day that he gave favorable attention to the spoiled monster that the preacher's son had become.Justice was raped that day, I think.
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Comment #25 posted by FoM on January 22, 2007 at 12:28:02 PT
Had Enough
I have trouble with understand crime and punishment when there is a victim. 
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Comment #24 posted by Had Enough on January 22, 2007 at 12:26:08 PT
Tyrone
If that man had gotten away with that robbery, undoubtedly he would have graduated to injuring or killing someone in the future. I wonder how many more armed robberies that he did, we don’t know about?Life sentence is harsh, so is losing someone you care about, to some creep that figures he can just go out and steal from others that has earned and worked for their pay.Since he didn’t discharge the weapon 20 to 40 yrs, might have been sufficient. But still, I have little sympathy for these creeps.
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Comment #23 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 12:25:36 PT
Had Enough
Stealing is wrong. Threatening someone with a weapon to rob them is wrong. They are certainly legitimate "crimes". They are crimes and should be.His "Life Sentence" though, actually came about because of cannabis use. That's how I saw it. He's been in prison a long, long time and he was seventeen when he did this. I read some of this guy's poetry somewhere. I was impressed and hurt for him, too. I don't believe he will necessarily be inclined to rob anyone again and I think he's paid for his crime and has had more than ample time to consider his wicked ways and reform...but the drug test got him the life sentence. That's just hugely unreasonable. The life sentence was a blatant form of vindictivness that is more destructive than helpful and certainly wouldn't add to his reform.It's just my opinion about the life sentence business...and certainly not overlooking his original crime...which was indeed, a crime.
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Comment #22 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 12:16:05 PT
This from 2005
http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/2/1/21Said cannabis and tobacco VERY different and cannabis does not cancer.Published in 2005. Submitted in 2004.
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Comment #21 posted by FoM on January 22, 2007 at 12:08:56 PT
Had Enough
I also believe stealing is wrong. If we want something and can't buy it then we should do without. The sentence didn't fit the crime in this case I don't believe.
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Comment #20 posted by Had Enough on January 22, 2007 at 12:03:53 PT
Tyrone Brown Comment #2
With all due respect.I have little sympathy for someone who uses a weapon to steal from others, even if it is for only 2 dollars.Basic 10 rules for mankind, rule #7 “Thou Shalt Not Steal”At the same time, cannabis laws should not exist so that someone can be violated on a probationary condition.This young man willfully planed to rob another person using a lethal weapon, which is totally wrong. So are Cannabis Laws.” These two wrongs do not make it right.This also puts cannabis on the wrong light by associating armed thieves with cannabis users.********VII THOU SHALT NOT STEAL."To steal means, to most men, to take a material thing that belongs to another. In reality, there are many facets to stealing. First, many men steal the dignity and respect that The Holy Trinity must have, that The Beloved Heavenly Queen must have, and that all men must have for the Church of My Choice.
 
Men belittle the act of stealing, calling it instinct. In reality, men must know that to take anything they do not come by justly, is against My Will. They must be aware that to steal drains them of purity. Tell them, Moses, no man will steal Heaven, for I will stand in Judgment and no man will be allowed Here until reparation is made, whether the stealing be of material things, any part of man, or the manner in which men walk." Time - Will - Pride - Physical Energies - Material Wealth - Patience - Talents - Hope - Dignity - Gifts From God
 http://www.themiracleofstjoseph.org/commands.php
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Comment #19 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 12:02:25 PT
Good article from 2004
http://bjo.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/88/5/708#SEC3Mentions age related macular degeneration as well as glaucoma. Very interesting.
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Comment #18 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 11:53:54 PT
Very interesting site.
I've seen reference to it before.http://cannabismd.org/and it has this interesting list of Science.http://cannabismd.org/foundation/abstracts.php
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Comment #17 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 11:42:21 PT
Potpal
After all this searching and running up trails that led to more words that I never heard of, but that might matter to us, I've decided the Recentin is perhaps another of many compounds that cause antiangiogenesis...starving the cancer by cutting off it's blood and oxygen supply. That's not to say it's not a chemical copy of the one that occurs naturally in cannabis.I wonder if it works as good as the cannabis derivative? They already admitted that cannabis or a derivative of it works better than the best known Alzheimers drug available.
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Comment #16 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 11:35:46 PT
New word
Arachidonylethanolamide
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Comment #15 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 11:24:34 PT
I don't recall hearing about this 2004
http://www.oncolink.org/resources/article.cfm?c=3&s=8&ss=23&id=11014&month=08&year=2004
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Comment #14 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 10:41:23 PT
Hmmm
This doesn't mention cannabinoids or thc...but if it's not one of the "drugs" they are studying in their Antiangiogenic Therapy...it's worse than sad. This article is two and a half years old. Maybe I can find something related to their work more recently released.http://www2.mdanderson.org/depts/oncolog/articles/04/6-jun/6-04-1.html
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Comment #13 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 10:32:38 PT
Another related googling 
http://www.virtualtrials.com/news3.cfm?item=3226
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Comment #12 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 09:34:08 PT
Wondering, and trying to grasp this stuff.
http://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/cgi/content/full/58/4/814
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Comment #11 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 09:31:24 PT
Googling around trying to find connections
between the AZD2171...now named Recentin, and previous anti-cancer research associated with cannabinoids and cannabis related treatments.Found some interesting things.Anyone ever heard of WIN 55212-2? It's a cannabinoid or a cannabinoid receptor agonist...binds with the receptor. Apparently, it's being used even now in this country. I'm not positive, of course. I'm certainly no doctor or scientist and this stuff is hard to read and understand...but more research may be going on than we realize about cannabinoids...even here in this country.http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1544096
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Comment #10 posted by Hope on January 22, 2007 at 06:08:19 PT
Potpal
I've suspected the same thing since I've been reading about AZD2171. Articles even mention that it helps brain edema. Sure sounds like the cannabis research stuff to me. Every aspect of it's supposed wonders are exactly like the studies of the cannabis on brain tumors that we have been reading about for several years now.At least they are following the trail. That's good.They won't likely admit what the stuff really is or is based on because they fear people might look to cannabis for help instead of their pill.If it's not the same thing as the cannabis extract or whatever form the cannabis that was used in previously revealed studies...it works exactly like the cannabis did and that says to me that someone maybe actually checked out how the cannabinoids helped to shrink the tumors and at least copied, somehow the process.Yes. It does sound remarkably similar to the cannabis studies.
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Comment #9 posted by potpal on January 22, 2007 at 05:19:38 PT
Indeed
Urge Congress to refuse funding the DEA's enforcement actions against Friends Of Marijuana.Could this article be further research using same cannabis based drug they uncovered back in August that showed similar potential? Note the links on the right...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6268433.stm 
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Comment #8 posted by FoM on January 21, 2007 at 21:20:46 PT
Off Topic: Reliving The 60s
http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-bktalk5056459jan21,0,315181.story
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Comment #7 posted by afterburner on January 21, 2007 at 21:02:30 PT
Stan 
Stan Your article is a pleasure to read, insightful, eloquent, inclusive.That Singapore-loving oped writer on the other hand is a pain to read. Would he like to be treated as he would like to treat others? "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." --Son of Man
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Comment #6 posted by Hope on January 21, 2007 at 18:25:42 PT
Some news about ex-narc, Barry Cooper.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n074/a08.html?397I'd sure like to believe this guy is for real...but it's not easy or especially prudent to trust a narc... ever ...ex or not. 
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Comment #5 posted by Hope on January 21, 2007 at 17:53:04 PT
I think maybe we should start a fund
to send the man who wrote this oped to Singapore, where he would be happier and more at home. http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n075/a02.html?397
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Comment #4 posted by Hope on January 21, 2007 at 17:36:07 PT
Stan
You bless my soul. You hit a bullseye again!Thank you. 
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Comment #3 posted by Hope on January 21, 2007 at 17:34:54 PT
comment 2
 "make a decision in due time."It's way past "due time".Very quick to throw away the key and so slow to find it again.What grossly deformed consciences the two who voted against releasing him must have. "Seared over"...obviously..."as with a hot iron".They ought to be removed or impeached or whatever has to be done to get them out of the positions they are in. 
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on January 21, 2007 at 16:49:33 PT
Off Topic: Parole Board Recommends Pardon
Parole Board Recommends Pardon For Man Serving Life On Drug Bust***January 21, 2007DALLAS -- The Texas parole board has recommended that Gov. Rick Perry free a Dallas man who's serving a life sentence for violating probation when he was a teenager by testing positive for marijuana.A Perry spokesman said the governor will review the recommendation and "make a decision in due time."The board voted 5-2 on Friday in favor of Tyrone Brown. 
 Brown was arrested in 1990 when he was 17 for holding a man up at gunpoint and robbing him of $2.Brown pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years probation. But a month after his probation began, Brown tested positive for marijuana.Though prosecutors made no sentencing recommendation, Judge Keith Dean decided on a life sentence and, according to a court transcript, said "Good luck, Mr. Brown."Dean has since declined to explain the life sentence. Copyright 2007 by The Associated Presshttp://www.nbc5i.com/news/10808131/detail.html
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on January 21, 2007 at 16:07:33 PT
Good Job
Keep up the writing!
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