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Support Bill Making Medical Marijuana Legal
Posted by CN Staff on May 05, 2009 at 07:57:21 PT
Editorial
Source: Pocono Record
Stroudsburg -- A few Pennsylvania legislators are signing on to an important medical advance: legalizing medicinal marijuana. State Rep. Mark Cohen, D-Philadelphia, has only six co-sponsors so far for his bill. But at least he is recognizing marijuana's palliative possibilities and pointing out that Pennsylvanians in pain should not have to leave the state for treatment — or buy the drug from criminals.
Cohen's H.B. 1393 would allow the use of medical marijuana under certain restrictions. The bill proposes dispensing it from "compassion centers" run by a non-profit organization or, possibly, by a state agency. Already 13 states have legalized medical marijuana; bills are also under consideration New York, New Hampshire, Michigan and Illinois.People have begun to understand that marijuana can ease the symptoms and suffering of patients who are diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, and multiple sclerosis. For patients for whom traditional medicine has not helped, medical marijuana may offer hope for relief from pain, nausea, loss of appetite and wasting. A 1999 Institute of Medicine study confirmed the effectiveness of medical marijuana in relieving such symptoms.Legislative endorsement of medical marijuana lags behind professional opinion. Public officials don't want to seem "soft on drugs." But the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Public Health Association, the American Nurses Association and the American Bar Association have all advocated allowing patients access to medical marijuana. Dozens of state and national polls have indicated overwhelming public support for medical marijuana. Acceptance of legalization for medical purposes has risen over time as the public has learned more about the issue.Opponents to legalization argue that marijuana can serve as a gateway drug to other illegal substances. But consider that someone buying marijuana must go through illegal channels, and most likely is buying the drug from someone who also is selling other illegal drugs. Sales tactics being what they are, purchasers are likely to hear a pitch for something else. Controlling medical marijuana like other pharmaceuticals, prescribing it for specific conditions or diagnoses and making it legally available, would remove that illicit exposure.Doctors ought to be allowed to prescribe medical marijuana, and patients should be allowed to use it. For some of these afflicted individuals, medical marijuana may be the best way to address their suffering and improve their lives.H.B. 1393's co-sponsors thus far are Philadelphia-area legislators. Monroe County's state representatives John Siptroth, D-189; Mario Scavello, R-176; Mike Carroll, D-118 and Michael Peifer, R-139 should consult their constituents here in the Poconos. They might find surprising support for legalizing medical marijuana — and sign on to Cohen's bill.Source: Pocono Record, The (Stroudsburg, PA)Published: May 5, 2009Copyright: 2009 Pocono RecordContact: letters poconorecord.com Website: http://www.poconorecord.com/URL: http://drugsense.org/url/UW3u4isFRelated Articles:Medicinal Marijuana Worth a Lookhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread24777.shtmlBill in State House Would Make Marijuana Legal http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread24775.shtml
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Comment #20 posted by museman on May 06, 2009 at 14:43:19 PT
FoM
Thank you FoM, so are you!
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Comment #19 posted by FoM on May 06, 2009 at 13:35:31 PT
museman
I'm listening to it now. I'm so glad we met on this forum. You are inspiring.
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Comment #18 posted by museman on May 06, 2009 at 13:15:12 PT
as promised
As I said, it is a 'rough mix.' I lost access to the keyboard that I used for most of this, so I consider it 'unfinished' until I can get the use of another quality keyboard, but its been laying around my computer for long enough. It needs some more mastering work, but since I don't have to please any corporations, or think I have to compete with anyone for popularity, I feel good about it as it is, -for the moment.I'd like to add that I've come to the conclusion that I am really a 'musical poet' rather than a 'composer' or whatever. Though I did manage to acquire musical understanding, and some skill beyond the ordinary with the guitar, the 'word' is still my inspiration, and the foundation for most of my music.The Way Of The Rainbow Warrior;Come, my brothers, let us dance together
Around the fire, under the moon.Come sing my sisters to the beat of a sacred drum.You just met the white man 500 years too soon.
On a sacred mountain, in the middle of the turtles back,I saw the western lion through the eagles eye.
In the Place of the Spiralling Stones I found the beating heart.Four powerful, ancient spirits barred my way,And they danced around me to make me leave their sacred ground,But I said I was walkin’ in a sacred way. We were lost in darkness when we first came here,Runnin’ from a world of pain, and death, and fear.We came with hope and promise of a better life,But we brought our greed and money, disease, and endless strife.
We were all just children, but you were dancin’ with the buffalo,While we forged steel and iron to subdue the land.
In that Spirit moment when those ancient ghosts were dancin’ round,They changed direction just to sanctify,and I saw the promise that One Great Spirit had made for all,‘cause I was walkin’ in a sacred way. Great Ones from many nations, it’s here they made their stand.Let there be no mistake; this is the promised land.But we weren’t supposed to steal it, we weren’t supposed to tear it down,We weren’t supposed to kill it, that isn’t why we came.
We were supposed to come together like two brothers who were lost then found,sharin’ all they know for an even better way.
All my relations from the four directions came and joined the dance.It was a vision of hope, a living dream and a possible chance.They they stopped together, and turned, and then became as one,And I knew I was walkin’ in a sacred way.
So, come my brothers, let us dance together
Around the fire, under the moon.Come sing my sisters to the beat of a sacred drum,Now we can dance in a sacred way.
In a sacred circle, with the freedom for which we were
made.Now we can dance in a sacred way.In a sacred way.In a sacred way.In a sacred way.
The Way Of The Rainbow Warrior
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Comment #17 posted by FoM on May 06, 2009 at 10:28:03 PT
museman
Good luck and I'll be waiting to hear it. Don't you just hate computer problems? I sure do.
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Comment #16 posted by museman on May 06, 2009 at 10:23:28 PT
FoM
Well, I almost finished it. Would have posted a rough draft of the final mix last night, but my CD burner stopped functioning, and the studio computer isn't connected to my network, my usb drive died, so I had no way to transfer the file. I'll get it today though.
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Comment #15 posted by yoshi on May 06, 2009 at 02:27:09 PT:
State College/Happy Valley
Go PA. Any big change here would have a huge effect
Just listened to Graham Hancock on Coast to Coast AM, he made alot of good arguments on drug legalization. It being a civil rights issue, a birthright that should not be taken away from free citizens. He's a big ayahuasca(amazonian psychedelic brew) guy, I agree with him that the spirit world is real and has a connection to UFO's.
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Comment #14 posted by FoM on May 05, 2009 at 13:03:43 PT
museman
That's nice to read. Go for it!
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Comment #13 posted by museman on May 05, 2009 at 12:54:21 PT
FoM
Wonderful. I have nothing to add to that.You did inspire me to finish one of those new songs today, so maybe I'll have something to share later on today.
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Comment #12 posted by FoM on May 05, 2009 at 12:44:08 PT
A Good Teacher
I think a good teacher is a person who can connect with another person about a topic and they learn something. That can come from a teacher, a coach or anyone that has some particular knowledge that others want to learn more about. Being sensitive, allowing mistakes, because they are part of growth, and ultimate independence for the person who learns should always be the end result.
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Comment #11 posted by museman on May 05, 2009 at 12:11:23 PT
FoM
Thats where real teachers come from -not from being 'taught to teach' though courses on teaching are certainly appropriate in some of those cases.In a natural society, that is what the elders, who can no longer perform the vital, physical functions in a community do. In a natural society, un-regulated by narrow 'book definitions' and uncontrolled by 'vested interests' people look out for each other. Its not a myth, I've seen it in action, if only briefly, and scattered throughout the fake reality like lamps on a moonless night.And the experience of lifetimes that the GrandMothers and Grandfathers have to teach and share, is the substance of all things truly 'educational.' The other day I was categorized as a 'socialist' (by a visiting friend) I had to correct him on that, but we did agree that the kind of society we both wished to live in was a kind of 'tribal socialism.' One that actually hasn't really been manifested yet.A Natural Society.Where a person contemplates their mortality and limitation on the basis of knowing, rather than fearing. Where children learn from deliberate, open examples that match the words of that which they are taught.Where health, welfare and safety, is a state of being, not a state agency.A Natural, Real Society.Where no one 'represents' another in deciding fates and futures -what a mistake that was!Where one seeks the music of the wind in the trees, under the clear blue sky, as much as the concerted, and singular arts of men, and holds both to be beautiful-as they are in their own right.That is the society I wish to live in (-though I will most likely have to be redeemed-in-the-flesh, or reborn in order to actually have a life in it. -and forgive me {anyone who needs to} if I believe in the possibility.)And until I see that society start to come to be, in some other way than hope (which is powerful and good, but not all of the story..) I will not surrender to any second best offerings of the decendants of the Nephalim.FoM, sorry, I just get into it, what can I say?FREE CANNABIS FOR EVERYONE
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Comment #10 posted by FoM on May 05, 2009 at 10:28:31 PT
Museman
When someone has a talent and can pass it on then they can become an important instructor or guide. I got into teaching after I was slowing down on training because it became physically hard for me to do anymore.
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Comment #9 posted by FoM on May 05, 2009 at 10:24:45 PT
museman
I understand what you are saying.
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Comment #8 posted by museman on May 05, 2009 at 10:19:45 PT
FoM#5
Well, I'm kinda slowing down as a songwriter. I have a few new ones I haven't finished recording, but my kids band W.E.G.O. is moving in on my musical interests. I am neary ready to 'pass the baton' onto them. Chauntawe (one of my sons) is proving to be the songwriter/musician/bandsman I always wanted to be, and I've already shifted my musical energies towards helping other young composers and musicians. I did get to jam with W.E.G.O. on the 420 gig, and though rust never sleeps, it wasn't anywhere around that night.And it just seems to me that the the lwwtoday page has become a depository for musical competition, and the 'popular' stuff just gives me no motivation to try and compete with it.In fact, I really don't care much any more about whether my music gets out there or not. It was always a fringe element, with only a handful of fans.I often think about the fact that my words -rejected so thoroughly by my own generation, have now, within the past decade become more and more appropriate, and the new generation actually embraces it more than my own ever did, but they have a hard time hearing the music and then associating it with such an old fart such as myself. So I'm going to get my daughter to sing my songs for me, and then the young people will be able to hear my music without having to look at me. :-)>
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Comment #7 posted by FoM on May 05, 2009 at 09:49:24 PT
Museman
It just popped into my head! LOL!
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Comment #6 posted by museman on May 05, 2009 at 09:46:12 PT
FoM
Haven't heard that phrase in a while. :-)>
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Comment #5 posted by FoM on May 05, 2009 at 09:45:43 PT
Museman
Have you thought about submitting your new songs to Neil's web site? I didn't know if you thought about it and I wanted to mention it.http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/index.html
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on May 05, 2009 at 09:31:48 PT
museman
For me life is too short to waste it. Onward and upward thru the fog!
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Comment #3 posted by museman on May 05, 2009 at 09:13:41 PT
FoM
I ask that question about all of Providence.As long as the children are taught that money is a resource, that it is actually something real, with value above and beyond everything else, then the conditions of class and 'economic' imbalance, poverty, disease, war, and dominion, corrupted power and authority, and the buying selling of Creation by thieves and robbers will continue- up to the point when the Creators timeline comes to its inevitable end. (I hear rumors of 'coming soon')In the meantime, we must loudly reject the failed systems that perpetuate everything evil in the world. We must not bow down or give in to the compromises being proferered by the S-Q, even as we take every concession that is a step towards our goal. Accepting table scraps does not mean that we have to stay under the table. Time to kick the usurpers out of the dining room.Its a real labor, and it is far from easy.It involves much sacrifice of formerly accepted lifestyles, and ongoing conscious displacement of error with correct action, thought, and process. But if we allow these false leaders to continue to lead, and follow their courses, we are lemmings on a course of self destruction. People must grow up, become adults capable of making their own decisions without having to have a 'big brother' making them for us.FREE CANNABIS FOREVER
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on May 05, 2009 at 08:30:10 PT
Museman
I have great respect for this God Given Herb. How can money be attached to something that was given to us free of charge?
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Comment #1 posted by museman on May 05, 2009 at 08:25:55 PT
almost made it
to the end without too much BS, but;"Sales tactics being what they are, purchasers are likely to hear a pitch for something else. Controlling medical marijuana like other pharmaceuticals, prescribing it for specific conditions or diagnoses and making it legally available, would remove that illicit exposure."Now, I admit, I haven't been buying, or attempting to buy herb in the city, for many years. But out here where the bud grows, I have never had any dealer try to 'pitch for something else' unless it was accasional psychedelics, and though the status quo is still as ignorant as can be about that, I'd hardly link a 'marijuana dealer' with a drug pusher. Steppenwolf had a song called "The Pusher" in which he defined the difference between the two (funny how prohibitionists like to use one line out of the song, and ignore the rest) "Now a dealer, he's gonna sell you lots of SWEET DREAMS, but the pusher, he don't care if you live or if you die."And though any progress is welcome, the idea of giving this corrupt government any power at all is sickening to me. Regulate your own bowel movements, if you feel you must have conrol over something, but leave the people alone. Let people decide their own destiny for a change.Having herb available from some other source than the iffy 'black market' would be a good thing, but handing over the control from one set of criminals to another, more powerful set of criminals, somehow just doesn't seem like a good solution.WHich is why we can never have true cessation of prohibition, until we stop giving power to those who support it. And that support is on some pretty fundamental levels of status quo acceptability.The status-quo is for the elite. The elite rule. The established institutions are all in direct support of their masters in the S-Q. The weights and measures of economics are completely bound in the morass of the S-Q, and serves only the select few. All law as enforced and enacted is for the stability of the S-Q, and the protection of the elite and all their stuff.And it goes on.Liberty is not written, it is lived, or not.LEGALIZE FREEDOM
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