09-08-2007, 09:09 AM
Kahunascott,
Marijuana is safer than alcohol. That alone is reason enough to regulate it. Street sellers don't ask for ID.
We have been lied to for over five decades, by our government about this.
I got interested in drug policy many years ago and read the medical and social studies relating to this issue.
Dr. Lester Grinspoon of Harvard University and Dr. Robert Melameide are two world renowned experts in the field of cannabis research. Their statements reflect the body of research that has taken place in the last several decades.
To paraphrase, the chemicals in marijuana are healthy for human consumption. Not only are the chemicals that the govt. has criminalized, healthy, they are in fact vital for normal mamallian and human function.
Several years ago, medical researchers were stunned to discover a new chemical receptor system in the human body. It is the largest chemical receptor system in the human body and it responds only to marijuana-like chemicals which are produced by the human brain and nervous system. These chemicals they named, endo-cannabinoids. Endo means internal and cannabinoids refers to marijuana (cannabis). They also refer to them as, "anandamides". Ananda is the sanskrit word for, "bliss".
What scientists have shown, is that when the endo-cannabinoidal system is shut down in test animals, they develop diseases, exhibit extreme emotional distress when placed in any new environment (like moving them from one part of their cage to another) and then die prematurely.
These marijuana-like chemicals appear to function as a "universal regulator" and allow mammals mental flexibility to help deal with changes in their environment.
Everyone makes these chemicals and these chemicals are identical to the one's the policitians tell us are bad.
These chemicals stop cancers, extend human life, slow diseases like MS and the list goes on and on...
Many of the miraculous benefits are caused by THC,the chemical that creates the high. You know, the THC that the government is pretending to wage a "war" on.
Before the "Prohibition", marijuana was sold in every pharmacy in America. All Americans consumed these beneficial tinctures and they were made by America's leading pharmacutical companies.
That's right. Everyone used marijuana, they just called it cannabis.
The sordid story of marijuana prohibition is on the web and is a matter of public record.
It is probably because the chemicals in marijuana are such potent cancer fighters, that all currently accepted research shows no link between smoking cannabis and lung diseases.
Of course, vaporizing removes smoke from the equation, so the whole "smoking is bad", thing is doubly irrelevant.
So, sorry for the long winded reply, but this is actually a huge subject.
Marijuana should be regulated to protect our communities from an unregulated street drug market, to stop govt. interference with real medical research so that marijuana products may again be sold to adults in our pharmacies, as they once were.
Marijuana should be regulated so as to make it easier for people to choose a safer alternative to the addictive, killer drug, alcohol.
Any intelligent society would choose to make available the safest of drugs for personal use. Personally, I don't see that happening here any time soon, but, who knows?
Aloha!
Aloha,
Lee
http://members.cruzio.com/~lionel/event
Marijuana is safer than alcohol. That alone is reason enough to regulate it. Street sellers don't ask for ID.
We have been lied to for over five decades, by our government about this.
I got interested in drug policy many years ago and read the medical and social studies relating to this issue.
Dr. Lester Grinspoon of Harvard University and Dr. Robert Melameide are two world renowned experts in the field of cannabis research. Their statements reflect the body of research that has taken place in the last several decades.
To paraphrase, the chemicals in marijuana are healthy for human consumption. Not only are the chemicals that the govt. has criminalized, healthy, they are in fact vital for normal mamallian and human function.
Several years ago, medical researchers were stunned to discover a new chemical receptor system in the human body. It is the largest chemical receptor system in the human body and it responds only to marijuana-like chemicals which are produced by the human brain and nervous system. These chemicals they named, endo-cannabinoids. Endo means internal and cannabinoids refers to marijuana (cannabis). They also refer to them as, "anandamides". Ananda is the sanskrit word for, "bliss".
What scientists have shown, is that when the endo-cannabinoidal system is shut down in test animals, they develop diseases, exhibit extreme emotional distress when placed in any new environment (like moving them from one part of their cage to another) and then die prematurely.
These marijuana-like chemicals appear to function as a "universal regulator" and allow mammals mental flexibility to help deal with changes in their environment.
Everyone makes these chemicals and these chemicals are identical to the one's the policitians tell us are bad.
These chemicals stop cancers, extend human life, slow diseases like MS and the list goes on and on...
Many of the miraculous benefits are caused by THC,the chemical that creates the high. You know, the THC that the government is pretending to wage a "war" on.
Before the "Prohibition", marijuana was sold in every pharmacy in America. All Americans consumed these beneficial tinctures and they were made by America's leading pharmacutical companies.
That's right. Everyone used marijuana, they just called it cannabis.
The sordid story of marijuana prohibition is on the web and is a matter of public record.
It is probably because the chemicals in marijuana are such potent cancer fighters, that all currently accepted research shows no link between smoking cannabis and lung diseases.
Of course, vaporizing removes smoke from the equation, so the whole "smoking is bad", thing is doubly irrelevant.
So, sorry for the long winded reply, but this is actually a huge subject.
Marijuana should be regulated to protect our communities from an unregulated street drug market, to stop govt. interference with real medical research so that marijuana products may again be sold to adults in our pharmacies, as they once were.
Marijuana should be regulated so as to make it easier for people to choose a safer alternative to the addictive, killer drug, alcohol.
Any intelligent society would choose to make available the safest of drugs for personal use. Personally, I don't see that happening here any time soon, but, who knows?
Aloha!
Aloha,
Lee
http://members.cruzio.com/~lionel/event
Lee Eisenstein
http://members.cruzio.com/~lionel/event
"Be kinder than necessary, as everyone you meet is engaged in some kind of strudel."
http://members.cruzio.com/~lionel/event
"Be kinder than necessary, as everyone you meet is engaged in some kind of strudel."