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Patients testify to Cannabis' help in treating post traumatic stress, depression, chronic pain, multiple sclerosis, gastrointestinal (GI) tract disorders, Alzheimer's, Cancer, epilepsy, glaucoma, hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS and more! They swear it is an effective safer replacement for very dangerous pharmaceuticals.
Morally bankrupt profiteering has no place in medicine, which must be concerned with the well being of the individual not the bottom line. Doctors who have monitored cannabis use by hundreds of thousands of patients in California and Oregon can document a consistent pattern of using less pharmaceuticals including cutting opiates use by half. Repealing prohibition of marijuana would bring other much needed health care reform.
The debate over medical marijuana or cannabis is really a scandalous controversy over whether this very easy-to-grow herb should be allowed to compete with pharmaceuticals for pennies on the dollar.
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Links to the statistics quoted & other information:
DRUG WAR FACTS causes of death in US
Criminal
Justice Policy Foundation
Research
on the prison industrial complex
Follow the money - The US federal government spent over $19 billion dollars in 2003 on the WAR ON SOME DRUGS THAT MIGHT COMPETE WITH ALCOHOL TOBACCO AND PHARMACEUTICALS, at a rate of about $600 per second. The budget has since been increased by over a billion dollars. Source ONDCP.State and local governments spent at least another 30 billion. Source: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University: "Shoveling Up: The Impact of Substance Abuse on State Budgets," January, 2001.
Hemp Revolution?
Can a plant save the planet? Producer-director Anthony Clarke
will make you a believer. This documentary explores the hemp plant's fascinating
history and thousands of uses, as well as the economic and cultural forces
behind its prohibition. Clarke argues that the hype surrounding hemp, also
known as cannabis or marijuana, has overshadowed the plant's benefits as a
source of paper pulp, its uses as a cotton substitute and much more. He comes
down deservedly hard on chemical and drug companies as well as the U.S. government.
You can rent it. Netflix will give you a free trial!
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"Drug problems have
very little to do with any specific drug, but are rooted in the psyches of
the individuals who abuse them." - Jerry Epstein, Drug Policy Forum
of Texas "Incarceration
has never reduced demand for drugs or the problems associated with an illegal
market. What is needed is comprehensive regulation." - Suzanne Wills,
DPFT
On the DPFT Speakers page scroll down to Suzanne Wills and click "How We Got Into This Mess and the Special Interests That Keep Us Here" to:
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Murderers and other violent predators roam free, while we police nonviolent adult social, medicinal and religious drug use. Limited resources can be better-spent catching pedophiles, rapists and killers. More time could go toward stopping DUI and those selling drugs to minors.
HB 902 has high hopes of amending minor marijuana possession penalties to a maximum fine of $500, but no jail time so join the easy revolution click that link, write your rep.
When we enacted the first drug laws in 1914, 1.3% of America was addicted. When the current insane policy began in the '70s that figure remained the same and it remains so today after 39 million arrests. This policy is the very definition of insanity.
The tobacco, alcohol and prescription drug gangs cause more death annually than all illicit drugs The worst public policy since slavery disregards science and punishes families of nonviolent citizens, confiscating their property for making a safer health choice in a social or medicinal drug; that is pretty insane as well!
Users have been around for eons with out this violent bloodletting except during the first "Noble" experiment. Morally bankrupt servants of tyranny support prohibition under the guise of good intentions a con used by them throughout history to make us more agreeable to their waste of our precious lives and resources.
It is really misleading to call it a drug war or drug fueled violence. The horrific carnage is triggered by the new prohibition and fueled by official lawlessness.
Across America paramilitary drug raids trigger violence rather than lessen the risk. It is called, "Overkill" to use such force on a nonviolent health issue. This unconscionable bloodshed is on the hands of leadership as much as those who pulled the trigger or did the actual butchering and torturing. It is a policy created problem.
Research shows little or no overdose deaths before prohibition. Currently bodies pile up like cordwood or holocaust victims (more than 33,000 precious lives lost in 2005). Unintentional fatal drug overdoses nearly doubled from 1999 to 2004 and were the second leading cause of accidental death in the United States in 2004 according to the Centers for Disease Control. Researchers believe the increasing misuse of dangerous prescription drugs by those ages 15 to 24 accounts for the majority of the statistic.
You can join this site and make a Bill list for those you want to watch. The stages tab will tell you how far along it is toward becoming law. Encourage your Texas Senators to create similar legislation to move HBs 164 and 902 through the stages to become law.
Needle-exchange programs are the compassionate thing to do. Treating AIDS is expensive, providing sterile syringes to addicts is a cheap and effective way to curb the epidemic, saving lives. Yet, the United States has used its influence in the United Nations to prevent countries that receive UN aid from distributing sterile syringes for disease prevention.
Please support TX SB 188 Encourage your Texas Representatives to move HB 142 along to the next stage, let it become law to increase public safety and help stop the spread of AIDS and hepatitis C.
AMAZING VIDEO EVERY PARENT SHOULD WATCH:
The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children Beware, psychiatrists earn more money from drug makers than doctors in any other specialty and there is a link between psychotropic drugs and violence including school violence!
James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution
of the United States, said this: "We have staked the whole future of
all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to
govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."
"In the end, however, no constitution can be self enforcing....For the
Constitution will live only if it is alive in the hearts and minds of the
American people." Roger Pilon, senior fellow and director of CATO's Center
for Constitutional Studies.
The Cato Institute offers copies of its
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Harassing the sick and dying is an un-American activity.
Texas Legislature is considering medical marijuana reform. Ask your representative to support House Bill 164.
Adult legal social use could cause less alcohol consumption. That would be a good thing for public safety as studies have show alcohol increases violent, aggressive behavior marijuana does not. Maybe it would mean less people driving under the influence of alcohol.