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  Mad About Marijuana 

Posted by FoM on November 18, 2001 at 21:36:02 PT
Letters To The Editor 
Source: Washington Post  

David Broder's Nov. 11 op-ed column, "DEA Marijuana Madness," hit the nail on the head.Why take away sick and dying Californians' source of medical marijuana, especially during a time of national emergency? California voters passed their medical marijuana law five years ago. While campaigning for the presidency George Bush pledged to let states set their own policies on medical marijuana.
It's time to end this wasteful war on marijuana. These attacks on some of our most vulnerable citizens demonstrate that George Bush's claims of being a "compassionate conservative" were just rhetoric. Keeping medicine from sick people is not compassion but infliction of pain.GARY STORCK Madison, Wis.Is My Medicine Legal Yet?http://www.immly.org/Drug Policy Forum of Wisconsinhttp://www.drugsense.org/dpfwi/•Researchers at major universities have confirmed that marijuana cigarettes are of no therapeutic value. Marijuana's most active psychoactive ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), destroys the immune-system cells, called lymphocytes, which also are impaired by the AIDS virus -- putting AIDS patients who smoke pot in double jeopardy.When we began our drug-prevention efforts 24 years ago, marijuana had a THC content of approximately 2 percent. Today's higher-grade marijuana contains up to 35 percent THC. The University of Maryland Center for Substance Abuse Research reported marijuana-related emergency room visits now are as common as heroin-related ones.Not surprisingly, marijuana use is above the national average in eight of the nine states that passed pro-marijuana initiatives. Kids in treatment frequently say, "Everyone says pot is medicine. I thought it might be good for you -- and before I knew it I was hooked."The state initiative process that created the medical marijuana cigarette myth is driven by the drug-legalization movement. In the past, David Broder has criticized these initiatives, calling the results "laws without government" [op-ed, March 26, 2000]. The "medical marijuana cigarettes" initiatives need to be reversed.Only the Food and Drug Administration has jurisdiction to approve anything as medicine. Certainly, it is not the job of voters, elected officials or journalists. JOYCE NALEPKAPresidentDrug Free Kids: America's ChallengeSilver SpringSource: Washington Post (DC)Published: Monday, November 19, 2001; Page A20 Copyright: 2001 The Washington Post Company Contact: letterstoed washpost.comWebsite: http://www.washingtonpost.comRelated Articles:DEA Marijuana Madness http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11319.shtmlDangerous Initiatives - A Snake in the Grass Roots http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread5187.shtml

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Comment #15 posted by Robbie on November 22, 2001 at 03:15:55 PT
Follow-up RE: Brainwashing?
Trying to forward this posting to someone else just tonight, I found it had been removed. Normally, they expunge old messages, but this post was only a few days old and was removed from in front of older messages. Other messages that were removed by the poster said so on the missing post. No way to know, but I just posted that the other day here, so I found it co-ink-cidental.
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Comment #14 posted by FoM on November 20, 2001 at 12:28:45 PT
Shishaldin 
You just made me laugh!
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Comment #13 posted by Shishaldin on November 20, 2001 at 12:14:04 PT
Point/Counterpoint
I can hear it now, "Joyce, you ignorant sl*t!"
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Comment #12 posted by smedley on November 19, 2001 at 07:49:28 PT
FYI...
FROM http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MedPot/message/237:Quebec Superior Court Justice Jean Pierre Plouffe is ruling tomorrow, Monday Nov 19 2001 at 2pm in Courtroom #1 in Hull 
in the case of R. v. Ray Turmel on whether, because of their unwillingness to let Canada's sickest citizens use medicinal pot, all Canadians are now free to enjoy the sacred herb.
   All French Canadian TV, especially RDI, and the English Globe and Mail newspaper are the only media sources who have covered it so far and should be your best bet first. We should all be pretty unavailable for awhile should we win.IMAGINE!!!smedley
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Comment #11 posted by E_Johnson on November 19, 2001 at 06:34:11 PT
More on thalidomide
Here is the web site for the Canadian thalidomide survivors:http://www.thalidomide.ca/index.htmNow notice here that they specifically say that thalidomide causes nerve damage in adults, not just birth defects in fetuses:
http://www.thalidomide.ca/faq.html#150Their position on this fast tracked reintroduction of thelidomide is: We will never accept a world with thalidomide in it.http://www.thalidomide.ca/position.htmlBut that's what they're going to get, they're going to get a world with thalidomide in it, partly because of the DEA's addiction to marijuana.
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Comment #10 posted by E_Johnson on November 19, 2001 at 06:18:33 PT
Thalidomide is an anti-emetic!
It was prescribed to pregnant women for morning sickeness.It's the most toxic of all of the so-called alternatives to medical marijuana.Yet thanks to Big Pharm and the DEAliban, hundreds or maybe thousands of desperate human guinea pigs were exposed to this noxious substance, in the name of stopping medical marijuana.
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Comment #9 posted by goneposthole on November 19, 2001 at 06:11:53 PT
thalidomide
It was prescribed to pregnant women in the early 50's. It caused a severe birth defect known as Phocomelia. Their newborns were incompletely developed with flipper like appendages.For those who do not know. Help me out with this one. 
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Comment #8 posted by E_Johnson on November 19, 2001 at 05:52:33 PT
Thalidomide is one of those alternatives to pot!
The pharmacuetical company Celgene was able to push through fast track approval for clinical trials using thalidomide to combat neuropathy, thalidomide is one of those "alternatives to marijuana" that they keep harping on that don't actually exist or are toxic or ineffective.Thalidomide actualy shares a few features with cannabinoids in that it seems to suppress inflammatory cytokines and THAT is why they have been rushing it throygh clinical trials. It hasn't worked all that great because it causes peripeheral nerve damage. So, from what I read, people were quitting the trials because they couldn't feel their fingers or toes any more.Thalidomide is not just toxic to the neural tube of a first trimester fetus. Thalidomide is neurotoxic even to adults, whereas cannabinoids are neuroprotective.Cannabinoids suppress many inflammatory cytokines -- that was one of the signs of anti-inflammatory activity in the mouse arthritis research done with cannabidiol.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10920191&dopt=AbstractBut cannabinoids have proven time and time again that they are potent protectors of nerve tissue, as witnessed by the title of this paper: Neuroprotective antioxidants from marijuanahttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10863546&dopt=AbstractThis situation with thalidomide is so indicative of what's going on here. Thalidomide is one of the worst pharmaceutical catasprohes of modern times. Marijuana is one of the most benign substances floating around the modern world.Yet the societal and political fear of marijuana is such that clinical trials of thalidomide get fast-tracked while clinical trials of marijuana get sidetracked.
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Comment #7 posted by CongressmanSuet on November 19, 2001 at 05:48:05 PT
Hey, that classified ad...
 They cry alot about how they only want serious inquiries, and PLEASE DONT E=MAIL THE RECRUITER! Time to send some letters....
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Comment #6 posted by goneposthole on November 19, 2001 at 05:24:18 PT
thalidomide
Joyce would endorse thalidomide for pregnant women. The FDA would approve.
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Comment #5 posted by Robbie on November 19, 2001 at 03:18:05 PT
Brainwashing?
Funny that a commanding, concise, and irrefutable assertion by Gary was "balanced" by the evil Dewar incarnate Joyce Nalepka and her multitudinal platitudes.Now, check this link out. A job offered by the NIDA and its associates...
classified ad
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Comment #4 posted by E_Johnson on November 19, 2001 at 00:47:16 PT
Nalepka needs to be confonted by an AIDS doctor
Who in the hell is this woman who can get away with writing ignorant pseudoscientific claptrap like this without being shot down by the entire AIDS treatment field?Does she imagine that 400 AIDS treatment specialists in Los Angeles would just blindly recommend their patients to the LACRC if it were true that cannabinoids destroy white blood cells?What does this woman imagine about the general competence and ethics of doctors in general, then?What does she think the cannabinoids in her own brain are doing right now?These Drug Free people are so incredibly, deeply, deliberately, devotedly ignorant about anything remotely resembling medicine or science -- if you get this woman in front of an audience with a few charts and a doctor or two -- she coud be SO HUMILIATED in a matter of minutes.These people are so ignorant -- the issue of marijuana aside -- it is important that they be defeated, just because of their devotion to ignorance itself.For the future of civilization. 
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Comment #3 posted by goneposthole on November 18, 2001 at 23:22:14 PT
The Ten Commandments:
AS REVISED AND REWRITTEN BY THE US GOVT. WITH REGARD TO CANNABIS USE AND USERS.1. THOU SHALT HATE THE LORD THY GOD. HE PUT CANNABIS ON THIS EARTH AND DESERVES TO BE HATED. MAY SATAN SMITE HIM FOR DOING SO.
2. TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN. HE ALLOWS CANNABIS TO GROW, SO CURSE HIS NAME AS WELL.
3. FORGET THE SABBATH DAY, KEEP EVERYDAY UNHOLY AND EVIL. CANNABIS USERS NEED TO BE HUNTED ALL OF THE TIME.
4. DO NOT HONOR YOUR FATHER OR YOUR MOTHER,THEY BROUGHT YOU INTO THIS WORLD AND NOW YOU ARE A CANNABIS USER, SO THEY MUST BE CURSED, TOO. 
5. YOU SHALL MURDER, ESPECIALLY A CANNABIS USER OR AN INNOCENT SUSPECTED OF A CANNABIS CONNECTION.
6. YOU SHALL COMMIT ADULTERY. AS LONG AS YOU DEMORALIZE CANNABIS USERS AND CAN GET AWAY WITH THE REST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS, GO AHEAD AND COMMIT ADULTERY, TOO.
7. YOU SHALL STEAL; ESPECIALLY FROM A CANNABIS USER OR DEALER. IF IT IS A DEALER TAKE HIS WEED AND RESELL IT.
8. YOU SHALL BEAR FALSE WITNESS; A CANNABIS USER NEEDS TO GO TO JAIL, SO LIE ALL YOU CAN ABOUT HIM OR HER. DEFAME HIS CHARACTER, THAT IS WHAT COUNTS THE MOST.
9. YOU SHALL COVET YOUR NEIGHBOR IF HE IS CANNABIS USER. IF HE HAS CHILDREN PUT THEM IN ABUSIVE FOSTER CARE TO TEACH THE CANNABIS USER A DAMN GOOD LESSON. AND, ESPECIALLY IF HE IS SICK AND DYING.
10. YOU SHALL COVET ANYTHING THAT IS A CANNABIS USERS OR ANYBODY THAT GETS CAUGHT IN A TRAP AND HAS TOO MUCH MONEY WITH THEM. YOU SHALL TAKE IT ALL. REVISED AND REWRITTEN BY THE HOLIER THAN THOU US GOVT.
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Comment #2 posted by Gary Storck on November 18, 2001 at 22:40:44 PT

Thanks FoM!
I'm honored the Post saw fit to publish my opinions, and with the pairing with old Joyce, it's a kind of Point/CounterPoint, lol.We need action out of the Congress now on HR 2592, to protect the patients. 20 co-sponsors and counting! 
Is My Medicine Legal YET?
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on November 18, 2001 at 22:21:11 PT

Way To Go Gary!
I just thought this was so cool that you were published in the Washington Post. Mapinc. specializes in Letters To The Editor and that's why I don't post many but I had to post yours. You still are an inspiration to me! Keep up the good work!
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