cannabisnews.com: Family Remedy Family Remedy Posted by CN Staff on March 28, 2004 at 13:18:11 PT By Will Evans -- Bee Staff Writer Source: Sacramento Bee For the first 13 years of his life, Mike Arnold's parents obsessed over three questions: What did "Mikey" have to eat, did he keep it down, and does he have a migraine.The migraines hit several times a week with daggerlike pain. He'd writhe on the bathroom floor and go into dry heaves, his skin turning white and his fingers numb. Facing medical problems since birth, his parents say, he developed an eating disorder and never seemed to have a full meal. Then one day he came home from the skateboard park, scarfed down pork chops and mashed potatoes, ate seconds and asked for dessert. His flabbergasted parents looked into his eyes.He was stoned. Now just turned 18, young Arnold's routine is to take regular doses of marijuana to stimulate his appetite and moderate his migraines. He has a doctor's recommendation for the drug.His mother has gone from simply Shelly Arnold to the "Green Goddess," a South Lake Tahoe medical-marijuana caregiver.The Arnolds nurture dozens of leafy cannabis plants in a grow-light-bright cubbyhole of a room in their home. The processed product turns into medication for the family's aches and pains, and for a handful of local medical marijuana patients who depend on Shelly Arnold for free pot.Snipped: Complete Article: http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/remedy.htmSource: Sacramento Bee (CA)Author: Will Evans -- Bee Staff WriterPublished: Sunday, March 28, 2004Copyright: 2004 The Sacramento BeeContact: opinion sacbee.comWebsite: http://www.sacbee.com/Medicinal Cannabis Research Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/research.htmCannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #19 posted by Dankhank on March 29, 2004 at 22:36:51 PT Vaporizer The first one I saw was in Amsterdam at Cannabis Cup 9, made by Eagle Bill. It consisted of the largest round wine bottle I had ever seen, and a "paint stripper." The important thing was to find a bottle that would have a neck wide enought for the gun to slip into a little to get close to the smoking materials.Turn the gun on and the 'volatiles" are stripped from the material and then hover in the bottle. Turns out the typical paint stripper is in the right temperature range to strip the leaf of the goodies ... Whoda thunk?It was a hoot to see a comely female WNN, (world news network), reporter decline a toke since she was on duty, but soon as she was OFF duty she came back for a try.It'll fool you first time out, seems like you aren't really getting anything. Not true. It was amazing. [ Post Comment ] Comment #18 posted by E_Johnson on March 29, 2004 at 10:20:12 PT The TB threat in Russian jails is no joke!!! I read the HempCity thread. That was a good point about TB. I've been hearing about the TB problem in Russian jails since I was last there ten years ago. Treatment resistent tuberculosis in Russia spreads very rapidly in their jails and prisons.This is a danger to the rest of the population and they are right to take this seriously enough to change their attitudes towards illegal drugs. [ Post Comment ] Comment #17 posted by E_Johnson on March 29, 2004 at 10:08:31 PT Putin is KGB, Interior Ministry is not his ally There has long been a bitter interagency rivalry between the domestic directorate of the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD in Russian).The KGB regards the MVD as a corrupt bunch of lowlifes.It's rather like the FBI vs. DEA rivalry in America.If the MVD wants zero tolerance, no wonder Putin reshuffled his cabinet to include more liberals. [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by Virgil on March 29, 2004 at 08:49:01 PT HempCity comment on Russia What follows is the complete comment from dapoopa dated Monday, Mar 29, 2004 9:10 am in this thread- http://www.hempcity.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=290&highlight=Apparently the advocates of a liberal decriminalization regime on this conciliatory commission are suggesting the Danish model. I am not sure about the specifics, but if I am not mistaken it is one of the most liberal in Europe. Of course, Russia's Internal Affairs Ministry, the State Narcotics Control and the Health Ministry are advocating a zero-tolerance policy, and even suggested to decrease the doses by hundreds, and in some cases thousands of times. This would obviously undermine the whole point of the new legislation. This commission apparently met for the first time two weeks ago, but a final decision is not expected for several more weeks. But one will have to be made by May 12 at the latest. However, the liberal viewpiont should win out, even if not 100%, following Putin's reshuffle of the government, which placed Dmitry Kozak and Alexander Zhukov in top positions. These two spearheaded the idea of liberalizing the Criminal Code in the first place, and are now Head of the Presidential Administration and Deputy Prime Minister, respectively. So the position of the liberal advocatese has been strongly reinforced. Interestingly, a somewhat well-known talk show host who used to live in the U.S. for many years, Vladimir Pozner, has come out in favor of legalizing all drugs. Good to see someone with his celebrity shake up the public debate here in Russia. [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by goneposthole on March 29, 2004 at 08:46:56 PT I know what I'm having for supper Pork chops with mashed potatoes and gravy.Good food is the medicine, too.The DEA must pay a visit to the Arnold residence.Their tactics are the hallmark of its exixtence.Didn't a Wisconsin husband and wife commit suicide because of a run-in with the DEA and the IRS?It would be nice to have federal legislation to have an alert named after that poor couple. An example of 'unintended consequences'.The alphabet agencies are nothing more than a plotted coup.An abhorrent and horrific one.Time to send them walkin' out onto the street. The GAO gave the DEA a failing grade.'Ain't no need to wonder why?' [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by FoM on March 29, 2004 at 08:30:56 PT Just a Note Hi Everyone,I can't find any news to post so far today. I know there is news out there but nothing that is really important as I see it. I sure hope it is spring fever rather then writers just not caring about Cannabis issues anymore. I do believe it is on the back burner because of this being an election year. I hope that activists who are politcally motivated go to rallies and ask questions and then maybe we will get news. Are people asking Kerry or Bush questions on medical marijuana? I don't expect legalization questions to be brought up but medical marijuana I do. [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by Virgil on March 29, 2004 at 08:16:49 PT Let Mikey try it. He likes it! Mikey benefits from Miracleplant and so do those that chose to use it without the fear of addiction and injury that characterize use of pharmaceuticals. But Miracleplant is not a drug. It is a plant that is started with plant seeds and not drug seeds. Use is not abuse. Use is benefit and the Nazi 2.0 government tramples over everyone's Constitution, treasury, peace of mind, dignity, and freedom to injure everyoneone with their lies, tyranny, waste, and corruption and ignoring of doctor/patient confidentiality.If people want to use laughing grass to reduce anxiety or rage or enhance television or music it is certainly not abuse. It is enhancement of life and a pursuit of happiness that should be guaranteed under the banner of liberty or unalienable rights. Such ideas were the preamble in Declaration of Independence. Even now the whole idea of herbal remedy is under attack, even though there was never testing of GM foods, nor is there labeling of such foods presently.My personal view is that those that impose these laws are the criminals and that there was something terribly wrong with an America that created and sustained such a tyranny. The overthrow of the government of the people would have been evident using a cannabis perspective. But now we see it in everything else. Cannabis policy/attitude is the canary in the mine that will tell us there is something bad wrong with government as long as CP and its corresponding lies continue. CP not only needs to end, the mission of government needs to imposed on a new America that considers the goals of serving the common good instead of the concentrations of wealth that now bleed the system into a soon to be death. [ Post Comment ] Comment #12 posted by kaptinemo on March 29, 2004 at 03:51:38 PT: The Arnolds can expect Fed interference soon Because every time some decent article concerning MMJ and the caregivers has ever been published, Uncle starts getting worked up. I hope they have good lawyers. [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by The GCW on March 29, 2004 at 03:43:45 PT FoM... I can not find anything about this on search... You'd think this would get some newspaper story... to post...I am very interested in this news.420(also) At the THC Ministry:"An experience is good when it heightens the appreciation of beauty, augments the moral will, enhances the discernment of truth, enlarges the capacity to love and serve one's fellows, exalts the spiritual ideals, and unifies the supreme human motives of time with the eternal plans of the indwelling Spirit of God, all of which lead directly to an increased desire to do the Father's will, thereby fostering the divine passion to find God and to be more like him."(p 1458, The Urantia Book) [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by FoM on March 28, 2004 at 20:46:23 PT The GCW Thank you for posting the press release. [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by The GCW on March 28, 2004 at 20:04:35 PT -------- PRESS RELEASE -------- March 24, 2004 Honolulu, Hawaii ASHCROFT AND D.E.A. SUED TO PREVENT RELIGIOUS AND THERAPEUTIC CANNABIS ARRESTS A Complaint for injunctive relief was filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii against U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, D.E.A. Administrator Karen Tandy, and local U.S. District Attorney Ed Kubo by religious and medicinal consumers of cannabis. The suit seeks to enjoin the Federal government from arresting and prosecuting those residents of Hawaii whose religions and religious beliefs require the consumption of cannabis (the herb governments derogatorily label as "marijuana"). The lawsuit also seeks protection from federal prosecution for those citizens of Hawaii who cultivate, consume and/or distribute cannabis legally pursuant to legislatively enacted Department of Public Safety Narcotics Enforcement Division guidelines and valid patient/caregiver registration certificates. The suit was sparked by the recent arrest of a local Hilo THC Ministry Reverend, and the ensuing prosecution for cannabis cultivation by the U.S. Department of Justice. The case has a strong probability of success based upon the recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (whose decisions serve as precedent in Hawaii) in Raich v. Ashcroft. Angel Raich and other Californians and caregivers can now consume and cultivate therapeutic cannabis absent the often realized fear of federal prosecution for their use of a non-toxic and natural herbal medicine. The Plaintiffs also rely upon the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act to secure their definitive right to free exercise of religion.That Act was recently used to prevent the federal government from prosecuting a New Mexico based, Brazilian Uniao Do Vegetal themed religion for their importation and distribution of Ayahoasca, a hallucinogenic-laced tea from the Brazilian rainforest. According to Michael A. Glenn, Esq., the Hawaii attorney for the churches and patients suing Ashcroft, "The Federal Government has zero compelling interest in preventing either the religious or therapeutic consumption of cannabis by Hawaii's citizens. More people died last month from eating peanuts, jaywalking or taking aspirin than have ever been harmed by cannabis in the entire history of its use. And, even if you take the federal government at face value and accept that they have the power and duty to protect one from one's own folly, the mandatory terms of imprisonment faced by cannabis users have zero relationship to the goal of harm reduction and indeed smack of Draconian punishment for freethinking, non-violent Reverends and patients leading law abiding lives." Local cannabis activist and founder of the THC Ministry Reverend Roger Christie is ready to change the government's views on cannabis. "The conspiracy against marijuana will be replaced with the truth of cannabis."---------------------------------------------------------Attorney for Plaintiffs RELIGION OF JESUS CHURCH, THC MINISTRY, Et Al.MICHAEL A. GLENN Attorney at Law #6480 1088 Bishop Street Suite 703 Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 (808) 523-3079---------------------------------------------------------http://www.thc-ministry.net/PressRelease.html---------------------------------------------------------Have a happy day!http://www.thc-ministry.org/ http://www.thc-ministry.net/ [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by E_Johnson on March 28, 2004 at 19:43:24 PT It looks like... a heat gun and a pyrex tube? [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by FoM on March 28, 2004 at 19:42:00 PT Hi RasAric I looked earlier for a web site but I was looking for the wrong name and I finally just found a link that should be able to answer your question.http://www.thegreengoddess.com/ [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by RasAric on March 28, 2004 at 19:31:52 PT hey FoM Regarding those pics: I would love to know where the Arnolds got the vaporizer, or the materials to make it. [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by E_Johnson on March 28, 2004 at 18:54:37 PT Where the media stops thinking "Then one day he came home from the skateboard park, scarfed down pork chops and mashed potatoes, ate seconds and asked for dessert. His flabbergasted parents looked into his eyes.He was stoned. Now just turned 18, young Arnold's routine is to take regular doses of marijuana to stimulate his appetite and moderate his migraines. He has a doctor's recommendation for the drug. "And what do the guys who first got him stoned have?Social abuse, basically.Oh well. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by mayan on March 28, 2004 at 17:45:38 PT Great Article! I really learned a lot from it regarding caregivers, medicinal use & preparation. It boggles my mind how anyone could deny this medicine to the sick and dying. I guess it all boils down to ignorance and greed. There will be hell to pay for the prohibitionists if there is any justice whatsoever in this world or the next.The way out...Press Releases: Regarding Condoleezza Rice and Release of 28 Pages: http://www.911citizenswatch.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=159&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0Rice revises statement in private session on 9/11: http://www.911citizenswatch.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=160&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0"We should have had orange or red-type of alert in June or July of 2001": http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5956.htm9/11 Should Have Been Stopped: http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/032504A.shtmlDocumentation of Plans to Crash Airplanes Into Buildings that Bush and Condi Claim They Knew Nothing About: http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/04/03/edi04021.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by Max Flowers on March 28, 2004 at 16:53:45 PT Wow! Those photos The times they are certainly a-changin'!These photos will go a long way to help "normalize" the use of medical cannabis in peoples' eyes. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by charmed quark on March 28, 2004 at 14:09:58 PT Migraines and pot I use Marinol to moderate my migranes. While cannabis is much better, I can't deal with migraines and worrying about getting arrested or losing my job. Cannabinoids are the only thing that has worked for me in 15 years of trying prescription treatments, some of which had horrible side effects.There are probably at least 2 million people in this country with severe migraines, many on disability. Most people think of migraines as just bad headaches. But for severe migraine sufferers, migraines are totally incapacitating. I know I was worried about having to go on disability before I found something that would work. I lost about 15% of my body weight because I couldn't eat with migraines ( although one prescription drug treatment actually caused me to become overweight.)Now I am almost migraine free. I would be more active in the medical cannabis community, using myself as an example of what cannabis can do. But because of the mispreception about migraines, I'm afraid it would make the general puplic think that pot is being advocatd for minor ailments like hangnails and headaches.-Pete [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by FoM on March 28, 2004 at 13:25:26 PT Pictures from The Sacramento Bee Article http://www.sacbee.com/ips_rich_content/912-0328remedy.jpgShelly Arnold and her son, Mike, work on cannabis plants in their South Lake Tahoe home. Husband and father John Arnold also lends a hand in processing the plants. All three Arnolds use marijuana in a variety of ways on a daily basis to combat health ailments. Sacramento Bee/Bryan Patrick ***http://www.sacbee.com/ips_rich_content/484-0328remedy2.jpgMedical marijuana activist Shelly Arnold, known as the "Green Goddess," talks with one of the patients she supplies with free cannabis. At right is one of her plants. Sacramento Bee/Bryan Patrick ***http://www.sacbee.com/ips_rich_content/48-0328remedy3.jpgShelly Arnold hugs Richard, an AIDS sufferer whom she gives marijuana, as she leaves his home late last month. Shelly's husband, John, is with them. "Without Shelly and having the access (to cannabis), I wouldn't be here today," Richard says. Sacramento Bee/Bryan Patrick ***http://www.sacbee.com/ips_rich_content/743-0328remedy4.jpgMike Arnold uses a vaporizer to inhale the marijuana he uses to combat his migraines and eating disorder. His mother, Shelly, clips buds from marijuana plants at the family dining room table. Sacramento Bee/Bryan Patrick ***http://www.sacbee.com/ips_rich_content/800-0328remedy5.jpgJohn and Mike Arnold make some bubble hash, a concentrated form of marijuana to smoke. The hash is one of several preparations the family produces for themselves and a small group of patients whom they help. Sacramento Bee/Bryan Patrick ***http://www.sacbee.com/ips_rich_content/410-0328remedy6.jpgShelly Arnold watches her husband, John, make cannabis-laced rice cereal treats for some of the ill people they assist. "The trick to medicine is you have to make it taste appealing," she says. Sacramento Bee/Bryan Patrick [ Post Comment ] Post Comment