cannabisnews.com: Pot Plot in Foothills Sparks High Anxiety
Pot Plot in Foothills Sparks High Anxiety
Posted by CN Staff on August 28, 2004 at 08:02:15 PT
By Niesha Lofing -- Bee Staff Writer
Source: Sacramento Bee
The owner of a local medical marijuana store has begun growing the product at his Newcastle home, inciting reefer madness among his neighbors.Some residents are furious that Richard Marino, owner of Capitol Compassionate Care in Roseville, has about 200 marijuana plants in a backyard plot protected by barbed wire, 24-hour guards and bright lights.
Neighbors told Placer County officials recently they're angry they weren't notified of Marino's plans and they fear a drop in property values and a rise in crime.Officials, however, explained Marino is protected by state law governing medical marijuana and by the residential-agricultural zoning of his five acres."We can't view it any differently than if it were any other crop," said county Supervisor Harriet White.White said she is sympathetic and thinks Californians were deceived when they voted for Proposition 215, which legalized medicinal marijuana."I don't think that the voters really thought there was going to be medical marijuana farms," she said.Tiffany Mosburg, whose four-acre property abuts the back of Marino's, has limited her child's outside activities because of the pot farm. While Marino's marijuana crop is surrounded by fencing, there is no fence separating his land from Mosburg's."My son isn't allowed to go in the back part of our property anymore," said Mosburg. "He used to ride his little trucks back there, and he and his buddies would play wilderness and adventure make-believe games, but I can't chance it anymore."Frustrated with the county's lack of action, she and others have written legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Supervisor White said she, too, has written lawmakers.Snipped: Complete Article: http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/10540014p-11459047c.htmlSource: Sacramento Bee (CA)Author: Niesha Lofing -- Bee Staff WriterPublished: Saturday, August 28, 2004Copyright: 2004 The Sacramento BeeContact: opinion sacbee.comWebsite: http://www.sacbee.com/Related Articles & Web Site:Medicinal Cannabis Research Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/research.htmFew Complaints About Medical Pothttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18666.shtmlThe Pot Shop - Roseville Press-Tribune http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18294.shtmlStore for Medical Pot Opens in Rosevillehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18274.shtml
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Comment #21 posted by Hope on August 31, 2004 at 20:18:02 PT
One more thing, GoldenLung
Depending on their age, don't let them have money...they swallow it...and they will eat bugs if you don't watch closely, if they are of a certain age.
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Comment #20 posted by Hope on August 31, 2004 at 20:15:26 PT
Sorry
This is why I usually try not to comment while I'm angry. I’m too dang long-winded.GoldenLung, EDUCATE yourself about caring for children. There are books, magazines, and experienced people who will be glad to answer your questions. You will feel more confident. Frankly, I'm surprised your brother hasn't assessed your competence and confidence. You need to learn life saving techniques and have phone numbers and a working telephone that you know the location of if you need it quickly. If you let them play in the back yard, play with them. It will do you good and you have nothing more important to do. Nothing.Never let them farther away from you than you can bolt to catch them before they bolt for something dangerous or something dangerous bolts for them. If you have gentle dogs and no broken glass or sharp things in your yard and you stay with them and play with them, they should be alright. Should an emergency happen...say the kid trips over his own feet and cuts his bottom lip open with the little dump truck he was carrying or he falls over and breaks his arm. Calmly assess the damage. Calm and reassure the child. Get clean towels to slow the blood and try to see the injury. If he's broken a limb, assess that situation and call an adult, preferably the child's parent or the nearest adult with any sense.Don’t let them walk around with glass tumblers or cups. Don’t let them have life savers. Don’t let them put things in their mouths and don’t let them run around with sticks or put them in their mouths. Ask their parents what safe snacks would be for them. You can get the hang of it if you want to.
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Comment #19 posted by cloud7 on August 30, 2004 at 16:30:50 PT
BigDawg
"The poor woman knows (and rightly so) that ANY business that requires a high fence, lights, and security may not be a good place for her kids to be playing around.This is a DIRECT result of prohibition. She is RIGHT to not want her child playing near a security risk."Put like this it makes more sense, well said. I also didnt realize that it was the reporter who said the child's outside activities were limited, but the mom had only said that he wasnt allowed near the back of the property, which sounds more reasonable.
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Comment #18 posted by FoM on August 30, 2004 at 15:59:38 PT
Related Article from KXTV - News 10
Pot Garden Pits Neighbor Against Neighbor in Newcastle Some foothill residents are upset their neighbor is growing marijuana near their homes. They're worried his garden will hurt their community in Newcastle.Richard Marino grows the pot and sells it for medicinal purposes. He is protected under state law. Still, neighbors say it's too close to their homes. They fear for their safety, can't stand the smell, and they worry about their property values."We don't know who's going to come in here and vandalize us or them," said Gloria Padilla who lives next to Marino. She and her husband want Marino's plants out of sight. They also want the Legislature to come up with tougher restrictions on legal pot gardens. California voters passed Proposition 215 which allows patients to use medical marijuana and protects doctors who prescribe it for them from being prosecuted.In 2003, the Legislature broadened the definition of a medical marijuana caregiver and allows for gardens like Marino's. Marino is the listed caregiver to 1,000 medicinal marijuana users. That allows him to grow up to 6,000 mature plants. Payments from his clients cover the costs he incurs in cultivating the plants. Right now, he is growing 200 plants, a fraction of what he could.He said after this harvest he will move to a place with a bigger garden area. He's looking for a 40 acre piece of land so that he can expand his operation. Story last updated Monday, August 30, 2004
News10 is a Gannett CompanyCopyright: 2004 Gannett Co., Inc. http://www.news10.net/storyfull.asp?id=7940
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Comment #17 posted by BigDawg on August 30, 2004 at 12:16:19 PT
OK, time for somebody to defend Golden Lung
:DThe problem here, is that while cannabis is considered a Schedule One DRUG by our gov't, ANY cannabis cultivation brings with it the inherent dangers of the crime world.As long as this plant can bring more money per ounce than gold... a cannabis farm is a violent crime waiting to happen.The poor woman who lives next to such a farm simply doesn't realize (thanks to our gov't propaganda for 60 years) that the problems are NOT brought about bt the existence of the canna-farm, but are the result of the drug war itself.Of course, even if someone were to hip her to the underlying cause... it doesn't mean that she will immediately take up our cause. As she may feel she is more likely to win a small "not in my back yard" fight... than the War on Cannabis as a whole.The poor woman knows (and rightly so) that ANY business that requires a high fence, lights, and security may not be a good place for her kids to be playing around.This is a DIRECT result of prohibition. She is RIGHT to not want her child playing near a security risk. However, her placing fault on the farm itself is wrong. Quick, somebody hand that woman a flyer about the WOD.
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Comment #16 posted by Hope on August 30, 2004 at 11:44:07 PT
Thank you, Max
I have children and you are absolutely right.
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Comment #15 posted by Max Flowers on August 30, 2004 at 11:29:07 PT
This says it all
"I don't even let my kids (brother's kids) play in the my backyard and there isn't ANYTHING dangerous back there. I'm scared to feed them because I think they (won't) chew it enough and choke."I think you all can see that this guy (assuming Golden Lung is a guy) obviously has some irrational fears, and therefore identifies with the irrational fears of the woman in the article who is afraid that the big bad cannabis plants will reach out and grab or poison her little kid.Hey Golden Lung, I suggest that for a happier and more natural life for you AND your brother's kids, you should let the kids play freely in the back yard, but watch them responsibly; feed those kids without fear, but know the Heimlich maneuver in case one of them does choke. And teach them to chew their food well. Don't overprotect by projecting your fears onto them. I don't even have any kids and yet I know this. It's basic.
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Comment #14 posted by Hope on August 30, 2004 at 06:28:54 PT
GoldenLung...about this site
It's a drug law reform site. We are reformers. We keep up with the latest news here, analyze it and write letters to newspapers, media outlets, organizations, and politicians. Commenters post information about pending or current legislation, and meetings/vigils/protests so that we know where to attend gatherings, and get their first hand coverage of such events. We share woes, anger, sorrows, beliefs, fears, and joy. Do you think Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is a stoner group? How about the Drug Policy Alliance? The bullets and shells used to kill Veronica and Charity Bowers, Alberto Sepulveda, and Esequel Gonzales were subsidized from my paycheck. There is innocent blood on all our hands because they used our income to pay for their crimes against humanity...and I, for one, resent supporting the hellish situation prohibition puts the citizenry in.I do sympathize with people who are afraid of marijuana fields. Life is hard and we have problems. The world is fraught with danger. A good fence, perhaps brick, or stone, and a watchful eye to keep her children in their yard could alleviate her problem. People, including children, are far more valuable than marijuana farms or any business or government installation. Children require lots of tending and care. Watching over them is part of that tending and care. It’s a huge responsibility and I have had that responsibility a lot in my life. I personally would hate to live next to a truck stop or anyplace where there is a huge amount of heavy vehicle traffic. Children have to be kept out of harm’s way, but to say someone else can’t have that truck stop on their land near me because it makes my job harder isn’t going to solve the problem. I have to become more vigilant of their whereabouts and safety, whether I like it or not.
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Comment #13 posted by breeze on August 29, 2004 at 17:39:16 PT
I am a Coldblooded "stoner"?
WOW- that is harsh, someone spank me hard for saying the things I said about this ignorant woman and her offspring. If I were always compassionate and understanding, things would never become controversial, and people would railroad their ideals over me and silence me forever.Well, not likely, I am self proclaimed curmudgeon. Ignorant people frquently breed ignorant offspring.I wonder what people think of kids playing in backyards next to tobbaco fields, a "drug" that kills people everday throughout the world, yet remains legal- tobbaco farmers are almost in the same catagory as murderers. I wonder what people are thinking about kids whose parents work in factories that manufacture weapons, and tanks. I wonder about this, maybe the parents are responsible for contributing to the deaths of thousands of innocents due to thier master craftsmanship? OH BUT WAIT!!! Those parents are only trying to feed and clothe the children, and provide a home to protect them from the elements. This is done out of need, not a desire, but a need for money to provide that which isn't given away.Ever think about what it is like to be homeless? Some of those people do unspeakable acts to provide for themselves and their children- it is not about desire, it is about need.I attacked the mentality of this woman out of need, not desire- because she needs to understand that if the herb was legal, there would be no fences/lights/guards. Tobbaco is legal, hence, no fences, no guards, no lights, nothing but dirt and plants. If I were to truly be coldblooded, I would stop resisting, and just rest on my laurels. I would not speak out against stupidity and ignorance, nor would I speak out about the evils the WOD creates. If I were truly coldblooded, I would praise all of the incredible efforts to make others lives miserable, and I would lobby congress to proact a law that made any kind of drug use a crime punishible by death. In the middle east, if you got caught stealing, they would cut off a hand, caught a second time, another hand was lobbed off at the wrist.Lets go further, and bring back town square crucifictions, public stonings, the wrack was certainly a fun killing machine. And with todays technology, we can torture people even longer without letting them die mercifully. This is actually done now, in many hospitals across the land, just so the system can milk the patients insurance dry.You know what I find extremely perplexing, as one grows old, there are factors that slowly erodes a body of sensation- the hearing goes bad, the eyesight fails, the bones become brittle, the mind even ceases to function on all tabs- but the one thing that doesn't seem to erode is ones sense of pain sensation. But emotionally, people become colder- they have a bloodlust it seems to see others in pain. The romans fed christians to lions for entertainment, just as we LOVE to watch sports in morbid hope that someone will become seriously injured. But no one really cares about what other folks are enduring or going through when inappropiate punishments are handed down. If the American public would turn their attention to many of the issues facing our society today in the same way that they obsess about sports, I fear that there are many things that would turn this nation into the facist regime that Hitler created. OOPS! It WAS Hitler who said "We will distract them (society) with sports." What does this have to do with some twit trying to end a marijuana farm in her backyard? Plenty, she is obsessing about how the little dunce isn't safe in her backyard by her perception, when he is eventually going to grow up living in a society where everyone is a suspect. This means an erosion of civil liberties, an erosion of rights, a system of strict controls that erode privacy and even may lead to thought control. A society that is monitored by every means possible.In some communist countries, when a person visits a relatives home, they have to sign a book upon entering a dwelling and sign out as they leave. We have modern technology here in the US, no need to sign anything- it will be on camera. And there will be other controls as well- you will be monitored wherever you go- in your car, in your home, at your work and even at play. But why worry about this, citizens can't stop it from coming in the future- they dont want too. They feel safe knowing that someone is watching them, pretending to keep them from harming themselves or others. Fences aren't always created to keep something out, most likely, its created to keep something within.Free your mind.
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Comment #12 posted by mayan on August 29, 2004 at 15:24:13 PT
Harriet White
White said she is sympathetic and thinks Californians were deceived when they voted for Proposition 215, which legalized medicinal marijuana.No, the citizens aren't bright enough to vote. They shouldn't even be allowed to vote as the government knows what is best for them anyway."I don't think that the voters really thought there was going to be medical marijuana farms," she said.Where in the hell does she think the medicine is going to come from? Does she think that the patients are going to pull it out of their asses? Harriet White should resign immediately.
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Comment #11 posted by Hope on August 29, 2004 at 12:45:42 PT
GoldenLung
You certainly are assuming a lot.First...I'd like to tell you that I do not consider this a "stoner" site.Second, I, for one, am not a "stoner", although I must say that I'm not totally positive what a "stoner" is, I do know that I am not one. Is a “stoner” someone who is like an “alcoholic”?What is a "stoner"? Someone who smokes marijuana? Someone like you? I do not and many of us who post here do not smoke marijuana. For me personally, to speak up about this widespread injustice of government would be impossible if I had or was using “contraband”. I have seen a young man put into prison for five years because he had a marijuana joint in his pocket. I see people without compassion and full of hatred and fear trying to force their beliefs on others. The zealousness of the prohibs and their armies in the war they have declared on others is alarming in it’s viciousness and cruelty. I, personally, don’t care to have my hands bound behind my back and led about like an animal. I don’t care to be mistreated and I don’t care to stand by while others are mistreated. Does posting to this site make one a “stoner”? Does wanting legalization of marijuana and peace, safety, and regulation of drugs instead of a War on Drugs mean that one is a “stoner”? I think not. There are many very ill people who post to this site and there are many concerned people who post here. I am concerned that people die over drugs without even using them. I am concerned about Americans turning on and spying on one another…over anything short of murder, assault, rape, and theft. I really have real compassion on the innocent bystanders caught in the drug war. They aren’t “collateral damage”. They are people. I’m worried about the drug war taking money from education so that hotshots can enjoy their adrenalin charged “playing” with guns and power and persecute a group of people who disagree with them about what herbs and plants they can use. Oh…I forgot…they are keeping us safe…are they not? There was an invalid elderly woman shot in her bed by a hotshot a few years ago in Texas. I want to disarm those hotshots who shot down Charity Bowers. Are we safer because these innocents and a host of others were murdered in the name of the war on drugs? I think not.This resistance to the war on drugs and all it entails is about freedom, liberty, and inalienable human rights. Using marijuana is not dangerous in and of itself. Prohibition has made it dangerous. Why would a child be in danger of being shot near a marijuana patch any more than he would be near a patch of peach trees? Ask yourself that…and be honest. Prohibition is what makes marijuana outrageously valuable. The huge amount of money and demand makes some people greedy and possible incarceration is what makes so many people dangerous. There are greedy and dangerous people among the so called "good guys" as well as the so called "bad guys".
It’s sad that you can’t imagine that some people really are compassionate and they really do want to be a comfort and help to others. It might surprise you, as well, that many of the people the government is imprisoning are not in the business of supplying people who benefit from marijuana to make a huge profit of money. They are usually people who understand pain and despair.We here, most of us, have a common goal. To stop, through changes in the laws, the persecution and prosecution of marijuana users.Most of us, if any at all, do not fit into any sort of category except concern about what the rest of the world seems to accept and ignore.How can you possibly know if the farmer was selling marijuana under the table to those without medical need? Are you some sort of wizard?Chill, GoldenLung.The people here are not “bad” or “cold” people. They are hurt and angry. They are tired of being demonized. Many here have been a part of our resistance to injustice for decades. It get’s old. We get tired. We get grumpy. We get appalled. We have experienced dismay and sorrow. We are angry. While I personally am not being persecuted, I can’t bear to stand by and watch someone else done a terrible injustice. The ones who do smoke or grow are treated like less than humans because they want to themselves or they want to help someone else feel better. Don’t you think it speaks of a terrible arrogance on the part of those looking down on people who appreciate the benefits that some people find in cannabis/marijuana. I love this country. I don’t like disagreeing with people, but sometimes it is vital to disagree. I want to do what is right.
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Comment #10 posted by cloud7 on August 29, 2004 at 12:05:13 PT
Golden Lung
When someone is acting irrationally and you call them on it, it's not coldness, it's the truth. She overreacted to a legal, nontoxic farm that is well guarded from anyone, including her child, intruding on it. If she doesnt know about marijuana, then that is her ignorance and the response of limiting her child's outside play is still rather extreme. I hope that a fenced, guarded pot patch is the most dangerous thing this child comes across in his lifetime."The child don't need to see that. I just amazed by how focused you are on legalization and pot that you can't see how awful it is and say " I can't believe that mother and child has to wake up every morning and see the pot farm and know her child is going to grow up next to it.""I dont feel sorry for her or her child and it is not awful. Neither of their rights are being violated, no one is breaking the law and a lot of children grow up with a lot, lot worse than a farm across the back lot.
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Comment #9 posted by Golden Lung on August 29, 2004 at 10:41:35 PT:
Coldness
From what comments I read, Coldness is a result of smoking a plant that gives off heat. How could you people be so cold to that family. We are comfortable and experience with marijuana, that grieving mother isn't. When your offspring comes around, would you let your child play next to a minefield. Oh no, it's safe though it has uh, fences and lights and guard dogs. Or in the drug world would you let your child play next to a backyard where a drug deal could go wrong(obviously he don't only sell medical). I don't even let my kids(brother's kids) play in the my backyard and there isn't ANYTHING dangerous back there. I'm scared to feed them because I think they want chew it enough and choke. Remember she's has been told and propagandasized into thinking pot is bad, and aside from the affects, the money is bad. She's brave enough to let them play before, now she has stoners wondering around, she is just trying to protect her child from a boo boo. The child don't need to see that. I just amazed by how focused you are on legalization and pot that you can't see how awful it is and say " I can't believe that mother and child has to wake up every morning and see the pot farm and know her child is going to grow up next to it." Honestly, would you let your kid grow up and play in and next to an opium poppy farm, he might get shot you don't know I don't know. She knows as much about pot as we do about heroin. We should emit the same warmness as marijuana. Our coldness is just making the likeliness of pot being legal further and further away. AND YES THIS IS THE SAME GOLDEN LUNG. I hope there is at least one stoner here who agrees with me.
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Comment #8 posted by breeze on August 29, 2004 at 00:12:04 PT
them be some angry 'taters in that fence
lets see, guards- lights -dogs, and the little fart cant play in the yard? Hmm, it seems he would be as safe as any other kid that has to live in the rest of the world- if not safer. Tonight on the local news, it was reported that gangs are leaving California to move out here to the sticks. It seems its easier for them to prostitute 13/14 year old girls here- as well as make meth in almost absolute secrecy. I live in the south, jobs that pay ten dollars an hour are the kind that people camp out overnite to apply for, and the lure of doing any buisness with a gang has its financial benefits to those with a little more than the neighbors- they eat, they have to have a place to sleep, they drive cars that need insurance/gas, they buy stuff in general.The irony is, they are getting rich because of the laws that govern average people who choose to NOT take the gamble of losing everything they own to make a few bucks or grow thier own cannabis. The stress on local law enforcement is getting to be too much- think 2 cop cars and six police people. So, the hoods move into town far removed from gangland- spray painting their "turf" markers gleefully along the way (think of a big field of dirt with nothing on it but a delapidated barn and a lot of tobbaco plants.) The locals applied for federal aid, and got it- not to protect people- but to bust the gangs for thier drug manufacturing. And so, while this one little community of Four-thousand people gets a heavily armed police force with all of the latest technology, the gang moves over a county to start buisness all over again.And this lady is worried about her kids? I worry about MY life as well as those I love and care about. The only way to take away the power and money that cannabis offer's these thugs is to make the "drug" more accesible to people who want it. Otherwise, this strictly republican state is going to be faced with a hell of a crime increase.I never liked calling cannabis a "drug"- it doesn't fit. It grows wild as well as inside of a dwelling. Meth is made, coke is processed, heroin is processed, aspirin is made, they fit the definition of what a "drug" is- but you rarely (if ever) see someone peddling advil or tylenol. Just imagine how much money we could make if they suddenly made medications that are over the counter, illegal? It seems to be heading there now, as psuedonephrine(sp) otherwise known as allergy medication, is limited to only two boxes per customer in the three states closest to my home. BUT, go to a flea market and you can buy the stuff by the case. Does this seem as ridiculus to you, as it does to me? Which would you rather have to encounter, a guy wired out on meth trying to figure out how to get money for his next fix, or a mellow fellow who had just smoked a blunt? Who is likely to be more violent, agrressive and non-passive? Who needs treatment, but can't get it due to lack of money- or by being threatened by laws to lock 'em away? And yet the government has focused its attention on the mellow happy go lucky dude- where is the common sense?
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Comment #7 posted by E_Johnson on August 28, 2004 at 11:51:20 PT
Oops I mean what not why
heh heh
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Comment #6 posted by E_Johnson on August 28, 2004 at 11:49:00 PT
Then why pray tell does cultivation mean?
"White said she is sympathetic and thinks Californians were deceived when they voted for Proposition 215, which legalized medicinal marijuana."I don't think that the voters really thought there was going to be medical marijuana farms," she said."Cultivation implies farming, I would think anyone from a rural community would be able to recognize that.You have to be a real pinhead not to realize that cultivation means FARMS.
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Comment #5 posted by Max Flowers on August 28, 2004 at 09:59:05 PT
Bright lights outdoors at night?
- Some residents are furious that Richard Marino, owner of Capitol Compassionate Care in Roseville, has about 200 marijuana plants in a backyard plot protected by barbed wire, 24-hour guards and bright lights. -I hope he doesn't have those bright lights anywhere near the plants if he is hoping to flower them... I guess a lot of people still don't get how photoperiod works with cannabis (and other photosensitive plants)... they need 12 hours of uninterrupted dark every 24 hours to flower. Having bright lights shining on them at night will prevent flowering.Guard dogs and night-vision equipment would be the way to go.
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on August 28, 2004 at 09:31:15 PT
Article on Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy May Soften Memory Of Pain By Amy NortonNEW YORK AUG 23, 2004 (Reuters Health) - The pleasant scent of essential oils may not dull the body's physical response to pain, but it may make a person's memory of the pain less bitter, a small study suggests.Researchers found that inhaling lavender or rosemary oils did not change pain tolerance or hormonal and nervous system responses to pain among 26 adults who sat through three uncomfortable situations -- such as having heat applied to the forearm or a blood pressure cuff tightened around the arm. But when participants were asked to rate their pain afterward, the lavender aromatherapy did seem to tone down the recollected experience. Men recalled the pain as less intense when they had inhaled the lavender oil, while women described it as less "unpleasant," the researchers report in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine. Why the therapy affected only participants' recollection of pain is unclear, but it may be related to the effect of aroma on emotion, according to study author Dr. Roger B. Fillingim of the University of Florida College of Dentistry in Gainesville.There is evidence, he told Reuters Health, that emotion exerts "considerable influence" over pain recall -- with greater distress during a painful experience making a person more likely to remember the pain as severe.In particular, research on animals and humans has suggested that lavender oil has sedating effects. In one study, patients who received foot massages with lavender oil had lower heart rates than those who received lavender-free massages, suggesting that the oil had a physiological impact. To see whether aromatherapy could have a role in managing pain, Fillingim and his colleagues had healthy men and women go through three moderately painful procedures after each of three aromatherapy sessions: one with lavender oil, one with rosemary oil -- which research suggests acts as a stimulant -- and one using a "control" treatment of distilled water. During the procedures, participants identified the moment when they first felt pain and when the pain had become intolerable. Their physical responses were also gauged, through measurements of heart rate, blood pressure and the stress hormone cortisol.Fillingim's team found that the oils generally did not alter pain tolerance, nor did they show physiological effects. The one exception was that lavender oil seemed to increase heat tolerance above that associated with rosemary oil, but not plain water. Lavender showed an advantage over water only when it came to participants' memory of their pain.That doesn't mean lavender aromatherapy is useless in medical care, however. Fillingim said that even if the oil does not change a person's actual experience, it may reduce "negative recollections" of a painful procedure. And that might keep people from skipping trips to the doctor or dentist. SOURCE: Psychosomatic Medicine, July/August 2004. http://www.cancerpage.com/news/article.asp?id=7405
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Comment #3 posted by FoM on August 28, 2004 at 09:20:06 PT
Cannabis Is a Beautiful Herb
Cannabis has been hiding in the closet long enough. It's time for it to come out! I wish people wouldn't be afraid that Cannabis was going to jump up and bite them. Cannabis is good medicine. This nonsense needs to stop soon. Just think how good his yard must smell. Smelling sweet flowers is good aromatherapy. They probably don't know about aromatherapy yet though.
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Comment #2 posted by Patrick on August 28, 2004 at 09:08:30 PT
Child psychology
Not having kids of my own perhaps I should remain quiet on this but me thinks that by making a big deal out of the neighbors fenced in garden Mom has sparked little Johnny’s curiosity more than ever?
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Comment #1 posted by Virgil on August 28, 2004 at 08:46:41 PT
Being goofy
...Marino's marijuana crop is surrounded by fencingMy son isn't allowed to go in the back part of our property anymore...I can't chance it anymoreDoes she think the plants are going to jump the fence and attack her precious boy? This is the situation with a treasonous government that wants only prohibition. How would things be different if there were Free Cannabis For Everyone?
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