Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 at 10:14 am | By: Dudemaster
In a surprise turn-around, the Governor of Wisconsin, Jim Doyle, has stated he would not oppose the legalization of Medical Marijuana in Wisconsin.
Furthermore, a live bill is currently up for co-sponsors but only until the end of TODAY at 5pm! It’s called the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act. Please act now and ask that your legislator support medical marijuana.
We need a real grass roots effort in Wisconsin to get this thing co-sponsored by the end of the day!
Gov. Jim Doyle said Wednesday he would not oppose the legalization of medicinal marijuana in Wisconsin.
At an appearance in Wausau earlier this week, Doyle spoke with reporters and commented on the decision by the U.S. Department of Justice to no longer prosecute suppliers or users of medicinal marijuana in states where its use is legal as long as state law is being followed.
Lee Sensenbrenner, spokesperson for the governor, clarified Doyle’s comments.
“As a former prosecutor, [Doyle] saw why the Justice Department would not want to devote resources to cases in which state law was being followed,” Sensenbrenner said.
“It doesn’t make a lot of sense for the United States Department of Justice to pursue people who are potentially glaucoma patients or suffering [from other] severe illnesses,” he added. “It’s probably less dangerous than [other things] a doctor can prescribe.”
According to Sensenbrenner, the governor would potentially be supportive of state legislation allowing prescribed marijuana, as long as it does not open up a “loophole” for other marijuana use. However, he said the governor will not actively push any bill through the legislature.
“That’s up to the legislature to take that up if that’s their intent,” Sensenbrenner said.
Monday, July 27th, 2009 at 9:20 am | By: Dudemaster
An average ISD in Texas has an alarming problem, their Children have Marijuana in their school!!!
From my alter-ego blog on our Dallas – Fort Worth NORML blog, I wrote a small rant about a local ISD poll that was taken in regards to cigarettes, alcohol, Marijuana and other drugs.
Shoved between a discussion of funding streams and TAKS results at Monday’s board meeting was a glimpse into Frisco ISD’s drug war.
About 4,000 students from seventh to 10th grade responded to a survey about drug and alcohol use in the district’s schools.
Almost 20 percent reported using alcohol in the past year. About 17 percent considered alcohol a major problem in FISD and 40 percent said it was an issue. Less than 10 percent reported using marijuana or other drugs, although 660 students said they first drank between ages 10 and 13. Almost 200 students said they started using drugs at roughly the same age.
Other results:
• 22 percent of students consider drugs a major problem in FISD
• 14.6 percent said they see marijuana on campus, 16 percent see pills and 8 percent see other drugs.
In all reality, it’s easier to get Marijuana in school than alcohol or cigarettes. In fact, when polled, teens frequently admit the only place they can find alcohol or cigarettes is either from their parents or friends older than 21. In contrast, Marijuana is very easy to obtain because there isn’t a clerk asking for an ID and providing a high level of scrutiny. I don’t know how it is around the rest of the country, but in Texas, if a clerk sells alcohol or cigarettes to a minor, they go to jail. I don’t know any clerk willing to go to jail for minimum wage.
This couldn’t be more true, but not just for our ISD, but for yours. Ask a kid how hard it is to get drugs in their school, and then ask them where they get cigarettes and alcohol. One of my neighbors tells me he scores his best weed from his own kid who is in high school. Isn’t that amazing?
You need to do this, you need to ask them, you need to learn this for yourself.
Prohibitionists and the ignorant alike cry, “It’s for our children, it’s all for the kids!!” and continue to spread the word of ignorance. The truth is right in front of us, just ask them. Is the war against drugs working?
Help the children by helping us. Support and help us with the legalization of Marijuana so that it can be taxed and regulated.
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 at 3:00 pm | By: Dudemaster
Thank you for contacting me regarding the legalization of marijuana. I appreciate hearing from you on this important matter.
The United States is fighting a costly war against drugs, in terms of dollars and lives that are irrevocably changed by this modern day scourge. It is my opinion that any legalization of substances such as marijuana will undermine the ongoing efforts by the drug enforcement community to curb this epidemic that has consumed so many Americans. Marijuana is a controlled substance and legalizing or relaxing criminal penalties will only open the doors for further illegal activities.
I will continue to support efforts on the part of the federal government to interdict drug shipments into the United States, pursue individuals that violate U.S. drug laws, provide adequate treatment to individuals addicted to drugs, and support public education campaigns that warn against the perils of illegal drug use. The federal, state, and local governments must work together on all these fronts to slow the flow of drugs into the U.S. and to lower the demand in this country for illegal substances.
Again, thank you for taking time to contact me. I appreciate having the opportunity to represent you in the U.S. House of Representatives. Please feel free to visit my website (www.house.gov/burgess) or contact me with any future concerns.
Sincerely,
Michael C. Burgess, M.D.
Member of Congress
Just some quick questions, Congressman:
How is that “epidemic curbing” been progressing, Dr. Burgess?
What sort of illegal activities have Al Capone and the bootleggers been up to lately?
Have you ever treated a patient for marijuana overdose?
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 at 4:09 pm | By: Dudemaster
When you read this article as it was written, you can easily detect the bias the so-called-journalist who wrote into it. If you were to transpose the word Marijuana with Coors or Budweiser, and the word smoking with the word drinking instead, you’ll easily see the difference too.
INDIANAPOLIS — Police have arrested a couple allegedly caught smoking marijuana while waiting in the drive-through line at an Arby’s restaurant with their 1-year-old in the back seat.
A restaurant employee noticed the aroma late Friday and called 911, then had the couple wait for their order of chicken as police sped to the scene.
Officer Brian Silcox said he smelled marijuana while approaching the car. He said both 27-year-old Marshall Chatman and 25-year-old Constance Payne told officers Chatman had been smoking a cigar.
Police also said a loaded handgun was found in the car.
Chatman and Payne were arrested on charges of neglect of a dependent. Chatman also was arrested on a marijuana possession charge. Child welfare officials took custody of the baby.
The couple’s first court appearance is scheduled for Wednesday.
It was idiotic for that family to smoke Marijuana while visiting a drive-thru, but it is reprehensible for the company Arby’s to have people arrested simply for smelling like Cannabis and buying their products.
The Manager represents the Arby’s brand and their policies, and it was the Manager of Arby’s who called and worked with law enforcement to have this couple placed in custody. Since the manager is an authorized representative from Corporate Arby’s, it became pseudo corporate Arby’s policy that people who smell like Marijuana need to be arrested.
How many late night tokers have frequented Arby’s over the last 30 plus years to satisfy a munchie craving? How much money does Arby’s make every quarter by serving people who choose a safer alternative?
The bottom line, if you are medicated or medicating and have the munchies – don’t go to Arby’s or they will call the police on you.
[Like I needed an excuse to not visit Arby's. Anybody so desperate for customers they have to call a roast beef sandwich a "roastburger" doesn't deserve cannabis dollars anyway. -- "R"R]
Friday, July 10th, 2009 at 5:20 pm | By: Dudemaster
You can’t escape the headlines; recently a cornucopia of athletes have been in the headlines relating to Marijuana. Some in possession, others test positive in urine tests, and others are photographed with a bong like Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps.
In this particular article, two Oklahoma State football players were arrested for Marijuana possession. As you read this article and my opinion, try and put yourself or one of your children in the place of one of these young men.
Stillwater Newspress - Two Oklahoma State football players — sophomore Jamal Mosley and freshman Dexter Pratt — have been charged with one count each of misdemeanor possession of marijuana in court documents filed on Wednesday.
Both players were charged on June 17 and arraignment for both is scheduled for July 29.
OSU media relations said Thursday that OSU head coach Mike Gundy is out of town and would have no immediate comment on the situation and that information on the situation would likely come within the next few days.
Mosely, a tight end, is expected to battle for the starting spot while Pratt was one of the top incoming recruits for the Cowboys at running back. There has been talk of Pratt redshirting with Kendall Hunter and Keith Toston expected to see much of the playing time.
Police records said that both players possessed and controlled within a residence a small plastic bag containing what appeared to be, and subsequently field tested positive as a small amount of marijuana.
Most people will probably snicker after reading this and move onto more important things in their lives. But, for these athletes, their dilemma has just got started.
Because they are college students, they will probably lose their college loan, and also any scholarship they may have earned. You see, these athletes signed a contract with their university which allows them to compete in athletics. The contract specifies each athlete will support NCAA rules and regulations.
Let’s see what the NCAA requires when one fails a drug test:
NCAA Positive Test Result
If the NCAA tests you for the banned drugs listed in Bylaw 31.2.3.1 and you test positive, you will lose a season of competition in all sports if the season of competition has not yet begun for you. If the season of competition has begun, you will lose one full season of competition in all sports – i.e. remaining contests in the current season and contests in the following season up to the time that you were declared ineligible in the previous year.
Now let’s not forget these guys live in a state with extremely draconian Marijuana laws. The article didn’t mention the quantity the athletes were charged with, but assuming it was a smaller amount, the laws leave a great deal of discretion to the judge. They could receive any amount in fines and up to 1 year in prison for simply choosing a safer alternative. Is this the message we want to send our children as they approach college?
There is a really good chance that one or both of them will have to leave his college dreams behind and go to work. Since they have a drug conviction, the only jobs they can find are the kind of jobs that you and I don’t want to do. Over time they see their friends succeed financially, and it’s only logical to conclude that some people in their position have turned to selling drugs. Why not? The rationalization is that society has already made them outcasts and the only way to make an appropriate income means selling contraband or committing crimes.
In comparison, college binge drinking is a worse offense, although tolerated by universities a great deal more than Marijuana use.
According to Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
* 54 percent of binge drinking college students black out and forget what they did or where they were at some point in the year. For students who don’t binge drink, the number was 25 percent.
* 48 percent of the alcohol consumed at a 4 year college is consumed by an underage student.
* 44 percent of students report symptoms of alcohol abuse and dependency
* 25 percent of students say they have faced academic consequences (missing class, getting a bad grade, etc.) as a result of drinking.
* On average, students who have more than 5 drinks per occasion have a GPA that is half a grade lower than the GPA for other students.
A little non-toxic Marijuana isn’t going to hurt you, but alcohol may kill you and you might just take a few people with you when you slam your car head-on into someone else.
Think for just a moment; our standing President admitted he had used Marijuana earlier in his life. The only difference between these young men and our current standing president is they got caught, he didn’t. Does that sound fair to you?
Mr. President, can you take just a moment of your time to address the growing number of Americans who are clamoring to get your support for Marijuana legalization? I know you think it’s really funny, but people are going to prison and lives are being ruined every day because you can’t stop laughing long enough to be a real president. Step up, your constituents are demanding it.
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 2:20 pm | By: Dudemaster
During nearly a quarter of a century of military service, much of which I spent in either the desert or the jungle, I incurred a series of injuries that cause me to have seizures. To date, I have had 4 seizures and 1 grand mal. I separate the two, because if you are familiar with seizures, there is a difference. I’m fortunate that I’ve only had 1 grand mal, many of those who suffer from seizures only have grand mals. Those are the grand daddy of all seizures – and one usually doesn’t wake up from one of those for a very long time, assuming they survive.
I’m retired from military service, so I receive my care from a private physician (thanks to private health insurance) but the only drug they can dispense for my seizures is some form of opium. I would probably be OK with the some form of opium, but for me – it’s like drinking 12 ounces of whiskey and then trying to go to work. Could you imagine trying to work while drunk off your ass on 12 ounces of Cuban rum? To make matters worse, I live in Texas where if one utters the words, “Medical Marijuana” they might be arrested.
In Texas, it’s illegal to discuss Marijuana with your physician. Simply having a positive and honest conversation may cost him his license to practice medicine. He knows me, and he knows I use Cannabis to keep my seizures at bay, but he can’t discuss it with me. That first awkward conversation kind of went this,
Dr: If you won’t take hydrocodone then I don’t have anything else that won’t cause the same symptoms.
Me: I can’t work on hydrocodone, ergo, I won’t be able to make my house payment and take care of my children.
Dr: What do you want to do?
Me: I have been using Cannabis successfully for almost 1 year and I haven’t had a single seizure since I started.
Dr: Well, I am not allowed to respond. I would be more concerned about the consequences with getting caught. If you are concerned about providing for your family, then you should reconsider. If you are caught, then you won’t be able to make your house payment and take care of your children.
Me: With Hydrocodone, it’s a guarantee. Maybe – just maybe – I can continue to get away with this until it’s either legal, or I can afford to move to another state – or you find a cure for me.
Dr: I’m prohibited by law with discussing anything regarding Medical Marijuana with you. I would love to ask you a litany of questions including dosage, type of use, but understand, my hands are tied but I’m glad you found an herbal remedy to help control the seizures.
[Dudemaster, I'm hoping you can press your doctor as to what law he thinks he's breaking. The Conant v. Walters decision made it clear that government cannot intrude on a doctor's First Amendment right to discuss any form of medical care with his patient. Maybe he's got some clause in his contract with his clinic, hospital (he's not a VA doc, so the federal law doesn't apply), or malpractice insurance. --"R"R]
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 3:20 pm | By: Dudemaster
Let’s face it, the war on Marijuana in this country is a bloody war on the citizens of the United States, many of whom have nothing to do with Marijuana. They are simply caught in the cross fire of oppression and heavy handed tactics by unscrupulous law enforcement and run-away policies fueled by ignorant politicians who don’t really care about their own constituents.
On July 22, 2008 in Berwyn Heights, MD, the mayor of Berwyn Heights and his family were attacked by armed assailants, salaried by the sheriff’s office. They burst into their home, shot their two Labrador retrievers, Chase and Payton, even though these agents of the law knew this family had nothing to do with the Marijuana that was just delivered to their house by an overnight express company. It was part of a larger elaborate scheme they had been aware of for quite some time.
After the incident, the department investigated itself and not surprisingly, had found nothing wrong with breaking in a home that was not complicit with the marijuana deal, with guns drawn and shooting innocent family members. From their paradigm, it’s ethical, moral, and legal to break into someone’s home and shoot them.
On Monday, June 22, the mayor held a press conference and asked the federal government to intervene.
“They’ve said they’ve done nothing wrong,” Calvo said. “I didn’t sign up for this fight, but I think what we have to do now is make changes to how Prince George’s County police and Prince George’s County sheriff’s department operate.”
What happens when you catch a criminal outside of a TV store holding a television in his hand and a gun in his back pocket? He is going to say, “I didn’t do anything wrong”. These agents of the law are nothing more than a bunch of armed redneck wannabe criminals who enjoy busting into people’s houses and shooting their family members for the simple sake of a killer adrenaline rush.
Friday, June 19th, 2009 at 10:20 am | By: Dudemaster
The Honorable Congressman, Dr. Ron Paul (R-TX), is one of my favorite politicians. Although I don’t always agree with him, he speaks only the truth. He wrote this article for the Free Liberal, and it is quite profound.
Moving Towards Tobacco Prohibition
Last week, another bill was passed and signed into law that takes more of our freedoms and violates the Constitution of the United States. It was, of course, done for the sake of the children, and in the name of the health of the citizenry. It’s always the case that when your liberty is seized, it is seized for your own good. Such is the condescension of Washington.
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act will give sweeping new powers over tobacco to the FDA. It will require everyone engaged in manufacturing, preparing, compounding, or processing tobacco to register with the FDA and be subjected to FDA inspections, which is yet another violation of the Fourth Amendment. It violates the First Amendment by allowing the FDA to restrict tobacco advertising in multiple ways, as well as an outright ban on advertising any cigarettes as light, mild or low-tar. The FDA will have the power of pre-market reviews of all new tobacco products, and will impose new user fees, meaning taxes, on manufacturers and importers of tobacco products. It will even regulate the amount of nicotine in cigarettes.
My objections to the bill are not an endorsement of tobacco. As a physician I understand the adverse health effects of this bad habit. And that is exactly how smoking should be treated – as a bad habit and a personal choice. The way to combat poor choices is through education and information. Other than ensuring that tobacco companies do not engage in force or fraud to market their products, the federal government needs to stay out of the health habits of free people. Regulations for children should be at the state level. Unfortunately, government is using its already overly intrusive financial and regulatory roles in healthcare to establish a justifiable interest in intervening in your personal lifestyle choices as well. We all need to anticipate the level of health freedom that will remain once government manages all health care in this country.
Actions in Congress such as this tobacco bill are especially disconcerting after we thought we were beginning to see some progress in drawing down the wrong-headed and failed war on drugs. A majority of Americans now think marijuana should be legal, taxed and regulated, according to a recent Zogby poll and over 70 percent are in favor of allowing medicinal use of marijuana. Bills like this take us down exactly the wrong path. Instead of gaining more freedom with marijuana, we are moving closer to prohibiting tobacco. Our prisons are already bursting with non-violent drug offenders. How long will it be before a black market in tobacco fills the prisons with non-violent cigarette smokers?
Hemp and tobacco were staple crops for our founding fathers when our country was new. It is baffling to see how far removed from real freedom this country has become since then. Hemp, even for industrial uses, of which there are many, is illegal to grow at all. Now tobacco will have more layers of bureaucracy and interference piled on top of it. In this economy it is extremely upsetting to see this additional squeeze put on an entire industry. One has to wonder how many smaller farmers will be forced out of business because of this bill.
A scientific study was recently conducted to prove some harmful use of Cannabis. The group focused their study specifically around ONE carcinogenic called Acetaldehyde which may or may not be found in burning cannabis and at unknown levels.
Acetaldehyde is an organic chemical compound and can be found in coco, coffee, fruit, wheat, (bread), and is produced by plants as part of their normal metabolism.
Acetaldehyde is toxic when applied externally for prolonged periods, an irritant, and a probable carcinogen. So what’s the big deal? It’s in my coffee, my sandwich, and my apple! It’s a naturally occurring substance. The study group claims that Cannabis has a measurable amount of Acetaldehyde inside of the smoke; and hergo, you inhale the smoke then you inhale Acetaldehyde.
What the group doesn’t tell you is that even higher levels of Acetaldehyde can be found in the air in cities around the world, and even in your own home. Are they suggesting we stop breathing? Of course not, the study was focused specifically on Marijuana and nothing else. Therefore, it’s a study taken completely out of context from the rest of the world.
Let’s put this into perspective; If you knew only the horrors of Sugar and none of the benefits, then if you were like me, would you choose to eliminate sugar from your diet entirely. The same can be said with anything that is good for you.
What really brings their study into question is this next statement:
“The smoking of 3-4 cannabis cigarettes a day is associated with the same degree of damage to bronchial mucus membranes as 20 or more tobacco cigarettes a day,” the team adds.
This last sentence demonstrates this group’s real agenda. You see, their claim is in the face of real scientific research. Just recently, UCLA pulmonologist Dr. Donald Tashkin, who has studied marijuana’s effects on the lungs for three decades, studied heavy marijuana smokers to determine whether the use led to increased risk of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.
“What we found instead was no association and even a suggestion of some protective effect,” says Tashkin, whose research was the largest case-control study ever conducted. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Tobacco smokers in the study had as much as a 21-fold increase in lung cancer risk. Cigarette smokers, too, developed COPD more often in the study, and researchers found that marijuana did not impair lung function.
Tashkin, supported by other research, concluded that the active ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, has an “anti-tumoral effect” in which “cells die earlier before they age enough to develop mutations that might lead to lung cancer.”
However, the smoke from marijuana did swell the airways and lead to a greater risk of chronic bronchitis.
“Early on, when our research appeared as if there would be a negative impact on lung health, I was opposed to legalization because I thought it would lead to increased use and that would lead to increased health effects,” Tashkin says. “But at this point, I’d be in favor of legalization. I wouldn’t encourage anybody to smoke any substances. But I don’t think it should be stigmatized as an illegal substance. Tobacco smoking causes far more harm. And in terms of an intoxicant, alcohol causes far more harm.”
This is just another reefer madness claim disseminated at the coattails of those in England who continue to sing the reefer madness song against the popular “Skunk” Marijuana. Between the lines of words, you’ll find a system that has recently propped Marijuana back up from a lower scheduled narcotic to a more serious level thus instituting more serious punishment against the citizens of Great Britain and they need a reason to keep it there. This study, along with other bogus blogs and stories will likely be used in Parliament as points of the argument.
Even after the mounting evidence that suggests this story is bogus, if you are still concerned about the carcinogenic Acetaldehyde; then vaporize and bake some cookies instead — and avoid my ham and swiss sandwich.
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 at 10:20 am | By: Dudemaster
Back in March, 20 year old Acea Schomaker stuffed a cat into a bong and smoked it. The cat lived, and Acea was fined. Well, he finds himself in trouble with the law once more.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A young Lincoln man who acknowledged putting a hyper kitten in a homemade bong to calm it with marijuana smoke has been ticketed again on a pot charge.
Lincoln police say 20-year-old Acea (ACE-ah) Schomaker (SHOE-maker) also was cited for being a minor in possession of alcohol.
Police Capt. David Beggs say Schomaker was ticketed by officers who were called to a disturbance Saturday night. They took Schomaker to be Cornhusker Place Detox.
Beggs says officers found 1.7 grams of suspected marijuana in a plastic bag in 1 of Schomaker’s pockets.
In March, after his first brush with notoriety in the bong cat incident, Schomaker told The Associated Press that he was swearing off marijuana.
Pot doesn’t make you stupid, but some people are just too stupid to smoke pot.
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bullbog: went and seen cheech and chong last nite.My sides were hurting within the first 10 mins. Can't wait to see them in there Legalize it tour.
WakeUpDead: Just got done with an all day Bubble bag session. Stocking up for the winter dry spell. MMMM Hash!
Just Legalize It: i hear ya russ.... it sucks because the marijuana community is gaining much more ground than the hemp community.... if we combined then it would be an unstoppable force.... i [...]
Radical Russ: Wish we could, but every time we try to combine with hemp activists, they say, "stay away, you legalizers!" They don't want to be associated with psychoactive cannabis in [...]
mr reuben: hopefully everything goes well Krispy. It would be nice to see a norml chapter at my old school.
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