Why does George Soros support the legalization of weed?

[www.theguardian.com]

I'm confused on how it will work -

The government taxes the business and The taxpayers pay for welfare recipients to buy grass. So that means instead of potheads paying their own way, We the Taxpayers are footing the bill now, as usual.

Colorado Pot Shop Accepting Food Stamps - Taxpayer Funded Marijuana for Welfare Recipients

[nationalreport.net]

"Store owner JC Franco defended his decision to accept EBT cards in an interview with National Report: “Everyone should have access to marijuana. If a user is not able to afford their buds on a limited budget then having taxpayers help cover the shortage is only fair. This isn’t a right only for the wealthy.” "

Now I'm confused on how food stamps work. I thought that they could only be used for food!

Good finds, KidRaw. Are we supposed to believe that Deval Patrick's position isn't a prime example of "political grandstanding?" More specifically, it's his attempt to buy votes. There are obviously pros and cons, but this is perhaps another reason to support an across the board mandatory income. Just give everyone some money and let them sink or swim with it as they please. I'm so tired of politicians using entitlement programs as bait to lure in voters.

well a bunch of kids now are given medications for ADHD ADD etc.

in a few years

i predict

in a bout 5 to 10 years

there is going to be a law mandating that kids diagnosed with ADD must be
medicated with pot so that they can be more calm and sedated ( this will be pushed by the pot lobbyists)

yep

mothers will cook it into their childrens' lunch

magical brownies with ham and cheese sandwiches and capri juice

There's a banking problem for Colorado pot shops -

Colorado Sales of Marijuana Raked in 5 Million This Week

[www.gobankingrates.com]

Colorado Pot Shops Work Through Financial Hiccups

[associationsnow.com]

"While the sale of recreational-use marijuana is now legal in Colorado, its status as illegal under U.S. law is leading to complications for vendors, who can’t use the federal banking system to do business.

When so-called “pot shops” opened up legally in Colorado last week, one thing they couldn’t offer shoppers was the ability to pay via credit card.

Due to differences in state and federal law regarding marijuana’s legality as well as legal concerns of the banking industry, these groundbreaking businesses, which drew national attention and more than $5 million in sales in the past week, can’t use the federal banking system. Which means that they’re stuck doing business—everything from taking customer payments to paying employees—in cold, hard cash."


The Sale of Marijuana Leads to Banking Issues

[www.washingtontimes.com]

[www.nytimes.com]
DEA Has Own Special Forces Squads in Foreign Countries
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
Published: November 6, 2011


[www.naturalnews.com]
War on drugs revealed as total hoax - US military admits to guarding, assisting lucrative opium trade in Afghanistan
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer


[www.naturalnews.com]
Want to end Mexican drug gang violence? Legalize drugs and the cartels will collapse
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer

(NaturalNews) Rather than curb their prolific use and propagation around the world, the global "war on drugs" has actually made the drug problem worse. According to the latest statistics, drug use around the world is on the rise in almost every category, despite the numerous anti-drug policies in place to supposedly curb their use. Heightened government crackdowns on drug trafficking in many countries have actually led to more, not less, drug-related gang violence.

Irrespective of where they are enacted, anti-drug policies everywhere have had the unintended consequence of actually leading to more violence and criminal activity, while doing little or nothing to actually lower drug use rates. In other words, enforcing anti-drug policies is a monumental waste of taxpayer dollars that seems to only be making the situation worse rather than better.

Mexico is a perfect example of the failed war on drugs. In 2006, Mexican President Felipe Calderon summoned a military crusade of 50,000 troops to crack down on the nation's drug cartels, which are a main source of drug flow into the US, one of the world's largest consumers of illicit drugs. But rather than contain the violence, these new enforcements have resulted in more than 45,000 deaths, as drug gangs have resorted to fighting each other for the best remaining smuggling routes.

In the US, the situation is not much different. While there might be less overall gang violence associated with the drug trade than there is in Mexico, an incredible amount of taxpayer funding is spent on targeting users of marijuana, for instance, which largely pose little or no threat to society. Meanwhile, domestic drug rings profit big time from the high prices they are able to fetch for these drugs on the black market.

Back in June, the Global Commission on Drug Policy published a report highlighting the failures of the global war on drugs. That report called for an end to "the criminalization, marginalization and stigmatization of people who use drugs but do no harm to others." This is particularly true of the many people who use marijuana for legitimate medicinal purposes, as it is far safer and more effective than many legalized pharmaceutical drugs.

In the end, all the war on drugs has accomplished is to further the success of drug cartels, which are wreaking violence and havoc around the world. If many of the drugs that are restricted today were to become legalized, the drug cartels that currently thrive would quickly collapse, leading to a much safer world for everybody.

Sources for this article include:

[my.news.yahoo.com]...
[www.naturalnews.com]

Live Free and High: New Hampshire House Votes to Legalize Pot

[www.usnews.com]

"(state rep-R)Vaillancourt said youth would be less likely to use the drug because the black market would dry up and argued the state would gain millions of dollars in tax revenue – with a 15 percent excise tax on marijuana – as well as save millions that would be spent on anti-marijuana enforcement.

'As a LIBERTARIAN I've always believed people are responsible for their own decisions: you drink too much, you smoke too much, you pay the consequences,' Vaillancourt said, sharing that he personally consumes too much salt.

'We have survived the days of 'Reefer Madness' [and] we need to excise the mentality,' he said."

i'm surprised it wasn't legalized a looong time ago

brownie eating stoners are so much easier to control

not much resistance when constantly stoned

The point is that human beings will no longer be caged for smoking a plant. Whether or not they use it responsibly is up to them. If they don't, their enslavement is their problem that they freely entered. No one is forcing anyone to smoke pot. It should also be noted that weed smoking, when done in moderation, can be incredibly positive. It opens up channels of creativity and actually helps people to see how they're enslaved. Why do you think it's been illegal for so long?

la_veronique Wrote:
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> i'm surprised it wasn't legalized a looong time
> ago
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> brownie eating stoners are so much easier to
> control
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> not much resistance when constantly stoned

<<<It should also be noted that weed smoking, when done in moderation, can be incredibly positive. It opens up channels of creativity and actually helps people to see how they're enslaved. Why do you think it's been illegal for so long?>>>

Exactly, the Drugs that are illegal, like MJ, LSD, Mushrooms, etc., help us think Outside of the Box. In contrast, the Drugs that are Legal and Socially Acceptable, especially ALCOHOL and Prescription Drugs, dumb us down and keep us tranquilized!

<<<brownie eating stoners are so much easier to control>>>

WRONG!!! It's just the opposite.

[www.medpagetoday.com]
Most so-called drugs of abuse -- such as alcohol or cocaine -- inhibit the growth of new neurons, according to Xia Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Saskatchewan.

"Only marijuana promotes neurogenesis [growth of new neurons]," Dr. Zhang said.
[www.medpagetoday.com]

[www.naturalnews.com]
They're technically illegal in all 50 states. But so-called "magic mushrooms," or what street dealers and those in the know refer to as "shrooms," are a highly medicinal reparative food that scientific research put out by the University of South Florida suggests could be used to improve cognitive function. Researchers at the school found that a prominent substance in shrooms known as psilocybin, which is considered an illegal Schedule I drug by the federal government, has the ability to regenerate new brain cells and potentially even cure mental illness.
[www.naturalnews.com]

Peace and Love..........John

John Rose,


<<<brownie eating stoners are so much easier to control>>>

<<WRONG!!! It's just the opposite.>>

i've never done pot ( yeah i know, its surprising)

hence , at this point i'm likely to agree with you

and i do hope you increase your dosage by several notches

its always good to implement what you recommend

as to kindly benefit humankind

i hear its good for chilling out and relaxing ( doesn't sound bad to me)

like smoking a chill pill i guess

Enjoy your brownies.

The US Government classifies marijuana as schedule 1; no medicinal value and highly addictive. Yet they own the patent for using cannabinoids as a antioxidant and neuro-protectant.



Yes you are reading this correctly: THE US GOVT. HAS PATENTED MEDICAL MARIJUANA. Patent #6630507

Why would the Government want to own a patent on a drug that has no medicinal value, is highly addictive and toxic??



Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties,unrelated to NDMA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in treatment and prophylaxis of a wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants.

Having a regulated market for marijuana sale and purchase is beneficial on numerous levels. Legalizing marijuana and creating a regulated market would mean that the seemingly endless amount of money being sent to foreign countries for illegal drug smuggling would stop. When a substance is made illegal its value immediately rises, and that means that someone is making a profit. In many cases, that profit is being made by individuals in foreign countries. In addition, a regulated market would also mean that teenagers would be less likely to sell marijuana to make a quick buck. In turn, teens would be less likely to be exposed to other, harder illegal drugs being sold on the same market.

Everyone is well aware of the dangers that alcohol and tobacco use presents to the population, but there is no definitive, scientific evidence that states that marijuana has long-lasting, harmful effects. Alcohol and tobacco use causes hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United States every year. Annual deaths are even reported from abuse of aspirin, and yet not one single death an be attributed to the recreational use of marijuana.



To further attest to its non harmful effects, many patients suffering from cancer, glaucoma, and other ailments use medical marijuana as a treatment. Medical grade marijuana is used to treat symptoms including pain and nausea, and many credit its use as essential to their recovery.

Make It Legal

Cannabinoids, like those found in marijuana, occur naturally in human breast milk

Friday, July 20, 2012 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer
Tags: cannabinoids, breast milk, THC




(NaturalNews) Woven into the fabric of the human body is an intricate system of proteins known as cannabinoid receptors that are specifically designed to process cannabinoids such as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of the primary active components of marijuana. And it turns out, based on the findings of several major scientific studies, that human breast milk naturally contains many of the same cannabinoids found in marijuana, which are actually extremely vital for proper human development.

Cell membranes in the body are naturally equipped with these cannabinoid receptors which, when activated by cannabinoids and various other nutritive substances, protect cells against viruses, harmful bacteria, cancer, and other malignancies. And human breast milk is an abundant source of endocannabinoids, a specific type of neuromodulatory lipid that basically teaches a newborn child how to eat by stimulating the suckling process.

If it were not for these cannabinoids in breast milk, newborn children would not know how to eat, nor would they necessarily have the desire to eat, which could result in severe malnourishment and even death. Believe it or not, the process is similar to how adult individuals who smoke pot get the "munchies," as newborn children who are breastfed naturally receive doses of cannabinoids that trigger hunger and promote growth and development.

"[E]ndocannabinoids have been detected in maternal milk and activation of CB1 (cannabinoid receptor type 1) receptors appears to be critical for milk sucking ... apparently activating oral-motor musculature," says the abstract of a 2004 study on the endocannabinoid receptor system that was published in the European Journal of Pharmacology.

"The medical implications of these novel developments are far reaching and suggest a promising future for cannabinoids in pediatric medicine for conditions including 'non-organic failure-to-thrive' and cystic fibrosis."

Studies on cannabinoids in breast milk help further demystify the truth about marijuana
There are two types of cannabinoid receptors in the body -- the CB1 variety which exists in the brain, and the CB2 variety which exists in the immune system and throughout the rest of the body. Each one of these receptors responds to cannabinoids, whether it be from human breast milk in children, or from juiced marijuana, for instance, in adults.

This essentially means that the human body was built for cannabinoids, as these nutritive substances play a critical role in protecting cells against disease, boosting immune function, protecting the brain and nervous system, and relieving pain and disease-causing inflammation, among other things. And because science is finally catching up in discovering how this amazing cannabinoid system works, the stigma associated with marijuana use is, thankfully, in the process of being eliminated.

In another study on the endocannabinoids published in the journal Pharmacological Reviews back in 2006, researchers from the Laboratory of Physiologic Studies at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism uncovered even more about the benefits of cannabinoids. These include their ability to promote proper energy metabolism and appetite regulation, treat metabolic disorders, treat multiple sclerosis, and prevent neurodegeneration, among many other conditions.

With literally thousands of published studies now showing their safety and usefulness, cannabinoids, and particularly marijuana from which it is largely derived, truly are a health-promoting "super" nutrient with virtually unlimited potential in health promotion and disease prevention.

Be sure to check out how juicing raw marijuana leaves, which contain a diverse array of health-promoting cannabinoids, is an excellent non-psychoactive way to prevent and treat a host of diseases, including cancer: [www.naturalnews.com]

Sources for this article include:

[www.sciencedirect.com]

[pharmrev.aspetjournals.org]

[pharmrev.aspetjournals.org]

[www.whattoexpect.com]

[bioteaching.wordpress.com]

More back-door gun control -

Medical Marijuana Users to Forfeit Right to Bear Arms

[naturalsociety.com];

"Illinois is allowing patients with over 41 medical conditions, including cancer and AIDS to legally smoke pot, but a new plan proposed by state officials Tuesday will require them to give up their Second Amendment rights – the right to own a gun. They will also be fingerprinted, have a background check run on them, and pay $150 a year for the right to smoke up."

Illinois is an anti-freedom Democratic dictatorship from h e l l.

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> Medical Marijuana Users to Forfeit Right to Bear
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> "Illinois is allowing patients with over 41
> medical conditions, including cancer and AIDS to
> legally smoke pot, but a new plan proposed by
> state officials Tuesday will require them to give
> up their Second Amendment rights – the right to
> own a gun. They will also be fingerprinted, have a
> background check run on them, and pay $150 a year
> for the right to smoke up."

I'm not sure what to think of this case. I feel like I'm not getting the whole story. Are they saying that the weed they were growing was perfectly legal but someone decided that growing any weed in the presence of children is endangerment? That's ridiculous if it is what happened. [reason.com]

This is the medical marijuana law in California:

[www.canorml.org]

"Medical marijuana: Medical patients and their designated primary caregivers may legally possess and cultivate (but not distribute or sell) marijuana under Health and Safety Code 11362.5 (Prop 215) if they have a physician's recommendation or approval. State law SB420, now codified as California Health & Safety code sections 11362.7-11362.83, set a state threshold of 6 mature OR 12 immature plants per patient, allowing locals to pass higher allowances (many cities and counties have local ordinances with zoning regulations). Read more on medical marijuana laws."

Here's more to the story-

Children taken from mom in pot raid inflame Butte County ballot debate - Marijuana - The Sacramento Bee

[www.sacbee.com]

"Child abuse charges were refiled against Daisy for having THC in her breast milk. Daisy also takes Doctor prescribed Marinol, an identical synthetic THC compound approved by the FDA and federal government."

Butte County's marijuana battle inflamed by taking of newborn - San Jose Mercury News

[www.mercurynews.com]

"District Attorney Mike Ramsey makes no apologies for his contention that many people in the county are exploiting the cover of medical marijuana to illegally deal pot. Ramsey said his prosecution of Bram is consistent with his office's mission to protect drug-endangered children -- in this case from a home strewn with marijuana buds being harvested.

The officers are saying that this was a place that was obviously endangering the health of these children," Ramsey said. "A mother is obviously not protecting the children from this commercial (pot-growing) operation."

Bram and her husband, Jayme Walsh, were charged with felony marijuana possession and possession for sale after officers raided their 38-plant garden and seized another 56 plants from inside their home, authorities said."

(That's a lot of marijuana to grow just for you and your husband's medicinal use! You don't go illegally selling pot when you have small children.)

Bram said she got her children back four months later, after she gave up pot for the prescription drug Marinol, which uses synthetic ingredients to mimic the properties of marijuana.

She maintains she is being prosecuted for two reasons: She was using medical marijuana and breast-feeding her kids. Bram said she consumed pot to help with an injured hand and that her husband used it to relieve stress; they possessed the plants for personal use, she said, not sale.

"It defies logic if you think of a mother consuming cannabis and breast-feeding facing a child abuse charge," Bram said.

Ramsey said the case is about a dangerous drug environment, not breast-feeding. He said tests on hair samples from the toddler, Thor, revealed traces of tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, the psychoactive element in pot. The baby had insufficient hair to test, he said.

Dr. Angela Rosas, chief of pediatrics at Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento and a specialist in drug-endangered children, said it is common for marijuana to concentrate in breast milk.

She said mothers are urged not to use pot while nursing but that studies conflict on whether THC in breast milk is harmful. "We don't have any newborns coming in with marijuana intoxication," she said.

Rosas said she has, however, treated toddlers who were comatose after eating marijuana. She said they recovered in a day or two."

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Breastfeeding Mom Who Lost Custody of Babies for Smoking Pot Speaks Out (VIDEO)

[thestir.cafemom.com]

"And Bram, along with husband Jayme Walsh, both have legal documentation allowing them to use marijuana for pain management.

At the time, one was a newborn and the other 15 months old. (You don't smoke pot and breastfeed a newborn)

[www.news10.net]

"Her use of medical marijuana was for pain in her hand after surgery. For the time being, she isn't using pot nor any other pain killer. She doesn't believe using marijuana while breast feeding is harmful to the infant."

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They had already lost their children once due to the growing of marijuana, legal or not - why would you do the same thing again if you knew you could lose your children.

I have questions about her and her husband's 'intent'. Were they growing medical marijuana to use as medicine or were they growing it to smoke and get high?

Were they growing it to sell?

If they were using the medicinal value as a cover to get high, I would have to be judgmental and say - there's no way a good mother would grow marijuana to get high when she has little children - it's too much of a risk; you can't take care of a baby and two toddlers when you're high and feel weird. And there's no way she should be breastfeeding if she's smoking marijuana. I did see a video once of medicinal marijuana in a liquid form or something like that, and even in that form, if she's breastfeeding, that could be dangerous. When you have children, the children come first. So the only way I would condone their growing and using the marijuana - when they have little children that they're responsible for - is if it was purely for medicinal use for her husband.

The articles seem to be saying that the children were taken because the state felt it was dangerous to the health of the baby to breastfeed while you're ingesting marijuana. I would have to agree that it's dangerous, but I wouldn't take the children from them. I don't know how you can protect a baby from what the mother ingests - like cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, prescription medication, etc.

Sorry, but as far as I'm concerned, she not a good mother. There's not a ton of difference between her and breastfeeding mothers of newborns that do other drugs - just the level of damage to the baby. They're both endangering the health of the baby.

That's what I suspected. No one needs to grow 50 some plants for their personal, medicinal consumption. That's a lot of weed. If they are taking part in an illegal drug business, the children are endangered because they live with criminals who associate with criminals. As we saw in your post about pot dispensaries getting robbed, the marijuana trade, especially when large amounts are in one place, can attract an unsavory, violent lot. This is obviously horrible for her children, but you can't help but see that the parents are not thinking straight.

Southern Republicans supporting medical marijuana legislation: [www.sacbee.com]

From the article:

"Twenty states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, and this year powerful GOP lawmakers in Georgia and Alabama are putting their weight behind bills that would allow for the limited use of cannabis oil by those with specific medical conditions.

...stories of children suffering up to 100 seizures a day whose parents say they could benefit from access to cannabidiol, which would be administered orally in a liquid form. And proponents argue the cannabis oil is low in tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana that makes users feel high."

That's what I have in mind when I think of medical marijuana - Cannabidiol. Or eating or juicing the raw plant. I can't see how SMOKING anything can be healthful.

Juicing the plant would be great but as far as I know that doesn't do anything. It needs to be heated for the medicinal properties to be released. I could be wrong.

KidRaw Wrote:
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> From the article:
>
> "Twenty states and the District of Columbia have
> legalized medical marijuana, and this year
> powerful GOP lawmakers in Georgia and Alabama are
> putting their weight behind bills that would allow
> for the limited use of cannabis oil by those with
> specific medical conditions.
>
> ...stories of children suffering up to 100
> seizures a day whose parents say they could
> benefit from access to cannabidiol, which would be
> administered orally in a liquid form. And
> proponents argue the cannabis oil is low in
> tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the psychoactive
> compound in marijuana that makes users feel
> high."
>
> That's what I have in mind when I think of medical
> marijuana - Cannabidiol. Or eating or juicing the
> raw plant. I can't see how SMOKING anything can
> be healthful.

"Twenty states and the District of Columbia have
> legalized medical marijuana,

Its legal in all states, just that most law inforcement and the courts are behind on whats constitutional Laws. My friend Pebbles Trippets founder of Mendocino county
Medical Marijuana Union Plead Roe vs. Wade in lower court for 2lbs of pot saying it was her right to precribe herself. She was found guilty in the lower court filed apeal went before appelet court and won making it law!
If she had won in the lower court nothing would have changed.
You can plead Roe vs wade and win its LAW!

Again why has uncle sam patented part of the Marijuana plant.
Because its in bed with pharmicuticals.

Pot fuels surge in drugged driving deaths? [www.nbcnews.com]

la_veronique Wrote:
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> i'm surprised it wasn't legalized a looong time
> ago
>
> brownie eating stoners are so much easier to
> control
>
> not much resistance when constantly stoned

Yeah, but wayyy back then almost everyone had jobs bringing in tax dollars. Now that so many of them are unemployed and not paying taxes no one has to worry if that group is too stoned to make it in to work in the morning to be able to pay their taxes. So this seems to be the perfect time to keep them docile. Besides they will make for another free creepy gov study group as radioactivity is sucked up as if by a straw in cannabis plants.



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I'm not surprised that there is an increase in accidents as more people drive under the influence of marijuana. Just remembering how weird I used to feel when I smoked, and I've heard it's three times as powerful nowadays. It's pretty stupid of people to drive when they're under the influence of anything, even cooked food -- haha.

Governor: Colorado pot market exceeds tax hopes...[bigstory.ap.org]

Another way to make money off the legalization of marijuana -

A Savvy Girl Scout Is Selling Cookies at a Cannabis Clinic in San Francisco

[mashable.com]

"Looking to drum up some new business, 13-year-old Girl Scout Danielle Lei and her mom set out for a San Francisco medical marijuana clinic on Monday, armed with boxes of Tagalongs, Dulce de Leches and other cookie varieties she and other scouts sell annually.

Any patients at The Green Cross with the munchies didn't stand a chance. In two hours on President's Day, Danielle sold 117 boxes outside the clinic — people gobbled up all her Dulce de Leches and blazed through the Tagalongs. According to her mother, Carol, that's 37 more boxes than what she sold during the same two-hour period outside a small Safeway the next day."

One of the very popular strains of Pot in the Ca. clubs for sale is named Girl Scout Cookies.