and see different solutions.
And, data can point to whatever it is one wants to show.
ANYTHING one wants to show.
Whether it is fact or fiction, not withstanding, it turns out that we can prove whatever we want to prove, and we can disprove anything we want to disprove.
Perhaps you've all noticed (as if hundreds of people come by here) that of late, I am at war.
It's not an easy war, however, to be sure, it isn't a war of guns and bullets. Well...sort of not with guns and bullets. The police still use guns and bullets...and in Indiana, they are allowed to break into the homes of citizens and shoot them dead without so much as a warrant or reason.
So, there are guns and bullets involved. Deadly force, and in this state, they will use it wherever they wish, on whoever they wish, and whenever they wish. Deadly force may be and has been used against those who are empty of malice and pacifist, against those who were suffering from some malady such as epileptic fits or diabetes, or even asleep and naked in their own beds at home.
And that is part of the war.
There are so many unseen fronts on this war that it is hard to comprehend what is occurring, sometimes.
~MARIJUANA~
Incredibly, marijuana has been at the center of death, the wars, the arguments.
Studies have been done in opposition to it, have been done to exploit it, and even studies showing the cancer curing properties of it.
On one hand, a skimpy argument about remaining illegal because of its known association with addiction.
On the other hand, in depth studies on mice and rats showing that it shrinks and eradicates cancer cells. Other studies showing that it can be used to make food, milk, and cheeses.
Center for Disease Control (CDC) states that it is much more toxic than tobacco, even though near 400,000 people die every year of tobacco related deaths. And further, they claim that marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol, in spite of alcohol's 75000 deaths each year.
The CDC cites some 35000 dying from physical damage to their bodies, and another 40000 deaths due related to alcohol consumption by a driver in 2001.
Which is unusual, to say the least, since I checked how many fatalities there were on the roads and highways of the USA during 2001, and there were only 37,832.
So, double checking information, especially when it comes from a source such as the CDC which has raised more questions than answers in ANYTHING they publish, is a good idea.
In fact, perhaps instead of saying that marijuana cures cancer, I should include a bibliography, too? It isn't any trouble at all to do so, so, I shall include info at the end of each writing as to what info, when, who, what decisions were made, and so on.
But, getting back to the earlier premise of...this is not an easy war I am involved with. Information is compiled in bright shiny offices in a building far from reality, and when specific items are searched for it is a hard search because the actual information may not even look like what is being sought.
It has become, for all intent and purpose, their truth. And therefore, unimpeachable.
Even though it has been seen as a total farce.
To whom can truth be trusted?
The CDC has released recently evidence that between the years of 1994 and 2007, 26 people died with a relationship to marijuana.
No statement of how, or under what circumstances, and least of all any comparison to their own alcoholic citing, nor is it ever compared to tobacco.
If taken at face value, factors appear that have clues to how there is a relationship, but not because of the use of marijuana.
A fellow who was a secondary accident victim (he stopped his car to avoid rubberneckers in front of him wrecking into each other to see a lethal accident, and the guy behind him hits his bumper.
Quite friendly, he and the other fellow exchange info, the fellow goes to the center of the accident to see that the only sheriff on the scene was overwhelmed, he asked if he could be of assistance, and was a noted help to the officer in keeping traffic moving around the scene. Now, in Indiana, every driver in an accident that involves a death has to submit to an alcohol breathalyzer, and a test for marijuana.
"Mr. Helpful" turned up positive with trace amounts (and his story justifies with what was found, he had attended a party a week earlier where marijuana was being smoked) however, a positive reading is a positive reading and the death and following injuries were put on his docket, and he got 18 months and a healthy fine.
NOT a part of the deaths...
But CDC has this as a death related to marijuana use.
Perhaps we can trust the National Institute of Health?
No...it seems they have been traversing the country trying to find colleges and doctors to prove the harm in marijuana since 1974, but, for the most part, end up with said colleges and doctors convinced that marijuana is, indeed, a cure for cancer.
The most skeptical was from UCLA Geffen School of Medicine.
Dr. Donald Tashkin, an opponent of marijuana use was approached by a colleague, and was asked to show the damages marijuana smokers were causing to themselves. A grant offered by the NIH wanted both short term problems and long term problems.
After an exhaustive study covering near fourty years, using several break downs of use (pot smokers, pot smokers and tobacco smokers, and just tobacco smokers) and in the end found some intersting points.
Marijuana smokers lungs closed just as tobacco smokers lungs closed, and in a much quicker time. In fact, to achieve the same closing of the lung airways one would have to smoke four cigarettes compared to one cigarette of marijuana.
Getting past the fact that good smoke hardly needs to be smoked to the roach (in fact, 1/2 to one gram is sufficient to attain a nice high) there was a secondary occurrence... While the tobacco only smokers lungs stayed closed...marijuana smokers lungs again opened and resumed normal function with full capacity. In fact, the initial findings of those who smoked both tobacco AND marijuana were that it was healing the lungs of the tobacco smokers.
And that made he and several other doctors to hypothesized that there may be a rejuvenation of the lungs from the marijuana.
But he stands adamant about this and other studies NOT being associative to use, because what they were finding with their lab animals is that marijuana was curing cancer, but they couldn't say there was an association of cure or remission because it was MICE, not HUMANS...(and, oh yeah. Marijuana is not open for study on a first come first serve basis. It is available only when they choose you.)
Over all, they found that marijuana smokers developed less cancerous growths than others in most groups.
And now, NIH has changed another doctor's mind about the possibilities of marijuana.
They have been busy little beavers, too.
In 1974, they seduced the University of Virginia into finding damaging evidence of the adverse effects on the human body and nervous system, only to turn these doctors into marijuana proponents who found cancer curing properties in mice and rats.
(so far, it appears the NIH is more interested in curing cancer in mice and rats than in humans. Kinda like their new name could end up being the National Institute of Hypocrisy)
So that this organization which overtly raises a banner of truth, is actually covertly attempting to find as much wrong with marijuana, and filling the internet, magazines, books, and official ears with their less than honest study.
And THAT, as any researcher will tell you, becomes the death knell of that organization, because once trust is breached, it does not return to normal again.
But that is just the one front (two including the falsification of findings in the case of the CDC) and for a little pimple like me to be rattling the doors of the big white buildings in Washington DC is just as likely to be seen as Don Quixote charging the windmills, lance in hand, steady steed (though slow) heading ever onward.
In science, marijuana is a cure for cancer.
In the entertainment field, it is unwanted.
Marijuana has been used successfully by many to break their addiction to tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs (legal and illegal)
So the alcohol industry and the tobacco manufacturers are NOT interested in seeing it become legal.
And speaking of the world of manufacturers, automobile manufacturers don't want to see cannabis be legalized because that would mean hiring more people to retool their car body departments to produce fiber composite bodies from cannabis, long shown to be an advantageous alternative to steel, as it is more durable, biodegradable, and lightweight, which is exactly what we need for electric cars. But it wouldn't be something a machine could do as well as a man, and that shrinks profits.
Clothing manufacturers from the Asian markets would not be as happy with cannabis legalization, as their profits would suffer some. India and China sell cannabis products to the USA for about $300 million every year, and that would definitely cut into their profits.
Pharmaceutical companies also don't want to see legalization passed. The implications of cannabinoid products is far reaching and far more safe than the chemical nightmare that has been sold to America so far.
I mean, here the pharmaceutical companies are, trying to sell bigger boner pills to the world while the CURE to CANCER lays stale in their trash heap? And even when they recognize the importance of THC, what do they do? Attempt to create a chemical duplicate of it. Unsatisfactorily, but, none the less, that is their gig.
Lumber companies don't want to see legalization because they have trees to cut down to sell for lumber, however, once a forest is flattened, it takes no less than ten years to regrow, and even then, it is weaker, less durable wood. Marijuana grows two harvests a year and provides as much in the way of fiber board and support beams made of composite elements of cannabis as any forest. Plus with plasticized cannabis plate shingles, provides a roof structure, too.
And as an additive to concrete (instead of sand) creates hempcrete, a lightweight and strong foundation. Or, with a different grade of sealant, it makes excellent stucco.
So lobbyists are fat with money offerings to pry votes from the government, and the government blindly looks at what the in-house "authorities" say (CDC, and NIH) and make the easy decision to do what's right for their own wallets, not for what's better for the country.
That's another war front, and there are many more.
The momentum gathered from Harry J. Anslinger's original idea to keep minorities from voting has done volumes of damage to both the freedoms of Americans and to the detriment of millions of people.
Anslinger had a habit of going into his office with nothing but an empty briefcase, and at the end of the day, would give a hand written account of medical professionals saying how dangerous marijuana could be to his secretary to type up in triplicate. From thin air.
Invented stories about people high on pot jumping off buildings because they thought they could fly... about drinking from broken bottles and causing sever internal damage because they were high on pot... hit and run incidents of pot smokers running people over... about people going mad from smoking pot and killing others.
ALL of these were made up by this one man who so feared losing his job (now that alcohol was legal again) that he created the menace he now attacked. From a national level his call was "Law and Order" and that opiates were the devil's tools, and marijuana led to it.
No proof.
No study.
Just a scared little man in his lonely little office.
Once having convinced the states into kowtowing to his call to arms, he expanded worldwide by suggesting that America wouldn't be able to help countries that did not also make the plant illegal.
The world, of course, bent to those wishes.
The Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) finally closed their doors and melded with the FBI, and specifically, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) took the reins in hand and have been flying along every since. It's easy, you see, to find marijuana growing in fields, easy to see voltage jumps in electric bills, and because the traces last so long, easy to find in random checking.
Another group that doesn't want it to be legalized because when they make a bust, they get to keep the proceeds of that bust.
Whether its a few hundred dollars, or a duffle bag with a few million dollars in it, they get to keep it.
So another front, and a most dangerous one at that. The DEA is more self serving and brutal than any agency before it.
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So, who has the REAL truth? Is it a cure for cancer? Shouldn't we be giving that the benefit of the doubt since it seems quite harmless otherwise?
Can hundreds of thousands of jobs be had from legalization?
Can our politicians be coaxed into using their minds instead of their pockets?
Can we ever move on into the 21st century proudly exclaiming that we have discovered the cure for cancer or shall we just keep saying that man cannot fly and the horse and buggy will outlast the automobile?
I also considered the locally positioned Congressional representatives, like Todd Rokita, and wrote twice concerning these points.
In a letter similar to the last one I sent President Obama (and a thing I would ask ALL good Americans to do) I stated as simply as I could the problem.
President Obama;
It's the same question, and actually, if you would be so kind as to answer it without using the tired erroneous prattle that Harry J. Anslinger gave some sixty to eighty years ago which the National Institute of Health is STILL using today...
With the cure for cancer in the oils of marijuana,
With the hundreds of thousands of jobs that could be had from cannabis,
With the savings on prosecutio
With the tax incomes available from new industries
With the fact that it is HARMLESS..
Why is marijuana still illegal?
Simple, eh?
That's because nobody is paying me money to keep it illegal.
IF you answer, thankyou.
If not, there are still about 125-175 million more citizens who would ask you the same thing.
yours truly,
Todd Rokita's replies were:
Thank you for contacting me regarding medicinal marijuana. It is good to hear from you.
As you may know, several measures have been introduced this Congress regarding medicinal marijuana. I believe every American citizen deserves to be treated with the best medical care and receive adequate medication at reasonable costs.
That being said, I do not support the legalization of medicinal marijuana. That is why I support the current Federal and Indiana laws governing the sale and use of medical marijuana.
I am sorry that we do not agree on this issue. Healthy debate and discourse are benchmarks of a vibrant republic and we are lucky to live in a nation that honors that belief. I will do my best to represent you and the people of Indiana's 4th District well.
and
I also do not support the legalization of marijuana. We cannot pay down the deficit at the expense of exposing our children to the dangers of drug use. At a time when our young people are being challenged in the world wide marketplace, anything that negatively affects their productivity in the work place or their eagerness to excel in school is counterproductive to the well being of our citizens.
With no facts or evidence, only his opinion.
And this is the wall I am confronted with. Not a wall of fact backed by evidence, but rather a wall constructed of party lines.
Not serving the interests of the citizens of the USA, but rather serving the interests of big money and the intense drive to keep minorities from voting, which was the hallmark of Harry J. Anslinger.
A bigot at the least, whose motto was,
"When Darkies smoke reefer, they think they are as good as White men."
And, that is why I am at war.
I have stated that "Hundreds of thousands of jobs are available with the legalization of marijuana and cannabis.
It is not an exaggeration.
http://openjurist.org/400/f3d/1070/leaf-v-shelnutt = Indiana police allowed to break in and kill whoever they want to kill, with no warrant or reason to do so.
http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx = deaths on roads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJmQ16cGBHU = part one of Dr. Tashkin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6pBw0bgmgA = part two of Dr. Tashkin
http://www.reefermadness.org/propaganda/essay2.html = Anslinger's propaganda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger = Anslinger's propaganda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Enforcement_Administration = DEA info
http://shafer.allegheny.edu/public.html = The most exhaustive report on marijuana ever done
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