I knew a M.D. who was doing medical research on mj & other ‘illegal’ drugs as far back as the 1970s. Can’t remember details, as I haven’t been in touch with him for decades, but it does seem the time has come.

Why the pols opposition? Prison-industrial complex? Or MIC, in the sense of selling arms, training thugs (aka ‘military’) in Mexico, Colombia, etc. Or something else.

It’s very clear O is completely opposed to any slight relief on the War on Drugz. Even though he used. So who are his corp masters who are pulling his strings?

As I typed this, it occurs to me PhRMA’s prolly against med mj. It is cheaper & more effective than anything they produce.

What other financial interests am I missing.

This is a start at least. I hope that when the time comes, they won’t allow this for terminal and seriously ill people ONLY. I’m not terminal or serious but I imagine that my joints would feel a lot better with a little help.

Heh. Just puts me to sleep. And since I don’t usually have trouble sleeping, I find no use for it.

Can’t remember details,
If I didn’t know you weren’t in to pot, that would be really funny.
Gee, ya think big pharm has anything to do with it. Yah?

What are the other financial interests?

I am sooo not into this topic.

I was agreeing with you.

What topic interests you right now?

Egypt.

And, in the mental sanity sphere, cooking.

I made tacos for dinner. Um um good.

I think you should be able to get cannibis and grow it without any restrictions at all. Same thing for tobacco or any naturally occurring plant from Mother Nature. The only reason tobacco had to become “regulated” by the corporate plants in the so-called regulatory agencies is because the corporations put addictive chemical additives in tobacco to make it that way (see the story of the biochemist that blew the whistle on a part of the corporate secret, called “The Insider” [part 1 starts here]). What was being sold through the captured market channels was a corporate product. Tobacco isn’t naturally like that. So, it’s hokum that cannibis is on the Schedule let along categorized at Class I. The public policy hypocrisy is so obvious when you can go out an buy a gun that kills a person every second (see “Giffords Speaking Again; Fiancee of Victim in Attack Calls for High-Capacity Magazine Ban“). Yes the corporate-captured government would rather see you put a gun to your head or someone else’s than receive the healing benefits of a naturally occurring herb. The corporate way is the truly the “Culture of Death” and it’s time to rid ourselves of it.

Secrets/Far above the clouds from Tubular Bells III by Mike Oldfield

Poppy OK with you too?

I haven’t done much Mexican yet. It’s a climate thing. You live in the right climate for it. I would do it in the summer here, but last summer was either too hot to experiment, or I had too many other items on my agenda to get to it. Being single, there’s only so much food prep I can do & still eat.

Recently I’ve made some new foody friends, so hopefully this coming summer (if it ever comes), I’ll be able to cook more, try some Mexican & share it.

OT. David Swanson’s diary on Egypt is really good.

Just scanned it. Will go back later to read in more detail. Thanks for the heads up.

Campaign Donors wish to maintain the Status Quo. Like Banking, billions of dollars are raked in by a handful of inside players. Obama must not upset the apple cart. Too much money made by important people.

The Prison Industrial Complex – especially the up-and-coming Private Prison Industry – needs to fill as many beds as possible. The Players involved here – also big money thugs – Campaign Donors – are intent on sucking the Public Money Teat as they denounce Social Security and Medical MJ for the proletariat.

Obama loves Koch.

YW

The point I am making is the corruption and collusion of the Banksters/Big Chemical/Big Oil/Big Pharma/Big Genome and its capture of government has distorted things terribly. I finally figured out the multi-pronged approach to put an artificial thing as the only choice in the “market” and profit off the ensuing human misery. Mother Nature doesn’t create such things (see “Keiser Report: Fiat Food (E119)“)– only the eternal artificial persons called corporations in collusion with government have the will and the wherewithal to do this. So, if it’s a real poppy it’s OK but folks are probably not even getting that on the fixed markets.

Idaho being open to legalizing pot does not surprise me. It may be deeply Red, but in the Libertarian vein, not the fundamentalist kind of GOP Red. Also, the militia types with their guns and weekend warrior activities may well have a crop or two back in the woods where they all gather and do whatever it is they do. These aren’t your Midwest and Southern Red staters. A lot of these are your anti-government, “stay out of my life and affairs” types.

It was a trick Q. I have it on a couple of sources, so for now it is my null hypothesis, that morphine is a better pain killer and less addictive than fancy PhRMA patented drugs.

There is probably not another issue in contemporary politics where there is a larger disconnect between the public’s view and the position of their elected representatives

That is a bold statement. It seems to me that yawning gaps between the public and elite officials is pretty much the norm. That said, there is plenty of room to make an issue out of this disconnect.

That really is true.

But a bunch of refugees from Orange County (CA) have brought a good dose of the other kind into the mix too (along with the large Mormon population). The two factions are currently at war though, it’s kind of funny to watch.

If the Democrats up here weren’t so pathetic they could probably clean up by going Ron Paul stylie (as opposed to their current strategy of trying to go toe-to-toe running a traditional GOP-conservative – exemplified by Minnick).

The American medical profession thought a friend of mine was dying of cancer and decided to start giving some formulation of morphine to ease the death process. My friend didn’t die but said that coming off whatever they were being given was difficult. There’s quite the variation among people and some are very sensitive. Very generally, it’s best not to use substances and work with the body one has. Since almost all the doctors in the country are owned and operated by the banksters, you’ll never hear that from them. I decided long ago I wasn’t going to go down that path.

Good points.

My only quibble would be: would your friend have been better or worse off on oxy than morphine.

I don’t know, so don’t take me wrong. In general, I hate docs, banksters, etc, etc, etc. And distrust everything they say.

Why wouldn’t Idaho be for pot? Just because you’re conservative, red-neck, women-hatin’, brown people hatin’, Union-Busting products of Colonized Western Amerika with a Superfund Site level of heavy metals,… doesn’t mean you can’t call a cash crop.

p.s., thanks for the post, Jon.

Good question. Let me backtrack slightly and give the nut of what Bruce Ames found that totally pissed off Big Chemical: Mother Nature provides things in the blood and/or tissue of plants that has the natural counter balancing biochemical components that make them nicer to the human system whereas Big Chemical finds only one component then synthesizes it s.t. it is stripped of the naturally occurring counter-balancing agents. Therefore, pharmaceuticals are very, very powerful and swift-acting but they have equally serious side-effects (e.g., analogy of coca leaves [not genetically modified] versus lab-created crack cocaine). Also there are impurities in the synthetics as a fact of their large scale industrial production. Further, there had been differences in the quality of proprietary versus generic by-prescription-only but that may be debatable now in a completely fixed market where the only way to ensure eternally advancing corporate profits is to cut corners. All of these things are why I answered the way I did in addition to the fact of the differences in the way people respond to a give substance which can also change during a rapidly decaying “heath state” (my umbrella term to capture a multivariate “thingy”). Many realize the US is a ghetto compared to what France and Germany get but Big Chemical will be the last to tell you as they make big bank on it. I enjoy your questions, Bee Keeper, keeping asking them.

This is why I’ve raised herbs most of my adult life. Synthetics is a huge industry. And flawed in the understanding of the medicinal properties of plants. But, I could go on and on.

From my perspective, synthetics are knowingly “flawed” for profit’s sake. Hence why I very much admire folks like Jeffery Wigand for speaking out.

Case-in-point about synthetics for profits’ sake made very well at time point 19:00 with the example of Monsanto GMO sugar beets seeds monopoly.