Re: Response from Senator Ron Wyden to your e-mail
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Nathan Fisher
Jul 15, 2010, 2:26:48 PM7/15/10
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Senator Wyden,
A look into the mentality of the man who officially launched the 'war' on drugs and marijuana in 1970:
“That's right, that's right,” Nixon says. “A person does not drink to get drunk. . . .
A person drinks to have fun."
Today, our planet is in desperate trouble. Earth is suffocating as large tracts of rain forests disappear. Pollution, poisons and chemicals are killing people. These great problems could be reversed if we industrialized hemp. Natural biomass could provide all of the planet’s energy needs that are currently supplied by fossil fuels. We have consumed 80% of our oil and gas reserves. We need a renewable resource. Hemp could be the solution to soaring gas prices. This single resource could create millions of new jobs generating thousands of quality products.
Since the repeal of the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act of 1937 in the 1960's, Nixon put into federal law the Control Substances Act of 1970, which introduced the federal drug schedule, which classifies marijuana as Schedule 1, while it's less effective pharmaceutical counterpart, Marinol, is Schedule 3.
The federal drug schedule is not based on medical science. It is a directed, political attack on the poor, youth, and ethnic minorities of this nation by the Nixon administration. The same man that later resigned over being impeached for interfering with an election.
We have let it grow to be the costliest domestic war in this nations history. Regulation reduces harm. Prohibition promotes violence. In all cases. Regulation worked for tobacco, which still kills more people than all illicit substances combined every year. Cannabis has killed 0 people in 10,000 years of recorded history.
"We are at the dawn of new age in medicine and a new day for mankind. Not only can hemp save the world, it can eliminate a great deal of human suffering and can even put an end to starvation.
We are ruining this planet; babies and toddlers are being given chemicals and poisons in hospitals as medicine. Every second that goes by people are suffering and dying needlessly yet we sit there and wait for what we already know to be a corrupt system to stand up and do the right thing for us all.
What are we waiting for? Join with me and let us put an end to this madness. It can only survive if we continue to sit on our backsides and do nothing. Stand up and be counted and let us give ourselves a chance to heal.
Truly, how stupid have we all been in the past, if you want change in this world you have to stand up and make it happen. For there is no hope that the current system will ever do it for us. Our future and the future of everything we care about is at stake. Stand as one and work with us to put mankind back on the right path."
~ Rick Simpson ~
You disappoint me and have failed as a representative. There is no issue we can agree on if you cannot see the sense in reforming our nations drug policy, and that goes for all politicians. Your uninformed canned response to this issue is offensive and ensures I will NEVER vote for you, and I am not alone; it clearly shows your lack of interest or care for your constituents. It also assures that I will campaign AGAINST you unless you take the time to educate yourself. The gateway theory has been disproved by the science of Psychology in major journals multiple times. Cannabis does not harm memory or attention span as it is an effective medicine for ADHD and the federal government has owned the patent for cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuro-protectants since 2003. Your "beliefs" do not matter in the face of facts, one of which is that this "drug war" hurts far more people than it helps, domestic and abroad. I seriously doubt you ever even SAW my email, sir. Please be aware of the following information and resolve your ignorance ASAP, that is, if your staff doesn't shelter you from emails like mine... containing facts you don't want to "believe..."
This is the real picture of the "drug war":
Who needs coke or heroin when you can just ask your doctor for amphetamine or oxycontin...? Please endorse I-28! End this "drug" war. Start fighting the real fight...treatment of addiction to HARMFUL substances. Enough with the POLITICAL Scheduling of drugs, we need science based policy for all, not oppression of the rich and few!
Please consider reading and signing the Vienna Declaration. The Vienna Declaration is a statement seeking to improve community health and safety by calling for the incorporation of scientific evidence into illicit drug policies. We are inviting scientists, health practitioners and the public to endorse this document in order to bring these issues to the attention of governments and international agencies, and to illustrate that drug policy reform is a matter of urgent international significance.
This is the official declaration of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) to be held in Vienna, Austria from July 18th to 23rd. The declaration was drafted by a team of international experts and initiated by several of the world’s leading HIV and drug policy scientific bodies: the International AIDS Society, the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP), and the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.
This is the official declaration of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) to be held in Vienna, Austria from July 18th to 23rd. The declaration was drafted by a team of international experts and initiated by several of the world’s leading HIV and drug policy scientific bodies: the International AIDS Society, the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP), and the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.
Just the facts. Just say know...
It was thought that cannabis worked like alcohol. This all changed in 1988. Entering the brains of rats, scientists attached radioactive tags to synthetic cannabinoids and watched where they landed. They made an amazing discovery! They found two types of cannabinoid receptors in the body and named them “CB1” and “CB2.” This discovery contrasts with alcohol, which has no receptors, is not part of a physiological system, and can easily induce alcohol poisoning.
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A look into the mentality of the man who officially launched the 'war' on drugs and marijuana in 1970:
“That's right, that's right,” Nixon says. “A person does not drink to get drunk. . . .
A person drinks to have fun."
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Endocannabinoids are a class of chemicals that the body uses to protect your nerve cells from damage during neurogenisis. They are also the reason we are able to attach to the uterus in the womb. They are responsible for telling damaged cells to kill themselves, hence this is the route to the cure for cancer as well. There is much more that this system is responsible; we have barely begun to scratch the surface of what is possible with endocannabinoids.
In the mean time, Cannabis is a good source of up to 60 different natural, organic, cannabinoids. I recommend ingestion of a tincture or concentrate like hash or hash oil, ~1 gram a day for longer life and cancer curing/preventative effects as well as improved immune function, neurogenisis and neuro-protection. Most will adjust to this dose and not feel intoxicated after taking it over as little as a week. 90 days or less cures most terminal cancers and many other diseases; continue the dose to manage pain, weight, and to prevent cancer or relapse. Also proven effective in fighting/curing/preventing diabetes. Just search pubmed.gov or google to confirm...
Look no further for preventative care. Those that consume cannabis are 62% less likely to ever get cancer and live longer than those that don't. It even manages/cures/prevents diabetes in most people. Add a good diet and healthy activity/exercise and you have a long life ahead of you :-)
The best part? Anybody can make this medicine for themselves with the right instruction, equipment and the spare room or space in your home. What would the medical establishment do about that? Big Pharma? This is exactly what Prop 19 will do for California, we shall see how it goes...
Why isn't this available to all, safely and affordably, if all the major drug companies that exist today used to produce cannabis medicines for over 50 years in the 19th century? Why is it illegal? Why is it a drug, when tobacco and alcohol kill more people than ALL illicit drugs combined? Cannabis has been solely responsible for zero deaths in 10,000 years of recorded history. In fact, water is more toxic than cannabis. Prohibition is the problem, as it was for alcohol, not illicit drugs. We need education and treatment, not incarceration.
Did you know that everything that we manufacture with Crude Oil could be made from Hemp? But instead of polluting the Gulf of Mexico, Nigeria, etc we would create a sustainable, environmentally friendly, domestic energy industry, among many others. What is wrong with that? What are your solutions to the energy crisis and oil pollution?
Think about it. Educate yourself:
We need to make sure Medical Marijuana is considered as part of the healthcare plans offered to all Oregonians. The first 2 tiers of the plan that the Oregon Health Board is putting together could almost entirely be taken care of by medical marijuana for many many citizens.
Oregon, and DHS specifically, is facing a huge budget deficit over the next two years (~$2.5 billion, ~$600 million) and we really need to look at what cash positive programs (OMMP) have been doing over the last ten years to improve the health and reduce the cost of healthcare for Oregonians. This deficit will mean cutting vital programs for seniors and many other citizens. I-28 is very, very likely to generate enough funds for DHS and Oregon to significantly plug up the deficit in our budget, saving many of these vital programs, expanding a very successful program, and ensuring that healthcare is accessible and affordable for all Oregonians!
Oregon, and DHS specifically, is facing a huge budget deficit over the next two years (~$2.5 billion, ~$600 million) and we really need to look at what cash positive programs (OMMP) have been doing over the last ten years to improve the health and reduce the cost of healthcare for Oregonians. This deficit will mean cutting vital programs for seniors and many other citizens. I-28 is very, very likely to generate enough funds for DHS and Oregon to significantly plug up the deficit in our budget, saving many of these vital programs, expanding a very successful program, and ensuring that healthcare is accessible and affordable for all Oregonians!
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THE CONSPIRACY
In the late 1930's (culminating in 1937) interests from the Petrochemical, Cotton, Paper (from Trees), and Pharmaceutical companies conspired to eliminate competition from the fully sustainable pesticide-free crop Hemp.
Harry J. Anslinger (Temperance, Racist, Prohibitionist)
William Randolph Hearst (Paper Baron, Yellow Journalist)
Both shared the same banker as Du Pont Chemical, which just filed a patent for Nylon that year (a petrochemical synthetic fiber which they did not want to compete with histories oldest, best natural fiber, Hemp)
William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane) and the Hearst Paper Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned vast acreage of timberlands. The Hearst Company supplied most paper products. Patty Hearst’s grandfather, a destroyer of nature for his own personal profit, stood to lose billions because of hemp.
In 1937, DuPont patented the processes to make plastics from oil and coal. DuPont’s Annual Report urged stockholders to invest in its new petrochemical division. Synthetics such as plastics, cellophane, celluloid, methanol, nylon, rayon, Dacron, etc., could now be made from oil.Natural hemp industrialization would have ruined over 80% of DuPont’s business.
Andrew Mellon became Hoover’s Secretary of the Treasury and DuPont’s primary investor. He appointed his future nephew-in-law,Harry J.Anslinger, to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
Secret meetings were held by these financial tycoons. Hemp was declared dangerous and a threat to their billion dollar enterprises. For their dynasties to remain intact, hemp had to go. These men took an obscure Mexican slang word: ‘marijuana’ and pushed it into the consciousness of America
So goes the history of the conspiracy of the devil weed marijuana.
Harry J. Anslinger (Temperance, Racist, Prohibitionist)
William Randolph Hearst (Paper Baron, Yellow Journalist)
Both shared the same banker as Du Pont Chemical, which just filed a patent for Nylon that year (a petrochemical synthetic fiber which they did not want to compete with histories oldest, best natural fiber, Hemp)
William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane) and the Hearst Paper Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned vast acreage of timberlands. The Hearst Company supplied most paper products. Patty Hearst’s grandfather, a destroyer of nature for his own personal profit, stood to lose billions because of hemp.
In 1937, DuPont patented the processes to make plastics from oil and coal. DuPont’s Annual Report urged stockholders to invest in its new petrochemical division. Synthetics such as plastics, cellophane, celluloid, methanol, nylon, rayon, Dacron, etc., could now be made from oil.Natural hemp industrialization would have ruined over 80% of DuPont’s business.
Andrew Mellon became Hoover’s Secretary of the Treasury and DuPont’s primary investor. He appointed his future nephew-in-law,Harry J.Anslinger, to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
Secret meetings were held by these financial tycoons. Hemp was declared dangerous and a threat to their billion dollar enterprises. For their dynasties to remain intact, hemp had to go. These men took an obscure Mexican slang word: ‘marijuana’ and pushed it into the consciousness of America
So goes the history of the conspiracy of the devil weed marijuana.
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Today, our planet is in desperate trouble. Earth is suffocating as large tracts of rain forests disappear. Pollution, poisons and chemicals are killing people. These great problems could be reversed if we industrialized hemp. Natural biomass could provide all of the planet’s energy needs that are currently supplied by fossil fuels. We have consumed 80% of our oil and gas reserves. We need a renewable resource. Hemp could be the solution to soaring gas prices. This single resource could create millions of new jobs generating thousands of quality products.
Since the repeal of the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act of 1937 in the 1960's, Nixon put into federal law the Control Substances Act of 1970, which introduced the federal drug schedule, which classifies marijuana as Schedule 1, while it's less effective pharmaceutical counterpart, Marinol, is Schedule 3.
The federal drug schedule is not based on medical science. It is a directed, political attack on the poor, youth, and ethnic minorities of this nation by the Nixon administration. The same man that later resigned over being impeached for interfering with an election.
We have let it grow to be the costliest domestic war in this nations history. Regulation reduces harm. Prohibition promotes violence. In all cases. Regulation worked for tobacco, which still kills more people than all illicit substances combined every year. Cannabis has killed 0 people in 10,000 years of recorded history.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"We are at the dawn of new age in medicine and a new day for mankind. Not only can hemp save the world, it can eliminate a great deal of human suffering and can even put an end to starvation.
We are ruining this planet; babies and toddlers are being given chemicals and poisons in hospitals as medicine. Every second that goes by people are suffering and dying needlessly yet we sit there and wait for what we already know to be a corrupt system to stand up and do the right thing for us all.
What are we waiting for? Join with me and let us put an end to this madness. It can only survive if we continue to sit on our backsides and do nothing. Stand up and be counted and let us give ourselves a chance to heal.
Truly, how stupid have we all been in the past, if you want change in this world you have to stand up and make it happen. For there is no hope that the current system will ever do it for us. Our future and the future of everything we care about is at stake. Stand as one and work with us to put mankind back on the right path."
~ Rick Simpson ~
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On Strain Development, from m-Research ( http://m-scale.com/ ):
The Derivative approach to pharmaceuticals exploration and the hobbyist crossing of plants seem to be similar in approach. Where as, the Rational Drug Design methodology used throughout the University and think tank research programs seems to be in line with the methods used by serious/professional medicinal growers and strain developers.
The Big Phama Derivative programs are geared to succeed at some point, at some cost and with some project threshold in lieu their odds.
Using the plethora of resources available to them via multi-millon dollars development budgets this derivative system utilizes very large chemist staffs to overcome the numbers and hopefully find success.
These derivative teams run 1000's of simple reactions against single compounds hoping somehow within their results, 1-2 constituents will demonstrate enhanced project effects, improved LD50s, etc beyond the parent molecule.
The Big Pharma process focuses on shear manpower and numbers to overcome the "luck" required to hit a "needle" in their constructed haystack.
The whole system scientifically manifests the "I wonder what this will do" approach to new combinations. With enough time, money, accounting and assuming the outlined derivative scheme encompasses the yet to be identified reaction, eventually the Big Pharma teams will produce a compound demonstrating the important improved characteristics.
The phase is then be repeated over until an overall pharmaceutical threshold for the project is met.
This process mirrors hobbyist strain crossing because instead of an outlined goal, there is a threshold of acceptance. The project is designed but not necessarily through a strategic method and often the compounds initiating the project were not developed with the same shotgun approach.
Side effects and instability also result from this kind of process, because meeting thresholds instead of project goals reduces the big picture impact of medicine and more importantly the patient's overall health. (there were some broad strokes in there people and i would be happy to develop this further, but the post is long enuff for now! "TPLEFN" :) )
Rational Drug Design utilizes a biological target/goal that drives the project to develop an new pharmaceutical. Often looking at Structure Activity Relationships (SAR) a chemist will reverse engineer a path from what they want back to starting materials they currently have or can create. Medicinal and/or Expert growers undergo a similar process as they develop medicines. What the Rational Approach trades from the Derivative approach is minimizing wasted effort, time and money for an intelligent design, process and metrics. Although RDD takes considerable strategic preparation the results can be tracked and the intermediate products can be evaluated and reproduced later as well.
The process also provides a good look into recessive and dominent traits important for future breeding and projects.
We feel is it very important to recognize medicinal breeders taking the same serious, well thought-out approach to medicine that medical labs make in conventional fields however they do it WITHOUT federal research grants, labs and security. If marijuana is to be treated the same as other medicines, I feel it is paramount to the effort to illuminate WHY marijuana IS medicine and HOW breeders in this field have been treating it as such for decades.
The Derivative approach to pharmaceuticals exploration and the hobbyist crossing of plants seem to be similar in approach. Where as, the Rational Drug Design methodology used throughout the University and think tank research programs seems to be in line with the methods used by serious/professional medicinal growers and strain developers.
The Big Phama Derivative programs are geared to succeed at some point, at some cost and with some project threshold in lieu their odds.
Using the plethora of resources available to them via multi-millon dollars development budgets this derivative system utilizes very large chemist staffs to overcome the numbers and hopefully find success.
These derivative teams run 1000's of simple reactions against single compounds hoping somehow within their results, 1-2 constituents will demonstrate enhanced project effects, improved LD50s, etc beyond the parent molecule.
The Big Pharma process focuses on shear manpower and numbers to overcome the "luck" required to hit a "needle" in their constructed haystack.
The whole system scientifically manifests the "I wonder what this will do" approach to new combinations. With enough time, money, accounting and assuming the outlined derivative scheme encompasses the yet to be identified reaction, eventually the Big Pharma teams will produce a compound demonstrating the important improved characteristics.
The phase is then be repeated over until an overall pharmaceutical threshold for the project is met.
This process mirrors hobbyist strain crossing because instead of an outlined goal, there is a threshold of acceptance. The project is designed but not necessarily through a strategic method and often the compounds initiating the project were not developed with the same shotgun approach.
Side effects and instability also result from this kind of process, because meeting thresholds instead of project goals reduces the big picture impact of medicine and more importantly the patient's overall health. (there were some broad strokes in there people and i would be happy to develop this further, but the post is long enuff for now! "TPLEFN" :) )
Rational Drug Design utilizes a biological target/goal that drives the project to develop an new pharmaceutical. Often looking at Structure Activity Relationships (SAR) a chemist will reverse engineer a path from what they want back to starting materials they currently have or can create. Medicinal and/or Expert growers undergo a similar process as they develop medicines. What the Rational Approach trades from the Derivative approach is minimizing wasted effort, time and money for an intelligent design, process and metrics. Although RDD takes considerable strategic preparation the results can be tracked and the intermediate products can be evaluated and reproduced later as well.
The process also provides a good look into recessive and dominent traits important for future breeding and projects.
We feel is it very important to recognize medicinal breeders taking the same serious, well thought-out approach to medicine that medical labs make in conventional fields however they do it WITHOUT federal research grants, labs and security. If marijuana is to be treated the same as other medicines, I feel it is paramount to the effort to illuminate WHY marijuana IS medicine and HOW breeders in this field have been treating it as such for decades.
Sincerely,
~Nathan Fisher~
Concerned Citizen
Students for Sensible Drug Policy
On Jul 14, 2010, at 8:35 AM, senato...@wyden.senate.gov wrote:
<Mail Attachment.gif>Dear Friend:Thank you for contacting me to express your support for legalization of marijuana. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue.During my service in Congress, Oregonians have sometimes asked me, “why can’t Americans use drugs in private, in their own homes?” This idea of private, legalized drug use is typically founded on claims that personal use harms doesn't harm anyone and that legalization would create enormous revenue for the federal government. I do not believe either claim to be true. The serious effects that illegal drugs have on healthy families and communities cannot be ignored. Decades of scientific research shows that repeated use of illegal substances greatly increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and other fatal health conditions. Even so-called “soft drugs,” like marijuana, adversely affect memory and attention span. They can also serve as a "gateway" drugs that lead to more serious drug use. I have therefore consistently voted to strengthen drug enforcement, education, and prevention measures.Again, thank you for keeping me apprised of issues that are important to you. While we may not agree on this issue, I hope and trust there are many other issues where we do agree. If I may be of further assistance in the future, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
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Ron Wyden
United States Senator
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