I am a member of the Peyote Church of God and feel God created all of life. That includes me, you, dogs, cats, roses, and of course Pot. God used evolution as a tool to create life and it's arrogant of any man to say "God made a mistake when he made Pot". He had a reason for it and now I offer Biblical proof.
Genesis 1:11
.And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:29
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat
Genesis 1:30
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Genesis 3:18
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things
Exodus 10:12
And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left
Psalms 104:14
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
Now before "any" of you say using that makes coke and smack legal ...that is not correct as coke and smack are not natural plants but have been processed by men into something else. The use of a natural plant is what God blessed and not the processing that man does and can do with the natural plants.
Most people that are against Pot base it on lies told by the government and their churches. They don't know all of the facts and like to assume that side of the story is true since the USA and church said so.
There is also the medical use of Pot as an argument here.
why do you use herione and outlaw pot??
All of the currently available analgesic (pain-relieving) drugs have limited efficacy for some types of pain. Some are limited by dose-related side effects and some by the development of tolerance or dependence. A cannabinoid, or other analgesic, could potentially be useful under any of the following circumstances:
· There is a medical condition for which it is more effective than any currently available medication.
· It has a broad clinical spectrum of efficacy and a unique side effect profile.
· It has synergistic interactions with other analgesics.
· It exhibits "side effects" that are considered useful in some clinical situations.
· Its efficacy is enhanced in patients who have developed tolerance to opioids. That drives me crazy as herione is legal for medical use and tons more harmful
Opiates, such as morphine and codeine, are the most widely used drugs for the treatment of acute pain, but they are not consistently effective in chronic pain; they often induce nausea and sedation, and tolerance occurs in some patients
The most encouraging clinical data on the effects of cannabinoids on chronic pain are from three studies of cancer pain. Cancer pain can be due to inflammation, mechanical invasion of bone or other pain-sensitive structure, or nerve injury. It is severe, persistent, and often resistant to treatment with opioids. In one study, Noyes and co-workers found that oral doses of THC in the range of 5-20 mg produced analgesia in patients with cancer pain
There is clearly a need for improved migraine medications. Sumatriptan (Imitrex) is the best available medication for migraine headaches, but it fails to abolish migraine symptoms in about 30% of migraine patients.118,147 Marijuana has been proposed numerous times as a treatment for migraine headaches,
Clinical studies should be directed at pain patients for whom there is a demonstrated need for improved management and where the particular side effect profile of cannabinoids promises a clear benefit over current approaches. The following patient groups should be targeted for clinical studies of cannabinoids in the treatment of pain:
· Chemotherapy patients, especially those being treated for the mucositis, nausea, and anorexia.
· Postoperative pain patients (using cannabinoids as an opioid adjunct to determine whether nausea and vomiting from opioids are reduced).
· Patients with spinal cord injury, peripheral neuropathic pain, or central poststroke pain.
· Patients with chronic pain and insomnia.
· AIDS patients with cachexia, AIDS neuropathy, or any significant pain problem.
Nausea and vomiting (emesis) occur under a variety of conditions, such as acute viral illness, cancer, radiation exposure, cancer chemotherapy, postoperative recovery, pregnancy, motion, and poisoning. Both
are produced by excitation of one or a combination of triggers in the gastrointestinal tract, brain stem, and higher brain centers
The profile of cannabinoid drug effects suggests that they are promising for treating wasting syndrome in AIDS patients. Nausea, appetite loss, pain, and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and all can be mitigated by marijuana.
Neurological disorders affect the brain, spinal cord, or peripheral nerves and muscles in the body. Marijuana has been proposed most often as a source of relief for three general types of neurological disorders: muscle spasticity, particularly in multiple sclerosis patients and spinal cord injury victims; movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and Tourette's syndrome; and epilepsy
Marijuana is often reported to reduce the muscle spasticity associated with Multiple sclerosis .62,123 In a mail survey of 112 MS patients who regularly use marijuana, patients reported that spasticity was improved and the associated pain and clonus decreased
The movement disorders most often considered for marijuana or cannabinoid therapy are dystonia, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Tourette's syndrome. Movement disorders are often transiently exacerbated by stress and activity and improved by factors that reduce stress. This is of particular interest because for many people marijuana reduces anxiety.
Marijuana and THC have been shown to reduce IOP by an average of 24% in people with normal IOP who have visual-field changes. In a number of studies of healthy adults and glaucoma patients, IOP was reduced by an average of 25% after smoking a marijuana cigarette that contained approximately 2% THC—a reduction as good as that observed with most other medications available today
Source National Organization for the reform of Marijuana laws
Now for the legal argument. Prohibtion doesn't work and our own history proves it. Prohibition of Pot puts money in the wrong hands as it could be our tax income. Our court sysytem is broken and is of need of an overhual.
Oct. 11, 2001
Rudolph J. Gerber retired from the Arizona Court of Appeals in May. He sat on that court for about 13 years. Before that, he was a Superior Court judge for nine years and in the County Attorney's Office for about three years. So Gerber has seen criminal justice up close and personal.
Which is why his article in the spring issue of the Arizona Law Review is such an eye opener. It amounts to a scathing indictment of the justice system from someone in a position to know.
And as such it should be required reading for every attorney considering a career in criminal law and for every law-and-order legislator tempted to get "tough" on crime.
An inescapable conclusion after reading the article: Our justice system is broken, concerned more with expediency than justice and with appearing tough far more than being effective.
Gerber reserves much of his criticism for this societal penchant of ours for getting tough, as reflected in mandatory sentencing, drug laws and the death penalty.
Mandatory sentencing, for instance, has resulted in more severe sentences than deserved, the effective abridgment of a person's right to trial and virtually no deterrence. In other words, it's not working. This abridgment occurs, says Gerber, when prosecutors purposely load up a defendant with charges that carry mandatory sentences to induce a plea bargain to avoid a trial.
In 1976, he said, the state Legislature enacted a law that permitted prosecutors to add firearm-possession charges and then dismiss them in exchange for guilty pleas. In 1982, the Legislature increased sentences for people convicted of felonies while on parole or probation, making life imprisonment possible.
Within a decade, the number of cases going to trial in Maricopa County fell from 10.74 percent to 3.77 percent, according to Gerber. "Severe mandatory sentences effectively make the constitutional right to trial too risky to be exercised, even for an innocent defendant (my emphasis)," Gerber wrote.
In other words, in the name of getting tough, we've mandated tough sentences that are, nonetheless, not imposed. That's because they are more useful as guns to the heads of defendants to avoid trial.
Consider: Ninety-five percent of all defendants now enter guilty pleas in Arizona. "When ajudication appears on the horizon, prosecutors use sentencing mandates to threaten a greater sanction to discourage it," Gerber wrote. "Our court system has become a vice: The system favors a plea and penalizes the constitutional right to a trial . . . ."
Mandatory sentencing has been the rage, so much so that the U.S. now imprisons 476 of every 100,000 Americans, higher than any other industrialized nation. Make that 507 of every 100,000 in Arizona, the eighth-highest in the country.
Gerber also criticizes a number of other legal monstrosities.
* The felony murder rule allows a murder charge, for instance, against a pot dealer because someone might have suffered a heart attack while witnessing the sale of a small amount of medicinal marijuana.
* On the drug war. "Thousands of youngsters are serving prison terms for a first-time, non-violent pot offenses while being guarded by uniformed tobacco and alcohol addicts." Draconian drug laws cannot be the first line of defense, Gerber argues.
* On the death penalty. "For those who do not or cannot address the moral issues, there remain the disturbing facts . . . that our capital punishment falls disproportionately on minorities . . . and sweeps some innocent defendants . . . in its wide nets . . . ."
I know many will dismiss Gerber as some liberal, bleeding-heart former jurist. And I am quite certain that at least the first of his solutions is a non-starter. He recommends removing criminal policy from legislators and turning it over to a non-partisan panel of experts. He calls for the appointment rather than election of all judges and law enforcement officials and simply more research to guide us as we consider the administration of justice.
They are all suggestions with merit, though, sadly, politically difficult to achieve.
Nonetheless, to ignore Gerber's observations and eschew any fix would be tantamount to ignoring the canary in the mine shaft.
Getting tough has really only meant getting mean - and ineffective.
By O. RIcardo Pimentel
The United States supports herione as a pain killer and outlaws pot which has MORE medical reasons..Not to mention we approve of drunks buying legally and many drunk drivers kill. We could free up so much prison space and increase tax income with the legalization of Marijuana.. Oh the most well known supporters?? George Washington and Thoms Jefferson both cultivated Marijuana for personal use.
Genesis 1:11
.And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:29
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat
Genesis 1:30
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Genesis 3:18
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things
Exodus 10:12
And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left
Psalms 104:14
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
Now before "any" of you say using that makes coke and smack legal ...that is not correct as coke and smack are not natural plants but have been processed by men into something else. The use of a natural plant is what God blessed and not the processing that man does and can do with the natural plants.
Most people that are against Pot base it on lies told by the government and their churches. They don't know all of the facts and like to assume that side of the story is true since the USA and church said so.
There is also the medical use of Pot as an argument here.
why do you use herione and outlaw pot??
All of the currently available analgesic (pain-relieving) drugs have limited efficacy for some types of pain. Some are limited by dose-related side effects and some by the development of tolerance or dependence. A cannabinoid, or other analgesic, could potentially be useful under any of the following circumstances:
· There is a medical condition for which it is more effective than any currently available medication.
· It has a broad clinical spectrum of efficacy and a unique side effect profile.
· It has synergistic interactions with other analgesics.
· It exhibits "side effects" that are considered useful in some clinical situations.
· Its efficacy is enhanced in patients who have developed tolerance to opioids. That drives me crazy as herione is legal for medical use and tons more harmful
Opiates, such as morphine and codeine, are the most widely used drugs for the treatment of acute pain, but they are not consistently effective in chronic pain; they often induce nausea and sedation, and tolerance occurs in some patients
The most encouraging clinical data on the effects of cannabinoids on chronic pain are from three studies of cancer pain. Cancer pain can be due to inflammation, mechanical invasion of bone or other pain-sensitive structure, or nerve injury. It is severe, persistent, and often resistant to treatment with opioids. In one study, Noyes and co-workers found that oral doses of THC in the range of 5-20 mg produced analgesia in patients with cancer pain
There is clearly a need for improved migraine medications. Sumatriptan (Imitrex) is the best available medication for migraine headaches, but it fails to abolish migraine symptoms in about 30% of migraine patients.118,147 Marijuana has been proposed numerous times as a treatment for migraine headaches,
Clinical studies should be directed at pain patients for whom there is a demonstrated need for improved management and where the particular side effect profile of cannabinoids promises a clear benefit over current approaches. The following patient groups should be targeted for clinical studies of cannabinoids in the treatment of pain:
· Chemotherapy patients, especially those being treated for the mucositis, nausea, and anorexia.
· Postoperative pain patients (using cannabinoids as an opioid adjunct to determine whether nausea and vomiting from opioids are reduced).
· Patients with spinal cord injury, peripheral neuropathic pain, or central poststroke pain.
· Patients with chronic pain and insomnia.
· AIDS patients with cachexia, AIDS neuropathy, or any significant pain problem.
Nausea and vomiting (emesis) occur under a variety of conditions, such as acute viral illness, cancer, radiation exposure, cancer chemotherapy, postoperative recovery, pregnancy, motion, and poisoning. Both
are produced by excitation of one or a combination of triggers in the gastrointestinal tract, brain stem, and higher brain centers
The profile of cannabinoid drug effects suggests that they are promising for treating wasting syndrome in AIDS patients. Nausea, appetite loss, pain, and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and all can be mitigated by marijuana.
Neurological disorders affect the brain, spinal cord, or peripheral nerves and muscles in the body. Marijuana has been proposed most often as a source of relief for three general types of neurological disorders: muscle spasticity, particularly in multiple sclerosis patients and spinal cord injury victims; movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and Tourette's syndrome; and epilepsy
Marijuana is often reported to reduce the muscle spasticity associated with Multiple sclerosis .62,123 In a mail survey of 112 MS patients who regularly use marijuana, patients reported that spasticity was improved and the associated pain and clonus decreased
The movement disorders most often considered for marijuana or cannabinoid therapy are dystonia, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Tourette's syndrome. Movement disorders are often transiently exacerbated by stress and activity and improved by factors that reduce stress. This is of particular interest because for many people marijuana reduces anxiety.
Marijuana and THC have been shown to reduce IOP by an average of 24% in people with normal IOP who have visual-field changes. In a number of studies of healthy adults and glaucoma patients, IOP was reduced by an average of 25% after smoking a marijuana cigarette that contained approximately 2% THC—a reduction as good as that observed with most other medications available today
Source National Organization for the reform of Marijuana laws
Now for the legal argument. Prohibtion doesn't work and our own history proves it. Prohibition of Pot puts money in the wrong hands as it could be our tax income. Our court sysytem is broken and is of need of an overhual.
Oct. 11, 2001
Rudolph J. Gerber retired from the Arizona Court of Appeals in May. He sat on that court for about 13 years. Before that, he was a Superior Court judge for nine years and in the County Attorney's Office for about three years. So Gerber has seen criminal justice up close and personal.
Which is why his article in the spring issue of the Arizona Law Review is such an eye opener. It amounts to a scathing indictment of the justice system from someone in a position to know.
And as such it should be required reading for every attorney considering a career in criminal law and for every law-and-order legislator tempted to get "tough" on crime.
An inescapable conclusion after reading the article: Our justice system is broken, concerned more with expediency than justice and with appearing tough far more than being effective.
Gerber reserves much of his criticism for this societal penchant of ours for getting tough, as reflected in mandatory sentencing, drug laws and the death penalty.
Mandatory sentencing, for instance, has resulted in more severe sentences than deserved, the effective abridgment of a person's right to trial and virtually no deterrence. In other words, it's not working. This abridgment occurs, says Gerber, when prosecutors purposely load up a defendant with charges that carry mandatory sentences to induce a plea bargain to avoid a trial.
In 1976, he said, the state Legislature enacted a law that permitted prosecutors to add firearm-possession charges and then dismiss them in exchange for guilty pleas. In 1982, the Legislature increased sentences for people convicted of felonies while on parole or probation, making life imprisonment possible.
Within a decade, the number of cases going to trial in Maricopa County fell from 10.74 percent to 3.77 percent, according to Gerber. "Severe mandatory sentences effectively make the constitutional right to trial too risky to be exercised, even for an innocent defendant (my emphasis)," Gerber wrote.
In other words, in the name of getting tough, we've mandated tough sentences that are, nonetheless, not imposed. That's because they are more useful as guns to the heads of defendants to avoid trial.
Consider: Ninety-five percent of all defendants now enter guilty pleas in Arizona. "When ajudication appears on the horizon, prosecutors use sentencing mandates to threaten a greater sanction to discourage it," Gerber wrote. "Our court system has become a vice: The system favors a plea and penalizes the constitutional right to a trial . . . ."
Mandatory sentencing has been the rage, so much so that the U.S. now imprisons 476 of every 100,000 Americans, higher than any other industrialized nation. Make that 507 of every 100,000 in Arizona, the eighth-highest in the country.
Gerber also criticizes a number of other legal monstrosities.
* The felony murder rule allows a murder charge, for instance, against a pot dealer because someone might have suffered a heart attack while witnessing the sale of a small amount of medicinal marijuana.
* On the drug war. "Thousands of youngsters are serving prison terms for a first-time, non-violent pot offenses while being guarded by uniformed tobacco and alcohol addicts." Draconian drug laws cannot be the first line of defense, Gerber argues.
* On the death penalty. "For those who do not or cannot address the moral issues, there remain the disturbing facts . . . that our capital punishment falls disproportionately on minorities . . . and sweeps some innocent defendants . . . in its wide nets . . . ."
I know many will dismiss Gerber as some liberal, bleeding-heart former jurist. And I am quite certain that at least the first of his solutions is a non-starter. He recommends removing criminal policy from legislators and turning it over to a non-partisan panel of experts. He calls for the appointment rather than election of all judges and law enforcement officials and simply more research to guide us as we consider the administration of justice.
They are all suggestions with merit, though, sadly, politically difficult to achieve.
Nonetheless, to ignore Gerber's observations and eschew any fix would be tantamount to ignoring the canary in the mine shaft.
Getting tough has really only meant getting mean - and ineffective.
By O. RIcardo Pimentel
The United States supports herione as a pain killer and outlaws pot which has MORE medical reasons..Not to mention we approve of drunks buying legally and many drunk drivers kill. We could free up so much prison space and increase tax income with the legalization of Marijuana.. Oh the most well known supporters?? George Washington and Thoms Jefferson both cultivated Marijuana for personal use.
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