Marijuana News

this is sucky news. I really like this Jack Herer stain of pot. it has this great smile of a stone that I really go for. it is a hard strain to grow, tho. and it only gets about three feet tall from what I saw in the grow room. well, here's the crappy news: From: iowa-norml-2@googlegroups.com [mailto:iowa-norml-2@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James Getman Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:12 PM To: iowa-norml-2@googlegroups.com Subject: Jack Herer Continues to Fight for His Life http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september172009/jack_update_9-17-09.php Jack Herer Continues to Fight for His Life -- Donation Fund Formed Tim King Salem-News.com Jack Herer remains in critical condition in a Portland hospital. (PORTLAND, Ore.) - Author and activist Jack Herer suffered a heart attack Saturday after stepping down from the stage at Hempfest, an event celebrating cannabis in Oregon. Herer is the author of "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" and it is fair to say he is known and loved by millions who are part of, or associated with, the cannabis culture. He is quite possibly the single most important and well known figure in the entire movement. Jack's heart attack followed his delivery of an impassioned speech to the thousands attending Hempstalk. The event is described by some friends of Jack's as a "mild heart attack", but Salem-News.com's Dr. Phillip Leveque, says no heart attacks are mild. We want to be able to give accurate information and we have received many emails from people who care and want to know how Jack, his wife Jeannie, and his son Mark are doing, along with their long list of supporters. Alabama Compassionate Care reported on Facebook that the latest UNCONFIRMED word is that Jack may have suffered damage to 70% of his brain. Organizers of Hempstalk had asked the city of Portland to station an ambulance near the event but city officials refused, according to Oregon NORML Executive Director Madeline Martinez. Dr. Leveque says Jack did go a long time without oxygen. It actually took between twenty and twenty five minutes for ambulance crews to reach Jack after he collapsed. Salem-News.com called the Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland and were told as of 2:10 p.m. west coast time, by a spokesperson, that Jack Herer is still in critical condition. He is in the hospital's Cardiac ICU. JACK HERER FUND: There is an immediate need for help with finances for Jack Herer. They ask for you to please spread the word. Donations may be deposited at any US BANK under the JACK HERER DONATION FUND. us skank and i do not get along. they hurt millions of peeps for free money. totally oink outfit

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Well, maybe if you're like our little group of would-be horticultural experts perhaps lol We Try to get a lethal dose to the blues, pain and general boredom as well as enjoy great stero jazz and rock... without electricity. Aand, I have noticed that I am occasionally easier to get along with as well.... on sub-lethal doses thus far. "Darn plant kingdom!", to quote Homer Simpson. Here's some info of interest to all you pro and anti folks... enjoy: What is the lethal dose of marijuana? How 'bout some facts and scientific figures for the peeps? According to which US Government authority you want to believe, the lethal dose of marijuana is either about one-third your body weight, or about 1,500 pounds, consumed all at once. did they just say I weigh 1,500 pounds??? lol -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In summary, enormous doses of Delta 9 THC, All THC and concentrated marihuana extract ingested by mouth were unable to produce death or organ pathology in large mammals but did produce fatalities in smaller rodents due to profound central nervous system depression. The non-fatal consumption of 3000 mg/kg A THC by the dog and monkey would be comparable to a 154-pound human eating approximately 46 pounds (21 kilograms) of 1%-marihuana or 10 pounds of 5% hashish at one time. In addition, 92 mg/kg THC intravenously produced no fatalities in monkeys. These doses would be comparable to a 154-pound human smoking at one time almost three pounds (1.28 kg) of 1%-marihuana or 250,000 times the usual smoked dose and over a million times the minimal effective dose assuming 50% destruction of the THC by smoking. Thus, evidence from animal studies and human case reports appears to indicate that the ratio of lethal dose to effective dose is quite large. This ratio is much more favorable than that of many other common psychoactive agents including alcohol and barbiturates (Phillips et al. 1971, Brill et al. 1970). Acute Effects of Marihuana, from Marihuana, A Signal of Misunderstanding - Table of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Nearly all medicines have toxic, potentially lethal effects. But marijuana is not such a substance. There is no record in the extensive medical literature describing a proven, documented cannabis-induced fatality. 5. This is a remarkable statement. First, the record on marijuana encompasses 5,000 years of human experience. Second, marijuana is now used daily by enormous numbers of people throughout the world. Estimates suggest that from twenty million to fifty million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible medical reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death. 6. By contrast aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year. 7. Drugs used in medicine are routinely given what is called an LD-50. The LD-50 rating indicates at what dosage fifty percent of test animals receiving a drug will die as a result of drug induced toxicity. A number of researchers have attempted to determine marijuana's LD-50 rating in test animals, without success. Simply stated, researchers have been unable to give animals enough marijuana to induce death. 8. At present it is estimated that marijuana's LD-50 is around 1:20,000 or 1:40,000. In layman terms this means that in order to induce death a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times as much marijuana as is contained in one marijuana cigarette. NIDA-supplied marijuana cigarettes weigh approximately .9 grams. A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response. 9. In practical terms, marijuana cannot induce a lethal response as a result of drug-related toxicity. 10. Another common medical way to determine drug safety is called the therapeutic ratio. This ratio defines the difference between a therapeutically effective dose and a dose which is capable of inducing adverse effects. 11. A commonly used over-the-counter product like aspirin has a therapeutic ratio of around 1:20. Two aspirins are the recommended dose for adult patients. Twenty times this dose, forty aspirins, may cause a lethal reaction in some patients, and will almost certainly cause gross injury to the digestive system, including extensive internal bleeding. 12. The therapeutic ratio for prescribed drugs is commonly around 1:10 or lower. Valium, a commonly used prescriptive drug, may cause very serious biological damage if patients use ten times the recommended (therapeutic) dose. 13. There are, of course, prescriptive drugs which have much lower therapeutic ratios. Many of the drugs used to treat patients with cancer, glaucoma and multiple sclerosis are highly toxic. The therapeutic ratio of some of the drugs used in antineoplastic therapies, for example, are regarded as extremely toxic poisons with therapeutic ratios that may fall below 1:1.5. These drugs also have very low LD-50 ratios and can result in toxic, even lethal reactions, while being properly employed. 14. By contrast, marijuana's therapeutic ratio, like its LD-50, is impossible to quantify because it is so high. 15. In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. For example, eating ten raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. 16. Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within a supervised routine of medical care. DEA Judge Young's Ruling on Medical Marijuana Now, wasn't that nice? we are safe from the killer weed, now how 'bout the slave masters who tell us crap about how it is going to cause schizophrenia when cannabid actually Helps such afflicted peeps? And, just a quick word about the dreaded addiction idea... it is exactly as fake as the LD50 boolshit was... you know! completely shit to tell other people from the get-go. Cannabis is as addictive as chocolate and that is where it stops. Right there at "Not Addicting at all" peace out from the bush and all here at the grow site

This just makes me so furious! Stop jailing us, grassley! you dirty lying weasle! head of the narcotics pukes in the federal government... say whaat? you embarrassing punk! you shame our home state wiht your lies and want to call our iowa an educated state?: how is this possible when we are led by such a monsterous liar as you, a pot nazi who will 'never surrender in the war on drugs" is supposed to be representing us? How? how ? why would anyone think kindly of iowans if we have such a lying to the people monster like you in front of us? [size=150]How many more murders must our people endure for your pot-nazi beliefs to be thrown down for filth, senator chaz grassley? Are you aware that our police have murdered FAR more cannabis smokers and possessors than Iran has recently? grassley? You claim you have 16,000 "scientific studies" to suipport your ugly lies against cannabis; I deeply believe there is at least one murdered american for every one of your fake studies!![/size] Throw down the sword, pot nazi! Surrender to the bush! yeild your ugly hell breathing lies to the sunlight! grassley!! [color=#FF0000]you are partly responsible for this shit because you perpetrate it at the federal level[/color]![size=150][/size] Houston police mum on marijuana prisoner’s death By David Edwards and Stephen Webster Published: June 23, 2009 A woman serving a short sentence in a Houston, Texas, jail for possession of marijuana died in custody over the weekend, and officers are not saying how or why. The 29-year-old, identified as Theresa Anthony, had expected to spend just two and a half weeks behind bars in the Harris County lockup. On Saturday, Cynthia Prude, Theresa’s mother, received a phone call from the jail’s Chaplain informing her that her daughter was dead. “I almost got in a wreck,” Prude told the local Fox affiliate. “I thought somebody was playing on the phone. I would like to know what happened to my daughter.” Prude has not been allowed to see the body, nor has the Harris County Sheriff’s Department even spoken with her, according to area media. “Today I still don’t know if that’s my daughter,” Prude told Houston news station KHOU. “I’m only going by a Social Security number that we got from Ben Taub Hospital.” Houston’s Fox affiliate noted that an autopsy has not yet been conducted on Theresa’s body. The Harris County Sheriff Department’s public information officer was not available to answer RAW STORY’s questions. Not the first time It is hardly the first time serious questions surrounded the death of a Harris County inmate. On 4 June 2009, the Justice Department concluded a 15 months-long investigation into the Harris County facility and determined in the subsequent 27-page report that over 142 prisoners had died there since 2001. Most expired due to lack of medical care, the report claims. The Associated Press noted that after the Justice Department declined to make its findings public, The Houston Chronicle was able to obtain a copy, which it released on the Internet. The findings, addressed to Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, lauded the prison’s efforts to maintain security, booking and intake programs and take basic fire safety precautions. The Justice Department said that by these measures, the facility “complies with constitutional requirements in a number of significant respects.” The Justice Department added that in spite of these marginal safety and procedural issues, “certain conditions at the jail violate the constitutional rights of detainees. Indeed, the number of inmate deaths related to inadequate medical care [...] is alarming.” This video is from My Fox Houston, broadcast late Monday, June 22, 2009. Download video via RawReplay.com

This ugly shit just makes me soo furious and sick to my stomach! grassley!! you horrible dirty thug! Assassin! Liar!! How many more murders must our people endure for your pot-nazi beliefs to be thrown down for filth, senator chaz grassley? Are you aware that our police have murdered FAR more cannabis smokers and possessors than Iran has recently? grassley? You claim you have 16,000 "scientific studies" to suipport your ugly lies against cannabis; I deeply believe there is at least one murdered american for every one of your fake studies!! Throw down the sword, pot nazi! Surrender to the bush! yeild your ugly hell breathing lies to the sunlight! grassley!! you are partly responsible for this shit because you perpetrate it at the federal level Houston police mum on marijuana prisoner’s death By David Edwards and Stephen Webster Published: June 23, 2009 A woman serving a short sentence in a Houston, Texas, jail for possession of marijuana died in custody over the weekend, and officers are not saying how or why. The 29-year-old, identified as Theresa Anthony, had expected to spend just two and a half weeks behind bars in the Harris County lockup. On Saturday, Cynthia Prude, Theresa’s mother, received a phone call from the jail’s Chaplain informing her that her daughter was dead. “I almost got in a wreck,” Prude told the local Fox affiliate. “I thought somebody was playing on the phone. I would like to know what happened to my daughter.” Prude has not been allowed to see the body, nor has the Harris County Sheriff’s Department even spoken with her, according to area media. “Today I still don’t know if that’s my daughter,” Prude told Houston news station KHOU. “I’m only going by a Social Security number that we got from Ben Taub Hospital.” Houston’s Fox affiliate noted that an autopsy has not yet been conducted on Theresa’s body. The Harris County Sheriff Department’s public information officer was not available to answer RAW STORY’s questions. Not the first time It is hardly the first time serious questions surrounded the death of a Harris County inmate. On 4 June 2009, the Justice Department concluded a 15 months-long investigation into the Harris County facility and determined in the subsequent 27-page report that over 142 prisoners had died there since 2001. Most expired due to lack of medical care, the report claims. The Associated Press noted that after the Justice Department declined to make its findings public, The Houston Chronicle was able to obtain a copy, which it released on the Internet. The findings, addressed to Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, lauded the prison’s efforts to maintain security, booking and intake programs and take basic fire safety precautions. The Justice Department said that by these measures, the facility “complies with constitutional requirements in a number of significant respects.” The Justice Department added that in spite of these marginal safety and procedural issues, “certain conditions at the jail violate the constitutional rights of detainees. Indeed, the number of inmate deaths related to inadequate medical care [...] is alarming.” This video is from My Fox Houston, broadcast late Monday, June 22, 2009. Download video via RawReplay.com