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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

This is Sooo in your face to mine former prezidenchal gw bush that I can only laugh at it happening in my lifetime and cheering for more of the same. Let My People Go... get high lol UN Backs Drug Decriminalization In Drug Report Posted by CN Staff on June 24, 2009 at 11:38:59 PT By Ryan Grim Source: Huffington Post World -- In an about face, the United Nations on Wednesday lavishly praised drug decriminalization in its annual report on the state of global drug policy. In previous years, the UN drug czar had expressed skepticism about Portugal's decriminalization, which removed criminal penalties in 2001 for personal drug possession and emphasized treatment over incarceration. The UN had suggested the policy was in violation of international drug treaties and would encourage "drug tourism." is that the same as "freedom"? better kill THAT, eh, narcs? But in its 2009 World Drug Report, the UN had little but kind words for Portugal's radical (by U.S. standards) approach. "These conditions keep drugs out of the hands of those who would avoid them under a system of full prohibition, while encouraging treatment, rather than incarceration, for users. Among those who would not welcome a summons from a police officer are tourists, and, as a result, Portugal's policy has reportedly not led to an increase in drug tourism," reads the report. "It also appears that a number of drug-related problems have decreased." In its upbeat appraisal of Portugal's policy, the UN finds itself in agreement with Salon's Glenn Greenwald. Of course they decreased. You take the facist boot off our backs and things get better. what's complicated about that? The report, released at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., also puts to rest concerns that decriminalization doesn't comply with international treaties, which prevent countries from legalizing drugs. can you pot nazis just take the piss and get it over with? U.S. Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske is scheduled to appear at the announcement of the report. (He has said "decriminalization" is not "in my vocabulary.") nazi is in My vocabulary. how 'bout yours, curly? "The International Narcotics Control Board was initially apprehensive when Portugal changed its law in 2001 (see their annual report for that year), but after a mission to Portugal in 2004, it "noted that the acquisition, possession and abuse of drugs had remained prohibited," and said "the practice of exempting small quantities of drugs from criminal prosecution is consistent with the international drug control treaties," reads a footnote to the report. then why is it my so called freedom loving country has 830,000 pot related arrests, detentions, and enslavements in the last year? The UN report also dives head first into the debate over full drug legalization. Last year's World Drug Report ignored the issue entirely, save for a reference to Chinese opium policy in the 19th Century. This year's report begins with a lengthy rebuttal of arguments in favor of legalization. "Why unleash a drug epidemic in the developing world for the sake of libertarian arguments made by a pro-drug lobby that has the luxury of access to drug treatment?" argues the report. unleash a whaat? oh, you need to whip up some propaganda, is that it? But the UN also makes a significant concession to backers of legalization, who have long argued that it is prohibition policies that lead to violence and the growth of shadowy, underground networks. How 'bout you idiots tell that to the Mexicans who are killing each other to stop being so poor by using the prohibition on my pot? Your outrageous, psueudoscience has causes a hell of a lot of deaths and sorrow, you assholes "In the Preface to the report," reads the press release accompanying the report, "[UN Office of Drugs and Crime Executive Director Antonio Maria] Costa explores the debate over repealing drug controls. He acknowledges that controls have generated an illicit black market of macro-economic proportions that uses violence and corruption." What? Did one of you just grow a brain? Was that a independent question? omg!! seize that man! he must be high on drugs!! Jack Cole, executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) and a retired undercover narcotics detective, objected to the report's classification of current policy as "control." hmm, humans control nothing at all whatsoever. we influence everything, we control nothing. closest we get to control is to kill something. and we fuck that up most of the time "The world's 'drug czar,' Antonio Maria Costa, would have you believe that the legalization movement is calling for the abolition of drug control," he said. "Quite the contrary, we are demanding that governments replace the failed policy of prohibition with a system that actually regulates and controls drugs, including their purity and prices, as well as who produces them and who they can be sold to. You can't have effective control under prohibition, as we should have learned from our failed experiment with alcohol in the U.S. between 1920 and 1933." Ryan Grim's book, This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America, is now on sale. Newshawk: josephlacerenza Source: Huffington Post (NY) Author: Ryan Grim Published: June 24, 2009 Copyright: 2009 HuffingtonPost.com, LLC Contact: scoop@huffingtonpost.com URL: http://drugsense.org/url/GsbubOxc Website: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

These federalie assholes just brrr ache my heart. They just want to go hurt people and insist on their right to go to a foreign land ( where we are getting hated for this shit more every day ) and burn their crops in peace. Ater all, they been doin' it here since the thirties and getting away with the evil shit. bastids! From: iowamedicalmarijuana@googlegroups.com [mailto:iowamedicalmarijuana@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of rlfoundation1@aim.com Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 3:38 PM To: iowamedicalmarijuana@googlegroups.com Subject: [IowaMedicalMarijuana] Agents say DEA is forcing them illegally to work in Afghanistan http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/70386.html WASHINGTON — As the Obama administration ramps up the Drug Enforcement Administration's presence in Afghanistan, some special-agent pilots contend that they're being illegally forced to go to a combat zone, while others who've volunteered say they're not being properly equipped. In interviews with McClatchy, more than a dozen DEA agents describe a badly managed system in which some pilots have been sent to Afghanistan under duress or as punishment for bucking their superiors. Such complaints, so far mostly arising from the DEA's Aviation Division, could complicate the Obama administration's efforts to send dozens of additional DEA agents to Afghanistan as part of a civilian and military personnel "surge" that aims to stabilize the country. Veteran DEA pilot Daniel Offield has alleged in an employment discrimination complaint he was told if he refuses to go to Afghanistan in July he'll be demoted. The Stockton, Calif., agent asked for a reprieve because he was in the process of adopting two special needs children and offered to serve his required temporary duty in other countries. Another agent, David Beavers, told McClatchy that he was ordered in July 2007 to prepare to go to Afghanistan in two weeks while he was on bereavement leave after his mother-in-law died. To avoid going,=2 0the Orlando, Fla., pilot decided to retire early. Both men have flown for the DEA in Latin American countries wracked by drug violence, but they say service in a combat zone should be treated as voluntary because they're not military personnel. "You could say that the war on drugs is dangerous," said Beavers, a DEA pilot for more than 20 years. "But it's not quite like Afghanistan, where you can get your legs blown off by an (improvised explosive device)." You could say, "Let My People Go!!" ever more correctly, piggly wiggy!