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Five Things You May Know About Marijuana That Arent True
by Elsewhere infive things you may know about marijuana that arent true.
posted by guest columnist on february 27, 2010 @ 2:19 am in us news | 35 comments.
by steve elliott.
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Five Things You May Know About Marijuana That Arent True
by Elsewhere infive things you may know about marijuana that arent true.
posted by guest columnist on february 27, 2010 @ 2:19 am in us news | 35 comments.
by steve elliott.
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CBD and Cancer - Cannabidiol Treatment For Cancer
Tue, 07/14/2009 - 19:33 — thcfPart 2 in Storm Crow's look at the little known but highly effective medical ingredients in cannabis.
Storm Crow for Salem-News.com
(NORTHERN Calif.) - There is a lot more to cannabis than just THC. Although the press and science have focused on THC because of its effects on the brain, the other cannabinoids are potent medicines in their own right. Studies reveal that CBD, a non-psychoactive cannabinoid, may affect cancer cells of many types. Breast cancer, leukemia and glioma (a rather nasty brain cancer) are all slowed, or even killed by CBD.
I usually put in something amusing into my articles, but I find nothing amusing about cancer. Both of my grandmothers died of it. So please forgive me if I do not amuse you this time, but "cut straight to the chase".
In 2006, a study called "Anti-tumor activity of plant cannabinoids with emphasis on the effect of cannabidiol on human breast carcinoma," (see: Breast cancer: Antitumor Activity of Plant Cannabinoids with Emphasis on the Effect of Cannabidiol on Human Breast Carcinoma) compared the effect of five different compounds found in cannabis on an aggressive breast cancer. CBD was the clear winner.
In a short article about the study, it was stated "Cannabidiol (CBD) was the most potent cannabinoid in inhibiting the growth of human breast cancer cells injected under the skin of mice. (see: Science: Cannabidiol inhibits tumor growth in leukemia and breast cancer in animal studies)
CBD also reduced lung metastases deriving from human breast cancer cells that had been injected into the paws of the animals." To put it simply, CBD slowed the growth of the breast cancer and kept it from spreading into the lungs.
The glioma studies (see: Glioma apoptosis: Inhibition of Glioma Growth in Vivo) and (Glioma apoptosis: Cannabidiol triggers caspase activation and oxidative stress in human glioma cells) are very interesting, since the CBD attacked only the cancerous brain cells while leaving healthy brain cells untouched. Gliomas are one of the most malignant forms of cancer, resulting in the death of affected patients within 1–2 two years after diagnosis. Current therapies for glioma treatment are usually ineffective or just palliative. So how does CBD work to inhibit gliomas and other cancers?
Cells normally die through a process called apoptosis. Normal cells die after going through their programmed lifetime--but cancer cells refuse to die and begin to multiply rapidly. CBD "tells" the abnormal cancer cells that it is time to die by setting off the normal chain of events in programed cell death. The normal cells don't need to be "told" and are left alone.
But CBD doesn't stop there with putting a halt to gliomas. One of the things cancers do is to grow a lot of extra blood vessels to support their rapid growth. This is why a mole that bleeds when you scratch it may be suspected of being skin cancer. In a Spanish study, (see: Glioma blood vessels: Cannabinoids Inhibit the Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Pathway in Gliomas) two glioma patients (stage IV) received CBD injected directly into their tumors, for 16 and 19 days respectively, before their tumors were removed surgically. Both showed evidence of regression of the blood vessels to the tumors. The authors considered the results as "promising" and worthy of further study.
A third area where CBD is "promising" is in the treatment of leukemia. In the study "Cannabidiol-Induced Apoptosis in Human Leukemia Cells", (see: Leukemia: Cannabidiol-Induced Apoptosis in Human Leukemia Cells) we find this in the abstract- "Exposure of leukemia cells to cannabidiol led to cannabinoid receptor 2 (CB2)-mediated reduction in cell viability and induction in apoptosis. Furthermore, cannabidiol treatment led to a significant decrease in tumor burden and an increase in apoptotic tumors in vivo." Which is a fancy way of saying CBD killed the leukemia cells and reduced the number of tumors. And again, the authors urge further study.
Aside from feeling relaxed, there are no noticeable effects from CBD, even with very large doses.
On the other hand, modern medicine's chemotherapy is the practice of using poisons that are slightly more toxic to cancer cells than healthy cells. The idea is to poison you just enough so all the cancer cells die, while you, as an organism, live. A lot of healthy cells die in the process. Some patients die in the process. Even at its best, chemotherapy makes you feel very sick.
CBD or chemo? Which treatment sounds better to you?
Of course, these studies are just preliminary and need to be duplicated, refined and studied further. We need to examine the effects of CBD on these and other cancers. Until then, we are stuck with chemotherapy and all of its side effects. We must reschedule cannabis for research.
Source: http://salem-news.com/articles/july132009/cbd_2_sc_7-13-09.php
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Five Things You May Know About Marijuana That Arent True
by Elsewhere infive things you may know about marijuana that arent true.
posted by guest columnist on february 27, 2010 @ 2:19 am in us news | 35 comments.
by steve elliott.
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A history of our irrational marijuana laws
By Jim Hilsabeck | Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:00 am | (1) Comments
Historical records illuminate the motivations and judgments of lawmakers who promoted the criminal prohibition of marijuana in the United States, and the story does not reflect well on our current policies or their defenders.
What role have science, medicine and critical analysis played? Unfortunately, not much. Largely, emotion and overblown rhetoric created this prohibition.
Around 1900, there was a recession in Mexico and Mexicans crossed the border to work in the beet fields of the American Southwest. That is how the practice of marijuana smoking entered the United States. In Texas and elsewhere, bigotry and xenophobia ruled the day, and state legislators capitalized on people’s fear by demonizing the exotic weed some of the Mexicans smoked.
Nobody knew what marijuana was, but they knew it had to be bad.
Lawmakers decried the presence of cannabis and suggested users were prone to insanity and uncontrolled rage.
Criminal prosecutions dealing with non-medical use of drugs started with the Harrison Act of 1914, which dealt with heroin and other drugs, but not marijuana. From 1915 to 1937, some 27 states passed criminal laws against the use of marijuana. What motivated them?
An excerpt from a 1919 editorial in the New York Times offers insight: “No one here in New York uses this drug marijuana. We have only just heard about it from down in the southwest. But, we had better prohibit its use before it gets here. Otherwise, all the heroin and hard narcotics addicts cut off from their drugs by the Harrison Act, and the alcohol drinkers cut off by the prohibition of alcohol, will substitute this new and unknown drug, marijuana, for the drugs they used to use.”
The impact of the Harrison Act was to regulate drugs and the doctors dispensing them, and to criminalize the non-medical use of these drugs.
Because Congress expected opposition, it camouflaged the law as a tax: At that time, drugs such as cocaine and marijuana were legal and could be purchased for pennies. However, the taxes made the cost prohibitive.
In 1933, our first federal drug czar, Harry Jacob Anslinger of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, said a federal ban was needed to eradicate the “worst evil of all” — marijuana.
States were apathetic. Not to be deterred, Anslinger explained to his press pals in Washington that things were out of control, and they carried the message forward.
A Hearst editorial from Sept. 11, 1935, stated: “One thing that the indolent legislatures should be made to understand is that the ‘dope’ traffic does not stand still. In recent years, the insidious and insanity producing marihuana has become among the worst of the narcotic banes, invading even the school houses of the country, and the Uniform State Narcotic Law is the only legislation yet devised to deal effectively with this horrid menace.”
In 1937, we get the Marihuana Tax Act, again a prohibition in the form of a tax.
During hearings on the law, Dr. William C. Woodward appeared on behalf of the American Medical Association to oppose the measure because he believed it would kill any medical use of marijuana and inhibit further research.
Members of Congress roundly rebuked him, though the act passed and had exactly that effect.
Often, drug legislation reflects social and political issues confronting our country at the time they are drafted.
What was going on in 1951? The Korean Conflict and the Cold War. It was a time of high paranoia in the United States, and the Fourth Estate fueled perception that drug use among high school students was spurred by subversive foreign enemies.
That was also the year of the Boggs Act, which quadrupled criminal penalties for violation of drug laws.
During legislative hearings, one doctor told Congress the medical community knew marijuana wasn’t addictive and that it didn’t produce insanity or encourage criminality.
Anslinger testified immediately afterward, saying, “The doctor is right — marijuana is not an addictive drug. It doesn’t produce insanity or death, but it is the certain first step on the road to heroin addiction.”
This false notion led to the passage of the bill, and still has life today.
In 1969, the times were again very different, the children of politicians were being arrested for drug possession, and the Dangerous Substances Act passed.
It was important because we finally abandoned the faux-tax strategy and — instead of raising criminal penalties — for the first time in our history lowered them. But that didn’t last. Today, federal law classifies cannabis as a Schedule One narcotic. Schedule One contains drugs with the highest abuse potential that have no accepted medicinal value.
This brief history illustrates the flawed logic and irrational actions of the government and the cultural mainstream, demonizing marijuana and its users while ignoring its true nature and medical potential.
(Hilsabeck lives in Napa.)
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 02-28-10 WT Study (CULTIVATE LOVE)
by blondie incan jws only love other jws?
3:1-5.. comments.
2: 1-7.. comments.
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purplesofa
I can hardly believe they brought up Malawi............damage control?
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Jehovahs Witnesses address their fellow citizens in RUSSIA
by purplesofa inlink to tract in english to be distributed in russia.. .
http://www.jw-media.org/rus/publications/t83_e.pdf.
for immediate release.
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Today is the last day of the campaign, I am hoping to get a report on how it went'
purps
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Five Things You May Know About Marijuana That Arent True
by Elsewhere infive things you may know about marijuana that arent true.
posted by guest columnist on february 27, 2010 @ 2:19 am in us news | 35 comments.
by steve elliott.
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ARMAGEDDON IS A TRICK
by cameo-d in(originally posted on tsunami thread, but felt it deserved a discussion on its own.).
it is my contention that this physically destructive "armageddon" will be a contrived event.
the bible never says anything about any battle of armageddon where god kills off all non-church members.
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purplesofa
which thread is it ?
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Is there any way to fight for my bipolar daughter?
by angryrat ini am new to this forum and was hoping to have some place to vent.
i am absulutely hurt and beside myself as i write this.. i raised my kids to follow the witness teachings.
one of my daughters has a very severe bipolar disorder and is currently in a mental institution after trying to kill herself.
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purplesofa
Thank-you for the update,
I'm sorry it has come to this for you.
Your decision to walk away and not let it drag you down I know must be difficult.
Keep yourself healthy, she may come around and will need you. Healthy.
My heart goes out to you,
purps
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Jehovahs Witnesses address their fellow citizens in RUSSIA
by purplesofa inlink to tract in english to be distributed in russia.. .
http://www.jw-media.org/rus/publications/t83_e.pdf.
for immediate release.
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Link to Tract in english to be distributed in Russia.
http://www.jw-media.org/rus/publications/t83_e.pdf
For Immediate Release
February 25, 2010Jehovah’s Witnesses address their fellow citizens
RUSSIA—On February 26-28, 2010, throughout Russia, from the Chukchi Peninsula in the east to Kaliningrad in the west, a special campaign is taking place. For these three days, tens of thousands of Russian Jehovah’s Witnesses are offering their fellow citizens a tract entitled Could It Happen Again? A Question for the Citizens of Russia . Twelve million tracts will be distributed.
Why did they decide to address this particular question? The Chairman of the Presiding Committee of the Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia, Vasily Kalin, said: “Sixty years ago in the Soviet Union, Jehovah’s Witnesses experienced an unprecedented wave of persecution and repression. Lately, a new wave, a systematic campaign of harassment is being carried out against Jehovah’s Witnesses; this time, some want to classify our literature and activity as extremist. Our meetings for worship are raided; worshippers are illegally detained, questioned, and searched. Their personal possessions are confiscated. In view of the seriousness of this situation, we, Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia, consider it necessary to provide our fellow citizens, not excluding government officials, with accurate information about ourselves, as well as about cases of the religious intolerance that we have encountered.”
International concern has been expressed over the growing intolerance of religious freedom in Russia even though the Russian Constitution guarantees this fundamental human right. On January 20, 2010, an appeal, signed by more than 40 human rights experts in Russia and throughout Eastern Europe, was sent to the highest Russian authorities, urging an end to the harassment and repression that Jehovah’s Witnesses are subjected to.
The last page of the tract states: “The tactics of innuendo and slander need not work on you. We hope that you will make the effort to see through such empty talk.”
The tract can be read online in English and in Russian.
Media contact information:
In Russia: Yaroslav Sivulsky, +7 911 087 80 09 +7 911 087 80 09In the United States: J.R. Brown 718-560-5600 718-560-5600
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Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History
by purplesofa infrom newsweekhttp://www.newsweek.com/id/233844/page/1.
history in the remakinga temple complex in turkey that predates even the pyramids is rewriting the story of human evolution.. berthold steinhilber / laif-reduxa pillar at the gobekli tepe temple near sanliurfa, turkey, the oldest known temple in the worldby patrick symmes | newsweekpublished feb 19, 2010from the magazine issue dated mar 1, 2010. .
they call it potbelly hill, after the soft, round contour of this final lookout in southeastern turkey.
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purplesofa
Heres another find that says it is the oldest,
Sorry for being all over the place, but does anyone else get into researching about these archeological digs?
purps
http://www.adamscalendar.com/pages/index.php
Older than the Giza pyramids
Older than StonehengeA 75,000 year-old stone calendar - In the cradle of humankind.
A new discovery of an ancient circular monolithic stone calendar site in Mpumalanga has proven to be at least 75,000 years old, pre-dating any other structure found to date. Southern Africa holds some of the deepest mysteries in all of human history. What we are told is that at around 60,000 years ago the early humans migrated from Africa and populated the rest of the world.
Who were these first humans? What did they do? And where did they disappear to?
It estimated that there are over 100 000 ancient stone ruins scattered throughout the mountains of southern Africa. Artefacts that have been recovered from these ruins show a long and extended period of settlement that spans to over 200,000 years. The most spectacular examples of these ancient ruins are RIGHT HERE within walking distance. Modern historians have been speculating about the origins of these ruins, often calling them ‘cattle kraal of little historic importance’. The truth of the matter is that closer scientific inspection shows that we actually know very little about these spectacular ancient ruins. It is a great tragedy that thousands have already been destroyed through sheer ignorance but forestry and farmers have now started to protect these ruin. Adam’s Calendar is the flagship among these ruins because we can date this monolithic calendar with relative certainty to at least 75,000 years of age based on a number of scientific evaluations. Adam’s Calendar also presents the first tangible evidence of consciousness among the earliest humans in the ‘Cradle of humankind’. The site is built along the same longitudinal line as Great Zimbabwe and the Great Pyramid. It is also aligned with the rise of Orion’s belt some 75,000 years ago.
Adam’s Calendar
This is possibly the only example of a functional, mostly in-tact monolithic stone calendar in the world.
The founder of Adam’s Calendar, Johan Heine, observes as the shadow of the setting sun on the summer solstice
21 Dec. As the sun sets the shadow slides off the edge – only to resume its path back to the opposite edge where it stops on the winter solstice, 21 June.