Open Thread

May 29, 2012
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Hope you had a good holiday weekend — especially the many veterans who are regulars here. I raised a glass to you, while hoping for an end to wars and for bringing war profiteers (both political and financial) to justice.

It got me thinking about the drug war — and yes, it is a war regardless of the drug czar’s wishes to avoid the words. And, of course, as with many wars, there’s no “winning” side or “righteous” side in this war. There are only combatants who refuse to give up their war, and the rest of the world who are victims of its destruction. We are not combatants in the drug war. Our fight is to end the war. Our fight is for peace.

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It’s been a busy time lately and will continue to be as I finish up some projects prior to taking a large tour group to New York next week. I’ve also started rehearsals for my next show in Chicago, which will be opening June 29.

I’ve also had to adjust my blogging routine. I finally retired the 2006 Mac laptop that you loyal readers helped purchase for me. It served me extremely well for a whole lot of years. I’m trying to get adjusted to blogging on an iPad. It’s more portable, but it also has some challenges and differences that require adjustments on my part. I haven’t gotten used to new ways of keeping track of articles, etc. Bear with me.

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bullet image Courts Expose Stop-and-Frisk as Racist, Unconstitutional NYPD Harassment Strategy: 8 Important Facets of the Legal Decision

“According to their own explanations for their actions, NYPD officers conducted at least 170,000 unlawful stops between 2004 and 2009″

bullet image Families of Mexico drugs war victims berate candidates – apparently U.S. politicians aren’t the only ones who prefer to avoid talking about the drug war.

bullet image Trial To Begin Monday In Lawsuit Over Dog Fatally Shot By Hartford Police – federal lawsuit. Time to start reining in the police abuse of dogs (via Radley Balko)

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Pete Guither is the editor of drugwarrant.com
  • Irrahayes

    This none too soon, there are many peer reviewed, double blind studies on the efficacy of cannabis. In the main is cannabis’s ability to skrink’s cancer tumours. Yet, the ‘one size fits all’ treatment of chemo-therapy followed by Radiotherapy in many cases. The doctors know that many patients self medicate throughout the Chemotherapy, because many patients tell them. But the doctors say nothing, won’t condone it niether will they say do not do that. They see the benefits for themselves yet still no one seems to embrace the success they see. Neither will they work with the patient on this aspect of the treatment. They just don’t want to know.  Remember they are employed by big-pharma they are merely looking after there own interests yet still, how can they sleep at night. They are not politicians, but the politicians do not want to know. Basically big-pharma cannot make any money from a plant, a herb, they cannot patent a plant. But they are working hard to isolate each and every component and blueprint DNA, and when they obtain this, and if they can obtain this, they may be able to make money from parts of the cannabis plant. But only one maybe two cannabiniods will be taken at a time. No more good feeling from cannabis, they do not want that. And in the mean time more & more peoples parents will die from cancer. More parents children will die from cancers of one kind or another. irra

      

  • Al

    As a crohns patient who has been using cannabis since the off set of my crohns, all i can say is that it helps. Almost 9 years has past since that first flair up and i don’t regret using cannabis as my medication. I have had ZERO painkillers. I am surgery FREE and the last entroscope (stomach into small bowel) that my doctor did on me SURPRISED him as well. All early testing done with an mri, a colonoscopy and catscans showed that i was a mess inside from top to bottom.

    Cannabis helped me with my sleep, my appetite, my pain, my sanity, my inflammation and it helped to regenerate the cells within my bowel but most of all it helped me with improving my quality of life and in the end isn’t that all that  matters?

    pace@treatingyourself.com

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