i trnsfr AIDS- dead cntacts w/the living.
miss u, want u back. what profit can b in no cure?
med cannabis keeps us aliver.
–richard kearns & weho/la mmj cmnty
Sunday, December 2, 2007
my world AIDS day 07 text message poem:
my world AIDS day 07 txt msg poem: nu fone 2day.
i trnsfr AIDS- dead cntacts w/the living.
miss u, want u back. what profit can b in no cure?
med cannabis keeps us aliver.
–richard kearns & weho/la mmj cmnty
i trnsfr AIDS- dead cntacts w/the living.
miss u, want u back. what profit can b in no cure?
med cannabis keeps us aliver.
–richard kearns & weho/la mmj cmnty
Sunday, November 25, 2007
dire passages: kearns sidelined 51 days from g-tube infection
chers on thanxg---
just a getting well thanks note. today, thanksgiving, thursday nov 22, 2007, here in lthe la/weho greater metropolitan area, i have been sidelined for 51 days from infection in & accompanying abcess around g-tube placed october 11. hospitalized in cedars 23-oct to 6-nov and bouncing back and forth between the nursing home wing and my regular assisted-care haunts where i live. have started to gain weight.
in the meantime, tube in place, i’m jumping back into my activism. i hope to organize poetry readings in weho-la-area medical cannabis clinics december 1-2, 2007 — world AIDS day weekend. this will be the second year. in addition, i have some print projects underway, and maybe t-shirt poetry.
check in at the blog --- am about to start writing again. bunches.
namasté
---rk
Friday, October 19, 2007
kearns' personal medical AIDS update: my new g-tube, fat HIVers, occult wasting & stigma
chers—
i write this post to you with my newly-placed g-tube sticking out of my abdomen from a big patch of bleach-white gauze and paper tape, a feeding device to provide me with enough supplemental calories to gain 20 pounds and stabilize there by the end of the year. i’m sore — my doctor threaded it through me endoscopically (puncturing me from the inside out). my favorite kind of operation: the anaesthesiologist added gunk to my iv, and the next thing i knew, the procedure was finished. i went home
back at the end of may (my birthday) i had some kind of bug (aside from HIV) and my weight dropped to 135. there was just not enough of me to go around (and it’s not the first time i’ve been at this weight, though it’s my first time with a food tube).
i set a goal of gaining ten pounds by the end of the summer. started out fine — my weight was up to 143 mid-july. then i pushed too hard & got another bug, & dropped back down again.
i kept expecting to gain weight on 1,000 calories/day, thinking that if it were split up into six teeny daily meals, it would somehow alter the caloric arithmetic. my rational mind fell asleep at the switch, i guess (vanity of vanities, saith the preacher). i need to be clearing 3,000 calories/day, from both oral & tube feeding (this despite the AIDS-meds-triggered diabetes). once i get the intake and weight up, the next step is to stabilize at the weight, followed by weaning from the tube. will also have to make contact with a gym, or find some dumbbells for my room come december.
then i saw the report from kaiser network: Two-Thirds of HIV-Positive People in U.S. Overweight, Obese, Study Says.
. . . Some experts said there could be psychological reasons for the weight gain and that some HIV-positive people might be gaining weight to avoid wasting syndrome. In addition, HIV-positive people are living longer and might be prone to poor eating and exercise habits, the AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports.
“We used to worry that [HIV-positive people] would lose weight and become wasted,” Crum-Cianflone said, adding, “Maybe we should redirect our concerns to making sure they are maintaining a healthy, normal weight.” John Brooks — an epidemiologist in HIV/AIDS prevention at CDC who did not participate in the study — said, “It’s very clear now that HIV is no longer a wasting disease in America” (Chang, AP/Post-Intelligencer , 10/4).
for about thirty seconds, i felt like old dobbin witnessing the advent of the horseless carriage. then i spotted the underpinnings of stigma shaping the article: a cure for AIDS takes a back seat to undetectability.
“some HIV-positive people might be gaining weight to avoid wasting syndrome,” says the report. what dobbin-pucky. they’re avoiding looking like they have AIDS.
in the rest of the world, AIDS is a wasting disease. oh yeah. all those guys — the unamericans, the ones who don’t matter, the skin-and-bones refugee set, dying now worldwide.
contrary to the cdc’s john brooks’ wishful sentiments, in fat america, AIDS is still a wasting disease. why?
quick background: i taught aerobics and was an ACE-certified personal trainer for 20 years — two of my many AIDS-driven expertises. i developed exercise programs specific to the needs of HIVers in several la-area gyms. the basic principle of those programs? total body weight is not a predictor of survivability with AIDS. lean weight is. the fat component of your body weight doesn’t matter, although its increase relative to lean weight can signal an overall deterioration in wellness.
from the body:
Scale weight alone is not an adequate indicator of internal health. When someone loses, gains or even maintains weight, the composition of that weight needs to be frequently assessed and monitored.
If weight gain has occurred, was it in fat or body cell [“lean”] mass? If weight loss has taken place, was it in fat or body cell mass? And if weight has remained stable, has the makeup of that weight changed internally?
HIVers go through a process called occult wasting, defined as a “significant depletion of lean body mass without significant weight loss.” basically, as the disease progresses, you lose muscle and you gain fat, even though it doesn’t show. you can determine your lean and fat cell masses at your doctor’s office with a bioelectrical impedance analysis (HIVers should monitor BIA once a year, or more often when your weight is changing).
but inside each one of those overweight & obese & seemingly happy press-culture HIVers is a skinny PWA like me, a time bomb ticking away.
who’s kidding whom? it’s our national obsession: looks vs. substance. ideology vs. science. fancy vs. fact. (the preacher saith all is vanity)
in the meantime, tube in place, i’m jumping back into my activism. i will be attending nedra kline weinreich’s social marketing university training monday-wednesday october 15-17, 2007 on ucla campus. i have several projects i want to work on there, and i look forward to seeing what other attendees are doing. i am also organizing poetry readings in la-area medical cannabis clinics december 1-2, 2007 — world aids day weekend. this will be the second year. in addition, i have some print projects underway, and maybe t-shirt poetry.
catch you there.
namasté
—rk
Saturday, October 6, 2007
kaiser network: two-thirds u.s. HIVers overweight or obese
About two-thirds of HIV-positive people in the U.S. might be overweight or obese, "mirroring" the total U.S. population, according to a study released Thursday at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in San Diego, the AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports.
For the study, Nancy Crum-Cianflone of TriService AIDS Clinical Consortium in
The study found that 63% of participants were either overweight or obese and that 3% were underweight. About 30% of participants who had progressed to AIDS were overweight or obese, the study found. The study did not find a connection between antiretroviral drugs and weight gain. Participants with weight gain put on an average of 13 pounds over 10 years, the study found. In addition, the study found that people who contracted HIV at younger ages, those who had been HIV-positive for a longer time and those who had high blood pressure were at a higher risk of becoming overweight or obese.
None of the participants had "wasting" syndrome, which is characterized by the uncontrollable loss of 10% of body weight, as well as fever and diarrhea. Wasting syndrome was common among people living with HIV/AIDS when the virus was first discovered, the AP/Post-Intelligencer reports.
According to the AP/Post-Intelligencer, the study's findings are "particularly striking" because many of the study participants were in the military or were military spouses, who tend to be in better physical shape than the general population. Earlier research had found that about 40% of HIV-positive people are overweight.
Reaction
Some experts said there could be psychological reasons for the weight gain and that some HIV-positive people might be gaining weight to avoid wasting syndrome. In addition, HIV-positive people are living longer and might be prone to poor eating and exercise habits, the AP/Times reports.
"We used to worry that [HIV-positive people] would lose weight and become wasted," Crum-Cianflone said, adding, "Maybe we should redirect our concerns to making sure they are maintaining a healthy, normal weight." John Brooks -- an epidemiologist in HIV/AIDS prevention at CDC who did not participate in the study -- said, "It's very clear now that HIV is no longer a wasting disease in
Thursday, October 4, 2007
john james at AIDS treatment news: int'l drug war clashes with AIDS fight
Drug War Clashes With Fight Against HIV/AIDS
Posted: 03 Oct 2007 06:27 PM CDT
Inter Press Service October 3, 2007
AIDS Treatment News Daily Alerts
"For more than two decades, the Geneva-based International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has tried to discourage nations from developing harm reduction programmes and other HIV/AIDS prevention programmes. ...
"In March 2007, the INCB made public statements which were widely covered by Canadian media against Insite, North America's only supervised injection located in
"Insite presently has over 800 users a day and has, according to 20 peer-reviewed academic studies, reduced public drug use, reduced dangerous syringe sharing, reduced HIV/AIDS and reduced publicly discarded syringes. Overdose deaths have also decreased in the four-and-a-half years it has been in operation. ...
"INCB Board meetings are also closed to the public and no minutes are available. Critics have argued that none of the members of the INCB have expertise in health, international law or human rights."
from http://aids-write.org
stealing your breath to birmingham: citizen journalism at icpoz.three — eleven posts, one sentence, one tale retold (368.1)
insite, located in
facts and figures (from insite homepage and pers. comm from my tour)
• people using insite are more likely to enter a detox program, with one in five regular visitors beginning a detox program
• over a two year period 4,084 referrals were made with 40 per cent of them made to addiction counseling
• to date there have been over 500 overdoses at insite. thanks to prompt medical attention there have been no deaths.
• daily average visits: 607
• number of nursing care interventions: 6,227
• number of nursing interventions for abscess care: 2,055
• busiest day: may 25, 2005 (933 visits in 18 hours). So, nearly 1000 needles kept off of the street, nearly 1000 instances where a needle was not shared.1000 instances where an individual had the opportunity to access the healthcare system, not only for drug-related treatment but also for mental health, hiv / aids care, pregnancy testing and maternity care, social work services, counseling and peer-support.
GRASSrooters: find your federal, state, county & la city reps
chers---
find out who represents you. then start a dialog. voting is like going to church on sundays.
the one-stop la spot: go to http://www.lacity.org/council.htm. scroll down until you see the following form (“MY NEIGHBORHOOD”) in the right-hand column
(the form below will probably not work. go to the city council site. results below are from entering my address)
namasté
---rk
|
Elected Officials
City Council DISTRICT 5 JACK WEISS
County Supervisor DISTRICT 3 ZEV YAROSLAVSKY
State Senate DISTRICT 23 SHEILA J. KUEHL
State Assembly DISTRICT 42 MIKE FEUER
US Congress DISTRICT 30 HENRY A. WAXMAN
with other links to everything from trash collection to cable monopoly
Regional Services
Public Safety
Planning/Construction
Other
if you live outside of la city, you might try these links:
US house of reps
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html
CA State Assembly Members' Home Pages
CA State Assembly Members' Addresses
CA State Senators' Home Pages
CA State Senators' Addresses
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
paul koretz to run for la city council 5th district seat in 2009
from the paul koretz article at wikipedia
Paul Koretz (D-Los Angeles) announced his plans on August 2, 2007[1] to seek the
Prior to that Koretz represented the 42nd district in the California Assembly from 2000 to 2006, serving the maximum 3 terms allowed under California term limit law. The district includes West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Universal City, and the portions of the City of Los Angeles encompassing the Sunset Strip, Hollywood, Hancock Park, Los Feliz, Westwood, Brentwood, Studio City, Encino, Sherman Oaks, and North Hollywood/Valley Village.
Koretz's wife Gail[2] serves as Director of Public Affairs for Kaiser Permanente
please click on this sentnce to view entire wikipedia article.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
west hollywood city council bios
Mayor Pro Tempore Jeffrey Prang
west hollywood entry, wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Hollywood%2C_California
West Hollywood, an incorporated city in Los Angeles County, California, was founded on 29 November 1984. The total residential population is just over 37,000; however, the nighttime and weekend population swells to between 80,000 and 100,000, with a high of up to 500,000 during major events such as Halloween or the Gay & Lesbian Pride Parade, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department which provides police services for West Hollywood. The city is one of the most notable gay villages in the United States. This area is occasionally referred to as WeHo and BoysTown.
West Hollywood is bordered on the north by the Santa Monica Mountains, on the east by the Hollywood District of Los Angeles, on the west by the city of Beverly Hills and on the south by the Fairfax District of Los Angeles.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
wikipedia links to bios: los angeles city council members
- President of the Council: Eric Garcetti
- President Pro Tempore: Wendy Greuel
- Assistant President Pro Tempore: Jan Perry
1. Ed Reyes
2. Wendy Greuel
4. Tom LaBonge
5. Jack Weiss
9. Jan Perry
10. Herb Wesson
11. Bill Rosendahl
12. Greig Smith
13. Eric Garcetti
14. José Huizar
15. Janice Hahn
wikipedia links to bios: us congressional delegation from greater los angeles
California 22 Kevin McCarthy (r)
California 26 David Dreier (r)* christian scientist
California 27 Brad Sherman (d)
California 28 Howard Berman (d)
California 30 Henry Waxman (d)
California 31 Xavier Becerra (d)
California 33 Diane Watson (d)
California 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard (d)
California 35 Maxine Waters (d)
California 37 Laura Richardson[B] (newly-elected)
California 38 Grace Napolitano (d)
Sunday, September 23, 2007
inflammatory 60 mins cannabis piece on imler airs tonight -- PAN-poet kearns calls for la-weho internet-response (links & suggs)
chers---
scott imler’s interview is the cornerstone for an inflammatory report about medical cannabis in the los angeles/west hollywood area that cbs is broadcasting tonight at 7pm on 60 minutes. interviews are also expected with
we are hoping for comments from at least 100 patients from our community. that means you. Please watch the program, sign up and post a comment tonight. notes and suggestions follow.
namasté
---richard kearns
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/20/60minutes/main3281715.shtml
The Debate On
Sept. 20, 2007(CBS) The idea was a noble one: pass a law to make marijuana legal for cancer and AIDS sufferers whose pain and nausea the drug is known to relieve. But the law the Rev. Scott Imler thought would one day put the drug in pharmacies has instead created "pot dealers in storefronts" who sell to anyone with doctors' notes that are fairly easy to obtain.
60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer speaks to Imler and others for a report on medical marijuana, this Sunday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Imler admits the noble idea turned out to be a pipe dream. "I think there's a lot of [people just buying the drug to get high]," he tells Safer. "A lot of what we have now is basically pot dealers in storefronts."
Imler lives in
That led to a blanket law covering anyone with pain, setting the stage for the easy-to-get doctor's notes and hundreds of storefront marijuana "clubs." "It's just ridiculous the amount of money going through these cannabis clubs," Imler tells Safer.
The "clubs" are supposed to be comprised of patients who grow marijuana for the sole reason of distributing it to fellow members, but Imler says, "Most of these cannabis centers are buying their marijuana off the black market. They're dumping millions of dollars into the criminal black market."
This has not escaped the notice of federal officials, for whom the drug is still illegal under federal law. One of
Imler says it's time for the federal government to step up for people like Leahy. "We only saw the local cannabis programs as a stopgap measure on the way to the federal government rescheduling it and making [marijuana] available in the pharmacy like regular medicines are. Until that happens, we're going to have what we have now, which is chaos."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/20/60minutes/main3281715.shtml
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rk’s list of things you might comment about (pick one):
1) talk about your experience with medical cannabis.
2) talk about what safe access means to you
3) talk about your experience with the regulatory process in
4) talk about your experience with stigma & cannabis
5) if all marijuana is black market, according to the dea, then what does imler mean when he says the clinics purchase from black market sources? and how is the black market different from the “criminal” black market (into which the regular black market is “dumping millions of dollars.” how does imler know this? or does he just suppose it to be true? his speech isused in a circular attemt to stigmatize us with word games.
6) imler has a rep in the community of cooperating with the dea. the problem here is is his credibility --- focus on his credibility.
7) cbs should be providing fair an balanced coverage of this issue. how does this fit that bill?
8) talk about going to your doctor to get a letter of recommendation, and how the clinics verify it.
9) note that other persons posting may be putting up lies (and may also be from anti-drug orgs). when you see another commentor assert something that isn’t true, take issue with the comment. for instance:
Take it from someone who spent the last 24 years watching this problem grow first hand.
1 Who ever smokes pot gets all the same poisons as a person that smokes cigarettes.
2 Mendocino County CA alone profits over $45 Billions a year from pot.
3 More than half of the pot sold in this country is sold to students under the age of 18.
4 There has been the THC pill ( marinol ) around for the last 35 years. We don’’t need pot.
5 These drug dealers took advantage of our sympathy for people in pain.
6 The pot growers care about nothing but money, and they make tons of it. Mostly from our kids.
We need to turn this around. We don’’’’t need to legalize pot and start collecting kids lunch money through taxation.
We need to stop the lie of med pot and stop the poisoning of kids now.
10) in one of the sidebar stories backing up the report tonight, marijuana is listed as a narcotic with the following properties (none of which is backed up with references, so it must be god’s truth). do you think it reveals a bias in the coverage?
Marijuana
Street Names: pot, herb, weed, boom, Mary
Marijuana is a green or gray mixture of dried, shredded flowers and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. It is usually smoked as a cigarette (called a joint or a nail) or in a pipe or bong. In recent years, marijuana has appeared in blunts, which are cigars that have been emptied of tobacco and refilled with marijuana, often in combination with another drug, such as crack. Some users also mix marijuana into foods or use it to brew tea.
Main active chemical in marijuana is THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol). The short term effects of marijuana use include problems with memory and learning; distorted perception; difficulty in thinking and problem-solving; loss of coordination; and increased heart rate, anxiety, and panic attacks.
Someone who smokes marijuana regularly may have many of the same respiratory problems as tobacco smokers. These individuals may have daily cough and phlegm, symptoms of chronic bronchitis, and more frequent chest colds. Continuing to smoke marijuana can lead to abnormal functioning of lung tissue injured or destroyed by marijuana smoke.
Marijuana is addictive because it causes compulsive, often uncontrollable drug craving, seeking, and use, even in the face of negative health and social consequences.
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Casey, I don''t want to look like a pot smoking radical (that happens to have a condition that marijuana helps with). I couldn''t post my thoughts all in one comment so after writing it I had to break up my comment into separate posts, with my comments reading backwards. I do believe that our country''s current view on marijuana is greatly skewed in many ways. An interesting thing is I earned my Eagle Scout by the age of 17. So you would think my feelings would be more to the right wing, like my fathers were until he saw first hand how marijuana relieve my nausea and vomiting.
Posted by dbuck1075 at 03:56 PM : Sep 22, 2007
snidegrass: there may be millions of drunks on the road, so perhaps you should start preaching about the ban of alcohol.
there is a very simple reason why marijuana was made illegal: corporations cant control it as a product; it occurs in nature and what you need you can grow in your backyard. one way or another: its all about $$$
which is why hard grains (vodka, gin) are legal but moonshine is not. think about it.
alcohol is more debilitating and more addictive, as is gambling but they are legal. Hmmmmm. I wish you would just be honest and admit that it is all about $$$ run by the friends of politicians.
Posted by hewhispers at 03:32 PM : Sep 22, 2007
As a Maryland medicinal marijuana patient/advocate I hope your episode doesn''t go too far in labeling people as just another pot smoker trying to get high when it comes to pain. I run a political blog called Casey''s Dream on which I ask people to send me their stories. I want to make sure that every person under the care of a doctor for chronic pain has as an option to use cannabis to relieve their pain. I personally am a polio survivor. I now have Post Polio Syndrome. Due to the changes in my muscular/skeletal system I have multiple compressed or herniated discs. I have osteoarthritis, who doesn''t at 54. The thing is my osteoarthritis was diagnosed when I was in high school. It now affects my hands and knees, as well as the cervical and lumbar regions of my spine. Add to this the muscle pain from fatigue I endure everyday and did so from my early twenties to my late forties without significant drug therapy you might understand my frustrations. I currently take a combination of five medicines, or 12 pills a day just to be able to have some sort of normal functionality in my life. I testified before committees of the
Posted by Caseys_Dream at 11:25 AM : Sep 22, 2007
If you go to my first post a few below this one and read my post up from there it will flow right.
Posted by dbuck1075 at 06:51 AM : Sep 22, 2007
Tobacco was once
People of the modern age prefer prohibiting a healthy substance that anyone can grow in a window. To men in white coats designing drugs that cost a fortune and are synthesized from god only knows what.
It''s time for change.
Posted by dbuck1075 at 05:39 AM : Sep 22, 2007
Now step aside... don''t just think of marijuana as a medicine, but rather as a recreational substance. Perhaps "Bud" could be accepted as something like tobacco and alcohol. Pot could be a commodity that is taxed, regulated, voted on, and governed by the states.
Law enforcement has been wasting time locking up and busting people for possession and distribution of this stigmatized plant. Tax payers waste money prosecuting citizens who in turn spend money defending themselves from harsh marijuana laws.
However, if the herb was legalized and taxed the government''s problems with funding education could be subsidized. Optimist believe all education and law enforcement could be funded with the legalization and taxation of marijuana.
Imagine the government generating revenue from marijuana: growers, employers, employees, and customers of hash bars/smoke shops could all be taxed on different levels. Enterprising Americans can see the potential in marijuana being a new facet of commerce.
Posted by dbuck1075 at 05:35 AM : Sep 22, 2007
Thank god I live in
Being able to grow and use my own medicine has worked better than anything I''ve been prescribed. In monetary terms this medicinal plant has saved me, and the government thousands of dollars.
When I medicate with herbs I don''t have to fill my prescription for Marinol, suppositories, or Valiums all of which hardly work, and cost a fortune. Also I''m not Valiumed out or so doped up to where I can hardly keep my tongue in my mouth.
Posted by dbuck1075 at 05:34 AM : Sep 22, 2007
Almost on a daily basis I suffer from chronic nausea and vomiting caused from Diabetic Gastropasesis. Diabetic Gastroparesis is severe nerve damage in the stomach, an affliction I''ve suffered with for over seven years.
Following a doctors prescription I have tried different types of Valiums, these knock me out, if it even stays down. I''ve used various suppositories; they''re not much fun to use, and they help about like a Valium. I have also used Marinol. When I don''t vomit it up Marinol can take anywhere from half an hour or more to do anything (and often times it helps none at all). Marinol can costs up to 10 dollars a pill, or more, which is more expensive than marijuana harvested from a home garden.
Often when I smoke marijuana while experiencing an episode of nausea or vomiting. My stomach pain ebbs and the nausea often subsides or ends all together, occasionally instantly. Sometimes without marijuana these episodes of nausea and vomiting have lasted for days. This herb helps in keeping these episode''s shorter, fewer in number, and when I do have a serious episode out of the hospital from dehydration; by helping me hold down enough fluids to stay hydrated.
Posted by dbuck1075 at 05:24 AM : Sep 22, 2007
According to the growing tide of research, the analgesic, anti-inflammatory and potentially curative effects of cannabis continues to support that marijuana is a safe, effective part of therapeutic treatment. Twelve states legally recognize the medicinal use of marijuana, and eighty percent of Americans support medical cannabis, according to a 2002 CNN/Time poll. Get involved in the movement for safe and legal access to medical cannabis today. Our power comes from our collective action. Whether it''s calling Congress, attending rallies, organizing a local ASA chapter, signing an online petition, or supporting federal defendants, take action today! When your elected officials hear from you %u2013 and often %u2013 they are more likely to support our calls for safe and legal access to medical cannabis!
http://americansforsafeaccess.org/
Posted by tonebowles at 05:11 PM : Sep 21, 2007
I am sure that the majority Americans agree that people with serious and terminal medical conditions should be allowed to obtain and use a limited amount of marijuana if recommended by their physician.
Logic says that doctors can prescribe far more dangerous and addicting drugs than marijuana. Common sense says that this issue ought to be decided for the good of the patient, in the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship. Compassion says that no patient should suffer needlessly, and no patient should go to prison for following a doctor''s advice. Science says that marijuana has great potential to safely relieve pain and other symptoms associated with a wide range of medical conditions.
Registered nurses have taken a leadership position on this issue because so many of us have seen first hand how marijuana can safely and effectively relieve patient suffering. It is our duty, as patient advocates, to speak out. For more information, visit www.medicalcannabis.com/, the web site of Patients Out of Time. Patients Out of Time''s 5th National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics is scheduled for April 4 - 5, 2008 in
Ken Wolski, RN, MPA
Executive Director, Coalition for Medical Marijuana--New Jersey, Inc., (www.cmmnj.org )
609.394.2137 ohamkrw@aol.com
THC has been available in pill form for the last 35 years. It''s called Marinol and it doesn''t have all the carcinogens that come with smoking anything.
Posted by marcpcbs at 09:36 PM : Sep 20, 2007
Take it from someone who spent the last 24 years watching this problem grow first hand.
1 Who ever smokes pot gets all the same poisons as a person that smokes cigarettes.
2 Mendocino County CA alone profits over $45 Billions a year from pot.
3 More than half of the pot sold in this country is sold to students under the age of 18.
4 There has been the THC pill ( marinol ) around for the last 35 years. We don''t need pot.
5 These drug dealers took advantage of our sympathy for people in pain.
6 The pot growers care about nothing but money, and they make tons of it. Mostly from our kids.
We need to turn this around. We don''''t need to legalize pot and start collecting kids lunch money through taxation.
We need to stop the lie of med pot and stop the poisoning of kids now.
Posted by marcpcbs at 09:32 PM : Sep 20, 2007
Take it from someone who spent the lasy 24 years watching this problem grow first hand.
1 Who ever smokes pot gets all the same poisons as a person that smokes sigarettes.
2 Mendocino County CA alone profits over $45 Billions a year from pot.
3 More than half of the pot sold in this country is sold to students under the age of 18.
4 There has been the THC pill ( marinol ) around for the last 35 years. We dont need pot.
5 These drug deakers took advantage of our simpathy for people in pain.
6 The pot growers care about nothing but money, and they make tons of it. Mostly from our kids.
We need to turn this around. We don''t need to legalize pot and start collecting kids lunch money through taxation.
We need to stop the lie of med pot and stop the poisoning of kids now.
Posted by marcpcbs at 09:28 PM : Sep 20, 2007
Greetings Brethren,
Scott Imlar is a narc. He informed on peter Mc Williams and others in LA for his own profit. Nothing said by him should be given any credence - as he has none outside such credible sources as Morley Safer.
By the Way, the first intimations of Prop 215 came when Peter Gorman, editor of High times magazine, hosted Dennis Peron and our own Rev. Sam Smith of Our Church in his hotel room at the Norml convention in
Again, give Scott Imlar a wide berth. He has no honor, nor respect amongst those who actually did the work. He has the blood of Peter McWilliams on his hands.
One Love revtombrown.
Posted by Revtombrown at 08:14 PM : Sep 20, 2007
Imler admits the noble idea turned out to be a pipe dream. "I think there''s a lot of people just buying the drug to get high,"
WOW, REALLY?
Minister or not. Just another liberal idiot who can''t see past his nose, much less long term consequences.
Posted by bizzzz at 06:51 PM : Sep 20, 2007
HAHA My back hurts, I''m movin to
Posted by linfinster at 06:39 PM : Sep 20, 2007
No, prohibition will never work. The biggest problem is that marijuana is considered a drug. That in itself is ridiculous. It''''s a plant that grows in the ground, and has many uses. Law enforcement should concentrate their efforts elsewhere
Posted by rematenaj
LOLOLOL...cocaine is also derived from a natural plant...doesn''t make it harmless.
Posted by sbbm at 06:02 PM : Sep 20, 2007
Just tax it, and that should relieve any angst the FED has about its'' distribution. Case in point: isn''t that why the killer of millions known as tobacco is still on the market?
Posted by thee0racle at 04:57 PM : Sep 20, 2007
No, prohibition will never work. The biggest problem is that marijuana is considered a drug. That in itself is ridiculous. It''s a plant that grows in the ground, and has many uses. Law enforcement should concentrate their efforts elsewhere!
Posted by rematenaj at 04:48 PM : Sep 20, 2007
Marijuana has been illegal for over 70 years and today it is
Prohibition will never work.
Cops say legalize and regulate marijuana.
FIGHT CRIME AND VIOLENCE!
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Posted by GunOwnerDan at 04:35 PM : Sep 20, 2007
Just tax it, and that should relieve any angst the FED has about its'' distribution. Case in point: isn''t that why the killer of millions known as tobacco is still on the market?
Posted by thee0racle at 04:57 PM : Sep 20, 2007
No, prohibition will never work. The biggest problem is that marijuana is considered a drug. That in itself is ridiculous. It''s a plant that grows in the ground, and has many uses. Law enforcement should concentrate their efforts elsewhere!
Posted by rematenaj at 04:48 PM : Sep 20, 2007
Marijuana has been illegal for over 70 years and today it is
Prohibition will never work.
Cops say legalize and regulate marijuana.
FIGHT CRIME AND VIOLENCE!
www.leap.cc
Posted by GunOwnerDan at 04:35 PM : Sep 20, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
kearns reads new poem "river beast" at weho city council meeting 9-17
i roll into
monday brightness
feetseeking earth
a sundayless
listener
waiting to wake
(medicating for non-heaval
sun-burnishing the pain)
i hear
the riverroadcall
deep humm’d
feel the pull of my
wet-trailing
blue-shoe-sailing
one-at-a-time
soles-don’t-fail-me
pre-steps practiced
dreamed & planned to
imaginary imperfection
traipsed to my
inner port & back
in unanticipation &
urgency & certain-seem’d
sureity about returnity
(shots & prepills &
ointments & more pre)
river song
river call
river might
river thrall
river beat
river on fire
shivering heat
risen like a dawn wind
from gilded waves
as they burn
aroused now
my river beast
sallies the day
battling forty thousand
fathoms of mud
heart first
---rk
Saturday, September 15, 2007
PAN's lynette shaw performs as bluesetta, backed up by PAN's dege coutee
lynette & band
dege backing up bluesetta
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