Huh? LOL wow... I think you're taking my user quote way out of context and misunderstanding what it's even meant... For the record it has to do with an addiction that I went through - giving into LIFE and certain responsibility, not caving into things I've done in the past - and it doesn't have a political meaning, so don't get your panties all twisted (sorry, for lack of a better thought out euphemism). And exactly where in my post did I "big up" Glenn Beck?! What I said, or at least the point I meant to get across, was that he's an opportunist and I didn't know if he was sincere... But he's done some good work with TheBlaze. Don't get it twisted, dude.
You can't fix stupid either. RP's message will always carry on - ideas about human freedom tend to not grow old and die
shit this mfo has peeps dishin out a hunno bones a yr to subscribe to his channel... ronpaulchannel.com
So do we write in Ventura/Napolitano for 2016 now? Sent from my LG-VS700 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
That Picture is sad. The only Patriot who would've been better than or similar to the Founders of this nation. He sits alone.... We will take this nation back
On your quote. Bill Maher is a tool. Marijuana should be Legal, there's no argument against it. Ron Paul wanted it and our Founders were for it. If the media wasn't run by the government who didn't want Ron Paul. Government controlled by Bankers in the Federal Reserve, Ron Paul would be President and Marijuana would be Legal already. The stoners don't make any difference. The Marijuana Movement had the founders and Ron Paul! The Government doesn't want it legal. Not to be a dick or anything. I remember Maher interviewing Ron on the Civil war, he tried to make it look as if he was crazy because of his stance on it, something the media does. Napalitano Is a Patriot
There is no evidence at all to suggest that the Founding Fathers were in favor of legalized marijuana, other than the fact that it wasn't illegal at the time. I highly doubt that they had even heard of it. Hemp, yes, marijuana for pleasure or medicine, no.
From: http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2012/11/busting-some-myths-about-the-founding-fathers-and-marijuana/ Myth 3: The Founders smoked hemp. If they did smoke hemp, they likely didn't get high from it, since the type of hemp they grew had very low levels of THC, the active ingredient that causes euphoria. Here's one quote commonly attributed to Thomas Jefferson that our friends at Monticello debunked on their website. <blockquote>Quotation: “Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see.†Status: “This statement has not been found in any of the writings of Thomas Jefferson. … Thomas Jefferson did grow hemp, but there is no evidence to suggest that Jefferson was a habitual smoker of hemp, tobacco, or any other substance.†</blockquote>Hemp was a crop that dated back to the early English days in Colonial America. It was used to make rope and canvas products for ships, cloth for fabric, and pulp for paper. George Washington wrote about growing hemp on his lands. We can't confirm reports that Ben Franklin used hemp at his paper mills. It seems doubtful that Washington and Jefferson grew hemp for recreational enjoyment. Now, for John Adams, there is a mysterious quote that comes from a column he wrote in several Boston newspapers. Adams was a big fan of hemp as a multipurpose crop. In 1763, writing as Humphrey Ploughjogger in the Boston Evening-Post, Adams had an odd postscript to a column he wrote about the advantages of growing hemp. “Seems to me if grate Men dont leeve off writing Pollyticks, breaking Heads, boxing Ears, ringing Noses and kicking Breeches, we shall by and by want a world of Hemp more for our own consumshon,†Adams wrote. But in an annotated version of the letter in the records of the Massachusetts Historical Society, it seems Adams was talking about hemp rope that was used to hang men, not the type of hemp smoked for pleasure. Cannabis is illegal for the same reason hemp is illegal. It would cut into big businesses profits.... US Patent 6630507 Held by: The US Dept of Health and Human Services Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of this invention to provide a new class of antioxidant drugs, that have particular application as neuroprotectants, although they are generally useful in the treatment of many oxidation associated diseases. The pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention have potent antioxidant and/or free radical scavenging properties, that prevent or reduce oxidative damage in biological systems, such as occurs in ischemic/reperfusion injury, or in chronic neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, HIV dementia, and many other oxidation associated diseases. DEFINITIONS “Oxidative associated diseases†refers to pathological conditions that result at least in part from the production of or exposure to free radicals, particularly oxyradicals, or reactive oxygen species. It is evident to those of skill in the art that most pathological conditions are multifactorial, and that assigning or identifying the predominant causal factors for any particular condition is frequently difficult. For these reasons, the term “free radical associated disease†encompasses pathological states that are recognized as conditions in which free radicals or ROS contribute to the pathology of the disease, or wherein administration of a free radical inhibitor (e.g. desferroxamine), scavenger (e.g. tocopherol, glutathione) or catalyst (e.g. superoxide dismutase, catalase) is shown to produce detectable benefit by decreasing symptoms, increasing survival, or providing other detectable clinical benefits in treating or preventing the pathological state. Oxidative associated diseases include, without limitation, free radical associated diseases, such as ischemia, ischemic reperfusion injury, inflammatory diseases, systemic lupus erythematosis, myocardial ischemia or infarction, cerebrovascular accidents (such as a thromboembolic or hemorrhagic stroke) that can lead to ischemia or an infarct in the brain, operative ischemia, traumatic hemorrhage (for example a hypovolemic stroke that can lead to CNS hypoxia or anoxia), spinal cord trauma, Down's syndrome, Crohn's disease, autoimmune diseases (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis or diabetes), cataract formation, uveitis, emphysema, gastric ulcers, oxygen toxicity, neoplasia, undesired cellular apoptosis, radiation sickness, and others. The present invention is believed to be particularly beneficial in the treatment of oxidative associated diseases of the CNS, because of the ability of the cannabinoids to cross the blood brain barrier and exert their antioxidant effects in the brain. In particular embodiments, the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention is used for preventing, arresting, or treating neurological damage in Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and HIV dementia; autoimmune neurodegeneration of the type that can occur in encephalitis, and hypoxic or anoxic neuronal damage that can result from apnea, respiratory arrest or cardiac arrest, and anoxia caused by drowning, brain surgery or trauma (such as concussion or spinal cord shock). http://www.google.com/patents/US6630507 Now I ask, how can the US Government hold a patent on cannabis as medicine, but leave it as "Schedule 1" with no medicinal purposes? Yea Im not a HUGE fan of Maher, but he does occasionally hit some good points... How he jumped on the MSM bandwagon all the time (In regards to politics) during the elections, and pretty much called Dr. Paul a wacko, while donating $1million to obummer.... Best part is his foot is completely in his mouth about over the whole donation. And this thread has gone pretty far off the tracks... I actually brought up Bernie Sanders because he is the closest thing to an honest politician running right now. He reminds me of Ron a lot. Very steadfast in his beliefs, progressive, and doesnt take money from corporate interests.
Agreed. I just looked up Bernie so far so good. Love how he talks about the one percent. The Middle Class is Fading away. Honestly I wouldn't mind going to his town hall speeches and support him. Anyone who supports Liberty,Freedom and the middle class is worth supporting. It honestly seems like he could get very popular.
I should have added to the "Fore fathers toking".. They did use cannabis as medicine, as it was legal and widely used as medicine at the time. >>>On to Bernie. The worst thing you hear about him is he's a socialist. Yanno what? Every country that is ahead of us in things like education, healthcare, care for the elderly, pay scale, and standard of living is a democratic SOCIALIST government. Think about it. By the people for the people. Not by the dollar for the dollar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBYmeLBWjeI
Hemp was used for rope, paper, clothing material, and many other purposes. \nThe burden of proof is on the believer, and I have never seen a shred of evidence that would suggest that the Founding Fathers, or for that matter anybody else, ever smoked or ingested cannabis in America, prior to the 19th century, for any reason.
Time magazine. By Patrick Stack, with Claire SuddathWednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 By the late 18th century, early editions of American medical journals recommend hemp seeds and roots for the treatment of inflamed skin, incontinence and venereal disease. Irish doctor William O'Shaughnessy first popularized marijuana's medical use in England and America. As a physician with the British East India Company, he found marijuana eased the pain of rheumatism and was helpful against discomfort and nausea in cases of rabies, cholera and tetanus. The sea change in American attitudes toward pot came at the end of the 19th century, when between 2% and 5% of the U.S. population was unknowingly addicted to morphine, a popular secret ingredient in patent medicines with colorful names like "The People's Healing Liniment for Man or Beast" and "Dr. Fenner's Golden Relief." To prevent more of the country from being washed over with a morphine-induced golden relief, the government introduced the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906, creating the Food and Drug Administration. While it didn't apply to marijuana and merely brought the distribution of opium and morphine under doctors' control, the regulation of chemical substances was a major shift in American drug policy. (See pictures of cannabis culture.) It wasn't until 1914 that drug use was defined as a crime, under the Harrison Act. To get around states' rights issues, the act used a tax to regulate opium- and coca-derived drugs: it levied a tax on nonmedical uses of the drugs that was much higher than the cost of the drugs themselves, and punished anyone using the drugs without paying the tax. By 1937, 23 states had outlawed marijuana: some to stop former morphine addicts from taking up a new drug, and some as a backlash against newly arrived Mexican immigrants, some of whom brought the drug with them. Also in 1937, the Federal Government passed the Marihuana Tax Act, which made nonmedical use of marijuana illegal. Only the birdseed industry, which argued that hemp seeds gave birds' feathers a particularly shiny gloss, was exempted, and to this day birdseed producers are allowed to use imported hemp seeds treated so they don't sprout.