The Rockford Register Star used Cannabis talk here will lighten up sooner or later as the headline for an article to discuss a 4:20 gathering at Whiskey’s Roadhouse that I attended. The article discusses the pessimism at the gathering while “everyone” else and especially Colorado is celebrating. I met the reporter at the gathering and discussed with her my interest in endocannabinoids.
Here is an e-mail (slightly amended) I sent her on the article with links added for Classical Values.
Georgette,
1. Sick people are dying from lack of medicine – look up – endocannabinoid cancer
2. People are still going to jail for pot crimes – right here in Rockford
3. Medical marijuana is not legal in Illinois – so far only one chamber has passed the bill
4. The number of conditions allowed in the Illinois bill compared to what pot can treat is ridiculous. – The endocannabinoid system is a major regulator in the body implicated in almost all diseases including cancer.
5. There is still a fight on with a certain segment of the population that LOVES persecuting hippies and that segment may be small – but they are in charge. ALL pot users are hippies according to them.
6. How would you like being a Jew in Germany in July of 1944?
There is not much to celebrate here in Illinois. In addition the community here in Rockford – those that come out publicly – are mainly in need of medicine.
You did get that the majority of people at the meeting were very well educated in the science. Excellent. But you presented very little of the science.
If you want to do us some good write about the endocannabinoid system in the body. Write up the NIH (National Institute of health) endocannabinoid cites. Tell people about the Rockford for Safe Access blog. Get your health columnist involved and start educating. Go to any hospital in Rockford and corner a doctor and ask that doctor about the endocannabinoid system.
We are no where near the end of Prohibition. We are not even near the beginning of the end. We may be at the end of the beginning – with a whole host of casualties yet to come. And anyone at that meeting may yet be a casualty. A certain grimness at the meeting? To be sure. There is a LOT of grimness yet to come. The war on Jews (dopers in the common parlance) is not yet over. My Rabbi put it very well – he understands that what he is doing opens him to the power of the law. The Federals are arresting dispensary operators.
You did get lots of column inches. And a heads up (heh) at the top of the front page. Nice. But nothing on the www [the article is now up on the www – link above –> Rockford Register Star]. So what ever good you did with what you wrote is a one day thing. And even that was limited since you made no mention of monthly meetings. I hope to see you at Whiskey’s on the second Saturday of the month – 10AM to noon. Saturday 11 May is the next one.
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6 responses to “Cannabis talk here will lighten up sooner or later”
“…Colorado is celebrating.”
Not so much lately. Locally, the Dem’s are pushing for a 17.9% sales tax on top of a 15% excise tax. The minority GOP says that’s too high considering 1) there’s an efficient black market infrastructure in place that can bypass the taxes and 2) the law allows homegrown pot (up to six plants) which obviously bypasses any tax.
Nationally, in a speech a few days ago Obama’s drug czar Gil Kerlikowske said “No state, no executive, can nullify a statute that’s been passed by Congress… From our standpoint, as a public health issue, nothing has changed as a result of those two votes.” And last week Holder told Congress “When it comes to these marijuana initiatives, I think among the kinds of things we will have to consider is the impact on children…We are certainly going to enforce federal law.”
Early adopter problems, all.
CR,
All the Feds can do is target legal sales and grow ops. But 10,000 – 6 plant grow ops will be hard to monitor.
The Feds cannot make Colorado cops or Colorado State arrest people for what is no longer a State crime. That alone kills Prohibition.
Good luck. Because the Feds, oh, yes, DEMOCRAT Feds, will arrest them themselves.
I wish FL would go legal. Or we could just seed the state. Heck – seed all the states. If you use and you pick out the seeds – throw them out – in national parks, national forests, nark’s yards…you get the idea?
Weed isn’t called weed for nothing – it’ll grow damned near anywhere. SOW, baby, sow.
Simon, I hear you, but shutting down the commercial producers/distributors would be a tragedy. Compare it to tobacco. I’m guessing that a tiny percentage of smokers grow their own tobacco. The same for marijuana smokers. The marijuana industry in CO will be by legal necessity vertically integrated: everything in-state. Probably three or four big players will control 90% of the market. If the Feds shut them down then legalization will be a hollow victory.
Not a hollow victory. Federal Prohibition of Alcohol ended the same way. States stopped enforcing it.
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