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Medical cannabis for stroke. Dr. David Allen says: “Cannabis is an essential part of the human diet.” Medical Marijuana prohibition is a crime against humanity and a violation of the religious precept – heal the sick. Update: I found this comment by Dr. Allen at Patients for Medical Cannabis. President Barack Obama The White House…

In response to my post Grillo The National Socialist Fascist, Baron Bodissey of Gates of Vienna sent me this e-mail which he gave me permission to publish. He starts out by responding to this point I made in an e-mail to him: I often change my mind – I’m not afraid of being mistaken. I…

My friend Diogenes alerted me to an American Thinker article on Beppe Grillo. Europe’s political class is shocked and panicked. They are pretending Grillo is just a “populist” and a “reformer” — but he also wants to “process” all the Jews in the world, who are responsible for all the evil. Grillo wants to nationalize…

What is the least statist part of the electorate? The Independents. Pronounced “the Independence”.

Things are so bad, I needed a laugh. “Girls Gone Wild” is bankrupt. There are two boobs in this video. Just in case you wondered. And the final comment is incorrect. “Girls Gone Wild” is going down. H/T Girls Gone Filed

About an hour and forty-five minutes. You can get the gist of it from the first six minutes. Cannabis for MS: Lots more video links and other links at: Does the Bible talk about Marijuana? Some are pro. Some are con. The endocannabinoid system is a major regulator in the body implicated in almost all…

Jeffrey Kahn used to be my Rabbi when he was in Rockford. He is now involved in other things. Jeffrey Kahn, a Reform rabbi living in Washington, D.C., remembers several congregants who approached him over the years with the same dilemma: They’d heard that marijuana could relieve their nausea from chemotherapy or their pain from…

So the Italian elections interest me. Lets start with Zero Hedge (ZH). It may come as a surprise to some, but the largest single party in the Italian Chamber as a result of today’s elections, when stripping away all alliance partners, is none other than Beppe Grillo’s Movimento 5 Stelle. With 25.53% of the votes…

Funny. But true. globalgiving.org/projects/drugreporter

The net is abuzz with commentary that I also participated in at: We Are Ruled. Wretchard at The Belmont Club is also hitting it. With respect to Republicans he says: The closer one gets to its top, the more it looks like the ghost of Rockefeller. To which I replied (revised and extended): That is…

Eric Left a few links at my post And People Say The War On Drugs Is A Failure which I think deserve some wider attention. A subtitle of this post could be: Race Based Incarceration For Profit From: The Hidden History of ALEC and Prison Labor. Prison labor has already started to undercut the business…

  We Are Ruled By Coalitions Of Fears   Prompted by Jccarlton who linked to It’s For Your Own Good! – NYTs and Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism – Book Excerpt and We want to rule you because you are stupid and powerless and we are wise – Samizdata. I had a few further thoughts…

Would that be Hillary Clinton on the Drug War? Nope. Pablo Escobar’s hit man on the Drug War. “People like me can’t be stopped. It’s a war. They lose men, and we lose men. They lose their scruples, and we never had any. In the end, you’ll even blow up an aircraft because you believe…

I was tracking my usual haunts and came across a petition headlined The Federal Government: Eliminate laws prohibiting the use of the endocannabinoid system. Because every human being born has an endocannabinoid system, a network of receptors exclusively designed to capture cannabinoids and process them. Prohibiting the only source of cannabinoids, Cannabis, aka marijuana et…

Eric has a post up about the Mandarin mentality. Which fits into a comment I was responding to that my friend Neil made on a different post. Here is what Neil had to say. It’s probably true that drug use was not a major problem when government began prohibition efforts. It wasn’t really a problem…

“The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.” Benjamin Franklin The Currency Act of 1764. The Currency Act of 1764 was passed after the French and Indian…

This guy is in favor of Medical Marijuana. He doesn’t like the cartels. Me? I’m against prohibition. Period. No one should be going to jail for marijuana. CBD Science – HPLC Analysis Weed Country – The Discovery Channel I used to live in Briceland. Update: 23 Feb 2013 1307z You can read a review of…

From Reason Magazine. How to beat a patent troll. Don’t negotiate with terrorists. Patent Trolls Eat Startups First. Here’s What You Can Do About It The author of this: A Patent Troll Wants to Charge You for Emailing Your Scans!, also writes for Network World. The patent trolls are, in effect, completely legal financial terrorists.…

A little news from Florida. The university called a special meeting of its Board of Trustees to formally accept a gift of $6 million from the Boca Raton-based GEO Group. In exchange for the gift, FAU Stadium be renamed GEO Group Stadium for the next 12 years. GEO Group is a private correctional facilities company…

We have some very smart legislators in Illinois. Creates the Internet Posting Removal Act. Provides that a web site administrator shall, upon request, remove any posted comments posted by an anonymous poster unless the anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal…