Author: Simon

I have been doing more thinking about the article in the local paper about the 4:20 meeting of the local chapter of NORML/Americans For Safe Access recounted at Cannabis talk here will lighten up sooner or later. The newspaper article galled me because I think that it perpetuates stoner stereotypes in its subtext. A stereotype…

I did the very first interview with a LEAP Officer which can be found at Interview With A Police Officer. Also at Winds of Change. At 5:39 into the video there is a discussion of the corrupting influence of the War On Drugs On Police. Radley Balko also discusses that at Boston And Militarism: The…

From NASA Video Tech Briefs NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) launched in February 2010 with the goal of understanding the causes of solar variability and its impacts on Earth, focusing on measurements of the interior of the Sun, the Sun’s magnetic field, the hot plasma of the solar corona, and the irradiance that creates the…

Los Angeles City Council member Bill Rosendahl: “I thanked God… …medical marijuana has saved my life.” I don’t understand why the endocannabinoid system isn’t better appreciated. NIH: Endocannabinoids in the immune system and cancer. Modulation of the endocannabinoid system interferes with cancer cell proliferation either by inhibiting mitogenic autocrine/paracrine loops or by directly inducing apoptosis….…

An uncle of the Boston bombers, Ruslan Tsarni, was married to the daughter of Graham Fuller. From the link: He served 20 years as an operations officer in the CIA. Assignments include postings in: Germany, Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, North Yemen, Afghanistan, and Hong Kong.[10] In 1982, the CIA appointed him National Intelligence Officer for…

Eric did a post about the government having total authority over children “absolute autonomy, absolute power”. Well, CPS (Child Protective Services) in California is not the only agency that acts that way. I did a recent story on an Idaho case They Took Her Kids. This is an update. Just because the below graphic grabbed…

Muslims? Maybe. Our politicians? For sure.

Frank left a link to this video from 28 August 2006 at On Market Monetarism My reply to Frank on his point about “monetarism is dead” (which I may have misunderstood): Peter Schiff restated monetarism in different terms – debt financed consumption – which blew bubbles. A bubble is another term for “local” inflation. Inflation…

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…

I use TinyCAD and FreePCB and ViewMate Gerber reader to design PCBs. All free for the purposes I use them. What part of my work actually shows up as GDP (at least in the development stage)? The boards I get made by OSH Park plus the parts I buy from Mouser and Digikey. But I…

The conspiracy theorists are owed an apology. You can read all about it at: Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever. Money (heh) quote: But the biggest shock came out of a federal courtroom at the end of March – though if you follow these matters closely, it may not have been so shocking…

A lady with MS who was taking marijuana for her condition has had her kids taken away. She lives in Idaho and was part of an activist family. Idaho is not a medical marijuana state. Here is more of the story. While Lindsey and Sarah were vacationing, along with Lindsey’s husband Josh (the director of…

Sent to me by a fellow member of the ATeam (which I will explain much later).

In Sarah’s recent post The Tangle of Privilege, she discusses the difficulty of being yourself in a culture where you don’t fit in. It doesn’t matter if it is your culture. That brought to mind a piece I just wrote for ECN How to manage creative types (with a minimum of fuss). My original title…

A few days ago I ran into an interesting paper on omega 3 fatty acids, endocannabinoids and crime. I had been meaning to blog it and so here it is. Recent findings suggest that some criminal and aggressive behaviors are closely correlated with low serum omega-3 levels, which are linked to lower levels of altruism,…

Eric Holder is weighing the pros and cons about what to do about States that legalize marijuana. He says he is thinking of the children. And organized crime. Well one of his supporters believes the best way to send messages to children is with armed men. “Your department could choose to attempt to overturn those…

Michigan Medical Marijuana Patient Refused Placement In Prison Medical Facility Despite Judge’s Recommendation. Late last week, 53-year-old Michigan medical marijuana patient Jerry Duval received a Justice Department order to surrender to federal authorities on June 11thto begin serving a 10-year prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Elkton, Ohio. Although Duval is a kidney-pancreas…

The Illinois Medical Marijuana House Bill HB1 has passed. The Illinois Senate needs a companion bill. Passage of HB1 by the House comes only a day after nearly 250 Illinois physicians pledged their support for legalizing medical marijuana in the state. Three physicians held a press conference Tuesday, calling on policymakers to push through legislation.…

The politics of abortion: Politics: women tend to be on the left. Men on the right. Women are 51% of the population. Men 49%. How do you think this issue will move the polity? And if it moves the polity in a direction where you can’t get what you want by politics maybe it might…

Commenter Frank makes a point I have made before but he makes it so much more eloquently than I ever did (and I have been told by more than one person that I have a way with words) that I think it bears repeating. The topic is abortion. ==== Neil: The problem is that we…