About ingesting: we used to make a ‘hot buttered rum’ using butter made with thc. THC is fat solulbule that’s why it stays in the body so long, it enters the fat cells. Steep one oz in one lb butter (or more depending on the dilution rate you might want). One teaspoon in a toddy should be a dose. Eating it takes longer for it to work and most folks overdo it. one quarter of a brownie. Who can resist? Can’t eat just one. To OD would mean nap time.
Those who dose up with alcohol can go to work the next day and pass a piss test, if you smoke you won’t for a week or more. Insurance companies have made drug testing mandatory. One person I know puts it on a piece of bread with mayo…what you would put in a joint and a half and just chokes it down. He is paranoid of smoke.
I am well aware there are strains of mj with low or no thc content. they have been developed more recently in order to try to get approval to break into the fabric and paper businesses in this country. I don’t think the old timers around here who grew it during WWll had those varieties because they still smoke it as they did then. It was a crop well known in these mountains out towards Barnardsville. (I know people who know people who know…...)
Some religious folks and those who are afraid to try it might out of fear oppose this legislation. Others think it leads to more dangerous stuff… People been trying to get outside themselves for eons. Peyote comes to mind. The fact that alcohol exsists and is accepted does not mean I have to go that road. Same thing with heroin or crack or meth.
OK and then there is the spiritual side of life. I won’t go there and how it could help us all be more loving of one another. This thread is about using it for medicine, but Spirit is medicine and smoke has a lot to do with some of us manifesting a more spiritual existence.
As far as speaking up..once there was a thought that if everyone who smoked, went to the closest courthouse and lit up all at the same time on the same day it would overwhelm the system. They could not possibly arrest us all. Trouble is we are pot smokers and trying to get us to agree and take decisive action which could result in personal harm and financial ruin just probably ain’t gonna happen. Well maybe, how about tomorrow.
Tomorrow never comes, it’s always today. Beautiful dreamer. Let someone else do it.
Well, Isn’t that part of the reason why this lunacy war on pot needs to stop. As far as medical cannabis is concerned another article was just published, touting benefits against MRSA can be found at NORML with plenty links about this latest discovery:
“Investigators at the University of Mississippi report the discovery of eleven new non-cannabinoid constituents in cannabis, several of which possess “anti-microbial” (think MRSA), “anti-malarial,” and “anti-leishmanial” (a common skin parasite) activity.”
NORML’s web address: http://www.norml.org/
The Pharmaceutical industry has a lot to lose too. Why is there not an addiction to drugs when they flow freely from the Doctors who get a kick back from the pharmaceutical company? When only a drug can cure a disease by law.
I suspect it’s more social inertia and the remnants of the Nixon policies which are to blame for drug prohibition than any conspiracy by the paper companies or the pharmaceutical industry. If the government legalized pot tomorrow, those industries would immediately start turning the drug into products, and if it was truly cheaper to grow and had such a variety of uses, they’d make a killing.
Homegrown willow bark tea isn’t competing with aspirin, people generally prefer Valium to valerian root and people generally don’t make their own Band-Aids. State-sanctioned marijuana would probably be no different. Sure, I can grow tomatoes in my back yard, but I don’t—I still buy my pasta sauce from Ingles, because I’d rather do other things than spend my time learning how to garden.
My view is that this is still the legacy of the Nixon administration and its very effective campaign against the counter-culture in the late 1960s and early ‘70s. The reason the law hasn’t changed is largely because it would take a majority of brave-to-the-point-of-career-suicide politicians to change the existing laws, because few voters want to vote for a pro-drug culture candidate. I don’t see a conspiracy, I just see a lot of fear in our elected officials. But we’ve come a long way in the past few decades—remember the heat Clinton took for “not inhaling” pot? Then we get George W., who hinted that he did a lot of drugs. And now we’ve got a candidate like Obama, who openly admits to using drugs when he was younger.
This is a political and social change, and I think it’s probably better for our society, but I don’t think there’s a secret group of industrialists sitting around trying to keep pot out of people’s hands. Selling pot would be a huge industry, and if anything, they’d be trying to get it legalized so they could start making more money.
<<The reason the law hasn’t changed is largely because it would take a majority of brave-to-the-point-of-career-suicide politicians to change the existing laws, because few voters want to vote for a pro-drug culture candidate.<<
This statement alone shows the disinformation by those who want this unwinnable “war” on drugs continued. Your assertion above is false and only perpetuates the lies.
Currently 80% of Americans NATIONWIDE support the legalization of medical Marijuana, as well as 70% of Americans NATIONWIDE support the decriminalization of Marijuana. So where you get “a few voters” is a false statement.
The law has not changed because of the incessant propaganda from those reaping the benefits from the un-winnable war on drugs. If you think that I am alone in this view check the following links at the Hill Blog to the post by Allen St Pierre of Norml. Check the number of replies to his blog and then check the number of replies to other posts on this Site.
When I refer to they and them:
-Corporations such as GEO , who operates private prisons. $75 to $125 per inmate per day.
-Law enforcement justifying a budget that could be better spent elsewhere, Violent Crime, Gang intervention. (Yes gangs and drugs are connected but eradicating either will not eradicate the other)
-Pharmaceutical Companies, denying any science backing medical marijuana, To date 17,000 studies have been conducted and marijuana’s medical value is proven.
-Politicians pandering to those special interests, as well as the religious right and their temperance movement in hopes for a few votes.
NORML currently has a number of marijuana - medical uses on their website: http://www.norml.org/
Your calling it a conspiracy theory appears to be another attempt at trying to belittle those who want this idiotic war on drugs and the prohibition on marijuana stopped. If for no other reason then to help those who indeed are addicted to substances - marijuana has been proven to be non addictive - in a clinical setting rather than in prison.
Or to put this into perspective:
Take roughly 750,000 incarcerated for non violent dug possession at roughly 36,000 tax dollars per inmate per year that comes to 27,000,000,000, that’s 27 billion of our tax dollars. Or look at it this way, one year of failing war on pot = almost three months in Iraq!
I’m against the war on drugs too, but I think that the NORML idiots are just self righteous twits.
If drugs were legal, do you think they’d let us grow them? Do you think they’d monitor how strong the stuff is? Of course they would. They’d crack down on growing and potency and then you’d be back on this message board. We get it, you don’t like the drug laws. Now go post overly long links to stuff like that on a 9/11 truth website. It’s cool.
I’ll be hanging out here doing a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE bonghit in the meantime.
I’m against the war on drugs too, but I think that the NORML idiots are just self righteous twits.
If drugs were legal, do you think they’d let us grow them? Do you think they’d monitor how strong the stuff is? Of course they would. They’d crack down on growing and potency and then you’d be back on this message board. We get it, you don’t like the drug laws. Now go post overly long links to stuff like that on a 9/11 truth website. It’s cool.
I’ll be hanging out here doing a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE bonghit in the meantime.
Oh, so that’s what that was drizzled down the front of your tee shirt, bong water.
