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		<title>By: STTAMMP Out Marijuana Prohibition</title>
		<link>http://blog.mpp.org/medical-marijuana/british-scientists-warn-govt-were-turning-into-the-us/08042009/comment-page-1/#comment-10426</link>
		<dc:creator>STTAMMP Out Marijuana Prohibition</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s hard enough to get the average non marijuana user on the streets of America to believe they are being duped by government propaganda about the drug war as it is to get them to acknowledge the truth about American government drug policy.

I have been saying for several years that THC deficiency is a medical condition and this concept is extremely difficult for the THC deficient to comprehend.

THC deficiency causes the brain to be in an un-natural state and some connections are not being fully made within their heads.

A lot of people who are THC deficient who have caused accidents have often stated that they must have blanked out and that caused their accident.

Well I think they experienced a mental blank because their brains weren&#039;t processing THC as it needed.

A THC deficient mind accepts propaganda as fact because it believes it to be fact by its presentation despite the lack of proof.

THC deficiency allows for easier subliminal message manipulation and is convenient for mass persuasion and other tactics of social control.

God provided man with THC that feels good because God wants man to consume it to function as God had intended man to be.

No policy or ignoring the facts is going to change that.

The leaders of America and their cohorts in THC deficiency that support them are guilty of being the most violent and distrustful beings on the face of the Earth.

If thats what it means to be drug free then I don&#039;t want to be drug free.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s hard enough to get the average non marijuana user on the streets of America to believe they are being duped by government propaganda about the drug war as it is to get them to acknowledge the truth about American government drug policy.</p>
<p>I have been saying for several years that THC deficiency is a medical condition and this concept is extremely difficult for the THC deficient to comprehend.</p>
<p>THC deficiency causes the brain to be in an un-natural state and some connections are not being fully made within their heads.</p>
<p>A lot of people who are THC deficient who have caused accidents have often stated that they must have blanked out and that caused their accident.</p>
<p>Well I think they experienced a mental blank because their brains weren&#8217;t processing THC as it needed.</p>
<p>A THC deficient mind accepts propaganda as fact because it believes it to be fact by its presentation despite the lack of proof.</p>
<p>THC deficiency allows for easier subliminal message manipulation and is convenient for mass persuasion and other tactics of social control.</p>
<p>God provided man with THC that feels good because God wants man to consume it to function as God had intended man to be.</p>
<p>No policy or ignoring the facts is going to change that.</p>
<p>The leaders of America and their cohorts in THC deficiency that support them are guilty of being the most violent and distrustful beings on the face of the Earth.</p>
<p>If thats what it means to be drug free then I don&#8217;t want to be drug free.</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>James you are so right. As long as the polititions are involved we will never get the law overturned. I to have been smoking for 33 years and am just fine. I have two friends doing time right now for alcahol. I have many more who have been through the system for grass. I to am now in the system for cannibis. I would not ever change my stance on med. marijuana, even tho it may lead to jail. I know that I made the right choice. I work when there is work. My bills are paid. I am raising three kids by my self.and I am an ex &quot;drug&quot; abuser. I am almost 48 and was busted for cannibis because I refuse to get back on &quot;drugs&quot;. If I have to move back to Wa. in the spring, so be it. But I will not ever put another needle in my arm. To bad for the big Rx companies and the drug pushing Goverenment.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>James you are so right. As long as the polititions are involved we will never get the law overturned. I to have been smoking for 33 years and am just fine. I have two friends doing time right now for alcahol. I have many more who have been through the system for grass. I to am now in the system for cannibis. I would not ever change my stance on med. marijuana, even tho it may lead to jail. I know that I made the right choice. I work when there is work. My bills are paid. I am raising three kids by my self.and I am an ex &#8220;drug&#8221; abuser. I am almost 48 and was busted for cannibis because I refuse to get back on &#8220;drugs&#8221;. If I have to move back to Wa. in the spring, so be it. But I will not ever put another needle in my arm. To bad for the big Rx companies and the drug pushing Goverenment.</p>
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		<title>By: james</title>
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		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>it’s hard to say why our government is so scared of marijuana. I have been smoking for twenty years and haven’t had any argues to harm anyone or commit random crimes. I have a friend who is a alcoholic ,nice guy tell he drinks than you wouldn’t want to be near him[valance]. He has been sober for 5 years living by AA . my point is they think pot is so dangers but its nothing compared to what’s already being pedaled legally on every corner.   Maybe it’s because by enlarge the people voting on the subject today are the same ones that voted against it in the seventies[ after watching  reefer madness and being dumb enough to believe it. Bottom line is they (the government) don’t give a dam about us (Americans) and what we want.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it’s hard to say why our government is so scared of marijuana. I have been smoking for twenty years and haven’t had any argues to harm anyone or commit random crimes. I have a friend who is a alcoholic ,nice guy tell he drinks than you wouldn’t want to be near him[valance]. He has been sober for 5 years living by AA . my point is they think pot is so dangers but its nothing compared to what’s already being pedaled legally on every corner.   Maybe it’s because by enlarge the people voting on the subject today are the same ones that voted against it in the seventies[ after watching  reefer madness and being dumb enough to believe it. Bottom line is they (the government) don’t give a dam about us (Americans) and what we want.</p>
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		<title>By: ex-tex</title>
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		<dc:creator>ex-tex</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MPP i have smoked marijuana for about 22 years ..i grew up in texas and that was the things we did down there ..we could not buy beer so we went to my freinds-friend you know..it was cheap and i got more high for the money...beer always made me sick any ways ...this war mongering about marijauna is a waste of time and dont feel that it should be a part of my life so as i have always done i will keep buying it illegaly and smoking my pain and thouts of trying to change a system that is not worth saving ...the best way to end these situations is to legalize our marijuana....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MPP i have smoked marijuana for about 22 years ..i grew up in texas and that was the things we did down there ..we could not buy beer so we went to my freinds-friend you know..it was cheap and i got more high for the money&#8230;beer always made me sick any ways &#8230;this war mongering about marijauna is a waste of time and dont feel that it should be a part of my life so as i have always done i will keep buying it illegaly and smoking my pain and thouts of trying to change a system that is not worth saving &#8230;the best way to end these situations is to legalize our marijuana&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Drew</title>
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		<dc:creator>Drew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Note to self: do not emigrate to the UK.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Note to self: do not emigrate to the UK.</p>
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		<title>By: TKDietz</title>
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		<dc:creator>TKDietz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The following is short section from a report entitled &quot;Informing America&#039;s Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don&#039;t Know Keeps Hurting Us.&quot; In this section they talk about the need for scientific independence, and they quote from the &quot;National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse,&quot; the famous Shafer Report.  The last paragraph on the quote from the Shafer Report where they talk about how government funded research projects on illegal drugs that document the &quot;wrong results were quietly buried and not released&quot; is priceless. Nixon tried to bury that report because they recommended that marijuana be decriminalized. 

&quot;Scientific Independence

In its final report in 1973, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse applauded a 400 percent increase in the federal investment in research from 1969–1973, urged intensification of the investment in research, and emphasized the importance of free scientific inquiry in what had been a highly politicized domain (NCMA, 1973:368–370):

&#039;This commitment to research…reflects a significant change in official policy. For many years, research into the effects of prohibited drugs and into the behavior of users was viewed as an attempt to question and subvert government policy. In addition, the aura of criminality surrounding drug-using behavior and the overly rigid protocol requirements often made this area unattractive to researchers. When…researchers became [interested], they were often hindered by the law enforcement community….

At last, this has begun to change. With the significant increase in drug use during the 1960’s the government recognized the need for information which could come only from expanded research efforts. Prohibited drugs have been made available for legitimate research; confidentiality has been extended to research subjects; and now, public resources are being devoted to this important area….

In urging [increased] research, the Commission cautions against research that points in only one direction. In the past, government agencies have sometimes used drug research to support policy rather than shape it. Studies that produced the answers they wanted were promoted and publicized; projects which appeared to document the “wrong” results were quietly buried and not released. [New research] should specifically include studies that examine without bias alternate hypotheses and approaches.&#039;&quot;

The commission that did the report in 2001 quoted the above section from the Safer Commission&#039;s report because the same thing complained of in that report goes on today. Government uses drug research &quot;to support policy rather than shape it.&quot; They fund research reasonably calculated to make marijuana look bad. They won&#039;t fund research likely to reach the &quot;wrong results.&quot; They won&#039;t provide marijuana to researchers doing research likely to reach the &quot;wrong results.&quot;  Most all of this research is government funded and researchers are pressured to play the game and provide government with &quot;evidence&quot; useful for propaganda. From the above article it looks like the same thing is going on in the U.K. now. And if you&#039;ve been reading stories talking about marijuana studies done in the U.K. in the past several years it looks a whole lot of this has been going on. They&#039;ve been in major reefer madness mode for several years now and I bet government money and pressure on government funded reaserchers has had a lot to do with this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The following is short section from a report entitled &#8220;Informing America&#8217;s Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don&#8217;t Know Keeps Hurting Us.&#8221; In this section they talk about the need for scientific independence, and they quote from the &#8220;National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse,&#8221; the famous Shafer Report.  The last paragraph on the quote from the Shafer Report where they talk about how government funded research projects on illegal drugs that document the &#8220;wrong results were quietly buried and not released&#8221; is priceless. Nixon tried to bury that report because they recommended that marijuana be decriminalized. </p>
<p>&#8220;Scientific Independence</p>
<p>In its final report in 1973, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse applauded a 400 percent increase in the federal investment in research from 1969–1973, urged intensification of the investment in research, and emphasized the importance of free scientific inquiry in what had been a highly politicized domain (NCMA, 1973:368–370):</p>
<p>&#8216;This commitment to research…reflects a significant change in official policy. For many years, research into the effects of prohibited drugs and into the behavior of users was viewed as an attempt to question and subvert government policy. In addition, the aura of criminality surrounding drug-using behavior and the overly rigid protocol requirements often made this area unattractive to researchers. When…researchers became [interested], they were often hindered by the law enforcement community….</p>
<p>At last, this has begun to change. With the significant increase in drug use during the 1960’s the government recognized the need for information which could come only from expanded research efforts. Prohibited drugs have been made available for legitimate research; confidentiality has been extended to research subjects; and now, public resources are being devoted to this important area….</p>
<p>In urging [increased] research, the Commission cautions against research that points in only one direction. In the past, government agencies have sometimes used drug research to support policy rather than shape it. Studies that produced the answers they wanted were promoted and publicized; projects which appeared to document the “wrong” results were quietly buried and not released. [New research] should specifically include studies that examine without bias alternate hypotheses and approaches.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>The commission that did the report in 2001 quoted the above section from the Safer Commission&#8217;s report because the same thing complained of in that report goes on today. Government uses drug research &#8220;to support policy rather than shape it.&#8221; They fund research reasonably calculated to make marijuana look bad. They won&#8217;t fund research likely to reach the &#8220;wrong results.&#8221; They won&#8217;t provide marijuana to researchers doing research likely to reach the &#8220;wrong results.&#8221;  Most all of this research is government funded and researchers are pressured to play the game and provide government with &#8220;evidence&#8221; useful for propaganda. From the above article it looks like the same thing is going on in the U.K. now. And if you&#8217;ve been reading stories talking about marijuana studies done in the U.K. in the past several years it looks a whole lot of this has been going on. They&#8217;ve been in major reefer madness mode for several years now and I bet government money and pressure on government funded reaserchers has had a lot to do with this.</p>
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		<title>By: British Scientists Warn Gov’t: We’re Turning into the U.S. &#124; Texas NORML</title>
		<link>http://blog.mpp.org/medical-marijuana/british-scientists-warn-govt-were-turning-into-the-us/08042009/comment-page-1/#comment-10102</link>
		<dc:creator>British Scientists Warn Gov’t: We’re Turning into the U.S. &#124; Texas NORML</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] British Scientists Warn Gov’t: We’re Turning into the U.S.    Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.Powered by WP Greet Boxby Dan Bernath of MPP original article [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Mark, Glenolden, PA</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark, Glenolden, PA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A public service announcement from me:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6qn508BfY8</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A public service announcement from me:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6qn508BfY8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6qn508BfY8</a></p>
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		<title>By: Manford Mantis</title>
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		<dc:creator>Manford Mantis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>28   Medical Cannabis Institute

I was under the impression that we had won our independence from good old England.   How does what they do have any reflection on what we do.   Oh! that&#039;s right!  Rothschild is a share holder in &quot;our&quot; federal reserve.
&quot;Give me control of the nation&#039;s currency, and it matters not who makes the laws.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>28   Medical Cannabis Institute</p>
<p>I was under the impression that we had won our independence from good old England.   How does what they do have any reflection on what we do.   Oh! that&#8217;s right!  Rothschild is a share holder in &#8220;our&#8221; federal reserve.<br />
&#8220;Give me control of the nation&#8217;s currency, and it matters not who makes the laws.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Medical Cannabis Institute</title>
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		<dc:creator>Medical Cannabis Institute</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is insane....Seems like the dark cloud of the US Govt. casts itself  all the way to Britain......... Human kind must push forward to take back our God given rights!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is insane&#8230;.Seems like the dark cloud of the US Govt. casts itself  all the way to Britain&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Human kind must push forward to take back our God given rights!!!</p>
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