Comments on: Cannabis For Breast Cancer http://www.maryamwebster.com/blog/cannabis-for-breast-cancer/ More Time, Space and Bliss for Busy Women in Leadership Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:56:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: mark allen http://www.maryamwebster.com/blog/cannabis-for-breast-cancer/#comment-2847 mark allen Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:18:22 +0000 http://www.maryamwebster.com/blog/cannabis-for-breast-cancer/#comment-2847 rick simpson curing cancer's since 2003[in human's] he will be sentenced on jan 25th 2008 amherst nova scotia canada that's what happen's if you find a cure for cancer's thc hemp oil facin 12yr's <br /> <br /> i love you leaf and ribbon gif could i use it? rick simpson curing cancer’s since 2003[in human’s] he will be sentenced on jan 25th 2008 amherst nova scotia canada that’s what happen’s if you find a cure for cancer’s thc hemp oil facin 12yr’s

i love you leaf and ribbon gif could i use it?

]]> By: Maryam Webster http://www.maryamwebster.com/blog/cannabis-for-breast-cancer/#comment-2848 Maryam Webster Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:28:46 +0000 http://www.maryamwebster.com/blog/cannabis-for-breast-cancer/#comment-2848 Sure Mark, feel free to use the picture, I made it myself. Right-click and save to your disk. Anyone else wanting to use <em>this one picture</em>, consider it public domain.  BTW, if you click on Mark's website above, you'll find it goes to a hemp oil for cancer site.  <font color="#ffffff"><br /> </font><br /> Perhaps a little education is in order, given that Americans and most Western societies are remarkably reactive - negatively so - about the hemp / cannabis / marijuana plant. Hemp seed is one of the most power-packed protein sources available in the plant kingdom. Its oil can be used in everything from cooking, (even making a tasty milk substitute and dairy-free cheeses) and in manufacturing. Even the inedible woody parts of the plant can be retted, carded, spun and woven into tough, durable fiber to make everything from clothes to maritime rope that is extraordinarily resistant to decay.<font color="#ffffff"><br /> </font><font color="#ffffff"> .</font><br /> The hemp flower oil and leaf that most people are familiar with, are powerful painkillers, anti-nausea agents, antidepressants / mood enhancers and now we find, help combat cancer. But it's against the law to use this seed-bearing herb for this purpose or any other, as long as any tetrahydrocannabinols (THC, the component that gets you stoned) remain intact. Hemp seed, of interest, contains no THC and may be safely eaten with absolutely no euphoric effect. I have greatly enjoyed non-euphoric (but pretty darned tasty) hempseed butter in place of the less-safe peanutbutter, which almost universally contains some amount of aflatoxins (even if organic).<br /> <font color="#ffffff"> .</font><br /> Now, as to the politics. People in power have played with words and concepts to benefit small groups of the elite all through history. Historically in America it was the DuPont family, whose newfangled petrochemical oils, plastics and paints needed a legislative boost to sway the consumer market away from non-toxic, renewable hemp sources of those same compounds. Bingo-bango, the safe and natural medicine of hemp was outlawed in 1937 (<a href="http://www.hemp-sisters.com/Information/misinformation.htm" rel="nofollow">timeline here</a>), even though the American Medical Association representative himself inveighed heavily against banning "the perfectly safe" hemp plant, and further "...the plant that Congress intends to outlaw, has been used to treat scores of illnesses in America for over a hundred years". <font color="#ffffff"><br /> </font><font color="#ffffff"> .</font><br /> Fantastically enough, in addition to simple avaricious protection of their cronies, those in government today are openly intent on legislating such things according to their own <em>religious </em>agenda. Nevermind separation of church and state, their arguments are made using dictates found in the Christian bible, and what they say is God's law here in America - even for those who are not adherents of that religion. <font color="#ffffff"><br /> .</font><br /> Given this, it is mystifying to me that those in government outlawed a plant that according to the same book, God put on the earth for our use. And that those in power today are not only upholding that law, but pursuing it to a most illogical conclusion.<font color="#ffffff"><br /> .</font><br /> Entered into evidence is this verse from <span id="en-NKJV-11" class="sup"></span>Genesis 1:29 (KJV):  <span id="en-NKJV-30" class="sup">"</span>And God said, “See, I have given you every herb <em>that</em> yields seed which <em>is</em> on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. "<font color="#ffffff"><br /> .</font><em><br /> Every </em>herb.  All of them. <font color="#ffffff"><br /> .</font><br /> Though this somewhat contradicts the story of Adam and Eve, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil which God is recorded as expressly forbidding, God is <em><strong>not </strong></em>recorded in Genesis as saying "every herb...but THAT ONE"<br /> <font color="#ffffff">.</font><br /> Following this same line of logic, who adheres to the Christian bible and prosecutes as a crime the consumption of an herb God has permitted humans to use <em><strong>in the very name of that God</strong></em>, is guilty of a most<em> un</em>Christian act, and is a hypocrite into the bargain. Particularly if that administration pursues very sick people whose last hope may lie in the curative or palliative powers of said herb.<font color="#ffffff"><br /> . </font><br /> Legal or illegal, what a travesty of justice is this sector of the "war on drugs".<font color="#ffffff"><br /> .</font><br /> Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. President.<font color="#ffffff"><br /> .</font><br /> For a closer look at the kind of people are using cannabis for legitimate medical purposes and being prosecuted by the American government for it, please check out the Angel Raich story here: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich</a> for a dispassionate view, and at Angel's own site here: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.angeljustice.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.angeljustice.org/</a> Sure Mark, feel free to use the picture, I made it myself. Right-click and save to your disk. Anyone else wanting to use this one picture, consider it public domain.  BTW, if you click on Mark’s website above, you’ll find it goes to a hemp oil for cancer site. 

Perhaps a little education is in order, given that Americans and most Western societies are remarkably reactive - negatively so - about the hemp / cannabis / marijuana plant. Hemp seed is one of the most power-packed protein sources available in the plant kingdom. Its oil can be used in everything from cooking, (even making a tasty milk substitute and dairy-free cheeses) and in manufacturing. Even the inedible woody parts of the plant can be retted, carded, spun and woven into tough, durable fiber to make everything from clothes to maritime rope that is extraordinarily resistant to decay.
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The hemp flower oil and leaf that most people are familiar with, are powerful painkillers, anti-nausea agents, antidepressants / mood enhancers and now we find, help combat cancer. But it’s against the law to use this seed-bearing herb for this purpose or any other, as long as any tetrahydrocannabinols (THC, the component that gets you stoned) remain intact. Hemp seed, of interest, contains no THC and may be safely eaten with absolutely no euphoric effect. I have greatly enjoyed non-euphoric (but pretty darned tasty) hempseed butter in place of the less-safe peanutbutter, which almost universally contains some amount of aflatoxins (even if organic).
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Now, as to the politics. People in power have played with words and concepts to benefit small groups of the elite all through history. Historically in America it was the DuPont family, whose newfangled petrochemical oils, plastics and paints needed a legislative boost to sway the consumer market away from non-toxic, renewable hemp sources of those same compounds. Bingo-bango, the safe and natural medicine of hemp was outlawed in 1937 (timeline here), even though the American Medical Association representative himself inveighed heavily against banning "the perfectly safe" hemp plant, and further "…the plant that Congress intends to outlaw, has been used to treat scores of illnesses in America for over a hundred years".
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Fantastically enough, in addition to simple avaricious protection of their cronies, those in government today are openly intent on legislating such things according to their own religious agenda. Nevermind separation of church and state, their arguments are made using dictates found in the Christian bible, and what they say is God’s law here in America - even for those who are not adherents of that religion.
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Given this, it is mystifying to me that those in government outlawed a plant that according to the same book, God put on the earth for our use. And that those in power today are not only upholding that law, but pursuing it to a most illogical conclusion.
.
Entered into evidence is this verse from Genesis 1:29 (KJV):  "And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. "
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Every herb.  All of them.
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Though this somewhat contradicts the story of Adam and Eve, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil which God is recorded as expressly forbidding, God is not recorded in Genesis as saying "every herb…but THAT ONE"
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Following this same line of logic, who adheres to the Christian bible and prosecutes as a crime the consumption of an herb God has permitted humans to use in the very name of that God, is guilty of a most unChristian act, and is a hypocrite into the bargain. Particularly if that administration pursues very sick people whose last hope may lie in the curative or palliative powers of said herb.
.
Legal or illegal, what a travesty of justice is this sector of the "war on drugs".
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Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. President.
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For a closer look at the kind of people are using cannabis for legitimate medical purposes and being prosecuted by the American government for it, please check out the Angel Raich story here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich for a dispassionate view, and at Angel’s own site here: http://www.angeljustice.org/

]]> By: Paul von Hartmann http://www.maryamwebster.com/blog/cannabis-for-breast-cancer/#comment-5222 Paul von Hartmann Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:49:57 +0000 http://www.maryamwebster.com/blog/cannabis-for-breast-cancer/#comment-5222 Cannabis can be either psychoactive ("marijuana") or non-psychoactive ("industrial hemp"). Both varieties produce CBDs, but only the marijuana gets people "high." There is no reason to prohibit hemp, except that it competes with petroleum, chemical pharmaceuticals, GMO-soybeans, timber and cotton. At the same time, prohibition feeds the voracious, predatory prison industrial complex. Individuals who are genuinely thankful to the Creator for the healing, nutritional blessings given to us in the Cannabis plant ought to be protected from prosecution by claiming our Article One, freedom of religion. If everyone who is grateful for every herb bearing seed were to stand up for their religious freedom, as individuals, we could end the prohibition that's killing our planet through imposed scarcity. Paul J. von Hartmann California Cannabis Ministry www.californiacannabisministry.blogspot.com Cannabis can be either psychoactive (”marijuana”) or non-psychoactive (”industrial hemp”). Both varieties produce CBDs, but only the marijuana gets people “high.” There is no reason to prohibit hemp, except that it competes with petroleum, chemical pharmaceuticals, GMO-soybeans, timber and cotton. At the same time, prohibition feeds the voracious, predatory prison industrial complex.

Individuals who are genuinely thankful to the Creator for the healing, nutritional blessings given to us in the Cannabis plant ought to be protected from prosecution by claiming our Article One, freedom of religion. If everyone who is grateful for every herb bearing seed were to stand up for their religious freedom, as individuals, we could end the prohibition that’s killing our planet through imposed scarcity.

Paul J. von Hartmann
California Cannabis Ministry
www.californiacannabisministry.blogspot.com

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